Straighen out a Creek - What is the Surveyor thinking.

You won't believe this but I was told yesterday that the county surveyor wanted to take a creek and make it straight and then dig the banks to make the water flow away and down this creek faster. Now that is exactly opposite of what we should be doing. We need the water to flow slow and be absorbed into the ground and at the same time absorb the fertilizer in the run off instead of it flowing into our lakes and causing more and more algae growth.

BTW- it is the responsibility of the surveyor to maintain drainage in the county not just maps. In fact the drainage is a much bugger part of the job. Isn’t time we bring green technology to this area instead of bulldozers. 

Since the current surveyor has been in office since 1977 maybe he has not changed the way he has done business since 1977. It is time to bring new technology to this ignored county office. As a forward thinking engineer I will bring this office to 2017 and not stay 40 years behind.

Joe Weingarten

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Has the Ham County Surveyor done something to your property?

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Last night I got a phone call from someone who was mad as hell about the County Surveyor. It appears he took a ditch with water flowing that was not brothering anyone or anything, never flooded etc. Then turned it into a regulated drain and sent this landowner a new assessment and required payment. Talk about mad.

Now my question is have any of you others been harmed by the County Surveyor I would like to hear about it. No names will be published, just want to know what else he has done to people of this county.  Sent me  an e-mail to mrmac@aol.com. 

By the way if elected before any work that will be done on your property you will be notified and have a chance to ask questions and talk about it. Isn't it time the "government" works with the citizens?  It seems the Surveyor who has been in office since 1977 has forgotten he was elected by the people, maybe its time to end his contract.  Vote for Joe Weingarten.

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Hey Ham County Surveyor is this true?

I was in Cicero last evening meeting with a bunch of very nice folks. They were kind of shocked someone was actually going to run against the County Surveyor. "About time" was one of the nice comments. Now I was told the about a lock and store I would see on my way home. They told me it was rumored that it was owned by the current surveyor and it was next to a drain called the AF Ingerman Ditch and that some people wanted to develop that land and the surveyor kept losing the reports and never seem to get around to working on this drain. They suggested I look into what was going on. Now of course their is not way to truly figure out what is going on with this office, but here is what I found.

Yes the current surveyor does owns the lock and store in Cicero according to records in the Indiana Secretary of State records.  I also saw that land on the other side of the road was owned by people with the same last name. Yes it is in an area where he keeps losing paperwork for years of the AF Ingerman Ditch. Yes no other real development has been accomplished in the area. So why or should I say maybe no work has been done. If this work is done would the property values go up and would the drain work result in higher assessments and would the surveyor have to pay more taxes. Hmm could it be why the work has not been done. If elected the AF Ingerman Ditch work will move up to the top. 

It is time to replace the surveyor with someone who would be fair and not protecting his own property at the cost of others.

It is time to elect Joe Weingarten as surveyor.

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Why are Hamilton County Surveyor Public Records Blocked and Misleading

 

It is very interesting that if you go on the Internet to check out a simple Hamilton County Surveyor document you find it blocked. In fact I found one after another blocked. So you have to dig to find the answer. Here is an example:

Harry Herr Drain, Maintenance Assessment Increase

Go ahead copy it and put in your Google search

Save you some time here is the link

http://drainage413.rssing.com/chan-68012474/all_p1.html

Now on this page click on the name, in fact click on any of the Drain names and here is what you get:

“Blocked by Content Security Policy

This page has a content security policy that prevents it from being loaded in this way.

Firefox prevented this page from loading in this way because the page has a content security policy that disallows it.”

OK so go to the County website and here is what you find:

“Drainage Notices

Posted on: August 25, 2016

Harry Herr Drain, Maintenance Assessment Increase

BEFORE THE HAMILTON COUNTY DRAINAGE BOARD IN THE MATTER OF THE
Harry Herr Drain, Maintenance Assessment Increase

NOTICE

Notice is hereby given pursuant to Section 405 of the 1965 Indiana Drainage Code that this Board, prior to final adjournment on August 22, 2016 has issued an order adopting the Schedule of Assessments, filed the same and made public announcement thereof at the hearing and ordered publication. If judicial review of the findings and order of the Board is not requested pursuant to Article Eight of this code within twenty (20) days from the date of this publication, the order shall be conclusive.

Hamilton County Drainage Board

Attest: Lynette Mosbaugh “

Of course this public notice says nothing. Anyone reading it would have no clue, you would assume an assessment was increased where this drain is located. How much? Where is it? 

 

When you dig further you can find the actual letter to the Drainage Board that does not call for an increase but rather keeping the assessment the same as established in 2014. So why is the title for an “increase.”

Maybe we need to have plain English established in the Surveyor’s Office?  Maybe the County Drainage Board should not have approved a letter with a misleading title? Why is there a security policy on a drainage notice?

Maybe its time for the voters of Hamilton County to elect a new Surveyor with proven government administrative capabilities and engineering expertise. I still have no clue where this drain is located.

Joe Weingarten for Surveyor

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Fishers to Raise Taxes and Council Pay - Hmmm

The City Council may almost double their pay to $21,500 a year.

Fadness proposes a $12 million dollars new police headquarters.

Oh did I forget taxes will be going up, so much for Republicans who do not raise taxes and who do not spend.

And to top it off Fadness wants to enact a $25 tax on each vehicle you own. To pay for roads. Now he claims it would only be used for roads, but do I trust him. No way, at the rate he is going the money that should have gone to roads will go elsewhere and be replaced with the $25 wheel tax for roads. You know the three shells and which one is hiding the pea. What is interesting is the budget discussion were this came up was held at a retreat in a small room out of the way at Conner Prairie. No room for Fishers citizens to attend nor would they want Fishers citizens and tax payers to attend.  Business as usual for Fishers, out of the way behind closed doors and ignore the taxpayers. Maybe instead of giving all the tax breaks to his developer buddies they could pay their share of taxes. 

Since I am running for office even if it has nothing to do with this post I have to provide the following statement:

I am Joe Weingarten and I approve this message.

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Weingarten for Surveyor Hamilton County -Part One

How come the election office of Hamilton County sold a map, showing the voting districts, just two weeks ago to another one of the candidates and it doesn’t match the map that is on line? Also that map that was sold was dated 2013 and it shows an old road that does not exist anymore nor did it when the map was printed. In fact that road vanished in 1992 when the County government put a building on that land. Was the County Surveyor asleep or busy digging drains in Cicero, taking people’s land for his work? More on the land grabbing surveyor later. But he was surveyor when that road vanished. In fact he has been surveyor far too long. And here I was under the impression that the political party he belongs too believes in private property and property rights.

Well I guess I am wrong, I will admit when I am wrong. He does not believe in property rights. He believes in government and surveyor rights.

But at least if elected surveyor the county election maps will be up to date and if there are old ones lying around they will be recycled instead of being sold. 

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Trump and his Mexican Wall

An d Trump said

“I will build a great wall – and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me – and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.” 

You know China built a wall and no Mexicans came across – maybe Trump will hire China too build his wall.