Wednesday, April 29, 2015 | 4:05 p.m.
CARSON CITY — An Assembly committee agreed today to a request by Nevada Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt to spend more than $900,000 to hire additional lawyers to handle legal cases involving Project Neon, the widening of Interstate 15 in Las Vegas.
The state Department of Transportation already has contracts worth more than $9 million with private lawyers to pursue such things as negotiations with land owners and condemnation suits.
The Assembly Ways and Means Committee, with four dissenting votes, agreed to the request to add two legal teams for the next two years. Besides the private attorneys, there are state attorneys working on these cases.
The Department of Transportation has not yet awarded a contract for the financing and construction of Project Neon.
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