New Ulm Post. [volume] (New-Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1864-1933, 1921-05-06
COUNTY. COMMISSIONERS
SPECIAL SESSION.

Tim. Minnesota, this 23rd day OF
April, A. D. 1921, at 2 P. M, for the
purpose of receiving bids to lay AND
construct a terrazzo floor on then rst
floor in the Brown County Court
House. F
All members present.
In accordance with published notice
bids were received and opened, AND
Commissioner johnson offered the
following resolution and moved It's
adoption: + snsSsssae Aea@ ~
WHEREAS, the County Board had
heretofore, on the advice OF the Court
House Committee acted upon and
accepted the offer of Puhlmann Bros. to
Law and construct a terraZZo floor on
the first floor of the Court House OF
Brown County for the sum Of $4635.OO,
believing it to be a most reasonable
offer to perform said construction as
planned and said Pullman Brothers
being regarded as responsible parties
to perform said work so required and
said work. having been regarded by
the County Board as a work OF emer--
gency and at said time not deemed
needful to be. advertised for on SAID
account of emergency; and N.Y.
WHEREAS it was demanded by
public contractors of the City OF New
Ulm after said Pullman Brothers
had undertaken said work that the
said work be advertised for in COM
pliance with some provisions OF law
applicable to public works and for the
purpose of saving money to the tax
PAYERS of Brown County and the SAID
demand of such contractors being
recognized by this Board and a call for
sealed bids for said work was duly and
legally made and the same are not
presented to this Board for c~onsldera-
ton and the said sealed bids so pre-
sented and offered being duly and
fairly considered by this Board;
The County Board fnds:-
/. Pullman Brothers first offered
to perform said work hereinbefore
speciedfor the sumEof$4635.00.
g. 5; Pullman Brothers performed
workaand labor and furnished material
prior to the interruption of their said
work by the demands of certain con-
tractors in the sum and value OF $685..
g.. That the County Board has on
hand terrazzo material in an amount
and value of $242.00.
a.. That owing to the said demands
of certain contractors of the City OF
New Ulm the County Board has been
compelled to incur and pay for the ad-
ditional expenses of printers fees for
advertising; special meeting of the
County Board and the hiring and pay
ing of an architect and drawing OF
plans and specifications and copies
thereof and posting of same in the sum
and amount Of $216.45.
z TLo+ oplu tu1n additional com
tractors submitted bids for the con-
struction of said work so called for
and that the following are the parties
bidding and the amounts OF their sale
bids, viz:
John G.. Gronau, $4,550.00.
Fred Keute, $4,429.00.
Pullman Bros, $~4,174.O0.
All subject to plans and specifications
on file.
6. That Pullman Brothers are
hereby found to be the lowest and re.
sponsible bidders for said work and
the contract for said work is hereby
awarded to them, all as per call, plans
and specifications on file.
Commissioner Chas. L. Palmer, one
of the members of the Board, seconded
the motion to adopt said resolution
w%hereupon the following vote was
taken and recorded: r
Those voting in the affirmative:
Commissioners Jos. J. Sperl, John NJ.
Johnson. Henry j.. Meyer, Chas. l..
Palmer and Herman Polkow. Those
voting in the negative: None.
y Said resolution was declared duly
adopted.
H. The City of Sleepy Eye presented
l.. IL. oo~I q oonv 0f q rocnj11flNn
which was passed at their special meet
ing held on April 90, 1921, asking for
connecting S. r. No. IS with State
Rural Highway No. 81, and that same
be recommended to State Highway
Department.for their consideration and
that their resolution beaembodied. in
the Commissioners proceedings, and
which read asf ollows:-
WHEREAS, the following streets
in the City of Sleepy Eye, in Brown
pose Of connecting State Road No. S,
with State Rural Highway No. 81,
been heretofore designated as a State
Southwest SUad' aanne corner Of the Northwest Il h
quarter of Section No. 80, in Township
ITO, of Range so, running thence East
Oil DlcChC1111uSO. oGASSo VIM
thence North on 9Th street to the
North line of said Section No. 80, and
WHEREAS, for the reason among
others that said State Road runs in
front of the Sleepy Eye Public Schools,
where the heavy traffic thereon often
%endangers the lives of the school
children, it is desirable to vacate said
streets as a State Road and designate
Lake Street in said City of Sleepy Eye,
which runs on the Section line on the
west side of said section No. 80, as a
State Road.
THEREFORE, be, it resolved by
said Council of the City of Sleepy Eye,
that the Board of Commissioners of
Brown County, and the State High
way Commissioner, be and hereby
are requested to vacate said portion
of 9Th street and Breckenridge street
in said City of Sleepy Eye as a State
Road and that Lake Street in said
City commencing in said State Rural
Highway No. 81 at the Northwest
corner Of Section No. so, in Township
10 of Range 80, in said Brown Coun-
ty, Minnesota, running thence South
on the Section line on the West side
of said Section No. 80 to and. con-