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HomeMy WebLinkAbout01/22/1919 Board of Public Works MinutesBoard met in regular sess-ion at 7:15 P.M. Mr. John F. De Haven absent. This being the date set for deferred hearing on assessment, roll and final estimate for pipe sewer on Columbi& Street from Inds ana Avenue to 70 feet north of Dubail°Avenue, under Improvement Resolution No. 582. In the above matter property owners appeared and Attorney Goo. Schock appeared'r.epresenting property owners interested in ass*ssment against Lot 92 Bowman Place .Addition and objected to part of this lot being assessed. The Board after due consideration decided to modify assessment on 1®t 92 and ordered the assessment on the east half of lot 92 Bowman Place Add. be assessed to the City and thewest haff to Grace A. Dubail property owner as shown in red on assessment roll, and the Board therefore finds that 'all other property assessed in said rolls: filed Dec ember '28th. ,1918 is benef itted in tho amount of assessments as shown on said rolls, and'the Board further find that the assessment roll filed December 28th., 1918 and the_firial estimate allowed December 28th:,1918 should be and the same is hereby in all things ratified, confirmed and approved as modified. T74is being the date set for -the consideration of the advisability of the paving of Lincoln Way West from Olive Street to the City Limits. Mr. Joseph Kaley, Mr. C. W. Hyde,Mr. Drain , E�, T. Bonds and Mr. Ridinnur , property owners on said street met with the Board and stated that they were in favor of this pavement going in, ill' the City would see. -that all other underground work was put in first. The Board advised those property owners that this would be given consideration. This being the date set for the consideration of the advisability of paving South Bend Avenue from Eddy Street to City Limits. Attorney Wm. Bergan, representing a number of property owners appeared before the Board and objected to this pavement being put in at this time. Mr. Behr property owner stated he was against pavement . Pro. Greene representing his brother -Jerome Green and Mr. Luce against this pavement going in at the present time. Delbert Thompson and ' G. W. Arehart, property owners on said street appeared for said improvement, and also informed the Board that some of the other property owners not present were in favor of the pavement going in, but they did not want to see a narrow strip in the middle of the street, but wanted a first class pavement from curb to curb when the same was put in. Attorney Stuart McKibben and Engineer McClellan representing the County explained how the County intended to improve their part of this road and showed the property owners the advantage it would be to have this street paved at this time when the C ount.p is paving theirs as to the grade and the filling in. of their dirt. The Board after due consideration ordered a resolution prepared for a 12 foot Concrete roadway on South Bend Avenue from Eddy Street to.City Limits, and to sot same for hearing, and if property owners wanted other type of pavement to present an 80% petition before the night of the hearing or before Wed. February 19th., 1919. ,�d Ja nuar y 22 nd .-,1919. 9 sn t inued , LOCAL SEWER IMPROVEMENT RES OLUT ION NO. 597. Resolved by the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend, county of St. Joseph County, St#te of Indiana. That the construction of a local sewer, intended and adapted only for local use by the property holders whose property abuts thereon, and not' intended or adapted for receiving sewerage from collateral drains , be and the same is hereby ordered in and along Brookfield Street from Ford Street to a point 110 feet s puth of the south line of Div is ion Street as follows, to -wit: - Beginning at the intersection of the center line of. Ford Street and Brookfield Street ; thence north along the center line of Brootfield Street at a port 110 feet south of the south line of Division Street with a 12 inch vitrified pipe sewer. Together with .the .necessary manholes, storm water inlets, conddts, flush tanks and house connections to the curb line along the line of said improvement, all as is more particularly shown and all in accordance with the plans, profiles, detail drawings and sFee if icat ions on file in the off ice of the department' of Public Works of the City of South Bend, Indiana, and said sewer, with all its appurtenances hhall be constructed in accordance with the profile and, spec if ications now on. f ile inthe off ice of the Publie Works of said City. The cost of 3sid_ improvement -hall be apportioned against d6hd paid by the property holders whose property abuts thereon, and upon the -City of South Bend if the City is benef itted by :raid improvement., all according to the