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HomeMy WebLinkAbout10/03/1916 Board of Public Works MinutesIP/ Board met in regular session at 10:00 A.M., All members present.. Communication received -from Chas. E. -Smith & Company with petition for' the paving ofPortageCourt- fr-om Portage -Avenue to AshUnd Avenue... The Beard instructed the Clerk . to no . t ify -Mr-. . -Chas,. Kli­Zmith .that & separate petit ion would_ .have to be filed for water And sewer, The City Engineer instructed to.make-a report on the cutting Of the curve at the southeast corner ,of ,.-Miami Street and Lincoln Way Etstv Bdnd and contract for the grade and gravel roadway on Chapin St and sidewalk and curb on the west side of,Chapin Street from Calvert Street to E;wingAvenue signed by H. L.. Davis,, was approved by .the Board. Mr. W. B. Brady of the W. B. Brady Construction Gompany with Mr. W. G. Ducklow and Url. G. R.., Montgomery # �the Aetna Accident and Uibility Co.e,ppeav and requested that the Board allow the W. B. Brady Construction Company, to file a new bond OA Eddy Street and Mishawaka Avenue pavement improvement contract. The old bond signed June 20th 1916 by the Board to remain on file.- TheBoard granted permission to the W. B. Brady Cnatruction Cumpany to file a new bond, a ' nd the clerk was instructedoto make cop$ of bond on file and also resolution for extension of time on said contract forsaid bonding company. Communication received from The Fidelity and Casualty Company of New 'York in regard to Bond No, 532694 of the E. L. C41threll Company. The Clerk was instructed to answer -the -same* Petition received for a n electric light on South Phillip& Street between'Huron Street and Division Street?,' The same -was plac-ed on -file., Petition for an electric light on north Sunnyside Avenue. Same read and placed on file.. It is Resolved by the Board of Public Works that the resignation of the Assistant Building commissioner W,-D.-Teeple be,srecaj)ted. That W. D,, Assid w Eu and tha Teeple is ber*bl a8ppinted tivt, i0ekiewenty -uu per m, ot X/ falar be ='MrO so rom. One 1,uA opfig i .. Z) C omm 'BE ilze f$125.'._OO)Dollara per month and the City Attorney be requested to draw up an Ordinance Oonf irmitig the same. President. Board met in regular session at 7:45-1P.M.. All, members present. Hearing had on* assessment roll and final estimate for Brick pavement on alley west of Michigan Street .from La Salle Avenue to Madison. Street and alley north of La Salle Avenue from Main Street to Michigan Street, under Improvement Resolution. No. 440 In the City of ' S outh Bend, Indiana.' In the above smatter no remonstrators appeared and no written remonstrance was filed. The Board therefore find that the property assessed in said roll filed September 19th. ,1916 is benef itted in the amount of assessments as shown on said rolls, and the Board further find tit , the assessment rolls filed September 19th. ,1916 and the final estimate allowed. _Sappbomber 1,9th.1916 should be and the same. are hereby in all things rat if ied , c onf irmed and a ppr oved . Hearing had on assessment roll and final estimate for water connections on Jaquith Court from Prairie Avenue to.Chapin Street under Improvement Resolution No. 441, In the City of South Bend, Indiana. In the above matter remonstrators appeared but no written remonstrance was filed. The Board therefore find that the property assessed in said rolls Piled September 12th ,1916. is benef itted in the amount of assessments as shown on said rolls, and the Board further find that the assessment roll filed September 12th. and the final estimate allowed September 12bh. , 1916. should be *and the same is hereby in all things mat if ied, c onf irmed and approved. Hearing had on assessment roll "and final estimate for pipe sewers on Orchard street -from Scott Street to Kendall Avenue'and on Kendall Street from lat. alley north of Orchard Street to point €30 feet north of Dunham Street, under Improvement Resolution No.451. In the City of South - Bead, Ind iana. . In the above matter remonstrators appeared and remonstrated against amount of assessments against their property, but no written remonstrance was filed. The Board after due ons iderat ion decided to deduct the cost of Orchard Street pipe sewer assessment off, be cause of trunk sewer benefit and unusual circumstances of health c and it ions and abenef it to the C ity. This amount to be paid by the City of South Bend, and the City Engineer was instructed to revise said assessment roll accordingly. The Board therefore find that the property assessed in said roll filed September 19th. , 1916 and mod if ied at -this hearing is benefited in the amount of assessments as shown on said revised assessment roll, and the Board further find that the assessment tells filed September 19th., 1916 and the final estimate allowed September 19th., 1916 should be and the same are hereby in all things ratified, c onf irmed and approved. Hearing had Improvement Resolution No., 472 for -pipe sewer on Dale Avenue from Ind iana Avenue ,t o .Duba it Avenue, In the C ity of S outh Bend, Ind Tana. Upon said hearing a remonstrator appeared bu t nod written remonstrance was filed.. And ,thy Board being fully advised in the premises, decides that the bene- fits to property liable to 'be assessed for said improvement are equal to the estimated ost. of the same, as reported by the City Civil Engineer, and thereupon the Board decided that said resolution was to be mod if ied to read as follows_; Pipe sewer on Dale Avenue from Dubai 1 Avenue to the center of Lot 23 O&k Park Add it ion. This lot belonging to Phillip D.' Rock., and thereupon takes final action on said resolution as modified and the same is hereby in all things ratified, confirmd and approved. Resolved further, that notices be published on the 5th. day of 1916 and on the 12th. day of October 1916. in a newspaper of genera]. circulation said City, stating that this Board will receive bids for the construct ion of said to 10:00 A.M. on the 24th. day of October 1916. The Board reserves the right to any and all b ids . It Plat presented by Charles Waidler was approved by the Board. October in improvements reject President.