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HomeMy WebLinkAbout08/09/1954 Board of Public Works Minutes213 ii August 9, 1954 !� A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held Monday, August 92 19542 at lfi10:00 A- M. All members were present. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Salary claims in the amount of $36,746.53 were approved. Claims of the 11following suppliers, in the total amount of $26,867.49, were approved and ordered paid: City Water Works $31.65 Commerford Decal Co. $249.25 • Ernest DeGroff 52.08 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 9.41 Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. 5.84 Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. 436.18 Indiana & Michigan Electric 11,613.03 Thos. Jefferson Akens 5.00 Elmer E. Murray 47.20 Office Engineers, Inc. 127.92 Office Engineers, Inc. 1.64 Office Engineers, Inc. 9.00 C. L. Kinch 40.00 State Highway Department 5.00 State Highway Department 5.00 Tri-County News 6.26 Tri-County News 4.97 PARKING METER: Thomas E. Bath Agency 25.00 SEWER DEPARTMENT: SEWAGE WORKS CONSTRUCTION: Bearings Service Co. 16.38 Consoer,Townsend & • Apsoc. 6,516.24 Niles Excavating Co. 648.00 Consoer, Townsend & Assoc. 22473.14 Niles Excavating Co. 202.00 Russell C. Kuehl 973.00 STREET & TRAFFIC: Anderson Motors, Inc 42.88 Bearings Service_ Co. 11.18 Bearings Service Co. 12.29 Belleville Lbr. &_Supply Co. 101.24 Belleville Lbr. & Supply Co. 29.76 Deeds Equipments Co. 20.45 Elkhart Paint Mfg. Co. 57.94 Elgin Sweeper Co. 293.05 Elgin Sweeper Co. 36.31} R. E. Grow, M.D. 59.00 The Gibson Co. 171.3d Romy Hammes Co. 13.52 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 44.69 Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. 20.25 Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. 34.40 Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. 90.40 Inlander-Steindler Paper Co. 3.30 Koontz -Wagner Electric Co. 12.60 Korte Bros., Inc. 18.52 Korte Bros., Inc. 10.68 . Materials Handling Equipment .30 Ben Medow, Inc. 4.88 Ben Medow, Inc. 19.62 Ben Medow, Inc. 30.85 McComb Battery Co. 29.37 Municipal Supply Co. 159.40 Norwalk Truck Line Co. 2.51 Phillips Petroleum Co. 127.44 The Premier Autoware Co. 49.96 Standard Automotive Supply, 149.00 C. D. Smelser Co. 36.88 C. D. Smelser Go. 25.68 Sinclair Refining Co. 245.50 C. A. Schrader Co. 9.56 Schuyler Rose, Inc. 135.45 Schuyler Rose, Inc. 2.84 Schuyler Rose, Inc. 14.21 Schuyler Rose, Inc. 59.20 Schuyler Rose, Inc. 41.88 Schuyler Rose, Inc. 43.77 Singer General Tire, Inc. 18.75 Singer General Tire, Inc. 45.15 Singer General Tire, Inc. 25.60 Singer General Tire, Inc. 15.75 Singer General Tire, Inc. 48.15 Singer General Tire, Inc. 72.75 Singer General Tire, Inc. 43.04 Singer General Tire, Inc. 113.00 Southern Lumber Sales 126.00 J. W. Werntz & Son 10.30 Standard Oil Co. 401.98 FINAL CONFIRMATION OF IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION RESOLUTION.NO. 2788 - 1954 For the improvement of DUNHAM STREET from the west line of Olive Street to the .least line of Kaley Street by constructing a Class C pavement, under Improvement Resolution • !No. 2788, adopted July 6, 1954, and first confirmed on August 2n� 1954- No.written remonstrance or remonstrances against said improvement bearing the signatures of fifty-nne percent or more of the resident property owners on said street to be improved, having been filed within the ten day period following the date and time of the hearing on said improvement, therefore BE IT RESOLVED, by the Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of South Bend, Indiana, that Improvement Resolution No. 2788, 1954, duly adopted by this Board on July 6, 1954, and first confirmed on August 2nd, 1954, be and the same is in all things ;finally confirmed and the improvement is hereby ordered made. . R. S. Andrysiak J. A. Bickdl I. A. Hurwich Board of PublIc Works& aey Ward H. Crothers !Clerk of Me Boar PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS ADOPTED Profiles, Drawings, Plans, General Details, Specifications and Estimates, approved !by the Board on the 6th day of July, 1954 for the improvement of DUNHAM STREET from the • mest line of Olive Street to the east line of Kaley Street were adopted and ordered placed -on file in the office of the Board of Public Works & Safety. officeAo Me2�oard5��` Pubic Workks and©Safety �n J�e 6 y Hal oi�gthissGkte tameth d the Y Y Y� F214 A time and the office of the Board of Public Works and Safety in the City Hall of this 1 '.