Porter County, Indiana, has approved $185,500 in additional expenditures for the reassessment of commercial and industrial properties and to improve the county jail’s reimbursement rate from the federal government. The assessor’s office will spend $100,000 on contractual services to hire a vendor to assist in the reassessment, with the goal of raising commercial and industrial valuations by $7 million to $18 million. The sheriff’s office will spend $85,500 on contractual services with Summerill Consultants to negotiate a better daily reimbursement rate for housing federal inmates in the Porter County Jail. The new rate is expected to kick in by August and is expected to increase revenues for the jail by $515,000 over the next three years.