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HomeMy WebLinkAbout06/18/1956 Board of Public Works Minutest filed. The Clerk of the Board submitted proofs of publication of notices and same were found sufficient, and the Board, therefore finds that the alley has 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, confirmed, and approved without modification and the proceedings closed, and the alley va- catdd upon receipt of the amount of benefit assessments from the various property owners so benefited and all proceedings had with reference to said vacation are hereby sustained. There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned at 10:55 A.M. (DST) LJ I! i ;Attest -Anthony J a , C erk • i JUNE 18, 1956 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works & Safety was held on Monday, June 18, 1956. All members were present. Minutes of the previous regular meeting were read,and approved. Claims in the total amount of $5,184.39 were approved and ordered paid for the following suppliers: N' !!City Water Works 16.25 Ideal Press 37.50 !Indiana Bell Telephone Company 10.80 Indiana & Michigan Electric Company 266.58 !Royal Typewriter Company 4.50 Sinclair Refining Company 42.68 • .The Record jGENERAL IMPROVEMENT FUND 12.96 'DOG POUND FUND Braham Laboratories, Inca 49.50 !South Bend Tribune 12.15 ISEWER DEPARTMENT jiGeneral Equip. & Machine Co. 214.32 !!American `STREET & TRAFFIC Distributing Company 26.70 B & B Auto Glass Company 12.50 'Continental Oil Company 532.99 Edwards Iron Works 91.20 ljElgin Sweeper Company 22.45 General Equip. & Machine Company 49.98 ,;The Gibson Company 47.20 V. Graves Auto Glass 32.61 M. & J. Haberle 6.00 Hoffman Brothers 180.57 jIndiana & Michigan Electric Company 185.60 Imperial Metallic Lub., Inc. 80.44 llIndiana ilIndustrial Bell Telephone Company 12.09 Indiana Textile Company 51.51 • �';H. Chemicals Inc. 70.50 Internation Business Machines 21.25 J. Kollar 4.19 Korte Brother, Inc. 20.98 Koontz -Wagner Electric Company 10.68 Lien Chemical Company 19.00 !Kuert Concrete, Inc. 185.08 Mittler Supply Company 30.35 !!McComb Battery Company, Inc. 52.50 The O'Brien Corporation 44.83 'Municipal Supply Company 609.25 Radio & Television Dist, Inc. 2.94 'The O'Brien Corporation 208.90 St. Joseph Hospital 15.00 ��Romy Hammes Corporation 8.99 Saginaw Salt Products, Inc. 123.94 !!Sinclair iSt. Joseph Hospital Refining Company 5.70 1,999.80 South Bend Supply Company 31.40 i • ! The matter with reference to the purchasing of the base stations by the Civil Defense Department !!was referred to the Advisory Board and said Board is hereby requested to report back to the Board of Public !'Works & Safety as to their recommendation. • • Messrs Earl Wright and Cecil Walters appeared before the Board with reference to request permission to conduct a proposed safety program for children in which the children would operate a small automobile ru by batteries to show the children the need for safety on the part of automobile drivers. Matter taken unde advisement until next Monday, June 25, 1956. Mr. Coy McGee appeared before the Board with reference to request permission for the installation of an awning on a building in the City of South Bend. Mr. McGee is hereby given permission to install said aw ning providing that he conform with the Building as to the proper height and sidth of awning to install. Mr. George Swiatowy, 1701 Magnolia Street, South Bend, Indiana appeared before the Board in respons to notification by the Board to show cause as to why the dust condition on the property owned by said Swia- towy and rented by Marion Trucking Company has not been taken care of as to date. Mr. Swiatowy is hereby directed to have the dust condition in the said area corrected within one week from this date and is also requested to appear before the Board on Monday, June 25, 1956. It is also brought to the attention of the Board of similar condition esixting pn property owned by Mr. Swiatowy and rented to Interstate Truck Lines, General Freight Lines, Mid -States Truck Lines, and the McNamara Truck Lines. The Board now orders that an investigation be made of said conditions and that if such condition exists at the various truck lines that notice be sent to each company to have it corrected within two weeks from this date, and also that representatives of said truck lines appear before the Board on Monday, JU:Iiy � 1 1956. With reference to the building located at 677 LaPorte Avenue and owned by David Scruggs, 677 LaPort Avenue the Board hereby authorizes that the Building Commissioner, Verner L. Lane, demolish,said building as of this elate. 