By: Diane Benjamin The meeting wasn’t 1 hour and 13 minutes long as the video shows. Almost 17 minutes is pre-meeting commercials. Now that January is more than halfway over, the City declared the month Human Trafficking Awareness month. There was also 28 minutes of Public Comments. All but one was by people representing Care […]
By: Diane Benjamin The Bloomington Council voted 7-2 to increase property taxes 13.4% last night. The library increased taxes by almost 2%. After a Who’s on First like re-enactment, discussions took place by the Council both during the Public Hearing and before the vote. 7 members swallowed whatever staff fed them, only Alderman Sheila Montney […]
By: Diane Benjamin The Bloomington Council meeting was ridiculously long – over 3 hours. I left after about 1 1/2 hours and watched the rest on YouTube. Public Comment was still happening when I got home. My comment is at 26:13. The room started off packed. Many people were there to witness the introduction of […]
By: Diane Benjamin In 2016 Bloomington bought a property at 807 North Main street: . Bloomington bought this property to control what was built there. Bloomington still owns it. Coldwell Banker couldn’t sell at after Bloomington hired them. https://blnnews.com/2020/07/02/bloomington-5-years-and-no-news/ A link in that story explains why nobody bought it. The City wanted to control what […]
By: Diane Benjamin Between the Executive Session and the end of the open meeting the exchange below happened. Ken Lee shakes Dan Brady’s hand. Brady then approaches the new (forced in) Mayor Pro Tem, Mollie Ward. She appears to refrain from a handshake. Words were exchanged, the mic was off so we don’t know what […]
By: Diane Benjamin Ward 1 – Jenna Kearns Since she’s unopposed I don’t see a reason to post her video unless someone REALLY wants to see. Ward 2 – Donna Boelen, also running unopposed Ward 4 – Steve Nalefski. His opponent John Wyatt Danenberger didn’t show up. If he had he would have been asked […]
