04/28/1914 Board of Public Works Minutes

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32S Board met in regular session at 10:00 A.M. All members present. Bids were received and opendd for Pavement on Pennsylva-nia Avenue from Michigan Street to Miami Street, under Improvement Resolution No. 296. In the City of South Bend, Indiana: ' 'The same were read and referred to- the City Civil Engineer for tabulation. to be reported back at 7:45 P.M. Tuesday April 28th.,1914.~ Blue print for a side-track crossing Wilber Street presented. by Staples ✓ & FArdman and: the C.' 1. & S. lbj ` Co. , wa*s approved by the Board. Petition for a brick or concrete pavement in the alley north of LaSalle ✓ Avenue from Main Street to Lafayette Street and the alley hest of Main Street from La Salle Avenue to Madison Street, was presented to the Board. The same was read and plLced on file to be brought up on May 26th. , 1914 at 7:45 P-M. The Board instructed the Clerk to give Hoban & Roach a three day notice ✓ to locate a sewer tap at M. Blechschmidt's house at 919 E. Sample Street. A bid was received for lumber for the Street Dept., The same was read and referred to the City Street Cormissioner for investigation. The City Civil Engineer meported favorably onnthe Opening of South Scott ,/ ' Street from Sample Street to Indiana Avenue. A resolution was ordered prepared on the same, and set for a' hearing. ' ' Tide City Civil Engineer reported favorable on the opening of Calvert ✓ Street from Main Street to Michigan Street, and recommended that; tale petition be granted. A resolution for ordered prepared and a. hearing had on same. The City Civil Engineer reported favorable on the petition for a pavement on. South Franklin Street from West Sample Street to Catvert. Street, and recommended tYit that'the petition be granted. No action was taken by the Board in this matter: The City Civil Engineer reported favorably on the petition for curb and walk on-Crange:'Streetfrom Sadie Street to Olive Street , and. recommended that same .be granted. The Board ordered a resolution prepared on same and set for & hearing. The City Civil Engineer filed with the Board the estimated cost of the f sidewalk improvement on the east side of Prairie' Avenue from Sample Street to the alley north of Leon Court at ......................... ...... ......... 4—8750.0.0 Communication received from J.M.Studebakef rej�arding t1lle conc?ition of J the pavement on, the ' Jef'f'erson Street Bridge. The same was read and placed_: on .file. Bond of Contractor of ivlicn-.el_ Tomaszewski was rejected by tiie Board on account of City Employee as' surety. Boni_ of Contractor for One Thousand ($.1,000.00)Dollars signed by, C. C. f Shively as prinicpal ;anti Bert j. F. Shively and Aaron B . Shively as sureties, was approved by the Board. The' City Civil Engineer reported favorably on the petition filed for a J curb and walk on Wilbibr Street from Michigan Avenue to Linden Street,, and recommended that. same be granted. The Board ordered a resolution prepared on game and set for a hearing. Petition filed with the Board for a pipe sewer on Indiana Avenue from J Marine Street to Leer Street. The same was referred to the City Civil Engineer for investigation. Petition received from the Board of Education. for a _light in front of f the high School. The same was referred to the City Street Commissioner for invest- gation. Petition filed with the Board for sidewalk on north. side of East Calvert Street from So. Leer St. to S. Kline St. The same was read and referred to the City Uivil Engineer.