WEBVTT 00:00:00.930 --> 00:00:07.368 - Good evening folks. It's 5 30 p.m. On Tuesday July 14th 2026. This is the regularly scheduled Board 00:00:07.368 --> 00:00:14.321 - of Public Works meeting. We are in council chambers here at 401 North Morton Street in Bloomington Indiana. 00:00:14.321 --> 00:00:20.824 - There is a zoom link and a meeting ID passcode on the agenda and on the meeting announcements on the 00:00:20.824 --> 00:00:21.918 - city's Web site. 00:00:22.530 --> 00:00:30.243 - If you are on Zoom and you have either an item on the agenda or have public comment for any of the various 00:00:30.243 --> 00:00:37.524 - items, that'll be allowed through the raise hand function and such. So we will make sure anyone that 00:00:37.524 --> 00:00:44.805 - has any online comment for any of these items will use the unmute function and get you that ability. 00:00:44.805 --> 00:00:52.446 - Otherwise, I will turn it over to Elizabeth Caron, Board of Public Works president for tonight's meeting. 00:00:53.538 --> 00:01:01.657 - Adam good afternoon everyone. I called it ordered tonight's meeting of the Board of Public Works for 00:01:01.657 --> 00:01:10.178 - July 14th 2026 First on the agenda. We have messages from board members Next we'll move along to appeals. 00:01:10.178 --> 00:01:15.966 - First. We have an appeal of a noise violation at 517 South Mitchell and 00:01:16.802 --> 00:01:24.540 - Adam Wason, Public Works Director on behalf of City Legal's and Adina Casamanian, and we have Officer 00:01:24.540 --> 00:01:32.506 - Shields here in the audience this evening as well. Basically, on July 20th, 2026, Officer Shields issued 00:01:32.506 --> 00:01:40.472 - a noise citation number 40799 to Jahir Mansia at 517 South Mitchell Street for excessive and loud noise. 00:01:40.472 --> 00:01:46.238 - Officer Shields was sent to the location by central dispatch to investigate 00:01:46.338 --> 00:01:51.107 - Parked a block away, waited for 15 minutes, heard the music the entire time, heard the elevated noise 00:01:51.107 --> 00:01:51.902 - the entire time. 00:01:52.546 --> 00:01:58.955 - As he approached and went down the block, he could continue to hear that music. As you know, with the 00:01:58.955 --> 00:02:05.302 - Quiet Nights program, we do not issue warnings. If the officer is called and observes the violation, 00:02:05.302 --> 00:02:11.649 - a notice of violation is issued. So the resident, Jahir Mansia, did not dispute the noise, but asked 00:02:11.649 --> 00:02:18.121 - for and requested a warning for the noise. As stated, BPD does not issue warnings for noise violations 00:02:18.121 --> 00:02:20.446 - that are called in through dispatch. 00:02:20.770 --> 00:02:27.455 - So Officer Shields is here to answer any questions. And I know we have the appellant online, and would 00:02:27.455 --> 00:02:34.206 - turn it over to the appellant if they have any comments they would like to make. Oh, hi. Hello. I don't 00:02:34.206 --> 00:02:40.826 - know if you guys can hear me. OK, we can hear you. OK, we can hear you. OK, yeah. I just want to just 00:02:40.826 --> 00:02:47.447 - come on here and just, uh. I'm sorry. Can you start by just stating your name for the record, please? 00:02:47.447 --> 00:02:50.238 - OK, I got you. I'm Jeremy. I live at 5.17. 00:02:51.106 --> 00:02:59.028 - Would you like to make any statement for the board? Yes, I'll just give some context on what happened 00:02:59.028 --> 00:03:07.028 - at the situation at the place. I'm home alone. I'm in the shower. I am playing music. Nothing too much 00:03:07.028 --> 00:03:14.873 - of it. It's a Friday night, I believe. Pretty quiet. All my neighbors are gone. So I'm playing music 00:03:14.873 --> 00:03:21.086 - in the shower and getting ready. I hear a knock on the door, so I go answer it. 00:03:21.666 --> 00:03:27.796 - It's the officer, officer just tells me the music is too loud. And I'm, oh, my apologies. It wasn't 00:03:27.796 --> 00:03:33.925 - my intention to disturb anybody whatsoever. And so I'm expecting like a warning. I've never had any 00:03:33.925 --> 00:03:40.055 - comment with any officer regarding noise at all in the last four years of living in Wilmington. And 00:03:40.055 --> 00:03:46.430 - he just told me that, oh yeah, I'm sorry, but we gotta get the citation out. And I was very, I was kind 00:03:46.430 --> 00:03:50.782 - of caught off guard by that. Because every time I've heard other peers 00:03:51.394 --> 00:03:59.464 - they always get a warning on the first time. And it just kind of caught me off guard. And I just thought 00:03:59.464 --> 00:04:07.457 - the situation itself wasn't... I didn't feel like that was the right decision at the moment, as in what 00:04:07.457 --> 00:04:15.604 - was going on at my house. I was just by myself, taking a shower, playing live music, which I do recognize 00:04:15.604 --> 00:04:20.446 - that was probably too loud. But I just feel like what happened 00:04:21.122 --> 00:04:28.672 - wasn't really worthy of a citation compared to other incidents that I've heard of of people throwing 00:04:28.672 --> 00:04:36.371 - parties and like underage drinking and all of that. And especially being with my parents on the fence, 00:04:36.371 --> 00:04:43.996 - I felt like it was quite unfair. And I'm just sitting like, what was going on at that time. And yeah. 00:04:43.996 --> 00:04:45.566 - Thank you very much. 00:04:46.434 --> 00:04:54.519 - Hi, would you mind approaching the podium please and just stating your name Go ahead do that again, 00:04:54.519 --> 00:05:02.684 - it's also James Shields with the Wellington Police Department. Thank you. Can you Can you talk about 00:05:02.684 --> 00:05:11.253 - the process if you give a warning versus if you give a citation immediately so with that amount excessive 00:05:11.253 --> 00:05:15.134 - noise, like I said, I did park a block away and 00:05:15.842 --> 00:05:23.042 - I allowed of the 15 minutes a lot of time I still hear it plain as day right there on the public roadway 00:05:23.042 --> 00:05:29.900 - went up there and it was just blasting out of the residents. I do not issue warnings every citation 00:05:29.900 --> 00:05:36.414 - that I do issue for noise if I go to a party it's going to be a citation. I don't do warnings. 00:05:36.414 --> 00:05:37.854 - Thank you. And it's. 00:05:38.306 --> 00:05:44.061 - From staff is that BPD does not issue warnings for noise complaints it goes directly to citation the 00:05:44.061 --> 00:05:49.759 - first time for the quiet Yes, this is an extension what we call the quiet nights program. It's been 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:55.628 - in place for many years for the last several if the officers are called out through Dispatch it's been 00:05:55.628 --> 00:06:01.554 - standard practice that if they observe the violation it does go directly to a citation I think at least 00:06:01.554 --> 00:06:04.574 - less I Don't know the exact number but at least less 00:06:04.930 --> 00:06:11.302 - Half-dozen or more appeals that have come to you all it's been under that policy We they've not been 00:06:11.302 --> 00:06:17.927 - issuing this at least this entire last academic year. There were no there were no warnings It was always 00:06:17.927 --> 00:06:24.363 - straight to the citations. Okay. Thank you any questions from the board Just just a clarification for 00:06:24.363 --> 00:06:30.798 - the record You were sent by dispatch Yes, so that means that someone in the general area did call and 00:06:30.798 --> 00:06:34.142 - complain about the excessive noise. Is that correct? 00:06:35.426 --> 00:06:50.171 - Thank you. Is there any public comment on this item? If you are in council chambers, feel free to approach 00:06:50.171 --> 00:07:05.054 - the podium. If you are online, use the raise hand function or the chat. Yes, we will. Hi. Hello. Thank you. 00:07:05.346 --> 00:07:12.422 - with the policy that you guys said about the late night late night noise complaint. I wasn't aware of 00:07:12.422 --> 00:07:19.499 - that. Like I said I had have had peers fellow classmates and friends who had encounters with throwing 00:07:19.499 --> 00:07:26.645 - parties and excessive excessive noise back in the past and their experiences I've always been like hey 00:07:26.645 --> 00:07:32.958 - first time is a warning second time 50 and so on fourth. I do recognize and do aware I do. 00:07:33.954 --> 00:07:41.612 - I know I was playing loud music, but I just feel like I wasn't playing music to just to be loud or anything. 