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HAMMOND â Lake Superior Judge John Sedia holds in his hands the future of Lake County government operations. In coming days, Sedia will decide whether to renew his April 16 decision giving the Lake County Council control over purchasing and data processing, or to revise his prior ruling as requested by the Board of Commissioners that currently manages both departments. Sedia heard arguments Thursday by two attorneys intimately involved in Lake County government for decades: John Dull, for the commissioners; and Ray Szarmach, for the council. Dull passionately, but politely, made the case Sedia got it wrong three months ago when the judge concluded a 1981 Indiana law assigns authority over purchasing and data processing to the Lake County Council, regardless of whether the council has chosen to exercise that authority in the years since. ....
The filing lists five reasons for the “court’s order to be corrected” because it’s ruling is “contrary to law by not correctly applying the statutory language in the relevant statutes” given that, in large part, the 1980 law at the center of the case was repealed. ....
The Lake County commissioners asked a judge to postpone implementation of his April 16 order transferring control of the county s purchasing and data processing departments to the county council. ....
CROWN POINT â The seven-member Lake County Council is entitled to control the county s purchasing and data processing departments, not the three-member Board of County Commissioners that has managed both those departments for decades. That s the ruling issued Friday by Lake Superior Judge John Sedia in the unprecedented lawsuit concerning the rightful separation of powers between the county s legislative branch (council) and its executive (commissioners). In his 10-page order, Sedia said a 1981 Indiana law expressly assigns authority over purchasing and data processing to the Lake County Council, regardless of whether the council has chosen to exercise that authority in the years since. ....