- I think we'll go ahead and start. Anybody that's here today on a frigid January, you get your service
- merit badge today for TAC service. So thank you for being here and raving the cold, coming out. I know
- we're in some tight quarters and some different arrangements here. So we've got people scattered around.
- We'll do our best here to try to speak up.
- any roll call vote or anything, just make sure we know you're back in the audience. We'll start with
- call to order introductions. And I know we have Rebecca Swift online. So Rebecca, we'll get to you last.
- We'll start off here in the room. And let's go around and just please introduce yourself and the agency
- you're with. And if you're a proxy, just please let us know who you're pinch hitting for today.
- I'll start off. I'm Nate Nego with the City of Bloomington Public Works Department, and I'm the TAC
- Chair. Paul Satterly, Monroe County Highway Engineer. Jackie Dillon, Monroe County Planning Director.
- John Baten, GIS Coordinator, Monroe County Vice Chair. Hunter Jackson, proxy for the Monroe County Auditor.
- Linnea Wellings, NDOT, proxy for Rebecca Packer. Jane Fleague, Bloomington Utilities.
- Neil copper proxy for the Bloomington city engineer. Cheryl Gilliland city deputy controller proxy for
- city controller. Um, Jeff McKim, Ryan Roebling city Bloomington planning and transportation proxy, David
- Hiddle. Yep. Go ahead. Kelly Whitmer Monroe County parks and recreation. Thank you. Lynette Tavernier
- Monroe County highway department operations asset manager.
- Ben Ayers, Monroe County Highway Project Manager. Thank you. Anybody else? OK. OK, thank you. That looks
- like Megan Blair just entered the room. OK. The virtual room. Rebecca and Megan, we can virtually. Rebecca
- Swift, Operations Development Division Director for City of Wellington Parks and Recreation. Thank you. Megan?
- Sorry, I grabbed her a little late. Thank you, Blair. GIS managers, if you would like to. Great.
- Thank you. OK. Next item on our agenda is approval of today's meeting agenda for January 28, 2026. Do
- I have a motion for approval? Motion to approve. Second. Thanks, John. Thanks, Ryan. Any public comment on this?
- Hearing none, I'll go back to staff for roll call vote. Jackson? Yes. Yes. Nickel? Yes. Wellings? Yes.
- Satterlian team? Yes. Roebling? Yes. Copper? Yes. Whitmer? Yes. Baten? Yes. Swift? Yes. Jelen? Yes.
- Gilliland? Yes. Flieg? Yes. Blair?
- Passes. Yes. Oh, sorry. Sorry, Megan. She was going to say yes anyway. Thank you all. OK, next item
- is election of calendar year 2026 TAC committee officers. And we have both chair and vice chair. You've
- been stuck with me for about five years now, so I will certainly entertain anyone who's interested in
- jumping into the chair's seat. And we certainly have vice chair, who's John's
- ably handled this last year, but we can throw both of those open. Do I have any interest in the chair
- position for next year or this year? I can volunteer for a chair day. Awesome. Thank you, John. Anyone
- interested in vice chair? I can be vice chair. Great. Thank you both. Much appreciated.
- We have to do an election here. So what we'll do is to have a motion to approve John as chair and Jane
- as vice chair for 2026 TAC officers. So moved. Second. Excellent. Thank you. Any public comment on this
- item? OK. Hearing none, go to staff for vote. Copper. Yes. Whitmer. Yes. Baten. Abstain.
- Swift? Yes. Blair? Yes. Flea? Abstain. Gilliland? Abstain. Jelen? Yes. And thank you, Nate,
- for your service. Thank you. Grubling? Yes. Satterly? Yes. Wellings? Yes. Nichol? Yes. Jackson? Yes.
- Motion passes.
- Great. Thank you both for stepping into those roles. And John, I won't put you on the spot, but if you
- want to take over the reins for the rest of this meeting, I will certainly allow it. But if not, I can
- carry on because I guess, secondly, you are chair at this point. I will let you go out in glory so you
- can finish this. Thank you. OK. Our next item is approval of minutes from our last meeting, November 19, 2025.
- I have a motion to approve the minutes from November of last year. Motion to approve. Second. Thanks,
- John. Thank you, Ryan. Any public comment on the minutes? I think since those minutes were put out,
- the policy committee meeting has changed time. So they were accurate at the time, though. Just as a
- note. Yeah, good point. Any other?
- public comment or otherwise on the minutes from November. Okay, hearing done. Okay, we had motion and
- second, so we're good. Katie? For the minutes, approval of minutes, Blair? Yes. Swift? Yes. Jelen? Yes.
