Library bond plan placed on hold

Kris Hill

Thursday, Feb. 8, 2001 | 11:20 a.m.

When the Clark County Commission let representatives of the Clark County-Las Vegas Library District know on Tuesday that it would rather not spend $73 million to build six new libraries, the North Las Vegas City Council got the message, too.

North Las Vegas Councilwoman Stephanie Smith, who also sits on the library board, reminded the council of the commission's opposition to the library district's proposal and that its opposition would most likely extend to a resolution on the council's agenda Wednesday night that would ask the county's Debt Management Commission to put on the June ballot an $8 million bond and special elective tax to fund a new library for the city.

County Commission members, some of whom also sit on the debt commission, told the library district that the county should be saving that money for use in the case of potential energy crisis in the near future.

Smith's motion to deny the resolution was passed unanimously by the council.

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