WEBVTT 00:00:00.386 --> 00:00:07.510 - It is 5 30 p.m. By my clock on Tuesday February 24th 2026. This is the regularly scheduled Board of 00:00:07.510 --> 00:00:14.847 - Public Works meeting on the agenda and posted on the Web site. There were links to a zoom meeting link 00:00:14.847 --> 00:00:22.398 - for anybody that needed to attend virtually. There's a meeting ID and a passcode for that also listed. So 00:00:22.946 --> 00:00:29.751 - If you are a member of the public on the zoom feed and you do need to offer any public comment this 00:00:29.751 --> 00:00:36.761 - evening Please use the raised hand or for the chat function for that for any of the given items. There 00:00:36.761 --> 00:00:37.918 - will be also a a 00:00:38.050 --> 00:00:44.040 - Petition and remonstrances at the beginning of the meeting for anything that is not on the agenda for 00:00:44.040 --> 00:00:49.913 - public comment Just a quick note for the board. Sorry for the late final packet. We were working on 00:00:49.913 --> 00:00:55.903 - the Tree the award for the High Street tree clearing contract turning those around quickly always can 00:00:55.903 --> 00:01:00.190 - be kind of a challenge from opening those at the work session to getting 00:01:00.802 --> 00:01:07.224 - Everything ready for the packet for your meeting. So sorry for that little bit of a delay. And otherwise 00:01:07.224 --> 00:01:13.523 - I will turn it over to Elizabeth Caron president of the Board of Public Works and we will kick off the 00:01:13.523 --> 00:01:19.822 - meeting. Thank you Adam. I called to order tonight's meeting of the Board of Public Works for February 00:01:19.822 --> 00:01:23.614 - 24th 2026 and we will begin with messages from board members. 00:01:25.922 --> 00:01:31.436 - I actually have a message since this is my first meeting in the president's role and I would like to 00:01:31.436 --> 00:01:37.060 - thank my now vice president, Kyla Cox-Dekert, for her brilliant and thoughtful leadership of the board 00:01:37.060 --> 00:01:42.575 - and to thank her for the very large shoes she has left for me to fill and how much I look forward to 00:01:42.575 --> 00:01:44.158 - continuing to work together. 00:01:44.642 --> 00:01:50.774 - I'll piggyback that I'm not sure that we ever had a single member of the public serve for 10 straight 00:01:50.774 --> 00:01:56.966 - years as the president of the board. But Kyla did so very well and we appreciate her continued service 00:01:56.966 --> 00:02:03.339 - and know you'll do a great job as well as this. So thank you. Thank you. Now we'll move along to appeals. 00:02:03.339 --> 00:02:07.006 - First we have a noise appeal at 2 0 3 8 North Walnut Street. 00:02:07.138 --> 00:02:16.223 - All right. Good evening Adam Wason public works director. As you mentioned this is an appeal of a noise 00:02:16.223 --> 00:02:25.308 - violation for 2038 North Walnut Street Apartment 310 a. This was a noise notice a violation for a noise 00:02:25.308 --> 00:02:34.656 - that was issued on January 29th 2026 about 10 55 p.m. with Officer Tyler Bodie. And we do have the officer 00:02:34.656 --> 00:02:35.966 - with us today. 00:02:36.674 --> 00:02:45.104 - And so the appellant, this was issued after a complaint was called in for the address. The officers 00:02:45.104 --> 00:02:53.871 - arrived, they observed, or they witnessed the loud noise and talked with the residents at the property. 00:02:53.871 --> 00:03:02.638 - The property, the Tyler Bodie that submitted the appeal made note that they were, did have music going, 00:03:02.638 --> 00:03:03.902 - et cetera, but 00:03:04.290 --> 00:03:12.097 - They were requesting a warning in these situations. They're not issuing warnings and the citations are 00:03:12.097 --> 00:03:19.677 - always issued for this type of noise violation. The officers here as is and Adina from legal. Do we 00:03:19.677 --> 00:03:27.484 - have the appellant online or I don't believe the appellants actually here in person or online. So turn 00:03:27.484 --> 00:03:32.638 - it over the board for any questions. All right. Could we hear just. 00:03:33.314 --> 00:03:45.098 - Briefly from city legal if there's anything to add to Adams report Okay, thank you questions from the 00:03:45.098 --> 00:03:56.767 - board on this item Okay, are there questions from the public and again if you are online you can use 00:03:56.767 --> 00:04:00.926 - the raise hand function or chat and 00:04:04.578 --> 00:04:14.569 - Okay seeing none do we have a motion I move that we deny the noise appeal for 2038 North Walnut Street 00:04:14.569 --> 00:04:24.270 - and I second I will call the roll Cox Deckard I Caron I motion passes Next we have a snow appeal at 00:04:24.270 --> 00:04:25.822 - 530 North Grant 00:04:32.066 --> 00:04:41.216 - I was gonna get a stellar introduction at him. That's Taylor from here Well aboard Taylor Brown city 00:04:41.216 --> 00:04:50.366 - legal this is regarding a notice of violation issue January 29th To 530 North Grant Street I'll draw 00:04:50.366 --> 00:04:57.342 - the board's attention to Bloomington Municipal Code title six chapters seven 00:05:01.282 --> 00:05:09.197 - Excuse me chapter six Titles seven no titles say whatever six seven six point. Oh seven point. Oh one 00:05:09.197 --> 00:05:17.112 - I had in front of my I just don't know the exact things Subsection a makes it the duty of every owner 00:05:17.112 --> 00:05:25.726 - of any premises abutting a sidewalk in all parts of the city to remove or cause to be removed all snow and ice 00:05:25.986 --> 00:05:33.562 - From the sidewalk to allow safe and reasonable travel on said sidewalk within 24 hours After snow or 00:05:33.562 --> 00:05:41.289 - ice has ceased to fall or in any way accumulate The next subsection states that unless in a designated 00:05:41.289 --> 00:05:48.190 - area downtown There is a minimum requirement of 36 inches to be maintained on sidewalks and 00:05:48.770 --> 00:05:58.606 - Provided data from the National Weather Service that shows snow stopped accumulating on January 26th 00:05:58.606 --> 00:06:08.344 - I know the new snow occurred after that time hand officer Sean Hampton provided the Actually issued 00:06:08.344 --> 00:06:17.790 - the notice and that was on the 29th to powder monkey LLC Happy to answer any questions Thank you 00:06:18.082 --> 00:06:29.278 - Questions from the board. I have a legal question about the ordinance but with the word accumulate does 00:06:29.278 --> 00:06:40.366 - that also include snow that has been brought upon the surface by other means. So blowing plowing other 00:06:40.366 --> 00:06:46.718 - activities that might take place in this instance the code 00:06:47.042 --> 00:06:54.684 - It specifies this could be instead of just snow falling it could be You know ice that builds up on If 00:06:54.684 --> 00:07:02.327 - they're shoveling like their front walk or something like that They can't just take it and then throw 00:07:02.327 --> 00:07:09.969 - it onto the sidewalk if that makes sense So they can't take it from their driveway and then put it on 00:07:09.969 --> 00:07:16.862 - this on the public sidewalks, right? So technically that would be an accumulation but not a 00:07:17.250 --> 00:07:25.101 - not actually precipitating from the sky if that makes sense. Well the reason I ask I know we have a 00:07:25.101 --> 00:07:31.774 - couple of these so we're going to talk about this more but you know in some cases in 00:07:32.130 --> 00:07:39.445 - There have been some questions about issues related to activities like plowing that then increases the 00:07:39.445 --> 00:07:46.761 - amount of snow that's on a surface and The the violations generally were issued a couple of days after 00:07:46.761 --> 00:07:53.934 - so it would have been in most cases after The plowing had for the most part correct ceased So I just 00:07:53.934 --> 00:08:00.894 - wanted that clarification that these citations were not issued like in the in-between period when 00:08:01.250 --> 00:08:09.035 - Snow had fallen but the plowing had not yet happened the plowing had happened snow had fallen the plowing 00:08:09.035 --> 00:08:16.746 - had happened and the clearing Still needed to happen Correct. That's the case with I think all of these. 