WEBVTT 00:00:00.290 --> 00:00:09.074 - Good evening, Adam Wason, Public Works Director for the City of Bloomington. It is 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 00:00:09.074 --> 00:00:17.607 - June 16th, 2026. We're in the McCloskey Room of City Hall for the regularly scheduled Board of Public 00:00:17.607 --> 00:00:26.224 - Works meeting, and I will turn it over to Board President Elizabeth Cronin. Hello everyone, and I call 00:00:26.224 --> 00:00:27.646 - to order tonight 00:00:28.482 --> 00:00:37.219 - Regular meeting of the Board of Public Works for Tuesday, June 16. First, we have messages from board 00:00:37.219 --> 00:00:45.871 - members. Are there any messages from the board? Not necessarily a message, but during staff reports, 00:00:45.871 --> 00:00:52.638 - I'd love to get a update on the Clubhouse Drive bridge. OK. Still closed. Yes. 00:00:52.866 --> 00:00:59.118 - And Elizabeth, if you would mention for the online folks about public comment, I forgot to do that in 00:00:59.118 --> 00:01:05.248 - my opening remarks. Sure. If anyone has public comment on tonight's meeting agenda, you may use the 00:01:05.248 --> 00:01:11.439 - chat function on Zoom or the Zoom link that is in tonight's agenda. Again, we are in McCloskey room, 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:17.630 - which is not our typical location at City Hall, but we are just down the hall from council chambers. 00:01:18.498 --> 00:01:26.271 - We'll start tonight with Title VI abatements. First, we have 1520 South Woodruff. All right, good evening. 00:01:26.271 --> 00:01:33.682 - I'm going to take this one and just let you know that Housing and Neighborhood Development is seeking 00:01:33.682 --> 00:01:41.237 - an abatement for 1520 South Woodruff Lane. This is based on violations of Title VI for overgrown weeds, 00:01:41.237 --> 00:01:46.686 - grass, or noxious plants. They provided their notice as a violation on the 00:01:46.850 --> 00:01:54.863 - 14th of May, 21st of May, 28th of May, and 5th of June. This is for an overgrown lawn area and such. 00:01:54.863 --> 00:02:02.796 - So they also attached a series of six pictures. And we have staff, we have Jeremy from Hand here to 00:02:02.796 --> 00:02:10.174 - answer any questions if you have them. Thank you. Any questions from the board on this item? 00:02:10.946 --> 00:02:19.380 - Who's answering questions? Any idea what's going on here? Is it a vacant house? Is there anyone living 00:02:19.380 --> 00:02:28.305 - there? I don't know. Someone lives there. This is actually. Jeremy, if you could just come to the microphone 00:02:28.305 --> 00:02:36.493 - and just state your name for the record. Sorry. This is the one. Hi. Jeremy Bettis with housing and 00:02:36.493 --> 00:02:38.622 - neighborhood development. 00:02:39.298 --> 00:02:47.163 - The property in question here, it's eventually going to be foreclosed, I believe. OK. But it appears 00:02:47.163 --> 00:02:54.950 - we've had no contact with the owner, so. Despite repeated attempts. Yeah. OK. Thank you. All right. 00:02:54.950 --> 00:03:02.971 - Any comments from the public on this item? Again, if you are on Zoom, feel free to use the chat or the 00:03:02.971 --> 00:03:04.606 - raise hand function. 00:03:09.634 --> 00:03:17.797 - Sorry, one question. Is this a continuous? Yes, this is a continuous abatement request, right? Thanks. 00:03:17.797 --> 00:03:26.038 - Any additional questions? All right. Is there a motion? I move that we approve the continuous abatement 00:03:26.038 --> 00:03:34.518 - at 1520 South Woodruff. Second. With a motion and a second, I will call the roll. Roach? Aye. Cox-Deckard? 00:03:34.518 --> 00:03:37.054 - Aye. Caron? Aye. Motion passes. 00:03:38.402 --> 00:03:45.487 - Next, there's a Title VI abatement request for 501 East Grimes Lane. Again, Adam Weiss, Public Works 00:03:45.487 --> 00:03:52.853 - Director, on behalf of Hand and our legal team. This is at 501 East Grimes, and so Hand staff has issued 00:03:52.853 --> 00:03:57.342 - notice of violation on the 21st of May, 29th of May, and 6th or 00:03:57.890 --> 00:04:05.757 - There are a couple of pictures in your packet that show quite a bit of garbage, debris, recyclables 00:04:05.757 --> 00:04:14.095 - throughout the property. So this is an abatement to clean up the property and property owner was notified 00:04:14.095 --> 00:04:22.119 - with those notices of violation. And so they would request abatement and would be a continuous one if 00:04:22.119 --> 00:04:23.614 - it was to reoccur. 00:04:24.610 --> 00:04:33.513 - We do have representation online for 501. OK. Questions from the board. Similar questions before. Have 00:04:33.513 --> 00:04:42.329 - there been any direct contact with the owner? I understand that there may be somebody online and what 00:04:42.329 --> 00:04:51.232 - do we know what the situation is? Steve Tamowitz, Housing Neighborhood Development Compliance Officer. 00:04:51.232 --> 00:04:53.566 - So I've emailed the owner. 