By: Diane Benjamin The City of Bloomington has been paying VenuWorks $4,999.98 sporadically since 2016, payments are marked loan principle. This story says why: https://blnnews.com/2016/10/06/so-bloomington-claims/ The short version: VenuWorks paid John Butler (CIAM) for equipment at the Coliseum. The City is reimbursing them for that purchase. The total was $299,999, no interest, payments over 5 […]
By: Diane Benjamin Did you know… The Library Trustees have stated numerous times they have never done anything wrong. The IL Dept of Revenue would disagree. While under the management of the Library Trustees, the IDOR found that Palm’s Grill filed multiple understated sales tax reports. What does that mean? The Palm’s Grill was caught […]
By: Diane Benjamin See Part 1 here: https://blnnews.com/2018/12/26/is-bloomington-a-bank/ The lists I received by FOIA show 4 types of loans. Deferred loans from the General Fund Loans receiving payments from the General Fund Deferred loans using CDBG money Loans receiving payments made with CDBG money The General Fund is tax money received locally. CDBG money is […]
By: Diane Benjamin Bills and Payroll Monday night: http://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=16320 The report shows paying 461 Bi-Weekly employees and 361 Weekly. That’s a total of 822 employees. January 2015: 458 Bi-Weekly and 335 Weekly Total 793 https://blnnews.com/2015/08/21/less-employees-at-the-city/ That’s an increase in employees of 29 in 2 years. SLBB: Sick Leave Buy Back (Pension Spiking) Ashley Furniture: We have NO idea where […]
By: Diane Benjamin Bills and Payroll for Monday night: http://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=15410 This one is easy Patti Lynn – no need to belong to anything! 111 felony counts could have easily been prevented! With Tari now PCardless and David Hales gone, money saved. The City Council still ate at your expense: Why did Public Works need pizza […]
By: Diane Benjamin Illinois Law requires every level of government adopt an Ethics Ordinance. Even though it has been brought to Bloomington’s attention, they do not have an ethic ordinance on their website. When asked who the Ethics Officer is – I believe we were told David Hales. I did find this on the City […]
By: Diane Benjamin The Coliseum has been borrowing money from the City. You pay more for water than it costs the City, so excess money is sitting in that fund. At least some of it has gone to cover the losses at the Coliseum. These numbers are straight from the City Financial Statements at the […]
