City of Bloomington, Indiana Board of Public Works, 14 Apr 2020

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I will call the order of the regular meeting of the board of public works.

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This is tuesday april 14th of 2020, and we are meeting here on zoom' and also.

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Broadcasting via other methods, first up, we have messages from board members do.

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We have any messages from the board. I would just like to thank all of those.

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Who, I think are heroes and the board of public works are in public works of men.

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And women, who have been there everyday tirelessly working to keep our city.

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Going and I'd like to welcome back that, I'm glad you're recover. Thank you. I am.

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Thank you so great, and I second both of those comments. So thanks both of you.

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Next up is petitions and remonstrance --is. If we have anyone who is attending.

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The meeting who wishes to make a public comment about something that is not on.

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Our agenda this evening now is the opportunity to do so. Do we have any.

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Public comments not related to an item on the agenda.

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I don't see anything on facebook at this time, thanks andrew. Thank you.

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Next up we have the consent agenda under the consent agenda. We have the approval.

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Of minutes for march 31st of 2020, we have approval of payroll and we have.

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Approval of renewal number one to contract with brad gilliland excavating.

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Ink for sidewalk removal and replacement project do we have any items that need.

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To be removed from the consent agenda, that's evening, no, no! No and seeing that.

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Are there any questions about anything on the consent agenda from the board.

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Just asking about the renewal of brad gilliland replacement, sidewalk.

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Replacement project: do I understand that the it's a 50-50 project program, but it.

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Has not been decided who will be receiving this? The sidewalk were local.

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And replacement? Yes, that's that's absolutely the case. This is our second.

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Year of the new sidewalk participation program that we're moving forward with.

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Brad, gill- and we did a contract with him last year that we were satisfied with.

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And it had some renewal terms to be able to continue that into this year. We're.

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Right now, in the process of reaching out to eligible home owners that are on are.

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Paving lists for the year and then other eligible homeowners throughout the.

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Geographic areas that would make a homeowner eligible so we're working.

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Through that right now and we'll be moving additional contracts and.

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Agreements with those property owners over the next couple months: okay, thank.

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You- and I think that was kind of related to my question as well. I noticed in the.

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Original agreement, we had listed the specific geographical location of.

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University, and so am I to assume that this renewal will actually extend to.

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Other geographic locations yeah and we noted in the staff report, so the.

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Geographic boundaries that any eligible household have to do with the community.

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Development block grant zones, and so we're gonna open it up to that entire.

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Geographic area as well again this year, but we're gonna prioritize those.

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Locations that are on the paving list so that we can get new sidewalks and curb.

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Ramps and things associated with the paving lists as well, but yes, it'll, be.

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Open to the larger geographic area as well, okay, thanks and then this depends.

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On their ability to pay their 50% of this program, sure yeah, you know just as.

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A matter of disclosure here in a matter of making sure they recognize we did you.

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Know with this level of condo, with this contract this year and stuff, we are.

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Going to reserve the ability to pivot if necessary, and by that I mean you know if.

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We realize, after most of the summer and trying to get word out to the homeowners.

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That are eligible that we don't it doesn't look like. We have a large enough.

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Pool of individuals interested to spend all the budgeted money on the program.

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That we could maybe shift some of those dollars to just street department.

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Sidewalks or even 100% sidewalk construction and the worst, the worst.

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Instances as I call it when we look at our rating system of sidewalks.

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Throughout the city, you know, if we're struggling to, spend.

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The budgeted money we do have the ability to also move some other projects.

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Forward to complete additional sidewalk repair, but the fir goal is to spend all.

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Of it with the 50-50 program, okay, thank.

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You mm-hmm all right. Do we have any public.

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Comment on any of the items within the consent agenda.

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I don't have any on facebook at this time. Thank you. Do we have a motion on.

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The consent agenda, I move that we approve the consent.

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Agenda, okay, all in favor, aye aye motion passes next up. We have new business.

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First is approve, supplement number one for beam longest, an f llc for.

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Construction inspection contract on 17th street reconstruction project.

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Good afternoon mass west planning and transportation last year, the board.

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Awarded construction inspection contract to beam longest math due to unexpected.

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Project delays which have extended the completion date of the project blm, is.

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Requesting additional compensation, typically to complete inspection.

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Services, the supplement to the contract would add approximately six hundred.

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Forty eight hours of inspection at a cost of eighty eight thousand five.

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Hundred dollars staff has reviewed. The supplement would recommend your approval.

