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The Board of Public Safety held its 19th scheduled meeting of 2026 on October 14, 2026 at 1:03 p.m. The meeting included public comment, ratification of dumpster permits, departmental reports from police, fire, building commission, and city engineering, approval of special event permits, and consent for multiple road closures. All votes were unanimous.
Police Department – Vehicle Surplus
Fire Department – Donation, Surplus, Change Orders
Building Commission – Demolition Contracts (Kim Josey absent)
City Engineering – Traffic and Parking (Jennifer Blankenship)
Special Event Permits (read by Curtis, Sgt. Winsett absent)
Consent – Road Closures (all approved individually)
Other Items
All motions carried unanimously. The next regular meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, October 28, 2026 at 1:00 p.m.
Welcome to the City of Evans Hill Board of Public Safety meeting. This is the 19th scheduled meeting of the year. And before we get into the agenda, let's stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, we have uh on the agenda to start with business with the representative. And we have someone here who would like to speak to the board if you want to come forward, state your name and your address. And hi. Uh my name is Carl Arnheider. I'm with the Arcademy at 22 Northwest Sixth Street, right a block away. Thanks for putting me on today. Um I like to ask about notifications when roads are closed. For years now, various neighbors uh have managed to close Northwest Sixth Street, and I have no notification about it. We'll come in and see it's closed off, or CRG properties will close down Sycamore for months, but we only find out after the barricades are up and we're we're you know we've lost a route of traffic. Last weekend, uh Tiki on Maine had closed it for an event. They closed the intersection uh at 6th in Maine, the entire thing, that's what our stage was, put up barricades. I come in, no notice, my block is closed, then my block is full of storage equipment. The Ford Center will do the same with the bull riders. I'm all for road street, I understand the need for street closures. It's not me saying this can't happen, but I I just like some advanced notice or something in the protocols where uh impacted businesses are notified of it because it's it's difficult enough. You know, the CRG property, the impact from that that shut the vault on Maine is what it now is, but before when it was just a uh construction patch there. Um, the impact is people stop walking and and then the businesses suffer. Um Milano's closed, the Pete's place on the corner of Maine, they've had enough. They just couldn't hold out. The bookstore moved right next door, they closed too. Um so there is a solid impact for these road closures, which I know you all understand that that's it. But if there's any way to get advanced notice so that we can plan, notify customers, tell them about the alternate routes, know how long it's happening. That'd be great. Um because uh I um I uh uh you know, that event last week, I I just about staged a counter event when I found out my block was closed, but no notification. What's the name of your business? It's our Academy. Oh, okay. Yep. And and I can speak to your your uh concern because I answered onto your uh Instagram post that you had a right to to be upset that no one had informed you, uh which we thought uh Tiki would do because normally, at least from our understanding, they do a pretty good job of communicating to their con people who have had concerns. Having said that, it is in the application. It says you must notify affected businesses and residents of approved street closures. So uh it is the responsibility of the applicant to take those measures and do that. What we can do is just be a little bit more uh correct.