05/25/1937 Board of Public Works Special Meeting Minutes

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303 The purpose of the meeting having been accomplished, adjournment' was had at 10:30 A. M. • BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS ATTEST: Clerk MEETING June 1, 1937 Regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Tuesday, June 1, 1937 at 10:45 A. M. Mr. Woodward was absent. Minutes of the previous meetings were read and approved. Claims in the amount of $1,874.301 from the following suppliers, were approved and ordered paid. Indiana Bell Telephone Company .35 Artcraft Printers $16.00 Indiana Bell Telephone Company 232.87 Zeltner hardware 87.86 No. Ind. Public Service Co. 1.94 Perkins Bros. 206.66 South Bend Tribune 6.36 Chase Bag Company 68.44 South Bend News -Times 6.59 Great Lakes Asphalt & Petroleum 921.74 Slick -Ideal Laundries 2.50 South Bend Awning Co. 16.00 Hibberd Printing Co. 8.50 South Bend Awning Co. 32.00 The Reliance Pharmacy 1.00 Austin -Western Road Mchy. Co. 38.64 • G. 0. Thurn 3.00 Austin -Western Road Mchy. Co. 88.05 G. 0. Thurn 18.00 Austin -Western Road Mchy. Co. 6.54 Hamilton Body Shop 18.25 Business Systems, Inc. .35 Motor Service & Parts, Inc. 2.76 Scherman-Schaus-Freeman Co. 3.55 South Bend Auto Products 8.35 South Bend Foundry Co. 78.00 ✓ This being the date set, hearing was had on the Assessment Roll showing awards of damages and the assessment of benefits in the matter of vacation of alley north of Sample Street from the alley west of LaFayette Boulevard to the west line of Garst's Addition, and 2nd alley west of LaFayette Boulevard from the south line of Tutt Street projected west to Sample Street, same being Vacation Resolution No. 2488. In the above -named assessment roll no remonstrators appeared and no written remonstrances were filed. The Clerk of the Board submitted proofs of delivery of notices and same were found to be sufficient. The Board, therefore, finds that the several lots and parcels of land have been benefitted 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 proceedings closed and the alley vacated. A Resolution was referred to the Board by the City Council pertaining to the rerouting of bus service of Portage Avenue line, reading as follows: • RESOLUTION Pertaining to the rerouting of the new Bus Service on the Portage Avenue line as well as the Notre Dame and Madison Street Car Lines. WHEREAS, the City has requested that the Northern Indiana Railway Company eliminate it's present Street Car Service, and that a modern Bus Service be provided in it's stead, and WHEREAS, with the elimination of the Street Cars, the presenttracks will be removed from the streets now having the Street Car right of way, i.e., on Portage Avenue, Navarre Street, and North Michigan Street from Navarre to LaSalle, and S WHEREAS, the tracks on North Michigan Street between LaSalle and Washington are now being used by the Portage, Madison, and Notre Dame lines, but with the elimination of the old St. Marys and the Portage Avenue lines, the north bound Madison Street and Notre Dame Street Cars will be the only Street Cars that will use these tracks, and WHEREAS, the Street Car right of way on North Michigan Street between LaSalle and Washington is in a very bad condition and also has an obsolete switch which was used for the St. Marys line thereby creating a traffic hazard that should be removed by the rerouting of the northbound Madison Street and Notre Dame Street Cars, in which case North Michigan Street could then be reconditioned all the way to Washington Street instead of just to LaSalle Avenue. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Northern Indiana Railway Company be requested