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Vote Rocky Shanehsaz For Noblesville City Council on May 7! Visionary. Collaborative. Community Focused. Learn more at RockyforCouncil.com Paid for by the Rocky For Council Campaign EDNESDAY PRIL TODAy’s WeaTHER W , A 24, 2019 Today: Partly sunny. Tonight: Partly to mostly cloudy. SHERIDAN | NOBLESVILLE | CICERO | ARCADIA Scattered showers or storms. IKE ATLANTA | WESTFIELD | CARMEL | FISHERS NEWS GATHERING L & PARTNER FOLLOW US! HIGH: 68 LOW: 54 Churches to stream services . County partners with Noblesville Prayer IMS for 500 Days of May Breakfast canceled over legal worries The REPORTER watch the service for those The Noblesville Prayer interested. Breakfast scheduled for The prayer breakfast May 2 at White River is held in conjunction with Christian Church has been the National Day of Prayer. canceled. Following the 2018 No- In lieu of the tradition- blesville Mayor’s Prayer al breakfast, many local Breakfast, the city turned churches have offered to the event organization over stream a Facebook Live to Helping Hands of No- prayer service that morning. blesville after receiving out- Once the event has been side pressure and potential organized, social media litigation over separation of will be used to share de- church and state – and those tails of when and where to concerns have resurfaced. Westfield launches Photo provided SafeRoads campaign Hamilton County Tourism is working with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to connect with Hamilton County and local cities and celebrate the month of May. The IMS requests that the county fly the The REPORTER • Education: The City Indianapolis 500 flag during the entire month of May. On Monday, the Indy 500 flag was raised over On Tuesday, May- will implement ongo- the Courthouse. (From left) Hamilton County Commissioners Steve Dillinger, Christine Altman or Andy Cook launched ing awareness campaigns and Mark Heirbrandt, Hulman Motorsports Senior Vice President of Events Allison Melangton. Westfield’s new SafeRoads around the dangers of dis- campaign. It is a tracted driving, city-wide effort drunk driving, to reduce the etc. number of per- • Enforce- sonal injury and ment: The West- Carmel Clerk’s Office termination fatality automo- field Police De- bile crashes in partment will Westfield. Along target the top 10 leads to special council meeting with the mayor’s accident loca- The REPORTER ly motivated, as mel Employee “This is a key piece of trans- office, the ef- tions in the city, The Carmel City Coun- Pauley has been Benefits Manager parent governance, to which forts include the Cook as well as focus cil conducted a special a supporter of Sue Wolfgang, a we are committed.” Westfield Police on distracted meeting on Tuesday evening Mayor Brainard’s current candidate In addition to controver- Department and the West- drivers. to investigate the actions of challenger, Fred for Carmel City sy within the clerk's office, field Department of Public • Environment: The Clerk-Treasurer Christine Glynn in the May Clerk, about city Pauley recently went pub- Works. Westfield Police Depart- Pauley after she fired Di- 7 Republican pri- business, Pauley lic with harassment alle- “Westfield is a safe, ment and the Westfield De- rector of Internal Controls, mary. accused her of gations against Mayor Jim family-oriented communi- partment of Public Works Ann Bingman. Bingman says “conversing with Brainard. ty but in the last year, we will look at removing Carmel is currently un- she was “trou- the enemy." Pauley alleges Brainard have seen our accidents permanent structures ad- dergoing its annual State bled” by tasks Pauley "As finance created a toxic work envi- tick up 5 percent,” said jacent to roads, improving Board of Accounts audit, Pauley asked her to per- chair, I want to assure tax- ronment after she rejected Cook. “Statistics also show sight lines, lane markings and council members are form. Bingman says she payers that their elected city the mayor's invitation to that 90 percent of accidents and intersection lighting. concerned due to the cru- believes they were linked council will do everything accompany him on a trip are caused by human er- The City is also working cial role Bingman played in to doing research for the in its power to ensure the to Rome. ror. That means they are with the Indiana Depart- the audit. political adversaries of clerk-treasurer stands by her City officials said Tues- preventable. We are going ment of Transportation on