By: Diane Benjamin Tonight’s documentation: https://www.normalil.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/4489 Normal will spend $107,244.79 without bidding: The policy should just be abolished since Pam Reece ignores it at almost every meeting. Time for a lesson on government: Fiscal responsibility doesn’t happen with government because they spend other people’s money (yours). ISU closed the approximately 23 acres on Shelbourne in […]
By: Diane Benjamin Below is a clip from the January 4, 2022 Normal Council meeting where the National Fitness Campaign project was discussed. The speaker is Doug Damery, head of Parks and Recreation for Normal. Remember the $25,000 grant Normal received? Damery details how difficult the process was to get that grant: (less than 1 […]
By: Diane Benjamin https://normal.org/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/3566 A couple more notes about the retirement present for Jeff Fritzen: This purchase violates the Town purchasing policy: https://www.normal.org/DocumentCenter/View/12829/2017-Purchasing-Policy-Manual-x?bidId= Under Ethics: PDF page 4 and page 5: PDF page 2: https://www.normal.org/DocumentCenter/View/7696/Chapter-02—Officers-Elected-and-Appointed?bidId= Fritzen was paid $4800 a year as Trustee. That gift was close to a 10% bonus: PDF page 44 The […]
By: Diane Benjamin If you FAILED to watch Public Comment in Part 1, go there now: https://blnnews.com/2019/10/08/the-normal-circus-last-night-part-1/ Stan Nord pulled both the minutes and expenditures from the Omnibus Agenda. Stan’s first problem with the minutes is that they do not reflect Koos allowed a speaker to talk about an item not on the agenda. Koos later […]
