Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-14

to the project.
1t is asserted that the amendments con-
stituted a quiet move on the part Of the
/ city administration to make 1t impossible
for the city council to hold up street
| improvement projects. The prese0t law
| provides that the council must vote unan-
1 imously to override a remonstrance. boz
ems of such improvements have gone to
the council during the last two years
and practically all were turned down
by the negative vote of councilmen who
| took for their permanent policy the
stand that If the property owners did
| not desire the Improvement the council
had no business forcing 1t on them. This
/ led to the blocking OF some improve
ments which have been regarded gener-
ally as meritorious, but, on the other
! hand, the councillnen who did the block
! ing assert that a number Of administra-
ton pet projects which were attempted
/ without regard TO the interests of the
| property owners along the streets met
death.
AMENDMENT
PROVIDES LIEN.
The NOll amendments also included one
other which provides that a lien for
street improvement attached with the
letting of the contract. This, Represen-
tative NOll said, Strengthened out an am
! biguity In the law. An amendment in
1919 so changed the law that it pro-
vided in one section that liens should
| attach as the present amendment pro
videS and in another that they should at
/ tach at the time the final assessment roll
was approved.
! Contracts for the permanent improve
ment Of eleven streets, bids upon which
have been under consideration for two
weeks, were awarded. Board Member
Mark II. Miller refused to sign the
awards, asserting that he thought the
prices were too high in view of the fact
that he believes the cost OF labor and
materials will be reduced within the next
/ two or three weeks. President Lemaux
and Board Member Thomas A. Riley over
rode his objections and signed the
awards.
! The board announced Friday that It
would hold up all street resurfecing
projects because of the passage by the
/ Legislature and signing by the Governor
/ Of the Benedict bill providing for the
payment Of 80 per cent Of the cost Of
] street resurfacing by the abutting prop
/ erty owners and 30 per cent out OF the
/ city general fund. 1t was subsequently
/ discovered that the Governor had refused
to accept the bill, thereby killing it, The
/ board members were not certain at the
morning session that the Governor had
allowed the bill to die so it was agreed
TO Investigate and if the bill is found
/ to be dead, thereby permitting procedure
under the old law, to award contracts on
four resurfacing Jobs upon which bids
/ had been received.
Bids on three resurfacing resolutions
were rejected, the board considering them
too high.
/ STREET WORK
CONTRACTS LET.
The board Issued a preliminary order
for asphalt for the resurfacing Of Blake
street from New York street to In
diana avenue.
! Plans were ordered prepared for the
permanent improvement OF the first alley
north Of Ohio street from DOrman to
/ Highland streets; sidewalks in Bernard
! avenue from Cornelius street to Rock
wood avenue, and permanent improve
ment Of Station street from Twenty
Eighth to Thirtieth streets.
Contracts We're let as follows:
Permanent improvement Of the first al
/ ley east Of Broadway from Seventeenth
to Nineteenth streets, twO-course con
crete, Columbia Construction Company, at
s3-6S a lineal foot; total, S. 500.
! Permanent improvement of Buckingham
I
place, bituminous concrete, Mansfield En-
cheering Company, at S11.53 a lineal
foot; total $2s.2156S.
I Permanent improvement Of Healing
avenue, from Tenth to Sixteenth streets,
/ bituminous concrete, Mead Construction
| Company, at Sc a lineal foot, total $780,
| 9S1.5S.
! Permanent improvement of Thirty
| Ninth street, from Central avenue to
Broadway, bituminous concrete, ]. n.
! Morgan & Son, at $685. lineal foot, total
/ S0,74S.4O.
! Permanent improvement OF Cleveland
/ street, from New York to Vermont
| street. asphalt, Union Asphalt Construc-
/ ton Company, at $3.50 a lineal foot, total
Sc, 46763.
Permanent improvement Of New Jer-
sey street, from Fortieth to Bernard ave-
nue., asphalt. Indiana Asphalt Paving
1 Company, at S6.2S a lineal foot, total
! 81 03S04.
| Permanent improvement OF Winthrop
avenue from Forty Second to Forty
Sixth streets, bituminous concrete, In
| diana Asphalt Paving Company at 1914
a lineal foot; total, S29, s39.1s.
| Permanent improvement Of New Jer-
! sey street from Fall Creek parkway,
north drive, to Twenty Eighth street,
\ oHbudils 1uuldHd Aspud4l EdNluE GoIu-
rany, at S7.45 a lineal foot; total
/ S2.39s.23.
/ Permanent improvement of the first
alley east Of Talbot avenue from
Twenty Eighth TO Twenty-Ninth streets,
| two-course concrete. Columbia Construc-
/ ton Company, at S2.64 a nneal foot;
! $5.79744
/ Permanent improvement Of Graceland
avenue, from Forty Second to Forty
Third streets, bituminOus concrete. ]. n.
Morgan & Son, at $500 a lineal foot
l total so 7O413.
/ Permanent improvement Of Gladstone
| avenue, from Michigan to st. Clair
streets, bituminous concrete, Mead Con-
struction Company. at $6-Ss lineal foot.
/ total s16216.46
RESURFACING CONTRACTS
/ TO BE AWARDED.
The contracts for resurfacing will be
awarded as follows:
] Madison avenue from Lincoln to Ray
! streets, asphalt. Marion County Con-
| structiOn Company, at $40 lineal foot,
/ total S44. 1886.
! Delaware street, from Madison avenue
| to South street, asphalt Marion County
/ Construction Company, at $S.65 a hneal
foot, total S3115342
! Maryland street, from Blackboard to
West streets. brick, Marion County Con-
I struction Company. at $50 IineaI foot,
total SS.761.55.
! Merrill street, from Meridian street to
Senate avenue, asphalt, Mansfield Engi-
neering Company, at $3.50 a lineal foot,
total 12,974.61.
Bids were received as follows:
Sidewalks, Forty Eighth street, from