- I called to order tonight's meeting of the Board of Public Works on June 30th, 2026. First, we will
- start with messages from board members. Any messages? I would just like to say it is very, very hot
- outside and thanks to our public work crews who are still out sanitation street, fleet, doing all the
- work that needs to be done even when the weather is pretty awful.
- Next we'll move on to title six abatements. And first we have a request for a continuous abatement at
- 601 North Monroe Director we've got Kenny life forward and Taylor Brown from city legal or Kenny's from
- hand and we've got Taylor with city legal This is a continuous abatement request at 601 North Morton
- Street there were some pictures attached in the agenda of
- The overgrown grass and weeds staff has been trying to work with the property owner This one appears
- to be abandoned at this time and we've had no contact So we are asking for a continuous abatement on
- this property at 601 North Morton Street. Oh I'm saying Morton like I'm at work. I mean Monroe Street.
- I'm sorry We are at
- We are at 401 North Morton Street. This is at 601 North Monroe. Let's clarify. Thank you, Taylor.
- Thank you. Questions from the board? If anyone has public comment tonight and are in council chambers,
- you may approach the podium. Anyone on Zoom? You can use the raise hand function or chat. Comments from
- the public? Seeing none, is there a motion?
- I move approval the request for continuous abatement for the property at 601 North Monroe Street Motion
- and a second I will call roll Roach. I Korone I motion passes Next is a request for continuous abatement
- at 700 West Gorley. I
- public works director for the city of Bloomington this is at 700 West Gorley Pike and this is an abatement
- request for trash and debris that's true about the entire property this is the old funeral home if you
- remember on West Gorley Pike there's been a quite a few issues I drove by yesterday just take a look
- see if any progress had been made it is in really rough condition this is gonna be one we're gonna have
- to keep after there's some abandoned vehicles there's other abandoned items and trash and such so this
- will be one
- one we'll have to keep working on into the future, but asking for a continuous abatement of all the
- piles of trash and debris that are strewn about the property. And again, we've got Kenny with hand here
- for any questions. Thank you. Questions from the board? Just one quick question. So this is for trash
- and debris. So the property owner is keeping the grass and weeds under control. Is that correct? I don't
- know that there's a lot of grass or weeds on that property.
- So it is a large lot and they actually do keep the adjoining property their mode. They just will not
- clean up the trash All right. Thank you Quickly we talked about at the work session yesterday It looks
- like there were four notices of violation in the fall from October 21 to November 20th and then picked
- up again April 8th and four more this spring. Was there any communication? with the property owner after
- that November 20th
- I don't know the exact date of the communication, but I did reach out and they had a representative
- reach out to me And they did they cleaned the property up one time. They told me they were it's supposed
- to be torn down and Short they are very long on promises and very short on delivery So after trying
- several times and then all communication is dried up. So This is where we are with that property. Thank you
- Any public comment on this item? Is there a motion I Move approval for the request for continuous abatement
- at 700 West Gorley Pike I Second I will call the roll roach. I Korone I motion passes Next is request
- for continuous abatement at nine hundred and nine oh two West Cascade
- Again, this is a continuous abatement request for overgrown lawn and landscape areas at 900 902 West
- Cascade. This is a local property owner that we've tried to reach out to. There's been several notices
- of violation issued as is shown in the packet and just have had no response. One of the units Kenny
- mentioned is probably vacant, but the grass is getting to be waist high with no response from the property
- owner or tenants.
- Any questions from the board? No any public comment on this item Seeing none is there a motion I move
- approval of the request for continuous abatement at nine hundred and nine oh two West Cascade Second
- I will call the roll Roach. Hi Caron. I motion passes Next is the request for continuous abatement at
- 921 West winding way and
- Like a broken record, Adam Wason, Public Works Director. This is, again, overgrown grass and weeds at
- 921 West Winding Way. Have had no response from property owners on this one. There are some pictures
- attached in the packet. And we will, again, ask for a continuous abatement in the instance that there
- is no remediation by the property owners. Any questions from the board? Any public comment on this item?
- Not on Zoom.
- Is there a motion I move approval the request for continuous abatement for the property at 921 West
- winding way I second I will call the roll roach. I crown I motion passes Next on the agenda is petitions
- and remonstrances, which is a time for public comment on any item that is not on tonight's agenda if
- there's anyone in the public in council chambers, feel free to approach
- If you are on zoom feel free to raise hand function or chat I hear no one on zoom Okay Next we'll move
- along to the consent agenda tonight's consent agenda is includes the minutes from May 19th 2026 minutes
- from June 2nd 2026 outdoor lighting service agreement with Duke Energy for East 3rd Street and South
- Grant Street and
- Service agreement with Corson for facilities, service agreement with McAllister Machinery for facilities,
- and payroll. Are there any board questions about the consent agenda? None for me. And no public comment?
- None. All right. Is there a motion? I move approval of the consent agenda for the meeting of Tuesday,
- June 30. And I second. I will call the roll. Roach? Aye.
