The Fishers City Council was scheduled to vote on an amendment to the city health ordinance Monday night, calling for fines of up to $500 for code violations, but the council removed that item from the council agenda at the last minute.  To enact that ordinance Monday night, it would have taken a unanimous vote of all 9 council members to suspend the rules and waive the normal three readings required at three separate council meetings.

Monica Heltz from the Fishers Health Department told the council over the last 2 weeks, positive COVID-19 cases averaged 50 per day, with the number of cases in the city “rising extremely rapidly.”  A total of 692 cases have been reported in Fishers the last 14 days, accounting for 22% of all COVID-19 cases in the city since the pandemic began.

The Fishers Board of Health voted to approve a number of measures going beyond Governor Eric Holcomb’s executive order.  That Fishers public health order is being issued this week.