08/17/1915 Board of Public Works Minutes

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747 s Board met in regular session at 7:45 P.M. All members present. Deferred hearing; had on Improvement Resolution No. 400 for Paving and grading Prairie Avenue from rant Street to Western City Limits with gravel. In the city of South Bend, Indiana. Upon said hearing no remonstrators appeared and no remonstrances were filed. And the Board being fully advised in the premises, decided to modify said resolutiO4 to read as Follows, To pave with gravel the roadway 18 feet wide from Grant Street WEwing Avenue. And decides that'the property liable to be assessed for said improvement 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 modified, and the same is hereby in all things ratified, confirmed and approved. Resolved further, that noti ces be published on the'20th. day of Aug-. 1915 and on the 27th. day of August,1915 in a newspaper of -general circulation in said City, stating that this Board w_ ll receive bids for the construction of said improve- ment -to 10:00 A.M. on the nth. day of September,1915. f The Board reserves the right to re ject any and all bids. Hearing had on Improvement resolution No. 399- for grade, curb and sidewalk on Robinson Street from South lot S' in M.S. Robinson's 2nd. Plat to Lake Shore & M. S. Ry. Co. In the City of South Bend, Indiana. Upon said hearing no remonstrators appeared and no remonstrances were filed. And the Board being Silly advised in the premises, decides that the benefits to property liable to be assessed for said improvement 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 orignally adopted, and the same is hereby in all things rati- fied, a> nfirmed and approved. Resolved further, that notices be published on the 20th. day of August,1915 and on the 27th. day of August,1915 in a newspaper of general circulation in said city,.stating that this.Board will receive bids for the construction of said improvements up to 10:00 A.M. on the 7th. day of September,1915. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Deferred hearing had on Condemnation Resolution No. 3$ for the purpose of appropriating a strip of land for the Widening of Eddy Street and Mishawaka Avenue from Jefferson Blvd. to the east line of Pottowatomie Park, In the City of South Bend, Indiana. -:'The .Board having,the.: above - natter under advisement decided to Widen Eddy Street and Mishawaka Avenue from Jefferson Blvd. to east line of rotto- watamie $rk` :(The cost of ;same to be; about Eig?,-teeen hundred (f ,900.00 per acre�j) and hereby takes final action on said resolution, confirming without modifyc'tion, all former action taken on the same. The Board therefore declares the above condemned and appropriated for public use, The board now be prepared of all the owners or holders of property and therein sought to be taken or to be injuriously affected, shall also describe the property beneficially affected* property in all things c orders that a list or roll of valuable interests of which said list dr roll n