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HomeMy WebLinkAbout10/22/1951 Board of Public Works MinutesS` October 22, 1951 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Monday, October 22, 1951, at 9:30 a.m. All members were present. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Claims of the following suppliers in the amount of $7,490.89 were approved an ordered paid. - Business Systems, Inc. 21.40 Miller, Ernest H. 30.15 Haywood Publishing Co. 17.00 Northern Indiana Who. Groc. 23.50 • Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 10.31 Romy-Hammes Co. 19.50 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 119.42 Scherman-Schaus-Freeman 12.04 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 11.59 PARKING METER: Jennings, A. L. 225.00.`�itumin6us._,Materials Co. 1,015.45 Lien Chemical Co. 37.62 Casimer's Super Market 162.50 Marchelewicz, Peter J. 10.00 Dual Parking Meter 30.00 Record, The 7.34 Dual Parking Meter 2.64 Record, The 7.78 Indiana,Bell Telephone Co. 9.19 South Bend Supply Co. 4.60 McCaffery Company 193.69 South Bend Tribune 7.54 McCaffery Company 193.69 Tubbs, Kenneth 14.00 McCaffery Company 193.69 Weisberger Brothers 19.66 McCaffery Company 193.69 • STREET & TRAFFIC: Seneca Petroleum Co. 539.10 Decker Auto Trim Shop 12.50 Seneca Petroleum Co. 549.10 Eutectic Welding Alloys Corp. 19.11 Seneca Petroleum Co. 538.48 i Healy Sign Co. 16.00 Western Indiana Gravel Co. 377.70 HKndiana Bell Telephone Co. 9.19 SEWAGE DISPOSAL: uert Concrete Inc. 422.87 Consoer, Townsend & Associates 2,403.85 TRAFFIC ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT: Ernest Miller, Traffic Engineer, was present and matter pertaining to his department were discussed. The following stop signs were approved by the Board and installed: • I Fredrickson Street at Elmer Street, both sides Elmer Street at Elwood Avenue, both sides. Altgeld Street at Twyckenham Drive, both sides J Catalpa Street at Kerr Street, both sides. !� York Street at Twyckenham Drive, southeast side. Fredrickson Street at Huey Street, both sides. Birdsell Street at Fassnacht Street, both sides. Wilbur Street at Fassnacht.Street, both sides. Vine Street at 26th Street, both sides. i The following stop signs were approved by the Board and changed: from Marion to Lafayette Street, both sides; and from Marion to Main Street, both sides. City Reflecto rized stop -sign changed to scotchlite stop signs at Ford and Walnut Streets. The following stop signs were approved by the Board and installed making 4-way stops?: on Fellows Street at Bron AVeet, both sides; Fellows Street at Indiana Avenue, both sides; Ewing Avenue at Twyckenham Drive, both sides; and on Franklin at Calvert Street, both si4les. ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT: Contractors' Bonds were approved and ordered filed for Eugene A. Harris; and South Bend Building Construction Company. A petition was received asking for the vacation of the alley between Main and Lafa- yette Boulevard from Main Street west to the east line of the alley ire-st of Main Street! • "running nor"th arid -south between.Monroe and South Streets. Referred -to :City Engiriear. i A letter was drafted to Mr. 0. H. Xkusmeyer, Plant Engineer at the Studebaker Corp., denying their request for a loading dock to be built at the north-east corner of Tutt and Lafayette Streets, because it is in violation of an ordinance prohibiting backing up of trucks over a sidewalk. _The Board approved Change Order #1 Contract #8 of the Hydraulic and LaSalle Street sewer project which contemplates building a concrete base in the manhole at Sycamore and LaSalle Streets, cleaning the manhole at Hydraulic and LaSalle Street, and cleaning the thirty-four feet of the existing sewer north from the manhole if same is found to be in- tact. If, at the time of cleaning, this manhole it is found that no concrete base exists to build same._ Payment for same to be made in accordance with Page E13 Paragraph 34, sub paragraph (d) General Condition of the Contract, i.e., on a cost plus basis. - COMPLETION AFFIDAVIT STATE OF IND IANA ) SS: ST. ff0SEPH COUNTY ) IN THE MATTER relating to the improvement made under Improvement Resolution No. 268 1951 and the plans and specifications therefor comes now Virgil H. Reed who being duly sworn upon oath deposes and says he is acquainted with the Reed Construction Company the 36 party to whom was awarded the contract and who performed the work under Improvement Re- solution No. 2682-1951, NORTH SHORE DRIVE BITUMINOUS CONCRETE RE -SURFACE PAVEMENT. That he is familiar with and personally knows the requirements of the plans and spe cifications of said improvement resolution and further knows that the said Reed -Construe tion Company in the performance of s aid work complied with all the terms and conditions of said plans and specifications in every particular, and that the material used was of the character, kind, quantity and quality required therein and according to and under th direction of the Board of Public Works and Safety Virgila H. Reed. Subscribed and swoon ,to before me this 22nd day of October, 1951 Richard B. Gartner, Sr., My Commission expires April 17, 1954, Notary Public, St. Joseph Co, Indiana ENGINEER'S CERTIFICATE OF COMPIE TION To,the Board of Public Works & Safety South Bend, Indiana South Bend, Indiana October 22, 1951 We hereby certify., that the:;contract between the City of South Bend, Owner, and the Reed Construction Company, ContVactor, for the construction of the Bituminous Concrete Re -surface improvement 'on 'NORTH 'SHORE DRIVE from the west line of Michigan Street to the east line of Lafayette Blvd., under Improvement Resolution No. 2682-1951 has been comple ed in accordance with the plans and