00:07:41.612 --> 00:07:48.849 - I was just at home Friday night. All my neighbors are gone. From what I know, I've always played music 00:07:48.849 --> 00:07:55.946 - loud and I've never had once a complaint from any neighbor or any fellow people on my street. And so 00:07:55.946 --> 00:08:01.918 - when I was told about the citation, I would just kind of just in disbelief, I guess. 00:08:02.082 --> 00:08:08.717 - is because I was very cooperative with the officer. My apologies. I turned it off. And he told me that 00:08:08.717 --> 00:08:15.352 - he was just down the block and he heard the music. But he never told me somebody called in or anything 00:08:15.352 --> 00:08:21.794 - like that. So in that moment, I just felt it was more like he just happened to hear it. But I would 00:08:21.794 --> 00:08:28.365 - have appreciated him telling me, oh, I got called in by dispatch. Your music was too loud. That would 00:08:28.365 --> 00:08:31.006 - have made me feel like, OK, fair enough. 00:08:31.810 --> 00:08:38.317 - But what I was told was he would just happen to be down the block and music was loud. So we came to 00:08:38.317 --> 00:08:44.954 - check it out, which I completely understand. But as for with everything that transpired, it's not the 00:08:44.954 --> 00:08:51.460 - accurate, accurate, accurate. Oh, my bad. Titation for what happened. And I mean, I'm sure you guys 00:08:51.460 --> 00:08:56.926 - all know, Wilmington over summers are pretty much a dead town, really quiet. And so 00:08:58.594 --> 00:09:04.346 - I wasn't doing no harm or anything like that. There was no party going on, I'm home alone. And yeah, 00:09:04.346 --> 00:09:10.099 - so I just felt like the way I went on about it was very respectful and I told the officer, I'll turn 00:09:10.099 --> 00:09:15.794 - it off, I'm so sorry. And it was just automatic citation, no type of like, hearing me out, which is 00:09:15.794 --> 00:09:21.603 - very one sided I felt like, which I mean, if that's the policy, I completely understand. But I wasn't 00:09:21.603 --> 00:09:26.558 - aware of that. The only thing I knew prior to this was that first noise time complaint 00:09:26.978 --> 00:09:33.444 - It's a warning and then from so on forth citation and then increases over time. But yeah, so I just 00:09:33.444 --> 00:09:39.910 - wish if I didn't know this information prior hand, I would have had the music lower or not even the 00:09:39.910 --> 00:09:46.441 - music at all. And I just feel like it's a policy that's not really spoken about or known about. So I 00:09:46.441 --> 00:09:53.101 - just feel like if I knew that previous to this incident, you wouldn't be here having this conversation 00:09:53.101 --> 00:09:54.782 - with you guys. Thank you. 00:09:56.450 --> 00:10:05.116 - Thank you very much. This is just a good time to remind people with a new semester starting at IU that 00:10:05.116 --> 00:10:13.613 - if students are living in off-campus housing, they are responsible for rules and policies within the 00:10:13.613 --> 00:10:21.858 - community. And we will repeat again that there are no warnings given for noise violations by BPD. 00:10:21.858 --> 00:10:24.382 - All right. Is there a motion? 00:10:25.442 --> 00:10:35.102 - Move that we uphold the notice of noise violation at 517 South Mitchell Street Second With a motion 00:10:35.102 --> 00:10:44.763 - in a second. I will call the roll Cox Decker. I roach. I grown I motion passes Next is an appeal of 00:10:44.763 --> 00:10:50.366 - the notice of right-of-way violation for CGR services and 00:10:55.682 --> 00:11:03.846 - Davis from engineering department I kind of wrote a synopsis of my staff report since it was so long. 00:11:03.846 --> 00:11:11.769 - So that's what I'll read the staff report provided for the CGR appeal of NOV right-of-way outlines 00:11:11.769 --> 00:11:20.093 - communications between city staff and CGR services beginning December of last year when the application 00:11:20.093 --> 00:11:21.854 - was submitted through 00:11:21.986 --> 00:11:28.841 - The current month of July and can be found in the packet for this session of the BPW along with email 00:11:28.841 --> 00:11:35.562 - submissions to support the report Following is a brief summary of the staff report CGR submitted an 00:11:35.562 --> 00:11:42.484 - application on December 19th 2026 for the replacement of sidewalk panels in the Crestmont neighborhood 00:11:42.484 --> 00:11:46.046 - Additional materials were requested and not received 00:11:46.146 --> 00:11:52.877 - April 7th 2026 I was notified by engineering staff that work affiliated with the permit application 00:11:52.877 --> 00:11:59.742 - Had begun without an issued permit Contact was made with the applicants Randy Lloyd and carbon Thomas 00:11:59.742 --> 00:12:06.472 - to ask for the remaining materials to be submitted So retroactive permit could be issued as well as 00:12:06.472 --> 00:12:13.203 - stating the requirement of temporary traffic control for the four blocks of sidewalk closures to be 00:12:13.203 --> 00:12:14.078 - put in place 00:12:14.210 --> 00:12:21.655 - For the remainder of the project, no temporary traffic control was implemented for a total of 16 days 00:12:21.655 --> 00:12:29.393 - after the staff contacted the applicant. Engineering issued an NOV on June 9th, 2026, citing two separate 00:12:29.393 --> 00:12:36.765 - violations of Bloomington Municipal Code with a fine totaling $3,000. CGR submitted an appeal letter 00:12:36.765 --> 00:12:40.926 - to the Board of Public Works liaison on June 16th, 2026. 00:12:41.058 --> 00:12:48.671 - between December 19th 2026 and June 25th 2026 there were approximately six communications to CGR requesting 00:12:48.671 --> 00:12:55.791 - information and or placement of a temporary traffic control plan and Approximately 11 requesting the 00:12:55.791 --> 00:13:02.910 - necessary material submissions for the permit to be issued four months following the Notification of 00:13:02.910 --> 00:13:07.774 - the need for a retroactive permit the full material submissions were 00:13:08.098 --> 00:13:16.532 - Required were met on June 26 2026 The applicant was then said sent the invoice for the permit fees on 00:13:16.532 --> 00:13:25.132 - July 1st 2026 which as of today has not been paid Which is a requirement for the issuance of the permit 00:13:25.132 --> 00:13:33.566 - the total number of days without a retroactive permit from the April 7th 2026 notification totals now 00:13:33.566 --> 00:13:34.558 - 97 days and 00:13:35.426 --> 00:13:46.284 - And if you guys have any questions about the facts or the things that I wrote in the report, I'll be 00:13:46.284 --> 00:13:52.734 - happy to answer those. Yeah, I believe we have carbon here. 00:13:59.490 --> 00:14:09.984 - Hello, my name is Carvin Thomas. I am managing partner of CGR services LLC Yes, I would this contract 00:14:09.984 --> 00:14:20.787 - actually began way before The service state of the issuance of this the permit request this this project 00:14:20.787 --> 00:14:25.726 - actually began under what we call rad2 which is 00:14:25.858 --> 00:14:33.880 - The redoing of the Crestmont neighborhood CGR services that we've been replacing sidewalks concrete 00:14:33.880 --> 00:14:41.982 - all throughout the rad one project which was walnut woods as well as Reverend Butler neighborhood So 00:14:41.982 --> 00:14:50.405 - we have done a lot of sidewalk replacement up there and the practices that we had in place we were using 00:14:50.405 --> 00:14:53.534 - the regular orange concrete fencing to 00:14:53.922 --> 00:15:01.140 - square off our properties or, because this contract was so segmented that we were pouring five foot 00:15:01.140 --> 00:15:08.503 - of concrete here, 10 foot of concrete here. It was a replacement. So we knew for the right of way, we 00:15:08.503 --> 00:15:15.144 - felt if we were cutting off a whole block of sidewalks, yes, you put up your warning signs, 00:15:15.144 --> 00:15:22.362 - sidewalk closed, find another alternate due to it. But with this project being so segmented, it was 00:15:22.362 --> 00:15:23.806 - all over Crestmont. 