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553 WHEREAS, it has been determined by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, that the public can be better served by holding its regular meetings once each week, being each Wednesday at 3:30 P.M., HOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, at a meeting thereof held on the 28th day of September, 1950, that the regular meeting days of the Board of Commissioners be changed from the 7th and 22nd days of each month to Wednesday of each week at 3:30 P.M. Motion seconded by Commissioner Moore and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Bunker, Moore and His Honor Mayor Pro Tem Whipple voting aye; noes, none. Absent: Mayor Cragin and Commissioner Peccole. RESOLUTION 184 Commissioner Moore introduced and moved the adoption of the following resolution: WHEREAS, Public law 475, 81st Congress, authorizes the Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, upon the filing for the prescribed request therefor, to relinquish and transfer upon the terms and conditions set forth in said Act all right, title, and interest of the United States in and with respect to certain temporary war and veterans' housing projects to eligible bodies as defined therein, and WHEREAS, the Housing Authority of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, is a body eligible for the transfer of and desires to have transferred to it the temporary housing project Nev-26029; * NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas does hereby specifically approve the request of the Housing Authority of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, as per their Resolution No. 48 dated September 13, 1950, for transfer of Project Nev-26029 pursuant to Title VI of Public law 849, 76th Congress, as amended; and does hereby specifically approve the unconditional waiver of the removal requirements of Section 313 of said Public Lav 849, 76th Congress, as amended. Motion seconded by Commissioner Bunker and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Bunker, Moore and His Honor Mayor Pro Tem Whipple voting aye; noes, none. Absent: Mayor Cragin and Commissioner Peccole. RESOLUTION 185 Commissioner Moore introduced and moved the adoption of the following resolution: WHEREAS, the Housing Authority of the City of Las Vegas, hereinafter referred to as the "Authority" was duly organized under the Nevada Housing Authorities Act by a resolution of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, hereinafter referred to as the "City," passed and adopted on the 6th day of June, 1947; WHEREAS, in contemplation of the construction by the Authority of a low-rent housing project within the corporate limits of the City, the Authority and the City entered into a Cooperation Agreement on the 26th day of October, 1949; WHEREAS, in connection with the proposed low-rent housing project, the City in Paragraph 6 (b) of said Cooperation Agreement agreed as follows: "In respect to any Project the City further agrees that within a reasonable time after receipt of a written request from the Local Authority: "(b) it will accept necessary dedications of land for, and will grade, improve, pave, and provide sidewalks for, all streets bounding such Project or necessary to provide adequate access thereto (in consideration whereof the Local Authority shall pay to the City such amount as would be assessed against the Project site for such work if it were privately owned)." WHEREAS, pursuant to application of the Authority, the Public Housing Administration has approved a program reservation for one hundred (100) dwelling units for the proposed low- rent housing project in the City; WHEREAS, the Authority has started negotiations for and contemplates purchasing approximately twenty (20) acres of ground on the Westside, Las Vegas, Nevada commonly known as the Harper Property, as a site for the proposed low-rent project; WHEREAS, under the proposed improvement plan for the said site, the project will be bounded by three streets, namely H. Street on the East, Washington Avenue on the North, and McWilliams Street on the South; WHEREAS, the Authority has requested that the City improve, pave and provide sidewalks for the above-mentioned three streets bounding the proposed project, concurrently with the construction of the proposed project by the Authority, and in consideration whereof, the Authority has agreed to pay the City such amount as would be assessed against the project site for such improvement work if the said property were privately owned; WHEREAS, THE City recognizes the obligation under the above-mentioned Cooperation Agreement but is unable to fulfill its obligations with respect to the three bounding streets at the present time for the following reasons: