Normal: Systemic waste of your money

By:  Diane Benjamin Two more properties have been identified Normal is paying property taxes on when they should be exempt.  Think there aren’t more? Both of these are vacant lots in 1 Normal Plaza, it appears they were acquired after Nick Africano tore down one of the buildings: The relatively small amount of your money […]

Every day accrues more taxes

By:  Diane Benjamin Update to the story on Normal paying property taxes they don’t owe:  https://blnnews.com/2019/08/11/normal-like-paying-property-taxes-you-dont-owe/ Every day that Normal fails to file the PTax 300 form to change the taxable status of properties that should be exempt means more taxes.  Normal will get billed next year for the number of days it was taxable […]

Assessor response received

By:  Diane Benjamin Follow-up to this story:  https://blnnews.com/2019/08/11/normal-like-paying-property-taxes-you-dont-owe/ Evidently Normal plans to continue paying property taxes on parcels that should be exempt. I received this response from the McLean County Assessor today: Understand now your government doesn’t care about wasting money?

Normal: Like paying property taxes you don’t owe?

Update:  https://blnnews.com/2019/08/13/assessor-response-received/ By:  Diane Benjamin Evidently the Town of Normal does.  This property is at 1217 Adelaide: The Town of Normal bought it in 2015 and has been paying property taxes on it ever since.  The property should be EXEMPT – not rocket science! So far the Town has wasted: Pam Reece knows and has […]

Normal: Who cares about taxpayers?

By:  Diane Benjamin If you watched the video of last Monday’s meeting, you saw Trustees and a mayor trying to silence the new members:  Stan Nord and Karyn Smith.  Kathleen Lorenz even told them they should sit back and watch how things are done instead of questioning. Below is “how things are done”.  It isn’t […]