Fishers Mayor Scott Fadness insists the city’s Fishers Race Initiative has not ended, but two outside contractors are no longer doing business with the city.

In a brief City Hall conversation with LarryInFishers last week, Mayor Fadness says the Soul Focused Group will no longer be a contractor for the city following public statements attributed to the group and brought to the attention of the mayor and his staff.

Also, another outside group, a consulting firm named “Favorite Part Of My Day,” has chosen to pull out of the contract with the City of Fishers to be diversity and inclusion consultants.  According to Fadness, this was entirely the contractor’s decision, not the city’s.

Fadness says he remains committed to diversity and inclusion in the city and will continue to explore avenues for Fishers to move forward.  The mayor says he wants to see how programs from the Parks and Recreation Department can look into diversity and inclusion, for example.

The Interrupting Racism training program sponsored by the city, and offered free to Fishers residents, was completed by between 300 and 400 people.  Fadness says that number may have been even higher had the entire program not been all-virtual once the pandemic hit the Fishers area.