Without trying to offend anyone, I guess we could go ahead and start.

Good morning.

This is the Tuesday, January sixth.

Good morning, Commissioners.

Um, we do not have any Commissioners County Manager's recognition items.

Um, so we'll move to the first section set aside for public comment.

All right, this is the first period for public comment.

Anyone wishing to speak on an item on the agenda, come forward and identify the item you want to speak on, and also uh tell us your name and spell your last name.

Matthew Winterhock for the record, W I N T E R H A W K.

Good morning, chair members, commissioners.

Speaking today on behalf of Clark County residents and Nevadans who cannot be here because they are caring for children and uh, you know, working jobs at this hour.

I'm s I I have a description, so I have the items in as well.

So many of these are dropping their kids off today for I'm sorry, we spive us the item you're speaking of.

Okay, there's there's a specific I have a list of them, it's not just a give us one then.

Okay, item five.

Do you want me to just start with item five?

Fantastic.

Sets chairs, vice chairs, and board appointments determining who controls the agendas, audits, and information flow for the entire year, and I'm asking for the commissioners to explain the criteria used for these appointments and whether the appointee have ties to vendors, active conflicts of interest with the nonprofits and contractors overseen by these boards.

So that's item five.

Nationally, these programs represent some of the largest documented fraud exposure areas.

Not because it isn't needed, but because oversight is often weak.

The public deserves to know what independent audits exist and what clawback mechanisms are in place for this.

Finally, item 40.

The proposed 911 telephone line surcharge.

I'm asking this body to provide a public audit of existing 911 funding.

Families out here are tapped out.

New surcharges without proof of need is eroding the trust with your citizens.

I'm not here to accuse.

Much of which are on this agenda today.

So thank you for allowing you.

Whatever that was.

Next.

Hi.

My name's Theodore Lichtenstein.

My address is 5640, Vasilla Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89110.

I'm speaking about item number 37.

Um the short-term lodging rentals.

People want the ability to rent out their place, both short-term and long term.

Clearly, there's a demand by both people who want a short short-term place to stay, and also people who are offering a place to stay short-term.

Just because hotels exist does not mean that people shouldn't have other short-term lodging options.

This is similar to Uber and Lyft not being denied the ability to operate because taxis already exist.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yes, my name is Ed Eulin, UEH L-I-N-G, and I'm here to speak on item number 37.

Um about five years ago, this law was created based on very dubious uh uh uh ideas uh that I uh that I talk about in the um in my uh letter to you um that the uh actually there were false ideas that uh Airbnb people uh tend to um have louder party have more parties that they uh put uh to create trash in the neighborhoods that the uh that they're more dangerous than hotel uh guests when in fact uh Airbnb people are vetted by at least three people.

The their previous experience with uh other hosts, the current host and Airbnb Airbnb itself.

The hotels don't vet anyone except maybe a gambler who's uh might be acting illegally.

Uh the the real cause isn't any of those things.

The open secret and truth is that this law didn't arise from community need, but from the hotel industry influence and questionable financial incentives, literally provided liberally provided by the hotel industry to so-called public decision makers, most likely improved, including the district attorney himself, who wants to who wants to challenge the uh the decision of the district uh the of the U.S.

court, the district court judges of the United States of America on the other hand are not elected.

Uh so they are not so easily plied with money uh because they're not uh because of that.

While the in hotel industry authored and heavily funded this legislation, no affected or attacked uh uh homeowners have ever been offered compensation for the loss of income and property use, despite the constitution itself clearly requiring compensation when the government takes or destroyed property uh private property rights, and the this commission destroyed about 10,000 uh uh Airbnb uh owners.

As a result, thousands of uh uh homeowners lost income and property value while resort hotels gain protection from competition.

This was the real motivation of this.

Even worse, the the law even granted every individual hotel effective control over how tens of thousands of private homeowners or or property owners in the county, which happen to be within a half mile of a hotel.

Thank you, Mr.

Ewan.

Thank you.

Your time is up.

Oh, okay.

Here I leave that.

Next, please.

Jacqueline Flores, I'm speaking on item 37.

Could you stay?

Could you spell your last name?

Jacqueline Flores, F-L-O-R-E-S.

Item 37 regarding the appeal of the preliminary injunction granted by the federal court regarding property rights and short-term rentals.

The federal court injunction you are considering to appeal today is not ambiguous, emotional or political.

It is thorough, well reasoned and grounded in a careful analysis of both the facts and the law.

It laid out in clear terms how the county's regulations cross constitutional boundaries and imposed unlawful hurdles burdens on property owners.

Yet instead of taking this ruling seriously and fixing what the court has already identified as a constitutional and problematic, this board is choosing to appeal.

That choice does not demonstrate respect for the law.

It demonstrates resistance to it.

Appealing an injunction without addressing the underlying violations only prolong harm and increased costs for the public.

This board frequently speaks about its commitment to following the constitution, respecting people's rights, and individual freedoms.

Those principles, however, are not slogans to be repeated during campaigns.

They are obligations, especially when a federal court tells you plainly that the county has exceeded its authority.

Every dollar spent appealing this injunction is a dollar not spent correcting the problem, not spent on compliance and not spend serving residents.

Litigation is not a solution here.

It is a delayed tactic that shapes responsibility into the future while taxpayers foot the bill.

True respect for the rule of law means acknowledging when government oversteps and acting promptly to correct it.

Opposing this appeal would not be a sign of weakness.

It will be a sign of integrity, accountability, and maturity in governance.

Voting to approve this agenda item will prove to the public that this body lacks all of this.

Next, please.

Hello, my name is Sheryl Woods, 7445 Wandering Street, Las Vegas.

I wasn't planning on speaking today.

Successfully up until last year.

So please take that into consideration and allow short-term rentals to exist.

That's all I have to say.

Thank you.

Hello, my name is Malie Simpson, S I M P S O N.

I'm speaking on Agenda 37.

Um I've been a I'm here today to express my support for the Greater Las Vegas Association to stand in defense of its position.

I'm a short-term rental operator, and over the past 10 years we face increasing challenges.

Originally we entered the short-term rental business to simply make ends meet to our with our property.

Over time we grew to truly love hosting.

Umy visitors from around the world, many who who have expressed their appreciation for having an alternative to staying on the Las Vegas Strip for their entire visit.

In addition to managing my own properties, I help manage other homeowners' properties.

Many of these owners are struggling because they have either received fines or shut down notices despite their efforts to comply with county requirements.

Several have waited and sometimes for over two years without being contacted or giving a determination.

This prolonged lack of response has created significant hardship for these property owners who have invested invested time, their time, money, and effort into their homes with reasonable expectation that they would be able to obtain a license.

Meanwhile, we continue to pay property taxes as well as short-term rental taxes.

Giving these circumstances, it's difficult to understand why Clark County continues to refuse issuing to let two applicants who have applied in good faith and appear to meet these qualifications.

