05/28/1913 Board of Public Works Minutes

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27 due Board met in, regular session at 10:00 A.M. All members present. ✓The matter of underground wiring be fore the Board. The Central Union. Telehpone Company filed Blue Print and the some was approved subject to replacing of same with .a more accurate print on completion of work. Permit ordered to be given. to the Company as per blue print as approved. And that the Central Union Telephone Company pay the time of an inspeetor for to see that lawn of property owners be replaced. The following petition was received rind. placed on file. To the Board of Public Works, - South Be'Td, Indiana. fie ntle me n: - As owner of nearly all the. land on the South side of W.Chippewa Ave. I hereby petition your. Honorable Body to establish a grade on this Ave. (not grade the same), so I may know how to finish up extensive grading improvements I am now making to my land. Also, to set stakes showing an established grade on, South Main St. fro�a. Chippewa Ave, South past my 746.6 feet frontage as per sty communication to the City Engineer of yesterday Also, when this grade is established on South Main St., I a.sk for your per— mission to remove the ground where it may be too high *at the north end, which ground I can use in filling on my adjacent land. If you can give permission to remove this ground,. my contraeters. Mess. Kizer & Denovan, will do the work free. Yours very truly, H. S. COVER. The City Civil Engineer ?V/�ordered to give H.S. Cover a grade. ✓Bond and contract for Grade, curb and walk ON Broadway from Franklin, Street to Vandalia R.R. under Improvement Resolution No. 246. signed by A. L. Headley as principal and A.G. Harlin. and C. H. De Frees as sureties, was approved by the Board. ,/Bond and contract for grade, curb and walk on St. Vincent Street from St. Alexis Street to Alley blest of Lawrence Street, under IMprevemient Resolution No. 235. signed by C.L. Headley as principal and A.G. Harlin and C. H. De Frees as sureties, was approved by the Board. v/Bind and contract far grade, curband walk on Man Buren Street from Howard Avenue to Saneome Avenue, under improvement Resolution No. 234, signed by C. L. Headley as prinieipal and A. G. Harlin and C. H. De Frees, as sureties, was approved by the Board. Bids on water connections on. Howard Street from Leeper Avenue to Niles Avenue under improvement Resolution" No. 252. The awarding of same was deferred until June loth. 1913 Awarding of bids for water conneetion.s en Ottowa Court from Vistula Avenue to L.S.&M.S.Ry. under Improvement Resolution No. 253. was deferred until June 10th.,1913. ,/Permission was granted the Central Union. Telephone Company to set one pole in alley at rear of No. 224 South Notre Dame- AVeaue. The pole was approve d as followings, To be placed on the - same side Bf. the alley as the other Central Union. Telephone Poles. The Board agreed to pay Thirty ($30.00)Dellars for a band to be used by the Sons of V Veterans on Decoration Days r®l�'�st: hated gofiviA casImpfr ent Resolution. No* 227 for Pipe sewer on Birdsell Street U a point about EO feet north of. Linden, Ave. In the City of South Bend, Indiana. In the above. matter no remonstrators appeared and no further remen- stra,nces were filed. The Board therefore find in each and every ease in said improve- ments that the benefits to the property and to the City of South Bend are equal to the estimated cost <,f said improvement and the same are hereby in all things ratified, confirmed and approved. Resolved further, that notices be published on the 31st., day of May, 1913 and on the 7th.1 day of June,1913 in the South Bend Daily Times, stating that this Board will receive bids for the construction of said improvements up to 10:00 A.M. on the 18th. , day of June.1913. The Board reserves the right to reject any or all b1d.s.