By: Diane Benjamin Maybe the P-Card spending starting on page 115 explains it: http://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=14187 Some excerpts: In 2015 the City spent $22,321.49 travelling to Japan: https://blnnews.com/2015/04/24/more-throwing-your-money-around/ Tari and Hales aren’t the only travelers. See the rest at the link. Tari must have business lunches by himself – nobody else is listed. Or maybe Mayor Transparency doesn’t […]
By: Diane Benjamin The City of Bloomington staff REALLY hates answering Freedom of Information Act requests. Members of the Council think they shouldn’t have to waste valuable staff time answering requests from the public. So, instead of sending FOIA requests to explain the spending below, let’s play a new game: GUESS! Staff doesn’t want to be […]
By: Diane Benjamin Below are P-Card (like a debit card, except billing is once a month) charges for the month of January (scroll to the bottom): http://www.cityblm.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=8213 ________________________________ Jimmy John’s # 1408 $ 181.44 Working Dinner D. Hales, T. Renner, City Council, 5 Other Staff‐ 01/12/2015 Monicals Pizza $ 45.75 Working Lunch for Finance Department‐ 01/07/2015 Lucca […]
