Jocelyn Vare is one of two Democrats elected to the Fishers City Council in 2019.  She has just completed her first year on the council, and we talked about her time so far serving on the council in this podcast, recorded February 8.

She discussed to some of the criticism leveled at her by the council leadership in her proposal for a new process to evaluate council appointments to boards and commissions.  Responding to allegations she shared her proposal the day of the council meeting in January, Vare says she did not receive the list of appointments for the council vote until 24 hours prior to the meeting.  She also did not receive other information requested about how many community members volunteered to serve on boards & commissions using the city Web site until just before the meeting.

Vare says she wants to be collaborative in fashioning a new council appointments process, but wants improvements to better reflect the diversity of the city.

She opposed the creation of the Fishers Health Department but did vote to fund it.  When asked how she thinks the department is doing so far, she pointed out the lack of updates the council has received from the city administration.  After the podcast was recorded, Councilwoman Vare messaged me to say there is a Health Department update on the agenda for the February City Council meeting.

She is not taking sides in the contested race for Hamilton County Democratic Chairman, but expects to support one of the candidates before the votes from the precinct chairs are counted.

Listen to the entire podcast at the link below.