Fayette to Become Town to Avoid Annexation

In today’s Indy Star 11/03/06 on pahe B2 is an article about a small community of Fayette in Boone County filing to becme a Town to avoid being annexed by Whitestown. This is the first new town in the state since 1995. Maybe is the start of a rush to form new towns and cities to aviod being gobbled up by large towns and cities just looking for tax dollars. Maybe we who live in Geist should become a town and stop Fishers just like the people of Fayette.

Comments from old saynotofishers.com web site

Steve S. at 11/03/2006 10:13 AM
Please do, then you can build your own schools, get your own police force, fire department, etc. and go about your business. Then you’ll have to raise your taxes to pay for everything.

Rachel at 11/03/2006 10:15 AM
I’ve spoken with the man who is undertaking the task of getting Fayette incorporated. I’ve also spoken to one of the main people who got McCordsville incorporated. Becoming incorporated is not as daunting as it may sound. Getting the financial plan put together is the toughest part according to both men. One thing is that our property taxes would go up if we incorporated. Some people I’ve talked to say that they would rather pay higher property taxes and be the town of Geist than pay higher property taxes and become Fishers. I’d love to hear how other residents feel about this…..

Tom Britt at 11/03/2006 10:41 AM
Steve, we’re talking about a new “town”, not a new “county”. Schools are paid by county taxes. We already have a contract for fire protection (read about the fire station sale in another post). I’m sure the Fishers police would gladly sign a contract to protect some of the unannexed areas. McCordsville and Fortville have police forces, too. Read up on the issues here, Steve. Geist residents aren’t freeloaders as Fishers Town Council members would like to have you think.

Joe at 11/04/2006 08:09 PM
Steve – you know you should know a few facts before acting like the Fishers Town Council. You have stated before about us having to run our own schools. We have told you before the schools are not run by Fishers but by the county, that we already pay for the schools via our taxes the same as everyone who lives in Fishers. So you won’t have to tax your brain, the only thing that changes is that we would have to have, or contract out a road department. The way road funds are provided by the state is to a town or city, if no town or city is present it goes to the county. So we could contract the county and not much would change. In fact nothing would change, unless we wanted to build a 50,000 sg ft city hall, hire lots of people, build our own roads without federal funds. And last but not least move land boundries and annex more land so Fisher’s elected city fathers can keep their jobs. Instead of writing flase statements, spend some time looking up what goes on in Fishers. Something is very fishy in Fishers.