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Decatur City Board of Works approves fire contract, plat and pedestrian engineering; records resignations
Summary
Decatur City’s Board of Works voted unanimously to approve a Washington Township fire contract, accept several resignations as matters of record and advance engineering and plat approvals for local development and school-area pedestrian safety.
Decatur City’s Board of Works voted unanimously to approve several routine contracts and administrative items and recorded multiple resignations during a meeting that also advanced pedestrian-safety engineering and a development plat.
The board approved a 2025 protection contract with Washington Township for $18,564.36 and accepted resignation letters from paid‑on‑call firefighters Justin Veil and Daryl Drake and from Paul Schiamen of the city water department, who is leaving to take a position with the Fort Wayne Fire Department. Members also granted permission for a controlled, staged burn to film portions of a revised “Surviving Life” safety video in cooperation with Huntington University and a local developer, Champion Homes.
The board confirmed the plan commission’s recommendation by approving the secondary plat for the Northfields at Cross Creek development, clearing the way for the project to proceed toward…
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