- Good evening everyone and welcome to tonight's meeting of the Board of Public Works for Tuesday July
- 28th 2026. First on the agenda are messages from board members. Any messages from the board. All right.
- Next we have title six abatements. There is a request for continuous abatement at 914 West Third Street.
- Arnold from hand.
- This is a property that we cited on May 8th, May 22nd, June 2nd, June 12th and July 1st. It has not
- been mowed and we're asking permission to abate the property and we're asking for continuous abatement.
- Thank you. Questions from the board? Mike, do you have any idea what the situation might be with the
- property owner? I think the owners, the recorded owners are deceased.
- And so we're having trouble getting contact with the recorded owners. But it is for sale now. So we
- may be able to get information from the real estate agent couch been removed or is it still there.
- It's gone. OK. I also just want to mention we talked about in the work session yesterday that there
- had been a continuous abatement that expired.
- It expired on May 9th the day after the first citation was issued Okay, so that was a 12-month continuous
- abatement and as soon as that expired then and when we weren't went right back to the same situation
- That's correct. Okay. Thank you Any last questions from the board is there any public comment on this
- item if you are on zoom feel free to use the chat function or raise hand and
- Is there a motion. I move that we approve the request for continuous abatement at 914 West Third Street.
- Second with a motion and a second. I will call the roll Roach. Hi Cox Deckard. I Caron. I motion passes.
- Thank you. Next is petitions and remonstrances which is a time if anyone has a comment or question about
- something that is not on tonight's agenda.
- There is no one in council chambers to approach the podium but if you are on zoom feel free to use the
- chat function or raise hand. Thanks Miranda. All right. For tonight's consent agenda we have minutes
- from June 16th 2026 noise permit request for secretly event on 9 26 26 noise permit request for Mother
- Hubbard's annual garden party.
- right of way special event for the Fourth Street Festival right of way special event for the Brian Park
- block party contract with Bloomington seal coating and paving ink for seal coating at fire training
- tower area change order number one with D.C. construction services for the Jefferson Street sidewalk
- project change order number one with Ian be paving for the Kirkwood Grimes Patterson and Roger Street
- maintenance project.
- Contract Addendum 2 with CGR services for bus stop shelter installation and payroll. Are there any items
- that need to be taken off the consent agenda tonight. Could we consider moving the noise permit request
- for secretly event on 9 26 20 26 to the regular agenda. OK. Is there a motion on that.
- Do we need a motion to take that off the consent agenda and add it to new business. Do they need a motion
- to move an item from consent to new business. Do they need a motion. OK thanks. OK so I move that we
- move the noise permit request for secretly event on 9 26 20 26 from the consent agenda to the new business.
- Okay. With the motion and a second I will call the roll Roche Cox Deckard. Caron I motion passes and
- item two on the consent agenda has been moved. Miranda do you have a preference if it's the new number
- one or number. It can go first or last up to you. Okay. Let's just go ahead and add it first on new
- business agenda please. And then are there any. Is there any other board
- Question on the consent agenda tonight. Any public comment on consent. None on zoom. All right. I will
- call the roll Roach. Hi Cox Deckard. Hi Caron. I motion passes. We'll move to new business and the new
- first item on new business is the noise permit request for secretly event on 9 26 26.
- Okay, this is a request as part of secretly secretly groups 30th anniversary and it would be on the
- final night of the Grand Flume Festival At their warehouse down the beeline as a nod to both their start
- in doing shows and giving back to the community The show would consist of two short sets by secretly
- bands on the loading dock of the warehouse The original permit is requested from 10 30 p.m. To 12 30 a.m.
- On Saturday, August 29th 2026 Attendees would set up in the parking lot and admission is free
- secretly has been in touch with the neighborhood associations as well and staff recommends the approval
- of this permit Thank you. Are there questions from the board? On this item and apologies because I was
- not in yesterday's work session. So that is probably where some of these questions come from but I was
- wondering about the conversations
- with the Neighborhood Association as far as what that collaboration has has looked like. And I know
- we may not have the petitioner here because it was on consent agenda but just trying to get a little
- bit more clarity around those discussions.
- permit just states within the permit itself that they have when the petitioner filled the permit out
- they stated that they had contacted the neighborhood association that's in that location. So I don't
- know if they've contacted the other neighbors. I would assume that they did that once it are not in
- the in the neighborhood association there but it does state that it was the neighborhood association.
