Month: March 2019

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Gas Tax only means incompetence

By: Diane Benjamin Spending priorities at the City of Bloomington have ZERO to do with what citizens expect them to fund:  Police, Fire, Water, Sewer, Storm Water, Roads.  If they could get by with taxing you for calling 911 they would. The City of Bloomington created Enterprise Funds to make it easier to take more […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Taxes never sunset

By:  Diane Benjamin City Manager Tim Gleason has mentioned to Council could pass increasing the Gas Tax with a sunset date.  History shows the Council will cancel any sunset clause. I found this while looking for something else:   PDF page 9  http://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=6766 The Council not only cancelled the .25% sunset in 2014, in 2015 they […]