09/01/1914 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Tuesday September lst.,191a. Continued.. J Hearing had on improvement'Resolution No. 342 for curb and walk on South side of Fox Street from Miami Street to E. line of Demler's 2nd Addition. In the City of South Bend, Indiana. Upon said hearing no remonstrators appeared and no remonstrance was filed. And the Board being fully advised in the premises, .decides that the benefits to property liable to be assessed fbr said improvements are equal to the . estimated cost of the same, as reported by the City Civil Engineer., and thereupon takes final action on said resolution as originally adopted, and the salve is hereby in all things rati- fied, confirmed and approved. Resolved further, that notices be published on the 3rd day of September and on the 10th. , day of Septembcer,1914 in a nevispaper of general circulation in said City, stating that this Board will receive bids for the construction' of said im- provement up to 10:00 A.M. on the 22nd. clay of September,1914. The Board reserves the right to re feet any and all bids. The hearing of property owners interested in,the assessment for the con-- _ stru`ction of a' sewer on` Iroquois Street, Beginning at the intersection of the west fine I f said° street and the north li� e of -North Shore Drive;thence north to the south line of Angell. Street; thence west 150 feet; thence south to the north.line of North. S hore Drive produced westerly thence easterly to the place of beginning under Im provement Resolution. No. 239. 1913. having been continued until to -day, the same was considered by the Boarde nd all interested persons appearing were heard, and the Board modified the assessments as shown by said primary assessment roll by increasing certai certain assessments and by decreasing others, all as appears by the modified assess- ment roll written in red and attached to the original or primary assessment roll, and Solon D. Rider appeared in person and waived all objections to the amounts assess- ed against property owned by him, and consented that all his property should be asses& ed as shown by said modified assessment roll. And the Board now finds that the several parcels and lots of land as assessed in said modified assessment roll are specially benefitted in the amounts ass - assessed against them in said modified assessment roll. And the Board now approves and confirms in all things saiN assessment roll as above modified. The hearingpoi ro erty owner int resW, in the tssessient fOr Ve con— struction of a sewer on arkovapsh Venue from Lafa e to Stree to roquois reet, under Improvement Resolution No. 259. having been continued until to -day, the same was considered by the Board and all interested persnns appearing were heard, and the Board modified the assessments as shown by said primary assessment roll by incerasing cer- tain assessments acid decreasing others, all as appears by the modified assessment roll written in red, and Solon D. Rider appeared in person and waived all objections to the amounts assessed against property owned by him, and consented that all his property should be assessed as shown on said modified assessment roll. And the Board now finds that the several parcels and lots of land as assessed in said modified assessment roll are specially benefited in the amounts assessed against them in said modified assessment roll. And the Board now approves and confirms in all things said assess- ment roll as above modified. Assistant City An.gineer Willam Graves presented a report on the petition filed with the Board on Aug ust 2.5th.,1514 for a sewer on Niles Avenue from Sorin Street to Corby Street. All action on the same was deferred until September £nth. ,1914. at 10: 00 A.,M. Assistant Engineer Wiliam Graves presented a, report on petition. filed with .the Board on Colfax Avenue pavement from Walnut Street to Birdsell Street. The same was read and placed on file. Pole and wire inspector Thos. Beaning made a report on application for permit to erect billboard on site of old billboard on Michiga., Ave. near La Salle Ave.. on the Prast Property by. the South Bend Billposting ComparW, The same was read and placed on file. And the Board ordered that the South Bend Billposting Company be notified to comply with Ordinance No.1674 in the erecting of billboard at this point, also as this is in a residence locality, the same is not far enougrit back from the street, also it is contrary to the ordinance to have billboards boarded up at the bottom.