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    FINAL MAP - PLUNKETT TRACT ENGINEERING - SEWER ASSESSMENT W. Charleston Area 5TH STREET LIGHTING ASSESSMENT DISTRICT Proposal - Engineering STEWART ST. IMPROVEMENTS Estimate #1 Ideal Asphalt Paving Co. PARTIAL PAYMENT Recreation Center Richard Bledsoe STREET LIGHTING ASSESSMENT Main to 8th St. Garces to Ogden RESOLUTION ACCEPTING R/W DEEDS Desert Lane Commissioner Sharp moved the final map of Plunkett Tract he approved. Bunker Motion seconded by Commissioner/and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Bunker, Jarrett, Sharp, Whipple and His Honor voting aye; noes, none. The City Engineer recommended that Karsten Bronken be employed to do the engineering for sewer assessment in the West Charleston area. Thereafter Commissioner Whipple moved the recommendation of the City Engineer be approved. Motion seconded by Commissioner Bunker and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Bunker, Jarrett, Whipple and His Honor voting aye; noes, Commissioner Sharp. Commissioner Sharp moved the City Engineer talk to Silas Mason about doing the engineering work on the 5th Street Lighting Assessment District in the proposed time limit. Motion seconded by Commissioner Whipple and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Bunker, Jarrett, Sharp, Whipple and His Honor voting aye; noes, none. Commissioner Whipple moved Estimate #1 on Stewart Street Improvements to Ideal Asphalt Paving Co. in the total amount of $14,976.00 be approved and the Mayor and Clerk authorized to sign the warrant when prepared. Motion seconded by Commissioner Bunker and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Bunker, Jarrett, Sharp, Whipple and His Honor voting aye; noes, none. Commissioner Bunker moved the payment to Richard Bledsoe on the Recreation Center in the total amount of $2,400.00 be approved and the Mayor and Clerk authorized to sign the warrant when prepared. Motion seconded by Commissioner Whipple and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Bunker, Jarrett, Sharp, Whipple and His Honor voting aye; noes, none. At this time the Board considered the installation of street lights from Main to 8th Streets and from Garces to Ogden Avenue. Thereafter Commissioner Whipple moved the following resolution adopted: WHEREAS, certain streets and portions of streets in the City of Las Vegas are without adequate street lighting; and WHEREAS, numerous oral requests have been made that these streets and portions of streets hereinafter described be improved with street lighting; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas at a regular meeting thereof held on the 17th day of February, 1954 that the City Engineer be and he is hereby directed to prepare and file with the City Clerk, plats, diagrams, plans of the work and the locality to be improved together with the estimates of cost for the installation of complete street lighting facilities with aluminum standards and single overhead wire on series lighting system in, over, and along the following described streets and portions of streets, to-wit: FIRST STREET from Garces Avenue to the Police Station; SECOND, THIRD, And FOURTH STREETS from Garces Avenue to the South boundary of Stewart Avenue; SIXTH and SEVENTH STREETS from Clark Avenue to the South boundary of Stewart Avenue; EIGHTH STREET from the North boundary of Bridger Avenue to the South boundary of Stewart Avenue; OGDEN AVENUE from Main Street to Fifth Street and from Fifth Street to Eighth Street; FREMONT STREET from Main Street to Fifth Street and from Fifth Street to Eighth Street; CARSON AVENUE from Main Street to Fifth Street and from Fifth Street to Eighth Street; BRIDGER AVENUE from Main Street to Fifth Street to Eighth Street; LEWIS AVENUE from Main Street to Fourth Street and from Fifth Street to Seventh Street; CLARK AVENUE from Main Street to Fourth Street and from Fifth Street to Seventh Street; BONNEVILLE AVENUE from Main Street to Fourth Street and GARCES AVENUE from Main Street to Fourth Street. ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 17th day of February, 1954 Motion seconded by Commissioner Sharp and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Bunker, Jarrett, Sharp, Whipple and His Honor voting aye; noes, none. Deeds for street purposes on Desert Lane were presented at this time to the Board for consideration. On motion of Commissioner Whipple, duly seconded by Commissioner Bunker and carried unanimously, the following resolution is adopted: BE IT RESOLVED, this 17th day of February, 1954 by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, County of Clark, State of Nevada, that the deeds, dated and executed as follows: a) Walter F. Kenyon and Marjie Kenyon, H/W, dated February 10, 1954 b) Louis D. Atchley and Mary Atchley, H/W, dated February 10, 1954 c) Hal G. Curtis & Sue Curtis, H/W, dated February 4, 1954 to the d) John W. Simpson and Dorothy M. Sinpson, H/W, dated February 4 1954 e) Anthony Bulygo and Earline Bulygo, dated February 9, 1954 & Harry Yavenar and Olwen Yavener, H/W f) A. D. McKenna and Marie E. McKenna, H/w, dated February 9, 1954 to the City of Las Vegas, County of Clark, State of Nevada, and that the 2-17-54