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HomeMy WebLinkAbout03/26/1956 Board of Public Works Minutes405� BEN MEDOW, INC. '222 N. Lafayette Blvd. South Bend, Indiana 1 1956 Dodge Pick-up Truck Less discount and allowance Total 'SCHERMAN-SCHAUS-FREEMAN COMPANY 1520 South Lafayette Street South Bend, Indiana A non -collusion affidavit and a certified check in the amount of $130.00 accompanied the bid. $1798.50 . 500.50 $1298.00 A non -collusion affidavit and a certified check in the amount of 125.00 accompanied the bid. 1 1956 Studebaker Pick-up Truck Less discount and allowance Total All bids were taken under advisement and examined. 'day, March 26, 1956. $186o.45 617.45 $1243.00 Award of contract will be Mon - There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned 'at 11:40 A.M. (CST). Attest: C1er MARCH 26, 1956 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works & Safety was held Monday, March 26, 1956. All members were present. Minutes of the previous regular meeting were read and approved. Claims of the following suppliers were approved and ordered paid in the total - amount of $2690.S1: Burroughs Corp. 18.00 Business Systems 3.73 Business Systems, Inc. 6.27 Indiana Bell.Telephone Co. 16.93 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 331.36 Indiana Bell -Telephone Co. 11.10 Indiana & Michigan Elec. Co. 493.74 Indiana & Michigan Elec. G-o.535.72 Indiana & Michigan Elec. Co. .80 Michigna Plate Glass & Mirror 54.50 Royal Typewriter 4:00 0. J. Shoemaker, Inc. 7.35 Slutsky Plbg. & Htg. Co. 11.18 Slutsky Plbg. & Htg. Co. 10.00 Slutsky Plbg. & Htg. Co. 6.00 Smogar Lumber Company 259.15 South Bend Tribune 10.58 South Bend '"findow Cleaning 53.50 Weisberger Bros, Inc. 29.00 Weisberger Brothers, Inc 8.50 West Side Hardware 247.51 Granville P. Ziegler, P.M. 45.00 Granville P. Ziegler, P.M. 30.00 SANITATION DEPARTMENT Amers R. Templeton, M.D. 25.00 Merle W. Whitlock, M.D. 100.00 PARKING METER DEPARTMENT Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 9.19 TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT American Auto Parts, Inc. 16.50 Business Systems, Inc. 30.44 Indiana Textile Company 43.77 Schillings �.�5 Schillings g 3 70 Sch.illings 1.50 Schillings. 5.56 Steel Sales Corporation 240.00 West Side Hardware 19.71 The Board first recognized Reverenc Douglas C. Batson, who appeared before the Board with reference to request permission to solicit for donations. Chairman Smith authorize d' .that Rev. Batson first clear the request with Mr. Glass of the Better Business Bureau be fore the Boardis final approval. 7 • • • • 4 5) 7 • • 0 E r� Is Danny Richardson, Street Commissioner, appeared before the Board with reference to the request by the School City for the use of the Street Department grader to be used behind the Thomas Jefferson School. Permission granted. Danny Richardson now requests permission from the Board for Mr. Eger and himself to at tend the Purdue University Road School program. Said school program being held between the 2nd and 6th days of April, 1956. Permission granted. Mr. Earl Kuntz, 2909 South Michigan Street appeared before the Board with reference to the condition of Woodside Blvd. and Michigan Street. Mr. Kuntz appeared before the Board on a prior ocassion in 1955 at shich time attention was called to the correction Woodside Blvd. and Michigan St. At said time, the Board took action to handle the correction of said corner and to this date has not been corrected. The Board now having heard the re- sults took the following action; The City Engineer was requested to contact the proper- ty owner and ask that he come to the Board before the Board in reference to said problem, on Monday, April 2, 1956. A petition was received for the improvement of the alley from the 1100 block on Foster Street to St. Joseph St. and from St. Vincent Street to the intersection of Foster -St. Joseph alley by the construction of conerete(Asphalt Alternate) according to law. Referred to City Engineer. A petition was received for the improvement of Gertrude Street from Prairie Avenue to City Limits by the construction of .Class C Pavement according to law. Referred to City Engineer. Special Police Officer bonds were approved for Joseph J. Horvath and Alphonse Zack. Ernest H. Miller, Traffic Engineer, submitted to the Board his report on the Council Resolution adopted February 27, 1956, requesting investigation of traffic conditions and conditions of South Shore rails and pavement on LaSalle Street between Lincoln Way West and Main Street. Accepted and filed. An.excavation bond in the sum of $1000 was approved for John Lineback & Son, Plumbing and Heating Company. This being the date set for the bids for the Street Department gravel, and no bids hav- ing been received the Clerk of the Board was authorized to purchase the materials. H. W. Hunter, Contractor, requested permission to set date from March 5, 1956 to Apri 1956 to begin work on the Sewage Lift Station under Contract No. 7 A. Permission grant C. Harry Swanson, Inc. requested permission to locate a temporary warehouse on a plat of City -owned land. Permission