And um on top of this, I just wanted to mention I'll give an example of a current situation.

One of our properties, um, I'm a single mom, first of all, of four kids.

My oldest has been in the military, fought for our freedoms in America here, one which is our property rights.

He's currently stationed at the Pentagon in DC.

He's actually flying out tomorrow just to fix a couple minor things on his own property to make sure he's ready for his um upcoming um inspection for the city of Henderson.

So these just an example of how we take care of our properties.

We want to follow the laws that are currently in place.

We want to have these licenses, and we want to be fair to everyone.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Hello, I'm Fred Hamseyo.

Um, I'm in District F.

Uh, I'll spell the last name, H A M S A Y E H.

Uh I'm talking on item number 37.

Uh, you know, my background's a little bit different from the folks that have already spoken.

I've stayed at some of these places.

When I before I moved here in uh 2018, I stayed at a place in 2017.

Uh I do travel a lot back and forth to California, so I that's kind of what I where I stay at.

And so I've seen these firsthand from a visitor standpoint.

And uh the one thing I'll say is that your policy does not differentiate, at least from what I've seen.

It does not differentiate from owner-occupied and non-owner occupied rentals.

And I think there's a big distinction there because a lot of the issues that you might have tend to be inherent with maybe somebody who's not owner-occupied.

We're owner occupied is a little bit different.

I mean, you're literally staying at somebody's house, they're there the whole time.

You're less likely to be disruptive, and plus you have a betting system and everything that they've already talked about.

So when I see this just this blanket policy and this archaic licensing process, I'm thinking, is this fair?

Is this just?

And then the worst part is all the money that's been spent, you know, the taxpayer money fighting this instead of just coming to the negotiating table and just saying, hey, look, let's talk this out, let's talk to people who maybe use the service who don't have a conflict of interest necessarily.

They're not operating, but they've used it, and they do see some of your points for licensing for possibly somebody who's not living there.

I I can see a business licensing requirement for that, but somebody who's living there, you know, you you talk to some of these folks, you know, parents, grandparents, the kids moved out, they have an empty room.

No one's gonna go to the suburbs and party.

I think anybody that stayed in the city long enough, this county, I've been here since 2018, knows you don't go to the suburbs to party.

You go to the strip, right?

So you have a geo geographical distinction as well.

And I think if you sit down and look at all the factors you're you're considering, it just seems like it was it wasn't really thought out talking to somebody who understands how this works, who understands the process, who's actually stayed at some of these places.

I'm willing to bet nobody here has stayed at an Airbnb or any kind of short-term rental.

Maybe you have, but the point is if you have, you would know this.

And so that's the point.

So in terms of your you're asking about public comment on an appeal.

I I mean, why keep spending money?

I mean, I've been involved litigation on a personal and business level, and I think we know nobody wins except the lawyers.

Right?

Nobody wins except the attorneys.

So let's not go through with this.

Let's just put a pause to it.

Let's get to the negotiating table, talk it out with people, and find some compromise.

Common sense compromise.

That's all I got.

Sir, can I get your contact info?

Sir.

Can I get your contact info?

I'm I'm hard of hearing, I'm sorry.

Same.

Gotta get your contact information afterwards.

I'll okay.

Where do I give that to all right?

Next.

Hello, my name.

Excuse me.

My name is Anthony Defries.

I'm speaking Anthony DeVries D E V like Victor R IES.

Uh, my address is 8545 Westworm Springs Suite A4174.

Um, and I am I'm here to speak on behalf of item number 37, short-term rental appeal granted by the United States District Court.

The issue that we have highlights a troubling pattern that uh we seem to see uh over and over, where the rights of individuals conflict with the interest of powerful industries.

This injunction exists because county regulations went so far that a federal court had to step in instead of correcting overreaches, this board chooses to appeal, preserving a system that disproportionately benefits large, well connected corporate interests while burdening small property owners.

We speak about protecting property rights and freedom, but those values ring hollow when enforcement and regulation falls the hardest on those with the least political influence.

I believe in regulation.

Of course, we have to have it.

Um I believe that there should be a licensing procedure.

But why is it so difficult?

What is wrong here?

Why has Clark County only approved five house 500 licenses approximately out of 2500 available?

Why has that taken three years?

Well, how has Henderson been able to approve 500 licenses within six months?

The first step in solving a problem or an issue is identifying it.

So what are we going to identify?

What's wrong here?

Why has it taken so long?

What that tells me is there's another agenda.

There's an agenda that we don't talk about openly.

Okay, is it to protect the influence of large corporations?

Really, in your heart of hearts when you go to sleep tonight.

Can you really ask yourself if you're protecting the rights of the property owners?

Again, I believe in regulation.

We have to have it.

But then why don't we focus more on the regulation itself?

If if if short-term rentals have parties, well, why don't we have a special, you know, the code enforcement go out there or the police when they're having these parties when the property's not being taken.

Most of these short-term rental operators, I think there's somewhere around 10,000, most of them vet their vet their clients, their guests, and they have more of an influence over their clients than a lot of the hotel operators.

I have a family.

When I go somewhere when I travel, I want to stay in an Airbnb.

I'm sure you guys agree with that, right?

I don't want to have my kids stay in a hotel.

It's better for the family when we can all be together.

But let's define really what the issue is over here.

Let's make it easier to get these licenses.

Thank you for letting me speak.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Yeah.

Hello, my name is Al Rojas.

I live, I'm a resident of Sunrise Manor, a proud resident of Sunrise Manor.

I'm gonna discuss item 42, which has to do with appointing a trustee for the uh Los Vegas County uh library district.

Uh I wanted to say that you know, I I we need a library up there in Sunrise Manor over by Lake Mead and Hollywood Boulevard.

Um we've already had a new library over on the west side, which is fantastic.

I've been looking into that, and I whoever becomes a trustee, I would like to have them maybe discuss that on the agenda, maybe reach out to me.

Us in Sunrise Manor, we have a neighborhood watch program.

We've been involved in removing 45 encampments, 45 um uh RVs with the help of our commissioners with ourselves um uh independently and with Metro.

And that is a high crime area that it definitely needs attention.

There's two designated areas that I've looked on the satellite map where you could there are BLM land, vacant land, which would be perfect for a library.

There's a high school, two elementary schools, and a middle school in that district.

And there's a lot of stealing going on.

The kids are going in there and just robbing a lot of these stores.

And we really need to the more a kid can read, they make better decisions.

So we need a library up there.

Hopefully, you guys can reach out to me.

My name is Al Rojas.

I'm on social media.

I'd like to maybe meet with you.

We'd like to get a group up there.

We have a lot of people engaged in our group.

We just had an RB, a group of RVs that came in.

We got them out without the help of anybody.

So anybody, so we're engaged.

We need attention up there.

We need another library.

We only have one little small library in Sunrise Manor for 200,000 people.