00:15:24.386 --> 00:15:31.554 - I don't know if she, sorry, Rebecca has a copy of the beginning contract, but in nowhere when we first 00:15:31.554 --> 00:15:38.792 - signed the contract, was there anywhere that said we needed a permit? But this thing changed as we came 00:15:38.792 --> 00:15:45.890 - out of RAD 2, and then it became a whole nother project. It fell out of RAD 2. There was some warning 00:15:45.890 --> 00:15:49.022 - about RAD 2 had to be completed by November, 00:15:49.186 --> 00:15:57.867 - Whatever, but we were still acting under the old rad to agreement which did not require any right-of-ways 00:15:57.867 --> 00:16:06.056 - and We continued to use the orange fencing to close off these small plots of land or small plots of 00:16:06.056 --> 00:16:14.655 - repairs and The reason we went with the orange construction fences during rad to early into construction 00:16:14.655 --> 00:16:18.750 - of rad to there was an injury up at Crestmont and 00:16:19.138 --> 00:16:25.162 - One of the tenants got hurt with the way we were doing the signs, because any time you're doing the 00:16:25.162 --> 00:16:31.367 - concrete sign warnings, those signs, when you're working around kids, I don't care where it's at, they 00:16:31.367 --> 00:16:32.030 - disappear. 00:16:32.706 --> 00:16:39.864 - So for us, after that injury, and Bloomington Housing Authority was gonna be held liable for the injury 00:16:39.864 --> 00:16:46.747 - because of the way we marked it off, it was said to us by Kate, who was the director of Bloomington 00:16:46.747 --> 00:16:54.319 - Housing Authority at the time, this is the process for blocking off sidewalks when you're doing construction, 00:16:54.319 --> 00:16:59.550 - and it was the temporary orange construction fencing. So we continued doing 00:16:59.650 --> 00:17:08.317 - Processing the rest of this job as though we were still under red recording in progress. Oh Okay, but 00:17:08.317 --> 00:17:17.493 - that's the way we continued there were no new contract that said hey that required bonding at the beginning 00:17:17.493 --> 00:17:22.846 - of this process when we signed a contract with Nate and Rhonda 00:17:22.946 --> 00:17:29.689 - there was no talk about needing additional right-of-way bonding, because it did fall under the rad-tube. 00:17:29.689 --> 00:17:36.174 - So that was... that's what we were understanding. So when we were approached and said, hey, you need 00:17:36.174 --> 00:17:42.660 - bonding now, we had already had holes dug all over Chrismont. We were already in the process. So our 00:17:42.660 --> 00:17:49.210 - choice became, do we continue to leave these holes all throughout the neighborhood, or do we go ahead 00:17:49.210 --> 00:17:50.302 - and fill them in 00:17:50.402 --> 00:17:57.722 - As we apply for the bond and we did apply for the bond and one of the bonds we got back We were told 00:17:57.722 --> 00:18:05.187 - notified by the city that that bond was not accurate because it wasn't It was a year-to-year bond that 00:18:05.187 --> 00:18:12.797 - had to be renewed which we thought was sufficient but Rebecca informed us that we had to have a two-year 00:18:12.797 --> 00:18:19.102 - continuous bond and our Insurance rep nate herboli at first insurance. He thought that 00:18:19.202 --> 00:18:26.956 - The initial bond that we applied for which would be right here would be relevant to cover us for it 00:18:26.956 --> 00:18:34.943 - So we did try to get the retroactive bond, but we knew we had These areas that had to be replaced that 00:18:34.943 --> 00:18:42.697 - was public safety matter in our opinion All right, thank you very much I just want to make a couple 00:18:42.697 --> 00:18:47.582 - real quick comments here just so we're all clear on everything 00:18:47.842 --> 00:18:55.279 - In the end even when you're doing work in Crestmont for BHA You still do need to have a right away permit 00:18:55.279 --> 00:19:02.295 - because they are sidewalks within the right away. That was always known, correct? No, we had worked 00:19:02.295 --> 00:19:09.382 - under BCM under rad one run to the Contractor itself. We did not have were those on private property 00:19:09.382 --> 00:19:15.486 - compared within the public right-of-way We did sidewalks and Monroe 12th, okay, we did 00:19:15.938 --> 00:19:25.917 - ADA compliance among all those So it's as well clarification was the Was your response that a different? 00:19:25.917 --> 00:19:35.516 - Contractor held those permits was that what was happening and we still thought we were still working 00:19:35.516 --> 00:19:41.694 - under the rad to agreement Very clear about so even when the the 00:19:41.826 --> 00:19:45.982 - You saw a lot of references to Proag within the documentation, right? Yes. 00:19:46.050 --> 00:19:52.488 - So that's the standard we're always held to when the right of way is closed. We can't ever let our permits 00:19:52.488 --> 00:19:58.626 - deviate from pro-wag. Even if BHA says, hey, orange construction fencing's good enough, we're held to 00:19:58.626 --> 00:20:04.643 - that pro-wag standard for ADA and all types of compliance. So we don't get to deviate from that. So 00:20:04.643 --> 00:20:10.721 - that means if you've got just two panels of sidewalk that are being torn out and replaced, you still 00:20:10.721 --> 00:20:16.016 - need to go back to the block fronts where there are the appropriate crossings and such. 00:20:16.016 --> 00:20:22.158 - And that's where all the pro-wag standards come in. And we don't get to deviate from that when we see, 00:20:22.158 --> 00:20:28.121 - you know, it's just a couple sections. The idea is that you always, we always think of somebody, if 00:20:28.121 --> 00:20:34.144 - somebody visually impaired was to come upon the site, they need to be moved before they actually get 00:20:34.144 --> 00:20:40.167 - to the site to a safe crossing. No, I understand why that would be. And in all practical situations, 00:20:40.167 --> 00:20:44.222 - we do that. But we would have literally had almost all of Crestmont 00:20:44.514 --> 00:20:51.910 - because of the 20 different Sections that needed to be repaired and in all due respect on my way here 00:20:51.910 --> 00:20:59.741 - I probably saw eight different city sites with no pro-wag Warnings as I was coming through with no adequate 00:20:59.741 --> 00:21:07.355 - staking or any fencing to keep you just walk down Kirkwood You'll see that those are open. So we thought 00:21:07.355 --> 00:21:12.286 - we went over and above for the safety of the residents at Crestmont 00:21:14.562 --> 00:21:19.851 - Under any other circumstances we had all of Monroe closed sure. Yeah This is where I think if we would 00:21:19.851 --> 00:21:25.141 - have gotten into and I'm just gonna Kind of opine here a little bit where if we would have gotten into 00:21:25.141 --> 00:21:30.533 - a right-of-way permit request in December that that was emailed about and sat down with you all we would 00:21:30.533 --> 00:21:35.669 - have asked for different phasing So you didn't have the whole neighborhood. We would have said hey, 00:21:35.669 --> 00:21:40.958 - we'd like you to focus here Yeah, that's I can give you the contract that would not have been possible 00:21:41.506 --> 00:21:48.351 - At the beginning of the contract we were told that it would be 20 feet 30 feet 40 feet But it didn't 00:21:48.351 --> 00:21:55.400 - do that. I'm talking five feet 10 feet Even two and a half feet where you just had half of the sidewalk 00:21:55.400 --> 00:22:02.584 - that was damaged It would have required us to close down that I just don't think under this circumstance. 00:22:02.584 --> 00:22:04.414 - It would be practical also 00:22:04.578 --> 00:22:11.961 - Just want the board to know that I'm a resident of Crestmont. I grew up on 7th Street I lived in that 00:22:11.961 --> 00:22:19.344 - when we worked up there for the last four years CGR's utmost priority was the safety of the residents 00:22:19.344 --> 00:22:26.872 - and I am telling you that orange fencing is what we found protected the neighbors the best in that area 00:22:26.872 --> 00:22:32.446 - you could have a sidewalk closed sign at the beginning of the street, but at 00:22:33.570 --> 00:22:40.973 - Midnight, when someone's walking out of their residence, not toward the end of the sidewalk, but just 00:22:40.973 --> 00:22:48.304 - straight out of their residence and coming up before they met that pro rag standard, they could walk 00:22:48.304 --> 00:22:55.780 - in that hole. And to me, this was the most practical way of keeping the neighbors safe. And to let you 00:22:55.780 --> 00:23:03.038 - know, toward the end of this contract, we probably had $8,000 worth of concrete repairs to replace. 00:23:03.170 --> 00:23:11.200 - And a $3,000 fine on top of that is just that just really takes away a lot of what we've done up there. 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:19.540 - But for four years, we've been up there. We have provided community gardens. We have planted those gardens. 00:23:19.540 --> 00:23:27.261 - We have provided donations to the community building. We have helped individual residents every day 00:23:27.261 --> 00:23:28.574 - up at Crestmont. 