The City of Fishers is beginning the process of formulating the 2019 budget, and Mayor Scott Fadness made one thing clear to the City Council Finance Committee Wednesday night – he wants to know more about what the city will project as revenue before seriously looking at the amount of spending.

But the mayor did make one thing clear, he wants to plan for the same amount of money going to nonprofit groups as was spent last year – $356,500.  The mayor also said if next year’s budget number comes out favorably, he would be open to increasing that amount, but if the spending plan becomes tighter for 2019, the number could go down.

A three- person Fishers City Council committee will decide how to divide up funding for the many requests the city receives from nonprofit organizations.  Applications for 2019 funding were to be submitted by June 14th.

Here is a list of the nonprofit groups that received city funds for 2018:

         Advocates for Children and Families, dba Cherish

·         Ascent 121

·         Conner Prairie Museum, Inc.

·         Geist Half Marathon

·         Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, Inc.

·         Hamilton County Leadership Academy

·         Hamilton County Youth Assistance

·         Hamilton Southeastern School Foundation

·         Hope Academy

·         Janus Developmental Services

·         Nickel Plate Arts

·         Spaceport Exploration

·         YMI

Mayor Fadness expects to provide the Finance Committee an initial budget discussion at their August 8th session.  He has scheduled more talk about 2019 spending at meetings August 13th-17th.  The full City Council will be briefed on the budget at a work session planned September 6th.  Adoption of the 2019 budget by the City Council  is expected October 15th.