- My main concern with this one is that
- In the past for noise petitioners we have had a we've had two fairly strict cutoff points one is 11 p.m.
- One is 12 a.m. So I would be comfortable with approving this to end at 12 a.m. Knowing that they may
- have some tear down that's happening from 12 to 1230 and I think that is probably fine. I think that
- the the noise of greatest concern is the amplified music.
- You know my main concern is just the fact that we have not allowed other petitioners to go on past midnight
- and it is while it's half of the property is facing a park the other half is very much in the neighborhood
- and while I definitely appreciate that they're working with the neighborhood it's not clear to me that
- like all the neighbors have said we'll be there and you can you know
- Play until 1230 like it's not a neighborhood block party right. It's not the neighborhood themselves
- hosting it. So I would just be concerned that there would be neighbors who would find it to be you know
- problematic if they're playing past midnight. And I certainly appreciate that. And as we have gone for
- consistency not doing a one off extended time makes sense to me.
- Any other comments from the board. All right. Is there public comment on this item. All right. Is there
- a motion. I move that we approve the noise permit request for the secretly event on nine twenty six
- twenty twenty six with noise concluding twelve
- I should say amplified. I'm sorry amplified noise concluding at 12 a.m. All right, I will call the roll
- Roach Cox Decker I'm Carone I motion passes Next is a right of way special event for the IU homecoming
- parade Cassie where any public works
- the IU foundation Has requested to close Kirkwood Avenue between Walnut Street and Indiana Avenue on
- Friday, October I think 30th. Sorry that is I'm correcting that as I'm talking from 5 to 7 30 p.m For
- the IU homecoming parade Washington Street between 6th and 4th Street would be closed for staging beginning at 2 30
- All other bisecting north and south streets including Lincoln grant done in Indiana will be closed once
- the parade begins at five thirty and will reopen as the parade finishes.
- The IU homecoming parade is a long-standing Bloomington tradition that has celebrated the partnership
- between IU and the community for more than a hundred years Returning the parade to Kirkwood Avenue supports
- the goal of creating a true town and gown Celebration by bringing the event into the heart of the downtown
- where it can be enjoyed by more residents students businesses and visitors as a free family-friendly
- Tradition the parade strengthens community connections and celebrates Bloomington's unique relationship
- with IQ And I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you
- Questions from the board. This is I think maybe a forward looking question that we don't have to deal
- with at this very moment. But at first when I read it and I saw it was the 31st I thought OK this isn't
- going to be a potential conflict. But I am wondering I don't think we've received an application yet
- for downtown trick or treat.
- It might be that those two events would intersect. Do you know yet if those things are going to overlap?
- So we don't receive a right-of-way special event application for downtown trick-or-treat because they
- don't close any roads But I did actually reach out to Talia who was the event organizer for that and
- gave her heads up that this request had come in and she has worked to schedule that a week in advance,
- so she's aware and they're they're gonna
- Adjust based on this. Okay. Yeah, very good. It's it's just like downtown trick-or-treat is amazingly
- busy So I was imagining like the supercharged event of both of these things taking place But I think
- it'll be good for downtown to have two Special events happening to Fridays in a row. That sounds great
- Any other questions from the board
- All right. Is there public comment on this item. Again if you were on zoom feel free to use the chat
- function or raise hand. None on zoom. All right. Is there a motion. I move that we approve the right
- of way. Special event request for the I.U. homecoming parade. I will call the roll Roach Cox Decker.
- I Caron. I motion passes. Thank you.
- Next is the preliminary engineering contract with HNTB for the 10th Street safety improvements project.
- Hi Kendall Kenoki engineering department. So this is a upcoming project that's already gone through
- public outreach last year with planning. This is safety improvements to 10th Street. So this is one
- of our corridors identified in the safe streets for all plan as it's on the high injury network. So
- it was prioritized for safety improvements.