00:04:53.954 --> 00:05:06.034 - on 511 about this property. And I have spoke with the tenants also in person and gave them multiple 00:05:06.034 --> 00:05:17.630 - verbal warnings. Can I ask a process question? This item had three NOVs, the first one incurred 00:05:18.018 --> 00:05:25.613 - monetary penalty. The last one we heard was four and the first one was a warning. What's the difference 00:05:25.613 --> 00:05:33.209 - when you attach a warning the first time versus you go straight to a? I believe it was it went 50, 100, 00:05:33.209 --> 00:05:40.804 - 150 for the fines. That's correct, but the prior one we saw got a warning the first time, so there were 00:05:40.804 --> 00:05:47.742 - four and then 50, 100, 150. And then the first time, I'm sorry, last year? No, so I think what 00:05:47.970 --> 00:05:55.548 - Elizabeth's asking is on 520 South Woodruff that we just heard there was originally a notice of violation 00:05:55.548 --> 00:06:02.983 - that was a warning on the 14th of May and then three subsequent fines. On this one we just didn't issue 00:06:02.983 --> 00:06:10.275 - a warning because you had probably verbal content. Yes. So the warning he was doing probably verbally 00:06:10.275 --> 00:06:15.422 - instead of actually doing written. I'm sorry. I had a you report on 540 00:06:15.554 --> 00:06:22.146 - assigned to me so okay so you had already spoken with the property the tenants or the property owner 00:06:22.146 --> 00:06:28.803 - at that point the tenants at that point okay and then 511 I emailed the property owner great okay and 00:06:28.803 --> 00:06:35.526 - we do have someone online that would like to speak about this property so well if you don't mind we'll 00:06:35.526 --> 00:06:42.249 - go that route and yep and they're unmuted so please go ahead hello hi my name is Katie Norris I am the 00:06:42.249 --> 00:06:44.990 - executive director of hotels for homeless 00:06:45.186 --> 00:06:53.868 - I would like to put my two cents in here on this. I've spoken with Steve, the inspector earlier. I think 00:06:53.868 --> 00:07:02.466 - we have a good plan going forward. If there's any issues due to the abatement, he will contact me. I'll 00:07:02.466 --> 00:07:08.254 - be able to go over there, send my people over there to keep it clean. 00:07:08.674 --> 00:07:16.268 - I was told by Angela that my best hope here of being able to get the fees waived would be to come to 00:07:16.268 --> 00:07:24.013 - this meeting because we had already missed the deadlines. I feel like I was notified of the issue when 00:07:24.013 --> 00:07:31.607 - it was too late. Once I was notified of the issue, I immediately sent my son over with our truck and 00:07:31.607 --> 00:07:37.246 - he was able to get the mattresses out. We thought that that was, you know, 00:07:37.506 --> 00:07:44.585 - all that was to the issue. He did it, you know, same day as soon as we found out. And then we found 00:07:44.585 --> 00:07:51.947 - out that there was more that needed to be done. I believe that has been completed. Steve, am I correct? 00:07:51.947 --> 00:07:59.168 - Did you go back over and check? I took a picture today and there's still garbage like in the driveway 00:07:59.168 --> 00:08:05.822 - and, you know, there's scattered deposits of garbage. Okay, if you're able to email me those, 00:08:06.274 --> 00:08:12.566 - I can go over there myself. I did send somebody else after I spoke with you, but I can go there myself 00:08:12.566 --> 00:08:18.918 - and make sure that that is picked up. Is it large items, like things I won't personally be able to get? 00:08:18.918 --> 00:08:25.149 - I mean, it's scattered throughout the yard. I mean, it's hard to say. OK, well, I might take somebody 00:08:25.149 --> 00:08:31.684 - with me then. Anyway, I would like to, I appreciate you, Steve, for all that you do, keeping our community 00:08:31.684 --> 00:08:35.838 - clean. I appreciate all of what all of you do, but I would like to, 00:08:35.938 --> 00:08:45.177 - kind of plead my case here for the fees to be waived based on the circumstances of this home and the 00:08:45.177 --> 00:08:54.416 - landlord. So the landlord is... Sorry, can I interrupt real quick? Are you the property owner or the 00:08:54.416 --> 00:09:04.478 - landlord? I am not. So I work for a company that facilitated the landlord to have those tenants in. And like, 00:09:04.642 --> 00:09:09.966 - When we get a landlord to take section eight, I mean, he had never taken section eight before. So when 00:09:09.966 --> 00:09:15.343 - we get a landlord in our community to take section eight, that's kind of the cream of the crop. I mean, 00:09:15.343 --> 00:09:20.615 - that's the best thing we can do is to get somebody long-term stable housing. You know, that's what we 00:09:20.615 --> 00:09:25.837 - do. I mean, we put people in hotels, but we get them into long-term stable housing, and then we work 00:09:25.837 --> 00:09:31.006 - on relationships with landlords for the long-term, not only for the clients we're working with, but 00:09:31.006 --> 00:09:33.022 - for future. And I would hate for this, 00:09:33.282 --> 00:09:42.245 - landlord to be penalized financially due to something that he did as a good deed or in good faith towards 00:09:42.245 --> 00:09:45.374 - our community to help those in need. 00:09:45.506 --> 00:09:51.494 - I'd also like to speak on the family. So Ms. Norris, I guess my reason for asking if you are an owner 00:09:51.494 --> 00:09:57.365 - or a tenant of the property, in order for this board to probably, and I would ask our legal team to 00:09:57.365 --> 00:10:03.411 - kind of help here too, is I think the tenants or the property owner would need to be the one to appeal 00:10:03.411 --> 00:10:09.634 - to have fines waived. Someone that has an auxiliary relation with the tenants that's trying to facilitate 00:10:09.634 --> 00:10:11.102 - the Section 8 and stuff, 00:10:11.234 --> 00:10:16.344 - appreciate the efforts, understand that's very important work, but to actually have a formal appeal 00:10:16.344 --> 00:10:21.454 - of fines that have been issued, I believe we would need either the tenants or the property owner or 00:10:21.454 --> 00:10:26.563 - whoever the