490 The plans for the sewer plan on Iowa Street in Alward's Addition was accepted and approved by the Board. 1 Plans for the Plat of Section "I" of.Coquillard Woods Addition was approved by the Board. The Ladies Auxiliary of the Maurince D. Roses Post 318 of Jewish War Veterans requests permission to conduct their annual flower tag day on September 17, 1956. Permission granted. Joseph Dunnigan requests permission for Bryan Street between Sherman Avenue and Inglewood Place to be closed for a street dance on Friday evening, June 22, 1956. Permission granted. Contractor's bonds were approved for William R. Neiden, Hugh Wright, Gervase S. Thompson, W. E. N comb, Walter Szymczak, and John J. Bednar. Contract Supplement No. 2 of Contract No. 7-A dated June 139 1956 was approved and placed on file . A bond of insurance from the Hartman Builders, Inc. in the amount of Twenty-seven thousand dollars ($27,000.00) was accepted and approved by the Board. The request of the E. U. B. Church at the corner of Broadway and Carroll Street to close the adja- cent alley while erecting an addition to the church during the working hours was granted by the Board. A petition was received for the improvement of William Street from Calvert Street to Ewing Street the construction of black topping according to Barrett Law Plan. Referred to the Engineering Department. A petition was received asking for the vacation of an alley extending from North Chicago Street E to North Illinois Street. Referred to the City Plan Commission for further investigation and report. A petition was received for the paving of an alley between the 1800 block of North O'Brien Street and the 1800 block of Johnson Street. Petition referred to the Engineering Department. Yield R/W Signs were installed on the northeast corner of Lakewood Street at Norton Drive. No Parking This Side Signs were installed on north side of 1100 East Broadway; west side of Walnut Street from the railraod tracks to the second driveway of the Oliver Plant south of tracts; and on north St. Joseph Street between the back of the Welfare Building and Center Street. Stop Signs were installed on Olive Street, both sides, at Bertrand Street making this a 4-Way Stop; and on Olive Street, both sides, at Huron Street making this a 4-Way Stop. IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 2814 The Contractor's Completion Affidavit and Engineer's Certificate of Completion was accepted and ap- proved and accepted by the Board. BE IT RESOLVED, by the Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of South Bend, Indiana, that th Final Estimate and Primary Assessment Roll submitted to theBoard by the City Civil Engineer or his duly authorized representative on this llth day of June, 1956, on the improvement known as the Bercliff Estate Addition local combined sewers as described in Improvement Resolution No. 2814, 1955, Gassed by�the Board of Public Works and Safety on August 22, 1955, and confirmed by said Board on November 79 1955, be and the same is hereby adopted, and the Clerk of this Board is hereby requested to give notice of the hearing of Special Benefits on said Improvement, as required by Section N. 111 or 120 of an Act entitled, "An Act Con- cerning Municipal Corporations approved March 69 1905. Anthony J. Sabo, Clerk R. S. Andrysiak Irving J. Smith Frank J. Bruggner IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 2814 NOTICEOF HEARING SPECIAL BENEFITS ON SEWER IMPROVEMENT Notice is hereby given that the following Sewer Improvement has been completed and the general char acter of the improvement, the street, alley or public place on which it has been made, and the..terminal points thereof, are as follows: A local combined sewer in Bercliff Estates Addition, as follows: From 35th & Oakcrest East to Tim- berlane, then North to Bercliff Drive, then West on Bercliff Drive to McKinley. Also East from Timberlane & Bercliff Drive to Logan, then North to McKinley. Also from 35th and Oakcrest on 35th North to Chevy Chase, then East to Devonshire then North to Windingwood. Also from 35th & Chevy Chase West to Wildemere, then North to Windingwood then West to Sylvan Glen. Also from Wildemere & Windingwood East to Devonshire. There is on file in the Office of the City Controller of the City of South Bend, Indiana an assess- ment roll with the manes of the owners and description of property subject to be assessed with the amount of the prima facia assessment, and can be seen in the Office of said City Controller. The Board of Public Works and Safety of said City, at the Office of the Board in said City, will on the 2nd day of