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The Bloomington City Council approved a move that may lead to the elimination of parking minimums in the city at its meeting Monday night.
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Project Oz broke ground Thursday on its long-awaited building expansion that will make room for the Youth Education and Support Center that could open in as early as six months, CEO Lisa Thompson told WGLT. She added that groundwork is set to start next week.
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Bloomington City Manager Tim Gleason is the finalist for a job in Florence, Arizona. The Florence Town Council has an executive session scheduled about Gleason's candidacy Friday morning.
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The mayor of Bloomington acknowledged in a WGLT interview that the city's Human Relations Commission needs new people on it. The terms of all but two of the current seven members have expired.
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The mayor of Bloomington said he's glad the community had the discussion about spending public dollars on services to migrants who might be bused from the border to central Illinois. Mboka Mwilambwe said he's also pleased the McLean County Board rejected the proposed ban on such spending last week.
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At the last Bloomington City Council meeting, Mayor Mboka Mwilambwe tried to push the council to keep a $1.1 million increase in the property tax levy as the staff had presented. He called it a good compromise that would still result in a tax rate reduction. The attempt failed. The vote was to keep the levy flat.
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Mayor Mboka Mwilambwe is pleased with the diversity of stakeholders represented on the city's gun violence commission. In a WGLT interview, he said he wants a lot of views represented.
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Residents of White Place northeast of downtown say a proposed nine-unit rental home would be a safety hazard and should be subject to a zoning hearing since it was vacant for over a year.
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Sandhya Ganapathy, CEO of EDP Renewables North America, says the new hires will get 10 days of classroom and hands-on training at the site.
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Bloomington-Normal has nearly $2.7 million in potential projects included in an appropriations bill that has advanced from a subcommittee to the full appropriations committee in the U.S. House.