- Good evening, Adam Wason, Public Works Director for the City of Bloomington. It is 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday,
- June 16th, 2026. We're in the McCloskey Room of City Hall for the regularly scheduled Board of Public
- Works meeting, and I will turn it over to Board President Elizabeth Cronin. Hello everyone, and I call
- to order tonight
- Regular meeting of the Board of Public Works for Tuesday, June 16. First, we have messages from board
- members. Are there any messages from the board? Not necessarily a message, but during staff reports,
- I'd love to get a update on the Clubhouse Drive bridge. OK. Still closed. Yes.
- And Elizabeth, if you would mention for the online folks about public comment, I forgot to do that in
- my opening remarks. Sure. If anyone has public comment on tonight's meeting agenda, you may use the
- chat function on Zoom or the Zoom link that is in tonight's agenda. Again, we are in McCloskey room,
- which is not our typical location at City Hall, but we are just down the hall from council chambers.
- We'll start tonight with Title VI abatements. First, we have 1520 South Woodruff. All right, good evening.
- I'm going to take this one and just let you know that Housing and Neighborhood Development is seeking
- an abatement for 1520 South Woodruff Lane. This is based on violations of Title VI for overgrown weeds,
- grass, or noxious plants. They provided their notice as a violation on the
- 14th of May, 21st of May, 28th of May, and 5th of June. This is for an overgrown lawn area and such.
- So they also attached a series of six pictures. And we have staff, we have Jeremy from Hand here to
- answer any questions if you have them. Thank you. Any questions from the board on this item?
- Who's answering questions? Any idea what's going on here? Is it a vacant house? Is there anyone living
- there? I don't know. Someone lives there. This is actually. Jeremy, if you could just come to the microphone
- and just state your name for the record. Sorry. This is the one. Hi. Jeremy Bettis with housing and
- neighborhood development.
- The property in question here, it's eventually going to be foreclosed, I believe. OK. But it appears
- we've had no contact with the owner, so. Despite repeated attempts. Yeah. OK. Thank you. All right.
- Any comments from the public on this item? Again, if you are on Zoom, feel free to use the chat or the
- raise hand function.
- Sorry, one question. Is this a continuous? Yes, this is a continuous abatement request, right? Thanks.
- Any additional questions? All right. Is there a motion? I move that we approve the continuous abatement
- at 1520 South Woodruff. Second. With a motion and a second, I will call the roll. Roach? Aye. Cox-Deckard?
- Aye. Caron? Aye. Motion passes.
- Next, there's a Title VI abatement request for 501 East Grimes Lane. Again, Adam Weiss, Public Works
- Director, on behalf of Hand and our legal team. This is at 501 East Grimes, and so Hand staff has issued
- notice of violation on the 21st of May, 29th of May, and 6th or
- There are a couple of pictures in your packet that show quite a bit of garbage, debris, recyclables
- throughout the property. So this is an abatement to clean up the property and property owner was notified
- with those notices of violation. And so they would request abatement and would be a continuous one if
- it was to reoccur.
- We do have representation online for 501. OK. Questions from the board. Similar questions before. Have
- there been any direct contact with the owner? I understand that there may be somebody online and what
- do we know what the situation is? Steve Tamowitz, Housing Neighborhood Development Compliance Officer.
- So I've emailed the owner.
- on 511 about this property. And I have spoke with the tenants also in person and gave them multiple
- verbal warnings. Can I ask a process question? This item had three NOVs, the first one incurred
- monetary penalty. The last one we heard was four and the first one was a warning. What's the difference
- when you attach a warning the first time versus you go straight to a? I believe it was it went 50, 100,
- 150 for the fines. That's correct, but the prior one we saw got a warning the first time, so there were
- four and then 50, 100, 150. And then the first time, I'm sorry, last year? No, so I think what
- Elizabeth's asking is on 520 South Woodruff that we just heard there was originally a notice of violation
- that was a warning on the 14th of May and then three subsequent fines. On this one we just didn't issue
- a warning because you had probably verbal content. Yes. So the warning he was doing probably verbally
- instead of actually doing written. I'm sorry. I had a you report on 540
- assigned to me so okay so you had already spoken with the property the tenants or the property owner
- at that point the tenants at that point okay and then 511 I emailed the property owner great okay and
- we do have someone online that would like to speak about this property so well if you don't mind we'll
- go that route and yep and they're unmuted so please go ahead hello hi my name is Katie Norris I am the
- executive director of hotels for homeless
- I would like to put my two cents in here on this. I've spoken with Steve, the inspector earlier. I think
- we have a good plan going forward. If there's any issues due to the abatement, he will contact me. I'll
- be able to go over there, send my people over there to keep it clean.
