City briefs

Thursday, Oct. 21, 1999 | 2:01 a.m.

City spending

Here is how the Las Vegas City Council voted Wednesday to spend taxpayer money:

To two chemical suppliers for ferric chloride and liquid sodium hydroxide to be used at the Water Pollution Control Facility.

To EMSA Correctional Care for inmate health care services within the Department of Detention and Enforcement.

To Assessment Management Group for the administration of special improvement district fees.

To Office Depot for office supplies.

To Sungard Recovery Services for 60 months of recovery services to enable the city's technology systems to operate during a disaster.

Bid awarded for lights at complex

Lights are coming to the Gowan Soccer Field Complex at Buckskin Park thanks to the award of a bid Wednesday to CG & B Enterprises Inc.

The award of $1,322,521 will be used to construct a lighted group sun shelter, six lighted picnic stations and barbecues. Other work includes paving, irrigation, landscaping, sidewalk and street lighting.

The bid award is the first of 11 designated parks projects earmarked for funding from the $25 million received in last spring's property tax hike to pay for parks.

Exclusive agreement made with developer

A developer looking to construct a Class A office building in downtown Las Vegas was granted an exclusive negotiating agreement by the city's Redevelopment Agency.

The City Council, acting as the agency, authorized the exclusive negotiations with the Trenton Development Corp., which is planning a 72,000-square-foot office building on the southeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Clark Avenue.

The Los Angeles-based Trenton group paid the city a nonrefundable $25,000 fee for the exclusive right to plan the building without competition for the next 90 days.

One 30-day extension is possible if the agency later approves it.

Mike Force, president of the City Centre Development Corp., told the agency that Trenton plans to purchase $898,800 in agency-owned land parcels for the project.

Plans call for 50,000 square feet of the building to be leased by a downtown law firm. The negotiating agreement requires that main lease to be signed within 60 days.

The project will also have about 10,000 square feet for street-level retail and restaurant leasing.

The agreement passed 4-0-1, with Mayor Oscar Goodman abstaining because he owns property nearby.

The agency has a similar exclusive negotiating contract with the Pauls Corp. for development of office space at Fourth Street and Lewis Avenue.

City accepts grant from EPA for loans

The Las Vegas City Council formally accepted a $500,000 federal grant Wednesday to provide low-interest loans to remediate brownfield sites.

The grant from the Environmental Protection Agency was announced earlier this summer. The city's Office of Business Development will administer the loan fund, which is designed to spark redevelopment of brownfields -- abandoned or under-used industrial areas where potential developers are scared away by real or perceived contamination.

The loan may be used in connection with plans for a small business incubator and cultural center at the site of the former National Guard Armory at Eastern and Stewart avenues.

Walsh sworn in to Municipal Court

Deputy Public Defender Jessie Walsh was sworn in Wednesday morning to the vacant Department 6 seat on the Municipal Court bench.

Walsh was appointed Oct. 6 by the City Council to replace Judge Ron Parraguirre, who was appointed by the governor to a seat on the District Court.

Walsh, 41, brought her own Bible to the ceremony, which was attended by her family, friends and the other Municipal Court judges.

The position pays $95,633.