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December 11, 2017 - City Council Meeting
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A
B
A
B
A
You
very
much
we're
going
to
go
ahead
and
start
under
recognitions
and
appointments
with
the
proclamation
recognizing
the
Bicentennial
anniversary,
the
state
of
Illinois
and
I
want
to
thank
mayor,
pro-tem,
Karen
Schmidt
for
coming
out,
I
believe
all
the
woman
Johnny
painter
alderman
in
the
level
of
the
bulk
of
the
long
way
who
else
was
and
I
Diana
yes
for
coming
out
the
other
day.
I
very
much
appreciate
that
and
Steve
who's
coming
forward
to
accept
this
or
we.
A
Please
come
up
Proclamation
Illinois
Bicentennial,
whereas
Sunday
December
3rd
2017
marks
illinois'
one
hundred
and
ninety-ninth
birthday.
My
kids
think
I'm
older
than
that,
as
Illinois
became
the
21st
state
in
the
Union
on
December
3rd
1818
and
whereas
Illinois
Bicentennial
will
be
a
year-long
celebration
between
December
3rd
2017
and
December
3rd
8th
2018,
which
will
honor
our
state's
200th
birthday
and
whereas
Illinois
Bicentennial
will
remind
us
all
that
every
day
in
Illinois,
amazing
things
are
born,
built
and
grown,
and
whereas
Illinois
Bicentennial
will
honor
the
many
ways
that
Illinois
has
influenced.
A
American
history,
American
achievement,
culture,
innovation
and
more
and
we're
Illinois
Bicentennial
is
a
once-in-a-lifetime
invitation
to
fall
in
love
with
Illinois
all
over
again
activity
laughs
there.
Whereas
together
we
can
inspire
pride
in
the
Illinois
and
show
the
world
what
makes
Illinois
such
a
great
state
and
where,
as
our
community,
should
encourage
citizens,
organizations,
businesses,
congregations
and
cultural
and
educational
institutions
to
participate
in
this
year-long
celebration.
A
Now,
therefore,
be
it
resolved
that
the
city
of
Bloomington
endorses
the
efforts
of
the
by
Sentai
Bicentennial
and
encourages
all
citizens
to
participate
and
celebrate
in
the
upcoming
year
by
visiting
Illinois
200
comm
and
using
the
hashtag
Illinois,
proud,
sincerely
Terry
Renner
mayor
of
Bloomington.
Thank
you.
Congratulations.
A
A
And
now
there
are,
there
was
very
very
few
times
as
mayor
where
you
get
to
do
something
really
really
really
really
cool
and
special,
and
this
happens
to
be
something
that
I
will
talk
about
in
just
a
second
but
Beth.
Listen!
Keep
your
ears
open,
I'm,
gonna
turn
this
over
to
Steve
Rasmussen
who's
going
to
set
this
all
up.
Steve.
C
Thank
you
very
much.
An
interesting
historical
fact
came
to
our
attention
here
a
couple
of
weeks
ago,
and
that
was
a
Nancy,
a
merman
who's.
The
manager
of
the
the
Heartland
Bank
downtown
was
cleaning
out
some
boxes
down
in
the
basement
of
the
bank
to
to
try
and
clean
things
up,
and
she
found
the
original
abstract
of
title
for
the
David
Davis
property
dated
1919
with
some
other
interesting
things
in
it
and
I'll.
Let
the
mayor
take
it
from
there.
Oh,
oh
and
then
what
happened?
C
A
I
asked
Steve
to
hold
this
until
like
the
very
last
moment,
because
anything
in
my
hands
could
get
lost,
but
so
you
all
see
it
I'm,
not
gonna,
and
then
this
happens
to
be
a
quick
claim:
deed,
November,
1st
1852
for
320
acres
from
William
and
Mary
McCulloch
to
David
and
Sarah
Davis,
and
it
was
in
the
amount
of
gas,
but
this
price
twenty
two
thousand
six
hundred
dollars
and
as
you
can
take
a
look
at
this
and
as
our
appropriate
librarian
said,
did
you
wash
your
hands
and
your
hands
clean
so
before
I
do
anything
to
possibly
damage.
A
A
Okay,
now
we
move
to
public
comment
and
then
just
to
be
clear.
If
you
you
can
get
in
touch
with
your
public
officials
in
any
way,
you
could
certainly
call
us
you
can
email
us.
You
can
come
to
the
mayor's
open
house
where
we
can
have
a
little.
You
know
more,
some
give-and-take
in
public
comment.
Yet
so
one
way
we
make
it
a
practice
not
to
respond.
So
it's
basically
up
to
three
minutes
that
each
individual
has
to
address
the
council
and
the
public,
but
has
to
say
there
are
many
other
ways
to
come.
A
D
D
Is
my
personal
take
on
immigration?
The
problems
and
promises
of
immigration
have
been
in
the
news
consistently
for
some
time
now.
In
fact,
all
of
us
here
to
as
we
well
know,
our
city
was
founded
by
immigrants.
My
own
family
came
from
Germany
in
the
early
19th
century
and
Norway
in
the
early
20th
century.
D
I
grew
up
with
a
mother
and
uncles,
who
told
me
stories
of
a
childhood
spent
on
a
mountainous
island
in
the
Arctic
Circle
and
I
developed
a
strong
pride
in
their
background
and
culture
that
would
later
emerge
during
critical
instances
in
my
own
life,
even
after
their
death
and
for
family
members.
Like
my
grandparents
who
were
elderly
when
they
came
here,
their
culture
served
as
a
final
link
to
a
country
that
they
would
never
see
again.
D
We
are
giving
our
present
immigrant
population
a
place
in
our
society,
and
we
should
be
proud
of
this,
but
we
should
also
be
proud
of
them.
They
are
giving
us
their
abilities
and
talents
which
we
will
continue
to
use
to
build
our
society.
Moreover,
they
are
also
giving
us
their
culture,
sometimes
different,
sometimes
even
unusual
to
us,
and
we
must
respect
them
for
this
and
not
deprecated
it,
for
ultimately,
it
will
become
part
of
our
culture
too.
D
The
needlework
consists
of
pieces
by
both
my
mother
and
grandmother.
For
then,
as
now,
immigrants
traveled
in
family
groups,
such
journeys
and
their
aftermath
can
be
very
difficult
for
the
elderly.
Life
was
not
easy
for
my
grandmother
here.
She
was
cut
off
physically
and
linguistically
from
what
she
had
known.
What
can
we
do
to
help
these
families
feel
that
they
belong
to
our
community?
The
older,
as
well
as
the
younger
members,
one
way,
is
to
ask
them
to
share
their
culture,
and
libraries
are
excellent
places
for
doing
this,
for
programs
and
for
displays.
D
The
Bloomington
Library
recently
had
an
Indian
festival,
which
involved
different
generations.
