03/12/1919 Board of Public Works Minutes

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_ 7 49 Wednesday March 12th..1919. Board met in regular session at 7:15 P.M. All members present, Deferred °hearing had on resolution for pipe sewer on _Brookfield Street from Ford Street to point 110 feet south of the south line of Division Street under -Improvement Resolution No. 597. In the City of South Bend, Indiana. Upon said'hearing property owners appeared and' -presented petition requesting the Board to modify said original resolution to read 15 inch pipe instead of 12 inch pipe. .,And , the Board being fully advised in the premises, decides that the benefits' to property liable to be assessed forsaid biprovements are equal to the estimated cost of the same, as reported by tie City Civil Engineer, and thereupon takes final action on said resolution by modifying same to rend 15 in.ch sewer Instead of 12 inch sewer as per petition filed by property owners and the same is hereby in all things ratified, confirmed and approved as amended.. Resolvgd further that notices be published on the 14th., day of March 1919 and on the 21st., day of March 1919 in the South Bend Daily Tribune in said City, stating that this Board will receive bids for the construction of said improvement up to 10:-00 A.I. on.the lst., day of April 1919. The Boa.rd.reserves the right to reject any and all bids. The following estimated cost was filed by the City Civil Engineer. March 5,1919. To the Hon. Board of Public Works, of the City of South Bend, IndIana. , Gentlemen:•- • I herewith estimate the , cost .of the Brookfield Street pipe sewer improvement from Ford Street to Division Street at ..........: .. 3,712.00 , Respectfully submitted, City Engineer. Hearing had on Improvement Resolution. No. 611 for the pavement on Eddy Street from Mishawaka Avenue to Sample Street Bridge, in -the City of South Bend,' Ind iana. . Upon said hearing no remonstrators appeared and no written remcnstrance was filed. And the Board being fully advised in the premises dec ides that the benefits to property. liable to be assessed for. said improvements are equal to the estimated cost of -the -same, as reported by the City Civil Engineer, and thereupon takes final action on said resolution as originally adopted and the same is hereby in all things ratified, confirmed and approved. Resolved further, that notices be published on the 14th., day of March 1919 nd on�the 21st., day of March 1910 in the South Bend Daily Tribune in'said City stating that this Board will received bids for the construction of said improvements up to 10:00 A.Y. on the lst., day of April 1919. The Board reserves the igt to reject any and all bids. Hearing had on,improvement resolution No. 610 for the Pavement on Linden Avenue from Walnut Street to Anthony Street, in the City of South Bend, Indiana., Upon said hearing remonstrators appeared but no written remonstrances were filed. And the Board being fully advised in the premises, decides that the benefits, to property liable to be assessed for said improvements are equal to the estimated cost of the same, as reported by the City Civil Engineer, and thereupon takes final action. on said resolution by modifying said resolution to include Bituminous Macadam and seven inch Portlarid Cement concrete pavement same being requested by the property owners present, and the same is hereby in all things ratified,, confirmed and approved, Resolved further, that notices.be published on the 14th., day of March 1919 and on the 21st., day of March 1919 in the South Bend Daily Tribune in said City, stating that this Board will receive bids for the construction of said improvement up to 10: 00 A.M. on the lst. day of April 1919. The Board. reserves the right to reject any and all bids.