By: Diane Benjamin The Village of Downs has this paragraph in their City Code: PDF page 10: https://media.rainpos.com/1071/01071201807310321435182.pdf What a great racket! I wonder why Bloomington and Normal don’t write ordinance violations instead of speeding tickets. They could make a fortune keeping all the money for themselves! They don’t do it because it isn’t legal. […]
By: Diane Benjamin Continuation of this story: https://blnnews.com/2018/05/10/downs-tif-tensions/ Roger Reynolds has a property that isn’t in usable condition. See the pics in the above story. He never authorized anyone to leave his property in the condition it is today. I also heard Downs is planning on using his property for access to the park Corn […]
By: Diane Benjamin This is yet another case of TIF abuse. I don’t know if the Village of Downs is at fault or the engineers they hired – Farnsworth. Maybe Mayor James can explain. (Side note: Liberal California has banned TIFs) The owner of the property pictured is Roger Reynolds. It is located east of […]
By: Diane Benjamin See this post: https://blnnews.com/2016/07/19/downs-the-audio/ The applicable part of the audio from the July 7th Board meeting is still over an hour. I would need to cut it into 5 parts to put it on YouTube. I’ve looked into other ways of posting it, but I haven’t found anything better. The Village Clerk […]
By: Diane Benjamin I obtained the audio of the July Board meeting under the Freedom of Information Act. I also requested the past due TIF reports and the 2015 audit report. I was told “No records exist”. Since Kenny Adkisson mentions on the audio receiving TIF funds, I did another FOIA for how much he […]
