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Board met in, regular session at 10:00 A.M. All members present.
✓The matter of underground wiring be fore the Board. The Central Union. Telehpone Company
filed Blue Print and the some was approved subject to replacing of same with .a more accurate
print on completion of work. Permit ordered to be given. to the Company as per blue print
as approved. And that the Central Union Telephone Company pay the time of an inspeetor
for to see that lawn of property owners be replaced.
The following petition was received rind. placed on file.
To the Board of Public Works, -
South Be'Td, Indiana.
fie ntle me n: -
As owner of nearly all the. land on the South side of W.Chippewa Ave. I hereby
petition your. Honorable Body to establish a grade on this Ave. (not grade the same), so I
may know how to finish up extensive grading improvements I am now making to my land.
Also, to set stakes showing an established grade on, South Main St. fro�a.
Chippewa Ave, South past my 746.6 feet frontage as per sty communication to the City Engineer
of yesterday
Also, when this grade is established on South Main St., I a.sk for your per—
mission to remove the ground where it may be too high *at the north end, which ground I can
use in filling on my adjacent land. If you can give permission to remove this ground,. my
contraeters. Mess. Kizer & Denovan, will do the work free.
Yours very truly,
H. S. COVER.
The City Civil Engineer ?V/�ordered to give H.S. Cover a grade.
✓Bond and contract for Grade, curb and walk ON Broadway from Franklin, Street to Vandalia
R.R. under Improvement Resolution No. 246. signed by A. L. Headley as principal and A.G.
Harlin. and C. H. De Frees as sureties, was approved by the Board.
,/Bond and contract for grade, curb and walk on St. Vincent Street from St. Alexis Street
to Alley blest of Lawrence Street, under IMprevemient Resolution No. 235. signed by C.L.
Headley as principal and A.G. Harlin and C. H. De Frees as sureties, was approved by the
Board.
v/Bind and contract far grade, curband walk on Man Buren Street from Howard Avenue to
Saneome Avenue, under improvement Resolution No. 234, signed by C. L. Headley as prinieipal
and A. G. Harlin and C. H. De Frees, as sureties, was approved by the Board.
Bids on water connections on. Howard Street from Leeper Avenue to Niles Avenue under
improvement Resolution" No. 252. The awarding of same was deferred until June loth. 1913
Awarding of bids for water conneetion.s en Ottowa Court from Vistula Avenue to L.S.&M.S.Ry.
under Improvement Resolution No. 253. was deferred until June 10th.,1913.
,/Permission was granted the Central Union. Telephone Company to set one pole in alley at
rear of No. 224 South Notre Dame- AVeaue. The pole was approve d as followings, To be
placed on the - same side Bf. the alley as the other Central Union. Telephone Poles.
The Board agreed to pay Thirty ($30.00)Dellars for a band to be used by the Sons of
V Veterans on Decoration Days
r®l�'�st: hated gofiviA casImpfr ent Resolution. No* 227 for Pipe sewer on Birdsell Street
U a point about EO feet north of. Linden, Ave. In the
City of South Bend, Indiana.
In the above. matter no remonstrators appeared and no further remen-
stra,nces were filed. The Board therefore find in each and every ease in said improve-
ments that the benefits to the property and to the City of South Bend are equal to the
estimated cost <,f said improvement and the same are hereby in all things ratified, confirmed
and approved.
Resolved further, that notices be published on the 31st., day of May,
1913 and on the 7th.1 day of June,1913 in the South Bend Daily Times, stating that this
Board will receive bids for the construction of said improvements up to 10:00 A.M. on the
18th. , day of June.1913. The Board reserves the right to reject any or all b1d.s.
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STREET OR ALLEY IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 275.
/ Be It Resolved by the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend,
St. Joseph Counter, State of Indiana that it is desired and deemed necessary to im-
prove ry m
prove North Shore Drive from Lafayette Street to the East line of Iroquois Street.
