09/20/1922 Board of Pbblic Works Minutes

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e 44v�. f• y t Board met in regular session at 7:15 P M 'L. P. Hardy -absent. alley north oil N%varre SDreetrfromeMa ng`Streetntaethe first alleysolution for East,, under .®F tic first f y t, under Vacation' Resolution Ns. 63,- In the City of South' Bend Indiana. Upon said hearing Attorney Arthur Hubbard and Mr. Eldredge representing the Epworth Hospital appeared for said".vacation-and abutting property owners on said alley appeared objecting t® said alley, snd requested that alley be closed to Michigan Street; but no written'romenst,rance was filed. The Beard therefore sustain d11 former action taken.and declare -the above described property in all things ratified, confirmed and approved. The Board now orders that a roll be grepared-of all owners or #olders of property and of valuable interests therein sought to be -taken or to be injuriously affected which list -or roll=shall also describe the property beneficially affected: Due toaanerror in the description of the above,resolution as reported by the City Civil: Engineer, the Board rescinded said approval and resolution and - Petition being filed by property owners requesting that the alley be vacated from Md— h n;Str6et to first north and South alley" West of Michigan Street, it was the Board that a resolution be Prepared for same. Tuesday -September 20th.s 1922 being the date -set for the final award an the Pavement contract on Dayton Street, from Marine St,. to Leer Street, and it was decided by the Board that this. be set for Wednesday September 27th., 1922 at 7:_40 P. M. and that the'Clerk be notified to send card notices to all property owners on the street to see if they are infavorof awarding pavement contract on prices bid. City Engineer filed the following estimated costs on.improvements.' Pipe sewer improvement on"al,;ley west of Scott Street from La Salle Avenue to Colfax Avenue at.......... 1*053.00 Pipe sewer improvement on Sibley Avenue from Wilber Street to Brookfield Street at..... ..................$3.841.00 The following eemmun:ication received from Health Dept.; Read and resolution ordered prepared. September_ 13th. , 1922. Board of Public Works, South Bend, Indiana. Gentlemen: - Herewith I return letter of September 7th., to your Board and.beg to state lihath.isieornection that the Board of health at its meeting this moritg voted to advise your board to place a sewer on Marietta St. so that it will be possible for Mr. Lapp to make the connection at 1311.S. Marietta Street. Thanking you for your assistance in this matter. Very truly yours, CHARLES S' BOSENBURY ' Secretary Board,of CSB IMK. APPROVED Health. SEPT. 20s.1922. _ BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS -BY L. B. SLAUGHTER President. Copy of letter of Nopt. 7th.01922. Beard of Works, City:- Gentlemen:s Mr. Charles Lapp owns &-house 1311 South Marietta Ave. He states that this house is built o the rear of a let which faces on Pennsylvania Avenues that the lot is 145 feet long and since no sewer is :available on Marietta Street it will be necessar for him to lay a sewer through his lot to Pennsylvania Avenue. He has been ordered by the Board of Health to make sewer .connections. The ordinance provides that a sewer must be available within 100 feet and'therefore we cannot enforce this Order unless the sewer is continued along Marietta Avenue. I request you inveseitgate this matter and advise me whether or not it will be possible to bring the sewer within the pre- scribed 100 feet, along Marietta Avenue. Thanking you for your attention to this matters I am, Charles S. Bosenburg.