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HomeMy WebLinkAbout05/12/1925 Board of Public Works Minutes648 Mr, qu &ls Sitibt.,of of Poles and WireS�veported on complaint of pole in Poland -Street between Webster 'Street and Walnut Street. Filed,. Cl rk Last veUil Aa ad-U1'y the I`nd & is ,hi nY'El e r t smpany ia�aremove .l ghi�3f on -Luca t a r s. ,a 66b6f standar s art^nit . ore than #�rto � '�)?,ihohes ,frc xthccLa rrofltiU h T"Q t: oeo nt ,of _stre.eL being so n8rrow, Ak so; - the Chioago i,,.,Somth" Bend & Northern indi am. Railway Company t4 move y trolley poles uniformly so sane are not more than eight 8".0 inchos from the fade of the curb 6 N Attest*• I Clerk of the Board. Tuesday May 12th., 1925. Board met -in regular session at 9:00 A.. All members present. • Bids were sub itted on the following improvements: Water connections on Michigan Street. Bids submitted by Tbo*as Williams and Win, H, Burke. Sewers in Madison Park Street, Bidssubmittedby S. U. Ackerman, C..E Reesh, L, H. Webster, Rocco Simeri, Pipe.sewwr on Franklin Street Bids..submittedtby C. E. Reesh, S. U. Aekerman,.Rocco Simeri, L, H.Webster I. W, Staples, Pipe sewer on Van Buren Street,.bids submitted by Rocco Simeri, L, H. Webster, I, W, Staples. Co E. Reesh, and S, U, Ackerman, Pavement on Talbot Avenue , Bids submitted by Rieth-Riley .Constr. po.The Albert/ Construction Co, If, W. Reed & Sons. Hoban & Roech. Grade, ourb and walk on Huey Street from Linn Avenue to Kenwod Ave. Bids submitted by Joseph Szweda, Indiana Constr. Co. E. T. Tranberk, H. N. Barnes, Grade, curb and walk on Huey Street from Linoin ay West to alley south of Frederickson St. Bids submitted bar H, N. Barnes, E. T. Tranberg Indiana Constr. Co. Joseph SQweda. All bids Filed ( insert see files for original bids. ) All bide were referred to the Engineering Department to be 16abuiated and reported on Wednesday May 13th.; 1925 at 7:15 P.M. IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 1494. Water connections on Twenty .first Street from.Mishawaka Avenue to Pleasant Street, adopted and filed, dreading as follows:- ( Insert see files,) IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 1495, Water connections on Twnty Seventh Street from Mishawaka Avenue to Pleasant Street, adopted and filed reading as follows:- ( Insert see_files.) IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 1496. GRade, curb and walk on ,Twentieth Street from Jefferson Boulevard to MoKinley Avenue, adopted and filed reading as followst$ ( Insert see files.'' IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 1497. Grade, ourb and walk on East side of Michigan Street fron Dotlmoger Avenue to the north side of Lot 46 Krou & Whitmore's Addition, adopted and filed reading as follows;- Inserts 606 files.). Report Piled by Board of Examiners on Building Commissioners examination sxmnx action on same deferred until May 13th., 1925 at 7:15 P.M. Written remonstrance of Lorenz Ledered against, amount 0 damages allowed on William Street, opening read and filed. ( Insert see` ,riles for remonstrance) Petition for water mains with waiver attached for all streets in North Shore Terrace Addition filed by M, T. Calef. Same approved. and resolution ordered. Insert see files.) Petition received and resolution ordered for pavement, on Rose Street from Portage Avenue to Kessler Blvd. and Kessler Blvd, from Rose Street topresent end of pavement on Kessler Blvd. _ Remonstrance received and read from Mary Fenton against %mount► of benefits assessed on William( Street, opening. Same placed 'on file., Ex. Bond of Tony. Swiatowy & Geo. Schwind doing business as United Heating Company approved. Ex. Bond of W. L. Lodyga for $19000.00 with Fideilit,y & Deposit Co. approved. Partial estimate allowed A . Spadoni Contr. for.sewerpn Miami Street from North curb line of Donmoyer Avenue approve4.at S Petition for paving. of alley running bet37een Riverside Drive and Woodward Avenue from Leland Avenue to Golden Avenue. Same approved and resolution ordered. Contract for pavement on Thirty Fourth Street awarded as follows:. Concerning the improvement of the roadway of Thirty Fourth Street from Mishawaka Avenue toG. T. W. Ry. Company right of way with asphalt, asphaltic. concrete bituluthic, concrete or briek,"in pursuance *,o Resolution No. 1448 this Board finds that no petition has been filed with said Board by a majority in nu ber of the freehold residing on said street tote improved, requesting that Jdm it be improved with a differ- entkind of pavement than'the kind heretofore adopted by the Board in its preliminary order; amd the City Engineer reports that H, W. Reed & Sons Constr. Co, is the lowest and best bidder for the kind of pavement heretofore adopted by the Board, and the board find that the H. W. Reed & Sons Constr. Co. is the lowest and best, bidder and hereby lets the contract for said.improvement to them and orders that said improvement be n ` a with concrete and all proceedings heretofore had in this matter are hereby confirmd a ratified, Contract signed by W. H. Burke Contract for water connections'on Thirty Fourth Street from Mishawaka Avenue to Grand Trunk Railroad under improvement Res. No. 1462 adopted March 31st., 1925. read and approved and placed on file. Revocation of Power of Attorney of E. B. Doran and"C. Buetenbaek in the Ohio Casualty Company _declared from the Ohio.Casualty Insurance Company, filed.. Contract w1th lz:&c W. Staples for water mains on Westffioor Street, Frederickson St. Prast Blvd. Bonds Ave. Hartzer St. Elliott Street, Goodland Avenue, and Meade Street all in Lincoln Manor Addition as provided in improvement, Resolution No. 1491 adopted May 5th., 1925 signed and construction bond attaehed.thereto in the sum of $11,562.00 with the Fidelity and Deposit Company 8f Maryland as sureties, approved. Contract and bond ordered filed, The following