690 RES APPROVING AND ADOPTING WORKABLE PROGRAM FOR COP

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r i RESOLU?ION N0. 690 A RESOLUTION APPROVING AND ADOPTING A"WORKABLE PIipGRAM" FOR THE CITY OF PARIS, TFXAS WHEREAS, as a condition to certain prescribed Federal fi- nancial and other aid and assistance, Section 101(C) of the Federal Housing Act of 1949, as amended, requires the submission to the Housing and Home Finance Administrator by each locality of a work- able program for utilizing appropriate private and public resources to eliminate, and prevent the development or spread of, slums and urban blight, to encourage needed urban rehabilitation, to provide for the redevelopment of blighted, deteriorated, or slum areas, or to undertake such of the aforesaid activities or other feasible community activities as may be suitably employed to achieve the objectives of such a program; and, WI-EREAS, there has been prepared on behalf of the City of Paris for presentation to the said Housing and Home Finance Administrator such a plan of action, which plan has been fully re- viewed and considered by the governing body of said city, which plan appears to be an acceptable and effective plan of action for the aforesaid purposes; and, WHEREAS, it is the desire, purpose and intent of the governing body of this city to utilize available appropriate pri- vate and public resources to the end that our city may rid itself of and prevent the development or spread of slvms and urban blight and undertake such of the aforesaid activities or other feasible community activities as may be suitably employed to achieve the objectives of such plan: NOW, THEREF013E, BE IT RE90LVED BY TI-iE CITY ODUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, STATE OF TEXAS, thatthe hereinabove mentioned "1Norkable Program" for said city be, and the same is hereby, approved and adopted as the offi- cial plan of action of our community for effectively dealing with the problem of urban slums and blight within this community and for the establishment and preservation of a well-planned cotrnnunity with well-organized environment for adequate family life, and the Mayor is hereby authorized and directed to present such "Workable Program", together with all required supporting documents and stateraents, to the Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency for approval pursuant to the provisions of said Title I, Housing Act of 1949, as amended. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 8th day of April,,A. D., 1957. ~ Mayor ATTE5T: / .l f,:( 1 r s,(i...'~ City Clerk