00:23:28.738 --> 00:23:35.391 - so to look at CGR as though we were some kind of Irresponsible company that could be further for them 00:23:35.391 --> 00:23:42.045 - truth So the three thousand at the end of the day if you all decide that's what we need to pay that's 00:23:42.045 --> 00:23:48.894 - fine But our public reputation is more important than that's why I thought it was important that I would 00:23:48.894 --> 00:23:55.743 - come here to tell you Exactly what we went through in that project. Thank you very much. Okay. All right 00:23:55.743 --> 00:23:57.374 - questions from the board 00:24:00.226 --> 00:24:07.945 - Just some clarifying questions mostly for Adam The Work that is being described was in the public street 00:24:07.945 --> 00:24:15.517 - right away. Is that correct? These were public sidewalks. Yes, and who owns those public sidewalks the 00:24:15.517 --> 00:24:22.942 - city owns them adjacent property owners are responsible for their maintenance and if Someone were to 00:24:22.942 --> 00:24:28.382 - be injured on a public sidewalk Who would be responsible for that injury? 00:24:28.738 --> 00:24:36.614 - We always get named in the lawsuits as well. Okay, and if that sidewalk clarify we often more than often 00:24:36.614 --> 00:24:44.565 - than not with law firms that are Making legal claims on city sidewalks. The city's almost always included 00:24:44.565 --> 00:24:46.590 - in those tort claims great 00:24:46.754 --> 00:24:55.098 - Is it safe to assume that part of that? Injury case would be a determination of whether the work that 00:24:55.098 --> 00:25:03.606 - was being done met all city state and federal requirements And that's federal requirement is the public 00:25:03.606 --> 00:25:06.878 - right away accessibility guidelines and 00:25:07.042 --> 00:25:18.158 - It is not the private contract between the property owner and the contractor that is reviewed a private 00:25:18.158 --> 00:25:28.847 - contract between a property owner and a Contractor does not supersede the federal requirements as I 00:25:28.847 --> 00:25:31.198 - understood as mr. Tom 00:25:32.290 --> 00:25:38.378 - Mr. Thomas explained it that BHA was advising you that the orange fencing was okay. Yeah, that Unfortunately 00:25:38.378 --> 00:25:44.074 - doesn't meet what would have been required as part of a right away permit And I just want to also say 00:25:44.074 --> 00:25:49.883 - I want to be very clear. Mr Tom No one's accusing your business would be in their response for anything 00:25:49.883 --> 00:25:55.635 - What we're held to is enforcing the standards that we are those are the pro-wag TTT Sanders and that's 00:25:55.635 --> 00:26:00.606 - that's that's what Rebecca was really trying to always do is get the sites in compliance 00:26:00.994 --> 00:26:05.538 - We would have been happy to try to sit down with BHA and you all to figure out phasing if it was going 00:26:05.538 --> 00:26:10.081 - to be the whole neighborhood at a time. We would have really been working towards that. And I know you 00:26:10.081 --> 00:26:14.625 - don't the contract was it might not have been set up that way. But we would have been happy to be part 00:26:14.625 --> 00:26:19.036 - of the conversation to figure out how to best do this knowing we have to meet proag compliance. I'm 00:26:19.036 --> 00:26:23.668 - going to just take a moment here to further explain something that we're dealing with on a regular basis 00:26:23.668 --> 00:26:27.550 - right now. We have currently four or five different ADA compliance cases that are being 00:26:27.650 --> 00:26:32.876 - sought after for public infrastructure in regards to the public right of way and pedestrian access. 00:26:32.876 --> 00:26:38.206 - These are official formal ADA complaints. We have a lot of residents here that report things that are 00:26:38.206 --> 00:26:43.432 - not in compliance on a regular basis with our developments and our construction projects. Our staff 00:26:43.432 --> 00:26:48.972 - has a really delicate line to try to balance of trying to work with contractors to make things reasonable 00:26:48.972 --> 00:26:54.407 - within pro wag and everything while also balancing all of the folks that tell us we're not doing a good 00:26:54.407 --> 00:26:57.438 - job good enough job enforcing keeping the right way open. 00:26:57.698 --> 00:27:03.611 - You mentioned Kirkwood we had a complaint yesterday with EMB that they were not in compliance with proag 00:27:03.611 --> 00:27:09.355 - we went down there yesterday We got them to to properly secure their site yesterday I went down there 00:27:09.355 --> 00:27:15.043 - today to make sure that they properly had their sidewalk closures in place if that changed today I'm 00:27:15.043 --> 00:27:20.731 - gonna be out there tomorrow. I promise you that it's high it's high visibility These are unfortunate 00:27:20.731 --> 00:27:27.038 - situations staff is held to the standard that they have to get proag compliance That's an unfortunate part here 00:27:27.586 --> 00:27:34.335 - And so that yeah, I just wanted to just also make my comment. They're known this isn't about CGR It's 00:27:34.335 --> 00:27:41.150 - it's just about making sure that they're in compliance with the pro-wag and just one follow-up I think 00:27:41.150 --> 00:27:47.766 - you hit on what I was gonna ask it Please Craig if I'm wrong, but I believe it is a common practice 00:27:47.766 --> 00:27:54.846 - of the city the engineering department the public works department when a permit is applied for to work to 00:27:54.946 --> 00:28:01.526 - very closely with the contractor and the property owner to make sure they're aware of what is expected 00:28:01.526 --> 00:28:08.169 - of them and to work within their timelines and their budgets and the law We're gonna try to help devise 00:28:08.169 --> 00:28:14.302 - as best as we can here. I think as mr. Thomas referred to I think there's a lot of confusion of 00:28:14.402 --> 00:28:20.162 - which project this was under it. I'm not familiar exactly with what rad two and rad one and two were. 00:28:20.162 --> 00:28:25.810 - Those were separate projects of investments that were happening in Crestmont that CGR was doing for 00:28:25.810 --> 00:28:31.457 - the Housing Authority. Yeah for BCM and the Housing Authority. And this was then another project of 00:28:31.457 --> 00:28:37.161 - a different a different project entirely. And correct me if you feel like this misstatement. This is 00:28:37.161 --> 00:28:40.606 - a misstatement. But I think part of it was also that we were 00:28:40.930 --> 00:28:46.704 - in communication with other members of the CGR team at different times whether it was Gary whether it 00:28:46.704 --> 00:28:52.366 - was Mr. Scott or Mr. Lloyd with emails and I don't know from everything I read it doesn't look like 00:28:52.366 --> 00:28:58.197 - all that was being connected last December to say no this is a new project we need a right away permit 00:28:58.197 --> 00:29:04.084 - and that's I think the crux of the issue here is that that right away permit was never put forward back 00:29:04.084 --> 00:29:04.990 - in December and 00:29:05.122 --> 00:29:11.315 - To be able then have these conversations the work started and they saw it wasn't in compliance So this 00:29:11.315 --> 00:29:17.509 - is a challenging one for us because it definitely needed a whole new right away permit to do this work 00:29:17.509 --> 00:29:23.522 - And that was just never applied for So yeah, right and we we assume we were still working and can I 00:29:23.522 --> 00:29:29.836 - ask you this? Yeah, because we were told by BHA that Because we were doing a sidewalk replacement inside 00:29:29.836 --> 00:29:34.526 - the neighborhood as well not along the streets and we were told that that was 00:29:34.722 --> 00:29:41.118 - that you didn't need permits for inside. 