10/22/1951 Board of Public Works Minutes

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S` October 22, 1951 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Monday, October 22, 1951, at 9:30 a.m. All members were present. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Claims of the following suppliers in the amount of $7,490.89 were approved an ordered paid. - Business Systems, Inc. 21.40 Miller, Ernest H. 30.15 Haywood Publishing Co. 17.00 Northern Indiana Who. Groc. 23.50 • Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 10.31 Romy-Hammes Co. 19.50 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 119.42 Scherman-Schaus-Freeman 12.04 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 11.59 PARKING METER: Jennings, A. L. 225.00.`�itumin6us._,Materials Co. 1,015.45 Lien Chemical Co. 37.62 Casimer's Super Market 162.50 Marchelewicz, Peter J. 10.00 Dual Parking Meter 30.00 Record, The 7.34 Dual Parking Meter 2.64 Record, The 7.78 Indiana,Bell Telephone Co. 9.19 South Bend Supply Co. 4.60 McCaffery Company 193.69 South Bend Tribune 7.54 McCaffery Company 193.69 Tubbs, Kenneth 14.00 McCaffery Company 193.69 Weisberger Brothers 19.66 McCaffery Company 193.69 • STREET & TRAFFIC: Seneca Petroleum Co. 539.10 Decker Auto Trim Shop 12.50 Seneca Petroleum Co. 549.10 Eutectic Welding Alloys Corp. 19.11 Seneca Petroleum Co. 538.48 i Healy Sign Co. 16.00 Western Indiana Gravel Co. 377.70 HKndiana Bell Telephone Co. 9.19 SEWAGE DISPOSAL: uert Concrete Inc. 422.87 Consoer, Townsend & Associates 2,403.85 TRAFFIC ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT: Ernest Miller, Traffic Engineer, was present and matter pertaining to his department were discussed. The following stop signs were approved by the Board and installed: • I Fredrickson Street at Elmer Street, both sides Elmer Street at Elwood Avenue, both sides. Altgeld Street at Twyckenham Drive, both sides J Catalpa Street at Kerr Street, both sides. !� York Street at Twyckenham Drive, southeast side. Fredrickson Street at Huey Street, both sides. Birdsell Street at Fassnacht Street, both sides. Wilbur Street at Fassnacht.Street, both sides. Vine Street at 26th Street, both sides. i The following stop signs were approved by the Board and changed: from Marion to Lafayette Street, both sides; and from Marion to Main Street, both sides. City Reflecto rized stop -sign changed to scotchlite stop signs at Ford and Walnut Streets. The following stop signs were approved by the Board and installed making 4-way stops?: on Fellows Street at Bron AVeet, both sides; Fellows Street at Indiana Avenue, both sides; Ewing Avenue at Twyckenham Drive, both sides; and on Franklin at Calvert Street, both si4les. ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT: Contractors' Bonds were approved and ordered filed for Eugene A. Harris; and South Bend Building Construction Company. A petition was received asking for the vacation of the alley between Main and Lafa- yette Boulevard from Main Street west to the east line of the alley ire-st of Main Street! • "running nor"th arid -south between.Monroe and South Streets. Referred -to :City Engiriear. i A letter was drafted to Mr. 0. H. Xkusmeyer, Plant Engineer at the Studebaker Corp., denying their request for a loading dock to be built at the north-east corner of Tutt and Lafayette Streets, because it is in violation of an ordinance prohibiting backing up of trucks over a sidewalk. _The Board approved Change Order #1 Contract #8 of the Hydraulic and LaSalle Street sewer project which contemplates building a concrete base in the manhole at Sycamore and LaSalle Streets, cleaning the manhole at Hydraulic and LaSalle Street, and cleaning the thirty-four feet of the existing sewer north from the manhole if same is found to be in- tact. If, at the time of cleaning, this manhole it is found that no concrete base exists to build same._ Payment for same to be made in accordance with Page E13 Paragraph 34, sub paragraph (d) General Condition of the Contract, i.e., on a cost plus basis. - COMPLETION AFFIDAVIT STATE OF IND IANA ) SS: ST. ff0SEPH COUNTY ) IN THE MATTER relating to the improvement made under Improvement Resolution No. 268 1951 and the plans and specifications therefor comes now Virgil H. Reed who being duly sworn upon oath deposes and says he is acquainted with the Reed Construction Company the