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Watchdog Indiana LogoWatchdog Lebanon provides information about the revenues, spending, and long-term debt assumption of the local and county governments in Boone County. An online community is established where Boone County Hoosiers work together to help promote good public policy. This volunteer effort is non-party, non-connected, and non-profit. 

Watchdog Lebanon is an advocate for good government that focuses on the local tax burden of Boone County working families.

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, ... who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

Watchdog Lebanon was founded by Aaron Smith on November 14, 2001. Aaron's resides in Lebanon Indiana, and his biographical information can be found online at http://www.finplaneducation.net/aaron.htm

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Did You Know?
06/18/2020:
Two deadly force categories of neck restraints are recognized for use by law enforcement agencies: (a) the chokehold that restricts a suspect's ability to breathe by applying pressure to the suspect's windpipe and (b) the vascular neck restraint that temporarily cuts off blood flow to the brain causing a suspect to go unconscious for a short period (when properly applied to a healthy suspect). Relevant information about the use of neck restraints by the Lebanon Police Department can be found online at http://finplaneducation.net/LPD_Neck_Area.htm. Also, relevant information about the use of neck restraints by the Boone County Sheriff's Office can be found online at http://finplaneducation.net/BCSO_Neck_Area.htm.

  Lebanon Sanitary Sewer Backup Prevention

Raw sewage backups in Lebanon homes present serious health hazards from exposure to the pathogens and allergens that fester in sewage waste. The Indiana State Department of Health has identified the following diseases caused by raw sewage and sewage contaminated water: Campylobacteriosis, Cryptosporidiosis, Escherichia coli Diarrhea, Encephalitis, Gastroenteritis, Giardiasis, Hepatitis A, Leptospirosis, Methaemoglobinaemia, Poliomyelitis, Salmonellosis, Shigellosis, Paratyphoid Fever, Typhoid Fever, and Yersiniosis. Details regarding these dangerous diseases can be found online at http://www.in.gov/isdh/22963.htm.

The elimination of improper sump pump and other connections to the sanitary sewer system is an important first step in preventing Lebanon’s sanitary sewer backups. A Special Report has been prepared by Watchdog Lebanon regarding the prevention of sanitary sewer backups in Lebanon homes. The Special Report sections include (1) Introduction, (2) Lebanon Sanitary System Overview, (3) Lebanon Sanitary Sewer Backup Sources, (4) Lebanon Sanitary Sewer Backup Solutions, (5) Proper Storm Water Management For Morningside & Edgewood Homeowners, (6) Voluntary Compliance Is Important, (7) Home Sump Pumps A Likely Problem, (8) Disconnecting Home Sump Pumps Will Prevent Most Sanitary Sewer Backups, (9) Payment Options To Correct Improper Sanitary Sewer Connections. The Special Report can be found online at http://www.finplaneducation.net/sewer_backup_prevention.htm.

The raw sewage backups into some Lebanon homes during significant rain events must be eliminated because they create serious health hazards.

 

