10/14/1939 Board of Public Works Special Meeting Minutes

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SPECIAL MEETING- O-CTGBER 14, 1939 C7 • • A special meeting of the Board of Public Works was held at 9:00 A.M. on Saturday, October 14, 1939, for the purpose of examining proposed types of beds'to be used in collection of garbage under the contract entered into on the 18th day of August, 1939, with Victor W. DeFrees. The contractor submitted diagrams and cuts of Marion Steel Refuse Bodies manufac- tured by the Marion Metal Products Company of Marion, Ohio. After due consideration, the Board approved this body as being satisfactory under the terms of the contract and and specifications of said contract of August 18, 1939. The purpose of the meeting having been accomplished, the meeting adjourned at 9 :30 A.M. MEETING--OCTOBER 16. 1939 Regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held at 9:00 A.M.on Monday, October 16, 19390 all members being present. Minutes of the previous regular meeting and of the special meeting held on October 14, 1939, were read and approved. Additiona payrolls of the Street and Cemetery Departments in the amount of $178.40 and claims of the following suppliers in the amount $949.56 were approved and ordered paid: American Steel Supply Co. $72.00 Business Systems, Inc. $ 2.92 Indiana Hardware & Tin Shop 47.50 Indiana & Michigan Electric Company 1.00 TT It TT TT TT 60.00 TT TT TT TT TT 142.78 The McCaffery Company 5.22 TT TT TT TT rT 68.37 It TT .59 The.Hallemite Mfg, Co. 22.52 " it It 1.92 The Gibson Company 24.87 fT TT If 1.90 Railway Express Agency, Inc. 3.26 Edwards Iron Works, Inc. 5.40 it If If IT .30 Wabash Va1Ie y Express, Inc. .55 Motor Service & Parts 2.72 Retco Alloy Company 70.97 Korte Bros. Inc. 7.30 Bock Welding & Boiler Works 94.50 The Linde Air Products Co. 3.77 TT TT TT TT TT 24.95 TT TT TT TT TT 8.14 J . C. z-L&ubbba& 7CpMpdny 1.'70 r: Tr n TT TT 9.28 Scheizitan;-Schaus.. Freeman Co. 23.50 If if TT TT 1.12 Sch6rmp_n=_Schaus Freeman Co. 1.20 tT TT TT TE TT 1.88 River Park Lbr. Co. Inc. 1.57 The South Bend Supply Co. 7.60 Holycross_.& Nye Co. 1.02 Jos. DeWilde Hardware 4.33 Indiana I stitutional Industries 6.56 Flexible Sewer Rod Equipment Co. 62.02 HoffmanTs"Rubber Works n 100.00 G. E. Meyer &Son, Inc. 1.97 Duley Printing Co. 22.00 So. Bend Clean Towel Service 8.75 The Studebaker ,Corporation 4.92 South Bend Lathe Works 10.44 Weisberger Bros. 6.25 The following claims of the respective suppliers in the amount of $3,072.42 to be paid from either the Special W.P.A. Fund or Intercepter Sewer W.P.A. Fund were approved and ordered paid: McClave Printing Co. $14.00 Asphalt Products Corp. $369.78 Business Systems, Inc. 1.06 Harry D. Ullery Coal Co. Inc. 12.15 TT TT TT 1.37 TT TT 1T TT TT T` 105.00 Jos. DeWilde Hardware 16.60 River Park Lumber Company 1120.00 TT it If 11.55 Mirror Press, Inc. 25.25 The McCaffery Company 1.17 C. H. DeFrees, Inc. 11.25 TT TT TT 14.38 Maurice J. Hoban 20.00 South Bend Foundry Company 10.00 The Studebaker Corporation 8.86 South Bend Dowel Works 30.00 I. C. Reed 268.00 Scherman Sehaus Freeman Co. 712.00 White Consolidated, Inc. 320.00 The Board of `}forks received the following petitions and communications which were referred to it by the Common Council of South Bend relative to proposed changes of schedules of the N?rthern Indiana Railway Company, Inc., to-=rrit: from Dr. G. H. gross, Secretary of the River Park Business Preens Association; the Fifth District Democratic & Civic Club; nineteen members of Post 50 and Auxiliary Post 50 American Lelgion, and United Automobile Workers of America, Local No. 5. The resolutions will be taken into consideration at the time of any negotiations or conferences with the Northern Indiana j Railway, Inc. relative to schedules. el A letter was received from the United Automobile Workers of America, Local No. 52 relative to the condition of the sidewalk on SouthFranklin Street south of the railroad between Broadway and Indiana Avenue in front of the old Russ Blueing Company factory. The matter was referred to the Street Department for investigation and report. • The Board approved the plan for proposed driveway on South Main Street to Sears, Roebuck & Company parking lot, subject to the recommendations of the Traffic Engineer. A duplicate plan shall be prepared and filed with the Engineering Department in making request for permit.