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WFHB Local News – January 21st, 2025
This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, January 21st, 2025.
Later in the program, we feature a speech from Beverly Calender-Anderson, the Director of Community and Family Resources Department for the City of Bloomington, who won the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Award last night. More in today’s feature report.
That’s affordable housing expert Eric Sader. He says market conditions and our limited buildable land area are creating a housing squeeze. Hear more in a feature report later in the show.
But first, your local headlines:
Bloomington City Council Holds Deliberative Meeting Ahead of New Session
On Wednesday, January 15th, the Bloomington City Council hosted a deliberation meeting discussing the organization of council committees, boards and commissions in the new year. During the deliberative session, the council went over how to make the various council committees more efficient. Council Member Isak Asare said that they could potentially rethink or restructure the climate action resilience committee.
In response to Council Member Asare’s comment about the relevancy of the Climate Action Resilience Committee, Council Member Matt Flaherty explained that when the committee was created, the city’s climate action plan did not yet exist. Flaherty said that there have since been efforts by the city to fill in the gaps for which the committee was initially formed.
Council Member Flaherty went on to say that in his view – the city council could consider dissolving the climate action resilience committee.
Flaherty did discuss a potential replacement for the climate action resilience committee – one such avenue, he said, could be the anticipated development of a transportation commission.
Council Member Rollo agreed with the idea of dissolving the Climate Action Resilience Committee, adding that a broader, ad-hoc resilience committee could be formed. In addition, he mentioned the need for council involvement in emergency management in the wake of the recent wildfires in California.
Then, during the public comment section of the meeting, Director of Advocacy & Public Policy for the Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce Christopher Emge expressed concern for the council’s long-term perspective on budgetary responsibilities, saying it could be more efficient for the council to adopt a committee to address budget conversations.
Overall, Emgee said that he was optimistic about the council’s deliberations and their effectiveness moving forward.
Former City Councilman Steve Volan gave public comment saying that was happy to see concerns over which committees should be restructured finally addressed.
The Bloomington City Council will meet for its first regular session of the year at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, January 22nd in the council chambers at City Hall.
Feature Report:
Bloomington and Monroe County lack sufficient housing, and the reasons are complex, writes Steve Hinnefeld. In his in-depth report on housing, he finds our community struggling with supply, stability, and subsidies, while the deeper housing issues are overlapping and intertwined. | Photo by Jason Vest
Bloomington’s population is growing faster than its supply of affordable housing. In a feature report by correspondent RC Glover we hear from an IU student feeling the pinch and a housing expert who says market conditions and our limited buildable land area will likely continue to make the problem worse without intervention from public-private partnerships like the Hopewell neighborhood under development on the site of the old Bloomington Hospital. We turn now to that feature produced by RC Glover.
Up next, we feature a speech from Beverly Calender-Anderson, the Director of Community and Family Resources Department for the City of Bloomington, who won the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Award last night. The MLK Legacy Award recognizes and affirms those who have made significant and tangible contributions in the areas of race relations, justice, and human rights. We turn now to that speech on the WFHB Local News.
Up next, we have Lil Bub’s Lil Show – a co-production between WFHB and Lil Bub’s Big Fund. We turn now to that segment.
Credits:
You’ve been listening to the WFHB Local News,
Today’s headlines were written by Kade Young, Tom Mucherheide, Laurie Frederickson and Noelle Herhusky-Schneider, in partnership with Cats – Community Access Television Services.
Today’s feature story on Bloomington’s affordable housing shortage was produced by RC Glover in partnership with The Media School at Indiana University.
Our theme music is provided by Mark Bingham and the Social Climbers.
Engineer and Executive producer is Kade Young.
Lil Bub’s Lil Show was produced by Christine Brackenhoff and Stacy Bridavsky.
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This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, January 21st, 2025.
Later in the program, we feature a speech from Beverly Calender-Anderson, the Director of Community and Family Resources Department for the City of Bloomington, who won the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Award last night. More in today’s feature report.
That’s affordable housing expert Eric Sader. He says market conditions and our limited buildable land area are creating a housing squeeze. Hear more in a feature report later in the show.
But first, your local headlines:
Bloomington City Council Holds Deliberative Meeting Ahead of New Session
On Wednesday, January 15th, the Bloomington City Council hosted a deliberation meeting discussing the organization of council committees, boards and commissions in the new year. During the deliberative session, the council went over how to make the various council committees more efficient. Council Member Isak Asare said that they could potentially rethink or restructure the climate action resilience committee.
In response to Council Member Asare’s comment about the relevancy of the Climate Action Resilience Committee, Council Member Matt Flaherty explained that when the committee was created, the city’s climate action plan did not yet exist. Flaherty said that there have since been efforts by the city to fill in the gaps for which the committee was initially formed.
Council Member Flaherty went on to say that in his view – the city council could consider dissolving the climate action resilience committee.
Flaherty did discuss a potential replacement for the climate action resilience committee – one such avenue, he said, could be the anticipated development of a transportation commission.
Council Member Rollo agreed with the idea of dissolving the Climate Action Resilience Committee, adding that a broader, ad-hoc resilience committee could be formed. In addition, he mentioned the need for council involvement in emergency management in the wake of the recent wildfires in California.
Then, during the public comment section of the meeting, Director of Advocacy & Public Policy for the Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce Christopher Emge expressed concern for the council’s long-term perspective on budgetary responsibilities, saying it could be more efficient for the council to adopt a committee to address budget conversations.
Overall, Emgee said that he was optimistic about the council’s deliberations and their effectiveness moving forward.
Former City Councilman Steve Volan gave public comment saying that was happy to see concerns over which committees should be restructured finally addressed.
The Bloomington City Council will meet for its first regular session of the year at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, January 22nd in the council chambers at City Hall.
Feature Report:
Bloomington and Monroe County lack sufficient housing, and the reasons are complex, writes Steve Hinnefeld. In his in-depth report on housing, he finds our community struggling with supply, stability, and subsidies, while the deeper housing issues are overlapping and intertwined. | Photo by Jason Vest
Bloomington’s population is growing faster than its supply of affordable housing. In a feature report by correspondent RC Glover we hear from an IU student feeling the pinch and a housing expert who says market conditions and our limited buildable land area will likely continue to make the problem worse without intervention from public-private partnerships like the Hopewell neighborhood under development on the site of the old Bloomington Hospital. We turn now to that feature produced by RC Glover.
Up next, we feature a speech from Beverly Calender-Anderson, the Director of Community and Family Resources Department for the City of Bloomington, who won the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Award last night. The MLK Legacy Award recognizes and affirms those who have made significant and tangible contributions in the areas of race relations, justice, and human rights. We turn now to that speech on the WFHB Local News.
Up next, we have Lil Bub’s Lil Show – a co-production between WFHB and Lil Bub’s Big Fund. We turn now to that segment.
Credits:
You’ve been listening to the WFHB Local News,
Today’s headlines were written by Kade Young, Tom Mucherheide, Laurie Frederickson and Noelle Herhusky-Schneider, in partnership with Cats – Community Access Television Services.
Today’s feature story on Bloomington’s affordable housing shortage was produced by RC Glover in partnership with The Media School at Indiana University.
Our theme music is provided by Mark Bingham and the Social Climbers.
Engineer and Executive producer is Kade Young.
Lil Bub’s Lil Show was produced by Christine Brackenhoff and Stacy Bridavsky.
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