12/21/1953 Board of Public Works Minutes

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• Discussion was next given to the condition of ingress and egress to occupied - housing in the 100 block North Ellsworth Street. Inasmuch as this is an unimproved street,-barricad-ed by the Street Department as impassable, the Board recommended that temporary relief be extended to'these residents by the Street Department at the first opportunity, weather permitting, by the use of cinders or gravel. There being no furtherbusiness to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned! at 11:30 P. M. Attest: ZZ, 71,, � Clerk December 283, 1953 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held Monday, December 28, 1953, at 101:00 A. M. All members were present. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Claims of the following suppliers, in the amount of $3,078.91, were • i approved and ordered paid: Arteraft Printers W8.50 Otto Gratzol Signs $146.50 The Hibberd Printing Co. 31-50 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 27.65 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 12.04 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 36-55 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 11-75 Royal Typewriter Co. 14 00 South Bend Electric Co. 5.05 office Engineers, Inc. 5:00 SANITATION: Campbell Box & Tag Co. 80-70 General Equipment &- Machine Co. 21.00 SEWER DEPARTMENT: DOG POUND* Kuert Concrete, Inc. 212-40 Levy -Ward Grocer Co. 96.80 SEWAGE DISPOSAL: Niles Excavating Co. 925.00 STREET &- TRAFFIC: Belleville Lbr. & Supply Co. 12-30 Elgin Sweeper Co. 42-49 Gafill oil Co. 751.32 The Gibson Co. 14-41 The Gibson Co. 153.74 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 9.19 McComb Battery Co., Inc. 48-71 G. E. Meyer & Son 42.60 ji Municipal Supply Co. 29.50 Office Engineers, Inc. 1.58 Rony Hammes Co. 19.66 Schuyler Rose, Inc. 148.00 !I! Singer General Tire, Inc, 55.58 Rex Battery Service 75.39 First appeared before the Board, Attorney F. Gerard Feeney, Chair -man of the St. Joseph County "March of Dimes" Committee, together with co-chairmen of the committee, and presented to the Board a general outline of their plans for the approaching drive for polio funds. The committee then placed before the Board their requests 1. Commencing January 9th, permission to have the Mile -of -Dimes Booth located on Michigan Street in front of Robertsonts Department Store. 2. Permission to park the committees Studebaker station wagon in front of Robertsonb on Saturdays, throughout the period of the drive. The Board granted permission for the use of the booth only at the location specif- ed with the stipulation that the committee must also obtain permission from Robertsonts Department Store, In the matter of parking of station wagon in front of the Robertson's Department Store, it was specifically understood and agreed that the Board is not granting such permission, and station wagon may be parked at this location only on the basis on which any privately -owned motor vehicle may be parked at this location, and vehicle Trust be moved repeatedly as parking meter timing indicat6s.,in exact compliance with regulations governing public parking in this section of the downtown district. STREET DEPARTMENT: Street Commissioner, H. M. Tomlinson, brought to the attention of the Board claim of the Niles Excavating Company for the installation of 36" sewer pipe from North Shore • Drive to the river which claim had been erroneously marked for payment from the Sewer Department appropriation. It was pointed out that this work was entirely the contractor's obligation and a part of the Interceptor Sewer System. Correction was 11made accordingly.