Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, January 7, 1947 to October 26, 1949, lvc000006-193

173 connection with this vacation, the Commission further recommend that the petition comply with certain conditions before said vacation was completed. In accordance with Item A of said conditions, we have received a proposed re-subdivision of Block 22, 14th Street Addition, a copy of which is attached. At a regular meeting of the Joint Planning Commission held November 25, 1947, this proposed re-subdivision was approved, with the recommendation that your Board concur in this action. When this matter has received your approval, the petitioner may proceed to have a final map made for recording purposes." ** Thereafter, Commissioner Clark moved that the matter be referred to the City Manager. Motion seconded by Commissioner Baskin and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Baskin, Clark, Whipple and His Honor voting aye. Noes, none. Absent: Commissioner Moore. RESOLUTION ACCEPTING On motion of Commissioner Baskin duly seconded by Commissioner Whipple DEED and carried unanimously the following resolution is adopted and order made: Right-of-way Be IT RESOLVED this 8th day of December, 1947 by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, County of Clark, State of Nevada, that a deed dated the 2nd day of December, 1947, executed by William E. Ellis and Florence Ellis to the City of Las Vegas, County of Clark, State of Nevada, and that the real property described therein be and is hereby accepted for the purposes and intentions as therein set forth, and be it further RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be attached to said deed and that the same be recorded in the office of the County Recorder in the county of Clark, State of Nevada and filed in the records of this Board. GAMING APPLICATIONS The following gaming applications were presented to the Board for their consideration: Ruth E. Cannon - All Nite Market, 921 S. Main Street 1 5¢ Draw Bell Harry I. Mangrum - Desert Castle System, Inc. 224 Fremont 3 slots Harry I. Mangrum - Desert Castle System, Inc. 222 N. Main 3 slots J. K. Houssels - Las Vegas Club, 23 Fremont 1-21 game K. A. Freeman - Showalter Co. 206 Wilson 1 slot Commissioner Clark moved that the foregoing applications for gaming be approved. Motion seconded by Commissioner Baskin and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Baskin, Clark, Whipple and His Honor voting aye. Noes, none. Absent: Commissioner Moore. of F. P. Rinaldi GAMING APPLICATION Commissioner Clark moved that the application for one Roto-lette 25¢ F. P. Rinaldi machine at the Monte Carlo, 15 Fremont be denied on the grounds that the Board of City Commissioners feel that this particular type of machine will displace three ordinary slot machines, thereby cutting down revenue to the City of Las Vegas. Motion seconded by Commissioner Baskin and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Baskin, Clark, Whipple and His Honor voting aye. Noes, none. Absent: Commissioner Moore. AUDITING SERVICE FOR Commissioner Baskin moved that Mr. George H. Wood be retained as outside 1948 Auditor for the City of Las Vegas for the year 1948 on the following George H. Wood retained basis: Supervising Senior in charge $35.00 per day Senior Accountants 30.00 " " Semi-senior accountants 25.00 " " Junior Accountants 20.00 " " Office Assistants in preparation and report work 15.00 " " City to pay traveling and hotel expenses Motion seconded by Commissioner Clark and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Baskin, Clark, Whipple and His Honor voting aye. Noes, none. Absent: Commissioner Moore. RESOLUTION - Red The following Resolution was presented to the Board for their consideration: Federal Housing Author­ity Office, City of RESOLUTION NO. 110 Las Vegas 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 office in San Francisco, California, and