05/11/1918 Board of Public Works Special Meeting Minutes

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I Saturday May llth..1918. Continued. RESOLUTION NO. .?OR SERVICE CO NECTIONS WITH CIA iNS. WREAS, the Board of Public Works on the 13th ., day of March 1918 d id -adopt A ' resolut ion ordering and requiring the permanent improvement of Blaine Avenue from. Lincoln Way West to Portage Avenue, by paving the roadway of the same, and WREREAS, -th City Civil Engineer has prepared and filed in the office of this Board a report showing the number and.. location of the service pipes, mains, conduits, laterals, and connections which are, or will be necessary to accommodate the abutting property and the owners thereof with gas, water, sewer, and other conveniences and necessaries; and also said City Civil Engineer has prepared and filed i n said office specifications showing the material to be used and themanner of laying said service pipes, mains, conduits, laterals and connections from the mains to the points inside of the curb lines, THEREPORE, be it resolved by the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend, Indiana, that the report of the City Civil Engineer is adopted, and said report and the specifications prepared and filed by him are mode a part of this resolution as fully and effectually as if copied herein at full length; and it is further ordered that all of such private connections with the sewers gas and water mains must be made in said street by bringing them inside the curb lines thereof. And be it further resolved that notice by publication for two succesiv days in the South Bend Daily Tribune, a newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the City of South Bend, Indiana, be given to the owners of the property abutting upon said street to be improved directing them to made such sewer and water connections off. or before the 3rd. day of June 1918 and that if said connections are not made on or before said time and in accordance with the speci- f is a,t ione and report on file in the office of the Board of Public Works , then said Board will cause the game to be made and will assess the cost thereof against the property abutting upon said street, and shall do all other things pertaining thereto according to the provisions and requirements of Ordinance No. 1842 adopted by the Common Council of the City of South Bend on July 24,1916 and &J:i of all other ordinances and lawsrelating thereto. And be it further resolved and ordered that after 20 days period has elapsed for the making of said connections by the property owners, a notice.shall be - published for two weeks, once each week, in the South Bend Daily Tribune, a newspapa of general circulation published in said City, requesting bids from contractors for the making of such connections as have not been made by the property owners and such notice shall fix a day, not earlier than ten days after the first of such publications, when bids shall be opened and a contract let for the doing of said work. And be it further ordered that the Northern Indiana Gas & Electric company, which holds a franchise from, and is empowered by sadd City to furnish art if ical gas to the c itzens thereof, and is 'engaged in said business in said City, is hereby directed to make to make and install all service conne etions With its mains in said street in accordance with the provisions of Ordinance No. 1555, adopted June 27, 1910, and such other ordinances or laws applicable thereto; which connections are shown. uper the an report of the City Civil Engineer and which are hereby declared to be necessary in supplying gas to the owners of property abetting upon said street. Adopted this Ilth., day of May 1918. r, A. EMq-OTT JOIRI F. DEHAVEN BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS*