06/12/1917 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Board met in regular session at 7:45 P.M. All members present.. Councilman Seifert appeared before the Board in regard to petitions on file for water mains on Eighteenth Street River Park, also water mains on north St. Peter Street, north from South Bend Avenue, This matter was referred to the Water Dent., Engineer filed assessment for pipe sewers on Rush, Fellows,Milt.on, Columbia, Carroll and St. Joseph Streets and Benton Court from Calvert Street to St. Joseph Street, under Improvement ResolutIon No. 464. In the City of South Bend, Indiana. Resolved, that notices as to the amounts of assessments as required by statute, be published on the 15th. day of June 1917 and or, the 22nd. day. of June 1917 in the South Bend Daily Tribune, st ating that thisBoard will give a hearing on the amount of such assessments at its office in the City Hall on the 26th. day of .June 1917 at 7:.45 P.M. Resolved further, that the entire work under the above contracts be accepted and approved and the final estimate thereon allowed. Notice of this resolution shall be published on the 15th: day of June 1917 and -on the 22nd. day of June 1917 inthe South Bend Daily Tribune, stating that this Board will give a hearing on the acceptance of such work at its office in the City Hall on the. 26th. day of June 1917 at 7:45 P.M. The matterof the hearing on Vacation Resolution No. 35 for the Vacation of South Main Street ✓ Indiana.. The Board rordered om Jay Sthat tsaid to Ehearing wing ebeedeferred until , In the City �f South Bend, Tuesday June 19th.91917 at 7:45 P.M. STREET OR ALLEY IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 529. 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 nec- essary to improve Mimi Street from the north line of Fox Street to the north line of Ewing Avenue as follows, -to; wit: -M Said street shall be graded, and the roadway thereof shall be paved; and also the roadway of certain portions of the streets and alleys which enter.or intersect said street shall be graded and paved. The paving material to be used in making said improvement shall be sheet asphalt, Biulithic, Asphaltic Concrete or Bricks and the foundation shall be portland cement concrete five (5) inches thick for sheet asphalt, bitulithic, asphaltic concrete and brick or rolled gravel six (6) inches thick fiRr brick; also cement curb shall be constructed along said street where same is not already constructed; storm water inlets and conduits shall be constructed where necessary all manhole covers and inlets shall be set to the proper grade acid cement marginal curb shall be constructed at all streets and alleys where necessary; all manholes covers and inlets shall be set to the proper grade and cement marginal curb shall be constructed at all streets and alleys where necessary; all as is more particularly shown, and all in accordance with the profiles, plans, detail drawings and specifications on file in the Office of the Board of Public Works of said City. 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 benefitted, to the amount that the same may be 1egally 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 accordance With and pursuant to the provisions of all acts amendatory and supplemental thereto-. The cosy of street and alley intersections, including one-half of the width of the improvement opposite street and 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 gerere.1 fund, if able to do so, or from a fund created by a special assessment to be levied under the provisions of Se ction 108 of the above entitled Act.