00:29:41.410 --> 00:29:47.101 - I think BHA owns some of those more internal circular drives and the whole property where they're even 00:29:47.101 --> 00:29:52.957 - responsible probably for the internal streets at that point. And I could see how that would get confusing 00:29:52.957 --> 00:29:58.482 - of what's a right of way versus what is within the BHA project and everything else. When these came 00:29:58.482 --> 00:30:04.172 - to actual city streets and city sidewalks that were along, I can't remember each of the locations, but 00:30:04.172 --> 00:30:09.918 - there were four specific ones. Those were all definitely city streets and city rights of way. So, yeah. 00:30:10.210 --> 00:30:17.978 - This isn't easy this is If I could if I'm on 12th Street and I'm it's 12th and Lindbergh would where 00:30:17.978 --> 00:30:25.745 - my right-of-way sign would be But if I lived in the middle of 12th Street 1500 block at 12th Street, 00:30:25.745 --> 00:30:33.743 - I walk out I'm not gonna see that sign and there's gonna be a hole there You would still be responsible 00:30:33.743 --> 00:30:39.742 - for your excavation too. No. No, that's why that's why we use the orange tape 00:30:40.290 --> 00:30:46.103 - Rebecca standing that was that was recommended by Kate. What was Kate's? Kate that that that's what 00:30:46.103 --> 00:30:51.975 - we all came up with after the injury up at a cresma that we had You would have done the diversion at 00:30:51.975 --> 00:30:57.788 - the beginning of the sidewalk face where you would get a person from an ADA ramp to an ADA ramp And 00:30:57.788 --> 00:31:03.776 - then you would also do your excavation to hold it to maintain that Rebecca. Did you have something you 00:31:03.776 --> 00:31:05.694 - wanted to add? I'm sorry, please 00:31:06.370 --> 00:31:19.806 - The clarification I have is that CGR did apply for a right-of-way permit in December and was aware that 00:31:19.970 --> 00:31:27.815 - portion of the work they were going to be doing was going to be in the public right-of-way because when 00:31:27.815 --> 00:31:35.433 - he Mr. Lloyd sent me the plan set He identified which of those panels were going to be in the public 00:31:35.433 --> 00:31:42.976 - right-of-way So I could see ones that weren't and that is not a part of what I was trying to get in 00:31:42.976 --> 00:31:43.806 - compliance 00:31:49.762 --> 00:31:59.541 - I think the point that was made about the safety fencing was one that I just wanted to clarify that 00:31:59.541 --> 00:32:10.494 - and not to frighten Adam when I say this but when you are following the appropriate closure in the right of way 00:32:10.626 --> 00:32:17.763 - What happens in that closure is varied. I mean, you could have lots of things happening in that closure. 00:32:17.763 --> 00:32:19.870 - You could have fencing to keep 00:32:19.938 --> 00:32:26.661 - people out from the excavation point, which I appreciate the comments that you've made about concerns 00:32:26.661 --> 00:32:33.451 - that people will traverse across, especially in that area, the way that the homes are set up, it would 00:32:33.451 --> 00:32:40.108 - be very easy to traverse into the middle of a closed sidewalk. And so you can have lots of different 00:32:40.108 --> 00:32:45.118 - activities happening in that closure that can be additional safety measures 00:32:45.282 --> 00:32:56.031 - Also additional construction measures and other things that might be happening in that sidewalk so all 00:32:56.031 --> 00:33:07.198 - of those things are important and and allowed when you have the the proag Restrictions in place so I think 00:33:07.330 --> 00:33:14.141 - I just wanted to say I appreciate all the information that has been shared both by you. Mr Thomas and 00:33:14.141 --> 00:33:21.287 - by city staff This was very well documented on everyone's part as to the conversations that were happening 00:33:21.287 --> 00:33:28.766 - and some of the ways that there was confusion around this project, especially as it is a part of a multi-phased 00:33:28.866 --> 00:33:37.012 - activity and we it's not unusual for us to encounter these types of confusion when you have several 00:33:37.012 --> 00:33:45.565 - different contractors who are receiving permits for different types of work, so I Just want to reiterate 00:33:45.565 --> 00:33:53.874 - what Adam said earlier. This is not in any way to put any sort of negative Opinion on the work that's 00:33:53.874 --> 00:33:57.214 - being done. It's it really is more about 00:33:57.314 --> 00:34:04.248 - the city ensuring that it's following the guidelines that we have to follow by the ADA and the other 00:34:04.248 --> 00:34:11.387 - federal and state regulations that we have to abide by. So appreciate all of the work that's happening. 00:34:11.387 --> 00:34:18.458 - And I know this is a huge... Recording in progress. This is a huge project. And so appreciate the work 00:34:18.458 --> 00:34:25.598 - that you and your team have been doing in that area. Thank you. And just one more thing if I could say. 00:34:27.010 --> 00:34:34.332 - This contract was down to less than eight thousand dollars worth of work that needed to be completed 00:34:34.332 --> 00:34:41.727 - So we were down to closing this out prior to rad to ending where it didn't require bond and the total 00:34:41.727 --> 00:34:48.977 - of five thousand in the bonding I think at some point to be fair to CGR there should have been some 00:34:48.977 --> 00:34:52.094 - sort of meeting of the minds that said hey 00:34:52.578 --> 00:35:01.288 - this is gonna be another added expense onto this final contract. And maybe they could defrate it. And 00:35:01.288 --> 00:35:10.168 - the only other thing I will say before I walk out of here today, if you do decide to find CGR, is there 00:35:10.168 --> 00:35:19.646 - a way we can make that a donation to the people of Cresmont? And I would be happy to sign that check tomorrow. 00:35:25.090 --> 00:35:31.492 - That's all I care about When you're able to help when you're able to help rebuild your old neighborhood 00:35:31.492 --> 00:35:37.709 - It's a sense of pride and there are not people lining up to take BHA contracts I'm telling you every 00:35:37.709 --> 00:35:44.542 - time we bid we're the only ones but we do it from a sense of purpose to try to help the residents up there and 00:35:44.770 --> 00:35:50.359 - When Rad 1 and Rad 2 first started, the difference of how that whole area looks up there now, if you've 00:35:50.359 --> 00:35:55.518 - not seen it, I encourage everybody to get up there and see it. It's different at night and day. 00:35:55.714 --> 00:36:01.043 - I talked to friends that I grew up with that stayed up at Crestmont, and they're like, I said, hey, 00:36:01.043 --> 00:36:06.425 - guess what? They got Central Air up there now, and they're like, are you kidding me? All the summers 00:36:06.425 --> 00:36:11.860 - I spent? So it is a sense of pride for me, and I would gladly donate 3,000, 5,000, whatever it is, to 00:36:11.860 --> 00:36:17.242 - the kids at Crestmont. I know they're having a backpack movement for back to school, and I know they 00:36:17.242 --> 00:36:22.625 - have their back to school, which we donate to anyway, but I'd be happy to help that donation for the 00:36:22.625 --> 00:36:25.662 - folks. Thank you, Carmen. What I am gonna just recommend 00:36:25.858 --> 00:36:31.836 - If we could just table this for tonight this isn't to say that this isn't gonna be a fine that's uphill 00:36:31.836 --> 00:36:37.584 - that we're gonna continue to ask the board to uphold it what I do want to explore is just one thing 00:36:37.584 --> 00:36:43.504 - tonight I don't know that we could do anything legally to allow for that but I do at least want to try 00:36:43.504 --> 00:36:46.206 - to explore something there and figure that out 00:36:47.234 --> 00:36:53.547 - I will just make general note it is not it was never lost on me or any of the staff that you know Mr. 00:36:53.547 --> 00:36:59.799 - Thomas has connections to the area we knew what your company was doing up there in terms of the good 00:36:59.799 --> 00:37:06.174 - work on behalf of the overall BHA has been working for many many years to do these big rehab projects. 00:37:06.754 --> 00:37:11.515 - And I also just want to note that I also really want to applaud Rebecca for doing the work to actually 00:37:11.515 --> 00:37:16.137 - note and document everything throughout this whole process. It is confusing. I won't lie. It's kind 00:37:16.137 --> 00:37:20.759 - of hard when we're dealing with different people within the same company at different times. But so 00:37:20.759 --> 00:37:25.474 - I'm not asking anything other than the board to just table this for this evening. It's still probably 00:37:25.474 --> 00:37:30.235 - going to be a recommendation that we uphold the fine if we can't figure out something here. But I want 00:37:30.235 --> 00:37:34.718 - to at least take two weeks to figure that out if that's OK with you. That's OK with me. Perfect. 