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 construction of i' said work shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of this Board before 10:00 A., M. ;!CST of 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 per cent of the amount of his bid, or a bid bond for two and one-half per cent of the amount of his bid, to insure the execution of this contract, if said work is awarded to him. The Clerk of this Board is hereby ordered, to give notice by two weekly publications • of the time and place, when and where bids will be received, opened and considered for I the construction of said work. Said Clerk shall state in said notices, that each bidder shall enclose with his bid a certified check or bid bond for above named amount, to 1 insure the execution of this contract. �1 FI`NAL CONFIRMATION OF IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION RESOLUTION NO. 2789 - 1954 For the improvement of SOUTH BROOKFIELD STREET from the south line of Indiana Avenue to the north line of Prairie Avenue by constructing a Class C pavement, under Improvement Resolution No. 2789, 1954, adopted July 6, 1954, and first confirmed on ; • August 2, 1954• No written remonstrance or remonstrances against said improvement bearingthe sig- natures of fifty-one per cent or more of the resident property owners on said street to be improved, having been filed within the ten day period following the date and I) i time of the hearing on said improvement, therefore BE IT R'E'SOLVED, by the Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of South Bend, i Indiana, that Improvement Resolution No. 2789, 1954 duly adopted by this Board on July 6, 1954, and first confirmed on August 2, 1954, be and the same is in all things finally confirmed and the improvement is hereby ordered made. j • R. S. Andrysiak !' J. A. Bickel h I. A. Hurwich Board or Public Works & Sa e- y �I II Ward H. Crothers is Cierk of tHe Board PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS ADOPTED Profiles, Drawings, Plans, General Details, Specification and Estimates approved i by this Board on the 6th day of Jilly, 1954 for the improvement of SOUTH BROOKFIELD STREET from the south line of Indiana Avenue to the north line of Prairie Avenue by �I constructing a Class C pavement be and the same is hereby adopted and ordered place on 1 file in the office of the Department of Public ?forks and Safety. August 23, 1954, at the hour of 10:00 a.m.CST. is hereby fixed as the time and the 1� 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 construction of said work shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of this Board before 10:00 A. M. CST of said day. Each bidder farsaid work shall enclose with his bid a certified check, pyable to the Treasurer of this City in the sum of two and one-half percent of the amount of his bid, or a bid bond for two and one-half percent of the amount of his ! l bid, to insure the execution of this contract, if said work is awarded to him. I The clerk of this Board is hereby ordered, to give notice by two weekly publication of the time and place, when and hwere bids will be received opened and considered for the construction of said work. Said Clerk shall state in said notices, that each bidder] shall enclose with his bid a certified check or bid bond for above name amount, to a insure the execution of this contract. The Board next examined and approved drawing and Dedication of Re -Plat of part of Lincoln Plaza Second Addition to the City of South Bend, submitted by Hartman Builders, ;� • Inc., accompanied by letter of approval from the Planning Commission under date of !i August 5, 1954• The Board examined and approved drawing and Dedication of Re -Plat Zookts First Subdivision in the City of South Bend, County of St. Joseph, State of Indiana, which had the stamp of approval of the Planning Commission under date of August 5, 1954• Lots 1 2 and 3 of Joe Muiaf s Re -Plat of lots 152 and 153 of Horne & Dunn First Subdivision in River Park in the -.City of South Bend, Indiana was examined and approved by the Board. A letter was received from the City Planning