01/28/1919 Board of Public Works Minutes

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wiff M Tuesda Board met in regular session at 10: 0O A.M. All members present. Mayor F. R, Cars on. acid City Rag inesr JIF,- J. Anderson present. The matter of the disposal of garbage in this City was discussed by the Mayor and the Board. No act icon taken., ,he following communication received read and placed on file. January 23rd,1919. Board - of Pub I is Works, South Bend, Indiana, Gentlemen: - This will acknowledge receipt of your letter of January 22nd.1919 with reference to the c and it ion of Bridge Street between Colfax Avenue and LaSalle Avenue We are at the -present time .moving the boilers which were sitting in the street into the power house, and expect to have -this' completed by February 1st; The street will then be c leaned up s o that it will be passable condition. Yours very truly, IND IANA & MICH IGAN ELECTRIC COMPANY C S. KEBNEDY Gen' 1. Supt., C ommunicat ion from Isaac Van Trump in regard to letter of January 24th. officially accepting his oproposal for asphalt inspection was read and placed on file. Petition received fan a pavement on .W. Huron Street! ,from South Kose iusaks Street to -Meade Street. Same read and placed on file. Resolution for same adopted. The Board ordered the following lights moved and placed. Move present light on Sherman Avenge between Lindsey Street and Van Buren Street north to Van Buren Street and place a new are light at Lindsey Street and Sherman Avenue. Place a 100 C. P. light at Leland Avenue and Rex Street. Place an 80 C. P. Light in 2nd. alley west of Harris Street on Fisher St. Place an 80 C. P. light on Grant Street about 400 feet south of Ford St. It was resolved by the Board that the salary of J. T. Neenan Clerk in the Engineering Department should be and is hereby ordered to be increased from $1380.00 per year to $1500,00 per y-ar, same to be go into effect February lst.,1919. Also ail rodmen in the Engineering Dept., and inspectors are hereby ordered increased from $2.50 per day to $3.00 per day. The following resolutions were &09pted by the Board. LOCAL SEWER IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION No. 600, RESOLVED BY mHE BORRD OF PUBLIC WORKS OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, COUNTY OF ST. JOSEPH, STATE OF INDIXNA, That the construction of a local sewer, intended and adapted only for only use by the property holders whose property abuts thereon, aii,d not intended .or adapted for receiving sewerage. from collateral drains_, be and the same is, hereby ordered in and along Linden Avenue from Meade Street, 'to a point 65 feet west of the west line of Olive Street as follows, to -wit: - Beginning at the intersection of the center line of Meade Street and Linden Avenue;_ _thence _east along:the _-center ,1_ine ,9f .Linden Avenue to a point. 65 feet wart of the west line of Olive Street with a 12 inch vitrified pipe sewer; together with the necessary manholes, storm water inlets, conduits, flush tanks and house connections to the curb line along the line of said improvement;_ all as is more particularly shown and all in accordance with the plans, profiles, detail drawings and s pec if icat ions on file in the office of the Depa:rtmant of Pub 1 is Works of the City of South Bend, Indiana, andsaid sewer, with, all its appurtenances shall be con- structed in accordance with the profile and spec if icat ons now on file in the office of the Department of Public Works of said City. The cast of s,4id improvement shall be apportioned against and paid by the property holders whose property abuts thereon, and upon -6he City of South Bend if the City is benefitted by said improvement, all according to the method and manner provided for in Act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, entitled " An Act Concerning Municipal Corporations, " approved March 6,1905.