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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02/19/1918 Board of Public Works Minutes102 Board met' in regular session at 10:00 A.M. All members present. V The Board ordered that theiIndLana & Michigan Electric Company be notified to plac* an are light in front of 203 North Shore Drive, The deed of streets in Jackson's Sub. Div. Ares*mead° by: F. M. Jackson for the Board's` e�pproval at this session was ordered returned by the Board, as they did not .care .to approve, or file said deed at this time. Clerk instructed to notif.t F. N. Jabkson by letter. Clerk instructed to notifyStaples & Ackerman, Contractors'on the Portage Avenue'Pipe sewer,_tp be present at thsar regular session to be held Tuesday February 26th.'1918 at 10:00-A.U. , douncilman Judson appeared before the Board And presented petition signed by residents of River Park requesting that a suitable sidewalt extending from Lincoln Way, -East on Frnsperger Street running north.to Pleasant Street be built. The Board ordered a resolution prepared for same. v .The following list of wages paid in the street department for labor was prose-n-ted.to the Board by D. C. Layton, Street Commissioner and approved by the Board. To Hon. Board of Public Works, Street Commissioner recommendations. Rate of teams and men F r day Garbage teams (route contract 9 hr. a day 1.6.00, Sweeper teams * 6.00 Dirt collecting teams "` " (965 5.85 Garbage helpers contract- 2.50 D in-t eam ,helpers 9 hre. ®. 25 2.25 Street sweeping -men 9hr ® $.25 2.25 Street sweeping men leaders 9hr. ® $.27 2.48 Street Repair Gang Pavers 30 to 3cents per hr. - Helpers 25 to 24 Dents per hr. Single horses. - 9 hr. day @ 1.50 . Respectfully submitted, D. C. LAYTON. The: foil®wing notice was ordered publislied for lumber for the Street DepartmaInt for the. year 1918. Wanted: Thirty Thousand feet of -white Oak Lumber. The Board of Public Works of the Cityof South Bend, will receive bids for the following bill of white' oak lumber to be delivered at such Places in the City of South Bend, as the Street Commissioner may des ignate - Three thousand feet" (3000) White Oak 2" X1O" -or 12" X 14 ft. Twelve thousand feet((12000) White Oak 2" X1O" or 12" Xl2ft. Seven, 1housgand rive hundred (7,500 White Oak -2" X 10" orl2" loft. Three'thousand (3000) feet white oak ;2" X10" X l0 ft. One thousand five hundred (1, 500) white oak 2~ X8" XIOft. Three thousand (�OOO) feet white oak 2x 4" X 4" X6-9-12ft. And is much more as may be needed for street work. Said lumber to: -.be sounds s free from rot, wain* and unsound knots. Sealed bids will be received up to 10:90 A. k. on the 12th. day_, of March 1918. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. GILBERT A. ELLIOTT Attested:- HARVEY F. .ROSTISHR, JOHN F. DEHAVEN Veronica C. ftspRe, y Publications:- February 23rd.1918 and March 2nd.,1918 and March 9th.,1.918 in the Soub Bend Daily Tribune. A. 10,4 The following imrovemsnt resolution _adopted by the Board. STREET OR ALLEY IMPRbvE NT RESOLUTION NO.i 565' Be It Resolved by the Board of Pub 1 ie Works- of the City of South Bend, St. Joseph County,, State of Indiana, That it is desired and deemed necessary to improve Blaine Avenue from La Porte Avenue to Lincoln Way West as follows, to -wit: - Said avenue shall be' graded , and the roadway thereof shall be paved; ,and also -the roadway of certain portions of Ulm streets and alloys which enter or intersect said avenue shall be graded and paved.. The` paving material to be used in making ;said im- provement shall be sheet asphalts bitillithic, asphaltic concrete or brick, and the founda- tion shall be portland cement concrete fiver (5) inches thick for the sheet asphalti, bitulithid; as-Daltic. concrete and brick or rolled gravel six (6) inches thick for the brick; also cement curb shall be constructed along said street where same is not already con- structed; storm water inlets and conduits shall be shall be constructed where necessary; all manhole covers and inlets V shall be set to the proper grade and cement ,marginal curb shall be constructed at all streets and alleys where necessary; all as is more particularly shown, and all in accordance with the profiles, plane, detaildrawings ;and specifications on file in the office of the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend, Indiana. The cost' of the improvement herein provided for, .excFopt street and alloy intersections , shall be paid by. special assessment to be levied upon the property specially benef itted, to the amount at the same may be legally assessed, therefor, in sec ordancs with an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Ind iana, entitled, " An Act Concerning Municipal Corporations," approved lurch 6,1905, and in