At the end of
business on Monday, Chesterton Street Commissioner John Schnadenberg figured
his leaf crews were about half a day behind schedule, in what’s likely to be
the “heaviest week” so far of the season.
So Schnadenberg
reported to the Town Council at its meeting later in the day.
His crews are
working 10-hour days and, if the rain forecast for Thursday comes to pass,
they’ll work on Saturday too, to stay on schedule.
Chestnut Hills Sign
In other business,
Schnadenberg took a minute to comment on the sign at the entrance to the
Chestnut Hills subdivision off South Fifth Street. Chestnut Hills, he noted,
is one of the older subdivisions in town and the sign has seen better days.
And perhaps sooner rather than later the sign will have to be repaired or
simply removed.
But, as
Schnadenberg emphasized, “the sign is not town infrastructure,” it wasn’t
erected by the town and it’s not the town’s to maintain. On the contrary,
the Chestnut Hills homeowners association put up the sign years ago and
still has responsibility for it--if, that is, the homeowners association
still exists.
Schnadenberg said
that he will endeavor to ascertain whether the subdivision’s HOA is active
or has long since gone dormant.
Sixth Street
Sewer Repair
Meanwhile, Town
Engineer Mark O’Dell reported that Grimmer Construction Inc. was retained
last week on an emergency business to replace a failed sanitary sewer line
on Sixth Street.
Approximately 140
feet of line south of Jefferson Ave. were replaced.
O’Dell added that
the road cut has been patched but that this stretch of Sixth Street will not
be re-paved this year, as Indiana-American Water Company is scheduled to
excavate it all over again in 2016 as part of a water-line project.
Snow Ban
At Schnadenberg’s
request, members voted unanimously to put this winter’s parking “snow ban”
into effect, at 12:01 a.m. Friday, Nov. 13.
Under the snow ban,
motorists are prohibited from parking on the following roadways in the
Downtown between 12 and 8 a.m. during or after snow falls of two inches or
more:
* South Calumet
Road from Porter Ave. to the Norfolk Southern railroad grade-crossing.
* Broadway from
South Calumet Road to Sixth Street.
* Second and Third
streets from Broadway to West Indiana Ave.
The parking ban is
intended to make snow-plowing easier and more effective.
“We don’t want to
pay to pave it this year and have it all ripped up next year,” O’Dell said.
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