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

Case Date:

8/5/2020

#172549 Query the status of the repair to the hole at the Hunter Foot path in the Eastside Neighborhood. The hole is getting bigger and foot and bike traffic will pick up when IU starts and somebody will fall in it and break their leg.

Case Date:

8/5/2020

Case Date:

8/5/2020

Trash overflowing onto ground from dumpsters on the north and west side of complex.

Case Date:

8/5/2020

There are two piles of trash that were dumped illegally in the alley between Washington, Walnut, Dodds, and Dixie. One pile is in the middle of the alley obstructing traffic (closer to Dixie), and the other pile is closer to Dodds.

Case Date:

8/5/2020

There is a dumpster in the alley behind Indiana Auto Sales (not sure if it is residential or commerical) that is not up to code for a business in Bloomington (no concrete slap, and no surrounding fence / wall).

Case Date:

8/5/2020

Parcel of land to the EAST of 1002 W Pinehurst is overgrown and is part of Southern Pine Common Area. Mr. Barnett would like to mow it and keep it up BUT would like someone to do the first mowing since it is overgrown. Parcel taxid:015-14841-00 State Parcel ID:53-08-08-305-079.000-009 Owner: Southern Pines LLC Neighborhood code: 53009119-09

Case Date:

8/5/2020

Property has weeds and foliage that have not been cut for over 3 months and are growing onto Mr. Shields' mailbox. He has reported this before and is concerned that nothing has been done, especially now that his mail carrier is complaining about the growth on the mailbox. Thanks for your help.

Case Date:

8/5/2020

A bike is very much needed in front of or near The Book Corner. There’s nothing available on this end of the block forcing people to lock to streets signs.

Case Date:

8/5/2020