Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, May 14, 1929 to February 11, 1937, lvc000003-98

Leonard Blood of the Veterans of foreign Wars appeared before the Board asking them to appropriate the sum of $75.00 per month for the next six months to help defray the expenses of maintaining a Deputy Labor Commissioner in the City of Las Vegas. This sum would have to be taken from the Publicity Fund , and as that fund is almost depleted at the present time the Board decided to let the matter lay over until the money was proportioned from the taxes that will be paid in the month of May. There being no further business to come before the Board at this time the meeting recessed until Friday the 9th day of May at the hour of three o'clock P.M. SPECIAL CALLED MEETING. May 3rd, 1930. CALL To- Viola Burns, City Clerk of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada: I hereby call a special meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas to be held at the Board room of said Board On Saturday the 3rd day of May, 1930 at the hour of three o'clock P.M. of said day to consider and act upon the following business of said City: 1. To act on bill of R.E. Hazard Contracting Company for $27,816.01 and assignment of compensation by it to California Group Corporation of date March 29, 1930 under rough grading curb and gutter contract of December 6, 1929. Said meeting to be held at the Board Room in the County Court House. You will give notice in accordance herewith. Dated this 3rd day of May, 1930. J.F. Hesse Mayor. NOTICE. To- J.F. Hesse, Mayor, O.J. Smith, W.C. German, R.W. Thomas and L.B. Hansell, Commissioners: You and each of you will please take notice that, pursuant to a call this day issued by J.F. Hesse, Mayor of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, a special meeting of the Board of Commission­ers of said City will be held at the Board Room of said Board at the County Court House in said City on Saturday the 3rd day of May, 1930 at the hour of three o'clock P.M. to consider and act upon the following business of said City: 1. To act on bill of R.E. Hazard Contracting Company for $27,816.01 and assignment of com­pensation by it to California Group Corporation of date March 29, 1930 under rough grading curb and gutter contract of December 6, 1929. Dated May 3rd, 1930. Viola Burns City Clerk. Acceptance of Service. We hereby accept service of the foregoing notice, and we represent that L.B. Hansell is absent from said City on this date. J.F. Hesse W.C. German Mayor. Commissioner R.W. Thomas Commissioner. Present at the meeting was Mayor J.F. Hesse, Commissioners Thomas, and German together with the City attorney, and Clerk. Upon motion of Commissioner German seconded by Commissioner Thomas the following Resolution was duly adopted: Whereas R.E. Hazard Contracting Company has presented and filed with this Board an assign­ment to California Groupe Corporation of compensation to become due under its agreement with the City of Las Vegas, of date December 6, 1929, Now Therefore Be It Resolved, that the Mayor be and he is hereby authorized and directed to consent to said assignment in writing in the following form, The above and foregoing assignment of compensation is hereby consented to, subject to the right of said City to withhold and deduct such sums as it is provided in the documents forming the contract that said City may withhold and/or deduct, and subject to the prior rights and equities of the surety company on the bond of the Contractor hereunder, City of Las Vegas acting through its Board of Commissioners under Resolution adopted May 3, 1930. By J.F. Hesse Its Mayor. Be It Further Resolved, that the first check payable to R.E. Hazard Contracting Company, be made out in the name of said R.E. Hazard Contracting Co; and forwarded to said California Group Corporation and that upon the endorsement of said check by R.E. Hazard Contracting Company to said