We need something up there on Lake Meet in Hollywood, and there's uh land up there, and I will be posting that on social media so our commissioners can see what area I'm talking about.

Let's get that going.

Let's get the community going.

Let's make Clark County a the fantastic safe place that is that it is.

And we're the entertainment capital of the world, and you know, we're really really good people here.

Thank you.

Thank you.

If that concludes completes uh public comment, we'll close the public comment period and turn it over to the county manager.

Uh commissioner, you can now move to the agenda section.

Item three is approval of the minutes of the regular meeting on December 2nd, 2025.

Mr.

Chair, I'll move approval the minutes.

There's a motion to approve the minutes, cast your vote.

That motion passes.

Commissioners, we can now move to approval of the agenda with the inclusion of any emergency items and deletion of any items.

Staff is requesting on agenda item number five that the third paragraph be deleted and read designate a president and vice president of the board of directors of the Las Vegas Valley Water District, which actually I think we already did, correct?

So we'll take that off.

And then staff is also requesting on item 39 under section two of the attached ordinance 2449 that the name given to the lower Kyle Canyon Citizens Advisory Council be amended to upper and lower Kyle Canyon Citizens Advisory Council with those changes right into the record.

I move up for the agenda.

There's a motion to approve the agenda, cast your vote.

That motion passes.

Commissioners, your next item is to designate a chair and vice chair of the Clark County Board of County Commissioners.

All right, at this point, I'll entertain a motion.

Commissioner Kirkpatrick.

Uh thank you.

Uh Mr.

Chairman, I would make a motion that Commissioner Knaft be the chair and Commissioner McCurdy be the vice chair.

Any other motions?

See none, cast your vote.

And that motion passes.

So congratulations.

And if you want to switch places, no?

Okay.

All right.

I get to be here for one more meeting.

So thank you so much.

Uh Commissioner.

Also, even though I'm no longer chair, I just want to thank the staff and the county manager.

It's been a great two years.

And um, so thank you so much for all of you.

Before we move on, uh Chair Sagerblum, thank you for your leadership.

I'm sure as I'll find out, and Commissioners Kirkpatrick and Gibson, and you have said it's a thankless role.

So this is your thanks.

We all very much appreciate your leadership over these two.

Thank your staff because they're gonna have a lot of work.

Uh your next uh designation under this item is designated chair and vice chair of the liquor and gaming board.

Do you want me to read them in a block?

Okay.

Um designated chair and vice chair of the following boards of trustees, big Ben Water District, Clark County Water Reclamation District, Kyle Canyon Water District, University Medical Center, Southern Nevada, and the Coyote Springs Water Resources General Improvement District.

Designated chair for the following fire protection districts, Moappa Valley Fire Protection District Board of Fire Commissioners, and the Mount Charleston Fire Protestant District.

Appoint Commissioners to the following boards and councils, the Clark County School District, Technical Advisory Committee, the CCSD Oversight Panel, the Family and Juvenile Justice Services Policy and Fiscal Affairs Board, the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance, the Nevada Association of Counties Board of Directors, and the Southern Nevada Council of Governments.

Thank you, Manager Schiller.

Uh for the Las Vegas Valley Water District, uh, for President, Commissioner Kirkpatrick, and for Vice President, Commissioner Gibson, for Big Band Water District Chair, Commissioner Naft, Chairman Knappt, and Vice Chair, uh Commissioner Gibson, Water Reclamation District Chair, Commissioner Sagerbloom, Vice Chair, Commissioner Jones, Kyle Cayenne Water District, Chair, Commissioner Becker, Vice Chair, Commissioner Knight, University Medical Center, Chair, Commissioner McCurry, Vice Chair, Commissioner Sagerbloom, Clark County, uh School District Technical Advisory Committee, Commissioner Sager Bloom, Oversight Panel, Commissioners, Sager Bloom, Coyote Springs Resource General Improvement District, Chair, Commissioner Kirkpatrick, Vice Chair, Commissioner Knapp, Family and Juvenile Justice Services, Policy and Physical Affairs Board, Commissioner Jones and Commissioner Becker, Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance, Commissioner Jones, Liquor and Gaming Licensing Board, Chair, myself, Commissioner McCurdy, Vice Chair, Commissioner Sager Bloom, Moppa Valley Fire Protection District, Commissioner Kirkpatrick, uh Mount Charleston Fire Protection District, Commissioner Becker, NACO, Commissioner Kirkpatrick, Commissioner Gibson, and non-voting representative, Commissioner Jones, Southern Nevada Council of Governments, Commissioner Jones and myself, Commissioner McCurdy.

And that completes our appointments for today.

There's a motion cast your vote.

Motion passes.

Commissioners, we can now move to the approval of your consent agenda consisting of items number six through number 37.

I move approve our consent agenda.

Item 6237.

Motion for approval, cast your vote.

Commissioners, it's now 10 a.m.

So we'll now move to the public hearing section of your agenda.

Item 38 is to conduct a public hearing, approve, adopt, and authorize the chair to sign an ordinance amending Title 24 of the Clark County Code to add Chapter 24.04, changing the language from water sewage and other utilities to water, wastewater, and other utilities, and to establish certain requirements and prohibitions for Clark County Water Reclamation District Infrastructure and Services and provide for other matters properly related there too or to take other action as appropriate.

Thank you, Mr.

Minwigan.

Good morning.

The purpose of this uh new ordinance amendment uh is to add provisions to the Clark County Code to protect the infrastructure and the services of the Clark County Water Reclamation District as it relates to the members of the general public who are not recognized as customers under the district's service rules.

Mr.

Chair, I'll be glad to answer any questions the board may have now or wait until after any public comment.

Uh thank you.

If there's no questions now, we'll open up the public hearing.

Anyone wishing to speak can come forward at this time.

Seeing none, are there any questions from the commission?

No questions, I move for approval, Mr.

Chairman.

Thank you, Mr.

Commissioner McCurdy.

Uh there's a motion for approval on item 38.

Motion carries.

Thank you, members of the board.

Commissioners, I'm going to move to introduction of ordinances.

Item 39 is an ordinance to amend the boundaries of the area served by the Laura Kyle Canyon Citizens Advisory Council, changing the name of the advisory council and providing for other matters properly related thereto.

Thank you, Ms.

Manager Schiller.

I'll introduce the ordinance and set the public hearing for January 20th, 2026 at 10 a.m.

Your next time's an ordinance to I'm sorry, Mr.

Chair.

May I ask a question?

So when the ordinance comes back, we as long as it's so we can make suggestions as long as it's not more restricted.

Uh it's not more than what's in the current ordinance or what?

Yeah, and then these ordinances are a little bit different.

You're not in from imposing a fine or a levy or anything like that, but yeah, as long as it's kind of within the scope of that ordinance and that it is not more restrictive.

Okay, then you can make changes.

