Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-26
NOTICE INVITING SEALED
PROPOSALS FOR STREET
WORK OR IMPROVEMENT


/ luton of the Board of Trustees of
! the City of Ell Centre directing this
notice, the undersigned, City Clerk
of the City of FL Centre, INVITES
and will receive at his office in the
City Hall of said City up to 7:30
/ o'clock P. M. on the 9TH day of
November, 1923, sealed proposals or
! bids for the hereinafter mention
ed street work or Improvement to
! be done in accordance with the fol
lowing specifications for said work
or improvement, ON file in the of.
f, flee of said City Clerk, and this
! day posted near the Council Cham
] ber door of said Board of Trustees,
namely, specifications numbered ~
for laying asphaltic concrete pave
ment, specifications numbered 21
! for the construction of culverts,
catch basins and cement curbs and
, specifications numbered % for lay
/ ing water mains and water service
! lines, to-wit:
| SECTION /. The street work or
! Improvement on those certain por
/ tions of Orange Avenue, Third
! Street, Commercial Avenue and
Fourth Street described in Reso-
luton of Intention Numbered 261,
passed and adopted by said Board
of Trustees on the 9th day of Sep
tember, 1923, which Resolution of
Intention is hereby referred to for
Il description of said work or i'm
! provement.
SECTION II. That the said con-
templated work or Improvement in
the opinion of said Board of Trus-
tees of said City is of more than
! local or ordinary public benefit
and in and by said Resolution of
Intention said work or improvement
was declared to be of more than To-
cal or ordinary public benefit and
said Board of Trustees in said Reso-
luton made the expense of said
! work or improvement chargeable
upon district declared in said
Resolution to be the district bene-
! fitted by said work or improvement
! and to be assessed to pay the cost
and expense thereof, which district
is described in said Resolution of
Intention in general terms and is
shown by a plat on file in the of
flee of the City Engineer of said
/ City, approved by said Board of
Trustees, which said plat indicates
by a boundary line shown thereon
the extent of the territory to be in
cluded in said assessment district
and which plat governs for all de-
tails as TO the extent of said assess
ment district and to which Resolu-
ton of Intention and plat reference
. is hereby made for complete des-
cription of said assessment dis
, trict.
SECTION III. The City En-
gineer is directed to make Il dia-
gram of the property affected OF
benefited by the proposed work or
improvement and TO be assessed TO
pay the expenses thereof. Such
diagram shall show each separate
lot, piece or parcel of land, the
area in square feet of each of said
lots, pieces or parcels of land and
|
to the work proposed TO be done,
all within the limits of the assess.
+ ment district.
u SECTION ". The Board of
Trustees determines that serial
bonds shall be issued to be secured
I by the assessments which shall
hereafter bo made to pay the cost
of said work or improvement and
notice is hereby given that serial
bonds to represent unpaid assess.
ments and to bear interest at the
rate of seven per cent per annum
will be issued hereunder in the
manner provided in the Improve
mcnt Bond Act Of 1915, the last in.
stallmcnt of which bonds shall ma.
ture fourteen years from tho second
day of July, next succeeding ten
I mouths from their date.
1 SECTION V. All proposals or
bids shall be accompanied by a
check payable to the City Of III
! Centre, certified by responsible
bank for an amount which shall not
be less than ten per cent (i09o) of
the aggregate or the proposal, OF
| by "a bond for said amount and so
| payable signed by the bidder and
two sureties who shall justify be,
fore any officer competent to ad-
minister an oath in double the said
amount and over and above all sta
j tutory exemptions.
reference is hereby made TO the
! II. Mueller Manufacturing Com
pany's License Agreement in refer,
ence, to the patented brass water
| pipe fittings known as Mueller
Fittings" dated August 81, 1923
file in tho office of the City Clerk
OF said City; also TO the Crane
Company's License Agreement in
reference TO patented gate valves
known as FCranc irou.body brass
mounted gate valve" dated Sep
tcmbcr 4, 1928, on file in the Of
flee Of the City Clerk Of said City
Dated this a6th day of October
1928.
j. S. LOOFBOCBOW,
l.