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HomeMy WebLinkAbout09/27/1937 Board of Public Works Minutes329 SPECIAL MEETING September 25,, 1937 • • • 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: J 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 U • 0 C7 C