- Good afternoon everyone on this beautiful Bloomington afternoon. I call to order Today's meeting the
- Board of Public Works for Tuesday, June 2nd First on our agenda is messages from board members. Are
- there any messages from the board? Seeing none we will move along to title six abatements. We have an
- abatement at 1205 West East Branch Road Hello Mike Arnold with hand
- This is a property we've sent four citations to for garbage and debris and overgrowth and have not had
- any success in getting things taken care of. They did mow one time, but it's back to eight inches again.
- So we're requesting the board give us permission to abate the property. Are there questions from the board?
- Has there been any response from the property manager or owner regarding this? Property no, I did get
- one call About two weeks ago saying that they had mowed and they did actually mow somewhat But the garbage
- and debris is still on the property Whoops looking over the materials I just want to
- Thank city staff for updating what we talked about yesterday. This all looks Good is there any public
- comment on this item Seeing none is there a motion I move that we approve the continuous abatement at
- 1205 West East Branch Road and
- Tonight second with motion a second. I will call the roll Cox Deckard. I Caron I motion passes.
- Thank you. Thank you. Next is petitions and remonstrances. This is a spot for anyone who has comment
- about anything that is not on the agenda tonight. I will mention that there is a letter in the packet
- regarding an item from our last meeting at 420 East 6th Street that is considered part of petitions
- and remonstrances.
- There was a member of the public on last week that was trying to attend virtually and had some technical
- difficulties. This is Janice Greenberg and she wanted to just make sure the board was aware of her support
- for support for allowing a private dumpster trash service for the property at 420 East 6th Street that
- we've seen come for abatement in the past. More working actively with the property owner on just that.
- So but yeah we've put that in the
- Communication is in the board packet as well Thank you There's any other public comment on items not
- on the agenda If you are on zoom, feel free to raise the hand Function or use the jet None on zoom.
- All right We will move to the consent agenda on tonight's consent agenda the minutes from March 24th
- 2026 minutes of April 7th
- 2026 right of way for the special event 2026 blooming foods 50th birthday celebration right of way for
- special event 2026 BHA family night out resolution 2026 dash 0 to 4 ITS surplus for technology recycle
- recyclers Memorandum of understanding between City of Bloomington utilities and City of Bloomington
- engineering for Patterson Grimes Rogers resurfacing project and
- Service agreement with Howard asphalt LLC for asphalt crack ceiling maintenance project Service agreement
- with Indiana sign and barricade ink for pavement marking project Service agreement with specialties
- company LLC for handrail and guardrail repairs Service agreement with laundry equipment company LLC
- to move fire PPE laundry equipment to logistics center
- Update to Kirkwood partnership agreement with Indiana University Foundation and trustees of Indiana
- University and payroll. Are there any items that need to be removed from the consent agenda? No. Is
- there any board question on the consent agenda? Any public comment on the consent agenda? Not on zoom.
- All right. Is there a motion? I move that we approve the consent agenda for tonight's meeting June 2nd
- of twenty twenty six.
- I second I will call the roll Cox Decker and I Caron I motion passes We will move along to new business
- First item is the right-of-way closure and noise permit request for Crider and Crider at North Walnut
- and East 19th Street Criter and Crider are requesting approval of temporary right away closures at North
- Walnut Street to accommodate
- completion of a sanitary sewer connection associated with the hub to project the request includes temporary
- closures of the north sidewalk along East 19th Street the east sidewalk along North Walnut Street and
- the intersection of East 19th Street and North Walnut Street as necessary to safely complete the work
- closures are proposed to occur
- June 2026 for a two-week period pedestrian and vehicular traffic will be maintained shifted or rerouted
- in accordance with the approved maintenance of traffic plan They've also submitted a noise permit But
- if you have any further questions, I can answer those on this and we also have James here, too Their
- board questions on this item
- as well. Is there any public comment on this item. All right. Is there a motion. I move that we approve
- the right of way closure and noise permit request for Crider and Crider at North Walnut and East 19th
- Street. I will call the roll. Cox Deckard I Caron I motion passes. Next is the right of way closure
- and noise permit request for Weddle Brothers at the convention center. Thank you.
- Zach Bell on behalf of Kyle ball engineering Weddle Brothers is requesting approval of a temporary right
- away closure at South College Avenue to accommodate completing the enclosure at the connector portion
- of the Bloomington Convention Center Expansion project that will span from the new expansion on the
- east side of South College Avenue to the west side of College Avenue The request includes temporary
- closures of the Western sidewalk
- the existing Eastern pedestrian diversion and College Avenue south of third as necessary to safely complete
- the work. They're proposed from June 30th through July 24th and pedestrian vehicular traffic will be
- maintained shifted or rerouted in accordance with the approved maintenance of traffic plan. If you guys
- have any questions we also have representative from Weddle here today.
