05/13/1924 Board of Public Works Minutes

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372 Tuesday Ma 13th, 1924. Continued. Resolution or Service Connections with Mains No. 1387 WHEREAS, the Board of Public Works on the ............. day of ... ..... 192 did alopt a resolutioa ordering and requiring the permanent improvement of Caroline Street Street from ...Lincoln Way. East......Street to.. Calvert Street...... . Street, by paving the roadway the same, and 1 WHEREAS, the City Civil Engineer has prepared and filed in the office of this Board a report showing the number and location of the service pipes, mains, c-induits, laterals, . and connections which are, or will be necessary to accorr.mceate the abutting property and the owners thereof with gas, water, sewer, and other conveniences and necessaries: and also said City Givil Engineer has prepared and filed. in said office specifications showing the mater'al to be used and the maner of laying said service pipes m3ms, coadults, laterals and connections from the mains to the points in side the curb lines. i THEREFORE, be it resolved by the Board of Public Wcrkes of the City of South Bend, Indiana, that the report of the City Civil Engineer is adopted, and sa`d retort ar.d the specificeticrs prepared and fled by him are made a part of this resolution as fully and effectually as if copied herein at full length; and it is fur- ther ordered that all of such private connections with the sewer, gas, and water mains be made in said street by bringing them inside the curb lines thereof. And be it further resolved that notice by pablicaton for two succcssive days in South Bend Tribune & News Timesa newspaper of general circulation printed and publ shed in the City of South Bend Indiana, be -given to the owners of the property abutting upon said street to be improved- directing them to make such sewer and water connections on or before the day of f92 —, and that if . said connections are not made on or before said time and in accordance with the speci- fications and report on file in the office of the Board of the Public W'crks, then said Board will cause the same to be made and will asses the cost thereof against the property abutting upc n said street, and shall do all other things pertaining thereto according to the provisions and requirrrcnts cf Ordinance No. 1842 adopted by the Common Council of the. City of South Eerd on J►ay 24, 1916, ar.d cf all eth,r ordinances and law relating thereto. a` _ And, be it further resolved • and ordered that after the 20 day reriod has elapsed fcr the making cf said connection by the property owners, a notice shall be published for two weeks, once each week, in the 1 Tribune & News Times , a newspaper of general circulation South Bend ge'• publ'shd in said city, . req resting bids from cortraeton for the making of such connections as have not been mane by the property owners, _ and such notice shall fix a day, not earlier than ten days after the first of such publications, when bids shall be opened and a contract let for the doing of said work.= And be it further ordered that the Northern Indiana Gas and Electric Ccrrpar:y, which holds a fran. f chise from, and is en.:)ownrel by said city to furnis% artificial gas to the citizens thereof, and is engaged in said- business id sxil city, is h:re'>y directed h mike and install all •service connections with its mains in said street in accordance with the provisions of Ordinance No. 1555 adopted June 27 1910 and such other ordi- nances or laws applicable thereto; tihich connections are' &—on xpcn the rcrcit cf Ile City Civil Engineer,' and which are hereby declared to be necessary in supplying gas to the owner of property abutting upon said street. - - -- -- _ Adodted this 13th. say of l y 1929. „192 [ Board of public Works. t -- Y + f