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178 <br />June 7, 1954 <br />A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held Monday, June 7, 1954, at <br />10:00 A. M. All members were present. minutes of the previous meeting were read and <br />approved. Salary claims, in the total amount of $32,002.48, were approved. Claims of <br />� <br />Ithe following suppliers, in the total amount of $66,476.55, were approved and ordered <br />i <br />paid: <br />Charles Armstrong & Son $20.00 Charles Armstrong & Son 01.50`, <br />Walter J. Braunsdorf & Son 4.50 Burroughs Corporation 18.00 <br />Business Systems, Inc. 1.80 Ernest J. DeGraff 47.36 <br />Ferguson & Sons 4.70 Ferguson & Sons 11.44 <br />John W. Gorney 5.00 Healy Sign Co. 14.00 <br />C. L. Kineh 38.96 McComb Battery Co. 2.65 <br />j Elmer E. Murray 37.60 Office Supply & Equipment Co. 5.65 <br />Shell American Petroleum Co. 3.10 Sidwell Studio 26.00 <br />! PARKING METER: <br />Dual Parking Meter Co. 11.90 Halle -mite Mfg. Co. 25.00 <br />Meyerts Hardware 9.95 M. H. Rhodes, Inc. 5.50 <br />SEWAGE WORKS CONSTRUCTION: <br />i Russell C. Kuehl 326.00 Consoer, Townsend & Assoc. $27,919.79 <br />Consoer Townsend & Associates 7083.33 <br />j SEWAGE DISPOSAL: <br />Consoer, Townsend & Associates 30,000.00 <br />STREET & TRAFFIC, <br />Anerson Service Station 25.36 Healy Sign Co. 24.75 <br />Kuert Concrete, Inc. 16.80 Maurice Bockts Service Station 16.00 <br />Michigan Calvert Hardware 26.56 Minnesota Mining Co. 566.75 <br />j O'Brien Corporation 176.40 <br />The Board first examined in its entirety the agreement between the City of South <br />Bend and the Indiana & Michigan Electric Company for the placing of a siren for civil <br />defense purposes on the roof of the company's office building at 220 W. Colfax Avenue, • , <br />and on the roof of its service building at 401 E. Colfax Avenue. The Board approved <br />the agreement and directed that it be forwarded to Mayor Scott for signature. <br />The Board next read and considered the letter directed to the Board, under date <br />of June 4, 1954, over the signature of Robert L. Huff, Secretary of the City Planning <br />Commission, and directed that the vacation petition involved be held in abeyance, pend- <br />ing dedication of a similar passageway to the north of the passageway being considered <br />for vacation. <br />A petition, dated May 24, 1954, for the improvement of Dunham Street, from Meade <br />'Street to Kaley Street by the construction of pavement, and petition, dated May 20,1954 <br />for the improvement of Dunham Street from South Olive to South Meade Street, were • <br />;examined and referred to the City Engineer for investigation and report. <br />A petition, under date of June 7, 1954, to improve Grant Street from Indiana Avenue <br />to Prairie Avenue, by the construction of a sewer, was examined and referred to the City <br />Engineer for investigation and report. <br />STREET DEPARTMENT: <br />Street Commissioner, H. M. Tomlinson, being present, brought to the Board's atten- <br />tion the existence of some confusion on the part of householders whereby they believe <br />the sewage disposal system charge now appearing on water bills to be a charge for <br />garbage pick-up service. It was conte-rplated to give some publicity in this connection • <br />to correct this erroroneous impression. <br />Next appeared before the Board, Mrs. Harold Naragon, Route 2, Box 136-A, South Bend <br />Indiana, in regard to the conducting of a children's parade on Prairie Avenue, in the <br />vicinity of Grant Street, at 1:30 P. IM. Saturday, June 12, 1954. The purpose of the <br />parade is to create interest in a Daily Vacation Bible School and to instill in the <br />children's minds some idea of the life of the American pioneer forefathers. The Board <br />granted approval, with the stipulation that no horses are to be used in the parade. <br />Next to appear before the Board was Mrs. Vera Reaves, owner of the premises at 127 <br />Franklin Place, complaining of damage to curbing and sod caused, in her opinion, by the • <br />parking meter installation. It was Tars. Reavest contention that the City should restore <br />the broken curbing. City Engineer, R. S. Adnrysiak, being present, informed Mrs. Reaves <br />that the City has never built curb. After considerable discussion, in which M,rrs. Reaves <br />pointed out the fact that the law governing is obsolete, pre -dating the eracf the park- <br />ing meter, and that unless repairs are made immediately the curbing across the entire <br />front of her property will be destroyed. The Chairman of the Board offered names of <br />three contractors from whom Mrs. Reaves could obtain prompt quotations, but again <br />stressed the fact that under the existing law the repair of the curb mould be entirely <br />at her expense. <br />Next appeared before the Board, Mfrs. Maxine Taylor, registering complaint relative <br />to the bus service and lack of bus service, expressing the opinion that South Bend is <br />a city large enought to support a competing bus lines, which would insure the maintaining . <br />of satisfactory schedules. <br />