By John Estridge
Retired Franklin County Sheriff Ken Murphy did the research.
He found out how to appeal the Brookville 2022 Budget to the state agency designed to approve or not approve local government entities’ budgets.
It takes 25 signatures on a petition. Ken and myself took it around and got the required number of signatures and then some. Many, many more people than we needed wanted to sign the petitions. Each one said they are tired of what is going on with the current town council members. They are tired of how they have been treated by the current Brookville Town Council members. They are upset about what is happening to their town.
Once the Division of Local Government Finance receives the petition, it will set a date for a public hearing concerning the proposed 2022 budget. Before the Pandemic, the public hearing would have been in Brookville. We do not know if the public hearing will be in Brookville or it will be a Zoom-type situation. However, this blog will publicize the facts concerning the public hearing.
It is important the public shows up to the public hearing in whatever form it takes.