00:37:35.010 --> 00:37:46.015 - So I would ask that you just table this for this evening With that suggestion is there a motion decision 00:37:46.015 --> 00:37:56.915 - on the appeal of notice of right-of-way violation for CGR services I Motion passes to table and I would 00:37:56.915 --> 00:38:03.518 - just like to reiterate both to mr. Thomas and to staff the how 00:38:03.938 --> 00:38:12.022 - helpful it was for us that this was documented so clearly and That you came To share the story of what 00:38:12.022 --> 00:38:19.949 - you're doing it at Crestmont. All right. Thank you so much All right, next we will move to petitions 00:38:19.949 --> 00:38:27.876 - and remonstrances if anyone has something to comment on that is not on tonight's agenda may approach 00:38:27.876 --> 00:38:31.486 - the podium if you are on zoom you can use the 00:38:31.650 --> 00:38:41.548 - Raise hand function or the chat recording in progress. All right. I just want to make note that the 00:38:41.548 --> 00:38:51.546 - physical recording is done by cats. So that will still be available online even though we are having 00:38:51.546 --> 00:38:56.990 - the technical difficulties in council chambers itself. 00:38:57.602 --> 00:39:05.095 - So we still will have a full recording of this available online. We appreciate your constant management 00:39:05.095 --> 00:39:12.444 - of the zoom. All right. We'll move along to the consent agenda on tonight's consent agenda as a right 00:39:12.444 --> 00:39:19.649 - of way special event permit for a little five film right of way special event for twenty twenty six 00:39:19.649 --> 00:39:26.206 - Hoosiers outrun cancer five K right of way special event for twenty twenty six Pride Fest. 00:39:27.106 --> 00:39:33.106 - right of way special event for the twenty twenty six World Cup final community watch party resolution 00:39:33.106 --> 00:39:39.164 - resolution twenty twenty six dash zero three one art on a traffic box for flow arts at Sixth and North 00:39:39.164 --> 00:39:45.046 - College memorandum of understanding between Monroe County and city Bloomington regarding the Grimes 00:39:45.046 --> 00:39:50.928 - Lane Bridge acceptance of public improvements for some it would phase two sections one through four 00:39:50.928 --> 00:39:56.222 - and payroll. Are there any items that need to be removed from the consent agenda tonight. 00:39:57.634 --> 00:40:06.100 - All right. Any questions from the board about items on consent. Is there any public comment on the consent 00:40:06.100 --> 00:40:14.171 - agenda tonight. Nine on zoom. All right. Is there a motion. I move that we approve the consent agenda 00:40:14.171 --> 00:40:22.005 - for this evening July 14th of twenty twenty six. Second. I will call the roll Roche. I Cox Decker. 00:40:22.005 --> 00:40:24.062 - I Caron. I motion passes. 00:40:25.442 --> 00:40:32.627 - All right, moving along to new business. First item is the services agreement with Civic Brand for wayfinding 00:40:32.627 --> 00:40:39.550 - audit and strategy framework development. Good evening, Adam Wason, public works director in coordination 00:40:39.550 --> 00:40:46.343 - with Jane Coopersmith, the economic and sustainable development director. This is a project where we're 00:40:46.343 --> 00:40:53.397 - utilizing Civic Brand to help us with an audit and a strategy around all of our wayfinding. As we discussed 00:40:53.397 --> 00:40:55.422 - in the work session yesterday, 00:40:56.194 --> 00:41:03.224 - since probably the mid-90s or so, there's been a couple different campaigns to put up different types 00:41:03.224 --> 00:41:10.255 - of wayfinding signage. So this is for community members that may have seen the green signs that point 00:41:10.255 --> 00:41:17.216 - to things like athletic facilities with the university or where the library might be, other downtown 00:41:17.216 --> 00:41:24.315 - attractions, as well as the big brown signs that are more of a wood-painted brown wayfinding sign that 00:41:24.315 --> 00:41:25.694 - also has, you know, 00:41:26.370 --> 00:41:31.886 - I think those are more towards like city parks and city amenities and things like that. So those have 00:41:31.886 --> 00:41:37.457 - been put up throughout the community over many many many many years in different ways and by different 00:41:37.457 --> 00:41:42.973 - city different organizations whether it's the Convention and Visitors Bureau city themselves. I think 00:41:42.973 --> 00:41:46.110 - Rotary at times gets involved Chamber of Commerce others. 00:41:46.434 --> 00:41:52.817 - So this is just going to audit everything that's out there. We're then going to be working with the 00:41:52.817 --> 00:41:59.328 - Convention and Visitor Bureau and other community partners to revamp the whole way finding throughout 00:41:59.328 --> 00:42:05.902 - the community. And so this is in coordination with the economic and sustainable development department 00:42:05.902 --> 00:42:11.902 - and to get that audit and strategy in place. All right. Is there public comment on this item. 00:42:15.874 --> 00:42:25.272 - Seeing none is there a motion I move that we approve the services agreement with Civic brand for wayfinding 00:42:25.272 --> 00:42:34.235 - audit and strategy framework development second I Cox Decker, I Korone I motion passes Next is a noise 00:42:34.235 --> 00:42:43.198 - permit request for Kirkwood Grimes Patterson and Rogers Street maintenance project from ENB paving and 00:42:46.018 --> 00:42:53.987 - Sarah Gomez with the engineering department. I'm the project manager for this particular capital project 00:42:53.987 --> 00:43:01.805 - and ENB is on a very tight timeline to get all full closures for this project done before the students 00:43:01.805 --> 00:43:09.470 - return. We put the end date as August 1st so that there's plenty of wiggle room in there before they 00:43:09.470 --> 00:43:15.390 - actually start piling in. So they have requested during the 10 day closure of 00:43:15.554 --> 00:43:25.379 - West Kirkwood Avenue to work on Sunday and that's what the noise permit is for is so that they can be 00:43:25.379 --> 00:43:35.397 - out there between the hours of I think it's 7 a.m. To 8 p.m. Per the city code Thank you questions from 00:43:35.397 --> 00:43:42.910 - the board All right, it's their public comment on this item Is there a motion 00:43:43.458 --> 00:43:52.411 - I move that we approve the noise permit request for Kirkwood Grimes Patterson and Roger Street maintenance 00:43:52.411 --> 00:44:01.280 - project from Ian be paving. Thank you. Second. I will call the roll. I. I. I. Motion passes. Sorry James. 00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:09.982 - Thanks. Thanks. Next is a right of way closure request for Crider and Crider at Union Street. Zach Bell 00:44:09.982 --> 00:44:11.070 - engineering. 00:44:12.930 --> 00:44:23.011 - The request includes sidewalk diversions, temporary lane closures, road closures as necessary to safely 00:44:23.011 --> 00:44:32.510 - complete the work. Closures are proposed from July 15th through August 14th and will occur during 00:44:32.706 --> 00:44:39.939 - normal construction hours and During overnight hours pedestrian and vehicular traffic will be maintained 00:44:39.939 --> 00:44:47.448 - shifted or rerouted in accordance with the approved temporary traffic plan Sidewalk diversion will alternate 00:44:47.448 --> 00:44:54.888 - between the east and west side of Union Street as work progresses south from 10th Street Traveling closures 00:44:54.888 --> 00:45:00.606 - will alternate also as work progresses south on Union Street from East 10th Street 00:45:01.058 --> 00:45:06.990 - During periods of full street closure either the northbound or southbound lane will be closed depending 00:45:06.990 --> 00:45:12.923 - on the low work location Lane closures are expected to total approximately two weeks That's in addition 00:45:12.923 --> 00:45:18.684 - to the two weeks that they've had until this point phase one Street closure will take place adjacent 00:45:18.684 --> 00:45:24.559 - to 405 North Union Street with local access to be maintained Detour route will utilize North Jefferson 00:45:24.559 --> 00:45:30.206 - Street if Jefferson Street is closed we believe the grid will be able to handle it and people will 00:45:30.626 --> 00:45:37.433 - be able to find their route. Street closure will have a total duration of approximately three weeks 00:45:37.433 --> 00:45:44.852 - July 15th to August 4th 2026. Criterion Criterion shall install and maintain all required signage barricades 00:45:44.852 --> 00:45:51.795 - traffic control devices maintain access and limit the closure to minimum area and duration necessary. 00:45:51.795 --> 00:45:58.398 - James is also here. If you guys have any questions for him. Thank you. Questions from the board. 00:46:03.362 --> 00:46:12.268 - Is there public comment on this item? Okay, is there a motion I move that we approve the right-of-way 00:46:12.268 --> 00:46:21.437 - closure request for a Crider and Crider at Union Street Second I will call the roll Roach. I Cox Decker. 