08/18/1914 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Tuesday August 16th.,1914 Continued. The City Civil Engineer filed the estimated cost on the following improvements. I herewith submit the estimated cost of the Donald Street Grade, '� Curb and walk improvement from Michigan St to'Main Street at ........... $1,251.00 I herewith submit the estimated cost of the Kline Street and Calvert Street pipe sewer improvement from Vistula Avenue to Vernon.Street..$4,469.90 I herewith submit the estimated cost of the south side of Fox Street walk and curb improvement from Miami Street to the east line of Demler's 2nd. Addition at........................................................... 452.40 I herewith submit the estimated cost of the Marion Street Bituminous Macadam Resu rfecing improvement from the west line of St. Joseph River Street to the east line of Lot No. 5 Hammond and Whitcomb Addition at ....$1,941.00 I herewith submit the estimated cost of the Lafayette Street and Marion Street pipe sewer improvement from a point about 100 feet north of the north line of Navarre Street to a point about 100 feet west of the west line of Lafayette Street at$................................................................ $1,800. 00 I herewith submit the estimated cost of the Johnson Street Pavement 1 improvement from Portage Avenue to Vassar Avenue at ......................$4,476.00 The City Civil Engineer filed the ..following report, and ta resolution was adopted and ordered set for a hearing on same. I wish to call your attention to the fact that the County Com- missioners are constructing a Concrete Culvert across Bowman Creek at Dubail Ave. This culvert is practkcally completed with the exception of t:!e fill. It is the cus- tom for the County to build these culverts and the City to make the necessary ap- . proaches. I gave prepared a resolution for the grading of Dubail Ave. from High St to. Dale Avenue which would provide sufficient dirt to make the fills. GRADE IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION N0. 346. J Resolved by the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend, St. Joseph County, State of Indiana. That it is deemed necessary to improve Dubail Avenue from High Street to Dale Avenue as follows,to-wit:- . By grading said Dubail Avenue from property line to property line to the established grade. As shown do the plans and in accordance with the profiles, detail drawings and specifications on file in the office of the Depart- ment of Public Works of the City of South Bend, Indiana, in accordance with and the profile, details, drawings and specifications on file in the office of the Department of the Board of Public Works of saId City and such improvement is now ordered. The cost of said improvement, including the cost of street and aley intersections, shall be assessed upon the real estate abutting on said Dubail Avenue* all according to the Method and manner provided for in an Act of the General Assembly ofnthe State of Indiana, entitled, " An Act Concerning Municipal Corpor- tions," approved March 691905, and in accordance with and pursuant to the provisions of all amendatory and supplemental acts thereto, passed by the General Assembly of tb. the State of Indiana. Assessments, if deferred, are to be paid in ten equal annual installments, with interest at the rate of Six per cent per annum. A bond or b6ts sha 1 be issued to the contractor in payment of such work, unless the property owners pay said assessment before saald bond. or bonds are issued. Under no circumstances shall the City_' of South Bend, be, or be held responsible for any sum or sums due form from said property owner or owners for said work or for the collection of the same,or for the payment of any bond, bonds, certificate or certificates, issued to said contractor in payment for such work, except for such moneys as shall have been actually received by the City from the assessments for such improvements, or such moneys as said C ty is by said above entitled Act required to pay. All proceedings had, and work done in the making of said improvement, assessement of property, collef collections of assessments and issuance of bonds therefor, shall be as provided for A in said above entitled Act and amendments thereto.