11/21/1938 Board of Public Works Minutes

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41. i "'A petition asking that a street light be installed at the intersection of Madison and Sommers Street was presented to the Boardand referred to Mr. -Qualls for investigation an recommendation. The Department of Public Parks requested that a permit fee be cancelled upon the � iconstruction of a shelter house in Rum Village Park, also that the fees be cancelled covering the building of the administration building in Howard Perk. In view of the fact that the latter was temporarily held up pending decision of the City Plan- Commissio this was rejected. It was, however, decided to cancel the fees covering the shelter hour in Ru& Village Park. Bids were received from. the Fairbanks -Morse and Company of Ch cagq, also A. N. Emmin-I ger of South Bend, representative of the Howe Scale Company of Chicago, for the instal- lation of new scales of 20-11jon capacity, 34'x 9 feet platform, to,'be installed at the Central Fire Station. Final decision with reference to the purchase of these scales was held pending a report from. the County Treasurer to the City Controller as to collec- tions on fall taxes to ascertain if sufficient funds will be available for the purchase j and installation of these scales during the current year. I, Meeting adjourned at 11;'30 A. M. it Board of ub c fforks ATTEST %his/ Clerk MEETING November 28. 1938 Regular meeting of theBoardof Public Works was held on November 28, at 10:10 A.M� Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Claims from the following suppliers in the amount of $186.94 were approved and ordered paid; also payroll of sev-i eral of the Departments amounting to $5638.13: (111 members present) Ind.iana Bell Telephone Co. 1.90 Dr. A. A. Kramer 2.00 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 3.75 G. E. Meyer & Son, Inc. 44.06 Northern Indiana Public Service 1.00 Huff Tire Service, Inc. 15.36 Firmints Electrical Specialties 15.30 C. H. DeFrees, Ind. 3.00 I _ G. 0. Thurn for A. Coquillard 2.00 South Bend Tribun-e 14.83 II Barco Manufacturing Co. 5.56 South Bend Tribune 22.37 Business Systems, Inc. 6.83 South Bend News -Times 16.01 South Bend News -Times 32.97 V/Ylr. Qualls reported upon a petition requesting a street light at Madison and Som- mers Street. He did not recommend the installation and the Board upon regular motion seconded and carried ordered the petition placed on file. Ii �Continuation.Certificate covering Excavation bond in favor of Adolph H. Stuhmer wal ordered filed with the original bond. The Board again m_n�sidered the question of purchasing new scales to be installed a, tht Central Station, and due to the fact that the Controller was unable to determine i • funds available for this purpose, it was decided to postpone final decision regarding the p rchase of these scales until December 19th. r� Mr. Anderson filed plans and the Board adopted said plans together with the follow- ing Vacation Resolution: COPY OF VACATION RESOLUTION Now RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF PUBLIC 40RNS OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEAD, INDIANA: That it is desirable to vacate the following: WAYNE STREET from the west line of St. Louis Blvd to a line drawn from the southwest corner of lot 188 Cottrells 1st Add to the Northwest corner of lot 195 Cottrells 1st Add., also ALLEY SOUTH OF JEFFERSON BLVD from the west line of St. Louis Blvd to the west line of lots 185 and 186 Cotrells 1st Add., also i I �i ALLEY SOUTH OF WAYNE STREET from the west line of St. Louis Blvd � to the Alley Nest of St. Louis Blvd., also ALLEY NEST OF ST. LOUIS BLVD from the south line of Jefferson Blvd to the north line of the Alley South of Jefferson Blvd, and fromthe south line of said Alley south of Jefferson Blvd to the North line of Wayne Street and from the South line of Wayne Street to the Talley South of Wayne Street.