HomeMy WebLinkAbout06/02/1955 Board of Public Works Special Meeting MinutesSPECIAL MEETING
June 2, 1955
A special meeting of the Board was held at 9:30 A. M. for the purpose of considering,
the tabulations and recommendation of the consulting engineer; W. S.,Moore, in the
matter" of the awarding of contract for the improvement of Olive Street, from the New
Jersey, Indiana and Illinois Railroad to Western Avenue. Mr. J. A. Bickel was absent.
The Board awarded the contract to Rieth-Riley Construction Company on their low
bid of $81,231:45, contingent upon the preparation of contractural documents and
the providing of the required bond.
There being no further business to come before this meeting, the meeting adjourned
at 9:40 A. M.
Attest:
Clerk
June 6, 1955
A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held Monday, June 6, 1955, at
10:00 A. M. All members were present. Minutes of the previous regular meeting and also
special meeting were read and approved. Salary claims, in the total amount of-$39,247.13,
were approved. Claims of the following -suppliers, in the total amount of $545,495-55,
i' were approved and ordered paid:
Armstead Dean $30.56 Arrow Towel & Linen Service $17.10
Business Systems, Inc. 2.65 Deants Office Machines 7.50
Deants Office Machines 11.55 Dean's Office Machines 27.50
Ernest DeGraff 52.00 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 12.15
Indiana & Michigan Electri$11,751.94 Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. 463.20
Verner L. Lane 17.06 Verner L. Lane 46.76
Halsey LeRoy 23.60 Inlander Steindler Paper Co. 11.25
Inlander Steindler Paper Co. 32.70 Monroe Calculating Co. 17000
• Elmer E. Murray 47.92 Office Suppl y & Equipment Co. 16:30
Dale E. Shelly 94.48 Walter Stickley 34.88
Granville P. Ziegler, P.M. 15.00
PARKING METER:
C. Eugene Burkett 25.12 M. H. Rhodes, Inc. 966.00
SEWAGE WORKS CONSTRUCTION:
Indiana & Michigan Elect. Co. 7.50 Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. 7.50
Indiana & Michigan Electric Co-7.50 Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. 7.50
Falcon Marine Co. $22,572.00 H. W. Hunter, Contractor 1395.00 J
Sollitt Construction Co.$507,021.51 1
SEWAGE OPERATION & MAINTENANCE: 1954 GENERAL STREET IMPROVEMENT FUND:
Chas. Armstrong & Son 2.25 Office Supply & Equipment Co. 6.64
• STREET & TRAFFIC:
Car Parts, Inc. 8.01 The OtBrien Corporation 15.98
Romy Hammes Co. 2.72 Superior Cable Corporation 689.94:"
Frank S. Vukovitz 27.28 j+
The Board first examined Deed from Singer Manufacturing Company to the City of
South Bend, for land occupied by City Fire Station No. 8, which is as follows:
"THIS INDENTURE :'VITNESSETH: That the SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, a cor-
poration organized and existing" under the laws of the State of New Jersey,
does hereby, in the public interest and for public purposes, Release, Quit -
Claim and Donate to the MUNICIPAL CITY OF SOUTH BEND, St. Joseph County,
Indiana, a parcel of real estate situated in said city and county and bounded
as follows:
Beginning on the West line of Olive Street One Hundred and
Ninety-six (196) feet South of the Southeast corner of Lot
Number One (1) in West End subdivision, thence South eighty
(80) feet, thence West one hundred (100) feet, thence North
Eighty (80) feet, thence East One Hundred (100) feet to the
place of beginning.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the grantor has caused this instrument to be executed
in its name and on its behalf by R. W. Stewart, one of its Vice Presidents)
attested by D. H. Alexander, its Secretary, and its corporate seal.to be
affixed at New York City, New York, this 19th day of May, 1955.
THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY
Attest:Recretlexander By: R. W. Stewart, Vice President
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