By: Diane Benjamin The Town of Normal has waged war on it’s citizens. Besides burying you in debt they want to make sure you can’t talk about it. They know their Public Comment policy is illegal. See this story 9/5/2019: https://blnnews.com/2019/09/05/normals-illegal-public-comment-policy-2/ The Town knew LONG before the above – March 16, 2017! More than 3 […]
By: Diane Benjamin The Town posted the Work Session and the Council meeting together. Since you likely don’t have 4 hours to spare to watch both, I will start with the Council meeting. The 7 pm meeting starts at 2:05. Since Public Comment was outstanding, begin there. Craig Stimpert was up first. He was following […]
By: Diane Benjamin Normal Town Council last night: First to speak was Craig Stimpert. (4:27) The topic was pensions funding and the constant raising of property taxes to fund them. Craig called this Town practice unsustainable. The Town uses property taxes because they refuse to make pension funding part of the budget. He called out […]
By: Diane Benjamin Part 1: https://blnnews.com/2019/06/04/a-three-minute-meeting-takes-almost-2-hours/ Craig Stimpert spoke about the proposed changes to Normal’s Public Comment policy. See 16:45. Two years ago Craig forced them to change their “only speak once in 45 days” rule. He was back last night to request “germane to the agenda” be removed too. He also objected to the […]