00:08:16.746 --> 00:08:24.457 - Yeah, we're about to review. Yeah, and I'll just make note here So this is one of the biggest challenges 00:08:24.457 --> 00:08:29.598 - we have with in particularly monolithic sidewalks Sorry, we have Okay 00:08:31.842 --> 00:08:39.570 - This is for that address. Okay, perfect. All right. We see that you're here for the gold word gold worthy 00:08:39.570 --> 00:08:47.080 - miss Goldwater We'll get to your comment here in just a moment. So to go to your question Kyla is that 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:54.954 - Oftentimes the sidewalks that are considered to be monolithic sidewalks are the sidewalks that are directly 00:08:54.954 --> 00:08:58.526 - adjacent to the roadway And there's no tree plot 00:08:58.594 --> 00:09:04.211 - So those are the most challenging when it comes to the snowplows You know past practice has always been 00:09:04.211 --> 00:09:10.045 - that you know We recognize that the snowplows are gonna move the snow off of the streets, but the sidewalks 00:09:10.045 --> 00:09:15.662 - still do need to be cleared That's been past practice for many years now as far as as long as I've been 00:09:15.662 --> 00:09:21.064 - in public works That the property owner is still expected to get that snow cleared. We do recognize 00:09:21.064 --> 00:09:22.846 - this was a large snowfall that I 00:09:23.458 --> 00:09:31.390 - You know was challenging for folks but in the end, you know, we do have plenty of examples where citations 00:09:31.390 --> 00:09:38.803 - were issued for a lot of addresses across the city for not having the sidewalks cleared. Thank you. 00:09:38.803 --> 00:09:46.142 - I understand we have the appellant online. So that's what's interesting is the appeal is actually. 00:09:46.530 --> 00:09:56.356 - from Powder Monkey LLC, which is a rental agency or a contracting agency, so that was what threw me 00:09:56.356 --> 00:10:05.395 - off with. Andrew, are you online for 530 North Grant? Yes, this is Susan Goldsworthy. Okay. 00:10:05.395 --> 00:10:15.614 - And I'm online, yes. Okay, the actual appellant is Powder Monkey LLC. Is that your business? Yes, I am. 00:10:17.154 --> 00:10:24.374 - Able to speak on behalf of pattern monkey. Yes Can you clarify that I'm a managing member and I'm a 00:10:24.374 --> 00:10:31.305 - property manager for okay pattern monkey. So yes, okay I can speak on behalf of pattern monkey. 00:10:31.305 --> 00:10:38.814 - Got it. Perfect. Okay It's now a good time for them to make comment. Yes, please. Yes, please. Go ahead 00:10:40.098 --> 00:10:46.820 - Okay, so I gave you a packet I believe you should have. What we're requesting tonight is a waiver for 00:10:46.820 --> 00:10:54.003 - the snow removal citation that was issued for the tenants and the property at 530 North Grant. We understand 00:10:54.003 --> 00:11:00.790 - and support the city's initiative to keep the city sidewalks safe and accessible. However, the extreme 00:11:00.790 --> 00:11:07.512 - circumstances of this winter storm within this time period did make it difficult not only for us, but 00:11:07.512 --> 00:11:09.950 - for the county, city, the state, IU. 00:11:10.050 --> 00:11:16.878 - Multiple people were having difficulties. So we are asking for grace based on the following factors 00:11:16.878 --> 00:11:23.842 - that we've not had this kind of a snowfall in decades actually We have a lot of property. This is the 00:11:23.842 --> 00:11:28.894 - only violation. We had the tenant that is there did call me on Monday and 00:11:29.026 --> 00:11:34.671 - They were requesting a snow shovel. I did have one here they but they couldn't get their car out to 00:11:34.671 --> 00:11:40.315 - come to the office to get one. Most of my people also lived out in the county did not make it and I 00:11:40.315 --> 00:11:46.750 - didn't have a car to take one because I wrote in with my husband that day and had one other person that was here. 00:11:47.618 --> 00:11:53.391 - We we actually started with the multiple properties that we do have. We actually started shoveling on 00:11:53.391 --> 00:11:59.164 - Sunday and Monday. So we had people working around the clock even before that accumulation period had 00:11:59.164 --> 00:12:05.050 - stopped. But people do need to rest. We had two or three companies ourselves spent thousands of dollars 00:12:05.050 --> 00:12:10.823 - on snow removal because we do believe it is very very important obviously. One of the crews they were 00:12:10.823 --> 00:12:16.766 - having trouble even went up to Greenwood because they had backed in and popped tires and these crews are 00:12:17.026 --> 00:12:22.501 - that we subcontract out. They're not just plying for me, they're plying for other people or shoveling 00:12:22.501 --> 00:12:28.030 - for other people as well. But another one, they were having trouble with their cylinders. I had talked 00:12:28.030 --> 00:12:33.398 - to somebody with IU and I heard 20 or 30 percent of their equipment and some of their equipment was 00:12:33.398 --> 00:12:38.014 - even new. They were having trouble during that period of time. This was not a typical 00:12:38.146 --> 00:12:44.737 - snowfall. The city, as you know, was also having trouble on that same day at that night in your packet. 00:12:44.737 --> 00:12:51.518 - You will see this is 15th Street and the street itself is not plowed. And I think we know that the streets 00:12:51.518 --> 00:12:57.856 - should be plowed. This is the Bloomington, the old convalescent center, and these sidewalks are not 00:12:57.856 --> 00:13:04.320 - plowed, which we're on the very same day. This is down by Showers building the very same day. I'm not 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:07.742 - saying we shouldn't and the tenants shouldn't have it 00:13:08.514 --> 00:13:14.676 - Shoveled absolutely we want to have them shoveled, but we're just asking for grace that it be reduced 00:13:14.676 --> 00:13:20.959 - to a warning This time and to just be thinking with some common sense that everybody was having trouble 00:13:20.959 --> 00:13:27.061 - earlier that week We didn't even have a turn lane on the bypass to the Bloomington Hospital I've got 00:13:27.061 --> 00:13:33.102 - another picture in the packet that shows you 10th of the bypass So this that was the state not just 00:13:33.102 --> 00:13:37.150 - the city was having trouble or private contractors and individuals 00:13:37.314 --> 00:13:42.819 - But I know that one of the companies told me they couldn't even buy a snow shovel except for black lumber, 00:13:42.819 --> 00:13:48.119 - that those places were having trouble. I had seen some other people trying to use little toboggans and 00:13:48.119 --> 00:13:53.470 - trying to shovel out. So I think everybody was trying to work on this. I'm not saying that we shouldn't 00:13:53.470 --> 00:13:58.666 - be shoveling our sidewalks at all. I'm just asking that we do have some grace in this situation. And 00:13:58.666 --> 00:14:03.863 - I think we do take pride in our properties. We want to maintain them in a safe manner for all of our 00:14:03.863 --> 00:14:06.590 - residents throughout the entire city and the county. 00:14:06.882 --> 00:14:13.880 - We're just asking this be reduced to warning because it is an unusual storm. We don't get this type 00:14:13.880 --> 00:14:21.019 - of storm very often at all. And so I think it's made difficult situation for everyone. And so I would 00:14:21.019 --> 00:14:23.678 - just have to be reduced to a warning. 