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cc: Mr. L. R. Maag OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS A * C A M P B E L L PRESIDENT SPENCER L. BUTTERFIELD VICE-PRESIDENT W ILLIAM COULTHARD SECY,-TREAS. HARRY E. MILLER JAMES CASHMAN JOHN BUNCH LAS VEGAS VALLEY WATER DISTRICT 900 SOUTH 5TH STREET LAS VEGAS, NEVADA T elephone 5 9 2 0 November 7, 1953 Additions and Betterments to the Las Vegas Land and Water Company System ^-Jjnder the terms of our contract to purchase the facilities of the Las Vegas Land and Water (Q&om pany, it Is required that the Water District shall approve a ll expenditures exceeding a cost 11 W $2,000.00. Before the passage of the bond issue. It was felt that the Water District should | “Pprove expenditures after merely checking the reasonableness o f the cost of each project. Now *ha* toe bond ittve has been passed. It Is the feeling o f the Board of Directors of the District that these additions and betterments represent an actual expenditure of public funds. The Board njjs® Hiat *ho general rules o f competitive bidding on public projects should be followed r # future expenditures, in order to prevent any possible criticism which might be directed I *° ***• contact we request that evidence be submitted for each future project j that bids have been requested from at least three parties and that the rebate and cost to the w Water District be based on tho low bid. f. Montgomery has discussed with M r. M aag means by which this procedure might be carried ond we believe that It can be done without materially increasing either your work or ours. Very truly yours, LAS V EG AS VALLEY W A T B DISTRICT M r. Wm» Reinhardt V ico President Las Vegas Land & Water Company 422 West Sixth Street p jjo s Angeles, California v^ear M r. Reinhardt; By ________ Thomas A . Campbell President TACm ih