By grading the said street from curb line to curb line and construct-
ing a 6 inch macadam pavement, placing the necessary storm water inlets and margin-
al curbs. All as shown on detail.plan.s and in accordance with plans, -profiles and
speeifieations on file in the office of the Department of Public Works of said City.
And such improvement is now ordered.
The cost of the improvement herein provided ofr, except street and
alley intersections, shall be paid by special assessment to be levied, upon the pro-
perty specially benefitted, to the mount that the same may be legally assessed
therefor, in accordance with an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana,
entitled !An Act Concerning Municipal Corporations," approved March 6,1905m and
in accordance with and pursuant to the provisions of all _acts amendatory and sup-
plemental thereto.
The cost of all street and alley intersections, including one-half
of the width of the improvement oposite street and alleys which run into, but do not
cross said roadway herein proposed to be improved and _that portion of such street
or alley abutting upon property belonging to said City, or -upon property not subject
tosueh assessment, shall be paid by the City in cash out of its general fund, if abe
ible to do so, or from a fund created by a special assessment to be levied under
the provisions of Seetion -109 Of the above .enitlted Act.
Assessments of tea dollars and more against each lot, if deferred,
are to be paid in ten equal annual installments, with interest at the rate of Sig
per cent per annum. A bond or bonds, will be issued to the contractor to the amount
.of such deferred assessments in pro rats payment for such improvement.
Under n,o-eireua-stanees shall the City of South Bead, be or be held
responsible ffr any suss or sums due from said property owner or owners for said
work, or for the collection of the same, or for the payment of any bond, bonds,
certificate or certificates, issued to said contractor in payment for such owrk,
except for such moneys as shall have actually been received -by the City from the
assessments fro such improvement, or such moneys as said City is by said entitled
Act and amendments and supplements thereto required to pay. All proceedings had,
and work done in the making of said improvement, assessment of property, collection
Of assessments and issuance of bonds therefor, shall be as provided for in said
above entitled Act, and ' Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto*
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Board Of Publie Works fix the llthe
day of J1421913 A.D. at the hour of 7:45 P.M. at the office of the Board of Public
Works, of this City, as the -time and place for the public eonsideration of said
proposed -improvement, at which s&i.d Board of Public Works will hear all persons
interested, or whose property is liable to be assessed for said improvement, and
will decide whether the benefits to the property liable to be assessed for said
improvement will equal the estimated Bost thereof.
Be IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That notiee of the, time and place of such
public consideration be published and nailed in the manner provided by law. Notice
of this resolution shall be published on. the 31st., day of May 1913 and on. the
7th. , day of Jun.e,1913, in the South Bend Daily Times.
Adopted this 28t h. , day of May ,1913.
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
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RESOLUTION.
Transferring Board of Public
Works? authority over St. Louis
Street,from the south sdde Of
of East Madison Street to South Bend
Avenue,unto the Board of Pork
Commissioners; full eoiitrel over
said street for boulevard purposes.
BE IT RESOLVED by the Beard of Public Works of the City of South
Bend, Indiana, that it is deemed and desired n.eeessary that St. Louis Street, from the
south side of East Madison Street to South Bend Avenue, in the City of South Bend,
,Indiana, be under the control and supervision of the Board of Park Commissioners of said
City, and converted by said Board into a pleasure drive —way and boulevard amd made a part
of the boulevard system of said City.
And Be It Further Resolved that the Board of Public Works do now hereby
transfer to said Board of Park Commissioners full authority, central and supervision over
said Street and renounce in favor of said Board of Park Commissioners, all its power *ever
and to said Street fort he purposes herein ab eve set out. Reserving, however, unto this
Board of Public Works the right to lay, conneet, and order to be laid and sonneeted,, a,ll
pipes, sewers, conduits and other -underground work, retaining hereby for such last named
purposes all the power which this Board originally had in and to said street.
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS*,