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96 Las Vegas, Nevada June 27, 1952 A special meeting of the Board of Commissioner held this 27th day of June, 1952 was called to order at the hour of 7:40 P.M. by His Honor Mayor C.D. Baker with the following members present: FINAL PAYMENTS Assessment District No. 100-6 & 4th and Mesquite Paving PUBLIC HEARING Emergency Loan Mayor Commissioner Commissioner City Attorney City Manager Assistant City Manager City Clerk C.D. Baker Wendell Bunker Reed Whipple Howard W. Cannon C.W. Shelley Dora Lord Shirley Ballinger Absent: Commissioner Commissioner Rex A. Jarrett William Peccole Commissioner Whipple moved the request of J.M. Murphy Construction Co. for final payment on Assessment District No. 100-6 in the total amount of $6,121.98 and final payment on the 4th and Mesquite Street paving contract in the total amount of $1,823.19 be approved and the Mayor and City Clerk authorized to sign the warrant when prepared. Motion seconded by Commissioner Bunker and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Bunker, Whipple and His Honor voting aye; noes, none. Absent: Commissioners Jarrett and Peccole. This being the time heretofore set for the public hearing on a temporary emergency loan in the sum of $25,000 for the purpose of providing for additional police protection and other services for the City, His Honor asked if there was anyone present who wished to object to this emergency loan. There were no protests or objections voiced. Thereafter Commissioner Whipple moved the following emergency resolution be adopted: #2 8 7 EMERGENCY RESOLUTION WHEREAS, the Budget of the City of Las Vegas for the year 1952 provides for the sum of TWO HUNDRED FORTY TWO THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED SEVENTEEN AND SEVENTY-HUNDREDTHS DOLLARS ($242,471.70), for Police Department salaries; and WHEREAS, the Budget of the City of Las Vegas for the year 1952 provides for a capital outlay of THREE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED FIFTY SIX AND NINETY HUNDREDTHS DOLLARS ($3,856.90), for the Sewer Maintenance Department; and WHEREAS, said Budget for the year 1952 was approved by the State Board of Finance of the State of Nevada; and WHEREAS, by reason of the large increase in the population of the City of Las Vegas, the present personnel of the Police Department is inadequate to properly provide for the public peace, welfare and safety; and WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners feel that it is absolutely necessary to immediately employ ten (10) additional police officers; and WHEREAS, the salaries of such additional police officers will amount to TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($20,000.00) during the year of 1952; and WHEREAS, such need for additional police protection was not foreseen at the time the budget was prepared although due care and consideration was given; and WHEREAS, a need for additional repairs to the Sewer Plant of the City of Las Vegas has arisen due to the necessity of replacing old lines to the said Sewer Plant; and WHEREAS, the need for such installations was not foreseen at the time the budget for the year 1952 was prepared although due care and consideration was given; and WHEREAS, by reason of the foregoing, a great necessity and emergency exists in connection with the continued governmental operations of the City of Las Vegas, requiring the immediate acquisition of the sum of TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLIARS ($25,000.00), to defray the costs of such increase in personnel of the Police Department and the installation of new lines for the Sewer Maintenance Department; and WHEREAS, this additional sum of TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($25,000.00), can be obtained by a transfer from the Capital Outlay Item of the sum of $20,000.00 (TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS), to the Police Salaries Item, and by the transfer from the Capital Outlay Item of the sum of FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS, ($5,000.00), to the Sewer Maintenance Department; and WHEREAS, it is the Judgment of the Board of City Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas that such transfers can be made without impairment of the fiscal affairs of the City since there is sufficient money in the Capital Outlay Fund; and WHEREAS, it will not be necessary to levy an emergency tax in the ordinary course of events, 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 transfer of TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($20,000. from the Capital Outlay Fund to Police Salaries Fund, and a transfer of FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($5,000.00), from the Capital Outlay Fund to Sewer Maintenance Capital Outlay, be and the same is hereby authorized for the purpose of meeting the necessity and emergency aforesaid; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Clerk he and she is hereby authorized 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.