02/14/1939 Board of Public Works Minutes

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433 MEETING--FEBRUARY 140 1939 • ✓ Regular meeting of the Board of Public Forks was held on Tuesday, February 14,19390 at 9:00 A.M. There was no meeting on Monday, February 135 1939, it having been declared a legal holiday to commemorate Lincoln's birthday. All members were present. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Payrolls of the various departments in the sum of $4,857.06 and claims of the following suppliers in the amount of 11,055.57 were approved and ordered paid: ,St. Joseph's Hospital 6390 tGru7mmell & Sons $105.00 *Indiana Bell Telephone .75 oCity Water Works 16.30 «South Bend Dowel Works 1.00 ySchilling's 4.71 •Bock Welding & Boiler Wks. 5.75 yIndiana Bell Telephone Co. .60 o 9-,Q0 -Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 230.82 _ .=Railway Express. Ager_cy, Inc. 1.00 South Bend Clean Towel Service 3.65 wSara Berman 47.50 . Goodyear Service 8.94 .-Sam Berman 37.50 The Studebaker Corporation 2.51 t 0 . J. Shoemaker 48.52 i G. E. Meyer & Son, Inc. 1.65 01afill Oil Co. 105.15 1 G. E. Meyer & Son, Inc. 5.48 . J. P. Conboy for postage .69 Aest Side Hardware Co. .70 Ind. Mich. Elec. Co 46.97 -Peltz-Kaufer Co. Inc. 4.00 Ind. E Mich. Elec. Co. 140.40 ,Kaylor Holman Co. 87.62 -West Side Hardware Co. 53.85 11'J,Tr. Qualls submitted a report, as requested by the Board, on the petition for a street light at the intersection of Fellows and Dubail Streets. Yr. Qualls recommended the installation of a 2500 lumen lamp, mast arm, overhead construction, wood pole, at an annual cost of $26.40. The Board, upon motion duly made, seconded and carried, moved that a light.be installed at that intersection, as recommended by Mr. Qualls. Mr.Qualls was instructed to advise the Indiana & Michigan Electric Company to install the light. STREET DEPARTMENT: 64r. Zmudzinski was present and :natters pertaining to his department were discussed. Mr. Zmudzinski reported that a shanty on one of the city dumps had been destroyed by fire. her. Zmudzinski was instructed by the Board to get prices on several different • materials to be used for patching streets and to confer with Tr. Williams concerning the same. He was authorized to purchase six raincoats and also some hip boots for use of the men on the Serer Department. He advised the 3oard that he had received a communication concerning the condition of Mill Street between Washington and the Colfax Bridge. Mr. Zmudzinski was authorized to purchase one gross of bombs for use on W.P.A. projects, to be paid for out of the Special W.P.A. Fund. The Board approved the purchase of ten pair for use of the -men. Ii. Zmudzinski was authorized to have tires for his Sgoggles ucks recapped as work permits. /Mr. R. W. H ays, W.P.A. project supervisor, was present and made a request for additional materials to be used on W.P.A. projects. Due to the terms of the contract . for the construction of the concrete pipe, it is necessary to put on additional men and speed up sewer construction to a point where at least two thousand feet of sewer could be laid per month. Mr. Hays was advised to confer with the City Engineer further re- garding the purchase of additional materials. / Yr. Hays also stressed the importance of obtaining easements on vacant property along sewers to be constructed for the protection of the City against claims and to per- mit the W.P.A. to use the vacant properties for storing equipment and spoil bank. request for approval of driveway returns for filling station on Niles Ave. and Colfax Ave. was submitted by M. Edward Doran. The _utter was referred to the City Engineer for investigation and report at the next meeting. Ahe Board approved the grades established on Iowa Street from Crumstown Ave. to Lincolnway West. i ✓Continuation Certificate on Excavation Bond of Joseph M. Hiznay was approved and ordered filed with the original bond. The following deeds were accepted and were recorded in accordance with the m7nutes of the meeting of February 6, 1939: Deed of Charles V. Carothers and Florence M. Carothers, his wife, for the following real estate, to -:grit: • The East Twenty-seven (27) feet off of the entire East end of a parcel of land described as follows: Beginning at a point on the North and South line in the center of the Millet Road, Thirteen Hundred Twenty-six (1326) feet south of a stone at the center of Section Thirty-three (33) , Township Thirty-eight (38 ) North, Range two (2) East, which point is also the southwest corner of Edgmoor Heights Addition; thence south two hundred forty-three and two - tenths (243.2) feet; thence East on a line at right angles to the line of said road, six hundred twenty-seven (627) feet; thence north two hundred forty-three and two tenths (243.2) feet, on a line parallel to said road; thence west six hundred twenty-seven (627) feet, to the point • of beginning;. containing three and one-half (3�) acres, more or less; being an unrecorded plat of Charles V. Carothers, in the southwest