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Fixed route ridership on Bloomington’s public buses continues to lag about 6% behind last year’s numbers. Along with the ridership numbers, the board received an update on the process for selecting the builder and designer of the new operations center, to replace the one on Grimes Lane.

Edgewood (6-3, 3-2 Western Indiana) has a tough road in the Sectional portion of the playoffs. Playing in the seven-team, Class 3A Sectional 31, the Mustangs will travel 75 miles to play at Scottsburg. That contest will be played this Friday on Oct. 24 at 7 p.m.

At its regular Wednesday meeting, Bloomington’s city council approved three salary ordinances establishing the pay for city employees in 2026. The council’s action covered all the jobs in city government except for the eleven elected positions of city council, clerk, and mayor.

Returning to the Bloomington city council’s agenda for Oct. 22 is a resolution that would give an official name to a swath of territory around an urban wetland park called Miller-Showers Park on the north side of the city. If the resolution passes, the area would be called the “Stadium District.”

At the city planning commission’s November meeting, Bloomington mayor Kerry Thomson is hoping to have a significant zoning change in Hopewell South ready for review. The change would be needed in order to allow for the kind of denser development Thomson would like to see there.

Last Saturday, Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County wrapped up a Blitz Build at its Osage Place development, which first broke ground in 2021. The development is situated on about eight acres on the southwest side of Bloomington—west of the intersection of Rockport and Rogers, next to RCA Park.

At its Monday meeting, the Bloomington Redevelopment Commission put off a vote on a resolution setting aside $5 million in TIF funds for public infrastructure planning in the city’s southwest quadrant. But the reason for the delay does not appear to be based on the merits of the policy choice.