04/20/1915 Board of Public Works Minutes

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622 Notice of this resolution shall be published on the 26th. day of April,1915 and on the 3rd day of May,1915 in the South Bend.Daily Tribune. The Board will give a hearing on this resolution at its ofice in, the City Hall on the 25th. day of May, 1915 at 7:45 P.M. Adopted this 20th. day of Apri1.1915. BOARD OF -PUBLIC WORKS. STREET AND AIjLEY 114PROVEMENT RESOLUTION No. 377, f BE IT RES'1LVED BY THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. of the City of South Bend, St. Joseph County, State of Indiana, that it is desired and deemed necessary to,im- prove Fuerbri,nger Street from Cottage Grove Avenue to Sherman Avenue as follows,to-wi* By grading and paving the roadway, also grading and paving the road- way of all intersecting and entering streets and alleys; lying within said portion of said Fuerbringer Street not included in the roadway, to be improved with ASPHALT BITULITIJIC,ASPHALTIC CONCRETE: CREOSOTED WOODEN BLOCKS OR BRICK LAID on C. five (5) inch Portland Cement Gravel Concrete Foundation. Or with Brick laid on a `six (6) inched rolled Gravel Foundation. Plscing the necessary ma£sginal cement curb, curbng the roadway with cement curb where same is not already constructed. Also the con- struction of the necessary storm water inlets and conduits. All as shown on the plans and in accordance with the profiles, detail drawings and specifications on file in the office of the Department of Public Works of the City of South Bend, Indiana. The cost of the improvement herein provided for, except street and alley intersections, shall be paid by special assessment to be levied upon the pro- perty specially benefitted, to the amount that the same may be legally assessed therefor, in accordance with an Act of the General Assembly o the State of Indiana, entitled "An Act Concerting Municipal Corporations," approved March 61,1905, and in accordance with and pursuant to the provisions effi all acts amendatory and supplemntal thereto, The cost of all street and alley intersections., Including one-half of the width of the improvement opposite street and alleys which run into, but do not cross said roadway herein proposed to be improved -and that portion of such street or alley abutting upon property belonging to said City, or upon property not subject to such assessment , shall be paid by the City in cash out of its general fund, if able too do so, or from a fund created by a special assessment to be levied under the pro- visions of Seetion 109 of the above entitled Act. Assessments of ten dollars and More against ea,chlot, if deferred, are to be paid in ten equal annual installments, with interest at the rate of Six per cent per annum. A bones or bonds will be issued to the contractor to the amount of such deferred assess:rients in pro 17ata payment for such improvement. Under no circumstances shall the City of South Bend be, or be held responsible for any sum or sums due from said property owner or owners for said work, or for the collection of the same, or for the pa:yrhent of any bond, bonds, certi- ficate or certififeates, issued to said contractor in payment for such vo rk, except for such moneys as shall have actually been received by the City fm m the assessments for such improvement, or such moneys as said City is by said entitled Act and amen- merits and supplements thereto required to pay.- All proceedings had, and work done in the making of said improvement, assessment of property, collection of assess- monts and issuanee of bands therefor, small be as provided for in said above entitled Act and Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto. Be It Further Resolved, that the BoE rd of Public 'forks fix the 25th. day of May21915 at the hour of 7:45 P.M. -,at the office of the Board of PublieWorks of this City, as the time:,and place for the public eonsiderati on of said p proposed imprbvement, at Wr ieh said Board of Public Works will hear all persons intere ested, or whose property is liable to be assessed for said improvement, and will de- dide whether the benefits to the property liable to be assessed_ for said improvement wil equal the estimated cost thereof.