fines were actually issued to, to make that appeal. And I don't know if anything limits 00:10:26.563 --> 00:10:31.724 - us. So I guess what I would pull was that it was too late for that, and so that I should attend this 00:10:31.724 --> 00:10:37.192 - meeting on behalf of that and miss that deadline. Yeah, and if deadlines were missed on when those appeals 00:10:37.192 --> 00:10:38.878 - would need to be filed and such, 00:10:38.978 --> 00:10:45.355 - I don't know that we're prepared to take action one way or the other on that this evening. I think it 00:10:45.355 --> 00:10:51.919 - would have to be for a conversation with our city legal and others to figure out if it's the appropriate 00:10:51.919 --> 00:10:58.171 - thing to do. But a decision on the spot tonight for that is not something I would ask this board to 00:10:58.171 --> 00:11:04.548 - do. One thing I do want to clarify. In the situation, what we have before us tonight is to approve or 00:11:04.548 --> 00:11:08.862 - deny the abatement, which is basically the cleaning of the property. 00:11:09.026 --> 00:11:17.649 - If by the time the city is conducting the abatement, if the property is clean and does not require abatement, 00:11:17.649 --> 00:11:25.880 - then the abatement will not need to move forward. So that's the issue at hand tonight. And the abatement 00:11:25.880 --> 00:11:33.954 - does carry a cost to it. So it is still important that, based on decisions that are made by this board 00:11:33.954 --> 00:11:38.814 - this evening over the abatement, that the property be cleaned 00:11:39.170 --> 00:11:44.848 - before the city has to actually conduct the abatement, correct? Yeah, there's, do you guys do a 10-day 00:11:44.848 --> 00:11:50.636 - notice after tonight's meeting for the property? There's a notification time frame there, so there would 00:11:50.636 --> 00:11:56.204 - be time to get the property into compliance before we would actually send a contractor out to do the 00:11:56.204 --> 00:11:59.070 - abatement. That's how we've done these in the past. 00:11:59.746 --> 00:12:05.774 - So then we tonight are voting on approval of the abatement itself, not necessarily the fines incurred 00:12:05.774 --> 00:12:11.506 - along with that. Correct. We can, you know, I'm happy to talk with Katie tomorrow or figure out, 00:12:11.506 --> 00:12:17.474 - you know, how to actually, if they want to make a formal appeal. There are deadlines that need to be 00:12:17.474 --> 00:12:23.738 - met for the appeal. So if those are passed, it may need to be that the appeal happens through the circuit 00:12:23.738 --> 00:12:28.702 - courts at this point. I don't know. Yeah, and I'm sorry. I'm not the hand attorney. 00:12:28.898 --> 00:12:35.130 - Didn't have a chance to speak with him before this meeting. I'm Sorry, he's online. Oh, okay So Taylor 00:12:35.130 --> 00:12:41.301 - if you know the answer to this and you want to jump in that would be great I because I don't know the 00:12:41.301 --> 00:12:47.412 - timelines for an appeal tonight I don't think would be appropriate for you guys to be deciding on an 00:12:47.412 --> 00:12:53.523 - appeal of a ticket It's just on the abatement. I do agree with Adam as well that the We would need a 00:12:53.523 --> 00:12:57.214 - tenant or a property owner or perhaps a formal like a formal 00:12:57.730 --> 00:13:04.835 - designation of someone to appear on their behalf. I'm not sure that we can accept just someone showing 00:13:04.835 --> 00:13:12.284 - up and appealing on anyone's behalf as a representative of the property. Taylor, do you have any additional 00:13:12.284 --> 00:13:19.320 - clarification? Hi, Taylor Bretman. Taylor Brown, City Legal. I apologize, I'm home. I'm feeling well, 00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:24.286 - so I'm homesick today, but I am here in spirit and a disembodied voice. 00:13:24.706 --> 00:13:29.975 - I agree with the initial assessment. I believe it would have to be a property owner or their specific 00:13:29.975 --> 00:13:35.142 - designee like a registered agent. And unless I'm much mistaken, those have to be the appeals of the 00:13:35.142 --> 00:13:40.463 - fines themselves aren't done through the Board of Public Works. I believe they have to be done through 00:13:40.463 --> 00:13:45.784 - the courts. I would have to confirm that. I know that's the way for the BHQA, but I don't know if that 00:13:45.784 --> 00:13:51.002 - is specifically for the Board of Public Works, because I know there's lots of extra rules around the 00:13:51.002 --> 00:13:52.190 - Board of Public Works. 00:13:52.578 --> 00:13:59.737 - As far as the meeting this evening, this is just about the abatement, not the fines in particular. 00:13:59.737 --> 00:14:07.257 - But again, I'm happy to meet afterwards and then with either Adam or whoever it is, and we can get that 00:14:07.257 --> 00:14:13.982 - process sorted out specifically around this particular housing situation. Thank you, Taylor. 00:14:14.434 --> 00:14:20.023 - Thank you. I appreciate you guys. Should I leave my contact information with somebody or should I take 00:14:20.023 --> 00:14:25.558 - down somebody's contact information? Yeah, if you can just send it to Miranda in the chat, that would 00:14:25.558 --> 00:14:31.202 - be great. Okay, thank you very much. Thank you, Katie. I have just a quick follow up question. You said 00:14:31.202 --> 00:14:34.078 - the communication that you had was with the tenants. 