12/24/1918 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Beard. met in regular session at 10: 00 A.M. All members present Messrs. Plats & Gill contractors on the E. C. Westervelt property Known as the Bissell Bhilled Plow Works located on lots 13.14 and, 15 Manufacturers Add it ion on ,E . Colfax Avenue, under c ondemnat ion, by the Building Department, appeared before the Board in regard to extension of. t ime` on notice. This matter was continued until Friday December 27th. ,1918 at 10: 00 A.M. County 'Commissioner' Edward Zeitler appeared before the Board and stated that hhe County Commissioners have a petition for the improvement of the road from the City Limits to the termination of the present pavement on Edwardsburg Road by paving same with asphaltic concrete, and requested the Board of Works to have co-operate with them by installing a pavement to the City limits on South Bend Avenue from where pavement now ends in City. The matter was discussed by the Board and the Board decided to start a resolution for the paving of South Bend Avenue to the City Limits the advertisement to run concurrently with the improvement resolution of the County and bids to be let by the City to the same contractor that County does to do the same contract. ° It was ordered by the Beard that the salary of Charles Johnson Janitor of City Hall be dnereased from$85.00 per month to $100.00 per month, same to start January lst.,1919. The f ollfwing Court order was received read and placed an file and following resolution adopted. STATE OF IHD IANA ) ST. JOSEPH COUNTY ) SS In the St. Joseph Superior Court, September Term91918. Ex Parte Petition of Jacob M. Chillas, et al, for assessment in the matter of -the improvement known as the High Street and ) Ewing Avenue Grand Trunk Sewer system. ° Now comes Herman Tohulka, Schuyler Robertson, andVernon C. Hastings, and show to the Court that they are appraisers heretefore appointed by this Court in the above entitled cause to re -appraiser the benefits, if any there - lie, acerus ing to the real &state described in the petition filed herein. This a-py_;raisers further sathat on the 21st._9 day of December 1918, they viewed the premises and the improvement and find thw assessment compl&fined of ta• be. excessive, and further find that said real estate is or will. be benef itted by such improvement in the amount of $1,315.67 HERMAN A. TOHULKA • W. S. ROBERTSON VERBBN C. HASTINGS. TO EWARD KELLER City Treasurer and John A. Swygart, City Controller. fn oempl iance with Section 8125 Burns Revised Statutes 1914 Volume 4, the Board of Public Works of this _City of South Bend, do hereby certify that on the 29th.9 day of October 1918 Jacob M. Chillas, Clem W. Studebaker et al filed on appeal in the Superior Court of St. Joseph County frcm°the decision of the Board of - Public Works confirming the assessment against the property of said parties as described the final assessment roll under Improvement Resolution No. 503 of the City of South Bend, known as the High Street and Ewing Avenue Trunk sewer system.