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Home My WebLink About11/08/1943 Board of Public Works MinutesMEETING - NOVEItIBER 1, 1943 127 • There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adJourned at 1V:30 .A.I4. ATTEST: C1er ADDENDA: Mr. Leon Mathews requested permission of the Board to hang a banner across Michigan Street for the Community Fund. Permission was granted to his request provided the banner is hung by a licensed and bonded Sign Company. . MELTING - NOVEMBER 81 1943 I A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Monday, November 8, 1943 at 9:00 A.M. All members were present. Minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. Claims of the following suppliers in the amount of $8,288.02 were approved and ordered paid Business Systems 5�.73 Ind._ & Mich. Elec. Co. $128.38 City 'dater 'Norks 2.19 Ind. & Mich. Elec Co. 3.00 City plater Works 1.41 Ind., & Mich. Elec. Co. 24.24 Continental Gil Co. 529.25 Miller -Bryant -Pierce Co. 1.76 Englewood Elec. Supply Co. 17.92 J. A�. Orr Company 10.75 • Garnitz Furniture Co. 19.95 Sanders Lumber Co. 35.32 L. 0. Gates Chev. Co. 1.13 So. Bend Sanitary Wipers 8.00 V. E. Harmon, M.D. 46.00 South Bend 'Sholesale Drug Co. .10.54 Hoffman Bros. 7.90 South Bend Sand & Gravel 2.50 Hoffman Bros, 3.00 Tucker Freight Lines 16.23 J. I. Holcomb Co. 34.50 F. J. Vurpillat M.D. 14.00 Ind. & 'Mich. Elec. Co. 6,989.36 Weisberger Bros. 2.50 Ind. & Mich. Elec. 'Co. 173.16 Vilest Side Hardware Co. 49.00 Ind. & Idlich. Elec. Co. 1.50 lKest Side Hardware Co. 148.80 STREET DEPARTMENT: Mr. Anthony, Zmudzinski, Street Uo=issioner, was present and matters pertaining to his department were discussed. ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT: This being the date set for opening the bids received for the construction of one local sewer on Duey Street from South Bend Avenue north to. the North line of Hartman and Millers .Addition and Hartman and Woodworths Addition, !i and it now being 10:30 and only one bid being received, said bid was opened and read by Mr. _'will'iams, Bid was from South Bynd Builders, Inc., and was accompanied by a If bid bond check for $249.00 and a non -collusion affidavit. The bid is as follows: Bid to furnish all material and labor necessary to complete the sewer work,on Duey Avenue according to the plans and specifications prepared by the L'ity Emgineer and ii now on file in the office of Board of Public works and Safety for -the sum of Twenty Four Hundred Ninety Dollars. The bid was awarded to the South,Bend.Builders �I Inc. and a "contract, is being prepared. • I� Contractor's bonds were approved for Millard T. Hartman and Bernhard T. Johnson. These were ordered filed. The Board acknowledged receipt of a resolution passed by the State Highway Comm - fission on October 27, 1943 establishing a loading zone for the Peerless Supply Company. on .Western Avenue. A petition was received asking that the 14 foot alley between lots 132 and 133 of the original plat of the City of South Bend, from the alley East of Michigan Street to the "Nest line of vacated North St. Joseph ,Street be vacated. This was now turned over to the City Plan Commission for investigation and report. • A document was received from the First Bank and Trust Company proposing to p y P P g I dedicate a strip of land 16 feet in width taken off of and from the entire North side of lot 132 of the original plat of the City of South .Bend. This was now turned over to the City Plan Commission for approval. kaeonbeb y-+-µ4 - %Osk) 311 PHA ,�4b TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT., A letter was received from the .:'ar Department requesting that the City reserve parking places in front of the Associates Building for the cars used by the `Nar Department. This