By: Diane Benjamin

Bloomington’s website has a horrible Search Engine. Instead of fixing that problem, IT decided to re-do a part of the website that was actually easy to use.

This is what the screen with meeting agenda etc used to look like:

It was very easy to find meeting documentation!

Look at what they did to that screen: https://bloomingtonil.portal.civicclerk.com/?category_id=26,36

What happened to the Agenda and Packet for the August 11th meeting? Remember the 15 minute Council meeting last Monday? It appears ALL previous Council information is missing.

This could be a work in progress. It shouldn’t have gone live until it was done. Of course government employees don’t have to think like business people. There are no penalties involved.

This is what the screen looked like early this morning:

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By the time you click on the link it might be different. This website has changed many times in the last few years. Many things that used to be easy to find aren’t anymore.