05/03/1917 Board of Public Works Special Meeting Minutes

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532 Board met in spleial session at 5:00 P.M.. All members pre3ent. The Board ordered that the Street Commissioner oil South Uichigan Street, also Lincoln ?day ;West just as soon as the street was improved. Petition ✓ Received from residents of -south Uichigan Street, same read and placed or. file. Petition for a sidewalk and curb on Miami Street from Ewing Avenue to alley north, and on High Street from Bowman Street to Ewing Avenue. Same were referred to the City Engineer for a report. Board awarded contract for pavement on streets ,and alleys in Harter Heights Addition to Hber P. Harter with understanding that contract and bond be drawn in name of Harter Realty Company or assigned' -to Williston Construction Co. before same will be approved by the Board. ° At Mr. J. W. Toynes request the Board ordered that the water main be laid on BQvman Street in Southlawn Addition, . onlyU when men are working out there. �✓ , The following report ° of the City Engineer .vas ' approved by the Board. URY 1st . ,191'7. To the Honorable Board of Public Works, South Bend, Indiana. Dear Sir " Tl.e Western Construction Company have completed their Uichigan Street paving contract, and I.therefQre recommend that the money due them, which is being held back by the Comptroller at the request of the: Board of Public Works, .be release ind paid to the Western Construction Co. Yours very truly, FREDERICK J. ANDERSON, City Engineer. STREET OR ALLEY I PROVE+;ENT RESOLUTION NO. 520. ° Be It Resolved by the Board of Pu blic Works of the City of South Bend, St. Joseph County, State of Indiana., that it is desired and deemed necessary to 1V improve the °first alley north of Washington Avenue from William Street to Taylor Street as follows, to -wit: - By grading and° paving the roadway , also grading and paving the roadways of all intersecting and entering streets and alleys lying within the p6roperty lines of said alley not included in the roadways; by paving said readways with either asphalt, asphaltic concrete, Bitulithic or brick laid on a five (5) inch portland cement concrete foundation, or brick laid on a six " (6)-inch rolled gravel foundation; or by constructing a portland cement concrete pavement 7 inches 6n de-)th; by placing the necessary marginal cement curb ; placing all manholes, nd inlets to the proper grade, by constructing cement curb where is is'ziot-,already c. onstructedl':€�nd the' construction :cif the 'necessary. storm water inlets and conduits. All as shown on hhe 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, Indiana. The cost of the improvement herein provided for, except street and alley intersections, shall be paid by special assessment -to be levied upon the property specially benef itted, °to the amount that the same may be legally assessed therefor in accordance with an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, entitled, " An Act Concerning Municipal Corporations, " approved March 6,1905, and in accord- ance with and pursuant to the provisions of dull acts amendatory and supplemental thereto. The cost of all street and alley intersections, including one-half of the width of the improvement opposite street and alleys which run intom but do not cross said roadways herein proposed to be improved and that portion of such street or alley abutting upon property belonging to said City, or upon pro- perty 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.