08/07/1918 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Deferred hearing had on Improvement Resolution No. - 579 for the Pavement on Portage Avenue from 1st. alley north of Kinyon Street to North, City Limits, In the C ityof South Bond, Indiana. ypoh said hearing a number of interested property owners appeared, but no wr ittew remflnstrance, wets filed. And the Board being fully advised in the -premises decides that the benefits to the property liable to be assessed for said improvements are equal to -the estimated cast.. of the same, as reported by the City Civil Engineer, and thereupon takea final action on said resolution with the following modification: - This resolution c onf irmed and mod if ied by e l iminat ing the pavement an a Eight and one half (4) foot strip in the center of the street to be used by the Chicago, South Bend & Northern Ind iana Railway .Company for an extension of its tracks as per the terms of a contract to be signed and file the City of South Bend by the above company prior to the letting of any contract for the above improvement. A ,retaining curb four (4") inches wide to be placed on either side of the Eight and one half (4) ft. strip of pavement hereby eliminated, and said strip to be paved with six (6" ) inches of gravely and the above resolution is hereby in all things ratified, c onf irmed and approved as modified. Resolved further, that notices be published on the 8th., day of August 1918 and on the 15th. , day of August 1918 in a newspaper of general circulation in said city, stating that this Board v11ll receive bids for the construction of said improvement up to 10:00 A.M. on the 23rd. day of August 1918 The'Board beserves the might to reject any and all bids, Dr. F. P. Eastman interested property owner in the above improvement appeared before the Board and stated he was against -said improvement going in unless everything was put in previous to Pavement especially the Street Car. Mr. R. R. Smith, General Manager -of the Chicago, South Bend & Northern Indiana, Railway Company met with the. Board, and stated .that it would be impossible to obtain any steel rail at thi" ime, even if an extension of the Portage Avenue line would be extended. Mr. - Smith stated that the Street Car Company did not want to stand in the way of any public improvement, but as soon as the war is over the Street Cyr Company will be willing to extend their car line on Portage Avenue for the length of whatever extend the pavement will be laid. Mr. Smith also stated that he would be willing to enter into a contract that his company w it i lay rails as Portage Avenue -within`- tiro years after the war if the price of steel is lower than it is at the present time. The Board instructed Mr. R.R. Smith to have. said contract prepared and present same .to them before a contract is let on Portage Avenge pavement improvement , which he agreed to do, CL President.