The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-26

! Jnelr meeting neLO laSI uiButs 4A1is s sum is the borough's proportion ot ] the appropriation made by the gen. eral assembly for the improvement of dirt roads. The money must pc used for road improvement accord ing to the act before June 30, 1892. Nothing was said by the board as to where the Improvements that the money will aid in are contemplated Warden Frank T. Green will con- fer with the state highway depart ment officers on Wednesday in an { effort to get more details.
 Under the act the work is to be let byscontract to the lowest bidder. the state highway department awarding the contracts. It is the hope of Warden Green that the work may be done locally. He ex- pressed the opinion that the bor- ough could do the work cheaper than a contractor and in this way furnish much employment to those who are now out of work.
 Whether such an arrangement will be satisfactory to the highway department officials or not will be . determined by the conference. War den Green will report back at the board meeting on next Tuesday night.
 The board named Harry s. Rog- CTS and Peter J. Meegin, master plumbers, William Ernst and Ken meth Trowbridge journeymen plum bers and Burgess Henry Iwick, members of the borough plumbing commission with the Borough En- gineer Robert D. Beardsley.
 Mir Trowbridge replaces Timothy s of the commission but who is now residing in Middlebury. Burgess Zwick replaced William Krodel as the board member of the .commis- sion, MT Krodel not being member of this years borouh board.
 Wants Bids on Sand.
 Burgess Henry Zwick inquired as to where the borough was buying It's sand. His question brought forth a lengthy discussion as to whether the board should ask for bids for supplying the sand or purchase it outright as 1t is needed. Superin- tendent of Streets D. J. German stated that the sand was being bought from Wilson Clark. The borough also bought sand from him last year he said, and it is of the highest quality. being all washed sand. The borough is getting ex- cellent service, quality. and quantity the street superintendent added. Burgess Zwick asked if the sand was being bought on bid or outright. Superintentendent German stated that it was not being bought on contract. He said that sand IS cheaper this year. In answer to a question as to whether bids had been asked for, Supt German stated they had not as there was no sand around that answered the purpose as we'll as that which the borough is getting. He said that the .Nauga- tuck Fuel company had submitted figures for supplying sand but that he had not submitted them to the borough board as he felt that II was not the type of sand to be used in oiling. Sand is one of the prin- cipal things in good street oiling the superintendent stated being as inn portant as the oil itself. Burgess John Burke also expressed the opinion that bids for supplying sand shoulud be submitted. Burgess Will liam Noble stated that he did not agree with Burgess Zwick and Burke as in his opinion the borough could not do better in sand than where it is now being purchased Last year Burgess Noble stated the borough experienced considerable trouble with sand and many times 20 or 30 men receiving 50 cents an hour were forced to stand around idle while waiting for sand to be de- livered. He could not see where the borough would save anything even though the price might be quoted lower on a bid. if other satis- factory conditions did not exist. Bur- gess Zwick thought that the bor- ough might save some money if bids were received. Warden Green stated that he saw no reason why bids should not be submitted but though the bidders should specify the quality of material to be sup piled. If the material was not what the borough wanted 1t was not necessary to award the bid. Burgess Zwick made motion that bids be called for to supply road material to the borough. stand, stone ana gravel being included. Burgess Sheridan in remarking on the mo- ton stated that he wondered if Bur- gess Zwick felt the board members knew the proper grade of sand to he used. He said he frankly ad- mitted that he knew nothing about it. Warden Green stated that the borough engineer and street superin- tendent would be consulted for their opinions as to the proper grades or material before any bids were awarded. Burgess Zwick's motion was passed and bids will be called for.
 Wants Curbing Reset
 P. August Johnson of Grove street, former member of the borough board appeared before the meeting with a request that the borough do something in relation to resetting the curbing and fixing gut ters on Grove street. The section between Park avenue and May ave- nue he stated was in terrible shape. A car cannot drive near the curbing without getting hung up he said. He attributed the fault to the way in which the curbing was originally set, blaming the borough for allow ing the curbing to be set on soft loam and without drainage being provided. Surface water has un- dermined the curbing and 1t is now all out of line. Mr Johnson stated. The residen of the section would like to have new gutters and curb ing installed. It was referred to the street committee.
 MT Gaess of Waterbury appeared before the board in relation to . piece of property on the west side or Naugatuck, north of Bridge street, which he was forced to take over when the property went into bank ruptcy proceedings. He said that in having q title search made ne back taxes against the property. He also found he said that in his opinion the valuation placed on tho land was rather excessive, being much higher than surrounding pro- perty. Iio wished the board to take thA saaftar m and tnveatigatO