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HomeMy WebLinkAbout7 of 1916 - A resolution ordering advertisement of notice to contractors for Lighting District No. 2. REMARKS: /.; Resolution No. '7 1.! ByCmmWmioner Ferry Ordering advertisement of notice to contractors for Lighting District No. Two. 16 _ . ROLLCALL 1, =cc. Pa,c.o.o_o VOTING ME NAY Salt Lake City, Utah,__k'ebrUary 1, 1916 Green _ I move that the resolution be adopted. Scheid_ +l Shearman Wells Mr.Chairman 14, Result RESOLUTION WHEREAS, The City Reoorder has notified the Board of Commis- sioners that he has duly advertised notice of intention to establish Lighting District No. Two, and that the protest of Henry Morgan, o claiming to own twenty-two feet abutting on the street within said district, against the establishment of the said improvement district, has been received in his office on or before the hour of 10 A. M. on the 27th day of January, 1916; AND WHEREAS, The Board of Commissioners have duly considered the said protest of Henry Morgan and found that it is made by the owner of twenty-two feet abutting on the street oomprieed in the said district, which is not a majority of the front feet abutting on the said street in the said district: Nor THEREFORE, Be it resolved, That the report of heretofore prepared and submitted by the City Engineer of Salt Lake City to the Board of Commissioners on the 28th day of December, 1915, containing plans and specifications of the said improvement and estimate of the cost thereof, a diagram of the proposed district and the boundaries and dimensions of the respective lots therein, and proposed assessments of the cost of the proposed improvement -1- upon the several lots therein, be, and hereby is approved and adopted; and it is hereby ordered that the said improvement be made in a000rdanoe therewith under the supervision of the City Engineer; and the City Recorder is hereby directed to give fiftee: days' notioe to contractors for filing bids for the work required by the plans and speog1eations of the aforesaid report, in aocordanoe with law. Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Uta] February �"' , 1916. ayor .i�� y Re or er. 1 -2_ REMARKS: Resolution No. . , ' .:.,..-...4 By Commissioner Scheid Accepting the bid. of Merrill, i --'.-,. • Al . Oldham & Company, for .,. . $300,000.00 water and sewer bonds. .., .• •. I I , ), P.:"Z AND ZOPTED C:.1'.Y. riLC,: .•:LF,. , •., i ROLL CALL VOTING AYE NAY Salt Lake City, Utah,_gebruary 191.6 Green n" 1 move that the resolution be adopted. Scheid-- ---- - - Shearman , J /1 i p 11 Wells l'x 1 k a Mr.Chairman Result RESOLUTION WHEREAS, The Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City passed a resolution on the 13th day of January, 1916, authorizing and directing the Mayor and City Recorder to advertise for bids for the sale of $303,000.00 water and sewer bonds of the $900,000.00 water and sewer bonds authorized to he issued and sold, by the qualified electors of this pity at the election held February 8, 1914, said notice to bidders to be published daily for a period of two succes- sive days in the following newspapers: Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake Herald-Republican, Salt Lake Telegram, and Deseret Evening News, daily papers of general circulation, and published in Salt Lake City; also in three issues of the Daily Bond Buyer, a paper of general oiroulation in financial quarters, published in New York City, New York; said notice to describe the bonds so to be sold as set out in an ordinance passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, June 22, 1914, and state that the whole purchase price of said bonds must be paid at the office of the City Treasurer of Salt Lake City, Utah, on or before March 1, 1916, at which time and place said bonds shall be delivered to the purchaser, and that all coupons attached to said bonds up to and including January 1, 1916, will be detached from each of said bonds before delivery to the purchaser, end that the purchaser will be required to pay interest on said bonds from the first day of January, 1916, to the date of delivery of the same, and that said -1- notice should require that all bids for the purchase of said bonds should be accompanied by a oertified check in the sum of 46,000.00, payable to the order of the Treasurer of Salt Lake City, as guaranty of good faith on the part of the bidder, and to reimburse Salt Lake City for its loss and expense in this behalf in oase the bidder should not perform his bid after acceptance thereof; and that no conditional or qualified bids, except as to the legality of the issue, and no bids for less than the face value of said bonds should be accepted; and that Salt Lake City reserves the right to reject any and all bids, and to accept any bid or bids deemed advantageous to the City, and that all bids should be well sealed and placed in the hands of the City Recorder of Salt Lake City on or before the first day of February, 1916, at ten o'clock A. M., at which time said bids would be opened at the regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City; and WHEREAS, Pursuant to and in conformity with said resolution, the Mayor and City Recorder duly advertised for said bids; and WHEREAS, There were twenty-six bids,received, to-wit: N. S. ralpold, Pueblo, Colorado; Union Trust & Savings Bank, Spokane, Washington; James N. Wright & Co., Denver, Colorado; Kean, Taylor & Co.,.Chioago, Illinois, Mississippi Valley Trust Co., St. Louis, Mo.; Stacy & Braun, Toledo, Ohio; John Nuveen & Co., Chioago, Ill.; wm. A. Read & Company, by Utah State National Bank, City; Prescott & Snyder, Kansas City, Mo.; Fidelity Trust Company, Kansas City, Mo.,Smith, Moore & Company, St. Louis, Mo.; Bolger, Mosser & rilliams, Chicago, Ill.; George B. Gibbons & Co., New York City, by National Bank of Republic, Ctty; MoCorniok & Company, City; Sweet, Causey Foster & Co., Denver, Colo. ; C. W. MoNear & Co., Chicago, Ill., Provident Savings Bank & Trust Co., Cincinnati, Ohio; The Equitable Trust Company of New York; Redmond & Co., New York City, Lumbermens Trust Company, Portland, Oregon; Columbia Trust Company, City; The Continental & Commercial Trust & Savings Bank, The Inter- -2- national Trust Company, Denver, Colo.; Yard, Otis & Taylor, Chicago, I11., J. C. Mayer & Company, Devitt, Trimble & Co.; Tillotson & Wolcott Company, Cleveland, Ohio, C. E. Denison & Company, Ottis & Company; Harris Trust & Savings Bank, Chioago, Ill. ; R. M. Grant & Company; Estabrook & Company, The Rookery, Chioago, Ill.; Mercantile Trust Co., St. Louis, Mo., Kaufman, Smith, Emery & Co., St. Louis, Mo., E. H. Rollins & a.ns, Denver, Colo., First Trust & Savings Bank, Chioago, Ill. ; Palmer Bond & Mortgage Co., City; Merrill, Oldham & Co.; and WHEREAS, After considering said bids, the Board of Commis- sioners id of the opinion that the bid of Merrill, Oldham & Company, of Boston, Mass., for all and each of said bonds, is the highest, best end most adventgyeous to the City, which bid was and is as follows: $1,040.80 and accrued interest for each one thousand dollar bond, subjeot to being furnished with the usual papers establishing the legality of the issue to the satisfaction of their attorneys. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That the bid aforesaid of Merrill, Oldham & Company be, and the same is hereby declared to be the highest, best and most edvattageous to Salt Lake City, and that said bid be, and the same is hereby accepted. That the City Recorder is hereby direoted to return the checks of all other bidders. )i �! (L f Adopted by the Board of Commissioners'of Salt Like City, Utah, February 3, 1916. M a y o r . --.0.--N. City Recorder. .3.