The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-19
REPORT ON
 PAVING AND
 SEWER WORK
Mayor Approves Work Finished by Engineer ing and Public Works Department.

The complete report of the paving and sewer work completed by the De garments of Engineering and Public works headed respectively by City EnSlheer. James MCElroy and Direc- For or Public Works George M. Coushin was submitted 10 the Com mon council last night.
 me report, one of the m ost concise ana complete ever filed with the coun- c!l. shows in detail all the work corn- pLeteo during the past summer and seL aside for public improvem ents rom the S-5 mill special tax laid to care forum employed.
 Mayor Approves.
 Placing his stamp of approval on me excellent work done jointly by the two, Mayor Fred Atwater paid a high compIiment to the efficient manner ana nne quality of the work
 These two men are two of the most efficient department heads in the cltys employe," said the mayor q have made a personal inspection of me work and I am well pleased with tfhe quality and quantity. By their -' e1nclency the city has saved a great amount of money. The amount of money expended for the amount of work done is ridiculously low"
 The report in full follows:
 AS the Departments of Engineering and Public Works have been operating thaS year as one department on all paving and sewer work, we herewith submit a joint report of the progress to date for 1929. O.
 In submitting this report we voI1Id Uke 10 call your attention to the fact mat there were no direct appropria- tons made for street grading or paVements- The Board of ADD0r- tionment laid 3.5 mill tax for un- employment relief, which was expect ed to net about $zOO,OOO It was TIaRned to spend most of this money on public works, on the streets in the parks and on other city property.
 
 Tn this deDartno ent a tentative Dro- gram was arranged including
 5 e1SaIe yaTdS or Dltuminous ma cl etc pavement. the continuation of TWO heavy grading jobs, North Park avenue and East Main street exten- ston, and certain amount of light grading and water bound naCadam
 shortly after the work started last spring business began to improve +o such an extent that by June we had hardly enough men to carry on the work. In consultation with the Board of Apportionment 1t was de- clded to revise the program and do only the most necessary part of the work under. consideration. As a re- suit, one gang was kept on bitumin- eus macadam, one gang on concrete taa&ement and several small gangs on light grading The Park avenue and East. Main street iObs were tero- porarily abandoned
 Public Utilities Pay.
 Previous to the last session of the Legislature, street railway companies were required to pay for the con- struction and maintenance of pave mentS between their rails and tive teet outside the outer rails At the last Gession of the Legislature this law was changed so that now the street railway companies are only re- quired to pay for the pavement for eight inches on each side of each rail.
 HaSSam Laid.
 As the pavement In the car tracks on some of our principal streets wa! in very poor condition. it was decided to replace it with concrete If WE used the mixed concrete it would have