Mike Noe, standing, hands out paperwork to North Webster Town Council members at its Tuesday, Sept. 16 meeting. Shown from left are Dan Thystrup, Lisa Strombeck and Dave Waliczek.  InkFreeNews photo by Phoebe Muthart.

By Phoebe Muthart
InkFreeNews

NORTH WEBSTER — North Webster could be getting $300,000 worth of road improvement work done in 2026, the North Webster Town Council heard at its meeting Tuesday, Sept. 16.

Chris Harris of Common Wealth Engineers said a Community Crossing Grant from the state will help pay for a portion of the work. The town would need to pay $60,000 since it’s a matching grant of 80/20. Clerk Treasurer Leigh Anne Jessop said the town has the money.

The plan outlines 13 road projects projected for 2026.

“We will need to look at the street list we have with INDOT first,” said Harris.

The grant application is due Oct. 30. The town’s street list will be reviewed with Harris, Jessop and Noe in order to move forward with the grant process.

Lisa Frazzetta-Manning of Frazzetta Financial Strategies gave an overview of changes to the employees’ insurance plan for 2026.

The company takes care of the benefits for the town.

The town has Anthem as its plan. However, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce decided not to go with Anthem, but another third-party provider in southern Indiana. The town is a member of the chamber.

The board decided to stay with Anthem and not join the chamber’s health plan nor the chamber.

In Department Reports, Mike Noe utilities manager, said a new vacuum pump is needed at the wastewater/sewage treatment plant at a cost of $6,563. The customer supplied vacuum will be installed with a customer supplied muffler on a discharge line.

He said potholes will be fixed in about three weeks once supplies arrive to do so.

A sinkhole near Ward Lane in an alley will be fixed in a week or so.

Noe said the Internet has been down for days so the alarm at the plant doesn’t currently work. Noe said repair work should be done Thursday by a computer technician.

“We are ready for leaf season,” Noe added.

Police Chief Greg Church gave the August police report. There were 771 officer hours and 4,897 miles driven with 400.89 gallons of fuel used. There were 325 calls of service. Of those 19 were battery, domestic or fight related calls. There were seven theft or fraud calls, three drug related calls, three alcohol related calls, 85 traffic related calls, 10 accidents or vehicles in a ditch, 28 citizen assists or lockouts and 22 agency assistance for fire or EMS.

Electric is out at the town park at the pavilion. An event is scheduled for Friday night and electric may be fixed by then. If not extension cords will be used.

The annual witches paddle is at 1 p.m. Oct. 11, at town park. It includes hayrides and coffee provided by The River. Those in costume may ride the Dixie.

The next meeting is at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21.