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Bloomington Transit’s board voted unanimously to authorize buying a $3.6 million Curry Pike/Profile Parkway site for a new operations complex, after IDEM issued a comfort letter on PCB contamination. A 3-2 vote by the board now requires public discussion after closing the real estate deal.

Monroe County councilors voted 6–1 to appropriate $30,000 for sheriff Ruben Marté’s outside legal counsel as the ACLU prepares new jail litigation. The council also pared down a stalled jail-site working group from eight voting members to six before another try at convening.

Monroe County council unanimously awarded $190,000 in Sophia Travis grants to 42 nonprofits, funding food aid, shelter, youth programs, arts education, rent help, transportation, CPR training and tech upgrades. Pantry 279 received the largest award of $13,000.

Bloomington mayor Kerry Thomson vetoed a council ordinance that would close Kirkwood Avenue to cars from April to November, citing limited public input, fiscal uncertainty and no implementation plan. The council can override the veto with six votes at its next regular or special meeting.

Richland Township and Ellettsville voters will decide Nov. 3 whether to merge into a single government. Separate votes by the township board and town council advanced the plan, which would dissolve township government, create a seven-member council, and set separate urban and rural tax districts.

Philipp Kaider rode through Bloomington on SR 46 Monday as the Race Across America leader for the second year in a row. The 40-year-old Austrian held about a 270-mile lead over fellow Austrian Thomas Mauerhofer, who was projected to reach Bloomington around 2 p.m. Tuesday.

Bloomington Homes for All says Seminary Pointe can become a permanently affordable cooperative with a $1.6M rehab plan. But the proposal depends on a CIB-RDC land swap that is stalled as host-hotel and College Square proposal deadlines loom.