04/16/1918 Board of Public Works Minutes

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148 April 16th. <.1918 The 'following resolution was approved by the Board, > R: E S' ©> L,-U, T. I 0 N: Reselutien transferring Board of Public Works` authority ' over St. ° Leuio ' Street south 'unto 'tie Bard of °Park 'Commissioners; with full central over said street for - Boulevard purposes:•° Be. It °Resolved; *by ,the Board °of •Public •Werbo of the City of South Bend, Indiana, that It is °desired •and °deemed necessary that St. Louis Street from the south line of Jefferson Boulevard to the south line of East Division Street in the Ctty of South Bend, Indiana, be undoi the control and supervision of the Board of Park Commissioners of said City, and:made a part of the Boulevard system,of said City Be It 'Further Resolved,tthat the Board of Public Works do now hereby transfer to said Board of Park Commissioners full authority, control and supervision over said street and renounce in favor of said Board of Park Commissioners, all its power ever and to said street for the purpose herein above set out. Reserving, however,.unto this Board of Public Works the right to lay, connect, and order.to be laid and connected, all pipes, sewers, conduits and other underground work, retaining hereby for such last named purposes all the power which Ahis Beard originally had in and to said street. G. A. ELLIOTT BOkRD OF PUBLIC WORKS. _ H. F. ROSTISER _ JOHN °F. DEHAVEN Attested:- ° Veronica C.. ' Weeney Clerk -of the Board. ° Pole° and Wire Inspector reported on comps -ants about t-elephone poles the the Board ordered same moved as follows:- - j Poland Wire owned by the South Bend Rome Tel. Company which is in the �t way if a garage at 510 No. Michigan Street ordered reset to the east. Also South Bend Home.Tel..,Ca..ordered to remove pele in alley ./ at rear of 937 Riverside Drive and placed same on the dividing line between the two lets about four (4) feet south of where it new stands. The following communication received read and approved by the Board as follows:- Board of Public'Werks, 4/8.1918, City~ of South' Bend, Indiana.--. Gentlemen: - We purpose to furnish labor and material to erect ceiling joist in new squad room, City Hall as follows: Furnish new 2 X 4 ceiling joist, between each present joist out out brick for said joist, furnish new braces where needed, for b:he sum of Fifty Nine and 50/100 Dollars ($59.50). Trusting to be -favored with instructions to proceed with above -work, Yours truly, ECKLER CONSTRUCTION AND SUPPLY CO. By WGEckler. It was rbsolved by unanimous consent of the Board that the Clerk be instructed to notify the Chicago, South Bend & Northern Indiana Railway Company to remove their tracks now on Ernsperger Street off of space to be occupied by a sidewalk and curb, contract for which has been let to be constructed an said street between Lincoln Way East and Bridge ever the St. Joseph River. By unanimous consent of the Board thecontract for steam roller was awarded to the Buffalo -Springfield Roller Company of Springfield, Ohio, for on Ten(10) ton Standard Buffalo Pitts Macadam steam roller with attached steam pressure scarifer for thesum of 04 250.00 to be paid in following manner: $3, 550.00 in cash on delivery of said roller, the balance in said purchase price amounting to $700.00 to be paid by the transfer and delivery on demand at South Bend, Ind. one seend hand Kelley -Spring - ,field Macadam roller, Shop No.886. It is understand and agreed that this contract shall be come effective upon the ratification by proper ordinance of the Common Council of this City, said ordinance to be submitted as soon as this contract is approved of by Buffalo -Springfield Roller Co.,