06/16/75 Board of Public Works Minutes

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REGULAR MEETING JUNE 16, 1975 ADOPTION OF RESOLUTION NO. 19,V1975 - RE: SEWER ASSESSMENT FOR BURNETT INDUSTRIAL PARK A resolution in agreement with the letter dated June 4, 1975 from George F. Burnett, Inc. and which letter was approved by the Board of Public Works on June 9, 1975 was prepared by the Bureau of Design and Administration and submitted to the Board. Upon motion made, seconded and carried the following resolution was adopted: RESOLUTION N0. 19; 1975 BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA WHEREAS, the Board of Public Works has found it in the best interest of the public health and wlefare to construct a sanitary trunk sewer in an area along South Michigan Street to Johnson Road, mostly in Gilmer Park Subdivisions but including other lands, all in Centre Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana, and WHEREAS, the Board of Public Works did establish the construction authority, the location and the necessity for said sanitary trunk sewer by adopting Resolution No. 11-16-70(b), and WHEREAS, the cost of said sewer was paid for out of funds known as Cumulative Sewer Building and Sinking Fund, and not assessed against the property owners, and WHEREAS, the policy of the Board of Public Works is to charge the benefited property at a rate of seven (7) cents per square foot up to 150 feet in depth from the property line, and WHEREAS, George F. Burnett, Inc., an owner of real estate directly benefiting from this sewer and subject to Resolution No. 6-14-71 of the Board of Public Works which established a rate of seven (7) cents per square foot up to 150 feet in depth from the property line, and WHEREAS, George F. Burnett Company, Inc. has subdivided the subject real estate and desires that the assessment applicable to the total area be prorated on a gross area basis to the individual lots or parcels in the subdivision, and WHEREAS, as a consideration for granting an easement to the City of South Bend, Indiana, an existing building situated on -what is now considered Lot number 1 was excluded from any assessment, said easement being recorded in Book 75, pages 87-80 in the St. Joseph County Recorders Office, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the fee for connection to any sewer in the Burnett Industrial Park shall be according to the following schedule of fess for the lots depicted on an approved preliminary plat filed in the office of the St. Joseph County, Indiana Area Plan Commission: Lot No. 1 -0- 2 -0- 3 -0- 4 $3,502.45 5 4,578.70