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HomeMy WebLinkAbout11-27-50 Council Meeting Minutes• ... • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •t {�y f.; st• r � •rr• • • «s�•,r.• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • � -�i • • • i • • • i • -. • .. • G -G . . • .. • • • • .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • -•. :GAY: { G G }re,�,..Z•Q •= ::i »;.r • • • • • • • • •.• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • REGULAR MEETING NOVEMBER 27TH, 1950 Be it remembered that the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana, met in regular session in the Council Chamber, Monday, November 27th, 19500 at 8 :22 P.M. with all members present except Councilman Bestle. President Erler presided. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MINUTES To the Common Council of the City of South Bend: Your Committee on the inspection and supervision of the minutes, would respectfully report that they have inspected the minutes of the previous meeting of the Council and found them correct. They therefore recommend that the same be approved. Councilman Tellson made a motion that the report be accepted. Motion carried. PETITION STATE OF INDIANA ) SS: COUNTY OF ST. JOSEPH ) PETITION TO THE COMMON COUNCIL OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA W. C. ERLER ) CLEM NIEZGODSKI ) Committee STANLEY C. KORPAL ) Councilman Niezgodski seconded the motion. The undersigned, owner of a lot herein described, respectfully petitions your honorable body to amend Ordinance 3702 "bf the Ordinances of South Bend, Indiana, as it applies to the zoning classification of Lot 111 in Linden Place, changing the zoning from "Commercial" to "A" residential. (Signed) Josephine Korpal Councilman Glass made a motion that the petition be referred to the City Plan Commission. Councilman Tellson seconded the motion. Motion carried. REPORT OF BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS & SAFETY Members of the Common Council Council Chambers, City Hall City of South Bend, Indiana November 15, 1950 Gentlemen: YThe Board of Pdblic Works and Safety has authorized the installation of street lights at the following locations: Intersection of Oakside and Dale Streets; Intersection of Bowman and Sampson Streets; Intersection of Bowman and Vernon Streets; Keasey Street at the New York Central Elevation. Mr. Qualls informed the Board that the street lights at the following locations have been installed and are now in service: • Studebaker Street.,at the second alley south of Fassnacht; Olive and Keller Streets; Kentucky and Huron Streets; Kentucky and Ford'Streets. Very truly yours, BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS & SAFETY (Signed) Freda G. Noble, Clerk (Continued) REGULAR MEETING NOVEMBER 27TH, 1950 Councilman Niezgodski made a motion that the report be accepted. Councilman Tellson secondedAhe motion. Motion carried. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE To the Common Council of the City of South Bend: Your Committee of the mole to whom was - referred "An Ordinance amending Section 5 of Ordinance No. 3743, commonly known as Fire Prevention Ordinance, adopted on April 24, 1950 ". Respectfully report that they have.examined the matter and that in their opinion this ordinance be held in the Committee of the Whole until January 8th, 1951 ". STANLEY C. KORPAL, Chairman Councilman Kemper made a motion that the report be accepted. Councilman Niezgodski seconded the motion. Motion carried. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE To the Common Council of the City of South Bend: Your Committee of the Whole to whom was referred "An Ordinance reducing certain items in the 1950 South Bend, Indiana, Municipal Civil City Budget; and appropriating from the General Fund of said City the sum of Eight Thousand.Six Hundred ($8,600.00)-Dollars; and also appropriating from the General Street and Traffic Fund of said City the sum-of Six Thousand One Hundred Ten ($6,110.00) - Dollars, all to certain other budgetary items of the 1950 budget of the Municipal Civil City of South Bend, Indiana, and declaring an extraordinary emergency.' Councilman Niezgodski made a motion that the report be accepted. Councilman Glass seconded the motion. Motion carried. ORDINANCE NO. 3789 AN ORDINANCE REDUCING CERTAIN ITEMS IN THE 1950 SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, MUNICIPAL CIVIL CITY BUDGET; AND APPROPRIATING FROM THE GENERAL FUND OF SAID CITY THE SUM OF EIGHT THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED ($8,600.00) DOLLARS; AND ALSO APPROPRIATING FROM THE GENERAL STREET AND TRAFFIC FUND