00:14:24.194 --> 00:14:30.650 - I appreciate the comments and you know, we do recognize this was a Challenging snowfall in terms of 00:14:30.650 --> 00:14:37.105 - the amount of volume What I see when the in the picture that I see for what the citation was issued 00:14:37.105 --> 00:14:43.625 - for was that there had been no effort at all made at this address when the citation was issued there 00:14:43.625 --> 00:14:49.758 - hadn't been any any clearing done what I can tell you is from all of the appeals and different 00:14:50.402 --> 00:14:56.091 - Conversations for all the addresses across the city that had notices of violation issued if there was 00:14:56.091 --> 00:15:01.835 - shown to be an attempt made Staff was working with them and in almost all cases if an attempt had been 00:15:01.835 --> 00:15:07.412 - made it appears that there was no attempt made at this property whatsoever This was the tenant that 00:15:07.412 --> 00:15:13.101 - called me on Monday to see if she could borrow a shovel They couldn't get their car out. She asked if 00:15:13.101 --> 00:15:18.622 - we could drop a shovel off I was unable to I had didn't even have a car myself, but we did offer a 00:15:19.106 --> 00:15:25.884 - If they could walk up to here to even get a shovel from us, they certainly could as well. I think they 00:15:25.884 --> 00:15:32.597 - were trying to shovel out. It didn't obviously you have a picture of that as well. But again, I point 00:15:32.597 --> 00:15:39.309 - you to some of the city properties that it didn't look like an attempt had been made on theirs either 00:15:39.309 --> 00:15:46.088 - in those pictures, if that's what we're going to go by. Not saying that we shouldn't have it safe. I'm 00:15:46.088 --> 00:15:48.062 - just saying this was a really 00:15:48.418 --> 00:15:54.500 - Big storm that caught everybody by surprise. A lot of people didn't even come into work for a couple 00:15:54.500 --> 00:16:00.762 - of days. A lot of people were out there trying to work. My husband and my son, they were out shoveling. 00:16:00.762 --> 00:16:06.784 - We were trying to do what we could as well. But I'm just asking for some consideration and grace in 00:16:06.784 --> 00:16:12.806 - this situation. Thank you. Taylor, is it fair to say, is it four days after that the snow, that the 00:16:12.806 --> 00:16:13.950 - ticket was issued? 00:16:14.690 --> 00:16:22.483 - Ticket was issued on the 29th accumulation according to National Weather Service stopped on the 26th 00:16:22.483 --> 00:16:30.971 - So Monday they had two inches and then that Thursday is when the ticket was issued. Okay All right additional 00:16:30.971 --> 00:16:33.054 - questions from the board I 00:16:37.570 --> 00:16:43.543 - like to know in a multi family residence such as this is that the property owners responsibility or 00:16:43.543 --> 00:16:49.695 - the tenants responsibility to clear snow. I have an answer but I'll let you answer first. I think that 00:16:49.695 --> 00:16:55.847 - always depends on the lease and the language in the lease. So whether it's lawn mowing or snow removal 00:16:55.847 --> 00:17:02.238 - some leases will stay at state that its attendance responsibility some leases will state that its property 00:17:02.238 --> 00:17:06.718 - owner responsibility. But I think that all comes down to the lease itself. 00:17:07.234 --> 00:17:18.276 - Okay. Thank you. Ultimately I will say as the looking at the the law and the statute itself it says 00:17:18.276 --> 00:17:29.539 - every owner of any premises. So ultimately statutorily the responsibility is on the owner. Thank you. 00:17:29.539 --> 00:17:36.606 - Is there any additional public comment on this item. All right. 00:17:36.898 --> 00:17:47.569 - None is there a motion? I move that we deny the appeal for 530 North Grant Street and uphold the notice 00:17:47.569 --> 00:17:57.932 - of violation Second I will call the roll Cox Deckard. I Caron I motion passes Next we move on to the 00:17:57.932 --> 00:18:03.678 - snow appeal at 801 West Howe Hi Taylor Brown city legal 00:18:04.258 --> 00:18:13.600 - This was issued by hand inspector Sean Hampton I Will refer you to the same codes already cited to you 00:18:13.600 --> 00:18:23.396 - this ticket was issued on February 2nd 2026 well after snow had ceased to accumulate This was the following 00:18:23.396 --> 00:18:33.918 - week, I believe I'll spare you from repeating the previous Arguments that it's going to be very repetitive the next 00:18:34.498 --> 00:18:44.760 - But I'm happy to restate should you really just be interested in Bloomington code? That's fine. 00:18:44.760 --> 00:18:55.556 - Thank you. Okay, is the opponent available either in person or on zoom? Don't believe are either mr. 00:18:55.556 --> 00:19:02.718 - Mrs. Newton in the audience Okay questions from the board for this 00:19:02.818 --> 00:19:14.901 - Notice of violation at 8 1 West how was it a single notice of violation at fifty dollars. Was that what 00:19:14.901 --> 00:19:27.217 - we're reviewing. Any additional questions. All right. Any public comment or question on this item. Seeing 00:19:27.217 --> 00:19:30.238 - none do we have a motion. 00:19:30.658 --> 00:19:40.215 - I move that we deny the snow appeal for 801 West House Street and uphold the notice of violation And 00:19:40.215 --> 00:19:49.866 - I second I will call the roll Cox Decker. I Caron I motion passes Next we have a snow appeal at 28 11 00:19:49.866 --> 00:19:59.518 - through 28 17 East 3rd Street Hi Taylor Brown city legal see previous arguments above this particular 00:19:59.714 --> 00:20:11.521 - Violation was issued by hand inspector Rob council on again February 2nd Snow cease to accumulate on 00:20:11.521 --> 00:20:23.327 - the 26th. It does not appear that there was any Attempt to clear this snow at this time as well I'll 00:20:23.327 --> 00:20:29.406 - just make note. This is on East 3rd Street on heavy 00:20:29.826 --> 00:20:39.257 - commercial area with lots of pedestrian traffic this would be in front of chilies and Arby's as a point 00:20:39.257 --> 00:20:48.689 - of Direction of which properties this is from And so this the notice was granted to The owner of either 00:20:48.689 --> 00:20:57.848 - chilies or Arby's yes, okay same property owner same property owner, okay Is the appellant Online or 00:20:57.848 --> 00:20:59.390 - in person today? 00:21:04.418 --> 00:21:12.808 - Any questions from the board. I'm having a little bit of trouble reading the appeal but I just wanted 00:21:12.808 --> 00:21:21.034 - to make sure I'm understanding their appeal. It looks like that they say they receive the notice by 00:21:21.034 --> 00:21:28.190 - mail on the fifth which would align with the notice being issued on the second on that 00:21:28.354 --> 00:21:36.590 - Friday January 30th, they received a call from the owner of the Chili's parcel about the citation So 00:21:36.590 --> 00:21:44.908 - were they issued two citations? I'm just trying to figure out how How that was communicated a warning 00:21:44.908 --> 00:21:53.471 - was issued, okay a warning and then a citation So a warning was issued on the 30th and then the citation 00:21:53.471 --> 00:21:57.630 - was issued on the second. Okay, and then Let's see 00:21:58.722 --> 00:22:10.209 - It says we immediately had our snow removed Removal vendor clear the sidewalks the snow issue was caused 00:22:10.209 --> 00:22:21.367 - from city clearing the streets therefore blocking the sidewalks we responded immediately So that what 00:22:21.367 --> 00:22:28.478 - their appeal is stating is that They after receiving the warning 00:22:28.770 --> 00:22:38.819 - They did a clearing but then somehow following January 30th February or January 30th 31st. Let's imagine 00:22:38.819 --> 00:22:48.869 - this happened by the 31st that somehow it became so blocked by plowing activity that it was then covered 00:22:48.869 --> 00:22:51.070 - again. I just is this. 00:22:51.266 --> 00:22:56.828 - This silly I have the inspector here. Yeah, so let me make a comment and then Rob I think can clarify 00:22:56.828 --> 00:23:02.608 - here So what's East 3rd Street here is a state road? I can tell you from our practices within with within 00:23:02.608 --> 00:23:08.224 - the city. We were not going back and clearing all the way to curb lines I'm not sure if the state went 00:23:08.224 --> 00:23:13.840 - back and cleared to curb lines here or not These would that would have been an in dot route so I can't 00:23:13.840 --> 00:23:18.366 - clarify specifically there But did you ever see any effort for snow removal Rob? I 00:23:19.266 --> 00:23:24.675 - Hi board Rob council from the hand department on the second when I issued that ticket previously I had 00:23:24.675 --> 00:23:30.242 - spoken to the restaurant manager and said hey guys you know this needs to be addressed. This is a hazard. 