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The fund C.D.P. 200-K, was authorized by the Board of Estimate and 
Sea uenea tae on July 17, 1911, and concurred in by the Board of Alder- 
men on July 25, 1911, to the amount of $30,000. On March 1, 1915, there 
ee in this fund an unencumbered balance of $5,110.26, which is 
ample to complete the work for which approval is requested. The plans, 
contract, form and specifications as Sues were eee except as 
to the drainage plan, which was necessarily expensive. At the suggestion 
of the Bureau of Contract seen ee ae eee eg has amended 
the plans in this particular, and they are now satisfactory. 
The estimate of cost as submitted, $5,078.25, is pecan Owing to 
the change in plan, and excessive unit prices in the estimate, the cost 
should not exceed $4,3 
recommend the eat of the attached resolution granting the re- 
quest, as amended 
— 
Respectfully, 
TILDEN ADAMSON, 
Director. 
ihe stol 
Resolved, That the Board of Estimate and Apportionment 
hereby approves the contract, form, plans, specifications, all 
amended, and estimate of cost, to an amount of forty-three hun- 
dred and fifty dollars ($4,350), for the purpose of the construc- 
tion of walks and necessary drainage in connection therewith, in 
the addition to the southerly end of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 
Borough of Brooklyn, under the jurisdiction of the Commissioner 
of Parks, Borough of Brooklyn; the cost to be charged to the 
corporate stock fund C.D.P., 200-K, Construction of Roads, 
Walk, etce., Brooklyn Botanic (Garden: and be it further 
Resolved, That if no bids are received for such work within 
such estimated cost, the amount of such estimated cost upon the 
Tr 
owing resolution was offered: 
bids so received may be reconsidered in its discretion by the 
Board of Estimate and Apportionment or by any official des- 
ignated by the Board, provided that any of such bids is within the 
amount authorized and available for such work. 
Which was adopted by the following vote: 
A ffirmative-—The Mayor, the Comptroller, the President of 
the Board of Aldermen, the Presidents of the Boroughs of Man- 
hattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx and Queens and the Acting Presi- 
dent of the Borough of Richmond—16 (City Record 43: 2316. 
1g Mch 1915). 
