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Bloomington City Council members signaled to staff Monday night they would like to use existing aid and improvement programs to help flood victims before considering direct aid from the city. That will come back for a vote next week.
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Bloomington leaders will soon decide whether the city should provide financial assistance to flood victims. Until now, much of the debate has focused on whether it’s even legal to do that. But that can-or-can’t discussion oversimplifies the issue.
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Bloomington’s city manager expressed skepticism that the city can legally send direct financial assistance to June flood victims—or that a majority of city council members would support it.
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An Illinois lawmaker from Bloomington says the government should lower loss requirements for financial relief after severe storms and other emergencies.
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The Small Business Administration (SBA) has approved less than half of the loan applications it has received for emergency relief following late June flooding in McLean County. The SBA has awarded $800,400 in long-term, low-interest loans to nearly two dozen recipients.
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The Bloomington City Council Monday evening expressed an appetite to expedite the next two phases of the Locust-Colton sewer separation project and other measures in the wake of record flooding and sewage backups during heavy rainfall in late June.
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Some are pushing the Bloomington City Council to consider direct financial relief to residents who sustained damage in the historic June flooding.
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Many homes and businesses in Gibson City sustained heavy damage after upwards of 9 inches of rain fell Thursday in just a 5-hour period.
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A Bloomington City Council member is proposing the city come up with a plan to help residents whose basements were flooded with sewage after heavy rains in late June.
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Nearly a dozen McLean County homeowners have received Small Business Administration loans to help pay for damages to their property caused by heavy flooding in late June.