06/14/1948 Board of Public Works Minutes

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379 The City Play Commission 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. • �I The City Plan Commission indicated by letter that the approve the vacation of a portion of an alley in Walnut 4th Addition and the City Engineer was.directed to prepare a vacation resolution for same. i 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 v'lest 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 j� Board approved their request with the stipulation that they file an indemnity bond with the city. .I 'I CEMETERY DEPARTMENT: Mr. Stanley Leszuzynski, 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 adjourned at 10:00 A.M. 1 ATTEST: -o C�erk • • • 0 June 14, 1948 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Monday, June 14, 1948 at 9:30 A.M, 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 paid: l The Bobbs-Merrill Company Ii Business Systems Champion Corporation Richard Duck Ind. & T-'ich. Elec. Co. j Ind. & Mich. Elec. Co. Ind. & Mich. Elec. Co. C. E. Lee Company Peltz-Kaufer Company Catherine H. Haberle I Indiana Bell Telephone j Indiana Hardware Co. The McCaffery Co. The McCaffery Co. Miami Hardware Co. h E. R. Newland Company j!Retco Alloy Company 15.00 Royal Typewriter Company 1.37 0. J. Shoemaker 108.90 Simon Brothers 28.10 South Bend Sanitary Wipers 12.24 West Side Hardware Co. 2.40 Wheeler & Hamilton 297.70 West Side Hardware Co. .99 Williams the Florist 8.00 Scherman-Schaus-Freeman Co. 7.65 Scherman-SchausOFreeman Co. 6.75 H. H. Slominski, M.D. 4.40 Smogor Lumber Co. 26.60 Smogor Lumber Co. 84.60 South Bend Sand & Gravel 27.48 The Tropical Paint Co. 17.15 West Side Hardware Co. 159.05 Wire & Disc vgheel Co. '+.53 6.80 ,12.00 31.75 59.90 7.00 5.90 12.00 2 5.18 14.33 56.00 15.98 9.43 203.39 526 9.75 6.66 TAXI -CABS: A taxi -cab stand in the three hundred block on South Michigan Street alloca to the Indiana Cab Company, has been vacated and a two cab stand was granted to them in the one hundred block of 1,1estern 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 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.