10/15/1929 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Tuesday.,_. October I5th., 1929. J421 • P for said improvement to Albert Constructi on Company at their low bid of $19,242.Io for sheet asphalt heavy traffie pavement. No petitions having been received for A`e-hange in the type of. pavement other than ' that speeifiecl in„the preliminarycrder for the pavement of Fremont Street from Lincoln Way, West t o Humboldt Street under Improvement Resolution No.2259, the Board this I5th., da-y of, October I929, hereby makes a final order for concrete .pavement heavy traff4l"e, as the type of pavement with which said street shall be improved and. awards : he contract for said improvement to'Albert. Construction Company at their low bid of ` 5 953.30 for concrete heavy traffic • y p7avem en t. he Board signed and ap proved pproved the Partial Estimate No I, submitted by City Engineer � ai..G. Wray,. for. the raodway widening and pavement o' Kline "'treet from the eouth curb line of Lincoln .day East to Ewing Avenue, in a cdordanee with the terms of the contract between the Gity and Rieth Ailey Construction Company, contractors,, under Improvement Resolution No.2254, in the amount o f $IS, 333.80i The Board approved the redistribution of assessments for certain improvements as petitioned fcr by property owners and hereby orders the Clerk to deliver same to City Uontreller's office. The. Board approved the grade submitted by City ,Engineer, H. G. Wray, for Nancy Street from Crumstown Avenue to Lincoln Way 'pest. as. shown on report filed by Engineer. This being the date set, hearings were had on the following assessment rolls: Assessment roll for the pavement of Bertrand Street from Bendix "rive to Nancy Street under Improvement Resolution N0.2282. . Assessment roll for the sewer in Nancy street from Bertrand street -to Westmoor Street under Improvement Resolution No.2284. In both of the above named assessment rolls, no remonstrators appeared and no written remonstrance was filed and the Board being fully advised in the .premises, finds that the several lots and pareels of land primarily -assessed for said improvements have been benefited in the amounts named on said rolls. The Board, therefore, decides to take final action on said assessment rolls and. declares same in all things ratified, confirmed and approved without modification, -The Board now orders said assessment rolls delivered to the Department of Finance. Uity Engineer, H. G. 4ray , filed plane, specifications and estimates and the Board adopted said plans and specifications together with a resolution for the pavement of the alley west of. Cushing _Street from a point I32 feet south of Grand View Avenue to a point I62.7I feet north of Oak street under Improvement Resolution No.23IO. In the above named improvement resolution, the Board hereby orders that on the 20th day of November I929, this Board will meet in their office at _7-I5 P. 11., to hear and receive remonstrances from all persons whose property is liable to be assessed for said improvement and will decide whether the benefits to the several lots and parcels of land liable to be assessed for said impr oveme nt will' be equal to the estimated cost of same as reported by the City Engineer. The Board further orders that notices of said hearing shall be published on the Ist. , day of November'and on the 8th., day of Novem-= ber I929, in the. South Bend News Times anri Tribune according to law. The Board signed the contract with Albert Uonstruetion Company for the pavement on Fremont street from Lincoln Way "est to Humbolt 0'treet under Improvement, Resolution No.2259 in the amount of 0.5,953.30. The Board also approved the construction bond of same for 50,% of the a ont ra et price signed by Inland Bonding Company. The Board signed the contract with Albert Construction Company for the pavement on Huey Street from Lineolnway Best to Elwood eveniAe under Improvement Resolution No. 2260 in the amount of ;19,242.I0. The Board also approved the construction bond of sam for 50% of the contract.price signed by Inland Boni ing company. The Board appr owed the f ollowing pe tit i on o f t he -Chicago, South Shor e. and South Bend Raiiioad, 'to' eons traet a-. temporary side track across Crumstown Avenue and Nancy btreet; STATE OF IND IANA COUNTY OF ST. JOSEPH BEFORE TH . BOA OV PUJ3.LIQ WUBKS of im CITE' OF SOUTH BEND TO THE HONORABLE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS OF THE CITY OF S OUT H BEND.: Comes now Chicago-. youth Shore and South Bend Railroad, a corporation existing under and by virtue- of the. laws of the State of Indiana', and respectfully represents and says That it maintains and has mi intainid for a number of years last past a side track running from its main line of railroad to a gravel pit owned and operated by George Ji. Hoffman; That said side track crosses Crumstown Road at a point west -of the intersection of said Crumstown Road with Lincoln Way West in the City of mouth Berg • That said Crtimstown road is being improved im by pavement arid that `to accomodate the ' City of South Bend in the construction of said improvement it is necessary temporarily to remove said side track from its present location as it crosses said Crumstaowa Road,,