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Saturday, May 14th. , 1932.
Board net in special session at 10 A. M. Mr. M. E. Doran absent.
City Engineer, H. G. Wray,. informed the Board of a very serious condition
in the sewer on Angella Avenue near Woodward Avenue. Mr. Wray expla fined that on his
investigation, he found the pipe crushed for a distance of several feet and that to
repair same, it would be necessary to open up the lineof the sewer. Guy D. Staples
Street Comissioner, said the Street -uepartment were not equipped to handle such ex-
tensive repairs and the Board, acting on the suggestion of Mr. Wray, instructed City
Engineer to get prices from some local sewer contractor for this Yepa it work and pre-
sent same to the Board at their regular meting on Tuesday, YI y 17th., 1932.
Meeting adjourned at 11-30 A. M.
At ested-Ak "IA , , L' /
Ale* of the Board
TUE SDAY , MAY 17 th . , 1932.
Board met in regular session at 10-00 A. M. Mr. M. E. Doran absent. Minutes
of rmetings held May loth., and May 14th. , 1932, read a nft approved.
The Board approved the following redistribution of assessments as filed in
schedule by City Engineer, H. G. Wray:
TWENTY-FOURTH STREET TRUNK SEWER
Roll No. 2047
Res o No,1644
Dup. No.33057 F Joseph & Alexis Coquillard
Lot 2 Coquillard Woods Addition
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1933
1934
1935
1936
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4.79
4.56
4.34
4.11
3.88
18.85 # 2.83
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North 17 feet Lot 2
Coqui lla rd Woods Addition
Coquillard Land Co.
4.71
South 51 feet Lot 2 Coquillard Woods Addition
Benjamin J. Sandman 14.14
18.85
Interest 2.83
21.68
Tue s day , May 17 th . , 1932
TWENTY. -FOURTH STREET 1RIM SE1rt,TR
Roll N0.2047
Peso No.1644
Dup. N0.33058 F Joseph & Alexis Coquillard
Lot 3 Coquillard Woods Addition
Nov 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936
3.77 77 3.77
3� 77 3.77 3.
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18.85 - 2.83 - 21.68
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REDISTRIBUTION OF THE ABOVE ASSESffENT
11 North 49 feet lot 3 Coquillard Woods Addition
' South 19 feet lot 3 Coquillard WoodsJAdditidonman
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18.85
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21.68
The following proposals sere :received, opened and read for the repair
of the seiner at the intersection of Woodward Avenue and An�.ella Avenue:
Hon. Board of Public +ork s
City of South Bend , Indi me.
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Cent lem en:
I propose to furnish all labor and material necessary for the repairing
of sewer at the intersection of ?1bodward Avenue and AnMlla Avenue in the City of South
• Bend, Indiana, for the price of Twelve Dollard and Forty Cents per lineal: foot (12.40).
�I�i Said pipe to be used is 20", this bid covers the pumping of sewer, sheeting, all labor
and the reply ceng of pavement. This bid price covers any amount of lineal feet
whether in excess of estimate or not.
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,; nade/. If any manholes. are to be rebuilt, an additional price will be rmde of $8.60
per lineal foot.
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Very truly yours,
Rocco SAmeri.
lSouth -Bend- Board of Public Works ,
I 'will agree to reconstruct with 20 inch sewer tile, 70 feet or mow
of sewer at the corner of Angella Avenue and 'Noodward Avenue for 8.8.50 per lineal foot
furnishing all material and Labor, this price including replacing of asphalt pavement.
i C. E. Reesh.
Hon. Board of Public Works,.
S out h Be nd , In di me .
• honorable Sirs:
V!e submit our bid for the 50odward Avenue sewer repair from Angella
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IAvenue north, as follows:
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20" Double strength sewer pipe per foot" 1.05
replacement of p avemn t per foot 1.33
excavation, backf illing trench, per foot 3.00
pumping sewage per foot 1.50
6.88
r, If t139 City takes care of the pumping throughout the time of replacement
Hof 20 pipe, deduct the 1.50 per ft., and as a further alternate, if the City does the
�pur�ping up to the time only for r eta ing of the 70 feet of pipe , .deduct 1.25 per foot.
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John Nicolini & Son
By John Nicolini
w Tuesday, 1�ay 17th. , 1932.
Bid for sewer at Angella & Woodwar"d Avenue
20 inch 7.25
8 inch 1.35
6 inc h 1.25
pa veimnt 4.00
This bid includes everything needed. to complete ti-e job.
Carmine Puca
Hon. Board of Public orks
South bend., Indiana.
I hereby submit a bid for the repair of the Diamond Avenue .Trunk Sewer at Six Dollars
per foot ($6.00) for the seventy feet to be repaired. If more is I to be repaired, add
bid price per foot for each and- every additional foot.
