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Minute-book and referendum record, with vote counts where they exist
The test: the town's minute-book and referendum record for a fight over the seat of government itself — a town hall contested, a seat moved or a move refused, a referendum demanded and denied — printed with vote counts where the record carries them.
The result: no such fight was found in the reachable record. The minutes record that surfaced in this section is routine government doing routine business: the Town Council's regular meeting of 23 September 2014, held at 124 E. Michigan Street, carries ordinary items decided 4–0 and 3–1 — including ADA doors for the town hall, which is the closest the reachable minutes come to a town-hall question, and it is a maintenance item carried without a seat fight attached. No refused referendum appears in the record read. Two categories of real votes were encountered and are expressly NOT this item, per this section's assignment: the fire-protection-territory votes (the DLGF's Final Determination IML22-010, with the Town's ordinance adopted 4–0, Hudson Township 3–0 and Olive Township 2–0) belong to the fire-territory item, and the data-center votes belong to the data-center item in this section's head article; neither is borrowed to fill this row.
The negative stands with its instruments: town council minutes and referendum searches scoped to New Carlisle and Olive Township, run 11 November 2026, returning routine minutes only. A seat fight, if one exists, sits in the town's full minute books rather than in the reachable excerpts, and this row prints at its documented size — a tested negative — rather than at a size the record cannot support.
Sources:
- Town of New Carlisle, Town Council minutes, regular meeting of 23 September 2014 (read 2026-11-11) — the 4–0 and 3–1 routine votes; ADA doors for town hall.
- Indiana Department of Local Government Finance, Final Determination IML22-010 (read 2026-11-11) — fire-territory votes, named here only to mark them excluded from this item.
- Browser searches, 2026-11-11 (instruments named): New Carlisle town hall / seat / referendum queries — no seat fight or refused referendum returned.