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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSM 05-22-73SOUTH BEND REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION SPECIAL MEETING May 22, 1973 10:0 A. M. 1200 County -City Bldg. Presiding Officer: Mr. Fred J. Helmen, 227 West Jefferson Blvd. President South Bend, Indiana 46601 1. The South Bend Redevelopment Commission, Governing Body of the City of South Bend, Department of Redevelopment, met in a Special Meeting, in Room 1200 County -City Building, 227 West Jefferson Boulevard, in the City of South Bend, at 10:30 A.M., E.S.T., on the 22nd day of May, 1973 - -the place, hour, and date, duly estab- lished for the holding of such meeting: The President called the meeting to order and the Commissioners were all present for the roll call, as follows: Mr. Fred J. Helmen, President Mr. John E. Chenney, Vice President Rev. Willie V. Williams, Secretary Mr. B. L. Wade, Assistant.Secretary Mr. Donald A. Wiggins, Member Lega l'Counsel: Mr. Kevin J. Butler News Media: Mr. Bill Stoner, The South Bend Tribune Mr. Charles Linster, WNDU -TV Reporter Mr. Richard A. Maginot, WSBT -TV Reporter Mr. Ray Roth, WSBT -TV Photographer Mr. Dean Alexander, WSJV -TV Reporter Mr. Les Howard, WSJV -TV Photographer Others Present:Mr. C. D. Colip, Colip Bros. Electric, Inc. Mr. Gerald A. Hickey, Hickey Construction Co. Mrs.Christyne M. Woolridge, Hickey Constriction Co. Mr. John Schumacher, Schumacher & Sons, Inc. Mr. Peter Schumacher, Schumacher & Sons, Inc. Mr. Charles E. Stafford, C. E. Stafford Construction Co. Mr. Thomas A. Oesterling, Clyde E. Williams & Associates Mrs. Janet S. Allen, Interested Citizen Mr. Edward Berger, Boston University Mr. Karl King, Gen. Chairman, Downtown S.B. Council Mr. John A. Walsh, First Bank & Trust Company LPA Staff: Mr. Charles F. Lennon, Jr. Mr. Bruce Milne Mrs. Helen S. King Mr. Bill J. Parrish' Mr. L. Glenn Barbe Mr. Eldon Schlemmer Mr. C. Wayne Brownell Mr. William E. Slabaugh Mr. William C. Ellison Mr. L. Kent Wilcox Mrs. Dorothy N. Howell Mr. Cyril Welter SO TH BEND REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION SP CIAL MEETING 2. This Special Meeting was convened pursuant to a duly dated and signed Notice of Special Meeting which was mailed and telephoned to each Commissioner in due time, form, and manner as required by law. The Special Meeting was also announced in the prior Commission Meeting of May 18, 1973. Said Notice read as follows: NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE SOUTH BEND REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION, GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, DEPARTMENT OF REDEVELOPMENT Notice is hereby given that a Special Meeting of the South Bend Redevelopment Commission, Governing Body of the City of South Bend, Department of Redevelopment, will be held in Room 1200, County -City Building, 227 West Jefferson, in the City of South Bend, in the regular meeting place thereof, at 10:30 A.M., on the 22nd day of May, 1973, for the purpose of acting upon items as listed in the agenda and such other items as may pro- perly come before the meeting in accordance with provisions of the By -Laws. Dated this 18th day of May, 1973. /s/ Fred J. Helmen Fred J. He men, President Redevelopment Commission (SEAL) CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I, B. L. Wade, Assistant Secretary of the City of South Bend Redevelopment Commission, Governing Body of the City of South Bend, Department of Redevelopment, hereby certify that on the 18th day of May, 1973, I served a true copy of the foregoing Notice of Special Meeting on each and every Commissioner of the South Bend Redevelopment Commission, Governing Body of the City of South Bend, Department of Redevelopment, in the following manner: In Regular Commis- sion Meeting of May 18, 1973, mail and by telephone. Witness my hand this 18th day of May, 1973. /s/ B. L. Wade B. L. Wade, Assistant Secretary Redevelopment Commission (SEAL) - 2 - Mr. Helmen: 3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES On motion by Rev. Williams, seconded by Mr. Chenney MINUTES APPROVED and unanimously carried, the Minutes of Regular Meeting of May 18, 1973 were approved. 4. NEW BUSINESS a. Contracts for Phase III, Pedestrian_ Way, R -66 Project: PEDESTRIAN MALL CONTRACT NO. 5, R -66, (Ad ertising and bidders to be shown): AWARDED TO: Mr. Helmen: Matter of new business for which the meeting HICKEY CONSTRUCTION was called, and in fact the only business this CO., INC., AS morning, has to do with the award of the contract STIPULATED for the Pedestrian Way. As you men all well know, we spent a lot of time last Friday, and again today, studying the bids and I would ask the Com- mission, at this point, whether someone will make the award? Mr. Wiggins: Mr. Chairman, I move that the contract for the Pedestrian Mall, Contract No. 5, be awarded to the lowest bidder, Hickey Construction Co., Inc., subject to the Department of Housing and Urban Development approval, our Legal Counsel approval, and if approved, by the Department of Redevelop - ment, work schedule between the General Contractor and all Subcontractors, and Contract No. 2, and an acceptable negotiation with the Hastings Com- pany complex as it relates to all the brick work, and acceptance of the Jefferson Street Alternate, and the final approval of our consulting engineer. Revd Williams: Mr. President, I support the motion. Mr. Helmen: You have heard Mr. Wiggins.' motion and seconded by Rev. Williams. I will poll the individual members : Mr. Wiggins: Aye Mr. Wade: Aye Mr. Chenney: Aye Rev. Williams: Aye and myself (President Helmen): Aye. Nays being "None ", the motion is unanimously carried. Mr. Wiggins: I further move that the contract for the Pedestrian Mall, Indiana R -66, Contract No. 2, be awarded to the low bidder, Exterior Designing, Inc., at: $206,474.00, subject to approval by the Department. of Housing and Urban Development, to Department Legal Counsel approval, an approved work schedule 3- PEDESTRIAN MALL CONTRACT NO. 2, R-66, AWARDED TO: EXTERIOR DESIGNING INC., AS STIPULATE; 4. NEW BUSINESS (Cont'd) between the contractor and all subcontractors and Contract No. 5, acceptance of the Jefferson Street Alternate, and final approval by our consulting engineer. Rev. Williams: I second the motion. Mr. Helmen: Again I will poll the individual members: Mr. Wiggins: Aye Mr. Wade: Aye Mr. Chenney: Aye Rev. Williams: Aye and myself (President Helmen): Aye. Mr. Helmen: All the Commissioners unanimously voted for the motion. Nays -- None -- Motion carried. The winner of the contract is here, and I under - - stand that at a later date they will meet with the Commission. Mr. Hickey, you have anything to say at this point? Mr. Hickey: At this time, I don't feel I have anything to say. I will wait until we meet with the engineers and the Redevelopment Department in. developing the work schedule and I am withholding comments at this time. I want to thank the Board at this time and want to carry out as expeditiously as possible and with as little inconvenience to the Downtown merchants as we possibly can. Mrs Allen: What's the amount of the contracts? Mr. Lennon: $2,815,348.00 on the General Contract; on the Landscape Contract: $206,474.00. That brings it to the total of: $3,021,822.00. Mr. Wiggins: There are some alternates in here, subject to negotiations that is vital. Mrs. Allen: Eliminate some of the wells. Paraplegics will have to go down and bridges you climb up to sit, committed now. Total wrong as you have it. I finally managed to find the blueprints for the Mall. You have little wells - -you go down five steps to go down and sit. I don't know how many fountains there are. Two bridges where you climb up four or five steps. I can see no necessity for those things and certainly not when you are consider- ing curbs for Paraplegics -4 4. NEW BUSINESS (Cont'd Pres. Helmen: We have taken care of the handicapped on the curbs. Mrs. Allen: I wonder if there is a possibility to eliminate some of those too. Pres. Helmen: We will study and consider. Mrs. Allen: What was the engineer's estimate? Mr. Lennon: The total Mall, orreduction of four blocks? Mrs. Allen: The Mall -- ? Mr. Lennon: Yes. This has been public information just as in- formation was in the two,blocks on Michigan Street and two on Washington Street. We have eliminated it at this time until Associates comes in to see what they will do. Mrs. Allen: Four blocks not included? Mr. Lennon: That is correct. The engineering estimate was ap- proximately $230,000 for basic things. When you add the many alternate things, total $3.5 Million Dollars estimated over a year ago. Mrs. Allen: What is the total Mall without the elimination? Mr. Lennon: Would be up to the Commission. Your question -- under our and the Engineers' estimate. Mrs Allen: Engineers' estimate over the remaining properties- - to be remaining - -would be difficult to see Mr. Lennon: Would be difficult to come in with 3 -1/2 Million,. including Associates. There is interest accruing with $3.8 -- gaining approxi- mately $800,000- -that is pertinent. If you add in- terest to the total cost of the bond. -- every day incurring interest -- can be used to pay for the additional . cost on the four blocks. Mrs Allen: You started out with entire Mall with 3 -1/2 Million. You added another million and made it 3 -1/2 Million for the entire Mall. You eliminate four blocks - -I don't care how much money you allocate for interest!! Mr. Wiggins: We have taken action to move forward and have dealt in as realistic a fashion as we could. I take it you are opposed to the Mall, and you have every right to your opinion. Mrs Allen: I am not opposed to the Mall!! We are duplicating -5- At this point Mrs. Allen was talking the same time Mr. Wade was. 4. ANEW BUSINESS (Cont'd) what Michigan City has -- places for people to sit, at Michigan City, you can't walk the street, right in Downtown Mall, fountains and boulders. We manage .to come up with this same thing - -we have boulders- - and the cost of the upkeep of the Mall, at $180,000 on the Park Department budget to take care of it. Who are you going to have on this yearly landscape. The cost for this is to be considered!! Mr. Wade: Are you implying that we don't know what we are doing? Mrs. Allen: No, but you should certainly give some consideration for this. Mr. I Mr. 5. 4ade: I am not going to sit here and let the taxpayers' money be dissipated! I am here to protect their interests!! As a taxpayer- -and a business man -- and I know a lot more about this than you do - -and I pay a lot more taxes than you do - -I am not going to let anything like this happen. I worked a lot of time on this and you're.acting like we don't know what we are doing. We have the best firm that money can buy to help. Officially, we are going to say that this is going to be worked properly, efficiently, and economically. Put your "little hatchet" away and let us go to work. We are -- we are just as interested as you are. 4iggins: We are. NEXT MEETING The next Regular Meeting of the Redevelopment Commission will NEXT MEETING, be at 10:30 A.M., Friday, June 1, 1973, in the Office of the De- JUNE 1, 1973 par. ment. 6. ADJOURNMENT On motion duly made and passed by Mr. Wiggins, the meeting adj urned at 10:48 A.M. ADJOURNMENT