09/13/1937 Board of Public Safety Minutes

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�37 � PJ�ETING -- September 13, 193? Regular meeting of the Board of Public Safety i��e,s held on P�donday, Septenber the 13th, at 9 A. M. All me�bers were present. Minutes of the previaus meeting were read and approved. Requisitions in the Police Department, Ni.ur►bers 834 to 842, and in the Fire Department, Niunbers 03831 to 03834, were approvad. Claims in the amount of �650.99, from the following suppliers vrera approved and ordered paid. City Wa�er Vdorks �$519.14 Vlillette Service Station �22.50 South Bend 1Nholesale Drug Co. 5.10 ti�ihn. F. Qualls 31.81 South Bend X-Ray Laboratory 10.00 Genaral Sheot Metal yJks.,Inc. 6.65 �'Yestern Union Telegraph Co. 3.42 City tiYater ti�orks 19.56 J. E. Vdalz Garage, Inc., 7.00 Nor. Ind. Pub. Serv. Co. 1.00 Gill-Vorn Chev. Inc., 13.16 City S'Vater Vdorks 11.65 FIRE DEPARTAdENT - Chief Freeh present: Matters pertaining to the operation of the Fire Department were discussed with the Chief. He was authorized to purchase 12 hickory chairs and it cost him �1.80 each, for use in the various fire sta-�ions. _ Applications for position of fireman vrere received from Robert C. Rickel, and Robert 0. Sriver, and placed on file. ELECTRICAL D�PARTMENT - Pdr. Qualls present: Mr. Qualls discussed vrith the Board, matters pertaining to his department, and advised that he �^ra.s now making the changes of traffic signals on Lincoln V�fay West and would continue until the work is completed. POLICE DEPARTMENT - Assistant Chief, Diedrich, present: Letters pertaining to the operation of the Police Department were discussed vrith the Assista.nt Chief. �YEIGHTS AND MEASURES DEPART�II�TT Mr. Burns submitted his report of the tivork of his department for the weok ending September llth, shoti•�ring 122 inspections made. This report is on file in the office of the Board of Public Safety. Idr. Burns reported that he had tested a considerable nLmmber of coal scales during the past tiveek, with State equipment, and was assisted by the State Inspec�or, G. Baltas. I�r. Hotivard Chambers was present and discussed with the Board the mstter of offering Police and Fire men a Salary Saving System, and requested the Board to authorize tivith the employees' permission, the deduction of' the premium once a month. After discussing the matter, it �n�as regularly moved, seconded, and carried, that the following letter be tivritten to the Lincoln National Life Insurance Company of Fort 'JVayne, Indiana: THE FItAI1CHISE LETTER The Linooln Zda�ional Life Insuranoe Company, Fort 1-►ayne, Indiana Until further noticQ, the ?dunicipal City of South Bend, By Board of Publie ti"lorks and Safety, South Bend, Indiana, agrees to handle your Salary Savings System for the benefit of our employees and members of their immediate families. ti��fe will honor pay-roll deduction requests made by our employees on account of policies issued by you to such employees and to members of their im�ediate far�►ilies. Pay-roll deductions made upon request of our employees and included in your monthly statement will be forvrarded to you promptly. It is understood that v�re may, upon ti^rritten notice to our employees and to you-- and that you may, upon written notice to us--terminate this salary savings system as a whole if' the same is not accepted by or continued by a sufficient ntunber of our employees to justify its continuance. In the event of such discontinuance, the payment of premiums thereafter shall be a matter of accounting directly betw�en you and each insured. It is also our understanding that any e:nployee may voluntarily diseon�inue the Salary Savings System and direct a discontinuance of pay-roll de- ductions.