Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, January 7, 1947 to October 26, 1949, lvc000006-191

171 Governmental Agencies," approved March 22, 1917, as amended, that a great necessity or emergency has arisen in the City of Las Vegas, County of Clark, State of Nevada, and that necessity now exists for authorizing the obtaining of a temporary loan by and on the part of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas for the purpose of meeting such emergency as expressed in and shown by the preamble and resolution unanimously adopted at a meeting of said Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas duly called and held on the 26th day of November, 1947, authorizing a temporary loan for the pur­pose set forth in said Resolution, a duly certified copy of which is now on file and of record in the office of the State Board of Finance; and WHEREAS, it further appearing that notice of intention to adopt said emergency resolution was duly published according to law; therefore, be it RESOLVED, by the State Board of Finance, that said act and resolution of said Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, County of Clark, State of Nevada, authorizing a temporary loan of One Hundred Nineteen Thousand Two Hundred Eighteen Dollars and Seventy-five cents ($119,218.75) as in said resolution set forth and authorized, be and the same is hereby approved; and be it further RESOLVED, that a duly certified copy of this resolution be transmitted by the Secretary of the State Board of Finance to said Board of Com­missioners of the City of Las Vegas in order that the same may be recorded in the Minutes of the meeting of said Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, as provided by law. I, Grant L. Robison, certify that I am the duly authorized and acting Secretary of the State Board of Finance and that the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of a resolution duly adopted by unanimous vote of the State Board of Finance at a meeting held on the 1st day of December, 1947* Dated this 2nd day of December, 1947 Grant L. Robson (signed)________ Secretary of the State Board of Finance Thereafter, Commissioner Whipple moved that the foregoing resolution be approved and copied into the Minutes as provided by law. Motion seconded by Commissioner Baskin and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Baskin, Clark, Moore, Whipple and His Honor voting aye. Noes, none. POLICE DEPARTMENT Commissioner Baskin moved that the Board approve the action of the City CHIEF APPOINTED Manager in appointing Mr. Luther Horner Chief of Police as of the 5th of December, 1947. Motion seconded by Commissioner Clark and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Baskin, Clark, Moore, Whipple and His Honor voting aye. Noes, none. PLANNING COMMISSION At this time a letter dated December 4, 1947 from the Joint Planning Recommendation Commission relative to Fire Zones, which recommended certain amendments Land Use - Fire Zone be made to Ordinances establishing Fire Zones and also recommending Proposed Amendment the adoption of 1946 Edition of the Building Code. As these recom- mendations are now in the process of being complied with, the letter was ordered filed. LAND USE At this time a letter from the Joint Planning Commission dated December Zone exception Case 1, 1947, which contained the following recommendations, was read, relative to a request of Dr. Alfred Bernkrant for permission to use the property at 1808 South Main Street for a veterinarian hospital: "1. That the property described be permitted to be used for a Veterinarian hospital for small animals only, subject to the recommendations hereinafter set forth. 2. That said use be permitted only on the basis of the applicant's statement that structures erected for the conduct of said use be of an absolutely sound-proof nature and that all animals would be kept within said sound-proof building during all hours of darkness; further, that all things be done that will prevent the establishment of a nuisance in connection with said use. 3. That any permits or licenses to operate such use be issued under regulations and conditions as may effect such use and as established by the City of Las Vegas or agencies thereof, especially the Department of Health, with regard to sanitation, etc. 4. That the building to be constructed be of type 1, 2, or 3 construction with regard to the Uniform Building Code. 5. That building and plot plans be approved by the Planning Com­mission prior to the issuance of building permits. 6. That the applicant proceed with the actual construction work for the establishment of the use a plied for, within six (6) months after the effective date of the Exception, at which time said Exception shall become invalid unless said construction work has commended or unless there has been an extension of time ranted by mutual agreement between the applicant and the City of Las Vegas.