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HomeMy WebLinkAbout04/09/1956 Board of Public Works Minutes459 • • Contractorts bond in the sum of $1000 were approved for the following: Nathan Benjamin d/b/a Benjamin Brothers Richard Montgomery Henry J. Fi se tte A. H. Gardner d/b/a Roseland Construction Company Excavation bonds in the sum of $1000 were approved for Sollitt Construction Company A sign -board and bill -board bond was approved for the Ohio Oil Company. Sollitt Construction Company submitted forms No. 19 and 105 representing Workmen's Compensation and Occupational Diseases Act for the State of Indiana. Expires April 1, 157- Accepted and filed. A report from Traffic Engineer with reference to Johnson -Orange St. warning gates was submitted to the Board and ordered filed. STOP signs were installed at the following locations: Sorin Street, both sides, at Jacob Street '! Fox Street, both sides,Sampsonat Sam Street There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned at 10:35 A.M. (DST). H i3 APRIL 9, 1956 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works & Safety was held jI Monday, April 9, • 110:00 A.M. (DST). All members were present. ;were read and approved. Claims in the Minutes of the previous regular meeting total amount of $3,934-79 were approved and order - led paid for the following suppliers: I! Arteraf t Printers � Systems 57.5 p 5.22 Business Systems, Inc 2.25 ,Business Business Systems, Inc. 6.48 ' ,Indiana Bell Tele. Co. 11.55 L. A. Kolupa, Inc. 4,96 ;Elmer E. Murrayi 4.8.96 Royal Typewriter Co. 5.80 ,'SEWAGE DEPARTMENT DOG POUND 1�E. R. Newland Company I; Moore Steel Proc. 55.04 4800o . Simon Brothers 77.li0 ;!STREET & TRAFFIC DEPT. J • 115American Auto Parts, Inc,. Iron Works 58.98 8.87 Durox Dist. Company Elgin Sweeper 37 50 '!Edwards ;Eutectic Welding Corp. 36.50 Company General Equip. &. Machine Co. 94.11 37.95 Ind. State Industries hKorte Bros. Inc. 85.53 16.84 International Harvester Co. 56.82 Kaley Motor Service 211.35 'Municipal Supply Co 90.00 Main Electric Company 17.50 i [The O?Brien Corp. 7/28 Nationa 1 Brake Service Inc,. 165.95 Rose Fuel & Materials, Inc. C. S. 189.11 The O'Brien Corporation 103.10 Scrader Welding Sup. ISt. Josephts 25.06 Rose Fuel & Materials, Inc;. 153.00 Hospital 6.90 S. & H. Carbonic Company 26.25 Dr. I. Sandock ,Sheehan Tire Service 5.00 7.50 St. Joseph's Hospital Scherman-Schaus Freeman 1.243.00 11.90 'South Bend Awning 7.92 Smogor Lumber Company 105 87 Stockber er Machinery Inc. g y 21.25 South Bend Medical Foundation li 5.00 W. A. R. Equip. Co. Weisberger Bros, Inc. 123.88 60.52 Vukovits, Frank Weisberger 32.4-0 I Whitcomb & Keller 13.02 Bros. Inc. West Side Hardware 75 7.92 i The Board first recognized Clarence W. H6-rding, representing WSBT-WSBT-TV, to request, 'permission to use flood light equipment for their Open House and Dedication Islouth Bend Tribune Building on the to the of the new streets adjacent building. Approved by the Board. a The monthly report of the Building Department was accepted and ap proved by the Board' The Clerk of the Board was ordered to advertise for cable for the Electrical Depart- ,; me n t . Im Contractors, bonds in the stm of $1000 were approved for Stanley J. Wachowiak, Her ,bert A. Dale, Mike Vellner, W. M. Marquis, Felix Hartman, and Dan C. Harmon. i Excavation bond in the sum of $1000 was approved for Bernard D. Bartell. A petition was received asking for the vacation of Lots Numbered 29 and 32 on re- corded plat of College Grove Addition as part of Johnson Street and was referred to the City Plan Commission for their investigation and recommendation. An insurance policy for vandalism and malicious mischief in the total amount of ,$321-1.000 for the H. W. Hunter Company was approved and accepted by the Board. A letter was received from the City Plan Commission recommending the vacation of the alley south of and parallel to Lincolnway East, lying generally between the easternmost Point of Kreighbaum Park and the south line of Sample Street extended and it was referred I' ,,to the Engineering Department for further investigation and report. A letter was received from the City Plan Commission recommending the vacation of lithe alley extending north and south along the east side of Lot No. 1, of Kaleyls Lincoln !:Highway Addition between Lincolnway and Bonds Avenue and it was referred to the Engineer- ing Department for further investigation and report. A petition was received from Mrs. Florence Smith and others for the improvement of !;Corby Street from Jacob Street to Twyckenham. Street by the Construction of Public sewer, [curb and sidewalk according to law. Referred to the Engineering Department. NO PARKING THIS SIDE SIGN installed on North Eddy Street, west side, between Sorin' and Madison Streets. The petition requesting the establishment of a 2-hour time limit regulation in River Park business area on Mishawaka Avenue was approved by the Board upon the Traffic Engineenis :recommendation. Request of the Green Arrow Parking Company for the removal of three parking meters; located in the driveway of 117 East Washington Street, was submitted to the Board. Referred to the Traffic Department. The request of the Green Arrow Parking Company for permission to operate a parking'' plot at 117 E. Washington with rates as follows: 20 for the first hour, 10� each addition-; al hour, or any part therof, and the night rate being 50� was submitted to the Board. The;; Clerk