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O f f i c e r s a n d D i r e c t o r s T H O M A S A . C A M P B E L L P R E S ID E N T S lS p C E R L . B U T T E R F IE L D L A S V E G A S V A L L E Y W A T E R DISTRICT V IC E -P R E S ID E N T W IL L IA M C O U L T H A R D S E C Y .-T R E A S . H A R R Y E. M IL L E R JA M E S C A S H M A N J O H N B U N C H M r. Wm. Reinhardt Vice President Las Vegas Land & Water Company 422 West Sixth Street Los Angeles, California Dear Mr. Reinhardt: Under the terms of our contract to purchase the facilities of the Las Vegas Land and Water Company, it is required that the Water District shall approve all expenditures exceeding a cost of $2,000.00. Before the passage of the bond issue, it was felt that the Water District should approve expenditures after merely checking the reasonableness of the cost of each project. Now that the bond issue has been passed, it is the feeling of the Board of Directors of the District that these additions and betterments represent an actual expenditure of public funds. The Board also feels that the general rules of competitive bidding on public projects should be followed on future expenditures. In order to prevent any possible criticism which might be directed against either party to the contract we request that evidence be submitted for each future project that bids have been requested from at least three parties and that the rebate and cost to the Water District be based on the low bid. Mr. Montgomery has discussed with M r. Maag means by which this procedure might be carried out and we believe that it can be done without materially increasing either your work or ours. 9 0 0 SO U TH 5TH STREE T LA S VEGAS, NEVADA T e l e p h o n e 5 9 2 0 November 7, 1953 ft . i ® v Additions and Betterments to the Las Vegas Land and Water Company System________ TACrnih I