We
can
also
stand
up
for
our
own
family
members
old,
as
well
as
young,
and
what
they
represent
for
as
they
confront
the
inevitable
conflicts
that
society
puts
on
all
of
us.
We
must
not
permit
the
institutions
that
we
frequent
belong
to
and
support
to
do
this
either
and
must
reprimand
them
strongly
if
they
do
for
in
the
process.
We
are
also
standing
up
for
ourselves
and
I
want
to
wish
all
of
you
a
gladly
you.
Thank
you.
Thank.
E
So
let
me
get
back
to
what
I
wanted
to
say,
and
that
is
that
when
I
came
back,
I
found
out
that
you
were
discussing
something
about
putting
signs
in
Bloomington,
designing
them
and
also
something
called
a
welcoming
ordinance.
If
that
refers
to
making
Bloomington
a
sanctuary
city
you
can
bet,
I
am
definitely
opposed.
This
country
is
a
republic
and
it's
based
on
laws.
When
you
support
someone
who
has
illegally
entered
this
country,
you
are
supporting
someone
who
has
broken
our
laws
and
has
no
respect
for
the
rule
of
law.
E
I
welcome
legal
immigrants
and
I
guess.
I've
already
told
this
story
before
I
am
a
legal
immigrant.
I
spent
the
first
three
years
of
my
life
in
a
refugee
internment
camp
waiting
for
a
sponsor,
and
we
were
fortunate
that
the
Presbyterian
Church
in
Geneseo
Illinois
brought
us
over
sponsored
us
found
job
for
my
dad
housing,
and
this
is
before
we
had
welfare
and
Obama
phones.
Basically,
they
did
it
because
of
their
Christian
faith.
E
You,
along
with
the
Chamber
of
Commerce,
want
to
flood
this
country
with
people
for
low
paying
jobs
that
basically
used
to
go
to
high
school
students
and
college
students.
We
need
to
vet
these
people
that
are
coming
in
and
bring
the
ones
who
will
actually
promote
this
country
and
make
it
greater.
My
real
objection
to
this
City
Council
is
that
your
purpose
is
to
meet
the
needs
of
the
local
taxpayers.
You
represent
your
fiduciary
responsibility
is
to
us,
not
people
who,
at
this
point,
have
contributed.
Nothing
would
broken
our
laws.
E
How
about
spending
your
time
on
the
financial
losses
of
the
Coliseum,
the
BC
PA,
the
zoo
spending
money
on
the
legal
plane
tickets
so
easy
to
say:
let's
do
some
feel-good
things
like
a
welcoming
ordinance
or
put
up
some
signs,
but
does
that
really
help
our
city?
It's
basically
we're
going
down
a
financial
abyss.
The
state
of
Illinois,
we
know
is
going
bankrupt
and
Bloomington
is
right
after
that.
E
So
I
think
it's
easy
to
discuss
all
these
little
things
that
really
don't
affect,
but
not
deal
with
the
issues
that
you
need
to
deal
with
if
it
weren't
for
people
like
Diane,
Benjamin
or
the
Edgar
County
watchdogs,
we
wouldn't
even
know
some
of
the
things
that
are
going
on
the
waste
and
the
incompetence,
so
stop
wasting
our
money
and
get
back
to
reality,
which
is
a
bankrupt
state
and
soon
a
bankrupt
city.
Thank
you.
Thank.
F
Scott's
timely
warn
5
I
guess
my
concern
is
the
fact
that
I
couldn't
agree
more
with
what
the
former
individual
said
regarding
the
fact
that
you
know
there
is
no
respect
for
the
law
anymore.
The
average
individual
would
have
done
the
same
thing,
they'd
be
in
jail
right
now,
the
first
time
the
council
just
gave
you
a
censorship
and
said
bad
boy.
Don't
do
it
again
and
you
went
back
and
reoffended
to
me.
F
That
shows
me
that
you
have
absolutely
positively
no
conscience
at
all
and
I'm
embarrassed
about
our
mayor
of
the
city
of
Bloomington
on
another
topic.
I
feel
that
the
the
roads
in
this
town
have
been
neglected
for
so
long.
It
has
gotten
to
be
absolutely
pathetic
and
again,
when
you
enter
Bloomington
to
say,
say:
welcome
to
Bloomington
home
of
the
potholes
rotten
roads,
high
taxes
Terry,
you
seem
to
take
every
cotton
pickin
thing
and
add
another
tax
to
it.
That's
the
that's
the
way
out:
tax
tax
tax,
tax
tax
and
people
just
about
had
it.
F
You
know
the
majority
of
the
property
taxes
go
to
the
school
district,
true,
but
you
can't
tell
me
that
there
is
nothing
that
goes
to
the
city
of
Bloomington.
That's
a
flat-out
lie
until
our
til.
Mr.
Rasmussen
came
on
board
the
city.
When
David
was
here
the
city
administration,
they
want
to
just
close
the
door
and
they
didn't
want
to
be
bothered.
F
G
A
A
H
And
this
is
I
apologize.
I
could
have
asked
the
chief
this
ahead
of
time,
but
I
didn't
get
in
front
of
him,
but
I
was
just
curious.
It
says
that
we're
going
to
take
bikes
that
have
been
abandoned
and
I
know
multiple
places
where
there
have
been
bikes
that
are
abandoned
on
city
property,
and
it
says
the
police
chief
will
dispose
of
the
bikes
and
I
just
I
I,
don't
know
if
we've
had
a
conversation
recently
about
what
police
kind
of
confiscated
property
where
it
goes
and
and
how
that's
taken
care
of
going
forward.
H
So
you
know
as
a
for
instance,
we
have
the
the
bike
co-op
here
in
town
there
used
to
be
the
bike,
walk
and
walk
out
so
I,
don't
know
how
we
deal
with
that
for
police,
but
that
could
be
a
good
place
where
bicycles
that
are
abandoned
could
end
up
so
they're
repurposed
and
given
the
people
who
need
them.
So
mr.
Rasmussen
thank.
C
You
very
much
mayor
and
Oliver
in
Matthew
I'll
tell
you
how
this
got
generated.
We
had
a
bicycle
that
was
at
the
corner
of
Main
and
Washington.
That
was
a
change
of
the
bike
rack
for
about
three
months
and
had
flat
tires
and
was
rusting
away.
Nobody
claimed
it
and
nobody
came
and
got
it.
We
had
a
number
of
people
downtown
who
complained
about
it
and
said:
what
can
you
do
with
this
and,
interestingly
enough,
we
couldn't
do
anything
with
it.
We
can.
C
We
can
confiscate
an
abandoned
vehicle,
but
we
can't
confiscate
an
abandoned
bicycle
because
there
just
wasn't
any
any
ordnance
that
paralleled
the
abandoned
vehicle
ordinance.
