By: Diane Benjamin
Agenda: https://bloomingtonil.portal.civicclerk.com/event/4112/files/agenda/9284
Up to $50,000 for an audit of your sales tax mental health spending? Since the money has been stockpiling instead of being spent, $50,000? Money is meaningless to government because they aren’t spending their own. Why doesn’t this include 2025?
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The only item on the regular agenda is:
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Since no aldermen are going to say they are pro-synthetic drugs, I anticipate a short meeting. Likely the most interesting part of this meeting will be comments not associated with the agenda.
From Bills and Payroll:
https://www.bloomingtonil.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/32273
More Sick Leave Buy Back:
Including seasonal employees, the total is down to:
My predictions for the future spending plans if the continued leftist agenda remains in place, unchecked.
The predictions I make are based on the observed patterns in public policy and resource allocation, historically made by the leftist socialists’ in McLean County that are emphasizing a need for public services support for vulnerable populations and systemic improvements in the mental health system. Thus a drastic tax was instituted.
Here is my prediction of the near future:
1. Support for Immigrant Families’ Health and Housing: Allocation toward free clinics, public health departments, and grants to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to address mental health challenges such as anguish, fear, anxiety, and depression among immigrant families. This includes housing assistance programs aimed at reducing psychosocial stressors.
2. Grant Programs for Holistic Health Initiatives: Establishment of grant mechanisms for NGOs specializing in comprehensive health care, encompassing lifestyle, nutrition, education, childcare, preventive services, and treatment for women and children, including women’s health services. The underlying principle is that physical well-being contributes to mental health resilience.
3. Housing and Utility Assistance Grants: Distribution of funds to NGOs and local government entities (e.g., towns, villages, and townships) to provide housing and utility support for homeless individuals and families, as well as those experiencing financial vulnerability. This may extend to implementing rent control measures at the county level to promote equitable resource distribution. “Equity over Equality is the lefts latest agenda rebranding for “eat the rich”. Tax the successful until everyone is poor and “happy”.
4. Research and Funding for Empirical Studies: Investment in research initiatives to identify and evaluate potential solutions for mental health issues, including pilot programs and data-driven analyses. Chicago Consultants. (This is some of the successful fleecing envelopes that has to happen in Illinois. Chicago gets their cut.)
5. Funding for Policy Development and Advocacy: Allocation of tax revenues to engage consultants for drafting supportive legislation and securing matching funds from state and federal sources. Concurrently, this includes campaigns to influence Illinois legislators, business leaders, political stakeholders, and the local electorate through targeted media strategies to garner support for proposed funding and policies. (Lobbying, legal bribery, and creating long-term plans for how to streamline a new financial windfall of tax revenue and who gets a slice.)
Good stuff Matthew! It’s a peculiar situation when the ones that caused the problems are in charge of solving the same problems. This is facilitated by the fact that they continue to be elected. This removes them from all accountability for their decisions. Root causes for problems will never see the light of day.
So we get things like Equity discrimination, “sustainablity” initiatives, green deals, open borders and welcoming cities, housing shortages, crime, fraud, corruption, broken budgets, unlivable debt, hostility for asking common sense questions and eventually unworkable solutions.
So who’s to blame? Voters. Or more correctly the ones that don’t show up to vote to hold leftist politicians accountable.
As long as thousands upon thousands of people in conservative or moderate areas continue to leave the state, this will continue in IL. There is a reason troves of state retirees move out of IL. Once they have earned gold pensions and Diamond-encrusted retiree healthcare, they get out of Dodge before they keep paying the increased income, property, and sales taxes that fund public employee/retiree benefits.
If a local insurance giant (or two) or a large EV manufacturer moves more and more operations thanks to the Pritzker business climate, this area’s economy will be decimated.