04/01/1952 Board of Public Works Speciial Meeting Minutes

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415 • 0 0 0 There being no other business to come before this meeting of the Board, the meeting adjourned at 3:30 P.M. ATTEST: ;41 Clerk April 7, 1952 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Monday, April 7, 1952 at 10:00 A. M. All members were present. Minutes of the previous meeting (regular) and also Special Meeting were read and approved. Salary claims in the total amount of $25,207.28 were approved. Claims of the following suppliers, totaling $21,752.03, were approved and ordered paid: Joe Budd Book Bindery Indiana & Michigan Electric Indiana & Michigan Electric Ind. & Michigan Electric Co. Tri County News South Bend Tribune Indiana Bell Telephone Co. Indiana Bell Telephone Co. Indiana Bell Telephone Co. Artcraf t Printers Indiana & Michigan Electric PARKING METER DEPARTMENT: C. W. Dzikowski $65.00 Co. 341.30 Co. 188.38 $11,004.43 18.,36 20.02 11.36 11.67 9.60 5.75 Co. .84 40.00 STREET & TRAFFIC: The OtBrien Corporation $179.16 STREET IMPROVEMENT : Wilbur H. Gartner & Associates $2096.00 South Bend Tribune 7.30 Tri County News 7.56 CONTRACTORtS IMPROVEMENT: Reed Construction Co. $1039.83 SEWAGE DISPOSAL: Consoer Townsend & Assoc. $152.50 Barna Massa $6552.97 Rev. R. F. Porte of the Ardmore Brethren Church appeared before the Board and obtained the Board's permission for a sextette of musicians from Moody Bible Institute to sing in the business district one evening of their choice the week of April 14, 1952. STREET DEPARTMENT: Street Commissioner, Harry M. Tomlinson was present and asked the Board's per- mission to close his department, with the exception of a skeleton emergency crews for the purpose of a general vacation from July 3rd to July 14th. It was pointed out this is the period adopted for this purpose by major local industrial plants. Mr. Tomlinsonts recommendation and request was approved by the Board and the Board authorize a general -vacation for the Street Department, commencing with the evening of July 3rd and extending to July 14, 1952. Mr. Irving A. Hurwich presented to the Board an Ordinance authorizing the sale of the dwelling units, owned by the City, located on the Plaza Site of the South Bend Veter.anst Housing Project, also the appointment in the St. Joseph County Circuit Court of appraisers to appraise this property, signed by Judge Dan Pyle under date of March 24,.1952. Mr. Hurwich then presented the Appraisement, showing the appraisals were fixed at $850.00 each for 3-bedroom units, and $650.00 each for 2-bedroom units. The Board then agreed upon the sale of the twenty-three (23) units involved to be made by public auction for not less than the appraised value, at a date to be decided upon and announced in another meeting. Mr. Hurwich then took up the matter of the trial re-routing of certain bus routes, • which was given discussion in the previous regular meeting of the Board. The Board was in agreement and granted the request for the re-routing in question. DEDICATION: The next matter taken up by the Board was the dedication of a portion of FORD i Street extended, as certified by Garden Homes, Inc. - Beginnirg at a point 850t South of the Northwest corner of the Southwest One-fourth (1/4) of Section Nine (9) Township 37 North, Range 2 East) corresponding to the • intersection of the West line of said Section and Noihth line of Ford Street; thence in a Westerly direction along the North line of Ford Street, a distance of 1277.1 feet to North boundary line of Belleville Unit t'D" Addition