04/18/1916 Board of Public Works Minutes

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STREET OR ALLEY IMPR)VEAENT -RESOLUTION NO• 434. Be It Resolved by the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend,St. Joseph County, State of Indiana, that it is desired and deemed necessary to improve Indiana Avenue Efrom Prairie Avenue to Walnut Street as follows, to —wit :— By grading said avenue from property line to property line; by paving the roadway from curb line to curb line with gravl three (3) inches in depth; by curbing the roadway with cement curb and by constructing a cement `idewalk five (5) feet in width on both sides of said Avenue;- All as shown on the plans and in accordance with the profiles, detail drawings -nd specifications on file in the Office of the Department of Public Works of the City of South Bend, Indiana. The cost of the improvement herein provided for, except street and alley intersections, squall be paid by spec -al assessment to be levied upon the property specially benef it ted, to the amount that the sal :e may be legally assessed therefor, in accordance with An Act of the General Assembly -of the State of Indiana, entitled " An Act Concerning Muni-- cipal Corporations.* approved March 6,1905, and in accordance with and pusuant to the pro— visions of all acts amendatory and supplemental thereto. The cost of all street nd a ley intersections, including one-half of the width of the improvement oppo:�ite,.street nd alleys which run into, but do not cross said roadway herein proposed to be improved and that portion of such street or alley abutting upon property belonging to said City, or upon property not subject to such assessment, shall be paid by the City in cash out of its general fund, if able to do so, or from a fund created by a special assessment to be levied under the provisions of Section 108 of the above entitled Act. Assessments of Ten dollars and more against each lot, if deferred, are to paid in ten annual equall installments, with interest at the rate of Six per cent per num. A bond or bonds will'be issued to the contractor to the amount of such deferred assess— nt s in pro rate payment for such imp roveme nt . Under no circumstances shall the City of South Bend be,or be held reponsi— ble for any sum or ums due from said property owner or owners for said work, or for the collection of the same, or for the payment of any bond, bonds, certificate or certificates issued to said contractor in payment for such work, except for such moneys as shall have actually been received by the City from the assessments for such impr,- Vetent, or such moneys as said City is by said entitled Act and amendments and supplements thereto required to pay. All proceedings had, and work done in the making of said improvement, assessment of property, collection of assessments and i suance of bonds therefor, shall be as provided for in said above entitled'Act, and Acts Emendatory thereof and supplemental thereto. BE IT 151JRVIER RESLVED, That the Board of Public Works fix the 23rd. day of May 1916 at the hour of 7:45 P.M. at the office of the Board of Public Works, of this City, as the time and place for the public contideration of s6fd proposed improvement,"at which said Board of Public Works will hear all persons interested,ior whose property is liable to be assessed for said improvement, and will decide vfnethe r the benefits to the property liable to be assessed for said improvement will equal the estimated cost thereof. Be It Further Resolved, That notice of the time and place of such publion co sideration be publi hed and mailed in the manner provided by law. Notice of this resolution shall be published on the 24th. day of April 1916 and on the 1=t. day of May 1916 in the South Bend Daily Tribune. ed this 18th. day of April 1916. E. M. MORRIS BOARD Or PUBLIC WORKS. A. H. RICE JOHN B. WEBER eronica 0. Sweeney, Clerk of Board.