Syracuse Officials Prepare For Upcoming Elections
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
SYRACUSE -ÊThree Syracuse town council seats are up for election, but the incumbents face no opposition.
However, the clerk-treasurer position is contested.
Republican Bill Hane, 66, is in his second year as the District Five councilman. Now retired, Hane previously was on the Millersburg council for four years. He is a 20-year resident of Syracuse.
Hane said Wednesday he is in favor of a community center, in favor of the senior citizens having their own facilities and in favor of the Scout Cabin.
Other important issues for Syracuse over the next couple of years, he said, are the completion of the Ind. 13 improvement project and new water wells for Syracuse. "Those are the two main issues," he said.
Barbara Carwile, District Four, Republican, also said the Ind. 13 project is important for Syracuse. The Ind. 13 project in Syracuse runs from just north of the railroad tracks to Chicago Street.
She said she also is interested in the industrial park and increasing development there.
As for the community and senior citizens centers, she said, "I'm all for the community center and the senior citizen center and the Scout Cabin. I think we need all three."
She said the seniors and Scouts should be in different buildings other than in the community center. The Lakeland Youth Center will be great at the community center, she said.
Carwile, 73, replaced councilman Bill Hess in 1989. A Syracuse resident since 1943, she retired from Syracuse Rubber in 1990.
Carol Koble, Republican, 61, is serving her 12th year on the council. Koble retired this year from the Wawasee School Corp. after 27 years. She has lived in Syracuse since 1952.
At Tuesday's town council meeting, Koble voted against the senior citizens group's request for the council to authorize an application for a planning grant.
"My thoughts are that the council mandated the park board to gather information on a community center and I feel my loyalty lies there," Koble said Thursday. She said she would like to see a community center with all age groups involved but set up so each group can have its own privacy.
"It is not the park board who is necessarily pushing this. They were the ones asked to gather the information," she said. The park board is made up of volunteers who were asked by the council to take on the additional responsibility of the community center, Koble said, and they have received a bad rap that she said they don't deserve.
Besides the community center, Koble said, "We definitely need to look at an industrial park. That's been on the agenda for 10 years."
Other important issues for Syracuse, she said, include a new well site and the Ind. 13 improvement project.
The one election race in Syracuse on Nov. 2 will be between current Clerk-Treasurer Elgie A. Tatman, Democrat, and Republican Margaret Tallon.
Tatman, 76, became clerk-treasurer in 1989. Previously she was a part-time clerk in Wakarusa and worked in her late husband's public accounting office.
She's been a Syracuse resident since 1953.
"The only thing you have is you have to do budgets, the financial things. You have to write checks and watch how much they spend," Tatman said of her job. "I've been doing a good job and haven't had any remarks."
Despite several attempts, Tallon could not be reached for comment. [[In-content Ad]]
SYRACUSE -ÊThree Syracuse town council seats are up for election, but the incumbents face no opposition.
However, the clerk-treasurer position is contested.
Republican Bill Hane, 66, is in his second year as the District Five councilman. Now retired, Hane previously was on the Millersburg council for four years. He is a 20-year resident of Syracuse.
Hane said Wednesday he is in favor of a community center, in favor of the senior citizens having their own facilities and in favor of the Scout Cabin.
Other important issues for Syracuse over the next couple of years, he said, are the completion of the Ind. 13 improvement project and new water wells for Syracuse. "Those are the two main issues," he said.
Barbara Carwile, District Four, Republican, also said the Ind. 13 project is important for Syracuse. The Ind. 13 project in Syracuse runs from just north of the railroad tracks to Chicago Street.
She said she also is interested in the industrial park and increasing development there.
As for the community and senior citizens centers, she said, "I'm all for the community center and the senior citizen center and the Scout Cabin. I think we need all three."
She said the seniors and Scouts should be in different buildings other than in the community center. The Lakeland Youth Center will be great at the community center, she said.
Carwile, 73, replaced councilman Bill Hess in 1989. A Syracuse resident since 1943, she retired from Syracuse Rubber in 1990.
Carol Koble, Republican, 61, is serving her 12th year on the council. Koble retired this year from the Wawasee School Corp. after 27 years. She has lived in Syracuse since 1952.
At Tuesday's town council meeting, Koble voted against the senior citizens group's request for the council to authorize an application for a planning grant.
"My thoughts are that the council mandated the park board to gather information on a community center and I feel my loyalty lies there," Koble said Thursday. She said she would like to see a community center with all age groups involved but set up so each group can have its own privacy.
"It is not the park board who is necessarily pushing this. They were the ones asked to gather the information," she said. The park board is made up of volunteers who were asked by the council to take on the additional responsibility of the community center, Koble said, and they have received a bad rap that she said they don't deserve.
Besides the community center, Koble said, "We definitely need to look at an industrial park. That's been on the agenda for 10 years."
Other important issues for Syracuse, she said, include a new well site and the Ind. 13 improvement project.
The one election race in Syracuse on Nov. 2 will be between current Clerk-Treasurer Elgie A. Tatman, Democrat, and Republican Margaret Tallon.
Tatman, 76, became clerk-treasurer in 1989. Previously she was a part-time clerk in Wakarusa and worked in her late husband's public accounting office.
She's been a Syracuse resident since 1953.
"The only thing you have is you have to do budgets, the financial things. You have to write checks and watch how much they spend," Tatman said of her job. "I've been doing a good job and haven't had any remarks."
Despite several attempts, Tallon could not be reached for comment. [[In-content Ad]]