09/17/2026
� WHO IS FUNDING THE FLOOD RECOVERY — AND WHO IS GETTING LEFT BEHIND? �
Tonight, we’re digging into some serious questions about Madison County’s flood response, local funding priorities, drainage, navigable streams, and the offices responsible for protecting our communities before and after disaster strikes.
We’ll be reviewing portions of recent Madison County Council meetings and the Planning Commission meeting to look at what local officials are saying, where the money is going, and why residents are still asking where the meaningful local financial assistance is for homeowners, renters, property owners, and neighborhoods devastated by the flood.
We’ll also discuss FEMA’s involvement with debris and log removal and what happened after responsibility and funding for navigable streams shifted back to local control.
But one of the biggest questions tonight is about the silence from our own elected officials while outside organizations come into our community and determine who qualifies for help, who gets passed over, and who is left waiting in damaged homes while the rest of us are forced to watch.
Residents should not have to feel like strangers are deciding who gets saved and who gets left behind while local officials remain quiet or point people toward systems that clearly are not reaching everyone.
Who is advocating for the families that fall outside a map, outside a funding formula, outside a program guideline, or outside somebody else’s definition of who deserves assistance?
Who is standing up for the homeowner whose property was destroyed but does not qualify?
Who is standing up for the renter still displaced?
Who is standing up for the families dealing with sewage, mold, damaged infrastructure, unsafe housing conditions, or homes that were clearly impacted even though a map says otherwise?
And why are local residents having to fight this hard just to be seen?
Then we’re taking a closer look at the Madison County Surveyor’s Office.
Why is the Surveyor’s Office facing funding pressure at a time when drainage, ditches, streams, flooding, and infrastructure failures should be receiving MORE attention — not less?
We’ve watched funding battles involving other county offices before, including disputes surrounding the Coroner’s Office during the tenures of Dr. Abbott and Dr. Katherine Callahan. Now residents need to understand exactly what is happening with the Surveyor’s Office, what the County Commissioners are proposing, and how those decisions could affect drainage throughout Madison County.
And there’s another question people should be asking:
Why do some drains appear well maintained while other parts of the county continue struggling with neglected drainage, flooding, backups, and long-standing infrastructure problems?
If Surveyor Ken is being challenged over the condition of county drains, then the public deserves the complete picture — including which drains are under his office’s authority, what funding has actually been available, what maintenance has been requested or completed, and who controls the money necessary to do the work.
This episode isn’t just about one office or one meeting.
It’s about FOLLOWING THE MONEY.
It’s about WHO CONTROLS THE FUNDING.
It’s about WHO GETS HELP.
It’s about WHO GETS IGNORED.
And it’s about why local residents are still being forced to watch some families get assistance while others are effectively told to keep waiting.
Most importantly, it’s about the people who just lived through catastrophic flooding and deserve straight answers about what is being done to help them recover — and what is being done to prevent this from happening again.
�� OPERATION: THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME ��
We’ve been boots on the ground. Now it’s time to follow the receipts.
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� Madison County, Indiana
� Local Government • Flood Recovery • Infrastructure • Accountability • The Receipts
