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MEETING--NOVEMBER 27, 1939
A regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Monday November 2
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1939, at 9:00 A.142. All members were present. Payrolls of the various departments in
the amount of $6,257.51 and claims of the following suppliers in the amount of $334.51
were approved and ordered paid:
General Tire Co. Inc. $54.66 Goodyear Service $11.40
Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 213.80 Koontz Wagner Electric Co. 5,70
" " ►' 25.47 G. E. Meyer & Son, Inc. 1.73
No. Ind. Pub�_icService Co. 4.55 to sr is tr tt rr 1.75
Charles Oilman 3.45 Royal Typewriter Co. Inc. 12.00
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The following claims to be paid for out of either the Special W.P.A. Fund or the
Interceptor Sewer Fund (W.P.A.) in the amount of $4,510.95 were approved and ordered
paid:
Salaries -Special N.P.A.Fund 298.33 Asphalt Products Co. $249 45
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Interceptor Sewer Acct335.00 Business Systems, Inc. 3.00
W.P.A. Truck Rental 98.80 Eugene Dietzgen Co. 17.76
N.P.A. Truck Rental 338.20 Edwards Iron Works, Inc. 3.55
N.P.A. Truck Rental 791.92 tt It it " 6.57
Burdett Frick 469.15 Maurice J. Hoban 20.00
Hurwieh Iron Co. Inc. 10.00 Indiana Bell Telephone Co. 7.75
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Indiana & Michigan Elec. Co. 17.64 Keuffel & Esser Co. of New York 22.26
J. C Lauber & C o 4.24 tt n it tt tr tt tt
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tt tt It tt tt 1.25 The McCaff ery Company 15.18
G.E. Meyer & Son, Inc. 54.00 Leo P. Rieder 200.00
River Park Lbr. Co. Inc. 725.74 Sibley Machine & Foundry Co. 27.66
tt tt ti tt tt 33.07 TheSouthBend Supply Co. 2.94
Sullivan Mac^inery Co. 125.00 South Bend Dowel Works 30.00
Harry D. Ullery :Coal Co.Inc. 560.00 Clyde E. Williams 30.00
✓ A continuation certificate on street excavation bond of Adolph H. Stuhmer was approv
STREET LIGHTING: Mr. Qualls was present and Orlo Deahl, attorney for the Indiana &
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Michigan Electric Company was present and the street lighting contract was discussed.
The engineeer reported the receipt of a report submitted by the National Board of
Fire Underwriters regarding the condition of the public water supply system and certain
ire stations. TheBoard ordered the report placed on file and authorized the engineer
to send copies to the Chief of the Fire Department and the Supt. of the Water Works.
The question has been raised as to what the Board intended to do with Chapin Street
pavement after the street car rails were removed.
It was moved by lair. Driggs, seconded by Mr. Beamer and unanimously carried that as
soon as conditions permit in 1940 and as soon as the W.P.A. street resurfacing and im-
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provement project can be started that the street car rails on Chapin Street shall be Sol(
to the highest bidder and that the funds derived
from the sale of said rails be used in
defraying the cost of repaving and resurfacing Chapin Street where necessary and said
resurfacing and repairing shall be done without cost to the abutting property owners
under a W.P.A. project, utilitzing the funds derived from the sale of street car rails
for that purpose: this ilm?provement being contingent upon the receipt cf Six and 75%100
($6.75) Dollars per man per month for each man on N.P.A. from the Portage Township
rustee for W.P.A. purposes during 1940.1'
A petition for sidewalk on the north side of Horne Court between 28th street and the
first alley east of 28th Street was referred to the engineer for investigation and repori
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The complaint regarding the condition of the sidewalk on the southeast corner of Mair
and Bartlett Streets submitted by
Mrf
. Beamer was referred to the Engineering Department
for investigation and report.
The engineer submitted a verbal - report on the claim for damages to the property at
203 S. Scott Street caused by the W.P.A. sewer project. The W.P.A. were authorized to
repair the property and upon investigation, it was reported that the property owner was
satisfied.
STREET DEPARTMENT.- Mr. Zmudzinski was present and matters pertaining to his department
were discussed.
• (Meeting adjourned at 12:00 Noon.
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