10/23/1915 Board of Public Works Special Meeting Minutes

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Board met in special session at 10:00 A.M. All members present. In regard to the awarding of -the contract for grade, curb walk and macadam pavement on Leeper Avenue -between Howard Street and Angella Avenue, the 'following resolution was adopted. Concerning the improvement of the roadway of Leeper Avenue from Howard Street to ,North Line of Angella Avenue in pursuance to Resolution No. 405 ,the Board finds that a petition has been filed with said Board by a majority in number of the freeholders residing; on said Street to be improved .requesting that it be improved with a different kind of pavement or binder than the kind heretofore adopted by the Board in its preliminary order; and the City Engineer reports that Harry N. Barnes is the lowest and best bidder for the kind of pavement heretofore adopted by the Board, and the Board find that said Harry N Barnes is the lowest and best bidder and hereby lets' the contract for said improvement to him, and orders that said improvement be made with Bituminous Filled & Glutrin Bound. lst. 1000 ft. of Howard Street Bituminous filled balance Glutrin bound, and all proceedings heretofore had in this matter are hereby confirmed and ratified. BOARD OF PUBLIC BORK_S. E. M. MORRIS A. H. RICE At the Boardvs request Mr. Atkins representing the South Bend Home Telephone Company was present, and was notified to stop all the above mentioned com- pa,nies, underground work as same was not in accordance with Underground Ordinances. Mr. Atkins was requested to report upon the above at meeting Tuesday Ocotber 26th. 1915 at 10 : 00 A. M, Engineer filed assessment roll and final estimate for euv-fi and walk on Dubai 1 Avenue from W. line of High Street to West line ofDale Avenue, under Improvement Resolution No. 395. In the City of South Bend, Indiana. Resolved, that notices as to the amounts of assessments be published for six consecutive days in -he South Bend Daily Tribune, commencing on the 25th . day of October,1915 stating that this Board will give a hearing on the amount of such assessments at its office in the City Hall on the 9th. day of November,1915 at 7:45 P. Resolved further, that the entire work under the above contract be accepted and approved and the final estimate thereon allowed. Notice of this resolutia shall be published on the 25th. day of October,1915 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 9th. day of November,1915. at 7:45 P.M. The City Engineer submitted the list of property owners in the matter of the appropriation of certain property under condemnation Resolution No. 41 as per resolution on Page No. 756.,%hich list includes the names of the'owners and holders of property and of interests therein sought to be taken or beneficially or injuriously effected, and the description of the several piepes of property which is affected by the said appropriation proceedings. Thereupon the Board proceeded to award the damages sustained and to assess the benefits accruing to each piece of property upon said list. It was thereupon, upon motion duly made and seconded and un— animously adopted, resolved that said list, together with the amounts of benefits and damages and net benefits and net damages therein set forth as to the several parcels of land be adopted and that the respective amount of benefits contained in said list be and are hereby assessed agains•kthe , several tracts of land as specifically set forth in said list,_and that the respective amounts of damages contained in the said list be and are hereby awarded to the several tracts of land as speficially set forth in said list, and that the net benefits or het damages, as the case may be as to the respective tract of,land, contained in said list are hereby awarded br assessed, as the case may be as to the said several tracts of land.