Representatives for Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett said a feasibility study is expected to be completed before a full City-County Council vote set for June 5.
Under the measure, Department of Public Works engineers and the fatal crash review team are authorized to restrict right turns throughout downtown, Broad Ripple, and other specified areas at intersections identified as dangerous in past city studies.
Marion County voters will have a choice for local representation in 15 of the 25 City-County Council districts in the Nov. 7 election. The other 10 seats are uncontested. IBJ has identified four races considered to be the most in play.
The City-County Council Metropolitan and Economic Development Committee heard testimony from over a dozen downtown residents and representatives of prominent companies before passing the proposal, 8-3.
The proposal from Republican Councilor Michael-Paul Hart, which would create a study commission on the city’s usage of AI, was passed unanimously by the Rules and Public Policy Committee.
The City-County Council on Monday evening approved a major piece of the Hogsett administration’s plan to lure a Major League Soccer team to Indianapolis, advancing a proposal for a new professional sports development area intended to fund a soccer-first stadium.
Expanding our existing registry program to include short-term rentals is an effective solution that respects property rights and addresses the community’s concerns without unnecessary and excessive legislation.
The City-County Council also approved measures Monday that would require owners of Airbnb and VRBO rentals and dogs not spayed or neutered to register with the city.
A bipartisan City-County Council proposal would raise the pay for absentee voter board workers from $11 an hour to $15 an hour and recommend increased per diem for day-of workers.
“It’s time, Indiana—time to tax and regulate marijuana for adults 21 and up, just like alcohol,” Safe and Regulated Indiana says in its first advertisement.
Allowing each councilor to choose an improvement project is part of an initiative by Mayor Joe Hogsett’s administration to invest in roads, parks and dangerous intersections throughout Marion County.
Indianapolis City-County councilors unanimously approved the policy, which, among other things, empowers the Department of Public Works to deploy plows at any level of accumulation, based on road conditions.
The forced removal took place during a meeting in which City-County Council members eventually and overwhelmingly voted to delay a final $300,000 payment to Fisher Phillips, the Atlanta-based law firm hired to investigate Hogsett and his administration’s handling of harassment allegations against the mayor’s former chief of staff.
In the wake of an investigation into the Hogsett administration’s handling of sexual harassment allegations against his former chief of staff, Democrats on the Indianapolis City-County Council appear to be struggling to focus.
Four data center proposals in the Indianapolis area are facing a dynamic that’s emerging here and elsewhere: The operators working to build data centers here vs. the neighbors trying to stop them.