- I was told by Angela that my best hope here of being able to get the fees waived would be to come to
- this meeting because we had already missed the deadlines. I feel like I was notified of the issue when
- it was too late. Once I was notified of the issue, I immediately sent my son over with our truck and
- he was able to get the mattresses out. We thought that that was, you know,
- all that was to the issue. He did it, you know, same day as soon as we found out. And then we found
- out that there was more that needed to be done. I believe that has been completed. Steve, am I correct?
- Did you go back over and check? I took a picture today and there's still garbage like in the driveway
- and, you know, there's scattered deposits of garbage. Okay, if you're able to email me those,
- I can go over there myself. I did send somebody else after I spoke with you, but I can go there myself
- and make sure that that is picked up. Is it large items, like things I won't personally be able to get?
- I mean, it's scattered throughout the yard. I mean, it's hard to say. OK, well, I might take somebody
- with me then. Anyway, I would like to, I appreciate you, Steve, for all that you do, keeping our community
- clean. I appreciate all of what all of you do, but I would like to,
- kind of plead my case here for the fees to be waived based on the circumstances of this home and the
- landlord. So the landlord is... Sorry, can I interrupt real quick? Are you the property owner or the
- landlord? I am not. So I work for a company that facilitated the landlord to have those tenants in. And like,
- When we get a landlord to take section eight, I mean, he had never taken section eight before. So when
- we get a landlord in our community to take section eight, that's kind of the cream of the crop. I mean,
- that's the best thing we can do is to get somebody long-term stable housing. You know, that's what we
- do. I mean, we put people in hotels, but we get them into long-term stable housing, and then we work
- on relationships with landlords for the long-term, not only for the clients we're working with, but
- for future. And I would hate for this,
- landlord to be penalized financially due to something that he did as a good deed or in good faith towards
- our community to help those in need.
- I'd also like to speak on the family. So Ms. Norris, I guess my reason for asking if you are an owner
- or a tenant of the property, in order for this board to probably, and I would ask our legal team to
- kind of help here too, is I think the tenants or the property owner would need to be the one to appeal
- to have fines waived. Someone that has an auxiliary relation with the tenants that's trying to facilitate
- the Section 8 and stuff,
- appreciate the efforts, understand that's very important work, but to actually have a formal appeal
- of fines that have been issued, I believe we would need either the tenants or the property owner or
- whoever the fines were actually issued to, to make that appeal. And I don't know if anything limits
- us. So I guess what I would pull was that it was too late for that, and so that I should attend this
- meeting on behalf of that and miss that deadline. Yeah, and if deadlines were missed on when those appeals
- would need to be filed and such,
- I don't know that we're prepared to take action one way or the other on that this evening. I think it
- would have to be for a conversation with our city legal and others to figure out if it's the appropriate
- thing to do. But a decision on the spot tonight for that is not something I would ask this board to
- do. One thing I do want to clarify. In the situation, what we have before us tonight is to approve or
- deny the abatement, which is basically the cleaning of the property.
- If by the time the city is conducting the abatement, if the property is clean and does not require abatement,
- then the abatement will not need to move forward. So that's the issue at hand tonight. And the abatement
- does carry a cost to it. So it is still important that, based on decisions that are made by this board
- this evening over the abatement, that the property be cleaned
- before the city has to actually conduct the abatement, correct? Yeah, there's, do you guys do a 10-day
- notice after tonight's meeting for the property? There's a notification time frame there, so there would
- be time to get the property into compliance before we would actually send a contractor out to do the
- abatement. That's how we've done these in the past.
