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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.
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The Indianapolis City-County Council met Monday night and passed proposals related to the Circle City Forward initiative. Debate centered on the tax to pay for the $190 million in facility improvements.
Councilors discussed two measures related to the efforts. The first would create a new fund called the County Cumulative Capital Development Fund to pay for the projects.
Democratic Councilor Zach Adamson said it doesn’t constitute a new tax.
“This is a new use, for an old tax,” Adamson said.
Republican Councilor Paul Annee disagreed and said the initial property tax was established to pay for pensions.
Feb 19, 2021 / 02:58 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) Millions of dollars are being invested into what the city calls one of its most struggling neighborhoods.
A total of $3.5 million will be invested into Martindale-Brightwood over the next three years as part of the Lift Indy program. Martindale-Brightwood is the second neighborhood to be inducted into this program in 2021, joining the Near North Corridor.
With the toll the coronavirus pandemic has taken on neighborhoods across Indianapolis, city leaders say it was necessary to expand this program. No neighborhood in Indianapolis was hit harder than the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood during the pandemic, according to SAVI, which uses data to improve planning and decision-making and ultimately improve the quality of life in communities. SAVI is a program of The Polis Center at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.