So
the
reason
we
got
that
there
is
so
that
we
could
get
rid
of
some
of
these
bicycles
that
are
abandoned
downtown
and
what
will
happen
is
we'll
take
them,
and
then
the
police
department
can
do
the
same
thing
that
they
would
do
with
them
with
other
abandoned
vehicles
and
I.
C
H
I
It
just
depends
on
what
the
property
is.
Vehicles
are
different
than
bikes
when
we
have
vehicles
that
we
have
seized
and
other
things
and
adjudication
has
come.
We've
had
them
for
a
while.
We
can't
send
in
to
a
third
party
for
auction
and
proceeds
from
that
auction.
Come
back
to
the
general
fund.
However,
more
specifically
to
what
you
were
talking
about
interim
city.
Rasmussen
is
right
on
point.
We
were
looking
at
those.
We
were
getting
complaints.
He
had
no
way
to
deal
with
them.
I
What
we
would
do
with
them
is
what
we
do
with
other
bikes
that
we
find
that
aren't
chained
up
somewhere.
We
recently
gave
some
and
I
can't
remember
the
organization
I,
don't
know
if
it's
part
of
bike
blow
know
or
whatever
we
gave
it.
We
turned
them
over.
They
fix
the
bikes
up
and
gave
them
to
some
people
in
need.
I
Okay,
and
that's
generally,
what
we
would
try
to
do
if
they
are
salvageable
that
bicycle
that
he's
talking
about
I,
don't
know
because
it
was
in
bad
shape,
but
that's
generally,
what
we
were
doing
is
trying
to
get
a
mechanism
for
which
to
remove
bikes.
After
a
certain
amount
of
time,
we're
not
like
taking
on
the
next
day
or
anything
like
that,
it's
not
like
a
vehicle
abandoned
on
a
roadway.
I
A
Is
there
a
second
to
the
motion
made
by
alderman
mathy?
Second,
by
Altima,
all
the
woman
howlman
any
further
discussion?
Seeing
none
go
ahead.
If
you
everyone
could
go
ahead
and
vote
on
that
issue,
the
motion
carries
8
to
0.
There
are
no
names
to
announce,
madam
clerk,
and,
at
this
point
we'll
go
to
our
regular
agenda
and
under
our
regular
agenda
we
have
item
7
a
consideration
of
an
ordinance
approving
the
2017
tax
levy
for
the
bloomington
public
library,
and
we
have
a
brief
person.
A
J
I'll
keep
my
presentation
pretty
brief,
because
you
have
heard
our
presentation
already
and
so,
as
you
recall,
from
that
presentation,
one
of
the
library's
five
strategic
goals
is
to
administer
a
cost-effective
public
library,
and
we
have
stuck
to
successfully
done
that
year
after
year
by
continually
looking
for
ways
to
reduce
expenses
and
do
more
with
less
and
as
you
see
in
the
fiscal
year
19
budget.
The
budget
reflects
more
cost-saving
measures
in
all
budget
areas,
allowing
us
to
put
the
entire
requested
increase
of
one
hundred.
J
Forty
thousand
four
hundred
ninety
three
dollars
to
our
capital
fund,
and
this
would
be
we'd
like
to
use
those
funds
to
fund
repairs,
replacements
and
further
develop
design
plan.
And
while
the
library
is
currently
successful,
seeing
an
average
daily
door
count
of
nine
hundred
to
eleven
thousand
hundred
people
per
day.
We
are
able.
We
would
like
to
continue
to
invest
in
the
community
by
completing
our
mission
statement
of
offering
equal
access
to
the
world
of
ideas
and
information
and
supporting
lifelong
learning
and.
A
K
A
The
motion
carries
eight
to
zero.
There
are
no
names
to
announce.
Madam
clerk.
Thank
you.
Miss
Hamilton
at
this
point
of
the
clerk
did
note
to
me
that
I
was
operating
under
the
non
revised
agenda.
Although
I
had
to
revise
agenda
in
front
of
me,
this
is
one
of
the
reasons
why
at
Beth,
Weston
is
not
here
anymore.
Anyway,
you
really
can't
entrust
in
1852
document
to
me
chief.
I
I
The
first
thing,
I
wanted
to
note,
is
you're
going
to
see
some
correlations
between
our
plan
in
the
president's
21st
century.
Policing,
initiative
and
I
think
this
is
very
important
because
there's
been
a
lot
of
talk
about
the
initiatives
when
it
came
out
and
then
subsequently
going
forward,
but
I
would
like
to
point
out
to
you
that
most
of
those
things
absent
the
cameras
and
some
other
things,
some
of
the
community
policing
efforts,
we've
engaged
in
since
then
most
of
those
things
we
were
already
doing
so.
I
I
As
you
will
see
to
you
know
some
of
the
communities
to
our
north,
south,
east
and
west.
We
may
have
some
problems
here,
but
we
don't
have
it
to
the
levels
that
they
do
and
I
think
it's
because
of
our
relationships
with
boys
and
girls
with
MidCentral
and
other
organizations
that
we
work
with.
This
will
continue
to
be
a
priority
for
us.
I
I
We
will
continue
to
do
things
like
deploy
the
portable
traffic
flow
analysis,
so
we
can
get
a
good
understanding
as
far
as
what's
going
on
and
what
we
need
to
do
best
to
address
that
you
know,
will
work
with
Public
Works
in
these
areas
and
continue
to
do
that,
and
when
new
technology
comes
out
depending
on
our
budget,
we
will
try
to
acquire,
because
anything
that
we
can
get
to
reduce
crashes
and
save
lives.
That's
always
going
to
be
a
priority
for
us.
I
Downtown
safety,
we
will
continue
to
have
our
specialized
downtown
patrols
and
address
that
in
general,
downtown
just
overall
with
this
you
know
there
was
a
lot
of
concern
about
when
we
moved
the
location
for
some
of
the
vehicles
for
hire,
but
believe
it
or
not
by
not
having
that
congestion
in
certain
areas,
downtown
that
has
reduced
fights
and
other
things
that
we
were
experiencing
when
some
of
the
businesses
closed.
I
That's
not
necessarily
the
business's
fault,
that's
some
of
the
patrons,
but
you
know,
unfortunately,
we
all
know
drinking
a
lot
of
people
in
close
proximity
to
each
other.
At
times.
That's
not
good!
By
moving
that,
we
have
seen
a
reduction
in
that
and
we
have
some
other
plans
to
even
keep
our
downtown
patrols,
but
possibly
reduce
them.
But
it's
all
going
to
depend
on
the
information
that
we
gather
from
down
there.
We
want
to
put
more
public
safety
cameras
in
different
areas
down
there.
I
And
we
plan
on
having
some
community
driven
citizen
summits,
you
know
where
people
all
live
and
work.