Commission recommending the vacation • of the north half of the north -south alley between California and Rex Street immediately west of Leland Avenue, and this was referred to the Engineering Department for further 215 I; investigation and report. The Board then examined a petition, under date of Sept; -ter 8, 1954, submitted by .;Carl Engstrom, 2002 Swygart Street, for the vacation of alley between 1926 South Swygart „Street and 2002 Swygart Street, and this was referred to the City Planning Commission for investigation and recommendation. • A letter was received from the City Planning Commission regarding petition to ;vacate alley between the 1300 and 1400 blocks between East Sunnymede Avenue and East ;Wayne Street South, stating that no action was taken on same at their meeting of August 5th as the description was incorrectly drawn, and the Clerk of the Board was directed 'to return the petition for correction. Messrs. Ralph Cripe and Joseph Carson appeared before the Board in complaint of a .practice of narking double and triple in front of their place of residence on the north side of Mishawaka Avenue immediately west of Twyckenham Drive, when public affairs are :being conducted at the John Adams High School. These gentlemen stated that on such ;occasions, which are frequent throughout the school year, they find it impossible to get in or out of their private driveways. Traffic Engineer, E. H. Miller being present • ;advised that the same difficulty is contended with on Mishawaka Avenue from. the G.T.W. Railway viaduct to Eddy Street, and he is confident the problem mill be solved by the 'marking of parking "stalls" at a 4.50 angle, and this will be put into effect as quickly ,;as possible. IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 2793 - 1954 HAWTHORNE DRIVE - Local Sewer Four residents, representing those now owning home and residing on Hawthorne Drive, F having remonstrated in writing against Improvement Resolution No. 2793 for local sewer 'from the center line of Lots 136 and 153 in Jefferson Heights Addition to the south ;line of McKinley Avenue, the Board is thereby required to refer the matter to the • ;Common Council, which has the power to override the remonstrances and provide this sewer `which is most urgently required in the interests of the public health. It was the `'decision of the Board, however, to hold the matter in abeyance until a thorough study ;can be made of all legal aspects involved. VACATION RESOLUTION NO. 2787 - 1954 This being the date set, hearing was held on the assessment roll showing the award of damages and the assessment of benefits in the matter of vacation of THE PASSAGEWAY ,FROM THE EAST SIDE OF ST. JOSEPH STREET TO THE WEST SIDE OF JAMES MONROE SCHOOL PLAY- GROUND SAID PASSAGEWAY LYING BETWEEN LOTS NUMBERED 386 and 387 AS SHOWN ON THE PLAT OF ,BEVERLY HEIGHTS TENTH ADDITION, under Vacation Resolution No. 2787. • In the above named assessment roll, no remonstrators appeared and no written remonstrances were filed, the Clerk of the Board submitted proofs of publication of notices and same were found sufficient, and the Board, therefore, finds that the several lots and parcels of land have been benefited and damated in the amounts shown on said roll. The Board, therefore, decides to take final action on said assessment roll,, and declares same inall things ratified, confirmed and approved without modification and the proceedings closed, and the passageway vacated upon receipt of the amount of benefit assessments from the various property owners so benefited and all proceedings had' with reference to said passageway vacation are hereby sustained. LIST OF OWNERS OF PROPERTY TO BE ACQUIRED AND CONDEMNED FOR PUBLIC . USE, TOGETHER WITH THE VALUATION-07 THE PROPERTY SOUGHT TO BE CONDEMNED AND ACQUIRED FOR PUBLIC USE. The ,property which the Board heretofore resolved, in its Resolution Number 2 of July 26, 1954, to condemn for public use is located in the City of South Bend, St. Joseph Bounty, Indiana, and described as follows: Tract 3 The right of the City of South Bend, or its successors, to lay, maintain, operate, alter, repair and remove a sewer, lift station, river crossing entrance chamber, manholes, • structures, pumping stations and appurtenances, including utility poles and/or guy wires connected therewith, through and over the following described real estate in the City of South Bend, St. Joseph County, State of Indiana, to wit: A parcel of land lying East of the intersection of Edgewater Drive and Monroe Street as shown on the recorded plat of Edgewater Place Addition, to the City of South Bend, bounded by a line running as follows, to wit: Beginning at the intersection of the easterly line of Edgewater Drive and the southerly line of Monroe Street projected easterly, thence easterly on the southerly line of Monroe Street projected easterly to the low-water makr of the St. Joseph River; thence downstream along the low-water male of said River to the center line of Monroe Street projected easterly; • thence West along the center line of Monroe Street projected easterly to the East line of Edgewater Drive; thence South along the easterly line of Edgewater Drive to the place of beginning. 216 The owners of said property are Matina Paulos and Magdaline Paulos, joint tenants, and the value of the interest therein sought to be taken from said owners is $50.00. Tract No. 4 The right of the City of South Bend, or its successors, to lay, maintain, operate, alter, repair and remove a sewer, lift station, manholes, structures, pumping stations and appurtenances connected therewith through and over the following described real estate in the City of South Bend, St. Joseph County, State of Indiana, to wit: A parcel of land taken from Lot Numbered 11 in Miller and Greents First Addition to the Town of Lowell, now the City of South Bend, bounded by a line running as follows, to wit: Beginning on the South aide of Colfax Avenue at a point 253.93 feet West of the Northeast corner of said Lot 11 in Miller and Greents First Addition; thence West along the North side of Lot 11 a distance of 14.5 feet; thence South perpendicular: with the North line of said Lot a distance of 4.1 feet; thence East parallel with the North line of said Lot 11 a distance of 14.5 feet; thence North 4.1 feet to the place of beginn- ing, which point is 739.65 feet Vilest of the intersection of the South line of Colfax Avenue and the West line of Niles Avenue in the City of South Bend, Indiana. The owner of said property is the Johnson Oil Refining Company, a Delaware Corporat having its principle business offices in the City of Chicago, Illinois, and the value of the interest therein sought to be taken from said owner is $500.00. The person having the leasehold interest in said property is Harold Weirich, and it is determined that his interest will be injuriously affected in the amount of $50.00. The Board further finds that no other property, or interest in property, will be either damaged or benefited by the Appropriation of the above described interest in the properties in Tracts 3 and 4, by the City for public use. This list of property owners, description of interests in properties taken, and the damages to be awarded, is hereby adopted in full by said Board as evidence by their signatures as appear hereon. The Board now requests that the Secretary forthwith prepare and serve written notices upon the owners of each of the above described interests in properties, showing the amount of damages to be awarded, by delivering a copy of such notice to the owners personally or to their proper representative or agent or by leaving a copy of said notice at his or her last and usual place of residence. Said notice shall further name a date on which the Board shall hear or receive remonstrances from persons with regard to the amount of the awarded damages. Dated this 9th day of August, 1954- R. S. Andrysiak J. A. Bickel I. A. Hurwich Board of Public Works & Safety Some further information was given the Board, by Attorney R. C. Kuehl concerning damages to be allowed the property owners concerned, and the Clerk was directed to serve notice on these individuals and firms, informing them of date of hearing fixed by the Board for their appearance before the Board in this matter of securing all the necessary easements for connecting sewers to the main interceptor sewer. The Board then took up the matter of Contract Supplement No. 5, submitted by Consoer, Townsend and Associates, consulting engineers, pertaining to Contract -No. 11- 52-137 and dated July 20, 1954, City Engineer, R. S. Andrysiak, being