Case Date:

2/20/2026

Yesterday's press release from Mayor Thomson is so inappropriate. City council followed the law with regard to delaying the reading of the ordinance for the Hopewell South PUD. It's truly incredible that the mayor, and her staff apparently, believe it necessary to publicly attack council members for doing their due diligence and following procedures clearly laid out in city code. These kinds of public attacks are not engaging in good faith. Furthermore, to claim that the concerns raised by council were merely procedural in nature is simply dishonest. Cm. Stosberg raised valid concerns about the PUD document itself, citing incorrect references and inconsistent requirements. Those seem like pretty important concerns that might impact the "merit of the product", as the mayor put it. "We are in a housing crisis, and the community should demand that its elected officials respond with urgency." The mayor is also an elected official. As a community member, I would like to demand that the mayor refrain from playing an immature blame game while attempting to rush a poorly prepared PUD through civic process. And yes, I am aware that the mayor stands by her statement.

Case Date:

2/20/2026

Mayor Thomson has asked that we let our voices be heard about the Hopewell PUD. My voice says that the administration should not be rushing ordinances through that have not had the proper time to be reviewed. Is this a good proposal? Maybe! But follow the letter of the law. Mayor Thomson’s letter was tantamount to bullying council for following the law. We get enough of that at the federal level. Please do better in the future and think about tone and process more than looking good to campaign donors.

Case Date:

2/19/2026

If HR is going to answer questions now, here are some they are familiar with but have never answered. 1) Is it professional for a director to sit in HR required goals and growth and threaten employees with termination? And threatened with firing everyone, burning the whole department down and starting over? 2) Is it considered professional for a director to sit on those same goals and growth meetings and badmouth employees to their co-workers? And also tell employees who they want to get rid of or fire? 3) When the director hears one of those employees inviting a person who was discussed in that meeting inviting them to join them for their semi annual after work on Friday beers. Is it professional for the director to ask a program manager to follow them to the place they meet and see if they are talking bad about that director? A program manager that has never been invited to join them no less. 4) If an employee who rarely misses work and does not abuse their PTO calls in, is it professional for a director to have their mommy call around to try and find that employee? And when the director is caught in a lie about it is it professional for the director to then retaliate against that employee? 5) Is it professional for a director to create a supervisor position for someone who did nothing to earn or deserve that position? (A position that was never posted internally or externally) And then put that person over a group of employees who have done their job for as many as 30 years when that person has no knowledge whatsoever of what their job entails? When the council was asking the director of HR about this position was it professional for the director to be less than honest when answering? 6) Is it professional to allow those two “supervisors” who combined have zero leadership skills,qualities or traits to destroy the morale and attitude of and entire department with their shared lust for control and pettiness? 7) When a director posts a program manager position and a person with 30 years of service to the city and 20 of those years in that very program applies for that position, is it professional for the director to hire someone with zero experience simply because that person worked for the directors mommy and daddy? 8) Is it professional for a director to allow one half of the department to show up when they want, leave when they want and take as much time off to care for family or anything outside of the office by saying they are “working” from home? While the other half of the office gets micro managed about every single minute of every single day and every minute of required PTO? More on that later 9) Is it professional for the director to tell a group of 7 employees that they have and must report to 5 supervisors while the rest of the office only has 2? And again can come and go as they please 10) When an employee who files for FMLA to care for a parent during a extremely scary health issue (A employee who isn’t allowed to come and go as they please) comes back to work when the parent is getting somewhat better, is it professional for a director to call that person out in front of the entire office during a staff meeting to embarrass and humiliate that person? That person then ran out of the meeting in tears! Is that professional!?! 11) Is it professional for a director to alter or manipulate employees submitted timesheets without speaking to those employees? All of this has been reported to HR and these questions have all been asked of HR with nothing being done or questions not being answered. So the last two questions are for the current administration. 1) Does this qualify as professional behavior from the HR department? 2) Does the current administration believe that an extremely hard working, dedicated professional group of ADULT employees should be talked to and treated this way on a daily basis? Or does the number of zeros on a campaign donation check trump professionalism and maturity? We hate that it has come to this but when nobody will listen or care, why should we? People are pissed off and tired of being talked to and treated like 5 year olds in a daycare. And that daycare is ran by a middle school clique. This problem was not inherited it was created

Case Date:

2/19/2026

I read in the paper that 50+ trees are going to be removed by INDOT to widen the intersection at Pete Ellis and 10th St. We are a tree city and have been so for over 40 years. I hope the city is planning to work with the state on hopefully being able to save some of these beautiful 50+ year old trees. Yes, the intersection needs to be improved but hopefully a creative solution can be found. Please work together to think creatively about how to solve this issue. We greatly value our trees in Bloomington. Thank you!

Case Date:

2/18/2026

Hello: I am sick of seeing these vagrants walking by my house at the corner of College Street and West Hillside Drive. I spoke to an officer last Tuesday and requested more police car drive by’s, evidently it is not working. I appreciate it, if more police cars can be visible in this neighborhood, behind the Switchyard Park, which drives them in. Please put a barrier on College Street and the South Side of the park by the Walnut Street side of the SWITCHYARD Park Parking Lot where the vagrants enter and exit with back packs and bicycles going through the Railroad Park neighborhood where your police department and YOU ignore for safety. I’ve reported this issue to Governor Braun, Erin Houchin US Representative of the House of Representatives and US Senator Todd Young. Please feel free to visit me at 117 W.Hillside Drive in your fair city for a front yard porch chat to watch all the “traffic “ go by my house. Thank you, Maryann Iaria 117 W. Hillside Drive Bloomington,IN. 47403 812-325–8654

Case Date:

2/18/2026

Please keep Kirkwood open to pedestrians and not cars during the pleasant weather season. This aligns with purported City goals and frankly is the only walkable shopping area for our municipality. An ordinance was passed with the presumption it would stay open to pedestrians.

Case Date:

2/18/2026

As a taxpayer, it’s frustrating to see city vehicle 572 frequently parked in secluded sections of the north football stadium parking lot most mornings for extended periods of time. Today over 90 minutes. Thank you.

Case Date:

2/18/2026

Coffee with the mayor: wow. Asking us to like the social media videos while not addressing any actual difficult questions. Just save the money next time.

Case Date:

2/18/2026

We wanted to hear the MAYOR answer the tough HR related questions. HR is the problem, not the answer. The coffee event was not advertised as fun-only; we don't want pastries, we want answers and acknowledgement. You really did not understand the assignment.

Case Date:

2/17/2026

After reading ureport #208617, we find it extremely rich that the Deputy Mayor would use the terms “consistent standard” and “Integrity” in the same statement she mentions the City’s HR department. Considering everything that has been allowed to happen and continues to happen in the HAND department.