00:14:34.658 --> 00:14:41.590 - In this kind of situation, is the landlord ever copied on these communications, or by matter of course, 00:14:41.590 --> 00:14:48.321 - you are always dealing with the tenants in a property that does have a landlord? Well, the landlord, 00:14:48.321 --> 00:14:55.120 - or in this case, the owner, gets mailed the notice of violation also. OK. Or sometimes the registered 00:14:55.120 --> 00:15:01.118 - agent. Yes. Great. And also the agent. OK. Thank you. Any other questions from the board? 00:15:03.778 --> 00:15:11.608 - Is there any public comment on this item? Again, we are talking about the continuous abatement for 501 00:15:11.608 --> 00:15:19.591 - East Grimes. None on zoom. All right. Is there a motion? I move that we approve the continuous abatement 00:15:19.591 --> 00:15:27.421 - for 501 East Grimes Lane. Second. A motion and a second. I will call the roll. Roach? Aye. Cox Decker? 00:15:27.421 --> 00:15:29.854 - Aye. Caron? Aye. Motion passes. 00:15:31.234 --> 00:15:37.631 - Next on the agenda is petitions and remonstrances, which is a time for anyone to make comments on items 00:15:37.631 --> 00:15:43.843 - that are not on tonight's agenda. Again, if you are on Zoom, feel free to use the chat or raise hand 00:15:43.843 --> 00:15:50.179 - function. Come over to the microphone and state your name, please. My name is John Simpson. We'll have 00:15:50.179 --> 00:15:55.038 - a three minute per for public comment tonight. Hold on. Let me get to my page. 00:15:55.330 --> 00:16:04.112 - I haven't started yet. I went to the wrong thing. I thought there was a lot of people here. We're not 00:16:04.112 --> 00:16:12.980 - that popular. All right. Go ahead. Thank you. I did some work for the city in March, finished in early 00:16:12.980 --> 00:16:21.676 - April, and haven't paid me. And nobody's standing up and saying why. Nobody's, I mean, a phone call, 00:16:21.676 --> 00:16:23.742 - explanation, something. 00:16:24.162 --> 00:16:33.252 - I work strictly for municipal entities for the last 16 years. I've never encountered this. You had 45 00:16:33.252 --> 00:16:42.342 - days by contract to pay me, and we're long past that. I do understand it's going to get paid now, but 00:16:42.342 --> 00:16:51.966 - I deserve an answer. There's some language itself. Every one of these contracts has invalid language in it. 00:16:52.386 --> 00:17:03.107 - or invalid or, that's not the right, it can be, anyway, it's likely invalid. Basically says that I can't 00:17:03.107 --> 00:17:13.521 - be damaged by you guys. Sure, I'm damaged, you should have paid me. I want somebody, I want an answer 00:17:13.521 --> 00:17:20.158 - why, I want somebody to apologize to me. I did the city a solid, 00:17:21.250 --> 00:17:29.006 - There was multiple things that I could have gone after for changes, and I didn't. I'm always the good 00:17:29.006 --> 00:17:36.762 - guy. I am always righteous. And the city didn't have its right of way. You had trees that were inside 00:17:36.762 --> 00:17:44.595 - a private fence. So this was a job cutting trees. How was I supposed to know I'm cutting a tree inside 00:17:44.595 --> 00:17:50.526 - this fence? All the trees had to be marked a certain way, whatever they were. 00:17:51.234 --> 00:17:59.291 - 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 00:17:59.291 --> 00:18:07.195 - you're going to respond to me, but I would like some meaningful response. There. Did I get it in under 00:18:07.195 --> 00:18:15.175 - three minutes? You did. Thank you very much. Did you want to respond? We are not able to respond. We're 00:18:15.175 --> 00:18:18.782 - all free people. You can do anything you want. 00:18:19.778 --> 00:18:26.422 - whether it's advised or not, maybe a different story. Thank you, Mr. Simpson. I'll make sure that I 00:18:26.422 --> 00:18:33.066 - follow up with the engineering department, try to get some answers. Thank you. All right, are there 00:18:33.066 --> 00:18:39.776 - other comments under petitions and remonstrances? None, I don't see them. OK, then we'll move to the 00:18:39.776 --> 00:18:46.686 - consent agenda. On tonight's consent agenda, the minutes from April 21, 2026, minutes from May 4, 2026, 00:18:46.818 --> 00:18:53.879 - Resolution 2026-029, Mobile Vendor Liquid Sunshine LLC. Right of Way Special Event for the 2026 Taste 00:18:53.879 --> 00:19:00.801 - of Bloomington. Right of Way Special Event for the 2026 Fourth of July Parade. Right of Way Special 00:19:00.801 --> 00:19:08.000 - Event for 2026 Bloomerang Music Festival. Memorandum of Understanding between City of Bloomington Parks 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:12.222 - and City of Bloomington Engineering for median improvements. 00:19:13.122 --> 00:19:19.460 - Change order number one for the Union Street crosswalk with EMB paving, resolution 2026-030, art on 00:19:19.460 --> 00:19:25.925 - the traffic box at Waldron, and payroll. Are there any items that need to be removed from the consent 00:19:25.925 --> 00:19:32.327 - agenda tonight? I don't have anything that needs to be removed, but did you get my message about the 00:19:32.327 --> 00:19:38.729 - parks? Oh, on the east third and west third? Yeah, it's just a typo. It's not anything that needs to 00:19:38.729 --> 00:19:43.102 - be changed. OK, sorry. Just wanted to make sure. Thank you for that. 00:19:43.330 --> 00:19:52.413 - Does the board have any questions on the consent agenda? Is there public comment on the consent agenda? 00:19:52.413 --> 00:20:01.583 - None on Zoom. Seeing none, is there a motion? I move that we approve the consent agenda for this meeting 00:20:01.583 --> 00:20:11.102 - on June 16th of 2026. Second. I will call the roll. Roach? Aye. Cox-Duckard? Aye. Caron? Aye. Motion passes. 