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All right questions from the board on this item. I was just wondering what.

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Those like, if you could talk about those delays, they were utility related or yes,.

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There were utility delays and then also delays because of the rock excavation.

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That was unexpected, the large amount of rock excavation, so we had already.

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Awarded the contractor additional days to complete the project because of those.

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Delays there's a lot of a lot of hours to to complete this six hundred.

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Forty-Eight hours sounds like a lot of hours to get this done. We are we don't.

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Have to use all those hours we'll pay for what we use the estimate of what it.

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Will take to complete it? Imagine thanks adam here matt. Would you.

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Say it's fair to say so at a 40-hour workweek. That number of hours is about.

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16 weeks of work so about four months worth of additional inspection services,.

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You know this project we expected to. We were hopeful minor, those delays. You.

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Know wrapped it up last winter, so with some of the downtime over the winter and.

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And such I think this would take us through the end of the project. Is that.

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Our hope and expectation, yes, our contract completion day is now june. 14Th.

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And there would be a little bit of time afterwards to complete the final.

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Construction record, but yes, this should take us through the rest of the way.

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Great project that keeps on giving yeah that's exactly okay. Thank you.

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And so now the revised anticipated completion day is june. 30Th is that.

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Correct, I believe it's june 14th a couple of weeks earlier. Okay, all right.

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Any other questions on this item. No any public comment on this item.

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hmm There there's why collin pasted from david and he's just asking why this.

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Project has taken so long, but other than that it is adam here and.

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I'll just matt feel free to supplement as needed, but we had several month worth.

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Of delay, with utility relocations at the beginning of the project we had weeks.

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Upon weeks of delay with the extra rock excavation that the geotechnical studies.

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Did not notice or did not find in those geotechnical studies, so that was the.

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Majority of it was it not matt. That's correct.

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Yep, thank you all right. Do we have a motion on this item? I move that we.

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Approve supplement number one for beam longest and neph llc for construction.

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Inspection contract on 17th reconstruction project- I second all in.

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Favor aye aye motion passes next up. We have approve construction, inspection.

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Contract with clark deep sink for kirkwood maintenance project, this is.

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Adam wastin public works director for the city. I'm gonna represent roue aten.

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Throughout several of the agenda items tonight royce on traveling, and we need.

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He can jump on, but these are all projects that public works. Her very.

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Intimately involved with, and so we're I'm more than able to present these and.

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If we do need any questions from roy, but for the first one, this is with clark.

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Dietz incorporated- and this would be a construction inspection for the kirkwood.

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Maintenance project that is getting underway so as the boards, where we're repaving and replacing the crosswalks on kirkwood.

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Avenue from indiana to walnut street a and b paving was the awarded contractor.

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For the project, this project is funded with both local city funds and within.

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Dot funds through the community crossings grant project program and.

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Being such a large-scale project outside construction inspection is necessary and.

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Warranted for this project, so clark, dietz inc, was the had put in a request.

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Had put in their firm for this service and were chosen from the on-call list.

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With the engineering staff- and so this would be a not to exceed for.

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Construction inspection services of sixty four thousand five hundred dollars.

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And we request approval of this for tonight's meeting.

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Adam is here a time that they're going to work within a time period on this or.

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Just open its section: oh, the project is currently scheduled for completion by.

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Early august, we expect there be a major acceleration of that, and so without.

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Over-Promising or anything here, we just expect it to be much sooner than.

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That august first date with you, know we'll get the project started while.

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There's very very little traffic right now, just as a quick update, the kirkwood.

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Project we've got a crosswalk at indiana crosswalks at grant and crosswalks at.

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Washington that we're all working on right now.

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We'll be pouring back concrete in those very soon we've got the bollards. The.

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Bollard infrastructure being placed so the project's moving along nicely and.

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We're excited to be getting that moving quickly and, quite honestly, you know with.

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What the way things are it's! This is happening at the best possible time in.

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Terms of trying to get this project done with as little impact to the businesses.

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Hopefully, this is all wrapped up and businesses are able to get back open.

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This summer and really have a nice kirkwood down there, good.

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Reviewing we've been, we've got a staff representative, that's been assisting.

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Under the assumption that we had a contract coming tonight,.

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Ian be kicked it off about a week ago or so, and the representatives from clark.

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Dietz's but on on-site a couple times just to kind of make sure he's observing.

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With the bollard installations in particular, so but yeah we're, we've got.

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Both roy eight and michael large from the public works rotating from planning.

