Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, November 7, 1949 to May 21, 1952, lvc000007-291

City Manager: C. W. Shelley City Attorney Howard W. Cannon City Clerk Shirley Ballinger City Engineer: W. C. Anderson Thereupon, the following proceedings, among others, were duly had and taken. LAS VEGAS CREEK Commissioner Peccole moved that the City Engineer be directed to check the Las Vegas Creek Diversion area where it runs from the southwest corner of the area to be occupied by Mesquite Apart- ments in a straight line to the southeast corner of Biltmore Tract, it is proposed to di­vert the present line of said creek to follow the westerly line of that tract to be occu­pied by Mesquite Apartments as far as the southwest comer of Biltmore Tract, thence along the south line of Biltmore Tract to join the present channel at the southeast corner of said Biltmore Tract; that the diversion of this creek be approved providing there is no expense incurred by the City. Motion seconded by Commissioner Bunker and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Bunker, Peccole and His Honor Mayor Pro Tem Whipple voting aye; noes, Commissioner Moore. Absent: Mayor Cragin. ASSESSMENT DISTRICT. Commissioner Moore introduced and moved the adoption of the following resolution, which No. 200-3 was thereupon read in full, and at length, and is as follows: Resolution R E S O L U T I O N WHEREAS, the City of Las Vegas, in the County of Clark and State of Nevada, and the officers thereof, have taken action to make certain public improvements by installing a sanitary sewer along certain streets and portions of streets thereof; and WHEREAS, said City has created Sanitary Sewer Improvement Assessment District No. 200-3 for the purpose of making said improvements; and WHEREAS, said City assessed the entire cost and expense of making said improvements, including all incidental expenses which may be legally included in the sums assessed, against the owners and the assessable lots, premises and property specially benefited by such improvements and included within said District; and WHEREAS, said assessments aggregate the principal sum of $49,283.51; and WHEREAS, said City heretofore provided that said assessments were due and payable at the office of the County Treasurer of Clark County, Nevada, acting ex-officio City Treasurer and ex- officio Tax Collector of said City, without interest and without demand, within one week after the special assessment roll for said District was confirmed and approved; and WHEREAS, said roll was confirmed and approved on the 17th day of January, 1951; and WHEREAS, within said week there was paid the aggregate sum of $6,008.58, and there re­mains unpaid assessments in the aggregate principal amount of $43,274.93; and WHEREAS, said City heretofore provided that the failure to pay the whole of any assess­ment, or any part thereof, within said period of one week should be conclusively considered an election on the part of all persons interested to pay said assessment in ten substantially equal annual installments of principal, the first of which installments of principal shall be due and payable on or before the 1st day of December, 1951, and annually thereafter on the same day in each year until paid, at the same rate of interest as that provided for the special assessment bonds to be thereafter authorized, sold, issued and delivered, but not to exceed seven per centum (7%) per annum; and WHEREAS, said City and the officers thereof have determined, and do hereby determine, that it is necessary and for the best interest of said City and the inhabitants thereof that it issue its Assessment District No. 200-3 Sanitary Sewer Improvement Bonds, Series of January 1, 195k, in an aggregate principal amount of said unpaid assessments, to-wit: $43,274.93, to defray said entire cost and expense of making said improvements, except to the extent funds are avail­able therefor from the assessments which have been heretofore paid; and WHEREAS, said City and the officers thereof desire to sell said bonds after public ad­vertisement therefor, pursuant to the laws of the State of Nevada and the City of Las Vegas. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: That the special assessment, negotiable coupon, Assessment District No. 200-3 Sanitary Sewer Improvement Bonds, Series of January 1, 1951, of the City of Las Vegas, in the aggregate principal amount of $43,274.93 shall be sold at public sale to the person or persons offering the best and most advantageous terms to said City. The Mayor and the City Clerk be and they are hereby authorized and directed to give notice offering said bonds for sale and calling for bids for the purchase of said bonds by publishing a notice once a week for four consecutive weeks by five insertions at weekly intervals in the Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal, the official news­paper of the City of Las Vegas, and by mailing a copy of such notice at least three weeks prior to the date fixed for the sale of said bonds to the State Board of Finance, Carson City, Nevada, which said notice shall be in substantially the following form: