06/20/1918 Board of Public Works Specail Meeting Minutes

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The Board of Public Works met in special session at 7:30 P.M, All members present, Mayor F. R. Carson, present First part of session. The meeting was called for the special. business, of meeting with the property owners on Blaine Avenue between Portage Avenue and Lincoln Way West and on Harvey Street between Allen Street and Blaine Avenue to discuss the proposition for the s ubs t itut ion of Tax is o Asphalt for Tr in idad Lake Asphalt as named in the contract with the WillSston Cnstruction Company. There were sixteen property owners , residents on Blaine Avenue and on eproperty owner on Harvey Street present 'at the meeting, The Board explained to the meeting the Pacts -surrounding the letting of the contract on the bad" of.Trin`idad Natit:ral Lake Asphalt. The further application by the City for s uff is ient asphalt to be used by the contract in a omplet ing the improvement and the fact of the refusal of the oil division of the United States Government to allow the producer to sell such asphalt to the Williston Construction. -Company and the notice received by the City from the United States governmamt bnzfile,- vas read to the meeting, -The City engineer explained the material known as Tex is o asphalt to the meeting and all property v are were given a change to state whether they were for or against the substitution. The meeting then resolved itself into a general discussion of all present, and after a full hear ing the Board ,dismissed the property owners -and in the preserAe of t)*City Engineer then discussed the matter of making the sulbst itut ion. No final deeds ion was reached at this, m; et ing and the meeting then adjourned.