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Home My WebLink About10/31/1955 Board of Public Works Minutes402 ' October 31, 1955 i A regular meeting of the Board of Public works was held October 31, 1955, at 10:00 A. M. All members were present. Minutes of the previous regular meeting and also special meeting were read and approved. Claims of the following suppliers, in the j I'total amount of $91,407.07, were approved and ordered paid: j Charles Armstrong & Son $1.10 Arteraft Printers $28.00 Business Systems, Inc. 2.79 Business Systems, Inc.. 2.65 Jack Campbell 20.00 Globe Print Shop 9.00 Max Goff 20.00 Fred Hotop 20.00 The Hoover Co. 4.84 Huntington Laboratories 13.93 is Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 15.23 Indiana & Michigan Electric 7.88 Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. 216.00 Brent Kumm 10.00 Office Engineers, Inc. 16.53 office Engineers,Inc. 2.40 {! Office Engineers, Inc. 18.75 South Bend Window Cleaning Co. 53.50 Granville P. Ziegler 15.00 J. R. Walker 20.00 SEWAGE WORKS CONSTRUCTION; Keith B. Haviland 11. %I-4 Keith B. Haviland 2.48 � Shell American Petroleum 25.00 Scherman-Schaus-Freeman Co. 6.64 1954 GENERAL STREET IMPROVEMENT: 3 Otto Merkle & Adaline Merkle 1,000.00 Russell Oberlin 410.80 Rieth-Riley Construction Co. 89,423.05 STREET & TRAFFIC: South Bend Electric Co. 6.01 Ben Medow, Inc. 2.31 Millerts Paint Service 6.00 Miller+s Paint Service 1.70 Romy-Hammes Corporation 9.86 Power Transmission Co. 4.18 The Board first read and considered the request of Mort Linder & Associates on behalf.of Robertson's Department Store for the opening of the holiday shopping season on Friday morning November 25th, and seeking permission for a downtown parade and involving also the use of a helicopter to arrive and land in a roped -off area of Howard Park. The Board, being assured of ample indemnification against personal injury and property damage, granted the request. The Board next examined affidavit for Taxi -cab License of Ralph A. Haisley, referred the affidavit to Chief of Police R. J. Gillen for investigation and report, and., set the date of Monday, November 14, 1955, at 11:00 A. M. for a public hearing in the matter. Mr. Haisley, being present, was so informed. A report received from the Police Department concerning the complaint of Mrs. Lisa; Skillern, 1014 E. Fox Street, about lack of sidewalk on the west side of Fellows Street along the property occupied by the old Birdsell Manufacturing Company Plant, was next given consideration. The Board was in unanimous agreement that proper sidewalk should be constructed and maintained at this location and directed the Clerk to notify property;; owner to provide sidewalk at this site. The Board next considered plans and specifications for the construction of the Healthwin Hospital Sanitary Sewer, from the hospital to the Sewage Treatment Plant, and directed that the Board of County Commissioners be informed as follows: "This Board tentatively approves these plans and kindly requests that you advertise fcm bids for the construction of the sewer, to be made upon ' the following basis: 1. For the construction of a 10-inch sewer, as shown by the plans, from Cleveland Road south to the point of entry to the plant. 2. For the construction of a 21-inch sewer over the same area; to be advertised as Alternate A. It is our feeling that in order to provide for future expansion in the geographical -area of the sewer, that long .range planning would call for a 21-inch sewer, and the City of South Bend would assume and pay the difference in cost between a 10-inch sewer and a 21-inch sewer through its sewage treatment program. When the bids are received, it can then be determined what the City's obligation will be for the oversizing of the sewer from 10-inch to 21-inch, from Cleveland Road south to the point of entry, which is a distance of 2200 feet." A petition, dated October 25, 1955, calling for the vacation of the north and south alley at the rear of Lots Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, Guildfoyle and Curtis Addition in the 600 block of North Olive Street in South Bend, Indiana, was next examined and referred to the City Planning Commission. Insufficient time having elapsed to receive returns to indicate ;;desired by the property owners concerned in the improvement of Fremont ;;constructing of pavement, the Board deferred the awarding of contract type of pavement Street, by accordingly. The Excavation Bond of Arthur C. Rogers, in the amount of $1,000.00, was examined ;and approved by the Board. • • 0 0 • 403 h �! Contractors Bond, in the sum of $1,000.00, for Rufus Barcus, was examined and approved by the Board. RESOLUTION ADOPTING FINAL ASSESSMENT ROLL RESOLUTION NO. 2811,,1955 After hearing all persons interested who appeared and the Clerk of the Board of ;Public Works and Safety having proofs of publication of the notices to property owners !:'and the same having been found sufficient, therefore - h BE IT RESOLVED, by the B6ard of Public Works and Safety of the City of South Bend, j 'Indiana, that the Primary or Preliminary Assessment Roll adopted by the Board on the 17th day of October, 1955, for the improvement of THIRTY-SIXTH STREET from Jefferson !Boulevard north approximately 614 feet be and the same is in all things confirmed. ' I j" R. -S. Andrysiak J. A. Bickel I. A. Hurwich ' Board of Publ1c WorKs & a e y L j Ward H. Crothers ' Clerk of the9$o RESOLUTION ADOPTING FINAL ASSESSMENT ROLL RESOLUTION NO. 2810, 1955 After hearing all persons interested who appeared and the Clerk of the Board of "Public Works and Safety having proofs of publication 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 Assessment Roll adopted by the Board on the 17th day of October, 1955, for the improvement of THIRTY-FIFTH STREET from Jefferson Boulevard north approximately ?75 feet be and the same is in all things confirmed. R. S. Andrysiak J. A. Bickel I. A. Hurwich Board of Public Works & a ety Ward H. Crothers Clerk of the Board. There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting adjourned at 11:05 A. M. �y I Attest. Clerk j SPECIAL MEETING November 4, 1955 A special meeting of the Board of Public Works was held Friday, November 4, 1955, j at 2:00 P. M. All members were present. The meeting was called for the purpose of ii examining agreement between Romy Hammes and Dorothy Hammes, and the City of Sout# Bend for the purchase of a strip of land ten feet in width immediately East of the presently established Easterly line of Olive Street for the purpose of widening Olive Street. 3 Agreement was approved and signed accordingly. There being no other business to come before the Board at this time, meeting was adjourned. is i! li