Hope you had popcorn if you watched Bloomington’s Council

By:  Diane Benjamin Tari Renner declared May Building safety month at last night’s Council meeting.  First, I guess he didn’t notice May is almost over.  Second, a City building recently burned to the ground.  The only “safe” part was nobody was in the building when it burned.  The media still hasn’t reported that fire.  When […]

Found in the Financial Statements

By:  Diane Benjamin We used to get lots of interesting information in the City Manager’s monthly reports.  The City Manager quit doing them because the reports showed information the City didn’t want you to know – like monthly tax receipts and library traffic. The financial statements the City just got around to releasing from almost […]

Like paying for this?

By:  Diane Benjamin The below is from last years financial statements.  It is reflected on two pages (197 and 198) making it impossible to read, so I retyped the info.   Original link:  http://www.cityblm.org/home/showdocument?id=12330 The financial statements were from 4/30/2016, so the 2016 data won’t be available for a LONG time. Traffic at the library is […]