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HAMILTON COUNTY Hamilton County’s Hometown Newspaper www.ReadTheReporter.com REPORTER Facebook.com/HamiltonCountyReporter TodAy’S Weather Wednesday, April 7, 2021 Today: Partly sunny. Wind gusting to 30 mph by afternoon. Isolated Arcadia | Atlanta | Cicero | Sheridan afternoon shower or storm. Tonight: Showers and some storms. Carmel | Fishers | Noblesville | Westfield NEWS GATHERING Like & Wind gusting to 30 mph. PARTNER Follow us! HIGH: 79 LOW: 58 Meeting to deal with $65.5M grant set for April 23 By FRED SWIFT ReadTheReporter.com County Auditor Robin Mills said Mon- day that her office has scheduled a joint meeting of the Hamilton County Council and County Commissioners for April 23 to hopefully develop "a strategic plan" for the administration and distribution of COVID relief funds. The county is due to receive $65.6 mil- lion over the next two years from the huge $2.9 trillion federal government program designed to compen- sate local govern- Photo provided by City of Noblesville ments for losses suf- (From left) Noblesville Community & Economic Development Director Sarah Reed, Cityscape Residential fered as a result of the Managing Partner Brian Cranor, Mayor Chris Jensen, Cityscape Residential Managing Partner and Founder Jim Mills national pandemic. Thomas and Noblesville Economic Development Director Andrew Murray break ground on the $50 million Nexus Rules on where, when and how the multifamily living complex on the site of the former Marsh building and parking lot in Noblesville. money can be awarded are contained in the federal relief law, which is more than 300 pages long. "It's going to be a long process," Mills Noblesville, Cityscape break said. She and county grants administrator Todd Clevenger are working on it, along with the assistance of financial consultant ground on $50M Nexus project Mike Reuter. That process will start at the April 23 The REPORTER site of a former Marsh building are able to turn around an un- ing for core services and comes meeting. Mills points out that "I don't have The City of Noblesville and and parking lot into a multifam- derutilized space close to the solely from the new revenues a vote" on deciding when and where the Cityscape Residential broke ily living complex. heart of our downtown by en- generated from this project. millions of dollars will go, but she does ground Tuesday on Nexus, a “Nexus will drive economic hancing the quality of life and This development is projected feel the responsibility for helping to orga- public-private residential in- development to our western an- sense of place in this area.” to ultimately add $37 million nize handling of the county's single largest vestment to the downtown area chor of the downtown area and Nexus is a public-private in post-redevelopment assessed grant in history. on the west side of the White bring energy back to a current- partnership that is projected value, which helps keep exist- Where is the money likely to go? River. The development, which ly idle location,” Noblesville to be a more than $50 million ing residents’ taxes low. Some obvious local agencies that are eli- is along River Road and State Mayor Chris Jensen said. “In investment. The public invest- gible for compensation of lost revenue are Road 32, plans to transform the partnership with Cityscape, we ment does not displace tax fund- See Nexus . Page 2 See Grant . Page 2 Grand Park expecting all-time high Pop-up vaccine number of fans, visitors this season clinic coming to By KATIE WISELY Carmel Sunday WISH-TV | wishtv.com The REPORTER The Hamilton County Health De- Grand Park Sports Campus partment, in partnership with the City in Westfield is hoping for a big of Carmel and Trinity Free Clinic, boost in income. The teams and will open a pop-up vaccination clinic the town are banking on full from 9 a.m. to 5 fields for the first time since the p.m. on Sunday, pandemic started. April 11 at the Jill There’s a lot of pent-up de- Perelman Pavil- mand and campus officials say ion at West Park all projections with visitor num- in Carmel. Staff bers are higher than 2019. Typi- will administer cally, they see about 2.3 visitors the single-dose per athlete. This year they say Johnson & John- it will look Photo provided son vaccine to the Following a year where field revenue was down $1 million, Grand Park officials say more like first 1,000 people Walker three. they’re preparing for a strong bounceback this spring and summer. who register. Grand thing to significantly increase. “When we look at the over- ficials say those organizers are “We’re doing everything we can to Park Sports During the shutdown, the all revenue portfolio, that’s con- moving their events back to get more shots into more arms in Ham- Campus campus was down $1 million cessions, that’s hotels, that’s all Westfield this summer. ilton County,” said Christian Walker, director in field revenue. Knox says this those things that make up that The baseball Shamrock the health department’s Emergency William was hugely impactful to the op- travel industry and we look Classic kicks off this com- Preparedness Director. “We chose the Knox says eration. Luckily, July 2020 was at being up for this summer ing weekend. Every weekend west side of Carmel because there ar- in June financially the best month since and hopefully will again trend there’s an event scheduled. en’t currently any vaccination sites in and July, Knox opening in 2016, which allowed through the end of the year,” Although the mask mandate that part of the county.” the complex brings in between the complex to come out net Knox said. is set to end, the complex will The Hamilton County Health De- $700,000 and $800,000 in field positive at the end of the year. Many facilities in surround- still require them inside all in- partment hopes to hold more pop-up revenue a month, plus anywhere Knox says if they have the ing states could not hold events door facilities. Social distanc- vaccination clinics in the coming from 20,000 to 30,000 people season they are anticipating, it and tournaments last summer, ing is still in effect outside. weeks. To register, go to ourshot.in- over the course of a weekend. would make up for a lot of loss- which is how they ended up at The complex will evaluate on .gov. This year they expect every- es in 2020. Grand Park. Now, campus of- a weekly basis. SR 37 corridor drainage No announcement yet on new HSE system cited in national superintendent, but contract is up for vote engineering competition The REPORTER We may not COLUMNIST board’s desire to Here is the public notice A. An initial term of three The Indianapolis-based team of Amer- know the name of have the pact in place published by the school district (3) years. ican Structurepoint and WSP USA has the new Hamilton as the new superin- with the contract provisions of B. An annual salary of earned a National Recognition Award for Southeastern (HSE) tendent enters the the new HSE Schools superin- $180,000 to be adjusted an- exemplary engineering achievement in the Schools Superinten- job, but it is hard for tendent: nually by the percentage of the American Council of Engineering Compa- dent yet, but we do the public to com- The Hamilton Southeastern increase, if any, granted to the nies’ (ACEC) 54th annual Engineering Ex- know the provisions ment on a contract Board of School Trustees will three other highest paid HSE cellence Awards (EEA) for the State Road in that person’s con- for the head of our hold a meeting on Wednesday, administrators. 37 Drainage Line Project. tract with the district. local public schools April 14, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. C. A contribution on behalf Reaching depths up to 40 feet, the new April 22 is the LARRY LANNAN when we have no in the Hamilton Southeastern of the Superintendent to the LarryInFishers.com gravity sewer line will transport stormwa- date we have been idea of that person’s Central Administration Office Teachers Retirement Fund at ter about a mile from the revamped cor- given for the an- background and ex- located at 13485 Cumberland a rate established by the Fund ridor where four signalized intersections nouncement of the individual perience. Road, Fishers, Indiana for (currently 3.0% of salary) have been transformed into a series of in- set to replace retiring super- The compensation package the purpose of discussing and D. Fringe benefits as fol- terchanges. Because each interchange has a intendent of schools Allen for the newly-selected superin- hearing objections to and sup- lows: 15- to 20-foot depressed mainline road sec- Bourff. But the school board tendent will be slightly lower port for a proposed contract • Life and Long-term Dis- tion with no adjacent gravity sewer outlets, will hold a public hearing and that the current contract with between the School Board of ability Insurance with an esti- the stormwater trunk lines provide a pos- vote on the new superinten- Allen Bourff. Trustees and the Superinten- mated current cost to the Board itive outlet for stormwater and eliminate dent’s contract before we know The contract spans three dent of Schools. of $750 per year the need for additional lift stations to pump anything about the individual years, includes an annual sala- The proposed contract in- • Health, Vision and Dental water away. to be hired. ry of $180,000, and has many cludes the following provi- I understand the school other benefits listed.