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October 27, 1952
A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held Monday, October 27, 1952,
at 10:00 A. M. All members were present. Minutes of the previous meeting were read
and approved. Claims of the following suppliers, in the amount of $84,080.75, were
approved and ordered paid:
Artcraft Printers
$189.50
Indiana Bell Telephone Co.
250.17
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Herbert Leary
5.00
Midwest Lite Co.
23.75
Office Engineers, Inc.
1.64_,.
Rand's Delivery System
12.00
Peltz Kaufer Paper Co.
36.56
South Bend 'Window Cleaning Co.
10.80
South Bend Window Cleaning Co.
53.50
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J. W. Werntz & Son, Inc.
5.29
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PARKING METER DEPARTMENT:
Brehmer Electric Co.
3.45
DOG POUND:
Singer General Tire Co.
52.15
W. A. R. Equipment Co.
14.30
Builder's Store, Inc.
9.75
SEWER DEPARTMENT:
Niles excavating Co.
485.00
Niles excavating Co.
406.48
E. R. Newland Co.
36.96
Ridge Co.
35.18
INTERCEPTOR SEWER:
Barna Massa Construction Co.$18,616.66
STREET IMPROVEPv7ENT:
Wilbur H. Gartner
2,644.72
Rieth-Riley Construction 52094.45
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CONTRACTORS IMPROVEMENT:
Reed Construction Co.
278.04
Reed Construction Co.
327.38
STREET & TRAFFIC:
Art Cannady's Mag. & Spd.Ser.
8.10
Bearings Service Co.
14.98
Gafill Oil Co.
1912.60
Gyori Portable Welding Service
20.00
Louis How, M.D.
9.00
Indiana Bell Telephone Co.
14.29
Industrial Towel Service
6.60
International Harvester Co.
20.45
Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. 81.60
Kaley Motor Service
42.1.2
Indiana Bell Telephone Co.
10.94
Frank Kettring, Postmaster
$20.00
Korte Bros., Inc.
4.31
Ben Medow,inc,'
79.62
Motor Service.& Parts, Inc.
8.16
G. E. Meyer & Son
73.91
E. R. Newland Co., Inc.
54.00
Office Supply & Equipment Co.
2.50
Peltz-Kaufer Paper Co.
36.56
Pettibone Mulliken Corp.
58.10
Pettibone Malliken Corp.
2.86
Pettibone Mullikeh. Corp.
4.49
Pettibone Nulliken Corp.
4.31
Premier Autoware Co.
114.61
Redmer Distributing Co.
45.25
Romy Hammes Corporation
5.93
Schuyler Rose, Inc.
52.00
Rieth-Riley Construction Co.
921.02
Simon Bros., Inc.
342.00
Simon Bros., Inc.
342.00
Sinclair Refining Co.
78.86
Singer General Tire Co.
88.25
C. D. Smelser Co.
521.08
C. D. Smelser
183.21
South Bend Electric Co.
2.74
South Bend Electric Co.
47.04
South Bend Electric Co.
3.78
South Bend Supply Co.
63.35
Standard Automotive Supply
Co.
84.28
Standard Automotive Supply
Co.
87.00
Standard Automotive Supply
Co.
19.14
Standard Automotive Supply
Co.
58.85
Standard Automotive Supply
Co.
42.60
Standard Automotive Supply
Co.
68.94
Scherman-Schaus Freeman Co.
29.12
Standard Oil Co.
491.86
Standard Oil Co.
493.80
Standard Oil Co.
L47.31
Standard Oil Co.
13.07
Teeter Sales & Service, Inc.
13.25
Western Indiana Gravel Co.
4.82
West Side.Hardware
30.60
J. 'IT. Werntz & Son, Inc.
9.97
First to appear before the Board were representatives of J. E. Walz Garage, Inc.,
3423 S. Michigan Street, and Indiana Bell Telephone Company, asking permission of the
Board to install a telephone booth adjacent to the public sidewalk at this South
Michigan Street location. There being no objection offered by any member of the Board,
permission was thereupon granted.
James E. Langham and Leonard Barkowski, representing Phillips Petroleum Company,
appeared before the Board and acquainted the Board with the improved facilities of
their organization in South Bend with a view to supplying city fleet gasoline ana oil
needs.
i Attorney Burt Ford next appeared before the Board and presented the Dedication
of an alley in Whitcomb & Keller's Third Sunnymede Addition on the part of General
Outdoor Advertising Co., Inc. The Board examined the dedication and proceeded with
its acceptance, to become effective simultaneously with the vacation of the fourteen
jfoot alley presently situated between lots 713 and 714, as set forth in the dedication.
j VACATION RESOLUTION NO. 2739 - 1952
. This being the date set, hearing was had on the resolution heretofore adopted
j by the Board of Public Works and Safety for the vacation of THE ALLEY RUNNING NORTH
AND SOUTH FROM MISHAWAKA AVENUE TO THE GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD RIGHT OF WAY SITUAq
BETWEEN LOTS NU10ERED 713 and 714 WHI TC OMB AND KELLER' S THIRD SUNNYMEDE ADDITION TO
SOUTH BEND, under Vacation Resolution No. 2739.
The Clerk of the Board having shown sufficient proofs of publication and no remon-
strators having appeared and no written remonstrances having been filed with the Clerk,
it was moved , seconded and unanimously carried that the said resolution be finally
adopted and the said alley be vacated. The Engineering Department is directed to pre-
pare an assessment roll covering the assessment of benefits and the award of damages to
. the surrounding properties.
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R. S. Andrysiak, City Engineer, filed primary assessment roll showing the awards
of damages and the assessments of benefits in the matter of the vacation of THE ALLEY
RUNNING NORTH AND SOUTH FROM MISHAWAKA AVENUE TO THE GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD RIGHT
OF WAY SITUATED BETWEEN LOTS NUMBERED 713 and 714 WHITCOMB AND KELLERtS THIRD SLMMAEDE
ADDITION TO SOUTH BEND, under Vacation Resolution No. 2739.
