08/26/1935 Board of Public Works Minutes

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160 35- ---- Regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Monday; August 26, 1935 at 11:00 A. M All members were present. Minutes of meeting of August l9 th were read and approved. Claims in the amount of $8,767.58 were'approved and ordered paid,_also salaries for various departments amounting to $5,671.33. Indiana & Mich. Electric Co. p,447.51 James L. Wilson, M. D.- $318.51 No. Ind. Public Service Co. 1.94 Dr. Stanley A. Clark 7.00 Burroughs Adding Machine Co. 6.00 Dr. Stanley A. Clark 5.00 Geo. Wyman & Co. 3.00 Epworth Hospital 530.91 Building Department 20.00 Galion Ironworks & Mfg. Co. 296.52 James L. Wilson, M.-D. 7.00 C. H. Defrees; Inc. 6:00 James L. Wilson, M. D. 107.00 Indiana Lumber & Mfg. Co. 2.72 James L. Wilson, M. D. 3.00 Office Engineers, Inc. 1.47 James L. Wilson, M1. D. 4.00 Mr. Longenecker reported on progress made in the Cemetery and stated that he was promised some help which would be furnished by W. P. A. A Petition signed by four property owners requesting alley between Cedar and Notre Dame Avenues from Hill Street to St LouisBoulevard be improved by construction of concrete pavement was read and rejected by the Board. The Cooke Sign Company requested -permission to hang a sign overhead from the Palais Royale to the old Bloch and Kuehl building, advertising the Dog Show to be displayed from August 26th to September 9th. The Board granted the request. Mr. Anderson brought up the question of Indemnity Insurance on Ford Truck used in the Engineering Department and instructed the Secretary to have this included with the Street Department equipment. Mr. Anderson, City Civil Engineer, filed plans and the Board adopted said plans together with the following Vacation Resolution: COPY OF VACATION RESO-LUTION NO. 2483 RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND,_I1`TDIANA: That it is - desirable to vacate the following: ALLEY NORTH OF RANDOLPH STREET from Marine Street to the lst Alley west of Marine Street. The following property may be injuriously or beneficially effected by such vacation Lots 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 16,-19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25 in Fisher South Side Survey. Notice of this resolution shall be published on the 3rd day of September and on the loth day of September 1935 in the South Bend Daily Tribune and News -Times. This Board, at its office in the City Hall on the i day of September-1935 at 10:30 A. M. will hear and receive remonstrances from all persons interested in or affected by these proceedings. s: Adopted this 26th day- of August 1935. f Frederick J. Anderson Edwin.W. Hunter Fred'Woodward BOARD -OF PUBLIC WORKS ATTEST: George 0. Thurn, Clerk of the Board Several members of the Plumbing Association appeared'`before the Board to protest against the Water Works'Department doing work that should be regularly turned over to the plumbers. Vx. Bradford, Super-intendent of the Water Works., was called into -;the conference. Mr. Anderson explained that the work under consideration was due to widening of streets on Federal projects and as it "had to be done at no expense to the property owners and the Water Works were equipped to do it that this was the only procedure that could be followed. He further informed the plumbers that on other projects of this nature the Board would be obliged to follow the same procedure. Mr. Albert Smith, one of the plumbers represented, brought up a question in reference to charge that should be made by the Water Works for a -two-inch tap at the new building of the Chemical Laboratory. He stated before he made his estimate of the •