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Column | On Bloomington city council appointments to boards: Stop, in the name of gov…think it over

A special committee on city council processes is set to meet at 3 p.m. on Monday in  the McCloskey Room of Bloomington’s city hall.

traffic sign consists of a standard stop sign with a yellow sign bolten under it, which would normally read: Traffic from left does not stop. But the text on the yellow part of the sign reads: Do you redongize the names on the list of these appointees?The committee will be continuing its deliberations on a recommendation to the full council about how to proceed with councilmember Dave Rollo’s motion, made at the council’s Feb. 1 meeting, to remove Greg Alexander from the city’s traffic commission.

Rollo wants to remove Alexander for the cause of “posting obscene and inappropriate statements” on Twitter.

Positions on the traffic commission are unpaid. The city’s traffic commission is an advisory board that, among other things, recommends to the city council and other city officials ways to improve traffic conditions and the enforcement of traffic regulations.

It might seem like a subtle point, but the question of Alexander’s removal is actually extra work the council has created for itself. Continue reading “Column | On Bloomington city council appointments to boards: Stop, in the name of gov…think it over” →

2 more meetings on removal of traffic commissioner set by special Bloomington city council committee

From left: city clerk Nicole Bolden, city councilmember Sue Sgambelluri (Feb. 8, 2023).
Bloomington city councilmember Isabel Piedmont-Smith (Feb. 8, 2023)
Bloomington city councilmember Matt Flaherty (Feb. 8, 2023).
Feb. 8, 2023 meeting of the Bloomington city council committee on council processes.

On Wednesday night, a four-member special committee of the Bloomington city council met to consider the possible removal of Greg Alexander from the city’s traffic commission.

The outcome of the committee’s deliberations included scheduling two more meetings, both of them before a deadline of March 1. The full council set the deadline when it referred to the committee a motion for Alexander’s removal, which was made at the council’s Feb. 1 meeting.

The next committee meetings are scheduled for Feb. 20 at 3 p.m. and Feb. 23 at 8 a.m.

The motion for removal was made by Dave Rollo—that Alexander be removed from the city’s traffic commission, for “posting obscene and inappropriate statements…that are unbecoming of an appointed member of a public body…” Continue reading “2 more meetings on removal of traffic commissioner set by special Bloomington city council committee” →