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Gary to increase fees that cover EMS expenses

May 13, 2019 at 5:55 a.m.

Gary is contemplating increases in the fees it charges people who use the city’s Emergency Medical Services. The Common Council’s Finance committee on Sept. 25 reviewed an ordinance that calls...

Common Council financial adviser Virgil Moore, left, and Councilwoman LaVetta Sparks-Wade, D-6th, ask questions about how it was decided who received pay raises and who did not in the city budget proposal now being reviewed.

Questions remain as Gary crafts 2019 budget

May 13, 2019 at 5:55 a.m.

Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson told the city’s Common Council on Tuesday they ought to consider the spending plan they’re now preparing for 2019 to be “a working budget” that is...

Gary Port Authority board members, from left, William Godwin, Kenneth Stalling, Gene Champion and Debera Bachhus, along with legal counsel Allison L. Bergman met Monday.

Gary to host 2nd Buffington Harbor tour to tout economic benefits

May 13, 2019 at 5:55 a.m.

Gary government and business officials are offering up a second tour of the area around Buffington Harbor in hopes of persuading Indiana General Assembly officials to acknowledge the area’s potential....

Community High School District 218 board of education members approved a budget this week for the school year that began last month.

District 218 board OKs $138 million budget

May 21, 2019 at 11:09 p.m.

Just as the board of education for Community High School District 218 is putting the finishing touches on its budget for the current academic year, district officials are beginning the...

U.S. Steel's Paul Vercher, left, and Gary mayoral chief of staff Dayna Bennett urged the Gary Redevelopment Commission to be supportive of a series of tax breaks the steel company. The commission's administrative secretary Jeraldine Williams is at right.

U.S. Steel wants tax incentives for Gary Works improvements

May 13, 2019 at 5:53 a.m.

U.S. Steel says it wants to spend significant amounts of money to make improvements to its steel mill in Gary, but made it clear Sept. 19 that such a financial...

Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson looks to financial adviser Jimmy Shanahan, right, in explaining to the Common Council the details of a plan to stabilize the city's financial status. Council members voted 6-3 in favor of the mayor's plan.

Gary creates corporation to sell bonds to chip away at debt

May 13, 2019 at 5:53 a.m.

Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson wagged her finger angrily Tuesday at Common Council members who she said were not being truthful about details of a plan she is proposing to sell,...

Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson, answers a question during a recent Town Hall meeting.

Gary council subpoenas mayor, other top officials for financial transfers info

May 13, 2019 at 5:53 a.m.

Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson, her chief of staff and other top municipal officials in Gary are being subpoenaed by the city’s Common Council for any documents they have related to transfers...

Ben Calnin, with Dynamometrics, shows a density map of employed Gary residents to Gary Alumni Pathway to Students representative Diane Jackson-Chapman during the City of Gary Expats Roundtable on Friday, Sept. 21, 2018.

Gary roundable draws former residents for city rebirth talk: ‘Part of me wants to come back and make a difference’

May 13, 2019 at 5:52 a.m.

LaTanza Johnson is an East Chicago resident who grew up in Gary and cut to the chase when listening to city officials talk about how they’re trying to revitalize the...

Advisers Brandon Coleman, left, and Jimmy Shanahan presented their plan for how the city could raise up to $40 million by selling, then leasing back, the Gary Public Safety Building. Finance Chairwoman Mary Brown is at right.

Council members told nothing will change if Gary sells, then leases back, its police headquarters

May 13, 2019 at 5:51 a.m.

Financial advisers who are putting together an agreement allowing Gary city government to sell its Public Safety Building, then lease it back tried Wednesday to reassure Common Council members that...

Gary Common Council President Ronald Brewer, left, and Councilwoman Rebecca Wyatt, D-1st, heard details Wednesday of how Capital Development Block Grant funds will be distributed.

Gary to change business training program to include start-up loan eligibility

May 13, 2019 at 5:51 a.m.

In recent years, Gary municipal government has had a program meant to provide basic training in necessary skills for local residents interested in developing their own businesses. Yet this year,...

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