02/20/61 Board of Public Works Minutes

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without specific permission of the City Engineer who will permit dumping of suitable material only, since this raceway will one day become a street. There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned at 11:00 A.M. Chair n test; Anth, lyl J. Sabo, Clerk February 27, 1961 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Safety was held on Monday, February 279 1961 at 10:00 A.M. All members were present. Minutes of the last previous meeting were read and approved. Vouchers were ordered paid to the various suppliers. AWARDING OF BID (FIRE DEPARTMENT SNORKEL) The Board, having examined the bid submitted by Pitman Manufacturing Company for a hydraulic aerial platform for the Fire Department and having found the specifications to be satisfactory, the bid of said Pitman Manufacturing Company is accepted and the secretary directed to so notify the manufacturer. The bid reads as follows: Pitman Manufacturing Co. P.O. Box 572 Granfview, Missouri 1 - Pitman Snorkel hydraulic aerial platform, chassis and eauipment all in accordance with your specifications $459338.39 Prices quoted are f.o.b. South Bend, Ind. Delivery - 180 to 200 calendar days. MCKINLEY HIGHWAY PARKING RESOLUTION (REMONSTRANCE) Comes now Robert M. Edwards of 628 Irvington Avenue and several other property owners in this area to protest a Resolution drawn up by the Board and forwarded to the State Highway Department, attention of the Engineer in LaPorte, Indiana, with reference to traffic ban on McKinley (U.S.20). Mr. Edwards submitted a letter setting forth the objections to such a traffic ban. Among the objections were: (a) such a ban would adversely effect the utilization of propetty owned by Mr. Edwards; (b) property owners along the proposed route were not informed prior to the adoption of said Resolution; (c) such a ban for all property owners, as proposed, results from one localized residential -commercial parking dispute; (d) adequate methods of enforcement exist to prevent truck parking without prohibiting all parking; (d) that more heavily traveled and hazardous state rmutes exist and are not under such a no parking ban.