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HomeMy Public PortalAbout08-23-1990 73 BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS AND SAFETY OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND. INDIANA. AUGUST 23, 1990 1 The Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of Richmond, Indiana, met in regular session August 23, 1990 2 at the hour of 9:00 A.M. in the Municipal Building in said City. Ms. Hauptstueck presided with Ms. McFarland 3 and Mr. Smith in attendance. Absent: None. Media in attendance: WHON and WKBV. The following 4 business was had to-wit: 5 6 APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF AUGUST 16. 1990 7 8 Mr. Smith moved to approve the minutes of the previous meeting as prepared, seconded by Ms. McFarland and 9 on unanimous voice vote the motion was carried. 10 11 APPROVAL OF CLAIMS FOR PAYMENT 12 . 13 Ms. McFarland moved to approve claims in the amount of 1,703,501.02, seconded by Mr. Smith and on 14 unanimous voice vote the motion was carried. 15 16 TABLED ITEMS 17 18 Contract Modification for Industries Road 19 20 Mr. Bob Wiwi requested the Board to leave the item tabled for an additional week since it was still being revised 21 and assured the Board it would be presented at the next meeting. 22 23 Ms. McFarland moved to leave the Contract Modification for Industries Road tabled to August 30, 1990, 24 seconded by Mr. Smith and on unanimous voice vote the motion was carried. 25 26 Update on Unsafe Building at 511 North 18th Street 27 28 Ms. Sarah Braxton gave the Board a chronological description of the events of the property since the Unsafe 29 Building Hearing on October 19, 1989. Since that time the property was purchased by Mr. Everett Miller, who 30 has requested an additional month to complete repairs and Mr. Dooley did grant that extension. 31 32 Ms. Braxton reported that all is in line on the repair of the property and Mr. Miller has until February 1, 1991 to 33 complete the repairs. 34 35 Ms. Hauptstueck requested the Board be updated again around the first of February, 1991. 36 37 PUBLIC REQUESTS AND COMMENT 38 39 Banners on 8th and 9th Streets for Festival of Trees 40 41 Mr. Joe Longstreth requested permission from the Board to place banners overhead on 8th and 9th Streets in 42 the downtown area to promote the Festival of Trees,the annual fund raiser for the Richmond Symphony. 43 44 Mr. Longstreth told the Board that the Festival would be held at the Radisson Hotel this year and would promote 45 the traffic in the downtown area also. He said the banners would go up on October 15, 1990 and remain 46 through the event. Mr. Longstreth added the Street Department has offered to assist in the placement of the 47 banners. 48 49 Sgt. Kolentus said he had no problems with the request and was certain that the Street Department would place 50 the banners high enough to prevent any traffic or visual problems. 51 52 Mr. Smith said they would be fourteen (14)ft. high. 53 54 City Attorney, Bruce Metzger asked Mr. Longstreth is there was a back up plan if the Radisson was not available 55 with their current financial problems and bankruptcy proceedings 56 57 Mr. Longstreth said he had been assured it will still remain open. He said they are expecting 6,000 to 7,000 in 58 attendance at this event which would be beneficial to the Radisson and downtown. Mr. Longstreth added the 59 World Life Building would be utilized as back up in the event it could not be held at the Radisson. 60 61 Ms. McFarland moved to approve the request for banners to be placed on 8th and 9th Streets beginning 62 October 15, 1990, seconded by Mr. Smith and on unanimous voice vote the motion was carried. 63 64 65 71 Board of Works Minutes Cont'd August 23, 1990 Page 2 1 Curb Cut Request for A&D Excavating 2 3 Mr. Robert Wiwi, Public Works Director, represented a request from A & D Excavating for a curb cut onto N.W. 4 5th Street. He said the proposed curb cut was part of an agreement with the City for property A&D owns and the 5 City needs to make improvements to NW 5th Street. Mr.Wiwi said that A&D was not planning to build the curb 6 cut at this time, but they was assurance they can it as an entrance to their property in the future. 7 8 Mr. Smith asked about the dimensions of the proposed curb cut and Mr. Wiwi said they did not have specific 9 plans, but it would be limited to a 30 ft.cut and the design would need to be brought back to the Board for formal 10 approval. Mr. Wiwi said that all expenses for the improvements would be the responsibility of the owner of the 11 property. 12 13 Mr. Smith commented that this was nearing State controlled right of way and Mr. Wiwi assured the Board the 14 area in questions was quite a distance from 1-70 and there would be no problem with the State. 15 16 There being no further questions, Mr. Smith moved to approve a curb cut request for A&D Excavating with the 17 cut being a maximum of 30 ft. and final designs to be approved by the Board, seconded by Ms. McFarland and 18 on unanimous voice vote the motion was carried. 19 20 Wayne County Historical Museum-Annual Pioneer Days 21 22 The request from the Wayne County Historical Museum for restricted parking along the Museum on North A 23 Street, North 11th and North 12th Street for their horse drawn vehicles on September 9, 1990 was presented. 24 25 Sgt. Kolentus told the Board there were no problems with the request. 26 27 Ms. McFarland moved to approve the request for restricted parking for the Wayne County Historical Museum on 28 September 9, 1990 from 11 Am to 5PM, seconded by Mr. Smith and on unanimous voice vote the motion was 29 carried. 30 31 Residential Handicapped Parking 32 322 North 18th Street-New Request 33 34 The request of Mr. Walter Dalbey of 322 North 18th Street for a residential handicapped parking space was 35 presented to the Board. Mr. Dalbey holds the proper handicapped permits from the State of Indiana. 