04/03/1978 Board of Public Works Minutes

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REGULAR MEETING APRIL 3, 1978 BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Public Works hereby directs and authorizes the doing of all acts necessary and desirable to the acquisition by gift, purchase or condemnation of the following described real estate: Beginning at the point of intersection of the centerline of South Bend Avenue (State Road 23) and the centerline of North Ironwood Drive; thence southerly along the said centerline of Ironwood Drive a distance of 100.0 feet; thence westerly perpendicular to the centerline of said Ironwood Drive a distance of 40 feet to the west right - of -way line and the true point of beginning; thence continuing westerly perpendicular to the centerline of said Ironwood Drive a distance of 40.0 feet more or less to the present southeasterly right --of -way line of South Bend Avenue (State Road 23); thence northeasterly along the present southeasterly right- of- wav_.line of South Bend Avenue (State Road 23) a distance of 48.8 feet more or less to the west right -of -way line of Ironwood Drive; thence southerly along the west right -of -way line, a distance of 28.0 feet more or less to the true point of beginning, being a triangular shaped parcel of land taken off of the northeastern -most corner of Lot No. 1 in 14olfe`s South Bend Avenue Addition (proposed), all in Section 31, Townshin 38, North, Range 3 East, Clay Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana containing 560 square feet or 0.013 acres more or less. BE IT, FURTHER, RESOLVED that if proceeding is brought by condemnation for the acquisition of such real estate, such proceedings shall be brought pursuant to the provisions of the Acts of the 1905 Indiana General Assembly, Chapter 48, being I.C. 32- 11 -1 -1 to 32-11-1-13, as amended. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS s/ Patrick M. McMahon s/ Thomas J. Brunner, Jr. s/ Peter H. Mullen ATTEST: s/ Patricia DeClercq Clerk Dated this 3rd day of April, 1978. RESOLUTION NO. 4, 1978 WHEREAS, the.Board of_ Public Works has found it <recessary in the best interest of the public safety and welfare to construct certain street and drainage improvements on Ironwood Drive from a point 150 feet south of Edison Road to South Bend Avenue (Indiana Route.23); and WHEREAS, the Board of Public Works, on July 13, 1976 by resolution, authorized the preparation of necessary design plans for such construction; and WHEREAS, it has now become necessary to proceed by condemnation of the real estate herein described.