05/12/1952 Board of Public Works Minutes

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435 C� 0 • • 0 Mr. Wilbur H. Gartner of Wilbur H. Gartner & Associates, Civil Engineers, reported to the Board Profiles, Drawings, Plans, General Details, Specifications, Estimates and Preliminary Improvement"Resolution for the improvement -of VASSAR AVENUE FROM the East line of Olive Street to the West line of Elmer Street, AND NAPOLEON BOULEVARD from the East line of Harter Heights Second Addition to the West line of Notre Dame Avenue AND FELLOWS STREET from the South line of Ewing Street to the North line of Altgeld Street AND BULLA STREET from the West line of Portage Avenue to'the West line of Medora Street, South, AND sy„ ALLEY BETWEEN COLLEGE STREET AND ADAMS STREET, from the North. line of Humboldt Street to the South line of First East & West Alley North. The Board approved the reports and passed Improvement Resolutions, authorizing these public improvements, and the 4th day of June, 1952 at the hour of 6:30 P.M. CST is hereby fixed as the time, and the office of the -Board in said City as the place, when and where all persons whose property may be affected by such proposed improvement, may be heard as to the necessity for the same, and all petitions and remonstrances received and the Board will, on said day, decide whether the benefits accruing to abutting and adjacent property, and to the CityofSouth Bend, Indiana will be equal to or exceed the estimated cost of said improvement. 'he' Clerk of the Board is hereby ordered to give notice by two weekly publications, of the time and place of hearing of the following resolutions: IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTIONS NO. 2677, 2714, 2716, 2717 and 2719, adopted this 12th day of May, 1952 and to be published on May 16, and May 23, 1952. Mr. Harold Reinke appeared before the B oard and called attention to construction he will soon have under way on Western Avenue between Maple and McPherson Streets. This is to be a building for the Army and Navy Union, which Mr. Reinke states will be thirty feet back from the present property line. Mr. Reinke mentioned that permit to occupy alley while work proceeds will be needed. �A letter from H. L. Kimble, Division Superintendent, Pennsylvania Railroad, under date of I,Zay 9, 1952, pertaining to the planned deiselization of yard locomotives for their South Bend yards was read by the Board and ordered filed. Contractor's Bonds in the amount of $1,000.00 each were examined and approved by the Board for the following: Nelson & Cleland Construction Company Portage Realty Corporation Peter Schumacher & Sons, Inc. John P. Vrabel I . j An Excavation Bond in the amount of $1,000,00 for Earl C. DeVan was examined and approved by the Board. i There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned at 11:45 A. NI. ATTEST; Clerk -10 inI �_ ffZ��, � ,./