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HomeMy WebLinkAbout03/22/1954 Board of Public Works MinutesFJ PLANS REPORTED Wilbur H. Gartner & Associates, Civil Engineers, reported to the Board, Profiles,'- Drawings, Plans, General Details, Specifications, Estimates and Preliminary Improvement ,',Resolution for the improvement of NORTH ELMER STREET, from the center line of Elwood Avenue to the center line of Keller Street by constructing a local sewer. The Board approved the report and passed Improvement Resolution no.2771, author- il this improvement, and the 5th day.of April, 1954, at the hour of 11:00 A. M. CST is hereby fixed as the time, and the office of the Board in said.City as the place, when and where all persons whose property may be affected by such proposed improvement, may be heard as to the necessity for the same, and all petitions and remonstrances received and the Board will, on said day, decide whether the benefits accruing to abutting and adjacent property, and to the City of South Bend, Indiana, will be equal to or exceed the estimated cost of said improvement. The Clerk of the Board is hereby ordered to give notice by two weekly publications, of the time and the place of hearing of this resolution, No.2771, adopted this 15th day of March 1954, and to be published on March 19th and March 26th. i There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting adjourned i at 11:25 A. M. Attest Clerk March 22, 1954 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held Monday, March 22, 1954, at 10:00 A. M. All members were present. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved, Salary claims, in the total amount of $28,192.85, were approved. Claims of the following suppliers, in the total amount of $5858.68, were approved and ordered paid: Charles Armstrong& Son $3.10 City Water Works 45.18 Gafill Oil Co. 32.86 John W. Gorney 5.00 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 10.80 Koczan's Paint & Wallpaper Co. 1.90 Memorial Hospital 4.70 Royal Typewriter Co. 5.00 Tri-County News 10.94 South Bend Tribune 8.11 SEWER DEPARTMENT: Trojan Tool Equipment Co. 335.7b GENERAL FUND: South Bend Tribune 18.13 STREET & TRAFFIC: American Auto Parts, Inc. 14.50 Bearing Service Co. 4.85 Bearing Service Co. 22.38 Belleville Lumber & Supply Co. 5.67 Car Parts, Inc. 3.09 Detex Watchlock Corporation 7.60 V. Graves Auto Glass 5.88 V. Graves Auto Glass 32.84 Indiana Bell. Telephone Co. 15.69 Koczan Paint Corner 2.69 Koontz -Wagner Electric Co. 33.86 Kuert Concrete, Inc. 172.8o G. E. Meyer & Son 76.36 Motor Service & Parts, Inc. 56.76 National Auto Service, Inc. 48.75 National Brake Service, Inc. 15.00 Redmer Distributing Co. 8.03 The ,Ridge Co. 4.71 Scherman-Schaus Freeman Co. 34.25 Singer General Tire Co. 19.00 Singer General Tire Co. 366.33 outh Bend Electric Co. 12.79 eeter Sales & Service 66.b1 Business Systems, Inc. $9.36 Deants Office Machines 55.00 John W. Gorney 5.00 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 15.45 Indiana Lumber & Mfg. Co. 35.94 McKinney Iron & Welding Co. 198.00 Schuyler Rose, Inc. 8.23 South Bend Tribune 6.83 Tri-County News 7.13 SANITATION: Office Engineers, Inc. Armco Drainage & Metal Products Bearing Service Co. Belleville Lumber & Supply Co. Car Parts, Inc. W. S. Darley Co. The Gibson Co. V. Graves Auto Glass Wm. Happ & Sons Agency Industrial Towel & Uniform Service Koontz -Wagner Electric Co. Kuert Concrete, Inc. Ben Mledow, Inc. Millerts Marathon Service Municipal Supply Co. National Auto Service Office Engineers, Inc. Rex Batteries, Inc. The Romy-Hammes Corporation Schuyler Rose, Inc. Singer General Tire, Inc. C. D. Smelser Co. South Bend Supply Co. J. W. Werntz & Son 155.25 37.00 3.86 4.62 1.91 17.52 31.98 20.95 2551.26 8.80 6.15 6o.25 56.19 52.20 161.30 14.90 33.72 98.04 4.86 22.34 41.53 521.74 4.67 94.78 146 r: First appeared before the Board, the Honorable Wm. A. Hahn, representing the Northern Indiana Transit Company and asking permission of the Board to re#erse the (routing of the Michigan Street bus line at Chippewa Avenue, to be made effective Thursda March 25th. Permission was granted. Next appeared Robert E. Gawthorpe,representing Courtesy Cab Company, stating to the Board that they are now being forced out of the cabstand shared by them and the Yellow Cab Company, due to change of ownership of the Yellow Cab Company, and are accordingly seeking redress from the Board. Mr. Gawthorpe presented cancelled check j showing payment to the United Cab Company, purportedly, of one-half of one year's charge by the City of a single cab stand for the year 1954. The City Attorney,.,I. A. Hurwich, being present, pointed out that permit for the use of the particular cabstand involved was given by the Board to Yellow Cab Company, but in view of the evidence submitted, Attorney Hurwich believed an amicable agreement could be reached with Indiana Cab Company, which presently is usurping this stand. The Board agreed to assist Courtes :Cab Company in securing such an agreement. Next appeared before the Board, Ralph Seaman, 727 South Eddy Street, representing Company "G", Indiana National Guard, asking permission to conduct a five-day festival, June 9th to 13th inclusive. Guardsman Seaman stated that all activities of the festival would be confined to the National Guard premises and that there would be no objectionable features. The Board granted permission for the festival accordingly. Then appeared before the Board Mr. Hyme of the firm of Hurwich & Haller, requesting Permission to place a piece of carpet on the sidewalk in front of their place of busines Board member, I . A. Hurwich, pointed out to Mr. Hyme that the purpose was quite evident in the nature of advertising and that the Board has adopted a policy of refusing the use of sidewalks for merchandising purposes. Permission