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Resolution 1175 mw NOR RESOLUTION NO. 1175 BE IT RESOLVED, BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OP MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, as follows: SECTION 1. That the Miami Beach Aailway Company, the grantee, named in Ordinance No. 205 of said City Council, passed and adopted April 9th, 1924, be and it is hereby required to lay its track leading North from Dade Boulevard in said City along the center of Alton Road, from Dade Boulevard to Michigan Avenue , also that the present track between Seventeenth Street and Dade Boulevard be moved to the center of said Alton Woad, which location for said track is hereby designated, and that such track shall be so laid in such location and grades which this City Council does hereby es- tablish and which with all maros, profiles and other infor- mation necessary to enable said grantee to conform to the established profiles or grades along said portion of said Alton toad this City Council tenders and will furnish to said grantee. SECTION 2. That this City Council by its resolutions Nos. 1066 and 1164 has ordered that that portion of Alton road from Seventeenth Street North to the intersection of said Alton Aoad with Nineteenth Street be repaved, and that curbs and gutters be installed, and that said City will undertake said improve- ment beginning on or about November 1st, 1925. SECTION 3. That said The Miami Beach Railway Company, whose tracks are hereby designated to be laid in said Alton Aoad, as above stated, which will be located within said area, as aforesaid, be and it is hereby ordered to make such repairs or replace- ments as to ballast, ties, or other track facilities, and provide such, if any, additional ballast required as in the opinion of said City Council will put said track in said area in such condition as to preclude the probability of damage to said paving or improvement during the reasonable life thereof due to deterioration of said grantee' s tracks maintained pur- suant 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 track in such condition as to preclude the probability of damage to said 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'T x 8" 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 maximuiA spacing of six feet. That catch basins of a design approved by the City En- gineer be installed under said track at all sumps in the grade line thereof. it, * ref" That creosoted combined trolley and feeder line poles be installed where poles are required 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 Woad. That said track be lined and surfaced to the lines and grades established by the City Engineer on a bid of crashed stone eight inches in depth after thorough com- paction. That crushed stone be thoroughly tamped either by hand or machine tampers rider and around each tie and the base of each rail, traffic being meanwhile maintained on said track. That said tamping be continued until each and all of said rails and ties axe firmly and solidly settled and bedded into their predetermined position and free from vibration or movement of any kind. That said track be gone over and re-tamped as is required until the above condition is obtained to the satisfaction of the Cit`{ 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 itailway Company. That all rock lying between the center of the ties and the base ofthe 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 the top of the rail be furnished and compacted in place by the paving contractor, except that the said Railway Company will be required to tamp suitable filler material under the rail heads on each side of each rail of each track until this space is fill- ed to the satisfaction of the City Engineer. 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. And that if this order of this Citj Council is not complied with within time to enable said City to pave that portion of said Street, or Alton Road, to be occupied by said tracks at the same time it is enabled to pave the remainder of said Street, which said pavement and improvement by said City will begin on or about December 1st, 1925 and complete on or about February 1st, 1926, which this City Council deems a reasonable time, then the City Council will assess the cost of such pavement or improvement be- tween the rails of said Railway, and to the end of the ties on each side thereof to said Railway Company, including a proportion- ate part of the incidental expenses, and such cost at the inter- section of highways, that is, the intersection of said Alton Road at Dade Boulevard and Michigan Avenue. SECTION 4. That a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to said 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 7th day of October, A. D. , 1925. • President of City Council Pro-tem ATTEST: City Clerk —� • • cr) 0 1-0 H H H rl• • c13 0 • p4 fle-) • 7..4 -4 14 8 0 H H tzo H rl 1-1 00 0 Oa '••••• rd 0 O $. 11 * 41* -Oa 41111 -V/at •2: - 1`4P-'