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The proposal is an administrative action that \"adopts the 2026 budget tax rate and tax levy for the solid waste collection special service district,\" Jenny Carter, budget manager with the Office of Finance and Management, told the committee. She said the language mirrors \"section 3.01 subsection e of the 2026 introduced budget ordinance.\"

Committee members asked whether the proposed levy and the forecasted property-tax revenue would fully resolve this year’s supplemental fiscal actions. Sam Baritz, chief financial officer for the department, said the department had a fiscal supplement this year tied to the solid waste garage and that construction should be complete by year’s end: \"...there was a fiscal associated with solid waste this year. It was supplemental funding for the solid waste garage, which is going to be complete, for construction by the end of the year.\" He told the committee the budget was built around the revenue expected from the tax rate presented in the introduced budget.

Councilor Dan Boots asked about the longstanding $32 per-unit collection fee and whether the city planned to raise it. Boots said the fee \"has been the same for nearly 35 years. When is it going to be considered to be increased?\" Baritz replied that the district is funded by a combination of the $32 user fee and the property-tax levy and that the levy is generating \"around 4 and a half times the amount of revenue that the user fee is generating.\" He added the department has \"no plan to propose a rate increase for that fee at this point or in the future,\" and clarified that the user fee amount is not fixed by the new vendor contracts.

Councilor Goose moved that the committee recommend proposal 2‑58‑2025 to the full council with a due-pass recommendation; the motion was seconded and approved by voice vote. The chair announced, \"The ayes have it.\" The committee did not record a roll-call vote in the transcript excerpt.

Clarifying details included in committee discussion: the collection user fee is $32 per unit, the property-tax levy generates roughly 4.5 times the user-fee revenue, the city applied a roughly $1,000,000 fiscal supplement for solid waste this year tied to the garage project, and the new vendor contracts referenced begin in 2026 and run up to 10 years but do not themselves fix the user fee.

The committee forwarded the levy to the full council with a due-pass recommendation; final adoption will occur at the full-council budget vote.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","City Council of Indianapolis, IN - Public Works Committee","oneSentenceSummary","The Public Works Committee recommended proposal 2‑58‑2025 to adopt the 2026 tax rate and levy for the solid waste collection special service district, while officials confirmed the $32 per-unit user fee remains unchanged and the property tax levy provides the majority of district revenue.","taxTitle","Indianapolis City, Marion County, Indiana","taxId",3627,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6460765,"Public Works committee advances DPW’s 2026 budget amid calls for more traffic-safety funding",404,609000,1013000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5827697-cd5a9642fb65bb28b2d82328a1975bf5&start=609&end=1013","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5827697-cd5a9642fb65bb28b2d82328a1975bf5/thumbnail_609000.jpg","/articles/6460765/Indianapolis-City/Marion-County/Indiana/Public-Works-committee-advances-DPWs-2026-budget-amid-calls-for-more-traffic-safety-funding","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6460765-9a8594e058e2a67951f81d7e585bdba3/orig.mp4?Expires=1771146528&Signature=P2wp6j-Gw4r8385f7-DHlSEJ5ilkh6C09Hw-03SwYO1BYUzzwg8mwF8tC0j5FZXP1eoU44wLG7mKFrlO8jLP5D2Vfn9XMOS8zXTVB6Cf708MuHwgh2EHrBxMOUQ~TlvpTLS5i-DdK2QnO2sY~zoWRbHOrqZ2xnjb8Ilz6JO-V9www24tXCtc8LhgtfTXWZrCA6fP3F-rRF7yTDvHk0-F5YC5QCVkIcLDRrsDI80mYIiBAJds9aScyzMdCWZUvalhMQqWPDkykDFu6Wwv0dr21B2UyfIQbBanLKTsF1kwZO~5R-HRYyDt~~rhRPMsQzLOSO57xIe0DZapXgxb24mAWg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Indianapolis City Council Public Works Committee on Sept. 25 recommended proposal 2‑59‑2025, the Department of Public Works portion of the 2026 city-county budget, to the full council with a due-pass recommendation after a department presentation and public comment on traffic safety.

\"Tonight we have a short presentation to break down some of the different road work options that DPW has and outputs we should expect next year,\" Director Wilson told the committee. He presented a range of treatments the department uses — pothole filling, strip patching, in-house D4 district crews, residential resurfacing and thoroughfare resurfacing — and explained how the department prioritizes work using Mayor's Action Center data, pavement-condition indices and traffic data.

Wilson told the committee that contractor strip patching in 2026 is estimated to cover about 200 lane miles and that DPW crews and contractors together handle the range of short- and long-term treatments residents see. \"Pothole filling ... this year alone, we filled about 40,000 potholes around the county,\" Wilson said, describing pothole work as year-round and weather-dependent. He said residential resurfacing projects vary from a simple mill-and-overlay to full reconstruction and that the department expects a committed minimum of $16,000,000 per year for residential resurfacing through a state match program.

Councilors raised operational and equity questions. Councilor Derek Cahill criticized overreliance on Mayor's Action Center service-request data, saying language and access differences \"can disproportionately underrepresent\" some neighborhoods and lead to skewed prioritization. Councilor Dan Boots requested an update on the $1,000,000-per-district \"councilor select\" resurfacing projects; Director Wilson and Chief Engineer Mark St. John said the city awarded work to three contractors — Reece Bridal, Milestone and E&B — and that the teams are evaluating costs now. St. John explained the city used an alternative delivery process under a recently amended state build-operate-transfer procurement law to select contractor teams and said the approach is intended to speed deliveries.

Public commenters urged more funding and faster action on traffic violence and Vision Zero recommendations. Connie Szabo Schmucker, advocacy director of Bicycle Garage Indy, told the committee that zero dollars in the DPW budget for traffic-violence work signals a lack of priority and asked for $35,000,000, or about 2% of the total city budget, to address traffic violence. \"Not budgeting funds to address traffic violence because there's no Vision 0 Action Plan is a cop out,\" she said. Christina Hartley read the names of vulnerable road users who died this year and warned the committee that failing to fund safety measures would result in more deaths.

Committee members also debated overall funding levels. One councilor compared the current capital plan totals to an older HNTB estimate of the annual cost needed to maintain road conditions and said that even with the proposed funding \"we're guaranteeing roads are going to be worse next year than they are this year.\" Director Wilson responded that the department expects year-over-year improvements on many segments and emphasized the asset-management plan the department is developing to inform five-year capital planning.

Councilor motioned to send proposal 2‑59‑2025 to the full council with a due-pass recommendation. The clerk called a roll; the transcript excerpt records votes from several members: Councilor Ron Gibson (yes), Chair Kristen Jones (aye), Councilor Mallory (no), Councilor Andy Nielsen (yes) and Councilor Nick Roberts (yes). The transcript does not show the remaining roll-call votes in the excerpt. The committee recorded the motion as a due-pass recommendation to the full council. Final adoption will occur at the full-council budget vote scheduled Oct. 6.

The department said some councilor-select work should appear this fall, with the majority of selected projects delivered in 2026, and that the asset-management plan for roads and bridges will be brought to the council in 2026 for fuller briefing and ongoing updates.","After a presentation from Director Wilson outlining road-treatment strategies and expected 2026 outputs, the Public Works Committee forwarded the Department of Public Works portion of the 2026 budget to the full council. Public commenters and some councilors pressed for dedicated funding for traffic-violence prevention and rapid safety fixes.","actionData","errors"]

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Committee recommends 2026 solid-waste levy for special service district

Public Works committee advances DPW’s 2026 budget amid calls for more traffic-safety funding