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City of Richmond, Indiana,
Monday December 17th, 1928.
The Board of Public Works of the City of Richmond, Indiana, met
in regular session at the office of said Board Monday December 17th
1928, at 9 o 'clock A. M. All the members of said Board Messrs, Held,
McFail and Henley being present. The following proceedings were
had, to-wit :
I/ The Board direct the Clerk to prepare appropriation ordinance in sum
of $2, 000.00, for employing engineers for survays,plans, etc. , for
sewers in east part of the city.
The Board award contract to The Ahrens-Fox, Fire Engine Company of
Cincinnati, Ohmo, for 750 gallon pumping engine as follows, to-wit :
(Revised proposal) One Triple Combination Assembled Automobile
Rotary Type Pumping Engine, with a pumping capacity of 750 gallons
per minute. All to be completed for the sum of $9, 250.00, and your
old two Brockway Combination Cars. Cash upon delivery and acceptance
of apparatus F.O.B. Richmond, Indiana, 90 days.
IN MATTER OF THE :IMPROVEMENT OF
RAVINIA PARK FIRST ADDITION. . )
Come now G. Delton Gerhart, G.Delton Gerhart, Trustee., and A. 0.
Vioni, Trustee, and present to the Board their written petition pray-
ing for the improvement of the streets and public places in Ravihia
Park First Addition to the City of Richmond which petition is in
words and figures, as follows : (here insert) , see petition
And the Board having examined said petition, finds than the facts
stated therein are true, and that said petitioners are owners of more
than fifty-five (55%) per cent of the lots in such addition, and that
said petition should be granted.
And upon the filing of said petition Dell B. Davis, City Engineer.
of said City, li.kewaise files drawings, plans, and specifications for
the improvements in such addition, and as prayed for in such petition
• and also files an estimate of the maximum cost of each of said im-
provements as prayed for.
The Board having examine( said petition said estimate of costs and
the drawings, plans, and specifications of said improvements now
unanimously adopts the following resolution:
BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Public Works of the City of Rich-
mond, India.na,that the petition this day filed by G.Delton Gerhart,
et al, for the improvement of Ravinia Park First Addition be granted,
and that the streets and alleys in and on the boundaries of said ad-
dition be improved by grading and paving said streets and public
places with one of the four types of modern city pavements, to-wit,
street asphalt, rock asphalt, bituminous, retread, and bituminous
macadam, and by the construction of sidewalks, sewers, and curbs, and
by the erection and installation of a system of street lights and
posts in and upon said streets and public places and by supplying
water to said lots, and of ma-king, by contract and at the owners ex-
pense, all private connection with sewer, gas, water and other like
pipes and conveniences, and of bringing said connections inside the
curb lines of said street and outside of the line of such alley for
each lot, where the same has not already been done by the abutting
property owner or other person or corporation for the use and benefit
of any such owner; . (see next page)
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and the declaration of such intention by the Board shall be made
a part of the notice given concerning such street or alley im-
provement as required by law. On default of any owner making such
. connection within the time specified, said Board shall proceed
to do so at the owner ' s expense, and such' expense shall be a lien -
on the property affected and collectible in the same manner as
expenses for other street and sewer improvements. And said work
of making such private connections and bringing the same within
the curb line of such street or outside of the line of such al •
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ley at the expense of the abutting property owner shall be in-
eluded in the general contract. for the permanent improvement of •
such street or alley; and of making at the expense of every pub-
lic utility a careful and thorough inspection of all gas, water
or other like pipes or conveniences and connections thereto in
such street or alley and owned or used by any public utility and
of causing to be made all needed or necessary repairs of all such
pipes and connections, so as to make all such pipes and connect-
ions in a high state of efficiency and in first class condition
in all respects; and the declaration of such intention by the
Board shall be set forth in the published notice given concerning
such street or alley improvement . On default of any public utility
to inspect and to repair any such pipe or connection thereto owned
or used.. by it within the time specified, said Board or other legal
authority of said city shall' proceed to do so by contract or other-
wise at the expense of such utility, and all such expense shall
be a lien upon the property of such utility, and all such expense
shall be a lien upon the property of such utility used in furnish-
ing or supplying service to said city and the inhabitants thereof
and such lien may be enforced in any appropriate proceeding or
method, or the full amount of such expense may be retained by said
city out of any money it owes to such utility. And said work of
inspecting and repairing all such pipes and conveniences at the
expense of such utility shall be included so . fa.r as practical in
the general contract for the permanent improvement of such street
or alley, and bidders on any such improvements shall state the
amount per day or other unit that will be charged each public
utility for inspecting and repairing any such pipe, in the event
that such utility fails, neglects or refuses to do so, in accord-
ance with drawings, plans, and specifications for suc4 improve-
ments as prepared by Dell B. Davis, City Engineer, of said city,
and now on file in the office of the Department of the Board of
Public Works of said city, and such improvement is . now ordered.
The Board now approves the estimate of the maximum cost of each
of said improvements provided for in said resolution as shown by
the engineers estimate. And the costs of said improvement shall
be assessed upon the lots in said addition, all in accordance
with an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana., en-
titled "An Act providing for the improvement of streets and al-
leys in recorded platted addition to and within cities and towns,
by the construction of sidewalks and curbs, pavements, water mains,-
gas mains, sewers and street lamps and lamp posts, and creating a tim
• lien upon said real estate and repealing Chapter 159 of the Acts •
�f1923, and Chapter 210 of the Acts of 1925, approved March 10,
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(see next page. )
Monday December 17th, 1928.
Assessments, if deferred, are to be paid in ten equal an-' 219
nual installments, with interest at the rate of five per centum
per annum.
A bond or bonds will be issued to the contractor in pay-
ment of such work unless the property owners pay said assessment be-
fore the bond or bonds are issued. Under no circumstances shall the
City of Richmond be, or be held, responsible for any sum or sums due
from said property owner or owners for said work, or for the collect-
ion of the same, or for the payment of any bond, bonds, certificate
or certificates issued to said contractor in payment for such work,
except±x for such moneys as shall have been actually received by
the City from the assessments for such improvemento
All proceedings had and work done in the making of said improvement
assessment of property, collection of assessments, and issuance of
bonds therefor, shall be as provided for in said above entitled act
and acts therein referred to, and amendments thereto.
And the Board now fixes Monday morning, December 211-th, 1928, at
nine o 'clock A. M. , as the time when the Board will hear all persons
interested, or whose property is liable to be assessed for the pro-
posed improvements, and will decide whether the benefits to the prop-
erty liable to be assessed for such improvements will equal the esti-
mated cost thereof, and the Clerk of this Board is directed to give
notice of such hearing as provided for by law.
Adopted this 17th day of December, 1928.
BOARDrOF PUBLIC WORKS
Walter V. Reid, President
Frank R. McFall
R. M. Henley
Claims in amount of $6846.27 were allowed.
The Board approved the various payrolls to December 16th, 1928.
The Clerk was directed to notify, the Fibre Conduit Mfg. Co. , to
stop the practice' of running oil from their factory into Clear Creek.
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The Board then adjourned,
Prest . of Board
Attest :
lerk of Board