was referred to Mr. Hiller, Traffic Engineer. I� i i MEETING - NOVEMBER 8, 1943 The City Hall will be closed November 11, 1943, Armistice Day. CEMETARY DEPARTMENT: Tyr. Stanley Leszczynski, Sexton, was present and matters pertain- ing to his department were discussed. There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjnurn at 10:30 A.M. MEETING - NOVEMBER 15, 1943 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Monday, November 15, 1943 at 9:00 A.TdI. All members were present. Minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. Salary claims in the amount of $7,547.32 were approved and ordered paid. Claims of the following suppliers in the amount of $745.71 were approved and ordered paid: The Gibson Company $ 9.70 National Brake Service $ 35.51 The Gibson Company 125.78 E. R. Newland Company 113.15 Kaylor-Holman Co. 57.75 J-. A. Orr Co. .60 Kaylor-Holman 'Co. 4.00 S•chillingts Inc. 2,41 Korte• Bros. 47.E8 St. Jos. Heating Co. 231.49 Mirror Press - 13,39 Travelers Insurance 'Co. -5.00 Mishawaka Equipment go. 1-.85 Sullivan Machinery Co. 83,90 C. F.- Ba.lka (Trans.) 12.50 The following claims were paid -out of the Special _vV.P.A. Fund or, the Interceptor` Sewer, Fund Edgar•Anderson (Salary) 62.50, Northern Indiana Transit Co. $ 25.00 ENGIiEERING DEPARTMENT: This being the date set•for opening bids -received for the construction of an access road, the Chippewa Avenue Pavement Project; Indiana 12-137, and it now being 10:00 A.I., and only one bid having been received, said bid was opened and read by Mr. Clyde E. Williams, :Chairman of the Board,of Public Works. Mr. John H. Collins, of the Federal 1.7orks Agency, was present when the bid was opened. Bid was from the Reith-Riley Construction Company of Goshen, Ind! _ana and was accompanied by a bid bond check for 41,000.00 and a non -collusion affidavit and was as follows: 5450 cu. yds Excavation .90 cu. yd. $4,905.00 80 lin. ft, 12" concrete ,pipe 2.00 lin. ft. 160.00 2 Earth ditch.type catch basins 150.00 each 300.00 8560 sq. ft. concrete sidewalk .20 sq. ft. 11712.00 2.6 Acres fertilized seeding 80,00 acre 208,00 3990 Sq. yds. Compacted aggregate base 1.00 sq. yd. 30990.00 3090 Sq. yds. Bituminous concrete surface 1.00 sq. yd 31990.00 585 Gals. Primo (Tar) .30 gal. 175.50 Total $152440.50 Alternate bid item 3990 Sa. Yds. Soil cement base .95 sq. yd. ov,W) Upon motion duly made an,d., unani. mously,_-carr-ied,, tt: tentative. award was made to the Rei.th-Riley-Constr�anctian C.gmpany of Goshen; Indiana, sub jebt to the appi88 ral 'of the Fed eral Works Project, this being a reasonable bid, and the Board is of'the opinion that the City would not benefit by re -advertising for bids. CQNDE1,4NATION RESOLUTION NO. 2525 RESQLVED BY THE BOARD OF PUBLIC r G,1:ZKS AND SAFETY OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA: That the following described properties be appropriated for the use of said city: A part of a right-of-way Eighty (80), feet elide described as follows: Beginning on the Easterly line of Michigan Street at the intersection of the � North line of Section Twenty-five (25), Township Thirty-seven (37) North, Range Two (2) East; thence South Five Degrees, Fifty-eight Minutes (50 58t) lest along the said Easter- ly line of Michigan Street a distance of Forty and Twenty-one Hundredths (40.21) feet; I++I thence East parallel with and Forty (40) feet South of the North line of said Section Twenty-five (25) a distance of Three Hundred Twenty-two and Eight hundredths (322.8) feet more or less to the East line of Lot A. Chippewa Heights 2nd Addition; thence North along the East line of said Lot A a distance of Forty (40) feet to the North line of said Secti�n Twenty-five (25); thence West along the North line of said Section Twenty-five (25) 0 • E • A