By: Diane Benjamin Normal wants to build a far east fire station. Remember when the citizens just wanted it moved across the street? Of course Normal didn’t listen. https://blnnews.com/2019/01/23/normal-citizens-dont-fit-the-plan/ Bloomington wants a far north-east side fire station. Most people don’t know where Bloomington stops and Normal begins, but the two cities aren’t capable of working […]
By: Diane Benjamin On the front page of the City of Bloomington website is a link to the Downtown Bloomington website: cityblm.org The first time I clicked on it I got an error message, the second time the website came up: http://downtownbloomington.org/ Next I clicked on Explore Downtown – then Shop. The site has directory […]
By: Diane Benjamin Jamie Mathy urged citizens to look at the upcoming shows at the BCPA during Aldermen comments at last night’s Council meeting. He claimed a show that costs $100 in Chicago could be only $30 here. See upcoming events: https://www.artsblooming.org/events/calendar Meanwhile, the last event report posted for the BCPA was a show held […]
By: Diane Benjamin Short meeting last night, there was nothing worth writing about in advance. Off course the meeting was.more interesting than the agenda predicted. One public comment speaker couldn’t understand why time wasn’t extended for cannabis comments when it had been extended previously for other items. That’s too easy: Nobody had anything new to […]
By: Diane Benjamin Bloomington Alderman Donna Boelen posted this video on Facebook yesterday. She is a advocate the Strong Towns philosophy. Keep in mind I can see how many people read a story. I can also see how many people CLICK on something I post. PLEASE watch this really short video, it sums up everything […]
By: Diane Benjamin Planning Commission: https://www.cityblm.org/government/advanced-components/documents/-folder-1682 According to the website, the Planning commission met on: December 11, 2019 November 13, 2019 October 9, 2019 One member missed all three meetings: Eric Penn Two members missed two out three: Kevin Suess and Megan McCann More meetings: September 11, 2019 – Joint meeting with the Zoning Board […]
By: Diane Benjamin No bills were approved at the last council meeting since it was held off-schedule for the holidays. Monday night $14,244,476.43 is up for approval. https://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=23691 As always, there was extensive travel. A lot of it is in the PCard spending, see PDF page 271 and following. 2020 starts where previous years […]