In
addition
to
my
focus
meetings,
these
might
only
be
not
only
beyond
but
every
six
months,
but
will
give
us
a
chance
to
go
to
certain
areas
and
I'm,
not
just
talking
about
everybody,
has
different
initiatives
or
thinks
they
need
to
have
things
address
being
on
the
east
side
being
on
the
south
side,
it
could
be
Miller,
Park
and
people
with
complaints
about
things
going
on
that
Park.
We
will
go
there
and
we'll
just
have
a
meeting.
I
We
might
be
out
east.
You
know
it
could
be
a
speeding
issue,
a
traffic
issue
we're
just
going
to
make
ourselves
more
accessible
and
I.
Have
these
meetings,
in
addition
to
the
focus
meetings,
because
I
realize
that
everyone
can't
make
the
focus
meetings
all
the
time.
So
we're
gonna
try
to
be
out
more
we're
going
to
try
to
publicize
more
of
what
law
enforcement
does,
which
is
positive
work.
We
do
have
our
hiccups
at
times,
but
by
and
large
we
do
many
many
positive
things
and
we
think
that
we're
going
to
show
more.
I
We
do
a
good
job
in
social
media,
but
we're
going
to
show
more
of
that
or
you
know
out
there
now
I
mean
I,
have
people
coming
and
asking
me
the
different
things
about
what
they
see
on
social
media
and
what
is
right,
or
what
did
you
do
we're
going
to
try
to
do
that?
Keeping
in
mind
that
we
cannot
change
everybody's
mind
or
viewpoints,
but
we
can
give
people
different
perspectives
and
I.
I
Our
records
and
digital
storage-
it's
getting
dated
very
dated,
particularly
our
record
system.
Oh,
we
do
work
with
the
county
with
the
aegis
system,
so
we
have
information
flowing
back
and
forth
when
officers
do
reports
normal
PD,
the
county.
We
all
work
together
with
that,
but
that
system
is
getting
dated
so
we're
gonna
have
to
work
with
them
and
I'll
work
with
our
own
records,
keeping
and
also
digital
storage
that
comes
into
play
because
of
the
body,
worn
camera
testing.
I
That's
one
thing:
that's
not
talked
about
a
lot,
but
the
actual
saving
of
the
data
costs
us
more
than
the
equipment.
Just
like
anything
else,
but
body
worn
cameras
are
worth
it.
We've
been
testing
them
since
about
June
we're
on
to
another
company,
but
I'm
I'm
feeling
like
probably
this
spring.
Hopefully
we
will
have
it
so
we
can
deploy
department-wide.
I
I
Expand
our
department,
anti-bias
training,
de-escalation,
training
we've
been
doing
that
we're
just
going
to
try
to
expand
it.
Some
of
the
things
that
the
new
law
that
came
out
a
couple
years
ago
in
regards
to
some
of
this
training.
It
was
good
and
it
was
needed.
We
had
been
doing
it.
We
had
already
had
cultural
diversity
training.
We
have
some
de-escalation
training,
we
have
a
regular
in-house
training
in
firearms,
be
it
the
PPC
training
which
is
controlling
arrest
tactics.
We
have
that
we're
going
to
expand
it.
I
What
people
don't
realize
is
that
sometimes
when
laws
are
made,
they
don't
tell
you
which
courses
are
actually
certified
or
which
ones
that
will
really
count.
So
we
have
to
figure
out
what
we
can
do.
We
don't
want
to
take
something
and
say:
okay,
we've
had
anti-bias
training.
All
we
had
was
a
half-hour.
It
is
much
more
important
than
that,
but
right
now
there
aren't
any
really
guidelines
on
that.
I
So
we've
been
sending
some
officers
to
get
some
training
on
both
of
these
subjects
and
we
will
do
them
in-house
and
addition
to
having
other
training
at
other
places
and
we're
also
going
to
put
together
a
critical
incident
review
board
to
review
major
incidents.
We
kind
of
do
that
right
now
with
fire.
We
did
run,
unfortunately
after
the
Brittany
court
incident
and
we
kind
of
have
some
debrief,
but
we
think
we
need
to
do
it
a
little
more
often
with
some.
I
We
do
we're
getting
ready
to
have
a
orientation
meeting
next
week.
It
will
be
a
work
in
progress,
but
we
actually
do
really
look
forward
to
it.
I've
always
said
it
was
not
that
I
was
so
opposed
to
it.
It
was
just
how
it
was
brought
forward
to
me
and
but
I'm
glad
we
have
it,
and
now
we
are
anxious
to
work
with
it
and
not
only
just
about
complaints
and
other
things.
If
there's
other
positive
ideas
that
can
come
out
of
it,
that's
what
we
want
to
embrace.
So
any
questions.
I
A
You
okay
at
this
point
we
move
on
and
we
move
on
to
the
item:
C,
which
is
consideration
of
rodent
and
approving
an
ordinance
for
the
2017
tax
levy
for
the
city
of
Bloomington,
and
we
have
a
brief
presentation
by
patty
lynn,
silva
or
a
finance
director
and
then
a
reef
council
discussion.
Paddlin
good.
L
L
I
always
think,
that's
important
to
point
out.
We
get
a
lot
of
questions
on
that
there.
Quite
a
bit
of
the
property
tax
goes
to
public
safety,
which
is
important
as
Brendan
just
pointed
out,
and
we
have
another
portion
that
goes
to
the
library
and
it
generally
breaks
out
in
this
fashion.
Most
of
it
goes
for
retirement
and
then
some
to
debt.
L
Just
a
reminder
here
that
our
eav
did
go
up
to
one
point:
eight
six,
nine,
but
we
kept
it
at
the
2016
level
because
we're
just
not
sure
what's
going
to
happen
with
those
exemptions,
and
we
kind
of
talked
about
those.
The
last
time
that
we
met,
we
have
a
preliminary
eav
and
then
a
final
and
the
Delta
is
either
tax,
appeals
or
exemptions.
L
Just
you
know
proof
in
the
pudding
here
that
the
rate
is
not
going
up,
and
this
wanted
to
take
a
minute
here.
The
next
motion
or
action
item
for
you
guys
on
tonight's
council
is
debate
meant
for
the
tax
levy.
So
we
have
about
7.5
million
dollars
worth
of
debt,
but
we
only
levy
for
two
million,
so
we
have
to
abate
the
difference
and
that'll
be
your
next
action
and
that's
all
I
have
the
check
study.
A
K
A
A
One
is
a
resolution
abating
all
or
a
portion
of
the
taxes
levy
to
pay
debt
service
on
general
obligation,
bonds
and
a
number
two
is
a
resolution
abating
a
tax
levy
for
rent
payable
under
lease
agreements
between
the
public,
Building
Commission
and
the
city
of
Bloomington,
and
we
again
have
a
brief
presentation
by
in
Silva,
okay.
