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<br />and pedestrian plank walk to be provided. The Board granted.the necessary occupancy
<br />requested provided, however, that all building materials will be delivered through the
<br />now existing alley entrance.
<br />STREET DEPARTMENT: The need for a heavier Bulldozer` and a 1/2-ton pickup truck for the
<br />Sanitation Department was considered and the Clerk was directed to advertise for bids.
<br />The topic of removal of rails, to proceed with construction of the three islands
<br />needed at Bendix Drive and Westmoor, was next taken up, and the Board ordered that this
<br />construction proceed immediately, disregarding the rails in question, which will., accord
<br />ingly, become a part of the islands foundations.
<br />The Board then took up the matter of the bids opened at the regular meeting of
<br />August loth and awarded contract for ten White truck chassis to South Bend Truck and
<br />Equipment, inc., and contract for ten 12 cubic yard Leach Packmaster bodies to Leach
<br />Company, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. By this action, the immediate equipment needs of the
<br />Department of Sanitation for this type of equipment have been met and all other bids
<br />were, accordingly, rejected.
<br />Some discussion was given the matter of uniforms for thirty employees of the
<br />Department of Sanitation. No decision was reached and the matter is to be held in
<br />abeyance.
<br />The Board next confirmed the emergency installation of manhole on Madison Street
<br />between Sommer Street and Arthur Street, work being performed by the Niles Excavating
<br />Company.
<br />A billing for the forty-six feet of lead service installed on Huey Street, in the
<br />total amount of 134.06, rendered by Hamilton Plumbing & Heating Co., Inc,, was
<br />examined and ordered filed with all papers pertaining to the Tri -State Excavators, and
<br />the Board further ordered,that no payments are to be made to the Tri-State Excavators
<br />until this firm can show settlement of -this bill, and of all costs and damages involved
<br />in the automobile accident caused by exposed and unprotected manhole top, resulting
<br />from,contractor's negligence.
<br />FINAL ORDER - RESOLUTION NO. 2759 - 1953
<br />Whereas, the Board of Public Works, did on the 24th day of August 1953, adopt a Pre-
<br />liminary Order designating Class C, Type 1, Cement Concrete as the kind of pavement for
<br />the improvement of LAWTON STREET, from the west line of Olive Street to the east line
<br />of Washington Street by constructing a Class C pavement in accordance with Improvement
<br />':Resolution No. 2759, 1953., passed by this Board on June 29, 1953, and -confirmed by this
<br />'Board on August 3, 1953, therefore
<br />BE IT RESOLVED, that the Preliminary Order is hereby, in all things confirmed and
<br />!said street ordered paved with a Class C, type 1, cement concrete pavement.
<br />R. S. Andrysiak
<br />G. P. Ziegler
<br />I. A. Hurwich
<br />Board of Public Works& S e y
<br />!Ward H. Crothers
<br />�Clerk
<br />IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 2759 - AWARDING CONTRACT
<br />In the matter of bids for the improvement of LAWTON STREET from the west line of
<br />Olive Street to the east line of Washington Street by constructing a Class C pavement
<br />lin accordance with Improvement Resolution No. 2759, 1953, passed by this Board on
<br />June 29, 1953 and confirmed by this Board on August 3, 1953, the bid was awarded to
<br />Reed Construction Company, Mishawaka, Indiana, as they submitted the lowest and best
<br />bid for Class C, type 1, cement concrete pavement, for the sum of $12,714-00.
<br />CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
<br />IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION No. 2749 - 1953
<br />Certificate of Completion was furnished by the civil engineer, Wilbur H. Gartner ;j
<br />t0SHAWAKA
<br />the contract bwtween the City of South Bend, Indiana, Owner, and the Rieth-Rileynstruction Company, Contractor, for the construction of the pavement improvement on
<br />AVENUE(NORTH SIDE) from the east line of Twyckenham Drive to the west line
<br />of Greenlawn Avenue under Improvement Resolution No. 2749 has been completed in accord- l
<br />ance with the plans and specifications for this project.
<br />RESOLUTION ACCEPTING FINAL ESTIMATE
<br />RESOLUTION NO. 274- 1953
<br />BE IT RESOLVED, by the Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of South Bend.,
<br />Indiana, that the final estimate and Primary Assessment Roll submitted to the Board by
<br />the City Civil Engineer or his duly authorized representative on this 31st day of
<br />August 1953 on the improvement known as the MISHAWAKA AVENUE (NORTH SIDE) Pavement, as
<br />described in Improvement Resolution No. 2749-1953, passed by.the Board'of'Public Works_
<br />and Safety on April 13, 1953, and confirmed by said Board on May 18, 1953, be and the
<br />same is hereby adopted. and th lerk of this Board h eb r u ed to e no i e
<br />of the hearing of Special benefi i�s on said �mprovemer E, �.rs r�qu�x�ec��y Sect��rY N. lli
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