11/22/1943 Board of Public Works Minutes

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131 MEETING - NOVEMBER 22 ;, 1943 • • • • • A regular meeting of the°Bo-ard of Public Norks was held on Monday, November 22, 1943 at 9:00 A.M. 'Those present were Mr. Clyde E. Williams.. and Mr. Ralph Longfield. Mr. Nathan Levy was absent. Minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. Claims of the following suppliers were approved -and ordered paid: S. T. Berner Agency 5.00 Radio Distributing Co. 67.56 Business Systems 3.14 St. Joseph Agency 5.00 Otto Gratzol Signs 4,00 Schilling's Inc. 1.33 Kaylor-Holman Co. 21.05 Schilling's. Inc. 1.06 Interstate Paint & Glass Co. 12,42 C. A. Schrader Go. 3.90 Nor. Ind. Pub. Ser. :Go. 1.71 Studebaker Corp. 77.00 McClave Printing Co. 13.25 Studebaker Corp. 1.06 Ohio Oil Co. 16.66 Studebaker Corp. 1.06 Ghio Oil Co. 651.76 Studebaker Corp. 6.26 The following claims out of the Special 71.P.1%. Fund or the Interceptor Sewer Fund were approved and ordered paid: Grand Tunk Western R.,H. Co. 2.92 STREET DEPARTMENT: Mr. Anthony Zmudzinski, Street Cormissioner,was present and matters pertaining to his department were discussed. ENGINEERING DEPARTITENT: A contractor's bond in the amount of $1,000.00 was approved for South Bend Builders Inc., and ordered filed. Mr. "Nilliams presented carbon copies of letters sent to the Common Council rel- ative to meetings he has had with representatives of the Grand Trunk, New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads, and the discussion of various types of safety s-ignals for railroad crossings. Their construction crews are already at work repairing some of the crossings, and they plan the reconstruction of some crossings next spring. These letters were ordered filed. A petition was received asking for a local sewer on Duey Street from South Bend Avenue South to Ho%vard .Street. This was referred to the Engineering department for investigation and report. Upon being advised that the Federal grant of $17,250.00 was apportioned into various accounts for the execution of the Project, and that p1,400.00 was set up in a miscellaneous account that would not be used, and that the construction account of $14,600.00 was insufficient to meet the entire construction cost of the Governments portion of the contract, the following motion_ was made, seconded and unanimously carried: RESOLVED: That the Federal Norks Agency be requested to transfer the $1,400, in the miscellaneous account of the Federal Grant, Indiana 12-137 to the construction account. CEMETERY DEPARTMENT: Mr. Stanley Leszczynski, Sexton, was present and matters pertain- ing -to his department were discussed. There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourne at 10 :00 A.1.1. ATT Clerk MEETING - NO'VEMBER 29, 1943 A regular meeting of the Board -of Public rIlorks was held on .Monday, November 29, 1943 at 9:00 A.I,!. Those present were Mr. Clyde E. Williams, and Mr. Nathan Levy, Iylr. Longfield being absent. Minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. Salary claims in the amount of 09,187.27 were approved and ordered paid. Claims of the following suppliers in the amount of $556.79 :here approved and ordered paid: Indiana Bell Tel. Co. • Indiana Bell Tel. Co. Ind. & Mich. Electric Co. Interstate Glass & Paint Co. McCaffery Co. Office Supply & Equipment Building Department (Trans.) C. F. Balka (Trans.) 0 72.00 Roytal Type�rriter Co. w 10.50 -150.92 0. J. Shoemaker 1.02 36.96 0. J. Shoemaker 69.99 8.17 O. J. Shoemaker 8.15 3.69 South Bend Supp17r Co. 6.36 16.60 Stevens Cil Co. 51.70 87.50 Nestern Union`Tel. Co. .71 12.50 Ernest Miller (Trans.) 20.00