City of Bloomington

More than a year and a half after a dispute over shared sales tax money began, the City of Bloomington, Town of Normal and McLean County have no resolution and no talks scheduled.

The Bloomington city manager said a long public forum on data centers this week was just the early part of the discussion about data center policy.

A panel on both sides of the data center debate answered questions for three hours Wednesday night as at least a couple hundred people listened intently.

In all, 655 phone calls came into Bloomington and Normal emergency call centers during recent thunderstorms and high winds. That volume overloaded dispatchers at certain points, but the system functioned as designed.

"I want everyone to sit down, have coffee, have cookies and educate one another,” said John Danenberger.

The city council unanimously approved spending $99,700 to contract with Evanston-based planning and design firm Teska Associates to develop the West Bloomington Quality of Life Road Map.

A clean audit of the McLean County Mental Health and Public Safety Fund won't wipe away all the disagreements over how the county spends sales tax money shared by Bloomington and Normal.

Paul Williams is named with the City of Bloomington as defendants in a federal lawsuit accusing the assistant police chief of misconduct during a June traffic stop.

The forum is scheduled for 5-8 p.m. on Aug. 26 at the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts. Questions will be submitted electronically before the event.

Areas south and east of the City of Bloomington were hardest hit by Thursday's intense thunderstorm, but as rain continued to fall, basements started to get wet. That includes several buildings on Illinois State's campus, where classes started today.