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""'IIIIl e 31 9/13/60 )')' II Ii q I ,I SANITARY SEWERS ,CONTRACT ' COST II 1,\ " :, NAME OF .BI DDER COST FRONT FT. PART I OF AREA BETWEEN FAIRMOUmmBLVD. Ii AND SKYLINE DRIVE AND BETWEEN VICTORIA HEIGHTS AND HENDRICKS PARK; ROSE LANE FROM FAIRMOUNT BLVD. TO EAST END OF ROSE LANE MaE'S INTER CITY ( Low) $4,549.00 $11 . I 1 PART II OF AREA BETWEENFAIRMOUmm BLVD~ AND SKYLINE DRIVE AND BETWEEN VICTORIA I HEIGHTS AND HENDRICKS PARK RROM EAST END OF ROSE LANE EAST MaE'S INTER CITY ( Low) $18,612.50 $11.50 I' " TOTAL COST, SEPTEMBER 7, 1960 ................................$23,161 .50.................$10.57 / ZONE FOOT " e AUGUST 3, 1960.................................... 22,288.95.................10.88/ ZONE FOOT IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER AND SECONDED BY MRS. LAURIS THAT THE STREET AND ALLEY PAVING CONTRACTS ) BE AWARDED TO THE LOW BIDDERS. , ROLLCALL VOTE. ALL COUNCILMEN PRESENT VOTING AYE, MOTION CARRIED. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER AND SECONDED BY MR. CHATT THAT THE LOW BIDS BE ACCEPTED ON THE SIDEWALK" PAVING PROJECTS EXCEP.T THE AREA BOUNDED BY WILLAMETTE STREET AND DONALD STREET ON THE WEST, 31ST AVE- I NUE ON THE NORTH, HILYARD STREET ON THE EAST AND 37TH AVENUE ON THE SO~TH, WHICH BID IS TO BE REJECTED; AND ALSO THAT THE SIDEWALK ON BOTH SIDES OF 22ND AVENUE F~M LINCOLN STREET TO JACKSON STREET EXCLUD- ING EXISTING SIDEWALKS BE FURTHER DELETED TO DELETE THE SIDEWALKS ON 22ND AVENUE BETWEEN JEFFERSON AND MONROE STREETS. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. . I N CONNECT I ON WITH THE CONSIDERATION OF BID I N THE DONALD STREET AREA, AREA RESIDENTS RESIDING ,I ON DONALD BETWEEN 35TH AVENUE AND 37TH AVENUE APPEARED BEFORE THE COUNCIL WITH REGARD TO THE INS T AI. L A T I 0 ,,!, ~ Of SIDEWALKS ON THE WESTERLY SIDE Of DONALD. IT WAS INDICATED IN 1954, AFTER DONALD WAS PAVED, RESI- ; ~ DENTS ALONG THIS PORTION OF DONALD STREET PETITIONED FOR CURB SIDEWALKS, SPECifiCALLY BETWEEN 35TH C\1 AND PEARL STREET INTERSECTION. AREA RESIDENTS INDICATED THAT SINCE THAT TIME THEY HAVE HAD ASSURANCE ~ THAT NO SIDEWALKS WOULD BE REQUIRED ON THE WESTERLY SIDE OF DONALD AND HAD ONLY RECENTLY DISCOVERED :c THAT SUCH SIDEWALKS WERE NOW PROPOSED. THESE RESIDENTS INDICATED THE WESTERLY SIDE OF DONALD IS CO EXTREMELY STEEP, THAT SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION WOULD NECESSITATE THE RECONSTRUCTION OF DRIVEWAYS AND RETAINING WALLS, AND IN SOME INSTANCES IT WOULD BE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT, IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE, FOR AUTOMO- BILES TO OBTAIN ENTRANCE TO GARAGES. IT WAS FURmHER INDICATED THAT THERE WAS LIMITED PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC ON DONALD IN THIS AREA, AND THE MAJORITY OF CHILDREN PROCEEDING TO DUNN SCHOOL USE THE EASTERLY SIDE OF THE STREET. THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT AGAI N REVIEWED PRIOR ACTION OF THE COUNCIL AUTHORIZING CURB SIDEWALKS IN THIS AREA AND FURTHER REITERATED IT HAD NOT BEEN RECOMMENDED THAT SIDEWALKS BE CONSTRUCTED ON THE WEST SIDE OF DONALD WHEN THIS MMTER WAS ORIGINALLY BEING DISCUSSED. THE PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR