01/05/1953 Board of Public Works Minutes

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545 t 0. • • • A letter from the Royal Rubber Company of South Bend, over the signature of Abe Zoss, president, requesting permission to release water into storm sewer on west Chippe Avenue, was referred.to the City Engineer for his investigation and report. The annual report of the Electrical. 'Inspection Department was examined and received the favorable comment of the Board. I There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting adjourned at 11.40 A. M. Attest;` z� Clerk January 5, 1953 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held Monday, January 5, 1953 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 $1688. 1, were approved and ordered paid: Herbert Leary $10.00 STREET & TRAFFIC: Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 11.36 Koontz & Wagner Electric Co. $21.00 Indiana & Michigan Electric 191.60 Edward J. White, Inc. 38.20 Interstate Glass & Paint Co. 14.75 Wire & Disc. Wheel Sales 26.50 Peltz Kaufer Paper Co. 12.40 Bickel Coal & Stoker Co. 17.50 South Bend Tribune 7.30 Belleville Lbr. & Supply Co. 163.88 Tri County News 7.34 Belleville Lbr. & Supply Co. 36.30 Weisberger Bros. 29.27 C. D. Smelser 320.06 South Bend Window Cleaning Co. 53.50 Deeds Equipment Co. 326.65 PARKING METER DEPARTMENT: Deeds Equipment Co. 37.00 Tri County News 7.13 Deeds Equipment Co. 350.00 South Bend Tribune 7.07 The Board first examined drawing,submitted by Whitcomb & Keller, to establish the street grade for Gertrude Street from the South line of Ewing Avenue to the alley South of Fairview Avenue. The Board approved the grade as indicated and affixed their signatures granting such approval. Rev. Glen Marks, 1132 N. Ironwood Drive, appeared before the Board, stating that his congregation would be grateful for any assistance the Street Department could give them in maintaining the streets in the vicinity of and at the intersection of Solomon and Congress Streets in Edison Park Addition. The Board pointed out that this area is only in the process of development and no paving or regular maintenance can be undertaken on the part of the Street Department, but suggested that Rev. Marks contact the Street Commissioner, when suitable weather arrives this .Spring, and some improvement by the use of gravel can be provided in the vicinity of the church at that time. STREET DEPARTMENT: Street Commissioner, Harry M. Tomlinson, being present, brought to the Board's attention his department's need for street marking signs. It was agreed the present type of sign is the most economical for use in residential areas. The Board directed the Commissioner to make a survey to determine as closely as possible present require- ments and report to the Board results of survey. Next appeared,before the Board attorneys Eli F. Seebirt, G. Burt Ford, and Paul R. Moo, and engineers William S. Moore and Chas. W. Cole, Jr., also Messrs. Paul Hass and E. M. Kasdorfq in the matter of the proposed sewer connection for West Haven Addition, petitioned for by the Portage Realty Company. The matter was very thoroughly covered and drawings were examined with a view to determining whether or not the connecting of the sewers for West Haven Addition with the existing local sewer at the intersection of Ardmore Trail and Sheridan Street would cause an overload, and to determine whether or not the City would be liable for damages at some future time due to such sewer overload.