06/18/1956 Board of Public Works Minutes

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t filed. The Clerk of the Board submitted proofs of publication of notices and same were found sufficient, and the Board, therefore finds that the alley has been benefited and damaged in the amounts shown on said roll. The Board, therefore, decides to take final action on said assessment roll and declares same in all things ratified, confirmed, and approved without modification and the proceedings closed, and the alley va- catdd upon receipt of the amount of benefit assessments from the various property owners so benefited and all proceedings had with reference to said vacation are hereby sustained. There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned at 10:55 A.M. (DST) LJ I! i ;Attest -Anthony J a , C erk • i JUNE 18, 1956 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works & Safety was held on Monday, June 18, 1956. All members were present. Minutes of the previous regular meeting were read,and approved. Claims in the total amount of $5,184.39 were approved and ordered paid for the following suppliers: N' !!City Water Works 16.25 Ideal Press 37.50 !Indiana Bell Telephone Company 10.80 Indiana & Michigan Electric Company 266.58 !Royal Typewriter Company 4.50 Sinclair Refining Company 42.68 • .The Record jGENERAL IMPROVEMENT FUND 12.96 'DOG POUND FUND Braham Laboratories, Inca 49.50 !South Bend Tribune 12.15 ISEWER DEPARTMENT jiGeneral Equip. & Machine Co. 214.32 !!American `STREET & TRAFFIC Distributing Company 26.70 B & B Auto Glass Company 12.50 'Continental Oil Company 532.99 Edwards Iron Works 91.20 ljElgin Sweeper Company 22.45 General Equip. & Machine Company 49.98 ,;The Gibson Company 47.20 V. Graves Auto Glass 32.61 M. & J. Haberle 6.00 Hoffman Brothers 180.57 jIndiana & Michigan Electric Company 185.60 Imperial Metallic Lub., Inc. 80.44 llIndiana ilIndustrial Bell Telephone Company 12.09 Indiana Textile Company 51.51 • �';H. Chemicals Inc. 70.50 Internation Business Machines 21.25 J. Kollar 4.19 Korte Brother, Inc. 20.98 Koontz -Wagner Electric Company 10.68 Lien Chemical Company 19.00 !Kuert Concrete, Inc. 185.08 Mittler Supply Company 30.35 !!McComb Battery Company, Inc. 52.50 The O'Brien Corporation 44.83 'Municipal Supply Company 609.25 Radio & Television Dist, Inc. 2.94 'The O'Brien Corporation 208.90 St. Joseph Hospital 15.00 ��Romy Hammes Corporation 8.99 Saginaw Salt Products, Inc. 123.94 !!Sinclair iSt. Joseph Hospital Refining Company 5.70 1,999.80 South Bend Supply Company 31.40 i • ! The matter with reference to the purchasing of the base stations by the Civil Defense Department !!was referred to the Advisory Board and said Board is hereby requested to report back to the Board of Public !'Works & Safety as to their recommendation. • • Messrs Earl Wright and Cecil Walters appeared before the Board with reference to request permission to conduct a proposed safety program for children in which the children would operate a small automobile ru by batteries to show the children the need for safety on the part of automobile drivers. Matter taken unde advisement until next Monday, June 25, 1956. Mr. Coy McGee appeared before the Board with reference to request permission for the installation of an awning on a building in the City of South Bend. Mr. McGee is hereby given permission to install said aw ning providing that he conform with the Building as to the proper height and sidth of awning to install. Mr. George Swiatowy, 1701 Magnolia Street, South Bend, Indiana appeared before the Board in respons to notification by the Board to show cause as to why the dust condition on the property owned by said Swia- towy and rented by Marion Trucking Company has not been taken care of as to date. Mr. Swiatowy is hereby directed to have the dust condition in the said area corrected within one week from this date and is also requested to appear before the Board on Monday, June 25, 1956. It is also brought to the attention of the Board of similar condition esixting pn property owned by Mr. Swiatowy and rented to Interstate Truck Lines, General Freight Lines, Mid -States Truck Lines, and the McNamara Truck Lines. The Board now orders that an investigation be made of said conditions and that if such condition exists at the various truck lines that notice be sent to each company to have it corrected within two weeks from this date, and also that representatives of said truck lines appear before the Board on Monday, JU:Iiy � 1 1956. With reference to the building located at 677 LaPorte Avenue and owned by David Scruggs, 677 LaPort Avenue the Board hereby authorizes that the Building Commissioner, Verner L. Lane, demolish,said building as of this elate.