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HomeMy Public PortalAbout05-24-1935 124 • Office of the Board of Works City of Richmond, Indiana. Friday Hay 24, 1935 The Board of Works of the City of Richmond, Indiana, met in the offices of said Board, Friday May 24, 1935, ' at 9 :00 o ' clock A.M. Messrs . Joseph M.Walterman, Simeon Hodgin and .William Kelley, Jr. being present, the following proceedings were had to-wit :. Minutes of the preceeding. meeting were read and approved. A petition for annexation from Emmett Faucet was received and turned over to the City Engineer gor investigation, with instructions to start such • annexation proceedings. The Mayor read a report. on the tabulation of the vote on Daylight Saving Time which was as follows ; Against 4136, For 1064; Nuetral 320. • Communication was received from the receiver of the Richmond Leleand Hotel complaing of the bad condition of some sidewalk which was placed near said hotel, by the Municipal Electric Lighting and Power Company and notifying the City that said hotel would not assume any liability from this sidewalk. The Board orderedd this walk repaired by the Light Plant such work to be done to the approval of the Street Department. A communication was read from Mr.Chas .H.Hurd, in regards to the letting of subcontracts and said communication was in answer to inquiry made by the City Engineer on this question. Mr.Hurd advised the makeing of as few subcontracts as possible and also that these should all be approved by him before such approval was granted by the Board. The Mayor sated that there had been far to many complaints on the subject of Garbage Collection and the Board instructed the Clerk to notify Mr.Ridgeway that his contract called for the collection of the garbage over the entire City and that the Board was looking to him to perform this work and' have his trucks cover the entire City even though he had I/ riven permission to certian individuals to collect said garbage in certian districts . City Engineer Hodgin made a report on the . amount of oil, tarvia, ect . to be used on the streets this year and asked approval of the Board to place the necessary adds for the awarding of contracts for this material to be let on the date of June 7 , 1935. The Board. granted their approval on this request. 125 A complaint from Councilman Schnieder as to low branches over the sidewalks was received and Mr. Burkhardt, Supt . of Streets, reported that he had F.E.R.A. workers employed on this job and in the near future the trees complained of would be taken care of. In respones to the advIertisement for bids for material to be used in placing, a part of the fire alarm system, the Clerk read the following bids ; Richmond Electric Co . 9000 ft . of cable. 4n?56.90 per thousand Standards 3 - 96 .39 Pothead with compound 3 18.49 • Alternate, above less compound 17 .82 Miller Bros Hadw. Co . 9, 000 ft . cable 4)82 .30 per thousand. On ?notion the Board referred these bids to the City Pmrchasing Agent and the Fire Chief. Mr.Stevens the C.P.A. asked permission of the Board to purchase the standards from some other concern, stating that he had been purchasing these standards for around r26 .00, the Board readily granted this permission. In respone to the add for a motorcycle to be used by the Police Department , only one bid was received and this from Earl Wright which was as follows ; One 1935 Special Police, twin cylinder 74 cubic inch Harley Davidson Actor Cycle,Equipped as follows : 5 Tube Special Police Radio , Special Police Lockhand speedometer,Iiffy Stand, Crash Bar, and Cadium Rims, delivered in Richmond for ap445.71. On motion this bid was accepted. Mr. Guy DeBolt appeared before the Board -and asked permission to set up his concrete machine at the South G Street bridge said plant to be used in connection with the construction of the 11/ new sewer. The Board upon investigation found that this territory was restricted to residenbials only and therefore were unable to grant this request of Mr.DeBolt . Hr- . Pierce of the McKechnie. Pierce Co . was granted permission to make a road at the above named location so as to enable him to get his machinery down to the site of the sewer. Market Master Earl Kutter aPpeared before the Board and asked permission to make the following changes in the operation of the Municipal Market ; • 126 That the section of the Market rules pertaining to payment of money due on stall rent be changed to read, That all payments shall be made quarterly. and that the hours of operation from June 1, to November 2, inclusive be from 7 :00 A.M. to II. 00 P.M. • November 9 , to May 25 be from 7 :30 A.M. to 9 :30 . P.M. Morning Market June 4, to October 31, inclusive, 7 :00 A.M. to 11 :30 A. d. and that the charge forII transient stands shall be 25 for the morning market and 50cr for the all day market . LIe further asked permission to notify 'U-m.Egglehoff, that he should nay up his past indebness to said market within ten days or he would be refused stand space in said market. The Board granted all of the above requests of Mr•. Kutter. Mr. Kuetter further stated that the former market master had an office in the market house, but that he saw no use for said office and had discontinued the use of same and it was now possible to place another stand in said market in the space formerly occupied by said office and he asked permission of the Board to have such a. stand built .- The Board granted this permission. Upon on the recommendation of Fire Chief harry Williams , water mains were ordered installed on South j Street from 9th to 13th Streets also 2 fire hydrants . Fire Chief lllliams also asked for the installation of another fire hydrant at the corner of North 18th and .E, Street, which was granted. The Chief also stated that he desired to purchase 500 feet, more or less of 2ti inch fire hose and acting on the advise of Mr.Coble of the State Board of Accounts, it was decided that the Clerk should notify the different companies by mail of the intention to purchase said hose and affect a saving in the • advertising of same, s .id letting of contract to be on the date of June/ , 1935. The recommendation of the Police DePartment was read and after a discussion it was decided to have Mr. Andre of the State Radio System, visit Richmond and cooperate with Mr. Weller and that they make ' their recommendations to the Board, but .the Board - took the stand that regardless of what might be• done in the future as to the radio station, it should be the policy of the Board to see that the present station was mantained in rood condition until-" such time as the future policy was decided. 127 . Mr Fred Deitrich appeared before the Board in regards to the letting of a contract for the giving of Band Concerts by the American Legion Band, Hr. Deitrich stated that the money received from the giving of these concerts had always been used by the Band to defray their convention expense and that since this convention was always held in the month of August it had been the policy of the Board in the past to allow most of the contract price to be paid at this date. The Board approved the awarding of this contract , subject to the approval of the City Attorney as to the payment under the above mentioned plan. • Claims to the amount of $766.81. There being no further business to come before the Board, it adjourned. President of the Board. Attest : 2� a 0ca. City Clerk.