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closed #185419

Parks & Playgrounds

Case Date:
9/5/2023

Homeless people of seminary park have stolen 4-5 shopping carts and have their crap in them. Please send police to deal with these people, issue tickets and return shopping carts to the local merchants. Thanks!

closed #185426

Traffic Signals

Case Date:
9/5/2023

Heading east or west on 2nd street/bloominfield rd. The intersection at Adams is really out of hand. East and west always has a red light which builds up traffic while adams north and south rarely has a single car pass. In fact this weekend there was traffic light induced traffic all the way backed up to the seminary square kroger. An abumlance was trying to pass and it could not pass. This needs to be fixed asap for public safety. In addition the light at patterson and 2nd heading east and west is always missed timed with the light at adams. When adams goes green heading east, patterson goes red. Please please help or at least respond via email and give a reason as to why these are so poorly timed.

closed #185430

Trails

Case Date:
9/6/2023

There is an overcup oak in the Goat Farm / Rogers Family Park which appears to have lobed oak galls attached all over. These contain larva of the oak gall wasp. I did not know if this is an environmental / safety concern for the park, but I wanted to bring it to your attention. The tree is one of the first planted, smaller trees, on the left side of the trail if you are walking from Sherwood Oaks Park. Thank you!

closed #185435

Parks & Playgrounds

Case Date:
9/6/2023

Previous report (185419) says the city returns “abandoned” shopping carts when found. The real issue is the homeless (seminary park) are using these shopping carts and nobody is confronting them about stealing these shopping carts from local merchants. Just today (9/6/23) I saw multiple “city workers” at seminary park while people there had shopping carts full of crap but nobody doing anything about the issue. These are not the property of these people just because they stole them. Merchants aren’t selling these shopping carts. These are obviously stolen and the people need held accountable and the shopping carts returned. Thanks!!!

closed #185444

Unsafe Buildings

Case Date:
9/6/2023

Nate and Brad please go in the tunnels and rescue the Dean of Students and Garrett Kirby from Miheal Karner. Thank you

closed #185445

Parking Permits

Case Date:
9/6/2023

East Amp Way folks in the new complex are using College Mall as a parking lot, instead of it being for customers of commerce. Is there a fix for this? People in residences should have parking onsite or not have a car before parking in a space intended for commercial use.

closed #185452

Graffiti

Case Date:
9/6/2023

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closed #185453

City Performance

Case Date:
9/6/2023

Are the articles and news reports true that another sports/outdoors outfitter is going into the old marsh on east side and will be selling firearms? Are there not limitations on this commerce type in the city? If there isn’t, why aren’t legislators working on this. Yes we are in Indiana, but there are also ways to legislate at a local municipality level. Citizens would like to see progress on these major issues.

closed #185456

Other

Case Date:
9/6/2023

Disheartened to see council members intentionally amend resolution to raise the base pay of the clerk. This goes against the whole idea of modernizing this archaic system and keeping up with the economy.

closed #185457

City Performance

Case Date:
9/6/2023

Tickets in uReport assigned to new mayors office contact (Nicholas) need reassigned and addressed in a timely manner. Reports are being left not responded to.