'In the above named assessment roll, the Board hereby orders that it will meet in
the City Hall at 11 00 A. M. on the 24th day of 1952, for the purpose of
`November,
hearing and receiving remonstrances from all persons interested in or affected by said
vacation, and the Board further orders that notice of said hearing,'together with the
amount of damages awarded and benefits assessed`be addressed to the property owners by
publishing same on the 31st day of October, on the 7th day of November, and on the 14th
day"of November, 1952, in the South Bend Tribune and the Tri-County News.
RESOLUTION ADOPTING FINAL ASSESSMENT ROLL
No. 2720 - 1952
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After hearing all persons interested who appeared and the Clerk of the Board
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of Public Works and Safety having proofs of publication of the notices to property
owners and the same having been found sufficient, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED, By the Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of South Bend,
Indiana, that the Primary of Preliminary Assessment Roll adopted by the Board on the
13th day of October, 1952; for the improvement of ELWOOD AVENUE from the west line of
OtBrien Street to the eat'line of Elmer Street by constructing a Class C, Type 4A
Pavement be and the same is in all things confirmed.
R. S. Andrysiak
G. P. Ziegler
I. A. Hurwich
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Board of Public Works & Safety
Ward H. Crothers,
Clerk of the Boar
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ENGINEERtS CERTIFICATION OF COMPLETION
IMPROVEMENT CONTRACT NO. 10 - 1952
Certification of Completion was furnished by civil engineer, Wilbur H. Gartner,
accompanied by Contractor's Completion Affidavit of the contract between the City of
South Bend, Indiana, Owner-, and the Rieth-Riley Construction Company; Contractor, for
the construction of the re -surface pavement improvement on MIAIGI STREET from the �I
south line of Ewing Avenue to -the south line of-Ridgedale Road, under Improvement
Contract No. 10, has been completed in accordance with the plans and specifications •
for this project.
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ENGII�]E�T R S CERTIFICATE OF CO1ti�PLETlON r
IMPROVERENT RESOLUTION NO. 2718 - 1952 i(
`Certificate of Completion was furnished by civil engineer, Wilbur H. Gartner,
accompanied by Contractor's Completion Affidavit of the contract between the City of
South Bend, Indiana, Owner, and the Rieth-Riley Construction Company, Contractor, j
for the construction of the pavement improvement on RANDOLPH STREET from the east line �(
of Sampson Street to the west line of Ironwood Drive under Improvement Resolution !
No. 2718 - 1952 has been completed in accordance with the plans and specifications for �(
this project.
RESOLUTION ACCEPTING FINAL ESTIMATE
No. 2718 - 1952{
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 j
the City Civil Engineer or his duly authorized representative on this 27th day of
October, 1952 on the improvement known as the RANDOLPH STREET PAVEMENT as described in
improvement Resolution No. 2718, 1952, passed by the Board of Public Works and Safety it
on June 16th, 1952 and confirmed by said Board on July 21, 1952, 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 Section N. 111 or ( •
120 of an Act entitled, "An Act Concerning Municipal Corporations" approved March,6, 190.
R. S. Andrysiak
G. P. Ziegler
I. A. Hurwich
Ward H. Crothers Board of Public Works & Safety
Clerk of the Boar
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STREET DEPARTNENT:
The matter of bids opened at the previous meeting for supplying the Street
Department with crushed gravel was deferred until the next regular meeting,,at which
time a decision is to be made and contract awarded.
A letter duplicating that submitted to the Common Council, from the Amalgamated
Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of American, Div.
No.996, dated October 8, 1952, pertaining to bus service, and referring to their
1 previous letter of May 20, 1952, was examined and ordered filed.
Louis L. Warner, 120 N. 33rd Street and another property owner of that locality,
appeared before the Board with the complaint that this street has never been dedicated,
and is in such condition that it is impossible to get in or out of this area after
heavy snows during the winter. Lack of fire protection was also mentioned. It was
determined by the Board that dedication of this street cannot be effected until the
jowner of the required thirty feet to comprise the west half of the street is agreeable
to such dedication. The hazardous traffic condition due to heavy growth of brush along
the thirty foot unimproved roadway, now serving as the street.,was also brought to the
attention of the Board. After considerable discussion, the Board agreed to take the
matter under advisement and endeavor to make a special survey of the situation within
• the ensuing week, including a personal call on the property owner, whose dedication
of the west half of the street is required before the City can proceed with the needed
improvements.
. Contractor's Bonds, each in the sum of $1,000.00, were examined and approved
by the Board, as follows:
Cletis Asher (Mishawaka, Indiana)
Charles V. Berta
Melton 0. Brannon
Eugene A. Harris
• Niidland Engineering Co., Inc.
T. W. Miller
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Excavatorts Bond, in the sum of 5,000.00, issued under date of April 6, 1952,
of Percival Haines, DBA as Haines & Haines, 2526 S. P11ain Street, Elkhart, Indiana,
was examined and approved by the Board.
There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned
at 11:30 A. IVI.
Attest: /�
Clerk
The Street Commissioner, being present, brought to the attention of the Board
• i his departmentts need for an additional Swenson Spreader. The Board approved its
purchase and the Commissioner was advised to proceed to obtain delivery of the needed
equipment as quickly as possible,
A letter, addressed to Mayor, John A. Scott, from the Association of Commerce,
and referred by the Mayor to the Board, was next given the required attention.
Two communications received by the Common Council, and referred by the Council
at their special meeting of October 15th, to the Board of Public Works, were examined
by the Board and ordered placed on file.
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