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HomeMy WebLinkAbout07/13/1953 Board of Public Works Minutes39 • 0 • 9 40 July 13, 1953 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held Monday, July 13, 1953, iat 10:00 A. M. All members were present. Minutes of the previous meeting were read I!,and approved. Claims of the following suppliers, in the amount of 12,256.95, were I approved and ordered. paid: Walter J. Braunsdorf & Son 6.38 Jahn F. Helmer, M.D. 040.00 Gafill Oil Co. 24.84 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 9.60 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 11.36 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 10.35 Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. 368.90 Indiana & Michigan Electric Co411,319.75 Nicholls Printery 11.50 Radio Distributing Co. 2!67-45 i? Royal Typewriter Co. 33.00 South Bend Tribune 8.48 Ij! Tri-County News 7.76 Weisberger Bros., Inc. 8.00 a I; STREET & TRAFFIC a i' Kuert Concrete 3870 OtBrien Corporation 90.00 Standard Automotive Supply :86 i !' First appeared before the Board Mr. James P. Ledd 914 Roosevelt Street presenting', pp Y, , P g ' a complaint on the part of himself and other home -owners of the neighborhood, relative ito a dilapidated house and weed -covered and neglected lot, known as Lot 230 Northwest ;'Addition. Mr. Leddy placed before the Board a photograph of these premises, and mentioned:. ;;the fact that neighborhood children have been seriously injured playing in this vacant iramshackle house, which the photographic and descriptive evidence plainly indicates to >be a nuisance, a serious health and fire hazard, and damaging to property values in the ;.immediate neighborhood. The Board proceeded to authorize the removal of this nuisance, :,and directed the Clerk to notify Mr. Ben Katz, First Bank and Trust Co. Trustee, atten- !tion of 14;r. G. L. Vance, and Richard Kleiser, Auditor, St. Joseph County, that unless this nuisance is abated and the property cleared of the dilapidated house and weeds ;Ion or before July 20th, the Board will proceed with such clearance by city employees and 'I equipment. Next appeared before the Board, 1ti11r. Paul LaMar, representing the St. Joseph Bank & Trust Co., presenting a drawing of the proposed depositors drive-in to be constructed immediately east and in the rear of this Bank. Mr. LaMar stated a parking attendant would be on duty in the area and the bank would provide the necessary markers to direct traffic on the premises. It was also stated that the bus company has been notified and is agreeable to the moving of bus -stop to the end of the block. It has been further agreed, by the bank, and other owners of property abutting on the alley, involved with this drive-in, to pay for the paving of this alley at this location, the City to super- vise the alley construction to assure provision for proper drainage. It was stated that the traffic pattern for this drive-in has met with the approval of the Traffic Engineer and the Chief of Police. The Board, thereupon, granted their approval of the proposed drive-in. The Board next examined and approved plans for server improvement on Union Street from the center line of MacArthur Avenue to the center line of Lot 59, Edison Park Addition, and the Edison Park Trunk Sewer - Ironwood Drive, Solomon Avenue, Congress Avenue and ZIacArthur Avenue. CERTIFICATE OF C012LETION ITVPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO.2745 - 1953 Certification of Completion was furnished by the civil engineer, Wilbur H. Gartner, of the contract between the City of South Bend, Indiana, Owner, and the Tri-State Excavators, Contractor, for the construction of the local sewer improvement on NORTH HUEY STREET from 30 feet south of the south line of Hamilton Street to 264 feet -south of the south line of Hamilton Street under Improvement Resolution No. 2745, has been completed in accordance with the plans and specifications for this project. RESOLUTION ACCEPTING FINAL ESTIla' TE RESOLUTION NO. 2745 - 1953 South Bend, Indiana July 131 1953 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 13th day of July, 1953 on the improvement known as the NORTH HUEY STREET LOCAL SEWER as described in Improvement Resolution No. 2745, passed by the Board of Public Works and Safety on February 24, 1953, and confirmed by said Board on lVarch 30, 1953, 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 'unicipal Corporations" approved March 6, 1905. a rd H Crothers 6f the Board R. S. Andrysiak I. A. Hurwich G. P. Zie ler Board of Public Works & Safety W 40 NOTICE OF HEARING SPECIAL BENEFITS ON STREET IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 2745 - 1953 South Bend, Indiana. I Notice is hereby given, that the following Street Improvement has been completed and the general character of the Improvement, the street on which it has been made, and ! the terminal points thereof, are as follows: NORTH HUEY STREET from 30 feet south of the south line of Hamilton Street to 264 feet south of the south line of Hamilton Street by constructing a local sewer. There is on file in the Office of the City Controller of the City of South Bend, { Indiana, an assessment roll 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 Controller. The Board of Public Works and Safety of said City, at the Office of the Board in said City, will on the 27th day of July 1953, at 10:00 o'clock A. P/. Central Standard Time receive and hear remonstrances against the amounts assessed against their property respectively