04/14/1914 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Board met in regular session at 7:45 P.M. -All members present. Hearing given on Improvement Resolution No. 300 :for -Concrete Pavement k1 on First a'I-iey West. cif Park Avenue from Navarre Sti!eet to Lac Monte Terrace. I the City of South Bend, Indisna. In the above matter no remonstrators appearedand no remonstrance was filed. The Board thereforefind in each and every case in said Improvement that the Benefits to the property and to the. City, of South Bend are equal to the .estimated cost. of said improvement and the same are hereby in all things ratified, confirmed end ap- proved. Resolved, that notices be published on the 17th., day of April,,1914 and on the 24th., day of April,,1914 in the South Bend Daily News -Times, stating that this Board will receive bids for the construction of said improvements up to 10:00 A.M. on the 5th., day of May 1914. The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. 0. An additional petition was filed by property holders on Blaine Avenue from Portage Avenue to La Porte Avenue. The same was read-an'd placed on file. The following communication was filed with the Board and duplicates of same ordered sent to the 6hicagO. South Bend & Northern Indiana R,,%,;,. Company and the Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend Ry. Company TO THE, HONORABLE BOARD OF PUBLIC'WOPXS. OF the -City of South Bend.) Indiana- Gentlemen: - The matter of bad condition of pavement along the street car tracks in various parts of the down -town district especially has been called to the attention of the Board of Public Safety, by the Fire Department. In some places the condition is such that it is dangerous to the apparatus when crossing at the speed they must -necessatily take in responding to an alarm* We merely call this to your attention, thinking that you may desire to investigate, if you are not already doing so. Yours very tr-uly2 B. F. AUGUSTINE2° President of Board of Public Satiety. The City Civil Engineer reported favoably on the petition for walks ,on Pennsylvania Avenue from High Street to Miami Street. The-Clerl was instructed. to prepare resolution on the sameg and set for a hearing. A remonstrance was filed with the Board against the appropriating of a strip of land lying from lst. alley North of Miner Street to Sorin Street for the extention of Frances Street. Bond and contract signed by McGrath and Luther as principal and Equitable Surety Company of St. Louis,, Mo. for the sum of Eighty ($90.00)Dollars was approved Vby the Board. or Water connections on St. Louis Street f.rom South Bend Avenue to Corby Street, under Improvement Resolution No. 299. Bond and contract shed by McGrath and Luther as principal and Equitable 'Surety 'Company, of St. Louis, Mo. as sutetiesl, for the sum of Two Handred. and tx�n ($202-00)Dollars for water connections on Ford Street from Arnold Street to I.I.&I. Ry. Company right of.way 1, under improvement Resolution No. 299,, was approved by the Bar-, Contractors bond of Louis E. Zeiger signed as principal and J6seph Zeiger, henry C. Eckler and Walter G. Eckler as sureties for the sum of one Tnousand ($1.)0000.00) V Dollars was approved by the Board.