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Home My WebLink About12/10/1956 Board of Public Works Minutes55 • 0 • 0 0 DECEMBER 10, 1956 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Monday, December 10, 1956 at 10:00 A.M. All members were present. Minutes of the previous regutr meeting were read and approved. Claims in the total amount of $190,435.86 were approved and ordered paid to the following suppliers: {Dean Armstead 48.40 Business Systen;s, Inc. 41.17 !Business Systems, Inc. 10.12 Business Systems, Inc. 53.77 Business Systems, Inc. 11.92 Business Systems, Inc. 27.00 City Water Works 5.30 Ernest DeGraff 51.04 Egry Register Company 5.80 Ferguson & Sons, Inc. 57.55 ;Indiana Bell Telephone Company 9.41 ;Nick Lonetti 12.50 jElmer E. Murray 47.20 !Sheehan Tire Service, Inc. 20.85 Smogor Lumber Company 10.50 Studebaker Packard Corp. 6.00 .Weisberger Brothers 213.55 West Side Hardware 28.38 [West Side Hardware 53.19 :..STREET & TRAFFIC FUND American City Magazine 4.00 !!Freeman -Spicer Company 3.50 H. J. Koller 2.50 'Schilling's 4.70 1, Schilling's 2.37 ''Schilling's 2.00 ,,Schilling's 1.17 "Schilling's 3.16 !:Swanson Plating Works 15.38 ;IWest Side Hardware 39.83 G PARKING METER FUND 'City Water Works 14.99 ,;1954 GENERAL STREET IMPROVEMENT FUND (IMemorial Hospital 3.00 RIETH Riley Construction Company 539,979.21 ;Clyde E. Williams & Assoc. 19131.35 !�1956 GENERAL STREET.IMPROVEMENT FUND Reed Construction Company 119571.30 Frank Biebuyck 35.13 Business Systems, Inc. 13.28 Business Systems, Inc. 5.22 Business Systems, Inc. 73.93 Business Systems, Inc. 1.07 City Water Works 979000.00 City Water Works 42.54 Ernest DeGraff 50.40 Englewood Elec. Supply Company 3.80 Indiana Bell Telephone Company 12.12 Indiana & Michigan Electric Company 129503.93 Elmer E. Murray 46.88 River. Park Lumber Company 2.39 Dale E. helly 81.68 Walter Stickley 10.48 Weisberger Brothers 6.25 Weisberger Brothers 4.65 West Side Hardware 16.48 Business Systems, Inc. 68.85 Indiana State Industries 162.00, O'Brien Corporation 45.50 Schilling's 4.55 Schilling's 11.10 Schilling's 2.55 Schilling's 6.16 Sinclair Refining Company 26.04 Smogor Lumber Company 73.48 Frank S. Vukovits 31.12 West Side Hardware 2.97 Sheehan Fire Service, Inc. 1.00 Wm. S. Moore 898.96 Rieth Riley Construction Company 119313.54 Clyde E. Williams, & Assoc, The monthly report of the Building Department for the month of November, 1956 was accepted and placed on file. Mr. F. Gerard Feeney appeared before the Board with reference to request permission bn behalf of the March„ of Dimes to place a booth in front of Robertson's Department Store from December 18, 1956 until the end of; the Drive. Permission granted subject to condition that the stand is removed the day after the Drive ends'l Permission is further granted to their 1957 Station Wagon which they are to raffle in a parking meter plad subject to clearing with the Police Department. The petition with reference to reopen North Johnson Street from West Washington Street to Orange which was:1 previously filed with the Board and referred to the Engineering Department is hereby refiled with the Board. Excavation bonds were accepted and approved for Louis Stoll Company, Inc., Mitchel Kahn Plumbing & Heating:! Company, Emil C. Spromberg, Emmet Shaul & Son, Albert W. Smith Company, Inc. The Clerk of the Board is hereby authorized to advertise for a 1957 Sedan for the Street Department. i Supplement Agreement No. 1 of Jefferson Boulevard Pavement Improvement as submitted to the Board was accept- ed and approved by the Board the loth day,of December, 1956. City Traffic Engineer recommends the installation of the following Traffic Signs Stop signs at the north- west corner of Johnson Street at Orange Street. Messrs Julian and Newcomer of the South Bend Tool Manufacturing Company, 1916 South Michigan Street appeared before the Board with reference to request permission for the extending of footings out and into public prgp- erty. (Distance of 1 foot). Plans were approved subject to inspection by the Building Commissioner as to 'I structural stability. Further