Huntertown Deserves Accountable Leadership

We’re sharing publicly verifiable facts about town spending, ethics concerns, and leadership standards, so voters can make an informed choice for town council in May.
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This is about
standards,
not drama.

  • Taxpayer dollars should be managed responsibly
  • Proper checks and balances should be put in place for all decisions
  • Leaders should be held accountable for mismanagement

Core Concerns About
The Current town Council

Lack of Proper Checks and Balances
Fiscal Irresponsibility
Lack of Proper Checks and Balances and leadership experience
There are repeated examples of decisions being made with questionable backing or decisions that stem from a lack of leadership experience.
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What does this mean?

This means they are responsible for acting in the town’s best interest and working on necessary projects to make sure citizens have proper resources, like water and sewage. It is not uncommon for a town to have an engineering firm act as the city planning department.

Here’s the issue with what we have seen happen. 

  • Step 1 – Engineering Resources says this project should happen acting as town engineer
  • Step 2 – City Council Approves the project
  • Step 3 – Engineering Resources gives the contract to Engineering Resources to complete.
  • Step 4 – Engineering Resources contracts comes up for bid and the council renews it without properly looking at other options
  • Step 5 – Engineering Resources comes up with more projects that go to Engineering Resources

A town is supposed to send out a RFQ (request for qualifications) whenever a large scale project (water treatment facility) is up for contract and every 3 years for the town engineering contract. Huntertown has failed to put the proper checks and balances in place for RFQ.

There should be multiple engineering firms at the table when discussing these large-scale projects. There should be RFQs from multiple engineering firms for each of the large-scale projects, and there should be a proper review process to:

  1. Make sure the proposed project makes sense for the community.
  2. Make sure the proposed project is the best route to take for the project, both in direction and spending.
  3. Get other professional opinions on the projects, especially when they will cost 10s of millions of dollars.
  4. Move forward with a public-facing discussion of the project and the different avenues that could be taken to accomplish the project. 
Fiscal Irresponsibility
Public records show a pattern of questionable spending and/or poor oversight. A clear example of this is the Water Plant Project. Millions of dollars have already been invested in this project and phase 3 was just approved in 2025 for an additional $14 million. Residents deserve clear explanations of how money is allocated and why this is absolutely necessary.

Huntertown needed to address how to handle the increased usage of water for the community as it grows.

The Town Council had three options:

Option 1 –  Upgrade Huntertown’s own Water Treatement Plant to accomodate growth. Phase 3 for just the waste water treatement plant alone is going to cost $14,000,000. 

Option 2 – Tie into Fort Wayne’s existing top water treatment facilities for approximately $200,000.

Option 3 – Move forward with Huntertown’s own water treatment facility and tie into Fort Wayne’s as a fail-safe and for peak hours when more water might be needed. Estimated at $1 Million for water and $3 Million for sanitary.

The Town council chose option 1, the most expensive option and least safe option. The payment for the project is going to have to be reflected by Huntertown resident paying higher prices.