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Voters in Ind.'s largest town endorse city status
Updated: Wednesday, 07 Nov 2012, 11:30 AM EST
Published : Wednesday, 07 Nov 2012, 11:05 AM EST
FISHERS, Ind. (AP) -- Voters in Indiana's largest town have endorsed a plan to turn their fast-growing community into a city.
Voters in the Indianapolis suburb of Fishers approved a ballot measure Tuesday making the town of 80,000 residents a second-class city with an elected mayor.
The Indianapolis Star and the Indianapolis Business Journal report that voters endorsed by a 55-to-44 percent margin a ballot measure to make the Hamilton County town a traditional city. Traditional cities have an elected mayor, six district councilors and three at-large councilors.
Fishers' voters overwhelmingly rejected by a 62-to-37 percent margin a different plan that would have turned the community into a "hybrid city" with an appointed mayor.
The competing proposals had divided many town residents.
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