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Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, September 21, 1955 to November 20, 1957, lvc000010-547

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    TO: SHIRLEY LODWICK, City Clerk Las Vegas, Nevada A special meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada is hereby called to be held in the Mayor's Office of the City Hall, on the 1st day of August, 1957, at the hour of 4:00 P.M., to consider the following matters: 1. Resolution on the Free-Way 2. Sale or Lease of Huntridge Fire Station 3. Estimated Payroll 4. Arthur Murray School of Dance - Public Dance Hall s/ Reed Whipple Mayor Pro Tem NOTICE OP SPECIAL MEETING TO: C. D. BAKER, Mayor and to WENDELL BUNKER, E. W. FOUNTAIN, HARRIS P. SHARP, REED WHIPPLE, Commissioners and A. H. KENNEDY, City Manager, R. F. BOOS, Administrative Assistant, and HOWARD W. CANNON, City Attorney of the City of Las Vegas. You and each of you will please take notice that pursuant to a call this day issued by Mayor Pro Tem a special meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, will be held in the Mayor's Office of the City Hall, 5th and Stewart, on the 1st day of August, 1957, at the hour of 4:00 P.M., to consider the following matters: 1. Resolution on the Free-Way 2. Sale or Lease of Huntridge Fire Station 3. Estimated Payroll 4. Arthur Murray School of Dance - Public Dance Hall s/ Shirley Lodwick City Clerk ACCEPTANCE OF NOTICE We, the undersigned Mayor, Commissioners, City Manager, Administrative Assistant and City Attorney of the City of Las Vegas do hereby admit due service of the foregoing notice of special meeting. s/ C. D. Baker s/ Reed Whipple s/ Wendell Bunker s/ Harris P. Sharp s/ E. W. Fountain s/ R. F. Boos s/ Howard W. Cannon s/ A. H. Kennedy (CALL OF SPECIAL MEETING Las Vegas, Nevada August 1, 1957 A special meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada held this 1st day of August, 1957, was called to order at the hour of 4:00 P.M., by His Honor Mayor Pro Tem Whipple with the following members present: Mayor Pro Tem Reed Whipple Commissioner Wendell Bunker Commissioner E. W. Fountain Commissioner Harris P. Sharp City Manager A. H. Kennedy Adm. Assistant Robert F. Boos City Clerk Shirley Lodwick Absent: Mayor C. D. Baker City Attorney Howard W. Cannon . City Manager Kennedy presented a resolution granting approval to the State Highway Department for the designation, establishment and maintenance of a limited access highway or freeway. Mr. Kennedy advised the Commission that this resolution had been checked and approved by the City Attorney, and if adopted, would indicate the City's approval of the West line for the freeway. Mr. Kennedy advised the Commission that the County Commissioners had adopted the resolution and North Las Vegas was going to adopt it immediately. City Attorney Cannon arrived at this time. Discussion followed and the Commission agreed to approve the resolution provided the word "approximate" is inserted before the footage 1000, 1000 and 500 in the description on page 2 of said resolution. The City Attorney amended the resolution to conform with the condition. Thereafter Commissioner Sharp moved the following resolution be adopted: RESOLUTION OF APPROVAL BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA TO STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT FOR DESIGNATION, . ESTABLISHMENT, AND MAINTENANCE OF LIMITED ACCESS HIGHWAY OR FREEWAY WHEREAS, the State of Nevada, Department of Highways, proposes to construct, reconstruct, relocate and realign certain portions of what is presently known as U. S. Highway 91 as hereinafter described; the latter extending from the vicinity of McCarran Air Field to the vicinity of Apex Summit; and WHEREAS, Section 186, Chapter 370, Statutes of Nevada, 1957, provides in part that after and upon a resolution of the board, the department under the provisions of this chapter may lay out, establish, acquire, open, construct, improve, maintain, regulate, vacate or abandon limited access highways or freeways with the approval (CALL OF SPECIAL MEETING) August 1, 1957 RESOLUTION - Freeway Location