08/24/1920 Board of Public Works Minutes

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The City Engineer submitted the list of the property owners in the matter. of an appropr iat ion ofccerta, in property under 'Condemnet ioh Resolution No. 56 as shown on Page 333 Record No. 8 for the Widening of Ewing Avenue from Ersnperger Street to Olive Street in the City of South Bend, Indiana, which list includes the names of the owners iudd holders of of property and', of interests sought to be taken or bone-, ficially or injuriously affected, and the description of the several pieces of property which is affected by said appropr iat ion proceedings. Thereupon the Board proceeded to award the damages sustained and to assess the benefits accruing to each piece, of property on said list, It was thereupon, upon motion duly made and seconded and unanimously adopted, resolved that said list, together with the amount of benefits and damages and the benefits and net damages therein set forth.as the several parcels of land be adopted and that the respective amount, of benefits contained in said list to and are hereby assessed against the several tracts of land as specifically set forth in said list and that the respective amounts of damages be and are hereby awarded to the several tracts of land as specifically sot forth in said list, and that net benefits or net damages, as the case may be as to the respective tracts of land, contained in said list'are hereby awarded or assessed, as the case may be as to the said several tracts of land. The Board hereby further -sets off the benefits and damages each against the other where both benefits and damages are assessed, against the same piece of property, tract of land or interests, and hereby fixes the said respective net benefits as the amount that shall be paid by the respective owners as benefits and further hereby fixes the resRct ive owners as benefits and further hereby fixes the respective net damages as to the several tracts as the amount that shall be paid to the owners of the respective tract as damages. The Clark of this Board was instructed to prepare notices to the owners of each parcel of property showing the amount of the assessment of benefits or award of damages with a description of the property and it was unanimously agreed by the Board that the date of hearing on said awards of damages or assessments of benefits for this Widening proceedings be set at a future tame. Permission granted the Indiana Bell Telephone Company as follows: - ..To To place one anchor in alley between William Street and Franklin street Just south of Wayne Street. Place one anchor in same' alley just north of Division Street. Place one 3 foot pole and anchor in alley between Leland Avenue and North Scott Street just south of Portage Avenue, also place one 3.0 foot pole in same alley .south of Logan Street. Concerning the improvement of the roadway of Lawndale Avenue from North li of Van Buren Street to Vassar Park Addition with asphalt, asphaltic concreto, bitulithic concrete or brick, pursuance to resolution No. 813 the Board finds that no petition has been filed with said Board by a majority in number of the freeholders residing -on said street to be improved requesting that it be'improved with different kind Of pavement than the kind hereotofore adopted by the.Bosrd in its preliminary order; and the City Engineer reports that the Williston Construction Company is the_1owest and best bidders for the kind of pavo- ment heretofore adopted by the Board and the Board find that said Williston Construction Company is the lowest and best bidder and hereby lets the contract for said improvement to him, and orders that said improvement be made with Aspaltic Concrete using Trinidad Lake Asphalt and all proceedings heretofore made in this matter are, hereby confirmed and ratified, Attested: - Veronica C . Sweeney, Clerk of'the Board-. fi. A. ELL IO TT HARVEY F. ROSTISER JOHN F. DEHAVEN Board of Public Works.