Fall Creek Township Selling Firestation to Settle Debt to Fishers

The Fall Creek Township board voted to sell the fire station and township offices located at 116th and Brook School Road to the Town of Fishers to satisfy a $916,000 debt.To view the proposed purchase agreement, click here.

Comments from old saynotofishers.com web site:

Rich at 09/21/2006 02:58 AM
This is a perfect example of the Town of Fishers being a good neighbor. Without this sale the un-annexed areas would be forced to raise their taxes to a fully sustainable level for Fire and rescue service. This is another logical example to make the case for annexation.

 

Rachel at 09/24/2006 11:36 AM
The idea that Fishers is being a “good neighbor” is laughable. As has been the case with everything the Fishers Town Council proposes, there’s more to this than meets the eye. I guess we will have to dig to get to the bottom of this one too in order to find out what the Council’s true motivation is here. I doubt that being a “good neighbor” is at the heart of this deal.

 

Joe at 10/10/2006 08:27 AM
Rick – This is the perfect example of where the people of Geist have paid the taxes that resulting in the building of the Fire Station. So it was no free ride. Do you think the township built the firestation with no money? No it was Geist taxes that built the firestation.

 

Rich at 10/15/2006 08:21 PM
Joe- Actually you are half right. It was some of Geist taxes that paid for the firestation, but it was also many areas of Fall Creek township that are already in Fishers that paid for the firestation. So Fishers residents and Geist residents paid for it. My actual point was that the sale of the firestation was necesary because all of Fall Creek Township (which is where I live)was not paying a high enough township tax to raise enough revenue for the payment for the fire and rescue service.

 

Steve S. at 10/31/2006 04:03 PM
See, if you had been paying the correct share of taxes, they may not have had to sell the station back to Fishers. Hmmmmmm. Funny how that works.

 

Tom Britt at 10/31/2006 05:04 PM
We are paying our fair share of taxes. Fall Creek Township was only $200,000 in deficit to Fishers, the balance of the sale price is a credit on the books which will be used in the coming 4 years. If Fishers had been paying rent all these years, maybe we wouldn’t have had such a shortfall?

 

Rich at 11/01/2006 12:55 AM
Mr. Tom Britt, the @200,000 is additional information. I was using your post of a $916,000 debt for reference. Though I appreciate the forums you have created I do wonder why you always use the term “we are paying” and “we wouldn’t have had a shortfall” when you don’t even live in Hamilton County, let alone Fall Creek Township, and are not affected by this issue. “Rent” was an intangible part of the fire service contract.

 

Tom Britt at 11/01/2006 07:13 AM
I use “we” because I live at Geist and “our” website services all the residents around Geist. Just because Geist residents are split into 3 counties doesn’t mean that the other two counties don’t have a voice. You and a bunch of Fishers town employees, including Mr. Huff, want to make a big deal about about me not living in the affected area. Why the concern? Do you live in the affected area? Didn’t think so.

 

Rachel at 11/01/2006 09:05 AM
I find it humorous that someone from Fishers is worried about a “non-resident” caring about this issue- considering Scott Faultless is the president of the Fishers Town Council, and he doesn’t even live in Fishers. Oh wait, he did pull off some bogus annexation of his property to make the appearance of being a Fishers resident so that he could hold on to that president position. I guess we need to ask Faultless & Friends to pull off another fast one to annex Tom Britt into the affected Geist area to appease his critics. We know botched, underhanded annexations are the Town Council’s specialty, so the annexation of Britt should be smooth sailing. I OFFICIALLY ANNEX MR. TOM BRITT INTO THE AFFECTED AREA OF GEIST. There, that’s probably as official as the Faultless property annexation.

 

Tom Britt at 11/01/2006 11:03 AM
If I could hold my breath for extended periods of time, I could live on the north end of the lake which Fishers annexed. This would be about as crazy as Fishers annexing this property to begin with that has zero tax revenue. The Water Company is still waiting on their notice that they are being annexed.

 

KPB at 11/04/2006 06:16 PM
The Town of Fishers sure seems to have a lot of cash on hand. Why is that? A town doesn’t need a lot of cash. Shouldn’t they just have enough to conduct everyday business? Attention Fishers residents: that’s your money in their pocket.