Bipartisan efforts around public safety and infrastructure helped get a unanimous vote from the council on a $1.2 billion city budget.

The commission was created to discuss what resources the city has to address infrastructure problems, what it needs, and how to close that gap.

The Owner-Operated Independent Drivers Association sent a letter to Gov. Eric Holcomb opposing a plan to increase tolling fees on five-axle vehicles using the Indiana Toll Road.

Indiana will get $1 billion over three years in the deal with the private toll road operator. That comes with a one-time, 35 percent toll rate hike on commercial trucks, which has drawn sharp criticism from trucking companies.

The Indiana Finance Authority will consider approving the new fee hike deal on Thursday.

Indiana American Water has requested a nearly 17 percent rate increase to help pay for more than $542 million of infrastructure investments.

The sinkhole appeared Wednesday after a Terre Haute Fire Department ladder truck drove over the pavement on Ohio Street at the intersection of Fourth Street.

The funding is a key part of Mayor Joe Hogsett's 2019 city budget and it could finance a variety of projects - streets, bridges, traffic signals, curbs and sidewalk improvements.

State officials say $600 million of the investment will be used to speed up construction of Interstate 69 between Martinsville and Indianapolis.

The company says recent sewer failures prompted a rapid assessment of the underground structures and pipes in Indianapolis.