HomeMy WebLinkAbout03/22/1937 Board of Publci Works MinutesMEETING March 22`. 1937
Regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held Monday, March 22, 1937,
at 10:30 A. M. All members were present.
Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.
Claims, from the following suppliers, in the amount of'$381.61 were approved
and ordered paid, also payroll of the various departments amounting to $1,810.16..
New York Central Railroad $1.24 G. E. Meyer & Son, Inc. $3.27
South.Bend Exterminating Co: 20.00 The South Bend Clinic 13.00
South Bend Exterminating Co. 12,50 Simplex Time Recorder Co 3.00
Indiana Lumber & Mfg. Co. 5.69 Zeltner Hardware Co. 16.13
Indiana Lumber & Mfg. Co. 2.34 Koontz -Wagner Electric Co. 5.84
Indiana Lumber & Mfg. Co. 89.20 Koontz -Wagner Electric Co. 1.61
Mirror Press, Inc. 22.50 Maurice Hoban 20,00
Schuyler Rose 164.53 Scherman-Schaus-Freeman Co. .76
Mr. Frederick J. Anderson., Civil City Engineer, filed primary assessment roll
showing awards of damages and assessment of benefits in the matter of vacation of
alley east of Webster Street from the north line of Lot 1 to the south line of
Lot 4 in Toth's Addition, same being Vacation Resolution 2487. In the above named
Assessment Roll the Board -hereby orders that on the 5th day of April 1937 it will
meet in the City Hall at 10:30 A. M. to hear and receive remonstrances from all
persons interested in or effected by said vacation resolution and Board further
orders notices of said hearing be advertised in two newspapers in South.Bend on
March 25th and April lst and that notices together with amount of damages awarded
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or benefits assessed be addressed to the property owners according to law.
The Board executed contract with Platz & Gill for the general work of remodel-
ing a store building located at-817 South Lafayette Street to be known as Hose
House No. 2 to include two alternate bids, the amount of contract to be as follows:
General Contract ................................................ $9,286.00
Plastering of entire second floor ............................... 297.00
• Installation of eighteen wardrobes on the second floor.......... 395.00
Total $9,978.00
All to be in accordance with specifications prepared by Maurer & Maurer, Architects,
copy of which is on file in the office of the Board of Public Works.
The Board also executed a contract in connection with the establishment of the
new No. 2 Hose House with Niesgodski Brothers for the plumbing and heating work
at a cost of $1,227.00. In connection with this contract, it was regularly moved,
seconded and carried that Niesgodski Brothers be required to employ Union Labor.
They were so notified and agreed to do so.
• The Board also executed a contract with C. P. Luxton, doing business under the
style of the Electric Construction Company, for the electrical wiring and remodel-
ing of No. 2 Hose House, the amount of the contract being $279.25.
A petition was presented by property owners and residents in the vicinity of
the 1900 block on Leer Street, requesting that the excess dirt be removed in the
alley from Fox to Calvert Streets parallel to Leer Street and the alley from said
alley to Clyde Street parallel to Fox Street and that the same be gravelled. This
petition was referred to the Street Department for attention.
The F & S Transit Company requested the privilege of installing an underground
• gasoline tank adjacent to their building under sidewalk. This has the approval of
the. Fire Chief.
The Gaseteria Company was permitted to replace a twenty thousand gallon gas
tank for storage purposes at Ford and Kosciuszko Streets. This had the approval of
the Fire Chief.
The meeting adjourned at 11:30 A. M.
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