06/07/1948 Board of Public Works Minutes

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379 n U r� U 0 The City PlanCommission indicated by letter that they approve the vacation of two sections of alley in Oakside 3rd Addition. The.City Engineer was directed to prepare a vacation resolution for same. The City Plan Commission indicated by letter that they approve the vacation of the section of alley running West from North Blmer Street next North of Elwood Avenue and between -lots 65 and lots 4, 5, and 6 in Huey Heights Addition and the City Engineer was directed to prepare a vacation resolution for same. The City Plan Commission indicated by letter that the approve the vacation of a j portion of an alley in Walnut 4th Addition and the City Engineer was.directed to prepare;, a vacation resolution for same. The Board approved the grade on Kentucky Street from Sample Street to Ford Street and on Revere Place from East of Kentucky to 365.87 feet Southeast of Kentucky Street. The Board approved the grade on Dunham Street from the east side of an alley West of Dundee Street to the west side of the alley East of Lake Street. STREET DEPARTMENT: Mr. Melton Brannan, Street Commissioner, was present and matters Pertaining to his department were discussed. Mr. H. L. Underwood and Mr. Jack Oehmke came before the Board to ask permission to decorate the down town streets for the Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention. The Board approved their request with the stipulation that they file an indemnity bond with the city. CEMETERY DEPARTMENT: Mr. Stanley Leszuzynski, Sexton, was present and matters pertain- ing to his department were discussed. i There being no further business to cone before the Board, the meeting was adjournedli at 10:00 A.M. ATTEST: C�erk RKS i June 14, 1948 . A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Monday, June A.M. 14, 1948 at 9:30 Mr. Troeger was absent. Minutesof the last meeting were read and approved.;; Claims of the following suppliers in the amount of $17347.24 were approved and ordered i paid: j The Bobbs-Merrill. Company $ 15.00 Royal Typewriter Company 4.53 Business Systems 1.37 0. J. Shoemaker 6.80 Champion Corporation 108.90 Simon Brothers 12.00 Richard Duck 28.10 South Bend Sanitary Wipers 31.75 Ind. & Mich. Elec. Co. 12.24 West Side Hardware Co. 59.90 Ind. & Mich. Elec. Co. 2.40 Wheeler & Hamilton 7.00 Ind. & Mich. Elec. Co. 297.70 West Side Hardware Co. 5.90 • ! C. E. Lee Company .99 Williams the Florist 12.00 Peltz-Kaufer Company 8.00 Scherman-Schaus-Freeman Co. 25.18 Catherine H. Haberle 7.65 Scherman-SchausOFreeman Co. 14.33 i Indiana Bell Telephone 6.75 H. H. Slominski, M.D. 56.00 Indiana Hardware Co. 4.40 Smogor Lumber Co. 15.98 The McCaffery Co. 26.60 Smogor Lumber Co. 9.43 ;The McCaffery Co. 84.60 South Bend Sand & Gravel 203.39 Miami Hardware Co. 27.48 The Tropical Paint Co. 58.26 E. R. Newland Company 17.15 West Side Hardware Co. 9.75 it Retco Alloy Company 159.05 Wire & Disc Wheel Co. 6.66 ;'TAXI -CABS: A taxi -cab stand in the three hundred block on South Michigan Street allocates • ;Ito the Indiana Cab Company, has been vacated and a two cab stand was granted to them ';i in the one hundred block of We -stern Avenue. TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT: Mr. Ernest Miller, Traffic Engineer, was present and matters per- taining to his department were discussed. Mr. Miller was asked to obtain the cooperation of the Park Department in cutting j down shrubs and trimming trees where they obstruct the view at intersections. A list !of such intersections having been made by police officers, the said list was given to Mr. Miller for investigation. ''