granted with the following conditions: 1. that sai-a 'temp orary warehouse will be removed by September 1, 1956, 2. that C. Harry Swanson, Inc. pos with the City indemnity insurance holding the City free and harmless of any damage to per sons, property, or equipment located on said City -owned lot, 3. that you agree to leave the premises in a clean and sightly condition after such temporary warehouse is removed. Plans for the sidewalk vault on 120 S. Michigan and 312 W. Colfax was accepted by the Board and filed. IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION CONFIRMED RESOLUTION NO. 2829, 1956 For the improvement of Woodlawn Blvd. (Lots 373, 374, and 375 only) from Inglewood Blvd. to the existing manhole at Lot #372., under Improvement Resolution No. 2829, 1956, adopt- ed March 5, 1956 by constructing a local combined sewer. After hearing all persons interested who appeared and being fully advised on the uremiso's .and the Clerk of the Board having shown proofs of publication of the notices to property 11 owners and the same having been found sufficient, the Board decides that the benefits to the property liable to be assessed for said improvement are equal to the estimated cost of the same as reported by the City Civil Engineer, therefore BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Public Works & Safety of the City of South Bend, Indiana; :tha.t Improvement Resolution No. 2829, 1956, duly passed by this Board on March 5, 1956, ''for the above improvement, be and the same is hereby in all things confirmed (First Con- 1firmation, March 26, 1956) and the improvement is hereby ordered to be made. R. S. Andrysiak Frank J. Bruggner Irving J. Smith "Anthony J. Sabo, Clerk The Board of Public Works has authorized that a letter be directed to Mr. D. B. Ing- ;old, Superintendent of the New York Central Railroad, requesting that a flagman be sta- tioned at the Riverside Drive crossing on the tracks adjacent to the Angela Boulevard �jBridge to lead the train across the crossing. " W, �_S 160, The Board next reviewed the bids for the Traffic the following company: SCHERMAN-SCHAUS-FREEMAN COMPANY 520 South Lafayette Street South Bend, Indiana Department and .awarded the bid to' A non -collusion affidavit and a certified check in the amount of $125. accompanied the bid. 1 1956 Studebaker 2 E5-112" Pick-up Truck Less discount and allowance There being no further business to come before the Board at 10:45 A.M. (DST). ATTEST: Clerk APRIL 2, 1956 $186o.45 617.45 1243.00 the meeting was adjourned.. A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works & Safety was held Monday, April 2, 1956 at 10:00 A.M. (DST). All members were present. Minutes of the previous regular meeting were read and approved. Claims of the following suppliers in the total amount of $5150.47 were approved and ordered paid: Business Systems, Inc. Business Systems, Inc. Ideal Press Ind. & Mich. Elec. Co. The Record South Bend Tribune Slutsky Plumbing & Htg. Co. Slutsky Plumbing & Htg. Co. SEWER DEPARTMENT City Sales Company Jim Hammes Oldsmobile, Inc. SANITATION DEPARTMENT B. E. Edwards, M.D. Schillingts GENERAL IMPROVEMENT FUND The Record South Bend Tribune STREET & TRAFFIC American Vitrified Products Deeds Equipment Company B. E. Edwards, M.D. Elgin Sweeper Company Indiana & Michigan Elec. Co. Miller Pain Service Rieth-Riley Construction Co. Schillings Co. Seneca Petroleum Company, Inc. 18.43 Business Systems, Inc. 203.17 8.82 Ideal Press 52.00 114.50 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 11.76 10.28 Indiana & Michigan Elec. Co. 223.20 6.148 The Record 6.70 6.08 South Bend Tribune 5.63 17.22 27.86 107.16 93.30 General Equipment & Machine Co. 107.16 66.00 71.00 18.13 National Mill Supply, Inc. 41.60 Singer General Tire, Inc. 61.15 11.45 12.15 The Record 12.74 South Bend Tribune 12.15 58.8o 182.83 C. J. Barnard 16.25 �5.00 B. E. Edwards, M.D. 5.00 398.00 B. E. Edwards, M. D. 10.00 230.40 Indiana Bell Telephone. Co. 10.49 12.13 International Salt Company, Inc.1368.00 451.29 The OtBrien Corp. River Park Lumber Company 0 30.30.60 3•b2 519.50 Seneca Petroleum Company, Inc. 525.80 C. D. Smelser Company, Inc. 53.40 A request was submitted to the Board by Ernest H. Miller, Traffic Engineer, for the':- American Trust Company to establish a sidewalk teller at the curb on the Washington Street entrance to the Bank. The Traffic Engineer having made a finding of the request now rec-' €'ommends that the request of said company be denied. Board approves the recommendation ofs the Traffic Engineer. CA request of the Pilot Club to erect a road sign on South Michigan Street was sub- I. mitted to the Board and referred to the Traffic Department. The River Park business area request permission to establish a 2-hour time limit i regulation in front of business establishments. Matter referred to Traffic Engineer to [determine more specific area. Request of Roger B. Francis, Librarian of the meter limit-t of the Three parking meters in front of utes to 12 minutes was granted by the Board. Public Library, for change in par ing' the Library on Main Street from 3b mid _ is L� • �J