The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-18
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or Washington streets were present to
OTTER objections to the proposed i'm
provements on said streets.
The Street Assessment Committee
made their final report as follows:
FINAL REPORT OF THE STREET ASSESS
MENT COMMITTEE.
Edgerton, Wis, Aug. II, 1916.
To the Common Council of the City Of
Edgerton:
Whereas, your honorable body adopt
ed on the 10th day of August, 1915, and
the 1st day Of May, 1916, the resolution
mentioned in the annexed report;
Now, therefore, the Street Assess
ment Committee of the City of Edger-
ton do hereby report that pursuant to
the directions of said resolution they
viewed the premises and considered and
determined the various matters and
things which the Committee were re-
! qulred under said resolution to consider
and determine, and made due report
thereof in writing, and filed the same
/ in the office OF the City Clerk on the
! 18th day of July, 1916.
| That thereupon notice was given by
the Committee, by publication in the
| official newspaper of the said City of
Edgerton for one week. that said report
| was open for review at their office and
that on a day named therein said Com
mlttee would be IN session at their Of
| flee to hear all objections that might be
made to said report as by the proof of
such publication hereto attached and
made a part hereof more fully appears;
| that one copy OF such notice, printed in
| type not smaller than plea, was posted
in each block of the part of the streets
| proposed to be improved; that an aft
davlt of the posting thereof is hereto
attached; that such publication and
posting were made five days prior to
the date of hearing objections afore-
said
That at the time and place as afore-
said mentioned for hearing objections
to said report the Committee were IN
session.
That number of property owners
were present and majority of them
thought that the assessments as re-
ported on schedules marked Exhibit
A" were too high;
Therefore, your committee would re-
spectfully recommend that the assess
ments against AUDITING property of
Main, Swift and Washington streets
be changed to $500 per running foot,
and that clerk be instructed to make
such changes on assessment sheets.
Respectfully submitted,
j. NJ Conway,
j. 0. Arthur,
@. j. Jenson,
Street Assessment Committee, City of
Edgerton.
Aid. Dallman offered the follow
ing resolution and moved its adoption:
Whereas, the common council of the
city of Edgerton, on the 10Th day of
1916, duly adopted resolutions declaring
it to be the sense and purpose of the
council that Swift street from the
north margin of Fulton street to the
south margin of Rollin street, and
South Main street from the south mar
gin of Lawton street, south a distance
of approximately 1900 feet, and Wash
ington street, be improved at the ex-
pense of the property to be benefited
thereby to the established grade by
grading the roadway thereof and by
constructing thereon a reinforced con-
crete pavement together with cement
concrete combined curb and gutter.
and directing the Street Assessment
Committee to view the premises, to
consider and determine benefits and
damages and amounts to be assessed
against the real estate and to perform
the various other duties in said resolu-
ton specified, and to make report there
of, and the said Street Assessment
Committee, in pursuance of such direc-
ton, having viewed the premises and
considered and determined the various
matters and things, which said Commit
tee was required under said resolution
to consider and determine, land having
made due report thereof in writing,
and having, after notice duly given, re-
viewed, modified and corrected said re-
port, and having made and filed in the
office of the City Clerk complete and
final report covering the said matters,
and,
Whereas, the City Clerk has duly
published notice, pursuant to law, that
said report was on file in his office and
that the Council would at this meeting
hear all objections which should be
made thereto, and determine the pro-
portion of the cost of the improvement,
if any, to be paid by the city at large,
and the Common Council being duly adj
vised of all matters in the premises:
Now, therefore, be it resolved by the
Mayor and Common Council of the City
of Edgerton:
That the said final and complete re-
port of the Street Assessment Commit
tee be, and the same is in all things ap-
proved and confirmed and hereby adopt
ed and made the findings and determin
alton of the Common Council;
That it is hereby determined that each
parcel of real estate mentioned in the
schedule Exhibit AZ attached to said
report be and the same is hereby as
sessed and shall pay the sum set oppos
tie the description of such parcel in such
schedule in the column headed Excess
of Benefits, as the benefits by it deriv--
ed from said improvement as special
tax for the purpose of defraying the
cost of said improvement.
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