This
is
probably
gonna,
be
very
brief
in
I
guess
giving
my
foundation
expression.
L
It's
very
self-explanatory.
So
again
we
have
a
debt
service
that
our
bond
covenants.
We
are,
we
pledge
the
Full,
Faith
and
Credit
of
the
city,
which
is
your
tax
levy,
and
then
we
abate
that,
because
we're
saying
we're
going
to
pay
that
difference,
but
with
other
revenue
sources,
so
because
there's
a
difference
between
what
we're
required
to
pay
the
property
tax
and
what
we're
actually
loving,
we
do
an
abatement
each
year.
So
it's
kind
of
a
standard
thing
that
we
do
and
we
just
need
a
motion.
Okay,
any.
A
Questions
for
emotion,
okay,
is
there
a
motion
to
approve
the
tax
abatement
move
by
all
the
woman
helmet?
Is
there
a
second
second
by
all
the
woman
Schmidt
any
further
discussion?
Okay,
again,
an
I
is
in
favor
of
the
tax
levy.
Excuse
me,
a
tax
abatement
motion
carries
8
to
0.
There
are
no
nays
to
announce.
Madam
clerk.
We
move
right
along
to
item
e
update
on
the
response
time
progress
for
the
fire
department
and
we
have
a
brief
five-minute
presentation
by
our
distinguished
fire,
chief
brian
moore,
and
a
brief
counsel
discussion.
N
Oops,
okay,
thank
you
mayor
and
city
council,
so
in
August,
I
presented
the
strategic
plan
to
the
council
meeting
and
tonight
what
I'm
going
to
do
is
just
give
a
progress
report
of
where,
where
we
stand
today,
so
the
histogram
that
I
have
in
front
of
you
is
going
to
show
from
2016
to
2017
how
we've
made
improvements.
There
have
been
a
lot
of
things
they've
put
in
in
the
play.
We
changed
the
fire
districts,
we
changed
response
plans.
N
There
have
been
the
all
the
protocols
have
been
gone
through
with
dispatch.
That's
there
was
a
significant
change
that
was
done
in
December
of
2016.
So
the
timeline
it
says,
2016
response
a
mess
response
in
actuality
that
will
goes
from
December
of
2015
to
November
of
2016.
We
to
do
that
to
show
the
implicator
of
what
what
happened
with
that
change
that
we
made
into
in
December
2016.
So
the
2017
includes
that
December
of
2016
information.
N
This
has
been
basically
done
on
policy
and
and
deployment
plans
that
we've
been
able
to
make
this.
This
improvement
yep
pretty
fast
there
on
the
in
terms
of
fire
response.
This
is
the
data
is
on
the
same
timeline,
we're
still
looking
at
December
to
November
for
each
each
year
there
again
we're
seeing
an
improvement.
I,
don't
touch
that
I'm!
Sorry
about
that.
N
Let
me
get
this
over
we're,
seeing
a
significant
improvement
yet,
but
if
you
notice,
if
you
look
at
the
90th
percentile,
we
actually
slipped
the
90th
and
90th
95th
percentile
again
the
busier
we
get,
the
less
were
available.
So
I
talked
about
unit
our
utilization
and
the
sweet
spot
on
that
is
you
don't
want
a
unit
utilized
more
than
30%
of
the
time?
I've
talked
about
medic,
one
that
gets
upwards
of
50%
of
the
time
unit,
our
utilization,
which,
when
that
happens,
it's
not
reliable
in
that
district.
N
When
that
happens,
we
have
to
pull
an
ambulance
from
another
district.
So
the
the
the
protocol
that
we
changed
back
in
December
of
2016
was
we.
We
automatically
added
a
fire
apparatus
if
we
had
an
out
of
district
dispatch.
So
if
there
was
an
ambulance
out
of
district
3
and
the
call
was
in
district
3,
an
engine
or
a
truck
was
automatically
dispatched.
That
way,
we
could
get
a
unit
on
scene
to
stabilize
the
patient
and
initiate
patient
care
right.
So
that's
how
we've
been
able
to
have
that
impact
to
reduce
those
times.
N
However,
with
that
you're
going
to
see
on
the
next
slide
that
we've
had
a
negative
impact
on
run,
so
a
little
definition
here,
so
an
into
is
when
a
citizen
calls
911
emergency,
an
incident
is
created
on
resources
dispatched
comparitively
a
run
is
if
for
for
one
incident,
you
might
have
one
run
or
you
might
have
five.
So,
for
instance,
an
EMS
still
you're
gonna
get
one
medic
unit
on
that.
N
So
for
one
incident,
you're
gonna
have
one
run,
an
EMS
full
still,
you're
gonna
have
a
medic
an
engine
or
a
truck
an
EMS
shift
supervisor
a
battalion
chief,
so
upwards,
you
could
have
three
runs
for
that
particular
incident
for
a
fire
call,
a
fire
still
alarm:
you're
gonna
have
one
engine
company
or
one
truck
company
for
a
structure.
Fire
you'd
have
a
full
still
where
you'd
have
two
engines,
a
truck
a
medic
unit
and
a
battalion
chief,
so
you'd
have
five
runs
for
that
call.
N
Well,
just
as
I
was
talking
earlier,
the
situation
that
happens
when
we
haven't
a
medic
out
of
service
in
a
particular
district,
because
it's
already
on
a
call
now
we're
automatically
dispatching
an
engine
company.
So
for
that
call
we're
gonna
have
two
runs
for
that
incident.
As
you
can
see,
although
we've
had
seen
69
calls
an
increase
of
69
calls
in
this
time
period,
again
we're
still
looking
at
the
same
time
period
of
December
to
November.
N
N
So
again,
I
showed
the
scatter
map
before
this.
This
is
the
entire
city
of
Bloomington.
It
shows
our
response
times
in
less
less
than
six
minutes.
This
is
when
we're
meaning
our
performance
benchmark
same
map.
When
we're
not,
we
know
we
have
a
travel
distance
that
northeast
right.
We
know
that
we're
going
to
have
a
travel
distance
above
six,
seven
and
possibly
eight
minutes,
but
the
reality
is.
N
We
have
that
same
problem
in
the
central
core
of
our
community,
because
we're
over
utilizing
medic
one
medic
one
has
over
utilized
so
many
times
for
bringing
an
ambulance
in
from
that
other.
What
happens?
Is
we
start
end
up
chasing
our
tail?
Medic
three
is
and
comes
to
fill
in
for
medic.
One
then
there's
a
call
medic
three
territory
mare
to
the
next
one,
and
we
get
out
of
think
for
a
while.
It
takes
a
while
to
get
back
back
into
that.
Currently,
medical
which
looks
let's
go
through
this
again.
