07/22/1925 Board of Public Works Minutes

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The Contractor shall at its cost furnish all tamp renewals and light all lamps herein provided for by electricity .for a period of nine years and four months from and after the lst day of September, 1925 at noun. All of the lamps which shah, be provided nand maintained by this Contractor shall be operated so that they=-will"gl" 'the maximum amount of illumination obtainabld under wommeraid conditions. 2. All Lamps hereln prori�ted for shall be burned from one-half hour after sunset until one-half hour before sunrise every night and all night burning, approximately four thousand (49000) o hours per annum .. The number of Lamps furnished and lighted under this contract shall be the number provided for in paragraph 1 hereof. and shall be located as shown on h the blur print attached hereto and indentified icy the signatures of the Consta ote► and members of the Board of Public Works. ` 4. All outages shall be reported Ally in writing by the proper officers of the City -to the ContractoR and the propof `bffieers of the City may deduct from th total monthly amount which would have been 'paid for any lamp so reported had no outage ocaured,,the_sum bearing the ratio to snag 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 staved by the Contractr to such now location as the City may by writing direot, subject to.-- the following conditions:- ` Such moving of lamps shall be completed within thirty (30) days after receipt by Contraotor.of written notice from the City, Sunday's, legal holidays and stormy days not to be counted., provided that the number of such removals shell not exceed one per day, and provided further that subh removals may not be required on Sunday's legaL holidays and stormy days, Notice that the work of such removal of lamps has been anpleted shall We given by the contractor to the City within ( ten (10.)_.days after the completion of the work. The actual cost, to the Contractor of making sung relocations shall be paid by the City to the ConAractor within thirty (30) days after said notice had been given. 6. The City shall.aecept such lamps and the services herein specified durig the life of this contract and pay as full compensation therefor at the rate and p price set out in the accepted bit, to -wit: For underground stree T lighting units. 6000 Lumen Incandescent Lamps, Iron Post Egyptian Senior Opalescent unit or equivalent unit. per unit per annum. 70.OD is Payment for all lighting services to be made in equal monthly instollmen ts, each installment; to be due and payable on or before the 20th., of each math .succeeding that in which the service is rendered. 7• The Contractor shall have the right with the consent of the Board of Public Works of the City, at aby time during the life of this contract to install, operate and maintain in the place of the lamps herein provided for, and under the same terms and conditions, otheras and more improved lamps in keeping with 'such advancement as may be made in the art of lighting, which lamps shall be of equivalent or greater illuminating power. S. In authorizing or granting a permit to any person, firm or corporation to repair or out into any ztreet, alley, or sidewalk in which said street light ing units and lines and eabhes supplying current thereto are located, the City shall require, as a aciidition to the granting of such permit, an agreement on the part of the dpplicent that sueLa lines and cables and street lighting units will not be interfered with in any manner without notice to the Contractor. 9. All the covenants, expressins, terms, conditions, provisions and agree- ments herein shall extend to and be binding upon, or inure to the benefit of is the case may be, each and every -one of the successors or assigns of each of the parties hereto as if in every case so expressed, 10. This contract shall be inforee and effect from and after itss approval by ordinance for a period of nine (9) gears and four N) months from and after th the 126tday of September, 1925, at noon. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said City of South Bend, Indiana has caused its corporate seal.to be hereunto affixed and iathis contract to be signed by the Board of Bubiie Works of said City and said Indiana & Michigan Elea. Company has caused this contract to be duly ex2eut,rd, in duplicate, this day and year