Public safety and emergency medical services don’t come on the cheap.
In the past 10 years budgets for Allen County’s law enforcement, corrections and dispatch services have increased threefold.
Tax dollars collected by the county over the past 10 years have increased 127 percent. In 2002, collections were $2,756,188. In 2012, taxpayers ponied up $6,235,051.
The county’s ambulance budget has expanded the most. County commissioners have allowed a 500 percent increase in its budget, jumping from $227,927 in 2002, when it was the only service, to $1.31 million…
County tax revenue soars in last decade
