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RESOLUTION
RESOLUTION APPROVING APPLICATION FOR LOW -RENT
PUBLIC HOUSING PROGRAM RESERVATION.
WHEREAS, it is the policy of this locality to eliminate substandard
and other inadequate housing, to prevent the spread of slums and blight, and
to realize as soon as feasible the goal of a decent home in suitable living
environment for all of its citizens; and,
WHEREAS, under the provisions of the United States Housing Act of
1937, as amended, the public Housing Administration is authorized to
:provide financial assistance to local public housing agencies for undertaking
and acquiring low -rent housing projects that will assist in meeting this goal;
and,
WHEREAS, the Act provides that fire shall be local determination
of need for low -rent housing to meet needs not being adequately met by
private enterprise and that the Public Housing Administration shall not
make any contract with a public housing agency (for preliminary loans for
surveys and planning) in respect to any low -rent housing projects unless
the governing body of the locality involved has by resolution approved the
application of the public housing agency for a program reservation.
WHEREAS, the Housing Authority of the City of Lubbock,
(herein called the "Local Authority") is a public housing agency and is
applying to the Public Housing Administration for a loan to cover the
costs of acquisition and rehabilitation of existing facilities in connection
with the development of low -rent housing;
NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved by the City Council of the
City of Lubbock, as follows:
1. There exists in the City of Lubbock a need for such low -rent
housing at rents within the means of low-income families;
2. The application of the Local Authority to the Public Housing
Administration for a program reservation for acquisition and rehabilitation
of existing facilities in connection with low -rent housing projects of not
to exceed approximately 236 dwelling units is hereby approved.
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The Resolution was read in full, considered and discussed.
Mr. Granberry moved its adoption and Mr. Kastman seconded
the motion. On roll call the following vote was recorded.
.AYES: Mayor Rogers and Councilmen Granberry, Kasjtman, Diekemper & Medlock
NAYS: None
Thereupon the Resolution was declared duly adopted and passed.
'ADJOURNMENT: Meeting adjourned at 3:30 o'clock D. M.
Laven%a-Love, CifytSecretar3
CERTIFICATE
I, Lavenia Lowe , City Secretary -Treasurer of the City
of Lubbock, hereby certify that I have compared the annexed extracts from
the 'minutes of the regular meeting of the City Council of said City of
Lubbock held on the 13th day of July , 1967, with the
original thereof, recorded in the official minute book, and that it is a correc
transcript therefrom and of the whole of said original; that the annexed
extract of the minutes of the meeting is a true and complete transcript of
such minutes and that the Resolution contained therein is a true, complete,
and "accurate copy of the Resolution adopted at said meeting.
DCWr MESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal
�f the City of _Ltibbock, this 13th day of my , 1967.
�SEAL7 LAVENIA OWE, City Se retary-Treasurer
ATTORNEY'S CERTIFICATE', AND OPINION
-.I,` the undersigned City Attorney for the City of Lubbock, do hereby
certify that I have ;examined the attached extract from the regular/special
meeting of the C?ty Council of the City of Lubbock, held on 13th
day of July , 1967, and it is my opinion that the aforesaid
mee,�ting was duly and legally held and that the Resolution contained therein.
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was duly and regularly adopted by such governing body in' complaince with
the laws of the State of Texas, and is not subject to referendum or the
time for filing a petition for referendum has expired.
FRED 0.,, SENTER, TY ATTOR