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Fishers City Council approves contracts, purchases and grant amendment in routine meeting
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At its recent meeting the Fishers City Council approved multiple routine agreements and purchases — including a $75,000 downtown due-diligence contract, a $75,433 IDOH grant amendment for a clinical social worker, and several parks, public-safety and utility agreements — all by voice vote.
Fishers City’s council approved a series of routine contracts, purchases and a federal-state grant amendment at its most recent meeting, moving forward on park improvements, development agreements, fire-department equipment and a public-health grant.
The council approved a $75,000 due-diligence agreement to support downtown development projects; city staff said the work will assemble background information developers need for site decisions. "These are looking in projects in the downtown area, and this is for a budget of $75,000," a staff speaker said during the presentation.
Lisa Bradford, the city controller, presented the city’s 2026 insurance renewal and said officials are switching carriers to Liberty Mutual from Selective after working with broker MJ Insurance. Bradford said the move is intended to hold 2026 insurance costs roughly flat despite added exposures such as the community center, though some vehicle deductibles will increase.
The council accepted Amendment No. 4 to a Health Issues and Challenges grant from IDOH. "The grant amount is in the amount of $75,433 that supports our licensed clinical social worker," Laura Graff, deputy director of finance and operations for the Health Department, told the council. Graff said IDOH offered funds that needed to be spent down by June 30 and the city submitted a proposal to use the money for the clinical social-worker position in partnership with the named community program.
Public-safety spending approved included a special purchase of recruit turnout gear stated as $64,000 — presented as a substantial discount from an approximately $100,000 retail price — and approval to buy a mobile breathing-air trailer to support SCBA refill operations and training. A fire-department representative described the trailer as a replacement for an aging, maintenance-prone unit that was authorized in the 2026 budget.
Recreation and parks items approved included an agreement with First Student to provide summer-camp busing so off-site camps can use the community-center pool and take field trips, and contracts to install two synthetic turf fields at Cynthia Park with a maintenance agreement. Staff also described and the council approved electrical work and lighting purchases for two high-school-adjacent athletic fields.
Development and utility items included acceptance of an off-site sanitary sewer easement to serve two new residential lots at the northwest corner of 96th Street and Hamilton Hills Drive (Bowser Subdivision), approval of a sanitary-sewer service agreement for the Canterwood subdivision (a Pulte development of 21 single-family lots), and a related payment-in-lieu of certain developer improvements.
The council also approved a professional-services agreement with Waypoint Strategies to perform a condition assessment of 10 city buildings and prepare a five-year asset plan, and certified the results of a properly noticed merit-board election naming Blake Holler and Howard Stevenson to the merit board.
Most items were presented by departmental staff and approved on voice votes after brief council questions; no roll-call tallies were provided in the transcript.
