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Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
IMPD heard that cry, redoubling its ongoing efforts. The initial results have already been mentioned tonight: outfitting officers with body-worn cameras, promoting treatment over incarceration for mental illness and substance abuse, and the creation of a new UOF review board. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
Aside from the pandemic that has reshaped our lives, there was no bigger story this year than the national cry for criminal justice reform in America. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
In collaboration with @CICFoundation, GARE will be working to empower City-County agencies and help them address racial inequities through policies, planning, and delivery of services. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
To start with, thanks to the work of President Vop Osili, Chairman Leroy Robinson and others, I am pleased to partner with the Council tonight to formally join the Government Alliance on Race and Equity, or GARE. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
What is not in this budget tonight for the vast majority of City-County employees: funding for cost-of-living wage increases. Departments have largely been flat-lined. But included in this budget are things that can help grow a more prosperous and equitable city. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
And tonight, I am proud to submit to the Council a fourth consecutive balanced budget that prepares for the future while fully funding today. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
-Back-to-back-to-back balanced budgets passed by the City-County Council. -Multiple credit upgrades in recent years. -The restoration of our fiscal stability fund to historic highs. -And the payoff of more than $400m in debt since 2016. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
But we can take some comfort in knowing that Indianapolis and this Council has spent the past four years putting our fiscal house in order. We are better prepared than the city has been in a generation. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
I’ll begin by stating the obvious: COVID-19 has had a crippling impact on the lives of Indianapolis residents. It will no doubt bring fiscal challenges to our desks in the coming years. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
But the process we begin tonight can’t simply be about where we have been – we must also talk about where we are going and how this introduced budget can help us get there. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
Together with our ongoing Inclusive Growth Strategy, these efforts will allow us to take another important step forward as we seek to demolish economic barriers in Indianapolis. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
This evening, I introduce a series of changes to city policy promoting greater utilization of minority-owned business in city contracts. These changes will also require the city to undertake an updated disparity study every 5 years. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
Two years ago, this Council approved the first Disparity Study conducted on city contracts in over two decades. This January brought the conclusion of that study. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
It is clear that civilian involvement in that process is long-overdue. I look forward to working with my partners on the Council to bring that reform to our police department’s policy-making process. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
Tonight, I also want to lend my support to the City-County Council’s review of how these policies are created and administered – the so-called General Orders Committee. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
And those policies will soon be overseen by a new, civilian-led use-of-force review board, which will have expanded jurisdiction over all incidents in which force is used against a resident. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
In the last few weeks @IMPDnews has also announced it is banning the use of no-knock warrants, and begun the long-awaited installation of body cameras on members of IMPD’s Operations Division. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department has adopted a new use-of-force policy, which bans chokeholds, implements proportionality of force principles, and places an emphasis on de-escalation. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
I’ve appointed an independent review panel to assess how we handled the response to recent protests and how we can do better in the future. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
Then, and only then, can we begin the process of lifting the yoke off the backs of marginalized neighbors and assume the weight of our own obligation to reconcile and rebuild. Over the last few months, that’s meant listening, and then acting. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
What we need in Indianapolis is a process of healing that is not implemented but lived -- both in public and in private. Lived especially by white residents in positions of power, like myself. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
It is not enough to acknowledge systemic racism. You don’t get a participation ribbon in the fight against injustice. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
Indianapolis, that history must not be repeated now. As Mayor, working with @IndyCouncil, I intend to do my part to give voice to those who have too often been silenced. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
That’s because time and time again over the last two centuries, city leaders have let their focus on the rising tide of our city’s bright future distract them from the fact that too many neighbors – and too many neighborhoods – have been left behind to fend for themselves. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
Before we get to the budget, I want to acknowledge that for far too long in Indianapolis, the path toward health & prosperity hasn't been equally available to all – that has been made all too clear in the disproportionate impact that COVID-19 has had on Black and brown residents. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
Those are just three examples from this appropriation, and there’s more to come. Our efforts will continue so long as this health crisis is hurting families, students, and businesses. And I want to urge Congress to act quickly to equip cities and states to expand these programs. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
I want to thank our nonprofit and higher education partners for their work on these programs, including @EmployIndy, @TheExcelCenter, @indyreads, @MarianUniv, @MartinU1977, and @ymcaindy, as well as Washington, Warren, and Wayne Township Schools. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
It also includes more than $300k in supplemental completion grants through our @IndyAchieves program for students at Ivy Tech and IUPUI whose ability to afford college has been threatened by the pandemic. This request also funds $1.1m in additional adult education funding. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
This will include an additional $7.5m in rental assistance for those whose livelihoods have been impacted by the pandemic. — PolitiTweet.org
Mayor Joe Hogsett @IndyMayorJoe
Make no mistake: we have a long journey toward recovery ahead. And we must continue to come together to combat this virus while lifting our neighbors in need. That’s why tonight, we are submitting a new request to appropriate more than $16m in new Coronavirus relief funding. — PolitiTweet.org
