City council briefs

Thursday, Jan. 6, 2000 | 10:09 a.m.

City spending

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

To Richardson Construction Inc. for paving, concrete work and construction at Heritage Park.

To K Construction Inc. for storm drainage work along Pecos Road.

To Best Janitorial for janitorial services for various city operated facilities.

For a contract with Beverage & Diamond for legal services related to environmental issues.

For an agreement with PBS & J for construction of Metro Park at Jensen Drive and Cheyenne Avenue.

To Research Management Corp. to remove dirt and vegetation from cracks in the sidewalk.

For an agreement with the Louis Berger Group Inc. for sewer improvements.

Review board plan bounces to council

The back-and-forth between the Las Vegas City Council and the Clark County Commission over formation of a Metro Police Citizen Review Board landed back in the city's hands Wednesday.

The council took another sidestep in the yearlong saga to create the 25-member board when it introduced a bill granting City Manager Virginia Valentine the power to fire the director of the review board.

The wording of both the city and county ordinances must be substantively identical before the review board is officially created.

The first ordinances to create the review board were initially approved last May but have been held up on such technicalities ever since.

The city and the county will hold public hearings on the proposed changes to their respective ordinances Jan. 18.

Goodman introduces ordinance on ban

Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman took his first official stand against a plan to store high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain on Wednesday when he introduced an ordinance that would make transporting such waste within the city limits illegal.

Goodman's measure, which faces a Jan. 18 public hearing, would make it a misdemeanor to transport high-level nuclear waste anywhere in the city.

The Department of Energy is proposing Yucca Mountain, located about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, as a storage facility for 77,000 tons of nuclear waste culled from reactors nationwide.

Winter shelter, TV channel get help

The City Council granted funding Wednesday to a temporary winter shelter for the homeless and an educational cable television channel.

The council authorized payment of $150,000 to UNLV to cover the city's share of matching funds for Educational TV, the new Channel 70 on Cox cable.

The MASH Village temporary winter shelter was approved for $40,000 in city funding. The shelter is open from Dec. 1 to Feb. 27.

Changes proposed in members' terms

Members of the Las Vegas Planning Commissioners will have terms corresponding to those of the council member who appoints them if a bill introduced Wednesday gets full council approval.

The bill would give the council the flexibility to make the changes with the currently seated members of the Planning Commission.

The proposed changes will be heard at a Jan. 18 recommending committee meeting.

Third Street will be for pedestrians

The Lady Luck hotel-casino won approval Wednesday to construct a pedestrian mall on Third Street between Ogden and Stewart avenues.

Planned improvements at the location include a decorative meandering sidewalk, landscaping and statues.

The city agreed to vacate the street to allow Lady Luck to develop the pedestrian mall.

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