North Split Blues: City Looks For Money to Fix Additional Street Damage
INDIANAPOLIS–If you’ve been driving on some really rough streets, you’re not alone. The Indianapolis City-County Council is looking for ways to fix as many streets as they can, but now has to look at what the North Split project is doing to the condition of city streets around the interstates.
“This body has been trying to find ways to keep that traffic going around the city as it’s supposed to. But, as we know, 465 is also a parking lot,” said council Vice Pres. Zach Adamson, at Monday’s meeting. He was recently in a Public Works Committee meeting, looking into traffic troubles.
The Indianapolis City-County Council approved a fiscal ordinance Monday that will allocate $150,000 to pilot an immigrant defense fund. The money will help immigrants in Indianapolis seeking asylum, pursuing citizenship, or those at risk of deportation with legal information, consultations and representation. Local organizations that are already doing this work are maxed out with their caseload, said Jordan Rodriguez, who works in the city s human resources department and is the former director of the city s Office of International and Latino Affairs. So this would basically provide funds to be able to increase perhaps, you know, personnel for those organizations, and also just help with various (immigration process) fees that immigrants have to pay as well.
May 11, 2021 / 05:24 AM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – The city of Indianapolis has established an Immigrant Defense Fund.
On Monday evening, the City-County Council passed Proposal 134. The move appropriates $100,000 to the Office of Public Health and Safety in order to create the fund.
“I want to thank the Council for hearing and adopting Proposal 134, and I appreciate the support and partnership of the Hogsett administration in the creation of the Immigrant Defense Fund,” noted co-sponsor Councillor Crista Carlino, “Especially OPHS Director Lauren Rodriguez who, in response to Councillors’ request, identified an additional $50k in her department’s budget to leverage more opportunity for our city’s immigrant population.”