OF SAID CITY THE SUM OF SIX THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED TEN ($6,110.00) DOLLARS, ALL TO CERTAIN OTHER BUDGETARY ITEMS OF THE 1950 BUDGETARY ITEMS OF THE 1950 BUDGET OF THE MUNICIPAL CIVIL CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, AND DECLARING AN EXTRAORDINARY EMERGENCY. The ordinance was given third reading and passed by a roll call vote of 7 ayes - 0 nays - 1 absent (Bestle). RESOLUTION WHEREAS; The citizens of this community have long been in need of satisfactory transportation facilities in the course of their every day lives, and WHEREAS; These same citizens have recently been`burder kith a rate increase for bus transportation in this community, and WHEREAS: The people did not object to a rate increase due to the fact that they expected adequate transportation facilities to be provided by the Northern Indiana Transit Company in return for the increase fares that were to be charged, and WHEREAS: The people of this community are now, and have been, objecting to the poor bus schedules, unclean buses, insufficient bus capacity, and the general unsatisfactory accommodations and facilities that the Northern Indiana Transit Company is, and has been, trying to pass off as a public service, and WHEREAS: These unsatisfactory bus accommodations have forced many citizens of this community to use their personal cars for transportation to and from work thus adding to an already serious traffic problem during certain hours of the day, and WHEREAS: This unsatisfactory bus service not only places limitations and problems before the people in the course of their every day lives, but these same unsatisfactory conditions give our community a black eye in the eyes of travelers to this area that have occasion to try to use this so- called public service, and WHEREAS: As citizens of this community, we would like to take pride in all civic, governmental, private and public services that are offered to our citizens and such other people that may temporarily have occasion to use them, but in view of these unsatisfactory public services that are f oced upon the people, we are sadly lacking in things to take pride in; Therefore Be It RESOLVED: The St. Joseph County Industrial Union Council - CIO go on record as requesting the Mayors of South Ben(And Mishawaka, The Association of Commerce of South Benc�And Mishawaka to investigate and take whatever steps are necessary to see that bus service in this community is improved; and Be It Finally RESOLVED: That copies of this resolution be sent to George A. Schoek, Mayor of South Bend; E..Spencer Walton, Mayor of Mishawaka; E. L. Bach, Executive Secretary of the South Bend Association of Commerce and F. H. Krueckeberg, Executive Secretary of the Mishawaka Chamber of Commerce, and Raymond R. Smith, President of the Northern Indiana Transit Company. Adopted by the St. Joseph County Industrial Union Council. (Signed) 0. A. Richardson, President St. Joseph County IUC Councilman Niezgodski made a motion that the resolution be accepted and placed on file. Councilman Tellson seconded the motion. Motion carried. REGULAR MEETING RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CERTAIN PAYMENTS TO BE MADE TO SALARIED CITY EMPLOYEES. NOVEMBER 27TH. 1950 t rg3uj no • WHEREAS, the City of South Bend, Indiana, is approaching the close of its fiscal year, and WHEREAS, the office of the City Controller will be required to make pumerous payments and close its numerous and complicated accounts; and WHEREAS, it is desirable that the work of said office be simplified when possible; now, THEREFORE, be it resolved by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana: Section 1. That all salaried officers and employees of the City shall be paid their salaries for the month of December, 1950, on the 20th day of said month. Section 2. The Controller of the City of South Bend is hereby authorized to make said salary payments upon said date. Section 3. This Resolution shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage by the Common Council and approval by the Mayor. A. Kemper Member of the Common Council Councilman', Te llson made a motion that the resolution be adopted. Councilman Muszynski seconded the motion. Motion carried. REPORT OF TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE RELATIVE TO BUS SERVICE At the last Council meeting the Transportation Committee was instructed to secure facts pertaining to the bus situation in South Bend. Due to the fact that the Transportation Committee is not a board of arbitration to settle the difficulty between the company and its employees, no meeting was called butthe following