Citizens for a Responsible Town Hall in Zionsville

no more Taj Mahals for Zionsville tax payers to payoff.

I'm not convinced a new town hall of this magnitude is the best way to use the town's limited resources.

Don't waste taxpayer money on a Town Hall so out of sync with the voter's desires and the neighboring architecture. Instead, refurb the current town hall, fix Oak Street, send the balance to the school system, cancel the referendum increase, and live within your means like the rest of us have to do.

We always plan ahead here in Zionsville. Build a facility large enough to house the planned layers of government to come. We just picked up another along with its necessary salaries. You can guarantee there is more to come.

Another grandiose idea to compete with Carmel. Spending the money to fix up the town hall is far more financially responsible than to spend some 40 plus million for a huge and ugly Taj Mahal in order for our local politicians to boast about.

Need to get our priorities straight. Drivers safety first, commercial expansion second (remember Walmart?) and then a new town hall.

This town has a a lot more issues that need to be fixed or addressed, before building a posh town hall.

I am signing this not necessarily because I am opposed (or in favor of) the new Town Hall, but because I am in favor of more information being shared about the justification for it. We need more data to explain this significant expense.

Currently, I believe the town hall is unnecessary.

Do the need-to's before the want-to's. Traffic from 116 to Oakstreet and west is horrible. Please fix this before building your palace.

1) Who voted for Mayor? Anyone? 2) The published salary for Zionsville mayor is $120K, which ranks him well above the mayor of Indianapolis, just above the mayor of Carmel, and the THIRD-highest paid mayor in the state of Indiana. (This is from a *2014* Indy Star report: http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2014/10/27/indianas-highest-paid-mayors/17769963/) Does this make any sense at all, given the size of Zionsville? How did this happen? 3) Is a palatial 10-million dollar town hall even remotely necessary for a town council of 6 members? Consumerism and waste are rampant in our culture. Please renovate current spaces rather than taking on massive debts. This just does not make business sense, unless you're in the business of running up taxpayer debt, corporate deal-making, and lining attorneys' pockets. 3) INFRASTRUCTURE COMES FIRST. It would be embarrassing -- not to mention unethical -- to enact this construction project before the town's *basic safety and infrastructure needs* are met. 4) TAXPAYER REFERENDUM. We vote on how to support our schools; how is it legal that we don't get to vote on how (or how not) to house our town council?

This town hall plan seems to be very extravagant at this time. There are more pressing needs for the town - roads for example.

Town Hall seems fine for now

The town needs to make due with the existing facility rather than constructing a new town hall that is almost double in price over the first estimate. The tax payers deserve safer roadways and should be top priority rather than office space. The town took over State Rd334 because improvements were needed but somehow this was forgotten along the way.

Renovations and improvements to the existing town hall should be visited first and thoroughly presented and discussed before the citizens of Zionsville before any action on a new structure is considered.

safety first!

The Town Council has developed a habit of presenting plans full blown i.e.. annexation, a mayor, and now a town hall, all done without much, if any input from voters. I am very unhappy with the arrogance that this indicates. The Town Council spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the annexation and there was no way for voters to put a stop to it. I think we, as voters need to know what specifically the Council is up to. We pay the bills, I think the Council has forgotten that. I am still amazed at the annual salary the Mayor receives, more than Indy's Mayor? We have given them too long a leash. Time to put a stop to it.

Looks like the people who are pulling the strings on the new "City" leadership can't wait to reward their developer, engineer, big law firm backers by spending 10 million right off the bat.

Have you lost your minds!111 There are more immediate uses for the money. we do not need to look like Carmel.

Cars drive too fast on Oak Street . Even in the village where pedestrians, including school aged children are walking, drivers are often oblivious to the pedestrians crossing Oak St. We need to be more mindful of this.