Ordinance of the City of South Bend Concerning the Financing and Construction of Sewage Treatment Works

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R E S O L U T I O N OF BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS AND SAFETY WHEREAS, the Stream Pollution Control Board of the State of Indiana, acting pursuant to Chapter 214 of the Acts of the General Assembly for the year 1943 on December 14, 1945, issued a final order to the City of South Bend ordering said City to cease and desist polluting streams and water courses in and about said City, and said Board is demanding that a sewage treatment works be constructed by the City without delay; and WHEREAS, the Board has heretofore employed Consoer, Townsend & Associates, Consulting Engineers of Chicago, Illinois, to prepare plans, specifications and estimates for said project, and said Engineers have prepared said plans, specifi- cations and estimates for said project and have estimated the cost thereof, including all of the items required by statute, to be in the approximate amount of Nine lKillion Three Hundred Twenty -five Thousand Dollars 09,325,000.00), more particularly itemized as follows; Cost,of construction, including engineering ,and contingencies X8,8671000.00 Real estate, easements, etc. 25,000.00 Legal, administrative and other expense, including expenses incidental to issuance of bonds. 433,000.00 Total $92325,000.00 and WHEREAS, the Board finds that on the basis of the estimated cost of the project and the recommendations of the Engineers, the estimated schedule of rates and basis of charges for I sewage treatment service should be as follows;