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MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF LAS VEGAS VALLEY WATER DISTRICT, HELD AT 3:AO P.M., MARCH 7, 1951, AT THE DIRECTORS' ROOM, LAS VEGAS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 515 SOUTH 5th STREET., LAS VEGAS, NEVADA. A regular meeting of the Board of Directors of Las Vegas Valley Water District was held this date at 3:AO P.M., in the Directors' Room, Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, 515 South 5th Street, Las Vegas, Nevada. The following Directors were present: V.P. 3. L. Butterfield Bunch Cashman Miller Underhill President Campbell joined the Board at 4:00 P.M. Chief Engineer and Manager Clark was also present and was asked to keep notes of the meeting in the absence of the Secretary. The following Director was absent: Coulthard, member of the State Assembly. Commissioners Cahlan, Strong and Buehler of the CRC were present. Vice President Butterfield called the meeting to order, explaining that the President was delayed by urgent business and was expected soon. The minutes of the last meeting, held on February 9, 1951, having been typed and circulated to all Directors, stood approved, there having been no additions or corrections noted by the Directors. Vice President Butterfield explained to the Directors present that this meeting had been called at this date as a preview of the business which would be brought before the full membership at the next meeting of the Colorado River Commission, but meeting at this preliminary occasion with the Southern Nevada members of the Commission as a special committee. He stated that the business concerned the details of an agreement whereby the Water District would acquire the water facilities at Henderson. A short discussion among the Directors followed, terminated by the arrival of the three Southern Nevada members of the Colorado River Com­mission. President Campbell arrived at 4:00 P.M., and the meeting then became a joint session, of an informal nature, between the Directors of the Water District and the three members of the Commission. President Campbell then took over as Chairman of the meeting. President Campbell made an opening statement as to the intent of the joint meeting and stated that no opinions expressed by the Commissioners would be held binding as to the Colorado River Commission as a whole. Commissioner Cahlan stated that the three Commissioners present had been appointed as a special committee by the Chairman, Governor Russell, to work informally on the matters at issue concerning the water facility at Henderson, sc that when the plan was later presented to the Commission as a whole at the regular March meeting, the basic details would already have been decided upon. President Campbell then reviewed briefly the work of the Directors, during the past year, relative to a plan to acquire the 40-inch pipe line from Lake Mead to Henderson; also, the negotiations carried on with the Las Vegas Land and Water Company preparatory to ascertaining a fair value of their facilities in Las Vega3. He stated that the District did not believe that its project had any chance of success if it became necessary to go to Lake Mead with a new pipe line, because the expense thereof would be unreasonably great for the water users to bear; that the Direc­tors believed the most practical means of getting Lake Mead water into