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RESOLUTION
BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE LUBBOCK
BOARD OF REALTORS IN A SPECIAL CALLED MEETING ON DECEMBER 6,
1973, UNANIMOUSLY APPROVE AND SUPPORT THE CITY COUNCIL IN
TAKING IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROCEED WITH CONSTRUCTION OF THE
MEMORIAL CIVIC CENTER SUBSTANTIALLY IN ACCORD WITH PRESENT
PLANS, AND ISSUE CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION TO FINANCE
CONSTRUCTION COSTS IN EXCESS OF CONSTRUCT ION.FUNDS AVAILABLE.
TIME .IS OF THE ESSENCE AND WE URGE THAT THE CONSTRUCTION
PROGRAM BE ACCELERATED IN EVERY MANNER POSSIBLE.
WITNESS MY HAND THIS 6th DAY OF DECEMBER, 1973.
Everette L. Abernathie
President
Lubbock Board of Realtors
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LUBBOCK
AUDITORIUM -COLISEUM
Box 5486
Lubbock, Texas 79417
Phon.i 762fi411 Ext. 361
LUBBOCK CIVIC CENTERS BOARD
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS the City Council finds that it is necessary to
submit the Civic Center plans for new bids, and
WHEREAS, the City must have all of its funds for
construction of the Center in hand at the time the contract
is let, and
WHEREAS, additional funds in the amount of approximately
$3.5 million dollars are needed to build the Center, and
WHEREAS, it appears that the most logical plan for
financing the project is the certificate of obligation method,
which will not require w- tax '4creas-e,
THEREFORE; be -it resolved that the Board of -Directors of
the LubbocCenters requests the Counci, to take
immediate a ' to 1�the``re-b d4n :_ and that it
finance the''ne�d`�d mi.11ion dollar's �rn�ec i �truction, by
adopting the ceh "�bl,.atiot<method, thereby
allowing the Civic Center plans to go to contract and for
construction to begin at the earliest possible date.
Approved this 6th day of December 1973.
W.R. Moss
Chairman
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PHONE: PO3-4948 1307 AVENUE L LUBBOCK,TEXAS
Downtown Lubbock, Inc. .
RESOLUTION
Whereas the 'voters of Lubbock have voted to build a
`civic center and the city has obligated themselves to in
vestors to do so and
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Whereas the center is crutial to the welfare of down-
town Lubbock as well as being beneficial to the rest of
Lubbock:
Therefore, be it resolved that the members of Downtown
Lubbock, Inc. strongly urges the Council to take immediate
action to effect the re -bidding process and that it finance
the.needed money for construction, by adopting the certificate
of obligation method,thereby allowing the Civic Center plans
to go to contract and for construction to begin at the earliest
possible date. Real efforts should be made on the plans to
keep the costs as low as possible while keeping the basic.
plan intact.
Approved this �] day.of December 1973.
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avid Hester
President