00:23:30.242 --> 00:23:35.494 - She said of course we'll get on it and I think that's what they're alluding to and they reached out 00:23:35.494 --> 00:23:40.904 - when I returned there on the second. Nothing had been touched at that point. That's when I issued that 00:23:40.904 --> 00:23:41.534 - ticket. So. 00:23:42.050 --> 00:23:48.316 - Like it was bad guys. I mean it was piled pretty darn deep I will say that you know, the state trucks 00:23:48.316 --> 00:23:54.767 - had pushed a pretty significant mound onto the sidewalk I'm sure it was very difficult for them to clear 00:23:54.767 --> 00:24:00.972 - but as Adam stated before this is a very high traffic area It needed to be cleared. I tried to speak 00:24:00.972 --> 00:24:07.177 - to him as friendly as possible and then I got you know nothing out of that so Thank you, and we have 00:24:07.177 --> 00:24:12.030 - no photos of this location. Is that correct? There was a photo Jeremy did you? 00:24:12.418 --> 00:24:22.684 - send that photo in. I had a photo looking down Third Street and Taylor might have it. I might have missed 00:24:22.684 --> 00:24:32.368 - it. That one is not in the packet that is not in the packet. Okay. Yeah. We're not going to be able 00:24:32.368 --> 00:24:37.598 - to show it on the screen at this point. I do have it. 00:24:45.698 --> 00:24:55.407 - Okay. Any additional questions from the board. None. Any questions from the public on this item. Again 00:24:55.407 --> 00:25:04.927 - if you are online feel free to use the chat function or raise your hand and zoom. Okay. Seeing none. 00:25:04.927 --> 00:25:06.718 - Is there a motion. 00:25:08.098 --> 00:25:16.780 - I move that we deny the appeal the snow appeal for 28 11 through 28 17 East 3rd Street and uphold the 00:25:16.780 --> 00:25:25.633 - notice of violation And I second I will call the roll Cox Deckard. I Caron I motion passes And our last 00:25:25.633 --> 00:25:34.230 - snow appeal Contains for notice of violation appeals for 10 13 North College Avenue Taylor Brown for 00:25:34.230 --> 00:25:35.166 - city legal 00:25:35.394 --> 00:25:47.664 - This is four for the price of one as president so eloquently stated Issue the notices were issued January 00:25:47.664 --> 00:26:00.165 - 30th the second the sixth and the ninth On the so for your Ease of access on the weather data I highlighted 00:26:00.165 --> 00:26:01.438 - in red the 00:26:02.402 --> 00:26:11.316 - First was when the last snowfall accumulated and then in the next The next 1 2 3 4 Highlighted portions 00:26:11.316 --> 00:26:20.830 - again in the red circles were when the tickets were issued As you can see there was no snowfall after the 26th 00:26:23.522 --> 00:26:31.707 - Just make quick note here. So you see there are four four notices of violation after each notice of 00:26:31.707 --> 00:26:39.893 - violation. No progress had been made in any of the subsequent photos through the February 9th final 00:26:39.893 --> 00:26:48.323 - notice of violation there. Okay. Is the appellant online or in the room tonight. We were just not sure 00:26:48.323 --> 00:26:50.206 - who one of the online. 00:26:56.898 --> 00:27:14.230 - OK. Questions from the board. I'm trying to I see the photos that are included and I'm just trying to 00:27:14.230 --> 00:27:19.838 - gain a sense as to like is there 00:27:20.770 --> 00:27:27.567 - Is there an obvious reason why those sidewalks would appear to not be like contiguous with the property 00:27:27.567 --> 00:27:34.495 - to me? It looks like the sidewalks belong to the Property and there's not a lot of lack of clarity there. 00:27:34.495 --> 00:27:41.096 - I just want to make sure I'm seeing it right though It's not like a stretch of sidewalk that somehow 00:27:41.096 --> 00:27:47.828 - Apart from the property in a way that would cause them to not realize it was we have our inspector can 00:27:47.828 --> 00:27:49.854 - explain it to you Sean Hampton 00:27:49.986 --> 00:27:57.668 - Neighborhood compliance officer with the hand department the sidewalks in question were along college 00:27:57.668 --> 00:28:05.200 - and then the adjacent along the side 14th Street. Yes And yeah, there was no attempt to clear those 00:28:05.200 --> 00:28:12.807 - When I spoke with the person that was working there at that day they said that they had no idea that 00:28:12.807 --> 00:28:19.134 - they were responsible for that and questioned the city bus stop being there too and 00:28:19.650 --> 00:28:25.128 - And that is on their property. So they are required to clear the snow. I'll just make note the sidewalk 00:28:25.128 --> 00:28:30.501 - sits behind the bus stop and the tree plot. There's two driveway and three driveway entrances to this 00:28:30.501 --> 00:28:36.190 - property one on 14th two on college. The sidewalk sits behind the driveways. I'm looking at the Google map. 00:28:36.290 --> 00:28:42.363 - Overview right now without the snow on it. So the the sidewalk is contiguous from ramp to ramp on 14th 00:28:42.363 --> 00:28:48.377 - all the way up to 15th Street There's the next apartment complex to the north that you can see in the 00:28:48.377 --> 00:28:54.392 - pictures had cleared their snow But they do sit off the roadway about six feet. So this wouldn't even 00:28:54.392 --> 00:28:58.814 - really be an issue where Plows were pushing that snow up there either Okay 00:29:00.098 --> 00:29:05.517 - And it may have been the lack of awareness since the appellant isn't here we can't clarify this but 00:29:05.517 --> 00:29:11.044 - the lack of awareness could simply be a lack of awareness of the ordinance that requires the sidewalk 00:29:11.044 --> 00:29:16.517 - to be cleared. Not so much that it was not the sidewalk that was part of their property. And it does 00:29:16.517 --> 00:29:22.099 - look like the address for the business is at the local address but the appears that the property owner 00:29:22.099 --> 00:29:27.572 - has an address in Chicago. So I'm not sure if that how long that property has been in the same hands 00:29:27.572 --> 00:29:28.222 - or not. OK. 00:29:32.450 --> 00:29:41.710 - Just thinking back to the last appeal and the first, was the first one given at that address a warning 00:29:41.710 --> 00:29:51.239 - or a citation? A citation. And so the first on this one was a citation instead of a warning. Yes, because 00:29:51.239 --> 00:29:56.094 - it was five days after the snowfall. Okay, thank you. 00:29:57.154 --> 00:30:03.948 - And I might have misstated whether or not Rob actually issued did you he did Rob did issue a warning 00:30:03.948 --> 00:30:10.741 - on the East 3rd Street ones on the 30th after talking to the managers Trying to and this is the same 00:30:10.741 --> 00:30:17.602 - day the 30th Okay Can you I'm sorry to ask you to repeat this but could you When you spoke to someone 00:30:17.602 --> 00:30:24.396 - who was working in the business, they said that they were not aware that it was theirs Yes, and then 00:30:24.396 --> 00:30:26.750 - no progress was seen thereafter. I 00:30:26.914 --> 00:30:33.264 - So they had admitted that they have a contractor that plows their drug or the parking lot and that that 00:30:33.264 --> 00:30:39.553 - contractor may have piled the snow on the sidewalks as well. And they were unaware that this was their 00:30:39.553 --> 00:30:45.780 - responsibility to take care of. Even after speaking with that, they waited till the very end when the 00:30:45.780 --> 00:30:52.069 - snow was melting to address it. And actually the pictures pretty clearly show that the parking lot was 00:30:52.069 --> 00:30:54.206 - cleared onto the sidewalk as well. 00:30:57.058 --> 00:31:13.240 - All right. Other questions from the board. Questions from the public on this item. All right. Seeing 00:31:13.240 --> 00:31:17.406 - none do we have a motion. 00:31:18.498 --> 00:31:26.774 - I move that we deny the snow appeals for 1013 North College Avenue and uphold the four notices of violation. 