07/02/1956 Board of Public Works Minutes

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495 • 0 0 C Is JULY 21 1956 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Monday, July 2, 1956 at 10:00 A.M. (DST). All members were present. Minutes of the previous regular meeting were read and approved. Claims in the total mount of $43,853.73 were approved and ordered paid for the following suppliers: Joe Budd Book Bindery 32.75 City Water Works 17.10 Englewood Electric Company 4.08 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 11.76 Ind. & Mich. Electric Company 205.60 The Record 6.48 South Bend Tribune 8.10 SANITATION DEPARTMENT/Williams Florist23.00 South Bend Truck & Equip. Co. 460.00 DOG POUND DEPARTMENT Schuell Supply, Inc. 10.50 1954 STREET IMPROVEMENT FUND 38,459.53 Rieth-Riley Construction Co. STREET & TRAFFIC DEPARTMENTS The American City Magazine 2.50• Badur Brothers Coal Company 17.50 Century Tool & Metal Company 247.93 Elgin Sweeper Company 110.52 Elgin Sweeper Company 37.29 J. 0. Hildebrand, Jr. 35.00 Ind. & Mich. Electric Company 162.40 Korte Brothers, Inc. 55.89 J. C. Lauber Company 9.00 The McCaffetg Company 23.96 Mittler Supply Company 8.50 National Brake Service 52.67 National Mill Supply, Inc. 45.70 St. Joseph's Hospital 8.00 Scherman-Schauss-Freeman Co. 7.92 C. A. Schrader 21.41 Schuell Supply, Inc. 100.00 Smogor Lumber Company 78.42 Smogor Lumber Company 53.64 Wayne Hall Supply Company 450.00 West Side Hardware 11.52 Inc. Business Systems, Inc. .68 Ernest DeGraff 59.68 Drs. Erickson & Olson 10.00 Ind. & Mich. Elec. Company .68 Elmer E. Murray 26.24 Royal Typewriter Company 5.33 Weisberger Brothers 12.00 Leonard Witucki 122.40 SEWER DEPARTMENT City Sales Company 64.80 E. R. Newland Company, Inc. 84.31 DOG POUND DEPARTMENT Simon Brothers, Inc. 65.40 1954 STREET IMPROVEMENT FUND Clyde E. Williams & Assoc., Inc. 944.92 STREET & TRAFFIC DEPARTMENTS American Distributing Company 4.79 Bearings Service Company 68.10 Deeds Equipment Company, Inc. 266.33 Elgin Sweeper Company 152.58 Elgin Sweeper Company 53.28 Ind. & Mich. Electric Company 35.20 Korte Brothers, Inc. 296.11 Korte Brothers, Inc. 124.66 The McCaffery Company 190.00 G. E. Meyer Company 5.59 National Brake Service 37.60 National Brake Service 106.69 Premier AutoWare Company 80.94 S. S. Saunders, Inc. 86.25 Scherman-Schaus-Freeman Company 41.25 C. A. Scharader 24.17 H. H. Slominski 12.00 Smogor Lumber Company 52.15 South Bend Electric Company 19.82 Weisberger Brothers 21.05 Contractor's bonds were approved for James Ernest Carson and Black & Anderson Construction Company, The request of Ernest H. Miller, Traffic Engineer, to install traffic signals at the following int sections was approved by the Board. They are LaSalle and Niles Avenues, Madison and Eddy Streets, and G lawn & Jefferson Streets. Stop signs were installed at the following locations: Longley, both sides, at Olive Street, Walsh Street, both sides, at McKinley Avenue, and on the northwest corner of Greenwood at Southeast Drive. Yield Right/Way signs were installed on the southeast corner of Greenwood At Southeast Drive. Mrs. Fred Shaffer appeared before the Board with reference to request permission to close the 800 an 900 blocks of Roosevelt Street on Tuesday, July 3, 1956 for a street dance. Permission granted subject to notifying the Traffic and Police Departments. The request of Rev. C. J. Witucki, Pastor of Saint Casimir Church to have the street on which said church is located, closed during their annual parish festival at night only from July 15, 1956 to July 22, 1956 inclusive was granted by the Board. Verner L. Lane, Building Commissioned, requests that the property owners of 126 S. Kenmore St, Ar and Mathie Wells and Robert Ordway, 1530 E. Donald Street be ordered to appear at a hearing before the 1: Board of Public Works & Safety at its regular meeting on July 9, 1956. Also, Eugene L..& Zona Rysdorp, 1, 2402 West Ford Street. Request granted. u A petitition was received from the O'Brien Corporation with reference for authority to install a Railroad siding in vicinity of said corporation. Petition referred to the Traffic Engineer for further investigation and report. The Board next reviewed the bids of the Street Department which were opened at the previous meeting of the Board on Monday, June 25, 1956 and awarded the contract to: Scherman Schaus Freemon'.Company 520 South Lafayette Street South Bend, Indiana A non -collusion affidavit and a certified check in the amount of $437.00 accompanied the bid. 1 1956 Studebaker 2E5 2Ton Pickup ...................... $1276.54 j 2 1956 Studebaker 2E13 One -Ton Pickup .................. $3086.88 Net Total For 3.................... $4363.42