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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.
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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.
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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
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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 ;
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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.
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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.