IT. J . Slott.
All of the above proposals to be given careful consideration and an award for
sa id repa it work to be mde at a la: ter date .
The following petition, presented by H. A. Richwine, attorney, was ordered
referred to City Attorney:
To the Board of Public Wc7rks, cf City of South Bend, Indi ana.
The undersigned, HaSnaond C. Borntra.ger, upon his oath, shows to your honorable
body, that on the 20th.9 day cf February, 1924, you approved the final assessment roll
for the improvement of so much of Elwood Avenue, as lies between College Street and.
Adams Street, and among other tracts and lots of land abutting thereon, assessed the
following unplatted tra et of la nd abutti ng on tha t part of said Elwood Avenue , so im-
proved for the sum of Seven Hundred Fifty Seven Dollars and Seventy Cents (757.74) as
its part of the cost of such improvement, viz.: West one-half (2) of the East one-hal-
ti) of the Southeast one -quarter (4) of Section Thir ty-f our (34) Township Thirty-eight
(38) Nor th , Range two (2) East, ba ck a distance of One Hundred Fifty (150) feet from
the property line thereof and at that time the Securities Investment Corporation was
the owner in fee simple thereof. That since said assessment was made and approved by
your h onorab le bod y, t he said - Securi tie s Inve stmei t Corporat ion has pl atted sai d tract
of land by dividing it into Sixty (60) lots extending back One Hundred Thirteen (113)
feet on the lots facing Elwood Avenue, and back One Thousand Eighty (1080) . feet on lot;
facing Adams and College Streets, which plat was duly signed and acknowledged by the
Securities Investment Corporation on the 3rd., day of December, 1926, before a notary
punlic , approved by your honorable body on the 21tst. , day of December, 1926, filed in
the Recorders office of St. Joseph County, Indiana, on the 22nd. , day of August, 1927,
for recording, and afterwarded recorded in Plat Book No.12, Page 150.
after
That said assessment was made , the Securities Investment Corporation on the
day of 19 T, and within thirty days after allowance of said final
assessment or allowance for said. improvement, entered into an agreement in writing
reciting that they desired to exercise this privilege of paying on said assessments'in
ten annual payments and geed that in consideration of such privilege they would make
no objection to an illegality cr irregularity with regard to the assessment against
said tract of land and would pay the sere as required by law with the 'rate of interest
required, which agreement they filed with the Controller of said City.
That said tract of land , as shown on said plat, was divided into sixty (60)
lots numbered from One Hundred twenty one (121) to One Hundred eighty (180) and lots
numbered from One Hundred Twenty-one (121) to One hundred twenty-six (126) inclusive,
abut upon that part of said Elwood Avenue so improved and assessed, and that thetsaid
Securities Investment Corporation have not sold any cf said lots abutting on said
Elwood Avenue, but have sold lots One Hundred Fifty -four (154) and One Hundred Fifty-
five (155) , which lots face College Street, and which nea r&st line is One Thousand
Thirteen (1013) feet from said Elwood AvEn
That there are four cf said assessments amounting to Three Hundred Fifty Seven
Dollars and Sixty-four Cents (357.64) and ninety Four Dollars and Eighteen Cents (94.1
interest unpaid. and penalty, and one installment in the amount of Seventy Eight Dollar
and Four Cents ($98.04) due and payable in 1933.
Wherefore, the undersigned, prays that your honorable body will reassess the
unpaid amount of said improvement assessment, including all unpaid interest now due
thereon so that each cf said abutting lots of . said new sub -division, as shown on said'
approved plat, shall bear its part and equitable proportion of said original unpaid
assessment, and all interest now due thereon, and requests that all re-asses.sme.nt pay
ments fall due in the remaining years of the original ten year period, and on the same
date.
Raymond C_ Borntrager.
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Subscribed and sworn to before me, a notary public in and for the County of
St. Joseph and State clf Indiana, the 13th., day of May, 1932,E
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and notarial seal in said county
and at said time above mentioned.
Lucile N. So jka
Notary Public in and for the County of St. Joseph, State of
Indiana .
Thy commission
empires January loth . , 1934.
Lhe Board approved the renewal certificate
for the Excavation
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favor of Vim.
Otterste in & Son, TV11ishawaka, Indiana, in the
sum of 1,000000,
signed
by the Aetna
Casualty and Surety Company.
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City .engineer, H. G. VIVrayT, filed plans and
the Board. adopted said plans
together with
the f ollow7 ng Vacation Resolution:
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VACATION RESOLUTION N0.2471.
RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF PUBLIC VTORES OF UTE C ITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIMA:
That it 'is desirable to vac^te the following.:
it Twenty-fourth Street from the southerly line of Jefferson Boulevard
I to th-e northerly line of.the right of of the Grand Trunk and Western Railway Company.
+ Also. SunnyMede Avenue from the west fine of Eastlawn Addition to the
east line of the west 2 of the southwest -1 of Section 8, Tcw nsh ip 37 Nor th , Range 3
Eas• t.
Also that part of the intersection of Sunnymede Avenue and Twenty-fourth
Street, formerly Sixth Street , described'as follows: Beginning at the southwest
corner of lot 39 in Eas tlawn Addi.t ion; thence northwesterly to a point in a line
parallel to and. seventy (70) feet west of the west line of lots 1 and 39 in said.
Eastlawn Addition, said point being two hundred ninety-six (29 6) feet south of the
i southerly line of Jefferson Boulevard and in the curved north-easterly line of Twenty-
second Street, now Ironwood Drive, said curve being convex to the northeast and having
a radius of three hundred forty-one and thirty-four hundredths (341.34) feet; thence
i; south-easte rly along- said curve to its intersection with the westerly line of lot 40
in Eastlawn Addition, said point of intersection being eighty-two and two hundredths
(82.02) feet north of the southwest corner of said lot 40 in Eastlawn' Addition; thence
north to the place of beginning.
such va ea ti on°l'he fblly cvving property may be injuriously or benefici.a.11y affected by
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li All that property bounded by Jefferson Boulevard on the north; the east
line of the west 2 of the southwest 4 of Section 8, Township 37 North, Hanpe 3 East;
Ii the north line of the right of way of the Grand 'trunk and Western Railway Company on
the south; and Ironwood Drive on the west, all in the City of South. Bend, Indiana.
Notice of this resolution shall be published on the 20th., day of May
,I and on the 27 th . , day of P3_a y, 1932 , in the South Bend News Times and T ibune .
Tis Ihis Board at its office in -the City H T
ty I1 o n the 7th . da.. o f June
1932, at 10:00 A.�., will hear and'receve remonstrances from all persons interested
in or affected by these pr oceedinez .
Adop t ed th is 17 th . , d a1T of P4"ay , 1932.
John K. Smogor
Ralph H . Kus s
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS OF CITY OF
SO UI'N BEND , INDIAN �..
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HAZEL A. TURNERI CLERK.
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jThis being the date set, oont inued he ering p. as h? d on t3onc Emnat ion
Resoluti on No.243S for the opeing of California Avenue from the east line of the
Chicago, Indiana and Southern Railroad right e way to Wilber Street.
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i In the eb ove named resolution, the Board decides to continue hearing
anti l Tue sray , October 4 th . , 1932 .
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60 Txesday9 May 17th 3 19M.
The Board approved claims for various departments in the -7sum of $452.78.
Meeting adjourned at 12 o'clock moon.
Attested:
Ale1WOf�thhe:a. a
TUESDAY, MAY 249 1932.
Board net in regular session at 9-30 A. M. Minutes of meeting held
Tuesday, May 17th., 1932, read and approved.
on file: The following letter from Mayor W. R. Hinkle was read and ordered placed
May 21st. , 1932.
Board. of Public Works,
Citzr of South Bend,, Indiana.
Gentlem En :
I hmve, th is day, formally removed Mr. John K. Smogor from the office
of member of the Beard of Public Works, and have this day appointed Mr. George A.
Schock to succeed him and to assume the offic e of pre si dent of the Board.
Letter, to this effect, to the Common Council is on file in the office
of the City Clerk.
Yours very truly,
j W. R. Hinkle , Mayor.
The appointment of Mr. George A. Schock as a member of the Board of
Public Works was duly filed by Mayor W. R. Hinkle. All of the members of said Board,
being fully qualified by law, the Board now proceeds to re -organization. Mr. M. E.
Doran reesigns as President of the Board and upon a motion made by George A. Schock
!I and seconded by M. E. Doman, Ralph H. Kuss was named temporary Chairman of the Board.
Upon motions duly made and seconded, the following were unanimously elected:
Ge or pe A. Schock, Pre s id en t.
f M. E. Dona n, Vice -President.
Ralph H. Kuss, Member.
The res igna ti on of William E. Rasmussen a s supe rindendent of t he City
Water Works was accept ed by the Board , same to be effective a s o f June lst., 1932.
The Board appointed Frank R. Wisniewski to the office of superintendent
j of the Water Works. Mr. Wisniewski to assume his duties as superindiendent June lst.,
1932.
The f ollowi: ng bid s f or the repai r of t l- s ewer at Angelic Ave me and !'
Woodward Avenue were received, opened and read:
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