- Good evening. It's 5 30 p.m. On Tuesday August 11th 2026. We are here in City Council chambers for the
- regularly scheduled Board of Public Works meeting on tonight's agenda and on the website there is zoom
- links to with a meeting ID and a passcode for the zoom function for the meeting if you are a member
- of the public or a petitioner
- on zoom and need to offer comment. You can do that through the raised hand function or by putting a
- note in the chat. Do we have any members of I don't think we have any members of the public on the zoom
- right now. So if we do we'll let you know. But otherwise I'll turn it over to board president Elizabeth
- Carone and we do have a short agenda tonight. Thank you Adam. I call to order tonight's meeting of the
- Board of Public Works for August 11th 2026. First we have messages from board members. Are there any
- messages from
- Just to note that I will be out of town for the next regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday August 25th.
- Thank you. All right. Next on the agenda title six abatements we have a continuous abatement request
- for 10 14 West House Street.
- Roy operations manager with housing and neighborhood development We are requesting a continuous abatement
- for 1014 West Howe Street This property has been cited with a notice of violation since April 29th of
- this year for brush and overgrowth It has not been touched since we have have
- Issued these notices there have been five in total that had been issued I did have a neighborhood compliance
- officer visit the visit the property yesterday. It is still out of compliance So we are requesting a
- continuous abatement for both trash and overgrowth Which would be through April 29th of 2027 Thank you
- questions from the board nope
- Any questions from the public tonight if you are in council chambers, feel free to approach the podium
- or if you are on zoom Use the raise hand function or chat Thanks Miranda seeing none is there a motion
- And I second with a motion a second I will call the roll Roach. I Cox Deckard and
- Not here. Never mind Caron. Sorry autopilot Caron. I motion passes Next is petitions and remonstrances
- if any member of the public has a comment on something not on tonight's agenda Thank you, all right
- moving along to the consent agenda
- Tonight's consent agenda is minutes from June 30th, 2026, minutes from July 14th, 2026, resolution 2026-033,
- mobile vendor Pollo Molino, resolution 2026-034, art on a traffic box for WFHB, service agreement with
- Rock Solid Masonry for facilities and payroll. Does anything need to come off the consent agenda tonight?
- All right, does the board have any questions on the consent agenda? No questions?
- I just want to make a comment that as was put out in the updated packet, there was a grammatical and
- typo correction to the art on a traffic box for WFHB resolution. So they actually did not change the
- contents, just changed the typos.
- Thank you. And I see that the bit in that resolution that we talked about yesterday has been changed.
- So thank you for that. All right. Any public comment on tonight's consent agenda. Is there a motion.
- I move approval of the consent agenda for the meeting of Tuesday August 11th 2026. And I second I will
- call the roll Roche. I Caron I motion passes.
- First item of new business is the right-of-way closure request for Weddle Brothers at West 3rd between
- South Walnut and South College So what our brothers is requesting some temporary right-of-way closures
- on South College and West 3rd Street Adjacent to the current Convention Center site 301 South College
- The request is for to accommodate the work including
- pavement concrete removal, sewer structure placement, construction of new curbs, medians, concrete bus
- lanes, some electrical work for new light poles running that conduit, new signal detection loops and
- new pavement markings.
- This is gonna incorporate some work, and we mentioned in the work session yesterday, this is
- gonna incorporate some work that's planned from the Public Works Department. I don't know the full scope
- of that plan, but I know they're doing some work to the east of this block as well. So after meeting
- with Weddle even today, we're gonna closely coordinate on how we can make that the most efficient as
- possible. So possibly some nighttime work and things of that nature.
- So the actual request here includes temporary sidewalk, parking lane, travel lane, alley, and full street
- closures. So we're looking at two different segments here. Starting on South College, a travel lane,
- parking lane, and sidewalk diversion are going to be requested. So this is going to look very similar
- to the current setup. Right now, they have the east and west sidewalks diverted.
- This is expected to be in place from August 25th through roughly October 31st of this year.
- So like I said, largely similar to what we've seen thus far. This will actually probably carry out to
- the end of the project as the team works from the east side of the building, north side, and then finishing
- on the west side. So just wanted to make sure we clarified that.
- Kind of different request. We have here is a closure of the alley. So the southern end of the North
- South alley between college and walnut along with a sidewalk closure on the southern side of West 3rd
- Street there in between college and walnut that sidewalk closure is planning on being implemented tomorrow
- once approved and then that would run until
- September 30th, and that was when I miss clarifying in the staff report here, so apologies on that.
