Bloomington future debt and interest

By:  Diane Benjamin The Bloomington financial statements have the same debt table as Normal in this story:  https://blnnews.com/2019/12/09/more-on-normals-credit-rating-and-debt/      PDF page 91:  https://www.cityblm.org/home/showdocument?id=23337 The chart has a typo:  the 2035-2029 probably should have been 2025-2029. $52,090,000 for bond payments and $11,576,172 for interest.  The interest adds 22% to the total repayment.   Don’t get too […]

Bloomington Council tonight

By:  Diane Benjamin The VenuWorks report is not the audited version, it is therefore immaterial.  Time allowed for the presentation is 5 minutes, included will be the fictional economic impact of the arena.  See PDF page 40:   http://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=19928 Financial information is on PDF page 39.  The loss does not include depreciation on the building which […]

Bloomington Debt – Are You Toast in 5 years? Update

I’m still trying to interpret the City’s presentation of debt.  The accompanying notes don’t match the tables, more later.   By:  Diane Benjamin The City of Bloomington has issued their Financial Statements as of 4/30/2014.  http://www.cityblm.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=7479  The numbers below start on page 51. The current debt payments are set to explode in 2020: The outstanding […]