The Lake Bloomington Fire

By:  Diane Benjamin On March 10, 2019 a fire DESTROYED a building at Lake Building that housed a lot of equipment and records.  The media never reported it.  Evidently a massive loss to government isn’t news. I only found out about the fire when replacing two pieces of equipment appeared on the April 22nd Agenda:  […]

NEW pics of the Bentley Motors fire

By:  Diane Benjamin h/t Bruce Meeks Up to 150 vehicles could be destroyed!  Main street is still closed. A friend stopped by to watch.  A fireman told him a small electrical fire was extinguished around 11:00 last night.  It could have rekindled. If you are on Facebook, many more pics:  https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=302734023409637&id=100010191245936  

You missed this Monday

By:  Diane Benjamin Either the media fell asleep during last Monday’s Council meeting or they didn’t report this on purpose.  A presentation was made by the Fire Chief – this was included: Public Safety has been very high on citizen’s priority lists for City spending.  This one graphic is MILLIONS of dollars with millions more […]

Bloomington Budget: Police/Fire

By:  Diane Benjamin See Book 1 of the Budget here:  http://www.cityblm.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=8224 I have to congratulate Bloomington for putting together a readable budget.  It contains lots of details and easy to read charts.  Yesterday I posted the Administration Budget, I will be posting others later. Police and Fire are two departments essential to citizens.  Below is […]