01/10/1912 Board of Public Works Minutes

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3 .8 w ednesday January _ 10th. 1912 Continued.. TMPROVBTENT RESOLUTION NO. 131. RESOLVED11 by the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend. Indiana, That it is,desired and deemed neeessary to make the following'described public improve rients in the aforesaid City as authorized by the following numbered improvement resolution adopted by said Board on the loth. play of January 1912. Resolved that an i�mprovement be made of the kind size location and +er>iifiaw . points as follows. To improve Madison Street f'rbm the'east bank of the East Race. to Eddy Street. By Graa ing and Pavi ng the roadway, also graiding and paving the roadway of intersecting and. entering Streets and Alleys lying within Tay -arid portion of said Madison Street not included in the roadway to be improved, with Asphalt, Bitulithie, Brick or Creosoted Wooden Block, laid on ra five (5) inch portland. cement gravel concrete foundation,, ?'r. om curb line to curb line, placing the necessary marginal cement curb, also the construction of the necessary storm water inlets all as shown on the plans, 'and in accordance with the prof. i les, detail plans and specifications caa.tions on file in the office of the depart vent of Public Works of said City. And such improvement is now ordered. Said imr>rovement shall'be known and desiumated as EAST MADISON STREET PAVEMENT IMPROVRAENT RESOLUTION 10. 131. Moti ce of this resolution shall be published on the 25th. day of January and on the lst. day of February 1912 in the South Bend Daily Times. Said Board. has -fixed the 23rd. daffy 'of February 1912 as a1 date upon which remonstrances may be filed or heard by persons interested or affected by said publie improverents and on said day at 7:15 P.M. said Board will at its ;. said -,,office hear and consider any remonstrators or persons interested or whose property is affected by said public improvement and will decide whether the bene— fits that will accrue to the property, abutting and adjacent to the Lroposed improvements and to said. City, will equal to, or exceed the estimated cost of the proposed improvements, as estimated by the City Civil Engineer., A Bond or bonds to be issued to the contractor in payment of such work where the owr_er signs 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. President.