- Caron I motion passes Moving along to new business. First. We have a contract with DC construction for
- paving of lots one three and five downtown great Adam Wason public works director again, this is a
- You saw a contract for this project come through in December of 2025. This was some end of year funding
- we had to do some additional maintenance in the downtown on some of our infrastructure. So these are
- the surface parking lots that the city of Bloomington owns in the Kirkwood corridor. So this is going
- to be behind the Buzzkirk Chumlee Theater, the surface parking lot there. There's a surface parking
- lot on the west side of North Lincoln across the street from the library that city
- hones and maintains, and then another surface lot behind Dunkirk Square where you've got Jimmy John's
- and the Cookie Place and upstairs pub. So those parking lots are all owned by the city of Bloomington
- and we tried to get a contract executed at the end of last year. Unfortunately, the low bidder on that
- project, Riverside Paving and Contracting, declined to accept the project in the end and cited some
- cost increases and they
- simply backed out of the out of the project and the contract so we at this point in time in an effort
- to try to Still get this work done this summer and get those parking lots improved are going to go to
- the secondary bidder Which is DC construction services. We've been coordinating with them extensively
- over the last couple weeks. They've agreed they can meet our deadlines they and
- and are willing to work with us even though this wasn't on their original summer schedule. So we really
- appreciate their efforts to fit this in. We're gonna have this done before that big August rush. It'll
- go into August, but we're hoping that first week of August will be wrapped up with this project. So
- this is for a project amount not to exceed $149,483 and zero cents. So we ask for your approval.
- Thank you. Any questions from the board?
- Any public comment on this item? All right, is there a motion? I move approval of the contract with
- DC Construction for paving of lots one, three, and five downtown. And I second. With a motion and a
- second, I will call the roll. Roach? Aye. Caron? Aye. Motion passes. Next is the right-of-way closure
- request for Kappa Kappa Gamma at South Hawthorne Drive and 1018 East 3rd Street.
- Petitioner is requesting approval of a temporary right away closure at one thousand eighteen east third
- Street to accommodate parking lot repaving the request includes temporary closure of the sidewalk as
- necessary to safely complete the work Closure is proposed to have a duration of four to five days within
- the month of July during normal business hours pedestrian traffic will be rerouted in accordance with
- the approved maintenance of traffic plan and
- So there's a description there. I'm just gonna reroute it to the opposite side of the street Thank you
- questions from the board Comment from the public no one on zoom All right, is there a motion? I move
- approval of the right-of-way closure request for Kappa Kappa Gamma at on South Hawthorne Drive for the
- property at Oh
- 1018 East 3rd Street my second I will call the roll Roach. I Korone I motion passes Next is a right-of-way
- closure request for Amy Butler at 115 East 12th Street engineering again petitioners requesting approval
- of temporary right-of-way closure at 115 East 12th Street to accommodate sidewalk repair work associated
- with the city sidewalk repair request letter and
- The request includes temporary closure of the sidewalk as necessary to safely complete the work. It's
- proposed to have a duration of four to five days and will remain closed until final repairs are made.
- Work will occur in July and same thing here, just rerouted to the opposite side of the street.
- Thank you. Questions from the board?
- We talked yesterday in the work session that this homeowner was doing the work themselves. And we were
- talking about the putting up signs for the temporary crossings and things like that. Does the city street
- department ever rent out signs or loan signs for things like that? That's a really good question and
- something we're actually actively working on. We're currently working with several city departments,
- public works,
- planning, transportation, engineering, and others on what we're preliminarily calling a pedestrian facilities
- operations plan. This is something we've been working on since we've been gathering a bunch of sidewalk
- data citywide on how we can best approach getting sidewalks improved across the city.
- One of the programs we're going to suggest in that and try to procure items for is just like you're
- talking about. If we've got a small scale, couple three panels that need repaired on a sidewalk to have
- some signage or other packaged here for a smaller contractor or a homeowner to be able to repair in
- these really smaller scale projects. Not there yet, but trust the homeowner will be able to get some
- proper signage just to get the traffic detoured.
- pedestrian traffic detoured as they need for the short period Any public comment on this item Seeing
- none is there a motion I move approval the right-of-way closure request for Amy Butler at 115 East 12th
- Street my second I will call the roll roach. I Korone I motion passes. I
- Last on new business is the right-of-way closure request for Snedegar at the multi-use path on West
- Gordon Pike Well again engineering petitioners requesting approval of a temporary right-of-way closure
- at 220 West Gordon Pike to accommodate gas connection The request includes temporary closure of the
- multi-use trail as necessary to safely complete the work closures proposed July 1st through July 3rd
- Work to connect the gas should take one day and remain closed overnight for one to two days until it
- can be repaired. Pedestrian traffic will be rerouted in accordance with the approved maintenance of
- traffic plan. So same deal here, safely get people across the street at crosswalks. Thank you. Questions
- from the board? Any public comment on this item? Not on Zoom. All right, is there a motion?
- Move approval the right-of-way closure requests for Snedeker at For the multi-use path on a West Gordon
- Pike at 220 West Gordon Pike I Second I will call the roll Roach. Hi Caron. I motion passes. Thank you.
