01/12/1912 Board of Public Works Minutes

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�09 Friday January 12, 1912 Board. met I in regular session at 10:00 A.M. Ail members present. v1 The Board ordered one car of Brazil Block Coal to be delivered at the City Hall from Kanouse & Philiphs. at,Three Dollars and, forty-five cents .0$3.45) per ton. The Central Union Telephon Compan requested ermission to set three 3A' ei .Rolls and two ahehors. in the alley between requested. and Cgrby Street east of sout_ venue. the same granted. The Clerk ordered to notify the. Northern Indiana Crag & fuel Company to put in taps to the curb On All lots On South Fellows street from Mon a not laid. ,roe to Sample Street where sane IMPROVEMENT RE-)OLUTION NO- 132. -RESOLVED, by the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend, Indiana, That it is desired and deemed necessary to make the following described public improvements in the aforesaid Cit"r as authorized by the foilowing numbered im- provement resolution adopted by said. Board on the- 12th. day of Jarivary 1912. Resolved that an improvement be made of the kind si%e, location and term inal points as follows: To improve Lafayette Street from Navarre Street to Foote Stree By grading and Paving the roadway, also P-rading and paving the roadway of intersecting and ente�ring streets and alleys lying within said portion -of said Lafayette Street not included in the roadway to be improved, with Asphalt, Bitillithic, Brick or Creosoted Wooden Block, laid on a five (5) inch Portland cement gravel conireto foundation, from curb line, to curb line, curbing the roadway with 6 X 7 X 16 inch concrete curb where not already constructed, also the construction of cement sidewalks on both sides of the ",saidt'Street2 Placing the necessary cement mrina,l curb, the construction of the recessary storm water inlets all as sho-m. on the plans, and in accordance with the profilesi.detail drawings and, specifications on file in the Office of the Department of Public Works of said City. And such improvement is now ordered. Said -improvements shall be known and desi,�;nated as LAFAYETTE STREET PAVEMENT ) CEMENT WALK, AND CFAAENT CURB IMPROVP3(ENT RESOLUTION No. 132. Notice of this resolution shall be published on the 5th. day of Feb-miar; iand. on the 12th. day of February 1912, in the South Bend Daily Times. Said Board has fixed the 8th. day of March 1912 as a date upon which renionstrances may be filed or heard by persons interested or affected d public improvements and on said OaY at 7:15 P.M.office said Board will at its said Oice hear and consider any remonstrators and persons interested or whose property in affected by sail public ipprovement And will decide whether the benefits that will accrue to the pro- perty, abutting and adjacent to the proposed improvements and to said City, will be 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 pro- perty owner 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.