05/23/1949 Board of Public Works Minutes

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507 May 23, 191+9 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Monday, May 23, 1949 at 9:00 A. M. All members were present. Minutes of the last meeting were read and approve Claims of the following suppliers in the amount of $49146.86 were read and ordered paid:, City Water Works 15.64 Office Engineers 2.50 , City Water Works 68.22 Overhead Door Co 13.75 Fiwek Brothers 6.00 South Bend Tribune 5.65 • Fiwek Brothers 24.50 South Bend Tribune 5.18 j Indiana Bell Telephone Co 110.22 Edward S. Shelly, MD 75.00 i Century Tool & Metal Co 15900 Mittler Supply Co 12.50 Coffield Supply Co 2:1+5 National Mill Supply Co 32.04 Continental Oil Co 11705.80 National Mill Supply Co 17.10 1� Continental Oil Co 147.90 National Mill Supply Co 19.50 ,Englewood Electric Co 275.80 Ridge Company 15.56 Englewood Electric Co 120.93 Jacob Rose 1+3.01+ (Englewood Electric Co 275.80 C. A. Schrader Welding Co 177.18 lIndiana Bell Telephone Co 6.75 0. J. Shoemaker 1.85 Indiana Bell Telephone Co 8.51 South Bend Electric Co 311+.50 lIndiana State Industries 197.95 South Bend Electric Co 190.00 • Lien Chemical Company 4.80 Tropical Paint & Oil Co 64.89 �McCaffery Co 8.12 Weisberger Brothers 5.12 Ben Medow, Inc 4.09 �Parkim Meter Department (City Water Works 2.27. Indiana Bell Telephone Co 6.75 �+ TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT:____Mr,-Ernest Miller, Traffic Engineer, was present and matters per - Raining to his department were discussed. The Traffic Engineer requested permission to install four way stop signs on an ex- • 1permintal babis at the following street intersections: Ewing and Main Streets, Ewing and! Fellows Street; Ewing and Miami Streets and Ewing and Twykenham Streets. The Board ap- II proved the installations and if they prove satisfactory they will be retained. RAILROADS'. The board directed that a letter be sent to W. L. Dayton, Signal Engineer, of the j Grand Trunk Western Rail Road instructing the Rail Raod that pursuant to the unanimous lagreement of the Board the Grand Trunk Western Railroad is asked to erect a short arm j automatic gate at the grade crossing at Ironwood Drive. ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT l • An Excavation Bond in the amount of $2,000.00 was approved and ordered filed for JJ, A. Currie. Contractor's Bond in the amount of $1,000.00 was approved and ordered filed for Herron Murray, Francis Snider, K & K. Construction Company, John F. Brooks and George, Solomon, and Howard D. Taylor. A petition to vacate and alley west of Vernon Street was filed by the Whitcomb and Keller Company, Inc., was referred to the City Plan Commission for investigation and report, IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION No. 2%5, 191+9 For the improvement of Stanfield Street under Improvement Resolution No. 2585, 1949, dopted April 25, 1949, from the South line of Howard Street to the North line of Corby treet by draining, grading and paving the roadway with a Class C Pavement, Types One (1) to Five (5) inclusive. After hearing all persons interested who appeared and being fully advised in the remises, the Board decides that the benefits to the property liavle to be assessed for • said improvement are equal to the estimated cost of the same as reported by the City ,civil Engineer. Therefore Be It Resolved, By the Board of Public Workd and Safety of the City of South Bend, ndiana, that Improvement Resolution No. 2585, 1949, duly passed by this Board on April 51 191+9 for the above improvement,,.be and the -same is hereby in all things confirmed nd the improvement is hereby ordered to be made. R. S. Andrysiak F. K. Baer Frank J. Bruggner BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS & SAFETY it Freda G. Noble, Clerk of the Board