WEBVTT 00:00:00.322 --> 00:00:07.482 - Good afternoon everyone on this beautiful Bloomington afternoon. I call to order Today's meeting the 00:00:07.482 --> 00:00:14.571 - Board of Public Works for Tuesday, June 2nd First on our agenda is messages from board members. Are 00:00:14.571 --> 00:00:21.802 - there any messages from the board? Seeing none we will move along to title six abatements. We have an 00:00:21.802 --> 00:00:26.622 - abatement at 1205 West East Branch Road Hello Mike Arnold with hand 00:00:27.394 --> 00:00:35.789 - This is a property we've sent four citations to for garbage and debris and overgrowth and have not had 00:00:35.789 --> 00:00:44.347 - any success in getting things taken care of. They did mow one time, but it's back to eight inches again. 00:00:44.347 --> 00:00:53.150 - So we're requesting the board give us permission to abate the property. Are there questions from the board? 00:00:54.690 --> 00:01:04.891 - Has there been any response from the property manager or owner regarding this? Property no, I did get 00:01:04.891 --> 00:01:15.593 - one call About two weeks ago saying that they had mowed and they did actually mow somewhat But the garbage 00:01:15.593 --> 00:01:24.094 - and debris is still on the property Whoops looking over the materials I just want to 00:01:24.226 --> 00:01:34.391 - Thank city staff for updating what we talked about yesterday. This all looks Good is there any public 00:01:34.391 --> 00:01:44.557 - comment on this item Seeing none is there a motion I move that we approve the continuous abatement at 00:01:44.557 --> 00:01:47.646 - 1205 West East Branch Road and 00:01:48.130 --> 00:01:54.552 - Tonight second with motion a second. I will call the roll Cox Deckard. I Caron I motion passes. 00:01:54.552 --> 00:02:01.309 - Thank you. Thank you. Next is petitions and remonstrances. This is a spot for anyone who has comment 00:02:01.309 --> 00:02:08.133 - about anything that is not on the agenda tonight. I will mention that there is a letter in the packet 00:02:08.133 --> 00:02:14.823 - regarding an item from our last meeting at 420 East 6th Street that is considered part of petitions 00:02:14.823 --> 00:02:16.094 - and remonstrances. 00:02:18.882 --> 00:02:25.616 - There was a member of the public on last week that was trying to attend virtually and had some technical 00:02:25.616 --> 00:02:32.478 - difficulties. This is Janice Greenberg and she wanted to just make sure the board was aware of her support 00:02:32.478 --> 00:02:39.084 - for support for allowing a private dumpster trash service for the property at 420 East 6th Street that 00:02:39.084 --> 00:02:45.689 - we've seen come for abatement in the past. More working actively with the property owner on just that. 00:02:45.689 --> 00:02:47.870 - So but yeah we've put that in the 00:02:48.226 --> 00:02:57.300 - Communication is in the board packet as well Thank you There's any other public comment on items not 00:02:57.300 --> 00:03:06.284 - on the agenda If you are on zoom, feel free to raise the hand Function or use the jet None on zoom. 00:03:06.284 --> 00:03:15.358 - All right We will move to the consent agenda on tonight's consent agenda the minutes from March 24th 00:03:15.358 --> 00:03:17.694 - 2026 minutes of April 7th 00:03:17.858 --> 00:03:25.972 - 2026 right of way for the special event 2026 blooming foods 50th birthday celebration right of way for 00:03:25.972 --> 00:03:34.086 - special event 2026 BHA family night out resolution 2026 dash 0 to 4 ITS surplus for technology recycle 00:03:34.086 --> 00:03:41.964 - recyclers Memorandum of understanding between City of Bloomington utilities and City of Bloomington 00:03:41.964 --> 00:03:47.006 - engineering for Patterson Grimes Rogers resurfacing project and 00:03:48.002 --> 00:03:54.935 - Service agreement with Howard asphalt LLC for asphalt crack ceiling maintenance project Service agreement 00:03:54.935 --> 00:04:01.476 - with Indiana sign and barricade ink for pavement marking project Service agreement with specialties 00:04:01.476 --> 00:04:08.017 - company LLC for handrail and guardrail repairs Service agreement with laundry equipment company LLC 00:04:08.017 --> 00:04:11.614 - to move fire PPE laundry equipment to logistics center 00:04:12.290 --> 00:04:19.100 - Update to Kirkwood partnership agreement with Indiana University Foundation and trustees of Indiana 00:04:19.100 --> 00:04:25.911 - University and payroll. Are there any items that need to be removed from the consent agenda? No. Is 00:04:25.911 --> 00:04:32.925 - there any board question on the consent agenda? Any public comment on