Town Offers Tax Abatements And More, gUO On Defense

The Town of Fishers has begun to open negotiations with residents in the proposed annexation areas. Residents began receiving letters inviting them to closed door meetings with representatives of the Fishers Town Council. The gUO of course is rallying to keep residents away from these meetings. Using the recent decision against Carmel in the SW Clay case as the basis for its argument is not an intelligent strategy. The properties involved there were few and so far from the city that the argument that the city would not be able to service those areas made sense. The case with geist is completely different. Fishers Police are already making 1000+ runs per year into the geist area and geist residents readily admit that they are using Fishers parks through the SPORTS program.

I hope that owners of the average value homes in the annexation area will see this as an opportunity to catch a break with regard to the increase in taxes and a chance to be rid of their antique septic systems. To those residents I say; the geist millionaires would have you believe that this is your fight. They're the ones who will have to fork over the big dollars once they are annexed. If you allow them to intimidate you into fighting this you had better start preparing now financially. Take the abatement now while it's on the table.