The long agenda resulted in a longer-than-normal Fishers City Council meeting Monday.  Many issues were for a first reading, with no council vote yet.  That Included the 2025 budget proposal and the rates for the new 10-year city-wide trash collection contract with Republic.  I have reported on both these issues extensively during the the past weeks and months.  Both will come up for a final vote before the Council in October.

There were some other interesting items from the council session.

–The annexation of an area in the southeast part of Hamilton County adjacent to Fishers and near Fortville was on the agenda had a fiscal plan adopted by the Council.  This will continue a process expected to end in a final action on this annexation in May or June of 2025.

–ThermoFisher is a large life science firm that received a tax abatement as part of an economic development package for a Fishers location.  The business was technically out of compliance to keep that abatement, but the company, according to Economic Development Director Megan Baumgartner, is in compliance with the conditions of that abatement, but a shuffling of staff members at ThermoFishers was the reason a form was not filed on time.  The Council approved a waiver of noncompliance for ThermoFisher.

–The Council approved an overlay district recommended by the Plan Commission.