07/03/1917 Board of Public Works Minutes

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:1M STREET OR.ALLEY IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 544. 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 necessary to improve 'Eddy Street and Mishawaka Avenue from Jefferson Boulevard -to the center of Nineteenth Street as follows,to-wit:- Said street and avenue shall be graded, nd the roadway thereof, shall be paved; and also the roadway of certain portions of the streets and -alleys which enter or intersect'said street and avenue shall be graded and paved, The paving material to be used in making said improvement shall be Sheet Asphalt, Bitulithic, Asphalt] Concrete or Brick, and the foundation shall be portland cement concrete five (5) inches thick for sheet asphalt, bitulithie, asphaltic concrete and brick or rolled gravel six (6) inches thick for brick; also cement curb shall be constructed along said street a!,d avenue where same is not already constructed; storm water inlets and enduits shall be constructed where-neoessary all manhole covers and inlets shall be set to the proper grade and cement marginal curb shall be constructed at all street s 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 the City of South Bend, Indiana. The cost of the improvement herein provided for, except street°and alley intersections, shall be, paid by assessment to be .levied upon the property specially luene- fitted, 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," appoved Mareli 6,1905, and in accordance - with and pursuant to the provisions of dll acts amendatory and supplemental thereto. The cost of all street and alley .intersections, .ine.luding 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 pro erty belonging to said City, or upon property not subject to such assessment, shal be paid by the City in cash out 8 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. Assessments of ten dollars and more against each lot, if deferred, are to be paid in ten equal annual installments, with interest at the rate of Six per cent per annum. -A bond or bonds will be issued tothe contractor to the amount of such de- ferred assessments in pro rats payment for such improvement. Under no circumstances shall the City of South Beild be, or be held respons ible for any sum or sums due from sa id property owner or °owners for said work, or forthe collection of the same, or for the paymment of any bond, bonds, certificate or certificates, issued 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 improve- ment, or such moneys as said City is by said entitled Act and amendments and supplements thereto required to pay. All proceedings hack, and 4ork done in the making of said improvement, assessment.of property, collection of assessments and issuance of bonds therefor, small be as provided for in said above entitled Act , and Acts amendatory thereof and - supplemental thereto, Be'It Resolved Further, That the Board of Public works fix the 24th; dray of July A. D. 1917 at the hour of 7: 45 P.M. at the office Sf 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 xxt all persons interested, or whose property isliable to be assessed for said improvement, and will decide whether the benefits t;;the property liable to be assessed for said improvement will equal the estimated cost thereof. Be It Furthr Resolved, that notice of the time and place of such public consideration be published and mailed in the manner provided by law. Notice of this resolution shall be published on the 6th. day of July 1917 and on the 13th. dayof July 1917 in the S o$th Bend. Daily Tribune. Adopted this 3rd. day of July 1917. E. M. )f.O RRIS BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. A. H. RICE JOHN B. WEBER Attested: - Veronica C. Sweeney, Clerk of the Board.