Bloomington Agenda for Monday

By:  Diane Benjamin http://bloomingtonil.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=1049&Inline=True Details on PDF page 11: Great job by City employees, what took so long to recognize them? PDF page 63 – the City needs to budget for extensive restoration of the outside – BCPA.  This is just repairs. PDF page 93 – Another cost taxpayers could have avoided if they had voted […]

Tari seizes his throne Monday

By:  Diane Benjamin August 2nd I wrote a story about Bloomington’s Liquor Commission:  https://blnnews.com/2016/08/02/is-tari-declaring-himself-king/ Monday night Tari wants to be granted all power to enforce, permit, and control liquor in Bloomington.  From the agenda:  http://www.cityblm.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=11004 From the packet page 238:  http://www.cityblm.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=11003 The only “confusion regarding the authority of the local” Liquor Commission has been FOLLOWING […]

2 more Liquor Licenses on the Agenda Monday

By:  Diane Benjamin When the David Hales and Tari Renner put an item on the Bloomington City Council agenda, they now state why it’s a good thing. Here’s why new Liquor Licenses should be approved: STRATEGIC PLAN LINK: Goal 4. Grow the local economy. Motion: That a TAS liquor license for Around the Corner, Inc., […]