00:20:12.706 --> 00:20:20.822 - Next is new business. First on the new business agenda is the right of way closure request for HR Green 00:20:20.822 --> 00:20:28.860 - at 2500 West 3rd Street. Hi there. Kyle Ball with engineering. So this project is taking place at West 00:20:28.860 --> 00:20:37.132 - 3rd and South Kimball Drive, the former cozy table site. The request is for a lane closure and a sidewalk 00:20:37.132 --> 00:20:41.502 - diversion. The lane closure would be the westbound lane 00:20:41.634 --> 00:20:50.073 - So the northernmost lane, if you're looking at the aerial and the adjacent sidewalk, the lane closure 00:20:50.073 --> 00:20:58.512 - would be used to accommodate that diversion for the sidewalk. I will note that since the staff report 00:20:58.512 --> 00:21:07.199 - was written, I think that these dates will be updated, but the duration will remain the same. So I think 00:21:07.199 --> 00:21:09.598 - we noted two to three weeks. 00:21:10.786 --> 00:21:19.174 - two to three weeks for the work. They'll be reconstructing the sidewalk in that area and then along 00:21:19.174 --> 00:21:27.058 - Kimball Drive as well. I would just note that the sidewalk that's on the west side of Kimball 00:21:27.058 --> 00:21:35.697 - is non-continuous. It doesn't go north of that property. So one of those awkward shifts that just kind 00:21:35.697 --> 00:21:40.478 - of dumps folks into a parking lot. Sorry, any questions? 00:21:42.178 --> 00:21:50.734 - Thank you. Questions from the board? Is there any public comment on this item? None on Zoom. Is there 00:21:50.734 --> 00:21:59.458 - a motion? I move that we approve the right-of-way closure request for HR Green at 2500 West 3rd Street. 00:21:59.458 --> 00:22:07.176 - Second. I will call the roll. Roach? Aye. Cox-Duckard? Aye. Caron? Aye. Motion passes. Next 00:22:07.176 --> 00:22:11.454 - is the right-of-way closure request for Michaelis. 00:22:12.226 --> 00:22:20.483 - on South Walnut Street. Kyle Ball, engineering again. So this request is at 405 South Walnut on the 00:22:20.483 --> 00:22:28.905 - east side of the street to accommodate some guardrail replacement. This would be for four consecutive 00:22:28.905 --> 00:22:37.575 - days to occur sometime between July 1st and 14th of this year. So the pedestrian route would be detoured 00:22:37.575 --> 00:22:40.382 - to the west side of South Walnut. 00:22:46.274 --> 00:22:53.375 - Thank you. Questions from the board? Actually, sorry, I'm going to ask one, if I may. 405 South Walnut, 00:22:53.375 --> 00:23:00.271 - which block is that? Can you help familiarize? So it is just south of Smith Ave. Just south of Smith 00:23:00.271 --> 00:23:07.167 - Ave. So like chocolate mousse. I think we've seen this company working on several facades throughout 00:23:07.167 --> 00:23:14.814 - that area in the last couple of years. Okay. Just making sure they maintain business access as needed and such. 00:23:15.874 --> 00:23:23.263 - in coordination with other projects in that area, both the convention center and otherwise. Good thing 00:23:23.263 --> 00:23:30.509 - this is Walnut. Yeah, I know. That was Microsoft. And it's the sidewalks specifically, not the other 00:23:30.509 --> 00:23:38.041 - traveling lanes. So let's see. The sidewalk will be on the east side. So it will be potentially in front 00:23:38.041 --> 00:23:45.502 - of Chocolate News. I'm trying to imagine the guard, like, the word guard rail is throwing it off a bit. 00:23:46.018 --> 00:23:54.267 - photo just from the maps. I don't know exactly. Yeah, I did look into it closely. It might be some sort 00:23:54.267 --> 00:24:02.516 - of, you know, fencing like we see at some along the at some of the establishments downtown. It may have 00:24:02.516 --> 00:24:11.082 - more to do with the building than the streetscape. Is that what we're thinking? Which if it's the building, 00:24:11.082 --> 00:24:12.510 - I'm just curious. 00:24:13.762 --> 00:24:22.147 - I would imagine chocolate mousse would be informed as part of their tenancy. What I'm struggling with 00:24:22.147 --> 00:24:30.697 - is there's 403 and there's 409. And more citing 405. That's where I was kind of confused which building 00:24:30.697 --> 00:24:38.014 - it was actually on. It looks like it's Urban Station. That's listed as chocolate mousse. 00:24:44.258 --> 00:24:53.237 - Yeah, I just have Google shows Urban Station is 403, so that's what I was saying. So maybe chocolate 00:24:53.237 --> 00:25:02.127 - mousse itself is 405. Yeah, that's what Google's showing. Okay, thank you. Any other questions from 00:25:02.127 --> 00:25:10.750 - the board? All right, public comment on this item? None on Zoom. Seeing none, is there a motion? 00:25:11.746 --> 00:25:19.570 - I move that we approve the right-of-way closure request for Mikey Ellis on South Walnut Street. Second. 00:25:19.570 --> 00:25:27.393 - I will call the roll. Roach? Aye. Cooks, Decker? Aye. Caron? Aye. Motion passes. Next is a right-of-way 00:25:27.393 --> 00:25:35.066 - closure request for Ridge Point Construction on West 8th Street. Kyle Vault, engineering again. Ridge 00:25:35.066 --> 00:25:41.310 - Point Construction, they're requesting a sidewalk closure at 1617 West 8th Street. 