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Transportation staff, michael large, from our staff.

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Inspectors with the mb and project managers with the mb and then the.

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Gentleman with clerk deets all working and answering questions on a daily basis,.

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So it's been a really good team effort. So far good sounds good.

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All right, any other questions on this item.

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No any public comment on this item on facebook at the time. Okay, do we have a.

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Motion on this item, I know the approval of go ahead. Go ahead down, okay, I move.

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Approval of the construction inspection project with clark ink for the kirkwood.

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Maintenance project- second, all in favor hi hi motion, passes next up. We have.

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Approved change order number one with en be paving ink for the arlington that.

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Bloomfield road paving project all right, adam moisten again on behalf of rate and.

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With the planet transportation department, so again we have a. This is a.

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Change order with e and b paving for the work that was awarded for the bloomfield.

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Road repaving project- this is near twin lake sports, complex and a long.

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Bloomfield road /, 2nd street there, east of paterson or west of paterson, I'm.

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Sorry, and so this change order is in regard to.

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A 485 foot concrete paved side, ditch that both the city of bloomington public.

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Works department and the city of bloomington utilities, department decided.

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So e and b proposed this to us as they got on site and said this would be a.

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Really nice upgrade to the ditch on the south side of 2nd street, just west of.

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Weimer, so if you're traveling it's it's really.

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Right across the street, from the ball fields, they're on.

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At twin lakes, but it was a very old, dilapidated asphalt and weed-filled.

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Ditch and e&b proposed this this project to really help the storm water in the.

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Area to flow towards the twin lakes, areas on the southside of 2nd street or.

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Bloomfield road and after proposing it with staff, both public works engineering.

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Staff and planned transportation and then cb, you all thought it was a very.

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Worthwhile project to undertake, especially at this time when traffic.

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Volumes were so low, so public works and city of bloomington utility will split.

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The cost of eighty three thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars next agenda.

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Items about the mou with that, but a great project added to this already.

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Large infrastructure paving project so excited to get this one included in the.

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Project sounds like it was a necessary thing to do a demand and had you gone.

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Ahead with the paving had not done this and you'd had to probably go back in a.

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Year or so, and do that you know the the channeling of the stormwater just.

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Wouldn't be, as you know, it would have. We would have probably experienced similar.

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Degradation of the edge of the pavement over time, so this really doesn't the.

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Existing pipes underground it covers on the concrete it's they've been working.

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On it last few days, it looks great and will be a really nice and then and.

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Either good thank you and has the utilities board approved.

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Their side of the expenses that coming before them shortly, that's coming for.

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Them at their very next meeting- and we I know their director and team- have.

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Brought their board up to speed with the value in the project? Great any other.

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Questions on this item, any public comment on this item.

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Okay, is there a motion on this item? I move that we approve change order.

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Number one with en be paving ink for the arlington and bloomfield world paving.

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Project to be a 50/50 split with cbu, okay, all in favor aye, aye, aye,.

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Motion passes and next up we have related approved mou regarding paved.

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Side, ditch for arlington and bloomfield road paving project. So in relation to.

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What we just talked about this would formalize the memorandum of understanding with the city of bloomington utilities, department and.

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Their utility service board and for the project that we just described and route.

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Any questions from the board on this item.

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No any public comment on this item. No, do we have a motion on this item? I move.

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That we approve mou regarding paved side ditch for arlington and bloomfield road.

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Paving project: okay, all in favor, aye aye motion passes next.

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Up, we have approved change order number one with ian, be paving ink for the.

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Kirkwood maintenance project, so this is again change order. Number one for.

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Kirkwood project with emb: this has to do with our some design changes that were.

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Some design issues that were discovered as they were beginning the project and.

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How the bollard sleeves that would be underground for the homeland security.

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Approved bollards for special events, how those were going to be placed and what.

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I should I should probably just have michael jump on here, because he could.

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Probably describe it more eloquently, but basically the way that the pollard.

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Sleeves were originally designed designed for installation would have.

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Left ace area around the bollards that would have been susceptible for water.

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Leakage and possible cracking- and we obviously didn't want that to occur so.

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In working with the design, engineers and emb and city staff, this is what this is.

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A solution that will basically get them to pour the top of the six inch.

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Foundation with a colored concrete that would look nice and matched with the new.

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Crosswalks that we'll be doing, and it will be bonded to lower the concrete by.

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The rebar in the foundation's, so they this is, we had a option to do.