- So then we tonight are voting on approval of the abatement itself, not necessarily the fines incurred
- along with that. Correct. We can, you know, I'm happy to talk with Katie tomorrow or figure out,
- you know, how to actually, if they want to make a formal appeal. There are deadlines that need to be
- met for the appeal. So if those are passed, it may need to be that the appeal happens through the circuit
- courts at this point. I don't know. Yeah, and I'm sorry. I'm not the hand attorney.
- Didn't have a chance to speak with him before this meeting. I'm Sorry, he's online. Oh, okay So Taylor
- if you know the answer to this and you want to jump in that would be great I because I don't know the
- timelines for an appeal tonight I don't think would be appropriate for you guys to be deciding on an
- appeal of a ticket It's just on the abatement. I do agree with Adam as well that the We would need a
- tenant or a property owner or perhaps a formal like a formal
- designation of someone to appear on their behalf. I'm not sure that we can accept just someone showing
- up and appealing on anyone's behalf as a representative of the property. Taylor, do you have any additional
- clarification? Hi, Taylor Bretman. Taylor Brown, City Legal. I apologize, I'm home. I'm feeling well,
- so I'm homesick today, but I am here in spirit and a disembodied voice.
- I agree with the initial assessment. I believe it would have to be a property owner or their specific
- designee like a registered agent. And unless I'm much mistaken, those have to be the appeals of the
- fines themselves aren't done through the Board of Public Works. I believe they have to be done through
- the courts. I would have to confirm that. I know that's the way for the BHQA, but I don't know if that
- is specifically for the Board of Public Works, because I know there's lots of extra rules around the
- Board of Public Works.
- As far as the meeting this evening, this is just about the abatement, not the fines in particular.
- But again, I'm happy to meet afterwards and then with either Adam or whoever it is, and we can get that
- process sorted out specifically around this particular housing situation. Thank you, Taylor.
- Thank you. I appreciate you guys. Should I leave my contact information with somebody or should I take
- down somebody's contact information? Yeah, if you can just send it to Miranda in the chat, that would
- be great. Okay, thank you very much. Thank you, Katie. I have just a quick follow up question. You said
- the communication that you had was with the tenants.
- In this kind of situation, is the landlord ever copied on these communications, or by matter of course,
- you are always dealing with the tenants in a property that does have a landlord? Well, the landlord,
- or in this case, the owner, gets mailed the notice of violation also. OK. Or sometimes the registered
- agent. Yes. Great. And also the agent. OK. Thank you. Any other questions from the board?
- Is there any public comment on this item? Again, we are talking about the continuous abatement for 501
- East Grimes. None on zoom. All right. Is there a motion? I move that we approve the continuous abatement
- for 501 East Grimes Lane. Second. A motion and a second. I will call the roll. Roach? Aye. Cox Decker?
- Aye. Caron? Aye. Motion passes.
- Next on the agenda is petitions and remonstrances, which is a time for anyone to make comments on items
- that are not on tonight's agenda. Again, if you are on Zoom, feel free to use the chat or raise hand
- function. Come over to the microphone and state your name, please. My name is John Simpson. We'll have
- a three minute per for public comment tonight. Hold on. Let me get to my page.
- I haven't started yet. I went to the wrong thing. I thought there was a lot of people here. We're not
- that popular. All right. Go ahead. Thank you. I did some work for the city in March, finished in early
- April, and haven't paid me. And nobody's standing up and saying why. Nobody's, I mean, a phone call,
- explanation, something.
- I work strictly for municipal entities for the last 16 years. I've never encountered this. You had 45
- days by contract to pay me, and we're long past that. I do understand it's going to get paid now, but
- I deserve an answer. There's some language itself. Every one of these contracts has invalid language in it.
- or invalid or, that's not the right, it can be, anyway, it's likely invalid. Basically says that I can't
- be damaged by you guys. Sure, I'm damaged, you should have paid me. I want somebody, I want an answer
- why, I want somebody to apologize to me. I did the city a solid,
- There was multiple things that I could have gone after for changes, and I didn't. I'm always the good
- guy. I am always righteous. And the city didn't have its right of way. You had trees that were inside
- a private fence. So this was a job cutting trees. How was I supposed to know I'm cutting a tree inside
- this fence? All the trees had to be marked a certain way, whatever they were.
