Good morning.

We'll call to order the January twentieth meeting of the Clark County Commission.

The first item on the agenda is our invocation being led today by Chaplain Brian Scrogans.

Please rise.

Bless each household in our community with comfort and safety, and grant our new year to be filled with hope, unity, and renewed purpose.

I am very excited to be here today to recognize Troop 407.

Um we're gonna move all these chairs because we're gonna bring you all up, and there's like 11 of you, so it's gonna be a full stage today.

So what we have today is Troop 407, and I want you to know that they've made history with all 11 scouts earning the Eagle Scout at the same time, the whole troop.

This is yeah, go ahead.

This is the first achievement like this in the state of Nevada, and it's the only time that it's happened second nationally.

So this is the second time nationally.

It's a huge honor.

And when I realized what they had accomplished, I was just amazed.

I just wanted to bring you guys up here.

Um I just think it really says something about what your troop has done, your your camaraderie, your your friendship, supporting each other, your troop leaders are amazing because that's really who focused on this and got you guys over the line, and you really need to give them a big hug tonight when you get home.

Um so we're going to name each one of you, and I want you to come up here.

We've got a proclamation for each of you, and we also have a key to the strip.

Now, I don't want you getting crazy this weekend.

You're you're you're all I I mean under 18, these are young guys, you guys are the future of our state, the future of our country.

Don't ruin it on the strip this weekend, okay.

So, first, I would like to welcome and honor you guys.

Just come up as I call your name, Jacob Bennett, Christian Earl, Canon Caster, Jack Hire, Seth Leadham, Nixon Hunt, Isaac Koval, Luke Robinson, Ethan Dastrup, Michael Norton, and Jackson Heaton.

This Eagle Scout rank represents the brotherhood, perseverance, and determination of Troop 407.

Congratulations.

I am so excited for you guys.

Anyone want to say anything?

Somebody has to.

You got that.

Thank you for everything.

See, I need somebody with the case.

So we just all want to say thank you for all the help and um providers that you've given all of us.

Honestly, with the journey of around three years, we've all put in a ton of effort and we've all had our ups and downs with all the marabads and all the long journeys, but we just all want to say thank you for all the help that you've given us.

And a special shout out to Sister Earl and Sister Bennett, our committee chair and scout troop leader.

So they really put a ton of effort in here.

And yeah, thank you.

For those of you that don't know about the Eagle Scout honor, it takes years of work.

This is such a commitment.

And to have these guys this young, all of you to receive the Eagle Scout.

I've gone to lots of Eagle Scout honorees, and they're usually old, like at least 18.

So when I realized how young you guys were, you've already hit a really high designation high honor.

So you've just got tons more.

You get you're you gotta like overachieve here.

And congratulations to you guys.

I know how much hard work it was.

And again, this is the first time in the state of Nevada for an entire troupe to receive this award, this designation, um, this honor, and it's only the second time in the country.

So here they are, right in Clark County.

So when you want to know what we're doing in Clark County, we are creating and nurturing winners.

So congratulations.

And then missioners and the troop reader and stay in the back on the camera.

So we'll have the eight of you come down here.

Okay.

I'll have you on one, two, three.

One, two, and keys to the city.

It's the best.

Commissioners, your next item is to present a proclamation to recognize the Give Joy Community Committee.

Commissioner Jones.

Thanks so much, Kevin.

Um, today the Clark County Board of County Commissioners is proud to recognize our Clark County Family Services team for its unwavering commitment to the safety, well-being, and dignity of children and families throughout the community.

The Give Joy holiday toy and gift card drive is a cornerstone initiative that ensures children foster care experience joy, generosity, and a sense of belonging during the holiday season.

This program is made possible by a dedicated Give Joy community committee, including Clark County Family Services, Alicia Shaw and Family, Costa Las Vegas, Children's Advocacy Alliance, Eagle Quest, Florence Lee and Friends, Foster Kinship, Heller Companies, Neop of Southern Nevada, the Kevin Randallman Foundation, Pro Lodges, and Share in the Joy.

During the 15th annual distribution, Give Joy United, 176 donors and 326 volunteers providing toys for children's ages 0 to 12 and gift cards for youth age 13 to 18, serving just under 3100 children in our foster care system.

The efforts of the Give Joy Community Committee reflect the power of the public-private partnerships and community collaboration in supporting vulnerable youth and recognize the daily dedication of foster kinship and relative caregivers.

