NEW ALBANY, Ind. (WDRB) — For more than a year, New Albany Mayor Jeff Gahan’s Office has declined to answer questions about how much public money has been spent on the Providence Mill Dam — a site where a teenager drowned and where the city later added and then removed rock from the waterway.
Despite repeated requests from WDRB News, the mayor’s office has not released any information on legal fees, construction, or repairs related to the project.
During Thursday night’s New Albany City Council meeting, WDRB’s Richard Essex signed up for public comment as a last resort — seeking answers the public still hasn’t received.
“The emergency maintenance that was done by the mayor’s office about a year and-a-half ago has been undone,” Essex told the council. “The remaining question we’ve been asking for at least a year and-a-half is how much money has been spent on the Providence Mill Dam.”…