it is recommended by the Board that said Company be given the right to close and occupy the alley adjacent to area. Alley not to be closed beyond February 11 1957. The time now being 10:15 A.M. (CST) it was so announcedrand the bids for the Street Department were opened: Proofs of publication having appeared in the South Bend and an affidavit signed by C. G. Livengood and in the Record with an affidavit signed by W. DeCanio were submitted to the Board and found sufficient. The Board now proceeded with the opening of the Bids as follows: McCombts'Service Company A non- collusion affidavit and a bidder'': 1215 Mishawaka Avenue bond in the amount of $5,000.00 accom- South Bend, Indiana panied the bid. Total bid price ------------ $49492,50 546 Albert Sales and Service 4514 South Michigan St. South Bend, Indiana Reid Holcomb Company, Inc. 1815 Kentucky Avenue Indianapolis 21, Indiana Total Bid Price ------------------ $4359.05 Total Bid Price ------------------ $$7324.00 Optional Equipment --------------- $ 1055.00 Trade in allowance--------------- 600.00 A non -collusion affidavit and a cer�- ified check in the amount of $435.9io accompanied the bid. 11 A non -collusion affidavit and a bidder's bond in the amount of $8500.00 accpm- • panied the bid. ii The bids will be taken under advisement until next Monday, December 10,. 1956 and the contract will be a- warded on that date. -q� '�g, Y l This being the date set, hearing was held on the assessment roll showing the award of damages and t assessment 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 Vacation Resolution No. 2848, 1956. In the above named assessment roll, no remonstrators appeared and no written remonstrances were filed. The Clerk of the Board submitted proofs of publication of notices and same were found sufficient, and the Board therefore finds that the street 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 vacated upon receipt of the amount of benefits 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 befoEe the Board the meeting was adjourned at 10:15 A.M. n FATTEST: A J. SABO, CLERK DECEMBER 17, 1956 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Monday, December 17, 1956 at10:00 A.M. (CST) All members were present. Minutes of the previous regular meeting were read and approved. Claims in the 1 total amount of $5871.88 were approved and ordered paid to the following suppliers: ;Belleville Lumber Company 5.15 Business Systems, Inc. 45.39 :Business Systems, Inc. 91.75 Business Systems, Inc. 9.18 Business Systems, Inc. 12.13 Business Systems, Inc. 24.32 Business Systems, Inc. 42.08 Business Systems, Inc. 83.97 Business Systems, Inc. 7.38 Gafill Oil Company 18.10 'James M. Hall, M.D. 5.00 Ideal Press 149.50 Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. 332.28 Indiana & Michigan Electric Company 434.79 Inlander Steindler Paper Company 2.50 Modern Floor Covering 58.00 Portage Oil Company 37.94 The'Record 9.22 The Record 7.56 Sheehan Tire Service 4.40 Sinclair Refining Company 39.06 City Water Works 9.25 South Bend Tribune 6.26 South Bend TA bune 6.91 Voorhees-Jontz Lumber Company 6.06 West Side Hardware 5.60 PARKING METER FUND Marion Trucking Company 3.61 Mark Time Parking Meter 37.70 STREET & TRAFFIC FUND Albert Sales & Service 41.80 B & B Auto Glass 106.59 Co-operative Coal Company 37.00 Continental Oil Company 505.21 Continental Oil Company 345.14 Dalton Pontiac, Inc. 21.02 Edwards Iron Waorks 14.57 Freeman - Spicer Company 71.18 Freeman Spicer Company 104.52 General Equipment & Machine Company 3.36 V. Graves Auto Glass 12.05 M. H. & J. B. Haberle 22.25 Indiana Bell Telephone Company 10.14 Kaley Motore Service 127.30 D. D. Kennedy, Inc. 14.28 Korte Brothers, Inc. 46.80 Korte Brothers, Inc. 226.32 Korte Brothers, Inc. 60.13 Korte Brothers, Inc. 35.21 Korte Brothers, Inc. 98.37 Korte Brothers, Inc. 200.25 F. H. Langsenkamp Company 1.70 Liberty Gas & Service Company 11.00 Mit6 Craft Screen Process 182.91 National Brake Service Company 32.54 Recreation Equipment Company National Brake Service 133.79 39.57 River Park Lumber Company 66.16 0 0 0 • • •