07/30/1951 Board of Public Works Minutes

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311 • 40 • • SPECIAL MEETING July 2 , 19 A Special Meeting of the Board of Public Works w4s called on Tuesday, July 24, 1951, at 2:00 p.m. All members were present. The meeting was called for the purpose of signing contracts between the City of South Bend by and through its Board of Public Works and Safety and Mancini & Ventrella for the construction of the Hydraulic &LaSalle Avenues Sanitary and Storm Sewers. There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned at 3:30 p.m. VA July 30, 1951 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held Monday, July the meeting were 30, 1951 at read and ap- 9:30 a.m. All members proved. Claims of the were present. following suppliers Minutes in of previous the amount of $1,911.69 were approved and ordered paid: Andrysiak, R. S. 23.60 Casimer Super Market 146.25 9.08 Huntington Laboratories, Inc. 108.85 Central Etipment Co. 61.80 Harwich Iron Company 6.50 112.60 Dow Corning Corp. Inglewood Electrical Supply 91.50 Indiana Bell Telephone Indiana Bell Telephone Co. Co. 12.79 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 9.19 12.44 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 10.80 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 6.50 McComb Battery Co. 15.15 6.25 Ivankovics, S. G. Kuert Concrete, Inc. 23.50 Record, The Record, The 9.07 Meyer & Son, Inc., G. E. 38.32 120.07 South Bend Tribune 5.89 10.78 Republic Steel & Tool Republic Steel & Tool 136.68 Weaver Co., Inc., G. E. West Side Hardware 126.60 Seneca Petroleum Co. 101.50 86.21 West Side Hardware 94.75 Smogor Lumber Co. Smogor Lumber Co. 64.23 STREET & TRAFFIC: Burke Elctric, ift. I. 97.50 119.10 PARKING METER: Indiana Bell Telephone Co, 9.19 Burke Electric, Wm. I. Casimer Super Market 195.00 Vennet, Maurice C. 40.00 TRAFFIC ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT: Ernest Miller, Traffic Engineer, was present and matters; ;pertaining to his department were discussed. Mr. Frederick Elbel appeared before the Board to present a request for a traffic !signal at Woodlawn and Portage Avenues. Mr. Miller: discussed this request to some length;' land the Board informed Mr. Elbel that a study would be made of the situation, but a traf-I ,fic signal would probably not be installed this year. • {i Mr. Stephen Lebiedzinski appeared before the Board representing theg residents on �Kaley Street and requested that sign be placed on Kale Street rohibitin trucks. The ilBoard directed Mr. Miller to install said signs. • 0 Mr. Knoop, representing Mercury Motors, appeared before the Board to discuss.the use of Louise Street by the truck -:trailers operated by his company. Mr. Knoop informed the Board that they were using Louise Street because North Side Boulevard was blocked for the installation of the Intercepting Sewer System and as soon as North Side Boulevard is opened,for traffic, they will again use that as an exit from their property. (ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT: Contractorts Bonds were approved and ordered filed for George S. jCressy; Louis R. Demeter; Harold Hansen; D. E. Hodges; Harry G. Mills; S-L-A-B Construc- Ition Company, Inc.; and Al Tomaszewski & Sons. Cosette Benbow appeared before the Board to request permission to install a canopy !from the driveway of 216 South Lafayette Boulevard, approximately 14 feet across the side, walk to the curb. This was to be a permanent canopy. Permission was denied. The Board approved plans for the construction of a permanent type canopy extending 2 feet from the building on the northeast corner of South Michigan and Dayton Streets jfor the Taylor Construction Company.