INDIANAPOLIS — Recently, the Indianapolis Department of Public Works (Indy DPW), District 15 City-County Councilor Rena Allen and the city’s dedicated trails maintenance team visited Grassy Creek Regional Park and the Grassy Creek Regional Park Trail to highlight investments into the city’s far east side.
In Indy DPW’s 2025 budget request, the department has requested two additional full-time employees be added to the trail maintenance team. Created in 2023, the team currently consists of six full-time employees responsible for brush cutbacks, removal of debris, and litter pick-up across the city’s entire trail and greenways network.
Indy DPW’s proposed five-year stormwater capital plan calls for $1 million to be targeted each year from 2025 through 2028 for strategic land acquisition and stewardship. These funds come from the city’s stormwater user fee and can only be used to acquire land to help with stormwater management and flooding mitigation. This is the first time revenue will be dedicated towards strategic land acquisition.
This year, Indy DPW used $360,000 to purchase a parcel adjacent to Grassy Creek Regional Park for ecologic restoration and to protect the land from future development.
Final vote by the city-county council on the 2025 Indianapolis budget is set for Oct. 7.
