By: Diane Benjamin
The Mayor was on WGLT yesterday: http://wglt.org/post/bloomington-mayor-tari-renner-tif-district-downtown-and-city-manager-hales#stream/0
Much of the conversation was the same as his WJBC interview this morning. WGLT appears to love him and wants him re-elected since the host brought it up over and over. Renner plans to tout his record of creating minimum wage jobs to win! Expect more glowing interviews since WGLT is taxpayer-funded, the fit is perfect.
Tari did talk about the employment extension for David Hales. All discussions took place in Executive Session (Secret Meetings) so we will never know what happened. By law the Council is required to periodically review the minutes and vote on releasing them or holding them. I don’t remember that happening for at least two years. WAY past time. Tom Hamilton’s evaluations haven’t even been released! Reviews are required every 6 months, when was the last time Executive Session minutes were reviewed for release Tari? I show 2013: https://blnnews.com/2013/12/30/what-is-mayor-transparencys-definition/
Transparency never applies to releasing the minutes because the Council doesn’t want you to know who said what.
We do know, thanks to Mayor Mouth, the vote to extend Hales contract was 8-1.
I can’t imagine who the one was!
We also now know Hales is gone when the extension expires in 2018.
If Marxist Mayor plans on touting bringing in part time minimum wage jobs as a success during his term as Mayor it is actually proof of his failed liberal policies at the local and state level.
Some of the people that destroyed WJBC ratings are now at wglt. Hopefully they will do for WGLT what they did for WJBC.
Roger, i think we need to look at WJBC’s decline another way. I think a stations direction of topics and reporting is not by the person you hear as much as management. Blaming the person you hear is like blaming a School Superintendent, because the School Board wants to close a building. They are doing their job.
If the Mayor was on WGLT yesterday, he may be referring to the 8-1 vote at Monday night’s meeting. I’m wondering if Hales was present at the Executive Meetings where his evaluations took place. Since the Council has trouble facing the employees regarding pension spiking, I can’t imagine them being forthright with Hales–just like with the Budget Task Force. Since Hales was hired before the changes to IMRF in 2011, I’m curious if his contract allows for pension spiking. Hales will have been employed with the city for 10 years in 2018 with retirement pay probably equal or above his current salary.
Maybe, I didn’t hear it that way. I think I did a FOIA and you aren’t allow to spike unless you have 20 or 25 years with the City. With his pension, he won’t need it.
Job creation? Stealing businesses from Normal does not count as job creation. No mention of the jobs lost from Cub Foods closing either.
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An interesting fact…RC Mcbride is the Interim General Manager of WGLT (which is partially tax funded), a Normal Council Member, and a traveling companion of Tari’s (https://lahood.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/work-begins-following-one-voice-trip) a whole lot of government rolled into one pretty package.
Oh I saw the headline and thought that Renner had exposed his secret. Who is Max? Why is Max?