News from the Floor
Things are so slow at the Legislature that I have time to go back to my downtown apartment, shower and change for a birthday party tonight (and getting pretty takes a while to do it right) and write this.
It looks like there’s an agreement with the majority parties in the House and Senate on property taxes. Right now there’s about $450 million in tax relief which would make 25% tax increase a 13-14% increase, according to sources. House Republicans aren’t crazy about it and neither are the more conservative members of the Senate. There may be some fireworks later.
Also Indy Works III is at an impasse. Democrat Bill Crawford and Republican Jim Merritt are at odds over the fate of the Marion County Township Trustees. Merritt wants them all gone in the new consolidated government. Crawford wants them to stay, although his position is more about protecting the Black Township Trustees than anything else. If nothing changes in the next 12-24 hours, get ready for Indy Works IV. That’s it for now.
