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Bloomington’s property tax rate is closer to decreasing next year, and so will the Bloomington Public Library’s. The council OK’d the preliminary plan at a special session Monday night.
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The valuation of properties and community growth may result in Bloomington's property tax rate going down, according to City Manager Tim Gleason.
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The Bloomington Fire Department still expects its first responders to be paramedics. But under the new policy, if a new firefighter doesn’t have the paramedic certification, BFD staff will train them.
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The city will borrow the money from public loan programs, and pay Champaign-based Clark Dietz up to $2 million for engineering designs.
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Bloomington fire officials say first responders and the public they serve will benefit from an emergency equipment upgrades plan, approved at Monday’s Bloomington City Council meeting.
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The council has approved a 5% pay increase for City Manager Tim Gleason, which is about a $10,400 raise, bringing his annual salary to just under $210,000.
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The issue pertains to 1 White Place, a property in the neighborhood that has been vacant for more than 20 months. The property owner, in the process of preparing the home for new residents, initially told White Place residents it would house four units. He later told them it would be nine.
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The BearCat, manufactured by Lenco Armored Vehicles of Pittsfield, Mass., will cost $249,229, and take about a year to manufacture.
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A plan to build nearly 800 apartments and townhomes near Rivian Motors is moving forward, after the Bloomington City Council on Monday approved an annexation agreement for the project.
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Women political candidates are the norm today. But it hasn’t been so very long since a woman running for office was rare or even unheard of. The first woman to serve in the Illinois Senate was Florence Fifer Bohrer of Bloomington in 1924. But leading the way for Bohrer some years before was Helen Clark McCurdy, the first woman to run for office in Bloomington, in 1915.