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Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, January 7, 1947 to October 26, 1949, lvc000006-559

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    529 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED; that the adoption of said further Amended Master Plan shall be entered and attested on said map by the signatures of the Chairman and Secretary of the Commission, and that attested copies thereof be certified to the Board of City Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, the Board of City Commissioners of the City of North Las Vegas, and the Board of Commissioners of the County of Clark; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: that the Regional Planning Commission recommends that the Board of City Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas approve and adopt said further Amended Master Plan after holding a public hearing as prescribed by law and certify their action on the certified copy of said map; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Board of City Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, the Board of City Commissioners of the City of North Las Vegas, and the Board of Commissioners of the County of Clark. /s/ R. B. Griffith Chairman Regional Planning Commission of Clark County DATED: 27 day of February, 1949. /s/ R. E. Singrey Secretary ——0O0——— RESOLUTION NO. 141 WHEREAS, by Order of the Board of Commissioners a notice was published on the 20th day of February, 1949, in the Las Vegas Evening Review Journal a daily newspaper of general circula­tion printed and published in Las Vegas, in the County of Clark, State of Nevada, of the intention of the Board to Act upon a resolution reciting the character of the necessity for and authorizing a temporary emergency loan in the sum of One Hundred Sixty-three Thousand Eight Hundred Twenty-eight and 6l/100ths Dollars ($l63,828.61) for the purpose of securing funds to meet certain accrued and binding indebtednesses and obligations, and necessary expenditures of the City of Las Vegas, and WHEREAS, said Board has duly met this day, the 17th day of March, 1949, for the purpose of acting upon said resolution, and WHEREAS, no other meeting for the purpose of acting upon said resolution was held by said Board within the period of fifteen days subsequent to the publication of the aforesaid notice of intention, and no action upon said resolution was held by said Board within said fifteen day period, and WHEREAS, no objections by the public, or otherwise, have been made at this meeting of the Board of Commissioners held this 17th day of March, 1949, or at any time prior thereto, to the adoption by said Board of said resolution for an emergency loan, and WHEREAS, the Budget of the City of Las Vegas for the year 1948 included an item of anti­cipated revenue in the sum of One Hundred and Twenty Thousand Dollars ($120,000) which consis­ted of the proceeds of a proposed emergency loan to be made during said budget year, and WHEREAS, said Budget for the year 1948 was approved by the State Board of Finance of the State of Nevada, and WHEREAS, the anticipated expenditures set forth in said Budget were based upon the reason­able expectation of the full receipt of the anticipated revenues set forth in said Budget, and WHEREAS, by reason of a program of further retrenchment and more rigid economic administra­tion of governmental operations, after the approval of the 1948 Budget as aforesaid, it was reasonably expected that the anticipated revenues would provide sufficient funds, without the need for the aforesaid emergency loan, to meet the anticipated expenditures set forth in said Budget, and WHEREAS, by reason thereof, no action was taken for the acquisition of said sum of One Hundred Twenty Thousand Dollars ($120,000) by an emergency loan, and said sum was not acquired , and WHEREAS, at the end of said budget year of 1948 there developed a deficiency in the receipt of anticipated revenues to the extent of Fifty-one Thousand Three Hundred Forty-nine and Seventy- nine/lOOth Dollars ($5l,349.79), consisting of a deficiency of Eighteen Thousand Five Hundred Twenty-one and 18/100ths Dollars ($l8,52l.l8) in tax collections, and Thirty-two Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-eight and 6l/100th Dollars ($32,828.6l) in non-tax revenues, and WHEREAS, the City of Las Vegas has incurred a necessary debt in the sum of Forty-five Thousand Dollars ($45,000) in connection with the surrender of the lease of the Western Air Lines, Inc. covering the Municipal Airport, and the removal of tanks and gasing facilities from the Municipal Airport to the Clark County Airport, which is an accrued indebtedness and binding obligation of said City, and WHEREAS, the City of Las Vegas has incurred a further indebtedness in the sum of Seven Thousand One Hundred Eighty-one and 96/100th Dollars ($7,181.96) to defray the necessary construc­tion costs over and above the sum made available therefor by bond issue for the completion of the storm drainage project of said city, which is an accrued indebtedness and binding obligation of said city, and WHEREAS, the recent unprecedented snow storms caused considerable damage to the streets and other public ways of the City of Las Vegas, creating therein conditions dangerous to vehicular and pedestrian traffic which necessitates the immediate expenditure of the sum of Sixty Thousand Dollars ($60,000) for repairs, and