A push by Valparaiso Councilman Robert Cotton urging redirection of ARPA funds to reduce the amount of city bond debt for expansive water projects was ignored by the council for other plans to finance the first phase of a park department new senior activity center.
Indiana House Bill 1418 unanimously passed out of the Local Government Committee at the Indiana General Assembly Tuesday morning, a positive start in the process of creating a state law that would allow a second development in unincorporated Porter County, Grand Oaks, the option of requesting annexation by the city of Valparaiso.