00:25:41.410 --> 00:25:47.902 - for sidewalk replacement. They're looking for two days to occur sometime between June 17th and June 00:25:47.902 --> 00:25:54.524 - 30th. I will admit I have a typo here. Still getting used to our new template format. So this area is 00:25:54.524 --> 00:26:01.081 - another area where there's just no sidewalks to detour to. So what we'd ask here is for a pedestrian 00:26:01.081 --> 00:26:07.573 - guided diversion where we could use it on the lookout for anybody that might need assistance to get 00:26:07.573 --> 00:26:10.494 - around this work area. It looks like there's 00:26:10.690 --> 00:26:19.053 - no sidewalk continuing east, sorry, west of Spring Street. There is one that goes west, sorry, east 00:26:19.053 --> 00:26:27.919 - on Hay Street, down 8th across Hay Street. Sorry, a lot of words. But we would ask them to be responsible 00:26:27.919 --> 00:26:30.846 - for maintaining the traffic there. 00:26:32.098 --> 00:26:39.197 - I'm so sorry. As I was reviewing the Google Maps, there's no one else other in the picture of that location 00:26:39.197 --> 00:26:46.296 - than the famous Dave Askins on the Google Map. So literally, when you look, Dave is crossing the crosswalk. 00:26:46.296 --> 00:26:53.198 - At the Chocolate Moose. I've actually seen that. Towards the Chocolate Moose. I was like, wait a second. 00:26:53.198 --> 00:26:58.654 - I'm looking at the maps, and I'm scrolling, and then I just see, hey, that's Dave. 00:26:58.818 --> 00:27:12.111 - I couldn't help myself. Preserved in Google memory. On the West 8th Street right-of-way closure, how 00:27:12.111 --> 00:27:20.798 - does this fulfill city ordinance related to pedestrian diversion? 00:27:20.962 --> 00:27:27.571 - In these cases, it really puts us in a tough position, right? So we really should have a pedestrian 00:27:27.571 --> 00:27:34.246 - diversion for every sidewalk closure throughout the city. That at some point makes it impossible for 00:27:34.246 --> 00:27:40.986 - smaller contractors to be able to complete the work just because of the sheer cost of erecting one of 00:27:40.986 --> 00:27:48.190 - those diversions. The other thing is just the prudence of it. If you're having a closure there for two days, 00:27:48.674 --> 00:27:56.307 - the cost of operating that is gonna be more than you're gonna make on any of those jobs. The other side 00:27:56.307 --> 00:28:04.013 - of it is just locations. If we're asking for a pedestrian diversion to be erected down West 17th Street, 00:28:04.013 --> 00:28:11.719 - that's an extremely long stretch of road next to high-speed traffic, so it's just not an ideal scenario. 00:28:11.719 --> 00:28:17.150 - We go back and forth with how to advise folks to go about these closures. 00:28:17.282 --> 00:28:26.033 - with those factors in mind. So is the pedestrian assisted guidance does that fulfill the walk around 00:28:26.033 --> 00:28:35.045 - like they're being they're being assisted in the walk around? That's what I'm looking at right you know 00:28:35.045 --> 00:28:41.630 - in a location like the 1617 West 8th Street it's towards you know it's it's 00:28:42.690 --> 00:28:48.119 - in a very small residential neighborhood, probably lighter traffic. So, you know, as long as, you know, 00:28:48.119 --> 00:28:53.339 - ideally you're going to do a walk around or get them to the other side of the street. There's not a 00:28:53.339 --> 00:28:58.872 - sidewalk on the other side. So that's when, you know, you're literally expecting the contractor to assist 00:28:58.872 --> 00:29:02.526 - someone that is a pedestrian that has any type of mobility, you know, 00:29:02.882 --> 00:29:09.735 - challenging circumstance to get around their site to help walk them literally around for that, you know, 00:29:09.735 --> 00:29:16.523 - half a block or quarter block to just really pay attention to the site. Not ideal, but you know, again, 00:29:16.523 --> 00:29:23.310 - this is a very low volume residential side street. And the contractors are specifically made aware that 00:29:23.310 --> 00:29:27.422 - it's their responsibility to do this guided? Absolutely. Okay. 00:29:30.530 --> 00:29:37.438 - And we can follow, can you guys make sure, can we follow up with just a written communication on their 00:29:37.438 --> 00:29:44.346 - permit to really highlight that as one of the conditions? Absolutely, thanks. Other questions from the 00:29:44.346 --> 00:29:51.522 - board? Any public comment on this item? None on Zoom. All right, is there a motion? I move that we approve 00:29:51.522 --> 00:29:58.363 - the right of way closure request for Ridge Point construction on West 8th Street. Second. I will call 00:29:58.363 --> 00:29:59.838 - the roll. Roach? Aye. 00:29:59.970 --> 00:30:10.413 - Cox Deckard? Aye. Caron? Aye. Motion passes. Next is the right-of-way closure request for advantage 00:30:10.413 --> 00:30:21.378 - painting and maintenance on South Curry Pike and West Roll Avenue. All right, so another unique sidewalk 00:30:21.378 --> 00:30:28.062 - closure, Kyle Ball, for engineering once again. So this project 00:30:28.194 --> 00:30:35.915 - has been in the works for a few months at this point. So they are requesting a sidewalk closure in order 00:30:35.915 --> 00:30:43.637 - to reconstruct the sidewalk as part of the site conditions, site requirements, sorry. They're requesting 00:30:43.637 --> 00:30:51.285 - two weeks of closure here. And in this closure, there's not a paired sidewalk on the west side of South 00:30:51.285 --> 00:30:55.550 - Curry. So it'll be more of a pedestrian guided diversion. 00:30:55.650 --> 00:31:03.920 - where they would use the private lot that's in the construction area to navigate folks through. 00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:13.311 - Thank you. Just noting that this is a much higher traffic area than what we had just spoken about. Questions 00:31:13.311 --> 00:31:22.098 - from the board? So they're replacing the sidewalk as part of our site approval. What is happening? Is 00:31:22.098 --> 00:31:24.510 - the building being rebuilt? 