Bloomington bills for tonight

By: Diane Benjamin https://www.cityblm.org/home/showpublisheddocument/26961/637679239022670000 Evidently what is charged on Credit Cards in Bloomington is now a secret, details used to be listed: The BCPA event report tab doesn’t even have a spot yet for this year. When do we find out how much each show lost (or made)? In 2 days there is a show […]

Bloomington Last Night – Part 2

By: Diane Benjamin A public hearing was also held and resulted in quite a bit of Council discussion: Brandon Gray isn’t interested in the alley if he has to pay for it. Public Works would like to pawn off maintenance to him and save themselves the expense. It sounds like they haven’t been maintaining it […]

Unit 5’s worst Sales Tax offender

By:  Diane Benjamin I made the agenda for the July 10th Unit 5 Board meeting, if Unit 5 lists FOIA requests for every meeting they must not get many:    https://v3.boardbook.org/Public/PublicAgenda.aspx?ak=1000890&mk=50335525 The person with the most receipts charging Sales Tax was Mark Daniel, Superintendent. Many of the receipts are at LOCAL restaurants.  Most are not […]

Dist 87 – April-May 2019 Credit cards

By:  Diane Benjamin  Start on page 69 Same procedure as the previous article, if you missed it read it first.  You won’t want to miss how much Barry Reilly spends on coffee:  https://blnnews.com/2019/06/13/district-87-how-about-some-current-spending/ See what was received by FOIA for this month:   04-2019 Buying local doesn’t apply to District 87. Some of these charges do […]

District 87 spending your money

By:  Diane Benjamin On a tip from a reader I FOIA’d 2 years of credit card charges from District 87.  I’m not anywhere close to looking at everything yet.  I will post items I found as I go through the files. Start with this one from July 2017: No, Barry Reilly didn’t spend all that […]