03/17/1914 Board of Public Works Minutes

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28 Tuesday March 17th. , 1914. Continued. STREET AND AIaLEY IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 300. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS OF THE CITY OF,SOUTH BEND, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY,STATE OF INDIANA, that it is desired and deemed necessary to im- prove FIRST ALLEY WEST OF PARK_ AVNUE _FROM NAVARRE STREET TO LA MONTE TERRACE as follows:- to -wit: - By gradigg; said First alley West of Park Avenue froze. Navarre Htreet to La Monte Terrace from property line to property lime, and paving the, said ,alley its full width and six (6) inches in depth with a Portland cement Gravel: Concrete pavement. Placing the .necessary marginal cement curb and the construction of the necessary storm water inlets.4 All as shown on the plans, all in accordance with the profiles, detail drawings and specifications on file in the office of the Depart- ment of Public Works of said City. And such improvement is now ordered. The cost of the improvement herein provided for, except street and alley intersections, shall be paid by special assessment to be levied upon the pro- perty specially •benefitted to the amount that the same may be legally assessed there- for, in accordance with are Act of the General Assembley of the State of Indiana, en- titled " An Act Concerning Municipal Corporations," approved March 6,1905, and in accordance with and pursuant to the provisions of,all acts amendatory and supplementd. thereto. The cost of all street and alley intersections, including one -calf of the width of the improve•merlt opposite street and alleys which run into, but do not cross said roadway herein proposed to be improved and that portion, of sueh street or alley abutting upon property belonging; to Eaid_ C*t-v or upoia property not sub jeectt to suers assessment, shall be paid by tne City in cash out of its general fund, if able to do so, or from a fund created by a special assessment to be levied under the provisions of Section 109 of the above entitled Act. Assessments of tell dollars and more .agaist each lot, if deferrecc7 are to be paid in. ten Equal annual installments, with interest at the rate of Six per cent per annum. A bond or bonds will be i .sued to the contract to the amount of such deferred assessments in pro rata payment for sued improvement. Under no circumstances' shall the City of South Bend, be, or be held responsible for any sum or sums due from said -property owner or owners for said work or for the collection of the same, or for the payment of any bond, bonds, certi- ficates, issued to said contractor in payment ('or such work, except for such mdnays as shall actua,llt been received. by they City from the assessments for such improvement or such moneys as said City is by said entitled Act and &m.endraents and supplements thereto required to pay. All proceedings had, and work done in the making of said improvement€, assess_ent of property, collection of assessments and issuance of bonds therefor, shall be as provided for in said above entitled Aet, &'nd Acts amendatory thereof and supllemental thereto. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Boa»d of Public Works fix the 14th., day pf April, A. D. 1914 at the hour of 7:45 P.M. at the office of the Board of Public Works, of trii.s City, as the time and place for the public consideration of said proposed improvements, at which said Board of Public Works will hear all persons interested, or whose property is liable to be assessed for said im- provement, and will decide whether the benefits' to the property liable to be assessed for said improvement will equal the estimated cost thereof. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That notice of the time and pla,ee of such Public; consideration be published and mailed in the manner provided by law. Notice of this resolution shall be published on the 19th., day of March 1914 amd on. the 26th day of March ,1914 in thA South Bend Daily Tribune. - Adopted this lath., day of March,1914. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. President.