Today we recognize the Give Joy Community Committee by honoring the Clark County Family Services team leadership and coordination, compassion in making the program possible.

And also ask all of the Give Joy Community Committee members to please stand and be recognized while we show a short video.

This is an opportunity today for them to get gifts, uh, have some giveaways, be able to see Santa and get pictures of the family, and really just have a good time with our kids.

This must be this is my favorite too.

Our family loves gives joy, and it means so much to us to uh remind the kids that they matter, and no one forgot about them.

So that's what it means to me because I know my children feel that they're forgotten in this whole situation.

So for them to come here and receive the love and support from others, it's just a blessing to us.

I work with foster team boys.

Today, they were so excited.

They got a laptop from ATT and renovation, they got gift cards, they were able to pick out items of their choice, not only for themselves, but maybe to also give someone else that's important of them.

ATT is here partnering with the renovation foundation, and we're giving away 200 laptops today to foster kids.

What it means to ATT uh to give these laptops is really to address a digital divide.

Um, we know that everybody deserves a fair chance in the community to make sure that they have the tools in order to succeed.

And our community partners have been amazing, and they also keep growing to make this event even bigger and better than it is the year before.

Let's all give them a round of applause.

Actually, we guys just come on up here.

You need to get in the picture up here.

I'm gonna pass the uh I'm gonna pass the microphone to Jennifer Herbs from our family services team.

Um I had the opportunity to go check out the operations, and and it was just uh amazing uh the amount of time and effort that went into this uh entire program and for 15 years, the these team and and so many others have been giving back to our community.

Um and I just have a sh special shout out to Denise, um, who I understand uh maybe doing this for the last time this last year.

So um thank you so much, Denise.

Well, thank you, Commissioner Jones and the entire board of county commissioners uh for recognizing the efforts of Clark County Family Services and our Give Joy Community Committee.

Uh when our kids and teens um are in foster care, the holidays can be really difficult time for them, but our team and committee work together to harness the power of partnership to brighten the holidays through give joy.

What I would really like to point out is that while our children are enjoying all of the special gifts and give joy, our team and committee have a chance to connect with our caregivers and thank them for their dedication to the children.

They're the ones who are helping kids cope with those big feelings, getting them to school, daycare, the doctors, and so much more.

Our foster care team is always out recruiting more foster caregivers, but through the efforts like Give Joy, we can focus on retaining our current caregivers as well.

Thank you to all of our community committee members, volunteers, donors, sponsors, and family services staff who pulled together resources and support to make Give Joy such an amazing success.

I'd like to end with a quote from Margaret Mead.

Uh, never doubt what that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world.

Indeed, is the only thing that ever has.

So thank you so much.

We appreciate all of you.

I was like, I can't hold all of this done.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Perfect.

So we're gonna have four of you on this side of the Clark on the sign and the other five.

Like one another, and hold the top of that proclamation, fill the top of that thing forward.

There you go.

That's what we want to do.

All right, everybody.

Thank you.

Commissioners, your next item is to present a proclamation in recognition of missing in Nevada Day.

Commissioner N Chairman NAFT.

Thank you.

Clark County is hosting its second annual Missing in Nevada Day on January 31st, an important opportunity for loved ones for missing of missing individuals to file reports, receive updates on active cases, and connect directly with investigators and advocates.

Participants are encouraged to bring photographs, dental records, and other identifying information that plays a vital role in helping investigators.

I want to sincerely thank our Clark County Coroner's office who's joining us here for leading this annual event and for their commitment to reuniting families, providing answers, and offering a measure of closure to those experiencing unimaginable loss.

At this time, I'd like to ask Clark County Coroner Melanie Rouse to share a few more words of insight and detail about how you can participate if you're in need.

Melanie.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Um, I just want to say how important it is for people to find a safe place to bring forward information about their missing person.

We want to provide them an opportunity to share information about their missing person so that we can make those connections, whether it's reconnecting with them with someone that is still living in our community or making an identification on in many of the cold cases that we have at the coroner's office.

So we encourage people to please come forward and um take this opportunity to provide that for us.

We thank you for the care and compassion that you and your team put into this.

It it wouldn't be an official day if we didn't proclaim it, so we're proclaiming it missing in Nevada Day, but we sincerely thank you for all the effort that you put in.

Thank you.

Hi, I'm Chief Michael Smith of Clark County Public Safety.

