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Home My WebLink About11/05/1956 Board of Public Works Minutes539 NOVEMBER 5, 1956 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works & Safety was held on Monday, November 5, 1956 at 10:00 !A.M. (CST). All members were present. Minutes of the previous regular meeting were read and approved. , !Claims in the total amount of $3539.12 were approved and ordered paid to the following suppliers: •I A-1 Advertising 32.00 Benko & Sons Company, Inc. 49.80 !Ernest DeGraff 52.24 Dictaphone Corpnration 2.45 • 'Englewood Electrical Company 6.07 Englewood Electrical Company .42 !James M. Hall 5.00 Indiana Bell Telephone 11.76 ;Elmer Murray 55.28 The Record 5.83 {Royal Typewriter Company 15.00 South Bend Tribune 5.62 West Side Hardware 142.20 ;PARKING METER FUND !Continental Oil Company 141.24 Gendel's Surplus Sales, Inc. 67.80 ;Mark -Time Parking Meter 45.00 ;STREET & TRAFFIC FUND Albert Sales & Service 12.25 B & B Auto Glass Company 42.66 Central Rubber & Supply Company 31.90 Consolidated Steel Company 191.09 Indiana & Michigan Electric Company 115.20 Kaley Motor Service 282.84 !C. E. Lee Company 3.18 MCComb Battery Company 120.12 jKaley Motor Service 87.06 Kaley Motor Service 50.30 iNational Mill Supply Company 15.40 Schilling's 1.99 Schilling's 4.55 Seneca Petroleum Com an Inc. P Y� 469.21 ! Sheehan Tire Service 1.00 Standard Steel Works, Inc. 603.46 l Swanson Spreader & Mfg. Company 408.12 Swanson Spreader & Mfg. Company 408.12 Frank S. Vukovits 40.96 C: 9 • U Contractor's bonds were approved for Kenneth F. Rose, Joseph Febbo, and Henry S. Schultz. Yeager Buick Motor Sales, 225 N. Lafayette Street and Dalton Pontiac, Inc. 215 South Main Street re- quests permission to use large search lights in front of their buildings on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday November 89 99 and 10. Permission granted to both subject to said companies feeding the meters which are (! being used. The monthly report of the Building Department for the month of October, 1956 is hereby accepted and placed on file. At the October 229 1956 meeting of the Council, the following matter was referred to the Board for appropriate disposal or for specific action: Councilman Kroll requested that the Board of Works request the Park Department ro fix the bank at Kaley School. (Letter hereby directed to Park Department to remed the situation.) Also, Councilman Carr made a motion, seconded by Councilman Kroll, that the Board of Wor check with the Railroad companies on cross -walks and see that they are repaired. Motion carried. (This matter referred to City Engineer for investigation and report.) November 11, Armistice Day, being a legal holiday which comes on Sunday will be observed on Monday, November 12, 1956 and City Hall will be closed on said day. A letter is hereby directed to owner of property at corner of Ridgedale and Woldhaven about unprot ed hole where a church began building a basements then abandoned it. This is a hazard to the public saf and must be taken care of immediately. it Mr. Hubert Kuzmich, through Joseph W. Nyikos, Justice of the Peace, requests permission to conduct a ! self service parking lot on vacant lot of which he is the owner, located at the Southeast corner of West Bartlett Street and North Main Street in the City of South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. Schedule of fees for such parking is.10¢ for 2 hours and 25� for all day and night parking. Permission granted. The following sewer plans were approved by the Board of Public Works & Safety this 5th day of Novem ber, 1956: Altgeld Street from Home Street to Ironwood Drive, and Section "H" of Twyckenham Hills Addi- tion which includes Brookmede Drive, Hays Court, Hoke Street, Tudor Lane, and Springbrook Drive. The contracts for Street Improvement on Lake Street from the North Property line of Jefferson Blvd. to the South Property line of Washington Street, under Resolution No. 2846, 1956 for the City ofSouth Ben Indiana are hereby signed and approved by the Board this 5th day of November, 1956. IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 2834, 1956 ENGINEER'S CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION The Engineer hereby certifies that the contract between the City of SouthBend, Indiana, Owner, and the Reed Construction Company, Inc, Mishawaka, Indiana Contractor, for the construction of a local com- bined sewer improvement in Meade Street from Elwood Avenue to Bulla Street under Improvement Resolution No. 28341,1956 has been completed in accordance with