By: Diane Benjamin All you need to know about what happened at last nights extremely long Council meeting: Your gas tax is going to double to .08 per gallon because you want the roads fixed and they can’t find any money You will get an estimated $10 million aquatics center, no word whether it will […]
By: Diane Benjamin The City of Bloomington does not act in the best interests of the citizens paying the bills. They act in the best interest of whatever votes can be bought, especially employees. The City will not be ending pension spiking any time soon because Tari doesn’t want to. In 2012 they ended the […]
By: Diane Benjamin Last night the Bloomington City Council met as a Committee of the Whole. Around an hour was spent on a presentation by an ISU professor on how to do a salary and benefits survey. See his written presentation here – beginning on PDF page 49: http://www.cityblm.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=11309 This presentation was prompted by Alderman […]
By: Diane Benjamin It’s hard to know where to start with the marathon meeting. Just the council meeting was almost 3 hours long. That’s after a special meeting was held and Bloomington Township meeting. The Council were captives from 5:00pm until almost 10:00. If you don’t know what a PROGRESSIVE is, you should. It’s a […]
By: Diane Benjamin A Work Session was held before the Council meeting. The most remarkable discussion was started by Alderman Fruin. It pertained to employee benefits. Watch his comments starting at 15:30, other people join the conversation, so keep watching. Jim actually stands up for citizens! That’s until he gets to an off-hand comment about […]
by: Diane Benjamin Being a CPA, I like numbers. Frequently they reveal interesting things. Here’s my latest: The information listed about employees is now really good on both the Champaign and Bloomington websites – thanks to the Illinois Policy Institute. All expenses per employee are listed, so I decided to see how much Bloomington pays […]
