Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, February 17, 1954 to September 21, 1955, lvc000009-11

A special meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada is hereby called to be held in the Mayor's Office of the City Hall, on the 1st day of March, 1954, at the hour of 4:00 P.M. to consider the following matters: 1. 1954 Budget 2. Proposed amendment to Ordinance prohibiting issuance of licenses in condemned buildings. s/ C. D. Baker_______________ Mayor NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING TO: C. D. BAKER, Mayor and to WENDELL BUNKER, REX A. JARRETT, HARRIS P. SHARP, REED WHIPPLE, Commissioners and GEORGE H. ROUNTHWAITE, Acting City Manager, and HOWARD W. CANNON, City Attorney of the City of Las Vegas. You and each of you will please take notice that pursuant to a call this day issued by Mayor Baker, a special meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, will be held in the Mayor's Office of the City Hall, 5th and Stewart, on the 1st day of March, 1954 at the hour of 4:00 P.M. to consider the following matters: 1. 1954 Budget 2. Proposed amendment to Ordinance prohibiting issuance of licenses in condemned buildings. s/ Shirley Ballinger_____________ City Clerk 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. s/ C. D. Baker______________________ s/ Howard W. Cannon______________ Mayor City Attorney s/ Harris P. Sharp__________________ _____s/ George H. Rounthwaite________ Commissioner Acting City Manager s/ Reed Whipple_____________________ ______________________________________ Commissioner s/ Rex A. Jarrett___________________ ______________________________________ Commissioner ******************** Las Vegas, Nevada March 1, 1954 A special meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas held this 1st day of March, 1954 was called to order at the hour of 4:45 P.M. by His Honor Mayor Baker with the following members present: Mayor C.D. Baker Commissioner Rex A. Jarrett Commissioner Harris P. Sharp Commissioner Reed Whipple Acting City Mgr. George Rounthwaite City Attorney Howard W. Cannon Comptroller Harold A. Laird City Engineer George Wade City Clerk Shirley Ballinger Absent: Commissioner Wendell Bunker ORDINANCE NO. 588 An ordinance entitled: AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE NO. 564 OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS Condemned Buildings ENTITLED: "AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE REFUSAL TO ISSUE BUSINESS LICENSES OR FOR THE REVOCATION OF BUSINESS LICENSES IN CERTAIN INSTANCES; PROVIDING OTHER MATTERS PROPERLY RELATED THERETO; AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH," AND PROVIDING FOR EXTENSION OF TIME IN CERTAIN CASES, having been reported on favorably by Commissioner Whipple, was read in full to the Board. Commissioner Whipple moved the above entitled Ordinance No. 588 be adopted. Motion seconded by Commissioner Sharp and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Sharp, Whipple and His Honor voting aye; noes, none. Commissioner Jarrett passed his vote: Absent: Commissioner Bunker 1954 BUDGET At this time the Comptroller and City Manager went over in detail the proposed 1954 Budget. Commissioner Whipple moved the Budget for the City of Las Vegas for 1954, as presented and recommended by the City Manager be approved: CITY BUDGET Budget of the City of Las Vegas, 1954 Information Required: Assessed Valuation — Actual Estimated 1953 1954 Real Estate and Improvements .............. $ 40,627,383 $ 74,180,000 Personal Property (County tax roll plus Assessor's collections) ............ 8,951,359 13,000,000