02/29/1916 Board of Public Works Minutes

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5 6- Board met in regular session at 7:45 P.M. All members present. f Hearing had on Improvement Resolution No. 415 for the Pavement of - Michigan Street from North line of La Salle Avenue to South Line of South Street, In the City of South Bend, Indiana. Upon said hearing no remonstrators appeared and no written remonstrance was filed. (P"roperty owners interested in the ¢mprovement of said street appeared and discussed the different kind of material for pavements.) And the Board being fully advised in the premises, decides that the benefits to property liable to be assessed for said improvements 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 originally adopted, and the same is hereby in all things ratified, confirmed and approved. Resolved further, that notices be published on thy. s' day of March and 16ths9day. of March 1916 in a newspaper of general circulation in said City, stating that this Boar*1 receive bids for the construction of said improve- ments up to 10:00 A.M. on the 'fy of Aprils 1916. -The Board reserves the ri} t to re ject'sny and all bids Mr. C. D. Mmmons, General Manager of the Chicago, South Bend & Northern ,/ Indiana Ry. Co presented the 'following notice and the., same was placed on file. TO THE BOARD OF PUBLIC MTk S of the City of South Bend, Indian&' The undersigned, the Chicago, South Bend h Northern Indiana Railway Company, hereby notifies you that it hereby elects to improve that portion of Michigan Street in the City of South Bend described in Improvement Resolution No. 415, wAich is occppled by the tracks of said Company and that portion thereof which said Company is bound by contract with the said city to improve. Such improvement will be made and constructed by said Company in the following manner'. Metropolitan or other equally good paving brick to be used with the exception of a line of nosed block adjoining the inside of the rails, such block to be of hard stone knovez as Ligonier block or granite paving block. Said brick and. block to be laid on the usual two inch sand filler, underlaid by six inches of con- crete extending between the ties and underneath the rail. Underneath said ties and concrete to be a further layer of six inches Of concrete, all to be subject to such further detailed specifications as may be supplied by the City Engineer. This notice and election is given and served under, and in accordance with, the law of 1909 as set forth in the published acts of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana for the year 1909 at pages 412,417,et seq. same being Section 5710 Burnes R.S. 1914, and other laws and parts thereof applicable hereto. The undersigned further hereby requests your honorable body to include the paving and improvement above mentioned and described and the cost thereof in the general contract let by Your Board for the improvement of said Michigan Street under said Improvement Resolution No. 415. Respectfully submitted, CHICAGO t SOUT�'H BEND & NORTHERN INDIANA RY. CO. BY C. D. EW40NS9 Gentl Mgr. Petition granted and a;3proved with these exceptions, concrete base shall be 7 inches J in depth, one inch of sand cushion,further in the event contract is let for creosoted wooden blobktportion of pavement mentioned herein shall be creosoted wooden block. J A Committee from the Lincoln Civic Club appeared before the Board and requested that Leer Street be widened between Vistula Avenue and the Lake Shore Fty. No action was taken.