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CALL OF SPECIAL MEETING Date: September 13, 1954 TO: SHIRLEY BALLINGER, City Clerk Las Vegas, Nevada 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 13th day of September, 1954, at the hour of 10:00 A.M. to consider the following matters: 1. City and County Tax Rate for 1955. 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, Commissioner and GEORGE H. ROUNTHWAITE, 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 at City Hall, 5th and Stewart, on the 13th day of September, 1954, at the hour of 10:00 A.M. to consider the following matters: 1. City and County Tax Rate for L955. 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. C. D. Baker George H. Rounthwaite Rex A. Jarrett Wendell Bunker Harris P. Sharp Las Vegas, Nevada September 13, 1954 (CALL OF SPECIAL MEETING) A special meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, held this 13th day of September, 1954, was called to order at the hour of 10:00 A.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 Dir. of Finance Harold A. Laird City Manager George Rounthwaite City Clerk Shirley Ballinger Absent: Commissioner Reed Whipple City Attorney Howard W Cannon Also present: Harley A. Harmon, Clark County Commissioner George Albright, Clark Count Commissioner M. C. Oglesby, Clark County Assessor Commissioner Sharp moved a resolution be prepared and approved authorizing the increase of the City of Las Vegas Tax Rate for 1955 from 96 cents to $1.05, with an over-all County tax rate of $4.23, the Mayor be authorized to send a telegram to the State Tax Commission notifying them of this approval. RESOLUTION WHEREAS, the Mayor and Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas had submitted a proposed budget for the coming fiscal year based on a certain total valuation of property within the City of Las Vegas; and WHEREAS, under the said proposed budget the City was to receive revenue based on a tax rate of 96 cents per $100.00 assessed valuation of property within the City; and WHEREAS, it now appears that the total valuation upon which taxes will be levied is $7,883,925.00 less than the estimated valuation upon which the 96 cent rate was to be levied; WHEREAS, in order to receive sufficient revenue to properly operate, it is necessary that the tax rate be increased throughout the County and correspondingly for the City of Las Vegas; and 9-13-54