- Thank you. Next is staff reports Looks like a staff report for North Walnut Street. Yeah, so Adam Wason
- again public works director wanted to get you an update on the close so
- get an update on the closer for- north Walnut street.
- So Kyle Baw and the engineering team have been working with Kreider and Kreider and the developers of
- the big apartment project on 19th Street. And so after making sure everything was in order with the
- other adjacent property owners, there's a few landlocked properties in there that we needed to try to
- coordinate some additional access to during the closure of Walnut. So the formal dates of that will
- begin next Monday and be a two week period.
- They are going to, hang on one second here. So from July 6th through the 20th, they'll have walnut closed
- north of 17th. There'll be a closure point on 19th as well for local traffic to be able to utilize 19th
- and Dunn to get, or 19th Street from Dunn so that those landlocked properties can get there.
- So the main closure on walnut will be the two weeks from July 6 through the 20th 19th Street will have
- a closure of one lane at that point in time and then from July 6 through the 3rd of August there will
- be additional
- plan closure on 19th Street for finishing this work. So this is all about getting the sewer connections
- for the Hub 2 project to the sanitary main that is in Walnut Street. This is a complicated and this
- is one that took a lot of work to really try to figure out all the details of all the properties, how
- they can get access. You know, even working with the gas station up closer by the bypass to make sure
- their fuel tanker trucks come in from Gorley Pike
- instead of coming down college and trying to turn their north and Miller showers Pike or Miller showers
- Park so lots of lots and lots of coordination going on just wanted to update the board that it is moving
- from moving to that July 6th date for the Walnut Street closure really appreciate the team at Crider
- and Crider and over at the hub to it's taken a lot of coordination and we think we've got a plan that'll
- work you know
- for something that is gonna be a big project. So happy to try to answer any other questions on that
- one, but wanted to update the board on those new dates. And then, so one other project to update you
- on is we had a, what's that? Sure, okay. Okay. I just wanted to say thank you
- Yeah. My name is James Ford and I'm with Crider and Crider. So I've been working with Zach and Kyle
- and Andrew and everybody and I appreciate everybody helping get this thing through. I personally went
- out myself with flyers to all the surrounding homes and businesses on the road and hand them out with
- what our plans were. Walnut Street will be about two weeks and I know the dates that I had talked to
- with everybody was
- two weeks for a Walnut Street closure, and then the one lane on 19th Street, we'll have to take it,
- and local traffic will be able to utilize 19th while we're through there. But I just wanted to set the
- expectation here when we go through there, the third, that's the first time I've ever heard that date
- for the third. For August 3rd on 19th Street? For August 3rd on 19th Street is the first time I've heard
- that date. Okay. For August 3rd. Because originally,
- I had talked about August 14th because that's when IU comes back in. And I wanted to make sure everything
- was wrapped up and cleaned up by that date. And then with the confusion, we got pushed a little bit
- more. So I just
- we could still have work out there. I don't care if we have to allow full traffic and change some things
- and plans on 19th and whatnot, but depending on what rock we hit when we're putting that line in, our
- work could still be going on longer than August 3rd on 19th. Walnut will be done in two weeks, you know,
- no matter what. So, cause I did submit and I don't know if they did it, put it through to you guys.
- I applied for a noise permit whenever we did all this with Kyle, just way,
- If we have to, like we hit all kinds of rock, we'll work around the clock to get it done. So just a
- couple of notes there. So the expectation is that it's hoped to have 19th Street back to a working order
- with at least local traffic, all that accommodated by that August 3rd. We do have a period of time here
- between, you know, between July 6th, if you're starting to hit rock, the plan is, you know, you guys
- would be in touch with Kyle and the team to say, hey, we do need that noise permit. We can execute that
- at a staff level. We knew that might come in,
- weren't sure if we were gonna need it or not. So that is something we would work with you on a staff
- level. And if there are those major delays, we'll update the board at that time to let them know what's
- going on with 19th Street. We all recognize the main focus here is Walnut Street. And so yeah, we'll
- continue to work with you on that for sure. Yep. Yep, absolutely. Thank you. Yep.
- All right, so I had one other just real quick update for you on a right away permit. This is the traffic
- box painting project that the arts that the different organizations work with economic sustainable
- development on the one that is located near at 122 North walnut got delayed a bit with the rain. So
- they're going to have a little more time. They've got
- Appropriate pedestrian right-of-way signs and such and make sure people have access to the ADA ramps
- But just wanted to update you on that and last thing on a staff report
- Just public works is working really hard to finish up our American Public Works Association accreditation
- process. So we've had our peer review and our site review happens. Our onsite review happens in mid
- July. So you'll we'll keep you updated on that. But things are looking good that we would receive the
- full accreditation. So real big shout out to Chris Smith and the whole team that's been working on that.
- So thank you. Congratulations. That's good news.
- Next on the agenda is the approval of claims any board questions tonight on claims Okay No public comment
- on claims. All right, is there a motion? I Move approval the claims for the meeting of Tuesday, June
- 30th and the amount of six million of five hundred and eighty thousand nine hundred and sixty five dollars
- and two cents And I second I will call the roll wrote
- Corona I motion passes and with nothing else on the agenda. I will call for adjournment