Two people cross the street in downtown Bloomington. Bloomington will not further challenge an Illinois appeals court ruling that the city violated the state's Open Meetings Act in a closed-door meeting in 2017, City Manager Tim Gleason said Tuesday. The Fourth District Appellate Court in Springfield determined in April the city council went into closed session to discuss the political — rather than legal — consequences of the city's plan to pull out of a tax-sharing agreement with the Town of Normal. The council stated it went into closed session in February 2017 to discuss pending or probable litigation. According to the appeals court, there was little discussion of a lawsuit. Then-Mayor Tari Renner said after the meeting he didn’t anticipate a lawsuit over the city’s intentions to dissolve the Metro Zone agreement, a west-side tax-sharing deal the Twin Cities had for decades.