By: Diane Benjamin

If you skip all the commercials before the Committee of the Whole meeting started, the festivities were slightly over an hour. If you like commercials there was a long list of shows coming to the BCPA and Arena.

The “experiment” Public Works has been doing to replace sidewalks and resurfacing presentation was given by Josh Hansen, Compensation and Benefits Manager.

Mose Rickey and Colleen Winterland from Public Works/Operations chimed in occasionally. No one explained why an HR guy was the presenter. This is part of the “continuous improvement” program started a few months ago.

Sidewalks are being fixed when other road or water main work is being done. Sidewalks were most of the presentation – see the slides for a recap.

The City has been renting a street repaving machine. It will probably help with all the short streets in town that need to be fixed. This machine also helps with filling potholes because it compresses the hot asphalt and eliminates employees manually scoping it.

It’s difficult to get bids for resurfacing a couple blocks on numerous streets. If City employees can get good at doing those themselves it’s a win for everyone. See the street rating map and note all the short RED roads: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/36eea74c6ede4cd08e7d6ec03ed14246

Josh Hansen presented numerous slides. Instead of listening, scroll through them for information. It starts are 20:10

The second presentation was brief. The new head of the Bloomington Housing Authority was there to introduce herself. Tasha Aje’Scott came to Bloomington from California. You can see her remarks around 1:04:00