I just want to don't miss my opportunity in case I want to make some changes.

Yes.

We'll be on alert.

Okay.

Um next ordinance, an ordinance to amend title four revenue and taxation of the Clark County Code to add a new chapter 4.35 to impose 911 telephone line surcharge and providing for other matters properly related there too, and set a public hearing.

I'll introduce the ordinance and set the public hearing for January 20th, 2026 at 10 a.m.

Now move to your business section.

Item 41 is to identify emerging issues to be addressed by staff or the board at future meetings, receive updates on the activities of the various regional boards and commissions and direct staff accordingly.

There are any issues to be raised during emerging issues.

Yes.

So is that something that maybe legal can get us so that we have a document that we know where it's at in the process?

Okay.

Yes.

And then lastly, I just for my colleagues and I talked to Commissioner Naft about this.

I want to host a kids' safety fair so that we have a lot of great agencies here in Clark County where we can do things that make it safe for kids all the way around.

So I would any of you that want to participate would be great.

But I just want to I think it's time, and people are asking for something different.

And let's see what we can do with this.

Thank you.

Commissioner Gibson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Yesterday we uh cut the ribbon for the $600 million investment in the in the Las Vegas Convention Center campus as we opened up the new central hall.

Uh what a remarkable uh achievement.

And we can all be proud of the effort that uh was undertaken there.

Uh the county and its uh independent departments were instrumental in helping move that thing along so that it was on time and on budget.

Of course, we all know that as you work on something uh that has a big budget, occasionally you come back and you augment the budget, but um it was on time and on budget and declared by the folks who uh are the uh the uh produces of the CES show, the greatest convention center in the world, the best convention center in the world.

And I think that is noteworthy for us because as you think about it, in 2024, conventioners spent um uh collectively about 10 billion dollars uh in Clark County as they visited for their uh activities.

Uh 46,000 jobs were supported, 2.7 billion dollars in wages.

The convention sector supported an estimated 70,000 jobs and 3.9 billion dollars in wages, 16 billion in overall economic output.

I want to thank the department, uh well, all of the employees in Clark County who moved permit applications, revisions to those permit applications, inspections, uh all of that in a way that enabled this pro this uh development to happen in a timely way.

And uh we all knew the gun was to our head because we had to have this project this project completed and the new convention center addition and revisions done and open and ready to go yesterday, and it was so congratulations to all of us.

Congratulations to those who were intimately involved in the work.

We thank you very much for your service and the contribution that you made because as you can see, the contribution is large.

Thank you.

Congratulations to you as chair of LBCBA.

Anything else for emerging issues, Commissioner Janet Science to appoint one qualified individual to serve on the Las Vegas Clark County Library District Board of Trustees for the remainder of the term ending September 19th, 2027 from the list of the following applicants.

Tia Mathis, Coleman, Kurt Forrez, Jay Rozoka, and Edward Prophet.

Ms.

Chair move to approve Edward Prophet.

Motion carries.

Your next items to appoint two qualified individuals to serve on the Spring Valley Town Advisory Board for the remainder of a two-year term ending January 6, 2027, from the following list of applicants.

Dayton Vasquez, Barbara Foley Perry, Chris El Gabriel, Valerie Cosillo, Justine McDowell, John Prine, Thimble Davidson, Dustin Swaggerty, Melissa Roman, and uh Elijah Parton and Amari Tate Joestarr.

Commissioner Jones.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh moved to appoint Christelle Gabriel and Justine McDowell to the Spring Valley Town Advisory Board, and I believe Miss U Gabriel may be here also.

There's a motion.

The motion carries.

Stands to approve and authorize the chair to appoint five additional members, including one at large member, two representatives, and two alternate alternates to the community development advisory committee known as CDAC for a two year term from the list of the following nominees.

One at large, Patrina McKinney, representing two town advisory boards, citizen advisory councils, representatives Vernon W.

Pollock and James Ortiz, two alternatives, Lauren Abbott and Lori Houston, and to recognize the appointment of one member to CDEC via participating city, Diana Ramirez, North Las Vegas.

The chair move approval of the individuals right into the record.

Thank you.

There's a motion for approval.

Cast your vote.

Motion carries.

Next items to consider and approve the business impact statement pursuant to NRS Chapter 237 for the proposed amendments to Title Four of the Clark County Code by adding a new chapter, 4.35 911 telephone line surcharge to impose a surcharge on telephone lines, including mobile telephone service for the purpose of ensuring that the 911 emergency response system provides efficient, interoperable, and technologically advanced public safety communications and providing for other matters really properly related there too.

Morning, Mr.

Harwell.

Good morning, Chair Commissioner Mike Harbell for business license.

This um was posted in the in the Las Vegas journal twice and sent to all the telecom companies and the public and and uh other companies that would be uh impacted.

Uh it was also sent to the Chamber of Commerce and the trade associations.

We received 19 responses, uh 13 were in opposition, uh five were uh in support and two in neutral.

The main concern about the opposition was the the cost.

Um state law allows up to one dollar per line to be charged uh per each month uh by the county on all uh customers of uh telecom companies, including wireless.

This includes all the incorporated cities as well.

So it's a countywide uh tax imposition.

Um their main concern was like on larger families, uh let's say a family of five, they would be paying five dollars a month uh additional for this 911 surcharge.

The the surcharges is meant to enhance uh pay for enhancement and improvement of the 911 emergency system.

Um this was passed in the state law many, many years ago.

Washoe County started it um quite some time ago.

It wasn't until 2017 when they allowed uh larger the largest county, Clark County, to uh be able to impose the tax.

Uh we did not do it right away.

Um the the original uh cap was 25 cents, then it was increased increased in 2018 by the state to 85 to a dollar.

Watch out to 85 cents at that time, and then a few years ago they went to the full dollar.

Um so that's the maximum, it's not a you don't have to charge a dollar, that's the maximum that can be charged.

Um there's a like the one and there's four that were um in support because they felt that you know that's a small charge to pay for you know enhanced safety features in the 911 system.

Um I'm here available if you have any questions.

Thank you.

Are there any questions related to the BIS?

May I ask a question?

So um we're it's standard protocol to accept the BIS, but then the next time, right?

Regardless, it still has to come back one more time.

So in the presentation, can I ask you for some specific things that I think should um really have to be talked about?

Is that the appropriate time?

Is now the appropriate time, Lisa, or not?

You can do it either now.

If you've got questions, we can answer them now, or we can add that to a presentation when the ordinance is set for public hearing at the next meeting.

Well, I'm just um for me personally, right?

So um I I look at the comments and um it's very clear that some people have not been here very long to know how how the system has worked in our state, right?

So um, you know, telling me to call the state, that's not helpful.

This is my responsibility, right?

Or telling me um, but I also get the dollar, right?

So I've no secret.

I think that that's a lot.

But I do think in the presentation, based on this business impact statement, it should really talk about the truth, right?

