Council votes at a glance: appointments, budget, rezonings, speed-limit and parking changes — March 3, 2025

The Indianapolis City-County Council on March 3, 2025, approved a series of mayoral appointments, budgets and administrative items, confirmed decisions by the Metropolitan Development Commission (MDC) on several rezonings, and voted on a set of localized traffic and parking changes.

Key outcomes included approval of the mayor’s appointments of Christopher Bailey (identified in the council record as the chief of police for the Minneapolis Metropolitan Police Department) and Ernest V. Malone as chief of the Indianapolis Fire Department; both nominations were reported to have passed committee 11–0 and were approved by the full council by voice votes recorded as 25–0. The council also approved the 2025 budget for the Downtown Economic Enhancement District (proposal 50) and a separate measure setting amounts and locations for certain community development grant projects (proposal 51); both measures passed out of committee unanimously and carried on the council by a 25–0 vote.

Councilors reappointed and appointed members to several advisory boards and review panels with minimal discussion. Proposals 32, 60, 61, 62 and 63 — covering reappointments and appointments to the Marion County Community Corrections Advisory Board, the AIC Advisory Board, the Citizens Police Complaint Board, the domestic violence fatality review team and related appointments — passed out of committee 11–0 and were approved by the full council; the meeting record shows the motions carried 25–0.

Councilors struck proposal 49 (the…