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SPECIAL MEETING
August 21, 1953
A special -meeting of -the Board of Public'Works was held in the office of the
Board, Thursday, August 21, 1953, at 10:00 A. M. Board member R. S. Andrysiak was
absent.
In attendance at this meeting was Mr. Ralph Moorhouse, representing the engineeriA
firm of Consoer, Townsend & Associates. Mr. Robert Huff, Director of Planning, City Plan
Commission, and Attorney Russell C. Kuehl.
A study was made of the tentative location of the proposed Toll Road, as it might
affect the future location of the aeration and final settling tanks of the sewage dis-
posal plant. The Board determined that further contact will be made, supplementing the
contact made by the City Engineer, with the Toll Road designing engineers, to fully
acquaint these engineers with the disposal plant plans, in order that there will be no
infringement of the Toll Road upon the sewage disposal plant site.
The meeting adjourned at 10:45 A. M.
Attest:
Clerk
August 24, 1953
G.PER
A regular meeting of the Board
of Public Works was held Monday, August
24, 1953,
at 10:00 A. M. Mr. R. S. Andrysiak was absent. Minutes of the previous -meeting
were
.read and approved. Salary Claims in
the amount of $26,685.81 were approved.
Claims of
,the following suppliers, in the amount
of $8,139.17,
were approved and ordered
paid:
Artcraft Printers
$�107.75
Direct Mail Letter Service
Indiana Bell Telephone Co.
9.41
Indiana Lumber & Mfg. Co.
10.60
Indiana Lumber & Mfg. Co.
2.90
Indiana Lbr. & Mfg. Co.
15.72
Kagelts Directory -Service
15.00
Meyerts Hdwe. Co.
6.20
Office Supply & Equipment Co.
3.00
Radio Distributing Co.
2651
South Bend Tribune
6.59
South Bend Electric Co.
19:47
Tri-County News
6.26
Tri-County News
6.70
Frank Kasa
6.35
Artcraft Printers
93;50
Meyer's Hdwe. Co.
1.30
Indiana Bell Telephone Co.
10.35
R. E. Place
15.00
John Bauer
15.00
Brent Kumm
15.00
Robert M. Koontz
15.00
Louis Zoss 5.00
DOG POUND:
Industrial Towel & Uniform Ser. 16.00
SEWER DEPARTMENT:
Bearings Service Co. 26.47 Central Power Trans. Equip.
Doyle Chemical Products Co. 43.99 'National Mill Supply
Phillips Petroleum Co. 162.00 South Bend Supply Co.
Schuyler Rose, Inc. 1.80 Trojan Tool Equip. Co.
STREET DEPARTMENT:
Central Equipment Co.
5.66
Deeds Equipment Co.
104.24
D. Sherman Ellison Agency
145.61
Gafill Oil Co.
11.60
Maude H. Haberle
13.75
Alex Howard
20.00
Ben Medow, Inc.
36.32
Municipal Supply Co.
265.34
The OtBrien Corporation
138.18
Office Engineers, Inc.
8.55
The Ridge Co.
8.04
Scherman Schaus Freeman Co.
14.45
Sinclair Oil Co.
449.39
South Bend Supply Co.
19.95
Standard Automotive Supply Co.
446.24
Standard pit Co.
407.63
Studebaker Corporation
1.93
Harry M. Tomlinson
6.25
Earl Cottrell
Deeds Equipment Co.
D. Sherman Ellison Agency
Gafill oil Co.
Romy Hammes Co.
Kagelts Directory Service
G. E. Meyer & Son
National Auto Service
The O'Brien Corporation
Office Engineers, Inc.
Rieth-Riley Construction Co.
Scherman Schaus Freeman Co.
South Bend Clinic
St. Joseph Hospital
Standard Automotive Supply Co.
Jos. S. Stratigos, M.D.
Studebaker Corporation
2.12
64.90
157:52
101.40
2.00
27.77
163.22
1636.50
3.74
15.00
1.10
4o.59
176.40
W.96
28.73
2775.16
19.00
3.00
21.21
5.00
15.00
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First appeared before the Board, Engineer Edward J. Golightly, representing the
H0, G. Christman Construction Co., Inc., who presented a drawing of the Indiana Bell
Telephone Companyts office building, at the corner of Main and Wayne Streets, and the
occupancy of sidewalk and street the contractor will require in connection with the
construction work planned to get under way about September lst.
i In the absence of the City Engineer, the Board deferred action until its next
!j regular meeting.
STREET DEPARTMENT:
Street Commissioner, H. M. Tomlinson, being present, again brought to the Board Is
attention the serious condition in the 3200 block South Fellows Street, due to cave-ins
where sewer construction was completed during the past winter and fill-in used was the
clay removed in excavating for the laying of the sewer. The Commissioner stated that
the contractor -has attempted four times to restore the street paving at this location
unsuccessfully, and expressed his opinion that the problem is one requiring special
engineering. The Board directed the Commissioner to again contact the contractor and
insist upon his having his engineer give this situation the attention necessary to make
lasting restoration of the paving.
The Board next considered the Engineerts Report concerning bids for the improve-
ment`:of LAWTON STREET from the,_west line of Olive Street to the east line of Washington
Street by constructing a Class C pavement in accordance with Improvement Resolution
No. 2759, 1953, and confirmed by this Board on August 3, 1953,and hereby report that
after examining the several bids submitted to the Board on August 17, 1953, and find
that the Reed'Construction Company, Mishawaka, Indiana has the lowest and best bid
for a Class C, type j, Bituminous Concrete AH pavement and also that Reed Construction
Company has the lowest and best bid for a Class C, type .3, Bituminous.Concrete AH pavement
and recommend that the kind of pavement placed on the above street be Class C, type 1 !?
Cement Concrete Pavement. Ij
PRELIMINARY ORDER - RESOLUTION NO. 2759 - 1953
Whereas, the Board of Public Works and Safety pursuant to its notice to do so, met
on the 17th day of August, 1953, at the hour of 10:00 A. M. CST and publicly opened and
II considered all bids for the improvement of LAWTON STREET from the west line of Olive
Street to the east line of Washington Street by constructing a Class C pavement in
accordance with Improvement Resolution No. 2759, 1953, passed by this Board on June 29,
1953, and confirmed by this Board on August 3rd, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED, that the roadway of said street be improved by paving with a Class
C. type 1, Cement Concrete pavement.
I. A. Hurwich
G. P. Zie ler
Board of Public Worrcs 8c Safety
Ward H. Crothers
Clerk of t e Boar .
The matter of the truck chassis and body bids for the Garbage Department, opened
at the regular meeting of the Board, Monday, August 10, 1953, was again deferred for
further consideration.
The matter of the acoustics of the Council Chambers was next given the attention
of the Board. It was suggested that improved acoustics would be obtained by the removal
of the gallery, and that this space would be of real value if made available for files
and storing of municipal records. The Board directed the Clerk to obtain an estimate
of the cost of such alteration from Messrs. Torok and Meiners to present to the Board
at an early date.
Contractorls Bonds, each in the sum of $1,000.00, were examined and approved for
the four contractors as follows:
William Frankfort
Walter A. Skiles
William H. Ortman
Kenneth Williams
There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned'
at 11:15 A. M.
Attest: tea_1144 V
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ERK OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WO1tKS A SAFETY