03/05/1918 Board of Public Works Minutes

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110 Board- instructed Clerk to. notify Staples & Ackerman Contractor4k on the Portage Avenue ,p ipe sewer. improvement to be present at session to be held Tuesday March 12th.,1918 at 10:00'A. . As the matter of the Portage .Avenue Pipe sewer is to be taken up at this time. The following communication was received by the Board from Indiana & Uie-higan, Elee. Company, read and placed on file. March 2,1918. Board of Public forks., South Bend, Indiana.: Gent 1 emen: - Z-- We recently received a letter from you asking us if there was any new underground'work we Might have on E. Jefferson Blvd. between' Michigan Street and the Jefferson' St. Bridge, as, you intend to pave it this summer. In this connection we would like to-knbw whether you contemplate extending the 5-light posts in this direction, and would ask you to ad vise us so that we can make propek preparations before the pavement is put in. Yours very truly, INDIANA & MM(IHIGAN ELECTRIC CO. C . L• . KENNEDY CSK-K Gen'l. Supt., Building Commissioner C. A. Perkins, met with the Board and presented the following notice tin owners of signs , which was approved by the Board and Commissioner. instructed to advertise same. i NOTICE TO OWNERS OF SIGNS. Notice is hereby given that Section #109 of Ordinance #1879 adopted March 12th. ,191'7, of the' C ity of South Bend, Indiana., provides that all existing signs and billboards whose length, construction or location does not comply with the provisions therein contained, shall after January lat., 1918_ be made to comply with the Ordinance or be removed entirely. • All of said signs etc., are now unlawful ,structuses, and notice is hereby given to the owners thereof to comply with the law by April 15th., 1918. C'. A. PERKINS ,•COMMISSIONER OF BUILDINGS. The following communication was received read and approved by the Board and Clerk instructed to notify controller to release said funds. rch 1,1918. The Honorable Board of Public Works, South Bend, Ind iana. ' Gentlemen: - At the time of the hearing on the assessment roll of the Fox Street pipe sewer, from Miami Street to Leer Street, the Controller was instructed to retain 100.00 from the amount due the contractor Bruno De Peape, ufltil some minor details in the construction of the sewer had been remedied. v Mr. De Peape has taken care of this matter, and I therefore recommend that the Board of Public Works instruct the Controller to•pay him the money still due him. Yours very truly, FREDERICK J.-ANDERSON, City Civil . Eng in ear. v The Board oddered that a special session of the Board be held Thursday March nth. ,1918 at 10: 00 A.M. to take up the matter of the washing out of the ` f irst ' ' .alley north of Fox Street between St. Joseph Street and Carroll Street, caused by some parties diverting Bowman Creek. Board instructed Clerk'to notify the National Lumber Company, Mr. J. W. Paxton property owner, also Chief of Police Kline, requested to notify all property owners bordering on said alley to be present .at said session. Clerk instructed to request City Attorney to be present at -said session. The matter of transportation for the City Engineer Ins: -his work in the Eng ineer 3.ng department was discussed by the Board and it was unanimously agreed by the Board that if Mr. F. J. Anderson City Engineer would`-furhish: his car, ---that, ` the Board would allow Thirty ($30-OO)Dollare per mouth foriusb--of same. The City Engineer agreed to furbish car, at the above agreement .