Former Bloomington Mayor Renner is considering run for new Illinois House seat
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Renner is considering a run for the newly created, 91st district seat in the state legislature.
He cites experience as mayor and thirty years in academics, currently a professor at Illinois Wesleyan University. We can come a long way in Springfield by opening the doors and letting the public feel like even if they don t agree with what their state government is doing, that they feel like their state government is listening to them.
That house district covers East Peoria, Washington, Carlock, and Bloomington-Normal.
The seat was part of the newly redrawn maps signed into law by Governor JB Pritzker earlier this month.
WGLT The City of Bloomington has released audio recordings from several closed-door meetings the city council held before ending a tax-sharing agreement with Normal.
The City of Bloomington on Tuesday released audio recordings and minutes from several closed-door meetings the city council held in 2016 ad 2017 before ending a longstanding tax-sharing agreement with Normal.
The city shared the material after an appeals court ruled in April the city violated the Open Meetings Act. The city council on Monday voted following executive session to make the contents of those closed-door meetings public.
City Manager Tim Gleason noted in a statement much of the city council and administration have turned over since those meetings in which the council voted to terminate the decades-old Metro Zone agreement with the Town of Normal.
Two people cross the street in downtown Bloomington.
Bloomington will not further challenge an Illinois appeals court ruling that the city violated the state s Open Meetings Act in a closed-door meeting in 2017, City Manager Tim Gleason said Tuesday.
The Fourth District Appellate Court in Springfield determined in April the city council went into closed session to discuss the political rather than legal consequences of the city s plan to pull out of a tax-sharing agreement with the Town of Normal.
The council stated it went into closed session in February 2017 to discuss pending or probable litigation.
According to the appeals court, there was little discussion of a lawsuit. Then-Mayor Tari Renner said after the meeting he didn’t anticipate a lawsuit over the city’s intentions to dissolve the Metro Zone agreement, a west-side tax-sharing deal the Twin Cities had for decades.