06/16/1914 Board of Public Works Minutes

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279 esday June 16th. z1914. Board met in regular session at 10:00 A.M. All members present. Bids for pipe sewers on tte following streets were opened, read and referred to the City Civil Engineer for tabulation. Pipe sewer on Tecumseh Avenue from Parkovash Avenue to Pokagon Street, under Improvement Resolution No. 312. /Pipe sewer on Vassar Avenue from Portage Avenue to Riverside Drive, under Improvement Resolution No. 311. J Pipe sever. on Dayton Street from Witwer Avenue to Miami Street, under Improvement Resolu- tion No. 313. Bids received for trunk sewer on Leer Street acid Calvert Street Streets from St. Joseph f River to Vernon Street, under improvement Resolution No. 3092 the same were read and re- ferred to City Civil Engineer for tabulation. In the matter of the improvement of Cedar Street from Emerick Street to Eddy Street under Improvement Resolution No. 295 1914 T.E.Howard et al on June 13th.91914 before 10:00 A.M. having filed their petition before said Board, wherein they claim that they are a majority of the resident freeholders whose property abuts upon said street to be improved., and petition that said street be improved with Asphaltic Concrete; therefore, said petition is referred to the City Civil Engineer for investigation, and report con- cerning the number of resident free holders on that part of said street which it is proposed to improve. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. Now comes the City Civil Engineer and reports as -follows: - In the matter of the petition of T.E.Howard and others for the improvement of Cedar Street from Emerick Street to Eddy Street, with Asphaltic Concrete, according to Improvement Resolution No. 29521914. I hereby report that the number of resident free- holders whose property abuts_ on said proposed work is 29, of which 18 have sighed said peti- tion. Very respectfully, _ WM. S. MOORE, City Civil Engineer. The report of the City Civil Engineer having been received from which it appears that there are 29 resident freeholders on the part of Cedar Street from Emerick Street to Eddy Street, to be improved under Improvement Resolution No. 295,1914 and that 19 resident freeholders have duly and legally executed and filed a petition before this Board requesting that said street be improved with Asphaltic concrete, which number con- stitutes a majority of the resident rreeholders whose property abuts on said street to be improved, and it appearing that bids have been received for said kind of pavement, it is hereby unanimously ordered by the Board that the preliminary order heretofore passed desi- gnating the kind of pavement with which said street is to be imp roved, be and is hereby modified., and Asphaltic Concrete is fixed as the kind of pavement with which said street is to be improved, and awards the contract for said improvement to Rankert & Eggleston, they being the lowest and best bidders. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. Bond of contractor for One Thousand ($1,000.00)Dollars signed by Eliaz G. Metz as principal and W. K. McHenry and Clifford Du Comb as sureties, was approved by the Board. Petition for a pipe sewer on Division Street from Olive Street to Chicago Avenue was filed with tie Board by property ov�ners on Division with a communication. The J� same wa.s read and a resolution was ordered, and a hearing set for. _