00:31:26.774 --> 00:31:34.140 - I second. I will call the roll. Cox Deckard. I own I motion passes. Thank you very much. Thanks. 00:31:34.140 --> 00:31:42.036 - Thank you. Now we will move to petitions and remonstrances which is a time for questions about anything 00:31:42.036 --> 00:31:44.542 - that is not on tonight's agenda. 00:31:45.090 --> 00:31:53.397 - If anyone has a question about something not on the agenda, please come to the microphone and council 00:31:53.397 --> 00:32:02.030 - chambers or if you were on zoom use the raise hand function or chat Thank you now we'll go to the consent 00:32:02.030 --> 00:32:08.382 - agenda on tonight's consent agenda is renewal to with IMI for concrete supply 00:32:08.514 --> 00:32:15.470 - bid acceptance with milestone contractors LP as primary and ENB paving and secondary for the asphalt 00:32:15.470 --> 00:32:22.426 - supply. Contract addendum to asset condition project imagery with IMS and payroll. Is there anything 00:32:22.426 --> 00:32:29.451 - that needs to be removed from the consent agenda tonight? No. All right, any questions from the board 00:32:29.451 --> 00:32:36.958 - on the consent agenda? No. No, any questions from the public? None on Zoom. Hearing none, is there a motion? 00:32:37.282 --> 00:32:44.909 - I move that we approve the consent agenda for February 24th of twenty twenty six. I second. I will call 00:32:44.909 --> 00:32:52.243 - the roll. Cox Decker. I Caron. I motion passes. Now we'll move along to new business. First our new 00:32:52.243 --> 00:32:59.578 - business is the preliminary engineering contract infrastructure engineering incorporated or IEI for 00:32:59.578 --> 00:33:04.638 - third in Woodlawn and third in Hawthorne signal replacement project. 00:33:04.930 --> 00:33:11.387 - And I see that we've made no short thing to the agenda title since yesterday's work session. Apologies 00:33:11.387 --> 00:33:17.655 - for that. Neil Copper with the engineering department. So this is a project to replace two existing 00:33:17.655 --> 00:33:24.300 - traffic signals at Third and Woodlawn and Third at Hawthorne. We have selected infrastructure engineering 00:33:24.300 --> 00:33:27.998 - incorporated, IEI, to perform the preliminary engineering. 00:33:28.098 --> 00:33:35.718 - for this project. The contract amount is set at a not to exceed of one hundred and three thousand nine 00:33:35.718 --> 00:33:43.191 - hundred and forty seven dollars. We're tentatively expecting construction in summer of twenty twenty 00:33:43.191 --> 00:33:50.219 - seven. Staff has reviewed and supports this contract and I'd be happy to answer any questions. 00:33:50.219 --> 00:33:57.470 - Thank you. Questions from the board. Questions from the public on this item. Do we have a motion. 00:33:57.954 --> 00:34:04.808 - I move that we approve the preliminary engineering contract infrastructure engineering incorporated 00:34:04.808 --> 00:34:11.662 - for third and Woodlawn and third and Hawthorne signal replacement project. Second with a motion and 00:34:11.662 --> 00:34:18.584 - a second I will call the roll. Cox Deckard I Caron I motion passes. Thank you. Next item is to award 00:34:18.584 --> 00:34:25.918 - the high street multi use path tree clearing contract. The bids were opened at the work session yesterday. 00:34:27.682 --> 00:34:33.749 - Jason current with engineering again. This project is for the multi-use path along High Street This 00:34:33.749 --> 00:34:39.938 - is for the tree clearing aspect of it bids were open like you mentioned yesterday at the work session 00:34:39.938 --> 00:34:46.551 - Excuse me again. This is for tree removal in selected areas and installing tree protections along particular 00:34:46.551 --> 00:34:52.678 - areas along that section maintenance of traffic and the project will include lane restrictions while 00:34:52.678 --> 00:34:55.166 - the tree removal process is going on and 00:34:55.426 --> 00:35:01.421 - Bids yesterday there was three Bluestone tree was at sixty one thousand thirty eight and twenty one 00:35:01.421 --> 00:35:07.775 - cents. Gerald and tree experts was at fifty three thousand four hundred and forty five dollars and Monroe 00:35:07.775 --> 00:35:13.950 - LLC was at thirty nine thousand five hundred and fifty. At this current time Monroe LLC was the lowest 00:35:13.950 --> 00:35:20.065 - responsible responsive quota and engineering recommends that we award the contract to Monroe LLC. Any 00:35:20.065 --> 00:35:22.942 - questions. Thank you. Questions from the board. 00:35:25.442 --> 00:35:32.494 - I infer from the recommendation that we don't have anything outstanding related to Monroe LLC. Everything's 00:35:32.494 --> 00:35:39.415 - in good standing. The proposal was all in alignment with what the engineering department had anticipated. 00:35:39.415 --> 00:35:46.075 - That is correct. Yes. Yes. Everything was passed within our open gov computer system so we were good. 00:35:46.075 --> 00:35:52.670 - Thank you. And I have no additional questions. Are there any questions from the public on this item. 00:35:57.250 --> 00:36:04.722 - Seeing none. Is there a motion? I move to award the high street multi-use path tree clearing contract 00:36:04.722 --> 00:36:12.195 - to Monroe LLC Nice second. I will call the roll Cox Deckard. I Korone I motion passes. Thank you Next 00:36:12.195 --> 00:36:19.740 - we have the contract with Stewart and Associates for elevator consulting All right, you get me for the 00:36:19.740 --> 00:36:26.846 - next two Adam Wason public works director This is a contract with Stewart and Associates Stewart 00:36:26.978 --> 00:36:34.055 - Steward and associates for engineering consulting services for the Morton and Walnut Street garage elevators 00:36:34.055 --> 00:36:40.613 - they will do a review of Both of those elevators and the work that was recently completed on them to 00:36:40.613 --> 00:36:47.560 - assure Quality assurance they'll do an on-site electrical elevator visual inspection assessment of current 00:36:47.560 --> 00:36:49.118 - equipment and condition 00:36:49.218 --> 00:36:56.672 - quality review of recent alterations Provide a report and any follow-up the total not to exceed on this 00:36:56.672 --> 00:37:04.055 - one is eighteen one thousand eight hundred dollars Thank you questions from the board on this item no, 00:37:04.055 --> 00:37:09.502 - I'll just reiterate what we had discussed in the work session which was the 00:37:10.178 --> 00:37:14.905 - This is reviewing specifically the elevator work. It's not associated with some of the other work that 00:37:14.905 --> 00:37:19.495 - we have done recently on those garages. That was a question I had asked and it was confirmed it was 00:37:19.495 --> 00:37:20.734 - specific to the elevators. 00:37:20.898 --> 00:37:26.938 - Yes, so the Walnut Street garage had a major rehab project over the last couple years and the Morton 00:37:26.938 --> 00:37:32.979 - Street garage had a full replacement of the elevator over the last couple years. Those projects went 00:37:32.979 --> 00:37:38.960 - longer and had some challenges and so this is kind of a third party inspection of that work to make 00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:45.000 - sure that everything is as it should be. And just to clarify, both elevators have been signed off by 00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:50.622 - Homeland Security. They are currently permitted all of those things. This is just more of the 00:37:50.914 --> 00:37:58.948 - An audit of the projects as much as anything is this kind of audit typically requested after Such work 00:37:58.948 --> 00:38:06.826 - is done or there are likely issues based on I will say this with With my legal representation in the 00:38:06.826 --> 00:38:12.286 - room. These projects did not go like we would have liked them to they 00:38:12.770 --> 00:38:18.693 - The vendor had a lot of problems with their subcontractors with a lot of staff turnover on their end. 00:38:18.693 --> 00:38:24.733 - So projects that were supposed to take eight to 12 week eight weeks in one case and 12 weeks in another 00:38:24.733 --> 00:38:30.598 - took a couple years. So this is our follow up to make sure that we are before we make final payments 00:38:30.598 --> 00:38:36.522 - on those projects to really have a third party independent review. Thank you. I hope Audrey's not mad 00:38:36.522 --> 00:38:41.342 - at me. Other questions from the board. Any questions from the public on this item. 00:38:45.538 --> 00:38:53.664 - None, is there a motion? I move that we approve the contract with Stewart and associates for elevator 00:38:53.664 --> 00:39:02.030 - consulting. I Second I will call the roll Cox Deckard. I Caron I motion passes Next we have the contract 00:39:02.030 --> 00:39:10.634 - with route where for Recollect software. There you go on behalf of Lazarus Sears director of our sanitation 00:39:10.634 --> 00:39:13.502 - division Adam Wason here. This is a 00:39:13.698 --> 00:39:20.484 - Software system that we use to both push information out and allow the public to get information from 00:39:20.484 --> 00:39:26.206 - with website outreach tools for our sanitation waste collection recycling operations. 