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Contractor's Bond, in the sum of $1,000.00, for Raymond Asher, was next examined and
approved by the Board.
There being no further business to come before the Board the meeting was
11:40 A. M.
Attest
Clerk
January 24, 1955
adjourned a t
A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held Monday, January 24, 1955,,,
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 $51,368.36, were
approved and ordered paid:
Arteraft Printers
$92.50
John W. Gorney
5.00
Indiana Bell Telephone Co.
267.95
Indiana & Michigan Electric Co.
.64
G. E. Meyer & Son
2.98
Office Engineers, Inc.
1.34
Office Supply & Equipment Co.
1.04
Simon Brothers, Inc.
8.80
Tri-County News
11.45
DOG POUND:
H. D. Lee Company
11.22
PARKING METER:
Indiana Bell Telephone Co.
9.19
QENERAL IMPROVEMENT FUND:
Wilbur H. Gartner & Associates
2318.18
Rieth Riley Construction 28,865.38
STREET & TRAFFIC:
Gafill Oil Co.
15.75
Ronald E. Grow, D.O.
5.00
Korte Bros., Inc.
14.88
Ben Medow, Inc.
12.00
Meyer's Hardware
2.98
Norwalk Truck Lines
10.05
South Bend Electric Co.
910.14
South Bend Electric Co.
99.00
Business Systems, Inc.
$10.13
Indiana Bell Telephone Co.
10.60
Indiana Bell Telephone Co.
11.10
G. E. Meyer & Son
9.20
Walter C. Miller Fuel Co.
34•88
Office Engineers, Inc.
.79
Schuyler Rose, Inc.
2.84
South Bend Window Cleaning Co.
53.50
SANITATION:
Leach Company 24•�5
SEWAGE WORKS OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE:
City Water Works 12,146.97
SEWAGE WORKS CONSTRUCTION:
Consoer, Townsend & Associates4256.55
Consoer, Townsend & Associates3220.82
Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 1o.88
Gafill Oil Co. 1389.92
Wayne Hall Supply Co. 340.00
M. B. Corporation 11.16
Ben Medow, Inc. 12.00
Nicholls Printery 62.50
Schilling's 18.40
South Bend Electric Co. 910.14
First appeared before the Board, Coast Guardsman John Mock requesting permission
for the use of truck equipped with tape recorder device on downtown streets to attract
attention to the Coast Guard recruiting activities. Permission was denied.
The Board next held hearing in connection with taxicab driver's license applicants
Messrs. Louis Edwin White, Arthur Chavis, Hubert Kinder, John Otter, Richard Thuot,
and Eugene L. Laskowski. Present, in addition to the applicants, were attorney George
Schock, representing Messrs. White and Chavis, and Otto Morehouse, representing the
Taxi -Cab Drivers' Local No. 141, A.F. of L. Mr. Morehouse spoke in behalf of Hubert
Kinder. After a -thorough review of all applications and questioning of the individual
applicants, the Board approved the applications and directed the controller to proceed
to issue each a license.
The Board next examined and approved sewer plans for Alpine Drive in Broadmoor
Addition.
The Board next studies and tentatively approved Contract Supplement No. 8,
Sewage Treatment Plant Contract No. 11-52-137, Sollitt Construction Company, subject to
the further consideration and advice of attorneys Kuehl and May.
The Board then reviewed bids opened at the previous regular meeting, and
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awarded contracts as follows:
Lincolnway West Gravel Co. - Crushed Gravel @ 1.15 per cu. yd.
(40% crushed material)
Standard Oil Co. - Cut Back Asphalt and Road Oil S.C. Grade 1-4,
So -Rite Liquid Asphalt, M.C. Grade 1-5 and
R.C. Grade 1-5.
C. D. Smelser Co. - Washed Sand for Asphalt @ 80� per ton
No. 12 Rice Gravel @ 1.15 per ton
South Bend Sand & Gravel Co. - Washed Concrete Sand @ 80� per ton
Washed Rice Gravel $1.00 per ton
Kuert Concrete, Inc. - Ready Mixed Concrete using local gravel
as the coarse aggregate
'! Ready Mixed concrete using crushed lime-
stone asthe coarse aggregate.
Rieth-Riley Construction Co. - Bituminous. Coated Aggregate Type "B"
Bituminous C'oated Aggregate Type A
Komac road patching material
Hot Mixed (AH) Asphaltic Concrete
patch and resurface material
Brushed or Processed Gravel.
In accordance with legal advertising, the Board now announced the time for
opening of bids to supply calculating machine for use in the office of the City Treasurer.
!Bids were as follows:
MONROE CALCULATING MACHINE CO., A Non -Collusion Affidavit
SOUTH BEND, INDIANA. and Certified Check in the
amount of $77.50 accompanied,
the bid.
1 - Automatic Ten Column Calculator ..........$775.00
FRIDEN CALCULATING MACHINE CO., INC. A Non -Collusion Affidavit
114 EAST LASALLE AVENUE and Certified Check in the
SOUTH BEND, INDIANA amount of $80.00 accompanied,
the bid.
