Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, February 17, 1937 to August 4, 1942, lvc000004-359

RESOLUTION___ WHEREAS The City of Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, did enter into a certain lease with the United States of America which lease bears date the 25th day of January, A.D. 1941, and covers all of the southeast one-quarter (SE¼) of the northwest one-quarter (NW¼) of Section three (3); all of the southwest one-quarter (SW¼) of the northwest one-quarter (NW¼) of Section three (3); all of the southeast one-quarter (SE¼) of the northeast one-quarter (NE¼) of Section four (4); all of the northwest one-quarter (NW¼) of the southwest one-quarter (SW¼) of Section three (3); all of the northwest one-half (NW¼) of the northeast one-quarter (NE¼) of the southwest one-quarter (SW¼) of Section three (3); all of the northwest one-half (NW½) of the southwest one-quarter (SW¼) of the southwest one-quarter (SW¼) of Section three (3); all contained in Township twenty (20) South Range Sixty-two (62) East, M.D.B. and M. containing two hundred (200) acres more or less which said lands were leased to the United States of America for the purpose of the improvement and use of same as and for an airport, and WHEREAS the United States of America now desire to extend east and east runway number three (3) of said airport over and upon the northeast one-quarter (NE¼) of the northwest one-quarter (NW¼) of Section three (3); Township twenty (20) south Range sixty-two (62) east M.D.B. & M. which lands are now owned by the said City of Las Vegas, and WHEREAS the United States of America desire that the said northeast one-quarter (NE¼) of the northwest one-quarter (NW¼) of said Section three (3) may be incorporated in and form a part of the lands so leased to the United States of America by the said City of Las Vegas, and WHEREAS the said City of Las Vegas is willing to include the said northeast one-quarter (NE¼) of the northwest one-quarter (NW¼) of Section three (3) in said lease, NOW, THEREFORE BEIT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Clark County Nevada, that that certain lease above referred to between the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, as lessor and the United States of America therein called the Government, bearing date of the 25th day of January, A.D., 1941, and leasing to the United States of America the lands first herein above mentioned shall and does hereby include, in addition to the lands first above des­cribed and for the uses and purposes in said lease more particularly set forth, and subject to all of the terms and conditions of said lease, all of the northeast one-quarter (NE¼) of the northwest one-quarter (NW¼) of Section three (3), Township twenty (20) south, Range sixty-two (62) east M.D.B. & M. save and excepting therefrom a strip of land two hundred (200) feet in width along the south boundary of the said northeast one-quarter (NE¼) of the northwest one- quarter (NW¼) of said Section three (3) which has been dedicated to the public as and for an access highway from U.S. Highway #91 into said airport, and save and excepting therefrom one square acre of land in the south west portion of said northeast one-quarter (NE¼) of the north west one-quarter (NW¼) of said Section three (3) which has been reserved by Bud S. Barrett and Sue Barrett, his wife, in their conveyance of said land to the said City of Las Vegas and which said acre is described in the deed from said City of Las Vegas and which said acre is described in the deed from the said Bud S. Barrett and Sue Barrett, his wife, to the City of Las Vegas as follows: "SAVING AND EXCEPTING therefrom the southwest square acre thereof; providing, however, that this conveyance is made upon the assumption that said excepted acre will border on the new highway which the Grantors and Grantee contemplate will be constructed within one year from the date hereof, and which will run from U.S.highway #91 to the airport which borders the east side line of the northeast on-quarter (NE¼) of the northwest one-quarter (NW¼) of said Section three (3), along and bordering but said highway being entirely south of the line separating the north one-half (N½) of the northwest one-quarter (NW¼) of said Section three (3), from the South one-half (S½) of the northwest one-quarter (NW¼) of Section three (3), and in the event said highway does not so run, but runs entirely of partially north of said line and across said north­east one-quarter (NE¼) of the northwest one quarter (NW¼) of said Section three (3), the Grantee agrees to exchange to the Grantors for the acre so excepted, enough of the land herein conveyed to the end that Grantors have a square acre which borders on said proposed highway, said acre to be chosen by the Grantors; it being the intent of the parties hereto that the Grantors shall retain a full square acre north of said highway and exclusive of what may be taken for highway purposes, and the entire south boundary of which borders or fronts on said proposed highway." BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That a certified copy of this Resolution be furnished to the United States of America in order that the United States of America may have written evidence of the fact that the said northeast one-quarter (NE¼) of the northwest one-quarter (NW¼) of Section three (3) is intended by the said City of Las Vegas, to be and is and does hereby become a part, parcel and portion of the lands originally covered by the aforementioned lease and subject to all of the terms and conditions thereof. Commissioner Ronnow, proposed the adoption of the above and foregoing Resolution and the same was seconded by Commissioner Corradetti, and upon being put to vote was passed and adopted by the following vote: Voting aye; Commissioners Ronnow, Corradetti and His Honor the Mayor Herbert Krause, Voting no none. Absent and not voting Commissioner Gilbert. The passing of a suitable Resolution naming Earl N. Tandberg, Honorary Mayor of the City of Las Vegas was considered and the following Resolution was adopted: R.E S O L U T I O N WHEREAS during the past year the City of Las Vegas, a municipal corporation in Clark County Nevada, did acquire from the then owner, Western Air Express Corporation its airport located about nine miles north of the said City of Las Vegas, and has since acquired additional lands adjoining the same, all to be used as a municipal airport, and WHEREAS, thereafter the said City of Las Vegas did enter into an agreement with the Civil Aeronautics administration of the United States for the improvement of said airport, and did there­after and on January 25th, 1941, enter into an agreement with the United States of America, through its War Department, for the further development and improvement of said Airport, and its use by the United States as a miliary airport, and WHEREAS during such negotiations the officials of the said City of Las Vegas have been thrown in close contact with divers agents and representatives of the United States, and WHEREAS much of the detail looking into the development and improvement of said Airport by the United States has been handled by and through the United States Engineer Office, 751 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, and