By: Diane Benjamin
More on this story from yesterday: https://blnnews.com/2024/06/06/foiad-bloomington-payments-coliseum/
That story showed a payment for the Disney on Ice show of $539,703.57. It also showed the event report wasn’t posted on the City website. This morning it is! In fact it’s posted twice: https://www.bloomingtonil.gov/government/advanced-components/documents/-folder-2104#docan2735_6873_64
Note: There used to be a tab to find documents, it is no longer easy to find this information unless you know how to find it.
Here’s the report:
It looks to me like the City made $184,072.65 on this show. Of course none of the numbers are an exact match to the invoice, just close. One would think the City would be proud of this.
There is another show posted that also made money:
I think this is the talent cost, it’s hard to tell without a FOIA however:
Attendance wasn’t great, must have had a lot of drinkers at this one. See Net Food & Beverage Revenue.
Gone are the days when the city released monthly financials, then quarterly, then annual.
I guess similar to Connect Transit, the losses just become an acceptable business practice after a while. I guess there is always more gold at the end of that rainbow.