the consent agenda? Not on zoom. 00:04:32.925 --> 00:04:39.940 - All right. Is there a motion? I move that we approve the consent agenda for tonight's meeting June 2nd 00:04:39.940 --> 00:04:41.438 - of twenty twenty six. 00:04:42.050 --> 00:04:51.034 - I second I will call the roll Cox Decker and I Caron I motion passes We will move along to new business 00:04:51.034 --> 00:04:59.846 - First item is the right-of-way closure and noise permit request for Crider and Crider at North Walnut 00:04:59.846 --> 00:05:08.917 - and East 19th Street Criter and Crider are requesting approval of temporary right away closures at North 00:05:08.917 --> 00:05:11.422 - Walnut Street to accommodate 00:05:11.554 --> 00:05:18.132 - completion of a sanitary sewer connection associated with the hub to project the request includes temporary 00:05:18.132 --> 00:05:24.345 - closures of the north sidewalk along East 19th Street the east sidewalk along North Walnut Street and 00:05:24.345 --> 00:05:30.558 - the intersection of East 19th Street and North Walnut Street as necessary to safely complete the work 00:05:30.558 --> 00:05:32.446 - closures are proposed to occur 00:05:32.738 --> 00:05:40.274 - June 2026 for a two-week period pedestrian and vehicular traffic will be maintained shifted or rerouted 00:05:40.274 --> 00:05:47.666 - in accordance with the approved maintenance of traffic plan They've also submitted a noise permit But 00:05:47.666 --> 00:05:54.985 - if you have any further questions, I can answer those on this and we also have James here, too Their 00:05:54.985 --> 00:05:57.086 - board questions on this item 00:06:02.978 --> 00:06:10.619 - as well. Is there any public comment on this item. All right. Is there a motion. I move that we approve 00:06:10.619 --> 00:06:18.114 - the right of way closure and noise permit request for Crider and Crider at North Walnut and East 19th 00:06:18.114 --> 00:06:25.461 - Street. I will call the roll. Cox Deckard I Caron I motion passes. Next is the right of way closure 00:06:25.461 --> 00:06:31.486 - and noise permit request for Weddle Brothers at the convention center. Thank you. 00:06:32.706 --> 00:06:39.593 - Zach Bell on behalf of Kyle ball engineering Weddle Brothers is requesting approval of a temporary right 00:06:39.593 --> 00:06:46.283 - away closure at South College Avenue to accommodate completing the enclosure at the connector portion 00:06:46.283 --> 00:06:52.842 - of the Bloomington Convention Center Expansion project that will span from the new expansion on the 00:06:52.842 --> 00:06:59.401 - east side of South College Avenue to the west side of College Avenue The request includes temporary 00:06:59.401 --> 00:07:01.566 - closures of the Western sidewalk 00:07:01.794 --> 00:07:07.976 - the existing Eastern pedestrian diversion and College Avenue south of third as necessary to safely complete 00:07:07.976 --> 00:07:13.757 - the work. They're proposed from June 30th through July 24th and pedestrian vehicular traffic will be 00:07:13.757 --> 00:07:19.710 - maintained shifted or rerouted in accordance with the approved maintenance of traffic plan. If you guys 00:07:19.710 --> 00:07:23.774 - have any questions we also have representative from Weddle here today. 00:07:28.226 --> 00:07:34.565 - I'm sorry if I may just add real quick just another thing to note with this closure and such I did talk 00:07:34.565 --> 00:07:40.722 - with some representatives of Weddell today We also have a major art component that will go into this 00:07:40.722 --> 00:07:47.366 - project as well That is early in the early stages of design development and all that there may be subsequent 00:07:47.366 --> 00:07:50.718 - closures of college for shorter periods of time in the 00:07:50.946 --> 00:07:59.105 - Well out into the future for that art installation, but we don't plan that the art installation would 00:07:59.105 --> 00:08:07.423 - occur during this period There may be some hardware added and such but that would be about it Footprint 00:08:07.423 --> 00:08:15.662 - the same as the closed footprint when the initial installation for the skywalk was put in place pretty 00:08:15.662 --> 00:08:16.702 - similar Okay 00:08:16.834 --> 00:08:25.245 - So all the access points that we kind of went through last time for my sister's closet and all of those 00:08:25.245 --> 00:08:33.332 - conversations, those all are maintained in that way. Just the noise permit application only be used 00:08:33.332 --> 00:08:41.501 - to meet the deadline and the permit has worked from 12 a.m. to 1159 p.m. Can you just talk about the 00:08:41.501 --> 00:08:44.574 - case