- So a lot of public outreach was done and some of the there's about a 30% concept plan that came out
- of that that shows raised cross or raised intersections shows additional curbing And tree plots along
- the roadway street trees shows lighting upgrades things like that So there's various safety improvements
- that will happen as part of this project many of them are still you know going to be developed throughout
- the design process of exactly what we're going to do and
- But there's also a lot of storm sewer work that's proposed as part of this project to facilitate the
- raised intersections So this is a preliminary engineering contract with HNTB to provide the engineering
- services and design for the project and then we will bid out the project and Hopefully get it constructed
- next year as the current schedule and
- The amount of the contract is three seventeen five hundred HNTB was selected due to their inclusion
- on engineering's pre-approved consultant list, which we put together and we've had it for a long time,
- but we updated it last year and so we're kind of able to look at everybody's proposals and their expertise
- and what their past projects are and kind of can pick consultants that we feel are going to be good
- fits for projects and
- So H and TV was selected for this project. It's going to be funded out of engineering departments annual
- budget for safety improvements in this year and Happy to answer any questions about it. Thank you questions
- from the board What is the section of 10th Street? Yeah, that's that's a good thing. I Should have said
- started that so officially it's from Morton to Park and
- Don't think we're going to be doing a whole lot between Morton and walnut but we went all the way to
- Morton just There's that intersections been identified as possibly needing to be improved and kind of
- conjunction with some of the things happening in trades district and this is kind of this corridor kind
- of ties IU to the trades district if you will and then park was selected just because there
- was an intersection improvement done with Woodlawn that kind of extends to park and so park is kind
- of where I
- The old cross-section starts and where we're proposing some improvements. Yeah, so it's really you know
- what I think of as like the the Bloomington City part of that East 10th corridor, it's running through the
- Section as you're heading into campus. Yeah, not so much the section that's running through campus That's
- correct the section before that and it's probably worth noting that IU received some kind of a federal
- earmark to improve 10th Street further east in their section, so this shouldn't be Confused with that.
- Those are actually two separate projects. So What kind of community input? Will we get for a project
- like this?
- Yeah, so planning's done a lot of legwork. They've had pop-ups along the corridor Like they've set up
- a table with the plans and then as people were walking 10th Street has a lot of foot traffic So as people
- are walking by they came up, of course, they advertise this they did like an online forum I think they've
- done notice that they've done a lot of the initial legwork So now that engineering is kind of taking
- it over what we're gonna do is kind of update the public on the design process and get feedback at various
- Stages 30% we're kind of at 30% right now. So 60% 90% and then inform them about the construction and
- everything So we're kind of taking over what was started by the transportation planners And you know,
- they'll they'll be a part of it too to a limited degree But we kind of lead the public outreach effort
- once they hand it off. So Okay. Thank you
- Portions of this corridor are very tight There's not a lot of right-of-way there and there's you know,
- it's historic retaining walls and all sorts of things would you anticipate that most of the improvements
- are like within the Bounds of the right-of-way within the bounds of the current streets cross-section.
- Yes, we are not Anticipating to acquire any right-of-way as part of this project. So we're working within
- the existing right-of-way there are a lot of
- Opportunities IU owns a lot of property along this corridor where I think and in the preliminary concepts
- the IU has seen we're actually showing You know taking a little property from IU. So they're kind of
- a partner in this project in a lot of places Also, there's a lot of redevelopment happening along this
- section of 10th Street and those Buildings are building a 10-foot wide sidewalk and an 8-foot tree plot
- in front of the of their new building which is kind of
- Almost widening our our right of way that we have to work with there So in those places, you'll kind
- of see the road shifts a little bit We're providing a tree plot on the other side of the road to kind
- of get one on both sides Whereas in other places we have to kind of just stay in the middle and just
- get a little bit of grass on each side So yeah, there's definitely and it seems to be changing every
- day with which lots are redeveloping so as we move forward we're definitely going to try to maximize
- the benefit to the community and
- Work work around all those projects, but yeah, we're not going to acquire any additional right-of-way
- Most of the old properties the buildings are right up to the right-of-way anyway, so Not a lot you can
- do. Thank you. Thank you Is there any public comment on this item Seeing none is there a motion We approve
- the preliminary engineering contract with HNTB for the 10th Street safety improvements project second
- I will call the roll Roach Cox Decker. I Caron I motion passes. Next item is a right of way closure
- request for Renovia at 1425 North Dunn Street. Renovia is requesting temporary right of way closure
- at 1425 North Dunn Street to accommodate exterior work. The request includes temporary closure of sidewalks
- as necessary to safely complete the work.