- It's minor stuff, but at the same time, money's money. I did the work. I want to get paid. I don't think
- you're going to respond to me, but I would like some meaningful response. There. Did I get it in under
- three minutes? You did. Thank you very much. Did you want to respond? We are not able to respond. We're
- all free people. You can do anything you want.
- whether it's advised or not, maybe a different story. Thank you, Mr. Simpson. I'll make sure that I
- follow up with the engineering department, try to get some answers. Thank you. All right, are there
- other comments under petitions and remonstrances? None, I don't see them. OK, then we'll move to the
- consent agenda. On tonight's consent agenda, the minutes from April 21, 2026, minutes from May 4, 2026,
- Resolution 2026-029, Mobile Vendor Liquid Sunshine LLC. Right of Way Special Event for the 2026 Taste
- of Bloomington. Right of Way Special Event for the 2026 Fourth of July Parade. Right of Way Special
- Event for 2026 Bloomerang Music Festival. Memorandum of Understanding between City of Bloomington Parks
- and City of Bloomington Engineering for median improvements.
- Change order number one for the Union Street crosswalk with EMB paving, resolution 2026-030, art on
- the traffic box at Waldron, and payroll. Are there any items that need to be removed from the consent
- agenda tonight? I don't have anything that needs to be removed, but did you get my message about the
- parks? Oh, on the east third and west third? Yeah, it's just a typo. It's not anything that needs to
- be changed. OK, sorry. Just wanted to make sure. Thank you for that.
- Does the board have any questions on the consent agenda? Is there public comment on the consent agenda?
- None on Zoom. Seeing none, is there a motion? I move that we approve the consent agenda for this meeting
- on June 16th of 2026. Second. I will call the roll. Roach? Aye. Cox-Duckard? Aye. Caron? Aye. Motion passes.
- Next is new business. First on the new business agenda is the right of way closure request for HR Green
- at 2500 West 3rd Street. Hi there. Kyle Ball with engineering. So this project is taking place at West
- 3rd and South Kimball Drive, the former cozy table site. The request is for a lane closure and a sidewalk
- diversion. The lane closure would be the westbound lane
- So the northernmost lane, if you're looking at the aerial and the adjacent sidewalk, the lane closure
- would be used to accommodate that diversion for the sidewalk. I will note that since the staff report
- was written, I think that these dates will be updated, but the duration will remain the same. So I think
- we noted two to three weeks.
- two to three weeks for the work. They'll be reconstructing the sidewalk in that area and then along
- Kimball Drive as well. I would just note that the sidewalk that's on the west side of Kimball
- is non-continuous. It doesn't go north of that property. So one of those awkward shifts that just kind
- of dumps folks into a parking lot. Sorry, any questions?
- Thank you. Questions from the board? Is there any public comment on this item? None on Zoom. Is there
- a motion? I move that we approve the right-of-way closure request for HR Green at 2500 West 3rd Street.
- Second. I will call the roll. Roach? Aye. Cox-Duckard? Aye. Caron? Aye. Motion passes. Next
- is the right-of-way closure request for Michaelis.
- on South Walnut Street. Kyle Ball, engineering again. So this request is at 405 South Walnut on the
- east side of the street to accommodate some guardrail replacement. This would be for four consecutive
- days to occur sometime between July 1st and 14th of this year. So the pedestrian route would be detoured
- to the west side of South Walnut.
- Thank you. Questions from the board? Actually, sorry, I'm going to ask one, if I may. 405 South Walnut,
- which block is that? Can you help familiarize? So it is just south of Smith Ave. Just south of Smith
- Ave. So like chocolate mousse. I think we've seen this company working on several facades throughout
- that area in the last couple of years. Okay. Just making sure they maintain business access as needed and such.