easement was approved by the Board. EAS EM ENT The Wells Mfg. Company give' , grahts, bargains, sells and conveys to, the City of South Bend, Indiana, its successors and -assigns, forever, as easement for public utilities designated by the City to maintain electric wires on poles above the ground, or in conduiV through the ground in, over, under, through and above the following described real estate in Creed's 2nd. Addition to the City of South Bend, St, Joseph County, State of Inndianta, which real estate was f'o serly part of the alley west of Main Street from a point seven (7') feet south of the 'south dine of lot.I1 Creed's 2nd. Addition, to the north line of lot 8 Creed's 2nd. Addition, said real estate being more particularly described as follows: - Beginning at a point seven (7') south of the southwest corner of lot 11 in Creed's 2nd. Addition, thence north to the northwest corner of lot 8 in-Creed's 2nd. Addition,., thence west a distanee'of fourteen (14) feet, to the west dine of the alley west of Main Street; thence south a distance of one hundred and forty four (144) feet to the south line of the 2nd. alley south of Indiana Avenue, thence east to the place of beginning. It is further agreed t,hatzhhould the City of South Bend itself at any time desire to avail itself of the right to lay conduits or erect aline t6 of poles as hereinbefore provided, on the land aforesaid or should it grant to any public utility the righ.V to do so, the Wells Mfg. Company, its successors -or assigns may,in lieu thereof designate a right of way therefore four (.(4') feet wide on and along the east half of said alley if such use of the said west half thereof would seriously interfere with the use of any tracks or other structures which may upon said west half, ptovided further, that if and when any such change is directed by said Wells Mfg. Company, its successors, or assigns, its involves the movement or re -location of any conduits, poles, or wires or other such pro- perty -placed on -the west four feet of said alley.under this easement then this change shall be at the sole expense of the Wells Mfg. Company. This easement is granted in consideration of the vacation of the City. of South Bend, Indiana, of the'whole of the 2nd. alley'south of Indiana. Avenue from Main Street to the west line of the alley west of Main Street ; also the alley west of Main Street from the -south line of lot, 11 Creed's 2nd. Addition, to the north line of lot 8 Creed's 2nd. Addition, in the City of South Bend, Indiana. i IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Wells Mfg. Company has caused this indentue to be subscribed by Its President, and the Secretary, and the seal of the Cor- poration to be hereunto affixed by the Secretary this ninth day of May 1925. WELLS MANUFACTURING COMPANY BY ELMER E. WELLS Attest: President. E. Glernsore Wells, (SEAL) Secretary. ' 4 STATE OF INDIANA ) ST. JOSEPH COUNTY) SS Be it known that on the 9th. day of May 1925 before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, duly commissioned in and for said County and tutr and --State duly authorized to administer oath$ and take acknowledgements, came Elmer E. Wells President and.E. Glenmore. Wells Secretary of the, said Company that they know the seal of said Company, and -that the seal affixed by order of said Company., and that they signed their respective names thereto, the said Elmer E. Wells as President and E. Glenmore Wells Secretary, by the like order; and they severally acknowledged the exeou�ion thereof to be their Free act and de deed, and the free act of said Wells Mfg. Company, for the purpose therein ex- pressed; and I verify that they are personally known to me to be the persns they are above described to be, and who executed this instrument. IN WTINESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Notarial Seal on the day and year above named. My Comission Expires July 20,1926. (SEAL). VERONICA C. SWEENEY Notary PUblic ontinued, En ineer filed :roll of awards of,damages and assessments of benefits under Vacation Resolution No. 93 for the Vacatdon of the alley lying between lots 13 and 14 in Dunbar's & Co's.sub. of B, 0, L. 31 and 32 and running from Colfax Avenue to the first, alley south of Ciffax Avenue, in the City of South, Bend, Indiana. The Board has ordered that notices of such awards of damages and assessments,of benef14q be served according to law, and that said hearing be.given on same on Wednesday h., 1925'at 7:15 P.M. for the purpose of hearing or receiving objections Pfiny person or persons interested in said matter. to S94 6 . a0_ _ Claims as evidenced by vouchers numbered from to amounting Attest:-- Presi ent. Clerk of the Board. Wednesday May 13th., 1925. Board met in special session at 9:00 A.M. All members present. Minutes of meetings hold Wednesday May 6th.1, 1925 reaad and approved. The following notice ordered sent to the H. G. Christman Company. .H. G. Christman Co. You are requesd to remove obstructions and ppen for traffic, the alley between Main and LafaEyette reets., north of Colfax Ave., protecting the east side of alley to avoid danger from'--sxcsvations.. When construption is under gray a permit to close the alley may be granted if necessary. Petition for pavement on Meade Street from Division Street to Sample Street. Placed on file. 'Petition for vacation of 1st. alley south of New York Centril Railway right of way from Caroline Street.to 1st; alley east. Approved and resolution ordered. Complaint.reeeived. signed by41. V. Smith in re unsightly condition of sewer outlet emptying into the River on the east side ofand directly across the River from East Navarre St_. Filed and referred to the City Engineer for information. f Acknowledgement received from the Indiana & Michigan Elea. Co. in re notice sent for the removal of light posts on Lincoln Way East. Read and approved.