08/20/1918 Board of Public Works Minutes

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279 Mr. Fred Corporan appeared before the Board and reported that no attention had been given to filling in alley south of Eleventh Street and repairing sidewalk at same place as per contract signed by him with the City in Sept. ,191%. The Board advised Mr. Corporan to get J. W. Vernon in to Board meeting Tuesday August 27th.,1918 at 10:)) A.M. ind have an underatan4ing at that time just what there is to be taken care of. The Board ordered that the gum of Five ($51=00) Dollars per month be paid Wm. Kr seder for house care ;and -the necessary repairs for .Steam Roller at the Central Puipp ing Station. The, -same to be paid out the Street and Alley Dept. , ,funds. , This being the date set for the deferred hearing on plans and specifications on Track Separation under Track Separation Resolution No. 2, it was unanimously resolved by the Board that this matter be deferred until Febrgary 18th.,1919 at 10:00 A.M..Clerk instructed is net ify all parties concerned for said meeting. No interested parties appeared in regard to the above on this date. The following waivers, with resolutions were approved by the Board. TO -THE HONORABLE MAYOR, BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS AND CONTROLLER OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, IND IANA: -- GENTLEMEN; The undersigned, Chicago, South Bend & Northern Indiana Railway Company desires to take advantage -of the prov is ion of an Act entitled " An Act Concirnin.g Municipal Crporat ions" approved starch 6,1905, and particularly Section 255, and all amendatory and supplemental acts thereto providing for the manner of paying for the paving e$dsforets and alleys in cities and towns, for the issuing and sale of bonds therefor and for the collections of same, and for such purpose hereby expressly waives all objections on account of illegality or irregulabry of the proceedings had for the improvement of by paving of Jefferson Boulevard from Michigan Street to the west and of the bridge over the St: Joseph River in the City of South Bend; Indiana, as designated in Improvement Resolution Number 564 adopted by said City, and request that said City take such action and do such things as may be necessary to entitled the undersigned to take advantage of the provisions of this act, and to include in the amount of the bonds to be issued or sold the ent ire cost of that part of the paving improvement properly chargeable and assessable against said company. CH ICAGO— SOUTH BEND & NORTHERN IND IANA RA MWAY COMPANY, BY S. M. MURDOCK, Secretary. Dated this 19th, day of August 1918. WHEREAS, the City of South Bend, Indiana, by and through its Board of Public Works, heretofore by improvement resolution No. 564. caused Jefferson Boulevard, from Michigan Street to the west and of the bridge over the St. Joseph River, now in the City of South Bend, to be improved by pavng the same; and WHEREAS, the Chicago, South Bend & Northemt Indiana Railway Company occupies a portion of said street for the operation of its electric railway, and by the terms and c and it ions of its franchise is required to pave a portion of said street, and WHMMSm theportion of said street required to be paved by said Railway Company was paved by the Western Construction Company, a corporation of th z� City of Lafayette, County of Tippecanoe and State of Indiana, as contractor for such work, and same was completed by its as such contractor and accepted by the City of South Bend on the 7th.-, day of August 1918; and WHEREAS, the said Railway Company on the day of August ,1918 executed and filed with the said City of South Bend its st ipul at ion add agreement waiving objections on account of any illegality or irregularity in the proceedings had for such improvement of said street and requested the City to issue bonds to procure funds with which to pay that portion of the cost of said improvement chargeable against said railway company in the manner provided by an Act entitled , " An Act Concerning Munc ipal Corporations, " approved March 6th., 1905. and all amendatory and supplemental acts thereto: and