N
The
the
history
of
the
ambulance
service,
I
think
that
the
significant
thing
to
note
here
is
back.
In
1990
we
had
two
fire
department
ambulance
and
there
was
two
my
lifeline
mobile
medical
units
that
actually
roamed
the
county.
One
was
usually
dedicated
for
the
city,
so
at
that
point
in
time
we
were
under
3,000
calls
per
year
in
97,
we
added
an
additional
ambulance
when
we
built
station
two
and
we
were
running
just
under
4,000
calls
in
2006.
N
Of
course,
lifeline
went
out
of
business.
We
have
we
had
four
ambulances
in
service
three
and
remediate
level,
one
paramedic,
and
then
we
had
to
chase
vehicles
that
would
that
would
respond
to
upgrade
those
intermediate
ambulances
that
we
needed
ALS
care.
We
were
running
five
thousand
five
hundred
two
calls
that
year
we
have
the
same
four
ambulances
in
service
today
or
last
year.
We
we
ran
over.
Eight
thousand.
Eight
thousand
calls
medic
one
handles
over
41
percent
of
those
calls
again.
We
talked
about
that
unit,
our
utilization,
so
in
in
1a
and
1b.
N
As
you
see
the
response
districts
up
there,
there
was
four
thousand
three
hundred
fifteen
medical
calls
in
in
that
those
two
response
districts
of
which
medical
one
was
only
able
to
service
3445.
So
eight
hundred
seventy
calls
were
bringing
those
units
from
the
outlying
areas
from
the
other
response
districts.
We
haven't
the
response,
travel
distance
problem
in
3a
already,
but
if
we
move
that
ambulance
to
headquarters
to
cover
that
that
call
now
you're
responding
from
to
station,
which
is
10
to
12
minutes
12
at
least
so
again,
the
the
phenomena
here
is
that
we
are.
N
We
are
handling
way
too
many
calls
with
medic
one
and,
and
that
gets
us
out
of
position.
So
the
this
list
is
all
the
things
that
we've
done
over
the
last
few
years
to
improve
those
response
time.
This
is
what
has
caused.
You
know.
Has
that
positive
impact.
The
next
step
that
we
need
to
do
is
I
need
to
staff
that
second
ambulance.
In
order
to
do
that.
In
order
to
do
that,
we
need
to
hire
an
additional
six
firefighters
now
right
now,
currently
I'm
down
11,
firefighters,
okay,
we
have
an
active
list.
N
We
have
a
good
hiring
list.
We
hired
seven
individuals
in
November.
Those
individuals
won't
count
towards
manpower
until
about
March.
So
all
the
wait
until
then
we're
gonna
be
down.
I
know
we're
gonna
lose
another
firefighter
in
January,
so
we're
gonna
be
down
12.
At
that
point,
we've
got
a
couple
in
the
works
right
now
that
we're
trying
to
get
on
for
the
Academy
in
January
before
that
starts.
N
So
again,
we
still
are
going
to
be
down
three
more
firefighters
at
that
point
in
time,
so
our
current
list
it'll
be
approved
by
the
Commission
sometime
in
January
and
we're
gonna
have
somewhere
between
eight
and
ten
on
that
that
list
again,
these
guys
started
this
hiring
process
back
in
May.
So
in
order
to
have
the
best
chance
of
capitalizing
off
of
this
hiring
group,
I
would
like
to
go
ahead
and
move
forward
with
hiring
these
additional
staff.
N
This
hiring
problem
that
we've
got
we're
gonna
have
to
we'll
be
exhausting
this
list
this
spring
and
be
back
in
the
process
of
hiring
one
more
time
so
again
we're
having
a
positive
impact
on
those
response
times,
but
in
order
to
actually
and
I
can't
say
for
sure
that
hiring
they're
staffing
that
second
ambulance
is
going
to
get
us
to
the
performance
measure
that
we
expected
that
we
would
like
to
see.
But
it
is
going
to
have
a
positive
impact
by
not
increasing
our
minimum
staffing
but
hiring
these
additional.
N
What
we
can
do
we're
going
to
have
a
positive
impact
on
our
overtime,
because
we
we
will
cut
down
on
the
total
amount
of
overtime,
we're
above
where
we
should
be
right
now,
because
of
being
so
short-handed,
but
having
those
additional
staff
we're
going
to
be
able
to
staff
that
second
ambulance
more
frequently.
Last
winter,
we
were
able
to
do
it
a
number
of
times
upwards
of
about
30
times,
but
again,
not
enough
to
get
all
the
data
that
we
really
needed
to
prove
this.
N
You
know
this
this
theory
so
again
by
hiring
them
right
now.
The
other
problem
that
I
have
is
I,
can't
do
it
with
overtime.
I
had
an
individual
with
over
80
hours
of
overtime.
Just
two
weeks
ago,
in
a
time
period
we
forced
individuals,
probably
close
to
ten
times
in
November
and
early
December,
for
us
at
first
chef,
so
seven
o'clock
in
the
morning
individuals
getting
ready
to
go
home.
We
don't
have
that.
We've
gone
through
the
list.
Seventy
some
people-
nobody
wanted
to
be
over
time,
so
that
individual
doesn't
get
to
go
home.
N
So
that's
not
good.
Obviously,
for
mountain
morale
and
I
can't
keep
that
that
up.
I
definitely
wouldn't
want
to
call
in
for
peak
operational
periods
at
this
point
in
time
that
staff
that
second
ambulance,
because
most
likely
I'd
be
forcing
somebody
in
and
that's
not
a
good
situation,
a
good
situation
to
be
in
so
that's
where
we
sit.
Is
there
any
questions,
questions.
C
Of
our
team
could
I
could
I
add
one
thing
to
that
place.
First,
the
fire
chief
and
I
and
HR
are
working
on
this
on
a
continuous
basis,
but
but
the
irony
of
this
is
that
to
accomplish
one
of
the
council's
priorities
to
reduce
the
response
time
in
the
northeast
makes.
You
think
that
you
could
do
one
of
two
things,
one
you
could
build
another
fire
station
in
the
northeast
or
two
you
could
contract
with
normal
to
provide
some
response
time
in
Northeast.
C
What's
interesting
about
it
is
neither
one
of
those
are
cost
effective
and
neither
one
of
them
are
very
soon.
The
fact
that
is
that,
if
you
look
at
the
scatter
diagrams,
the
best
way
to
do
this
soon
is
to
put
a
second
response
unit
at
the
fire
station
one,
and
so
it's
kind
of
ironic
when
you
think
that
the
way
you
increase
decrease
the
response
time
in
the
northeast
is
to
put
another
unit
at
Station
one.
C
It
doesn't
seem
to
make
any
sense
when
you
think
about
it,
but
that's
what
the
data
says,
and
so
that's
what
the
fire
chief
and
I
are
trying
to
do.
