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Government — Lakeville
Lakeville is governed as an Indiana town: a three-member town council, whose president is the town executive, and a separately elected clerk-treasurer. It became a town late — not until 1902, two generations after its plat — and its record is correspondingly short and, in the middle 2020s, thin at audit strength; where the line breaks, this section prints the break and names the record that would close it, rather than carrying a name across a gap. The seats are dug to their present holders as of November 2026, from the town's own minutes and the State's audit schedules, and every variance between official carriers prints whole.
Incorporation: by order of the board of county commissioners, 7 July 1902
7 July 1902
Date and instrument stand in one sentence of Howard's, and it is the whole of his statement on the act. "Lakeville became an incorporated town by order of the board of county commissioners, July 7, 1902" (Howard, 1907, closing…
The form of the town government
As it stands, November 2026
A three-member council and a clerk-treasurer, under the town code. Every current record reached shows a council of three. Under the Indiana Code's town frame (IC 36-5-2), the council is the legislative body, its president the…
The current seats, as of November 2026
Dug to the holders; carriers named
The council stands: Lori Kelly, president; April Hathaway, vice-president; Dean Rouch, member. The clerk-treasurer is Jacqueline Skwiercz. The carriers are the town's own minutes. On 15 May 2025, "Town Council President (Lori…
The presidents' and clerks' lines, as far as the schedules carry them
2011–2026, with the gap standing open
Two audit schedules and the town's minutes carry the line to 2019; 2020 to 2025 stands open in both offices. Presidents of the town council, from the State Board of Accounts' Schedules of Officials unless noted: John Kuhn, 1…
The marshal and the town police department
Frame strength; holder named
Lakeville keeps its own police department, headed by Patrick J. Howard under two titles the record uses interchangeably. The statutory office for an Indiana town is the town marshal (IC 36-5-7); the department is the Lakeville…
Fire: the Union-Lakeville Fire Protection Territory
In being by July 2012; formation instrument a named gap
Fire protection runs through a territory, and the township is its provider unit. The territory's existence and shape stand on three carriers. The Indiana Tax Court's decision in Union Township, St. Joseph County v. State of…
Union Township's seats
As of November 2026, at reached strength
The trustee is Kelly Carrico; the board's labelled roster was not reached. Union Township's trustee is Kelly Carrico, a Republican, in office since January 2023 — "Union Township's Republican Trustee, Kelly Carrico, has quietly…
The election of 3 November 2026, as it touches the town
Results discipline: no winner declared on an unreached result
No Lakeville town seat stood on the 2026 ballot; the township and school races touching the town have no certified result reached. The principal candidate carrier is the South Bend Tribune 's county-wide list of general-election…
The county layer: the district question, settled in the refresh
A named gap, with its settlers
Which commissioner district and which county-council district contain Lakeville is settled in this build's Government Refresh: County Council District F and Commissioner District 3, at official precinct strength (assembly…
The school seat
The corporation's frame; the schools leg digs whole
The corporation changed its name in 2026; the transition prints as a transition. The corporation serving Lakeville is the five-member-board corporation organized 1 July 1962 out of Union Township, St. Joseph County, and North…
Government: Open Questions
Named gaps, settlers in the note
The incorporation proceedings behind the 1902 order (petition, signers, election). The council's election mode and the approved 2026 meeting schedule. The presidents of 2020 to 2021 alone remain open — the refresh carries Kelly…
Three questions the framing pass left open are settled here — where Town Hall stands, who sits on the township board under labelled offices, and which county districts contain the town — and the two succession gaps are closed or narrowed at honestly labelled strengths. What still stands open is stated at the end, with its settlers, in the same form.
