Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, January 7, 1947 to October 26, 1949, lvc000006-570

540 WHEREAS, construction of the Charleston Boulevard underpass and storm drain, right of way for which was guaranteed by the City, required Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000) in cash payment, plus Seven Thousand Eight Hundred Dollars ($7,800) in addition for payment for lateral drains installed by the City, and WHEREAS, engineering costs advanced from General Fund to cover proposed special improve­ment districts created an Eleven Thousand Four Hundred Twenty-nine Dollars and Twenty-five cent ($ll,429.25) outlay, and WHEREAS, a last quarter revenue deficiency in 1948 in the amount of Fifty One Thousand Dollars ($51,000) depleted the City's carry-over funds, and WHEREAS, an additional Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000) was necessitated by the passage by the State Legislature of a retirement act requiring City participation in the amount of five percent (5%) of payrolls, and whereas, the anticipated Budget of the City of Las Vegas for the year 1949 included an item of anticipated revenue in the sum of Sixty Thousand Dollars ($60,000) for the sale of City property, and WHEREAS, said sale was not consummated and said sum was not acquired, and WHEREAS, General Fund obligations as of the 31st day of August, 1949, amounted to the sum of One Hundred Thousand Four Hundred Seventy-two Dollars and Forty-five Cents ($l00,472.45) which are binding obligations of said City, and WHEREAS, by measures of rigid economy and further retrenchment of expenditures a reason­able estimate of income and expense indicate a deficit of One Hundred Fifteen Thousand One Hundred Forty-two Dollars and Three Cents ($ll5,l42.03) by the 30th day of November, 1949, end WHEREAS, by reason of the foregoing, a great necessity and emergency exists in connection with continued governmental operations of the City of Las Vegas, requiring the immediate acquisition of the sum of One Hundred Twenty Thousand Dollars ($120,000) to defray the costa and meet the obligations of such continued operations, and WHEREAS, on or about the 31st day of December, 1949, there will be an unused surplus of Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000) for the 1949 budget period in the administrative salaries account of the General Fund, an unused surplus of Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000) in the Street Department salaries account of the General Fund, and an unused surplus of Thirteen Thousand Dollars ($13,000) for the Sewage Disposal expense account of the General Fund, and the fiscal affairs of said City can be carried on without impairment after the transfer from the aforesaid surplus in said accounts of the sum of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000) to the administrative expense account of the General Fund, Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000) to the Police Department salaries of the General Fund, Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000) to the Health and Sanitation account of the General Fund, Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000) to the Street Lighting account of the General Fund, Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000) to the Street Department expense account of the General Fund, and Twenty-three Thousand Dollars ($23,000) to the Stores and Equipment Pool expense account of the General Fund to meet the emergency aforesaid, now, there­fore, be it RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, pursuant to an Act of the Legislature of the State of Nevada entitled "An Act regulating the fiscal management of counties, cities, towns, school districts, and other governmental agencies" approved March 22, 1917, as amended, that a temporary loan by the City of Las Vegas in the sum of One Hundred Twenty Thousand Dollars ($120,000) be and the same is hereby authorized for the purpose of meeting the necessity and emergency aforesaid, and be it further RESOLVED that the Mayor and City Clerk be and they are hereby authorised and directed to make, execute and deliver as evidence of said emergency loan, the negotiable promissory note or notes, or short-time negotiable bond or bonds of the City of Las Vegas, to mature not later than two and one-half (2 1/2) years from the date of issuance thereof, to bear interest not to exceed eight per cent (8%) per annum, and be redeemable at the option of the City of Las Vegas at any time when money is available in the emergency tax fund hereinafter provided, and be it further RESOLVED that, at the first tax levy of the City of Las Vegas following the creation of the emergency indebtedness aforesaid, the Ex-officio City Assessor of the City of Las Vegas shall and he is hereby empowered, authorized and directed to levy a tax sufficient to pay said indebtedness which shall be designated "City of Las Vegas Emergency Tax", and the proceeds thereof shall be paid into an emergency fund in the Treasury of the City of Las Vegas and shall be used solely for the purpose of redeeming the emergency loan for which the same is levied, and be it further RESOLVED that, after said emergency loan is approved by the State Board of Finance, as in said act provided, the Board of Commissioners of said City shall effect the acquisition of the monies aforesaid by a transfer of surplus funds as hereinabove set forth, and be it further RESOLVED that the City Clerk be and she is hereby authorised and directed to immediately forward a certified copy of this Emergency Resolution to the State Board of Finance, at Carson City, Nevada, for its approval, as required by the Act aforesaid. Dated: September 12, 1949