01/04/1916 Board of Public Works Minutes

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25 Tuesday January 4th..1916. Board met in regular session at 10:00 A.M. All members present. 4 City Engineer submitted the estimated cost of the pipe serer on Caroline Street from southerly line of Lincoln Way East to enter line of Dayton Street at ...A 1.36o.o0 s . Remonstrances were filed. by Dudley M, Shively for the Shively Estate on Michigan Street Trunk sewer_, and by David U. & Helen E. Bowman. A. letter wa,s o F fl sent to Mr. C. N. W-11coxen, P^es. & Gen11. Mgr. of the Chicago, T1aI7e Shore and south B.Pnc R_y. Company requesting +,,e return of t ,.e contract executed for the improvement of the tract of land at southwest corner ^f' lea Salle a. ,i La Porte AveniP within a vrEEk ob two , and t f not sa.r:e would be let by City contract. fl, Air. Louis Nickel appeared before the Bo&rd and Made a request to have an alley in Nickel's Sub. Div. vc.cated. No action was taken. The City Engineer submitted the list; of property oviners in the matter of the appropriation of certain property under Condemnation Resolution Number 42 as shovn on page 776 of Record 5, It ich list includes the nacres of the owners afid holds•s of property and of interests the •ein souFjit to be taken or beneficially or injuriously effecte4k. and t-he description of the several pieces 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 unanimously adopted, resolved that said list, together with the amounts of benefits and damages anch et 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 against ttie several tracts of land as specifically set Forth in said list, anri that the respective amounts of damages contained in the said list be and are :gereby awarded to t e several tracts of land, contained in said list ure hereby awarded or assessed, as the case may be in said several tracts of land. The Board hereby further sets o-f' the benefits and. dames_es each against the other vfh re both benefits and dame. es are assessed against thr. same piece of property, tract p land or interest, and hereby Fixes said respective net, benefits as the amount that shall be paid by the respective owners as benefits, and further hereby fixes the respective net damages as t3D the several tracts as the amount that shall be paid to the owners of the respective treats as 'damages. Thereupon, upon -notion duly made and. seconded and. unanimously adopted, the ` 1st. day of February 1916 was fixed as the day on which this Board will receive or hear remonstrances from persons with regard to the amount of their respective awards or assessments, and the Clerk of this Board was instructed to prepare and cause to be duly and legally given, notices to the owners of each parcel of property, showing the amount of the assessment or award, with a description of the property affected, and the date of said hearing. The Board had up for consideration the appointing of the Con.. ✓for examining the inspector for building. The, same v►a.s taken un adviserient undil a future date. Pr s ent.