(A) Every recital in the ordinance codified herein is adopted into this section.
(B) There is hereby established the Sheriff Local Foreclosure Services Fund (short title: Sheriff Local Foreclosure Fund) to be held and managed and operated consistent with this section. Said fund shall be non-reverting in nature.
(C) All administrative fees charged by the Sheriff (not to exceed the $200 per sale fee authorized above) in connection with the planning, implementation, dedication of employees, administration, conducting and finalizing foreclosure sales that are ordered by a court consistent with the provisions of I.C. 32-29-7-3 shall be deposited into this fund. The fund shall be managed by the Auditor.
(D) Expenditures from this fund shall be solely dedicated for part-time employee services, projects, clerical work, court work, transport work, process service work and other work performed by part-time employees or deputies of the Sheriff’s Department with respect to delinquent income tax collection and administration.
(E) All monies utilized for the purposes set forth above, as provided in this section, shall be subject to appropriation decisions of the County Council (“Council”). Any part-time employees compensated for the services described herein shall be so compensated at rates and at levels fixed by the said Council from time to time.
(F) This Fund is to be utilized only as a supplement to annual existing budgetary appropriations for part-time workers in the Sheriff’s Department. It is not to be utilized as a substitute for the primary funding provided by the Council to compensate part-time workers in the Sheriff’s budget hereafter.
(G) All part-time workers paid by virtue of this fund are to be considered employees at-will, not subject to the receipt of any benefits as a result of payment through the county government payroll compensation system. Such employees shall perform these services at the will and pleasure of the Sheriff and may be terminated by the Sheriff, in his or her sole discretion, at any time without any expectation of continued employment after first being assigned part-time duties by the Sheriff.
(Ord. 4-2007, passed 1-25-2007)