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Zionsville mayor outlines capital projects and warns SB 1 will strain budgets
Summary
At the State of the Town at Indianapolis Executive Airport, Mayor John Stair highlighted a new municipal services building, planned fire stations, a major nature preserve, and economic development at Creekside, while warning that Indiana’s Senate Bill 1 will reduce property-tax revenue and may force tough choices in coming budgets.
Mayor John Stair told a packed audience at the Indianapolis Executive Airport that Zionsville is positioned to invest in public safety, parks and economic development even as state policy threatens local revenue. "It is, devastating for us," Stair said of Senate Bill 1, adding the town will receive "far less revenue than we had expected" for several years and that council members may have to consider a local income tax in 2028 if the gap remains.
Stair laid out a sequence of capital projects the town plans to deliver over the next several years. He said the town will begin a two-year process to build a new municipal services building near Trailside Elementary…
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