Those
six
positions
have
already
been
funded
in
this
in
this
budget,
and
so
we're
desperately
trying
to
put
those
in
service
as
fast
as
possible,
which
will
reduce
the
spawns
time.
Citywide.
C
O
Of
the
things
I
think
thank
you
chief
and
you
move
through
one
of
those
side
slides
pretty
quickly,
and
so
I
was
trying
to
do
some
math
on
the
fly
there,
but
did
I
understand
that
one
slide
I
think
with
ambulance
runs
we're
doing
maybe
about
60%.
More
runs
with
the
same
amount
of
resources.
Is
that
with
that
one
slide.
O
Said
yeah
and
I
was
like
I
said
you
blew
through
that
pretty
fast
man,
but
I
was
just
trying
to
get
so.
We've
almost
doubled,
that's
noteworthy
right
man
I
mean
that's
something
to
really
acknowledge
and
celebrate
and
I
mean
that's
a
tremendous
accomplishment
by
the
fire
department.
You
know
I
mean
so
often
times
we
hear.
Well,
you
know,
government
doesn't
try
to
give
better.
We
don't
try
to
improve
the
things
that
we
do
and
and
here
here's
an
amazing
example
of
that
and-
and
so
you
know,
I
I
just
say
outstanding.
N
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
I
do
want
to
highlight
that
in
the
Illinois
fire
chief's
report
on
deployment
and
staffing
back
in
20
2013,
it
was
recommending
this
at
that
point
in
time,
with
the
call
volumes
that
we
were
seeing
then
and
again,
the
unit
hour
of
utilization
of
medical
wan
has
increased
drastically
since
that
point
in
time,
so
they
have
exceptional.
Thank
you.
N
Crime
I'm
hearing
that
that
unit
our
utilization
when
you're
above
50%
you're,
not
reliable,
you're,
not
reliable,
so
we've
got
to
give
them
some
relief
and
that's
the
only
way
we
can
keep
the
outlying
ambulances
in
the
India
and
the
outlying
districts
and
they're
in
the
response
district
to
help
improve
throughout
the
whole
community.
Other.
H
Chief,
one
of
the
things
that
I
noticed
on
the
scatter
grams
is
a
lot
of
there's
a
there's,
definite
concentrations.
If
you
go
back
to
the
one,
it's
over
six
minutes,
there's
definite
concentrations
on
places
that
I
think
that
are
either
elderly
care
facilities
or
retirement
facilities,
as
well
as
it
appears
to
be
mobile.
Home
parks
are
typical,
high
areas
over
there
and
I'm
wondering
what
you
think.
I
know
that
there
are
two
huge
retirement,
centers
that
are
being
built
off
of
Airport
Road
or
up
sorry
alpha
to
one
to
Barnes
Road
right
now.
N
Expecting
an
additional
200
calls
per
year
for
the
ones
on
the
east
side
of
town
and
54
calls
per
year
on
the
1
and
on
the
west
side
of
town,
and
that's
based
off
of
figures
that
we
go.
We've
used
a
number
of
beds
in
other
facilities
and
what
what
call
volume
that
generates?
Okay!
Thank
you.
All
the.
M
N
N
The
problem
that
we've
seen
with
that
is
we
end
up
hiring
people
from
the
suburbs,
but
then
get
a
job
offer
later
on,
so
we
end
up
training
them,
and
then
they
go
to
another
department.
So
we
have
put
something
in
play
with
the
contract
for
the
first
year
that
they
have
to
reimburse
us
for
those.
Those
expenses
to
you
know
give
them
their
a
formal
education
I.
N
We
have.
We
have
a
lot
of
them
that
have
come
down
and
like
the
area
and
want
to
stay
loved
the
department.
The
other
side
of
things
you
know
home
is
where
your
heart
is.
You
got
family
up
there.
They
do
pay
a
little
bit
better,
even
though
the
cost
of
living
is
more.
So
we're
constantly
fighting
that
challenge.
N
We'd,
just
don't
have
a
large
pool
of
paramedics
at
this
point
in
time,
just
in
in
McLean
County
we're
training
people
all
the
time.
You
know
the
the
Heartland
Community
College
has
a
paramedic
program
and
we
have
students
that
are
coming
through
so
they're
getting
their
on-the-job
experience.
Basically
writing,
along
with
us,
and
a
lot
of
these
are
applying
a
lot
of
these
individuals
are
clients.
So
that's
that
is
positive.
Out
of
the
out
of
the
group
that
we
just
hired
seven
I
believe
there
was
only
two
from
upstate.
N
Everybody
else
was
downstate,
so
I
think
that
was
a
positive.
So
but
constantly
you
know
we're
to
keep
working
on
that
recruitment
effort.
We're
working
with
the
bacc
again
trying
to
have.
We
have
the
the
school
kids
high
school
kids
coming
out
to
work
at
the
station
two
days
a
week.
I
believe
it
is
so
we
I
think
we
need
to
stay
more
focused
in
the
schools
and
you.
A
M
Think
that's
outstanding
because
I
I
would
you
know
often
times
you
know
when
we
were
trying
to
recruit.
You
know
you
chai
you.
You
recruit
people
outside
of
the
area,
but
you
know
generally,
those
that
are
here
have
a
lot
more
family
and
it
will
make
them
yeah
exactly.
It
makes
them
more
likely
to
to
stick
around
you.
J
A
C
P
P
But
I
just
tried
to
outline
what
a
couple
of
the
themes
were
within
that
feedback,
which
is,
are
some
of
the
themes
that
were
discussed
before
in
terms
of
coming
up
with
a
plan
or
a
proposal
wherein,
if
you're
going
to
bring
four
to
council
initiative
that
you
tie
that
to
some
sort
of
existing
priority
or
plan
that's
been
approved,
and
also
that
there
be
some
sort
of
threshold
of
support.
Again
as
I
say
in
here.
O
O
This
is
to
think
how
we
can
improve
the
process
for
how
elected
officials
proposed
agenda
items,
but
what
you're
seeing
here
tonight
is
just
a
very
minimal
first
glimpse
at
priorities
to
be
used
as
we
continue
laying
out
this
process
want
to
reiterate
a
couple
of
things
that
I
heard
at
the
last
conversation.
There
were
two
two
concerns
expressed.
O
One
was
making
sure
that
the
process
ensured
that
that
that
all
proposals
were
heard
or
or
had
the
opportunity
to
be
reconsidered,
and
then
the
other
one
was
a
concern
around
OMA
compliance,
those
that
both
were
clearly
heard
well
stated
and
have
been
noted
and
so
tonight.
What
I
want
to
do
is
to
invite
again
council
members
to
to
offer
some
additional
feedback.
As
you
see
need
I
know.
Diana
mentioned
last
time.
