The McCanna neighborhood organization met on Saturday, September 21, 2026, at North United Methodist Church, with the meeting broadcast on Channel 16. The meeting featured updates from the Mayor's Neighborhood Advocate, a presentation by FIDO Indy, and a detailed workshop on using city online tools for zoning and code enforcement information. Discussions centered on budget season, the comprehensive plan update, greenways, and community resources.
Well, thank you all for your patience. Um, being delayed and getting in the building this morning, and then my mission gossip with trying to get that display to work. Um welcome to McCann. Let's see some new faces. It's lovely to see. Um we um McCannna, I'll give you a little the background blurb. Um is a 501c3 neighborhood organization. We're an association of other neighborhood and HOA organizations throughout Marion County. We take up issues that affect uh neighborhoods generally throughout the county. And um we meet the third Saturday of every month at North, except for December at North United Methodist Church. Um, and they're very kind to um lend us their room and their equipment uh every month, which is wonderful. And we thank Channel 16 for broadcasting our meetings so that folks who have other things to do on Saturday, like sleeping in from their hard work week, um, can do so and catch it when they're up at three in the morning and have nothing else to do. So, but we really appreciate that. We appreciate the fact that they are the government channel and they broadcast all of the meetings uh so that you can catch up on earlier, and you can go way back in years and see their meetings online uh on demand. So we thank them. Um it is budget time in the city, so there's a lot going on with that. Um so if you have a favorite department or whatever, and would like to weigh in with uh your counselor about um adequacy of funding that department would be parks or uh current planning or the police department, fire. Um, you know, now's a time to do it. They'll take a final vote in October, so there's still a little bit of time. And those things those uh contacts are meaningful to the counselors because I don't think too many people do actually approach them from the outside and about the services that they're getting from the city that are important to them. So we do have a mayor's neighborhood advocate today. So if you come up and tell us what's going on in the city from the actual government point of view. Yeah. Good morning, everybody. I'm Delia Novak. I'm on the neighborhood advocate team, and I represent the southeast corner of Marion County. So I've got Perry and Franklin Town Chip. Just got a few updates from city agencies today, and then happy to take any questions you may have. As Pat mentioned, we are in full budget season right now. So the mayor introduced the full budget for Marion County for 2027 in August from mid-August through mid-October. Individual city council committees are reviewing the individual city agency budgets. If there's something you really care about in there, any particular line items you're interested in, you can attend all those committee hearings in person at the City County Building. Those are also streamed online, and the budget presentations are available online as well. The council is expected to have a public hearing on the full budget on October 5th. That's outlined on that flyer that I have at the front table. But that will be a public hearing if you want to provide any public comment in person at that meeting, and then full adoption will be later in October. Um, from the Department of Metropolitan Development, they have published the draft updates to the land use elements of our comprehensive plan. That's expected to go before the Metropolitan Development Commission on October 7th. But the full plan. October 21. Is that moved again? Yep. Okay. Good. Appreciate that update then. I know it was originally September, so it's been continued a few times. October 21, and those draft updates are all available online right now. If you want to go through the pattern book and the land use map, you can go through to see the changes that have been proposed to be made there. There's also public comment open right now for um DPW's updates to the Greenways Master Plan for our Trail and Greenways Network throughout Marion County. They have a new kind of proposed addition to the master plan called Greenways for All.