- in coordination with other projects in that area, both the convention center and otherwise. Good thing
- this is Walnut. Yeah, I know. That was Microsoft. And it's the sidewalks specifically, not the other
- traveling lanes. So let's see. The sidewalk will be on the east side. So it will be potentially in front
- of Chocolate News. I'm trying to imagine the guard, like, the word guard rail is throwing it off a bit.
- photo just from the maps. I don't know exactly. Yeah, I did look into it closely. It might be some sort
- of, you know, fencing like we see at some along the at some of the establishments downtown. It may have
- more to do with the building than the streetscape. Is that what we're thinking? Which if it's the building,
- I'm just curious.
- I would imagine chocolate mousse would be informed as part of their tenancy. What I'm struggling with
- is there's 403 and there's 409. And more citing 405. That's where I was kind of confused which building
- it was actually on. It looks like it's Urban Station. That's listed as chocolate mousse.
- Yeah, I just have Google shows Urban Station is 403, so that's what I was saying. So maybe chocolate
- mousse itself is 405. Yeah, that's what Google's showing. Okay, thank you. Any other questions from
- the board? All right, public comment on this item? None on Zoom. Seeing none, is there a motion?
- I move that we approve the right-of-way closure request for Mikey Ellis on South Walnut Street. Second.
- I will call the roll. Roach? Aye. Cooks, Decker? Aye. Caron? Aye. Motion passes. Next is a right-of-way
- closure request for Ridge Point Construction on West 8th Street. Kyle Vault, engineering again. Ridge
- Point Construction, they're requesting a sidewalk closure at 1617 West 8th Street.
- for sidewalk replacement. They're looking for two days to occur sometime between June 17th and June
- 30th. I will admit I have a typo here. Still getting used to our new template format. So this area is
- another area where there's just no sidewalks to detour to. So what we'd ask here is for a pedestrian
- guided diversion where we could use it on the lookout for anybody that might need assistance to get
- around this work area. It looks like there's
- no sidewalk continuing east, sorry, west of Spring Street. There is one that goes west, sorry, east
- on Hay Street, down 8th across Hay Street. Sorry, a lot of words. But we would ask them to be responsible
- for maintaining the traffic there.
- I'm so sorry. As I was reviewing the Google Maps, there's no one else other in the picture of that location
- than the famous Dave Askins on the Google Map. So literally, when you look, Dave is crossing the crosswalk.
- At the Chocolate Moose. I've actually seen that. Towards the Chocolate Moose. I was like, wait a second.
- I'm looking at the maps, and I'm scrolling, and then I just see, hey, that's Dave.
- I couldn't help myself. Preserved in Google memory. On the West 8th Street right-of-way closure, how
- does this fulfill city ordinance related to pedestrian diversion?
- In these cases, it really puts us in a tough position, right? So we really should have a pedestrian
- diversion for every sidewalk closure throughout the city. That at some point makes it impossible for
- smaller contractors to be able to complete the work just because of the sheer cost of erecting one of
- those diversions. The other thing is just the prudence of it. If you're having a closure there for two days,
- the cost of operating that is gonna be more than you're gonna make on any of those jobs. The other side
- of it is just locations. If we're asking for a pedestrian diversion to be erected down West 17th Street,
- that's an extremely long stretch of road next to high-speed traffic, so it's just not an ideal scenario.
- We go back and forth with how to advise folks to go about these closures.
- with those factors in mind. So is the pedestrian assisted guidance does that fulfill the walk around
- like they're being they're being assisted in the walk around? That's what I'm looking at right you know
- in a location like the 1617 West 8th Street it's towards you know it's it's
- in a very small residential neighborhood, probably lighter traffic. So, you know, as long as, you know,
- ideally you're going to do a walk around or get them to the other side of the street. There's not a
- sidewalk on the other side. So that's when, you know, you're literally expecting the contractor to assist
- someone that is a pedestrian that has any type of mobility, you know,
- challenging circumstance to get around their site to help walk them literally around for that, you know,
- half a block or quarter block to just really pay attention to the site. Not ideal, but you know, again,
- this is a very low volume residential side street. And the contractors are specifically made aware that
- it's their responsibility to do this guided? Absolutely. Okay.
