By: Diane Benjamin Normal has money for everything except microphones that work. Kevin McCarthy had to hold his when he spoke, the sound still wasn’t clear. Brian Day had a large hand-held microphone because he is always hard to hear from his perch, his did work. Chemberly Cummings is now Chemberly Harris, no explanation. Scott […]
By: Diane Benjamin In case you forgot, PASER is the Pavement Rating and Assessment Project the Normal Town Council passed last October: https://www.normalil.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/3770 See PDF page 35. The Council was told the total cost would be $100,000 with a grant arranged by the McLean County Regional Planning Commission for $80,000 of that. The Town would […]
By: Diane Benjamin 1) The special meeting Normal called at 5:45 last night was a waste of time. The promised PASER report is still not done, supposedly it will be by the end of June. Chris Koos wasn’t there, neither was Scott Preston or Karyn Smith. The license plate reading camera presentation will have to […]
By: Diane Benjamin A 5:45pm Work Session instead of including business in an actual meeting people might watch: There is almost ZERO on the Agenda for 7:00. Evidently these two items are a secret. There is NOTHING included, like supporting materials usually in the packet.
By: Diane Benjamin Update to this story: https://blnnews.com/2022/03/18/denied-foia-normal/ The Town of Normal used 5 ILCS 140/7 (1)(f) to deny the FOIA. A lot of Illinois law is ridiculous to read and contradicts itself, but the FOIA law isn’t one of those places. See the FOIA law here: https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/documents/000501400K7.htm What does (1)(f) actually say? The Town […]
By: Diane Benjamin See update to this story here: https://blnnews.com/2022/03/18/more-on-the-foia-normal-denied/ This statement is in Normal’s just passed budget under “City Manager accomplishments FY 2021-2022”, PDF page 118: https://normal.org/DocumentCenter/View/19729/2022-23-Final-Budget A couple things to note from the above: Completion – normally means the report is complete Results will be used – infers there are results I FOIA’d […]
