Tag: cost of Living raises

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Normal – Monday night’s fleece

By: Diane Benjamin http://normal.org/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/3742 The semi-annual Cost of Living raises for employees are being delayed until April. (After the election?) Have they ever gotten a COST of Living decrease? The other big one is adding another $.04 gas tax. The minutes on PDF page 9 don’t adequately reflect the discussion that happened during the September […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Normal: Corporate Welfare

By:  Diane Benjamin The handouts of tax money continue in Normal on TUESDAY.  Unless developers are paid to build in Uptown it doesn’t happen. Monday’s giveaway teeters on laughable.  The documentation claims the $1.6 million project will not go forward unless a rebate from sales tax of $150,000 is approved. Can you see the bulls-eye placed […]