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RESOLUTION NO. 1185
BE IT RESOLVED;D BY TIE CITY COUNCIL OF TEE CITY OF MIAMI BEAOA,
FLORIDA:
SECTION 1:
That this City Council by its Resolutions Nos. 1070 and 1164
has ordered that that portion of Alton goad from the North
line of Seventeenth Street to the North line of Eighteenth
Street be repaved and that curbs and gutters be constructed
on each side thereof, and that that portion of Dade Boulevard
from the West line of Alton Road to the ;ast line of Michigan
Avenue be repaved and that curbs and gutters be constructed
on each side thereof, and that said City will undertake said
improvements beginning on or about November 1st, 1925.
SECTION 2:
That the Miami Beach Railway Company, the grantee named in
Ordinance No. 205 of said City Council passed and adopted
April 9th, -1924, be and it is hereby ordered to make such
repairs or replacements as to ballast, ties or other track
facilities, and provide such, if any, additional ballast as
in the opinion of said City Council will be reeuired to put
said tracks which the City Council hereby determines are
located within the area to be improved by repavement and the
construction of curbs and gutters as hereinbefore set forth,
as to preclude the probability of damage to said paving or
improvement during the reasonable life thereof due to deterio-
ration of said grantee ' s tracks maintained pursuant to said
Ordinance No. 205 and that in the opinion of said City Council
the repairs, replacements as to ballast, ties, or other track
facilities which will put said tracks in such condition as to
preclude the probability of damage to the paving or improvement
during the reasonable life thereof due to deterioration of
said grantee 's tracks are :
That said track be constructed of seven inch grooved-
girder rails properly secured to 6" x 8'T x 8' creosoted
ties, the latter to be spaced not more than eighteen
inches on centers at rail joints and not more than forty
inches on centers at rail centers.
That brace tie plates be installed between the rails and
ties of said track at a maximum spacing of six feet.
That catch basins of a design approved by the City Engi-
neer be installed under said track at all sumps in the
grade line thereof.
That creosoted combined trolley and feeder line poles be
installed where poles are reouired and that said poles be
of sufficient height to provide proper supports for street
lights to be suspended therefrom over the center lines of
said Road, Street and avenue.
That said track be lined and surfaced to the lines and grades
established by the City Engineer on a bed of crushed stom
eight inches in depth after thorough compaction.
That crushed stone be thoroughly �atnped either by hand or
machine tampers under and around each tie and the base of
each rail, traffic beiniosidipanwhile maintained on sip** track.
*iii'' That said tamping be continued until each and all of said
rails and ties are firmly and solidly settled and bedded
into their predetermined position and free
or movement of any kind. That from vibration
said track be gone over and re-tamped as is required
until the above condition is obtained to the satisfac-
tion of the City Engineer.
That all rock for the above purposes lying below the
plane of the centers of the ties be furnished and com-
pacted in place by the said Railway Company. That all
rock lying between the center of the ties and the base
of the rail be furnished by the paving Contractor but
that the same be compacted in place by the said Railway
Company. That all rock and other paving materials
lying between the base and tIle top of the rail be fur-
nished and compacted in place by the paving contractor,
except that the said Railway Company will be reouired
to tamp suitable filler material -ander the rail heads
on each side of each rail of each track until this space
is filled to the satisfaction of the City EngirD er.
Any defects which may develop at any time in said track
construction or in said pavement because of such defects
in said track construction shall be. promptly remedied at
the expense of the said Railway Company.
SECTION 3:
That if this order of this City qouncil is not complied
with within time to enable said City to pave that portion
of said streets , that is, that portion of Alton Road and
Dade Boulevard in which said tracks are maintained at
the same time it is enabled to pave and improve the re-
mainder of said portions of said Alton road and Dade
Boulevard, which said paving and improvement said City
will begin to make on or before November 1st , 1925, and
complete on or about January 15th, 1926, which this City
Council deems a reasonable time Within which said grantee
may comply herewith, then the City Council will do said
work hereby ordered done by said grantee and assess the
cost of such paving or improvement between the rails of
said railway and to the end of the ties on each side
thereof to said Railway Company, including a proportionate
part of the incidental expenses and such costs at the in-
tersection of highways, that is, at the intersection of
said Alton _ oad and Dade Boulevard, and said Boulevard
and I,iichigan Avenue.
SECTION 4:
That a copy of this resolution be transmitted to the Miami
Beach .railway Company by the City Clerk.
SECTION 5 :
That this Resolution shall 'be effective immediately upon
its passage and adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 14th day of October, A. D. , 1925.
President of City Council (Pro-tem j
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City Clerk
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