11/20/1923 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Board met in.regular session at 9:00 A.If. All members present. Chas. Calvert Seey of Indiana & Michigan Electric Company and filed request trthh blue print attached', requesting permission to construct, operate, and maintain, a line of poles and wires for the transmission o8 electric current, over the same, along, over.and upon certain streets in this City. Permission granted. ( Insert see files.} Partial estimat4 No. i for the pipe sewer on Howard Street betwen S0104h Bend Avenue and East City Limits allorod to George Pontarelli, White Construction Company guarb6ntee bond on the Eddy Street and Mishawaka Avenue sheet asphalt pavement Improvement is hereby released. Communication received from Henry A. Petshing requesting cinders' be placed on various alleys referred to Street Commissioner. Communication received from Campbell Paper Box Company in re to property on south Main Street for City Market. Read and placed on file. Claim for the sum ---of $3,812s50•presented tby Wiilis6nn Construetin Company for asphalt surface patching over sewer trenches on Nothh Main Street between -Madison Street and Navarre Street as per agreement, 1525 Sq. yards at $2.50 per sq. yd. approved, petition signed by Fred S. Vorn for an electric light at corner of Portage Avenue and Queen Street. Referred -to -Inspector. Permission granted to Indiana Bell Tel. Company to set one pole and anchor to pole in rear -of 1109-Birner Street. Are light ordered Alaced at northwest corner of Alt,geldt Avenue and Marine Street. Are light ordered placed at the corner of Ewing Avenue and Scott Street and at corner of Donald Street and Talor Street after January lst,1924. Inspector recommended that when there is an are light, placed at the Meade Street crossing of the New York Central R. R. to place the light at Merry Avenue to the corner of Washington Avenue and Meade Street. The New York Central R. R. should pay for and place an are light at the Meade Street crossing. There is now ordered one fire box to be placed at the corner of Meade Street and Division Street. Report approved and referred to the Common Council to request, Railroad to provide light. Complaint about broken sidewalk at corner of Cushing Street and Lincoln Way West in 400 block. Read and placed on file for consideration in February or March of 1924. Petition filed for paving and Boulevard lights on Victoria St. from Michigan Street to Fellows Street. Blvd. lights eliminated. Paving to be taken up for consideration in Spring of 1924. Engineer signed assessment roll for pipe sewer on Dayton Street from Caroline Street to a point 384 feet east. Assessment roll adopted and final estimate allowed. Notice of adoption of the assessment roll and of hearing upon the same on the 5th. day of December 1923 at 7:15 P.M. ordered published as provided by law. Plat of Lincoln Manor Addition to South Bend, Indiana approved by the City Planning Commission under date of November 1st.0 1923 approved. ( Insert see dedication ra files.). Contract with Whitcomb and Keller for grade, curb and walk on Victoria Street from Marine Street to Clyde Street as provided by improvement Resolution No, 1279 adopted Nov. 6,1923 signed and construction bond in the sum of $29226.00 with the Indemnity Insurance Company N. A, as sureties approved. Contract and bond ordered filed.