State commission met with mixed results in county

Residents were so furious about huge jumps in their property tax bills that they staged re-creations of the Boston Tea Party, and state government responded by capping tax bills and putting together a blue-ribbon panel to figure out how to run government cheaper.

Six years ago, the Kernan-Shepard commission came up with a plan for streamlining local government to make it operate more efficiently and at a lower cost to taxpayers.

Indiana state lawmakers initially approved several reforms but also voted down some of the more sweeping changes, such as getting rid of many county elected offices and replacing county commissioners with a single county executive.

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