06/05/1923 Board of Public Works Minutes

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`L98 f.� WHEREAS, the Board of Public Works on the ............. day of .:. ... 192 ... did aiopt a resolution or:Iering. and requiring the permanent improvement of ... Corby. Stroo.14...... .. . Y ... , ...... Street from St .:Loutis• Blvd.• • 1.6treet to.. .: rtJ'OLib BQI C Street, by paving the roadway the same, and Avenue 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 accorr. rcebte ' the abutting property and the owners thereof with gas, water, sewer; and other conveniences and necessarie.: aMd al o 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. i THEREFORE, be it resolved by the Board of Public Werkes of the City of South- Bend, Indiana, that the report of the City Civil Engineer is adopted, and :a'd report and the specificEtiers prepared and f.led 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 publication for two successive days in South Bend Tribmse & Newst TimCBnewspaper of general circulation i g printed ar d pub] :hed 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 - 2n—d, day of T�n�y Q73 192 —, 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 Works, then said Board will cause the, same to, be made and will asses the cost thereof against the property abutting upon said street, and shall do all other_ things pertaining thereto according to the provisions and requirments of Ordinance No, 1842 adopted by the Common Council of the City of South Pend on JLay 24, 1916, and cf ell ether crdinanc'es `and law relating thereto. I And. be it further resolved `and .ordered that after the 20 day period has elapsed for the making cf said connection by the property owners, a notice shall be published for two weeks, once each week, in the South Bend 'S' Q Tides Tribune & K*W a newspaper of general circulation pub]-shd in said ,city, requesting bids from contraetors for the making of such connections as have not been mane by the property off 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 Company, which holds a fran. i chise from, and i; enoowarel by .said city to furnish artificial gas to the citizens thereof, and is engaged in said b rsinssr is sail city, is h:re'ny directed to mrke 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 Aances or laws applicable thereto; which connecticns-tre a:cwn trcn the rcrcrt cf Ile City Civil Engineer, and which are hereby declared to be necessary in supplying gas to the owner of property abutting upon :aid street. Adodted this 51,h day> of June 1923. 192 L. Be' SLAUGHTER • • • * ALBERT F. RONER Board of Public Works.