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HomeMy WebLinkAbout05/17/1937 Board of Public Works Minutes297 MEETING May 17, 1937 Regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Monday, May 17, 1937, at 10:00 A. M. All members were present. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Claims in the amount of $8,509.84, from the following suppliers, were approved and ordered paid.. Indiana & Mich. Electric Co. $7,451.55 Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. $16.67 South Bend.News-Times 4.24 Perkins Bros. 104.00 Weisberger Bros. 1.00 Michigan Ave. Lumber Co. 31.63 • St. Joseph Agency, Inc. 7.14 Indiana Wallpaper & Paint Co. 76.75 G. 0. Thurn 1.25 Austin -Western Road Machy. Co. 4.75 Schuyler Rose 101.90 Scherman-Schaus-Freeman Co. .86 Schuyler Rose 572.20 Holycross & Nye Co. 3.46 Koontz -Wagner Electric Co. 3.02 Stephenson Underwear Co. 9.02 Zeltner Hardware 69.37 Landscape Gardening Co. 13.00 Indiana Lumber & Mfg. Co. 6.30 Hoods Nursery 11.25 South Bend Supply Co. 14.28 C. H. DeFrees, Inc. 6.00 / This being the date set for opening of bids for repair and painting of Colfax Avenue Bridge, as advertised, the following bids were received: Repairs to Bridge Charles A. Jordan Company ............................. $792.00 Painting Bridge Modern Decorating Company ............................. $2,967.00 Indiana Paint & Wallpaper Company..................... 3,600.00 After duly considering the above bids, the Board decided to place the contract for the repairs with Charles A. Jordan Company. The contract for the painting was withheld and bids were taken under consideration for later decision. Mr. Frederick J. Anderson, City Civil Engineer, filed primary assessment roll showing awards of damages and assessment of benefits in the matter of vacation of alley north of Sample street from the alley west of LaFayette Street to the west line of Garst's Addition, also 2nd alley west of LaFayette Blvd. from the south line of Tutt Street projected west, to Sample Street, same being Vacation Resolution 2488. In the above named Assessment Roll the Board hereby orders that on the 1st day of June 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 May 20th and May 27th and that notices together with amount of damages awarded or benefits assessed be addressed to the property owners according • to law. Continuation certificate covering contractor's bond in favor of J. Fred Christman in the Continental Casualty Company was approved by the Board. Continuation certificate covering contractor's bond in favor of H. C. Parrott in the Continental Casualty Company was approved by the Board. • The Board approved contract for the purchase of a certain described real estate as follows: j CONTRACT FOR THE PURCHASE OF CERTI-SN DESCRIBED REAL ESTATE This agreement entered into by and between Thomas H. Jackson and Laura Dell Jackson, husband and wife, of St. Joseph County, and George W. Jackson, single, of St. Joseph County, and Emma M. Jackson and Charles A. Jackson, her husband, of Elkhart County, hereinafter referred to as parties of the first Dart and Frederick J Anderson, Edwin W. Hunter end Fred Woodward, constituting the Board of Public Works and Safety of the Municipal City of South Bend, hereinafter referred to as parties of the second part. W'ITNESSE`I'H : THAT WHEREAS, parties of the first part are owners of the following described real estate situated in St. Joseph County, Indiana: The East 1 of the North 1 of the Southwest 4 of the Northwest 4 of Section 54, Town- ship 38 North, Range 2 East, containing 10 acres more or less. AND WHEREAS, it is the desire of the parties of the second part to purchase 2,98 said property for a gravel pit for the Municipal City of South Bend. IT IS STIPULATED AND AGREED by and between the parties that parties of the second part, subject to the approval of the Common Council of the City of.South Bend, Indiana, will purchase the property above described from parties of the first part for the sum of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00).upon the furnishing to parties of the second part or their assigns of good and merchantable title to the property described showingno incumbrances or liens against said real estate, and that parties of the first hart stipulate and agree, upon the approval of the action of the Board of Public Works and Safety in purchasing said property above described by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, that they will furnish and deliver unto the said City of South Bend a Warranty Deed with abstract showing good and sufficient right to convey the property set out in this agreement upon the payment by the Municipal City of South Bend to parties of the first part or their assigns the sum of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) as set out in this agreement. To the carrying .out of this agreement and the provisions and terms hereof the parties bind themselves, their heirs and successors this 17th day of May, 1937. PARTIES OF THE FIRST PART Thomas H. Jackson Laura Dell Jackson George W. Jackson Tt ma Mae Jackson Charles A. Jackson .PARTIES OF THE SECOND PART (Board of Public Works and Safe- ty of the Municipal City of South Bend.) Frederick J. Anderson Edwin W. Hunter Fred Woodward Mr. R. G. Merrill, president of the M. B. Skinner Company, made a request that the parkways opposite their factory be trimmed, and after considering the matter, the Board referred it to the Park Department for attention. The Board discussed with Mr. deer the various properties which the City is now using for dumps and Mr. Weer outlined the following as being used at the present time: Hoffman Gravel Pit on Merry Avenue, mile north of Lincoln Way West. Beck's Lake. Randolph and Robinson Streets. Across from Rum Village Woods on Ewing Avenue. The City Attorney was instructed to draw up an Ordinance to be submitted to the Common Council approving the contract, a copy of which is outlined above, entered into for the purchase of this described property. The meeting adjourned at 11:00 A. M. Clerk • • • • •