36 37 Sgt. Kolentus informed the Board that the request met the guidelines and he recommended approval. 38 39 Ms. McFarland moved to approve the request for a residential handicapped parking space at 322 North 18th 40 Street,seconded by Mr. Smith and on unanimous voice vote the motion was carried. 41 42 Comments from County Commissioners Regarding Conditions of Brick Area of South 4th Street 43 44 Mr. Roy Werking, Wayne County Commissioner, informed the Board that the Commissioners understood when 45 they were allowed to place the brick walkway between the County buildings on South 4th Street,they were to be 46 responsible for the brick area. He said the bricks are now deteriorating and the Commissioners feel they have 47 three options. He said they could repair and repoint the bricks, but that would be costly and not the best option. 48 Mr. Werking said they could remove the bricks and repave over the area giving consideration to using colored 49 concrete or they could just asphalt over the bricks. 50 51 Mr. Werking said his purpose of addressing the Board was to keep them informed of any decisions of the County 52 and that currently they had no answers, but he would update the Board as soon as decisions were made. 53 54 Mr. Smith asked if there was a time frame and Mr.Werking said they were hoping this fall or first thing next year. 55 Mr. Werking also asked the Board to give consideration to accepting the maintenance responsibility of the entire 56 street if the decision is to go back to normal paving. 57 58 The Board thanked Mr. Werking for his appearance at the meeting. 59 60 Update on 1811 North E Street-Mr. Daniel Tyrone 61 62 Mr. Daniel Tyrone of 1811 North E Street told the Board he had spoken with Mr. Dooley and Mr. Craft of the 63 Planning Department about the repairs to the property at 1811 North E Street. He said that Mr. Craft was to do 64 an inspection and speak with the Board regarding an extension of time for the repairs to be completed. 65 Board of Works Minutes Cont'd August 23, 1990 Page 3 1 Ms. Braxton informed the Board that Mr. Craft was prepared to make that inspection this week and Mr. Tyrone 2 said he did make the inspection and made some suggestions. 3 4 Ms. Hauptstueck suggested that Mr. Tyrone keep in touch with the Planning staff and to continue to make a 5 good faith effort to get the repairs competed. 6 7 Ms. McFarland requested that Ms. Braxton check and see the outcome of the inspection and Mr. Craft's 8 recommendations and let Mr.Tyrone know. 9 10 Ms. Braxton asked Mr. Tyrone to expand on his list of repairs still to be completed and speak with her after the 11 meeting. 12 13 DEPARTMENT REQUESTS AND COMMENTS 14 15 POLICE DEPARTMENT 16 17 Hiring of Probationary Officer Timothy Davis,Jr. 18 19 Major Donald Ponder read the following letter to the Board: 20 21 The following applicant for the position of Probationary Police Officer with the Richmond Police 22 Department is recommended for hiring: 23 24 Timothy G. Davis,Jr. Age 21 25 3090 Hodgin Road 26 Richmond, IN 47374 27 28 This applicant has successfully completed written examinations, background investigation, physical 29 qualifications and has been accepted by the Police Pension Board. 30 31 This applicant has been approved by the Police Merit Commission. 32 33 It is requested that the above named individual enter police service with the Richmond Police 34 Department effective Monday,August 27, 1990. 35 36 /s/Donald R. Ponder 37 Major-Administrative 38 39 There being no comments, Ms. McFarland moved to approve the hiring of Timothy G. Davis, Jr. as a 40 Probationary Police Officer effective August 27, 1990, seconded by Mr. Smith and on unanimous voice vote the 41 motion was carried. 42 43 The Clerk administered the Oath to Mr. Davis and the Board offered their congratulations. 44 45 Animal Control Costs 46 47 Ms. Hauptstueck requested Major Ponder to have information previously requested to the Board by the next 48 meeting regarding the cost of the animal control functions as preformed by the Richmond Police Department. 49 50 PURCHASING DEPARTMENT 51 52 Award Bid for Street Paving Phase II 53 54 Ms. Planck presented the following recommendation to the Board Phase II of the Street Paving Project: 55 56 The bid be awarded to Barrett Paving as the lowest bidder on the total amount of tonnage. AET Tack 57 Coat at .75 Cents per gallon, 3,190 tons of #12 Surface at 78,155.00 and 917 tons of #11 binder at 58 21,778.00 with the total contract amount not to exceed 130,000.00. 59 60 There being no questions, Mr. Smith moved to approve the award of the bids for Phase II of the Street Paving 61 Project to Barrett Paving as overall low bidder as recommended , seconded by Ms. McFarland and on 62 unanimous voice vote the motion was carried. 63 64 BOARD OF WORKS MISCELLANEOUS 65 Board of Works August 23, 1990 Page 4 1 Interest Disclosure for Mike Allen, Richmond Fire Department 2 3 The Board received an Interest Disclosure Statement from Mike Allen, member of the Richmond Fire 4 Department for the painting of a steel rail at Firehouse No. 1. 5 6 There being no additional comments, Ms. McFarland moved to accept and file the Interest Disclosure Statement 7 for Mike Allen,seconded by Mr. Smith and on unanimous voice vote the motion was carried. 8 9 Festival of Trees Information -Joe Longstreth 10 11 Mr. Longstreth returned to inform the Board he had spoken with the Radisson Hotel and was told they were 12 booked solid through November and there would be no danger of them closing the hotel since it would not be 13 financially responsible to do so at this time. 14 15 ADJOURNMENT 16 17 There being no further business, on a motion duly made, seconded and passed the meeting was adjourned. 18 19 20 21 Carrie N. Hauptstueck, President 22 23 ATTEST: 24 Mary Merchanthouse, City Clerk 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65