The truth is nobody has a landline.

I'm probably the only crazy person in North Las Vegas that has a landline, because I believe in paying my 911 system B, right?

But it's not enough.

So as the time in the valley has grown, that revenue really doesn't count for much, right?

So at the end of the day, um, if people understood that that less than one percent of Clark County residents have a landline.

So at the end of the day, um, if people understood that that less than one percent of Clark County residents have a landline, um, so that revenue is is not consistent.

Two, um, I go back to um, and I know it because uh old Reds opened in the 911 system went down because of something that happened in another state thousands of miles away from us because we were connected, and I think if people knew the you know why that system doesn't necessarily work for us because if they have a tornado in Missouri or Mississippi or I can't even remember where it was, uh, but it was far away, it it impacts us, right?

And I just think that we could tell people all the reasons why this is before us and why we got to talk about what this looks like, right?

Because at the end of the day, I promise you nobody wants to call 911 and not have it answer, which is the same reason that we tried to start doing fireworks and uh enforcement, right?

25,000 calls, shut down the entire system, and we need to answer those calls.

And our our first responders want to answer those calls, but I think we need to put that in the presentation.

I think we need to talk about what it looks like uh going forward because 19 comments that we got, it's apparent that people don't um don't know that.

So I just I know you can answer the questions, I know the answers to the questions, but the everyday person does not answer the questions, doesn't know the answers.

So not picking on you, I get it.

But it's a process, but I do think we should have a real real uh good conversation going forward.

And and this uh this ordinance does include the uh mobile phone lines too, so that adds to the landlines as far as the revenue generation.

No, I get it.

I just want to make sure that we can talk about it to where the average uh you know uh to a point where there's a blurb that I can put in my newsletter about it, right?

So that people know this is why we have to do it.

Here's the consequences of if we don't do it.

Thank you, Commissioner Sagabull.

And also I just add it's up to a dollar, so we're gonna monitor very closely the revenue and potential revenue and and try to tailor the the fee uh to what we need.

That's correct.

There's also a cap in state law uh that if that fund it goes into a special fund for uh payment of uh enhancement of the 911 system, and if it goes above 1500 by the end of a fiscal year, then it's incumbent upon the county to reduce that dollar fee or whatever that fee is to get it below 15 million.

Um so that's uh the cap that you can't carry over into the next fiscal year.

Are there any other questions for Mr.

Harwell?

Can I ask one more question?

So within the ordinance, uh it also says there's gonna be an oversight committee.

Uh yes, there's a 911 surcharge uh advisory committee.

Yep, and it's made up of uh members of all the cities and county are members of that representation, and they make recommendations to the county as to as to uh how to spend the funds that are collected.

I know, so I have two requests of that.

One, I don't want to be the same vote as the cities because right, I'm pushing the green button uh for the hard votes.

We gotta have a bigger person on there.

Number two, I want someone from finance so that we kind of we can ask the hard questions because that board ultimately is going to advise to us on what uh future projects probably need to move forward, correct?

Correct.

There in the state law, there's certain um persons that have to be on the committee.

Uh it's um, for example, a representative uh from each of the um police uh departments of each of the jurisdictions, and I think one I think it mentions that one has to be another member has to be a member of uh appointed by um any jurisdiction that uh employs marshals.

But I think other well, I just want to make sure that I have a fair chance if I don't like something that that 90 percent of the board is uh uh wanting to do.

The way I read the state law is the county has the ultimate decision as far as how does money spent.

Perfect.

Well, it'd just be great to have someone from finance on there so that they they know the books, so we want to make sure that we're not approving stuff that may have to come out of general fund for other things, like staff, which people forget about thank you.

I'm just chair, we receive the business impact statement and I move for approval.

It's motion for approval.

Our motion carries.

Thank you.

Commissioners are next time to discuss the outcomes of the Clark County grant funded crisis response time team.

Pilot program identify unresolved policy and operation issues revealed through the pilot and provide direction to staff regarding next steps for potential continuation or expansion of a county CRT model and direct staff accordingly.

Thank you.

Ms.

Frierson, good morning.

Thank you, Chair.

For the record, my name is Abby Frierson.

I am deputy county manager here at Clark County.

I also have Chief Samuels and Deputy Chief Touchstone here from FIRE.

If you have any questions, although I'll be handling the presentation today.

So the goal of today is to give you a real high-level report out on what this pilot looked like.

In order to do that, I'm just gonna briefly define what a crisis response team is, discuss uh what our model is, uh and then talk about some of the program outcomes and what it would cost if this board decided to give us direction to move forward.

Um briefly, uh as a general concept, um, 911 systems are designed for responses to acute medical emergencies, fire and specialty rescue efforts.

Communities have developed alternative response models to handle mental health emergencies with the same urgency and professionalism of medical emergencies while tailoring those responses to the needs of the situation.

Um, alternative response models will often pair a behavioral health clinician with either police, fire, or EMS, with the primary goal being to provide more appropriate response to individuals experiencing mental health crisis.

Um, in order to give a little bit of history of how we got here, um the board uh this board in on October 17th, 2023 gave us direction to explore alternative response models and funding.

Ms.

Ms.

Frierson, sorry, your presentation for the public isn't progressive.

I'm so sorry, I forgot to do that part of it.

Apologize.

There we go.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Um and then uh the Clark County Fire Department stepped up and wanted to pilot uh this model in the fire department, recognizing the impacts related to individuals experiencing behavioral health crisis on the individual staff and the emergency response system.

Uh CCFD secured the funding and created the CR-18 alternative response pilot program that we're going to discuss today.

Um before I jump into describing uh the CR18 pilot, I want to talk about what the current response model looks like without the CR-18.

Um CCFD will receive a 911 call involved involving a behavioral health crisis.

This call is coded as a CAD-25 call.

CCFD will respond to the CARD 25 call using the same protocols and acuity scales for physical illness or injury incidents.

Dispatch protocol classifies these incidents on a medical director's acuity scale of one to six, and those dispatch dispatch protocols must follow the Southern Nevada Health District's emergency medical responses.

This creates a limited ability to assess behavioral health conditions, which are the purpose of those calls.

EMS will go and identify medical conditions which can mimic mental illness, and when no injury or illness is identified, then the LCSW can conduct a behavioral health assessment to diagnose psychiatric and substance use disorders.

CRT 18 provided immediate support, appropriate interventions, and short-term stabilization and case management services.

And those social work services included a clinical program manager, a licensed clinical social worker, and a case manager.

CCFD was awarded a SAMS SAMSHA grant in the amount of 535,000, which we used to fund uh this pilot.

And that was sufficient to staff one CRT unit for 12 hours a day, seven days a week for six months.

And this pilot ran from April 13th, 2025 to September 29th, 2025.

Before I jump into program outcomes, I wanted to talk a little bit about like how many uh CAR-25 goals we get.

