By: Diane Benjamin At court the day Judge Fellheimer ruled for Normal four lawyers were there representing the Town. One was the Town attorney (Brian Day) and one was Michael Kasper. One other lawyer said nothing but the 4th lawyer did a lot of talking. I don’t believe the 3rd and 4th lawyer worked for […]
By: Diane Benjamin Remember the story of Bloomington fireman Jon Caponi? https://blnnews.com/2017/11/02/legal-employee-investigations/ He was arrested for domestic violence and then the charges were dropped because an investigation proved he wasn’t the aggressor. The City of Bloomington decided he needed to pay a price anyway, he got a 10 day suspension. For a fireman, that’s 10 […]
By: Diane Benjamin From: http://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=11982 Tari Renner is right – the City is paying around 750 employees! Look through the list and note all the temporary labor purchased! Big government will never have enough employees, meanwhile service gets worse because BIG is inefficient. Local businesses need to ask why “Buy Local” doesn’t apply to the […]
By: Diane Benjamin Bill and Payroll for approval at Monday’s meeting are now on-line: http://www.cityblm.org/index.aspx?page=242&parent=9535 I don’t have time today to look at everything, but residents should be happy to know your City shipped another huge amount to Springfield for their contract lawyer! Redistribution of your wealth to Springfield!
By: Diane Benjamin When the City of Bloomington paid Todd Greenburg to leave as City Attorney last October, he was not replaced. Instead they hired a Springfield Law Firm and attorney Jeff Jurgens. All of the below information is from the Bills and Payroll reports: http://www.cityblm.org/index.aspx?page=242&parent=6058 This is a list of payments to the law firm […]
I originally had the law firms backwards! By: Diane Benjamin The Bloomington City Council is meeting again tonight. They will be asked to approve more bills. Below are a few: CLARK BAIRD SMITH LLP (This is the Chicago law firm) CHECK TOTAL 4,270.43 Last week a payment of $8,798.75 was approved LYNN MONTEI ASSOCIATES […]
by: Diane Benjamin See this previous post: http://blnnews.com/2014/03/18/why-does-bloomington-have-a-legal-staff/ I requested detailed information on the legal bills involved, but the City denied my request: The citizens of Bloomington will never know how much the City spent for a six and half page response from this law firm concerning allegations Mayor Renner called “totally ridiculous”. See this […]
