09/24/1912 Board of Public Works Minutes

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604 Board met in regular session at 10: 00 A.M. All members present. ✓Plat of Sumpptioh.Prairie Avenue Addition presented by Ernest M. Morris to the Board and approved. ,,"'Petition received and read for a Pipe Sewer on Marietta Street from Wenger Street to Pennsylvania Avenue. The same was referred to the City Engineer. -"'Petition received and read- for a sewer on Studebaker Street from Fassnacht Ave. to LaPorte Avenue. The same was referred to the Sity Engineer. ✓ Petition received and read for a pipe -sewer on Quincy Street From Portage avenue to Cleveland Avenue. The same was referred to the City Engineer. °Bond and contract signed by De Paepe & Coussenas and' t7?e United States Adelity and Guaranty Co. of Baltimore ,Md. -for Pipe Sewer -on.Studebsker Street Inder Improvement Resolution No. 157,was approved by the Board. ,-'Guarantee Bond signed by the Western Construction Company and the Title Guaranty and Surety Company, for Re -Surfacing with Asphalt pavement of South Main Street, under Improvement Resolution No 115. was approved by the Board. "'Guarantee Bond signed by the Western Construction Company and the Title Guaranty & SuretynCompany , for paving North Lafayette Street Under Improvement Resolution No. 132, was approved by the Board. ---In the matter of awarding bids on Division Street and Walk under Improvement Resolution No. 196. All bids rescinded and ordered relet January 15th . 1913. //ln the matter of the plat of Fairview, Davies Addition to Grand View presented to the Board .and referred to the City Engineer. Petition for a street light received by the Board and referred to the Street Commissioner ;or investigation. LOCAL SEWER IMPROVEMENT NO. "209. Resolved by the Beard of Public Works of the City of South Bend, County of 'St. Joseph ,State of Indiana, That the construction of a local sewer.,intended and adopted only for local use by the property holders whose property abuts thereon, and not intended or adapted for reeiving sewerage from collateral drains be and the same is, hereby ordered in and along ST. LOUIS STREET FPOM. SOUTH BEND AVENUE TO CORBY STREET as follows to -wit : - Beginning at the center of South Bend Avenue and St. Louis Street thenee North along the ce'ter line of St ."I Louis Street to the center of Kalorama Street with a 15 inch vitirifed pipe sewer, thence still north along the center line of St. Louis Street to Corby Street with a 12 inch vitrified pipe sewer. MDgether with the necessary manholes, inlets and house connections to the curb line along the line d'f said improvement. All as shown on the detail plans ,pro.files and specificationiR on file in the Office or the Department of Public Works of said City. And such improv meat is now ordered and said sewer, with all its appur- tenances shall be constructed in aecordanee with the profile axed specifications now on file in the Office of the Department of Public Works of said City. The cost of said improvement shaiibe apportioned against and paid by the property holders vtose property ab uts thereon, and upon.the City of Souta Bend if the City is benefited by said improveme t, all according to the, method and manner provided for in Act of the Assembly of the State of Indiana, entitled,"An Act Concerning Muneipal ifforpor= ations,"appra rdd March 61,1905. Assessments, if deferred, are to be paid in ten `' equal annual installments, with interest at the rate of Six per cent per annum. A bond or bbnd!s shall be issued t the contractor in payment for such work, uhless the property owners ppy said assessments before said bond or bonds are issued. Under no eireumstanees shall the City of South Bend be or be held responsible for any sum or sums due from said property owner or owners for said work, or for the collection of same, or for the payment of any bond or bonds, certi fiOates or certifi Oates, issued to s0 d contractor in payment for such work, except for such moneys as shall have been actually received by the City from the assessments for such improvement, or Each moneys as said City is by :said above entitled Aet required to pay. All iproseedings had, and. work done in the making of said improvement, assessment of property,eolleetin of assessments and issuance of bonds therefor, shell be as provided for in above entitled. Act. Notiae of this resolution shall be published on the 26th. day of Sept. and on the 3rd. day of October .1912 in the So.Bend Daily Times. This Board will give a hearing on this resolution at its office in the City Hall on the 25th. day of O et . 1912 at 7: 45 P.M.