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November 9, 1953
I A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held Monday, November 9, 1953,
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10:00 A. M. All members were present. Minutes of the previous meeting were read
and approved. Salary claims, in the total amount of $31,931.26, were approved. Claims
of the following suppliers, in the amount of $24,151.05, were approved and ordered paid:'
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Charles Armstrong& Son $1.15 Arrow Towel & Linen Service $15.10
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Arrow Towel & Linen Service 15.10 Arrow Towel & Linen Service 15.10
Belleville Lumber & Supply Co. 14.85 Walter J. Braunsdorf & Son 39.60
Business Systems, Inc. 14.76 Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. 368.90
Indiana & Michigan Electric Co11456.25 Singer General Tire, Inc. 3.75
Wyman's 6.30 Weisberger Bros„ Inc. 26.00
STREET & TRAFFIC:
Ben Medow, Inc. 9,48 Russell Coil 17.81
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CONTRACTOR'S IMPROVEMENT FUND:
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Rieth-Riley Construction Co. 12,146.90
First appeared before the Board Mrs, Hallie Larimer, 313 S. 34th Street, Committee
Chairman,,Mothers of World War II, requesting permission to conduct the organization's
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poinsettia sale on December 4th and 5th. There being no confliction with any.
similar funds drive for those dates, the Board granted approval.
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Next appeared before the Board, a Mrs. Burnham, representing The Good Samaritan
Army, Inc., of Chicago, asking permission for the public solicitation of alms on the
streets and in the taverns of the downtown area. It was pointed out to Mrs. Burnham
that the old established organizations, performing such solicitations are sufficient,
and to avoid this activity getting "out of hand", the Board denied this request.
A representative of the Salvation Army next appeared before the Board stating that
he opposes any competitive alms solicitors, and was informed the request of The Good
Samaritan Army for permission to engage in this activity has been denied.
Then appeared before the Board, an applicant for taxicab driver's license. Inves-
tigation having shown this applicant to have a criminal record, the Board rejected his
application.
A petition to vacate public utility easement between Lots Nos. 75 and 76, Edison
Park Addition, and drawing illustrating this easement, bearing the approval of the City
Plan Commission, was examined and approved by the Board.
The petition of Ben Feferman Motor Sales Corporation, filed under date of July 14,
1953, and bearing the report of the City Plan Commission, dated November 6, 1953, was
next examined by the Board. The Board accepted and approved the report of the City
Plan Commission, which report disapproves the vacating of a section of alley petitioned
for by the above corporation.
The petition of Sears, Roebuck and Company, together with Victor Freeman and
Gilbert L. Schaus, filed under date of October 8, 1953, and bearing the report of the
City Plan Commission, dated November 6, 1953, was next examined by the Board. The
Board accepted and approved the report of the City Plan Commission, which report disap-
proves.the vacating of the alley desired by the above named petitioners.
The petition of James R. Rasmussen, by his attorneys, Jones, Obenchain and Butler,
and drawing illustrating that part of Sherman Avenue opposite Lot 19, Wm. Millerts
Addition, to be vacated, bearing the date of September 30, 1953, and the approval of
the City Plan Commission, was next examined and referred to the Engineering Department
for further investigation.
Further action in the matter of Vacation Resolution No. 2764 was held in abeyance.
Request for temporary walk and street occupancy, in connection with the construction
'of the new Salvation Army Building, 516-518 So. Main Street, and blue prints illustrating'•
same, were next examined and approved by the Board.
VACATION RESOLUTION NO. 2765 - 1953
R. S. Andrysiak, City Engineer, filed primary assessment roll showing the awards
of damages and the assessments of benefits in the matter of vacation of THE ALLEY BETWEEN'
'CAROLINE STREET AND ELDORA COURT FROM THE NORTH LINE OF DELBERT COURT TO THE SOUTH LINE
'i3OF THE ALLEY NORTH OF DELBERT COURT under vacation resolution No.2765 - 1953• `
In the above named assessment roll, the Board hereby orders that it will meet in
jthe City Hall at 11:00 A. M. on the 6th day of December 1953, for the purpose of hearing
and receiving remonstrances from all persons interested in or affected by said vacation,
1,'and the Board further orders that notice of said hearing, together with the amount of
;;damages awarded and benefits assessed beaddressed to the property owners by publishing
same on the 13th day of November, on the 20th day of November and on the`30th day of
iNovember, 1953, in the South Bend Tribune and the Tri-County News.
IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION CONFIRMED
RESOLUTION NO. 2763 - 1953
For the improvement of ELLSWORTH PLACE under Improvement Resolution No. 2763 - 19531'
adopted September 12, 1953 from the centerline of lots 27 and 70 in Jefferson Heights
'Addition to a point 26 feet south of,the south line of Colfax Avenue by constructing a
!local sewer.
