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Union Township v. DLGF is the largest documented civic fight in the town's record. For the 2011 budget year the Department of Local Government Finance certified Union Township's budget on a net assessed valuation of $159,424,430 — but the county issued the tax bills on $119,968,732: a $40 million discrepancy that left the township and the Union-Lakeville Fire Protection Territory short, the township's quantified loss $51,992 (Indiana Tax Court, cause 71T10-1301-TA-00002, read from the opinion). The township and the territory twice asked DLGF for an excess levy to make it up; DLGF denied both on 7 December 2012. On appeal, the Legislature intervened mid-case: I.C. § 6-1.1-18-18 (11 May 2013) applies by its terms to this fire territory alone — and DLGF's motion to dismiss as moot failed, because the statute relieved the territory (some $25,000) but none of the township's general-fund loss (some $27,000). On 12 November 2015 the Tax Court (Wentworth, J.) reversed DLGF's determinations and remanded, holding the department had never answered "the $40 million question: whether or not an 'error' existed." The fight prints complete to the remand; its outcome is a named gap (settler: DLGF's remand determination and any successor order). The school fights print at their documented sizes: organised opposition to the 1898 consolidation step is a named gap (the nomination states the programme, not a fight), and a documented dispute over the 1962 union itself was not reached — what is documented is the name's long afterlife, closing in 2026 with a 4–0 rename vote and no organised opposition, petition, or contested comment reached in any carrier (the comment segment of the 8 June 2026 meeting recording is the named settler for anything stronger). The bypass fight is documented at corridor strength — INDOT's June 2010 presentation: some $280 million, about 150 houses or businesses to be demolished corridor-wide — and not localised: no organised Lakeville opposition, remonstrance, or alignment suit was reached, and the corridor's demolitions are not printed as Lakeville's (a named gap). The leg's smallest whole item: the town's 1937 court action over the White City Inn, cross-referenced to the crime article. The closing negatives print as one line each: no annexation war, no beloved-building demolition fight, no city-hall or referendum fight, no pay-to-play or police-tapes case has a Lakeville instance in any carrier reached — a small town's controversies are a tax fight, a school name, a highway taking, and an inn. The removal-era record stands at pointer to the UGRR file, not re-dug.