the plans and specification for this project. VACATION RESOLUTION NO. 2848, 1956 This being the date set, hearing was held on the Resolution heretofore adopted by the Board of Publi;j Works & Safety for the vacation of DONALD STREET FROM THE WEST LINE OF MAIN STREET TO THE EAST LINE OF THE, NORTH AND SOUTH ALLEY WEST OF MAIN STREET, under Vacation Resolution No. 2848, 1956. ii The Clerk of the Board having shown sufficient proofs of publication and no remonstrators having appeared before the Board and no written remonstrances having been filed with the Clerk, it was moved, j seconded and unanimously carried that the said vacation resolution be finally adopted and said alley be vacated. 3 i RM The Engineering Department is directed to prepare an assessment roll covering the assessment of bene- fits and the award of damages to the surrounding properties. R. S. Andrysiak, City Engineer, filed primary assessment roll showing the awards of damages and asses ment of benefits in the matter of the vacation of DONALD STREET FROM THE WEST LINE OF MAIN STREET TO THE EAST LINE OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH ALLEY WEST OF MAIN STREET, under Resolution No. 2848, 1956. In the above named assessment roll, the Board hereby orders that it will meet in the City Hall at :10:00 A.M. (CST) on the 3rd day of December, 1956 for the purpose of hearing and receiving remonstrances from all persons interested in or affected by said vacation and the Board further orders that notice of said hearing together with the amount of damages awarded and benefits assessed be addressed to the propert !owners by publishing same on the 9th, 16th, and 23rd days of November, 1956 in the South Bend Tribune and :The Record. The following property may be injuriously or beneficially affected by such vacation: LOTS NUMBERED 43 and 44 - BOWMAN'S ADDITION Total net benefits 00.00 Total net damages 00.00 Respectfully submitted this 5th day of November, 1956. i R. S. Andrysiak City Civil Engineer The hearing on Vacation Resolution No. 2845, 1956 will be continued until November 19, 1956. There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned at 10:09 A.M. (Cen' :trap Standard Time). i i I, - 1' u { 1 !.ATTEST: ANTHONY J. SABO November 13, 1956 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works & Safety was held on Monday, November 13, 1956 at 10:00';i (CST). All members were present. Claims Minutes of the previous regular meeting were read and approved. in the total amount of $41,105.66 were approved and ordered paid to the following suppliers: i :Dean Armstead 67.28 Frank Biebuyck 42.00 (!City Water Works 47.86 Englewood Electric Company 12.06 (!Ferguson &Sons, Inc. 26.50 Ferguson & Sons, Inc. 56.75 !''Gafill Oil Company 11.56 Indiana Bell Telephone Company 13.17 Indiana Bell Telephone Company 9.41 Indiana & Michigan Elec. Co. 203.19 !!Indiana & Michigan Elec. Co. 12,460.72 Indiana & Michigan Elec. Co. 513.23 !International Business Machine 7.34 Luzny's Paint Store 97.62 ;Sheehan Tire Service, Inc. 17.87 Dale Shelly 97.62 (Sinclair Refining Company 7.40 Sinclair Refining Company 46.20 ;Walter Stickley 22.64 iGENERAL IMPROVEMENT FUND 1Chas. W. Cole & Son 1'1954 GENERAL STREET IMPROVEMENT FUND 339.67 Niles Excavating Company Com an 1 742.50 ' J !;Chas. IChas. W. Cole & Son 18.70 Chas. W. Cole & Son 627.72 W. Cole & Son :Chas. W. Cole & Son 50.69 Chas. W. Cole & Son 154.47 'Chas. W. Cole & Son 523.02 Chas. W. Cole & Son 19910.27 �11956 General Street Improvement Fund 937.20 Chas. W. Cole &Son 469.82 ! !Chas. W. Cole & Son !Chas. W. Cole & Son 19304.20 Chas. W. Cole & Son 347.25 •,i :Chas. W. Cole & Son 29017.68 Chas. W. Cole & Son 6,566.42 1,134.69 John W. Montgomery & ;STREET & TRAFFIC FUND George Sands 8,250.00 ;!Acme Steel Products Div. Indiana Bell Telephone Company 6.20 Deeds Equipment Company, Inc. 8.45 W. A. R. Equipment Company 9.19 8.40 C. E. Lee Company Wayne Hall Supply Company 3.18 450.00 ;Wayne Hall Supply Company 450.00 West Side Hardware 5.22 Mr. Sharpe of the Indiana Cab Company appeared before the Board requesting permission to use the Bus ops on Saturday, November 17, 1956 for the transportation to the stadium of Notre Dame Football spectator; rmission granted subject to the condition that the Bus Company is still on strike on this date. Contractor's bonds were approved for Charles E. Stafford. Mrs. Clifford Hankins and Mrs. Joseph Felix appeared before the Board on behalf of the Mothers of W®yid Nar II to request permission to conduct their annual flower (poinsetta) sale on downtown streets on Friday • • • •