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HomeMy Public PortalAbout02-09-1984 BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS AND SAFETY OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND, INDIANA, FEBRUARY 9, 1984 1 The Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of Richmond, Indiana met 2 in regular session February 9, 1984, at the hour of 9:00 A.M. in the Municipal 3 Building of said City. President Maness presided with the following members 4 in attendance: John Brown and Sue Silberstein. The following business was 5 had to-wit: 111 6 7 APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF FEBRUARY 2, 1984 8 9 Ms. Silberstein moved to approve the minutes of the February 2, 1984 meeting 10 as presented, seconded by Mr. Brown and on unanimous voice vote the motion 11 was carried. 12 13 INQUIRIES FROM COMMON COUNCIL 14 15 President Maness presented the following statements and inquiries from 16 Common Council: 17 18 1. Notify all Department Heads that they are expected to be present at 19 meetings of Common Council if they have any business on the Agenda. 20 21 2. Councilperson Parker requested that the Board check on the merging 22 traffic lanes at S.W. 1st and Main Streets. Traffic is becoming 23 confused as to which lane to drive in since lane divider originally 24 designed for bus traffic is not well marked and becoming crumbled. 25 26 Traffic Captain, Dan Wogoman, commented that First and Main had been 27 a problem for some time and that the Street Department had in the past 28 been directed to curb off the merging lane with the OK of the State 29 Highway Commission. He recommends that this be done. 30 31 Mayor Waltermann commented that he is currently talking with the School 32 system regarding transportation of High School students on City buses 33 and possibly this intersection can once again be used as a bus stop area. 34 35 3. Councilperson Bodiker asked the Board to investigate the timing of the 36 traffic lights on North and South A Streets in the downtown area. The 37 lights are no longer timed properly causing problems in the traffic 38 flow. 39 40 Capt. Wogoman stated that he is aware of this problem and is working 41 with Mr. Dave Ellis of the Greenfield District of the State Highway 42 Commission. The State is also working with Richmond Power & Light in 43 a learning process regarding the maintenance of the signals. Capt. 44 Wogoman also explained that the traffic signals on 8th and 9th Streets 45 were causing some of the problems on North and South A Streets. President 46 Maness requested Capt. Wogoman to attend the next meeting of the Common 47 Council to explain this to the members of the Council 48 49 4. Councilperson Morris asked the Board to investigate the possibility of 50 a NO TURN ON RED sign at the corner of North 16th and East Main Streets 51 to assist the north bound traffic on 16th Street. 52 53 Capt. Wogoman stated that this corner is very confusing to the north 54 bound traffic and that eventually plans are being considered to make 55 this intersection a T crossing to correct this situation. 56 57 . FIRE DEPARTMENT MONTHLY REPORT 58 59 Assistant Fire Chief, Don Atkins, presented the first monthly report for 60 the Fire Department. The report recorded 88 runs and 74 actual fire runs. 61 Mr. Brown moved to accept and file the Fire Department monthly report, 62 seconded by Ms. Silberstein and on unanimous voice vote the motion was 63. carried. 64 65 J V BOARD OF WORKS MINUTES CONT'D FEBRUARY 9, 1984 Page 2 1 POLICEI,DEPARTMENT 2 3 Police Chief Nimitz read the following letters for action by the Board: 4 5 Dear Board Members: 6 7 Request that the police powers of Michael J. Davis, Special Police 8 Officers for security at Greenwood Apartments be revoked. Gae Ann 9 Williams, Executive Director of Greenwood Apartments has been advised. 10 11 This revocation is due to changes in special police powers, a 12 reorganization and evaluation of this service which was initiated 13 in January. 14 15 Please make this effective immediately. 