North Las Vegas Council news briefs

Thursday, April 17, 2003 | 10:02 a.m.

Wash land may end up in court

The North Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday voted 5-0 to authorize city staff to go to court to force eight property owners with a combined 20.6 acres along Upper Las Vegas Wash to sell their land to the city.

City officials say the land is needed for a planned $37 million concrete flood control channel. The planned 3.8-mile channel would connect the North Las Vegas Detention Basin to the flood control channel near the intersection of Losee and Lone Mountain roads.

It would replace a natural wash that cuts through those properties, and turn property that is now in a federally designated flood zone into developable land, Randal Cagle, city real property services manager, has said. Property owners have already sold about a mile of the channel route to the city, and the city is continuing negotiations with the other eight property owners with land along the planned channel.

Cagle has said the forced sales might be necessary because the city needs the rights to the properties in order to apply for funding from the Clark County Regional Flood Control District in May. The district would be asked to pay for the whole project, he said.

The affected property owners are not against the city's plans, but"there are some who don't agree with the city's offers," Cagle has said.

Election results become official

The official results of the North Las Vegas April 8 primary were presented to the City Council on Wednesday, and the results confirmed the unofficial results announced the night of the election.

City Council members Shari Buck and William Robinson were re-elected to four-year terms in the primary, as both incumbents received more than 50 percent of the vote.

According to the official results, in the Ward 4 council race Buck received 3,606 votes, which was just under 57.5 percent, beating out Honey Easter, who received 1,252 votes, almost 20 percent, Bill Dolan who received 1,210 votes, 19.3 percent, and Lee Fuller, who received 205 votes, or 3.3 percent.

In the race for the Ward 2 council seat Robinson led the way with 3,262 votes, which was 52 percent of the vote, while Nelson Stone received 2,731 votes, or 43.5 percent, and Howard Flebbe received 281 votes, or 4.5 percent.