Case Date:

5/22/2026

I.m writing to ask if anyone inspects the many new building buildings along Jefferson. Specifically I'm concerned about the numerous street cuts that are now present. This road was once a very smooth street and now it is bumpy as can be. Are these cuts going to be finished so that the road is back to the way it was? It was taxpayer money that paved that road initially and it should be properly repaired. I personally feel the City is way to permissive when it comes to allowing half assed repair of street cuts. All over town we have to drive over poorly finished utility cuts. The public should not have bear the hardship these cause. Please insure our streets are properly put back to normal after any construction.

Case Date:

4/20/2026

6am. City trash collection vehicle driving wrong way on one-way street. Seen driving west on 11th between Indiana and Dunn Streets, then traveled north on Dunn. Two offenses back-to-back.

Case Date:

4/1/2026

Last summer or the summer before that, Smithville came through the neighborhood to lay fiber optic cable. This year, AT&T is doing the same. Digging up yards, laying cable, spilling oil, making noise, leaving expensive machines running, spewing fumes, and wasting gas, etc. I suppose that Xfinity will want to do the same someday. Isn't it obvious that this installation of duplicative infrastructure is a profligate use of resources and imposes repeated harm on the environment? Why should every service provider be installing independent infrastructure? Wait, I know the answer to this one: money, profit for the business. Just not anything better for the consumer, the animals who live here, or the environment overall. These companies want to do business here? Adopt some guidelines, ordinances, or laws that compel them to cooperate. Allowing multiple corporations to lay their own cable is wasteful, harmful, and short-sighted.

Case Date:

4/26/2026

An out of town friend of ours was on Kirkwood last night. He had come to spend the weekend with his daughter, a graduating senior at IU. He saw that there was an incident brewing and approached officers, who he states were only on the periphery of Kirkwood. He asked them to enter into Kirkwood as the situation was getting out of control. He, a white man, was told if he felt uncomfortable around black people that he should leave. The police, rather than protecting the thousands of students, of all races and nationalities, chose to stand around until gun violence escalated. I hope that you are all deeply ashamed of your lack of concern for the city's residents. IU students, faculty and staff contribute untold monies to the coffers of the city and I hope that you will be able to come up with some sensible policies to protect IU students so they can celebrate the race and all that they bring to the city.

Case Date:

2/24/2026

While I was driving along N Crescent Rd, a sanitation worker who was on the opposite side of the street suddenly stepped out into the middle of the road directly in front of my vehicle and motioned for me to stop. There was no prior warning, traffic control device, or signal indicating that traffic needed to halt. The sudden action required me to brake unexpectedly to avoid a potentially dangerous situation. Abruptly entering an active traffic lane without clear warning created a serious safety risk for both myself and the worker

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

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.