16 17: /s/ Joseph A. Nimitz 18 Chief of Police 19 20 Dear Board Members: 21 22 . Request that the Special Police Powers of Al Carey employed by the 23 Richmond Park Department, be revoked retroactively, to Thursday, 24 January 12, 1984, at 5:00 P.M. 25 26 This revocation is due to changes in special police uniforms and 27 authority, a reorganization and evaluation of this service along 28 with equipment evaluation and user equipment recall. 29 30 The Richmond Police Department will continue to patrol the park area 31 as they have in the past. 32 33 The above's name was inadvertently left off of the request previously 34 submitted to the Board. 35 36 /s/ Joseph A. Nimitz 37 Chief of Police 38 39 Mr. Brown inquired of Chief Nimitz regarding patroling of Greenwood 40 Apartments. Chief Nimitz assured Mr. Brown the City Police would continue 41 to assist the Greenwood Apartments. 42 43 Ms. Silberstein moved to revoke the police powers of Al Carey and Michael 44 Davis, seconded by Mr. Brown and on unanimous voice vote the motion was 45 carried. 46 47. INTRODUCTION OF GUESTS 48 49 The attending Department Heads introduced the Boy Scout that had been 50 assigned to be Acting Department Head in their respective office for 51 that day. 52 53 RICHMOND POWER & LIGHT 54 55 Mr. Robert Hankosky, Distribution Engineer for Richmond Power & Light, 56 presented the Board a request to continue the project of replacing mercury 57 bulbs in street lights with sodium vapor bulbs. This request concerns 58 the area on North and South 5th Street from U.S. 40 to Sheridan Street. 59 The conversion will save the City 97.66 in costs per month. The project 60 will take approximately two (2) weeks. 61 62 Mr. Hankosky asked the Board for blanket approval to complete the 63 conversion within the City. This will save time for both parties. Ms. 64 Maness requested Mr. Hankosky to present the Board with a total project 65 for their approval and to keep them posted on the progress. sf BOARD OF WORKS MINUTES CONT'D February 9, 1984 Page 3 1 Ms. Silberstein moved to allow Richmond Power & Light to continue the 2 conversion of mercury bulbs to sodium vapor bulbs as presented in the 3 current request, seconded by Mr. Brown and on unanimous voice vote the 4 motion was carried. 111 6 REQUEST OF H & R BLOCK 7 8 Mr. James Harmon of H&R Block presented a request to the Board regarding the 9 temporary removal of No Parking signs in front of their business on West 10 Main Street. He commented that February and March are very busy and his 11 customers are having a hard time parking and some are being ticketed. 12 13 Capt. Wogoman commented that West Main Street between the hours of 3:00 P.M. 14 and 6:00 P.M. is very heavily traveled and it takes only one vehicle making 15 a left hand turn to back traffic up. Capt. Wogoman stated that this would 16 be setting a precedent for other businesses with the same problem and he 17 requested the Board to deny the request. 18 19 Ralph Willis suggested to Mr. Harmon there may be other ways of correcting 20 his parking problem and he is willing to work with him to find another 21 solution. 22 23 Ms. Silberstein commented that she agreed it was not wise to make this kind 24 of exception for on street parking on heavily traveled routes within the 25 City and moved to deny this request, seconded by Mr. Brown and on unanimous 26 voice vote the motion was denied. 27 28 APPROVAL OF CLAIMS FOR PAYMENT 29 30 Mr. Brown moved to approve claims in the amount of $38,949.45 for payment, 31 seconded by Mr. Silberstein and on unanimous voice vote the motion was 32 carried. 33 34 PUBLIC COMMENT 35 36 None 37 38 COMMENT FROM DEPARTMENT HEADS 39 40 Ralph Willis, Acting Sanitary Superintendent, announced that the trash pick- 41 up scheduled for Monday, February 20, 1984 will be picked up on Tuesday, 42 February 21, 1984 with the regular Tuesday route. This will be done to 43 compensate for the Holiday on the 20th and the Sanitary District will 44 continue to pick up missed routes due to Holidays on the next working day. 45 46 ADJOURNMENT 47 48 There being no further business, on a motion duly made, seconded and passed 49 the meeting was adjourned. 50 51 Cathy Maness 52 President 53 54 55 ATTEST: Mary Merchanthouse 56 Clerk of the Board 57 58 59 60 61: 62 63 64 65