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HomeMy Public PortalAbout12-13-1984 /17 BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS AND SAFETY OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND, INDIANA, DECEMBER 13, 1984 1_ The Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of Richmond, Indiana met 2 in regular session December 13,1984 at the hour of 9:00 A.M. in the Municipal 3 Building in said City. Ms. Maness presided with Mr. Brown and Ms. Silberstein 4 in attendance. The following business was had to-wit: 5 6 APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF DECEMBER 6, 1984 7 8 Ms. Silberstein moved to approve the minutes of the previous meeting 9 as prepared, seconded by Mr. Brown and on unanimous voice vote the motion 10 was carried. - 11 12 APPROVAL OF CLAIMS FOR PAYMENT 13 14 Mr. Brown moved to approve claims in the amount of 227,675.36 for payment, 15 seconded by Ms. Silberstein and on unanimous voice vote the motion was 16 carried. 17 18 DEPARTMENT REQUESTS AND COMMENTS 19 20 Planning and Economic Development 21 22 Approval of travel for Dennis Bronston 23 24 Mr. Brown moved to approve the travel of Dennis Bronston on December 25 5, 1984 to Indianapolis for a Business Incubator Seminar, seconded by 26 Ms. Silberstein and on unanimous voice vote the motion was carried. 27 28 Dismissal of Complaint on Inoperable Vehicle - 418 N.W. 7th Street 29 30 Mr. Bronston stated in a letter to the Board that the nuisance at 418 31 N.W. 7th Street in the form of an inoperable vehicle had been cleared 32 up. Ms. Silberstein moved to dismiss the nuisance complaint at 418 N.W. 33 7th Street, seconded by Mr. Brown and on unanimous voice vote the motion 34 was carried. 35 36 Date set for Unsafe Building Hearing - 605 South 8th Street 37 38 Ms. Brown moved to set January 24, 1985 at 9:00 A.M. as the time to conduct 39 an unsafe building hearing for 605 South 8th Street, seconded by Ms. 40 Silberstein and on unanimous voice vote the motion was carried. 41 42 Law Department 43 44 Mr. Barden stated that the City had received an offer to purchase land 45 and the. Board should take this under advisement since there were no funds 46 available at this time. 47 48 Ms. Silberstein moved to take the offer to sell land to the City under 49 advisememt, seconded by Mr. Brown and on unanimous voice vote the motion 50 was carried. 51 52 Acceptance of bid of J Street Auto Parts for Inoperable Vehicle Storage for 1985 53 54 Mr. Barden stated that the bid of J Street_Auto Parts for abandoned vehicle 55 for 1985 met all the specifications and he has prepared the contract for 56 signature. Payments will be made to the City in two (2) equal installments 57 of 3,300.00 each. 58 59 Ms. Silberstein moved to award the bid for abandoned vehicle storage to J 60 Street Auto Parts and to approve and execute the contract for same, seconded 61 by Mr. Brown and on unanimous voice vote the motion was carried. 62 63 Fire Department 64 65 Fire Chief Bosell presented the monthly report for November of 1984 and commented (s Board of Works Minutes Cont'd December 13, 1984 Page 2 1 on the low amount of losses. 2 3 Ms. Silberstein moved to accept and file the monthly report of the Fire Department 4 for November, seconded by Mr. Brown and on unanimous voice vote the motion was 5 carried. 6 7 Purchasing Department 8 9 Date set to receive salt bids for 1985 10 11 Ms. Silberstein moved to set January 10, 1985 at 9:00 a.m. as the date and time . 12 to receive bids for salt for snow and ice removal for 1985, seconded by Mr. 13 Brown and on unanimous voice vote the motion was carried. 