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Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, November 7, 1949 to May 21, 1952, lvc000007-572

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Mr. Bert O’Donnell appeared before the Board at this time requesting that residents in the McNeil Tract be exempt from compliance with the Dog Leash Law. This matter was referred to the City Attorney for recommendation. Commissioner Peccole moved the City Manager be authorized to advertise for bids for the construction of comfort stations in the City Park, said bids to be opened April 2, 1952 at 7:30 P.M. Motion seconded by Commissioner Whipple and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Jarrett, Peccole, Whipple and His Honor voting aye; noes, none. Absent: Commissioner Bunker. Commissioner Peccole moved the City Manager be authorized to advertise for bids for the paving of Mesquite from 2nd to 5th Streets, and 4th Street from Stewart to Mesquite to be opened April 2, 1952 at 7:30 P.M. Motion seconded by Commissioner Whipple and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Jarrett, Peccole, Whipple and His Honor voting aye; noes, none. Commissioner Whipple moved the request for payment of $10,000 to J. A. Tiberti on the Library be approved and the Mayor and City Clerk authorized to sign the warrant when drawn. Motion seconded by Commissioner Peccole and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Jarrett, Peccole, Whipple and His Honor voting aye; noes, none. Absent: Commissioner Bunker. Commissioner Peccole moved the request of J. M. Murphy Construction Co. for payment of $10,000 on Assessment District No. 100-6 be approved and the Mayor and City Clerk auth­orized to sign the warrant when drawn. Motion seconded by Commissioner Whipple and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Jarrett, Peccole, Whipple and His Honor voting aye; noes, none. Absent: Commissioner Bunker. Commissioner Whipple moved that Service and Material Warrants Nos. 2245 to 2251 inclusive in the total amount of $50,128.63 be approved and the Mayor and City Clerk authorized to sign same. Motion seconded by Commissioner Peccole and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Jarrett, Peccole, Whipple and His Honor voting aye; noes, none. Absent: Commissioner Bunker. Commissioner Whipple moved the following resolution be adopted: RESOLUTION WHEREAS, certain streets and portions of streets in the City of Las Vegas are without adequate street improvements; and WHEREAS, numerous oral requests have been made that these streets and portions of streets hereinafter described be improved; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, at a regular meeting thereof held on the 19th day of March, 1952, that the City Engineer be and he is hereby directed to prepare and file with the City Clerk, plats, diagrams, plans of the work and the locality to be improved, together with the estimates of cost for constructing oil bound gravel pavement and concrete curbs and gutters and con­crete valley gutters wherever needed on the following described streets and portions of streets, to-wit: On Bonanza Road and Linden Avenue, from East boundary of the Kelso-Turner Tract to Twenty First Street; on Walnut Avenue, from Bruce Street to Twenty Fifth Street; on Mesquite Avenue, from East boundary of the Kelso-Turner Tract to Twenty Fifth Street; on Cedar Avenue, from Bruce Street to Twenty Fifth Street; on Poplar Avenue, from Fourteenth Street to Twenty Fifth Street; on Elm Street, From Bruce Street to Twenty Fifth Street, on Marlin Ave­nue, from alley between Thirteenth and Fourteenth Streets to Twenty Fifth Street; on Ash Avenue, from Twenty First Street to Twenty Third Street; on Ogden Avenue, from Bruce Street to Twenty Third Street; on Sunrise Avenue, from Fremont Street to Twentieth Street; on Thirteenth Street, from North line of the Kelso-Turner Tract to Bonanza Road; on Fourteenth Street, on Fifteenth Street, and on Sixteenth Street, from Stewart Avenue to Bonanza Road; on Bruce Street from Charleston Boulevard to Bonanza Road; on Eighteenth Street, from Sunrise Avenue to Stewart Avenue; on Nineteenth Street, from Sunrise Avenue to Bonanza Road; on Twentieth Street, from South boundary of the Amended Church Tract Addition to Stewart Avenue; on Cervantes Street, from South boundary of the Amended Church Tract Addition to Stewart Avenue; on Twenty First Street and on Twenty Third Street, from Ogden Avenue to Walnut Avenue; on Circle Drive, from Bruce Street to Lewis Avenue; on Lewis Street, from Spencer Street to Bruce Street; on Clark Avenue, from Fourteenth Street to Fifteenth Street; and on Fourteenth Street, from Charleston Boulevard to Clark Avenue. ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 19th day of March, 1952. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk DOG LEASH LAW COMFORT STATION BIDS PAVING OF MESQUITE & 4TH STREETS—Bids LIBRARY PAYMENT ASSESSMENT DISTRICT NO. 100-6 Partial Payment SERVICE & MATERIAL WARRANTS RESOLUTION - Assessment District No. 100-16