06/21/1927 Board of Public Works Minutes

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d�rG Tuesday, June 21st.1 1927. "This 'agreement, made and ente ed into this 2Ist., day of June, I927, by and between the City of South Bend, a municipal corporation of the State of Indiana, by and through it's Board of Public vlorkcs, , part of the first part, hereinafter ref erred to as the City, and Indiana & Michigan Electric Co.,,a eorporati party of the second part, hereinafter referred to as the Contractor pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Public Works, passed at a meeting held on the 24th., day of May, I927. TOITNESSETH. That the parties hereto, each n_cbnsideration of the agreements on the part of the other, herein contained, have mutually agreed and hereby mutually agree as follows: - I, The contractor shall provide and maintain a street lighting system in Ridgedale Addition to the City of South Bend, Indiana, consisting of'33 street lamps supplied from the under ground distribution system of the Contract1', or. Such underground lamps shall be as follows:- 33- Sheridan 12 ft. Hollow Spun Concrete Lighting Standar complete with Octagonal Junior Lighting Units and Standard Series Film Sockets and .Spikes equipped with I - I000 Lumen 6.6 Ampere Series Street Lighting Lamp or equivalent Lamp. All property used in the performance of this contract steal be and remain the property of the Contractor. The Contractor shall at its cost durnis all lamp renewals and light all laiaps herein provided for by electricity for the perio of this contract. All of the lamps which shall be provided and maintained by this contractor shall be so operated so that they will give the maximum amount of illumination obtainable uder comereial conditions. 2. All lamps herein provided for shall be burned from one.. half hour after sunset until onephalf hour before sunrise every night and all night, burning approximately four thousand (4000) hours per annum. 3. The number of lamps furnished and lighted under this contract shall be the number provided for in paragraph I hereof, and shall be located as shown on the blue print attached hereto and identified by the signature of the Contractor and members of the Board of Public Works. 4. All outages shall be reported daily in writing by the proper officers of the City to the Contractor and the proper officers of the City may deduct from the total monthly amount which would have been paid for any lamp sp report! ed had no outage occured, the stun bearing the ratio to such total as the period of outage bears to the total time the lamp would have been lighted in any month. 5. Street lighting units herein contracted for shall be rpoved by the contractor to such new location as the City may by writing direct: subject to the following conditions: j Such moving of lamps shall be completed within thirty days; after receipt by the Contractor of written notice from the City, Sundays, legal holi- days and stormy days no to be counted, provided that the number of such removals shall' not exceed one per day and provided further that such removals shall bot be re:;uired I. on Sundays, legal holidays and storm days. Notice that the work of such removal if lamps has been completed shall be given by the Contractor to the City within ten days � after the completion of the work. y The actual cost to the Contractor of making such reloeati shall be paid by the City to the Contractor within thirty days after said notice has been given. 6. The City shall accept such lamps and the services herein specified during :;he life of this contract and pay as fall compensation there for, at the rate and price set out in the acepeted b1d to wit: FOR UNDERGRCU11D STREET LI G?ITIN T UNITS 33 - Sheridan I2 Hollow Sppn Concrete lighting standards Complete with Octagonal Junior Lighting Units and Standard Series Film Sockets and Spikes equipped with I-I000 lumen 6.6 Ampere Series Street lighting Lamp or equivalent Lamp. $30.00 per Unit per Annum, Payment for all lighting services to be made in equal months installments, each installment to be due and payable on or before the 20th., day of each month succedding that in which the service is rendered. 7. The Contractor shall have the right with the consent of the Board of Public ''forks of the City, at an t'me during the, life f o act to install, pperate;, and maintain in the place 6f the lamps Wherein provQide oz� under the same terms and conditions, other and more improved lamps in keeping with sue advancement as maybe made in the art of Lighting, which lamps shall be of equivalent • 0. •