11/13/1939 Board of Public Works Minutes

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M=TING--NOVEY1BER 13, 1939 Regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Monday, November 13, 1939, at 9:00 A.M. All members were present. Payrolls of the various departments in the amount of $6,735.37 and claims of the following suppliers in the'amount',of $1475.60 were approved and ordered paid: Continental oil Co. $15.00 Asphalt Products Corp. $204.39 American Steel Supply Co. 72.00 City Water Works 33.68 Jos. DeWilde Hardware 2.10 rr tt rr 13.00 It Itrt 1.00 �' rr rr 2.25 Shell American Petroleum Co. 7.98 rr rr rr 44.07 �r rr rr rr 71.48 Dr. H. H.' Sloroinski 30.00 • Sibley Machine & Foundry. Co. 9.90 it It If It 6.00 Thilman Bros. 7.75 It It rr It 4.00 Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. 25.30 rr It It If 10.00 The Linde Air Products Co. 1.08 The South Bend Supply Co. 26.85 IT " " rr If 3.77 rr It " It It 4.30 it It it it It 3.77 E. R. Newland Co. 495.00 It it If rr It 9.01 Itlum Steel Co. 247.42 The Acorn Refining Co. 19.50 West Side Hardware Store 19.92 Elgin Sweeper Co. 12.38 G. E. Meyer & son, Inc. 32.40 National Brake Service, Inc. 7.30 rr It If It it It 1.26 South Bend Lathe Works 10.44 South Bend Sanitary Wipers Co. 12.00 Korte Bros. Inc. 10.20 Payrolls for the 1N.P.A. Account and Intercepter Sewer Account in the sum of '$1786.6� and claims of the following suppliers to be paid out of the Special `N.P. A. Account or Intercepter Sewer Account in the sure of �2,446.99 were approved and ordered paid: American Steel Supply Co. 150.00 Edwards Iron fflorks, Inc. 12.60 Independent Concrete Pipe Corp.Ine.1263.60 It rr It It 68.40 It It " rr rr 910.15 It It If " 3.20 The Gibson Company 2.94 Kaylor Holman Co. 6.10 Clyde E. Williams 30.00 • A letter was received from Ellsworth Butz, Secretary of the South Bend Traffic Commission stating that that Commission had gone on record advising the elimination of a left hand turn by the Portage bus at the intersection of Washington and Michigan Streets and suggesting that the bus be required to continue north on Michigan to Navarre and there turn left. 0 It was moved, seconded and unanimously carried that this request be concurred in by this Board and that the matter be referredto the Northern Indiana Railway Company to see if they would not voluntarily comply with this request. The following letter was received from the State Board of Health regarding plans f the intercepting sewers: "Board of Public Yorks South Bend, Indiana "November 9, 1939 "Gentlemen: "This is to advise you that the Director of the Indiana State Board of Health has this 9th day of November, 1939, approved the plans for Section No.l of the South Bend intercepting sewers submitted by Messrs. C. E. Williams and R. B. Plu mer. T?,is section consists of the main interceptor from Logan street to Twenty-first street. "Vdry truly yours, "Verne K. Harvey ( signed) Verne K. Harvey, M.D., Director, "BAP/LG Indiana State Board of Health. No. 815 Copy to State W.P.A. W.P.A. District No. 1, South Bend, Ind. State Board of Accounts." Plans for Intercepting Server Unit No. 1, which is that unit between Logan Street and • Twenty-first Street weaeapproved by the Board and placed on file. Curb returassand parking area on Wayne Street along the siq.e of the Yeager Gar.ag-e were presented to the Board for approval. This plan was referred to the Engineering [,/Department for investigation. Plans for remodeling the filling station at the northeast corner of Miami and Ewing Avenue was submitted to the Board. The Board referred these plans to the Engineering Department for investigation and report. STREET DEPARTMENT: Mr. Zmudzinski was present and matters pertei ning to his department Were discussed, Mr. Zmudzinski was questioned concerning the disposal of leaves and waste matter accumulated when the streets are swept. He was instructed to make disposi- • ,ion of the majority of this-aiaterial at the Park Department. instead of at the dutupa. Meeting ad'ourned at 12:00 Noon. B D OF�UBLTC ,J iKS Attest: Clerk