- Gilliland?
- Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Great. OK. Communications from chair and vice chair. John, do you have anything
- to pass along? Yeah. I got two things that might be of interest for folks in planning
- things of that nature. The state has released their 2025 aerial imagery. There's a rest service available
- for that. This has flown in this past year. It's taken some time. This is provided by the Indiana State
- Geographic Information Office. It's three inch resolution. It does, in my opinion, from looking at it,
- it doesn't look as crisp as some of the prior years, and this could have been the time it flew over
- or different technical issues.
- Yeah, so that's available if anybody's interested in that rest service for mapping. Just let myself
- or Megan from the city know and we can get that to you guys. Yeah, that's kind of it from my end. Oh,
- that's great. Yeah. It's always good to have new aerials. I know we all use that for any number of projects
- and just good to have. So thank you. I'll just pass along. You may have noticed we got a little snow
- over the last few days. So huge thank you to Indad, Monroe County Highway,
- Town of Ellisville, City of Bloomington, everybody who's been out there at Plow Cruise day and night,
- it's been a lot. And they've had an awful lot of snow to move, a lot of long hours. And they've all
- been telling me it's been one of the worst ones they've had in a long time. So thank you to everybody
- who's been out there keeping the roadways clear for all. That's much appreciated. With that, I will
- move it over to reports from MPO staff.
- Okay on page eight of the packet is an early coordination letter from NDOT's consultant. This is for
- the Monroe County's project at old SR 37 at Dillman Road. This letter was sent to all the stakeholders
- that are listed in this in the packet that's in the packet in the letter that's in the packet and
- The letter was received in December requesting comments regarding possible environmental concerns or
- effects associated with the project. And so I encourage you to read that. This is a project that will
- receive federal funds through the MPO in fiscal year 26, 27, and 28.
- The letter describes that the preferred alternative for the intersection is a single lane roundabout
- with a curb and gutter. The drainage will be going to a new storm system or detention basin. Construction
- will be between March 28 and August 29. And Empire Road will be the detour. So if you have any other
- questions or comments about this letter or the effects of the project, feel free to let us know.
- Also, INDOT's contact information is in the letter as well. Just one question on that, maybe Paul knows
- the answer to this. Do they send anything to those owners of those properties at this stage, or do they
- wait until the project is? I don't know for sure. They've received survey notices and things like that,
- so they know about the project. And just a clarification too, Empire
- Road will not be used as the detour route, so. Oh, OK. That's what it states in the letter, but it sounds
- like you're right. Yeah, I just got the stage one plan, so if anybody's interested in seeing those,
- I can get those to you. But just review those plans, and I'm going to be recommending that State Road
- 37, I-69, and Fullerton Pike be used as the official detour, because Empire Road is not very wide.
- And then Dillman will not have a detour. You know, it's mostly local traffic, but it will be closed
- at Empire, Empire Road, so. OK. Thanks. Any more questions? OK. On page
- Page 16, there's a press release. I think I might have emailed this out, but it is an in-dot press release
- stating that they have reduced the speed limit on SR 4546 between Kinzer Pike and 10th Street from 45
- miles per hour to 40 miles per hour.
- Next item, page 19 of the packet, is some federal modification that staff processed. It did not require
- a committee review. This modification is to add some federal MPO funds to the West Second Street project
- and reduce the local funding
- allocation to it. These funds were originally allocated to the High Street project, which was not able
- to go to letting this year as hoped. And so those funds have been reallocated to the West Second Street
- project. It's about 490,000.
- Is this the project that went to another NPO and then we traded years? Is that this project? Oh, definitely.
- Okay. It didn't put anything in the packet about this, but
- Just for your FYI, the ITS has been sending out some updates regarding Open Door and Zoom and public
- meetings. And so the state's Open Door law allows public meeting attendees to now record meetings and
- to try to transcribe them. And so ITS has already enabled, starting December 1st, ITS enabled the attendee
- recording feature in Zoom meetings.
- for public meetings, which will allow public meeting attendees to record the meeting they attend through
- the Zoom application. And this capability is available to all attendees without any action by the person
- hosting the meeting. Also, the meeting hosts are now being told to allow transcription agents and AI
- bots into all public non-executive meetings as participants.
- And again, that's only for public meetings, not for any staff or non-public meetings. Also, staff has
- to work in the next few months. All city buildings staff will have to work to make our public meeting
- documents accessible to those with disabilities. So that's just something that's happening on a city-wide
- level. Any thoughts or questions?
