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Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, November 7, 1949 to May 21, 1952, lvc000007-183

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    Commissioner Moore moved the application of Bessie Lancaster, George's Cafe, 410 W. Bonanza for a Retail Restaurant Beverage License and Bertie Dees, Spic 'N Span Cafe, 931 Fremont for a Retail Restaurant Beverage license for the fourth quarter of 1950 be granted subject to the favorable recommendation of the Police Department. 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. LIQUOR APPLICATION Commissioner Moore moved the application of Joe Horton, Vera's Change of Name Cafe, 209 Jefferson for a Retail Restaurant Beverage license for and Operator the fourth quarter of 1950 be granted pending favorable in- vestigation by the Police Department. Motion seconded by Commissioner Bunker and carried by the following Vote: Commissioner Bunker, Moore and His Honor Mayor Pro Tem Whipple voting aye; noes, none. Absent: Mayor Cragin and Commissioner Peccole. RESOLUTION - Regular Commissioner Bunker introduced and moved the adoption of the Meeting Days of Board following resolution: WHEREAS, at a regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, held on the 6th day of June, 1949, upon motion of Commissioner Bunker, seconded by Commissioner Whipple, and unanimously carried, it was moved that the 7th and 22nd days of each month be established as the regular meeting days of the Board provided they fall on regular working days. If not, said meetings will be held on the preceding day, and 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., NOW, 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 Fro Tem Whipple voting aye; noes, none. Absent:Mayor Cragin and Com­missioner Peccole. RESOLUTION - Transfer Commissioner Moore introduced and moved the adoption of the following of Public Housing resolution: Project NEV-26029 WHEREAS, Public Law 475, 81st Congress, authorizes the Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, upon the filing of 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 Law 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 - Housing Commissioner Moore introduced and moved the adoption of the following Authority Low Rent resolution: Housing Project Street Improvements 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)."