1 - Fully Automatic Ten -Column Friden
Calculating Machine .......................$775.00
MARCHANT CALCULATORS, INC.
402 LAFAYETTE BLDG.,
SOUTH BEND, INDIANA.
1 - Model 10ADX Marchant Figurematic
Calculating Machine...
REMINGTON RAND INC.,
465.WASHINGTON ST.
BUFFALO 3, N.Y.
A Non -Collusion Affidavit
and Certified Check in the
amount of $67.50 accompanied
the bid.
$675.00
A Non -Collusion Affidavit
and Certified Check in the
amount of $63.50 accompanied'
the bid.
1 Remington Rand Printing Calculator....... $635.00
All bids were taken under advisement, contract to be awarded on or before
Monday, January 31, 1955.
The Board next examined blueprints of the S. S. Kresge Company Construction
Department, Detroit, Michigan, covering extensive construction now in progress on
their store No. 101, Incated at 201 to 205 S. Michigan Street, South Bend, Indiana,
and approved the indicated canopies, with the stipulation that these canopies comply
in every way with the Building Code of the City of South Bend. Blueprints were then
referred by the Board to the Building Commissioner for his examination and<study.
The Board next considered and, with the recommendation of the consulting
engineers, Consoer, Townsend and Associates, approved Contract Supplement No. l of
Contract No. 5-B, Paschen Contractors, Inc.
A petition, dated January 18, 1955, for the improvement of West Ewing Avenue,
.'from the east line of Gertrude Street to Olive Street,by the construction of pavement
!Iwas examined and referred to the Engineer for investigation.
The request of the Health Department that legal advertising proceed immediately=;
to secure bids to supply two new cars for that department, was granted, and the Clerk
directed to advertise accordingly.
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The Board next read the Building Commissioner's letter of January 21, 1955, con-
cerning protest made against the commercial use of property at 3514 Mishawaka Avenue,
which letter informs the Board such use will terminate on February 1, 1955. The Board
directed that this letter be placed on file.
PLANS REPORTED - JEFFERSON BOULEVARD TRUNK SEWER
Wilbur H. Gartner and Associates reported to the Board, Profiles, Drawings, Plans,,'.
General Details, Specifications, Estimates and the Preliminary Improvement Resolution
j for the improvement of JEFFERSON BOULEVARD - 34th Street - Washington Street - 35th.
Street from approximately two hundred feet east of 26th Street to Logan on Jefferson
Boulevard; from Jefferson Boulevard to Washington Street on 34th; from 34th Street to
35th Street on Washington Street and from Washington Street to Oakcrest Drive on 35th
Street by constructing a trunk sewer extension.
The Board approved the report and passed Improvement Resolution No. 2801, author
izing this improvement, and the 9th day of February, 1955, at the hour of 6:30 P.M. CST.
is hereby fixed as the time, and the office of the Board in said City as the place, !'
j' when and where all persons whose property may be affected by such proposed improvement,
i 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. 2801, adopted this 24th day of January, 1955, and.to,be`pub-
lished on the 28th day of January and on the 4th day of February, 1955•
Copy of letter, dated January 18, 1955, to B. F. Seeberger, Agent, N. Y. C. R.R.
! from Ernest H. Miller, Traffic Engineer, calling attention to condition of planking "
at railroad crossings, particularly the Leer Street crossing, was examined and ordered
placed on file.
STREET DEPARTMENT:
H. M. Tomlinson, Street Commissioner, being present, reported on a minor auto-
mobile damage not exceeding $25.00, which claimant blamed to Sanitation Department
vehicle being operated on wrong side of the street. The matter was placed in the hands
of the City Attorney fcar settlement.
Excavation Bonds, each in the sum of $1,000.00, for the following three
contractos were examined and approved:
Louis Seago, Jr d/b/a Seago Plumbing & Heating Co.
E. A. Strohm, d/b/a Strohm Construction Company.
Edward J. White, Inc.
There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adj
at 11:35 A. M.
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Clerk
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SPECIAL MEETING - January 28, 1955
?' A special meeting of the Board of Public Works was held Friday, January 28, 1955,
at 2:30 P. M. All.members were present. The Board has been advised by special counsel,
'Russell C. Kuehl, that all of the requirements of the indemnifying and saving harmless
the City of South Bend, from and against all loss and damage to any property whatsoever,
,all loss and damage on account of injury to or death of any person whomsoever, and all
claims and liability for loss and damage and cost of expense thereof caused by or growing
;'out of, or in any way connected with the construction of the Toll Road, has been supplied
to special counsel, Russell C. Kuehl.
Further all other conditions in nature of immediate costs and future costs as set
forth by the City of South Bend, have also been recognized and satisfied, therefore the
Board of Public Works, City of South Bend, Indiana, grants right of entry to the Indiana
Toll Road Commission to a parcel of land, which is a part of the right of way of the pro
,posed Toll Road extending West from the St. Joseph River in St. Joseph County, Indiana,
,a distance of 350 feet and also a .50 foot wide access road thereto.
There being no further business to come before the Board at this time, the meeting
adjourned.
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