Roads, parks and popular community programs in Indianapolis are getting a $27 million boost this year that wasn’t included in the $1.6 billion 2025 city budget.
The Indianapolis City-County Council approved a spring package July 7 that allots money to pay for road improvements, to implement the city’s new policy of removing snow from residential streets, and to sustain programs like the Circle City Readers initiative, which improves early childhood literacy.
Although the roughly $27 million of supplemental income tax revenue represents less than 2% of the the city’s annual spending, councilors say they carefully crafted the package to address their constituents’ demands.
The council’s six Republicans pushed to direct a larger share of the money toward paving roads, but their concerns about chronic potholes were outweighed by some of the 19-member Democratic majority’s priorities, including a homeowner repair program and violence-reduction efforts.
The $27 million comes from the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance, which distributes additional revenue to local governments each spring based on updated income tax collections, according to the city.
Here’s a breakdown of all $27.2 million in the spring fiscal package:
How Indy’s $27 million spring fiscal package will be spent
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