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