00:39:26.818 --> 00:39:33.217 - And so we had a contract before you earlier in the year that we pulled did some more negotiating with 00:39:33.217 --> 00:39:39.805 - the software provider got a bit of a reduced cost want to give this another year to see if it can really 00:39:39.805 --> 00:39:46.204 - improve our communications both to our residents and when they need information about various aspects 00:39:46.204 --> 00:39:52.604 - of sanitation collection. So we request your approval. Thank you. Questions from the board. We talked 00:39:52.604 --> 00:39:55.678 - a little bit yesterday in the work session about 00:39:56.482 --> 00:40:02.434 - How residents may use this or not be aware of it. Could you just talk a little bit what we spoke about 00:40:02.434 --> 00:40:05.150 - yesterday how you might be trying to increase. 00:40:05.314 --> 00:40:10.738 - Residents use of this software. Yeah, so It's become more dynamic to the the company that Purchased 00:40:10.738 --> 00:40:16.216 - the recollect software as a larger company They've added some new features to this but residents can 00:40:16.216 --> 00:40:21.856 - just go to our sanitation web page sign up for this service So if we have a great example of when we're 00:40:21.856 --> 00:40:27.280 - pushing information out during the recent snow storms We had a two-day delay of sanitation services 00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:33.246 - So anyone that signed up to receive information was getting that sent directly to them, but via their perfect 00:40:33.378 --> 00:40:39.290 - preferred communication method, some of the things that we're looking to integrate into the system. 00:40:39.290 --> 00:40:45.734 - Right now we use some Google Forms online for if you want an extra Friday pickup or if you have an appliance 00:40:45.734 --> 00:40:51.823 - pickup. We're hoping to integrate those requests directly into this system. And so just trying to make 00:40:51.823 --> 00:40:57.794 - it more robust as we move forward with this next calendar year. Thank you. Questions from the public 00:40:57.794 --> 00:40:58.622 - on this item? 00:41:04.162 --> 00:41:14.530 - Seeing none. Is there a motion? I move that we approve the contract with route where for recollect software. 00:41:14.530 --> 00:41:24.137 - I second I will call the roll Cox Deckard. I Caron I motion passes Next we have resolution 2026 dash 00:41:24.137 --> 00:41:32.222 - zero zero six for the 2026 outdoor dining guidelines Get this to short person height 00:41:32.642 --> 00:41:39.056 - Good evening Cassie. We're need Department of Public Works I'm going to summarize the staff report that 00:41:39.056 --> 00:41:45.224 - we presented in full yesterday at the work session Staff recommends that the board adopt resolution 00:41:45.224 --> 00:41:51.762 - 2026 dash 06 and approve the 2026 outdoor dining program guidelines The recommendation maintains Kirkwood 00:41:51.762 --> 00:41:58.300 - Avenue as an open public right-of-way while continuing to allow parklets for outdoor dining This approach 00:41:58.300 --> 00:42:02.494 - balances stakeholder interests and maximizes overall public benefit 00:42:02.594 --> 00:42:08.642 - Under the ordinance 2025-02 staff update the outdoor dining guidelines each year through the Board of 00:42:08.642 --> 00:42:14.749 - Public Works The ordinance also authorizes the city engineer to temporarily or permanently suspend all 00:42:14.749 --> 00:42:21.094 - or part of the program See the memo that we included in the packet suspension of seasonal Kirkwood closure 00:42:21.094 --> 00:42:26.430 - which cites lack of participation and impracticality which we discussed yesterday as well 00:42:26.594 --> 00:42:33.735 - Kirkwood serves a wide range of users, including restaurants, retailers, service businesses, visitors 00:42:33.735 --> 00:42:36.606 - and motorists, event organizers as well. 00:42:36.738 --> 00:42:42.953 - Regarding a full street closure has been mixed with business surveys reflecting approximately a 50-50 00:42:42.953 --> 00:42:49.046 - split which historically it has been that split and it was during this last outreach period as well 00:42:49.046 --> 00:42:55.383 - of more than 25 restaurants located along Kirkwood 5 Participated in outdoor dining during the previous 00:42:55.383 --> 00:43:00.318 - closure period construction on the 100 block will further decrease participation 00:43:00.482 --> 00:43:06.709 - None of the non-restaurant businesses activated the street and several expressed concerns regarding 00:43:06.709 --> 00:43:08.702 - access and operational impacts. 00:43:09.378 --> 00:43:15.637 - operational observations indicate that while outdoor dining spaces were active during peak meal periods 00:43:15.637 --> 00:43:21.775 - a 24-7 closure resulted in extended periods of underutilized public space and increased public safety 00:43:21.775 --> 00:43:27.913 - concerns during lower activity hours as stewards of the public right-of-way staff's responsibility is 00:43:27.913 --> 00:43:33.630 - to consider all perspectives and recommend an approach that serves the corridor as a whole and 00:43:33.730 --> 00:43:40.713 - Maintaining the street as open to vehicular traffic while permitting parklets supports outdoor dining 00:43:40.713 --> 00:43:47.628 - in a flexible format preserves accessibility for service businesses promotes equitable access to the 00:43:47.628 --> 00:43:54.749 - right-of-way inclusive of downtown festival organizers and reduces extended periods of inactivity staff 00:43:54.749 --> 00:44:01.732 - Respectfully requests the board's approval of the outdoor dining guidelines Thank you Board questions 00:44:01.732 --> 00:44:02.622 - on this item 00:44:03.394 --> 00:44:10.502 - As we talked quite a bit about this during the work session yesterday, we reviewed the ordinance language 00:44:10.502 --> 00:44:17.476 - and understood the relationship between the city engineer the relationship between public works related 00:44:17.476 --> 00:44:24.383 - to this ordinance and the relationship of the City Council related to this ordinance which what you've 00:44:24.383 --> 00:44:29.278 - brought forward today Basically includes information about all but it is 00:44:29.410 --> 00:44:36.570 - Part of the ordinance that public works will review this on an annual basis And and bring forward the 00:44:36.570 --> 00:44:43.731 - outdoor dining agreement will come forward to public works on an annual basis So that's the part that 00:44:43.731 --> 00:44:51.312 - we are reviewing and understanding today City Council has governance over the ordinance and any adjustments 00:44:51.312 --> 00:44:57.630 - to that ordinance city engineer has governance over the recommendation to cease or change 00:44:57.794 --> 00:45:05.813 - the use of the street in this way due to the different Situations that you described and this so I just 00:45:05.813 --> 00:45:13.909 - wanted to capture most of our conversation yesterday was around the relationship between these different 