08/22/1955 Board of Public Works Minutes

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3/0 The Board then read and ordered filed letter of the Bendix Aviation Corporation, ;dated August 19, 1955, relative to their continued effort to solve the noise problem 'involved .in connection with their test stands, and the Clerk was directed to acknowledge'. ;1 !its receipt. i The Board next read the report of Asst. Supt. Stanley C. Gourd, pertaining to ;catalpa tree in alley east of Laporte Avenue, running south from Colfax Avenue to 'intersecting east -west alley. It was the consensus of opinion, the Board should and ;would be guided by this report in this matter. The Board next considered a. complaint relative to sidewalk being littered with !loose gravel, bordering the parking lot at the corner of Madison and Michigan Street. The Board_ directed the Clerk to notify the parking lot management to correct this hazard-' ous and unsightly condition. STREE T DEPARTMENT: Then appeared before the Board Street Commissioner, H. M. Tomlinson, and presented the problem of the disposal of trees and heavy tree limbs, which are being delivered to the Sanitary Landfill in increasing amount after every windstorm. It was the decision j of the Board that the burning of this material is the only solution to this problem, and after the burning of the current accumulation at the Sanitary Landfill, all future collection of such material is to be taken to the Park Department's Gertrude Street ;dump and burned under Fire Department supervision, and that the Board will proceed i immediately to establish such arrangement with the Department of Public Parks. The Commissioner then inquired as to whether or not a sewer could cross Ironwood Drive.in the Edison Park Addition, and was advised such sewer construction would be prohibited. The Hon. Walter C. Erler, being present, brought to the attention of the Board an intolerable condition existinm in the southtiTrest section of the City due to the con- tinuous burning of tires and oil -saturated rubbish in the junk yard at 11�20 South Walnut. {> TRAFFIC ENGINEER: The Board approved the installation of a STOP sign on southeast corner of Dundee Street at Washington Street. Maintenance Bond, in the sum of $1680.00, for McIntyre & Jones, for approximately 1300 feet of pavement on Iowa Street from Elwood Avenue to Keller Street, was examined and approved by the Board. Excavation Bonds, each in the sum of $1,000.00, for Niezgodski & Sons Plumbing Co., and Taylor Construction Company were examined and approved. Contractor's Bonds, each in the sum of $1,000.00, were examined and approved for the following: Vernon C. Bice Crof oot Brothers Lloyd L. Barrett Colpaert Realty Corporation Arthur R. Jensen L. W. Rimer Walter M. Szymkowiak Taylor Construction Co. A letter, dated August 21, 1955, from Mr. Otto Bird, 533 East Angella Boulevard, 'requesting speed caution signs to slow traffic at this point, because of accidents :having occurred here on several occasions from excessive speed, was referred to Traffic ,Engineer, E. H. Miller, for investigation and report. There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned at 11:35 A. M. Atte st : Clerk • 0 • • 0