Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, June 22, 1911 to February 7, 1922, lvc000001-258

Office of the City Clerk Las Vegas, Nevada. June 5th, 1918. At a regular meeting of the Board of City Commissioners in and for the City of Las Vegas, Nevada held on the 5th day of June A.D. 1918. Present Hon. W.E. Hawkins Mayor with Commissioners Ball, Miller, Elwell, and Ullom, with the Clerk and City Attorney being present. Minutes of the last regular meetings and adjourned meetings read and approved as read. All claims against the City of Las Vegas, Nevada as per claim book on file with the Clerk of this Board. Reports of officers read and approved as read and placed on file with the Clerk of this Board. At this time Mrs W.B. Mundy and Mrs C. M. Mc Govern members of the Cemetery Board appeared before the Board of City Commissioners requesting the Board to set aside a certain sum of money for the building and erecting of a screen porch on the house of the Cemetery sexton in the cemetery and estimated to the Board that the same could be erected for about the sum of $100.00 whereupon after due considera­tion upon the part of the Board it was upon motion being duly made and carried ordered that the sum of $100.00 be and the same is hereby transferred from the general fund of the City to the Cemetery fund of said City for the purpose of erecting said screen porch. This being the time set by the Board per a Notice given and duly published in the Clark County Review for the receiving and opening of bids on Street sprinkling in said City, the Clerk then proceeded to open said Bids as follows towit; The Bid of Al. J. Clark $6.50 Per day The bid of Geo. Hooper 6.00 Per day Bert French $200.00 per month J.M. Miller 7.50 Per day J.L. Russell 6.40 Per day J.M. Heaton 5.50 Per day Thereafter upon due consideration upon the part of the Board it was upon the motion of Commiss­ioner Ullom and seconded by Commissioner Elwell and duly carried ordered that the said Bid of $5.50 per day for the sprinkling of said Streets in said City as submitted by the said J.M. Heaton be and the same is hereby accepted, the same to be enforce from this day, as is more fully set forth in the Notice to bidders for the said sprinkling of said streets, the vote upon said resolution being as follows towit; Commissioner Ball, aye, Miller aye, Elwell, aye, Ullom aye, and his honor the Mayor W.E. Hawkins voting aye. Noes None. This being the time set by the Board for the reading of the ordinance amending the Gas Rates in the said City of Las Vegas Nevada for second reading, the Clerk there upon proceeded to read said ordinance for the second time, whereupon it was by motion of Commissioner Miller and seconded By Commissioner Ball that the following amendment to the proposed ordinance entitled " An Ordinance of the City of Las Vegas, amending section 4 of Ordinance No 22 of the City of Las Vegas, entitled " An Ordinance Authorizing Consolidated Power and Telephone Company a corporation , its successors or assigns, to construct, operate and maintain gas works in the City of Las Vegas, Clark County Nevada". that that portion of said ordinance he amended as follows towit; that part of section four wherein it reads as follows" "however , that no rate shall be changed during a period of less than one year after being fixed (except as herein after provided for) and that notice of intention to change rates shall be given to the local agent of the Consolidated Power and Telephone Company or its successors or assigns, at least thirty days prior to the date set for for the consideration of such change" be amended to read as follows towit; " However , that no rate shall be changed during a period of less than thirty days after being fixed ( except as herein after provided for ) and that notice of intention to change rates shall be given to the local agent of the Consolidated Power and Telephone Company or its successors or assigns, at least fifteen days prior to the date set for the consideration of such change. "The vote upon said amendment was as follows towit; Commissioners Ball aye, Miller aye, Elwell aye, Ullom aye and his honor the Mayor W.E. Hawkins voting aye. Noes None.