The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-04-18
City Council Orders Permanent I'm.
provements for this
Year.
SANITARY SEWER ORDERED
FOR AMERICA AVENUE
Finance Committee Reports on Funds
Available for the
Year 1916.
M. & I. AGAINST NEW
LAKE SHORE STREET PROJECT

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from Tenth street to Thirteenth
street; Bemidji avenue will be paved
from Fourth street to Seventh street
and a sanitary sewer will be con-
structed from Sixth to Thirteenth
streets on America avenue, to Bel
trami avenue on Thirteenth street, on
Beltrami avenue from Twelfth to
Fourteenth streets and on Minnesota
avenue from Ninth to Thirteenth
streets, as a result of action taken
by the city council at a regular ses-
sion held last evening.
City Clerk Stein was authorized to
advertise for bids, the same to be
opened at the next meeting of the
council, which will be held in two
weeks. Work on the proposed i'm
provements will probably be begun
Immediately. The council also de-
cided to extend the water mains on
America avenue to the corner of the
st. Hilaire Lumber company prop
erty and to the Koors Bros. company
new building.
Funds Overdrawn.
The extending of the water mains
on Irvine avenue to the Greenwood
cemetery was deferred on account of
shortage of funds in the water de-
partment.
The finance committee, composed
of Aldermen Lycan, Erwin and Lahr,
reported the funds available for this
year for permanent improvements.
The report is as follows:
1.-The committee of finance, begs to
report that the approximate amount
of funds available for the year 1915
in the permanent improvement fund
will be $5,400 and $15,445 in the
revolving fund. The available
amount in the water fund will prac-
tically equal the amount of the over
draft at this time which is $4,000.
For America PROJECT.
The extension Of the water ma ms
on America avenue to the corner of
the St. Hilaire Lumber company
property and then to the Koors Bros.
Co., new building will cost $1,000 and
the extension on Irwin avenue to 21st
street will cost $4,000. The COM
mittee would suggest the extension
on America avenue only.
"The estimated cost of the sanitary
sewer as outlined by the city en-
gineer (this is the sewer on America,
Minnesota and Beltrami avenues as
described above) will be $4,000 of
which $4,000 will be paid out of the
permanent improvement fund and
$4,000 out of the revolving fund
Paving Cost $500.
''The estimated cost of paving three
blocks on Beltrami avenue from
Tenth street, omitting the intersect~
ing at 18th street will be $5,50O of
which $1,5O0 will be paid out of the
permanent improvement fund and
$4,000 out of the revolving fund.
''The paving of three blocks on Be-
midi avnue from Fourth street to
Seventh street will cost $7,O25 of
which $3,45O will be paid out of the
permanent improvement fund and
$3,575 will be paid out of the re-
volving fund.
To Connect Roads.
"Grading Doud avenue from Tenth
street to the city limits connecting
with the State Rural Highway now
constructed will take at least $1,000
from the permanent improvement
fund and completing the swamp road
and turnpiking to. the city limits will
require about $500 from the same
fund.
With the improvements as enumer-
ated, the disbursements from the re-
volving fund will amount to $13,575
leaving balance of $1,S70 at the be-
ginning of next year, the disburse-