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6865ORDINANCE N0. 6s65. . AN ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING 611,300.00 OUT OF THE GENERAL FUND TO THE "LAKE FOURCHE 0011- L:"'_ITTEE ;1' CONFIRMING IHE APPOINTMENT OF THE LAKE FOURC HE COI1,ITTEZ; AUTHORIZING SAID COIC�,ITTE'E TO RECEIVE DONATIONS FCft THE LAKE F OUR CHE PROJECT AND RECEIPT FOR SAY1 AS AGENT FOR THE CITY AND IN THE NkME OF THE CITY; CREATING THE n LAKE FOUR CHE FUND" IN TfE OFFICE OF THE CITY TREASURER; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. WH1.R EAS, Cn September 24, 1945, H. A. Bailey, of 4020 South Lookout Street, Little Rock, and Roy Prewitt, Little Rock, discovered the possibility of making a. lake out of the one - hundred- year -old Fourche Creek Bottom, a health menace, and, after a report by L. A. Henry, consulting engineer, was filed with tnem, a com- mittee, hereinafter named, at their request, set out to raise funds, to aggregate not less than 01,000,000.00, to build the lake if it be found to be feasible; and WHEREAS, In ready response to the solicitation of the Committee the following civic - minded citizens, visualizing the benefits to the City which may possibly accrue from such a recrea- tional facility, a lake of approximately four thousand acres, being substantially six and one -half miles in area, have generously dona- ted a fund to the City of Little Rock for purposes in furtherance of said project, including (1) the making of such studies, surveys, tests, etc., as shall be requisite in order definitely to deter- mine the feasibility, cost, and desirability of the project and (2) the commencement, with as much of said fund as shall not be requisite for the making of such determination, of a fund for the planning, completion, management, and operation of the project, the total amount already donated being 11.300.00 and the names of the donors being: Berry Dry Goods Company A. Y. Berry - 500.00 Bush - Caldwell Company E. H. Fell 250.00 Sterling Stores Dave Grundfest 500.00 'ever Bakery Charles Meyer 500.00 Asphalt Products Company Ben Hogan 500.00 H. H. Crow Eauipment Co. H. H. Crow 250.00 Will merry 500.00 tebbins and Roberts A. H. Stebbins 100.00 Crow-Burlingame Company Win. R. James 500.00 Bob Crow Rebsamen Foundation Raymond Rebsamen ' 500.00 Robertson Stores Fountain Home, Arkansas T. E. Robertson 250.00 The Dentist Laboratory and Supply R. E. Mathis 100.00 555, Inc. Roy Stueber 500.00 Sadler -Ross Motor Company Harold Sadler 500.00 Walthour -Flake J. D. `"althour 500.00 Leon Flake Arkansas Democrat Company August Engel 250.00 T. J. Raney and Sons Alton B. Raney 100.00 Griffin - Leggett Funeral Home J. H. Leggett 150.00 Coca Cola Bottling Company Carl ??. Bellingrath 500.00 Leird Lumber Company Paul Tf. Leird 500.00 Darragh Company Kramer Darragh 500.00 F. Strauss and Son Dave Sherman 500.00 Harry Hastings 500.00 C. H. Moses 500.00 W. J. Herring 250.00 Blue ?Bird Tourist Court Mrs. B. G. Beard 250.00 Davis Wrecking Company ?w. R. Davis 100.00 J. and S. Manufacturing Co. Leland B. Jones 250.00 All ?weather Roofers and Builders Leland B. Jones 250.00 Green Cil Company R. H. Green 500.00 J. F. Weinmann Milling Co. J. F. Weinmann 250.00 WHEREAS, The fund so donated is immediately available for appropriation to the Committee heretofore appointed by the Mayor and referred to in Resolution Igo. 1095, adopted and approved October 22, 1945, (being the Committee hereinabove referred to as "the Committee ") said Committee being composed of H. A. Bailey, 4020 South Lookout Street, as chairman, and of gars. Louise Loughborough, J. H. Penick, Roy Prewitt, and P. A. Dulin, Jr., as members, for expenditure in accordance with the purpose for which it ?4Tas donated; and WHEREAS, It is anticipated that other public - spirited citizens will from time to time be desirous of donating to the City moneys for use in making the determination of the feasibil- ity, cost, and desirability of the project or moneys for use in planning, constructing, managing, and operating the project; BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF LITTLE ROCK, ARSANSAS: SECTION 1. The sum of 11,300-00 is hereby appro- priated out of the General Funds of the City of Little Rock for payment to the said Committee (the appointment and the membership of which are hereby approved and confirmed and which shall hence- forth be known as the "Lake Fourche Committee "); and the Yayor and the City Clerk are hereby authorized and directed to issue and deliver to the chairman of the committee the warrant of the City in said amount, drawn on the General Funds of the City of Little Rock and payable to tr-e order of the Lake Fourche Committee. SECTION! 2. The money appropriated by Section 1 of this ordinance shall be used by the Lake !Fourche Committee in further- ance of the poi .,Ters granted to said Committee by said Resolution NTo. 1695 or for any purpose pertaining to the determination of the feasibility, cost and desirability of the project, including the making of such studies, surveys, tests, etc., as in the judg- ment of the Com-rAttee may be requisite or convenient to the deter- mination of the feasibility, cost, and desirability of the project. SECTION 3. In the evert treat at any time or from time to time prior to the making by the Committee of the determination referred to in Section 2 of this ordinance, the Committee shall have opportunity to receive additional donations for the purpose of tine ;Waking of such determination or donations for use in construc- ting, managing, and operating said project it shall receive and receipt in the name of the City therefor. "or the purpose of receiving such Funds the Committee is hereby designated as the agent of the City. Upon the receipt of any donated moneys for use In the making of such determination, the Committee shall deliver the same to the City Treasurer for deposit in a fund, hereby created in the offices of the City Treasurer to be known as the "Lake Fourche nund - Preliminary Costa "; and upon the receipt of any donated mioneys for use in the furtherance of the construction, management and operation of the project, the same shall be delivered to the City Treasurer and by him deposited in a_ fund which is hereby created in the office of the City Treasurer and which shall be knouTn as the "Lake Fourche Fund". No moneys deposited in the latter fund or delivered to the City Treasurer for deposit in said fund shall ever be appropriated to or used for any purpose other than the furtherance of the planning, construction, management, and operation of said project. PASSED: December 10 , 1945- ATTEST' APPROVED -- Cit Clerk. Mayor.