From the Johnson County Daily News:
A merger between Greenwood and White River Township once filled packed auditoriums with heated discussion, but the proposal died in a small basement conference room.
No one showed up to an election board meeting this week to make the case for a merger, although city and township officials had once said that it was needed to increase Greenwood’s tax base and bring city services to the growing Center Grove area. The proposal last was discussed two years ago, and many of its supporters are no longer in office.
The issue that many people thought was dead is now really just that, Johnson County Clerk Sue Anne Misiniec said. The merger proposal won’t go before voters this fall.
“I think it’s done,” she said. “It’s done.”
Election board member Phil Barrow said the issue was settled, because neither the township nor Greenwood was asking for the matter to be put before voters anymore.
The group that spent hundreds of hours planning a Greenwood-White River Township merger missed a deadline that kept it off the ballot in 2010. Criticism mounted, and then-Greenwood Mayor Charles Henderson said the cost that was presented was artificially low in order to win votes.
If a merger took place, Greenwood would have become responsible for governing and providing services to the part of the township that’s not already in a city or town.
http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/local_story/Greenwood-merger-is-dead_1340164298/
