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SPECIAL MEETING September 25,, 1937
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Special meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Saturday, September 25,
1937, at 10:00 A. M. Mr. Hunter was absent.
This special meeting was postponed from regular meeting of September 20th for
the purpose of giving a larger number of interested persons an opportunity to
remonstrate against Improvement Resolution No. 2490, same being for improvement of
a local sewer in Duey Avenue from South Bend Avenue to the alley north of St. Vincent
Street.
There being no written remonstrances and no objectors present at the meeting,
the Board received from those present an expression of their desire for this improve-
ment.
Decision was withheld until all of the members of the Board could be present at
a.meeting and was postponed until regular meeting of September 27th.
The meeting adjourned at 10:30 A. M.
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
ATTEST• Clerk
MEETING September 27s 1937
Regular meeting of the Board of Public Vorks was held on Monday, September 27,
1937, at 9:00 A. M. All members were present.
Minutes of the previous regular meeting were read and approved.
Claims in the amount of 4,481.18, from the following suppliers, were approved
and ordered paid, also payroll of the various departments for the last half of
September amounting to $6,601.69.
Indiana Bell Telephone Co.
$2.95
The Acorn Refining Co.
$5.50
Indiana Bell Telephone Co.
1.00
Ind. Paint & Wallpaper Co.
144.40
South Bend News -Times
6.83
Maurice J. Hoban
20.00
Central Electric Co.
.55
W.P.A. Labor
312.61
R. L. Polk & Co.
15.00
Great Lakes Asphalt & Petr. Co.
877.94
Days Transfer, Inc.
.84
Standard Oil Co.
1,318.08
Scherman-Schaus-Freeman Co.
5.18
V. J. Lang Construction Co.
803.10
Motor Service & Parts, Inc.
7.66
The Crown Rock Sales Co.
737.66
Business Systems, Inc.
1.25
White Manufacturing Co.
3.00
Broadway Pharmacy
8.00
Holycross & Nye
1.51
Sibley Machine & Foundry Corp.
6..46
George H. Wheelock & Co.
5.80
,South Bend Foundry Co.
14.00
Campbell Box and Tag Co.
14.61
South Bend Foundry Co.
19.50
Business Systems, Inc.
3.85
W. J. Lang Construction Co.
144.00
This being the date set for
decision
on Improvement Resolution 2490,
and the
result of the hearing at special
meeting
on Saturday, September 25th, being reviewed
with all members present and the
Board being
fully advised in the premises, now
finds that the benefits to the several
lots
and parcels of land liable to
be
assessed for said improvement will
be equal
to the estimated cost thereof
and that
the improvement is necessary, therefore
the
Board decides to take final action on
said Improvement Resolution and
declares
same in all things ratified, confirmed and
approved without modification.
The Board now orders that on the llth day of October 1937 it will receive,open
and read sealed proposals for the construction of said improvement at 10:30 A. M.
The Board further orders that notices of said sealed proposals be published in
the South Bend. News -Times and Tribune on the 30th day of September and on the 7th
day of October 1937, according to law.
A petition signed by eight members of a Committee was submitted, reading as
follows:
WHEREAS:
The Executive Committee of the State, County and Municipal IAorkers of
America, Local No. 54, conferred with the Honorable Mayor and County Chairman,
Mr. Hunter,
• WHEREAS
The matter of establishing seniority in the Street Department was agreed
upon and the time is approaching when some changes in this department are imperative,
WHEREAS:
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There has not been a seniority list posting made, we ask that same be compiled
and posted in the Street Department, where all employees can observe, and that this
list be adhered to in all action pertaining to said employees.
Signed H. M. Tomlinson
C. C. Cowan
Fred H. Linn
Jay H. Bernhardt
K. E. Scott
Everett G. Grant
Gene Heick
Earle R. Cottrell
Executive Committee
The Board, after discussing this Matter, ordered that petition be placed on file
for consideration at a later meeting.
`'/ This being the date set, hearing was had on Improvement Resolution No. 2489,
same being vacation of a portion of the south side of Western Avenue.
In the above named Assessment Roll no remonstrators appeared and no written
remonstrances were filed, and the Board fully advised in the premises finds that
the several lots and barcels of land have been benefitted in the amounts shown on
said roll. The Board, therefore, takes final action on said assessment roll and
declares same in all things ratified, confirmed and approved without modification
and proceedings ,closed. The Board now orders said Assessment Roll delivered to
the Department of Finance.
f A communication was received from the Indiana & Michigan Electric Company
asking permission to reconstruct the manhole located near the southwest corner of
the intersection of Michigan Street and Western Avenue, in accordance with their
blue print No. 137-224. On recommendation of Mr. Qualls this permission was granted.
A communication was received from the Blake Wall Paper Mills outlining the
method of procedure in unloading carloads of wall paper supplies, in connection with
their petition for the establishment of a sidetrack at said plant. After reviewing
their proposal, the Board decided to request more definite statements regarding
their method of unloading and whether it would mean the blocking of Summers Court
while unloading. The Clerk was instructed to communicate with the Blake Wall Paper.
Mills and ask that a revised Resolution be presented.
The meeting adjourned at 11:00 A. M.
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
ATTEST: Clerk
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