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