HomeMy WebLinkAbout02/29/1916 Board of Public Works Minutes55
Board met in regular session at 10:00 A.#. All members present.
Bids that were received February 25th.,1916 were opened and read by the Board
for liL,ber for the Street Departments the same were referred to the St. Commissioner for
tabulation.
Remonstrance from property owners on Broadway Street, remonstrancing against
,,Any action on the petition for pavement on Broadway from Carroll Street to High Street for
at least .two years. The same was read and placed on file with the petition.
Permission granted to the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. of Indikna
to add one anchor and anchor guy right, one anchor and anchor guy back jointly with the
South Bend Home Tel. Co. stub now standing, one stub and anchor left and stub and anchor
guy left on one existing pole No. 39 of buheir South Bend Niles Loop on Leeper Avenue at
Michigan Central Railroad -elevat#d crossing.
Atty. FBrabaugh and H. N. Barnes appeared before the Board and in regard
-to the collection of $1159.64 on Hydraulic Avenue Pavement contract put in in 1912 as per
letter received and placed on file February 15th.919i6. No action taken.
fOV th iAProveMent of Hoose Court
from Chapin Street to a point 100 .reet west-.orthe -west line of Scott Street; by pipe sewer,
the same being'presented by Vie 'City Engineer.
President.
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Board met in regular session at 7:45 P.M. All members present.
f Hearing had on Improvement Resolution No. 415 for the Pavement of -
Michigan Street from North line of La Salle Avenue to South Line of South Street, In
the City of South Bend, Indiana.
Upon said hearing no remonstrators appeared and no written remonstrance
was filed. (P"roperty owners interested in the ¢mprovement of said street appeared and
discussed the different kind of material for pavements.) And the Board being fully
advised in the premises, decides that the benefits to property liable to be assessed
for said improvements are equal to the estimated cost of the same, as reported by the
City Civil Engineer, and thereupon takes final action on said resolution as originally
adopted, and the same is hereby in all things ratified, confirmed and approved.
Resolved further, that notices be published on thy. s' day of March
and 16ths9day. of March 1916 in a newspaper of general circulation in said
City, stating that this Boar*1 receive bids for the construction of said improve-
ments up to 10:00 A.M. on the 'fy of Aprils 1916. -The Board reserves the
ri} t to re ject'sny and all bids
Mr.
C. D. Mmmons,
General Manager
of the Chicago, South Bend & Northern
,/ Indiana Ry. Co
presented the
'following notice
and the., same was placed on file.
TO THE BOARD OF PUBLIC MTk S of the City of
South Bend, Indian&'
The undersigned, the Chicago, South Bend h Northern Indiana
Railway Company, hereby notifies you that it hereby elects to improve that portion
of Michigan Street in the City of South Bend described in Improvement Resolution No.
415, wAich is occppled by the tracks of said Company and that portion thereof which
said Company is bound by contract with the said city to improve. Such improvement
will be made and constructed by said Company in the following manner'.
Metropolitan or other equally good paving brick to be used with
the exception of a line of nosed block adjoining the inside of the rails, such block
to be of hard stone knovez as Ligonier block or granite paving block. Said brick and.
block to be laid on the usual two inch sand filler, underlaid by six inches of con-
crete extending between the ties and underneath the rail. Underneath said ties and
concrete to be a further layer of six inches Of concrete, all to be subject to such
further detailed specifications as may be supplied by the City Engineer.
This notice and election is given and served under, and in
accordance with, the law of 1909 as set forth in the published acts of the General
Assembly of the State of Indiana for the year 1909 at pages 412,417,et seq. same
being Section 5710 Burnes R.S. 1914, and other laws and parts thereof applicable
hereto.
The undersigned further hereby requests your honorable body
to include the paving and improvement above mentioned and described and the cost
thereof in the general contract let by Your Board for the improvement of said
Michigan Street under said Improvement Resolution No. 415.
Respectfully submitted,
CHICAGO t SOUT�'H BEND & NORTHERN
INDIANA RY. CO.
