Following in Fishers’ footsteps, the Westfield City Council voted in favor of a resolution approving a 0.1 percent local income tax increase to help fund 911 dispatching in Hamilton County at its Sept. 23 meeting.
The town council of Arcadia, with a
population 1,600 people north of Cicero, recently voted in favor of the
tax, triggering a process that required it to be voted on by the
remaining seven Hamilton County city and town councils. To go into
effect, councils representing more than half of the county’s population
had to approve the tax increase.
Westfield represents 12.34 percent of the 50 percent threshold necessary to approve the county-wide increase. On Sept. 24, just one day after the…
