12/11/1939 Board of Public Works Minutes

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MEETING -- DECIZIBER 11, 1939 0 - 10000 lumen incandescent lamp 69 - 6000 lumen incandescent lamps 663 - 4000 lien incandescent lamps 84 - 2500 lumen incandescent lamps 280 - 1000 lumen incandescent lamps (b) A street lighting system in the City of South Bend, Indiana, consisting of not less than One Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty-six (1756) street lamps supplied from the UNDERGROUND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM of. the Contractor. Such underground lamps shall.be as follows: I. Pendent or Vertical Lighting Units 82 - 6000 lumen incandescent lamps 8 - 5000 lumen incandescent lamps, five white ball clusters 51 - 4000 lumen incandescent lamps 239 - 2500 lumen incandescent lamps 975 - 1006 lumen incandescent lamps II. Business District Ornamental Lighting Units 101: - 6000 lumen incandescent lamps All property used in the performance of this contract shall be M d remain the property of the Contractor except in cases where the title to any property used in the performance of this contract is vested in some other person, firm or corporation. The Contractor shall at its cost furnish all lamp renewals and light all lamps herein provided for by electricity for a period of five (5) years from and after the first day of January, 1940, at noon. All lamps herein provided for are described according to the rating of the manu- factur6rs hereof. Such lamps shall be so maintained and operated by the Contractor that they will give the maximum amount of illumination obtainable under commercial conditions. All glassware shall be kept clean by the Contractor and the proper current and voltage shall be maintained on all lighting circuits, so that the proper conditions for the operation of each lamp at its normal rating shall be maintained. All iron posts for the support of street lighting luminaires served from the underground system shall be properly painted by the Contractor, the col6r to be deter- mined by the Board of Public Works. 2. Extensions of the street lighting system provided for in Paragraph 1-(b) shall be made upon the order and request of the Board of Public Works but in no event skull the Contractor be required to install more than ten (10) underground lighting units in any one year and if the Board fails to require the above number in any one year, the Contractor shall not be required to install more than ten(10) lights in the next year and in the same manner each succeeding year. This paragraph dh all be construed with Paragraph Seven (7). 3. All lamps herein provided for shall be burned from one-half hour after sunset until one-half hour before sunrise, every night and all night, burning approximately 4,000 hours per annum. Contractor covenants herein to furnish and maintain Four Hundred Forty-eight (448) lighting units, located in the Business Districts of the City of South Bend. The City shall designate One Hundred Fifty-four (154) of these units to be lighted, during the term of this contract, from one-half hour after sunset until midnight only, the remainde of such lamps to be burned from one-half hour after sunset until one-half hour before sunrise as above provided. 4. The minimum number of each type of lamp furnished under this contract shall be Ninety-five (95) per cent. of the number provided for in Paragraph One (1) hereof, and such lamps shall be maintained at the locations existing at the time of the execution of this contract with the exception of such changes as are provided for in Paragraph Six (6 ) and Eight (8 ) her --of. 5. If any lamp is "out" during the hours in which it daould be lighted, the City may deduct from the total monthly amount which would have been paid had no "outage" occured, a sum bearing the ratio to the total as the outage bears to the total time the lamps should have been lighted in any month. . If any lamp remains "out" twelve hours after the giving of notice, as hereinafter provided, all subsequent hours such lamp remains out (during the hours in which it shoul be lighted) shall be doubled for the purpose of computing the amount of deduction to be made from the monthly bill. Said notice may be given orally bit shall be followed by written notice from the Police Department or City Digineer and delivered to the contract or within Six (6) hours thereafter, in which event such notice shall be effective from the time it is given orally. 6. The City may at its option at any time during the term of this contract, upon order of its Board of Public 'Norks, request the Contractor to install in any!,or all overhead or underground street lighting units then'in service any number of lamps of larger size and/or greater illuminating power, in which event from the date of such changed installation the City shall pay as.compensation therefor in accordance with rates for such changed lamps and classification of•units set forth in Paragraph Nine (9) hereof. 0 • n U 0 C •