specifications for this project. Respectfully submitted, WILBUR H. GARTNER & ASSOCIATES By: Wilbur H. Gartner RESOLUTION ACCEPTING FINAL ESTIMATE No. 26t32-1951 South Bend, Indiana October 22, 1951 Be It Resolved, By the Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of South Bend, Indiana, that the Final Estimate, and Primary Assessment Roll submitted to the Board by the City Civil Engineer or his duly authorized representative on this 22nd day of October 1951 on the improvement known as the NORTH SHORE DRIVE BITUMINCUS CONCRETE RE• -SURFACE i PAVEMENT as described in Improvement Resolution No. 2682-1951, passed by the Board of Public Works and Safety on August 20, 1951, and confirmed by said Board on September 17, 1951, be and the same is hereby adopted, and the Clerk of this Board is hereby requested'; to give notice of the hearing of Special Benefits on said improvement, as required by 11 Section N.111 or 120 of an Act entitled, "An Act Concerning Municipal Corporations" ap- proved March 6, 190,5. R. S. Andrysiak F. K. Baer Frank J. Bru gner Freda G. Noble, Clerk Board of Public Works and Safety NOTICE OF HEARING SPECIAL BENEFITS ON STREET IMPROVEMENT No. 26d2, 1951— South Bend, Indiana October 1, 1951 November 2, 1951 Notice is hereby given, that the following street improvement has been c ompleted, the general character of the improvement, the street, alley or public place on which' MINO been made, and the terminal points thereof, are as follows: NORTH SHORE DRIVE BIit it has has CONCRETE RE -SURFACE PAVEMENT from the west line of Michigan Street to the east line of Lafayette Boulevard. There is on file in the office of the City Controller of said City an assessment ro: with the names of the owners and description of property subject to be assessed with the amount of the prima facia assessment, and can be seen in the office of said City Control. ler. The Board of Public Works and Safety of said City, at the office of the Board in sadi City, will on the 5th day of November, 1951, at 10:00 o'clock M4-CSi receive and hear remonstrances against the amounts assessed against their property respectively, on • • 0 0 357 said roll and will determine the ouestion as to whether such lots, or tracts of land, hai been or will be benefited by said,improvement to the amounts named on said roll, or is greater or less than that named on said roll or in any sum. At which place and time all owners of such real estate may attend in person or by representative and be heard. R. S. Andrysiak F. K. Baer ! Frank J. Bruggner Board of Public !P;orks & Safety • Freda G. Noble, Clerk STREET DEPARTMENT: Melton 0. Brannan, Street Commissioner, was present and matters per- taining to his department were discussed. 1 CEMETERY DEPARTMENT: Stanley Les7.czynski, Sexton, was present and matters pertaining to This department were discussed. There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned1 i at 11:00 a.m. ' ATTEST: October 29, 1951 regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Monday, October 29, 1951 •A at 9:30 a.m. All members were present. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Claims of the following suppliers in the amount of $881.20 were approved and ordered paid: 3 � American Vitrified Products Co. 147.00 Shoemaker, 0. J. }},75 j Barany Hardware Co. 133.79 South Bend City Water Works 25.30 Business Systems, Inc. 14.17 Surgical Supply Co. 18.00 1 Englewood Electrical Supply 3.83 Tri-County News 43.70 j Haywood Publishing Co. 5.22 STREET & TRAFFIC: Huntington Laboratories, Inc. 195,00 Medow, Inc., Ben 70.34 !I Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 10.80 Meyers & Son, G. E. 3.84 • Indiana Lumber & Mfg. McClave Printing 29.67 Standard Oil Co. 18.79 Co. 8.50 PARKING METER: ;Meyer & Son, G. E. 108.50 Vennet, Maurice 40.00 TRAFFIC ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT: Ernest Miller, Traffic Engineer, was present and matters pertaining to his department were discussed. Mr. Miller presented his report on the petition for the installation of a traffic 'j signal at Mishawaka Avenue and Beyer Avenue. A survey of traffic conditions was made and? it was found that traffic at this intersection is at times quite congested. Mr. Miller i i informed the Board, however, that since the petition for this signal was received rather late this year, it will be impossible, due to taterial shortages, to complete this in- stallation during 1951. He feels, however, that it should be included in the 1952 instalj- lations. it 0 • BUSSES: A petition was received asking for the approval of the Board for an addition to' bus service to the southwest section of the city. The bus route at present follows a route north on Gladstone Avenue to Western Avenue then east on Western Avenue to center. '; The petitioners ask that this route be altered so that the bus would travel north. on Gladstone to Western Avenue, on 1estern Avenue to Villageway; north on Villageway to Wash- ington; east on Washington to Sheridan; south on Sheridan to Western; then east on Western to center. This petition was referred to Northern Indiana Transit for t heir consideration. ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT: Contractor's Bond was approved and ordered filed for Belleville Lumber and Supply Company. Excavation Bonds were approved and ordered filed for Leslie 0. Hawkins and Wallace Mitchell. A petition was received asking for the construction of a curb on Sheridan Avenue #from Western Avenue to Sample Street. This was referred to the City Engineer's office. A petition was received requesting the vacation of II -Vest Colfax Avenue from North Brookfield Street to North Johnson Street. This was referred to the City Plan Commissi for investigation and report.