09/19/1916 Board of Public Works Minutes

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25L Board net in regular. session at 10:00 A.M. Mr.A. H. Rice absent. ✓ Bids were received, opened and read for Grade, curb walk on Ninth Street from Pleasant Street to the St. Joseh River. Same referred to the City Engineer for -tabulation. 'The Clerk was instructed to refer the matter of moving the turn - table of the Michigan Central Ry. Company on Cedar. St. and also the flooringr of the viaduct over Leeper Avenue to the City Attorney for action. Mr. Vernon C. Hastings appeared before the Board and presented a proposed plat of the Shively estates along Ewing, Avenue and Calvert Street. No action taken. Clerk instructed to write to Mr. C. N. Chubb, Mgr. of the Northern Indiana Gas & Elec. Company and state that the Board expects to pave Eddy Street r/ and Mishawaka Avenue early in the Spring of 1917 and will insist that all under- ground work must be done this Fall, if for any reason that they cannot do this work this Fall to let the Board know at once. Bond and contract for Grade, curb and w&ILk on Washi-Igton Avenue from Sunnyside Avenue to Jacob Street under Improvement Resolution No. 461. signed by Hugh Anderson and approved by the Board.. Bond and contract for pipe.sewer on Push, Milton, Fellows, Columbia, Carroll Street Benton Court a-d St. Joseph Street from Calvert Street to St. Joseph River signed by De Pea--e & Coussens was approved by the Board. Bond and contract for pine sewer on Tecumseh Avenue from Pokagon Street to a point 15 feet north of the south line of lot 375 Hillcrest Addition, signed by De Pea,,e & Coussens, was approved by the Board. Bond and contract for sidewalk on west ide of Kemble Avenue from / 01:iver Street to Ewing Avenue signed by C. L. Headley and approved by the Board. The following communication received by the City Engineer was referred to the Bo: rd. . City Engineer office. Gent 1er_Zen: VII 1•r,,e Warner Bldg. S.E. Cor. Mich. & Wayne St. is supplied with water taps (3) on tdayne St. side and you are now putting in tap on Michigan St. contrary to my talk with water Supt. and all parties connected fiith the office. said tap will not be used and therefore an expense to me for nothing. The sewer you report at #5205 S. Mich. fit. (Lot 23 Martin's) 344.80 I fail to find tenants or neighbory tr°=L s ,�,, r" s•e"'er -.ut, i='.. Is thireanyway that I may know of this se,:-e r My neighbor J.M.. Sa-rtin 71-553 So. Mich. St next door to mine) states th^.t his sewer cost him 130.00 (private contract) to curb & �38.00 to building line. Yours truly, F. B. TARNER vinR?.ER BLDG. The Board o •dered that the above mentioned, taps be left as -.Ut in by the City. President.