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Casey Dick

Blackford County Council member who questioned the long-unexamined formula splitting economic-development costs among the county and its towns. He also serves on the Solid Waste District board.

Republican · Blackford County

The 60-second story

Casey Dick is a Republican member of the Blackford County Council. He pressed the question of why the county pays 78% of the economic-development office's cost while Hartford City pays 17% and Montpelier 5% — noting no formula ever set those shares, a point Warren Brown acknowledged when he said the split was inherited 'the way it was when we got here.'

A frequent seconder of council motions, he was reappointed to the county Solid Waste District board for 2026 and personally moved approval of the jail backup-generator and 911 communication-center replacements in April 2026.

Across 2025 and 2026 he has been a near-constant Aye on appropriations and personnel matters, including a $112,050 4-H Building bond, a $200,000 Rainy Day Fund transfer, and the May 2026 RWE Prairie Creek 2 personal-property tax abatement that passed 6-0 amid a documented technical failure that left Council President Jack Beckley's vote unrecorded. One notable exception came in April 2025, when he voted against adding a deputy position in the Sheriff's Department.

Quick facts

  • Current role Member, Blackford County Council
  • Also serves on Blackford County Solid Waste District board
  • Party Republican
  • Jurisdiction Blackford County, Indiana
  • Signature issues Economic-development cost sharing, public safety appropriations

Three things voters should know

01

He questioned the EDO cost-sharing split

Dick asked why the county pays 78% of the economic-development office while the towns pay far less, with no formula behind it.

02

He sits on the Solid Waste board

He was reappointed to the county Solid Waste District board for 2026.

03

He moved key public-safety upgrades

He moved approval of the jail backup-generator and 911 communication-center replacements.

Biography

Biography pending.

Memberships & affiliations

Blackford County Council (Member), Blackford County Solid Waste District (board member)

Notable votes

2025-04-09
Add a Deputy position in the Sheriff's Department
Did not pass with his support · One of his few dissenting votes; he voted Aye the same night to reinstate a probation administrative assistant and a summer intern.
Nay
2025-08-06
Up to $50,000 from the restricted opioid fund to the Blackford County IRX Program
Approved
Aye
2025-09-03
$13,128.03 jail tractor rebuild from the Rainy Day fund
Approved 7-0
Aye
2025-11-05
$112,050.08 4-H Building bond appropriation
Approved 7-0 · Funded with wind and solar permit money.
Aye
2025-12-17
Resolution 2025-R12 authorizing a $200,000 transfer to the Rainy Day Fund
Approved 5-0 · Same meeting reappointed him to the Solid Waste District board for 2026.
Aye
2026-04-01
Jail backup generator + 911 system replacements (moved by Dick)
Approved 6-0
Aye
2026-05-06
RWE Prairie Creek 2 personal-property tax abatement
Approved 6-0 · Passed amid a real-time technical failure that left Council President Jack Beckley's remote vote unrecorded.
Aye

Positions, in their own words

Economic-development cost sharing
Questioned the unexamined county/town funding split.
"There was no formula that decided those were the numbers that it needed to be."— Council, Aug. 6, 2025