03/29/71 Board of Public Works Minutes-

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33 , 3/29/71 305 Wenger Street.. Mr. Ltszewski reports this property open and nothing done to bring it up to standard. The Sub -Standards Director was directed to notify the owner to appear before the Board April 5, 1971, to show cause why the structure at 305 Wenger Street should not be demolished. Request for owners of sub -standard properties to appear before the Board 4/12/71. Upon motion made, seconded and carried, the Board approved the request of the Sub -Standards Director for owners of sub -standard properties to appear before the Board April 12, 1971, as follows: 736 N. Frances Street Wallace J. and Bessie Mitchell 616 Kizer Court Thomas and Jessie Pulliam HEARING ON ASSESSMENT ROLL - IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 3321 - BEALE STREET SEWER Having been continued from March 22, 1971, hearing was resumed on the assess- ment roll in Improvement Resolution No. 3321 for the improvement of Beale Street, from Cushing Street to Riverside Drive, by constructing a local sewer. Mrs. James A. Alwine, 730 Beale Street, South Bend, Indiana, and Mrs. Robert M. Aldridge, 637 Beale Street, South Bend, Indiana, attended the meeting. Mr. Taylor, President of the Board, stated that "So far as additional evidence to be submitted today, we obtained from the Joy Septic Tank Company an estimated cost for the.installation of a septic tank based on a three bedroom home. They estimated from $680.00 to $830.00. We also have the journal of the Sanitary Engineering Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers who made a comparison of depreciation between a sewer system and a septic system. They depreciated the sewer and added to that maintenance costs of the sewer and came up with a cost of $200.00 per year. On a septic system they came up with a figure of $290.00 per year as the annual cost. I have discussed this particular problem with developers and developers every day are installing sanitary sewers to their new development lots. Seven cents per square foot is considered to be an equitable cost." Mr. Taylor further cited city ordinances which require connection to a municipal sewer system when available. No remonstrators appeared before the Board and no further written remonstrances were received. The motion was made by Mr. Bickel, seconded and carried by a vote of two to one, that the assessment roll in Improvement Resolution No. 3321 be approved as adopted March 1, 1971. Mr. Crumpacker voted against the motion. HEARING ON ASSESSMENT ROLL - VACATION RESOLUTION NO. 3334 - JOHN C. PERRY This being the date set, hearing was held on the assessment roll in Vacation Resolution No. 3334, for the vacation of: The east -west alley between Dubail Avenue and Calvert Street from the east right of way line of Grant Street to the west right of way line of the north -south alley between Dubai] Avenue and Calvert Street, and from the east right of way line of the said north -south alley to the west right of way line of Brookfield Street, situated in Whiteman's First Addition. The Clerk tendered proofs of publication in the South Bend Tribune .and the Tri County News on March 5, March 12 and March 19, 1971, which were read and found to be proper. No remonstrators having appeared and no written re- monstrances having been received, it was moved, seconded and unanimously carried that the assessment roll in Vacation Resolution No. 3334 be approved as presented and said vacation proceedings in all things ratified and confirmed and the property vacated.