Tippecanoe County Auditor
The auditor is a constitutional officer, elected for a four-year term from the county at large but prohibited from serving more than two terms in 12 years. The auditor serves as secretary of the board of commissioners and county council. Duties of the auditor as the fiscal officer of the county include keeping the county’s accounts and issuing warrants for the payment of claims following an audit of the expenditure. The auditor is responsible for the preparation and tracking of all budgets for county expenditures, preparation of an annual report accounting for all money spent within the year as well as balancing all county funds with the treasurer on a regular basis. The auditor is also responsible for the creation of county maps showing land ownership and assessed valuation, maintaining a fixed assets ledger, maintaining ditch records for the collection of fees in counties that collect on drains, and tracking properties sold during a tax sale.
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Eric Grossman
(Dem)
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Campaign Phone
2248056668
Education
bachelors in school of technology at Purdue W. Laf campus
Experience in Leadership and Management
Entrepreneur, business owner, real estate investor, Current Tippecanoe County Assessor
As Tippecanoe County Assessor, I work across the hall from the County Auditor's office. I worked in the assessor office from 2008-2012 and have been County Assessor since 2015. I have a detailed professional perspective on auditing assessment changes and corrections. I have experienced drastic technological and cultural changes in my time working the in the Tippecanoe County office building. The Assessors office interacts with: APC, auditor, treasurer, commissioners, council, IT, HR, Building Dept, etc. I closely monitor technological expenditures and have experience holding various vendors to their contractual obligations. We desperately need to audit duplicative consulting & software vendors and I know what rocks to look under.
In Indiana, the County auditor is the secretary/clerk of the County Commissioners and the County Council. Its important that the County's major policy and financial decisions are being documented and conveyed transparently. The auditor's office is responsible for accounts payable and receivable including County Payroll. The auditor's office intakes deductions, & calculates net assessments and tax rates for every district in Tippecanoe. The auditor acts as a check & balance, with oversight over assessment corrections and changes forms. The auditor maintains the digital plat book, a map of parcel lines to determine real estate ownership for various public purposes, including taxation. The auditor is the County's most senior fiscal officer.
As an easy convenience, I will provide online deduction filings. Too many core Auditor functions are being contracted out. I would ensure staff is maintaining the digital plat book without expensive consultants. I am committed to in-house budgeting, revenue forecasting and chairing budgeting meetings. I would terminate the out-of-county contractors currently running our financial planning processes and make sure that the auditors staff is skilled in generating and analyzing Tippecanoe's financial data. I will audit, report and reduce wasteful, duplicative tech spending and dispute ineffective contracting and questionable invoices. The solution to shrinking budgets from SB1 is to consolidate technology and staff to deliver more with less.
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