Bloomington City Council approves program to curb neighborhood speeding
There will be a new process for getting traffic calming devices into neighborhoods, thanks to a unanimous vote by the Bloomington City Council on Wednesday night.
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There will be a new process for getting traffic calming devices into neighborhoods, thanks to a unanimous vote by the Bloomington City Council on Wednesday night.
Almost 80 Monroe County children are on the waitlist to be assigned to a court appointed special advocate as of Saturday, and the CASA program needs about 50 more volunteers to keep up with that growing list, CASA executive director Kristin Bishay said.
Although council members weren’t satisfied with the entirety of the proposed 2021 city budget, the Bloomington City Council approved it in a 7-1 vote on Wednesday.
The Bloomington City Council met Wednesday over Zoom and approved next year's proposed $166 million city budget in a 7-1 vote. Mayor John Hamilton said the budget has been in the works for six months.
A new testing site in Bloomington will open later this month and conduct nasopharyngeal swabs, which the Indiana State Department of Health considers the gold standard in COVID-19 testing.
A screenshot shows Mayor John Hamilton's opening remarks at the virtual Bloomington City Council meeting Wednesday night. The council discussed the proposed 2021 budget and made a nonbinding do-pass recommendation in favor of it, with a final vote scheduled Oct. 14.
At Wednesday night’s meeting, Bloomington City Council members expressed their displeasure with the process of approving the proposed $166 million budget for 2021, which was introduced in August during departmental hearings.
The Bloomington City Council voted 8-0-1 Wednesday to endorse the installation of two street murals in October that will say “Black lives matter.”
The Bloomington City Council voted 9-0 Wednesday night to extend the closures of Kirkwood Avenue, which creates outdoor seating for restaurants along the street.
In what many called the most difficult decision of their time on the Bloomington City Council, members voted 4-5 Wednesday night against a 0.25% income tax increase for economic development.
Mayor John Hamilton asks Bloomington City Council members in a Zoom meeting Wednesday to support a 0.25% increase to the Monroe County local income tax rate. The council voted 4-5 against the tax.
Monroe County attorneys and judges are scrambling to figure out how the newly enacted federal moratorium on evictions applies locally. Some worry the moratorium will only delay evictions, rather than prevent them.
Although a university official said it’s not likely many IU students will die of COVID-19, any who do may be eligible to receive their degree if they’ve completed enough of it.
The first phase of projects in Mayor John Hamilton’s $8 million COVID-19 pandemic recovery initiative is set to launch in the next few weeks.
Multiple community members spoke out Wednesday night against Chief Mike Diekhoff after he said he doesn’t think systemic racism exists within the Bloomington Police Department.
Bloomington Police Department Chief Mike Diekhoff, speaks at the Bloomington City Council's Public Safety Committee virtual meeting on Wednesday evening. After council members asked him whether he thought there was systemic racism in policing, he responded by saying he doesn't believe there's systemic racism within BPD, which was met with criticism from public commenters.
More than 200 people tuned into Tuesday night’s city budget hearing when the Bloomington City Council discussed the Bloomington Police Department’s proposed $18.5 million budget for 2021.
Over the past four days of departmental budget hearings, officials overcame laggy video, accidentally muted audio and a zoombombing where a participant drew a penis on top of a presentation. This is the first formal presentation of the city’s proposed budget for 2021.
The City of Bloomington’s proposed 2021 budget is the mayor’s first budget in which expenses are higher than projected revenues. Community members can learn more and ask officials about the budget during departmental hearings Monday through Thursday.
After Gov. Eric Holcomb’s Friday announcement that he will extend Indiana’s stay-at-home order by two weeks, Residential Programs and Services canceled move-out appointments that were scheduled from April 7 to 20.