03/26/1912 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Ma Board met in regular session at 10:00 A.M. Mr. Lambert Absent. In the matter of the awarding of the contract of the pavement of MadiF= Street Under Improvement Resolution No. 131 & 1.31-A of the City of South Bend, IndianE., the sane was deferred until April the 16ti. 1912 at 10:00 A. ill:. .( Petition received and remd by the Board asking for the:.apen xrg of Chapin Street South from Prairie Avenue to the First Alley North of Lean Court. The -rmie referred to the City Engineer for investigation. Petition received and read by the Board .asking for Gra.de ,Curb and Walk on Howard Street riom Notre Dame Avenue to Eddy Street. The same referred to the City En- gineer for investigation. /Petition for a permit presented to the Board by Chris. Alhchele,Plumber,Asking for permission to open street fdr water connection at 906 Portage Avenue. The G€:.me approved by the Board. Band �,nd contract signed and approved by C.H. De Frees and the Board for Brie], Block pavement on North. Scott :3t reet from Mi chi f;,&n Avenue to Portage Avenue. petition received a<ici read by the Bard &gLinq for a Macadam Pavement on WAKewa Avenue from Michigan St re et to Latf ayett e St reet . The sane re fe rre6 to the City Engineer for investigation. Petition received �.nd read asking for 'curb on each side of driveway walk. ®n.the Natth side only.. and -grade. nn' Nort,hi Shore'. Drive from Lafayette Street to Irquois S' The same referred to the City Engineer for investigation. J Petition reficeived and read by the Board for curb on each -side of Drive walk on the east side only and grading Tecumseh Avenue from Parkovash Avenue to .Angella Ave. (The improvement to begin at end of present improved section of Tecumseh Avenue, the excess dirt in 'excavation not needed for the fill to be placed in holes at South earner of Lafayette and Marquette) The same referred to the City Engineer for'i nve st i gat i on. Complaint received by the Board calling their attention to the dangerous condition of the wooden bridge at the crossing of Bo an Creek on Carroll Street., The same read and placed on file, and the street Commissioner instructed tab investigate same. VACATION RESOLUTION N0. 16. f RESOLVED, by the Board of Publi-c Works of the City of South Bend, Indiana; That it is deemed and desired necessary to vacate Division Street from Eddy Street to Parry Street in the. City of South Bend, County of St. Joseph, and State of Indiana, which part of Division St reet proposed to be vacated is meee specifically described as follows ,to -wit: -- Beginning on tile North line of Division Street said the west line of Eddy Street: thence Vest along the North line of said Division Street & distance of 115.5 ft. to the East line Of Parry Street;thence South 20 ft. to the South line of said Division Street; thence east along the south line of said Division Street 115.5 ft. to the West line of Eddy Street;thene ' North along the 'Pleat line of said Eddy Street 20 feet to the place of beginning all as shwon by a plat of such proposed vacation on file in Board og Public Narks Office. The property which may be injuriol sly or beneficially affected in the City of South Bend, Indiana by said proposed vacation is knom and described as the part of Division Street herein proposed to be vacated and the right -of --way of the Grf-,nd Trunk We Est a rn Rei lway Company. Native of this resolution shall be published on the 27th. day of March 1�412 and on the 3rd. day of April .10,12 in the South Bend Daily Times This Board at its o ff'i ce in the City Hall on the 23rd . d�%y of April 1912 at 10:00 A.M. and will hear and receive remonstrances from all persons interested in or affected by there proceedings. Adopted by the unanimous consent of the Board as present, this 2.6th. dray of March 1()12. OTTO C. BASTIAN BOARD OF PUBLIC CORKS. CHAS. F. NIEDBALSKI