that you might need to use that? 00:08:45.026 --> 00:08:51.834 - Yeah, you can just use the microphone there and state your name for yeah, Andrew Sherry project manager 00:08:51.834 --> 00:08:58.380 - with little brothers So the noise permit is our saving grace if you will if we get into crunch time 00:08:58.380 --> 00:09:04.926 - We have an unforeseen condition or something like that. We don't plan on working extra hours. Maybe 00:09:04.926 --> 00:09:11.734 - ten hour days We're currently working eight But again, just a fallback if we need that to hit that July 00:09:11.734 --> 00:09:14.942 - 24th date In this kind of instance, is there any 00:09:15.042 --> 00:09:20.467 - That the contractor reach out to city staff to let them know that they plan to work I'm sure and yeah, 00:09:20.467 --> 00:09:25.892 - they do a really good job communicating with city staff if they're getting behind we're gonna know yes 00:09:25.892 --> 00:09:31.160 - We've notified all the tenants between second and third sent letters everything updated Google Maps 00:09:31.160 --> 00:09:35.742 - with Kyle ball and his team So the same thing the process from before. Thank you. Yeah 00:09:37.026 --> 00:09:44.647 - We talked a little bit in the work session about the coordination effort Not only I mean this project 00:09:44.647 --> 00:09:52.492 - on its own obviously has a ton of coordination. It's a very important project It's takes a lot of people 00:09:52.492 --> 00:09:59.964 - working on this but for city staff there's also coordination between this project and some Repaving 00:09:59.964 --> 00:10:03.550 - and construction that's happening on one of our 00:10:04.098 --> 00:10:12.255 - alternate routes being Rogers, right? So can you talk a little bit about what we talked about in the 00:10:12.255 --> 00:10:20.573 - work session, but also just what do we perceive as being the overlap between those two projects? Yeah, 00:10:20.573 --> 00:10:28.810 - so the Grimes, Patterson, Rogers, and Kirkwood Paving Project will kick off yet this summer, probably 00:10:28.810 --> 00:10:30.910 - in the next couple weeks. 00:10:31.586 --> 00:10:39.110 - What what for any of the paving on Roger Street? we would have the south by for any lane restrictions 00:10:39.110 --> 00:10:46.633 - on Roger Street associated with the paving or Concrete work that would occur in advance of the paving 00:10:46.633 --> 00:10:50.174 - Southbound Rogers is always going to be open so 00:10:50.882 --> 00:10:57.155 - There is any lane closure or diversion. They're always going to keep the southbound traffic moving south 00:10:57.155 --> 00:11:03.488 - on Rogers If a detour for northbound were to have to occur they detour that over to Walnut Street Knowing 00:11:03.488 --> 00:11:09.701 - that Rogers is the detour for this closure that southern Traffic is the biggest key for us right there. 00:11:09.701 --> 00:11:15.735 - So that's being taken into consideration We also have work taking place on 2nd Street as part of the 00:11:15.735 --> 00:11:19.678 - 2nd Street rehabilitation project or rebuild and so there will be 00:11:20.450 --> 00:11:27.163 - Some planned closures at Rogers in second, but that will not overlap with this that is that is off the 00:11:27.163 --> 00:11:33.681 - table. Yes But as you mentioned it is requiring a lot of coordination We have another really really 00:11:33.681 --> 00:11:40.198 - busy paving season both with contracted and in-house work at the Street Division that is definitely 00:11:40.198 --> 00:11:46.846 - going to overlap and that but that key detail is that South Rogers would remain open at all times and 00:11:48.002 --> 00:11:57.583 - And we had talked a little bit yesterday regarding the Rogers project that for the purposes of the Repaving 00:11:57.583 --> 00:12:06.721 - portion it's handled with flagging. So Do we imagine that that's going to happen during this June 30th 00:12:06.721 --> 00:12:15.681 - through July 24th window and for flagging I Would imagine that would mean northbound would be closed 00:12:15.681 --> 00:12:17.278 - southbound I mean 00:12:17.442 --> 00:12:24.396 - Somehow they're getting people around they're not allowing traffic in from the other direction If that's 00:12:24.396 --> 00:12:31.218 - the case, it'll be accommodated. Yes, there will be There could be times where Rogers is in underpaid. 