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More than 900 Lake County employees received the wrong W-2s due to an undetected problem within the transfer of data to Lake County’s new accounting software and council members want to know just who is going to make those workers whole. Councilman Ted Bilski, D-Hobart, is one of the 919 individuals who received an incorrect W-2. He had already filed his taxes, signed his name and sent a check ...
Auditors from the State Board of Accounts recently walked off the job after being unable to obtain the data required to fully assess Lake County's financial condition.
Two longtime Lake County Council attorneys will keep their contract jobs after a discussion about whether their services were required now that the council’s new attorney has been on board for about a year. Councilman Pete Lindemulder, R-Schererville, asked fellow council members to consider the consulting attorney contracts the body holds with attorneys Ray Szarmach and Gerald Bishop. ...
The Indiana General Assembly appears likely to resolve a separation-of-powers dispute among two branches of Lake County government.
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A Tuesday decision over who the Lake County Council should select to represent them on the county’s Plan Commission divided the panel and left one new council member without any committee appointments.