14 15 Awarding of Street Material Bids 16 17 Purchasing Director, Rita Stout made the following recommendations to the Board: 18 19 Ready Mix Concrete to Richmond Concrete as follows: 20 Delivered Class A 48.50 21 Class B 45.50 22 F.O.B. Plant 23 Class A 41.50 24 Class B 38.50 25 26 Gravel and Stone to Middleboro Stone as follows: 27 #1 4.30 28 2 4 .10 29 4 4 .50 30 12 5.50 31 9C 4 .60 32 11C 5.10 33 73 Maintenance Limestone 4.10 34 53 Crushed stone 4.10 35 Screening type #2 3.90 36 Flat Stone 13.70 37 Rip Rap 6.70 38 39 All deliveries to Street Department add 2.25/ton 40 41 Washed Gravel to American Aggregates as follows : (F.O.B. Plant) 42 43 #9 4.40 44 11 4.70 45 7C N/B 46 Fill Sand 2.20 47 Pea Gravel 3.30 48 49 Washed Gravel (Delivered) to American Aggregates as follows: 50 # 9 6.50 51 11 6.80 52 7C N/B 53 Fill Sand 4.30 54 Washed gravel 5.40 55 56 Sand to American Aggregates (F.O.B. Plant) as follows : 57 Fill Sand 2.20 58 Shot 2.40 59 Concrete 4 .05 60 Mason 6.25 61 310-B Borrow 3.30 62 63 64 65 11 .Board of Works Minutes Cont'd December 13, 1984 Page 3 1 Sand to American Aggregates ( Delivered ) as follows: 2 Fill Sand 4.30 3 Shot 4.50 4 Concrete 5 Mason 8.35 6 310-B-Borrow 5.40 7 8 Bituminous Products to Contractors United, Inc. as follows: 9 Volume under 5000 Volume 5001 and over 10 #5 HAC Base 24.00 24.00 11 #9 HAC Binder 25.95 25.95 12 #11 HAC Surface 28.30 28.30 13 #12 HAC Surfae 28.30 28.30 14 IV HAE Surface 31.45 31.45 15 Hand Laid All 16 Mixes 55.00 55.00 17 (For alleys & parking lots add 2.00/ton) 18 19 Hot Asphatic AC & AE to Contractors United Inc. as follows: 20 #9 .HAC Binder 17.40 21 11 HAC Surface 20.89 22 12 HAC Surface 21.00 23 IV HAE Surface 27.00 24 5 HAC Base 17.00 25 • 26 Emulsified Asphalt FOB Plant to Ashland Petroleum as follows: 27 RS-2, AE 60, AE-90, AE-T 66.00/gal 28 AE-150 70.00/gal 29 AE-300 • 72.00/gal 30 AE-P 85.00/gal 31 32 Emulsified Asphalts Furnished, Hauled and Applied to Contractors United, 33 Inc. as follows: 34 AE-P 1.25/gal • 35 AE-90, RS-2, AE-T .98/gal 36 AE-150, AE-200 • 1.00/gal 37 38 Cold Mix to Stone Valley 24.95 39 40 Hot Recycled Asphalt Concrete to Contractors United, Inc. as follows: 41 #9 Binder 24 .45 42 11 Surface • 26.20• . 43 12 Surface 26.20 44 45 Ms. Silberstein moved to award the bids as recommended by the Purchasing 46 Director, seconded by`Mr. Brown and on unanimous voice vote the motion was • 47 carried. 48 49 Approval of Federal Surplus Property Certificate 50 51 Ms. Stout explained to the Board that she had made contact with the State 52 regarding purchase of state and federal surplus property and that the City 53 needed to sign compliance certificates for GSA Regulations in order to purchase 54 through this agency. Mr. Barden stated that the Board would be adopting 55 a policy along with ratify the signatures on the compliances regarding the 56 GSA Regulations. 57 58 Ms. Silberstein moved to ratify the signatures on the compliance document 59 and to adopt the GSA Regulations as Board Policy, seconded by Mr. Brown 60 and on unanimous voice vote the motion was carried. 61 62 63 64 65 odd • Board of Works Minutes Cont'd December 13, 1984 Page 4 1 Board of Public Works and Safety 2 3 Acceptance of Finding of Fact on Residential Parking Request 4 5 Ms. Silberstein presented the Finding of Fact on the request to designate the 300 111 6 Block of S.W. 1st a Residential Parking District. She stated that after having 7 researched tickets issued on this block and interviewing the Officer issuing the 8 tickets it was decided that 75% of the parking spaces were occupied and that 25% 9 were occupied by persons not residing in the block. 10 11 The Finding of Fact recommends to the Common Council that the request meets the 12 guidelines specified by Ordinance and the 300 Block of S.W. 1st should be designated 13 a residential parking district. 14 15 Ms. Silberstein moved to recommend to the Common Council that the Board of Public 16 Works and Safety finds all requirements met and the 300 Block of S.W. 1st Street 17 should be designated a Residential Parking District, seconded by Mr. Brown and 18 on unanimous voice vote the motion was carried. 19 20 Meeting with Officials concerning USA Today News Stands 21 22 Mr. Barden announced that there will be a meeting at 10:00 A.M. today regarding 23 the USA Today News Stands. 24 25 A list of locations has been submitted to the City along with comments from the 26 Traffic Division and Richmond Power & Light. 