Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, August 11, 1942 to December 30, 1946, lvc000005-119

NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING TO: E. W. CRAGIN and to Pat Clark, A. Corradetti, Walter B. Bates and A. F. Smith, Sr., Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada. You and each of you will please take notice: That pursuant to a call this day issued by Mayor E. W. Cragin a special meeting of the Board of City Commissioners will be held in the Commissioners' Room at the War Memorial Building on Tuesday, the 17th day of August, 1943 at the hour of 11:55, to consider the following: 1 Charleston Blvd., access road. (S) Helen Scott Reed_____ ACCEPTANCE OF SERVICE We the undersigned Mayor and Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, hereby admit due service of the foregoing Notice of Special Meeting. (S) Pat Clark__________ (S) Walter B. Bates (S) A. Corradetti______ (S) A. F. Smith, Sr. (S) E. W. Cragin_______ A Special Meeting was called to order at the hour of 11:55 A.M. on August 17, 1943 by His Honor, Mayor E. W. Cragin with the following members present: Mayor Cragin; Commissioners Bates, Clark, Corradetti, Smith and City Clerk, Helen Scott Reed. Also present were C. G. Petrie, Planning Engineer; Dale Pruitt and J. M. Murphy, State Highway Department Representatives. PROPOSED Commissioner Clark moved that the City of Las Vegas acquire right-of-way for HIGHWAY the proposed highway beginning at the Northwest city limits on the Tonopah RIGHT-OF-WAY Highway to the junction of Fremont and Charleston at the Southeast city limits under line 8, designated on the highway exhibit for proposed location and alignments of the improvement. Motion seconded by Commissioner Bates and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Bates, Clark, Corradetti, Smith and His Honor voting aye; noes none. Thereafter the meeting adjourned. LAS VEGAS, NEVADA SEPTEMBER 2, 1943 A At a regular meeting of the Board of City Commissioners held this 2nd day of September, 1943. Meeting called to order by his Honor, Mayor E. W. Cragin, at the hour of 2:25 P.M., with the following members present: Commissioners Clark, Coradetti and Smith. City Auditor, Mac Cazier and City Clerk, Helen Scott Reed. Absent: Commissioner Walter B. Bates and City Attorney, Louis Wiener, Jr. Commissioner Clark moved that the Minutes of the last regular meeting held August 16th, be approved with the following exception that the item regarding the date for return of bid for the pumping plant and water control at the disposal plant be changed to September 2, 1943. Motion seconded by Commissioner Smith and carried by the following vote. Commissioners Clark, Coradetti, Smith and his Honor voting aye. Noes, none. Due to the absence of Commissioner Bates, Mayor Cragin appointed Commissioner Coradetti to audit the bills of Commissioner Bates. VOUCHERS Commissioner Smith moved that warrants #3050 to 3284 inclusive be approved #3050 to 3284 and the Mayor and city clerk authorized to execute same. Motion seconded by Commissioner Coradetti and carried by the following vote. Commissioners Clark, Coradetti, Smith and his Honor voting aye. Noes, none. TONOPAH-CHARLESTON Commissioner Smith moved that the recommendations of the Planning Commission HIGHWAY IMPROVE- for right of way acquisition and adjusting local streets to improvement as MENT follows be accepted and approved: 1) County Hospital a. Acquire block west to and including portion at intersection with Tonopah Drive b. Vacate Rose Street 2) Close and vacate 1st Street - Boulder to Charleston. Re-plat blocks involved. 3) Acquire additional right-of-way width at Union Pacific Railroad for grade separation - additional 25 feet each side, or a total of 50 feet, from approximately 1,000 feet west of tracks - east to Main Street.