City of Bloomington, MN 2015 Bloomington Today, 23 Sep 2015

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From YouTube: Bloomington Today: The BUZZ September 23 – 29

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What’s buzzin’ in Bloomington? Construction is in full swing at the Old Cedar Avenue Bridge. Survey results were released during the first Business Day at City Hall. Plus, a free document shredding event is coming up.

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Welcome to Bloomington today, I'm Laurie Schulte thanks for joining us. First, we bring you the buzz for the week of September 23rd through the 29th after weeks of prep work, construction is well underway at the old cedar avenue bridge you can see here, a temporary bridge is being built alongside the historical one. It allows crews to get their equipment near the bridge and over the water. It's about halfway across the lake now, and both cranes are on the temporary access fan.

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The deck on the old cedar, avenue bridge is being removed and should be completely gone by the end of the month. On the first two spans, when our cameras were there, piles are being drilled into the ground for the shoring foundation, a structure that will support the old bridge after the deck is removed. Part of the bridge will be lifted, so crews can work underneath it. That's where most of the damages, thanks to years of salt, erodes corroding it.

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The bridge is set to open in November 2016, but depending on delays may not open until the spring of 2017 city staff and the business community got together for a first-time event. At City Hall business day allowed Chamber members and city staff to connect and build relationships. There were several booths set up, highlighting services, products and opportunities offered around bloomington. There are also two main group sessions. The first one highlighted key findings from the city's National Business Survey during the second one, a panel discussed what an employee and customer of the future would look like.

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It was the first business day at City Hall, but Chamber members are already calling it a hit that.

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Really enjoyed seeing all the information that they're presenting it's great to see that the city be so forthright with it. The results of the surveys that they received and also their plans on where they planted Jake things what they want to do, based on the information that they receive. I think.

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The event is great, I think any opportunity for us, as a college community, can engage with our civic community, our business community, because in order for us to move our organizations forward, we gotta work together. So I think this this event is great and it does exactly that and.

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We will hear more about this event and those business survey results in next week's show so make sure to tune back in for that, while Civic Plaza and its services were on display. For that event, coming up, another city facility will host visitors and share information. The Creekside community center, open house and safety Fun Fest is coming up on october. Third, it will run from 10 to 1. Residents can learn about the programming at Creekside, including the several dozen clubs and classes for people 50 and older I. Don't.

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Think people realize, especially for adults, 50, plus the huge wide array of programs that we have available not only here, but we also have a flower club that works out at Normandale lake, as well as our walking club that meets at several different sites twice a week throughout Bloomington. Our programs are unique that they're all led by older adult volunteer, so you've really got people in charge of it that really enjoy it and are interested and are very welcoming to new members and really want to expand their programs. The.

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Police and fire departments will also be there. The police department will have a squad car, k9 and SWAT team at the event, they'll also share tips on what to expect. If you're pulled over the fire department will have a truck on display and we'll talk about safety topics like carbon monoxide poisoning heating, your home in the winter and smoke detectors. This.

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Year, we're really hoping to have it be community-wide and all ages. We really hope that everyone can come out and see what creek sides all about again.

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The open house will take place on october third from 10 to 1 at creekside. That's at 9801, penn avenue, south a unique meeting of the Bloomington Police Department's past and present the city's last constable stopped by City Hall to talk with Chief Jeff pots, a console.

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Was was a law enforcement officer for a village? There were two of them elected every two years and you mainly took care of little things. You saw like a speeder or stop sign or something I also served papers for the court system. That was about all of the duties that were involved. That's.

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Bob Nystrom and he served as constable of Bloomington from 1954 257. He shared stories about the job. He even brought his old ticket book and badge. He also talked about what Bloomington was like in the mid-1950s, a great.

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Majority, the roads were gravel old shakopee, of course, was a paved road. Lyndale avenue was a pedro, those from the main road, so Penn Avenue I, believe was gravel at the time. The.

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Bloomington Police Department formed in 1953, eventually eliminating the need for constables. That's when Bob started, serving as the bailiff at the courthouse and then constable of savage. It's.

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Just something I've gotten into young and just kept on going with and enjoy the work I was doing and felt I was helping the community if.

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You want to hear more from this interview, keep an eye out on this channel for a long-form segment set to air in the coming weeks, looking to get rid of old documents, there's a free shred event coming up, Saturday October third head over to the public works building for free shred day. The event is put on by human services in partnership with the US Federal Credit Union. It will take place in the North East parking area and each person can bring up to two paper boxes.

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The public works building is located at 1700 West Side da Street. That is the buzz on Bloomington today for the week of September 23rd through the 29th. If you would like to watch other stories from the show go to this week's playlist, there you'll find a couple pieces highlighting two longtime employees. You'll also find a story on the street sweepers headed for a neighborhood near you check them out, and thanks for watching.

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