BY C. D. EW40NS9
Gentl Mgr.
Petition granted and a;3proved with these exceptions, concrete base shall be 7 inches
J in depth, one inch of sand cushion,further in the event contract is let for creosoted
wooden blobktportion of pavement mentioned herein shall be creosoted wooden block.
J A Committee from the Lincoln Civic Club appeared before the Board
and requested that Leer Street be widened between Vistula Avenue and the Lake
Shore Fty. No action was taken.
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Communication Addressed to Mayor K eller was referred to the Board from
George McNabb, in regard to appointing plumbers to do the work done by the water words. The
sane was read and placed on file.
Hearing given on rolls of awards of damages and assessments of benefits
in the matter of the Opening of Lafayette Street frori 149 feet north of Indiana Avenue to
Indiana, under Condemnation Resolution No, 43. In the City of South Bend, Indiana,
In the above matter no remonstrators appeared and no remonstrances were filed,
majority of the Board, find that the property mentioned in said rolls are. benefited and
ma:ged respectively as shown in said roll(the benefits and damages bed ng equal) and said
11 is hereby in all things ratified, confirmed and approved and all action under Condemnation
solution No. 43 is hereby concluded.
Hearing given on roll shoving awards of damages and assessments of benefits
( the same being equal) in the matter of Vacation Resolution No, 25 adopted on the 28th.
day of December 1915 for the Vacation of a part of Lafayette Street between Broadway and
Indians` Avenue, In the City of South Bend' Indiana.
In the above matter no remonstrators appeared and no remonstrances were
filed. A majority of the Board therefore declare the above roll filed February gth. ,191b in
ill things ratified, confirmed and approved and all the. proceedings closed,
In regard to the hearing on the vacation of Stover—Longley Plat under
Vacation Resolution No. 26, the same was deferred until Tuesday March 7th.1,1916. at 7:45
P.M.
The Board instructed the Clerk to hold up advAisement on Michigan Street
until after Indiana Avenue Improvement resolution hearing, and if same was confirmed to
advertise both the same time and for to receive bids for both at the same day. Also to
advertise innthe Engineering Record and Municipal Journal for bids.
ASSESSLENT ROLL ON LAFAYETTE STREET OPENENG AND VACATION.
A tract of eland bounded on the north by the right of way of the St. Joseh South Bend & So.
Rye Company right of way; on tiie east by Lafayette St, and on the south by Indiana Avenue;
and on the west by Franklin St. (unplatted ex. 127 ft. off' the so. end. thereof.
South Bend Foundry Co. Benefits 00.00 Damages 00.00 `
Begin at the intersection of the north line of Indiana Ave. and the east line of Franklin
St; tine nce east 344 feet to t.ie west line of Lafayette St. produced south; thence nort"1i 127
feet; thence west 344 feet to the east line of Franklin St. thence Smith 127 feet to; the
place of beginning. Horace L. Greene, Beneits 00.00 Damages 00.00
Right of way over the following :Begin on the north line of Indiana Ave at a point in line
with the west line of Lafayette Street produced south; thence north to the present southern
terminus of Lafayette Street; thence east 50 feet; thence south to the north line of Indiana
Ave. thence west to the place of beginning. Fee in Sibley Lachine Tool Co. Right to pass
over in Horace L. Greene. Bnefits 00.00 Damges 00;00
Begin on t«e north 11 e of Indiana A venue at a. oint 50 feet east of the intersection
Of' tbLe north line Of Indiana Avenue. with the west line of Lafayette Street produced
south; thence east 147-1/2 feet to the west line of the right of way of the Terre Haute
and Logansport Railroad Co. thence north on the west line of said rdght of way to the
south boundary of right of way to the south boundary of the right of way of the Vandalia
extension; thence northwesterly on su herly boundary of said extension to a point due nrth
of beginning. thence -outh to the place of beginning. Sibley Machine Tool Co.
bane fits . 00.00 d=ma ge s 00; 00 -
President.