03/05/1951 Board of Public Works Minutes

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239 March 5, 1951 .. A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works and Safety was held on Monday, March i51 1951 at 9:30 a.m. All members were present. Minutes of the previous meeting were Iread and approved. Salary claims in the amount of $22,709.56 were approved and ordered ;paid. Claims of the following suppliers in the amount of $22,145.42 were approved and jordered paid; Artcraft Printers 5,00 STREET & TRAFFIC: jBusiness Systems, Inc. 28.29 Business Systems, Inc. 7.50 jIndiana Bell Telephone Co. 10.15 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 11.74 !Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. 315.43 McCaffery Company 178.80 jIndiana & Michigan Electric Co. 163.80 McCaffery Company 136.17 jIndiana & Michigan Electric Co. 1.12 Schillings 7.5o ;Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. 10,441.06 PARKING METER: Michigna Plate ,& Glass Co. 32.63 Dual Parking Meter Co. 38.60 ;Shelley, Edward, M.D. 50.00 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 8.89 'South BE d, Window Cleaning 53.50 Vennett, Maurice 50.00 lWest Side Hardware 13.45 SEWAGE DISPOSAL: Nolan, Thomas D., Contractor, 10,818.09 • `TRAFFIC ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT: Ernest Miller, ,Traffic Engineer, was present and matters �I pertaining to his Department were discussed. A copy of a letter written to the State Highway Commission.of Indiana relative to a 90 day test period on one-way street traffic in South Bend was presented to the Board and ordered filed. `TAXI°CAB STANDS: An application for a taxi cab stand at the northeast corner of Main and Washington Streets on the east side of the street at the first parking meter north of (Washington Street was referred by the Board to the traffic engineer for investigation and report. • iRAILROADS: The Board directed that a letter be sent to Grand Trunk Western Railroad Co., ;requesting information on our petition for a light to be erected at their grade crossing !at 35th Street in South Bend. A memo having been received from the Common Council containing a complaint of the conditions of the crossings at Sample and Ford Streets, and that switch engines were polluting the air at the West Ford Street crossing area, the Board directed that a lette be sent to Mr. G. A. Farabaugh, Attorney for the New York Central Railroad Company advis ing him of these complaints. ;BUSSES: A memo having been received from the Common Council relative to complaints • about bus service on the Corhy Street bus line, the Board directed that a letter be sent ;Ito the Northern Indiana Transit Inc., requesting an investigation of said complaints. ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT: A Contractorts Bond was approved and ordered filed for Eston Ball. A letter was received from the City Plan Commission indicating that a petition has been filed with the Common Council for annexation of a tract of land, approximately 70 acres fronting on McKinley Avenue immediately east of the Morris Park Country Club. Action on this petition has been held up pending reports from City Department Heads on estimating the effect such annexation would have on the work of several departments. . A letter was received from the City Plan Commission indicating that they approve the vacation of Cherry Tree Lane from the west line of Ironwood Drive to the west line of the ,Xorris Country Club addition. The City Engineering Department was directed to prepare ,a vacation resolution for same. A letter was received from the City Plan Commission indicating that they approved the petition for vacating sections of Marshall Street together with sections of alleys in Tuxedo Park, 1st and 2nd Additions. These vacations are recommended as petitioned for with the condition that easements be -provided for such utility lines as exist at the present time. VACATION RESOLUTION NO. 2659 jRESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA: That it is idesirable to vacate the following: MARSHALL STREET from the west line of 24th Street, west a distance of 166 feet AND The First East-West alley south of Washington Avenue from the East line of 24th Street, East a distance of 588 feet to the east line of Lots No. 25 in Tuxedo Park First Addition and 42 in Tuxedo Park.Second Addition of Lots in Jefferson Heights Addition AND � it