00:46:21.437 --> 00:46:29.470 - I Korone I motion passes Next is a right-of-way closure request for habitat for humanity. I 00:46:30.370 --> 00:46:36.175 - Habitat for Humanity is requesting approval. You're welcome James Habitat for Humanity is requesting 00:46:36.175 --> 00:46:42.325 - approval of temporary right away closure at 921 West more effect way to accommodate retaining wall repairs 00:46:42.325 --> 00:46:48.188 - The request includes a temporary closure of the sidewalk as necessary to safely complete the work The 00:46:48.188 --> 00:46:54.051 - closure is proposed for late July through mid-august and will remain in place for the duration of the 00:46:54.051 --> 00:46:59.454 - project Pedestrian traffic will be rerouted in accordance with the approved temporary traffic 00:46:59.682 --> 00:47:06.192 - control plan sidewalk closure will be on the south side of sidewalk along more of that way with a detour 00:47:06.192 --> 00:47:12.454 - to the north side of West more of that way and access maintained by the sidewalk to the south of the 00:47:12.454 --> 00:47:18.964 - lawn habitat for humanity shall install and maintain all required signage barricades and traffic control 00:47:18.964 --> 00:47:25.288 - devices maintain access to adjacent properties and limit the closure to the minimum area and duration 00:47:25.288 --> 00:47:29.566 - necessary to complete the work and also the applicant is also online 00:47:29.730 --> 00:47:38.752 - tonight if there are any questions. She has raised her hand, so I will ask her to unmute. All right. 00:47:38.752 --> 00:47:48.220 - All right, can everybody hear me all right? Yes, thank you. This is Kari Bennett. I'm Operations Director 00:47:48.220 --> 00:47:53.758 - for Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County. This closure is in 00:47:53.858 --> 00:48:02.413 - Our trail view neighborhood, which is off of the beeline trail in Pigeon Hill, there is a significant 00:48:02.413 --> 00:48:10.968 - retaining wall along one sidewalk face on Moravec that is failing. And so for the safety of residents 00:48:10.968 --> 00:48:19.691 - and visitors, we have hired CNH landscaping to replace that retaining wall. They estimate that the work 00:48:19.691 --> 00:48:22.878 - will take between two to three weeks. 00:48:23.298 --> 00:48:30.265 - One thing that I wanted to respectfully recommend is whether the Board of Public Works needs to review 00:48:30.265 --> 00:48:37.029 - temporary closures of these residential sidewalks. More of that way is very different from Kirkwood 00:48:37.029 --> 00:48:44.132 - College and Walnut. We communicate in advance with our homeowners and stay in touch with them throughout 00:48:44.132 --> 00:48:50.558 - these types of projects. And we wonder whether something like this could be delegated to staff 00:48:50.658 --> 00:48:59.288 - There may be reasons why that is not possible, but I at least wanted to raise that as a potential permitting 00:48:59.288 --> 00:49:07.364 - efficiency for consideration in the future. Thank you. Thank you very much. Questions from the board? 00:49:07.364 --> 00:49:15.360 - I do not have a question, but I do believe that we do have to review these sidewalk closures for any 00:49:15.360 --> 00:49:20.190 - public right of way. And that is per council city ordinance. 00:49:20.866 --> 00:49:32.482 - sidewalks No matter the type no matter the type of sidewalk. It's a 24-hour continuous closure cannot 00:49:32.482 --> 00:49:43.985 - be approved by City staff and I believe that is the city ordinance there Other questions I will just 00:49:43.985 --> 00:49:50.590 - say that I really appreciate the suggestion of efficiency 00:49:51.650 --> 00:49:59.714 - But if it's a city ordinance, it's a city ordinance. Any public comment on this item? None on zoom. 00:49:59.714 --> 00:50:07.940 - All right. Is there a motion. I move that we approve the right of way closure request for Habitat for 00:50:07.940 --> 00:50:15.198 - Humanity. Second. I will call the roll. Roach. Hi. Cox Decker. I Korone. I motion passes. 00:50:18.466 --> 00:50:26.800 - Thank you. Next is a right of way closure request for Weddle Brothers on South College Avenue at the 00:50:26.800 --> 00:50:35.216 - convention center. Good evening. Can you hear me. Yes. Hi Kyle ball city engineering. So this closure 00:50:35.216 --> 00:50:43.550 - is part of the Bloomington Bloomington Convention Center project. This would be the next phase after 00:50:43.550 --> 00:50:46.686 - the reopening of the current closure. 00:50:46.914 --> 00:50:54.606 - So Weddle Brothers has requested east and west sidewalk pedestrian diversions. Something that we don't 00:50:54.606 --> 00:51:02.299 - get a lot of requests for. From July 24th of this year until August 28th of this year. This will allow 00:51:02.299 --> 00:51:10.439 - them to expand the footprint and continue to work all of the curb lines the sidewalk all the infrastructure. 00:51:10.439 --> 00:51:15.518 - And I'd have to take a look at the plans to say this with assurity. 00:51:15.874 --> 00:51:25.068 - But the east or sorry, the west side would be completed and then the east side would be continue to 00:51:25.068 --> 00:51:34.445 - have that same diversion that we've had throughout the course of the project. Yeah, happy to take any 00:51:34.445 --> 00:51:44.926 - questions. Thank you questions from the board. Kyle, can you confirm or the east and west sides of South college? 00:51:48.130 --> 00:51:56.567 - Will both sides be closed at the same time? So they're currently closed for this current configuration, 00:51:56.567 --> 00:52:04.922 - but both of them will be rerouted with a pedestrian diversion. So both of those will have an alternate 00:52:04.922 --> 00:52:13.278 - route. OK, thank you. And just for clarity, when you say pedestrian diversion, you mean a walk around? 00:52:15.810 --> 00:52:25.610 - Or do you mean pedestrians will be sent to another location? Yeah, good question. So this will be a 00:52:25.610 --> 00:52:35.606 - walk around, not a detour. OK, thanks. Any other questions from the board? All right, is there public 00:52:35.606 --> 00:52:42.270 - comment on this item? None on Zoom. Seeing none, is there a motion? 00:52:42.882 --> 00:52:50.735 - I move that we approve the right of way closure request for Weddle Brothers on South College Avenue 00:52:50.735 --> 00:52:58.744 - at the Convention Center. Second. I will call the roll Roach. I Cox Decker. I Corone I motion passes. 00:52:58.744 --> 00:53:06.832 - Next is a right of way closure request for city of Bloomington utilities on West First Street. Hi Kyle 00:53:06.832 --> 00:53:09.502 - ball city engineering once again. 00:53:09.762 --> 00:53:17.333 - So this is a week-long closure that's being requested by City of Bloomington Utilities for sanitary 00:53:17.333 --> 00:53:25.435 - work related to the core building there at the corner of First and Rogers. This work I believe is actually 00:53:25.435 --> 00:53:33.006 - already underway which was a surprise to me today. But they do have their detour set up adequately. 00:53:33.006 --> 00:53:34.142 - There was some 00:53:34.722 --> 00:53:43.568 - Urgency to get this closure and work done while we have the other work planned for the 2nd Street Rogers 00:53:43.568 --> 00:53:52.161 - corridor in the next few weeks. And they should wrap up within the week so be fully out of this area. 00:53:52.161 --> 00:54:00.081 - So this is just west of the first and Rogers intersection. Yeah. Have you take any questions. 00:54:00.081 --> 00:54:03.198 - Thank you. Questions from the board. 00:54:05.314 --> 00:54:15.364 - Any public comment? Is there a motion I move that we approve the right-of-way closure request for city 00:54:15.364 --> 00:54:25.218 - of Bloomington utilities on West 1st Street I Will call the roll Roche. I Cox Decker. I own I motion 00:54:25.218 --> 00:54:34.878 - passes Next on the agenda staff reports I Did have a quick note just for the public's knowledge of 00:54:35.298 --> 00:54:42.878 - I sort of wish James would have stuck around to get his flowers for this but he was actually responsible 00:54:42.878 --> 00:54:50.314 - for the North Walnut closure that we've had last week. So the majority of the work has been completed. 00:54:50.314 --> 00:54:57.894 - I think the original request for was for four weeks of closure there. We talked Crider down to two weeks 00:54:57.894 --> 00:55:03.742 - and I think it's going to end up being something like six working days in total. 