HomeMy WebLinkAbout08/18/1917 Board of Public Works Special Meeting MinutesSaturday August 18th..1917
Beard met in special session at 10:30 A.M. All members present.
This being the date set for making of final award of contract for
pavement on Eddy Street and Mishawaka, Avenue from Jefferson Blvd., to center of
Nineteenth Street, under Improvement Resolution No. 544, property wieners appeared
before the Beard and filed the following petition; which was read and placed on file.
. We.,. ,the, Und•�rs.igned,-res-id:enta- .of. Ui&hawaka Avenue respectfully petition
rY/ the Honorable Board of Public Works to take from the general fund and to pay out of
said fund an amount equal to the difference between the Brady contract for paving
Ifishawaka Avenue, and the present proposed contract and to pay °sa°id amount out of said
genteral fund.
Second: We request the Board to require the present contractor to begin
work at once and finish said street from l9th. Street within ninety days from date.
S igned.
Adam Hunsberger, J. B. Witwer, Albert Ellinger, John Tabor, Geo. Goeley
Chas. L. .Soice, H. D. Bowles, J. C. Bowman, Guise Wave, J. R. Witwer, Fred C. Kops,
E. W. Witwer.
Concerning the improvement of the roadway of Eddy Street and Mishawaka
Avenue from Jefferson Blvd. to center of Nineteenth Street in pursuance to resolution
No. 544 the Beard finds that no petition has b,-°en filed with said Board by a, majority
in number of the freeholders residing on said street- to be improved requesting
that it be unproved Frith a, diffeent kind of pavement than the kind heretofore adopted
by the Board in' its .preliminary order; andthe City Er_gineer reports that The White
Construction Company is the lowest arid best bidder for_ the -kind of pavement heretofore
adopted by the Board, a,nn.d total cost to the -property oK�_er for said improvement is less:
than 50 o of assessed valunt ion, and the Beard find that said The white Construct ion
Company is the lowest and best bidder and hereby lets the contract for said improvement
to him, and orders th:. t said improvement be trade with Trinidad Lake Sheet Asphalt and all
erooeedings heretofore had in this matter are hereby confirmed and ratified.
E. U. MORRIS
A. H: RICE
JOHN B TEBER
Board of Public 'k orks .
Attested: -
Vcronica C. Swecnelrs
Clerk of the boerd.
Dated this 18th. day of August 19117.
resident.