After hearing all persons interested who appeared and being fully advised on the i
premises and the Clerk of the Board having shown proofs of publication of the notices to ,
property owners and the same having been found sufficient, the -Board decides that the ;
benef its to the property liable to be assessed for said improvement are equal to the
!estimated cost of the same as reported by the City Civil Engineer, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED, by the Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of South Bend,
'Indiana, that Improvement Resolution No. 2763, 19532 duly passed by this Board on September
12th, for the above improvements, be and the same is hereby in all things confirmed, and
;the improvement is hereby ordered to be made. j
R. S. Andrysiak
G. P. Ziegler
I. A. Hurwich i.
Board or Public Works K 9afety l
Ward H. Crothers
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:Clerk of the Boar
PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS ADOPTED
i RESOLUTION NO. 2763 - 1953
BE IT RESOLVED, by the Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of South Bend, 11
!;Indiana, that Profiles, Drawings, Plans, General Details, Specifications and Estimates, it
,approved by this Board on the 12th day of September 1953, for the improvement of j •
ELLSWORTH PLACE from the center line of lots 27 and 70 in Jefferson Heights Addition
Ito a point 26 feet south of the south line of Colfax Avenue by constructing a local
sewer be and the same are hereby adopted and ordered placed on file in the office of the !'
;;Department of Public Works and Safety.
November 23, 1953, at the hour of 11:00 o'clock A. M. Central Standard Time, is
Ihereby fixed as the time and the office of the Board of Public Works and Safety in the
City Hall of this City, as the place, when and where the Board of Public Works and Safety]
;will open and consider bids for the above named improvements, provided all bids for the 11
,construction of said work shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of this Board before
!11:00 A. M. CST on said day. Each bidder for said work shall enclose with his bid a
!certified check, payable to the Treasurer of this City, in the sum of two and one-half (21,
tr cent.of the amount of his bid, or a bid bond for two and one-half (22) per cent of
e amount of his bid, to insure the execution of this contract, if said work is awarded 'I
'to him.
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The Clerk of this Board is hereby=:ordered, to give notice by two weekly publications,
f the time and place, when and where bids will be received, opened and considered. for th®'
onstruetion of said work. Said Clerk shall state in said notices, that each bidder shall
nclose with his bid a certified check or bid bond for above named amount, to insure the
xecution of this contract.
R. S. Andrysiak !
G. P. Ziegler
I. A. Hurwich
Board of Public Works & Sae y
and H. Crothers
lerk of the oar
The Board next examined and approved the Storm Sewer Plans, revised as of October
1953, submitted by Engineer W. S. Moore for McKinley Terrace Addition, Section "B",
t the following locations:
Manchester Drive and Oxford Lane
Whitehall Drive from Oxford Lane 500 ft. North •
Whitehall Drive and Corby Street
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TREET DEPARTMENT:
H. M. Tomlinson, Street Commissioner, being present, brought to the Board1s `.
(attention, the condition of Riverside Drive beyond the city limits and the Street
!Commissioner's plans for maintaining this section of highway in a satisfactory condition it
until such time as it can be hard -to ed. It was 's pp pointed out that it is the City ;I
responsibility to maintain this boulevard from the city limits to Darden Road, under
'an agreement with the Board of County Commissioners, and the Street Commissioner was acco
ingly authorized and directed to proceed with the required graveling operations. I!
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Next appeared before the Board, Attorney Joseph T. Pawlowski, presenting the peti-
tion of George Ashcraft, to sell, transfer'and assign Taxicab License No. 53, granted
to him :by the Board, to the United Cab Company of South Bend, Inc. The Board denied
the petition under Section 64, Chapter 26 of the Municipal Code.
In the matter of claim, submitted by John J. DeGrove, for $25.00 damage to clothing;
caused by unmarked freshly painted Bus Stop sign, the Board directed the Clerk to
request Mr. DeGrove to submit the clothing for the Boardts inspection, to enable them
to decide as to justification of this claim.
The Board next examined agreement between the State of Indiana, through the State
Highway Department, and the City of South Bend, pertaining to the modernizing of the
traffic signal equipment at the following intersections:
Michigan(US 31) and North Shore Drive (US 33)
Walnut and Western Avenue (SR 2)
Lincolnway West (US 20) and Blaine
Lincolnway West (US20) and Cushing Street
Lincolnway West (US 20) and Williams Street
Lincolnway East (US33) and Sample Street
Lincolnway East (US 33) and Twyckenham Drive
Michigan (US 31) and Calvert Street
Michigan (US 31) and Indiana Avenue
Michigan (US 31) and Broadway
Michigan (US 31) and Sample Street
Western (SR 2) and Williams Street
Western (SR 2) and Chapin Street
This agreement, submitted to the Mayor, by M. C. Pbhlkotte, Director of Traffic,
State Highway Department, was, thereupon, duly signed by the Board as authorized
officials for the City of South Bend.
The Board next approved the installation of S-T-O-P signs at the following
locations:
Donmoyer Street at Fellows ( making this a 4-way stop).
Huey at Humboldt
South side of Ford Street just west of Lombardy Drive.
Excavator's Bonds, each in the sum of $1,000.00, were examined and approved by
the Board, binding John B. Hendricks, Arthur C. Rogers, and their sureties.
Contractorts Bonds, each in the sum of $1,000.00, were examined and approved by
the Board, binding Kenneth F. Rose, d/b/a Red Rose Builder, The Singer Manufacturing
Company,and their sureties.
Copy of a letter from the District Engineer of the State Highway Department,
Fort Wayne, Indiana, under date of October 29, 1953, governing the issuance of commercial
driveway permits, was read and ordered placed on file.
There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned'",
at 11:10 A. M.
Attest:
Clerk
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