Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, January 7, 1947 to October 26, 1949, lvc000006-547

517 ORDINANCE NO. 107 whereas, the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, at a regular recessed meeting thereof held on the 25th day of April, 1947, unanimously adopted the following resolution, to-wit: "WHEREAS, the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, through its Mayor and Board of Commissioners joined with the Mayors, City Commissioners, and County Commissioners, of several cities and counties in the State of Nevada in urging the passage of a bill by the legislature of the State of Nevada providing for the levying and collecting of an excise tax of l 1/2¢ per gallon on motor vehicle fuel sold in the State of Nevada, for the purpose of pro­viding funds to enable the Cities and Counties of this State to construct, maintain and repair the public highways and roads therein, and WHEREAS, a Bill providing for such excise tax was introduced and the Mayor and City Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas traveled to Carson City strongly urging the passage of said Bill as a measure of deep concern to the welfare of the City of Las Vegas, and WHEREAS, said bill was enacted into law and will be in full force and effect from and after July 1, 1947, and WHEREAS, the funds derived from taxes and now available for the improve­ment and maintenance of City streets is insufficient for said purposes and the City is sorely in need of additional funds therefor, and WHEREAS, through the enforcement of this act the sum of approximately One Hundred Sixty Thousand Dollars ($160,000.00) will be available to the county, of which Fifty (50) per cent will be available to the City of Las Vegas for street improvements, and WHEREAS, tourists will provide approximately Seventy-five (75) per cent of the tax so levied and collected under the provisions of said act, and WHEREAS, many other governing bodies throughout the United States have resorted to similar taxation to provide their cities with funds for street and road improvements, and WHEREAS, under the provisions of this act the County Commissioners may decline to accept the tax provided by the act by the adoption of a resolution passed prior to the effective date of said act, NOW, THEREFOR, be it resolved by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas in regular session that it respectfully urge and request the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Clark, Nevada, to adopt a resolution to accept the benefits of said act thus providing the necessary funds to enable the city of Las Vegas to improve its streets and roads as in said act provided, and be it further RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be spread on the minutes of this board, and a copy of said resolution be sent to the Board of Commissioners of the County of Clark, and the clerk of this board is so ordered to do.", and WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Clark, Nevada, subsequently by the adoption of a resolution passed prior to the effective date of said Act, declined to accept the tax provided in said Act, and WHEREAS, said Act provides that the County Commissioners shall reconsider and pass said resolution, declining to accept the tax provided in said Act, once each year within sixty (60) days prior to July 1 of each year as long as said County Commissioners desire so to act, and WHEREAS, the funds derived from taxes and now available for the improvement and maintenance of city streets is still insufficient for said purposes and the City is still in sore need of additional funds therefor, and, as based on all reasonable estimates, it is anti­cipated that said fiscal condition will remain the same on, and for some time after, July 1, 1948, and be it further RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be spread on the Minutes of this Board, and a copy of said Resolution be sent to the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Clark, Nevada, and the clerk of this Board is so ordered to do. ——ooo—— RESOLUTION NO. 108 WHEREAS, no appropriations were made in the 1947 Budget of the City of Las Vegas for the purpose of providing funds to meet the following obligations and necessary general operating expenses of said City, to-wit: 1. An accrued indebtedness and binding obligation payable out of the emergency loan retirement fund, incurred by reason of an emergency loan authorized by resolution of the Board of Commissioners of said City dated the 9th day of September 1946, to defray the cost of completing the construction of the police station $100,000.00