By: Diane Benjamin
Not by accident, since it’s close to Christmas and a lot of people won’t be paying attention:
The horse race for your bucks starts at 5:00 tonight!
Lane 1: City Employees
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Lane 2: Storm Water Fund
Lane 3: City throwing away more money to dismiss an employee
Lane 4: Developers
Lane 5: City of Bloomington creates a slush fund (ie TIF)
Lane 6: City of Bloomington (again) to raise your property taxes
Lane 7: A host of lessor projects, without bids, and some contract approvals
May I suggest you place your bets now? Will Tari explain how the City is suing the Coliseum? Will any Council person object to more taxes?
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50 to 1 odds only 1 Alderman will object to tax increases. 3000 to 1 that Tari will explain his “error”. That’s why he likes Open Houses – no permanent record of what he says.
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Lane 4 and 5 have an unfair (dis)advantage because as of this minute, the ordinances have already passed. Developers: page 210 and TIF: page 237.
http://www.cityblm.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=9514
I assume you mean everything is already dated again! They don’t do those aldermen lunches for the fun of it.
Yep–An insult to the democratic process of open government interaction with citizens. Public comment is being made a joke.
Free advise to all municipal employees (elected or non) – it looks much better on your resume 10-to-20 years down the road if you resign now and turn State’s evidence, than if you sit back thinking that you are untouchable when the SHTF.
Just sayin’.
I need some horses rolling over for tomorrow
Funny! Did anyone ever suggest that cartoons would be great on your site???
See today’s post!