Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, January 7, 1947 to October 26, 1949, lvc000006-549

519 RESOLUTION NO. 109 WHEREAS, the legal affairs of the City of Las Vegas have become manifold in recent years as a result of the rapid growth of said City, and WHEREAS, C. Norman Cornwall, the present incumbent of the office of City Attorney of said City, has efficiently conducted the affairs of his office, but doe to a recent impairment of health, has been ordered by his personal physician to curtail his business activities, both private and public, and WHEREAS, S. George Gilson has been in the employ of said City for upwards of two (2) years as a law clerk in the office of the City Attorney, and has faithfully and conscientiously discharged the duties of his position and ably assisted C. Norman Cornwall in the efficient administration of the legal affairs of said City, and WHEREAS, S. George Gilson has applied to the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada for admission as an attorney in said state and has had his fitness to practice law tested by written examination given by the Board of Bar Examiners of the State of Nevada in the month of September 1947, which application was denied for the reason that he failed to attain the passing grade of 75% on said examination, he having attained the grade of 73.2% which was 1.8% short of said passing grade, and WHEREAS, by reason of his familiarity with municipal law and the legal matters and problems now facing the City of Las Vegas, he could be of greater service in the City Attorney's office and to the government of said City, if he were an attorney admitted to practice law in this state and authorized to appear at the meetings of the Board of Com­missioners of said City, during the enforced and unavoidable absences of the City Attorney, and advise it on legal matters and problems confronting it, and WHEREAS, the services he would be permitted to perform as an attorney in the City Attorney's office, acting for and on behalf of said City, would benefit said City appreciably, and be of particular value in facilitating the expeditious disposition of the increased volume of legal work in the City Attorney's office, and WHEREAS, this Board is confident that, if admitted as an attorney, he will continue in the service of the city government and conscientiously and efficiently perform and discharge the duties assigned to him by the City Attorney, and WHEREAS, this Board is further confident that by reason of his excellent moral character and reputation, he will be a credit to the legal profession and the community if admitted as an attorney in this state, now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, in session this 26th day of November, 1947, that it respectfully request and urge the Honorable Supreme Court of the State of Nevada and the Board of Bar Examiners of the State of Nevada to reconsider the aforesaid application of S. George Gilson for admission as an attorney in the State of Nevada with a view of determining whether the papers submitted by him on the examination aforesaid merit the additional 1.8% needed by him to attain the passing grade of 75% on said examination, and upon such reconsideration that his application for admission be granted if such passing grade is attained, and be it further RESOLVED, that the City Clerk be and she is hereby directed to forward a copy of this resolution to the Honorable Supreme Court of the State of Nevada and to the Board of Bar Examiners of the State of Nevada. ATTEST: Helen Scott Reed_____ E. W. Cragin City Clerk. Mayor ----oOo---- RESOLUTION NO. 110 WHEREAS, the City of Las Vegas, like most communities in the United States, is confronted with the problem of a serious housing shortage, and WHEREAS, unlike most such communities in the United States, the housing needs of the City of Las Vegas have been especially aggravated by its ever increasing population and particularly by the War Department reactivation of the Las Vegas Army Air Field which will bring several thousand Army personnel with their families into the City of Las Vegas seeking home accommodations, and WHEREAS, the building industry in the City of Las Vegas is making a prodigious effort to provide the necessary housing to meet the present and ever increasing demand therefor, and WHEREAS, the successful and timely prosecution of the aforesaid building program depends In large measure upon the expeditious consideration by the Federal Housing Admin­istration of formal applications for building loans, and WHEREAS, under the present organizational distribution of Federal Housing Adminis­tration field offices, the needs of the entire State of Nevada are administered only by a branch office in the City of Reno which is subsidiary to the main area office in San Francisco, California, and WHEREAS, all applications for loans to finance major housing construction projects in the State of Nevada must first be filed with said branch office at the City of Reno for preliminary consideration and then forwarded by said office to the main area office in San Francisco, California, for further and final consideration and disposition, thereby entailing an expanded period of time before such loans may be consummated and necessarily resulting in the delay of essential construction, now, therefore, be it RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, at a recessed regular