Um nationally, up to 31% of 911 incidents to which police departments respond can involve individuals with mental illness.

In 2023, Los Vegas Metropolitan Police Department received approximately 39,595 behavioral health calls.

CARD 25 calls are a subset of these calls, and in 2023, we had 12,532 CARD 25 calls.

2024, we had 9,995 CARD 25 calls, and in the first 11 months of 2025, we had 9,396 calls.

These CARD 25 calls are about 6% of total EMS calls in the valley.

Next, I'm gonna talk to program results.

I think there were three main program results from the CR18 pilot.

Um CR18 increased the availability of EMS crews for more urgent medical incidents by having another team that can respond to the behavioral health calls.

Our CR18 unit responded to 758 incidents with 673 patient contacts.

Um our pilot also showed that CR18 de-escalates incidents.

Our clinical program manager states that the CR18 de-escalated 94% of the clients and prevented 572 L2Ks, which are legal 2000s, which are um involuntary mental health holds.

I I think it's really hard to um to validate what could have happened if you didn't intervene, but I think what the data did show is that um Metro was on scene of 64% of these CARD 25 calls prior to CR18's arrival, and had to close to 40% of those individuals in restraints.

Upon incident closure, 65% of those individuals in restraints were no longer in restraints, and only 8% of the uh clients that were contacted reached their destination in restraints.

So I think that is solid evidence that CR18 did de-escalate those incidents.

Um I think one of the most exciting outcomes of the pilot was that CR18 did reduce the strain on the Las Vegas Valley ER emergency room system.

Of the 673 patients contacted, 472, which meant 70% of them were diverted from an ER, and two only 201 or 30% of them were transported to an ER.

When you don't have the CRT, uh in 2024, we had 82% of our CAR-25 calls go to the ER.

And in the first nine months of 2025, 72% of our CAR-25 calls went to the ER when there was no CRT present.

The pilot also showed that 30% of those individuals, those cases were resolved on scene with no transport at all.

34% were referred for substance use treatment programs, 27% were transferred transported directly to a behavioral health hospital instead of going through the ER, and 14% were transported to other community service providers.

If this board were to direct us to move forward, um an estimated budget for a permanent CRT would be for one CRT unit, uh, seven days a week that ran 12 hours a day for 365 days a year would be 1.5 million dollars annually.

Uh there are potential cost offsets that we would need to work with uh fiscal to explore a little more fully that could include Medicaid transport cost reimbursements, um transport revenue, state grant funds if we wanted to structure our program meeting their um requirements, which are a little different, which are different than how we model our program.

Um, and then potentially there's Medicaid reimbursement for the LCSWs if we become a Medicaid provider.

Um before I move to questions, I did want to thank um, I did want to thank uh Ed Zagallo and Steve Smith who helped us uh design and set up and monitor and analyze the program.

And I did want to thank uh the uh Chief Samuels and Deputy Chief Touchstone for uh volunteering to do this program, this pilot program in their department for securing the funding and doing all the legwork that came with monitoring the program.

But finally, I'd like to thank the board for their direction, county manager and the senior team for their support.

With that, I don't know if there are any questions.

Thank you.

Commissioner Jones, you'd place this item on the agenda.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair, and uh thank you, Ms.

Frierson, for the presentation and for um all the work that you put into this and really standing up a crisis stabilization model, which is what we as a board have talked about for the last three years.

Um, and again, reiterating the uh thanks to our Clark County Fire Department, uh Community Ambulance, Steve Smith's, Ed Zagallo, and everyone who uh really put a tremendous amount of effort into uh this pilot project.

Back in November, I went to the uh NAMI conference, and there was a panel uh that was specifically based on mobile crisis uh CRT teams, and on that panel were three representatives from the city of Las Vegas, City of North Las Vegas, and City of Henderson, and Clark County was noticeably absent because we uh aside from this pilot project didn't have we are the only jurisdiction that didn't have an operational crisis response uh team in operation.

Um in spite of the fact that we are the social services provider, uh we run the county hospital, we stood up the crisis stabilization center.

Um this is really one of the three legs of the three-legged stool for crisis.

988, which the state is taking the lead on, crisis stabilization center, which we work with UMC on mobile crisis is really that middle piece of it in order to uh again divert situations in which people are facing a substance use disorder or mental health crisis.

Um looking at the crisis stabilization center, uh almost a third of all of the uh uh the the patients that are going to the crisis stabilization center come from uh the city's uh CRT program.

The city stood up their program a few years ago.

Um, and if Abby, if you go back to the CRT 18 program results slide.

So our statistics um next one, sorry, that one, yeah.

Uh our statistics for our pilot program are very consistent with uh the data that comes out of the city of Las Vegas in 2025.

This is data we just got this morning in 2025.

Uh the city of Las Vegas' CRT program um took uh 48 more than 4800 CRT calls, and 72% of those were diverted.

That means more than 3,450 uh uh cases were diverted away from our emergency depart departments across the valley.

Um they did that with three units on on the city side.

Um not only does it divert from our emergency departments, but it also diverts from the jail, which we also operate.

Uh, and also we are the you know, we fund two-thirds of Metro's budget, uh, and this allows our public safety officers to get back on the street as quick as possible because they can simply hand it over to the crisis response team, go back to patrol uh and doing the public safety work that we want them to be doing.

Um so I I think this is absolutely necessary.

I don't think that we should be waiting around until the next budget cycle to make it operational.

I understand that that's going to require us to find uh money on the front end.

We may recoup recoup that money on the back end, but certainly on the front end, we need to uh allocate the dollars to get this up and running um at least uh one unit as soon as possible.

I think that we should be looking particularly at AB 309 dollars uh for uh funding uh phase first phase of this, and then maybe we look at additional units as we go into the FY27 budget cycle.

So um, and then just generally speaking, with regards to pilot programs, like sort of to Commissioner Kpatrick's uh request for a tracker uh of ordinances that we've asked for from a board.

I think we probably need a tracker of any other pilot projects across the the county uh for tracking pilot projects because we don't if we know that a pilot project is good, we don't need to wait around until many months after the pilot project to decide uh where to go from there, and so I think that um we should get started on this one, but also take a look at any other pilot projects across the county uh that we have running now and assess whether uh they are projects that we should bring back forward to the board uh sooner than um waiting around several months.

So that would be my recommendation.

May I ask a question or two?

Uh and just for you, Jessica, sorry to put you on the hot seat.

Um, I would be very nervous about relying on the Medicaid reimbursement dollars, considering what's going on as a whole, and much rather if we're gonna fund it, just fund it and then put that money maybe into a pot for future pilot programs or something, so that it's a a one-shot experience.

Um I wrote the original legislation for this, and so the numbers have been like this uh for many, many years, but there's so much uncertainty.

Would it make sense for us to just establish um that reimbursement pot?

