By: Diane Benjamin Committee of the Whole was switched to special meeting because one item needs a vote: Remember when BNWRD tried to buy 3 properties and one showed it was owned by the City of Bloomington and not the guy BNWRD thought they were buying it from? https://blnnews.com/2025/12/31/bnwrd-story-6/ Tonight: https://bloomingtonil.portal.civicclerk.com/event/4376/files/attachment/8566 Bloomington is Quit Claiming […]
By: Diane Benjamin All previous BNWRD stories linked here: https://blnnews.com/2025/12/20/bnwrd-property-purchase-update/ Just to review, BNWRD is buying these 3 properties: (Bloomington Normal Water Reclamation District) . The first property should have been 21-06 instead of 21-08. It was severely under assessed for property taxes at $27,082 x 3 = $81,246 total value vrs a sales price […]
By: Diane Benjamin All previous stories are linked in this one: https://blnnews.com/2025/12/16/bloomington-township-assessor-its-not-my-fault/ Just to recap, The BNWRD packet for December had three properties listed they were buying. Two of them had problems. First: Pin #21-05-154-020 This property was listed on the County website as owned by the City of Bloomington. I finally got an answer […]
I contacted the Assessor’s office to find out who the assessor is for PIN #21-06-278-031. They told me the guy listed below. I sent him another email on 12/17/2025. By: Diane Benjamin All previous stories: https://blnnews.com/2025/12/13/bnwrd-continued-and-did-unit-5-get-screwed/ At the end of that story I stated I was going to ask the Bloomington Township Assessor about the […]
By: Diane Benjamin I sent BNWRD another FOIA yesterday, it was answered the same day. Thanks Tim Erwin. See the 2 previous stories here: https://blnnews.com/2025/12/12/more-on-the-bnwrd-property-purchase/ I still haven’t received a response from the Bloomington City Attorney pertaining to the property listed in the County records as owned by the City: PIN #21-05-154-020. More on that […]
By: Diane Benjamin Original story: https://blnnews.com/2025/12/09/bnwrd-bought-what/ I had to ask twice to get a response, Tim Irwin told me his wife had surgery which delayed his response. Packet for the December 8, 2025 meeting: https://blnnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/December-2025-Board-Packet.pdf In the original story I showed the PIN #’s for three properties. 21-08-278-031 didn’t exist in the County property database. […]
By: Diane Benjamin BNWRD is the Bloomington-Normal Water Reclamation District. They tax everyone in Bloomington-Normal. The documentation for the yesterday’s BNWRD meeting is on this page: https://blnnews.com/bnwrd-docs/ This jumped off the page, especially since last month BNWRD bought 1.734 acres for $90,639. https://blnnews.com/2025/11/11/i-need-a-realtor-to-explain-this-one/ PDF page 3: The contract for sale starts on PDF page 109 […]