27 28 Public Works 29 30 Acceptance of final inspection and Contract on South L Street 31 32 Mr. Willis told the Board that the final inspection had been made by the State 33 on the South L Street Project and that the City had agreed to handle completing 34 ramping of some of the new sidewalks and to move a fence in the right of way. 35 36 Ms. Silberstein moved to approve and execute the Engineer's Report of Inspection 37 and Recommendation for Acceptance, seconded by Mr. Brown and on unanimous voice 38 vote the motion was carried. 39 40 N.W. T Street and N.W. 7th Street Final Inspection 41 42 Mr. Willis stated that the projects on N.W. T Street and N.W. 7th Street had been 43 completed except for seed being planted and sodding and this was prohibited by 44 weather. Contractor's United, Inc. have agreed in writing to complete the grading 45 and seeding on both projects as soon as the weather permits 46 47 Mr. Willis stated that the N.W. T Project needs to be accepted to meet state 48 guidelines. Ms. Maness recommended that the Board accept the N.W. T Project with 49 the contingency to complete the grading and seeding. She also recommended that 50 the acceptance of N.W. 7th be held up since there is more time on the grant. 51 52 Ms. Silberstein moved to accept the final inspection on N.W. T Street, seconded 53 by Mr. Brown and on unanimous voice vote the motion was carried. 54 55 Mr. Barden was requested to prepare documents to accept N.W. 7th as a Street. 56 57 PUBLIC REQUESTS AND COMMENTS 58 59 Approval for Lions Club to use Parking Garage for Flea Market 60 61 The Lions Club requested the use of the Municipal Parking Garage on July 14, 1985 62 for its 11th Annual Antique, Craft and Flea Market from 5:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M. 63 64 Ms. Silberstein moved to approve the request of the Lions Club to use the Municipal 65 Parking Garage for its annual flea market, seconded by Mr. Brown and on unanimous di Board of Works Minutes Cont'd December 13, 1g84 Page 5 1 voice vote the motion was carried. 2 3 The Clerk was requested to inform the Lions Club that a Proof of Insurance must 4 be filed thirty (30) days in advance. 5 6 Approval for VFW to hold Loyalty Day Parade 7 8 Mr. John Johnson presented the request of the VFW to hold a Loyalty Day Parade 9 on May 11, 1985. The route would be from Glen Miller Park to North 16th Street 10 to North A Street to North 10th Street. Captain Wogoman stated there was no 11 problem with his Department. The hours of the parade would be from 1:00 P.M. 12 to 3:30 P.M. 13 14 Ms. Silberstein moved to approve the request of the VFW to hold a Loyalty Day 15 Parade on May 11, 1985, seconded by Mr. Brown and on unanimous voice vote the 16 motion was carried. 17 18 Mr. Johnson stated that the Proof of Insurance will be filed with the Clerk's Office. 19 02 Problems with pigeons in Richmond 12 22 Councilperson Williams told the Board that areas of the community are infested 23 with pigeons and that they present a health and maintenance problem to the City. 24 He stated that the pigeons can be controlled with poisons and later with birth 25. control methods. The areas affected are North 10th & D , Penn Central Station, 26 North 13th and 14th around the International Harvester Building, Jaffee's Property 27 on North 10th and L, the bridges on North 10th and Richmond Avenue and the Theater 28 Dome. Councilperson Williams suggested an Ordinance could be enacted to hold property 29 onwers responsible for this problem. 30 31 Mr. Howard Earlywine explained the process to rid these areas of pigeons and stated 32 that once the population is reduced then birth control methods can be initiated. 33 . 34 Mr. Barden stated that possibly the unsafe building law could be made applicable 35 to assist in the control of pigeons. 36 37 Ms. Maness stated that the Board realizes this is a concern to the citizens of 38 Richmond and the Board will start on a decision on this problem after the first 39 of. the year. 40 41 ADJOURNMENT 42 43 There being no further busines on a motion duly made, seconded and passed the meeting 44 was adjourned. 45 46 Cathy A. Maness 47 President 48 49 50 ATTEST: Mary Merchanthouse 51 Clerk of the Board 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65