Wednesday, July 7, 1999 | 10:23 a.m.
Road plans won't keep up with needs
An official from the Nevada Department of Transportation told the Henderson City Council Tuesday that current road plans will not adequately support expected growth in the city.
The results of a corridor study of Interstate 215 and Interstate 515 -- U.S. 95 east of Interstate 15 -- show that 12 more lanes of arterial roads running north and south between Sunset and Russell roads will be needed to support future traffic demands.
Four lanes will be needed for east-west travel between Arroyo Grande Boulevard and Green Valley Parkway.
"We've had a sense that we were underserved in these areas for some time," Mayor Jim Gibson said.
The study results will help the city avoid traffic problems in the future, Gibson said.
Contract extended for computer help
A computer consultant's contract was extended by the Henderson City Council Tuesday so that the city's Year 2000 conversion could be completed.
Diana Matusiak of RHI Consulting will earn $90 an hour and $135 an hour for overtime from July to December while assisting Henderson's Information Technology Department with making the city's computers Year 2000 compliant.
The conversion is necessary because of the way computers were programmed to read dates. The year 1999 is read by older computers as 99.
When 2000 rolls around, noncompliant computers will see that year as 00 and may interpret that as 1900, which could cause malfunctions, shutdowns and other problems.
The contract extension was expected, city spokeswoman Vicki Taylor said. The original contract was approved in March 1998.
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