accordance with and pursuant to the provisions of all acts amendatory and supplmsntal thereto. The cost° of all street and allay interssct'ions, '-including one-half off the width of the improvoment opposite street and alleys which run int®,.but do not cross s ;id roadway hers in t-proposed to be improved and that, portion -of such street or alloy abutting u on property beloning to said City, or upon property not subject to such: assessment, shall be paid by `the City in cash sift of its general fund, bf able to do so, or froma fund cr'a ated by a special assessment to be levied under the provisions of Sect ibn 108 8f the above entitled Act. Assessments of ton dollars anti mors- against each lot if deferred are to be paid in ten equal arinaal installments, with interest at the rate of'Six per con per annum. A bond or bonds will be issued to the contractor -to the amount of such deferred assessments in pro rat& payment for such improvement. U4de-n -no--c ircumstances shall the City of South Bend be, or be ,held responsible for any sum or sums_ due from said property owner or owners for said work, or for the collection of the same, or for the payment of any bond, bondep certificate or certi- f icates, issued to said contractor in payment for such work, except for suhh moneys as shall have actually been received by the City from the assessments for such improvements or such moneys -as said City is by said entitled Act and amendments and supplements thereto re- quired to pay. Aill proceedings had, and work done in the making df said improvement, assessment of property, collection of assessments and issuance of bonds therefor, shall be as provided for in said above entitled Act, and Acts aamendatory thereof and supplemental thereto. BE -= FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Board of Pub 1 is Works fix the..-13th. day `of March A.D. 1918 at thw hour of 1: 15 P.N. at the . off ice . of ,the Board of Public Works of this City, as the time and place for the public consideration of said proposed improve" went, at which said Board of Public; Works, will hear all persons interested, or whose property is liable to -be assessed for said improvement, and will decide whether the bene- fits to the property liable to be assessed for said improvement will equal the estimated cost thereof. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That notice of the time and place of such public consideration be published and mailed in manner provided by law. Notice of this. resolution shall be published on the 21st.9 day of February 1918 and on the 28th. day of February 1918 in the South Bend Daily Tribune. Adopted this 19th, day of February 1918. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. Attested: - Veronica C. Sweeney, Clerk of the Board. GILBERT A. ELLIOTT HARVEY F. ROSTISER DOHN F. DEHAVEN t Report received, r�ad and placed on"file from the Travelers Indemnity Company in regard to boilers ifi the City 011. Same read and placed on file . Renewal notice of bond of W. W. Sibley far excavating lin City Streets for, the year 1918 was received from Union Trust' ',Company agents for the United Stdteae Fidelity & Guaranty Compa ny of. Baltimore, .Md. read and placed on file. v Mr. C. A. Perkins Commissioner of 'Buildings, appeared before the Board -in regard to transportation for the Building -De rtment for the year 1918. It was -resolved by the Board that the men, riding bicycles in the building department would be allowed $15.00 a year for the repairs and maintenance of each bicycle, also the Commie$ ionerof Buildings was allowed $180. 00 per year for the mantainance of his sutombiie. The following claims were presented to the Board. W. R. Baker 133 $6.00 National Heating Company 134 36.00 National Heat ing Co. , 135 7.95 So Bend Spring Wagon & oarr iage C a.136 25 _ Bert E. Klyst 137 9.70 Underwood Typewriter Co., 138 92.25 Kale & Bryan Co., 139 21.25 Northern Ind. Gas & Elea Co. 140 3.23 Sotth, Bend S. W.-.& Carriage Cc 141 .2fl F, 8. Kline' u 142 1.q6 Jacobson -Peterson Peltz & Kaufar.143 7.00 Roc. Central Union Tel Co., 144 27.26 Ind. & Bich. Elea. Co., 145 4,621.76, Taggart Transfer & Freight Co.146 1.25 The.Herr & Herr Co., 147 32.60 Cemetery Dept., 148 46.00 R. V. Maurer 149 P.' C. Reimold & Co„ 154 S $4,921.99 All of the above claims were approved by the Board. The following bids we#*_ -received for chairs in the Safety office. Bid of J. P. McGill. 624@ ............................... 50.00 each. #624*@................................034.65 each #616j� @...............................*47.50 each ° - Descr ipt isn of chair ®n bid. Bid of The Typewriter Shop. Three No. 345 Quartered Oak twivel chairs for ................... 0... ....490.Co The above bidb referred to the Safety Board for their selection ofehair.