06/15/1936 Board of Public Works Minutes

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1 • • • • 7 MEETING June 15, 1936 Regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was .,held on Monday, June 15, 1936, at 11:30 A. M. All members were present. Minutes of previous meeting were read and approved. Claims in the amount of $5,587.93, from the following suppliers, were approved and ordered paid. Indiana Paint & Wallpaper Co. $1.60 Indiana Lumber & Mfg. Co. $34.54 G. E. Meyer & Son, Inc. 4.75 Gafill Oil Company 564.72 G. E. Meyer & Son, Inc. 29.19 Gafill Oil Company 40.50 G. E. Meyer & Son, Inc. 23.78 Gafill Oil Company 139.70 A. L. Saville 2.50 Edwards Iron Works Inc. 2.19 Farmers Conservative Mutual Ins. 28.64 Schuyler Rose 347.20 Harry E. Willette 102.30 Jack Taylor's 4.98 Harry E. Willette 18.60 Jack Taylor's 16.09 South Bend Auto Products 17.65 Scherman-Schaus-Freeman Co. .48 J. E. Hamilton Body Co. 60.50 Strome Motor Co. 4.84 E. R. Newland Company 68.07 Elgin Sweeper Company 4.47 National Cylinder Gas Company 11.81 Cockrell Tractor Co. 3,708'.00 Elkhart Brass Mfg. Co. 5.50 Reo Sales Service 13.00 Office Engineers, Inc. 158.09 Harry W. West Printing Co. 28.00 Office Engineers, Inc. 9.94 South Bend Wilbert Vault Co. 100.00 The Galion Iron Wks. ,& Mfg. Co. 36.30 Mr. Weer submitted his report of the work done by the Street and Sewer Departments for the month of April 1936, which report is on file in the -office of the Board of Public Works. Fire insurance policy in the Firemen's Conservative Mutual Insurance Company, covering the two new garages in the amount of $5,000.00 on No. 1 and $3,500.00 on No. 2, was approved by the Board. Excavation bond in the Home Indemnity Company in favor of 0. J. Shoemaker was approved and placed on file. The St. Joseph Heating Company submitted an estimate to heat the City Ha11 under the present heating installation, which is a one pipe job, at approximately $1,800.00 per heating season. If heating system is revamped and two pipe job installed, steam heat could be furnished at approximately $1,200.00 per heating system. The matter was referred to the City Engineer for investigation as to securing prices for changing present heating installation and also to cover corrective heating installation at the Central Fire Station and Alarm Station. The Board approved the plat of Richland Second Addition to South Bend and is described and comprises the following tract of land to wit: The Southwest Quarter (S.W.4) of the Southwest Quarter (S.W.4) of Section 15, Township 37 North, Range 2 East, except 172 ( one hundred seventy-two) feet off of the North end thereof. The plat contains 200.(two hundred) lots numbered from 40 to 239 inclusive. The size of the lots and the widths of the streets and alleys are marked in feet on the plat. The streets and alleys are hereby dedicated to the public for use as public highways only. The Board also approved plat of Richland Third Addition to the City of South Bend, which comprises and is described as follows: The Northwest quarter (N.W.4) of the Southwest Quarter (S.W.4) of Section 15, Township 37 North, Range 2 East, except the south 172 (one hundred seventy- two) feet thereof and except the north 400 (four hundred) feet thereof. The plat contains 128 (one hundred twenty-eight) lots numbered from 240 to 367 inclusive. The size of the lots and the widths of the streets and alleys are marked in feet and decimals of feet on the plat. The streets and alleys are hereby dedicated to the public for use as public highways only. In connection with the above plats, t e Warranty Deed is delivered to the City of South Bend for street purposes R the above mentioned plats and which is described as follows: 58 feet off of and from the East side of Lot Numbered 5 and 2 feet off of and from the Vest side of Lot Numbered 4 in Richland First Addition to the City of South Bend. Also 58 feet off of and from the East side of Lot Numbered 35 and