method and manner provided for in_ Act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, entitled ".An Act Concerning Municipal Corporations, "approved March 691905. Assessments, if deferred, are to be paid in ten equal , annual installments, with interest at the rate of. Six per cent per_ annum. A bond or bonds shall be issued to the contractor in payment for such work, unless the property owners pay said assessments before said bond are issued. Under no c1rcumstances shall the City of South Bend be or be hold responsible for any sum or sums due from said property owner or owners for -said work, or for the collection of same, or for the payment of any bond or bondsm certificate or certificates, issued to said contractor in payment for such work except for such moneys as shall bbeen received by the City from the assessments for such improvement, or such moneys as said City is by said above en'4itled Act required to pay. All proceedings had, and work done in the making of said improvement, assessment of property, collections of assessments and issuance of bonds, tharef or, shall be as provided for in said above entitled Act; Notice of this ].reaolut ion shall be published on the 25th. , day of January 1919 and on the 1st.9 day of February 1919 in the South Bend Daily Tribune. his Board will give a hearing on this resolution at its Office in the City Hall'On the �Fth. , day of February 1919 at 7: `15 P. M. Afopted this 22nd.9 day 4f January 1919. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS* G. A. ELLIOTT HfJ R. ROSTISER Attested: - . Veronica C. Sweeney, Clerk of the Board. t LOCAL SEWER IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NO. 598. Resolved by the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend, County of.St. Joseph, State of Indiana, That the construction of a local sewer, intended and adapted only for local use by the property holders whose property abuts thereon, and not intended and adapted for receiving sewerage from collateral drains., be and the same is, hereby ordered in and along Walnut Street from Ford Street to a point 230 -feet north of the: north line of Ford Street as fdllows,to-wit: Beginning at the intersection of t. Walnut Street ; ithenew.rth along the center feet na b h of toe north lime of Ford Street w Together with the necessary manholes, storm w house connections to the curb line along the more particularly shown and all in accordance drawings and specifications on file in the of: Works of the City of South Bend, Indiana, and shall be -constructed in accordance with the p: in the office of the. Department of Public Wor improvement shall be apportioned against and .e center line of Ford Street ant line of Walnut Street to a point 230 ,th a 10 inch vitrified pipe sewer. ,ter inlets; conduits, flush tanks and ine of said improvement, all as is mot with the plans, profiles, detail ice of the Department of Public` said sewer, with all its appurtcnan'0es of it a and specifications now on file s of said City. • The cost of said ►pid, by the property holders whose rro- perty abuts thereon, and upon the City of Sdtlxh Bend if the City `is benefitted bj- said improvement, all accordixg to the method and manner provided for in Act of the General Assembly of the State of IndIana, entitled " An Act Concerning Municipal Corporations, " approved March 691905, Assessments, if deferred, are to be paid in ten equal' annual installments , 'with interest -at the rate_ of Six per cent per annum. A bond or bonds shall be issued to the contractor in payment for such work u nless the property hwners pay said assessments before said bond or bonds are issud .Uzider no circumstances shall the City of South .Bend be or be held responsible for any sum or sums due from said property owner or owners for said work, or for the collection of same, or for the payment of any bond or bonds, certificate or certi- ficates, issued to said -contractor in payment for said work, except for such moneys as shall have been actually received by the City from the assessments, for such improvement, or such moneys. as sdid City is by said above entitled Act required to pay. All proceedings had, and work done in the making of said improvement,, assessment of property, collections of assessments and issuance of bonds therefor, shall be an provided for in said above entitled Act. Notice of this resolution shall be published on the 25th., day of January 1919 and on the 1st. day of February 1919 in the South Bend Daily Tribune. .,his Board will give a hearing on this resolution at its office in the City Hall on the 26th. , day of February 1919 at 7:15 P.M. Adopted this 22nd.9 day of January 1919. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. H. 'A. ELLIOTT H.-F. ROSTISER Attested: - Veronica C. Sweeneyip Clerk of the Board. President.