The current seats, re-verified
As of November 2026; carriers named per seat
The council stands unchanged on the last town record reached: Lori Kelly, president; April Hathaway, vice-president; Dean Rouch, member; Jacqueline Skwiercz, clerk-treasurer. The re-verification rests on the town's own minutes of…
Town Hall: 105 South Michigan Street
Conflict C9 settled on the town's own published record
The town's own site settles its own address. The framing pass carried the number in conflict: 105 South Michigan Street in a places listing under the town's domain, 118 South Michigan Street, P.O. Box 137, in a directory's…
The succession lines, completed at the strengths reached
Presidents, clerk-treasurers, council — through the gap years
The clerks' gap is solved and the presidents' gap is narrowed to two years, on a carrier weaker than the schedules and labelled as such. The framing pass left both lines broken at 2019: no audit schedule later than the 2015–2018…
The marshal's line, carried back to 2012
Patrick J. Howard in office by 2012; no predecessor reached
Howard's first reached year moves from 2014 to 2012, on the salary record. The audit schedules carry no police line at all — none of the three reached schedules names a marshal or chief — so the line runs on the other carriers.…
The election of 3 November 2026: the course whole, the certified record not yet due
No winner declared; the settler posts on or after 16 November 2026
Nothing in this article is a certified result, because no certified result yet exists to print. Every figure below is therefore unofficial and labelled. The town itself had no seat on the ballot, re-verified against the Tribune's…
The county layer, settled: Council District F, Commissioner District 3
Gap G-GV-10 closed on the Clerk's official precinct record
Union Township votes in County Council District F and Commissioner District 3 — proved from the township's own precinct pages, not inferred from a map. The framing pass carried this as a named gap and declined to settle it from…
Fire: the territory's course to 2026, and its formation sharpened
DLGF strength 2023–2026; the instrument's form from the statute
The township is still the provider unit, the town still carries no fire fund, and the territory's money stepped up sharply in 2025. The Department of Local Government Finance's certified budget orders for St. Joseph County, read…
The fire chief: Willett, at official strength
Gap G-GV-8 settled at surname strength for 2025; the department's names printed whole
The official record names the chief — by surname only — and it is not the aggregator's name. The Union Township advisory board's minutes of 11 February 2025, on the township's official site, name the fire chief repeatedly in his…
Union Township's board, labelled; the trustee's line
Gap G-GV-9 settled for 2025 on the township's own minutes
President Trisha Carrico, Secretary Ryan Schafer, Member Mike Wozney — the offices labelled in the township's own record. The framing pass could print the February 2024 meeting's four names only as members present, and named the…
The school corporation at government strength: the rename, the board, the superintendent
The transition printed as a transition, carrier by carrier
The corporation's name changed by its board's vote on 8 June 2026 — and at November 2026 the record carries the two names side by side, which is how they print. The frame first: the corporation was organized 1 July 1962 out of…
What this refresh could not settle
Named gaps, settlers in the note
The government's remaining open file, stated whole. The incorporation proceedings behind the 1902 order (petition, signers, election) still stand on the Commissioners' Record, unreached at web strength — and with them the…
The government file's lines began, on the State Board of Accounts schedules, in 2011 — and the century before them stood unaddressed. This addendum completes what the open record reaches: the succession lines at every strength now available, the judicial test run to its answer, the department structure at the depth the salary and schedule records carry, and the early boards named honestly as the gap they remain.
The presidents' and clerks' lines, at every strength reached
2009–2026 · SBOA Schedules of Officials; the State's Gateway salary record; town minutes
The line stands whole from 2011, is completed through the gap years at salary-record strength, and stops — expressly — where the record stops. The presidents, on the Schedules of Officials in the State Board of Accounts audit…
No court sits in Lakeville: the judicial frame that serves the town
Tested November 2026 · Directory of Courts and Clerks in Indiana, read whole for this county; the county's court pages; Polk's gazetteer of…
The test is run and the answer is clean: no court is seated in Lakeville, and none is seated for Lakeville alone — the town's justice is the county's, in South Bend and Mishawaka. The Indiana judicial branch's Directory of Courts…
The departments under the board: what the record rosters, and what it does not
2012–2026 · SBOA Schedule of Officials (B53933); the Gateway salary record; town and township minutes
Police and fire stand treated whole elsewhere in this build; the structure beneath them — the utility office, the works the minutes report — stands here at the depth the record reaches, with its unrostered remainder named. The…
The First Boards, 1902–2010: An Open Question
1902–2010 · gap stated November 2026; settlers named and current
Lakeville incorporated in 1902, and for the town's first hundred and eight years of boards, the open record reached by this build names not one president, not one clerk, not one member. This article exists to say exactly that, at…