07/28/1916 Board of Public Works Minutes

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2i3 , ly1V . 1, Val u laaucu • STREET OR ALWY IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 467. Be It Resolved by the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend, St. Josepb,. C ounty, State of Ind Tana, that it is desired and.deemed necessary to improve Dubai) Avenue from Leer Street to Marine Street as follows, to why: -By grading said street from property line to proppeerty line; by paving the roadway from curb line to cubb line with gravel three (3) in-hes in depth; curbing the roadway with cement curb and by con- s truct ing a f ive (5) f oot cement walk on both 's ides of said Dubail Avenue. All as shown on the plans and in accordance with the profiles, detail drawings and specifications on file in the office of the Department of Public Works of the City of South Bend 1nndiana. The cast of of the improvement herein provided for, except street. and alley intersections, shall be .paid by special assessment to be levied upon the property s - ec is lly benef itted, to the amount that t__e same may be legally assessed therefor, in accordance with an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, entitled " An Act C oncerning Municipal Corporations," approved March 6,1905, and in accordance with and pursuant to the provisions of all acts amendatory and supplemental thereto. The cast of all street nd alley intersections, including one-half of the ppos ite street and alleys which run into, but do not cross said idth' of the improvement on roadway herein proposed to be improved and that portion of such street or alley abutting u- on property belonging to said Citym or upon property hot subject to such assessment shall e paud 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 theprovisions' of Section 108 of the above. entitled Act. Assessments of ten dollars and more against -each lot, if deferred , are to be ,aid in ten equal annual installments, with interest at the rate of six per cent per annum. A bond or bonds will be issued to the contractor to the amount of such deferred assessments in pro rata payment for such improvement. Under no circumstances shall the City of South Bend be,mor be held responsible for any sum or sums from said property owner or owners for said work, or for the collection of the samw. , or for the payment of bond, bonds, certificate or certificates issiied 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 improvment, 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 if proerty, collection of assessments and i3suance of bonds therefor shall be as provided for in said above entitled Act, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto. BE I`1' BURTHER RESOLVED, That' the Board of Public Works fix the 22nd. day of August A. D. 1916at 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 consideration of said proposed improvement, at which said Board of Public Works will hear all persons interested, or whose roperty is 1 iab'le to be assessedfor said improvement, and will decide whether the benefits to the property liable to be assessed for said improvement will equal the estimated cost thereof. Be It Further Resolved, That noti ce of the time and place of such public -consideration be published and mailed in the manner provided by_° law. Notie of this resolution shall be published on the 29th. day of July 1916 and on the 5th. day of August 1916 in the South Bend Daily Tribune. Adopted this 28th. , day of July 1916. Veronica C. Sweeney, Clerk of the Board, E . M. MORRIS BOARD OF PUBLIJ WORKS. JOHN B . WEBER President.