City officials plan major projects for Jasper City officials plan major projects for Jasper By Brady Williams | May 11, 2021 at 7:12 PM CDT - Updated May 11 at 7:12 PM JASPER, Ind. (WFIE) - Mayor Dean Vonderheide outlined several projects in the works to improve the city on Tuesday. He said that infrastructure improvements are the top priorities right now. “Some of our water lines are almost a hundred years old, so it’s time,” Vonderheide explained. Improving drainage and sanitation are part of the major downtown revitalization project, which he said they’re just now getting to work on. “It was shelved back in 2017 in order for the cultural center to move forward, so we picked it back up,” he said.