By: Diane Benjamin Proof COVID is over, Bloomington employees are back to traveling: https://www.cityblm.org/home/showpublisheddocument/27940/637884879474800000 Go to PDF page 130 and following see for yourself. Don’t miss this one: $6754.00 for ONE Conference. I could say I hope more than one person went for that price, but then I’d have to ask why more than one […]
By: Diane Benjamin Citizen survey – Normal Police: https://normal.org/FormCenter/Police-10/2020-Citizens-Survey-55 https://normal.org/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/3830 Semi-annual bond payments: The majority of these payments do nothing to pay down the debt. Interest totals $1,577,138.75. The amount to reduce the debt is only $470,000. A “Responsible City”?
By: Diane Benjamin Bills and Payroll for tonight: https://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=24570 Coliseum expenses: The first entry is for bills Bloomington paid that VenuWorks needs to reimburse – all the rest are coming out of taxpayers pockets: I don’t remember ever seeing a check written for loan payments, usually they do wire transfers: $795,000 was paid in principal […]
By: Diane Benjamin This information is from the budget: https://normal.org/DocumentCenter/View/14883/2019-2024 I don’t know why the budgeted revenue was decreased for this year, but Normal still plans to collect a lot of money for licenses, fines, fees, and permits. Maybe it’s down because little development is happening creating a need for permits. PDF page 27. This […]
By: Diane Benjamin Projects governments dream up never include the true cost, interest paid for decades could increase the price by 50%. It could be even worse for Normal because they are paying no principal on many of their bonds – just interest. Monday night is the semi-annual bond payments approval festivities. Of course, discussion […]
By: Diane Benjamin Did the BCPA have only held 3 events during March? Only 3 reports are listed on the City website. All three lost money and had dismal attendance: http://www.cityblm.org/government/advanced-components/documents/-folder-1702 Other events took place according to the event calendar: http://www.artsblooming.org/events/calendar?cury=2019&curm=3&curd=31&curview=month Zero transparency for those. The losses above do not include salaries and other operating […]
