HomeMy WebLinkAbout12/28/1953 Board of Public Works MinutesDiscussion was next given to the condition of ingress and egress to occupied -
housing in the 1-00 block North Ellsworth Street. Inasmuch as this is an unimproved
street, barricaded by the Street Department as impassable, the Board recommended
that temporary relief be extended to these residents by the Street Department at the
first opportunity, weather permitting, by the use of cinders or gravel.
There being no furthEr business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned'
at 11:30 P. M.
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Attest: ''y
!i Clerk
December 283, 1953
W
it .A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held t7ionday, December 28, 1953,
jl at 10.00 A. N. All members were present. I,rinutes of the previous meeting were read
and approved. Claims of the following suppliers, in the amount of $3,0
78.91, were
• approved and ordered paid:
�I Artcraft Printers 948.50 Otto Gratzol Signs $146.50
The Hibberd Printing Co. 31.50 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 27.65
Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 12.04 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 36.55
�j Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 11.75 Royal Typewriter Co. 1400
�' South Bend Electric Co. 5.05 Office Engineers, Inc. 5.00
a SANITATION:
Campbell Box & Tag Co. 80.70 General Equipment & T"achine Co. 21.00
SEINER DEPART1VTNT: DOG POUND:
Kuert Concrete, Inc. 212.0 Levy-Vlard Grocer Co. 96.80
SEWAGE DISPOSAL:
i Niles Excavating Co. 925.00
STREET & TRAFFIC:
Belleville Lbr. & Supply Co. 12.30 Elgin Sweeper Co. 42.49
Gafill Oil Co. 751.32 The Gibson Co. 14.41
f The -Gibson Co. 153.74 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 9.19
j McCombBattery Co., Inc. 48.71 G. E. Meyer & Son 42.60
I, Municipal Supply Co. 29.50 Office Engineers, Inc. 1.58
�j Romy Hammes Co'Tire 19.66 Schuyler Rose, Inc. 148.00
Singer General Sin
g � Inc. 55 58 Rex Battery Service 75.39
hFirst appeared before the Board, Attorney F. Gerard Feeney, Chairman of the St.
j Joseph County "March of Dimes" Committee, together with co-chairmen of the committee,
and presented to the Board a general outline of their plans for the approaching drive
for polio funds. The committee then placed before the Board their requests -
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1. Commencing January 9th, permission to have the T:?ile-of-Dimes Booth located on
Michigan Street in front of Robertsonts Department Store.
2. Permission to park the committeets Studebaker station wagon in front of
Robertsont on Saturdays, throughout the period of the drive.
The Board granted permission for the use of the booth -only at the location specified
I! with the stipulation that the committee must also obtain permission from Robertson's
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!; Department Store.
In the matter of parking of station wagon in front of the Robertson's Department
Store, it was specifically understood and agreed that the Board is not granting such
j permission, and station wagon may be parked at this location only on the basis on which
1 any privately -owned motor vehicle may be parked at this location, and vehicle must be
moved repeatedly as parking meter timing indicates,;in exact compliance with regulations
governing public parking in this section of the downtown district.
1 S TREE T DEPARTMENT:
Street Commissioner, H. 14. Tomlinson, brought to the attention of the Board claim
it of the Niles Excavating Company for the installation of 3611 sewer pipe from North Shore
• Drive to the river which claim had been erroneously marked for payment from the Sewer
Department appropriation. It was pointed out that this work was entirely the
contractorts obligation and a part of the Interceptor Sewer System. Correction was
made accordingly.
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RESOLUTION ADOPTING FINAL ASSESSMENT ROLL
j RESOLUTION NO. 2163 - 1953
After hearing all persons interested who appeared and the Clerk of the Board of
Public Works and Safety having proofs of pub�j,,j,� ation 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 or Preliminary Assessmen*t Roll adopted by the Board on the
114th day of December, i953, for the improvement of ELLSWORTH PLACE by constructing a
!local sewer be and the same is in all things confirmed.
R. S. Andrysiak
i G: P. Ziegler
I. A. , Hurwich
Boar o Pu lic Works & Safe y
lWard H-. Crothers
!Clerk of the Board
Contractor's Bond in the sum of $1,000.00, binding Alfred Vannoni and Zano Vannoni,
d/b%a Gino Vannonl & Sons Construction, as principal, and American Casualty Company of
JRe'ading Pennsylvania as surety, was examined and approved by the Board.
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Excavator's Bond in the sus, of $1,000.00, binding C. S. Randolph, as principal, and
American Surety Company of New York, as surety, was examined and approved by the Board..
Excavator's Bond in the sum of $1,000.00, binding Henry DeWulf as principal, and the
!Aetna Casualty and Surety Company, as surety was examined and approved by the Board.
There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned
a t 10 : 50 A. M.
Attest:•
Clerk
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