00:12:31.218 --> 00:12:37.908 - Let me take this so There's a small chance the Rogers paving will overlap with this portion We don't 00:12:37.908 --> 00:12:44.862 - have that full Gantt chart of the timelines for that project yet. That's still being worked out with the 00:12:44.962 --> 00:12:50.737 - The lane closures for the Roger C project are only related to concrete work. So that that and that's 00:12:50.737 --> 00:12:56.512 - where we would keep the southbound open when they're paving what Kendall was talking about yesterday 00:12:56.512 --> 00:13:02.459 - with the the paving portion of the Roger Street project that would be done under a condition where they 00:13:02.459 --> 00:13:08.177 - would do flagging of traffic to as they're you know, either milling or paving at that same time. If 00:13:08.177 --> 00:13:14.238 - it makes most sense to detour the northbound traffic for volume reasons, we would take that step as well. 00:13:17.474 --> 00:13:23.459 - The good, and I'll just add one, we were all really, really worried about the first closure, and that 00:13:23.459 --> 00:13:29.797 - was during the school year. That was when we had, you know, full, you know, full population in Bloomington. 00:13:29.797 --> 00:13:36.017 - We didn't have any issues. We didn't see a lot of, we didn't see backups. We managed some traffic signals 00:13:36.017 --> 00:13:41.885 - a little differently, but everything we had fears about didn't really come to fruition, so that was 00:13:41.885 --> 00:13:46.110 - good. Knowing it is summer, lighter traffic, no school buses, you know, 00:13:46.274 --> 00:13:52.893 - We're confident. We'll be able to work it all out. Yeah. Yeah, I thought it was very smooth during that 00:13:52.893 --> 00:13:59.384 - I mean as smooth as shutting down a major thoroughfare can be but it was smooth, you know, I traveled 00:13:59.384 --> 00:14:05.875 - through that corridor all the time and didn't experience any like a major hardships Making that I had 00:14:05.875 --> 00:14:12.367 - fears that 3rd Street would be backed up to college that Rogers would be backed up to 3rd Street That 00:14:12.367 --> 00:14:15.294 - never we never had any of that which was yeah 00:14:15.458 --> 00:14:21.471 - Yeah. And I think I mean it's nice that we're reviewing this with time before the closure is happening 00:14:21.471 --> 00:14:27.367 - like it's not happening starting tomorrow which sometimes where that's the situation because I think 00:14:27.367 --> 00:14:33.205 - it does allow residents to make decisions about how they want to travel which helps to change those 00:14:33.205 --> 00:14:39.218 - patterns. We'll do similar sign boards like we did the last time to just let the traveling public know 00:14:39.218 --> 00:14:40.094 - what's coming. 00:14:41.026 --> 00:14:47.031 - I think if it just so happens that the Rogers Street paving is scheduled not during this window that 00:14:47.031 --> 00:14:53.513 - would be amazing. I know that there's work that has to be done on Roger Street and that might be unavoidable 00:14:53.513 --> 00:14:59.459 - because of the issues related to all the people involved in that work but it would be delightful if 00:14:59.459 --> 00:15:05.524 - they weren't hoping for is that they either get the concrete work done with the Rogers paving project 00:15:05.524 --> 00:15:07.902 - very quickly and they can start and get 00:15:08.002 --> 00:15:13.887 - Rogers paved and done and out of there before June 30th or that it's right after that July 24th, like 00:15:13.887 --> 00:15:19.773 - we're gonna try do our best Manage that schedule accordingly. Yeah, I think that'll be one less worry 00:15:19.773 --> 00:15:25.542 - on the on the table Yeah, we just need not to have the rain. We had a couple weeks ago that delayed 00:15:25.542 --> 00:15:31.832 - everything. So yeah for sure And thank you to well brothers and the city staff both for all the coordination 00:15:31.832 --> 00:15:35.582 - as we've been talking about this is a very it's a heavy left and 00:15:37.442 --> 00:15:44.766 - Is there any public comment on this item? All right, is there a motion I Move that we approve 00:15:44.766 --> 00:15:52.636 - the right-of-way closure and noise permit request for Weddle Brothers at Convention Center. I second 00:15:52.636 --> 00:16:00.428 - I will call the roll Cox Deckard. I Korone. I motion passes Thanks. Thanks Next is the right-of-way 00:16:00.428 --> 00:16:03.934 - closure request for go Lars on 3rd Street. I 00:16:09.794 --> 00:16:16.205 - Temporary right-of-way closure at 112 East 3rd Street to accommodate dumpster placement and building 00:16:16.205 --> 00:16:22.679 - related work The request includes temporary alley closures and a pedestrian diversion as necessary to 00:16:22.679 --> 00:16:29.407 - come to safely complete the work Sidewalk diversion is proposed for approximately Excuse me. Yeah, that's 