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Aug 15, 2020 · Those daily totals added up to 4,249 ballots cast over four days, starting Tuesday (Oct. 8). Based on B Square reporting from 2020, the total of early in-person voting through the first four days of early in-person voting that year was 3,646. So this year’s 4-day total is about 16 percent better than four years ago.
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A special meeting is set this Wednesday (Oct. 9) for Bloomington’s city council to adopt the 2025 budget. The meeting could include an extra wrinkle, based on a petition that has been filed by Bloomington resident Joe Davis, and nine others.. The petitioners object to the 2025 budget, asking that “no monies be appropriated for the expansion of the Monroe County Convention Center, at this ...
Convention center expansion update: Favored hotelier named, …
Oct 10, 2024 · On Wednesday, several aspects of the planned expansion of the Monroe Convention Center came into sharper focus. An afternoon meeting of the Monroe County capital improvement board (CIB) included a vote to give the nod to Dora Hospitality LLC over Garfield Public/Private LLC and MHG Hotels LLC as the preferred hotelier for the convention center expansion project.
Salary notebook: Bloomington police officers, firefighters up for …
2 days ago · Bloomington police officers and firefighters are set to receive significant pay increases in 2025 compared to what they earned in 2024. Appearing on the city council’s Oct. 30 meeting agenda is the salary ordinance for police and firefighters, which will put the legislative body’s stamp of approval on the collective bargaining contracts that have already…
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Sep 6, 2024 · On Wednesday, two weeks after Bloomington officials cleared a homeless encampment south of town, some of the residents who lived there addressed a meeting of the city council, which was also attended by the mayor.. At least a dozen people, who either lived in a displaced encampment, or were there to advocate on behalf of the residents, sat in council chambers through the first part of the ...
The B Square Beacon: Local news experiment goes month-to …
Dec 2, 2020 · The monthly goal of $3,333 in total revenue is based on income of $35,000 with $5,000 more to cover expenses. Expenses include website hosting, broadband connection, data plan for cell phone, laptop computer, cell phone, camera, ball point pens, note pads, etc. The monthly pledges of around $1,950 a month will work out to an annual income of ...
Monroe County to release Nov. 5 election results to public same …
4 days ago · Recent Items. Monroe County to release Nov. 5 election results to public same as before, maybe with in-house GIS team October 16, 2024; Collaboration across Monroe County government a recipe for cooking up better food safety reporting October 15, 2024; Week 8: Free speech policy protesters persist at IU Bloomington, hear report of …
Next week: Bloomington to send invites to nonprofits to apply for …
Feb 29, 2024 · Next Monday (March 4), the initial invitation from Bloomington’s city council to apply for this year’s round of Jack Hopkins social services funding will be emailed to around 350 nonprofits. That’s according to Bloomington city council staff attorney Stephen Lucas, after a Thursday afternoon meeting of the council’s Jack Hopkins committee.
Expected Monday: Green Acres conservation district vote by …
Aug 10, 2024 · Next Monday at 5 p.m. in a city hall conference room, Bloomington’s historic preservation commission (HPC) has set a special meeting, to consider a single piece of business: an application to designate about 125 acres in the eastern central part of the city as a conservation district. [Updated Aug. 12, 2024: The HPC voted 6–1 to recommend that the city council establish the Green Acres ...
A look ahead to 2022: Bloomington area local government stories
Jan 1, 2022 · North Walnut Street Lamp on Christmas Eve. Last year’s lead art for The B Square’s look ahead to 2021 featured this caption: “These numerals began life as a photograph of the sidewalk around the courthouse square in downtown Bloomington, where the crows like to crap. It was that kind of year.” Arguably a worse year was 2021. So this year’s art includes an actual crow and a built-in ...
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