July, 1956, at 10:00 A.M. (DST) receive and hear remonstrances against the amounts assessed against their property respectively, on said roll and will determine the question as to whether such lots or tracts of land have been or will be benefited by said improvement to the amounts named on said roll, or is greater or less than that names on said roll or in any sum. St which place and time all owners of such real estate may attend in person or by representative and be heard. R.S. Andrysiak, Frank J. Bruggner, Irving J. Smith • • :7 • • 0 7 VACATION RESOLUTION NO. 2828 This being the date set, hearing was held on the assessment roll showing the award of damages and the assessment of benefits in the matter of the vacation of Johnson Street from THE NORTH LINE OF WASHING - TON AVENUE TO THE SOUTH LINE OF ORANGE STREET, under Vacation Resolution No. 2828. j il In the above named assessment roll, no remonstrators appeared and no written remonstrances were fil d. • IThe Clerk of the Board submitted proofs of publication of notices and same were found sufficient, and the iBoard therefore finds that the alley has been benefited and damaged in the amounts shown on said roll. The' 1Board9 therefore decided -to take final action on said assessment roll and declares same in all things rati-11 fied, confirmed, and approved without modification and the proceedings closed, and the alley vacated upon j ;receipt of the amount of benefit assessments from the various property owners so benefited and all proceed-? sings had with reference to said vacation are hereby sustained. • 0 • There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned at 10:55 A.M. i � s i Attest: - Anthony J/a�,/741erk JUNE 25, 1956 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Monday, June 25, 1956 at 10:00 A.M. (DST) All members were present. Minutes of the previous regular meeting were read and approved. Salary claims in the total amount of $34,297.62 were approved. Claims in the total amount of $2,639.02 were approved and ordered paid for the following suppliers: nglewood Electric Company erguson & Sons, Inc. . C. Lauber Company orthern Ind. Public Service mogor Lumber Company outh Bend Window Cleaning ranville P. Ziegler ARKING METER FUNDS ndiana Bell Tblep. Co. TREET & TRAFFIC DEPTS. he O'Brien Corporation he O'Brien Corporation inclair RefiningCompany 1.56 Englewood Electric Company 23.59 34.67 Ind. Bell Telephone Company 16.40 475.00 McComb Battery Company 6.84 4.10 Remington Rand Division 400.00 14.85 Smogor Lumber Company 22.00 53.50 Weisberger Brothers 129.25 30.00 10.44 378.00 The O'Brien Corporation 378.00 378.00 Remington Rand Division 39.50 238.20 West Side Hardware 5.13 Contractor's bonds were approved for Millard T. Hartman, Carl H. McClellan, A. J. Blaski, Howard V. ack, Mike Becchelli, H. G. Christman Construction Company, Hartman Builders, and Edward Burton. Excavation bonds were approved for Hartman Builders, Inc., Rieth-Riley Construction Company, O.E. & Son, and Millard T. Hartman. The request of Messrs. Cecil Walters and Earl Wright to operate a small automobile run by batteries land driven by children on the park -way adjacent to the Electric Company on S. Michigan is hereby denied by the Board. Mr. Harding appeared before the Board with reference to request permission to install an awning on a lding at 2221 South Michigan Street and informed the Board that he would follow specifications as stated the Building Code of the City of South Bend, Indiana. The Board now authorizes be granted a permit by Building Commissioner, Verner L. Lane. The awarding of the contract for the bids of the Civil Defense Department for the purchase of 5 desk e base stations will be held up until Next Monday, July 2, 1956. Mr. Frank Adams is hereby given permission to make application for Building permits providing that h onforms with all qualifications as set out in the Municipal Code of the City of South Bend, Indiana. The uilding Commissioner, Verner L. Lane, is hereby ordered to issue said permit with the understanding that aid Adams follow all specifications. The decision on the Miami Street lighting plan will be held up until further notice. The Work Order for repair of the sewer on 29th Street was approved and placed on file. IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 2816, 1955 The Contractor's Completion affidavit and the Engineer's Certificate of Completion on the Pavement mpprovement on Fremont Street from the North property line of Elwood Avenue to the South property line of eller Street, under Improvement Resolution No. 2816, 1955 was accepted and approved by the Board.