on said roll and will determine the question as to whether such lots or tracts of land, have 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 repre- sentative and be heard. R. S. Andrysiak I. A. Hurwich G. P. Ziegler Board of Public Works & Safety i Ward H. Crothers Clerk of the Board VACATION RESOLLTTIQIvT NO. 2762 - 1953 RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS AND SAFETY OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA: That it is desirable to vacate the following: FOX STREET FROM THE WEST LINE OF HIGH STREET l TO THE STUDEBAKER PARK GOLF COURSE. The following property may be injuriously or beneficially affected by such vacation=l Lots numbered 130 to 133 inclusive, in Oak ?1 Park Fourth Addition, in South Bend, Indiana. '' • Notice of this resolution shall be published on the 17th day of July and on the 24th day of July 1953, in the South Bend Tribune and the Tri-County News. i This Board, at its office in the Cit)c Hall on the 3rd day of August 1953, at 10:00 A. 1I. C.S.T. will hear and receive remonstrances from all persons interested in or r affected by these proceedings. Adopted this 13th day of July 1953• R. S. Andrysiak I. A. Hurwich • G. P. Ziegler Board of Public Works & Safety A petition, dated July 13, 1953, for the paving of South Liberty Street, from Western Avenue north to the alley intersection at 125 South Liberty Street, was examined and referred to the office of the City Engineer for investigation. In the matter of the issuance of a taxi -cab license to George Bernath, no action was taken other than the continuance of this matter under advisement. It was the decision of the Board to defer the painting of the City Hall flagpole until 1954- I The Board approved the installation of S-T-O-P Signs on Dean and Klinger Streets at Fellows Street. � STREET DEPA=,,riENT: H. N. Tomlinson, Street Commissioner, being present, brought to the Boardts attention the request of Mr. IVlarcus N. Thrasher, 1209 S. Greenlawn Avenue, for. the i oiling of South Greenlawn Avenue, a distance of one block, to al14y the dust condition J� caused by excessive traffic to and from the Naval Reserve Armory. Request was approved by the Board. STREET DEPARTMENT: The Commissioner next called attention to an excess delivery of rock salt, for which there is no storage space available at this time. Inasmuch as this entire delivery was over and above the quantity ordered, the Board directed Tv1r. Tomlinson to notify the vendor to remove this material from the Street Department premises. 'I The Street Commissioner then took up with the Board his departmentts urgent need • !!for a mower, having at this time only two with which to undertake annual -weed -mowing joperations. The third mower, having broken down during the past week, it was discovered ;;this particular make of equipment is no longer being manufactured and parts are unobtain- !able. The Board approved the replacement of this mower, and directed that quotations '!be obtained immediately from suppliers of this type of equipment. U • • • The Commissioner then asked for disposition of tools left at the Street Department Garage by Remmel Rathwick. The Board directed that these tools be delivered to Mrs. Rathwick. Bids opened at previous meeting to provide a two ton truck with dump body, were again reviewed. It was the decision of the Board, in view of the particular use to which this truck is to be assigned, that the bid of Scherman-Schaus-Freeman Company was the best bid in the interests of the City, and contract was so awarded. In the matter of the Kaley Street Sewer, a report was presented by City Engineer, Ray S. Andrysiak, disclosing the discovery that a considerable section of this sewer north from the intersection of Kaley and Jefferson has sunk below grade and approximately;! 265 feet of sewer will have to be relaid, including the 6-inch house leads. It was the Fi consensus of opinion that this work_ should logically be a continuation of the excavation and manhole -cleaning project which revealed this situation, and the Board, accordingly, authorizes the contractor, Niles Excavating Company, to proceed with the necessary work of restoring this sewer to proper grade. No bids having been received up to the hour set for opening of bids, to provide ';a dust -arrester for the asphalt plant, operated by the Street Department in the 700 !;block North Niles Avenue, and it being the consensus of opinion that the required equip - can be fabricated locally, and obtained at a reasonable cost of approximately 13,000.00, the Board directed the Clerk to obtain quotations and proceed to purchase this equipment for installation a'. the earliest possible date. Then appeared before the Board, a. representative of TYercury P,`otorways, Inc., together with E. H. Iriiller, Traffic Engineer, seeking permission of the Board for the {use of Louise Street south to Northside Boulevard for the routing of their trucks to and from their freight terminal. Permission was granted with the specific stipulation that the use of Louise Street north to V_Fishawaka Avenue by their trucks is prohibited, lexcept in an extreme emergency, and then only after obtaining permission from the Chief of Police and. the Street Commissioner. Contractorts Bonds, each in the sum of �,',1,000.00, binding the following contractors ,:and their sureties, were examined and approved: Frank 0. Barnes Peter Ciula Joseph Price There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was ad- journed at 11:00 A. NI. • !. Attest: ✓7; Clerk. 0