- And we can follow, can you guys make sure, can we follow up with just a written communication on their
- permit to really highlight that as one of the conditions? Absolutely, thanks. Other questions from the
- board? Any public comment on this item? None on Zoom. All right, is there a motion? I move that we approve
- the right of way closure request for Ridge Point construction on West 8th Street. Second. I will call
- the roll. Roach? Aye.
- Cox Deckard? Aye. Caron? Aye. Motion passes. Next is the right-of-way closure request for advantage
- painting and maintenance on South Curry Pike and West Roll Avenue. All right, so another unique sidewalk
- closure, Kyle Ball, for engineering once again. So this project
- has been in the works for a few months at this point. So they are requesting a sidewalk closure in order
- to reconstruct the sidewalk as part of the site conditions, site requirements, sorry. They're requesting
- two weeks of closure here. And in this closure, there's not a paired sidewalk on the west side of South
- Curry. So it'll be more of a pedestrian guided diversion.
- where they would use the private lot that's in the construction area to navigate folks through.
- Thank you. Just noting that this is a much higher traffic area than what we had just spoken about. Questions
- from the board? So they're replacing the sidewalk as part of our site approval. What is happening? Is
- the building being rebuilt?
- I believe it's a new restaurant that's going in here, so typically, and I don't know all the ins and
- outs of it, but they've triggered some kind of compliance requirement where all the sidewalks have to
- be updated. I would have to imagine that they would have to have a curb ramp placed there at Roll and
- Curry Pike. This area in general is not accessible as it stands, anywho, so anything we can do to help
- improve it.
- Highland Lounge location. That's right. I was just going to note that it's the old Highland Lounge location.
- The infamous. Famous places of Bloomington. Chocolate Mousse and Highland Lounge for covering them all
- this evening. Thank you. Yeah, and just looking at the site conditions now, yeah, so it looks like it'll
- be curb ramp at Curry and Roll, improved sidewalks, and they do have plenty of space in that private
- parking lot. It's without a doubt the safest way to try to detour that traffic given the
- trying to cross there's nowhere to take it otherwise so that'll be a pretty good use of that so thank
- you. So again if I can just request written follow-up with the contractor to make sure that everybody
- knows the guided detour goes through the parking lot please. Absolutely. Thank you very much. Any public
- comment on this item? None on Zoom. All right is there a motion?
- I move that we approve the right-of-way closure request for advantage painting and maintenance on South
- Curry Pike and West Roll Avenue. And please do let the minutes reflect that I do not see Dave Askins
- near Curry Pike and Roll on my Google Maps here. And with that, I will second it. With motion and a
- second, I will call the roll. Roach? Aye. Cox, Decker? Aye. Caron? Aye. Motion passes.
- Next is the right of way closure request for CFC at 205 North College Avenue. Rebecca Davis, Engineering.
- This request comes from a petitioner requesting the approval of temporary right of way closure at the
- 200 block of North College Avenue and the 200 block of West 6th Street.
- to accommodate crane placement and masonry tuck pointing on the Graham Plaza building that work will
- be done by Umphreys Masonry. The request includes the temporary closures of metered parking adjacent
- to the building, the westernmost lane of North College Avenue, and the westbound lane of West 6th Street
- as necessary to stage the crane and complete the work safely. The closure
- The closures are proposed in two separate phases happening between the dates of June 22nd and July 28th.
- The intention is to have one lane closure at a time as work is performed on two separate phases of the
- building. Pedestrian and vehicular traffic will be maintained, shifted, or rerouted in accordance with
- the approved maintenance of traffic plan.
- Let's see. I feel like it gets a little redundant here. They're going to close approximately seven parking
- spaces. There will be two short duration sidewalk closures, less than 24 hours total, but that's just
- for the staging of the overhead protection that they're going to provide to keep the sidewalk open.
- Petitioners shall install and maintain all required signage barricades and traffic control devices,
- maintain access to adjacent properties, and limit the closure to the minimum area and duration necessary
- to complete the work. Thank you. Questions from the board? Sounds like we're going to turn college into
- a pedestrian... It's like playing Frogger. Yeah.
