St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-30
Adjourned Meeting.

OF. IAUL, Oct. IL, 1000.
Board met at 7:3O p. m. pursuant to adj
journment Of the 18th inst
Present: Messrs. Peters, Quinby, Schliek
and Mr.. President
Absent: Messrs. Becker and Hoyt lex
cused).
The engineer having submitted plan and
estimate of cost the following report was
ordered sent to the Council. tO-wit:
To the Common Council of the City of St.
Paul:
The Board of Public Works have had
under consideration the resolution or Or
der of the Common Council, approved
Aug. 10, 1856, relative to the grading
of Glencoe street, from Mississippi street
to Columbia street or Linden street.
and having investigated the proposed i'm
provement respectfully report that said
improvement is necessary and proper,
from Mississippi street to Columbia street.:
that the estimated expense thereof is
81. $50, One-half of which need not be paid
into the City Treasury before the contract
is let; that real estate to be assessed there
for can be found benefited to the extent of
the costs and expenses necessary to be i'll
Cured thereby; that SAID improvement is
not asked for by petition of majority of
the owners of property to be assessed there
for, but we herewith send plan or profile
of said improvement, and an order for your
adoption, if you desire us to make the i'm
provement. Yeas 4, nays 0.
The following communication was
adopted and ordered transmitted to the
Council, tO-wit:
To the Honorable, the President and Mem
bers of the Common Council of the City
of st. Paul, Mimi.
GENTLEMEN: On the 18th day of De-
cember, 1885, this Board transmitted to
your honorable body communication re-
lating to street improvements to be made
during the next year (1SS6). In that conf
munlcation this Board respectfully recon-
mended to the Council the prOprety of
early anticipating the improvements that
would probably be ordered for 1886. and
requested the Council to send to the Board
orders for such work without unnecessary
delay, in order that the contracts might be
let during the winter and early spring, and
the work on such Improvements commenced
at the earliest practicable moment
Your honorable body gave that COM
munication and its recommendations favor
able consideration, and the result anticipated
by the Board speedily followed. The city
had under contract, prior to July 1, 1856,
in the cost thereof, than the entire improve
ments placed under contract in 1885.
1t will doubtless be conceded that the
improvements ordered by the Council be-
fore April 1. 1856, were placed under cOn-
tract for smaller price, were earlier and
better DONE and have given better satisfac-
than those which were ordered later in the
season.
In many cities, all the improvements con-
templated being made in any one year, are
placed under contract the preceding year.
To illustrate: The improvements to be
made next year are put under contract this
year. This system has been found, in most
cases, to work admirably. Two great adj
vantages result therefrom, viz:
First-The work proposed is invariably
let for very considerably smaller price
than it otherwise could be. thus making
considerable saving to each property owner,
and
Second-The property owners upon the
line of improvement would have several
months notice thereof and have ample