11/27/1916 Board of Public Works Special Meeting Minutes

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i,5 Bo&rd met in special aessinm at 10:00 A.M.. All mmnbmro present. ° T.ht mstter o�"'-;track °Se.paza&Vlfnn Rt. olutfon No 2 - dl_cu^s�d ✓ with Attorney Hubbell and Asst. Princ. Engineer of the New York Central Rail.roa:d Company. The Board adopted modified Resolution No. 2 in present formwith certain exceptions and the City Attorney was directed to modify said resolution in accordance with the instructions�of the Board. This mg.tter deferred until 5:00 R. U. this 27th. day of November 1916. , The following contract was signed by the Board and referred to the Common Counc it f or rat if ica.t ion,. WHEREAS, the. City of South Bend desires to cruse to be established end installed and placed in operation a lighting system, and MEREAS, it is desired on the part .of the said City of South Bend for economic reasons, to light said territory by the system known as the Five Lamp Post Lighting System,." and WHEREAS, the Indiana and Michigan Electric Company is a. public utility, owning and operating a system for the manufacture, distribution end sale of electricial current for heat, , light and pourer purposes in the City- of South Bend, andos the only utility so engaged therein and desires to sell elect-ricial current to said City and to establish an ornamental lighting system in the territory here- inafter defined.. NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the covenants herein made by and between each of the .parties hereto, it is agreed by and between the said City of South Bend, party of the first part, and the Indiana and Michigan Electric Company, party of the second part, that the said party of the second part shall use that part of Jts cyst,em no�jv instm.1led `4 the territory hereina"'ter defined and property equipped, the same as h-reinafter described, in the lighting of said streets and shall extend an ornamental lighting system in, along and upon the following streets, nd within the following territory in the City of South Bend, County of St. Hnon Main Street,from La, Salle Avenue to Wayne Street; upon Vicl igan Street from La Salle Avenue to Monroe Street; upon Mayne Street from }Jain Street to St. Joseiah.Street; upon Jefferson Boulevard from the alley Between Lafayette ar.d Ms,i; Streets east to St. Joseph Street; Washin.gtoa Street from the alley between Lafayette and Main StreeitsEast td Michigan Street; Colfax Avenue from Main Stree o to mielligax itrelt ; and two -lamp poster sba1L be• installed on the north side of La Salle °Street on Ma- in Streets and also on MichiganStreet. It is further agreed that the party of the second part shall remove the present are lamps now in use in such a part of said territory above described as rapidly as is consistent with the progress .of the work and replace the same with said ornamental lamps.' Each and all of said lamp posts of said system shall be Installed at the locations approximately as designated upon a blue print -attached hereto, marked "Exhibit A." and igadk'a part hereof. The top lamp in each :post shall be a one hundred (100) candle power lamp, or its equivalent and the other lamps on each post shall be a sixty candle .power tungsten lamp, or their equivalent; and said top lamp shall burn each and ever night during the year, 3from dusk to dawn, or. approximately four thousand (4000� hours of service and the four lower Lamps on -each post shall burn from dusk until midnight, or approximately two thousand (P000) hours of service per year. Aad the party of the second part further agrees that it will place and install two hundred fifty (250) candle power lamps on the top of the posts, similie to these which are now on Lafayette and Division Streets, at the dead ends of Jefferson and St. Joseph Streets, Wayne and St. Joseph Streets, and Monroo and Michigan Streets, where there are but two lamps at such intersections; Provided, howeve' however, that if said installation at said dead ends should in the judgement of the Board of Public Works be insufficient to light said iatorsectious, then said Board may elect to have two more cluster l*ghts of the same kind as described in the last preceding paragraph placed and installed across the street at each or amy of said deed ends, which shall be done by the party of the second part after being .-notified as to do, and the same shall be maintained for the same price as heroin .� stated.