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<br />PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS ADOPTED
<br />BE IT RESOLVED, By the Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of South Bend,
<br />Indiana, that the Profiles, Drawings, Plans, General Details, Specifications and
<br />Estimates approved by this Board on the 13th day of April 1953, for the improvement
<br />of NORTH ILLINOIS STREET from the south line of Washington Street to the south line
<br />of Linden Avenue by constructing a Class C Pavement under Improvement Resolution No.2753
<br />AND
<br />NORTH CHICAGO STREET from the south line of Washington Street to the south line of
<br />Linden Avenue by constructing a Class C Pavement under Improvement Resolution No. 2752
<br />AND
<br />SOUTH CHICAGO STREET from the north line of Western Avenue to.,the south line of
<br />Washington Street by constructing a Class C Pavement under Improvement Resolution No.
<br />275b AND
<br />MISHAWAKA AVENUE from the east line of Twyckenham Drive from the west: ]line of
<br />Greenlawn Avenue by constructing a Class C Type 4A Pavement under Improvement Resolution
<br />No. 2749, adopted April 13, 1953 and first confirmed on May 11, 1953, and ordered placed
<br />on file in the office of the Department of Public Works and Safety.
<br />June 1, 1953, at the hour of 10:00 o'clock A.M. Central Standard Time, is hereby
<br />fixed as the time and the office of the Board of Public Works and Safety in the City
<br />Hall of this City, as the place, when and where the Board of Public Works and Safety
<br />will open and consider bids for the above named improvements, provided all bids for
<br />the construction of said work shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of this Board
<br />before 10:00 o'clock A.M. CST of said day. Each bidder for said work shall enclose with
<br />his bid a certified check, payable to the Treasurer of this City in the suWi of two and
<br />one-half percent of the amount of his bid, or a bid bond for two and one-half per cent
<br />of the amount of his bid, to insure the execution of this contract, if said work is
<br />awarded to him.
<br />The Clerk of this Board is hereby ordered, to give notice by two weekly publications
<br />of the time and place, when and where bids will be received, opened and considered for
<br />.the conssruction of said work. Said Clerk shall state in said notices, that each bidder
<br />shall enclose viith his bid a certified check or bid bond for above named amount, to
<br />insure -the execution of this contract.
<br />R. S. Andrysiak
<br />G. P. Ziegler
<br />I. A. Hurwich
<br />Clerk of Public ?`forks & Safety
<br />Ward H. Crothers
<br />Clerk of the Boar
<br />The final boring report for the test borings at the site of the proposed sewage
<br />disposal plant, submitted by the Raymond Concrete Pile Company, under date of May 5,
<br />1953, was examined and ordered filed.
<br />TRAFFIC DEPARTIENT:
<br />The following four-way S-T-O-P intersections were established and approved by the
<br />Board:
<br />Indiana Avenue and Walnut Street
<br />Lafayette Boulevard and Marion Street
<br />LaPorte Avenue and Colfax Avenue.
<br />A request from the Common Council that the Board have Traffic Engineer, E. H. Miller
<br />report to the May 25th meeting of the Council in the matter of progress made in reduction
<br />of locomotive smoke nuisance on 'Nest Dunham Street, was read by the Board and Engineer
<br />Miller, being present, was directed to comply with the Councilts request.
<br />A memorandum directed to the Board, over the signature of the City Clerk, Mayme
<br />DuMont, concerning request for STOP sign to be moved at the corner of O'Brien and
<br />Humboldt Streets, was referred by the Board to _Traffic Engineer, E. H. Miller, for
<br />investigation and suitable action.
<br />An Excavation Bond in the StLm of $10,000.00, binding Hilton Construction Co., Inc.,
<br />was examined and.approved by the Board.
<br />The following Contractorts Bonds, each in the sum of �1,000.00, were examined and
<br />approved:
<br />Gibson Construction Co., Inc.
<br />Millard T. Hartman
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