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HomeMy Public PortalAbout12-31-1992 o7 BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS AND SAFETY OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND. INDIANA. DECEMBER 31. 1992 1 The Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of Richmond, Indiana, met at 9 a.m.Thursday, December 31, 2 1992, in the Municipal Building in said City. Chairman Thomas Milligan presided with Dennis Grimes and 3 Earnest Jarvis in attendance.The following business was had to-wit: 4 5 APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF DECEMBER 23.199Z 6 7 The minutes of the previous meeting were approved on a motion by Jarvis, second by Grimes and carried on a 8 unanimous voice vote. 9 10 CLAIMS FOR PAYMENT 11 12 Claims were submitted by the City Controller's office for $72,778.22, which included $63,565.00 for health 13 insurance claims. Grimes moved to approve the claims, second by Jarvis and carried by a unanimous voice 14 vote. 15 16 REQUESTS 17 18 A. Jarvis brought before the Board, for the second time, the request for the city limit sign on Hayes 19 Arboretum Road. He moved to approve the placement of the sign 500 feet north of the railroad tracks 20 where the City engineers had determined it should be. He reported that a second request for signage to 21 slow traffic was checked out by the Traffic Safety Division which recommended that perhaps patrols 22 could be increased in the area to slow the traffic down. Captain Danny McClure noted that in a recent 23 24-hour traffic count 500 vehicles were spotted on Hayes Arboretum Road. Jarvis moved to approve 24 the city limit sign,second by Grimes and carried by a unanimous voice vote. 25 26 B. Approval of angle parking between 3rd and 4th Streets on East Main Street was requested by the 27 Wayne County Commissioners. Jarvis reported that the request was reviewed by the Traffic Safety 28 Division and the City Engineers. Board members and Max Smith, president of the Wayne County 29 Commissioners, and Bill Smith, head of maintenance for the County, looked over plans. Changing the 30 parallel parking to angle parking will make room for several more spaces open to the public with 31. one-hour restricted parking.Jarvis moved for approval,second by Grimes and carried by a unanimous 32 voice vote. Jarvis also moved to approve the County's request for an additional handicapped parking 33 space for the public next to the one already in place on the west side of the Wayne County 34 Administration Building,second by Grimes and carried by a unanimous voice vote. 35 36 C. Police Chief Dennis Rice presented Greg Rose to the Board as completing his one-year probation, 37 moving him to the position of Patrolman. 38 39 CONTRACTS 40 41 A. The Board exercised its option to extend the H & H Wrecking Service's contract for the towing 42 service for city-owned vehicles for another year on a motion by Grimes,second by Milligan and carried 43 by a two to one vote with Jarvis voting against. Jarvis questioned the move, voicing concern about 44 extending the contract saying that it might deter others from trying to improve their equipment. Milligan 45 said H & H Wrecking Service has an axle lift to take care of the big trucks and others would have to sub 46 contract the big tows. Milligan suggested that the Board possibly look at reviewing the policy on single 47 multi-year contracts. Milligan explained that the City has three different towing aggreements but this is 48 the only one where the City picks up the tab because it is the towing of city vehicles.The other two, he 49 said, includes the towing of privately-owned vehicles off the street and the rotation system which is still 50 in effect. 51 52 B.Jarvis moved to approve the execution of the contract to purchase the Town&County Motel at 3643 53 East Main Street,second by Grimes and carried by a unanimous voice vote.Ordinance No. 100-1992 54 was approved by Council December 21 and the Board,through the motion by Jarvis, agreed to accept 55 a$17 down payment from the owners and the balance of$236,100.00 on or before February 15, 1993. 56 57 C. Grimes reported that six different companies had been given the opportunity to present bids for the 58 rebuilding of the McBride Stadium roof, with only two responding. A bid of $17,776 was submitted by 59 60 Enterprise Roofing of Dayton, Ohio, and Stevens Roofing of Liberty had submitted a bid of$11,351.00. It was the recommendation of Bryan Ringley and Robert Wiwi of the engineering division of the 61 Department of Public Works that the contract be awarded to Stevens of Liberty.Grimes made a motion 62 to award the bid to Stevens Roofing on the condition that additional appropriations will be received from 63 the Cumulative Capital Development Fund at Council's January 4 meeting, second by Jarvis and 64 carried by a unanimous voice vote. 65 . Board of Works Minutes Cont'd December 31, 1992 Page 2 ' • • i 1 D. Grimes reported that two of the six companies requested to present bids had done so for the City's. 2 fuel and gasoline usage for 1993.They were Farm Bureau and Warfield Oil. After review of the bids by 3 Grimes and Valerie Fonzer in the Purchasing Department, Warfield Oil was awarded the contract for 4 submitting the lowest responsive bid on a motion by Grimes, second by Jarvis and carried by 'a 5 unanimous voice vote. 6 7 . 8 OTHER MATTERS 9 10 A. Jarvis read a letter received by Captain Danny McClure from the Governor's Council on Impaired 11 and Dangerous Driving. It stated that McClure's request for a $9,250 grant to be used for overtime in 12 impaired driving enforcement had been approved. Jarvis pointed out that this will save the City some 13 money and Milligan recognized receipt of the grant as well as McClure's activity in securing the money. 14 which will be used during the period starting December 1, 1992 and ending September 1993. He said: 15 the grant will be placed on the Council agenda for acceptance at its January 4 meeting. McClure said 16 Sgt.Janice Passmore had done a good amount of the work in securing the grant and Passmore in turn' 17 acknowledged the help of several other officers. 18 19 ADJOURNMENT ti 20 ' 21 There being no further business, on a motion duly made seconded and passed and carried on a unanimous 22 voice vote,the meeting was adjourned. 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Thomas Milligan, Chairman 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 ATTEST: 39 Norma Carnes, Clerk 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 • . 50 51 52 • 53 54 55 • 56 • 57 58 • • 5p : 60 61 • 62 63 64 65 I i• .