Case Date:

4/12/2022

Mayor Hamilton should resign before he wastes more of the cities money. 800k to plant trees in what the urban forester said is an unjust way. (Environmental justice isn't justice) Over 1000 people said they don't want to be part of Bloomington, and after living here two years I can see why, but mayor Hamilton thinks he knows best and has already filed a lawsuit against the state. I can't find the quote so I'll paraphrase "people are asking what's best for them when they question is really what's best for everyone." That is a truly disgusting thing for any politician to say. Mayor Hamilton doesn't know what's best for me, or my family, and he never will, so don't try to speak for us or tell us what we should be asking. Take the money from the lawsuit, the trees, his own undeserved salary that's 5 times the state average and use that money for infrastructure instead of selling bonds and raising taxes. Instead of 400k to hang skyline obscuring triangles from the new 4th street parking garage, you could have hired actual police officers. Quit giving the university sweetheart deals on property and WATER! Why do I pay so much more than the university for water? They get 9 figure gifts, while I struggle to make 5 figures. Quit wasting our money. Quit trying to exert your power over people. Just quit.

Case Date:

4/12/2022

The city currently has dumb idiots working outside my house at 6 in the morning and it is affecting my sleep, my roommates sleep. It is becoming very annoying and the city of Bloomington better do something about this nonsensical shit.

Case Date:

3/31/2022

I know that city officials, including the mayor and deputy mayor, often appear on WGCL. I hope one day they will ask the host why the station airs Dennis Prager. He is anti transgender people, thinks unvaccinated people are treated worse than people with AIDS, thinks that global warming saves lives and thinks that Democrats want to destroy the country. I would not want to be on the air right after him and I’m surprised the mayor and deputy mayor do.

Case Date:

3/22/2022

When will the food & beverage tax be ending? This was presented to fund the project for the convention center. You’ve collected the funds, now when will it end? This should not be a continual tax that you just keep coming up with projects for. If so then you falsified your presentation to get the tax to pass. Continually charging more to those trying to support local businesses disproportionately impacts lower income folks.

Case Date:

3/9/2022

In response to uReport case# 178473, thank you for the information. Unfortunately, there have been collisions at that intersection and I do not understand why your department does not have records of that. I have one photo from a collision on July 27, 2021. As you can see, a COB employee responded to the scene in lieu of the Bloomington Police Department (BPD) as they were too busy. For over a year now I have raised concerns with multiple staff with the City of Bloomington. I have been told multiple times that BPD is too short-staffed to enforce traffic laws and they can only respond to when they witness one. I have also been told that speed limit signs with a display showing the radar calculated speeds do not work, that children-at-play signs do not work, and that stop-signs are not to manage speed, but to manage the right-of-way. Well, speeding motorists are impacting the right-of-way as well as the safety and well-being of life and personal property in the Maple Heights neighborhood. I find it hard to believe that the only solution is the Resident-Led Process of the Traffic Calming and Greenways Program. That would be a reasonable suggestion for community involvement if BPD was staffed enough to be able to provide what their mission value states of "to safeguard life and property..." Safeguard as a verb means to protect something from harm, and not to respond to something after the fact. I know BPD is doing the best they can but there should be more resources allocated to them so they can enforce traffic laws that safeguard life and property. I strongly hope that soon there are more resources allocated to BPD so they can increase their staffing levels and not have to prioritize everything they do. It would be great if they could have officers assigned to traffic enforcement. I worry about the future with so much development and population growth. Will Bloomington Fire Department next be prioritizing which fires they can put out? As for the included photo, that photo of the collision at 13th and Fairview was chosen to show the COB vehicle that had responded to the scene. I have others that show that where the vehicles landed directly in front of my neighbor's house where she had just an hour before been standing with her newborn baby as I walked home from a lunch-time walk. That neighbor moved out of the neighborhood shortly after and had told me one of the reasons was because of the speeding motorists. My other neighbor also submitted a uReport speaking of how they don't feel safe because of the speeding motorists. I asked my mail carrier what she thought about the motorists in the neighborhood and her response, "scary." It just takes one, you know. You may show up and monitor and that day no one speeds, but it only takes one to kill someone. I have seen one friend in a coffin, another friend who had to relearn how to read and walk as well as another loved one who had to have their entire leg rebuilt - all because of negligent motorists. It just takes one. If there are people breaking the laws, then there needs to be enforcement or it needs to be made less easy to break the law even if that impacts the law abiding people. It is like decay in your teeth. If there's no enforcement of the small laws, the problem grows. In the almost three years I have lived here, far too many people have died and been injured in this city from negligent motorists. If a police car is monitoring in an area, then motorists will eventually learn to not break the law. If there is never any consequences, then sadly people won't be respectful of their community. I do not request a reply, but I still hope this gets routed to the appropriate-to-the issue staff. Thank you for your time.

Case Date:

2/2/2022

Glad the mayor could make an appearance to unveil the Eagleson street sign. Hope he can both do actually do something about race relations in Bloomington. Start by investing in the places the Eagleson family honored like AME church, White Oak Cemetery and Banneker.

Case Date:

1/14/2022

law and order, personal security issues affecting me as a woman, while on foot, in such places close to downtown Bloomington, IN, esp. during evening (P.M) E.D.T Time Zone

Case Date:

11/24/2021

Jeremy Dalton just took my dead son to freedom In

Case Date:

11/17/2021

People are acting like the 7 line is done but campus and downtown are only a small section. It's awesome! But we live the east end of town in the Park Ridge area. And it's our understanding the 7 line will go east of campus and connect through us. We are so excited. What is the timeline for this expansion east of campus to make a true east west bikeway? Thank you.

Case Date:

10/29/2021

Fix third and Smith. Don't blame the state. It's your city. Talk to them and get it done. This is ridiculous.