07/20/1953 Board of Public Works Minutes

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NOTICE OF HEARING SPECIAL BENEFITS ON STREET In PROVEP0ENT. I �I SOUTH BEND, INDIANA. Notice is hereby given, that the following Street Improvement has been completed and the general character of the Improvement, the street on which it has been made, and the terminal points thereof, are as follows: NORTH ILLINOIS STREET from the south line of Washington Street to the south line of Linden Avenue, by constructing a Class 110 Type 1, Cement Concrete Pavement. There is on file in the Office of the City Controller of the City of South Bend, Indiana, an assessment roll with the names of the owners and description of property subject to be assessed with the amount of the prima facia assessment, and can be seen in the Office of said City Controller. The Board of Public Works and Safety of said City, at the Office of the Board in said City, will on the 3rd day of August 1953, at 10:00 A. NI. Central Standard Time receive and hear remonstrances against the amounts assessed against their property respectively, on said roll and will determine the question as to whether such lots, or tracts of land, have been or will be benefited by said improvement to the amounts named • on said roll, or is greater or less than that named on said roll or in any sum. At which ! place and time all owners of such real estate may attend in person or by representative and be heard. R. S. Andrysiak G. P. Ziegler I. A. Hurwich Board of Public Works 87Sa ety ;'lard H. Crothers Clerk of the Board. • VACATION RESOLUTION No. 2761 - 1953 - DENIED A remonstrance, dated July 6, 1953, bearing eighteen signatures, against the vacation of the first alley east of Hoke Street from Ewing Avenue to the south line of the alley north of Erring Avenue, was examined and upheld by the Board. Vacation was, accordingly, denied. Ratification Ordinance No.3931, passed by the Common Council, under date of June 22nd, a copy of which was supplied the Board, by City Clerk, !rayme DuMont, was examined and ordered filed. • Petition for vacation of an alley, bearing date of July 14, 1953, submitted 1,by Ben Peferman irIotor Sales Corporation, was examined and referred to the City Plan Commission for investigation and report. Mr. James P. Leddy, having notified the office of the Board, that no action had been taken on the part of the owners of dilapidated house on the premises known as Lot 230 Northwest Addition in line with notification given by the Board, the Board lreferred the matter to the Street Commissioner and directed him to arrangefor its removal at an early date. The Commissioner mentioned an offer on the part of a certain individual to perform such removal for the salvage lumber involved and the Board author- ized the Commissioner to proceed to dispose of this nuisance by the acceptance of this offer. • I� STREET DEPARTT1ENT: • Street Commissioner, H. M. Tomlinson, being present, then brought up the matter of the removal of rails and ties in that section of Bendix Drive and Westmoor Street involving the installation_ of concrete islands at the intersection of Bendix Drive and Westmoor Street. Traffic Engineer, E. H. Eiller, presented a drawing showing the site of the proposed improvements. It was the consensus of opinion that the rail and ties removal should be handled by contract, and the Clerk was directed to proceed with the legal advertising to secure bids. The paving, both asphaltic and concrete,involved and required to complete this improvement was ordered by the Board to be laid by the Street Department and paid for through funds available for such purpose in appropriations under the jurisdiction of the Street and Traffic Departments, the cost of the island construction having been assumed by the Bendix Aviation Corporation. A letter from the American_ Air Filter Companyts local representative, describing in detail the operation of the dust -arrester equipment to be supplied through the proposal of J. C. Lauber & Company to provide an efficient and adequate device to abate dust nuisance no, prevailing in the operation of the Cityts asphalt plant, was read and ordered placed on file. A petition, bearing the date of TYarch 18, 1953, and six signatures of interested property -owners, for the improvement of Fremont Street, from Linden Avenue to Orange Street, by the construction of concrete pavement, was referred to the City Engineer for investigation and report.