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September 24, 1945
'! A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Monday, September 24, 19i�
at 9:00 A.M. All memebers were present. Minutes of the last meeting were read and
i approved. Salary claims in the amount of $8.350.58 were approved and ordered paid. Claims
II of the following suppliers in the amount of 43, 693.08 were approved and ordered paid
!i Business Systems 11.07 E. R. Newland Company 25.37 H�
i Indiana Bell Telephone 93.94 The Ohio Oil Company 27.18
J. C. Lauber Co.
4.95
Lloyd Insurance Company
5.00
Building Dept. (Trans.(
105.00
E. Miller (Trans.)
20,00
Hoffman Bros.
99.65
Hoffman Bros.
68.35
Indiana Bell Telephone
7.50
Ind. & Mich. Elec. Co.,
1.00
K-Hill Signal Co.
128.25
Schilling's Inc.
1.80
Schilling's Inca
1.34
C. Balka (Trans.)
12.50
River Park Lumber Company
6.47
Standard Gil Company
430.83
Standard Oil Company
12716.25
Standard Oil Company
865.10
Studebaker Corp.
56.20
Studebaker Corp.
5.33
TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT: Mr, Ernest Miller, Traffic Engineer, was present and matters per-
taining to his department were discussed.
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT: A Contractor's bond in the amount of $1,000.00 was approved
for William H. Ortman and was ordered filed.
An application for a parking lot at 1001 South Michigan Street was received and
approved by the Board.
Thp Board approved the vacation of the first alley North of Randolph Street from
Marine Street to the East line of the alley West of Marine Street, but advertising
the resolution was held up pending the receipt of the sum of money necessary to pay
for the advertising.
STREET DEPARTMENT: Mr. Casimer Balka, Street Commissioner, was present and matters
pertaining to his department were discussed.
.Mr. Balka presented the following amounts of money to the Board: $15.00 for flush-
ing a house tap and $5,00 for the equipment; $500.00 for the sale of a Sullivan Air Com-
pressor #60; $6.00 for rental of a roller and $175,00 for rental of the sewer machine.
CEMETERY DEPARTMENT: Mr. 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 adjourned
at 10:00 A.M.
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SPECIAL MEETING
A special meeting of the Board of Public Works and Safety was held on Saturday,
September 29, 1945 at 9:30 A.M.. All members were present.
The Board of Public Works and Safety met for consideration of problems involveed
in connection with the employment of engineers to prepare preliminary reports, final
plans and specifications, and to supervise the construction of a sewage treatment sys-
tem, together with necessary appurtenances, for the city. The members indicated that
they were familiar with a unanimous report concerning the employement of engineering
services for this project and made by a special non -partisan committee appointed to
consider municipal problems and consisting of the following: Jesse I. Pavey, Vice -
President, South Bend Lumber Company; Harold Vance, Chairman of the Board of the Stude-
baker Corporation; Clyde Stephenson, President, St. Joseph Industrial Union Council;
A. E. Klinger, Presidents South Bend Supply Company, Chairman of South Bendts Civic
Economic Committee; Granville Keller, Vice -President, Whitcomb and Keller; M. P. Ferguso
Vice -President, Bendix Products Division; E. M. Morris, Presdent, Associates Investment
Company; Valentine Gadacz, Secretary -Treasurer, Sobieski Federal Savings Loan Associatio
M. A. Zahoran, Funeral Director, President Southwest Property Gwnerts Association; and
Henry Lowenstine, Manager, Greene's Inca
The members of the Board then indicated that they had received on September- 26, 1945 a
letter from Mayor Dempsey enclosing a joint bid made by Charles 1�7. Cole & Son and
William S. Moore, Engineers, for such engineering work. The members then indicated
that they had received, under date of September 25, 1945, a memorandum addressed to the
Board and signed by the City Clerk indicating that the Common Council had moved that a
certain ordinance to transfer Fifteen Thousand ($15,000.00) Dollars from budgetary
Account No. B 262 to the General Fund had been held in "council in order to give local
engineering firms an opportunity to submit plans and specifications on the sewage dis-
posal system. n
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