By: Diane Benjamin The chart below is from the documents the Normal Town Council used for the Budget Session held on January 16, 2020. Normal 1-16-2020 budget session PDF page 70: Town staff already decided you have to pay more! Note: I haven’t heard anything about the Social Security rate going up, the only way […]
By: Diane Benjamin This won’t be the last story, stay tuned. BNWRD is the Bloomington Normal Water Reclamation District. Whatever you flush they process. Homes connected to the sanitary sewer system should be charged on the water bill AND on the property tax bill. This is the same principle as Bloomington billing you for water […]
By: Diane Benjamin Public comment only had two people, one was a member of the Connect Transit Working Group. See her comments at 13:30. She was excited about the upcoming report. It will be interesting to see how many members agree with her. Those who don’t agree need to issue their own report. She mentioned […]
See below, I received additional information at 3:30pm By: Diane Benjamin Received by FOIA: How many of these 298,025 people were not fluent in English? Remember, the DMV is not allowed to ask about citizenship. https://blnnews.com/2020/01/19/dmv-isnt-allowed-to-ask-about-citizenship/ Automatic Voter Registration means everybody is asked if they want to register to vote. How many said yes […]
By: Diane Benjamin https://www.connect-transit.com/documents/Board%20Packet%201-28-20.pdf Connect Transit didn’t meet for a regular meeting in December, so November and December are reported together for the 1/28/2020 meeting. November 2019 loss – PDF page 8 December 2019 loss – PDF page 14 Every person that rides costs around 4 times more than the person riding is paying: (PDF […]
By: Diane Benjamin https://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=23757 Since the City now has Jeff Jurgens as an employee, we will see if this disappears in the future: (he was their employee) Community Relations? did you get an invite to the feast: A future artist fee? This really needs a new name: Pantagraph scores again: This is just a members […]
By: Diane Benjamin Source: https://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=23753 Looks impressive, RIGHT? Not so fast, see below. The artist fees are blank again! (see previous stories) https://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=23691 Obviously this show lost money just like most of the others. See the event as promoted here: https://www.artsblooming.org/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/10963/710?curdate=12-13-2019&curm=12&cury=2019
