04/10/1923 Board of Public Works Minutes

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� avvv��a�rivsa � v� Service connections with Mains We 1160. f WHEREAS, the Board of Public Works on the ............. day of ... .... 192 .. . did alopt a res:')lutioa ordering and requiring the permanent improvement of 1s'olden..AVexut. • • • • • - ........... .............. Street from ........Perid►ga . Av#j=*Street to.. 8ive;rsi-t! Drive- - Street, by paving the roadway the same, and 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, conduits, laterals, and connections .which are, or will be necessary to accorrmcdate the abutting property and the owners thereof with gas, water, sewer, and other conveniences and necessaries: and alto said City %ivil Engineer has - prepared and filed in said office specifications shovZng the matey.'al to be used and the maner of laying said service pipes mains, conduits, laterals and connections from the mains to the points in- side the curb lines. 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 adcpted, and sa*d rercrt ar,d the specificatier-s prepared, "and faed 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 p�6fication for two succcssive days in South Bend Iff!wis Times & —,:rj—LU- --ewspaper of general circulation printed and pubs 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 sudh' sewer, and water connections on or before the 4Q. day of May 1 A " t ' 192 —, and that if, said. connections are not made on or before said time and in accordance with the speci- fications and report -.op 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 cpcn said street, and shall do all other things pertaining thereto according to the provisions and requirments cf Ordinance No. 1842 - adopted by the Common Council of the City of South Bend on July 24, 1916, and cf- all other crdmances and law relating thereto. And. be it further resolved i and. ordered that after the 20 day Period has elapsed for the making cf said connection by the property owners, a notice shall be publish=d for two weeks, trice each week, in the South >BenjrlhLe & $ewg Mlmo=s a newspaper of general circulation publ'shd in said city, requesting bids from contraetors for the making of such connections as have not . been made by the property ow ners, 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 Cempacy, which holds a fran. chise from, and is en?:iwarel, by said city t:) furnish artificial gas to the citizens thereof; and is engaged in said basiness in siii city, is hire'v directed t-j make and install all service connections with its mains in`said Street in accordance with the provisions of Ordinance No. 1555 adopted jtme 27 1910 and such other ordi- 0ancesor laws applicable thereto; which connecticris cre Acwn trcn the repot of de City Civil Engineer, and which are hereby declared to be necessary in supplying gas to the owner of property abutting upcn said street. Adodted this of April 1, 2?i. 192 L. B; SLAUGHTER ., ALBERT P. HONER: Board of public Works.