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Office of the Board of Works
City of Richmond, Indiana,
. -Friday September . 25, 1936.
The Board of Public Works and Safety of the City
of Richmond , Indiana, met in the office of the said
Board, Friday September 25, 1936, at '0 :00 o ' clock -
A.M. Messrs . Simeon Hodgin and William Kelley, Jr.
being present the following proceedings were had ,
to-wit :
The Mayor was absent from the meeting account of
being prsent at the meeting of the "Jayne County Tax -
Adjustment Board .
The minutes of the rreceeding meeting were approved .
as read in. Council.
Jessie Parschall of the Lions Club was granted permission
to place a sign for the Lions Club at the east and
west corporation limits , such signs to be placed as
instructed by the Building Inspector.
City Purchasing Agent Steven was instructed to
get new bids for weather stripping such windows in
the City Building as require such stripping.
Communication from D. O. Beach regarding an arc
at 'Rest Seventeeth Street was tabled as arrangements
had already been made for this installation
Fire Chief Harry Williams stated that if water mains
were to placed at South 6th and P Street, he recommened
a fire hydrant be installed here, and one north of
North 19th and J Streets in case mains were installed
in this section. The Fire Chief also asked : permission
of the Board to purchase 3 new tires for the fire trucks
the Board instructed the Chief to have City Purchasing
Agent Stevens secure these for him.
The Chief also stated that now that the depression
seemed to be over that he thought that the city should
have a new smoke ordinance, as the present ordinance
did not cover conditions and thought that the Building
Inspector should get copies of ordinances from other
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Cities and have an ordinance drffted to cover the local
situation also that it should be the duty of the Building
Inspector and not the Fire Chief to enforce the same.
Councilman Brehm brought up the subject of paying
some one to take care of the ball park, since WPA
would no longer care for the same, and suggested that
the man who had been doing this work under Pei'. be
allowed to continue and be paid frog., the cities share
of the receipts of the game. The Cerk was authorized to
rewrite the present contract so that this might be done.
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Councilman Brehm also • stated that the bus lines
could : secure the Bass property on South 5th Street
as a bus t`ermina.l and that he was making an effort
to get all :interested parties together so that
some action could be takeb as to getting the busses .
off the street.
Claims to the amount of :$ /a) bc9 .,22 were allowed
after which the Board adjourned.
,,ha.a. man
Attest :
City Clerk.