- Conclusions are proposed from July 27 through August 14th during normal construction hours pedestrian
- traffic will be rerouted in accordance with the approved maintenance of traffic plan Have the work broken
- up into three separate closures 18th Street 17th Street in North Dunn Street But yeah, they've submitted
- an MOT and Looks good and I'm satisfied with what they've submitted
- Thank you questions from the board I see there's a date range for the first closure Yes, that's that
- is my mistake if you look at the traffic plan that they submitted that information is actually on there
- so East I can just let you know Yeah, East 17th Street is Friday the 31st through the 7th of August
- and then 18th Street is Monday the 10th of August and
- through the 14th of August and is is evolve the only property along that stretch. Like are there any
- other property owners that are impacted by those. Yes. Yeah. From what I can see. Yeah that is they
- are the they own they also own the right away or whatever and there's no other properties that
- that would be affected except for like downstream of the sidewalk closure and there will be the proper
- MOT set up. So within the work zones nobody but evolve will be affected. I just want to note that we
- talked yesterday during the work session about what a potentially challenging time of year this is for
- a project like this and we just trust that you will help them with coordination.
- Yes yes I'm going to stop by this one and coordinate with them and check out their MOT and make sure
- that it's right. And if they need improvements I'll work with them to make them. And if it's something
- where we need to stop we'll stop work and we'll get it right and then they can start back up.
- Thank you. All right. Any public comment on this item. All right. I will call the roll Roach. I'll make
- the motion.
- I'm sorry. Is there a motion. I move that we approve the right of way closure request for Renovia at
- 1425 North Dunn Street. All right. I'll get off autopilot and now with the motion and a second now I'll
- call the roll. Roach. Cox Decker. I Caron. I motion passes. Thank you. Next item of new business is
- the right of way closure request for city Bloomington utilities on Indiana between 12th and 13th.
- Zach Bell engineering CBU is requesting approval of temporary right of way closures at 901 North Indiana
- Avenue to accommodate work on a sanitary sewer main. The request includes temporary closure of Indiana
- Avenue and East 12th Street as necessary to safely complete the work.
- Closures are proposed from August 4th through August 9th during normal construction hours and overnight
- vehicular traffic will be maintained shifted or rerouted in accordance with the approved maintenance
- of traffic plan. So there's two closures that will occur simultaneously from the fourth to the fifth
- and then they will be shifting to just a closure of Indiana. I think that's correct.
- Yes Indiana and then 12th and then just Indiana. So both streets until the fifth and then just Indiana
- from the fifth to the ninth. Sorry. All right. Thank you. Questions from the board. Do you know if utilities has been
- coordinating with IU on the anticipated closure I Would the the usual way is through inroads so CBU
- would update inroads and then everybody gets that update and that's usually kind of what our go-to is
- I can talk to James to see if he's reached out to somebody and make sure that that we coordinate with
- anybody that Has and could have any issues
- Yeah, it looks like it will be completed before the bulk of the flow of traffic through the area that
- might be related to the university. But just making sure there's not some either one last special summer
- program or something like that that might be directly affected. It's also outside of the footprint,
- I know, of campus proper.
- I'm pretty far north but they do have properties up there. So yes yes absolutely. Making sure I'll talk
- with James and make sure that he reaches out and ensures that that IU is fully aware. I do see the note
- about maintaining access to the property. So if there is like move in activity happening with some of
- those residential properties during that time I am understanding from this that people trying to access those
- Properties will still be able to access the yes. Yeah, that is part of the idea is that they will maintain
- access. They have a duty to do so. Any other questions from the board. All right. Is there public comment
- on this item. No. Is there a motion. I move that we approve the right of way closure request for the
- city of Bloomington utilities on Indiana between 12th and 13th.
- I will call the roll Roach. I Cox Decker. I Caron I motion passes. Thank you. Next is staff reports.
- No staff reports. Thank you Miranda. Yes. OK. Next on the agenda the approval of claims. Are there any
- board questions tonight on claims. Any public comment on claims. None on zoom.
- Seeing none is there a motion. I move that we approve claims in the amount of five million one hundred
- nine thousand twenty seven dollars and seventy cents. So I will call the roll Roach. I Cox Decker.
- I Caron. I motion passes and with nothing else on tonight's agenda I will call for adjournment.