By: Diane Benjamin I only got involved because the director of Recycling Furniture for Families contacted me since funding was cut off without a good explanation. Everyone was blaming PATH for failure to file grant applications. This resulted in loss of funding for numerous organizations and jobs at PATH when funding for hotline employees was […]
By: Diane Benjamin I’m not done covering Recycled Furniture for Families. I have one more FOIA outstanding. Past stories: https://blnnews.com/2024/08/22/recycling-furniture-for-families-path-funding-crisis/ https://blnnews.com/2024/08/15/outsourcing-fail-foia-report-part-3/ https://blnnews.com/2024/08/14/foia-report-part-2/ https://blnnews.com/2024/08/09/foia-report-part-1/ I can’t believe the City didn’t realize I had emails from alderman after the Director reached out to them for help. FOIA’s wouldn’t cost the City so much time and money if […]
By: Diane Benjamin Organizations that relied on funding through PATH administration of grants were crushed when PATH failed them. Recycling Furniture for Families isn’t the only one, they are just the only one that reached out to me for help. PATH is no longer responsible for grant applications. The McLean County Center for Human Resources […]
By: Diane Benjamin Continuation of this story: https://blnnews.com/2024/08/09/foia-report-part-1/ The City of Bloomington redacted emails written by aldermen and the City Manager in response to a HUGE problem. Didn’t they realize nothing prevents the person who received those emails from giving them to me? The story concerns a local non-profit called Recycling Furniture for Families. This […]
By: Diane Benjamin I’m starting with an easy part of the FOIA I finally received yesterday. Evidently no one in legal at the City of Bloomington knows tax returns for non-profits are public information. Every FOIA the City of Bloomington responds to is reviewed by the legal department. They shouldn’t complain about how much FOIA […]
Apparently the long time director who retired did not submit a grant request before the deadline. Now PATH is in crisis mode. By: Diane Benjamin 988 is the local suicide prevention hotline at PATH. I hear at a Board meeting this morning the 988 staff was laid off because funding (I think from the State) […]
If course they didn’t say NO. Details tomorrow. By: Diane Benjamin http://normal.org/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/3633 The big item on the agenda tonight is this: Did you have flooding this weekend? There were videos on line showing nearly impassable streets in Normal, evidently that’s not unusual. Instead of essential services at a time when revenues are way down and […]
By: Diane Benjamin Public comment last night was loaded with those who think they are entitled to tax dollars. Yes people have lost jobs and yes paying bills is next to impossible, but that doesn’t make them entitled to anything. The good socialists showed up en masse to criticize the FIVE Council members who voted […]
By: Diane Benjamin Jenn and buddies are using Saul Alinsky’s rules: From the PATH website: https://www.pathcrisis.org/community-resources/2-1-1/ Cash Jenn? Why CASH? Fiscal responsibility means assistance is paid directly to landlords etc, not to the person needing help. If Jenn thinks forking over tax dollars to the Township is going to get CASH in peoples hands she […]
By: Diane Benjamin Illinois law the Governor used to shut down Illinois: Pritzker’s first Executive Order was issued on March 9th. It expired on April 8th. The law doesn’t say he has the right to extend the 30 days. He did it anyway and the compliant legislature said nothing. He might extend it again, laws […]
By: Diane Benjamin The local socialist lost the case for setting prisoners free, so they are moving on. Below is the latest email sent to every elected and appointed official with any power to hand out money. Note the writer wasn’t smart enough to put it in her own words, she copied and pasted the […]
By: Diane Benjamin Received by FOIA. The local radicals didn’t ask for assistance, they DEMANDED it. They have attempted to beat local elected officials into compliance with sheer volumes of insistence. As reported last night, help for people hurt by the government shutdown of the economy is already available: https://blnnews.com/2020/04/14/facts-matter-socialists-another-jenn-fail/ Bloomington elected two socialists and […]
By: Diane Benjamin The McLean County Board Executive Committee heard a report today on homelessness locally from Karen Zangerle of PATH. Listen to the video below starting at 1:24:30. There is no shortage of beds available. There is no shortage of money available for rent assistance. There are rooms at local hotels available for first […]
By: Diane Benjamin On the agenda for Monday night – Bloomington City Council: http://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=16340 PDF page 56 So, Federal Tax money is funneled down to the City to distribute. Mid Central Community Action is getting a piece of it for Rental Assistance at Mayor’s Manor. MCCA manages Mayors Manor. Here’s where is gets fun: http://www.mccainc.org/clarion_rocket/programs/mayors-manor/ […]
By: Diane Benjamin According to a report by WMDB TV, there are around 250 homeless people in Bloomington-Normal. See their report here: http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/homeless-in-central-illinois/856395912 Safe Harbor and Home Sweet Home Mission are the only two emergency shelters in town, according to the story. Both are constantly at full or almost full capacity. Bloomington raised the Sales Tax […]
by: Diane Benjamin The email below was printed earlier today. It’s not the first time Tari has talked about “meds”. He obviously has a problem with anyone he doesn’t agree with. But Tari appears to have a problem with anyone who takes “meds” for mental health issues too. Tari, do you have a problem […]
