11/19/73 Board of Public Works Minutes

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m NOVEMBER 19, 1973 REGULAR MEETING NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend: SECTION 1. The real estate in the Exhibit attached hereto and made a part hereof is needed and can be used by the City of South Bend for its future development in the reasonably near future. SECTION 2, it is now hereby declared and established that it is the policy of the City of South Bend to furnish to said territory within a period of three (3) years governmental and proprietary services substantially equivalent in standard and scope to the governmental and proprietary services furnished by the City to other areas of the City which have characteristics of topography, patterns of land utilization and population density similar to said territory, and that such services, among others, shall include street maintenance, traffic control, street lighting, sanitation service and sewer service. - SECTION 3. The Board of Public Works now establishes the following timetable for the furnishing of such services: A. Street Maintenance - maintenance -of streets and -roads within the territory to be annexed could be begun by the City within 30 days after the effective date of the annexation by the use of present equipment owned and operated by the City. B. Traffic Control - traffic studies would be commenced within 60 days of the effective date of the annexation and signage and controls would be erected as needed within 18 months of the effective date of the annexation. C. Street Lighting - survey of necessary street lighting within the area would be made within 90 days after the effective date of the annexation and contracts for the erection of street lighting as needed to furnish an equivalent lighting to that of the other areas of the City with similar characteristics of topography, land utilization and population density would be contracted for within 6 months of the effective date of the annexation and such lighting could be completed dependent upon the supplies and equipment of the Indiana and Michigan Electric Co. within 9 to 12 months thereafter. D. Sanitation Service - this service can be available immediately upon the effective date of the annexation at the request of any residents within the area who wish to avail themselves of this -service. E. Sewer Service._- construction of trunk sewers could be commenced within 1 year of the effective date of the annexation and all trunk sewers would be completed within the 3 years of the effective date. Local sewers can be installed to connect to these trunk sewers as requested by the residents of the territory as soon as the trunk sewer is available to receive the sewage. SECTION 4. The Board of Public Works now establishes and adopts the following fiscal plan for the furnishing of such services: A. Street Maintenance and Traffic Control - The Bureau of Streets and Bureau of Traffic will assume the maintenance of all existing streets in the territory to be annexed. Maintenance of 97 miles of streets at $1050 per mile would be an annual cost of $101,850. Annual revenues received by the City from refund of State collected motor vehicle gas taxes at $8.85 per capita would produce $66,428 per annum from the . territory to be annexed. The balance of the cost of street maintenance for the initial year will be paid from appropriations from federal revenue sharing funds. Thereafter street maintenance within the territory to be annexed will become a part of the annual budget of the City of South Bend for its general street maintenance program to be financed from the same sources as that budget is presently funded. LJ Fil