- I mean I think in many ways this type of work actually may work best when we're already trying to kind
- of divert people away from college anyway. So I think it's probably good to get it done.
- Now is better than August. Yes, exactly. So will the westernmost southbound lane of college be closed
- at the same time or a different time as the westbound lane of West Sixth? Different time, because they're
- going to have one crane and they will start, I think, on the college side, college-facing side. And
- then that crane will move. OK. And then, yeah, so. Great. Thank you.
- You might want to talk with Mr. O'Farrell about looking specifically at the convention center timing
- and if it makes more sense to ask him to do sixth first and have less overlapping of the college closures.
- I think if he does college first, I mean, I don't know how long it's going to take because it could
- be that that's wrapping up by the time
- the other closures in effect, because it's the 29th, is that right? June 29th. June 29th through the
- 24th of July, I think goes with the... So we, it's just something in the details and the conversations
- we have with Ms. Romford, so that we could possibly make just minor tweaks if needed. Okay. Any other
- questions from the board? Questions from the, or I'm sorry, public comment on this item. Not on Zoom.
- All right. Is there a motion? I move that we approve the right of way closure requests for CFC at 205
- North College Avenue. Second. I will call the roll. Roach? Aye. Cox-Dekard? Aye. Caron? Aye.
- Motion passes. Next on the agenda is staff reports. Good evening. Adam Wason again, public works director.
- To board member Roach's question earlier about an update on the Clubhouse Drive road closure.
- due to the issues with the bridge there. I don't have an official update for you right now, but I can
- get with our mayor's office, legal and engineering, who are kind of heading up that conversation with
- the county and others. I don't know that there's been much progress or not, so I don't have great information
- there, but can follow up on that.
- Other things of note, you know, we were talking a lot about road closures and, you know, detours. It's
- certainly that time of season in Bloomington. And there's a lot, you know, the near west side, southwest
- of City Hall here has a lot going on with the Hopewell project with Roger Street reconstruction and
- paving. So it is, you know, just advising the traveling public if you can avoid second and Rogers and
- choose an alternate route for for that area of the city for the next several weeks and month.
- Plus, that would be well advised as someone who's a commuter on 2nd Street regularly. I'm finding some
- alternate routes. So as we talked about in the staff meeting earlier this morning, if you go that way,
- it's going to be problematic right now. But, you know, do appreciate it. We've got a lot of investment
- going on and so that's the takeaway too is that, you know,
- It's not for, you know, there will be good infrastructure improvements with all of these closures. So
- the Kirkwood brick sidewalk project is going pretty well. We are, you know, the rain hampered that project
- for on the onset, but they're starting to make up some ground. They've moved to the 400 block where,
- you know, Jimmy John's Knicks and.
- Village Jelly and Trinity Churches. So they're moving, they were starting on that block and what we
- know is the subsequent block, the 500 block was the most intense block with the tree plots and some
- of the more intensive work there for the Kirkwood sidewalk project. So hopefully they'll be able to
- gain some ground and yeah, that's all I have for you tonight though. Just a note of thanks to that 500.
- The lock of Kirkwood looks beautiful. You've done a fantastic job. I know it's taken a lot of work and
- weather delays, so thank you for that. The patina should match up a little bit better in the future.
- Get a little wear on the new bricks and it'll, yeah, it looks great. And those trip hazards, yeah. It's
- a good investment in our downtown. Next on the agenda is the approval of claims. Are there any questions
- from the board on claims tonight?
- Any public comment on claims? I guess I'll just make a quick comment on claim. You know, hearing from
- Mr. Simpson earlier, we'll make sure we get figure out what's going on there and make sure that if there
- is an apology needed or anything, we do that if it's so deserved and make sure we do right by all of
- our contractors. But we'll get more information on that and handle that internally. Thank you. Any public
- comment on claims?
- none on zoom all right is there a motion i move that we approve claims in the amount of three million
- five hundred fifty eight thousand seven hundred thirty three dollars and six cents second i will call
- the roll roach aye cox decker aye corone aye motion passes i have nothing else on the agenda i will
- call for adjournment