05/28/1915 Board of Public Works Minutes

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6 V V Board met in regular session at 10:00 A.M. All members present, The City Engineer filed the following report. To the Hon. Board of Public Works 4 of the City of South Bend, Ind. (fie nt leme n: - -Atta ched find bill filed by Messts De Peape Coussens for locating sewer tap at #428 West Navarre Street. mr. John Kestler plumber was unable to locate this tap at point indicated by -measurements on file in the City Engineers office and Messrs De Peape & De Vos the contractors who built the Navarre Street sewer were ordered to locate the tap. The tap was found 4 feet west of the paint indicated by measurements on file in the Engineer's office. Very truly yours, Frederick J. Anderson, City Engineer. The Board.approved of the above and ordered bill of $15.00 paid. The City Civil Engineer filed report on petitions and recommended that the following be granted. The. Board ordered resolutions prepared on same. Macadam pavement on Tonti Avenue from Lafayette Street to Tecumseh Avenue. v Pipe sewer on Corby Street from Niles Avenue to St. Louis Blvd. ✓ Pipe sewer on Jaquith 0ourt , from Scott Street to ' Chapin Street. The following resolution was adopted and approved. R E S 0 L U T I 0 N. Resolved that - Pole and Wire Inspector ordered to remove and take down all unused poles of public utilities that have not been so removed in accordance with resolution adopted April 27th.,1915 and render a bill to such utilities for such expense as is accrued therein. Petition received, read and placed on file for a street light at corner N of Napoleon Street and St. Louis Street. The following resolution was adopted and approved by the Board. Resolution. Be It Resolved by the Board of Public Works that whereas there exists an terror in the amount of assessments of Mary B. Albright on the following tract, to -wit: - All that part of the S.W.-1/4 Sec- 24 T. 37 N.R. 2 E. that lies N. and.W. of the old Rupel Road now -Tvaeated except the right of way of the Terre Haute & Logansport. R.R. Co. on the Bowman Creek Trunk sewer assessment roll. Said error exists in measurements and reduction as compared to other tract adjacent thereto, therefore be it resolved by the Board of Public Works that the sum of $53.60 be deducted from the uncorreet assessment now $216.50 assessed against said tract and that the balance in the sum of $162.90 be and stand as the just assessment against said tract and new to be enforceable and the sum of #53.60 be assessed against the City of South Bend and the City Controller is hereby authorized to make such corrections on the assessment sheets on file with the City Treasurer. Contract for the pavement on Vassar Avenue from Riverside Drive to Portage Avenue, was awarded to Western Construction Company with Trinidad Lake Asphalt. Amount of contract at $21,476. 05. Permission was granted to the Oentral Union Telephone Company to set one pole 100 feet south of Eckman Street on the east side of the first alley.west Of Pain Street north . get poles all on the same side of this alley on the west side.