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The town's own books: code, audits, and minutes

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THE MUNICIPAL RECORD AS REACHED

What it is: the smallest shelf in this section and the one with the most consequential silences. Reached and used: the Walkerton Town Code as published through American Legal (the sections the Government leg works — §§ 11.01, 30.003, 30.078 among them — which fix the town's offices and wards in the town's own enacted words); the State Board of Accounts' audit reports on the town (reports B54184, B48074 and B54420), which are the fiscal record at audit strength and, not incidentally, the "perfect record" standard Myrna Daube's obituary invokes; and the John Glenn School Corporation's published minutes and notices, from which the Schools section takes the corporation's modern course, including the budget-hearing record behind its tax questions. Not reached, and printed as such in the legs that need them: any run of the town board's own minutes across the decades (the incorporation-era and consolidation-era town actions alike want them — the 2021 hearing's local echo among them), and the school corporation's formation instrument, which no record reached produces (GAP-WKSCH-1). A town of this size keeps its books in a clerk's office, not on a server; the build prints what the published fraction proves and names the office as the settler for the rest.

Principal sources: Walkerton Town Code (American Legal Publishing, online); Indiana State Board of Accounts reports B54184, B48074, B54420; John Glenn School Corporation minutes and published notices, as cited in the Schools section.

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Source: The town's own books: code, audits, and minutes, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/sources/town-s-own-books-code-audits-and-minutes/