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New Carlisle Government

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Government — New Carlisle

New Carlisle is governed as an Indiana town: a five-member town council elected at large, a clerk-treasurer, and a town marshal, seated at Town Hall, 124 East Michigan Street, meeting every first and third Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Around the town stand the governments that share its ground — Olive Township, the New Carlisle–Olive Township public library district, the fire territory the town built with its neighbors, St. Joseph County, and the New Prairie United School Corporation. This section digs each seat that touches the town to its current holder, as of 11 November 2026, and prints the November 2026 election as what it is: results unofficial, transitions dated, and the town's own two council seats awaiting a certified count this history could not reach.

Incorporation: the election of 1866

7 June – 4 September 1866

The town was incorporated on the county board's order after a vote of forty-four to six. Howard prints the instrument's whole course from the commissioners' record: "On June 7, 1866, Samuel C. Lancaster and thirty-one others…

The council: five members, at large

Town Code Chapter 31

The council's structure stands in the town code. Chapter 31 of the town code carries a five-member council (§31.01), the abolishment of wards (§31.02) — the town elects at large, not by ward — the election of the council (§31.03), and the council president (§31.04). The members' terms run staggered, beginning in successive years (2023 and 2024 starts on the present roster), which is the mark of an election-year-shift ordinance; the text of §31.03 itself was not reached, and it stands as a named gap whose settler is the American Legal Publishing section text or the town's ordinance book. The council meets every first and third Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.

The current seats, as of 11 November 2026

As of 11 November 2026

The council roster stands on the town's own council page. President: Marcy Kauffman, term 1 January 2023 – 31 December 2026. Vice President: Jerry Colanese, 1 January 2024 – 31 December 2027. Members: Nancy Pemberton, 2024–2027…

The November 2026 cycle: the town's seats were on the ballot

3 November 2026 · unofficial

Two town council seats were decided on 3 November 2026 — and their winners are not yet in this record. The seats of President Kauffman and Member Short expire 31 December 2026, and New Carlisle Town Council Member, At Large (vote…

The president's line, from the minutes

2008–2026

The council presidency, as the minutes record carries it: Carolyn Higgins, elected president unanimously in 2008 and president in the minutes of April and August 2015, with Vojtko as vice president; then (Ken) Carter, president…

Clerk-treasurer and marshal: the lines and their gaps

2015–2026

The clerk-treasurer's line runs Moffitt to Brown, with the change itself undated in the record read. Susan I. Moffitt — "Sue Moffitt" — signs the minutes from 14 April 2015 through 30 March 2021, her latest sighting. Julie Brown…

Olive Township: trustee, board, and the assessor question

As of 11 November 2026

The township that holds the town is governed from 110 South Arch Street. Trustee: Will Miller, on the township's own site, with Clerk Tina Scott and Deputy Trustee Tom Keen. Township Board: Robert Middlebrook, Keith Batzel, and…

The fire territory: created 2020, expanded 2022

2020–2022 and current

Two steps, not one: the territory was created in 2020 and expanded in 2022. The town's own fire territory page states that the "New Carlisle, Olive Twp., Hudson Lake Fire Territory was created in 2020. Until then, the Town and…

The county layer: a district in transition

As of 11 November 2026 · 2026 results unofficial

The town's commissioner district changes hands on 1 January 2027. The Board of Commissioners as seated: District 1, Carl H. Baxmeyer (R), President; District 2, Rafael Morton (D); District 3, Anthony "Tony" Hazen (R), Vice…

The school seat: New Prairie United

As of 11 November 2026

Three of the corporation's five schools stand in town — New Prairie High School, New Prairie Middle School, and Olive Township Elementary School — and the corporation's government touches the town through its two Olive seats.…

Government Records: Open Questions

Named gaps

Four government records stand open, each with its settler named, and nothing printed in their place. The town's annexation record was not dug — no annexation is asserted and none is denied; the settler is the town ordinance book…

The government leg carried the town's frame whole and its present seats exactly, but three of its successions stood scattered or stopped mid-line. This addendum gathers them: the council presidency numbered as far as the record reached carries it, with the unreached span banked as a gap rather than smoothed; the clerk-treasurer's line extended backward through the State Board of Accounts' own investigative record; and the departments — named one by one in minutes, directories and ordinances across the set — seated in a single article.

The president line: the checklist's mayoral line, mapped to a town's office

1866–2026 · THE MINUTES RECORD 2008–2026; THE EARLIER SPAN A NAMED GAP

A town has no mayor, and never has — the checklist's mayoral line maps to the council presidency, and that line is dug here to the depth the online record allows. New Carlisle is governed under Chapter 31 of its own code: a…

The clerk's line carried down — and the courts test

2000–2026 · THE STATE BOARD OF ACCOUNTS' RECORD; THE TRANSITION STILL BOUNDED

The State Board of Accounts' own file carries the clerk-treasurer's line a generation deeper than the minutes online. The Board's Special Investigative Report of the Clerk-Treasurer's Office (period 1 October 2003 to 31 October…

The departments as they stand, and the buildings government lives in

As of November 2026 · THE TOWN'S ROSTERS AND THE MUNICIPAL DIRECTORY

The town's government is small enough to name whole: twenty-seven employees carry its utilities, its streets and its police. The department structure, gathered from the town's own rosters and the municipal-electric directory…

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Source: New Carlisle Government, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/new-carlisle/government/