HomeMy WebLinkAbout7 of 1916 - A resolution ordering advertisement of notice to contractors for Lighting District No. 2. REMARKS:
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ByCmmWmioner Ferry
Ordering advertisement of
notice to contractors for
Lighting District No. Two.
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VOTING ME NAY Salt Lake City, Utah,__k'ebrUary 1, 1916
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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
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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.
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Resolution No.
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By Commissioner Scheid
Accepting the bid. of Merrill, i --'.-,. •
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Oldham & Company, for
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$300,000.00 water and sewer
bonds.
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ROLL CALL
VOTING AYE NAY Salt Lake City, Utah,_gebruary 191.6
Green
n" 1 move that the resolution be adopted.
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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
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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-
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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.
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