00:31:24.706 --> 00:31:31.100 - I believe it's a new restaurant that's going in here, so typically, and I don't know all the ins and 00:31:31.100 --> 00:31:37.557 - outs of it, but they've triggered some kind of compliance requirement where all the sidewalks have to 00:31:37.557 --> 00:31:44.014 - be updated. I would have to imagine that they would have to have a curb ramp placed there at Roll and 00:31:44.014 --> 00:31:50.534 - Curry Pike. This area in general is not accessible as it stands, anywho, so anything we can do to help 00:31:50.534 --> 00:31:51.294 - improve it. 00:31:51.458 --> 00:31:57.649 - Highland Lounge location. That's right. I was just going to note that it's the old Highland Lounge location. 00:31:57.649 --> 00:32:03.499 - The infamous. Famous places of Bloomington. Chocolate Mousse and Highland Lounge for covering them all 00:32:03.499 --> 00:32:09.463 - this evening. Thank you. Yeah, and just looking at the site conditions now, yeah, so it looks like it'll 00:32:09.463 --> 00:32:15.199 - be curb ramp at Curry and Roll, improved sidewalks, and they do have plenty of space in that private 00:32:15.199 --> 00:32:20.254 - parking lot. It's without a doubt the safest way to try to detour that traffic given the 00:32:20.770 --> 00:32:27.096 - trying to cross there's nowhere to take it otherwise so that'll be a pretty good use of that so thank 00:32:27.096 --> 00:32:33.422 - you. So again if I can just request written follow-up with the contractor to make sure that everybody 00:32:33.422 --> 00:32:39.935 - knows the guided detour goes through the parking lot please. Absolutely. Thank you very much. Any public 00:32:39.935 --> 00:32:43.966 - comment on this item? None on Zoom. All right is there a motion? 00:32:44.546 --> 00:32:51.277 - I move that we approve the right-of-way closure request for advantage painting and maintenance on South 00:32:51.277 --> 00:32:57.815 - Curry Pike and West Roll Avenue. And please do let the minutes reflect that I do not see Dave Askins 00:32:57.815 --> 00:33:04.287 - near Curry Pike and Roll on my Google Maps here. And with that, I will second it. With motion and a 00:33:04.287 --> 00:33:09.918 - second, I will call the roll. Roach? Aye. Cox, Decker? Aye. Caron? Aye. Motion passes. 00:33:10.818 --> 00:33:20.096 - Next is the right of way closure request for CFC at 205 North College Avenue. Rebecca Davis, Engineering. 00:33:20.096 --> 00:33:29.024 - This request comes from a petitioner requesting the approval of temporary right of way closure at the 00:33:29.024 --> 00:33:35.326 - 200 block of North College Avenue and the 200 block of West 6th Street. 00:33:35.490 --> 00:33:43.149 - to accommodate crane placement and masonry tuck pointing on the Graham Plaza building that work will 00:33:43.149 --> 00:33:50.808 - be done by Umphreys Masonry. The request includes the temporary closures of metered parking adjacent 00:33:50.808 --> 00:33:58.770 - to the building, the westernmost lane of North College Avenue, and the westbound lane of West 6th Street 00:33:58.770 --> 00:34:04.382 - as necessary to stage the crane and complete the work safely. The closure 00:34:04.482 --> 00:34:12.667 - The closures are proposed in two separate phases happening between the dates of June 22nd and July 28th. 00:34:12.667 --> 00:34:20.695 - The intention is to have one lane closure at a time as work is performed on two separate phases of the 00:34:20.695 --> 00:34:28.724 - building. Pedestrian and vehicular traffic will be maintained, shifted, or rerouted in accordance with 00:34:28.724 --> 00:34:31.998 - the approved maintenance of traffic plan. 00:34:34.274 --> 00:34:43.957 - Let's see. I feel like it gets a little redundant here. They're going to close approximately seven parking 00:34:43.957 --> 00:34:53.188 - spaces. There will be two short duration sidewalk closures, less than 24 hours total, but that's just 00:34:53.188 --> 00:35:02.238 - for the staging of the overhead protection that they're going to provide to keep the sidewalk open. 00:35:02.498 --> 00:35:09.549 - Petitioners shall install and maintain all required signage barricades and traffic control devices, 00:35:09.549 --> 00:35:16.953 - maintain access to adjacent properties, and limit the closure to the minimum area and duration necessary 00:35:16.953 --> 00:35:24.287 - to complete the work. Thank you. Questions from the board? Sounds like we're going to turn college into 00:35:24.287 --> 00:35:27.742 - a pedestrian... It's like playing Frogger. Yeah. 00:35:27.970 --> 00:35:38.354 - I mean I think in many ways this type of work actually may work best when we're already trying to kind 00:35:38.354 --> 00:35:47.326 - of divert people away from college anyway. So I think it's probably good to get it done. 00:35:47.874 --> 00:35:54.539 - Now is better than August. Yes, exactly. So will the westernmost southbound lane of college be closed 00:35:54.539 --> 00:36:01.466 - at the same time or a different time as the westbound lane of West Sixth? Different time, because they're 00:36:01.466 --> 00:36:08.001 - going to have one crane and they will start, I think, on the college side, college-facing side. And 00:36:08.001 --> 00:36:12.510 - then that crane will move. OK. And then, yeah, so. Great. Thank you. 00:36:14.754 --> 00:36:23.182 - You might want to talk with Mr. O'Farrell about looking specifically at the convention center timing 00:36:23.182 --> 00:36:32.111 - and if it makes more sense to ask him to do sixth first and have less overlapping of the college closures. 