The council’s three-person finance committee voted Monday night to send a proposed salary ordinance back to the full council with the recommendation that increases for all elected officials be reduced to 2 percent.
The not-for-profit introduced the proposal for affordable housing and commercial space last year, but progress stalled after it narrowly missed out on $1.5 million in federal funding.
The complaint alleges the Westfield Washington School Corp. did not properly supervise the employee who constructed the stage, leading to a student’s injuries.
The lawsuit was brought by 18 plaintiffs who had been cited under Carmel’s local traffic ordinance, which was deemed invalid by the Indiana Court of Appeals.
Danny Boy Beer Works is opening a draft room in Bloomington. Firebirds Wood Fired Grill recently debuted in Carmel, and Rita’s Italian Ice is doing business in Fishers.
Spectrum Retirement Communities LLC announced Monday that it received all the necessary approvals for a 174-unit senior living community in the mixed-use Anson development in Whitestown.
The population boost means an additional $2.3 million in state tax dollars will flow into the city through 2021.
Proposed ordinances that would increase pay for elected officials and city employees in Carmel have been sent to the city council’s finance committee for discussion when it meets Oct. 10.
Carmel Clerk-Treasurer Christine Pauley is publicly opposing a proposed salary ordinance that gives significant increases to the mayor and City Council members while limiting her pay hike. She claims she has been discriminated against and harassed by the council.
Two businesses that would be displaced by the next big redevelopment project in downtown Fishers are relocating a few blocks south to a hot new address.
John “Mike” Blakley, a Fishers resident, served as CEO and president for the specialty contractor and home-flooring retailer from 1974 to 2012.
Under the salary ordinance that will be introduced at the Carmel City Council meeting on Monday, Mayor Jim Brainard, Judge Brian Poindexter and council members would all see double-digit percentage hikes in their salaries.
Swedish retail giant Ikea has hired a slew of contractors to build its Fishers store and is on schedule for a fall 2017 opening, it announced Wednesday.
Carmel is set to receive $15.4 million in previously withheld Local Option Income Tax revenue from the state. The suburb is considering a strategy that will let it comply with state requirements for the special funding while still using it leverage more debt.
Earlier this year, the Hamilton County Commissioners put the project at the top of their priority list for capital expenses, but several members of the Hamilton County Council were hesitant to support a $12 million expansion.
A former mayor of Carmel, a current mayor in Boone County, a bakery owner, a small concert venue owner, and two well-known Noblesville sisters are featured in IBJ’s annual Q&A extravaganza.
While Indianapolis pursues major sporting events and massive conventions—gatherings that attract tens of thousands of people and score tens of millions of dollars in economic impact—many neighboring counties are chasing small and midsize corporate confabs, weddings and senior-citizen bus tours.
In addition to having early voting at the Hamilton County Judicial Center, satellite voting centers will be open at the Carmel Clay Public Library and Fishers City Hall.
Opposition to a proposed horse track in Carmel is what drove Jane Reiman to run for mayor of the Hamilton County city in 1979. Almost four decades later, she’s back working at the city—with a little less responsibility but still plenty of passion.
The town announced Thursday that it would provide the 1,200-square-foot building at 390 S. Main St. to a Boosterville, a startup firm that offers a shopping app with a charitable bent.
