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RESOLUTION
�,IiEF�EAS, on or about March 1, 1947, the City of Lubbock acting through Homer
A. Hunter, thereunto duly authorized, executed contracts on behalf of the City of
Lubbock with the Uo S. Public'Nousing'Administration; said contracts being desig-
nated as "Tex-V-41910 and Tex-VN-4191,K for the purpose of providing certain fa-
cilities for temporary housing at Lubbock Army Air Field, pursuant to Title V,
as amended, of the Lanham Act.
WHEREAS, said contracts were executed pursuant to an application dated April
4, 1946s and made by the City of Lubbock '(Lubbock Housing Authority) for living
units to be used at said Air Base, and,
WHEREAS, said contracts provide that the ..net revenues from operation of the
project shall be paid to the Treasurer of the United States, and pursuant to the
before-mentioned application and contracts, the Housing Authority of the. City of
Lubbock as agent, of the City of Lubbock, proceeded to manage said propertp,
-which contracts and projects were also designated as HA (V-41910) UPH-1 and HA
(VN-41911) MPH-1, and a complete audit of the books of the Lubbock Housing Au-
thority was made immediately following September 30, 1949s and demand has been made
upon the City of Lubbock by the U. S.Department of Justice, acting through Frank B.
Potter, U. S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, at Fort Worth, by letter
dated January 6, 1950, and for the principal sum of $165,982.20.
V EREAS, the Housing Authority of the City of Lubbock has delivered to the
City of Lubbock a Cashier's Check, No. 74127, dated January 24, 1950, issued by
the First 'National Bank, at Lubbock, Texas, and payable to the order of the City
of Lubbock and Treasurer of the United States, for the sum of $165,991.71, and it
is the desire of the governing body of the City of Lubbock that said Cashier's
check be properly endorsed to the Treasurer of the United States, and tendered in
compromise for the full and final payment,settlement and satisfaction of the claim 1,
II of the United States against the City of Lubbock, relating to the administration
and management and accounting for all net revenues to the U. S. Government, in
connection with the projects at Lubbock Army Air Field, THEREFORE,
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BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LU$BOCgt
l� That W. H. Rodgers, Mayor of the City of Lubbock, be and he is hereby authori-
zed and directed to endorse the above described Cashier's Check, No. 74127, with !�
the following endorsements �
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"-:Pay to the Treasurer of United States in compromise
claim of the United States vs City of Lubbock, Two
Housing Projects*
City of Lubbock j
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By: W. H. Rodgers, Mayor,%
land that said check be forthwith forwarded to Frank B. Potter, U. S. Attorney for
the Northern District of Texas, at Fort Korth, Texas, together with a letter of
transmittal stating that the amount is being offered in compromise in full and
final payment, settlement and satisfaction of the claim made against the City of
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Lubbock.
AND BE IT YURTHER'RESOLVED that the letter of transmittal advise that the 19
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Model 1-1/2 Ton Pickup Truck and Brief Case mentioned in the letter from the
Department of Justice, is in possession of Mr. J. A. Maynard, Lubbock Housing
Authorityp 323 Avenue F, Lubbock, Texas, for delivery to the United States Govern-
ment*
AND IT IS SO ORDERED.
Passed and approved by unanimous vote of the City Commission this, the
day of January, 1950.
Mayor
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