Superpasses for 2022 now available to Harrison Township residents…

The Harrison Township Advisory Board held a short meeting on April 21st, 2022.

The trustee, Mark Strange, reported that the new fencing at Cedar Hill cemetery was largely in place and looking good.
Progress on the restrooms for the farmer’s market is waiting on an interlocal agreement from the town of Corydon. The proposed training facility for police/fire/ems is still in very preliminary stages.

Park superpasses for summer 2022 are now available to Harrison township residents at the Discovery Center. This opened up a discussion of the staffing issues at Rhoads Pool.

Nate Adams suggested that perhaps the township could provide scholarships for lifeguard certification training to help make staffing of Rhoads Pool more economically viable for potential lifeguards. The advisory board took this into consideration and proceeded to discuss why staffing is such an issue across all industries. Board member Rhonda Rhoads responded that “we’re losing a lot of young people to fentanyl and drugs. It’s amazing how many people are dying….that may be where some of our young people, are…they are not here...we’re losing young people.” 

Skip to 19:00  to listen to the exchange.

Also, the trustee sought to make some clarifying remarks about township assistance and funding in general, skip to 7:22 for details.

Fact Check: Trustee Strange states regarding township assistance, “we budgeted almost 20% this year over anything we’d budgeted in the past.” (8:50 in audio recording).

The screenshots below were taken from Indiana’s Gateway for Government Units.