07/12/1912 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Board met in regular meeting at 10:00 A.M. Mr. Lambert absent:. */Communication received from Oliver: Chilled Plow Company, with reference to pile in river at Power Plant. Same was referred to the City Attorney. Petition received for Pipe Sewer on Witwer Avenue from Dubail Avenue to Indiana Avenue. The same was referred to the City Engineer for investigation. Bonds and contracts s#gned and approved for pipe sewers on the following Streets: I/Pipi Sewer on Bi rdse ll Street from Fas sna' cht Avenue to lat. alley south, under Improvement Resolution No. 160. Contractor, Henry DeVos. j/Pipe sewer on Harris St re et from Division St re et to G.T.W. Rj . , under Improvement ,Resolution No. 159. Cont ralct or, Henry De Voss wipe Sewer on idarion, Street from Lafayette Street to 60 ft. W. of gain Street,under Improvement Resolution No. 15B. Contractor, Hoban & Roach: ✓Bond and contract signed and approved for the Trunk Sewer on Main Street from Indiana Avenue to Ewing 'Avenue, under Improvement Resolution No. 176. , Contractor Henry De Ves. ✓G ode, curb and alk on Kinyon Street from Portage Avenue to W. line of Morris Park Addition, under Improvement Resolution No. 169 was signed and approved by the Board and H. W. Reed & Sons. `Graide, curb and walk on Various Streets, under'Improvement Resolution No. 151, was signed and approved by the Board and Hugh Anderson. --Grade, curb and walk on 'Howard Street from Notre .Dame Avenue to Eddy Street, under .Improvement . Resolution Noe 153, was signed and approved by the Board and Hugh Anderson. The City Engineer reports the water in 'on all lots on Carroll Court by private contract with the exception of one lot, which is ordered by the Board to be laid,under Improve- ment resolution No. 75. dIn the matter of bids on St. Vincent Street, gr4do, curb and walk,under.,Improvement Res- olution No. 165 no bids were received and.the Board ordered bids re -let an Friday August the 2nd. 1912. ✓ In the matter of the Condemnation of Sherman Avenue South to lst. East and West Alley North of Oak Street, under Condemnation Resolution No. 14. The Board having said matter under advisement find that the remonstrators appearing and remonstrahi.ng ,should be sustained and that the resolution Should be and the same;,is hereby and in all things rescinded. /,-P&ngineer .filed assessment rell and final estimate for Asphalt resurfacing on Main Street from Wayne Street to Monroe Street, under Imrovement Resolution No. 115. Resolved, that notices atis.to the,,Apounts of assessments be published for six consecutive days in the South Bend Daily Takes, commencing on the 15th. day of July.1912,stating that this Board will give a hearing an the amount of .such assessments at its office in the City Hall on the 9the day of Auguste 1912, at 7:45 P.M* Resolved further, that the entire work under the above contracts be accepted and epprove and the final estimate thereon allowed. Notice of this resolution shall be published on the 15th. day of July 1912,in the South. Bend Daily Times,' stating that this Board will give �a hearing on the acceptance. of such work at its office in the City Hall on the e 9th. day of August,1912 at 7:45 P.M. r President.