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OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF WORKS
CITY OF RICHTTOND, INDIANA,
FRIDAY OCTOBER 8, 1937 .
The Board of Public Works and Safety of the City
I/ of Richmond, Indiana , met in the office of said Board ,
Friday, October 8, 1937, at 9 :00 o' clock A.M. Messrs.
Toseph M. Waltermann, Simeon Hodgin and William Kelley,
Tr. , being Present, the following proceedings were had,
to-wit :
The minutes of the preceeding meeting were approved
as read in Council.
A representative of the Greyhound Bus Lines was
before the Board, asking for a yellow curb in front of
their new bus station in order that their patrons might
drive up an load and unload . The Board granted this recuest.
City Engineer Hodgin presnted a plat for the Wickett
Addition, the same being located in Tract 31 & 32 of the
Official Map of the City of Richmond . The Board approved
this Plat.
lYr. Hess was before the Board and read some corr-
espondence from the General Electric Company in regards
to the report of their traffic engineers, relative to
the regulation of the traffic lights, and it vas stated
in this report that the purchase of new equipment would
not correct this condition. Quite a discussion was had
on this subject, and the suggestion was made that the "
problem was one of education and that this should be done,
also that some one in the Police Department should be
assigned to study this Problem. The Mayor asked Councilman
Wagner who was present , to work with the Police Department
in Preparing an ordinance providing for a . 1. 00 fine
for overtime or double parking.
Yr. Hodgin also reported that Mr l'en7 had told him
-that our traffic survey project had been sent to Washington
and no doubt would be approved just as soon as satisfactory
supervisors could be selected.
Claims to the amount of $7 , 526. 67 were allowed
AFTER ?' ICH THE 'Board adjourned.
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Attest : / ;` Mayor
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City Clerk.