The Fishers City Council held a rare early-morning session Monday in an effort to meet the legal deadlines for issuing $9.5 million in bonds by the end of the year, financing the replacement of two fire stations. The two stations are planned to be demolished and rebuilt at their current locations.
One set for reconstruction is the Fire Department headquarters building next to City Hall, which also contains a fire station. The other facility is located along Allisonville Road, near 106th Street and adjacent to Metropolitan Airport.
If all goes as planned, the demolition and reconstruction projects will start in 2019.
Mayor Scott Fadness tells LarryInFishers the city is in the process of finding temporary locations for each fire station while the construction is ongoing, within their current districts, to handle response times for fire crews within each fire district.
No one spoke at the public hearing and the council unanimously approved the bonds.
Given these fire stations needed repair/updating, then why did the city spend money on the Nickel Plate Trail before the stations were repaired? The city’s primary responsibilities are police, fire, and emergency services. Someone has their priorities mixed up.