Happy New Year From the GUO

Of course, many people make resolutions for the New Year—lose weight, take a great trip, treat other people more kindly, and so forth. Scott Faultless made a resolution as well: “Complete the (Geist) annexation this year.”

Yup, in the December 30th Fishers Weekly William Fouts, one of their reporters, collected New Year’s resolutions from a number of residents. Most were typical resolutions. Mr. Faultless resolved to “Complete the (Geist) annexation. Work on getting the airport moved and improving traffic. Probably traffic is number one. Annexation is number two and the airport is number three.”

Maybe someone in Town Hall should resolve to tell Mr. Faultless that the traffic will only get worse with continued, unchecked Town growth (and everyone in the state will be paying for highway expansions to accommodate that growth); if they move the airport and build on all of that land, traffic will—you guessed it—get even worse.

And, annexing Geist will be an unfulfilled resolution for Mr. Faultless. Maybe he should have instead resolved to no longer throw gavels.

Fighting City Hall is Costly

In case you missed it, our fight against annexation was again reported in a December 9th Indianapolis Star article by Cathy Kightlinger, which also discussed the formation of a PAC to work to change Indiana’s annexation law. Click on this link to see the article.

Ryan Heath also wrote an article in the December 6th Fishers Topics on the efforts being undertaken to change Indiana’s antiquated annexation law.

GUO and the Annexation Reform PAC

As mentioned in the above article and prior Friday reports, concerned citizens from around the state (including, for example, Home Place, SW Clay, Georgetown, Fayetteville, Jeffersonville, and the Geist area) have organized themselves to work to change Indiana’s unfair and antiquated annexation laws. They are also in the process of forming a Political Action Committee (PAC) as one means to help address this issue.

Forced annexation by a municipality is a state-wide issue. There are many citizens who do not want to be forced to become part of a city or town, especially given that they did not elect the people who are trying to force an annexation upon them.

Geist United Opposition remains focused on its primary mission, which is to prevent the forced annexation of the Geist area into the Town of Fishers. Some members of the GUO are also working on the state-wide annexation issue (naturally); however, the two organizations are and will remain separate so as not to dilute their respective missions.

Because annexation reform is a topic germane to the fight against Fishers annexation of Geist, we will do our best to keep you informed on that topic as well, as part of our ongoing Friday Reports.

For more information on annexation reform, please visit www.annexationreform.com.