00:16:29.407 --> 00:16:33.406 - 60 days on that one Sidewalk diversion is proposed for 60 days 00:16:33.794 --> 00:16:39.685 - Pedestrian and vehicular traffic will be maintained shifted or rerouted in accordance with the approved 00:16:39.685 --> 00:16:45.349 - maintenance of traffic plan The alley closure is also proposed for 60 days It's currently closed by 00:16:45.349 --> 00:16:51.070 - bollards which need to be removed to facilitate the placement If you have any other questions, I can 00:16:51.070 --> 00:16:51.806 - answer those 00:16:57.666 --> 00:17:04.038 - This is also near the area that we were just speaking about but just confirming that this is sidewalk 00:17:04.038 --> 00:17:10.285 - and the alley not at all into the Into the street correct? Yeah, so this diversion will utilize the 00:17:10.285 --> 00:17:16.532 - no parking zone there. We've coordinated with BT Shelley at BT has approved this It's not ideal for 00:17:16.532 --> 00:17:21.342 - them. But really it's it's about the only way this can be done correctly and 00:17:23.170 --> 00:17:31.038 - And we will be able to leave room for about one bus to pull over and then maybe two vehicles could also 00:17:31.038 --> 00:17:38.831 - still fit in this but we will take up a portion of that no parking zone But nothing will will protrude 00:17:38.831 --> 00:17:46.472 - into the street. Great. Thank you any public comment on this item Seeing none is their motion I move 00:17:46.472 --> 00:17:53.054 - that we approve the right-of-way closure request for goal ours on 3rd Street. I second 00:17:53.154 --> 00:18:01.099 - Will call the roll Cox Deckard. I Caron I motion passes Thank you next on the agenda staff reports Public 00:18:01.099 --> 00:18:08.744 - Works director just I've been talking a lot about construction and all the things going on around the 00:18:08.744 --> 00:18:16.615 - community right now We do as mentioned earlier. We do have a really busy paving maintenance season ahead 00:18:16.615 --> 00:18:22.686 - of us and ongoing currently lots of work being done around the downtown with our 00:18:22.818 --> 00:18:30.439 - contracted paving work So this is 6th Street 7th Street Madison Morton 9th 10th as well as the north-south 00:18:30.439 --> 00:18:37.704 - alley from 8th up to 11th, I believe between college and walnut. So just lots of investments going on 00:18:37.704 --> 00:18:45.325 - there. We are going to have a delay with our parking lot Surface parking lot repaving project. We approved 00:18:45.325 --> 00:18:51.806 - it earlier this year. We're having some issues with the contractor on that one and getting 00:18:52.418 --> 00:18:58.892 - That project started it was supposed to start next Monday, but that's just not going to be the case 00:18:58.892 --> 00:19:05.754 - So we'll hopefully be coming back to you with a secondary award for to the Contractor that had the second 00:19:05.754 --> 00:19:12.682 - bit on that one And then just lots of coordination going on right now with with all the different projects 00:19:12.682 --> 00:19:20.062 - the Kirkwood brick paver maintenance project is moving along the rain did push that project back a little bit and 00:19:20.482 --> 00:19:26.421 - So EMB is really trying to catch up a little bit there. They're still in that 100 block doing the brick, 00:19:26.421 --> 00:19:32.303 - paper, maintenance, extensive work. It's going to be really great when it's done. But we're making sure 00:19:32.303 --> 00:19:38.016 - we're doing all the communication out to the businesses and restaurant owners and everything else to 00:19:38.016 --> 00:19:43.955 - make sure everybody knows what schedules are and just making sure they're aware of any delays and things 00:19:43.955 --> 00:19:45.086 - that are occurring. 00:19:45.282 --> 00:19:52.711 - Big thanks to the street division and their team for all this as well as Cassie warning She's been doing 00:19:52.711 --> 00:19:59.786 - a great job out there. Just doing the coordination that we need So thanks to staff for all that and 00:19:59.786 --> 00:20:07.215 - that's all I have today Next is the approval of claims any board questions on claims Is there any public 00:20:07.215 --> 00:20:09.054 - comment on claims tonight 00:20:13.986 --> 00:20:20.862 - None is their motion. I move that we approve the claims in the amount of one million two hundred eighty 00:20:20.862 --> 00:20:27.541 - seven thousand nine dollars and twenty one cents Second, I will call the roll Cox Decker. I Corona I 00:20:27.541 --> 00:20:33.822 - motion passes and with nothing else on tonight's agenda agenda. I will call for adjournment. I