11/05/1918 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Board met in, regular- sess ion at 110: 00' A.M.. A11 members present.. It was resolved by unanimous consent of the Board that the salary - of William N. N ies Clerk of the Building Department be raised from $70.00 per month to$801100 per month- s tart ing from November ist . ,1918. By unanimous consent Goo. Hoffman was granted extension of time on Grading contract on Miami Street until January 1st. ,1919. Petition f or sewer on East Mad is on Street fro* Eddy Street to East end of Mad is on Street was f iled with the Board, - Sa idpet it ion was referred to the City Civil Engineer an est imate' to be f iled in February 1919. 00..• ,-Clerk instructed. to notify Street Commissioner D. C. Layton to be present at next Board meeting Tuesday November 8th. ,1918 at 10: 00 ' A.M, as the matter of putting gravel on Indiana Avenue to the O.Brien Factory is to be discussed. vemWM Board ordered that the Street Commissioner be notified to repair City Hall Court between Main Street and Michigan Street. Bodd of William A. Henry- Substitute City Electrician signed by the New Amsterdam Casaulty Company was received and.- referred to the City Controller f or approval. Communication received read and placed on file from the South Bend Deve lopement Company in Harter Heights in' regard to lights at the c onners of St. Joseph Street and Pokogan Street. Monthly report_ of the Building Department .read and placed on file. Monthly f inane ial report of the City Cemetery read and placed on f 11e . Permission granted the Indiana & Michigan Electric Company to set one guy anchor on the south east corner of Colfax Avenue and Francis Street temporary as there is no poles .or guys allowed by Ordiliance on Colfax Avenue. The following c ommunicat ion received read and placed on file. from the Welsbaeh Street Lighting Company of America. We have yours of the mod. requesting the relocation of a gas post at the S. E. corner of .Mishawaka Avenue and Greenlawn Avenue owing �i tits being in the way of freight cars being switched at that corner. We have written to the Gas Company to --day requesting them to move it as soon as possible . Yours very L truly, F. C. STILES, District Manage . The following bond and contract signed and approved. AGREEIAENT BETWEEN the Board of Publ ie ' Works of the City of South Bend, Indiana and Wm. H. Burke of the City of South Bend, Indiana for the covering and the remodeling of the -heating system -,in -the Severn departments, to furnish all material and perform all labor in accordano.e with the plans and specifications herewith attached; for the sum of ..........S 885.00 All work to be completed by December lat.,,19189 contingent upon c and it ions beyond our control. Payment of same to be in 191 : and to be paid at the discretion, of the Board.