07/13/1953 Board of Public Works Minutes

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STREET DEPARTMENT: The Commissioner next called attention to an excess delivery of rock salt, for which there is no storage space available at this time. Inasmuch as this entire delivery was over and above the quantity ordered, the Board directed Tv1r. Tomlinson to notify the vendor to remove this material from the Street Department premises. 'I The Street Commissioner then took up with the Board his departmentts urgent need • !!for a mower, having at this time only two with which to undertake annual -weed -mowing joperations. The third mower, having broken down during the past week, it was discovered ;;this particular make of equipment is no longer being manufactured and parts are unobtain- !able. The Board approved the replacement of this mower, and directed that quotations '!be obtained immediately from suppliers of this type of equipment. U • • • The Commissioner then asked for disposition of tools left at the Street Department Garage by Remmel Rathwick. The Board directed that these tools be delivered to Mrs. Rathwick. Bids opened at previous meeting to provide a two ton truck with dump body, were again reviewed. It was the decision of the Board, in view of the particular use to which this truck is to be assigned, that the bid of Scherman-Schaus-Freeman Company was the best bid in the interests of the City, and contract was so awarded. In the matter of the Kaley Street Sewer, a report was presented by City Engineer, Ray S. Andrysiak, disclosing the discovery that a considerable section of this sewer north from the intersection of Kaley and Jefferson has sunk below grade and approximately;! 265 feet of sewer will have to be relaid, including the 6-inch house leads. It was the Fi consensus of opinion that this work_ should logically be a continuation of the excavation and manhole -cleaning project which revealed this situation, and the Board, accordingly, authorizes the contractor, Niles Excavating Company, to proceed with the necessary work of restoring this sewer to proper grade. No bids having been received up to the hour set for opening of bids, to provide ';a dust -arrester for the asphalt plant, operated by the Street Department in the 700 !;block North Niles Avenue, and it being the consensus of opinion that the required equip - can be fabricated locally, and obtained at a reasonable cost of approximately 13,000.00, the Board directed the Clerk to obtain quotations and proceed to purchase this equipment for installation a'. the earliest possible date. Then appeared before the Board, a. representative of TYercury P,`otorways, Inc., together with E. H. Iriiller, Traffic Engineer, seeking permission of the Board for the {use of Louise Street south to Northside Boulevard for the routing of their trucks to and from their freight terminal. Permission was granted with the specific stipulation that the use of Louise Street north to V_Fishawaka Avenue by their trucks is prohibited, lexcept in an extreme emergency, and then only after obtaining permission from the Chief of Police and. the Street Commissioner. Contractorts Bonds, each in the sum of �,',1,000.00, binding the following contractors ,:and their sureties, were examined and approved: Frank 0. Barnes Peter Ciula Joseph Price There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was ad- journed at 11:00 A. NI. • !. Attest: ✓7; Clerk. 0