Show MUDDLE I DAILY DEEPENING Citizens In Southeastern Portion Portion Por Poi tion of City Will Foot the Bills CONTRACTORS BID HIGH City Attorney Changes Front and Upsets Calculations of Board of Public Works Because tire the ell city council refused In last fast 1St March It tv approve C lilt contract inn mailo do between bet the board of public works ann and amI Johnson and ana Beacom for COI forthe on the tire laying of or fin fifty mites miles of or cement sidewalks In iii the tire southeastern portion pOllion of or tho city at an of vf lh tine the citizens who whose c property will be c damaged or 01 one by y the Improvement Improve improve- ment will probably I Have to lo pay may mOIo tom for tho tire work It If It Is done dono I now iron Three bids were opened by the tire beard n of if public works Monday Ionn for fOl tho tire extension No Xo award was made because all of uC Ire tho bids were too loo hIS high J J. J P P. ONeill O'Neill of lIC Ogden wanted S S. Birch promised to lo do ll lime work VOli for COI 2 while Johnson an and asked The rue bids were ere over O 1 hl higher than the tho bids toe for the same saline work with the board la last t March flit Birch's March bid for or tine the same work worl was as something III like e OllO while Johnson and amI wanted at ot that time The c. c estimate of or City CHy I Engineer ey wo was 8 2 9 5 J Didn't I Hemon The rhe board o of public works didn't take lake time lane to tu ask ak the tire reason on for tUI the tine raise In tIre the price the tire con con- asked for their work worl The were all thrown out because c they were were- too tue high Tine Till br-ard br will now wait walt for the orders ordel's of oC the council be before before be- be fore COIC another advertisement for bl bids s Is Isma ma nade l When tire the contract was as made with John on and last March tire the council refused to tu approve C it because he time new law governing pu public lic im improve improve irn- irn prove and aird the i issuance of or scrip thereon there there- on was nias not lint fully understood b by the tho council Now that hunt tine the knowledge c o of he tine law may has slowly percolated through he the skulls of the Ire city dads the tine con coin come conic through with bids that have ave been beell raised more inure than The nrc price jnice of oC labor labur and anti Isa is I IThe a about out tIne the same as asit it was In hr March certainly the increase o is not larCh 1 great enough nough to lo cause a difference of or 00 or 01 nm more minnie People it In Pay Assessment C I Many lany of or tine the property owners owner alon along he tire line lime of ot the proposed improvement mayo have lave paid their assessment und arid at al least east has hnas been covered co into inlo the lit inc city treasury from extension TIme The people have been lob robbed cd of tin tho use of or their moIre monc money and anti the Inc prospects for rOl or having maying sidewalk l are arc pot not at rt i y- y r liM 1 In time the CW case l of f extension SO P I then there would have hac been a of ot 1300 which tire the city It would mayo have had mad to pay because the lie c a-c had hall been levied and S S. Birch the thc contractor WitS vas to mayo have gotten the money But Dut Buthe he the city attorney ruled 1 that no Icy levy could be bc ma made e under the time old Id form of or contract The nrc same sanne rule with but Ul there ther 11 Je is' a dif dif- of if opinion o among time the Profound pro pro- found students of or the law ia tome con- con l' l ending that the thc a assessment cs could be levied led an and collected and others other's cone con con- e ml ing that thal it would not riot when the tine theol theold ol old form of uC Is Js operative Tine Tho city ily attorneys attorney's office ha iras shown ho a change chang In remit front that has Inns upset et the time illations ale of ut the board lIoard of public vork orl t. t The council will give Ive the tine theoan board oan Instructions Instruction and tho mo tangle will At l the meeting Monday night the HIP council merely refert ed tire the matter I of n 1 OS to lo tine the streets committee and ind ell city attorney |