Guest report: Atlanta Taxpayers saved $200,000! Why is that important – besides the obvious? Let’s take a look at their spending and loans over the last 10 years. . 6-28-08: Loan #32997. $100,000 Construction Expenses on Library Annex (Palm’s Grill and Atlanta Library Museum). Library board likes to tell everybody it was done with grants and donations, but they never […]
By: Diane Benjamin See the meeting recap HERE Public comment is at the beginning. The Library Board accepting the “Gift Deed” is at 17:40 The two officers are shown at the end of the video. A Freedom of Information request has been filed for the deed and all documents involved.
By: Diane Benjamin Video here: https://blnnews.com/2017/11/17/video-atlanta-library-meeting-11-16-2017/ This meeting was rescheduled from last Thursday when the Agenda had not been posted as required under the Open Meetings Act. No one who spoke during Public Comment was excited about the “Donation of Union Hall” agenda item. The best comment was made by a gentleman who ended his remarks […]
By: Diane Benjamin The ONLY reason the Atlanta Public Library is no longer paying Bill Thomas $1000 per month for leasing his building is because citizens stood up and demanded answers! Bill wanted to sell his building to the library for $200,000. It is not assessed for tax purposes anywhere near that. From the June […]
By: Diane Benjamin Last night I made a road trip to Atlanta Il for their Library Board meeting. This is a Board under investigation for numerous items including grant fraud, improper disposable of cooking oil in a sewer, and failure to perform audits and report financial information to the Comptroller. The main offender is their […]