- Okay, next I'll just share a couple updates for some of the local projects that are receiving MPO funding
- and then some of the INDOT projects. So the INDOT project on SR 45 10th Street between the Bypass and
- Pete Ellis Drive, that project letting date has been changed from February 11th, 2026 to April
- 8th, 2026. The road work is expected to start in spring of 27. Just a week or so ago, the trees along
- 10th Street, SR 45, within indots right of way were marked, and many of those are going to have to be
- removed as part of the project.
- They, of course, are working to use best practices to avoid impacts on the Indiana bat and Northern
- Longyear bat. There is one property within the project limits that has a replanting agreement for removing
- for the trees that will be removed. But since this question has already come up from somebody else,
- INDOT doesn't have any plans beyond that to replant any of those trees.
- High Street project, as I mentioned, was supposed to let this year, but has been moved to September
- 2nd, 2026 loan date, so into the new federal fiscal year of funding. The old SR 37 and Dillman Road
- intersection improvement project, which you just saw an early coordination letter for,
- That project is moving from October 14th, 27 letting date to a March 8th, 28 letting date. However,
- that change in construction letting date is in the same federal fiscal year, so funding won't have to
- change from that. And if the city and county engineers have any other updates about projects they want
- to share, feel free.
- Not much from the city. I think, you know, we're ongoing with design on quite a few projects. There's,
- of course, not construction ongoing at the moment for much of anything. I'd be happy to answer any questions
- if there are any. And our Eagleson Avenue Bridge over the Indiana Railroad and Beatty Construction was
- the little bidder. So this year will start with utility
- relocation then after move-in week, probably 1st of September. So after Labor Day, they'll be starting
- with construction. And Eagle's going to be closed from September through just before move-in 2027. So
- things will be ramping up shortly in that. Then our Rockport.
- Bridge number 38 is February 11, so that's coming up. OK, now, Nick. Any other questions for staff on
- that? OK, and if you do have any later, feel free to reach out.
- Moving ahead, old business, and 2026 safety targets. OK, I wasn't here last month. I apologize for that.
- Last month? Yeah, that's right. You were at this meeting last week. I was? Mm-hmm. Safety targets. This
- is additional information, just an added memo. The policy committee had questions about the safety targets
- Policy Committee wanted to know why it was only 2%. They wanted more than that. They also had questions
- about Vision Zero. So this additional information addresses those in that the 2% targets were set by
- the Department of Transportation in 2022. It's been approved by the governor and part of their state
- highway safety plan. And then also the fact that Indot
- NDOT subscribes to the AASHTO towards zero deaths, as do 32 other states. The committee approved this,
- I think, last time. We did, so I don't know if there's any action we need to take. No, there isn't.
- This is really aimed for the policy committee more than anybody else. And I'll just add, too, I go to
- the policy committee meetings, and they had the exact same concerns we had when we reviewed this information.
- kind of disclaimer note that we always try to include was included for the policy committee and obviously
- it's a lot to stomach and I think that's their concerns weren't anything with the TAC or anyone here
- with our comments it was mostly they echoed pretty much exactly our conversation and you know basically
- nobody really wants to approve that but we're kind of
- So I think that's just the root of that. So I just wanted to pass it along from the policy committee.
- Since no action's required on that, I think there's just a typo there with the whole business and the
- public comment. If there is any public comment, we can certainly entertain that. But I'm thinking that's
- already been approved. So moving ahead to new business, looks like we have some new TIP amendments being
- proposed. Yeah, on page 24.
- of the packet. Our three amendments that require your vote of approval are high streets. Their funding
- table in our TIP is changing to reflect the fact that the project will need to move to fiscal year 27.
- The project is not
- does not have any federal funds through the NPO assigned to it in fiscal year 27. But because the project
- is moving, shifting dates, that requires your review. The Second Amendment is a new NDOT project. It
- is called sign installation and repair in various locations in the Seymour District. So this is one
- of those projects that they
- want to notify, they notify all of the MPO areas that might be affected by this project. This is a sum
- of money that's not specific to our geographic area, but to the larger area where this project will
- take place. The Third Amendment is a new project for NDOT as well.
- It's called SR-45 Small Structure Replacement. This is 5.94 miles east of SR-45-46 East Junction. There's
- a map in the packet. This project replaces the existing small metal culvert with a precast reinforced
- concrete box and does some erosion control work replacing riprap. The project would
- go to construction in fiscal year 28. And again, this is a project that's not currently in the TIP,
- but it is just barely within our urbanized metropolitan planning area. So it needs to be added to our
- TIP. Any questions?
