08/24/70 Board of Public Works Minutes

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8/24/70 ASSESSMENT ROLL FILED - IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 3297 - HAWTHORNE DRIVE Clyde E. Williams and Associates, Inc.,consulting engineers, having certified that Parkway Asphalt, Inc., has completed the paving of Hawthorne Drive from McKinley Street to Colfax Avenue. And the City Engineer having filed an assessment roll with the names of the owners and a description of the property subject to be assessed with the amount of the prima facie assessment. The Board, upon motion made, seconded and carried, adopts a resolution accept- ing said assessment roll and sets 9:30 A.M., on September 14, 1970, in Room 1308 County City Building, as the time and place for receiving remonstrances against the amounts assessed on said roll and will determine whether such lots or tracts of land have been or will be benefited by said improvement to the amounts named. And the Clerk is directed to give notice of such hearing by publication in the South Bend Tribune and the Tri County News on August 28 and September 4, 1970. IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 3321 - BEALE STREET SEWER For the improvement of Beale Street, from Cushing Street to Riverside, by the construction of a local sewer. An objection, signed by 10 persons, to the installation of a sewer on Beale Street was filed with the Board. In reference to the installation of sewers, the City Attorney advised Burns Statutes, Section 48-3950, provides, in part: "After the hearing, if the Board decides that the special benefits accruing to the abutting property are equal to the estimated cost of the improvement, the finding shall be entered of record, and shall be final and conclusive on all parties,' but if it is decided by the Board after the hearing that the special benefits will not equal the estimated cost, then the Board shall proceed no further with the improvement under the resolution or any resolution for the period of one year therefrom, unless it should decide that the city or town Is benefited in an amount sufficient to cover the dis- crepancy between the special benefits to the abutting property and the estimated cost in which case it may proceed with the improvement." The motion was made seconded and carried to continue the matter until September 8, 1970. Upon motion further made, seconded and carried, the City Controller was directed to proceed with obtaining estimates -from a real estate appraiser as to the potential increase in property values as the result of installing a sanitary sewer on Beale Street as opposed to a septic system. PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS ADOPTED IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 3284 - VINE STREET, 32ND STREET TO 34TH STREET IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 3285 - VINE STREET, 34TH STREET TO 35TH STREET IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 3286 - VINE STREET, 35TH STREET TO 36TH STREET Upon motion made, seconded and carried, plans, specifications and estimates for the improvement of Vine Street, from 32nd Street to 36th Street, by constructing a Class C pavement were approved and adopted by the Board and ordered placed on file. September 14, 1970, at 9:30 A.M., in Room 1308;tounty City Building, was fixed as the time and place for receiving bids for said improvement, and the Clerk is directed To give notice by publication in the South Bend Tribune and the Tri County News on August 28 and September 4, 1970. 1 1 1