This afternoon, the City’s Parks and Recreation Department, with the support of the administration, will recommend that the City’s Board of Park Commissioners amend the Park and Facility Policy (#13040) to prohibit “camping upon or otherwise inhabiting any property, structure, or facility of the department, at any time without a permit.” Currently, the policy requires that a special use permit be obtained for certain activities in and uses of the park, including, among other uses, “camping on lands of the department or inhabiting any structure or facility overnight without a permit.”
The recommendation to amend the special use permit policy is being made in response to an increasing presence of tents and other makeshift structures in several City park properties overnight (in violation of the existing special use policy) and throughout the day. Quasi-permanent installations in park properties--on lawns, in wooded areas and underneath park shelters--can limit and/or discourage access to these areas by a broad range of users. Parks are publicly owned properties acquired, developed, and maintained for the positive development and well-being of everyone in the community, and protecting full access for all residents is fundamental to their capacity to enhance health and quality of life for all.
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Boys & Girls Club's Abshier Recognized Among Nation's Elite Resource Development Professionals12/3/2020 Leslie Abshier, Resource Development Director for Boys & Girls Clubs of Bloomington (BGCB), was recently honored with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) 2020 Outstanding Resource Development Professional Award for the Midwest Region during the organization’s National Conference. The annual event was held virtually October 27-29 earlier this fall with the announcement coming on the final day of the three-day networking seminar.
“It is an honor to receive this award, for me and for the Resource Development team at the Club,” commented Abshier. “Bloomington is a great community that supports our kids who need us most. I am proud that this award helps us to share the good work being done in our community with others.” Mayor John Hamilton announces the appointment of Andrew Cibor to the position of City of Bloomington Engineer. Cibor will lead the City’s new Engineering Department, to which transportation and traffic engineering operations currently housed within the Planning and Transportation Department will migrate in January 2021. Cibor, who previously served as the City’s Transportation and Traffic Engineer, will assume his new position January 11, and receive an annual salary of $101,418.
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