BY CHRISTINA M. SEILER, Rochester Sentinel News Editor
Fulton County Commissioners have decided to take no further action on the time zone issue.
They filed a timely petition with the U.S. Department of Transportation asking for a switch to Central Time Zone from Eastern Time Zone. Preliminarily, the transportation department declined to honor the request.
There are hearings Sunday in Logansport and Nov. 21 in South Bend. Commissioners can attend and restate their preference for central time.
But they decided during their Monday meeting not to.
“We decided to take no further action to lobby for or against Central Time,” Powell said.
He said he and his counterparts on the commission don’t want Fulton County to become an island, isolated by a time zone from different counties.
Pushing for central, when others stay Eastern, could end in that, he said.
In a proposed rule issued Oct. 25, the transportation department recommended that Knox, Perry, Pike, St. Joseph and Starke counties move from Eastern to Central time. It proposed keeping Carroll, Cass, Daviess, Dubois, Fulton, Lawrence, Marshall, Martin, Pulaski, Sullivan, Vermillion and White counties in the Eastern time zone.