was thereupon denied. The Board next reviewed bids opened at the previous regular meeting to supply trucks for the Street Department, and awarded contract to Scherman-Schaus-Freeman Cnmpany, for two 1953 Studebaker two -ton trucks of 155" wheelbase, and two 1953 Stude- baker two -ton trucks of 131" wheelbase, equipped in accordance with proposal of March 15, 1954, which proposal, in the opinion of the Board, was the best bid submitted, in the best interests of the City. The Clerk was directed to issue the required purchase orders aceodingly. STREET DEPARTMENT: H. M. Tomlinson, Street Commissioner, was present and took up with the Board matters pertaining to activities under his jurisdiction. Chairman of the Board, R. S. Ahdrysiak` called attention to the condition of the Commissionerts city -owned Studebaker car, as beingin need of replacement;pand recommending that such replacement be made at this time, specifications to include undercoating of the new vehicle. Funds being available,"; and having been appropriated for such replacement, the Board approved and directed the Clerk to proceed with the required advertising. The Board next examined a petition, dated March 15, 1954, requesting the closing of a north and south alley, between California and Rex Streets, and referred the matter to the City Plan Commission for their consideration and recommendation. The Board next considered and approved the consulting engineerts recommendations that the Kewaunee Manufacturing Company be named as suppliers for all labratory furniture specified under Item 0-20 for the Sewage Disposal Plant, and that the Engineering De- partment of the University of Notre Dame be designated to perform the testing of materials, as will be required, under Contract P-5 of the Sewage Disposal Plant con- struction. The Board then gave consideration_ to the Sollitt Construction Company's proposed routing of trucks via Angela Boulevard. The matter was referred to the City Civil Engineer and the Traffic Engineer, for joint study and recommendation. Then appeared before the Board two gentlemen designating themselves as Kimmett for Congress Campaign Committee, Messrs. Harold A. Hopper and Joseph Lochmondy, request- ing that the petition for permit for the use of a P.A. system in connection with political campaigning activities, filed with the Board, by Mr. Jules Kimmett, under date of March 15, 1954, be favorably considered and granted by the Board. The Board heard their plea, copy of which was presented to the Board and ordered by the Board to be placed on file. The Board then rendered its decision in the matter as negative. The request of Charles J. Glueckert for the use of Fire Station No. 3 as polling place for precinct No,' __b of the 4th District, was brought to the attention of the Board. The Board granted permission an the basis that all public buildings are, in general, made available as polling places, and directed that the Clerk inform Mr. Glueckert accordingly. The Board next examined bond, in the sum of $4,000.00, submitted by Standard Oil ;!Company, approved this bond, and directed the Clerk to release Standard Oil Company's certified check for $4,000.00, for which this bond is in substitution. Two estimates for the repair of 1948 Studebaker Champion two -door sedan belonging to John Shilling, and damaged in an accident in which a Street Department motor vehicle was involved; were referred to the Street Commissioner for his decision and settlement. 0 C� I Affidavits pertaining to the application of Martin Gildea for Taxicab Driverts License, together with report of examining physician and report of the Chief of _Police, were next examined by the Board. Application having been rejected by the City Controller under date of March 16, 1954 and the Boardts examination of .the above papers, fully sustaining the Controllerts action in the matter, the Board further denied this appli- cation. - +! The petition, dated December 11, 1953, requesting that Meade Street be made a • ; boulevard, from Western Avenue to Sample Street, was denied by the Board, upon study of report on the situation involved, submitted to the Board, under date of March22, 1954, j by the Traffic Engineer. The installation of S-T-O-P signs was approved by the Board for the following locations: li Both sides of Napier Street at McPherson ii Both sides of St. Joseph Street at Donald j Petition, dated March 20, 1954, requesting the oiling, pea -graveling, and rolling j on Kaley Street, in the vicinity of the 2700 block West Jefferson Boulevard, was examined and referred to the Street Commissioner for attention. is Excavation Bond in the sum of $10,000.00, binding Place & Company, Inc., as principal, and Ohio Casualty Insurance Company as sureties, was examined and approved by the Board. Contractor's Bonds, each in the sum of $1,000.00, were examined and approved for three contractors as follows: "I 3 Raymond Asher Dan C. Harman Place & Co., Inc. There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned': { at 11:40 A. M. C Attest:�- Clerk SPECIAL MEETING March 25, 1554 A special meeting of the Board of Public Works was called, and held in the Council Chamber, City Hall, this date. All members were present. Present also were Russell C. ..Kuehl, attorney for the Sewage Disposal Program, Mayor John A. Scott, Lincoln A. Sollitt, ,.and Richard I. Gagnou, representing Sollitt Construction, Inc., EdwinTurnock, Water ;Works Superintendent, and Ward H. Crothers, Clerk of the Board. The meeting convened ,at 11:00 A. M. C.S.T. The purpose of the meeting was the signing of the general contract for the Sewage ,Treatment Plant construction, and entering into arrangements for the required surety bond. These ends having been accomplished, meeting thereupon adjourned, the time then being 11:30 A. M. C.S.T. • Attest: Clerk 0