690 RES APPROVING AND ADOPTING WORKABLE PROGRAM FOR COPr 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.
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Mayor
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City Clerk