04/03/1939 Board of Public Works Minutes

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447 1-4EETING--A.PRIL 3, 1939 Regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on 'Monday, April 3, 1939, at 9:15 A.M. All members were present. Yinutes of the previous meeting were read and ap- proved. CEMETERY DEPARTMENT: Lisle F. Vicluabb, Sexton, was present and made his -report for the month of I-Jarch, 1939, which showed total receipts of 191.00. Mr. McNabb obta'-reed an estrrate on the amount of paint required to Paint the fence around the City Cemetery. 163 gallons of paint will be needed. If red -lead at A04.12 a gallon and steel coating at 1.82 a gallon are used, the cost will be $1263.76; if the fence is merely cleaned and coated: with aluminum paint atn2.42 a gallon, the cost Will be>394.46 for material only. No action was taken by the 1-'oard. IEIr. McNabb was authorized to purchase 100 lbs of grass seed and 100 lbs. of fertili ✓_Mir. lddilliams presented to the Board a letter of the State Highway Commission re- gard-ng.the railroad crossing on Western Avenue west of 1 alnut Street. Since the report did no•�, include-recorLyAendati ons, final action of the Board was withheld until a later date. ✓ The following deed was accepted and was recorded in accordance with the minutes of S the meeting of February 6, 1939: Deed of Mae E. Huff Arrowsmith, widow and of full age, and survivor of ?Mary E. Huff, deceased, of Grange County, in the State of Florida, for the following real estate, to -grit: A parcel of land bounded b-- a line runn n� as follows, to-:vit: Beginning at a point six hundred (600) feet east of a point in the north and south center line of SectionThirty-three (33), Township Thirty-eight (38) North, Range Two (2) East, distant south one thousand seven hundred fifty-five (1755) feet from a stone in the center of said Section; thence south one • hundred sixty-one (161) feet; thence east twenty-seven (27) feet; thence north one hundred sixty-one (161) feet; thence west twenty-seven (27) feet to the place of beginning; and being the east twenty-seven (27) feet of grantor's land. T_1is deed is executed to convey to the City ofSouth Bend said land for street p,.rposes for the`,Uuse of the r�ublic, heretofore designated on the proposed .plat as I'Jayfield Road, and which the grantor now understands is to be known as Illinois Street. I-Aary E. Huff, who held the title to the above described property as a joint tenant with the grantor, was grantor's mother. The said Liar y E. Huff de- parted this life on the 25th day of February, 1�)29. which quit -claim deed was recorded in -gook No. 309 at page 496 and is Decwment No. 56999 in the Records of the Recorder of St, Joseph county, Indiana, and is Document No. 705 in the records of the Board of Public +iJorks of-1the city of South Bend. / It was moved by I,.r. Beamer, seconded b-;=r. Driggs and unanimously carried that the City_ Hall shall be closed on Good Friday from fronoon until 3:00 %_.;.T. The Engineer presented evidence to tie Board taat=1arr7T i,11icodemu s, a plumber, had not complied with the ordinance in t=,e construction of a sewer connection at 912 Leland Avenue. The following letter was sent to I;�r. Nicodemus b1T registeredmail • "on the 31st day of ITlarch, 1939, you obtained Permit No. 30753 to install a sewer connection at the residence at 912 Leland Avenue. "Under the rules and regulations of the engineer you were instructed to install � not less than a six-inch connection which instructi6ns and order were stamped upon the per�it which you obtained. "We have been informed that instead of complying witht his order, that you in- stalled a five -inch connection at this address. This is a violation of the ordinanc . The ordinance provides that upon failure to comply with this order, the Engineer shall cause the connection to be changed and suit shall be brought against you and your bonding company to recover the cost of changing the improper connection and to recover reasonable attorney fees and court costs; it also provides that you may be charged with a violation of the city ordinance and fined for your failure to comply therewith. "Unless the five -inch connection which you installed at the above address is corrected by the installation of not less than a six-inch connection on or be- fore the loth day of April, 1939, we shall proceed under the ordinance to change the connection which you installed and bring an action on the bond and also prosecute you for violation of the c rdinance. • "Kindly govern yourself accordingly." Carbon copy was sent to the Laven insurance Agency.