01-25-37 Council Meeting Minutes

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block on Lincolnway East, Remonstrate Pgainst any further action by your honorable body in the matter of a proposed amendment,.supple.ment or chence of the building regulations prescribed for*this district to permit the erection of an automobile Service -or Filling Station at the southeast corner of Lincolnwry East and Leer Street. - Respectfully, 24 signers. Councilman Goetz moved that said be referred to the zoning commission. Councilman. Rasmussen seconded the motion. Motion carried. REPORT OF THE CITY - CONTROLLER OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER, 1936 Balance on Hand first on month - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $907,318.04 Balance onLecember3lst, 1936------------------- - - - - -- -$931, 88.07 Respectfully Submitted, Fred Woodward, City Controller, Report accepted by the Council and ordered to be placed on file. Motion carried. TO THE HONORABLE COMMON COUNCIL CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA HONORABLE SIRS: 1936. The following is e report of the work done 'by my departments during the month of December, 1,919 paper cans emptied 262 loads of cinders put in holes in streets and alleys 213 loads of cinders spread on icy pavements 62 loads of cinders hauled to stock pile 393 miles of streets cleaned by machine 30 blocks of streets cleaned by hand 660 blocks of streets, and alleys cleaned by cart men 494 loads of sweepings hauled to dump 129 blocks of streets flushed 37 intersections cleaned 6,637 small beericades placed 3,265 large barricedes placed 2,782 danger bonbs placed 1 street cane -in repaired 368 dead animals taken to dump 51 loads of scrap asphalt hauled to yard 16 loads of send and gavel hauled to yard 582 holes in streets repaired with cold pack asphalt 3 cuts in conorete pavement repaired 23 cuts in brick pavement repaired 48 cuts in a.sphFalt pavement repaired 42 tons of scrap asphalt cooked and used on streets 23 "glass in street" calls answered 175- street signs repaired 1 loedJ of brick hauled to yard 3 fallen trees removed 49543 feet- of main sewers dragged 28 loads of sewer dirt hauled 69 main sewers flushed 18 private sewers flushed 2,451 catch basins opened 482 catch basins flushed 1 catch basins repaired 2 catch basins installed 15 manholed cleaned 2 manholes flushed 7 manholes fepaired , Respectfully submitted, J. C. Weer Commissioner of Streets TO THE HONORABLE COMMON COUNCIL CITY OF SOUTH BEND INDIANA HONORABLE SIRS: Enclosed with this letter is the annual report of Street and 86wer Department activities for the year 1936, which is a summery of the monthly reports you have received. During the last twelve months it has been the aim and purpose of these departments to give to the public of South Bend the most efficient service possible The Winter of 1936 was unuselly severe and beside coating the Street Department a large sum of money for snow removal, it ,was necessary for the department to spend a large amount for the repair of pavements which were town open due to frozen water mains. The Water Department installed new shut- off�va.lves throup -ITout the down town section on M chigan Street and new mains on Wayne Street from Lafayette Blvd, to Lincolnway East, whicA cost a large part of our appropriation to resurface. Also during the year the Street Department continued the sponsorship of the-W. P. A. pro- jects which included the grading and graveling of 30.15 :Hiles of streets and 11.4 miles of alleys, construction of a new office building for Street Department use, cleaning of the river banks and the construction of s river wall in Le$alle Park which was extended to join the wall in Howard Park, and the repair and construction of sidewalks and curbs throughout the city where such service was desired by the property owners. During the last two months of the years new W. P. A. project was started which at the present time has completed the turning and relaying of bricks on south Main Street which wi31 be continued to completion on said street end extended to other thoroughfares. My departments have cooperated with the W. P. A. to the extent of furnishing materiels, tools, and labor to assist in the work on these projects and also, it has been necessary for us to maintain the completed streets and alleys and endeavor to keep them in as good condition as they were when the W. P. A. finished working on them. It is our aim and desire that during the coming year we will again be able to serve the Itax payers of South Bend in a manner which will be appreciated, with the fundA ir;th owhi'nh &A