06/01/1915 Board of Public Works Minutes

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687 Engineer filed assessment roll and final estimate for Brick pavement on Cottage Grove Avenue from Grand View Avenue to Oak Street, under Improvement Resolution No. 354. In the City of South Bend, Indiana. Resolved, that notices as to the amounts of assessments be published for siie consecutive days in the South Bend Daily Tribune, commencing on the 7th. day of June,1915 stating that this Board will give a hearing on the amount of such assessments at its office in the City Hall on the 22nd. day of June,1915 at 7:45 P.M. Resolved further, that the entire work under the above contract be ac- cepted and approved and the final estimate thereori allowed. Notice of this 'resolution shall be published on the 7th. day'of June91915 in the South Bend Daily Tribune, stating that this Board will give a hearing on the acceptance of such work at its office in the City Hall on the 22nd. day of June21915 at 7:45 P.M. LOCAL SEWER IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 391. Resolved by=the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend County of St.'Joseph, State of Indiana. That the construction of a losal sewer, intended and adapted only for local use by the property holders whose property abuts thereon, and not intended or adapted for receiving sewerage from collateral drains, be and the same is hereby ordered in and along Leeper Avenue from Howard Street to Angella Avenue as follows: to -wit: - Beginning at the center of Howard Street and Leeper Avenue thence north along the center line of Leeper Avenue to the center of Angella Avenue with a 15 inch vitrified pipe sewer. Together with the necessary manholes, inlets, conduits and house connections to the curb line along the lihe of said improvement. 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. And suoh improvement is now ordered and said sewer, with all its appur- tenances shall be constructed in accordance with the prfile and specifications now on file in the office of the Department of Public Works of said City. The cost of said Improvement shall be apportioned against and paid by the property holders whose property abuts thereon, and upon the City of South Bend if the City if benefited by said improve- ment, all ao,cording to the method and manner provided for in Avt.of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, entitled "An Act Concerning Municipal Corporations,* approved March 6,1905• Assessments, if deferred, are to be paid in ten equal annual installments, with interests at the rate of Sikx per cent per annum..A bond or bonds shall be issued to the contractor in payment for such work, unless the property owners pay said assessments before said bond or bonds are issued. Under no circumstances shall the City of South Bend be or be head responsible for'any sum or sums due from,said pro- perty owner or owners for said work, or for the collection of same, or for the payment for such wark, except for such moneys as shall have been actually received by the City from the assessments for such improvement, or such moneys as said City is by said above entitled Act required to pay. All proceedings had, and work done in the making of said improvement, assessment of property, collections of assessments and issuance of bonds therefor, shall be as provided for in said above entitled Act. Notice of this resolution shall be published on the 3rd. day of June,1915, and on the loth. day of June,1915, in the South Bend Daily Tribune. This Board will give a hearing on this resolution at its office in the City Hall on the 29th. day of June,1915 at 7:45 P.M. Adopted this 1st. day of June,1915.' BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.