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One or both and when we realized what the if we had just the regular colored.

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Concrete it just wasn't going to look nice with the brick stamped concrete.

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Crosswalks and so we went for the combined package and change order and.

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The amount of twenty thousand seven hundred and thirty five dollars and do.

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Request your approval for this one michael feel free to jump in. If I.

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Butchered that at all, no by all means you explained it very well all right any.

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Crime any book, the bull yeah, how many bollards does that by it's somewhere.

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Around a hundred bath, so it's that's why there was, it will cost with it. So we're.

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Gonna do bollards at every intersection between indiana and walnut, so there's.

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Ultimate flexibility in how you can shut down kirkwood for different special.

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Events and everything, and so you know some intersections or as many as sixteen.

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To twenty bollards, some you know like at indiana is only I think five moment so.

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Over a hundred, I believe, all right. Thank you. I had no idea, it looks like there's.

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A hundred and eighteen footings listed so I'm guessing it's.

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Roughly that I'm gonna go with 100 all right. Okay, that's good! Thank you! Other.

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Questions on this item and just for a little context for any members of the.

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Public or others who are curious about this, as adam was mentioning this will.

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Dramatically, improve our ability to use kirkwood for festivals and street events.

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Without requiring temporary barricades, it will make it safer and easier for the.

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City to manage that during big events, yeah and aesthetically, it's going to be.

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Nice to yeah yeah still be a nice safety yellow, but I mean I've been mentioning.

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To many staff members in the administration and on the management.

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Team here at the city that I very much look forward to a rendition of what used.

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To be known as hoosier fest, once we get out of all this and kirkwood's redone.

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And have a nice big party boy sounds wonderful.

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Thank you think, I think so yeah it's great.

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Do we have any public comment on this item mm-hmm? I have one comment from.

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About the bid that was part when the construction firm got on board and one.

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Of the things that we really wanted to focus on with this project is making.

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Having the crosswalks look nice aesthetically in the you know, what is.

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Kirkwood, you know one of our most iconic street in bloomington, so we've always.

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Had those brick crosswalks and we wanted to recreate something that would look.

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Nice and match up well with the current brick sidewalks. And so when those.

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Were designed, it was originally going to be just a regular, concrete color and the.

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Sir, the surface area, where the concrete would match meet up with the bollard.

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Sleeves there was some gaps there. I believe and that's where the.

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Construction firm identified that it may cause some issues in the future and what.

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I can say is, I think the reason that we caught up front is this is the first.

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Time we designed an engineer to anything like this here and I think it was just a.

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Slight oversight and, in the end, it's a worthwhile inclusion for the project.

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Thank you any other public comment, crag or michael or rory anything you'd, add.

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There for that response, I would just add that the the full depth concrete is.

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Going to add longevity to the bollard installation so that you're not coming.

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Back and happen to add that six inches of asphalt repeatedly as the bus traffic.

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Beats it down great all right. Do we have a motion on this item? I move that we.

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Approve change order number one with e and e paving for the kirkwood.

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Maintenance project at cost of twenty thousand seven hundred thirty-five.

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Dollars a second all in favor aye. My motion passes next up. We have.

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Approved change order number one with seee solutions for walnut street garage.

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Repairs and waterproofing this my idea, public works, garage manager as part of.

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Our 10 year, capital improvement plan we're repairing the walnut street garage.

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This includes column, repairs, there's on level six down through the facility.

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Repairs to waterproofing as recommending our 2017 see solutions, repair report.

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We've requested see solutions, add the south east eric.

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Our exterior to the building scope- this was requested at the original design.

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Scope was proposed in submit on 12, 16 and 19. This includes our new roof for.

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The roof for the stair tower concrete wall, modifications, glass, enclosure.

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Modifications new landing steps and a handrail or accommodate the interns.

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Change: we've decided to add this scope of work to the overall 2020 walnut.

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Street garage repair project scope instead of designing a separate work.

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Project this year to take advantage of the awarded contractor being on site and.

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The cost savings did a mobilization and demo of the work area. Total cost of this.

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Project is $7,500 the scheme for the ict solutions change order. 7,500 staff is.

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Recommending approval questions on this item from the board ryan: you have it.

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Says, excuse me go ahead, I just was going to ask about the repairs is, are they are.

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They specified the repairs are what dope is, that is that just waterproofing and.

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Repair, the waterproofing, or what does in repair include being the repairs to the.

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Facility are being done right now. The bids are being I'm sorry. Bids are being.

