01/02/1918 Board of Public Works Special Meeting Minutes

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V Board met in speciea,l session at 10:.50 A.M. Mr. A. H. Rice absent. permit:- The Beard granted the Studebaker Corporation of America the following R E S O t U T I 0 N. By resolution of the Board of Public Works the Studebaker •/v Corporation of American is hereby given permission to arbas Sample Street at a polxt about 800 feet east of Prairie Avenue for the purpose of laying a line of pipe across said street. This street to be closed temporarily for rive (5) days. Necessary p,-rmits tobe given on -f illAg:z of excavatt ien badds. Work_ to be done under `the supervision of the C ity � C ivil Engineer. Attorney Vm, A. McInery representing the White Construction Company; appeared before the Board in regard to payment for mortar cushion under brick pavement along street car tracks on Eddy Street and Mishawaka Avenue from Jefferson Street to l9th. , Street, this City . The Board approved of the -following. resolution: RESOLUTION. The Beard having under consideration a claim of the White Construction Company for an allowance for extra work in the nature of a mortar cushion under the brick pavement on Eddy Street and Mishawaka Avenue under Improvement Resolution and, The Board having been advised that such extra Mork was done at the instance of the Board of Public Works through its City -Engineer, and, The City Attorney having filed with this Board his opinion that such mortar cushion was not required under the plans and specifications covering said improvement and, The City Engineer having filed with the Board its report shoving - that said mortar cushion was so used under 3,628.4 sq. yds. of brick paving and, This Board having heretofore assumed the added expense_ incident to the - use of said mortar cushion conditions -upon an interpretation of said plans and specifications by said City Attorney. v Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved, by the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend that an allowance to the. White Construction Company be and the same is hereby made in the sum of $362.84 Dollars in full settlement of said extra work and that the same to be paid out of the Street Intersections fund and be a charge against said City of.South Bend, Indiana. • BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. BY E. U. MORR IS JOHN B. WEBER - — Approved and dated this 2nd. day of January 1918. ` v Engineer filed assessment roll for pipe sewer on Sorin Street from Arthur Street to Walsh Street north, under Improvement Resolution No. 556. In the City of South Bend, Indiana. ' The Board ordered that as they would go out of office Monday January 7th, 1918 at noon, and as they did not kamw the time the in coming Board would hold their evening session, it Was decided_ that the advertising and setting for hearing :tk of this roll sh6ULd be deferred uAt1l such time that, -new Board would meet and organize.