By: Diane Benjamin

We are frequently told the City of Bloomington is a great place to work. Keep reading, would you work there? Maybe the lavish pensions, benefits and Sick Leave Buy Back keeps executive staff in recycled/created jobs.

The salary per year below is one City of Bloomington employee as reported by openthebooks.com.

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The job titles may not be 100% accurate since operations have been consolidated and reorganized for years.

Is Deputy City Manager Sue McLaughlin the person in charge of oversight or is it Jeff Jurgens? Why does the superior get pay increases when employees under that supervisor evidently fail to perform? Are performance metrics made clear? Are the union employees just unmanageable?

This person is no longer the Director of Public Works. In fact it appears nobody is in charge of Public Works right now: https://www.bloomingtonil.gov/departments/administration/executive-staff

If you haven’t figured out who this is yet, it’s the guy who used to get a lot of praise at Council meetings. He did a series of short entertaining videos to information citizens too. Remember Mose Knows? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlKcaCNBWAN4sLA2eo8-QqrcGo_OQmvP1

Mose Rickey has a new job with the City of Bloomington and a pay cut.

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This job was created for him. See the second paragraph in the document below. What does “City strategic priorities” mean and how much is it going to cost you?

The same demotion and special projects assignment happened to Jim Karch when he was Director of Public Works.

Seems like a pattern.