04/17/1918 Board of Public Works Minutes

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B card m-t In regular hearing at 7:15 P.M. Mr . John F. De Haven, absent. Bear Ing had. on aasessment roll and f inal estfta:te for pipesewer on Dayton Street from Marine Street to alley west of Leer Street. No remonstrators appeared and no written remonebrance was f iied. The Board after due consideration deferred hear ing on as id assessment roll unt it Wednesday Apr it 24th.,3.918 at 7:15 P.M. The B card ordered that a re$ glut ion for the pav ing of Dayton Street between Michigan Street and Miami Street shod1d be prepared and presented at next less ion of Board. The f oll®w ing res glut ion was approved by the Board. STREET OR ALLEY IMPROVEIENT RESOLUTION no. 575, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS OF THE CITY OF, SOUTH BEFD, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, STATE OF INDIANA, that it is desired. and deemed necessary to improve Bartlett Street from Michigan Street to Lafayette Blvd tsaa follows,to-wit: 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, Bitulithic, As haltic Concrete or Brick, and the f o ndat ion shall be portland cement c crcrete f ive f 5) inebes thick for the sheet asphalt, bitugithic, asphaltic concrete and brick, or rolled gravel six (6) inches thick for the brick; also the cement �crb -now in place on said street shall be taken out and a concrete combination curb and gutter be constructed along said street; Storm water inlets and con- duits ' sha ll be constructed where necessary; all manhole tops and storm water inlets shall be set to the groper grade; cement marginal curb shall be constructed at all streets and alleys where necessary all as is more particulary shown and all in accordance with the prof iles , plans, detail drawings and spec if icat ions 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 runic ipa 1 C orpo.ttt ions," approved March 6,1905, and in accordance with and pursuant to the provision s of all acts amendatory and supplemental thereto. . The cost of all street and alley intersections, inc lud ing 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 upan property not subject to such assess- ment, 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 spec ial assessment to be levied under the provis inns of 'ection 108 of the above entitled Act. Assessments of tan 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 p r annum. A bond or bonds will be issued to the contractor to the amount of such deferred assessments in pro rats payment for such improvement Under no circumstances shall the City of South Bend be, or be held responsible for any sum or sums due from said property owner or owners for said work, or for the collection of the same, or for the payment of any bond, bonds, certificate or certificates, issued to said contractor in payment for such work except for such moneys as sha .11 have actually been received by the City from the assessments for such improvement or such Moneys an sadd City is by said ent itled Act and amendments and supplements thereto required to pay. All proceedings had, and work done in the making of said improvement, assessment of property, collection of assessments and issuance of bonds therefor, shall be as provided for in said above entitled Act, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Board of Public Works Hix the 15th. , day of May 1918 at the hour of 7:15 P.M. at the office of the Board of Public looks of this C ityt as the time and place for the public c ons iderat ion of said proposed improvement, at which said Board of Public 'forks will hear all persona interested or whose property is liable to b 3 assessed for said improvement, and will decide whether the benefits to the property liable to be assessed tor said improvement will equal the estimated cost thereof.