Lebanon Topics Index

Boone County Free Public Records Directory
Consumer Price Index
Family Meals Tax: Lebanon Food and Beverage Tax.
Free Speech Guarantees
Get-Ahead Wage
Greater Lebanon Community Vision Committee
Huck Lewis Campaign Contributions: 2010-2015 Summary and 2014 Receipts & Expenditures and 2015 Receipts & Expenditures
Huck Lewis Election Law Violations Complaint
Indiana Statewide COVID-19 Statistics
Lebanon Backyard Chickens
Lebanon Business Park: 2014 Property Taxes and 2014 School Taxes and Tax Increment Financing Area Impact.
Lebanon Candidate Information:
   2015 Lebanon Mayor Candidates: Matt Gentry, Harold "Huck" Lewis
   2015 Lebanon City Council Candidates: Keith A. Campbell, John Copeland, Dan Fleming, Larry A. Hysong, Mike Kincaid, Lana M. Kruse, Corey Kutz, Jeremy Lamar, Steve Large, Preston Myers, Kevin Van Horn
   2014 Lebanon Community School Corporation Board of Trustees Candidates: Allen D. Douglass, Elizabeth Padgett (Liz) Keith, Tom Merritt
   2011 Lebanon Candidates (Lebanon Clerk Treasurer)
   2007 Lebanon Candidates (November 6, 2007, Lebanon Mayor General Election)
   2003-2005 Lebanon City Council Voting Record
   2002-03 Lebanon Candidates (November 4, 2003, Lebanon Mayor and City Council General Election; November 5, 2002, Boone County Council District 3 General Election; May 7,2002, Boone County Commissioner District 1 Republican Primary)
Lebanon Cash Reserves
Lebanon City Attorney
Lebanon City Budgets: 2015 and 2016.
Lebanon City Council Election Districts
Lebanon City Expenditures Per Capita
Lebanon City Finances: 1997-2004 and 2004-2015
Lebanon Clerk-Treasurer Attorney
Lebanon Conservation League Purchase
Lebanon Eminent Domain Coercions
Lebanon "Gateways" - Indianapolis Avenue Project
Lebanon "Gateways" - SR 39 Bridge Project
Lebanon Growth Projections
Lebanon Hot Pond
Lebanon I-65 Corridor Annexation
Lebanon I-65 Corridor Master Drainage Plan
Lebanon Interchange Land Use Plan
Lebanon Iron Men Properties Projects: Memory Hall Flats, The Flats at Memory Hall, The 451 Flats.
Lebanon Memorial Park Swimming Pool
Lebanon Municipal Building
Lebanon Police Department Use of Force: Neck Area
Lebanon Property Tax Bills Database
Lebanon Property Tax Comparison: Residential and Farm.
Lebanon Property Tax Multiple Homestead Deductions
Lebanon Property Tax Rates
Lebanon Property Taxes
Lebanon Public Library Expansion
Lebanon Public Library Expenditures Per Capita
Lebanon Public Library Taxpayer Friendly Action Plan
Lebanon Redevelopment Commission
Lebanon Rental Inspections: Includes Lebanon 2014 & 2015 Fire Fatalities and Lebanon O.P.E.N. Rental Inspection Program.
Lebanon Schools - 2010 Referendum
Lebanon Schools - 2022 Referenda
Lebanon Schools - Alternative High School (The Crossing National, Inc.)
Lebanon Schools - Education Outcomes Comparison (Public School Corporations with Boone County Students): 2014 and 2013.
Lebanon Schools - Expenditures Per Capita & Student
Lebanon Schools - Finances
Lebanon Schools - Herman B Wells Community Conference Center
Lebanon Schools - Lebanon Business Park School Taxes
Lebanon Schools - New School Need
Lebanon Schools - Property Tax History
Lebanon Schools - Superintendent Compensation
Lebanon Sump Pump Program: Estimated Costs
Lebanon Storm Water Management - 2016 Proposed Fee Increases
Lebanon Storm Water Management - Overview
Lebanon Tax Abatements
Lebanon Taxpayer Friendly Smart Growth Plan
Lebanon Transportation Funding Increases
Lebanon Utilities - 2010 Operating Efficiency Analysis
Lebanon Utilities - Electric 2012 Rate Increase
Lebanon Utilities - Electric IURC Regulation
Lebanon Utilities - Elizaville Road Project
Lebanon Utilities - Fire Hydrants Analysis
Lebanon Utilities - Hydrant Rental Fee
Lebanon Utilities - New 69 kV Electric Transmission Line
Lebanon Utilities - Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT)
Lebanon Utilities - Telecommunications Division Profitability
Lebanon Utilities - Wastewater 2015 Rate Increase
Lebanon Utilities - Wastewater (Sanitary Sewer) Backup Prevention
Lebanon Utilities - Wastewater (Sanitary Sewer) Financial Analysis 
Lebanon Utilities - Wastewater (Sanitary Sewer) Treatment Plant Operation
Lebanon Utilities - Water Capacity
Lebanon Utilities - Water Financial Analysis
Lebanon Vincennes University Gene Haas Training and Education Center
Lebanon Watch Government Meetings Schedule
Lebanon Workforce Development Options
Lebanon Worth Annexation
Lebanon's FAILED "Vision"
Local Government Meetings Schedule
Petition and Remonstrance
Population Data: City Of Lebanon; Center Township; Boone County; State Of Indiana.
Public Access Laws
Related Sites: Boone County Area Plan Commission; Boone County Chamber of Commerce; Boone County Community Network; Boone County Economic Development Corporation; Boone County E-mail Directory; Boone County Farm Bureau, Boone County Republicans; Boone REMC; Lebanon (City Of), Indiana; Lebanon Community School Corporation; Lebanon Community Vision Committee.
Ronald Reagan Parkway
STATS Indiana: Provides easy, one-stop access to critical statistics for states, counties, cities and towns, townships, regions, census tracts, and more.
Unemployment Rates: Hoosiers By The Numbers.

