10/01/1956 Board of Public Works Minutes

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• • • • ri u • October 11 1956 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Monday, October 1, 1956 at 10:00 A.M. (DST) All members were present. Minutes of the previous regular meeting were read and approved. Claims of the following suppliers in the total amount of $22$80.74 were approved and ordered paid: ;Hearne Brothers ;Hearne Brothers !West Side Hardware !PARKING METER DEPARTMENT (City Water Works jSEWER DEPARTMENT H. W. Hunter iNiles Excavating Company iSANITATION DEPARTMENT Sinclair Refining Company St. Joseph's Hospital CONTRACTOR'S IMPROVEMENT FUND Rieth Riley Construction Company 'GENERAL IMPROVEMENT FUND A. E. Anderson ;Delinquent & Deficit Fund r`STREET & TRAFFIC DEPARTMENTS IDrs. Fisher, Thorton, Buchanan, and Lockhart Dr. Hildebrand Dr. Hildebrand Kuert Concrete, Inc. ,Reliance Pharmacy llSinclair Refining Company ,.South Bend Sand & Gravel Company St. Joseph's Hospital i!St. Joseph's Hospital 1 St. Joseph's Hospital 37.50 Hearne Brothers 37.50 37.50 Sears Roebuck & Company 6.44 192.00 West Side Hardware 27.94 10.96 Hallemite Mfg. Company 25.00 2,594.16 Niles Excavating Company 4,218.20 150.00 1954 STREET IMPROVEMENT FUND Lincoln Tree and Landscape Service 995.00 1,735.80 St. Joseph's Hospital 8.00 22.80 St. Joseph's Hospital 4.70 1954 STREET IMPROVEMENT FUND 2,16,5.80 Yoder's Garage 454.80 j 2,594.69 Chas. W. Cole & Son 560.33 178.51 McIntyre & Jones 51,177.50 Dr. Hildebrand 62.00 8.00 Dr. Hildebrand 88.00 47.00 Dr. Hildebrand 51.00 46.00 Kaley Motor Service 4.50 319.35 Memorial Hospital 144.65 6.35 Daniel Richardson 74.25 335.74 Sinclair Refining Company 168.00 932.62 St. Joseph's Hospital 7.40 3.00 St. Joseph's Hospital 15.00 5.75 St. Joseph's Hospital 7.00 4.00 Edwin M. Walker 5.00 Plans were approved by the Board this 1st day of October, 1956 for a Storm Relief Sewer in Kenmore Street and Prast Boulevard of the Brentwood Estates. The Sewer Improvement Contracts in Oakcrest Drive and Sylvan Glen for the City of South Bend, Indiana under Improvement Resolution No. 28432 1956 were approved by the Board this 1st day of October, 1956. Comes now Irving Hurwich, Attorney of the Armour and Company, and requests permission that the hear- ing on Vacation Resolution No. 2845 be continued for one week until October 81 1956. Permission granted. Excavation bonds were approved for John B. Hendricks. Contractor's bonds were approved for Harold E. Anson, L. Wells & Company, and Forest Guise. In reference to Council meeting, several requests of Councilmen were submitted to the Board. Said re quests are hereby referred to Traffic Engineer, Ernest H. Miller, for investigation and a report will be made back to the Board on Monday, October 8, 1956. A letter was received from the South Bend Parking Company of the following change in their price scheo- ule on Lot number 21, 121 East Washington Street: 35� one hour or less, 10� each additional hour, 50Q all day, 50� flat rate after 5:30 P.M., and Sundays and Holidays. Accepted and placed on file. Referring to the bids of the Indiana Avenue Street improvement, Contracts No. 1. and 2, all bids re- ceived were rejected. The bid of the Mcintyre & Jones Company was rejected because no completion date was designated on the bid, and the bids of Rieth-Riley Construction Company and Reed Construction Company were .;extremely over the Engineer's estimate. The time now being 10:00 A.M. (DST) the bids for the Sewer Improvement in were opened. Proof of publication in the South Bend Tribune with an affidavit signed by C. G. Livengood .and in the Record with an affidavit signed by W.,DeCanio were submitted to the Board and found sufficient. ;;The single bid received reads as follows: REED CONSTRUCTION COMPANY A non -collusion affidavit, Form 96-a, and 2022 North Main Street a certified check in the amount of $415.00 Mishawaka% Indiana accompanied the bid. Total bid price - Extension of Items No. 1 to 12, inclusive ......... $8,286.62 IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 2844 The bids for the improvement of Donald Street from Kemble Avenue to Douglas Street and Douglas Street ;from Donald Street to Ewing Avenue by constructing a local combined sewer received on October 11 1956, in (.accordance with Improvement Resolution No. 28447 1956, passed by this Board on August 137 1956, and confirm led by this Board on September 177 1956, are hereby referred to you,for examination and tabulation and to re ;port to this Board with recommendations. R. S. Andrysiak Irving J. Smith Frank J. Bruggner