Public Hearing on Bloomington’s Budget tonight

By: Diane Benjamin See the Budget Books here: https://www.bloomingtonil.gov/departments/finance/annual-budget All you need to know is: Start reading Budget Book 1 PDF page 30: https://www.bloomingtonil.gov/home/showdocument?id=29341 Lots of demographic data is included. Private sector businesses wouldn’t make decisions with out of date data like what is presented. It’s hard to claim there is a housing shortage when […]

Bloomington tonight

By: Diane Benjamin http://bloomingtonil.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=1107&Inline=True It will be fun to see if Jenn Carrillo’s head explodes: She has questioned all spending for the police in the past. A Public Hearing will be held on the budget. Likely few or nobody will make public comment. What you should know: The budget history: http://bloomingtonil.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=1063&Inline=True https://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=21525 Pre Tari: https://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=5010 […]

Council oblivious or just Renner?

By:  Diane Benjamin Documentation for the 7:00 pm meeting is 648 pages:    http://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=16030 The 5:00 pm meeting is only 35 pages:  http://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=16026 This item is on the agenda for discussion at the 5:00 meeting: Another City employee complete with benefits and pension! Then it gets funny because approval is on the Consent Agenda for the 7:00 […]