09/15/1952 Board of Public Works Minutes

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496 and Associates was examined by the Board and award of contract made to Rieth-Riley Construction Company accordingly. IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTIONS CONFIRMED RESOLUTION NOS. 2732, 2733, 2734 & 2735 For the improvement of SWYGART STREET under Improvement Resolution No. 2732, 1952 adopted August 25, 1952, from the north line of Donald Street to the south line of • Prairie Avenue by constructing a Class C Pavement AND For the improvement of ALLEY BETWEEN IRONWOOD DRIVE AND TWENTY-THIRD STREET under Improvement Resolution No. 2733, adopted August 25th, 1952 from the north line of Mishawaka Avenue to the south line of Wall Street by constructing a Class C Pavement AND i For the improvement of FELLOWS STREET under Improvement Resolution No. 2734, 1952" adopted by the Board August 25, 1952, from the center line of Donmoyer Avenue to 1060 feet south of the center line of Donmoyer Avenue by constructing a local sewer AND For the improvement of CHALFANT STREET under Improvement Resolution No. 2735, 1952 adopted August 25, 1952 from the east line of Arthur Street to the east line of Walsh Street by constructing a Class C Pavement. After hearing all persons interested who appeared and being fully advised on�the premises and the Clerk of the Board having shown proofs of publication of notices to property owners and same having been found sufficient, the Board decides that the benefits to the property liable to be assessed for said improvements are equal to the estimated cost of the same as reported by the City Civil Engineer, therefore BE IT RESOLVED, by the Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of South Bend Indiana, that the above Improvement Resolutions duly passed by this Board on August 25th� 1952, for the above improvements, be and the same are hereby in all things confirmed i and the improvements are hereby ordered to be made. • R. S. Andrysiak G. P. Ziegler I. A. Hurwich W. H. Crothers Board of Public Works & Safety Clerk of the Board PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS ADOPTED Plans and Specifications for the above improvements were adopted and ordered placed on file. September 29, 1952, at the hour of 11:00 A. M. CST is hereby fixed as the time, and the office of the Board of Public Works and Safety in the City Hall of • this City, as the place, when and where the Board of Public Works and Safety will open and consider bids for the above named improvements, provided all bids for the construction of said work shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of this Board before 11:00 A.M. CST of said day. Each bidder for said work shall enclose with his bid a certified check, payable to the Treasurer of this City in the sum of two and one-half percent of the amour of his bid, or a bid bond for two and one-half percent of the amount of his bid, to insure the execution of this contract, if said work is awarded to him:. The Clerk of this Board is hereby ordered to give notiase by two weekly publications of the time and place,when and where bids will'be received, opened and considered for the construction of said work. Said Clerk shall state in said notices, that each bidder shall enclose with his bid a certified check or bid bond for above name amount, to • insure.the execution of this contract. Drawings of plans and specifications for the re-surfaee pavement of MIAMI STREET from the south line of Ewing Avenue to the south line of Ridgedale Road and WEST SAMPLE STREET from the east line of Walnut Street to the west line of Kosciuszko Street, were examined and approved by the Board, and the Clerk was directed to advertise for sealed bids for the construction of same. This being the date and approaching hour for the arrival in South Bend of General and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Mayor having authorized the closing of the various offices in the City Hall for the occasion, no further business was taken up and the meeting adjourned at 11:00 A. M. �i J Attest: Clerk i� •