Fairmount is governed by a six-member town council, elected to four-year terms on the year before a presidental election. (The next election will take place in 2011.) The council consists of five councilors and a clerk-treasurer. Among the five a president is chosen each year and the other four take on an aspect of the town's governance, such as police, fire, streets, parks, and water/sewage.
Town of Fairmount
214 West Washington Street
Tel: 1-765-948-4632Fairmount, Indiana 46928-1968 |
The council meets on the second and fourth Mondays of each month at 7:00 pm in the council room of the Town Hall pictured above. The results of its meetings are published in the News-Sun, the local weekly newspaper for the Madison-Grant area. Until a couple of years ago, the town maintained the Web site fairmount-in.us, which included an online copy of the town's ordinances.
There are two other boards that oversee aspects of life in Fairmount. The Madison-Grant School Board, which governs the Madison-Grant United School Corporation and its five schools (high school, junior high school and three elementary schools, including Park Elementary in town) meets every month.
Fairmount sports a police department headed by a town marshall; a fire department; a water works, with an impressive new water tower and a new well; a large park, Playacres, with walking paths, several baseball diamonds, a shelterhouse, a newly rebuilt playground and several new pavilions; and two small memorial parks, one dedicated to our veterans, the other to James Dean.
Playacres accommodates whatever recreational fads appear in town. There was once a skateboard park where the big pavilion stands; a growing lack of interest and an abuse by outsiders compelled the town to remove it. Before the skateboard park, there was a tennis court next to a building where Scout troops met. The maintenance building along Madison Street was raised over a horseshoe court that was still extent in the 1970's.
