Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-10
BOULEVARD LIGHTS
NOT TO Be PLACED
ALONG STREETS NOW
COUNCIL HAS NO FUNDS WITH
WHICH TO PAY FOR THE
WORK
SURVEYING CONTRACT
FOR BRIDGE STREET LET
l.. A. Boulay Company Will Prepare
Figures and Do Preliminary Work
on Proposed Improvement

After a short discussion of the pos
sibility of having the new boulevard
lights installed on the business streets
this fall, held at the council meeting
last Friday night, it was given out
authentically that this much needed
Improvement could not be made the
present year.
1t had been thought that there
might be money left from the present
Improvement fund, from which the
paving is being paid for, to place the
light poles and install the lights in
them. 1t is found, however, that the
funds will be exhausted in making
the street Improvement and that no
other public fund is in condition to
permit using any portion of the money
for a permanent Improvement.
Every member of the council has
expressed himself repeatedly as be-
ing in favor of placing the boulevard
lights and completing the job The
council is supported in its views by al
most every citizens of Belding. The
improvement would be speedily made
were funds available. The matter is
deemed to be a suitable one to in
clude in the annual budget as made
up next spring, and Immediately fol-
lowing the making of the annual bud
get, If the necessary funds are in
cluded, the Improvement can be made.
1t is therefore probably that Belding
will only have to wait until spring
to see the hopes Of its citizens realiz-
ed in having beautifully lighted
streets. The wires have all been
placed where they 90 beneath the
pavement, so that the work Of in
stalling will be small when the time
arrives.
L. A. Boulay of the L. A. Boulay
company, which company is now en-
ployed as consulting engineers in the
paving being laid, appeared before the
council IN view of the prospective paw
ing on Bridge street and asked for the
contract of making the preliminary
surveys on which to base the approx
mate cost of the Improvement. He
stated that while the Improvement
would likely not be made another year,
yet his company, during the time they
had a representative on the ground
could take the necessary levels and
make out the figures to better advan-
tage. Then at a future time when
the council was ready for the figures
and specifications, even though it
might be the middle of the winter,
they could be forwarded to Belding
within a few days. For this service
the l.. A. Boulay company asked two
hundred dollars, which sum would be
a part payment on the per cent due
them when the Improvement should
be made.
1t was voted to give the L. A. Bou-
lay company a contract on the above
and also to include in the contract the
surveying of any other streets, on
which improvement might be asked,
before the time of making the sur
veys.
Secretary Gunsolus of the board of
commerce brought up the matter of
charging a nominal fee for weighing
on the municipal scales. He told of
the views expressed in the Farmers
clubs meetings he had attended, stat
ing that the farmers were we'll pleas
ed with the new facility and that a
small fee would not be Objectionable
to them. He also stated that he had
been approached by local potato buy
ers to see whether or not a fiat or
lower rate could not be secured by the
larger and regular users of the scales.
The matter was left with the street
committee, in whose hands the scales
have been from the time of their pur-
chase, to decide.
The report of the street committee
on the placing of the scales in Depot
street was accepted by the council.
The committee also asked to have the
appointment of Preserve Curtis as
weighmaster and caretaker of the
teams in the hitching yard confirmed.
The appointment was confirmed. The
same committee also asked that proper
lights be placed in the hitch yard, in
the scales building and also in the ap-
proach to the hitch yard The mat
ter was referred to the light commit
tee.
Aside from the allowing of the city
and waterworks bills no further busi-
ness was brought to the attention Of
the council.