Can we do that into like something that we could use for other future social service pilot programs?

I know we're in the process of starting the budget, it's the first of the years, so I'm just thinking outside the box for the longer term, and maybe it's a better fiscal way.

So I'm sorry to put you on the hot seat like that.

If you don't have the answer, that's fine.

But I just maybe gotta explore that.

I just worry about relying on reimbursements at this time in our world.

Uh no, it's a good point.

We actually already participate in this program.

It's a Medicaid reimbursement um called GEMT.

And to your point, this program was pretty fairly lucrative.

It's how we have funded a lot of our paygo money for the fire training center.

And we made that decision early on that we would not use that money for that reason.

And so I would recommend the same.

So when they say the presentation cited Medicaid reimbursement, it's the same program.

And so I would also be concerned that if there's any change by CMS or the federal administration on the Medicaid reimbursement.

So we could continue to put it into capital, or if you wanted to just carve out this piece of the program and put it towards future pilot programs, we could do that as well.

Thank you.

Commissioner Gibson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

The um so the CRT team that was up and was a part of this pilot program, what happened?

Is it now disbanded?

Does it continue to work?

So as I as I said um earlier, we used a reliable for the social work, which is one of the companies that one of the city's CRTs already contract with, so they they're still in place.

And then the EMS services were through through community who's you know still in place.

Good.

Um so one of the things we own a hospital, and if we didn't have the CRT program, we know that a whole lot of this mental health um disturbance and the and the people and families would have gone to our ER, which means that there's a savings that we are already experiencing at our hospital.

And uh the manager and I have worked on a program where we um have worked to divert folks who use the uh the ER at UMC as their primary care doctor.

And a savings occurs when you do that.

Now, because of the way we're structured, um, I'm not really sure that we know how that gets accounted for, but I do think that we need to take a hard look at uh what the effect at the UMC and and Commissioner McCurdy, maybe this is something that you could look at.

Uh what happened to the UMC um uh revenues expenses associated with the people who ultimately would have gone to the ER and were going to the ER forever until just now.

And I don't even know how to begin that kind of an audit, but uh it's something we need to get our arms around because there already is a savings in the system if you look holistically at our county finances.

So I I I suggest we take a hard excuse me, a hard look at that.

Can I I'll just say I think to your point and Commissioner Kirkpatrick's point, the issue of reimbursements, um federal funding, those are all things that are challenges.

But as I've talked about with this board, I think all the time, the issue of our system of care, it's another piece of that system of care.

And I think what you're really referencing is the connecting of the dots in the system of care.

The good news is is we've really developed a system of care.

Now I think the devil's in the detail, and then there's challenges specific to how you fund and reimburse in those pieces.

And to Commissioner Carpatrick's point, I would kind of call the the federal money coming in, is not something we really would depend on as much as we would utilize for foundational money if we need it, or it it'd be it's it it's a it's so much like dessert because we don't want to we don't want to bank on anything we lose.

I think UMC is also challenged, they're gonna be significantly challenged in this coming year related to that.

So I think the timing of this is good related to the discussion point of how do we divert from the most expensive level of care, which would be your emergency room into our other, and then you know, I always talk about the stair step at those various levels, and I think that the timing of this is good, and probably um Commissioner McCurdy McCurdy as we speak with Mason.

I think what we can come back with is kind of some discussion of a framework of what that looks like, and you know, you really kind of need two things.

You need the fund map and you need the program map, and I think this this program has kind of highlighted even some communication detail around how a call comes in, we don't want to duplicate services, we want to make sure we're making the dollar go as far as we can and making sure that we have kind of a visual for you so you can see all of that as you're approving funding in those different pieces.

And I think um in addition to that, Mr.

Chairman, um yes, there's gonna be a cost savings as we continue to divert, uh, but also I think uh as we get further down the road, uh we should have somebody's special attention towards hand holding that individual after we've diverted them, gotten them into care, triage them uh for you know, let's say six months to see you know if we can get them the information that they need, connect them with the providers that they need to be connected with, uh, so that we can get them to a path of self sustainability as well.

So that's something we could speak to Mason about.

Just one more thing.

I get that when a patient, one of these patients would have gone to the ER, there would be generated revenue as a result of that from some source.

So I get that it isn't just only a savings.

Uh we're we're losing revenue too.

So that's why I think it's especially important that we really do a deep dive to figure out what the real cost is.

Thank you.

Good.

So another question.

So it if it's one and a half million dollars for entire fiscal year, so we're literally halfway through, right?

So and I would bet that um we would want to market it and we'd want to, you know, say how the process works because I I think that um that's where there's some confusion for everyday families, right?

When do I need those services and who do I call, right?

So I I must have got uh maybe a dozen calls in the last month, like autism services.

Where are those, right?

I find myself on the internet trying to look at them.

So uh I do think that we could find Jessica six hundred thousand dollars to keep it going, and I do think that maybe we gotta before we push it out.

Yeah, each commissioner should have a document on what what does this look like, and how do you how do you know?

Because I find in my district in particular that we find a lot of young teens uh that have mental health setbacks, right?

Or we have grandma who's been bipolar her whole life, who forgot to take her medication, and it's done a whole bunch of different things, and those those folks also could benefit from all of this.

But but I don't know how to explain it, and I don't know, and it's not it's not a bad word anymore before, right?

Used to be a bad word.

This board has done a good job with Commissioner Jones leading the helm on talking about mental health and dealing with it, but now get give me something else to go with it so that what we can kind of um tell people, right?

This is a good time when you can call, and then that way we're promoting our own service uh on the front end.

Um so I I just would want the whole enchilada, right?

So for the piloting.

And now that we know what the pilot, now that we know that there's a need, so word will get out and it'll be busier than we want, but at the same time, we need to tell people where's the right place to go.

I feel like you know, Kevin, you always have that little map of the transitional stair steps.

We kind of need the same thing because we have done a good job investing in the crisis to get people to the right place, but I can't explain it on one page to anybody.

Um, and I think that we probably could put it all there so that people could see how it could work.

If this isn't work, you can go here or call this number, right?

So yeah, and it's kind of differentiating the issue of you have first responders, right?

So that's one component of that conversation.

I get those calls too.

And so I think you you're right on.

I think we need we need the the parallel to kind of the stair step with a little more detail about what's that number you call, who do you go to.

Um, we're seeing kind of challenges in the crisis stabilization center also in terms of how we're working on kind of a promotional campaign for that, which works for for multiple populations, the community as a whole, obviously, but also even first responders because we've developed this system, and now we got to explain it and make it easier.

We need a one button is kind of what you're getting to.

So I hear you, and we'll come back with something like that.

Uh Commissioner Sega Bloom, then Jones.

So I'm not exactly clear what if it's 1.5 million we could authorize or at some point authorize to get this back up and running.

I'm not sure, Mr.

Jones, what you wanted to do, but I think this program is is is vital.