- So until September 30th with the sidewalk closure, the full street closure was originally requested
- to occur from August 25th of this year to September 30th. Upon further review, staff decided that that
- was a bit excessive, so our recommendation is going to be for a two-week closure, two-calendar week closure.
- starting on the same date, August 25th until September 8th, I believe it is. And working with the Weddle
- team, we expect some other closure requests to come about during that time frame. So likely looking
- at some lane closures, continued sidewalk closure, that sort of thing, which we fully expect to bring
- to the next Board of Public Works meeting once we get some clarity surrounding the work that ENB is
- planning with the Public Works project and the scope they have with this project as well.
- Said a lot any questions on this. Thank you any questions from the board Question about two questions.
- I don't recall We may not we may have talked about yesterday and I just went over my head but the alley
- The alley closure are there any properties that that alley touches that might You know, they might only
- get their only access from the alley and
- Theoretically that's possible if somebody's utilizing that alley for parking as is Allowable in city
- code the 30-minute time frame There was still will be access from the north so that north side would
- not be closed so you could access this alley from 4th Street For okay, so this isn't the alley that's
- Heading south from third
- It's heading north from third to fourth. It's a north-south the way we frame it. Sorry the north-south
- alley that intersects at third So there's what used to be I think German American Bank there and I think
- it's on the north side on the north side Yes. Yes. Thank you. And then you got the one sells property
- on the other side of it there Okay So Like that that one sells property
- All of the parking for that property is access from the alley Correct. Yeah, and The Weddell team is
- here to answer some of these I do know that there was a question raised by the one cells team on that
- I don't know that's From our stance. It's between those private parties to negotiate something Okay
- And then in general Construction on schedule ahead of schedule behind schedule from everything that I know
- Andrew on schedule as Andrew says Thank you Communication they've had with that one sells Property and
- parking in that alley if that's going to be an issue Yeah, Andrew Sherry project manager of water brothers
- We did issue the letters to the same group that we've affected with the full college closure So everybody
- between second and third Street
- But on this one we included Bunger and Robertson's team and one sells for this closure duration He did
- come back and mentioned some access from the north and potentially people park there. So it may make
- his access Potentially restricted for that 30-minute time frame. It's allowable We told him that we
- would work with him on everything that we could there But as far as the schedule durations When we came
- to Board of Public Works last year for all of these closures, it's the exact same start date exact same
- end date and
- So everything's on schedule there None on zoom, all right, is there a motion I Move I move approval
- of the right-of-way Right away closer request for Weddle Brothers at West third between at South walnut
- and South College. I Second I will call the roll Roach. I I
- Caron I motion passes. Thank you. Thank you. Next to staff reports. Good evening board Adam Wason public
- works director. Just a couple real brief updates.
- First special events and right-of-way use permits that were out for the last several weeks. We had a
- very successful taste of Bloomington once again Weather wasn't great to start but the vendors and organizers
- pushed through and ended up with some great weather that evening So kudos to the whole team that put
- that on Jordan Davis and Cassie and their whole committee and but yeah great event. No major issues
- had one ambulance call for an allergy issue, but otherwise no
- Nothing of any significance. So just credit to the community for coming downtown having a great time
- supporting all of our local independent restaurants and Big shout out to all those organizers again
- the movie filming for the little 500 movie
- Went pretty darn good for the most part few things here and there that we were working with them on
- a daily basis Just making sure with as much space as they were using throughout the downtown on given
- times and periods to Tighten it up when we could remove no parking signs earlier than when they weren't
- using them things like that. So Yeah, lots of good coordination with their organizers and appreciate
- all of that Last update I have for you is kind of a joyous one for us in public works. We sent out a
- press release I think last week announcing that the
- Public Works Department had received 100% full compliance on our accreditation through the American
- Public Works Association multi-year process tons and tons of hours and effort from the staff Big shout
- out to Christina Smith our accreditation manager. She really helped guide us through all that and after
- the site visits and official tallies came back we were in 100% compliance with the chapters that applied
- to us in public works and I think that's a credit to the teams that do all the work in the public works
- Works Department on behalf of the community. So big thanks to all of them and something we're very proud
- of and I will have every three years now have a reaccreditation process that we would go through. So
- just wanted to make note of that and nothing else to report tonight. Congratulations to the team. That's
- fantastic. Great news. All right. Next is approval of claims. Are there any questions on claims tonight.
- Any public comment on claims. None on zoom. All right. Is there a motion.
- approval of the claims for the meeting of Tuesday, August 11th 2026 and the amount of five million one
- hundred and nine thousand and Twenty-seven dollars and seventy cents and I second I will call the roll
- Roach. I grown I motion passes and with nothing else on the agenda. I will call for adjournment. I