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The package funds a range of projects including park upgrades, homeowner repair assistance, road and stormwater work tied to the Indigo Blue Line, snow-response capacity, pedestrian-safety projects recommended by the fatal crash review team and a new allocation for urban forest preservation.

The committee heard a detailed presentation from Abby Hansen, controller and director of the Office of Finance and Management, who said $77.7 million in 2025 supplemental county option income tax was received for eligible units and that the city-county portion of certified shares totals $34.4 million. Hansen said the fiscal ordinance does not appropriate the full certified-share amount because property-tax projections decreased by about $7 million after final state certification on Aug. 7 and because other units issued additional debt that increased circuit-breaker losses.

Hansen outlined the package’s major allocations: $100,000 for a facilities assessment at the Duval work-release center; $300,000 additional for outside legal services; $600,000 for the Circle City Readers tutoring program for the fall semester; a $2,000,000 top-up to the existing $3,000,000 elevation grant budget; $2,000,000 for parks (to cover higher-than-expected landscaping bids and upgrades, including HVAC work at Garfield Park Conservatory); an $8,000,000 gas-tax match tied to state legislation; $1,200,000 to complete the new solid-waste garage; stormwater work along the Indigo Blue Line route; purchases of smaller plow trucks and a $2,000,000 contractor pool for snow response; $500,000 to implement fatal crash review team recommendations; $1,000,000 set aside for urban forest preservation; a $2,000,000 homeowner repair program (DMD); and $500,000 for a cultural-district grant program administered by DMD.

Hansen said the $18 million associated with the public-safety income tax is held for end-of-year appropriation to cover anticipated union contract increases and therefore is not included in the fiscal ordinance presented to committee.

Council members debated priorities. Councilor Dan Boots emphasized the flexibility of the urban-forestry funds, noting that because they are funded from the general income-tax allocation the money “is the most flexible pot of money” and could be used for fee-simple land purchases, not only stormwater mitigation.

Other members raised equity and service-priority concerns. One councilor argued that residents repeatedly ask for pothole repair and basic road maintenance and said he planned to propose amendments at full council to reallocate funds toward road patching. Another member noted the package increases residential road funding by $8,000,000 and triples the homeowner-repair program budget, calling those outcomes important.

Public speakers supported several line items in the fiscal package. Representatives of cultural districts — including Mass Ave Cultural Arts District, Broad Ripple Village Association and Fountain Fletcher District — urged councilors to sustain funding for districts that rely heavily on volunteer labor or limited budgets to manage landscaping, events and safety. Home Repairs for Good described repairing hundreds of low-cost homes annually and urged continued investment in homeowner repairs as a cost-effective housing preservation strategy. Advocates for the urban-forest preservation effort and the Indiana Forest Alliance praised a $1,000,000 allocation for forest acquisition and urged additional future funding. Bicycle Garage Indy and other safety advocates supported the $500,000 to implement fatal-crash-review recommendations but warned the amount is insufficient for a systemic response.

A committee member asked for permission to abstain from the committee vote because a grant in Proposal 164 involved an organization with which they are professionally affiliated; the member requested to abstain from the committee vote and asked that the full council divide the question at final consideration. The committee chair allowed the request. The committee then moved to send the proposal to the full council with a due-pass recommendation and called for a roll-call vote; the committee approved forwarding the item.

What’s next: Proposal 164 will be considered by the full City-County Council where members said amendments are possible and one committee member has already signaled an intent to ask for the question to be divided. The administration and council staff will return to the council to present spending plans for items where departments must develop scopes of work, such as fatal-crash implementation and urban-forest land acquisition.

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Tracy Barnes told the committee she has lived in Indiana since 1994, is a Butler University graduate living in Franklin Township and recently left her role as chief information officer for the state of Indiana. Barnes said she holds a master's degree in cybersecurity law and policy and described herself as a government and IT professional eager to \"give directly back to my community.\"

Committee members asked if there were any questions; none were raised. A committee member moved to advance the appointment and members approved by voice vote.

What’s next: Proposal 01/1935 will be considered by the full City-County Council. If approved there, Barnes would be seated as a member of the Information Technology Board according to the board’s appointment rules.

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Colin Hill, chief information officer and director of ISA, told the committee the migration is driven by cybersecurity resilience and operational benefits. He called PeopleSoft the city’s ERP platform used to pay vendors and staff and track administrative records across the enterprise. Hill said the system currently sits in the city’s data center in a hyper-converged environment and that hosting PeopleSoft in a separate cloud tenancy would help the city maintain payroll and vendor payment capability if the primary data center were disabled.

Hill explained the migration will require a procurement to find a qualified partner with experience migrating large public-sector PeopleSoft deployments and said the city is coordinating across the controller’s office, the auditor, treasurer, human resources and purchasing. He said the goal is to complete migration before open enrollment in October, an aggressive target. Hill noted the city conducted a tabletop ransomware exercise about 18 months ago that underscored the importance of isolating critical systems.

Council members who spoke — including Councilor Krista Carlino and another tech-background councilor — supported the security rationale. One councilor observed that, while the cost may feel large, migration expenses are likely cheaper than the cost of responding to a successful ransomware attack.

The committee moved and seconded the request and approved forwarding it to full council.

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Controller Abby Hansen said the grants cover multiple departments. Highlights included: a federal Department of Transportation grant to the Office of Finance and Management; $500,000 from an opioid fund for Medicaid-assisted treatment in jail; a $50,000 federal transport-van grant for the sheriff's office; approximately $200,245 in gun-lock funding through a drug-free Marion County program; $780,000 in philanthropic funds for a winter-contingency public-health program; reimbursement funding for fire department Task Force 1 deployments; and a $2,700,000 grant for the Department of Metropolitan Development’s Streets to Home initiative, led by the mayor’s leadership council on homelessness to rapidly place unhoused neighbors into permanent housing with supportive services.

Councilor Gibson, who serves on the mayor’s Leadership Council, said Streets to Home would help house an estimated 350 individuals in the program’s first phase and urged support. Councilor Nelson echoed the need to use sustained opioid-fund revenue strategically to address homelessness and said he hoped the city would make long-term commitments where possible.

Committee members approved forwarding the grant appropriations to full council.

","Proposal 165, a set of grant appropriations, was advanced to the full council. The package includes federal, philanthropic and opioid-fund grants, including $2.7 million for the Streets to Home initiative to rapidly house unhoused residents in partnership with the mayor's Leadership Council on Homelessness.","actionData","errors"]

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