00:45:13.909 --> 00:45:21.696 - entities and Why we're hearing it today Why we would anticipate hearing it today and in future years 00:45:21.696 --> 00:45:27.710 - when we're making these decisions Yeah, I'll just add a quick comment to that 00:45:28.194 --> 00:45:35.859 - Is that you know you see a memo from the city engineer about You know being the authorized and you know 00:45:35.859 --> 00:45:39.102 - staff person that can make the call on this 00:45:39.170 --> 00:45:44.667 - That was not done in a vacuum or just by the city engineer that was done with the support of all city 00:45:44.667 --> 00:45:50.596 - departments that are involved in this That's the public works department the economic sustainable development 00:45:50.596 --> 00:45:56.524 - department planning and transportation mayor's office police fire You've got all of the different departments 00:45:56.524 --> 00:46:02.130 - that are supportive of this approach. It is good middle ground And you know, I'll just further say that 00:46:02.130 --> 00:46:07.735 - I kind of mentioned this yesterday in the work session This is a very typical Bloomington issue in some 00:46:07.735 --> 00:46:09.136 - ways that you've got very 00:46:09.136 --> 00:46:15.233 - Passionate folks on both sides of it. You got some folks that want it completely closed year-round All 00:46:15.233 --> 00:46:21.211 - day every day. You've got some folks that want it seasonal. You got some folks that don't want it at 00:46:21.211 --> 00:46:27.130 - all And so this has been a challenge for staff we're trying to thread the needle for lack of better 00:46:27.130 --> 00:46:33.346 - terms here with trying to you know, really balance all of the users and the You know this being a public 00:46:33.346 --> 00:46:36.542 - right-of-way, so we think this is a good approach and 00:46:37.090 --> 00:46:45.618 - Just want to further say thanks to Cassie and all the folks that have been working on this. It's been 00:46:45.618 --> 00:46:54.563 - a big staff effort Something else that's mentioned in the report is that the plan is to conduct a Kirkwood 00:46:54.563 --> 00:47:03.258 - corridor study starting in 2027 If that Study is engaged. I'm assuming that the contract for that study 00:47:03.258 --> 00:47:06.686 - will come to the Board of Public Affairs 00:47:06.850 --> 00:47:13.213 - Works as well as with the other corridor studies those have all come to you. I wouldn't see why this 00:47:13.213 --> 00:47:19.577 - one would not okay So just for clarity this is it's mentioned in this report, but that is a decision 00:47:19.577 --> 00:47:26.192 - the Board of Public Works would make In a different meeting the other what we're deciding today is about 00:47:26.192 --> 00:47:32.745 - the outdoor dining For this summer not specifically the corridor study or some of those other elements, 00:47:32.745 --> 00:47:33.438 - correct? I 00:47:35.810 --> 00:47:38.942 - I'll just make just a couple other quick comments because I 00:47:39.042 --> 00:47:43.989 - I can't help myself but okay, you know two things that We've talked about a lot in the last couple days 00:47:43.989 --> 00:47:48.794 - around this outdoor dining and the Kirkwood closure aren't mutually exclusive They're still gonna be 00:47:48.794 --> 00:47:53.599 - outdoor dining. There's still gonna be opportunities. It's just it's not the full closure and Cassie 00:47:53.599 --> 00:47:58.356 - made another great statement that I want to credit to her she's you know in some ways folks want it 00:47:58.356 --> 00:48:03.303 - to be kind of like a bourbon street environment at night and then during the day more of a pearl street 00:48:03.303 --> 00:48:06.110 - environment out in Boulder if anybody's been out there and 00:48:06.274 --> 00:48:13.227 - Those are two hard things to intermix and make happen and balance. And you know that's that's the sort 00:48:13.227 --> 00:48:20.181 - of thing that the Kirkwood study would really look to like what is the highest and best use. What does 00:48:20.181 --> 00:48:27.539 - it look like. We're simply not there today. Any other questions from the board. No. All right. Any questions 00:48:27.539 --> 00:48:32.062 - or comments from the public. If you are in person you may approach 00:48:33.154 --> 00:48:44.061 - We have no members of the public comment on this online for this And seems no public comment in the 00:48:44.061 --> 00:48:55.185 - room With that you're good you're allowed to If you would state your name at the mic, please sure, my 00:48:55.185 --> 00:49:03.038 - name is John Santos I'm a business owner in the Kirkwood neighborhood I 00:49:03.842 --> 00:49:10.978 - I wanted to just point out like a basic concept that seems to be lost is that this is a public You know 00:49:10.978 --> 00:49:18.184 - Kirkwood is a public access and public parking and the closure Whatever you guys do. I'm okay with that. 00:49:18.184 --> 00:49:25.046 - Just you know, but whatever is done should be done with the you know with the benefit of the entire 00:49:25.046 --> 00:49:30.398 - public in mind not five businesses that are financially profiting from it and 00:49:30.594 --> 00:49:36.634 - while the rest of the businesses are losing parking spaces and these parking spaces aren't replaced. 00:49:36.634 --> 00:49:42.733 - You know there's not a new one that when they're closed their clothes that's that many less. The more 00:49:42.733 --> 00:49:48.773 - people that are there the more we will do. What I am seeing is it started for me hearing it from the 00:49:48.773 --> 00:49:54.992 - customers about them whining about they can't find parking they can't even drive around a block because 00:49:54.992 --> 00:50:00.254 - of the closure and all that. I didn't think much of it at the first but then I'm seeing 00:50:01.154 --> 00:50:07.408 - When I walked down Kirkwood 24 7 the dining spaces aren't even being used and there's all these empty 00:50:07.408 --> 00:50:13.539 - spaces that could have been used by the you know the restaurants and then someone else also pointed 00:50:13.539 --> 00:50:20.038 - out another issue of Emergencies if there's a fire on one of these buildings, you know, you got to remove 00:50:20.038 --> 00:50:26.046 - barriers Some of these barriers are concrete Barriers things like that. So that would be an issue 00:50:26.498 --> 00:50:32.839 - Handicap people I got a friend this handicaps and he can't park in front of the business He wants to 00:50:32.839 --> 00:50:39.494 - go to because all those spots are taken away on every corner You know if you want to make it a pedestrian 00:50:39.494 --> 00:50:45.960 - place make it a pedestrian place You know like like your rails to trails or whatever But if it's going 00:50:45.960 --> 00:50:52.427 - to be shared I mean it's not I'm not seeing it being shared because the only thing place is benefiting 00:50:52.427 --> 00:50:54.750 - other places using it for dining and 00:50:55.650 --> 00:51:01.415 - And the cost you know frankly the cost of retail space on Kirkwood is a lot more than what you guys 00:51:01.415 --> 00:51:07.180 - charge for the for taking that street away. So you know I'm just I'm just here to kind of point out 00:51:07.180 --> 00:51:13.118 - it's a public thing. Just keep in mind what's actually benefits everybody. I mean I love some of these 00:51:13.118 --> 00:51:18.883 - restaurants. I like going there. It's nice that they got extra seating so I know I can get a place. 