06/18/1956 Board of Public Safety Minutes

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Ira Hunsberger, Superintendent of the ,Electrical Department., recommends that a 4000 _.lumen light be installed at Jefferson & 27th Streets; Jefferson and 28th Streets; Hasting & 34th Streets; 725 South 34th Street; Club and Tuxedo Drives; Dunham & Jackson Streets; and at the alley on Marion Street between Main Street and Lafayette Boulevard. Also, it is the recommendation of the Electrical Department Superintendent that the following lights should be increased to 4000 lumen: Thomas Street & Hoose Ct. Grant Street at Railroad Tracks; Brookfield Street from Railroad Tracks to Western Avenue; Harris Street near Western A enue; Walnut Street near Western Avenue and Jefferson St; Kociusckd Street near Western Avenue; and Chapel Lane on McPherson Street. Board now approves recommendation of Electrical Department Superintendent I Jim Wicks and others appeared before the Board with reference to the pro- posed arterial street lighting on Miami Street from Ridgedale to Ireland Roads and sub- mitted to the Board a petition which reads as follows: We, the undersigned proper- ty owners along and upon Miami- Street in the City of South Bend, hereby petition your honorable Board that it instruct the City Electrical Department to erect the proposed street lights upon the east side of Miami Street in the territory covered between Ridge - dale Road and the northerly limits of the Erskine Park Golf Course. It is our understand- ing that the proposed plan at-this time calls for these electrical street lights to bee - rected upon the west side of "Miami Street in the area above described. Matter taken under advisement until next Monday, June 25, 1956. HEALTH DEPARTMENT This Board now reviewed the bids for the Health Department cars and awarded the contract to the Scherman- Schaus- Freeman Company: SCHERMAN- SCHAUS- FREEMAN COMPANY A non - collusion affidavit and a 520 South Lafayette Street certified `check in the amount of South Bend, Indiana $448.00 accompanied the bid* 3 1956 Studebaker Champion 2 -Door Sedanets Total . . . . . . . . . . $49471.40 There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned at 10:55 A.M. (DST). Chairman Attest• abo Clerk JUNE 25, 1956 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Safety was held on Monday, June 25, 1956 at 10:00 A.M. (DST). All members were present. Minutes of the previous regular meeting were read and approved. Salary claims in the total amount of $92,198.87 were approved. Claims in the total amount of $6,247.96 were approved and ordered paid for the following suppliers: American Distributing Company 45.12 Benko & Sons 10.90 Bob's T. V. & Antenna Repair 160.00 Leslie Bodnar, M.D. 7.50 City Water Works 7.44 DeVRY Technical Institute 365.00 Henry Eckler Mfg. Co. 419.10 Henry Eckler Mfg. Co. 16.70 Henry Eckler Mfg. Co. 3.59 Henry Eckler Mfg. Co. 44.05 Emlong Nurseries, Inc. 35.00 Englewood Elec. Co. 10.20 Englewood Elec. Company 18.72 Englewood Elec. Co. 59.84 Gerber Manufacturing Co. 281.80 J. 0. Hildebrand, Jr. M.D. 15.00 Hi -Speed Auto Wash 15.00 Ind. Bell Telephone Co. 14.04 Ideal Press 69.00 Ind. Bell Telephone Co. 36.62 Ind. Bell Telephone Co. 159.09 Ind. & Mich. Elec. Company 9.72 Ind. & Mich. Elec. Co. 10.16 Leonard Keeler, Inc. 300.00 Ind. & Mich. Elec. Co. 4.72 L. A. Kolupa, Inc. 32.97 L. A. Kolupa, Inc. 59.02 Harry Lodyga 24.40 Batt. Chief Lederrer 17.90 Carl Martz 29.30 McClave Printing Company 75.00 Memorial Hospital 13.10