Case Date:

8/16/2018

I'm writing to you on behalf of my daughter, Natalie. We lost our dog, Jazz, a few months ago, but thankfully found her after a week. Natalie is working on a community project for girl scouts that involves helping others keep their pets safe. Your page, http://bloomington.in.gov/animal-shelter/lost-pets, was a great help to her. Just wanted to say thanks!! I also wanted to let you know about another page that Natalie has been using on tracking dogs with GPS: https://www.teletracnavman.com/gps-fleet-tracking-education/tracking-your-dog-with-gps . Can you add this to your page? She said it has been very useful and thought it would help someone else avoid losing a pet. :-) If you have any advice for Natalie, I'll make sure to pass it on to her. Thanks again, and have a great rest of the summer! Best, Alyssa (and Natalie) Riggs

Case Date:

8/17/2018

To the Department of Transportation, Could you please update me on what is going on with the traffic light in front of Batchelor Middle School at the corner of Gordon Pike and S. Rogers Street? For a while this summer it functioned as a traffic light rather than a four-way stop. I assumed that when school started it would be used as a traffic light again. In addition, I was told at the Batchelor Open House that the city has told the school they can't use the new lane they installed to allow traffic to flow through at drop off time (7:30-7:45). I understand the hesitation with using this lane, as it could upset the north/ south traffic. However, I have noticed after a week of drop-offs, that there is rarely any traffic going south on Rogers at that time. Perhaps the lane could be opened to right hand turns only. If the traffic light were used during that time period it would help the traffic flow much more smoothly. It is currently backed up a quarter mile south on Rogers and west on Gordon Pike which would be eased by a traffic light at that time of day. I am sure many other BMS parents and south side commuters would love to know what is going on with this intersection. Thanks, Eve Cusack

Case Date:

12/8/2015

I notice road and sidewalk tabs, but nothing for bicycle paths and lanes. When will a tab to note closures and blockages (or complete removal of things like bike boxes) of any bicycle infrastructure be added to the app? Even short blockages/lane closures are very relevant for bicycle commuters trying to get to work safely and on time.

Case Date:

1/5/2016

Hello, my name is Agatha Grey. I'm a young 20 something year old woman who in the last couple of months or so found herself living on her own. As one can imagine, because of this I've become very financially conscious as it's only I that now pays my bills. But I am also now experiencing the new freedom of being independent that I never had in the past. I've always cared about the environment, but admittedly never put too much effort into staying green. Having a roommate or living with family members, any attempt I did to either recycle or turn off lights went pretty much unnoticed until I just sort of gave up all together. Now there's no one around to disorganize any plans I have to switch to being more green! Saving energy is big for me, as I said earlier, because of my financial situation, but it's not nearly as costly as I thought it would be to be green in other ways. I learned a lot through your page: http://bloomington.in.gov/documents/viewDocument.php?document_id=7212 It was a great starting point for me as I humored my new interest online. I was wondering if I could help out as well by providing more information to your page. I think this article http://www.bbcleaningservice.com/get-clean-go-green.html would go nicely on your page. It mentions some of the pretty common ways of staying green, but there were things that I never knew, like how fordable solar panels are becoming and all the different types of green cleaning recipes out there. Let me know if you like it enough to post it on your page. I hope you have a great day!

Case Date:

1/8/2016

I noticed that the link to our VITA program at http://bloomington.in.gov/vita goes to the Spanish version of our page. Could you please change the target URL to reflect what is written in the text? It's correct there. Thank you!

Case Date:

1/9/2016

Looking around for lectures in Bloomington, I found the Lifelong Learning Coalition. The website is way out of date however. Is there another way to access this information?

Case Date:

1/14/2016

Hi friends, My name is Amy and I volunteer at a youth center. Recently we have been discussing the importance of fire safety in the children's homes so they can be prepared in case of emergency.Two of the kids, twins Tyler and Ben, had a slight scare when a minor fire broke out in their kitchen last week. Luckily nobody was hurt and there wasn't much damage. The boys did some web searches at home and found this page that they brought in for me to see - http://www.dandalaw.com/resources/fire-safety-before-during-after/. I suggested that they share this with you because it had such great information and I also want to impress upon them that by reaching out and simply asking others, like yourself, things can be accomplished that the kids might not otherwise think they can. Would you please add a link to this resource for them? It would mean a great deal to them and they would be so excited to see that you included it on your page, even if it's only for a little while. I even encouraged the kids that with enough outreach, I would be willing to buy pizza for the entire class! Please let me know if you’d be willing so I can share the exciting news with them! Thank you very much in advance! Amy -- Amy Kiley amy@homeschoolingadventures.com

Case Date:

1/18/2016

Hi, I wanted to let you know about a resource which I think will be of interest to you and your readers - https://www.tigermobiles.com/2015/12/smartphone-security-guidance/. We cover smartphone security threats and how people can protect themselves. If you are still updating this page - http://bloomington.in.gov/welcome perhaps you could include a mention of our resource? If you have any questions, or if you’d rather not hear from me again then please just hit reply and let me know. All the best, Callum

Case Date:

1/26/2016

Hi, I came across your page Lots of great resources listed there! I wanted to share another eco-friendly resource that can benefit the page. Here is an infographic on reclaimed lumber that your audience might find informative: http://www.centennialwoods.com/reclaimed-lumber/. Would you consider sharing this on your page? Alternatively, I'd be happy to send over the infographic with a unique guest post as a new blog post or page for your website. Thanks! Therese Barleta

Case Date:

1/27/2016

Hello, My name is Jiyong Hwang who goes to Indiana University at Bloomington. I am a geography major and now our team is working on green buildings. I was trying to find green bulidings in Bloomington through this website, but I could not find it. Would you please send some maps of indicating all green buildings in Bloomington to me at hwangjiy@indiana.edu? Thank you in advance.