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Requested right now for the scope for this year. This is including the garage.

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Structure itself, this is epoxy injections and columns.

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Flooring, a partial death and other items that that are part of the garage.

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Structure, the ramps and columns that hold these structure ups and we wanted.

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To add this particular piece in with the overall bid that way, of course, they can.

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You know the contractors are already there, but both sides, somebody from.

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For the project, okay, thank you.

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And just for clarity, see solutions handling the design component of this.

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Are they also handling the construction work they're doing both they're handling.

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The design work for the the skirt, the exterior and the architecture for that.

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Area and also they're, serving as the the engineer for the project that would, in.

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Other words they're, assuring that the project is done correctly and making.

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Sure that the the the work is up to up to scope for what is needed throughout.

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The entire project so they'll brian they'll, perform something similar like I.

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Wrote construction projects with construction inspection, engineering.

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Contest for us yeah, when do they plan to complete this walnut street garage.

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Project well we're receiving bids. We just had the first contractors meeting.

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Today and will be receiving bids next friday believed to be open as an export.

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Board of public works, open, open bid opening and there weren't mine to award.

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Ups and we're looking to start that on five eleven of this year and comply.

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Hanja by june 31st of this year june july, 31st july 31st all right got.

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It okay, thank you, and so this this.

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Construction work has not begun. No construction work for the major overall.

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Project has not started yet.

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What that that's currently out to bid correct, that's correct! So what these new.

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Okay, so we're we've already put out to bid a construction project that includes.

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Those top three bullets which are column, repairs, repairs on level six and so on.

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But now we want to add the next bullets and our riri bidding that with this no.

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Battle no that'll be added into the scope of the overall work. Okay, okay, go.

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Ahead, sorry, yeah: this is a change order for it for just cg solutions and their.

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Scope of work so for them to now design the the scope or the roof replacement.

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Etc, that's what this collect, yeah and so is there. You know. Is there a reason we.

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Didn't have that in the original scope like did we make a decision not to.

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Include it in the original scope was just for concrete for structural repair.

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When we were first doing when we were first putting the bid package together,.

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This is a three-phase repair work on that garage. The first part was done and.

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Completed this year, the sterlo itself and then the second part is the concrete.

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Work in the garage- and we want to go ahead- and this was the for the stairwell.

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Tower itself, you were going to do a separate bed package this summer and.

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Then decided to wrap that out into the overall project, just for basically cost.

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Savings, hopefully all right great- this was a project that yeah. This was a.

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Project that was a was going to get done. We just decided to add it to the full.

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Scope what we bid out when waterproofing wouldn't have been part of that original.

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When you were replacing concrete or pouring water proofing, wasn't in that at the time it is it isn't that okay, yep okay.

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Thank you any other questions from the board on this item. You know all right.

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Any public comment on this item. No, no good! All right do we have a motion on.

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This item with approval of the change order, number one: what's the e solution.

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For the walnut street garage repairs and waterproofing project, second, all in.

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Motion passes next up. We have approved 2020 morton street garage elevator.

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Service contract with cohn elevator right, yeah, again, water, public public.

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Works parking garages, the elevator service contract with the morton street.

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Garage is set to expire in may of this year. We've contracted five elevator.

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Service contractors to provide quotes for elevator service at the morton.

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Street garage, we did have five companies, but we did similary tyson krupp, murphy.

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Elevator male american elevator and connais, we recommended using cone aid.

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For the service contract to the bidders thyssen, krupp and cone aid, both did the.

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Exact same amount, the only difference between the two contractors was that.

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Cone aid provided for maintenance service visits to maintain the elevators.

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That was specifically were written in their contract or a thyssen. Krupp did.

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Not specifically write out the number of maintenance service visits to their.

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Account that was the only difference between the two bidders. The total.

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Contract cost for the elevator service contract is five thousand four hundred.

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Dollars and staff does recommend approval and that will be paid in one at.

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One time in advance, espera, that's correct. Okay, thank you who have we used.

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Previously or have we worked with sony.

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The garages have not excuse me. I have not worked with tony before we're.

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Currently using otis elevator and they didn't, they didn't come in with a bid.

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This time yeah, we do not ask them a bit. Oh, I see. Okay, thank you. Do we know like.

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Did we did we check with about the number of services they would have.

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Included and they they included yeah, they included in their contract. When I.

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Was looking reviewing both of the contracts, they included the phrasing we.

