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Town of Fishers to become city with elected mayor

 IBJ Staff
November 6, 2012
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Fishers, Government, Government & Economic Development, Hamilton County, Regional News
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The state's largest town will become a city.

Voters in the fast-growing suburb north of Indianapolis approved a ballot measure Tuesday that will turn the town of 80,000 residents into a second class city with an elected mayor.

With almost all the vote counted, about 55 percent of the votes favored turning the Fishers into a city with six district councilors, three at-large councilors and an elected mayor.

Voters voted down a ballot measure to make the town a "reorganized" city in combination with Fall Creek Township. The hybrid model would have featured nine at-large council members who would pick a mayor and hire a city manager.

Nearly 62 percent of voters rejected the hybrid-city option.

Voters were able to navigate through a confusing ballot to determine the town's future.
 

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  • Money
    Joe WeingartenNovember 13, 2012 10:08 PM
    The Town spent about $30,000 in taxpayer money and the Reorg group somewhere around $45,000. The City Yes around $6-8000. So they had a 10 to 1 spending ratio. But the truth won the vote.
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  • Keep the cronies OUT
    RickNovember 7, 2012 3:09 PM
    The challange now will be keeping faultess, easily, crane and the other "insiders" and cronies from getting hold of the reigns of the fishers republicans. Purvis and weingarten dont stand a chance of getting elected mayor as demos and people know they are. Interesting to see who steps up.
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  • Right Idea?
    RowdyNovember 7, 2012 1:14 PM
    I think the idea of the "hybrid" city had some merit. But the approach of how it was on the ballot simply made it seem like . . . "dirty pool". Ballots need to be plain and simple. If they're not, the assumption is that something underhanded is being attempted.
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  • Faultless
    TreyNovember 7, 2012 8:21 AM
    Isn't Faultless a slip and fall attorney? Even "politician" is a more reputable vocation.
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  • FAULTLESS
    AmusedNovember 7, 2012 12:17 AM
    So how much money did the Town Council spend in trying to deny its citizens their right to city status, and their right to vote for a mayor? All the lawyers, p.r. firms, misinformation campaign, etc. couldn't get Scott Faultless crowned King. Nice try though.
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