HomeMy WebLinkAbout02/14/1939 Board of Public Works Minutes433
MEETING--FEBRUARY 140 1939
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✓ Regular meeting of the Board of Public Forks was held on Tuesday, February 14,19390
at 9:00 A.M. There was no meeting on Monday, February 135 1939, it having been declared
a legal holiday to commemorate Lincoln's birthday. All members were present. Minutes of
the previous meeting were read and approved. Payrolls of the various departments in
the sum of $4,857.06 and claims of the following suppliers in the amount of 11,055.57
were approved and ordered paid:
,St. Joseph's Hospital
6390
tGru7mmell & Sons
$105.00
*Indiana Bell Telephone
.75
oCity Water Works
16.30
«South Bend Dowel Works
1.00
ySchilling's
4.71
•Bock Welding & Boiler Wks.
5.75
yIndiana Bell Telephone Co.
.60
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9-,Q0
-Indiana Bell Telephone Co.
230.82
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.=Railway Express. Ager_cy, Inc.
1.00
South Bend Clean Towel Service
3.65
wSara Berman
47.50
. Goodyear Service
8.94
.-Sam Berman
37.50
The Studebaker Corporation
2.51
t 0 . J. Shoemaker
48.52
i G. E. Meyer & Son, Inc.
1.65
01afill Oil Co.
105.15
1 G. E. Meyer & Son, Inc.
5.48
. J. P. Conboy for postage
.69
Aest Side Hardware Co.
.70
Ind. Mich. Elec. Co
46.97
-Peltz-Kaufer Co. Inc.
4.00
Ind. E Mich. Elec. Co.
140.40
,Kaylor Holman Co.
87.62
-West Side Hardware Co.
53.85
11'J,Tr. Qualls submitted a report, as requested by the Board, on the petition for a
street light at the intersection of Fellows and Dubail Streets. Yr. Qualls recommended
the installation of a 2500 lumen lamp, mast arm, overhead construction, wood pole, at
an annual cost of $26.40. The Board, upon motion duly made, seconded and carried, moved
that a light.be installed at that intersection, as recommended by Mr. Qualls. Mr.Qualls
was instructed to advise the Indiana & Michigan Electric Company to install the light.
STREET DEPARTMENT:
64r. Zmudzinski was present and :natters pertaining to his department were discussed.
Mr. Zmudzinski reported that a shanty on one of the city dumps had been destroyed by
fire. her. Zmudzinski was instructed by the Board to get prices on several different
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materials to be used for patching streets and to confer with Tr. Williams concerning the
same. He was authorized to purchase six raincoats and also some hip boots for use of the
men on the Serer Department. He advised the 3oard that he had received a communication
concerning the condition of Mill Street between Washington and the Colfax Bridge. Mr.
Zmudzinski was authorized to purchase one gross of bombs for use on W.P.A. projects, to
be paid for out of the Special W.P.A. Fund. The Board approved the purchase of ten pair
for use of the -men. Ii. Zmudzinski was authorized to have tires for his
Sgoggles
ucks recapped as work permits.
/Mr. R. W. H ays, W.P.A. project supervisor, was present and made a request for
additional materials to be used on W.P.A. projects. Due to the terms of the contract
. for the construction of the concrete pipe, it is necessary to put on additional men and
speed up sewer construction to a point where at least two thousand feet of sewer could
be laid per month. Mr. Hays was advised to confer with the City Engineer further re-
garding the purchase of additional materials.
/ Yr. Hays also stressed the importance of obtaining easements on vacant property
along sewers to be constructed for the protection of the City against claims and to per-
mit the W.P.A. to use the vacant properties for storing equipment and spoil bank.
request for approval of driveway returns for filling station on Niles Ave. and
Colfax Ave. was submitted by M. Edward Doran. The _utter was referred to the City
Engineer for investigation and report at the next meeting.
Ahe Board approved the grades established on Iowa Street from Crumstown Ave. to
Lincolnway West.
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✓Continuation Certificate on Excavation Bond of Joseph M. Hiznay was approved and
ordered filed with the original bond.
