Abandoned Vehicle
939 S High ST
- Case Date:
- 12/15/2020
Owner has made no attempt to dispose of fallen leaves, or any dead yard waste (limbs, flora, broken fence materials, tree logs). The leaves grow and spread fungus and disease. The trees lining the public street and sidewalk, have been affected by this fungus, and have disease and pests.
THe Bton leave collection program, cleaned up High Street, on 12/14/2020, and this property did not have leaves collected into a pile along the curb for collection.
6.06.020 ordinance violation
- Case Date:
- 12/15/2020
Owner permitting and allowing garbage and recyclable materials, to collect in yard waste scattered over the property.
6.06.020
- Case Date:
- 12/15/2020
Owner collected yard waste, conbustable waste, into large burn pile on their private property. The burn pile is added to each year, and is never disposed of. Violation of Bton Code 6.06.020
The collection of conbustable waste is used to spread and scatter along public side walk and private property lines.
- Case Date:
- 12/15/2020
Dead tree limbs, dead flora, conbustable waste, decaying wood logs, spread all over the property. Owner purposely piling conbustable waste along the property lines. Violates 6.06.020 Bton Code of Ordinances
Parks & Playgrounds
1422 S Winfield RD
- Case Date:
- 9/16/2020
I regularly walk through the east side of the Southeast Park. At the southern edge of the park near Arden and Montclair, a fairly massive branch has cracked on a tree in the backyard of a private home and ended up balancing on its narrow tip on park property. As long as the larger, upper part of the branch stays securely fastened to the neighbor's tree, it seems not to be an emergency, were a young person to decide to climb it and stress the crack, they could put themselves in danger and the city might be found liable. It seems to me that the city should trim the heavy branch so it has no chance to hurt anyone.
Biking & Walking
2656 E Windermere Woods DR
- Case Date:
- 8/18/2020
When heading east on Covenanter, the signal at College Mall does not recognize bikes. If a cyclist is attempting to cross and there are no cars ahead or behind them, they have to wait through multiple signals until a car comes to activate the sensor. Covenanter is part of a marked bikeway for the city, which makes this situation all the more frustrating.
- Case Date:
- 8/5/2020
Bloomington Sanitation Department,
At 3 AM of Wednesday, August 8, 2020 on the morning of trash pickup day at 1412 S. Winfield Rd., 47401, my wife was up watching a recorded news program when a crash was heard from the bottom of our driveway where the cans awaited pickup. The bang was followed by a loud dragging sound. She walked to the bottom of the drive and found the landscaping can in the recycling can were gone.
She woke me and we searched for the cans until we found them three doors south on the Boulevard of the Southwest corner of the Moores Pike roundabout.
At first I thought at 3 AM, it must've been a drunk. However, the more I thought about it, the more unlikely I thought it would be that a drunk would be able to retain the cans for 50 yards.
Retaining the cans brings me to the question which I thought worth sharing with the city. I cannot think of any way to carry the cans that far without damaging one's vehicle other than the way the city does it – hooking a lifter up under the bar built-into the can.
If a prankster is trying to develop a "trick-or-treat… Throw your garbage in the streets" system, the potential chaos it could create for the city sanitation system seems to me to be huge and I would recommend that the city proactively try to answer the following questions.
1.) Have any of the lifting mechanisms used by the city trucks ever disappeared?
2.) Since this system is presumably used throughout the country, can such a lifter be bought online?
3.) Are there any YouTube videos about how to make a lifter that someone could have been testing on Winfield Road?
4.) Has the company from which the city purchased the cans and lifters had experience with cans being fiddled with when they are sitting ducks beside the road the night before garbage pickup? If so, what did these other municipalities do about it?
I got my cans and my trash back in time to leave it out for pickup, but the next victim might not be so lucky.
Thanks for your attention,
Eric Mjolsnes
Street Lights
2520 E 2nd ST
- Case Date:
- 7/11/2020
The street lights in the 2600 block of East 2nd Street have been out for a couple of weeks AGAIN. Thank you.
Other
2207 E Covenanter DR
- Case Date:
- 7/10/2020
out walking tonight (7/10) I saw that there was a very large backyard graduation party taking place at 2207 E Covenanter in Bloomington, at a conservative estimate 50-60 people ranging from teenagers to senior citizens and not a single mask that I could see...playing tennis and generally socializing in a way that didn't seem particularly cautious
just thought you should know, because if there's an outbreak in town those are folks you're going to want to talk to
Drainage or Runoff
1432 S Winfield RD
- Case Date:
- 7/2/2020
Water flooding from main to street