Population numbers added
By: Diane Benjamin
Source: http://tinyurl.com/BloomStats
Below are the numbers the City of Bloomington reported to the State. A couple things to note:
- Debt per citizen has more than doubled in 16 years.
- The number of City employees exploded to unsustainable levels in 2005. Decreasing employees only made the costs manageable. Is the City staff really at unsustainable levels? Not based on history.
And the Mayor says–look the debt went down since I was elected.
Sort of like strip malls are dead and 1000 people a year move here.