06/19/1944 Board of Public Works Minutes

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i_ S MEETING - JUNE 19, 1944 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works washeldon Monday, June 19, 1944 at 9:00 A.M. All members were present. Minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. There were no bills to -be approved. STREET DEPARTMENT: Mr. Anthony Zmudzinski, Street Commissioner., was present and matters pertaining to his department were discussed. TRARFIC DEPARTMENT: Mr. Ernest Miller, Street Traffic Engineer, was present and matter pertaining to his department were discussed. &EMETERY DEPARTMENT: Mr. Stanley Leszczynski, Sexton, was present and matters pertai to his department were discussed. There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjour at 10:00 A.M. ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT: A C©ntractorts Bond in the amount of $1,000.00 was approved forHarry Kemble.. This.was ordered filed. MEETING - JUNE 26, 1944 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Monday, June 26, 1944 at 9:00 A.M. All members were present. Minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. Salary claims in the amount of $8,989.99 were approved and ordered paid. Claims of the following suppliers in the amount of $434.59 were approved and ordered paid t American Railway Express $ .36 Building Dept. Trans. $ 87.50 Business Systems 44.06 Michigan Mushroom Co. 9.12 City rater Works 27.67 Nor. Ind. Pub. Ser. Zo. 1.48 D. Sherman Ellison Agency 5.00 The Ohio tail Co. 16,20 Goodyear Service 1.50 River Park Lumber Co. 5.88 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 140.43 G. J. Shoemaker 32.49 The M cCaffery Co. .51 South Bend Tribune 2.73 Charles Martindale 3.20 Charles Martindale 5e00 E. Miller , 20.00 C. F. Balka 20.00 Kaylor-Holman Co. 7.20 Ernest H. Miller 6.76 STREET DEPARTMENT: Mr, Anthont Zmudzinski, Street Commissioner, was present and matters pertaining to his department were discussed. Mr. Zmudzinski turned over to the Board, $2.00 which he received for cutting down weeds on a private lot. ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT: Contractorts bonds in the amount of $1,000.00 were approved for John C. Benjamin, . J.J. Zellner and Melvin Green, a Partnership and fEdwdrd -'Burton and an Excavators bond was approved for G. E. Frame, d.b.a. 0. E. Frame and Son. These were ordered filed. A petition was received from Agnes L. platers and George W. ;'haters, Sr., asking I' the Board to vacate that portion of LaMonte Terrace described as follows: Beginning at the nort_awest corner of Lot number Eight (8) of Fassnachtfs Chapin ;I Place .Addition to the City of South Bend: thence North five and five hundredths (5,05) feet; thence H'a.st twenty-seven and six tenths (27.6) feet; thence North seven tenths it )0.7) foot; thence East three and six tenths (3.6) feet; thence South seven tenths (0.7) foot; thence East twenty-two and eight tenths (22.8) feet; thence South five (5.0) feet.;•;; thence 'hest along the north side of said lot to the. place of beginning. The purpose of this petition is to clean the title to the property of the said Agnes Waters and George W. Waters, Sr., as the building on the said lot protrudes into the city street as much as.is described above. No action roast aken on the petition and it was ordered filed. A petition containing 24 signatures was received asking for an abatement of the smoke nuisance caused by the St. Joseph Hospital. This was turned over to the City Engineer for investigation and report. 0 .7 U • 0 s