05/11/1953 Board of Public Works Minutes

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• n • The Board then took up the matter of the acquisition of land and equipment to ''handle the collection and disposal of tarbage and adopted the following resolution: WHEREAS, the Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of South Bend, Indiana, has determined that it would be for the best interests of said City and its citizens to provide for.the acquisition of the necessary land and equipment for the collection and disposal by said City of garbage by said City is necessary in order to protect the health and well-being of the citizens and will be 6f general benefit to the entire City: and WHEREAS, the Board of Public Works and Safety finds that the estimated cost of acquisition of the necessary land and equipment and the incidental expenses in connection therewith will be in the amount of One Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars (150,000.00); now therefore BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of South Bend, Indiana, that this Board requests the City Controller and Common Council to take proper steps immediately to provide the necessary funds for said purpose, in the amount of One Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars (150,000.00) and to that end that a copy of this resolution be filed with the City Controller and the City Clerk, and presented to the Common Council at the next meeting thereof. Adopted this llth day of I,'iay, 1953• G. P. Ziegler R. S. Andrysiak I. A. Hurwich Board of Public Works & Safety The Board next read the proposal for the Cityts use of some twenty-seven acres of land'for sanitary fill purposes, submitted by the Tri-Valley Council, Boy Scouts of America, and accepted their proposal, the agreement and conditions of which are set forth under ten numbered paragraphs, as follows: • 1. The holes located in these twenty-seven acres, in the area otherwise known as Welber Woods, will be used by the City of South Bend, Indiana, for the disposal of rubbish and garbage by the sanitary land fill method. 2. The City of South Bend agrees to keep the location in a neat condition. We will allow absolutely no.fires. 3. All scavengers must keep out of the way of operation. 4. No minors will be allowed in the immediate area. 5. Rubbish and garbage will be deposited in compacted layers from four to six feet deep, and each layer will be covered with fill dirt. b. It is understood that fill dirt will be obtained from the mounds of dirt now deposited around the perimeter of the hole. 7. The Cite agrees to obtain all fill dirt from areas set out or designated by the Scout Executive. 8. The City will be allowed to park some pieces of • equipment at the sanitary land fill site during the night hours. 9. At the end of the operation, when the hole has been filled to within two feet of the normal grade, we will cover the entire disposal area with two feet of compacted dirt obtained from the mounds as designated by the Scout Executive. 10. General: The Tri-Valley Council Boy Scouts of America - through their executive, reserve the right to terminate the entire agreement, if at any time the several con- ditions as set out heretofore are not complied with. A further resolution was then adopted, governing fees to be charged at the new