facts have been obtained by the Chairman of the Committee. This information was secured by two meetings with the employees and two meetings with the officials of the company and shows no partiality, but obtained facts. In the early summer a Board of Arbitration gave the bus drivers a contract calling for 44 hours per week with a .141 an hour increase in pay and time and a half for over time. This contract also included 15 shop employees. The contract went into effect 7/15/50 and was signed by the employees and the company on 8/22/50. Twenty -eight days later the union tried to break the contract, but the company would not permit it. The 'reason the union wanted to break this contract was to re -open negotiations for an additional raise. At the present time the pay of the regular men is 73.71 per week or 3832.92 per year. As a result of failure to break the contract the union, who is not permitted to strike because of a bill passed by the last legislature put in to effect a program of agitation, such as being discourteous, not keeping up6n schedule and passing up passengers. The purpose of this is to create public sympathy. The company on the other hand laid off 17 employees.at the garage, 2 "A" mechanics and 1 "B" mechanic and the rest of the employees were cleaners. The union claims that this act has handicapped the repairs to the busses and the cleaning of them. At the present time there are 38 "A" mechanics and 3 "B" mechanics working in the shop. The company owns 125 busses, 54 of them have been purchased since 1946 and 20 - 45 passenger busses have been purchased and wilj�be delivered by January 15th, 1951. The total cost of busses since 1946 has been $1,330,000.00. The company had advised that the elimination of tokens has not made up for loss of patronage. For the first ten months of 1949, the company carried 18,685,000 people for the same period of ten months of 1950 they carried,17473,000 riders; a loss from 1949 to 1950 of 1,212,000.00 fares. The present rate of drivers is 1.51 per hour for the first six months; 1.532 per hour for the next six months and after that 1.56 per hour with time and a half fdr ever time. The company furnishes the uniforms and pays one -half on the pension plan. Since the failure to break the contract the union has forbidden the drivers to work overtime. Most of the regular drivers work 9 -1/2 hours per day and their week is complete about Friday. The average pay of the extra men has been about $36.00. This information was obtained from a report that the union president showed me. Another reason of dissatisfaction of the employees was that the regular men made $73.71 per week and before the union forbid over time some of the extra men made in the neighborhood of $100.00 per week. An attempt was made to ease the situation until after January lst, 1951 because the down -town merchants were disturbed because of the bus situation. The union agreed to these conditions, provided that the company would re -open negotiations at that time. The company on the other hand advised that they had made a contract with their employees and expected them to keep it. One chapter of the contract, page 8, paragraph 18, reads as follows: "Adequate service for the public and courts treatment of passengers is necessary for the efficient operation of the company's system ". In the contract between the bus company and the City of South Bend signed at the time of the elimination of the token, the bus company was permitted to use their summer schedule until September 1st. I have been informed that the winter schedule has not completely been restored even at this date. This report is not intended to show any favoritism to either side but to present facts to the Council to show why the public has not received the bus service they are entitled to. Councilman Tellson made a motion that the report be accepted and placed on file. Councilman Korpal seconded the motion. Motion carried. 79 �i REGULAR MEETING NOVEMBER 27TH, 1950 Councilman Korpal made a motion that Mr. Smith, President of the bus company, submit a written report to the Council on the company's plans for better service. Councilman Muszynski seconded the motion. Motion carried. Councilman Niezgodski made an amendment to the motion that the bus company file with the clerk a schedule of route. This amendment incorporated in original motion with Mr. Korpal's consent. Motion is amended, seconded by Councilman Niezgodski. Motion carried. There being no further business, Councilman Tellson made a motion to adjourn, which motion was seconded by Councilman Korpal. Motion carried, and Council adjourned at 10 :10 P.M. ATTEST: