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Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, January 7, 1947 to October 26, 1949, lvc000006-243

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221 NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING To: E. W. Cragin, Mayor and to C. R. Clark, R. T. Moore, R T. Baskin, Reed, Whipple Commissioners; and J. M. Murphy, City Manager of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada You and each of you will please take notice that pursuant to a Call this day issued by Mayor Cragin, a Special Meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, will be held in the Office of the Mayor at the War Manorial Building, 5th & Stewart Streets, on the 26th day of March, 1948 at the hour of 3:30 P.M. to consider the following matters: 1. Vacation of 2nd & Wyoming Streets 2. Gasoline tax poll. /s/ Helen Scott Reed Helen Scott Reed, City Clerk and Clerk of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas ACCEPTANCE OF NOTICE We, the undersigned, Mayor, Commissioners and City Manager of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, do hereby admit due service of the foregoing notice of special meeting: E. W. Cragin Bob Baskin Reed Whipple Robert T. Moore At a special meeting of the Board of City Commissioners held this 26th day of March, 1948. Meeting called to order by His Honor Mayor E. W. Cragin at the hour of 3:30 P.M., with the following members present: Commissioners Baskin, Moore, Whipple City Manager, J. M. Murphy and City Clerk, Helen Scott Reed. Absent: Commissioner Clark and City Attorney C. Norman Cornwall. VACATION OF SECOND & At a special meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las WYOMING STREETS Vegas, Nevada held this 26th day of March, 1948, which time being the date set for hearing of a petition for the vacation of certain portions of Second Street and Wyoming Street in the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, Commissioner Baskin moved that the following Order be made: 0 R D E R A Petition, dated the 7th day of January, 1948, signed by three (3) freeholders residing in the area affected, having been filed with the Clerk of this Board, petitioning for the vacation of those portions of Second Street and Wyoming Street hereinafter described, and said Petition having been by Order of this Board referred to the Planning Commission of the City of Las Vegas for its recommendation in the premises, and said Planning Commission having filed its report, dated January 30, 1948, with this Board approving and recommending said vacation; And this Board, by an Order made at its regular meeting held on the 20th day of February, 1948, set the 26th day of March, 1948, at the hour of 3:30 P.M. at the Commissioners' Room of the Board of Commissioners, in the War Manorial Building, located at the northwest corner of Fifth and Stewart Streets, in the City of Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, as the time and place for a public hearing on said Petition and recommendation, and Ordered the City Clerk to cause the aforesaid streets proposed to be vacated to be posted with a Notice setting forth the time and place of the public hearing and the extent of the proposed vacation: And it appearing from the affidavit of T. E. Beilis, filed with the Clerk of this Board, that the Notice provided for in said Order, a copy of which Notice is attached to said affidavit, was posted on the 24th day of February, 1948, in the manner prescribed by said Order; And this being the time fixed for the hearing on said Petition for vacation and the recommendation of the Planning Commission thereon, and this Board having heard evidence in support of said Petition and recom­mendation, and no evidence in opposition thereto having been offered; And it appearing to the satisfaction of this Board that the portions of the streets proposed to be vacated are no longer required for the public use and convenience, that said vacation will inure to the benefit of the City of Las Vegas, and that the public will not be materially injured thereby; IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the following portions of Second Street and Wyoming Streets, to-wit: The easterly seven and one-half feet (E.7 1/2') of Second Street immediately adjacent to and Westerly of Lots 1,2,3,4 and 5, and the Southerly seven and one-half feet (S.7 1/2') of Wyoming Street immediately adjacent to and Northerly of Lot 1, all of said Lots being in Block 18, Boulder Addition to the City of Las Vegas, as shown by a Map thereof on file in