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Home My WebLink About12/26/1956 Board of Public Works Minutes547 • Rose Fuel & Materials, Inc. Sheehan Tire Service Stroup's Welding & Spring Shop W. A. R. Equipment Company Yoder's Garage & Farm Service Yoder's Garage Service DOG POUND FUND T. C. Schultz &Company 31.60 Sheehan Tire Service 801.36 Smith's Photo Shop 27.50 Studebaker -Packard Corp. 151.36 West Side Hardware 15.14 Yoder's Garege Service 24.05 SEWER FUND City Sales Company 55.00 The Ridge Company 5.75 175.00 43.14 118.35 26.60 193.05 138.45 ,Ernest H. Miller, Traffic Engineer, reports the installation of the following traffic signs: Stop Signs on ,Sheridan Street, both sides, at Ardmore Street and on Kinyon at Portage Avenue, both sides. Also, Yield 'Right of Way Signs installed on Whitcomb at Klinger Street. ;The Board hereby approves the sewer plan of Woodmont Drive, and also plans for Grade, Curb, Walk and Pave - Plans for Hays Cort, Part of Caroline Street and Woodmont Drive, Brookmede Drive, Springbrook Drive, Hoke Street, and Tudor Lane, all in Section "H" of Twyckenham Hills Addition. [The Board also approves the Plat of Section "H", Twyckenham Hills Addition in Portage Township, St. Joseph !;County, Indiana, Southeast of Section 191, Twp. 37 North, Range 3 East South Bend, Indiana for Place & ,Company, Inc. l • �7he Bid for the Street Department is hereby awarded to McComb ZXJ( XJ( Service Company, Inc., 1215 Mishawaka' +Avenue, South Bend, Indiana at a Net price of $4492.50. ;Comes now Rev. C. Peaker, 2211 Caftalpa Street requesting permission on behalf of the Faith Temple Church to . solicit for donations for a new boiler. Request taken under advisement and decision will be known at next ;regular Board meeting on Wednesday, December 26, 1956. • • ttorney, Charles M. Boynton, and a committee representing the Volunteers of America appeared before the oard with reference to request permission to conduct sidewalk solitations through men dressed in Santa laus costumes. Chairman, Irving J. Smith, told Boynton and the committee that permission will be refused ecause the organization could show no local backing. Smith stated that the Board has taken the stand of iving permission to local groups to do local things. You are welcometo come in on a subsequent date when ou have a local organization, Smith told the group. ere being no.further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned at 10:00 A.M. (CST). ATTEST: '�ANY J. SABO, CLERK December 26, 1956 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Wednesday, December 26, 1956 at 10:00 A.M. (CST). All members were present. Minutes of the previous regular meeting were read and approved. Claims sin the total amount of $737.04 were approved and ordered paid to the following suppliers: 'Dean Armstead 51.76 Belleville Lumber Company 2.87 Frank Biebuyck 35.12 Herbert E. Harrison 20.16 'Herbert E. Harrison 18.64 Herbert E. Harrison 17.12 Herbert E. Harrison 13.20 Herbert E. Harrison 20.64 Ideal Press 18.50 Indiana Bell Telephone Company 15.68 ;:Indiana Bell Telephone Company 20.89 Indiana Bell Telephone Company 10.80 I.Indiana Bell Telephone Company 17.99 Indiana Bell Telephone Company 11.65 �Meyer's Hardware 9.95 Northern Indiana Public Service 4.87 Remington Rand 5.40 River Park Lumber Company 51.60 ;River Park Lumber Compan%c 207.11 Dale Shelly 90.64 'South Bend Window Cleaning Company 53.50 West Side Hardware .72 PARKING METER FUNDS STREET &TRAFFIC FUND lIndiana Bell Telephone 9.19 Frank S. Vukovits 29.04 I! ;;Excavation bonds were approved for United Plumbing & Heating Company, Edward J. White, Inc., J. B. Fleck & ;Sons, and Sid's Plumbing & Heating Company. is !Contractor's bonds were approved for the Ohio Oil Company. A complaint was filed with the Board against Armour and Company, 500 block ChapinStreet with reference to ;parking their trucks across the sidewalk while loading and unloadling groceried. Referred to the Police • 11Chief.f or investigation. 3, he Request of Rev. C. Peaker on behalf of the Faith Temple ChurchO to solicit for donations for a new oiler is hereby granted by the Board. The time now being 10:10 A.M. it was so announced and the Bids for the Street Department were opened. Proo of publications in the South Bend Tribune with an affidavit signed by C. G. Livengood and in the Record with an affidavit signed by W. DeCanio was submitted to the Board and found sufficient. The bids received reads as follows: Scherman Schaus Freeman Company A non -collusion affidavit and a certified 520 South Lafayette St. check in the amount of $200.00 accompanie South Bend, Indiana the bid. 1 1957 Studebaker Commander V-8 Custom 4-door Sedan ----------- Less tax.,dedugtiori and discount . . . . ... . . . . $1992.50 The bid is hereby taken under advisement and the contract now awarded to said Freeman Spicer Company. There being no fjsrther business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned at 10:30 A.M. (CST). Q n ATTEST:\,,�&TH?�Y J. SABO December 31, 1956 A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Monday, December 319 1956 at 10:00 A.M. All members were present. Minutes of the previous regular meeting were read and approved. Claims in the total amount of 00.00 were approved. Excavation bonds were approved for A. P. Kujawski, W.W. and W.P. Sibley, William H. and Robert H. Burke, Tony Szymkowiak, Victor Trippel, Walter T. Otterstein, and Henry DeWulf. Contractor's bonds were approved for Rocco Simeri. Chas. W. Cole & Son, 220 West LaSalle Avenue submitted to the Board proof of indemnity with the City from the Bath Insurance Agency, inc. covering Workmen's Compensation and Employer's Liablity including Occupational Disease Coverage. Said policy accepted and placed on file for reference in the office of Ci- Controller. The Board hereby approves and accepts the Dedication of Casimer and Irene Nowacki of a strip of land ,for public alley purposes which they hereby dedicate to the public for the use and purposes of an alley all !in St. Joseph County, Indiana. This dedication is recorded in Record No. i3O Page No. in the office ,of the County Recorder. The South Bend Humane Soci6ty.-requested that the facilities of the Dog Pound of the City of South Bend Indiana be placed in the Humane Society facilities. The Board hereby approves the transfer of said Depart- ment and the Humane Society is authorized to file all claims with reference to Dog Pound with the Board of Public Works and further to stay within the Dog Pound Budget for 1957 which totals $13,410.00. The Clerk of the Board is hereby authorized to advertise for bids for painting the interior of the City ,Hall. The Board hereby authorizes Building Commissioner, Verner L. Lane, to proceed with repairing the side- walks on both sidesof Main and Jefferson Streets. Further he is directed to notify the owner of said prop !erty which is presently occupied as a parking lot, to place car stops on both Main and Jefferson Streets to' 'prevent the cars from possibly rolling out onto the sidewalk. The hearing scheduled for today of the report by Richey Whitesell of the Bendix Corporation with refer nce !to progress on sound control in said corporation will be continued until January 14, 1957. The firm of Clyde E. Williams & Associates, Inc. are hereby proposing to perform the engineering servi�!es or the Barrett Law Public Improvement Program for the year 1957 for the City of South Bend,_JIndiana. The oard authorizes said Clyde E..Williams& Assoc. Inc. to submit to the Board an agreement with reference to� ame. There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned 10:30 A.M.(CST) s t ( 11 !ST: A 06NY'J. SABO, CLERK • • • • 0 •