03/17/1947 Board of Public Works Minutes

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d ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT: A Contractorfs Bond in the amount of $,000.00 was approved andordered filed.for.11. Kaplan Company,. 2205 ',"lest Roosevelt Road, Chicago, Illinois STREET DEPARTMENT: Mr. Casimer Balka, Street Commissioner, was present and matters pertaining Uo rils department were discussed. C3,1ETERY DEPARTVIENT: Mr. Stanley Leszczynski, Sexton, waspresent and matters per- taining to --his aepaiFtnent were discussed. There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned at 11:00 A.14. 177 C erg March 17, 1947 I� j� A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Monday, MG arch 17, 1947 at 8:30 A.M, All members.were present. Minutes of the last meeting were it read and approved. Claims of the following suppliers in the amount of $8,869.87 j were approved and ordered paid: The Bearings Service Co. $ 2.21 National Mill Supply Co. $ 27.16 Business Systems 2.65 Rivard Products Co. 40.52 j Englewood Elec. Supply Co. 2.60 Schilling's Inc. �.Un L. 0. Gates Ghev. Corp. 2.03 C. A. Schrader 8.80 The Gibson Company 16;41 C. A. Schrader 9,63 Catherine Haberle 2.00 Singer General Tire Co. 74,80 Hoffman Brothers 29.82 Standard Automotive Supply 5,87 1 Hoffman Brothers 57.86 Standard Automotive Supply 10.56 Hurwich Iron'Co. 44.48 Harold A. 's,leber 41.50 Business.Systems 5.20 Indiana & Michigan Elec. 422.20 Business ystmes 4.46 Nor, Ind. Pub1 Ser. Co. 2.17 lCity Water Works 25.10 South Bend Tribune 6.12 Indiana Bell Telephone 6.19 The Todd Company 12.50 �lInd. & Mich. Elec. Co. 7,250.41 Kenneth J. Tubbs 105.16 Ind. & Mich. Elec. Co. 207.33 Kenneth J. Tubbs 60.83 Ind. & Mich. Elec. Co. 131,32 ';lest Side Hardware Co. 189.00 Vtest Side Hardware Co. 58.60 • ( TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT: Mr. Ernest Miller, Traffic Engineer, was present and matters 1 per alnin.g o. zis epartment were discussed. I� The Board accepted the bid of the Scherman-Schaus-Freeman Company for one i`one-half ton Studebaker Pickup truck for the Traffic Department, II EITGINEERING DEPARi1VENT: A Contractors Bond was approved and ordered filed for Es on Baii. An Excavation bond was approved and ordered filed for 1011alter J. Braunsdorf and son. I� Contract Number 5 was submit ted by Consoer, Townsend and Associates. These ! plans were to cover the interceptor sewer from the intersection of OaktTb:od:78oUle-4w jl v-ard aird-,11arth ..Shore _:_Drive to the Plant Site. Paul M. Butler and Leo Rieder -representing property owners and businessmen in the vicinity of East Washington Street came before the �oard to. remonstrate agains the building of a ready mixed concrete plant on East-Iflashington Street and Hiles Avenue. They also remonstrated against the granting of a permit to construct an `overhead conveyor over East 7 ashington Street from one part of the plant to another. • Vacation Resolution No. 2554 This being the date set, hearing was had on the assessment roll showing the r ( award of damages and the assessment of benefits in the matter of Vacation the alley South of Ewing Avenue from I.,Iichigan Street vilest to the first alley West of Michigan Street- under Vacation Resolution No. 2554. I �1 In the above named assessment roll, no remonstrators appeared and no written 'i remons-t�rances were filed, the Clerk of the Board submitted proofs of publication of notices and same were found sufficient, and the Board, therefore, finds that the (! several lots and parcels of land have been benefited and damaged in the amounts shown on said roll. The Board, therefore, decides to take final action on said • 1 assessment roll and declares same in all things ratified, confirmed and approved i;without modification and the Droceedings closed, and the alley vacgted upon receipt ii of the amount of benefit assessments fr _ various property owners so benefitted jI and all proceedings had with referenced alley vacation are hereby sustained.