 

Boone County Topics Index

Boone County Alcoholic Beverage Board
Boone County Appointed Local Government Boards
Boone County Candidate Information:
   2016 Boone County Commissioner Candidates: Andy Dardini, Larry Hysong, Don Lawson, Jeff Wolfe.
   2016 Boone County Council Candidates: Tad D. Braner, Brian Buchanan, Don Cooper, Steve Freeland, Jim Love, Elise Nieshalla, Dax Norton, Marcia C. Wilhoite.
   2014 Boone County Commissioner Candidates: Marc Applegate, Julia Evinger.
   2014 Boone County Council Candidates: Ken P. Campbell, Jon "Chip" Cravens, John W. Hamilton, John W. Hume, Jim Hundley, Steve Jacob, David Rodgers, Tom Santelli, Jay Schaumberg, Debby Shubert, Gene Thompson.
   2014 Boone County Superior Court 2 Judge Candidates: Campaign Fundraising.
   2014 Center Township Board Candidates: Penny S. Bogan, Larry Hysong, Benjamin "Benjy" Johnson, Tami Richardson, Richard "Dick" Robertson, Jane Ann Taylor, Brent Wheat.
   2014 Center Township Trustee Candidates: Randall "Randy" Large, Eric R. Ping, Adam Walker, Robert L. Wirey.
   2012 Boone County Candidates (Boone County Council).
   2008 Boone County Candidates (Boone County Auditor Primary Election).
   2006 Boone County Candidates (Boone County Council General Election).
   2004 Boone County Candidates (November 2, 2004, Boone County Commissioners General Election; November 2, 2004, Boone County Council General Election; May 4, 2004, Boone County Commissioners Republican Primary; May 4, 2004, Boone County Council Republican Primary).
   2002-03 Boone County Candidates (November 4, 2003, Lebanon Mayor and City Council General Election; November 5, 2002, Boone County Council District 3 General Election; May 7,2002, Boone County Commissioner District 1 Republican Primary).
   2002 Boone County Council Voting Record.
Boone County Campaign Contributions History (for selected local candidates within Boone County)
Boone County Commissioner Election Districts
Boone County Council 2014 Budget
Boone County Council 2015 Budget
Boone County Council 2021 Budget
Boone County Cumulative Capital Development Property Tax
Boone County Democratic Party Rules
Boone County Departments & Offices Employment: Compared With Twenty-Six Selected Indiana Counties.
Boone County Disbursements
Boone County Education Outcomes Comparison (Public School Corporations with Boone County Students): 2014 and 2013.
Boone County Expenditures Per Capita
Boone County Financial Analysis (Completed by Watchdog Indiana on April 19, 2012).
Boone County Growth Projections
Boone County Highway Department
Boone County I-65 North Overlay District
   Overlay District for the Northern Portion of Interstate 65 
   I-65 North Overlay Zoning District Document 
   Land Owners Within I-65 North Overlay District 
   Overlay District Questions for I-65 North Corridor Land Owners
   I-65 North Overlay District Map
Boone County Key Bank Building Purchase
Boone County Local Governments Nepotism
Boone County Local Income Tax
Boone County Mapleview Rest Home
Boone County Park Tax
Boone County Police Departments
Boone County Property Tax Bills Database
Boone County Property Tax Multiple Homestead Deductions
Boone County Property Taxes
Boone County Republican Party Rules
Boone County Sheriff: Use of Force: Neck Area and 2016 Business Plan and Office Management.
Boone County Solid Waste Management District
Boone County Tax Abatements
Boone County Tax Increment Financing Districts
Boone County Transportation Funding Increases
Boone County Utilities
Boone County Water Resources
Consumer Price Index
Convention Center
County Option Income Tax (COIT)
Duke Realty (Anson) Project.
Emergency Telephone System (E911) Fee
Free Speech Guarantees
Get-Ahead Wage
Indiana Statewide COVID-19 Statistics
Jeff Wolfe Campaign Contributions History
Local Government Meetings Schedule
Petition and Remonstrance
Population Data: City Of Lebanon; Center Township; Boone County; State Of Indiana.
Public Access Laws
Recount Commission: 2002 Boone County Commissioner District 1.
Related Sites: Boone County Area Plan Commission; Boone County Chamber of Commerce; Boone County Community Network; Boone County Economic Development Corporation; Boone County E-mail Directory; Boone County Farm Bureau, Boone County Republicans; Boone REMC; Lebanon (City Of), Indiana; Lebanon Community School Corporation; Lebanon Community Vision Committee.
Ronald Reagan Parkway
STATS Indiana: Provides easy, one-stop access to critical statistics for states, counties, cities and towns, townships, regions, census tracts, and more.
Thorntown Clerk-Treasurer Investigation
Unemployment Rates: Hoosiers By The Numbers.
Wheel Tax
Worth Township-Whitestown 2012 Reorganization (Approved Plan of Reorganization Town of Whitestown and Worth Township) (defeated by November 6, 2012 referendum).

 

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This page was last updated on 12/26/23.