Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1914 — PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENTS [ARTICLE]

PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENTS

On Street Improvement Is Adopted by City Council—Total Cost About $12,000. The city council held an adjourned meeting Tuesday night at which the city engineer, F. W. Osborne, presented the preliminary assessments on the brick paving of Washington street and reported same completed according to plans and specifications, and same had been accepted. The report was adopted and the matter continued until Nov. 9 for hearing remonstrances thereto.

The work cost $5.06 per lineal foot, to abutting property on each side of the street. The largest single assessment is that of the city, which totals about $2,500 for the three street intersections and some return curbing. Jasper county, for its 300 feet on the north side of the court house square, is assessed $1,518.

At the regular meeting of the council Monday night, all members were present and the following business was transacted:

Bid of Conrad Kellner for sewer on Angefica street at 53c per foot, providing no rock is encountered, was accepted. The preliminary assessments for the recent street oiling which had heretofore been adopted, was confirmed and the assessment sheet turned over to the city treasurer for collection.

Preliminary assessments confirmed in the Webster and Main street sewers and also on sewer in alley of block 12, original plat, and block 2, Benjamin’s addition. Petition of Leslie Clark for a street light at intersection of Division. Cornelia and Franklin streets, was referred to the light committee. Petition of John M. Knapp for use of Angelica, Front and Jackson streets to move a barn which he has purchased of Mrs. E. L. Clark, to lot 6, block 14, Newton or Clark’s addition, was granted on petitioner filing the usual bond indemnifying the city against any damages that might result.