Annual Meeting 2025
Highlights from the Millersville at Fall Creek Valley community meeting held March 31, 2025
Quick summary – all topics
More on meeting highlights:
Millersville at Fall Creek Valley annual report
NOTES
Overview: Millersville at Fall Creek Valley had an eventful year in 2024 with significant activities and achievements, primarily funded by generous grants and donations.
Key activities and funding:
Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center (INRC) grant:
- We received a $10,000 grant from the INRC.
Millersville Fall Festival: Our Fall Festival 2024 was funded by two smaller grants.
General donations:
Several general donations were received, covering our operating expenses such as communication, insurance, and other essential costs.
Future plans:
Thanks to the grants received, we were able to allocate a large gift from 2024 towards the upkeep of our greenspaces in 2025.
We are grateful for the continued support from our community and look forward to another successful year.
Many thanks to our amazing supporters!
Check out who’s listed at: Millersville’s Supporters – 2024 and 2025 to date, donors and volunteers – and thank them for stepping up and pitching in. Even better, join them – and you’ll be listed, too!
These are the people and groups that are making your neighborhood more valuable and your community a nicer place to live.
Huge and heartfelt thanks to our amazing, generous supporters, without whom literally nothing this organization has accomplished would have been possible.
Super-volunteers recognized
We honored Tom Eggers‘ retirement from the board after 15 exceptional years of board and much more community service (including planning and implementing Millersville’s Café Market; working with engineers to create safe 56th Street connectivity and Emerson Way traffic-calming bike lanes; facilitating a Village business directory; and funding place-making Millersville Village signage).
Special thanks and recognition also went to Sheila Roumpf for visualizing, creating and managing the wonderful 2024 Millersville Fall Festival!
New volunteer leaders in important roles
New board members: Debbie Black, and ad-hoc member Stephanie Marshall
New Village Business initiative leader: Matt Voynovich. Connect with Matt to discuss business opportunities, issues or ideas for growing the Village.
New Schools initiative leaders: Debbie Black and Kim Haldrup. Millersville has four area schools, with students aged from elementary through high school. Debbie and Kim and a few other new volunteers are reviving this initiative and investigating how our community can best support them. Connect with this group if you want to help.
A million thanks to these great neighbors who have agreed to lead! Everyone here is a volunteer, so everything we do is only made possible when good people are willing to pitch in. If you have questions or suggestions or can help in any way, look for contact information here.
Fighting Litter and Beautification breakout session recap
A very productive brainstorming session with 15-20 concerned neighbors, and ideas from several dedicated Quick-Hitter Litter Cleanup volunteers over the last two months, generated these lists. They’re great ideas for future projects and approaches to addressing litter and otherwise making Millersville more beautiful, including engaging Village businesses in demonstrating pride in their space and the community.
Some of these, we can all work on immediately, like participating in cleanups, talking to managers at perpetually trashy businesses, and removing roadside advertising signs. But we are all volunteers and we need champions or a team to make the rest happen. Please help!
If you would like to get involved or take the lead on one or more ideas, contact Matt Benson at [email protected]
Learn more about our Fighting Litter and Beautification initiatives.
Learn more about "Devington as a Destination" - proposed redevelopment
For more information on the Devington Task Force’s plans for the Devington Shopping Center, please visit:
Watch for updates on critical 56th Street connectivity.
We’re still working hard to get the support we need for the final phase of a major safe-path community project to connect 56th Street walkers and bikers to the Fall Creek Trail and Millersville Village, and provide a protected path over I-465, connecting Millersville with Lawrence. Please watch Millersville enews / social media for updates on this important effort, and how you can help.
Who is your neighborhood's key contact?
Do we have the current contact for your neighborhood’s board or leadership? Please help us update! These neighborhoods are all part of Millersville.
Please share current best-contact information with Stephanie Marshall, [email protected], to better enable a well-represented Millersville leadership meeting in the near future.
Are you giving back? Please volunteer! We need more helping hands.
Remember, we are ALL volunteers – each of us just doing our part to help keep this place something we’re proud of. Please be a volunteer yourself!
Raise your hand and come have some fun doing good things for your community!
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Contacts:
Amy Hammes – e-news and social media – [email protected]
Mollie Benson – website – [email protected]
Thanks for joining us!
Many thanks to all neighbors and friends who came to this meeting, especially our presenters and these additional Millersville-area representatives, advocates, partners and special guests:
- Brendon Park President and Devington Redevelopment Task Force Chair: Stephanie Marshall
- Marion County Soil & Water Conservation District: John Hazlett, Executive Director
- Binford Redevelopment & Growth: Kevin Senninger, President
- Friends of Skiles Test: Nancy Whitmore, President
- Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center: Danae Freeman, Engagement Manager
- City-County Councilors: Dan Boots, District 3; Ron Gibson, District 8; and Keith Graves, District 9
- IMPD-East District Crime Watch Specialist and Lawrence Township Trustee: Steve Talley
- Office of U.S. Representative Andre Carson, District 7: Andrew Bochnicka, Field Representative
Millersville at Fall Creek Valley, Inc. Board of Directors and Leaders
