By: Diane Benjamin
1)
Buying a Rivian? How are you going to charge it?
According to this story Rivian will connect you with a company called Qmerit: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/qmerit-ev-charger-installations-homes-141700627.html
You can sign up and pay seamlessly on line to get a charging system installed in your home!
How much will it cost? https://www.qmeritcharging.com/owner-faqs
Installation: $750 to $1750
Charging station: $500 – $1000
City permit: unknown
Other information:
2)
The National Council of Social Studies held a convention last year for teachers: https://www.weareteachers.com/2020-ncss-virtual-conference/
The were excited to have ELEVEN Social Justice speakers including Chelsey Clinton, Nikole Hannah-Jones (1619 Project), and Samantha Powers who is married to Cass Sunstein who is credited with being the author of Obamacare.
The website has vast amounts of information, see Climate Change activities for kids to indoctrinate early: https://www.weareteachers.com/climate-change-activities/
In November they are holding another conference: https://www.socialstudies.org/conference?utm_source=MDR_WAT&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=NCSS_2006_ARTICLE
3)
Before and after the great flood – Constitution trail in Bloomington. The rocks were apparently meant to beautify a water retention/control area.
Not far from the above, still on Constitution Trail:
The Black Eyed Susans were planted before the flood and not watered after evidently. I could have supplied tons of them for much less! Note: price tag not removed:
4)
Bloomington taxpayers are still funding spiked pensions, we were told the program ended. This payment was in the wire transfer report for the last meeting, my FOIA produced the below. This pension spike cost you $63,660.61.
The new policy to end SLBB is in place to be phased in during union contract negotiations. There are 11 union contracts which expire on various dates. The new contract for the Water Department was negotiated on May 1, 2020. Under the new policy, union employees are offered 6 months to submit a resignation in order to qualify for the previous SLBB practice. It appears Mr. Peterson chose to retire within 6 months of the new contract resulting in the accelerated payment. The new policy places accumulated sick leave in a HSA after the retirement date. Accrued vacation is also payed out after retirement ending the need for accelerated payments.
https://www.cityblm.org/home/showpublisheddocument/25804/637474384807830000
He may have retired even before that. It appears IMRF didn’t find out about the lump sum payment until final 2020 payroll data was submitted.
That’s on the HR Department…
#2 Climate Change and education -All the things that leftist can’t sell to adults with common sense end up in our education system.