4/14/2005
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Mayor: 15 days left to save $35 million a year, $100,000 every day
INDIANAPOLIS - Mayor Bart Peterson will hold a press conference today to call on the Indiana General Assembly to pass Indianapolis Works, the plan to reform local government and save Indianapolis and Marion County taxpayers $35 million every year.
WHEN: TODAY - Thursday, April 14; 1:30 p.m.
WHERE: Indiana Statehouse, East Steps, Corner of Market and Capitol Streets
Last week, the Indiana House of Representatives majority had at least three separate chances to pass Indianapolis Works, but failed on all three occasions.
First, the House majority refused to allow a vote on a bill that included most of Indianapolis Works, and then let it die when the midnight deadline for a vote came last Thursday. Then, the House majority voted down an amendment to add the Indianapolis Works reform measures into another bill. All of these votes were along party lines.
Indianapolis Works also is alive in the Indiana Senate as a result of an amendment that added the budget consolidation portion of Indianapolis Works into House Bill 1097.
Either HB 1097, or another active bill, Senate Bill 307, could be amended to include Indianapolis Works before the end of the legislative session on April 29.
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