04/05/65 Board of Public Works Minutes

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April 5, 1965 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Safety was held on Monday, Aprl 5, 1965 at 10:00 A.M. All members irrere present. Minutes of the last regular meeting were read and approved. Vouchers were approved and ordered paid to the various suppliers. APP ,ES • POLICE DEPAR ENT MARKMT1, STR ZEti'dSKi BUKOVVSKI Messrs. Joseph Markovich, Richard R. Strozewski, Charles R. Mahank and Ralph L. Bukowski having made applicat-.on to the Board of Public Works Safety for appointment to the South Bend Police Department and these applicants having passed all necessal-j.mental and physical examinations and having, been accepted by the Pension Board and having been recommended by the Police Chief; said men are hereby appointed to the Police Depart- ment, effective April 5, 1965. SPECIAL PO IC CCH.11ISSION ELLI A Special Police Commission for Dennis J. Elli, employed by the American District Telegraph Co., Inc., was approved, pending receipt of Bond. SPECIAL POLICE BONDS Special Police Bonds for Allen E. Kester, Radio and Television Distributing Co., and Bud McGee, employed by Walter W. Jenezersrski, Private Investigator, Yvere approved and ordered placed on file. APPLICATIONS: POLICE DEPAR 1ENT The following applications for the ordered placed on file: Tommy Lee Norman Lippelt . Police Department were accepted and Fuchs, Donald E. Wrobel and Douglas APPO Nn ENT • FIRE 2EPARrA,1EN1 JOHN M. BECKER JR John Merland Becker, Jr., having heretofore filed his application with the Board of Public Safety for appointment on the South Bend Fire Department and he having been heretofore approved by the Board of Public Safety on the 10th day of August, 19641 subject to approval of his physical condition by the physician examiner for the South Bend Fire Department Pension Board and the Chief of the Fire Department having this date informed the Board that the applicant has passed such physical examinations on March 31, 1965, John Mlerland Becker, Jr. is hereby appointed to the Fire Department, effective April 1, 1965. REPORTS, PHYSICAL CONDITION OF FIREMEN VAN WIELE AND CUNNINGHP11 ( FIRE CHIEF Fire Chief McHenry submitted written reports to the Board concerning the physical e andition of Lt. Oscar Van Wiele and Fireman John E. Cunningham. Both of these men are ill and both are still under the care of physicnans. The 30 day sick leave allowed per year has also expired. Chief i.1cHenry requested a ruling on the disposition of these cases. After reviewing the -reports, the Board directed that the following memorandum be sent to the Fire Chief: Botch of the above -named firemen having exhausted their sick leave and being incapacitated for duty on the South Bend Fire Department, you have no choice other than to remove them from the payroll and either recommend that their physical examinations show them as disabled or carry them ex officio until such time as they are able to perform their duties on the Fire Department. 1 -I