11/26/1907 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Wednesday November_26th, 1907. The Board met in regular session at 10 A. M. All members present. The Clerk of the board having presented to this board an ordinance heretofore passed by the Common Council and known as ordinance No. 1445, which ordinance is an instruction to the Board of Public Works to purchase from August and Louise Beyer a tract of land for the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars, all as set forth in a proposition filed with the Council by the said Beyers and the Board being advised in the matter and having fully considered the same, it is held and decided that the real estate named in said proposal and ordinance is not reasonably worth Ten Thousand Dollars and that the Board of Public Works would not be justified in entering into a contract obligating the etty to pay such sum for said real estate and the Board of Public Works therefore rejects said proposition and respectfully declines to enter into such contract and it Is ordered that a communication be addressed to the Common Council renewing the request heretofore made that the council authorize the Board of Public Works to acquire said -real estate for park purposes by Condemnation. Contract awarded to Louis A. Hickey for the construction of the No. 10 Hose House. Contract price $6,964.00. Hearing given on Assessment Roll and final estimate for the Bribk Pavement on California street & Woodward avenue, under Improvement Resolution No. 429. O In the above matter no further remonstrators appeared and no further remonstrances ..*ere filed. All other remonstrances over -ruled. The Board therefore find that the property assessed in said rolls as amended, filed October 23, 1907m is benefitted in the amounts of assessments as shown on said rolls, as amende4,and the Board further Find that the assessment roll filed October 23rd, 1907, and the final estimate allowed October 23d, 1907, should be and the same is hereby in all things ratified, confired end approved, as amended. Communication received from the Board of Public Safety recommending the wv;yarding of the Contract to Louis A. Hickey for the No. 10 Hose House, and further recommending ghat the tile roof be changed to Stained creasote shin glen, and the interi,r of apparatus room to have Imitation keen cement tileing instead of white enamel brick. UO President.