- Is there any specific signage that INDOT's putting in? I know we talked about maybe enhancing entry
- ways, like do not enter signage, just to reduce any wrong way driving at ramps. But is there any particular
- signage that INDOT's replacing or enhancing, or is it just kind of like a routine maintenance project?
- I think it's just a routine maintenance project. There is a lifetime of those signs, and we try to keep
- on that just to make sure that they're reflective and easily visible. Sure. Thanks. Just to add on for
- the city's high street project, I think you said all this earlier, but within the same fiscal year,
- we had both second street and high street. It's advantageous to us to push high street out to the next
- fiscal year. So between second and high, we've shifted
- federal funding from High Street to Second Street and local funding from Second Street to High Street.
- So there's no change in funding levels there, and it does allow us to push High Street out to the next
- fiscal year. Like you said, currently there's no federal funding for construction, but we probably will
- look for other things we can shift further in the future or trade or something like that. So we may
- discuss High Street again, but at this point we're just pushing the fiscal year.
- Thanks, Neil. Any other questions on the proposed TIP amendments? Do you know where the detour route
- is proposed for State Road 45, the local detour route? Lene, do you have any insights on that one?
- I do not. I can find out, but I'm not familiar. And where is that located exactly, as you'll see on
- the map, approximately?
- Which project, the? State Road 45, small structure. Uh, it's here. Is it south of Bethel? I can't tell.
- It's south of Russell. Pardon? It's south of Russell. South of Russell. Here the railroad, just north
- of Mount Gilead. Oh, OK.
- Any other questions on the proposed tip amendments? If not, is anyone interested in proposing a motion
- to approve the three tip amendments that are proposed today? Yeah, I'd like to make that amendment.
- Thanks, John. Or motion. Motion for the amendment. Second. Thank you, Ryan. Any public comment on the
- proposed tip amendments?
- I'm hearing that. Turn it back to staff. Fleet. Yes. Gilliland. Abstain. Jelen. Yes. Aton. Yes. Whitmer.
- Yes. Copper. Yes. Rubling. Yes. Satterly. Yes. Nickel. Yes. Jackson. Yes. Wellings. Yes. Swift.
- Yes. Blair? Yes. Passes. Great. Thank you. OK. Next item for new business is fiscal year 27-28 unified
- planning work program. We have a document and 30-day public comment. And I'll just turn back over to
- Pat and Katie on this one. OK. The fiscal year 27-28 unified planning work program is required.
- Federal Highway Administration, Federal Transit Administration to maintain our urban area eligibility
- for federal funding. The urban area encompasses all of the city of Bloomington, parts of Monroe County,
- and the town of Ellitsville. On page 32 of your packet, under the overview, the 10 national transportation
- planning factors remain unchanged this year.
- And then on page 38 of the packet, the fiscal year 27 unified planning work program focus remains the
- same. We received no guidance from Federal Highway Administration on that whatsoever. The biggest change,
- though, is in terms of the budget. Our budget of federal funding this year for fiscal year 27 and 28
- is only at $198,149.
- That's $207,000 less than in 2024. So we've taken a 50% hit here in just a few years. Compared to the
- current fiscal year of 2026, we've taken a 16.5% cut. With that, we've trimmed a lot out of the budget.
- The main thing we trimmed out of the budget, or the proposed budget, I should say,
- is eliminating all the contract service agreements. Contract service agreements usually involve asset
- management for the City of Bloomington Public Works Department and also for the Monroe County Highway
- Department Asset Management. Town of Aletsville has not received any asset management for a number of
- years. It also eliminates our contract service agreement with Bloomington Transit.
- Anything outside of the MPO staff itself no funding whatsoever the focus areas of shifting the budget
- around this year Remained largely the same with the exception of task 501 which is on page 69 of packet
- this is our
- We're required to spend two and a half percent of our budget for complete streets and transit oriented
- development. The city of Bloomington received a federal grant, SS4A safe roads and streets for all grant
- of $1.4 million on December 23rd of 2025. We will support that through our planning efforts.
- This will involve the award of multiple corridor studies, public engagement, begin concept designs for
- the corridor studies. Demonstration activities will include a project using hardened center lanes to
- reduce speeds and temporary conversions up to five traffic signals to always stop control. Also include
- temporary single lane roundabouts or both options.