STATED THERE HAD BEEN A NUMBER OF PROBLEMS WITH RELATION TO DRIVEWAY GRADES, WITH RELATION TO SIDE- WALK GRADES AT THE TIME THE HOUSES WERE CONSTRUCTED. HE LIKEWISE I ND I CAT ED THE PROPERTY ON THE EASTERLY SIDE OF DONALD STREET ADJACENT TO THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SCHOOL WOULD REQUIRE A'RETAINING WALL FOR SIDEWALK INSTALLATION BECAUSE OF THE STEEP DOWN-HILL CHARACTER OF THE LAND IN THIS LOCATION. TI-E PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR FURTHER STATED THAT IT HAD BEEN RECOMMENDED THAT THE BIDS ON SIDEWALKS IN I THIS AREA BE REJECTED, DUEl TO. THE UNBALANCED NA~URE OF THE BID WITH RELATION TO EXCAVATION. AREA RESIDENTS THEN INDICATED THAT If SIDEWALKS WERE REQUIRED, THEY WOULD DESIRE VARIANCES ON SIDEWALK WIDTHS, ON DRIVEWAY SITUATIONS, TO ALLOW FOR EXISTING DRIVEWAYS, RETAINING WALLS AND ENTRY STAIRS. COUNCILMAN SHEARER THEN REQUESTED THAT THE CITY ATTORNEY INVESTIGATE THE POSSIBILITIES OF CON- STRUCTING SIDEWALKS ON ONE SIDE OF THE STREET WITH ASSESSMENTS TO BOTH SIDES WHERE THESE AREAS ARE STEEP AND DO. NOT REASONABLY LEND THEMSELVES TO SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION ON BOTH SIDES. THE PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR ALSO POINTED OUT THAT A NUMBER OF RETAINING WALLS IN THIS AREA WERE e LOCATED IN THE PUBLIC RJGHT-OF~WAY AND HAD BEEN C~STRUCTED AT THE RISKOF THE OWNER~ IT WAS MOVED BY,MR. SHEARER AND SECONDED BY MR. CHATT THAT THE MATTER OF SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTI~ IN THE AREA BOUNDED BY WILLAMETTE STREET AND DONALD STREET ON THE WEST; BY 31ST AVENUE ON THE NORTH; BY HILYARD STREET ON THE EAST; AND BY 37TH AVENUE ON THE SOUTH BE HELD OVER fOR RE-STUDY AND RE-BID IN SMALLER AREAS. ROLLC ALL VOTE. ALL COUNCILMEN PRESENT VOTING AYE, MOTION CARRIED. WITH REFERENCE TO THE SIDEWALKS ON 22ND AV~NUE BETWEEN LINCOLN AND JACKSON STREETS, EXLUDING i: EXISTING SIDEWALKS, IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER AND SECONDED BY MR. CHATT THAT THE LOW BID BE ACCEPTED, DELETING A TWO BLOCK AREA ON BOTH SIDES OF 22ND AVENUE FROM JEFFERSON STREET TO MONROE STREET. ROLLCALL VOTE. ALL COUNCILMEN PRESENT VOTING AYE, WITH THE EX~EPTION OF MR. MOLHOLM WHO VOTED NAY, MOTION CARRIED. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER AND SECONDED BY MR. <:;H'ATT THAT THE BIDS ON PART, I AND PART II FOR THE SEWER IN THE AREA BETWEEN FAIRMOUm BOULEVARD AND SKYLINE DRIVE AND BETWEEN VICTORIA HEIGHTS AND HENDRICKS PARK" AND ROSE LANE FROM FAtRMOUNT BOULEVARD TO THE EAST END OF ROSE LANE AND FROM I THE EAST END OF ROSE LANE EAST BE REJECTED. COUNCILMAN'MoLHOLM SUGGESTED THAT THE EASTERLY PART OF THIS SEWER MIGHT BE CONSTRUCTED AND I' CONNECTED. TO SOME PART OF A PRIVATE SEWER SYST~ WHICH IN TURN EMPTIES INTO A SEWER LINE ON FAIRMOUNT I :, BOUELVARD. THE DI RECTOR OF 'PUBL I C WORKS STATED THA'T IF THIS WERE DONE, IT WOU LD NOT 'MEET DES I GN " CRITERIA FOR SEWERS IN THIS AREA ~ND WOULD POTENTIALLY PLACE THE CI~Y IN THE POSITION WHERE IT MIGHT BE LIABLE fOR DAMAGE TO OR CAUSED BY FAILURE ON THE PART OF THE PRIVATE SEWER SYSTEM. MR. McDONALD, PROPERTY OWNER IN THE AREA, STATED HE BE~IEVED~ THE AREA WAS IN DESPARATE NEED OF SEWERS AT THIS TIME. e ~