of the Board was ordered to notify said company to make application for such request ;according to Chapter 19 of the Municipal Code of South Bend, Indiana.. i VACATION RESOLUTION NO. 2821 This being the date set, hearing was held on the assessment r®11 showing the a.wardl 1,of damages and the assessment of benefits in the matter of vacation of 28th Street and in! jtersecting alleys between Pleasant Street and Northside Boulevardudder Resolution No. 2821. . In the above named assessment roll, no remonstrators appeared and no written remon 1:s.trances were filed. The Clerk of the Board submitted proof of publication of notices and ;;same were found sufficient, and the Board, therefore, finda that the several lots have been '!benefited and damaged in the amounts shown on said roll. The Board, therefore, decides'to take final action on said assessment roll and declares same in all things ratified, con- �'firmed, and approved without modification and the proceedings closed, and the lots vacated .'upon receipt of the amount of benefit assessments from the various property owners so ben:; .efited and all proceedings had with reference to said vacation are hereby sustained. IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 2829 FINAL CONFIRMATION OF IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION s For the improvement of Woodlawn Blvd. ing manhole at Lot g (Lots 373, 374, and 375 only) from the exist j'Improvement Resolution No. 2829, 1956, adopbtedeMarchu5,1ng a 1956 andal co firstbconfirmedron under i26, 1956. March" I No written remonstrance or remonstrances against said improvement bearing the s Iriature s of fifty-one ) g 1i {51/o per cent or more of the resident property owners on said street; j;to be improved, having been filed within the ten (10) 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. 8 5, 1956, and first confirmed on March 26,21956,1be6andutheasameeiisbintall his thingsordofinMarch ally :confirmed and the improvement is hereby ordered made. g finally R. S. Andrysiak Anthony J. Sabo, Clerk I i, Irving J. Smith Frank J. Bruggner i j • • • • 10, 461 IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 2829 PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS ADOPTED. BE IT RESOLVED BY TH� BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS AND SAFETY OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, that the Profiles, Drawings, Plans, General Details, Specifications and Estim- ates approved by this Board on the 4th day of March, 1956, for the improvement of Wood - lawn Blvd. (Lots 1/373, 374, and 375 only) from an existing manhole at Lot #372 to Ingle-, !{ wood place, by constructing a local combined sewer be and the same are hereby adopted and ordered placed on file in the office of the Department of Public Works & Safety. • i April 23, 1956, at the hour of 10:00 A.M. (DST) is hereby fixed as the time and the' j office of the Board of Public Works and Safety in the City Hall of this City, as the Plane, when and where the Board of Public Works and Safety will open and consider bids for the I, 1 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. (DST) of said day. Each �! bidder for said works shall enclose with his bid a certified check, cashierts check in the sum of five (5%) 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 (2) weekly publica- tions of the time and place, when and where bids will be received, opened and considered; • �; for the construction of said work. Said Clerk shall state in said notices, that each bi';- der shall enclose with his bid a certified chec, or cashierts check for the above named I amount, to insure the execution of this contract. j R. S. Andrysiak Irving J. Smith Frank J. Bruggner Anthony J. Sabo, Clerk There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourne at 10:45 A.M. (DST). C Attest: •04AR`.. APRIL 16, 1956 A regular meeting of the 1956 at 10:00 A.M. (DST). All Board of members Public Works & Safety was held Monday, April .16, were present. Minutos of the previous regular ;meeting were read and approved. Salary claims in the total amount of $9,149.02 were ;;approved by the Board. Claims in the total amount of $823,93. were approved and ordered ipaid for the following suppliers: •ld Amrstead, Dean J. 48.80 Business Systems, Inc. 10.35 Brannan, H. L. 10.00 City INIater..17orks 9.36 itColip, Charles 10.00 DeGraff, E,nest 44.80 .Dunn, George 10.00 Kumm, Brent 10.00 MacMillan Company 3.95 Poranz, H. L. 6.00 ':Scherman-Schaus-Freeman Co. 3.50 Shelly, Dale E. 101.04 Stickley, Walter 31.04 PARKING Tr TER DEPARTMENT 'CZ y Water Works 4.75 jSTREET AND TRAFFIC !!Badur Bros. Coal Co. 28.07 Gratzol Graszli Company 66.L,_5 Healy Sign Company 22.00 Indiana Bell Tele. Co. 10.99 • 'Indiana Bell Tele. Co. 53.01 McClave Printing Company142.50 ;Stanley Body 8 Equip. Co. 7.88 West Side Hardware 4.22 l01Brien Corp. 185.22 i The Board first recognized Stanley Leszynski of the City Cemetery who appeared before! ;the Board with reference to request permission to charge 75� per square foot for perpet- ual care. Request granted. j Contractorts bonds in the sum of $1000 were approved for the following: Thomas L. Hickey, Inc., William J.-Kline, Herron n„urray, Eugene L. Hosfo-rd, Daniel J. Chrzan, and Irvin E. Keiter. • j Ernest H. Miller, Traffic Engineer, reports that in connection with the completion of ;Eddy Street the following street will be closed: Madison Street, Sorin Street, Cedar St. � 'and Miner Street.