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Wildstyle @mrwildstyle.bsky.social · 14h

Martindale - Brightwood

We're 15 minutes into this meeting about the data center proposed for 25th and Sherman

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Indy City Councilor Ron Gibson has not made an appearance yet

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 5d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 5d

Correction: Councilor Boots adds from Evans, "I wanna see $90mil for suburban areas & parks," & that we need to start working to make lemonade out of lemons to improve the quality of life in the city while we aren't currently receiving that kind of funding.

Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 6d

Councilor Boots adds from Evans, "I wanna see 90mil for suburban areas & parks," & that we need to start working to make lemonades out of lemons to improve the quality of life in the city that aren't currently

Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 5d

Correction: route was meant to be root both times here. My accent makes those words homonyms & I didn't catch I had used the wrong one there whoops!

Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 6d

Councilor Evans continues to reiterate that for the five years he's been on the council, he has heard that we have to address crime & the route causes and parks helps to address those root causes. He praised the efforts being put in by the forest advocacy groups

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Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 6d

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Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 6d

Meeting adjourned at 6:02pm. This concludes the Indianapolis City-County Council Parks & Recreation Committee Budget Review & Analysis meeting. The next meeting is scheduled for Nov. 6th, 2025. For more meeting coverage, check out documenters.org
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Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 6d

Ribbon Cutting for BNO Trail will be on October 8th.

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Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 6d

Councilor Boots points out that funding for arts now is less than it was in 2005.

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Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 6d

Judith Thomas from Indy Arts Council says that they are working as a team from a civic prospective to explore more funding routes in the creating of their strategic plan. She assured councilors that Indy Arts is working to further civic partnerships to help us all do so.

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Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 6d

Councilor Boots adds from Evans, "I wanna see 90mil for suburban areas & parks," & that we need to start working to make lemonades out of lemons to improve the quality of life in the city that aren't currently

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Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 6d

Councilor Evans continues to reiterate that for the five years he's been on the council, he has heard that we have to address crime & the route causes and parks helps to address those root causes. He praised the efforts being put in by the forest advocacy groups

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Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 6d

The budget has been taken to a vote & has been passed unanimously. However, Councilor Evans reiterates that while he is voting yes, it is reluctantly so when we are not actually funding this department enough.

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Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 6d

Jeff also said, "I bet you if you polled the residences of Indianapolis & asked if they wanted a soccer stadium or more parks, I bet they would choose parks", but that we're not currently doing the outreach to even really know.

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Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 6d

Jeff Stan states there needs to be a city wide discussion on not only funding the parks department but truly addressing the lack of willingness to budget it in the first place.

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Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 6d

Our first public comment tonight urges that we should seek other opportunities for funding this department, such as a wheel tax, as it is in dire need of that funding."Any man that has profited from this city should give back to this city"

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Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 6d

We are now proceeding to public comment on this proposal.

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Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 6d

Parks Chair Crone says that they are putting together a review team to try to see what areas they can increase efforts for furthering revenue or decreasing costs.

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Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 6d

Councilor Boots urges that we should really work on increasing revenue as we need more money to provide for the services for parks & arts in our city. He is asking how we could increase that from Indy Parks perspective when we are seeing less money from the state?

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Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 6d

Councilor Delaney is inquiring about the Holiday Park updates, & Parks Chair Crone conferred we are likely to be announcing a ribbon cutting ceremony by the end of the month.

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Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 6d

From their last meeting, Indy Parks was able to secure 5 more contracts with the Lilly Endowment Grant program.

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Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 6d

We're starting out tonight by hearing from Brittany Crone, Chair & Interim Director of Indy Parks, with a quick recap of some of Indy Parks successes, as well as reminding that Fall Program Registration is now open for programs from our parks.

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Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 6d

Indy Parks is looking at slight decrease from last years’ budget, but councilors, some members of Indy Parks, & many members of the public expressed that that our cities’ needs for our parks exceeds that as of last month’s budget presentation as well.

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Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 6d

Today’s meeting is dedicated to budget review for the Parks & Rec Committee, but folks might be surprised by what all that includes; like the art budget, proposed at $1.3 mil by the Indy Arts Council back at the Sept. 4th meeting, only 0.07% of the city’s total budget.

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Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 6d

The meeting is now being called to order at 5:32. We’ve got full attendance from the board members & we've got about forty people here from the community.

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Nav (Indy Documenter) @nav-indydocumenter.bsky.social · 6d

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