We
talked
about
this
that
she
had
attended
a
conference
at
a
conference.
O
A
session
on
Robert's
Rules
up
for
four
meetings
would
seek
input
from
you
on
any
ideas
you
have
about
that
I
know
something
else.
I
think
Jamie.
It
was
you
that
mentioned
that
you
know.
Perhaps
we
had
something
to
our
agenda
like
other
business,
maybe
that's
an
initial
opportunity
to
at
least
start
a
conversation
about.
So
you
know
encourage
you
to
do
that
as
well.
O
We're
going
to
look
at
the
feedback
after
that.
What
I
would
encourage
you
to
do
is
to
have
your
feedback
to
Jeff
any
additional
feedback
by
January
5th,
okay
and
I'm,
going
to
ask
cherry
to
send
out
a
reminder
to
us.
It
might
not
be
too
literally
January
2nd,
but
at
least
I'll
get
with
cherry
and
have
her
send
out
a
reminder
to
the
council
for
that
five
date
and
then
we're
going
to
work
with
staff.
O
G
A
C
B
Thank
you
good
evening.
There
was
a
concern
brought
forward
I
believe
last
week
regarding
the
oath
of
office,
the
members
of
council
who
had
received
an
earlier
version
of
it
that
had
an
error
which
did
not
include
constitutional
language,
and
so
as
of
this
evening,
but
alderman
black
has
received
that
oath
of
office
and
once
ottoman
black
returns,
he
will
then
be
provided
that
as
well,
and
so
that
was
an
oversight
in
our
office
when
that
occurred,
because
the
what.
A
B
A
You,
okay
and
Jeff.
We
don't
have
any
reason
to
suspect
any
I
mean
this.
What
had
been
in
a
an
issue
many
many
years
ago,
when
Barack
Obama
took
the
oath
of
office
and
then
they
seemed
like
the
kind
of
a
silly
thing,
but
then
they
were
just
to
be
sure
they
readmitted
it.
The
next
day,
I
Chief
Justice
messed
up
a
couple
words
and
nobody
really
knew
anything
that
had
never
been
a
precedent
about
or
worth
even
if
there
was
a
requirement
for
enough,
but
anyway
Steve.
C
Okay,
thank
you
and
the
next
item.
Is
we
not
that
one
quite
yet,
but
thanks
well
will
okay!
The
the
next
item
is
that
I
have
asked
the
council
for
a
special
meeting
sometime
before
Christmas,
to
give
you
overview
and
a
preview
of
the
budget
and
I've
been
asked
by
a
number
of
councilmen
to
be
able
to
see
the
budget
in
a
big
overview
and
see
the
whole
thing
at
one
time
early
on
in
the
process
and
that
Patti,
Lin
and
I
have
got
that
ready
and
in
in
four
slides.
C
C
Over
Christmas
and
I
know
it's
a
very
busy
time,
but
we've
sent
out
a
doodle
poll
to
see
if
we
can
get
two
people
together
next
week,
and
we
can
do
this
twice
if
we
need
to,
we
can
do
it
as
six
one
time
and
then
maybe
three
is
another
time
and
if
miss
somebody,
we
glad
to
give
it
to
you
as
a
one
on
one.
We
would
like
to
be
able
to
give
that
all
to
you
before
you
go
to
Christmas
and
I.
C
We
would
have
done
that,
and
so
there's
three
sections
there
up
to
the
upper
left
is
downtown
Bloomington.
The
upcoming
events
in
January
in
February
and
then
below.
That
is
the
Bloomington
Center
for
the
Performing
Arts,
and
we've
listed
three
events
there
that
are
coming
up
in
January
and
then
over
on.
C
The
right-hand
side
is
the
arena
and
there
are
two
items
up
the
they're
above
the
picture
of
the
airplane,
and
then
the
airplane
is
the
flying
aces
and
those
are
those
events
on
that
list
on
the
bottom
right
hand,
side
that
way
we
wanted
to
give
everybody
a
copy
of
this
and
I'll
include
that
in
the
packet
after
this,
so
you
know
what's
coming
up
downtown
and
at
our
two
major
events.
Thank
you
very
much.
C
A
Only
have
two
brief
things.
First
of
all,
thank
you.
Steve
Rasmussen
for
driving
me
well
sort
of
driving
me
during
the
Christmas
parade
I
thought.
I
was
going
to
have
to
drive
my
midlife
crisis
car
with
the
top
down,
even
though
it
wasn't
that
cold.
It
was
only
about
50,
with
the
heat
on
and
just
throw
candy
and
I've.
A
Never
really
done
that
before
and
literally
almost
like
in
the
movies
Steve
Rasmussen
was
there
I
didn't
pull
off
his
Superman
shirt
or
anything,
but
he
drummed
in
my
car
and
and
everything
went
well,
but
that's
certainly
above
and
beyond
the
call
of
duty
to
show
up
at
the
last
minute,
I
was
trying
to
night.
You
know
slightly
nudge,
some
people
to
Hoover
some
younger
people,
but
they
wanted
to
run
around
for
other
candidates
who
were
actually
running
for
office
rather
than
just
a
mayor
trying
to
throw
candy.
It
wasn't
so
I.
A
Thank
you
so
much
Steve.
The
other
thing
is
I
wanted
to
thank
alderman
mathy
and
all
the
woman
Schmidt
for
coming
to
our
first
town
hall
meeting
there
was
and
our
department
heads
some
of
the
departments
came
and,
of
course,
Steve
Rasmussen
was
there
you're
getting
a
little
like
Dan,
Brady
I'm
afraid,
and
we
certainly
had
some
robust
conversation.
We
will
have
another
one
in
certainly
none
of
the
department
heads
North
Steve,
please
Steve,
you
know
if
you
can
come,
that's
fine
or
any
City.
Council
members
are
certainly
necessary.
If
you're
there
that's
great.
A
Maybe
we
can
get
some
answers.
If
you
don't
I'll,
take
notes
and
we'll
try
to
get
you
some
answers
to
questions
or
if
you
just
have
some
some
thoughts
to
share.
That's
certainly
positive
suggestions
are
always
welcome
and
again
the
next
one
is
tomorrow,
even
from
5:30
to
7:00
at
the
BC
PA
and
then
the
20th
in
Miller
Park
from
5:30
to
7:00
same
timeframe.
That's
all
I
have.
A
All
the
manic
comments
people
want
to
get
out,
I
guess
we're
speechless.
Okay.
Is
there
a
motion
to
adjourn
moved
by
all
the
woman
Schmitt
and
second
by
I'm?
Looking
at
all
the
woman,
Bray
I
can
almost
always
count
on
her
for
a
second
I
could
only
ever
seen
if
I
was
saying
I
we're
adjourned.
Thank
you.
So
much
Wow
we
got
out.