Bingman, who worked the Mayor. promises to complete the day's council meeting was to try and prevent some of making improvements to as the city’s Director of In- According to Bingman, audits and physical inven- not directed at Pauley, but those accidents.” several intersections along ternal Controls since Feb- further evidence is when tory in a timely manner,” was held to determine who The SafeRoads cam- State Road 32. ruary 2016, believes her Pauley previously saw her said Carmel Councilor and would handle duties as CPA paign will have four focus termination was political- talking with City of Car- Finance Chair Sue Finkam. after Bingman's termination. areas: See Safe . Page 3 ‘The White River Plan’ presented to County Commissioners By FRED SWIFT the county's major waterway. Be- dations for what can be included in demn or purchase river frontage. missioners was requested. ReadTheReporter.com yond that, the plan is to encourage the development stage. Existing recreational and his- The county parks department knowledge of the numerous parks Myers said "an action-orient- toric sites on White River include is expected to coordinate with the An outline of what is called and historic sites along the river. ed plan" will be created by May Strawtown Koteewi Park, Potters plans as they move forward. Even- The White River Plan was present- The river improvement plan 16 taking recommendations into Bridge Park and trail, the Nobles- tually, some type of Hamilton-Mar- ed to County Commissioners at was conceived several years ago consideration. She stressed that ville Riverwalk, Conner Prairie, ion County board for White River their Monday meeting by Tourism with the intent of making the river there will be no consideration of Carmel's River Heritage Park, development is envisioned to carry Director Brenda Myers. a recreational asset for Hamilton purchasing or making use of pri- Fishers Heritage Park and Hazel out and maintain river improve- The plan calls for steps to make and Marion counties. Currently vately owned land that borders the Landing Park. ments including possibly retrofit- the river and its banks cleaner and the project's supporters are in the river. Earlier, there were apparently Monday's presentation was in- ting dams to maintain a favorable more attractive to those visiting process of preparing recommen- unfounded rumors of plans to con- formational only. No vote by com- river elevation. 2 “Go Teal” with Prevail! 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The City of Carmel had a cash balance of over $56 million dollars in the bank at the end of 2018, well more than almost all other cities in Indiana. Jim Brainard for Mayor. Strong Management. Balanced Budgets. Conservative Leadership. ENDORSED BY: Carmel Professional Firefi ghters IAFF Local 4444 Carmel Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 185 Carmel has been ranked the SECOND SAFEST CITY IN INDIANA and in the TOP 100 SAFEST cities in the United States.* *Ranked by SafeWise.com VOTE JIM BRAINARD MAY 7TH J�� B������� OUR CITY. OUR MAYOR. OUR FUTURE. WWW.JIMBRAINARD.COM PAID FOR BY FRIENDS OF JIM BRAINARD COMMITTEE. “Go Teal” with Prevail! 3 Safe Demolition underway on Fishers from Page 1 • Advocacy: Mayor Cook will push for new Fire Department headquarters laws on cell phone usage in vehicles and restricting util- The REPORTER the station that houses nine About the Fishers ity poles in “Clear Zones.” The building that has pieces of equipment and Fire Department “Westfield is a thriving been home to firefighters the administration offices is Fishers Fire Department city, with that, we have for 28 years continued to slated to be torn down and serves the Fishers commu- more cars on our roads,” support firefighters in its rebuilt in the same area. The nity from six fire stations said Westfield Police Chief last hours as firefighters project is expected to cost and one medic sub-station Joel Rush. “As a communi- took saws and axes to it this $9.4 million dollars and with 146 firefighters and ty, we can do a lot to make past weekend. take 18 months to build. The staff. The department serves our roads safer. We need to Demolition officially new station will provide ad- an estimated population of follow the rules of the road, began Tuesday on Fishers ditional space for firefighter 92,000 and responds annu- be aware of our surround- Fire Headquarters, but fire- living quarters, as well as ally on nearly 6,000 emer- ings and use only hands- fighters began the process functional work space.