09/15/1952 Board of Public Works Minutes

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-1-1-719 495 SPECIAL MEETING September 10, 1952 I ! A Special Meeting of the Board of Public Works was held in accordance with legal �advertising,Wednesday, September 10, 1952 at 6:30 P. M. CST, for the purpose of a hearing in connection with the following Improvement Resolutions: No. 2732 - Improvement of SWYGART STREET by Class "C" pavement from the north line of Donald Street to the south line of Prairie Avenue. No. 2733 - Improvement of ALLEY BETWEEN IRONWOOD DRIVE AND TWENTY-THIRD STREET from the north 1ine,of Mishawaka Avenue to the south line of Wall Street, by constructing a Class fiCft pavement. No. 2734 - Improvement of FELLOWS STREET from the center line of Donmoyer Avenue to a point 1000 feet south by constructing a local sewer. No. 2735 - Improvement of CHALFANT STREET by Class '"C" pavement from the east line of Arthur Street to the east line of Walsh Street. The meeting was called to order by R. S. Andrysiak, chairman of the Board, at 6:30 P.M. Mr. Andrysiak acquainted the group of interested property owners with the purpose of the meeting, and then explained the fundamentals of the Barrett Law and the various steps of the proceedure from the petition of the property owners to final completion and acceptance of the improvement from the contractor concerned. No remonstrance was made against any of the above resolutions. There: being no further questions in regard to the above improvement resolutions, the meeting adjourned. C • I) September 15, 1952 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held Monday, September 15, 1952 at 10:00 A. M. All members were present. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Claims of the following suppliers, in the amount of $27,196.27, were approved and ordered paid: . Arrow Towel & Linen Service $2.00 PARKING METER DEPARTMENT: Business Systems, Inc. John Dodd .99 6.00 The Record $6.91 ! Ferguson & Sons 77.50 South Bend Tribune 6.83 Gafill Oil Co. 18.80 • Gafill Oil Co. 30.81 INTERCEPTOR SEWER: I Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 11.05 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 10.26 Niles Excavating Company $27,010.02 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 9.60 Peltz-Kaufer Paper Co. 7.50 The Board first took up the matter of permitting the use of a public address loudspeaker from an automobile to make announcement of a play being given by students of John Adams High School, such announcement and use of loud -speaker to be permitted only in the immediate proximity of Jefferson, Nuner and Lincoln Schools, after the committee representing the student group giving the play, has also secured the additions permission of the principals of these schools. The Board, with the foregoing stipulatio, authorized the use of this equipment for the benefit of this John Adams High School grow in sponsoring the current play, entitled "Summer Is A-Comin", to be given September 18th and in this instance only. The Board next took up the awarding of the contract to supply one -hundred (100) parking meters, and the concensus of opinion being in favor of the proposal of M. H. Rhodes, Inc., the contract was so awarded and the Clerk directed to issue the required purchase order. The matter of the proposals received September 8th by the Board for the constructio of a Class C -Cement Concrete Pavement on SHERMAN AVENUE from the south line of Rose Street to the north line of Bryan Street, was next considered, and the tabul-ttion and recommendation requested of and provided by the engineering firm of Wilbur H. Gartner