Bud McQuade has been trying to get a stop light or stop sign at the entrance to Blue Ridge and Green Meadows elementary schools at the Kelley Road intersection, trying to emphasize the importance of student safety in the area.
McQuade would like to get support letters and mail them to INDOT to see if they get something in the area. He has support from the Community Schools of Frankfort, Frankfort Board of Works and Frankfort Police Department.
Monday night, the Community Schools of Frankfort board member went before the Frankfort City Council with his plea. The response he got was a resounding ‘yes’.
“I am fully in support of that,” said Frankfort Mayor Judy Sheets. “I have gotten several complaints from local citizens concerned about the safety of our children out there. It is very busy at dismissal and also at the time for them to go early in the morning. I am very much in favor some kind of stop light, stop signal or whatever they want to put up there.”
McQuade added it will be INDOT’s decision on what kind of light or if they are is a light put at the intersection.
In other news, the council heard a report from Lorra Archibald of the Opioid Settlement Funding Committee on the funds the city would receive from the $500 million-plus settlement reached in 2021 which amounted to $57,050.
“For our restricted funds, which is over $57,000, we came with recommendations to the council on how those would be used,” said Sheets. “We had the unrestricted funds of over $24,000, I want it to be split between 180 Recovery Center and We Care. Those are two very important facilities in Frankfort and they can always use funding.”
The council also passed a resolution authorizing donation of property to an Indiana nonprofit corporation. This case dealt with the Common CORE Center, formerly the Clinton County Family YMCA, wanted to get back a former strip of land they donated to the city years ago.
“They seemed very interested in it,” said Sheets. “They said they would be interested in taking it back and would take care of the upkeep. That’s the one thing the city didn’t know exactly what to do with.”
Also, City Councilman Eric Woods was named as President ProTem for another year,