By Stan Lehr
1/5/2009
It's been tried before without success, but the backers say they're confident that the Town of Fishers will become a City in 2009.
The CityYes committee, which was formed a month ago, says rapid growth demands that Fishers have a nine-member City Council, with six members elected by districts. The existing seven-member Town Council is elected entirely "at large." CityYes Chairman Greg Purvis says the switch would increase accountability.
Fishers voters rejected city government in 1998. But in a little more than a decade, the town's population has nearly doubled to more than 66,000 residents.
Only 1600 of them have to sign the petition to force a referendum as early as May. Purvis says he has more than 800 signatures already.
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