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Will provide site services, but they did not specify the number of sites and.

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Visits that they would have best was the only two differences between the.

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Contracts, one was more specific and that's why I chose connais over thyssen.

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Krupp, because they specifically gave a number of visit, that they would have.

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That they would give us for inspection. Could we have potentially gotten more.

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From dyson crumbs like if they just yeah, I spoke with isin crop out the woods and.

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After their bidding had come out, he he said that was a further contract.

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Language and that's specifically, why I told him their their rep that they were.

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Not getting the bid because they didn't specify the number of visits so.

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They had the opportunity to provide that if they wanted to have yeah exactly.

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You know anyone else is worth with co nari and are they any problems with.

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Their their work, I actually worked with koenig when I was up in indianapolis and.

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Yes, okay, that's they're! A large international.

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Firm with locations throughout the world, more actually pretty a new vendor and.

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For this service and have seen you know, I knew ryan had worked with them up an.

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Indian and had checked with a few other folks there they seem to be a top notch.

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Service elevator service and escalator service company; okay, they work with the.

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Airport, who do as well ryan is that right yeah, I think so I think so. Yes, now.

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Is the one big one that I thought I'd seen mm-hmm? That is a big one? Okay, so we.

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Do have a question that andrew posted and I'm assuming it says why we didn't.

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Ask the vendor to bid I'm guessing that the person asking the question was.

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Inferring to the vendor, we had previously servicing yeah I'll jump in.

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Here this adam again, so we actually avoided a we informed, our previous.

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Contractor that we would not be renewing contracts with them at the morton street.

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Garage going forward and that we'd be seeking a new vendor.

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Other questions from the board at this point: no any other questions from the or.

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Any other public comment all right. Is there a motion on this item. I move that.

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We approve the 2020 morton street garage elevator service contract with tony.

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Elevator service. Second, all in favor, aye aye motion passes.

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Next up is staff reports and other business again adam ison here so just.

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Some brief reports, you know trying times we all recognize that and are working.

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Through this, the best we can I've been very proud of the staff in.

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Public works and other city departments and divisions and our our reactions and.

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How we're reacting to all this, what we're trying to do to get through you.

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Know we're working a lot on critical operation plans and looking at a level.

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Of service and and just things as we continue to move through this, you know.

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I'm real hopeful that the curve has flattened that we are kind of on the.

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Rebound here that we will start seeing some major improvement, you know we've.

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Had federal legislation come out in the last several weeks since april? First.

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Affording some additional benefits to employees for childcare or for high-risk.

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Employees we've seen public works, has seen quite a few employees. Take.

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Advantage of that, so you know we'll have some early construction season.

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Reductions and staff and reductions in productivity there, but you know, support.

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All those employees are just trying to do all the things that they can do to.

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Stay safe and you know this is unchartered territory.

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But we're working our way through it we're trying to do some long-range.

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Budgeting and forecasting, and just looking at where funding sources are.

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Coming from trying to stay on top of that, the best we can we've identified.

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Cost savings in our 2020 budget that will be, you know, kind of holding back on.

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And holding off on those expenditures, the best we can just not knowing exactly.

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Where things are headed with our overall financial stability, we've got many.

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Different funding sources that fund the public works department, whether it's.

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Motor vehicle highway and local road and street funds for the street department.

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You know our sanitation rates, our general fund.

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You know, fleet maintenance is an internal service department funded by.

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All the other departments, so if we see other departments that have major budgetary hits, could impact the fleet budget. So you know we're just trying to.

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Really, as they say, they roll with the punches and just track this stuff, the.

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Best, we can and make good decisions wherever we can here. So I just just say.

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It one more time, I'm just very proud of the folks that we work with very proud.

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Of the staff here at the city of bloomington, very proud of our community.

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And just proud to be a bloomin tone e'en, so I just wish everybody safety and.

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Health- and you know in particular, would like to just send a note of health and.

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And some prayers to mayor hamilton's, wife, don johnson we've seen those media.

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Reports and just with her healing grace at this tough time and our well wishes.

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To mayor hamilton as well, thank you next up, we have approval of claims. Do we.

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Have any questions from the board on claims?

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I don't do we have a motion on claims? I move approval of claims. Five hundred and.

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Ninety six thousand two hundred ninety nine dollars and forty one cents: okay,.

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All in favor aye aye she passes if there's nothing else. This.

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Evening then, I will call for adjournment. Everybody take care. Thank you. You too.

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You know everyone you you thank you.

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