The following deeds were accepted and were recorded in accordance with the m7nutes
of the meeting of February 6, 1939:
Deed of Charles V. Carothers and Florence M. Carothers, his wife, for the
following real estate, to -:grit:
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The East Twenty-seven (27) feet off of the entire East end of a parcel
of land described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the North and South line in the center of the
Millet Road, Thirteen Hundred Twenty-six (1326) feet south of a stone at
the center of Section Thirty-three (33) , Township Thirty-eight (38 )
North, Range two (2) East, which point is also the southwest corner of
Edgmoor Heights Addition; thence south two hundred forty-three and two -
tenths (243.2) feet; thence East on a line at right angles to the line
of said road, six hundred twenty-seven (627) feet; thence north two
hundred forty-three and two tenths (243.2) feet, on a line parallel to
said road; thence west six hundred twenty-seven (627) feet, to the point
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of beginning;. containing three and one-half (3�) acres, more or less;
being an unrecorded plat of Charles V. Carothers, in the southwest
quarter O of the Southeast quarter O of said section; excepting Lot
Number 1 of said plat, as described in a certain warranty deed hereto-
fore executed by said grantors to Edward Krill, April 29, 1925, and re-
corded in Deed Record 190, at page 15; and excepting, also, 243 feet off '
of the west end of Lot Number 2 of said plat, measured from the center
of said Llillet Road as described in a certain warrantor deed heretofore
executed by said grantors to Raymond D. Kuespert, Septi ember 17, 1925;
and recorded in Deed Record 192, at page 530; and excepting,=also, '70 feet
in width east and unrest off of the entire east end of said ;10 Number 2, as
described in a certain warrantor deed executed by said grantors to "Willian
N. Gordon and Lulu TM. Gordon, May 14, 1925, and recorded in Deed Record
193, at page 54; all in the Recorder t s Office of said county; to which j
said records reference is had for greater certainty of description of said
parcels excepted 'therefrom.
The above conveyance is made for the purpose of widening of Illinois Street.
which quit -claim deed was recorded in Book No. 308 at page 300 and is DoclLment No.54393
in the Records of the Recorder of St. Joseph County, Indiana, and is Document No. 700
in the records of,the Beard of Public forks of the City of South :bend.
Deed of Raymond D. Kuespert and Ruth S. Kuespert, hmsband and wife, for the fol-
lowing described real estate in the city of SouthBend, St.Joseph County, Indiana, to -wit
A strip of land Twenty-seven (27) feet in width, East and iVest, taken off
of and from the entire width of the East side of the following described
tract, to be used for street purposes:
A part of the Nest half (IVl) of the South East quarter (SEA) of Section
Number Thirty-three (33) , Tov-riship Number Thirty-eight (38) North, Range
Number Two (2) East, which part is bounded by a line running as follows,
viz: Beginning at a point Fifteen Hundred Seventy and Twenty Five hun-
dredths (1570.25) feet South of the center of said Section Number Thirty
Three (33), thence running South One hundred Eight Four and Thirty One
hundredths (184.31) feet; thence East six Hundred Twenty Seven (627) feet;
thence North One hundred Eighty Pour and i'hirty One hundredths (184.31)
feet; thence ';West Six Hundred Twenty Seven (627) feet to the place of
beginning.
which warranty deed was recorded in Boole No. 308 at pages 301 and 302 and is Document
No. 54394 in the Records of the Recorder of St. Joseph County, Indiana, and is Document
No. 701 in the records of the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend.
.Deed of !,tIinnie D. Rerick, widow; Arthur C. Herick and erniece E.. Rerick, his
wife; Albert H. Rerick and mice S. Rerick, his wife; Howard D. Rerick and Jessie A.
Rerick, his wife, for the following descr ibed real estate in the city of South Lend
St.Josseph County, Indiana, to -wit:
A strip of land 2orty (40) feet in ~width, North and South, taken off of
and from t he entire widt_� of the North end of the following described
parcel, to -wit: CD
All of that part of the `lest H alfl of the 111orthwest Quarter of Section
Twenty-two (22), Township Thirty-seven (3'7) •7orth, of Range Two (2)
East, which lies 1 orth of the center of the Sumption Prairie Road, as
now located through said tract, containing Fifty (50) acres more or
less, excepting a lot or parcel of land out of the Southwest corner of
the above described tract which was heretofore conveyed by Joseph C.
Reric i and wife and is now o57Tned by _Iarvey E . Reed.
This strip of land is conveyed to the aforesaid grantee on condition
that it be used for the purpose of extending Erring Avenue from Daley
Street west to Dundee Street --this parcel to constitute the South lalf
of said street so extended; and if the real estate -Lere-in conveyed is
not put to the use for which this c nveyance is _,lade, by the grantee
construcing or causing to be ccnstructed said extension of Ewing Avenue
so as to make the same reasonably usable as a public thoroughfare by
five years, title to the real estate hereby con-=eyTed shall, on the
last mentioned date, revert to the grantees herein.
Meeting adjourned at 11: 30 A. ,1.
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