present, in- formed the Board the he had discussed the matter with the Mayor and with other qualified engineers and it was found advisable to accept the additional construction, in each instance, to a -void excessive costs at a later date for such instsllations, and to forestall operation problems which, otherwise, would be certain to develop. The Board accordingly, accepted Contract'Supplement No. 5 and affixed their signatures thereto. The request of Sollitt Construction Company, Inc., to use the services of the University of Notre Dame in the testing of materials for the Sewage Treatment Plant was granted by the Board. The request of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Jewish War Veterans Organization to conduct their annual flower sale on the downtown streets, for the date of Monday, September 13, 1954 was granted by the Board. No bids having been received in response to legal advertising for cable for the Traffic Engineerts Department, the Clerk was directed to proceed with the purchase of the required cable as advantageously as possible through a local dealer able to supply this material promptly. • • • • • 0 0 217 0 II The Board approved the following S-T-O-P and YIELD RIGHT OF WAY signs: STOP Signs on both sides of Dunham at Falcon Street STOP Sign on northwest corner. of Liberty at Jefferson STOP Sign on southwest corner of Madison at Ironwood Drive YIELD RIGHT OF WAY Sign on southeast corner on Liberty at Jefferson YIELD RIGHT OF WAY SIGN on Madison northeast corner, at Ironwood Drive The Board next examined and approved the three year Maintenance Bond of the Reed Construction Company, Mishawaka, Indiana for the maintenance of Class B, Type 3 pavement ,,on Woodvale Drive (Broadmoor Addition) from Byron Drive to a point 887.3 feet South. Certificate of insurance inforce for the Niles Excavating Company, furnished by the Travelers Insurance Company, under date of August 3, 1954 was next examined and !'ordered filed. ExcavAtion Bond in the sum of $1,000.00 for the Reed Construction Company, Mishawaka, ..Indiana, was examined and approved by the Board. Contractorls Bond,in the sum of 1,000.00, binding Paul E. Millington, as principal, and Manufacturers Casualty Insurance. Company, as sureties, was examined and approved by the Board. There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting adjourned at 11:25 A. M. � �- Attest: Clerk August 16, 1954 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held Monday, August 16, 19541 at 10:00 A. M. All members were present. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Claims of the following suppliers, in the total amount of $4389.73, were approved and ordered paid: Thos. Jefferson Akens $5.00 Belleville Lbr. & Supply Co. $1.55 Burroughs Corporation 18.00 Business Systems, Inc. 4.32 Gaf ill Oil Co. 31.28 Gafill Oil Co. 20.43 The Gibson Co. 4.41 John W. Gorney 5.00 John W. Gorney 5.00 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 9.60 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 10.35 Indiana State Industries 17.54 H. S. LeRoy 12.64 Lien Chemical Co. 18.00 Ben Medow, Inc. 5.64 Office Engineers, Inc. 115.67 Office Supply & Equipment Co. 7.50 Ott Refrigeration Service 14.00 Dale E. Shelly 83.04 Simon Brothers 7.75 South Bend Electric Co. 7.39 Walter Stickley 32.00 W. J. Stogdill, M.D. 10.00 Granville P. Ziegler, P.M. 45.00 PARKING METER: CONTRACTORS IMPROVEMENT FUND: Casimir A. Szynski 16.24 McIntyre & Jnnes 2027.25 Wilbur H. Gartner & Assoc. 247.70 STREET & TRAFFIC Atlas Silk Screen Supply 10.11 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 17.04 Indiana State Industries 211.17 Indiana State Industries 213.19 C. E. Lee Co. 9.82 Co E. Lee Co. 7.90 C. E. Lee Co. 4.76 Lyle Signs, Inc. 104.81 The O'Brien Corporation 47.28 The O'Brien Corporation 193.05 The OtBrien Corporation 176.40 The OtBrien Corporation 2ld-74 The OtBrien Corporation 176.40 The O'Brien Corporation 176.40 Scherman-Schaus-Freeman Co. 7.33 Scherman-Schaus-Freeman Co. 33�03 Mr. W. P. Kramer, representing BIMSCOg Inc., appeared before the Board and gave a demonstration of a metal awning which his company custom builds as they wanted it classified before putting it on the market. Section 451 of the Building Code which applies to awnings was read and it was pointed out that the Building Code regulation