05/03/1910 Board of Public Works Minutes

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62 Board met in regular session at 10.A.M. o,ll °members- present The Sanders & Egbert Co. were awarded -the Contract for furnishing -the Street Department with 20000 feet of White Oak Lumber @ 27.00 per. . Staples —Hildebrand Supply Co. were &waded the contract for furnishing the Street Department with one -Car of #2, Barr Clay Paving; Block F.O.B. car South Bend Ind. @ 15400 per. M. I. W. Lower awarded the contract to decorate the walls of part of the City Mall in Murenco for the sum of 135.00 Remonstrance receiver and placed on file against the Paving of Diamond Avenue from La Porte Avenue to Michigan Avenue. Petition received and refered to the City Engineer asking for the widening or Leer Street frAm Vistula Avenue to the L. S.& M. S. R.R..tracks. Remonstrance received and placed on file against the establishing of a Street Park in the center of St, Joseph Street . C.H. Defrees was ordered to pay Charles Coussens $19.00 for placing a Sewer Tap tw connect Frank Kline* Lot on Vistula, Avenue which he had failed to put in. Water connections on Osborn Street and ?miller Court approved by the Board. Bids on the following improvements were opened and refered is the City Engineer for tabulation. Dale Avenue Grad-e,Curb and Walk. Broadway Pipe Sewer. East Navarre Street and North St,Joseph Street Cold Tar Filled Mac-adam Pavement. All under Improvement Resolutions No!s. 4,5,6,7, respectively. IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO.2.0 /Resolved by the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend Indiana. That it is desired and deemed necessary to make the following described public improvements in the said City as authorized by the following numbered Improvement Resolution,adopted by said Board on the 3th. day of May 1910. Resolved; That an improvement be made of the kind,gize,location and terminal pointsas follows, A 10 lnch Pipe Sewer in Wayne Street from the Manhole in the center of Frances St. to Eddy St.`together, with the necessary house connecti*ns,M&nholes,Inlets,Flushtak etc, Detail drawingm,pltans, peofiles and specifications are on file and may be sen at the office of said Board and all work in the making of said -public improvements must be done in accordance therewith. Said improvement shall be known and designated as THE EAST WAYNE STREET PIPE SEWER IMPROVEMENT NO.20'. Said.Board has fixed the 27th. day of May 1910 as a date upon which remonstrances may be filed or heard. by persons interested or affected by said public improvement and on said day at 7-15 P.M. said Board vill at its said office hear wind consider any remonstrarors and persons interested or whose property is affected by" said public improvement and will decide whether the benefits that will accrue to the p roperty,abutting and adjacent to the proposed improverrents,and to said City,will be equal t e or exceed the estimated cost of the proposed improvement,es estimated by the City Civil En sneer. • A Bend or Bonds issued to the con for as according to law.. Said Bends to • bear interest at the rate of Six �� . per cent playable as provided by law.