- I'm sorry if I may just add real quick just another thing to note with this closure and such I did talk
- with some representatives of Weddell today We also have a major art component that will go into this
- project as well That is early in the early stages of design development and all that there may be subsequent
- closures of college for shorter periods of time in the
- Well out into the future for that art installation, but we don't plan that the art installation would
- occur during this period There may be some hardware added and such but that would be about it Footprint
- the same as the closed footprint when the initial installation for the skywalk was put in place pretty
- similar Okay
- So all the access points that we kind of went through last time for my sister's closet and all of those
- conversations, those all are maintained in that way. Just the noise permit application only be used
- to meet the deadline and the permit has worked from 12 a.m. to 1159 p.m. Can you just talk about the
- case that you might need to use that?
- Yeah, you can just use the microphone there and state your name for yeah, Andrew Sherry project manager
- with little brothers So the noise permit is our saving grace if you will if we get into crunch time
- We have an unforeseen condition or something like that. We don't plan on working extra hours. Maybe
- ten hour days We're currently working eight But again, just a fallback if we need that to hit that July
- 24th date In this kind of instance, is there any
- That the contractor reach out to city staff to let them know that they plan to work I'm sure and yeah,
- they do a really good job communicating with city staff if they're getting behind we're gonna know yes
- We've notified all the tenants between second and third sent letters everything updated Google Maps
- with Kyle ball and his team So the same thing the process from before. Thank you. Yeah
- We talked a little bit in the work session about the coordination effort Not only I mean this project
- on its own obviously has a ton of coordination. It's a very important project It's takes a lot of people
- working on this but for city staff there's also coordination between this project and some Repaving
- and construction that's happening on one of our
- alternate routes being Rogers, right? So can you talk a little bit about what we talked about in the
- work session, but also just what do we perceive as being the overlap between those two projects? Yeah,
- so the Grimes, Patterson, Rogers, and Kirkwood Paving Project will kick off yet this summer, probably
- in the next couple weeks.
- What what for any of the paving on Roger Street? we would have the south by for any lane restrictions
- on Roger Street associated with the paving or Concrete work that would occur in advance of the paving
- Southbound Rogers is always going to be open so
- There is any lane closure or diversion. They're always going to keep the southbound traffic moving south
- on Rogers If a detour for northbound were to have to occur they detour that over to Walnut Street Knowing
- that Rogers is the detour for this closure that southern Traffic is the biggest key for us right there.
- So that's being taken into consideration We also have work taking place on 2nd Street as part of the
- 2nd Street rehabilitation project or rebuild and so there will be
- Some planned closures at Rogers in second, but that will not overlap with this that is that is off the
- table. Yes But as you mentioned it is requiring a lot of coordination We have another really really
- busy paving season both with contracted and in-house work at the Street Division that is definitely
- going to overlap and that but that key detail is that South Rogers would remain open at all times and
- And we had talked a little bit yesterday regarding the Rogers project that for the purposes of the Repaving
- portion it's handled with flagging. So Do we imagine that that's going to happen during this June 30th
- through July 24th window and for flagging I Would imagine that would mean northbound would be closed
- southbound I mean
- Somehow they're getting people around they're not allowing traffic in from the other direction If that's
- the case, it'll be accommodated. Yes, there will be There could be times where Rogers is in underpaid.
- Let me take this so There's a small chance the Rogers paving will overlap with this portion We don't
- have that full Gantt chart of the timelines for that project yet. That's still being worked out with the
- The lane closures for the Roger C project are only related to concrete work. So that that and that's
- where we would keep the southbound open when they're paving what Kendall was talking about yesterday
- with the the paving portion of the Roger Street project that would be done under a condition where they
- would do flagging of traffic to as they're you know, either milling or paving at that same time. If
- it makes most sense to detour the northbound traffic for volume reasons, we would take that step as well.
- The good, and I'll just add one, we were all really, really worried about the first closure, and that
- was during the school year. That was when we had, you know, full, you know, full population in Bloomington.
