09/08/1911 Board of Public Works Minutes

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222 Friday September the Sth. Board met in regular session at LO:00 A. M. All member: present. � Petition for Street Lights received from residents on South Miami Street, asking for li ghts at the corner of Fox and. Miami Street the same was placed on file. Bond and contract for grade, curb and walk on Franklin Street signed and approved. Same awarded to T. M. Bauer. Bond and contract for guide, curb and walk on south Fellows Street signed and approved:. Same awarded to. H. M. Barnes. Bond and contract for a Pipe Sewer on Franklin Street signed and.. approved and to same awarded to De Peape & Coussens. Engineer riled assessment roll and finale estimate for water connections on Maple Street from Washington }Street to Division Street Under Improvement Resolution No. 100. RESOLVED, that notices as to the amounts of assessments be published for six consecutive days in the South Bend Daily Times, commencing on th a llth. day E of September k:1911, stating hat this Board will give a hearing on the amount of such assessments at its office in taie City Hall on the 13th4 day of October 1911. at 7:15 P. M. RESOLVED further, that the entire work under the above contracts be accepted and approved and the finale estimate thereon allowed.. Notice of thiis resolution shall be published on the llth. day of September 1911 in the South Bend Daily Times, stating that this Board will rive a hearing on the acceptance of such work at its office in the City Hall on the 13th. clay of. -,October-=1911 at 7:15 P.M IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION N0.107. ` RESOLVED by the Board of Public Works of the City of -South Bend Indiana that it is desired and deemed necessary to make the •"'ollowing described public improvements in the aforesaid City as authorized by the following numbered imo rovement resolution adopted by the said Board.Sth. day of September 1911 RESOLVED, that an improvement be made of the kind , size, location and terminal points as follows: To construct a sewer on South Bend Avenue from Eddy Street to the Eastern City limits, €m follows, to -wit;: Beginning at the center of Eddy and South Bend 2-Avenue thence easterly along the center line of said South Bend Avenue, to the center of Howard Street with a 20" pipe, thence still easterly along the center line of said South Bend. Avenue to the center of Woodworth Street* with an 19" pipe, thence still easterly along the center line of said South bend t Avenue to the Eastern City limits with a 15" pipe sewer. Together with the house connectionE',to the curb line along the line of said improvement. Detail drawings, plans , profiles and specifications are on file and may be seen at the office of said Board and all work in the making of said Public improvement must be none in accordance there with. .Said improvener_ts shall be known and designated as SOUTH BEND AVENUE SEWER IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 107. Said Board has fixed the 13th. day of October 1911 as a date upon which remonstrances may be filed or heard by persons interested or affected by said Public Improvements and on said day at 7:15 P. M. said Board will at its said office hear and consider any remonstrators and persons interested or whose property is a¢'fecttd by said Putrlis improvement and will decide whether the ben - fits that will accrue to the property, abutting and adjacent to the proposed im- provements and to said City, will be equal to, or exceed the estimated cost of the proposed improvements, as estimated by the City Civil Engineer. This Resolution shall be published on the lzth and. the 11th. day of September in the South Bend Daily Times A Bond -or bonds to be issued to the contractor in payment of such work .where tree property owner signe waiver required, as according to ;;law. Which said Bonds shall bear interest at the rate of six per cent per annum, payable as provided by law.