I think it's fantastic.

Um, I think my district is probably the epicenter of of what we need, and so whatever it takes, uh Commissioner Jones, I would support you a thousand percent as far as let's go forward.

We don't want to sit around and wait.

We could probably go back and analyze what's happened in more detail.

But in the meantime, I think it's it's obviously work.

So let's let's we don't let it lose it.

Commissioner Jones.

Thank you, Chair.

As I I think the sort of wrap up is how whether we can simply continue to fund the existing program that's set up, or whether we have to go through the whole purchasing process.

So I think that would be the next step.

If we can just continue an existing contract, allocate more dollars, then I would say let's bring that back to this board within 30 days.

If not, then we're gonna have to go through a process.

But that direction's clear.

Okay, thank you.

And then we'll also expect the the two MIRs, one on outstanding ordinances and one on outstanding pilot programs.

All right, that concludes item 46.

This is the final time set aside for public comment.

Anyone wishing to speak can come forward at this time.

Please state your name for the record.

Hello, uh, my name is Al Rojas.

I'm a resident of Sunrise Manor.

And I wanted to address an issue that I think is going to be a concern to all of the commissioners out there, and you ought to play close attention.

And it's an area something that's happening in our area.

And it's the off-ramp of the freeway of uh 95 on Charleston close to Lamb.

We're getting a lot of complaints that people are going out there in panhandling and uh as the people are coming off the freeway.

It's a concern that's gonna eventually hit all of you commissioners.

I'm sure you're gonna have.

I've seen homeless problems even when I go to Summerlin.

I've seen it, so I know it's all over the county.

What's happening there is people are coming off the uh all the homeless are out there underneath the freeway.

That's a whole new freeway off ramp that we've done.

We spent a lot of money and it's already getting thrashed.

The problem with that area is that not only are you getting all the homeless off the this off ramp, there's also gonna be a um uh marijuana dispensary that's just out this that was approved in the area.

But the biggest problem, and the first step that has to be taken is there's a pet boys um uh that was abandoned or that it was closed down, and there's no fence around it.

Now I know that the commissioners have been and I and I'm very grateful, I know that's a resource that we have that the commissioners can somehow request some of these vacant owners to put a fence around that uh their facilities, and that's step number one.

With our neighborhood watch program, I could go get people and put eyes and ears on it, but we will not make an impact.

To address that problem on that intersection off ramp, step number one is to get a fence around that pet boys.

And I'm asking that all the commissioners work together, help our commissioner in that area, which is Tick Seegerbloom, who's been very, very helpful with him and his staff.

Let's get a fence around that.

Let's put an eye on that, because it's gonna affect every one of your districts with these off-ramps where these homeless are getting in there and they're just you know harassing the people that are coming off the freeway, uh panhandling, and that's gonna be a very, very hot spot.

If we can get that under control, that is gonna be huge.

And I consider that to be the biggest problem in centerized manor.

We can get that underneath under control, it's gonna make a big impact throughout the whole county.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Nick Speaker.

Hi there, my name is Alison Farr, and I am um in um Commissioner Kurtpakchik's district up in North Las Vegas, and I've lived in Commissioner Knox's district down in the strip, and I'm about to move into Commissioner Becker's um district.

So I'm really happy to talk to you today, not just as an individual, but also as um a representative of Solar United Neighbors or Sun, which is a new nonprofit that we have here in um Nevada, specifically in the southern Nevada area, which is so because I'm the community organizer down here.

So um I wanted to introduce myself and introduce the organization.

We are an organization that helps folks join together to go solar, helps um individuals, organizations, institutions to go solar, fight for their energy rights.

Um we offer a unique blend of technical assistance um as well as community education, uh grassroots organizing to help people make really informed decisions and advocate for clean energy.

Um there are two in particular things that I wanted to flag for you all.

So the first is bulk buys.

And this coming year, we're hoping to do a bulk buy program to help um more folks be able to go solar to to afford rooftop solar.

One of the kind of dirty little secrets around rooftop solar is about only 30 percent of of homeowners are able to afford going solar.

So we're trying to do a bulk buy to expand that circle because um it instead of one person going to an installer, we would be a group of people going to an installer to help bring down those prices, maybe even by 20 percent.

It varies from location to location, but we have um helped about 9,000 homes in the United States to go to solar um and and have partners with different uh municipalities and governments in order to do that.

And it's not just the 30% that are able to afford that that should be able to benefit, but most more people should be able to benefit too.

So the second thing I wanted to flag for you as well is we're not just pro-rooftop solar, we're pro-large scale solar as well.

And if it's that if it's responsibly sited and brings community benefits to the local communities and doesn't um it negatively impact the local flora and fauna.

Um one of those benefits is something that's starting this year in 2026.

Um I'm not sure if you all are tracking the federal revenues provision for large scale solar on BLM lands, but starting January 1st, five days ago, we had uh new provision come into effect.

That means that the host counties for large scale solar projects will be benefiting at 25% of the BLM land rates.

Thank you, Ms.

Farr.

Okay, so these are big numbers.

If you if anybody's interested in talking to me more about it, I can leave my my business card.

If you want to stick around, thank you very much.

Next speaker.

Yes, my name is Ed Eulin, and I'm glad to see that we're looking at holistic approaches.

I I'd like us to look at uh take a holistic look at the tourist industry here in in Las Vegas.

My family moved here in 1943.

I was three years old.

It was during the war, and uh we lived in Boulder City, which uh which was right next to the dam, which had just been finished.

The dam was the most significant event that occurred in the United States in the in the world, really up to that time.

And it was uh because of the dam in Boulder City, we had to lower our shades at night.

We could only drive the car with the with the parking lights on, because it was feared that the uh that the uh Japanese would be able to uh to spot the dam if they were able to locate Boulder City.

Of course, that turned out to be ridiculous because no airplanes could fly that distance at that time, but that's the that's the way things were happening at that time.

Then uh then Budgy Seagal in 1947 opened uh the Flamingo Hotel and had entertainment and people not only started coming because of the dam, but also because of what was what Las Vegas was becoming a place of entertainment, a place that people could uh could enjoy and uh and take advantage of.

So by I would say about 1952, uh large numbers of tourists started to come, but there weren't enough hotel rooms in the um in Las Vegas to take care of those people.

So the uh the county or someone the chamber of commerce would call my family and ask if people could stay in our house.

And and uh and this happened to many people, my friends, uh other people because uh the people couldn't stay in their cars at that uh in the in that heat.

And so um it was really the people uh who did that did that that caused the that helped develop the uh hotel industry.

The hotel started to be constructed during that time, and and that's a significant aspect of the hotel industry.

It's a type of people that come and it it if uh take uh please take a holistic approach to it and look at the value of that and and uh and take it take account of that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

If there's seeing nobody else, we will adjourn this meeting until tomorrow at 9 a.m.

Thank you.