00:36:32.111 --> 00:36:40.456 - I think if he does college first, I mean, I don't know how long it's going to take because it could 00:36:40.456 --> 00:36:43.710 - be that that's wrapping up by the time 00:36:44.066 --> 00:36:51.163 - the other closures in effect, because it's the 29th, is that right? June 29th. June 29th through the 00:36:51.163 --> 00:36:58.400 - 24th of July, I think goes with the... So we, it's just something in the details and the conversations 00:36:58.400 --> 00:37:05.567 - we have with Ms. Romford, so that we could possibly make just minor tweaks if needed. Okay. Any other 00:37:05.567 --> 00:37:12.734 - questions from the board? Questions from the, or I'm sorry, public comment on this item. Not on Zoom. 00:37:13.378 --> 00:37:21.067 - All right. Is there a motion? I move that we approve the right of way closure requests for CFC at 205 00:37:21.067 --> 00:37:28.078 - North College Avenue. Second. I will call the roll. Roach? Aye. Cox-Dekard? Aye. Caron? Aye. 00:37:28.078 --> 00:37:36.144 - Motion passes. Next on the agenda is staff reports. Good evening. Adam Wason again, public works director. 00:37:36.144 --> 00:37:43.230 - To board member Roach's question earlier about an update on the Clubhouse Drive road closure. 00:37:43.330 --> 00:37:49.998 - due to the issues with the bridge there. I don't have an official update for you right now, but I can 00:37:49.998 --> 00:37:56.665 - get with our mayor's office, legal and engineering, who are kind of heading up that conversation with 00:37:56.665 --> 00:38:03.855 - the county and others. I don't know that there's been much progress or not, so I don't have great information 00:38:03.855 --> 00:38:06.078 - there, but can follow up on that. 00:38:06.690 --> 00:38:12.814 - Other things of note, you know, we were talking a lot about road closures and, you know, detours. It's 00:38:12.814 --> 00:38:19.057 - certainly that time of season in Bloomington. And there's a lot, you know, the near west side, southwest 00:38:19.057 --> 00:38:25.003 - of City Hall here has a lot going on with the Hopewell project with Roger Street reconstruction and 00:38:25.003 --> 00:38:31.067 - paving. So it is, you know, just advising the traveling public if you can avoid second and Rogers and 00:38:31.067 --> 00:38:36.656 - choose an alternate route for for that area of the city for the next several weeks and month. 00:38:36.656 --> 00:38:43.404 - Plus, that would be well advised as someone who's a commuter on 2nd Street regularly. I'm finding some 00:38:43.404 --> 00:38:50.152 - alternate routes. So as we talked about in the staff meeting earlier this morning, if you go that way, 00:38:50.152 --> 00:38:56.901 - it's going to be problematic right now. But, you know, do appreciate it. We've got a lot of investment 00:38:56.901 --> 00:39:00.766 - going on and so that's the takeaway too is that, you know, 00:39:00.866 --> 00:39:06.626 - It's not for, you know, there will be good infrastructure improvements with all of these closures. So 00:39:06.626 --> 00:39:12.669 - the Kirkwood brick sidewalk project is going pretty well. We are, you know, the rain hampered that project 00:39:12.669 --> 00:39:18.373 - for on the onset, but they're starting to make up some ground. They've moved to the 400 block where, 00:39:18.373 --> 00:39:20.350 - you know, Jimmy John's Knicks and. 00:39:20.898 --> 00:39:26.743 - Village Jelly and Trinity Churches. So they're moving, they were starting on that block and what we 00:39:26.743 --> 00:39:32.587 - know is the subsequent block, the 500 block was the most intense block with the tree plots and some 00:39:32.587 --> 00:39:38.432 - of the more intensive work there for the Kirkwood sidewalk project. So hopefully they'll be able to 00:39:38.432 --> 00:39:44.510 - gain some ground and yeah, that's all I have for you tonight though. Just a note of thanks to that 500. 00:39:44.610 --> 00:39:50.714 - The lock of Kirkwood looks beautiful. You've done a fantastic job. I know it's taken a lot of work and 00:39:50.714 --> 00:39:56.700 - weather delays, so thank you for that. The patina should match up a little bit better in the future. 00:39:56.700 --> 00:40:02.864 - Get a little wear on the new bricks and it'll, yeah, it looks great. And those trip hazards, yeah. It's 00:40:02.864 --> 00:40:09.087 - a good investment in our downtown. Next on the agenda is the approval of claims. Are there any questions 00:40:09.087 --> 00:40:11.102 - from the board on claims tonight? 00:40:13.538 --> 00:40:20.306 - Any public comment on claims? I guess I'll just make a quick comment on claim. You know, hearing from 00:40:20.306 --> 00:40:27.274 - Mr. Simpson earlier, we'll make sure we get figure out what's going on there and make sure that if there 00:40:27.274 --> 00:40:33.976 - is an apology needed or anything, we do that if it's so deserved and make sure we do right by all of 00:40:33.976 --> 00:40:41.009 - our contractors. But we'll get more information on that and handle that internally. Thank you. Any public 00:40:41.009 --> 00:40:42.270 - comment on claims? 00:40:42.594 --> 00:40:49.573 - none on zoom all right is there a motion i move that we approve claims in the amount of three million 00:40:49.573 --> 00:40:56.551 - five hundred fifty eight thousand seven hundred thirty three dollars and six cents second i will call 00:40:56.551 --> 00:41:03.393 - the roll roach aye cox decker aye corone aye motion passes i have nothing else on the agenda i will 00:41:03.393 --> 00:41:04.830 - call for adjournment