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Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, February 17, 1954 to September 21, 1955, lvc000009-251

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ACCEPTANCE OF NOTICE We, the undersigned, Mayor, Commissioners, City Manager and City Attorney of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, do hereby admit due service of the foregoing notice of Special Meeting. C. D. Baker Howard W. Cannon____ Harris P. Sharp Rex A. Jarrett Wendell Bunker_____ George Rounthwaite Reed Whipple______ R. W. Notti Las Vegas, Nevada July 22, 1954 (CALL OF SPECIAL MEETING) A special meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, held this 22nd day of July, 1954, was called to order at the hour of 4:10 P.M. by His Honor Mayor Baker with the following members present: Mayor C. D. Baker Commissioner Wendell Bunker Commissioner Rex A. Jarrett Commissioner Harris P. Sharp Commissioner Reed Whipple City Manager George Rounthwaite Asst. City Manager R. W. Notti City Attorney Howard W. Cannon City Clerk Shirley Ballinger At this time Mr. George Arquilla and his attorney Mr. Art Ham, Jr., appeared before the Board to request the reinstatement of the gaming license of the California Club. Discussion followed. Thereafter Commissioner Sharp moved the license of the California Club be reinstated under the name of George Arquilla, as the sole man responsible for the operation of the Club, provided sufficient evidence is given the Chief of Police on the following matters: 1. That arrangements for payment of the money due Sam Bratt be made entirely with Walter Parman. 2. That Mr. Arquilla's note be directly with Walter Parman, and no one else. 3. That Walter Parman be out of the California Club. 4. That the bank roll is sufficient to run the businesses and carry through until the end of the quarter, that the matter be straightened out by the end of September or it will come up again. 5. That the management must be by someone that is familiar with the gaming business, and his name submitted to the Chief of Police. 6. That Mr. Parman's name be removed from the license of the California Club. Motion seconded by Commissioner Jarrett and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Jarrett, Sharp, Whipple and His Honor voting aye; noes, Commissioner Bunker. There being no further business to come before the Board, this special meeting adjourned. Las Vegas, Nevada August 4, 1954 A regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, held this 4th day of August, 1954, was called to order at the hour of 7:15 P.M. in the Mayor's Office by His Honor Mayor Baker with the following members present: Mayor C. D. Baker Commissioner Wendell Bunker Commissioner Rex. A. Jarrett Commissioner Harris P. Sharp Commissioner Reed Whipple City Attorney Howard W. Cannon City Manager George H. Rounthwaite Asst. City Mgr. R. W. Notti Acting City Eng. Victor B. Uehling City Clerk Shirley Ballinger Also present were Messrs. Ketcham, Sellman, Nugent. Schwartz, and Hibbs. Commissioner Bunker moved that the following Resolution be adopted: 7-22-54 GAMING LICENSE California Club Reinstated