The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-12-03
HIT At THE B.0F P.W.
AID. PASS DOES NOT LIKE ITS
STYLE OF ASSESSING.
Tax for Curb and Guttering Is Against
His Idea of How It Should Be
Done; Ordinance Relating to the
Removal of Snow From Side
walk to Be Placed Before the
Council Tonight.
From Saturdays Daily.

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! The city council will hold an adj
journed meeting tonight to transact
the business that would have come be-
fore the last meeting. Aid. Pass is
said to be preparing himself to take
shot at the practice of the board
of public works in assessing corners
in curbing and guttering. 1t has been
the practice for many years to as
sess one third of the cost of the cor
ner to the corner lot and the other
two-thirds to the inside lots. Now
that curb and gutter has been laid on
Van Brunt street, Aid. Pass has prac-
teal experience of this plan and it
is said that he would like to have
the corner lots bear the entire ex-
pense of the long circle about the
boulevard from crosswalk to cross
walk
The matter of vacating streets across
the property recently purchased as a
site for the ladies' seminary cannot
come up, as it has not been advertised
for tonight, and new date will have
to be set.
Will Have Walks Cleaned.
The board of public works recently
adopted a set of rules in regard to
clearing the snow from sidewalks, and
in order to render them effective and
to give the board the power of col
lecting assessments for cleaning walks
when the property owners do not do
it, City Attorney Schmitt has pre-
pared an ordinance making the rules
effective. This will be presented to-
night
The rules adopted by the board are
the following:
Section /. 1t shall be the duty of
the owner or owners of every tract
or parcel of land within the city of
Mankato, Mimi, to remove, or cause
to be removed from the sidewalk or
sidewalks in front of, adjacent to or
adjoining such tract or parcel of land,
$50 owned by him or them, all snow
and ice, by ten o'clock in the forenoon
of each day.
Section 2. In case the owner or
owners of any such premises fail to
comply with said rule as set forth
in said section l, the board of pub
lie works may remove, or cause to
be removed, such snow and ice from
such sidewalk or sidewalks in front
of, adjoining, or adjacent to such tract
or parcel of land, or premises, by labor
hired for that purpose, which labor
shall be paid for by the city of Man
kato, Mimi, in the first instance.
Can Levy An Assessment.
Section 3. In case of the removal
of snow or ice, or both, from any such
sidewalk, or crosswalk, in said CITY.
by said board of public works, or
under it's direction, as hereinbefore
provided, said board of public works
shall forthwith, or as soon as may
be, levy an assessment against the
premises in front Of which, or adjacent
to-, or adjoining which the sidewalk
or sidewalks may be, from which
such snow or ice, or both, have been
removed, or caused to be removed, by
the board of public works as afore-
said. and which said assessment shall
be for the amount of the cost incur
red by said board of public works
in such removal and improvement, to-
gether wit hall costs incurred in the
collection of said assessment.
Section 4. The proceedings in the
levying and collection of such assess
ments shall be in all respects the same
as the proceedings provided for in the
charter of said city, being chapter AZ
of the special laws of the state of
Minnesota, for the year 1891, for the
levying and collection of assessments
for other local improvements, and
such provisions of said charter are
hereby invoked and made a part here
of, the same as if set out at length.