- There's not much more I can say other than the fact that it's a very grim budget. It's not only ourselves
- that took the hit in terms of federal funding. It's also all of the group two cities of Anderson, Columbus,
- Kokomo, Lafayette, Louisville area, Muncie, and Terre Haute. The only ones who gained funding over the
- course of the next two years, fiscal year 27, 28,
- is the Indianapolis Metropolitan Planning Organization because their population grew. And the same with
- Northwest Indiana Regional Plan Commission, their population grew. Now, some people are going to ask
- why the drastic cut and the reason comes down to population. Funds are allocated to us on a per capita
- basis when we did the census in
- April of 2020, all students went home, therefore we lost 45,000, 47,000 in terms of the population.
- That put us back at the level of what we were in 2010. So as a consequence, everybody suffered, we suffered
- proportionately more than most. Lafayette also suffered too for that.
- that matter because of Purdue University, the students going home. So the budget that we're given here
- is the one that we're looking at for 27-28. The Federal Highway Transportation and Federal
- Transit Administration reauthorization is up by September 30th of this year. There's a glimmer of hope
- there might be added funding for local planning and
- in that process. However, it's a congressional election year, so the likelihood is that we'll go to
- a continuing resolution. And if there's a continuing resolution by Congress, that means our budget levels
- will remain the same over the course of the next year or so. Questions? Anybody? Yeah, I think the census was
- Just a combination of a lot of bad luck and bad timing as far as COVID and students were sent home.
- And certainly not something that is unique for Bloomington. I think any college community suffered that,
- too. So not a whole lot we can do at this point. We've got on the draft fiscal year 27-28, unified planning
- work program. We have a legal requirement.
- 30-day public notice, legal notice, was published last week, last Friday, and also on Sunday of this
- week. There was an error in the legal notice in that it said adoption was gonna be on Wednesday, Wednesday,
- February 27th, and actually it's, I'm sorry, it was 25th is what it said.
- Actually, the adoption will be on the 27th by the policy committee. Currently, we've received no public
- comments. The public comment period is open until February 21st. So if you, your friends, your neighbors,
- anyone you know wants to make comments on the work program, please do so prior to the date. We're required
- also to receive those comments in written form
- So that way, we can document precisely what the comments were for the Federal Highway Administration,
- Federal Transit Administration, and also NDOT. I don't know that we need to do any formal action with
- it at this point. I think Pat summed it up pretty nicely. If anyone has comments. I have a comment.
- Joe Vandeventer is no longer the director of Street Operations, page 80, in your list of MPO.
- Didn't know that. Thanks, Jane. That just happened. I forget his name. Who is that? Dan Bittner. Any
- other changes? Usually the technical advisory committee is static.
- Policy committee is the one that changes all the time. And, uh, I have Jackie, I have no idea who's
- going to represent the plan commission yet. We're doing elections next week. Next week. Okay. So it'll
- be the same then. Okay. And that, yeah, the same with Bloomington then. Okay. All right. Thanks so much.
- I'll just echo Jane's comment too. We'll have to update the city controller. Jess McClellan is no longer
- with the city. It's Jeff.
- have that in here. I'm surprised they didn't catch Joe. Yeah, it does list Jeff. Yeah, his announcement
- was just prior to the publication. OK. Thank you. So it looks like we'll have some time with that, and
- then it'll go to the policy committee on February 27 for a vote. Yeah. Presentation and draft form to
- the policy committee.
- this Friday. Yeah, for the dates of change on that. Friday morning. In this room, too. Yeah, that's
- a change for 26 for forever, I think, is the technical term we've always had on the TAC and policy committee.
- But we've never had both meetings in the same week. So that's a new change this year, where there won't
- be any staggering of the meetings. All the policy committee meetings will be two days following
- our meetings here on TAC, so staff will be busy. OK. With that, public comments on matters not included
- on the agenda. If there's any public comment for anything we didn't cover today, we can certainly entertain
- that now. Hearing none. Oh, OK. Eric for public comment.
- Thanks, John. I didn't see that. Good morning. Can everyone hear me? Yes. I appreciate all your work.
- I did want to let you know that the links that were published in the main city calendar and the boards
- of commissions calendar in the meeting packet and the meeting agenda have an invalid password field.
