05/15/1923 Board of Public Works Minutes

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218 • i f Resolution for Service Connections .nth Mains. WHEREAS, the Board of Public Works on the .. 91w.R .... , day of ... . M46Y .1923o-.... , 192 did alopt a resjfuticia ordering and requiring the permanent improvement of .BV0j&P3e14 -Street - Street from .. Ts13c©iA Wsy_ 1PesL .. to..-V4!'Aq6r. . Avenue.... 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, lateral„ and connections which are, or will be necessary to acceu.mcdate the abutting property and the owners thereof with gas, water, sewer; and other conveniences and neccssries: 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 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 Evgirieer is aecptce, and ra'd report and the specificatiers prepared and f.l=d by him are made a part of this resclutioa as fully and effectually as _ if copied herein at full length; and it is fur- ther ordered that all of such private come: tuns 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;iblication for two succcssive days in South Bend TribtvEe k Ne#8 TiX,drewspaper of general circulation printed and publshed 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 qth, day of juxe 1923 192 —, and that if said connections are not made on or before said tine and in accordance with the speci- fications and report on file in the office of the Bosrd of the Public W'crks, thin said Beard will cause the same to be made and will asses the cost thereof against the prcPerty abutting iFcn said street, and shall do all other things pertaining thereto according to the provisiors and regr irrrents cf Ordinance No. 1842 'adopted by the Common Council cf the City of South Pend on JLIy 24, 1916, ar.d cf Ell cth(r ordinances and law relating thereto. And, be it further resolved • and ordered that after the 20 day Fericd has elbpsed fer the making cf said connection by the property owners, a notice shall be publish3d for two weeks, once each week, in the South Bend Tribillne & News TimtaBa newspaper of. general circulation publ'shd in said city, regnestir.g bids from contraetori for the malting of such connections as have nct keen made by the property ow ners, and such notice shall fix a day, not earlier than ten days after the first of such publications, w hen bids shai' be opened and a contract let for the doing of said work. And be it further ordered that the Northern Indiana Gas and Electric Ccn-par.y, which holds a Fran. chise from, and is en»w�rsl b sai city to furnis4 artificial Y d Y gas to the citizens thereof, and is engaged in said bU3ine3J in sii I city, is hsre'-)y directed t-) m.ike 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 cthe ordi- nances or laws applicable thereto; which eennecticns sre :hcwn iron tl:e rcrctt cf de 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 —1 51,11 day of May 1923`,192