12/18/72 Board of Public Works Minutes

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12/18/72 REQUEST TO ADVERTISE FOR BIDS FOR CITY VEHICLES Upon motion made, seconded and carried, the Clerk was instructed to advertise for bids for vehicles for the City with bids -to be returned on January 2, 1973. APPROVAL OF PLANS FOR SANITARY SEWERS FOR KENSINGTON FARMS SUB DIVISION Upon motion made, seconded and carried, the Board approved -the plans, and specifications for the Sanitary Sewers for Kensington Farms Sub Division. APPROVAL OFINVOICE.'FO:R SOLLITT CONSTRUCTION COMPANY Upon motion made, seconded and carried, the Board approved a payment of $411,684.86 to the Sollitt Construction Company, Inc. for work on the Waste Water Treatment Plant Additions. RESOLUTION NO. 15 - 12/18/72 WHEREAS: on April 24, 1969, the Indiana Stream Pollution Control Board required that the City of South Bend control pollu- tion from combined sewers by July, 1977, and WHEREAS: in February, 1970, a preliminary engineering report was prepared on the separation of the combined sewers in the Clyde Cree-k area by Clyde E. Williams and Associates, Inc., and WHEREAS:• this report set forth the feasibility of separating the combined sewer system in this area, and WHEREAS: this report also set forth a series of storm water retention basins to alleviate flooding problems in this area, and WHEREAS: a Cumulative Sewer Sinking and Building Fund has been estab- lished by the South Bend Common Council for major sewer construction, and , WHEREAS: the Board of Public Works and Safety has authority under the Acts of the General Assembly of 1905, Chapter 129 as amended, to layout, design, order and contract for and execute the construction, alteration and maintenance of all public drains or sewers within such City which may be necessary to carry off the drainage of such city and to erect, maintain and operate works for the collection, treatment and disposal of such sewage, and now BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Public Works and Safety finds it neces- sary.for the public health, safety and welfare that the combined sewers be separated and retention basins be constructed in the Clyde Creek area, and that said Board hereby orders that •the necessary plans be prepared, that easements and right-of-ways be acquired by gift•, purchase or condemnation, that appropriations be sought, that bids be taken for construction, that contracts be entered into, and that said construction shall take place. s/ Charles A. Sweeney,= Jr. s/ James V. Barcome s/ William J. Richardson BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS AND SAFETY Dated this 18 day of December, 1972