- that requires entering the passcode manually. When I gained entrance to the meeting, I then went to
- the section of the Zoom app that allows accessing the link from inside the meeting. That does contain
- a valid password field because I was able to join the meeting using that link directly from a different
- app, I mean, from a different device. I also wanted to let you know that the
- The ability to attend, observe, and record this meeting is not working. I attempted to use that valid
- link to join the meeting with a note taker, and it was denied admittance four times. So I will follow
- up with you and likely IT in regards to these matters. But if I can provide any additional assistance,
- please let me know. And again, thanks for all your
- Last name? We know him. Yes. My last name is, my full name is Eric Ost. OK. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks
- for making us aware of that. Any other public comment? Rebecca, I see you there. We'll wait for the
- next section here for committee members. Any other public comment?
- OK, hearing none, communication from committee members on matters we didn't include on today's agenda.
- That can be updates, communications, or topic suggestions for future agendas. Rebecca, did you have
- something? Yeah, I was kind of on the cusp of which one of this is public or not, because we are hearing
- from the public in relation, and I'm sure some of you in the room have already been tatted by Hassell
- Smith, on the State Road 45 and Pete Ellis and all the oak trees along that that are now being
- flag for removal due to an end up project that predates myself. I know Andrew and Neil have been reached
- out with Haskell and it sounds like we can't really do anything. But from the takeaway, there's no plan
- for replacement of those trees, especially not up to our requirement where these are all 14 mature oaks.
- And Haskell estimates we would need to replace 105 in order to
- meet our media requirements, and the reproduction costs is around eight to nine thousand each. So this
- is blowing up a little bit on Reddit, on our Facebook, we're getting calls and messages. Obviously you
- put a big X on a mature oak tree, we're gonna hear about it. So if anybody has anything else to add
- to this discussion, I would appreciate it. Again, it sounds like this has all been decided before we
- could do anything about it, but now the work is actually coming. So if anyone has content,
- Um, might be reaching out to you directly after this meeting or just something to discuss next time.
- And then I just wanted to mention because it will trigger and also close down Roger street. I am planning
- to put out the power line trail project out to bid on February 11th, which has been 30 years in the
- making to get this multi-use trail underneath the Duke easement right next to switch our park on Rogers
- and it will require.
- temporary closure of Roger Street just north of the Switchart Park entrance in order to install a raised
- crosswalk. So I bring that up just to the group because it relates to road closures and trying to coordinate
- all of our projects. We never had the schedule perfectly right, but hoping to hold off closing that
- until school's out for summer so we don't impact bus schedules. That's all for me. Thank you.
- Thanks, Rebecca. And I won't put Lene on the spot, but she can certainly be a good NDOT resource if
- you want to reach out to her. And she can probably direct you to somebody at NDOT that could maybe resolve
- the work on the tree issue. Yeah. Another coworker, Rebecca, has already contacted NDOT about that.
- I have contacted NDOT about it.
- The project was started many years ago. And because of all of the road expansions, there's very little
- that they see they can do about those trees. But the INDOT4U, they always encourage everyone to reach
- out, submit comments. And they have to respond to the INDOT4U, to any comments that are submitted through
- INDOT4U. Wonderful. Thank you.
- Just to tack onto that, so engineering has been in contact with the NDOT project manager as well. One
- piece of information that we're still following up with them about is they are describing the trees
- as within NDOT right of way. But we would have described many of those trees as within city right of
- way because the north and south legs are actually city streets and city jurisdiction. So it may actually
- be true that it's NDOT right of way. They haven't provided any
- evidence of why it would, in fact, be in that right away. But our current thought is it's actually city
- right away. That may not actually change anything that happens, but there are certain approvals and
- permits that are required in order to work within the city right away. So that's still a bit ongoing.
- Paul, is this officially your last TAC meeting? That's correct.
- Well, congratulations to Paul on his upcoming retirement. Welcome to come back to all future TAC meetings.
- I'll call when I get to. Jackie? No, I was just going to announce Paul's retirement. Cool, yeah. Yeah,
- congratulations.
- Any other communications or topics to pass along to the group? I think you've already touched on this,
- Nate, but just the response from the city and the county and INDOT in terms of the snow has been great.
- I went for a run on Tuesday, or I guess yesterday morning, and Sherwood Oaks Park was totally plowed
- from city. So yeah, just really nice to see that happening. And I would encourage everybody in Bloomington
- to shovel their sidewalks. I drove down 10th Street today, and there's kids walking, or not kids, college students.
- Walking down 10th street, there's no place for them to walk because landlords aren't shoveling their
- sidewalks. And so enforcement for that is great. I would point people to utilize the city's report to
- identify those hazardous areas. Thank you. With that, I can let everybody have their Wednesday back,
- but thank you to John and thank you for Jane for taking over leadership the rest of this year and we'll
- be in good hands.
- Everybody stay warm out there. See ya.