12/17/1909 Board of Public Works Minutes

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54T The Board r:let in regular session 9t 10:00 A* 14, All members present. Hearing given on Declaratory Resolution for paving of Prairie Ave. under_ Imp- rovement Resolution No. 629.` All remonstrances were over -ruled. Engineer tiled estimated cost as follows: (Nw,ie of street) (kAnd of improvement) (Cost) Prairie Ave. P�,vemer�G 1do other remonstrantors sppeared and no other_ remonstrances were filed. All other rer_ionstrances over -ruled. The Board therefore find in each and every case in said improvements that the benefits to the property and to the City of South Bend are equal to the estimated cost of said improvements and the sextie are hereby in all things ratified, confirmed and approved., Resolved, that notices be published on the 17th day of Dec. -and on the 24th day af.Dee. 19092 in the South Bend Daily Times, stating that this Board will receive bids for the construction of said improvement up to 10:00 A. M. ON the 311t day of December 1909, Me Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Remonstrances filed by D. D. Bates et al against the A5se44ment Roll for the W. Wayne StreeLt- Pipe Sewer. 1ie&ring given on Assessment Rolls and final estimates as follows: Grading on Howard ,fit,;. from Notre Dane Ave. to Eddy St; Welk & Curb on Broadway f'ron Fellows Qtreet to Wami Street; Pipe Sewer on W. Wayne street from Franklin St. to Taylor St; Cement Curb 'on Division St. from TKodn' St. to C. I. & S. R. R. ; Cement walk on So. Michigan St. from Wayne St. to Div. St.; Cement sidewalk on Nrapier St. from Walnut St. to Cherry St,; Grade, Curb & Walk.. on Fifth St. from Orange St. to Linden Ave. all under improvement Resol- ut� ons 11os. 5 ,7, 5 -5, 595, 6032 6122 613 & .,16 respectively. Assessment Roll for W. Wayne St. Pipe Sewer under Improvement Resolution No. 59-9 was amended. No other remonstrances were filed. 'No remonstrators appeared and no remonstrances were filed. The Board therefor find that the property assessed in said rolls lt'aftended filed Dec. 7, 19092 is benefitted in the amount of assessments as amended as shown on said rolls, and the Board further find thtt the assessment:- rolls filed Ded. 7, 1909, and the final estinate allowed Ded. 7: 3-9092 should be hnd the same are hereby in all thin gs ratified, confirmed and approved as amended. Engineer reported favorable ,+On'the Plan of the Central Union Telephone io..• ;.:Serao approved by the Board. Company for additional underground construct - In the matter of Condemnation Resolution No. 53 for the opening of an alley from Leer Street to Kline St, it is held that the benefits and damages are equal and that none of the rerl estate mentioned in the assessment roll herein is especially benefitted or damaged and the said assessment Roll is hereupon adopted. It is further ordered that n6tice of Such awards of damages and assessments of benefits be served by the Plice Department according to lave and that a hearing be had on the 31st day of December 1909 at 10:00 A. if. for the purpose of herring or receiving objections from any person or persons interested in or affected by said matter. Whereas this board did -heretofore enter into a certain contract for the leasing of certain real estate on W. Sample Street in South Bend St. Joseph County, Indiana owned by the James Oliver Estate , an accurate description of which real estate is as follows: Beginning at the -center of Arnold Street extended South where the same intersects the South line of Sample Street, thence East thirty (30) feet.,, thence South eight (90) feet, thence West sixty (60) Peet, thence North eighty (90 feet, to the south line of Sample. Stre4