By: Diane Benjamin Bills and Payroll: https://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=23995 Agenda: https://bloomingtonil.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=1059&Inline=True Congrats taxpayers! No employees are receiving Sick Leave Buy Back payments this time to spike their pensions. Don’t get excited though, you will be paying again: See PDF page 89 of the agenda. Denise Balagna will be receiving an extra $205.78 per month Joyce McKeon will […]
By: Diane Benjamin None of the below is even possible, but Bernie Sanders supporters are working hard to win the nomination. Why does this matter? Look closer. Bloomington elected 2 people who think the above is possible. Congrats Bloomington. Aldermen Carrillo and Crabill are active socialists. The other 7 Council members need to stand united […]
By: Diane Benjamin Total Budget 4/30/15 $180,426,393 Total Budget 4/30/22 $230,300,000 (proposed budget) SEVEN year increase of $49,873,607 (Total increase of 27.6%) Note below: The 2015 budget was a 6.5% increase over 2014. Source: https://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=7077 https://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=23979
By: Diane Benjamin Tim Gleason, City Manager, wants all residents to see the 2019 Year in Review: https://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=23981 It does have an impressive list of private sector investments. It doesn’t have a list of how many more could have been made but weren’t because they weren’t the “right fit”. Many listed are restaurants. How many […]
By: Diane Benjamin The Bloomington City Council meets tonight at 6:00, Normal meets at 7:00. Bloomington tonight: https://bloomingtonil.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=1055&Inline=True PDF page 19 Who decides what the “right” fit is and why does their opinion matter? I hope nobody still believes the Council does the budget. See PDF page 21: The Council gets 10 MINUTES to […]
By: Diane Benjamin I FOIA’d Bloomington for information on all new hires in the last three months. These are the full time employees hired: The reason I submitted the FOIA was because of a tip. Some of these people replace employees who retired, I don’t know how many. We already knew about the two hires […]
By: Diane Benjamin Nothing spectacular last night, lots of praise for downtown though. The actual meeting took less than 10 minutes, everything else was fluff. Get ready for a new O’Neil pool and fire station. It sounds like both will be in the budget
