05/07/1918 Board of Public Works Minutes

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F Board met in regular session at 10:00 A.M. All members present. Mr. Frank° $a,tch met with the Board in regard to placing and rearranging lights on reque grounds on Riverside Drive. The Board ordered that the Indiana & Michiga n Electric Company be notified to rearrange present lights on Roque grounds and place two new 80 C. B. Lights. Mr. Prast &,pp a ed before the B r a, d requested that: the City Cor, and he Rve. pay for sidewalks extensions one uey S rect.,+as he s eonstrueting sidewalk on said Street on private contract. the Board advised Mr. Prasat to notify the Board when the extensions were to be put in and the City Contractor would be notified to place same for the City. The Board ordered that the City Contractor be notified to place extens ions to sidewalks on Oqk Street and Scott'Street. City C iv it Engineer Filed the following estimated costs of improvements. Est ima,ted ' cost of Dayton Street pavement improvement from Michigan Street to Miami Street at........................S 35 1,950.00 Estimated east of Bartlett Street pavement improvement from Michigan Street.to Lafayette Street at.... ***-,* ....... ............. 7,125.00 The following.reeolution was approved by the Board. RFS 0 L U T ION. Resolution trinsferr inn "Board of Public Works' authority over the land acquired . • . frft the George -Cutter Co. unto the Board of Park Commissioners with full control ever said prop+rty for boulevard purposes. Be It Resolved, by the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend, Indiana, that it is desired and doomed necessary that the following described property beginning on the west line of Notre Dam Street at a point 32 feet south ofthe southeast -corner "of lot 13 Coquillard's Second Add it ion; thence northwesterly on a straight line to the southwest c ornerof lot 7 in said Add it ion which point is on the southwest corner of lot 7 in said Add it ion which point is on the east line of St. Peter Street; thonee.south on the east line of St. Peter Street to the southwest corner of Lot 12 in Coquillard 6s Second Addition; thence southeasterly on the southerly line of let 12 and 14 in said Add it ion to the southeast corner of lot -14 in said Addition; thence, north to the place of beginning, be -under the control and supery is ion of the Board of Park C ommiss ioners of said City and made a part of the Boulevard system of said City. B& It Further Resolved, that the Board of Public Works do now hereby transfer to said Board of Park Commissioners full authority, - control and supervision over said street and renounce in favor of said Board of Park Commissioners, all its power over and to said street for the purpose herein above set out.. Reserving, however, unto this Board of Public Works, the right to lay, connect, and order to be laid and connected, all pippe, sewers, conduits and other under- ground work, retainixg hereby for such last named purposes all the power which this Board originally had in and to said Street,. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. Attested:- Veronica C. Sweeney, Clark of the Board of Public Works. G. A. ELLIOTT H. F. ROSTISER JOHN F. ROSTISER