00:55:03.874 --> 00:55:11.892 - So it's currently open and will remain open. They will have a half-day closure this Thursday the 16th 00:55:11.892 --> 00:55:19.752 - to perform the final asphalt restoration and curb work right there. After that the work is going to 00:55:19.752 --> 00:55:27.927 - move on to 19th Street and Walnut will remain open. That's great news. Thank you very much. I will just 00:55:27.927 --> 00:55:30.206 - piggyback that to say we did 00:55:31.426 --> 00:55:37.338 - session that we did have some contact from the gas station representatives with that closure with some 00:55:37.338 --> 00:55:43.193 - concerns about how it was executed. I confirmed with James today that they did drop flyers to the gas 00:55:43.193 --> 00:55:48.991 - station to the clerks that were working. The representative of Circle S claimed that no one had ever 00:55:48.991 --> 00:55:54.846 - gotten any flyers. James confirmed that he personally delivered those with the contact information to 00:55:55.074 --> 00:56:00.269 - call with any questions. So there's a little bit of discrepancy between the gas station on whether or 00:56:00.269 --> 00:56:05.363 - not they received the flyer. James confirmed that he did drop it off himself. He's also looking for 00:56:05.363 --> 00:56:10.609 - some other contacts that he might have had with the owner of the gas station who may not be the person 00:56:10.609 --> 00:56:15.906 - that was here yesterday. So we are looking into that but wanted to just update you on that conversation 00:56:15.906 --> 00:56:21.000 - from yesterday. And then I just I've got a couple of things I wanted to go over from a staff report 00:56:21.000 --> 00:56:21.662 - perspective. 00:56:22.370 --> 00:56:28.075 - Mr. Thomas mentioned the Kirkwood brick project yesterday or that they that he had maybe seen some things 00:56:28.075 --> 00:56:33.618 - issues with that closure. We have been in touch with EMB pay contractors on that. There was a specific 00:56:33.618 --> 00:56:38.999 - instance yesterday where they did not have an adequate closure to where they were putting some tack 00:56:38.999 --> 00:56:44.381 - oil down before they replaced the bricks. And so we addressed that right away and are continuing to 00:56:44.381 --> 00:56:49.762 - address anything on Kirkwood that would be outside of that proag compliance. So just know we are on 00:56:49.762 --> 00:56:50.462 - top of that. 00:56:50.786 --> 00:56:57.316 - We've got a lot of projects still moving forward. You heard about some of the timelines with the Rogers, 00:56:57.316 --> 00:57:03.535 - Kirkwood, Grimes paving today and the night work that might be associated with it. West Kirkwood is 00:57:03.535 --> 00:57:10.127 - gonna be closing next week at the intersection with Rogers to facilitate repairs in advance of the paving 00:57:10.127 --> 00:57:16.471 - there. So we do, we've got a lot of projects going on. Appreciate the patience of the public while we 00:57:16.471 --> 00:57:19.518 - make these major investments. We know it can be. 00:57:19.682 --> 00:57:25.967 - a you know an issue for folks as they're trying to travel and that they may have some delays but it's 00:57:25.967 --> 00:57:32.253 - all in the name of getting new roads built and paved and all that so we appreciate patience there and 00:57:32.253 --> 00:57:38.476 - just safety around all those crews. The other thing I wanted to update the board on is today was our 00:57:38.476 --> 00:57:40.510 - first day of having the national 00:57:40.642 --> 00:57:47.197 - The American Public Works Association National Accreditation Team in Bloomington. So for the last several 00:57:47.197 --> 00:57:53.382 - years we've been working through the accreditation process through the APWA and that all culminates 00:57:53.382 --> 00:58:00.123 - with their big site visit that began this morning. Happy to report that we are well on our way to compliance 00:58:00.123 --> 00:58:06.555 - if things go as well as they did today. We have the way it works is we have 293 separate practices that 00:58:06.555 --> 00:58:09.214 - we are responsible for across 18 chapters. 00:58:12.002 --> 00:58:20.577 - I think there's 18 applicable chapters and then there's 293 practices that we have to document how we 00:58:20.577 --> 00:58:21.502 - do things. 00:58:22.178 --> 00:58:27.819 - Really great success in getting full compliance with the vast, vast majority of what we presented. Things 00:58:27.819 --> 00:58:33.140 - that were found to be only in substantial compliance were very minor things like adding a date to a 00:58:33.140 --> 00:58:38.568 - policy or just it was very minor stuff that we'll be able to correct before it's done. So I just want 00:58:38.568 --> 00:58:43.889 - to just report out that we were super happy with the way it went today and are very excited to work 00:58:43.889 --> 00:58:47.614 - our way towards accreditation and are confident we will receive that. 00:58:47.810 --> 00:58:54.110 - But just want to give a big shout out to two people on that. Christina Smith has been working tirelessly 00:58:54.110 --> 00:59:00.170 - on this the last couple years as she heads off into retirement in October. And then our SPIA fellow, 00:59:00.170 --> 00:59:06.230 - Mikhailo Miller. Gosh, I thought I got his name, his last name wrong for a second. Mikhailo has been 00:59:06.230 --> 00:59:12.290 - with us the last several years as part of the SPIA fellowship program and has been just instrumental 00:59:12.290 --> 00:59:14.750 - with helping us do the documentation and 00:59:14.850 --> 00:59:23.048 - you know, really smart graduate student who does the technology really well. There's a very robust software 00:59:23.048 --> 00:59:30.638 - documentation program that the APWA uses, and thank goodness we had Mikhailo helping us through all 00:59:30.638 --> 00:59:38.381 - of that, but yeah, just a really great day of going through all of that. And then the last thing I've 00:59:38.381 --> 00:59:40.734 - got for you is we are, the DC, 00:59:41.026 --> 00:59:48.786 - So we asked the board to approve a contract to a secondary bidder on the downtown parking lot paving 00:59:48.786 --> 00:59:56.469 - project. This was at your last meeting. DC construction is the who we have awarded that to based on 00:59:56.469 --> 01:00:03.998 - a lot of different moving parts and factors with what's going on around Kirkwood. We are going to 01:00:04.770 --> 01:00:10.159 - We have to go to the city council for an additional appropriation on this because it was encumbered 01:00:10.159 --> 01:00:15.816 - under 2025 funds to a different contractor. So we have to do the additional appropriation anyway. That's 01:00:15.816 --> 01:00:21.313 - not a big deal. But what we realized is we were plugging all the pieces into the calendar between now 01:00:21.313 --> 01:00:27.294 - and August 15th was unless they were able to start next Monday and they were trying to fit that in we would be 01:00:27.586 --> 01:00:32.711 - If we didn't get that window done, we would be into August and we can't have those parking lots closed 01:00:32.711 --> 01:00:37.935 - at the beginning of August right now. So we're working more towards a September or possibly a fall break 01:00:37.935 --> 01:00:42.960 - timeframe to do that repaving, but that will still be coming yet this fall. And it actually helps us 01:00:42.960 --> 01:00:47.935 - with the additional appropriation timing and everything. We're gonna have to hold back funds from a 01:00:47.935 --> 01:00:52.960 - different project and do things. And so this actually cleans it up a little bit and makes it easier. 01:00:52.960 --> 01:00:57.438 - So that work will still happen this year, but it will be a little later than we expected. 01:00:57.602 --> 01:01:06.426 - So now we're taking into account football schedules and all the different things with the fall festivals. 01:01:06.426 --> 01:01:14.251 - But it will be done. So that's all I have, but happy to answer any questions if you have any. 01:01:14.251 --> 01:01:22.991 - Thank you. Next on the agenda is approval of claims. Any board questions on claims tonight? OK. Is there 01:01:22.991 --> 01:01:26.654 - any public comment on claims? None on Zoom. 01:01:27.490 --> 01:01:34.513 - All right. Is there a motion. I move that we approve the claims in the amount of four million fifty 01:01:34.513 --> 01:01:41.747 - six thousand forty nine dollars and seventy five cents. Second with a motion a second. I will call the 01:01:41.747 --> 01:01:48.981 - roll Roach. All right. Cox Decker. I Caron. I motion passes and with nothing else on the agenda I will 01:01:48.981 --> 01:01:50.526 - call for adjournment.