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<br />September 24, 1945
<br />'! A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Monday, September 24, 19i�
<br />at 9:00 A.M. All memebers were present. Minutes of the last meeting were read and
<br />i approved. Salary claims in the amount of $8.350.58 were approved and ordered paid. Claims
<br />II of the following suppliers in the amount of 43, 693.08 were approved and ordered paid
<br />!i Business Systems 11.07 E. R. Newland Company 25.37 H�
<br />i Indiana Bell Telephone 93.94 The Ohio Oil Company 27.18
<br />J. C. Lauber Co.
<br />4.95
<br />Lloyd Insurance Company
<br />5.00
<br />Building Dept. (Trans.(
<br />105.00
<br />E. Miller (Trans.)
<br />20,00
<br />Hoffman Bros.
<br />99.65
<br />Hoffman Bros.
<br />68.35
<br />Indiana Bell Telephone
<br />7.50
<br />Ind. & Mich. Elec. Co.,
<br />1.00
<br />K-Hill Signal Co.
<br />128.25
<br />Schilling's Inc.
<br />1.80
<br />Schilling's Inca
<br />1.34
<br />C. Balka (Trans.)
<br />12.50
<br />River Park Lumber Company
<br />6.47
<br />Standard Gil Company
<br />430.83
<br />Standard Oil Company
<br />12716.25
<br />Standard Oil Company
<br />865.10
<br />Studebaker Corp.
<br />56.20
<br />Studebaker Corp.
<br />5.33
<br />TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT: Mr, Ernest Miller, Traffic Engineer, was present and matters per-
<br />taining to his department were discussed.
<br />ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT: A Contractor's bond in the amount of $1,000.00 was approved
<br />for William H. Ortman and was ordered filed.
<br />An application for a parking lot at 1001 South Michigan Street was received and
<br />approved by the Board.
<br />Thp Board approved the vacation of the first alley North of Randolph Street from
<br />Marine Street to the East line of the alley West of Marine Street, but advertising
<br />the resolution was held up pending the receipt of the sum of money necessary to pay
<br />for the advertising.
<br />STREET DEPARTMENT: Mr. Casimer Balka, Street Commissioner, was present and matters
<br />pertaining to his department were discussed.
<br />.Mr. Balka presented the following amounts of money to the Board: $15.00 for flush-
<br />ing a house tap and $5,00 for the equipment; $500.00 for the sale of a Sullivan Air Com-
<br />pressor #60; $6.00 for rental of a roller and $175,00 for rental of the sewer machine.
<br />CEMETERY DEPARTMENT: Mr. Stanley Leszczynski, Sexton, was present and matters pertain-
<br />ing to his department were discussed.
<br />There being no further business to come before the Board the meeting was adjourned
<br />at 10:00 A.M.
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<br />SPECIAL MEETING
<br />A special meeting of the Board of Public Works and Safety was held on Saturday,
<br />September 29, 1945 at 9:30 A.M.. All members were present.
<br />The Board of Public Works and Safety met for consideration of problems involveed
<br />in connection with the employment of engineers to prepare preliminary reports, final
<br />plans and specifications, and to supervise the construction of a sewage treatment sys-
<br />tem, together with necessary appurtenances, for the city. The members indicated that
<br />they were familiar with a unanimous report concerning the employement of engineering
<br />services for this project and made by a special non -partisan committee appointed to
<br />consider municipal problems and consisting of the following: Jesse I. Pavey, Vice -
<br />President, South Bend Lumber Company; Harold Vance, Chairman of the Board of the Stude-
<br />baker Corporation; Clyde Stephenson, President, St. Joseph Industrial Union Council;
<br />A. E. Klinger, Presidents South Bend Supply Company, Chairman of South Bendts Civic
<br />Economic Committee; Granville Keller, Vice -President, Whitcomb and Keller; M. P. Ferguso
<br />Vice -President, Bendix Products Division; E. M. Morris, Presdent, Associates Investment
<br />Company; Valentine Gadacz, Secretary -Treasurer, Sobieski Federal Savings Loan Associatio
<br />M. A. Zahoran, Funeral Director, President Southwest Property Gwnerts Association; and
<br />Henry Lowenstine, Manager, Greene's Inca
<br />The members of the Board then indicated that they had received on September- 26, 1945 a
<br />letter from Mayor Dempsey enclosing a joint bid made by Charles 1�7. Cole & Son and
<br />William S. Moore, Engineers, for such engineering work. The members then indicated
<br />that they had received, under date of September 25, 1945, a memorandum addressed to the
<br />Board and signed by the City Clerk indicating that the Common Council had moved that a
<br />certain ordinance to transfer Fifteen Thousand ($15,000.00) Dollars from budgetary
<br />Account No. B 262 to the General Fund had been held in "council in order to give local
<br />engineering firms an opportunity to submit plans and specifications on the sewage dis-
<br />posal system. n
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