- We didn't have any issues. We didn't see a lot of, we didn't see backups. We managed some traffic signals
- a little differently, but everything we had fears about didn't really come to fruition, so that was
- good. Knowing it is summer, lighter traffic, no school buses, you know,
- We're confident. We'll be able to work it all out. Yeah. Yeah, I thought it was very smooth during that
- I mean as smooth as shutting down a major thoroughfare can be but it was smooth, you know, I traveled
- through that corridor all the time and didn't experience any like a major hardships Making that I had
- fears that 3rd Street would be backed up to college that Rogers would be backed up to 3rd Street That
- never we never had any of that which was yeah
- Yeah. And I think I mean it's nice that we're reviewing this with time before the closure is happening
- like it's not happening starting tomorrow which sometimes where that's the situation because I think
- it does allow residents to make decisions about how they want to travel which helps to change those
- patterns. We'll do similar sign boards like we did the last time to just let the traveling public know
- what's coming.
- I think if it just so happens that the Rogers Street paving is scheduled not during this window that
- would be amazing. I know that there's work that has to be done on Roger Street and that might be unavoidable
- because of the issues related to all the people involved in that work but it would be delightful if
- they weren't hoping for is that they either get the concrete work done with the Rogers paving project
- very quickly and they can start and get
- Rogers paved and done and out of there before June 30th or that it's right after that July 24th, like
- we're gonna try do our best Manage that schedule accordingly. Yeah, I think that'll be one less worry
- on the on the table Yeah, we just need not to have the rain. We had a couple weeks ago that delayed
- everything. So yeah for sure And thank you to well brothers and the city staff both for all the coordination
- as we've been talking about this is a very it's a heavy left and
- Is there any public comment on this item? All right, is there a motion I Move that we approve
- the right-of-way closure and noise permit request for Weddle Brothers at Convention Center. I second
- I will call the roll Cox Deckard. I Korone. I motion passes Thanks. Thanks Next is the right-of-way
- closure request for go Lars on 3rd Street. I
- Temporary right-of-way closure at 112 East 3rd Street to accommodate dumpster placement and building
- related work The request includes temporary alley closures and a pedestrian diversion as necessary to
- come to safely complete the work Sidewalk diversion is proposed for approximately Excuse me. Yeah, that's
- 60 days on that one Sidewalk diversion is proposed for 60 days
- Pedestrian and vehicular traffic will be maintained shifted or rerouted in accordance with the approved
- maintenance of traffic plan The alley closure is also proposed for 60 days It's currently closed by
- bollards which need to be removed to facilitate the placement If you have any other questions, I can
- answer those
- This is also near the area that we were just speaking about but just confirming that this is sidewalk
- and the alley not at all into the Into the street correct? Yeah, so this diversion will utilize the
- no parking zone there. We've coordinated with BT Shelley at BT has approved this It's not ideal for
- them. But really it's it's about the only way this can be done correctly and
- And we will be able to leave room for about one bus to pull over and then maybe two vehicles could also
- still fit in this but we will take up a portion of that no parking zone But nothing will will protrude
- into the street. Great. Thank you any public comment on this item Seeing none is their motion I move
- that we approve the right-of-way closure request for goal ours on 3rd Street. I second
- Will call the roll Cox Deckard. I Caron I motion passes Thank you next on the agenda staff reports Public
- Works director just I've been talking a lot about construction and all the things going on around the
- community right now We do as mentioned earlier. We do have a really busy paving maintenance season ahead
- of us and ongoing currently lots of work being done around the downtown with our
- contracted paving work So this is 6th Street 7th Street Madison Morton 9th 10th as well as the north-south
- alley from 8th up to 11th, I believe between college and walnut. So just lots of investments going on
- there. We are going to have a delay with our parking lot Surface parking lot repaving project. We approved
- it earlier this year. We're having some issues with the contractor on that one and getting
- That project started it was supposed to start next Monday, but that's just not going to be the case
- So we'll hopefully be coming back to you with a secondary award for to the Contractor that had the second
- bit on that one And then just lots of coordination going on right now with with all the different projects
- the Kirkwood brick paver maintenance project is moving along the rain did push that project back a little bit and
- So EMB is really trying to catch up a little bit there. They're still in that 100 block doing the brick,
- paper, maintenance, extensive work. It's going to be really great when it's done. But we're making sure
- we're doing all the communication out to the businesses and restaurant owners and everything else to
- make sure everybody knows what schedules are and just making sure they're aware of any delays and things
- that are occurring.
- Big thanks to the street division and their team for all this as well as Cassie warning She's been doing
- a great job out there. Just doing the coordination that we need So thanks to staff for all that and
- that's all I have today Next is the approval of claims any board questions on claims Is there any public
- comment on claims tonight
- None is their motion. I move that we approve the claims in the amount of one million two hundred eighty
- seven thousand nine dollars and twenty one cents Second, I will call the roll Cox Decker. I Corona I
- motion passes and with nothing else on tonight's agenda agenda. I will call for adjournment. I