By: Diane Benjamin Have you been following the debt ceiling debate? Did you hear Fitch is threatening to downgrade the US credit rating because increasing the debt ceiling was controversial? Fitch is the only credit rating service that has the Town of Normal at AAA. Now you know why. Fitch is delighted with Normal’s new […]
By: Diane Benjamin There was 1 Public Comment at the beginning of the meeting – Karl Sila. 1:45. Another person was prevented from speaking by Normal’s tyrannical policy until the end of the meeting. When it was finally her turn she wasn’t there. Liz Burton was called at 1:34:35. Normal should be ashamed of themselves […]
By: Diane Benjamin 1) Normal is meeting tonight: https://www.normalil.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/4338 Of course they are handing out your money. See PDF pages 20-22 to see how much the free entertainment costs you. Harmon Arts grants are on page 45. Read the rest of the agenda yourself or watch the meeting at 7:00 2) WGLT is cheerleading for […]
By: Diane Benjamin At tonight’s meeting a budget hearing is being held. Likely no one will show up to speak. Nice. Below are a couple things I found while not looking very hard. https://normal.org/DocumentCenter/View/19713/2022-23-Proposed-Budget PDF page 95: That 10.00 is the percentage increase from this year. What is the Town planning to spend $55,000 on? […]
By: Diane Benjamin Watch a Normal Council meeting. Kathleen Lorenz will attempt at least one to convey that Stan Nord has no idea what he’s doing. In emails she is even worse. Below are a few choice picks – from FOIA: Response from Kathleen: This issue isn’t dead, I’m just waiting for more information. How […]
By: Diane Benjamin http://normal.org/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/3339 This statement is in the minutes for approval from the last meeting: Koos had 7 people interested, 3 that had filled out the on-line form. See this previous story: https://blnnews.com/2019/06/27/more-koos-fib-and-kevin-mccarthy/ Normal allows spiking too. CDM (Children’s Discovery Museum) Foundation Board has 13 Board members. Since the Board is a non-profit, why did […]
By: Diane Benjamin http://www.normal.org/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/3307 For the second year in a row the Harmon Grants total $25,000. In 2017 they totaled $50,000. See this year’s recipients on PDF page 34. Paul Harmon didn’t donate the money, it’s your money. More spending trying to get free money: The total spent since May 2018 was $352,657.87. Add this […]
By: Diane Benjamin Link to the Monday packet: http://www.normal.org/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/2990 Another 10 minute meeting with not much on the agenda. None of these items will get discussed. At the June 4th meeting $25,000 of Harmon Grants were approved – PDF page 27 http://www.normal.org/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/2973 Monday night they are paying the grants, but the total is $26,500 – PDF […]
By: Diane Benjamin Running out of other people’s money has caused Normal to give away less of your money this year. I wonder how many votes were bought through Harmon Grants? Last year’s list shows $50,000 was given away: https://blnnews.com/2018/04/30/normal-harmon-grants/ This year’s list: The YWCA got more of your money, I’m betting they bought tickets for […]