00:51:18.883 --> 00:51:20.094 - But at the same time 00:51:20.802 --> 00:51:26.709 - It wasn't their place in the first place. You know it's a place that people should be able to drive 00:51:26.709 --> 00:51:32.734 - through and park and visit other places. You know a lot of times people are if they're there a lot of 00:51:32.734 --> 00:51:38.759 - decisions that they might go there for one business but then there's a lot of impulse of decisions on 00:51:38.759 --> 00:51:44.725 - other businesses to go to too. So just being there convenient you know right now people have to know 00:51:44.725 --> 00:51:49.982 - the secret places to park and stuff like that but it's still spots are still taken away. 00:51:50.114 --> 00:51:55.961 - And that's the part. And then summer, it seems great in the summer, but no one wants to be out when 00:51:55.961 --> 00:52:01.983 - it's raining. No one's going to be out on asphalt when it's really hot. But summers are also the times 00:52:01.983 --> 00:52:08.005 - when a lot of businesses struggle in Bloomington. So anything that helps them get through the summers, 00:52:08.005 --> 00:52:13.852 - I think the first three summers for us was disastrous. I think we've been in business for 41 years, 00:52:13.852 --> 00:52:19.582 - and it was just disastrous. And I've heard a lot of other business owners tell me that, you know, 00:52:19.682 --> 00:52:25.576 - you'll make enough money during the school year that it doesn't matter if you lose money in the summer 00:52:25.576 --> 00:52:31.412 - and that was not true. It wasn't until we started breaking even in the summer and making money in the 00:52:31.412 --> 00:52:37.134 - summer that our business actually became viable year round. So it didn't matter about the students. 00:52:37.134 --> 00:52:42.856 - It's the town people. I think what helped us through covid was you know a lot of places were closed 00:52:42.856 --> 00:52:49.150 - and the university was closed and there was a lot of town people that came to Kirkwood and they said you know 00:52:49.346 --> 00:52:55.391 - It was a great opportunity. It's the first time they actually had parking and places to go. So they 00:52:55.391 --> 00:53:01.739 - thought it was a great opportunity to try new places. We also survived by you know like what's it called 00:53:01.739 --> 00:53:08.025 - the curbside pickup which we couldn't have had if we were on a closed street you know but that actually 00:53:08.025 --> 00:53:14.373 - helped save us. We had a delivery service established but obviously we had no dining anymore or anything 00:53:14.373 --> 00:53:16.670 - like that and it's nice that you guys 00:53:17.538 --> 00:53:23.509 - Offered dining for some but only five are taking advantage of it over five blocks. And and that's you 00:53:23.509 --> 00:53:29.422 - know and they're definitely benefiting. You know that's great. But charging them a couple of hundred 00:53:29.422 --> 00:53:35.335 - dollars or whatever it is you know is free in the beginning and then I think it's a nominal fee now. 00:53:35.335 --> 00:53:41.190 - But that's not that's not benefiting the public. I think that's just benefiting certain places. And 00:53:41.190 --> 00:53:47.454 - that's the only thing I just kind of want to point out is just think in terms of what's really beneficial. 00:53:47.746 --> 00:53:53.791 - Most of the people are not going to come here when it's sub zero to speak out about it. They're not 00:53:53.791 --> 00:54:00.139 - going to come during a game night to say but everybody criticizes but they're not going to come forward. 00:54:00.139 --> 00:54:06.305 - So I thought I'd take the opportunity to come here and just say that. Thank you very much. All right. 00:54:06.305 --> 00:54:07.998 - Thanks. Any other comments. 00:54:11.394 --> 00:54:18.857 - I just wanted to add something that we did discuss yesterday, but we didn't clarify today. With the 00:54:18.857 --> 00:54:26.394 - parklet program, that is looking at the spaces directly in front of the businesses. So if businesses 00:54:26.394 --> 00:54:33.857 - are opting into that parklet, they're looking at basically the spaces that are directly in front of 00:54:33.857 --> 00:54:40.126 - their own storefront. They wouldn't be picking other spaces that might impact other 00:54:40.290 --> 00:54:48.298 - Businesses, they'll be picking the spaces right there in front of their Storefront All right. 00:54:48.298 --> 00:54:57.413 - Thank you. Do we have a motion? I Move that we approve resolution 2026 dash zero zero six the 2026 outdoor 00:54:57.413 --> 00:55:05.931 - dining guidelines I Second with a motion and a second. I will call the roll Cox Deckard. I'm Caron. 00:55:05.931 --> 00:55:07.550 - I motion passes. I 00:55:09.314 --> 00:55:15.881 - Next is staff reports and other business. Good evening folks. Adam Wason again. I'll try to be brief 00:55:15.881 --> 00:55:22.643 - as we've got a little longer than we normally do. But do you want to make note of a couple of important 00:55:22.643 --> 00:55:29.470 - things or not important but recent events. Just want to say thanks to our partners over in Monroe County 00:55:29.470 --> 00:55:35.582 - government and others. You know we had another tornado touchdown in Bloomington last week and 00:55:35.970 --> 00:55:43.438 - once again became very lucky as a city proper you know for that tornado to stop to have its last touchdown 00:55:43.438 --> 00:55:50.417 - right west of I-69 right before city limits over there and the heart of the city just you know just 00:55:50.417 --> 00:55:57.535 - really recognizing how lucky we were that there wasn't a major incident within city limits there want 00:55:57.535 --> 00:56:00.606 - to say thanks to our friends at the county. 00:56:00.802 --> 00:56:07.051 - Humane Association Andrew Krebs and their team dr. Sarah nickel and others doing great work to try to 00:56:07.051 --> 00:56:13.301 - get that facility back up and running on the west side Partnering help. We're trying to help with the 00:56:13.301 --> 00:56:19.427 - animal shelter wherever we can there But just want to make note that you know, that's two tornadoes 00:56:19.427 --> 00:56:25.677 - in almost the same very similar path within a 10-month period so these weather events seem to be more 00:56:25.677 --> 00:56:29.598 - active and that west side corridor seems to be the hot spot and 00:56:29.730 --> 00:56:36.096 - Know from personal experience as well that you know, so just you know Thankful to all the crews that 00:56:36.096 --> 00:56:42.462 - were responding that night public safety all the linemen out there doing the work for the power grid 00:56:43.074 --> 00:56:48.731 - Just want to thank everybody for those efforts and trying times and a big shout out to Jamie Nibel over 00:56:48.731 --> 00:56:54.279 - at the Monroe County Emergency Management Agency Jamie does great work to make sure folks are keeping 00:56:54.279 --> 00:56:59.772 - up to speed with exactly what's going on You know minutes after it was going on. Jamie took my phone 00:56:59.772 --> 00:57:05.211 - call. We were coordinating So just want to highlight that partnership between the agencies that all 00:57:05.211 --> 00:57:07.006 - respond and say thanks again and 00:57:07.650 --> 00:57:13.911 - Of note there is a cleanup that the Van Buren Township is promoting for this Saturday in the area for 00:57:13.911 --> 00:57:20.233 - residents So if you look up Van Buren Township, whether on Facebook or social medias or their website, 00:57:20.233 --> 00:57:26.494 - they'll have information but planning a cleanup for This Saturday for the general public to come help 00:57:26.594 --> 00:57:33.009 - So wanted to make note of that and otherwise I'm you know we had a lot of conversation about snow this 00:57:33.009 --> 00:57:39.423 - evening and I'm just really really glad we're not in New York City and the East Coast right now seeing 00:57:39.423 --> 00:57:45.651 - what they're dealing and digging out of. I said my well wishes to our public works friends out East 00:57:45.651 --> 00:57:52.128 - because it can't be anything but challenging. So that's all for today and thank you. Thank you for your 00:57:52.128 --> 00:57:53.374 - service. Thank you. 00:57:54.338 --> 00:58:02.078 - Next we have approval of claims any questions on claims tonight Any public comment on claims Seeing 00:58:02.078 --> 00:58:09.896 - none is there a motion I move that we approve the claims for February 24th 2026 in the amount of one 00:58:09.896 --> 00:58:18.023 - million two hundred and seventy nine thousand seven hundred and thirty one dollars and sixty seven cents 00:58:18.023 --> 00:58:23.518 - Nice second. I will call the roll Cox Deckard. I Caron I motion passes 00:58:23.682 --> 00:58:26.942 - And with nothing else on the agenda I will call for adjournment tonight.