Today I'm nominating Officer Michael McKesky and Sergeant Grant Ona as value champions with Clark County.

They were on patrol at the rear of the Cambridge Recreation Center when they found a person back there who was slumped over and lying in the ground.

Officer Michael McKeskey and Sergeant Grant Ona exemplified true service by their life-saving efforts conducted that date.

After that person was revived, medical surely arrived thereafter, helped that subject pick them up, took them to a nearby hospital.

They saved the life of that person.

Because of their actions on that date, I am nominating Sergeant Oona and Officer McKesky as value champions.

Congratulations, Sergeant Oona and Officer McKeskey.

Hello, good morning.

Jamie Swanson here, Clark County Social Services Director.

We nominated Wendy Granada as value champion in recognition of her dedication and collaborative spirit in her work with Clark County Social Services and other Clark County departments.

A few of Wendy's key accomplishments this past year include uh coordinated the department's strategic plan development, establish the department intranet and newsletter, revamped emergency response protocols, recruited 47 emergency response volunteers, and coordinated FEMA training.

She also managed our all-staff committees, legislative tracking, and several other process improvements.

Wendy exemplifies leadership that is both visionary and practical.

She sees the big picture while expertly managing the details of the matter.

Congratulations, Wendy, on your value champion award.

You are a shining example of Clark County values and the very best of public service excellence.

My name is Margotello.

I'm the community land trust manager here at the community housing office.

And I nominated Jamie because she demonstrates excellence through both her work and her willingness to support others.

In the community housing office, Jamie has assisted us with multiple projects.

Every time her assistant has been key to ensuring our projects move forward.

And she's always collaborative and very knowledgeable.

In the community land trust program, Jamie has gone above and beyond by reviewing official documents, playing an instrumental role in securing our BLM patent, and with recording additional projects, and helping us obtain RPM signature as the project moves forward.

What truly sets Jamie apart is her deep knowledge, attention to detail, and sincere desire to help others.

Her support is strengthens the quality of our work, makes complex processes more manageable, and makes our office better because of her.

Congratulations, Jamie.

How about a shout out for our Clark County employees?

Public safety.

They're everywhere all the time.

Social service, of course, dear to my heart, always helping people.

And then Jamie, who does so much related to our facilities and our property, and she's always game on.

So congratulations to all of you.

And I'd like to turn over to Commissioner Knaff to say a few words.

Thank you, Manager Schiller.

On behalf of the board, please know how much we appreciate not just your daily service, but that you've chosen a career in public service on behalf of all the counties who work in this building and all Clark County facilities.

Uh, without you, this local government does not function.

So we're grateful to you.

We appreciate you, and we thank you again for your conscious choice to choose public service and to be the best that it can be.

Thank you so much.

Okay, everybody, fill the top of the old word for us, the next item on the agenda is public comment.

Anyone wishing to speak on any agenda any agenda item today can come forward at this time and have three minutes.

Please spell your first and last name.

Seeing none, we'll move to section section four of the agenda.

Manager Schiller.

Commissioners, your next items approval of the minutes of the regular meeting on December 16th, 2025.

Mr.

Chair, move approval of our regular meeting minutes from December 16th, 2025.

There's a motion for approval.

Please cast your vote.

That motion carries.

Commissioner, is your next items of approval of the agenda with the inclusion of any emergency items and deletion of any items.

Staff does not have any corrections, emergencies, or deletions.

Meaning that there are no corrections or deletions, I'm going to approve the agenda.

It's a motion for approval.

That motion carries.

Thank you.

There's a motion for approval.

Please cast your vote.

That motion carries.

Commissioners are going to move to the business section of your agenda.

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

Thank you.

Yeah, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I have a couple things.

So one February 1st, we start our clothes for comfort, and uh just so everybody knows, we're very uh always thankful in the community.

Uh last year we collected about three tons of clothes.

Uh, this goes throughout the valley, whether it be our foster kids, our kids in um children's services, um, goes to many our navigation systems, so it doesn't only have to be um kids.

Uh we always ask for you can never have enough socks or underclothes.

So if um you have new ones that you would like to donate, they'll have it in the it will be around the valley at all of our uh parks and rec center as well as here.

I want to give a shout out to public works because they always go above and beyond to try and help us collect all of these um clothes into uh social service for making sure they get distributed.

The second thing is I just want to remind people about the kids' safety fair that's coming up.

Uh so it's gonna be for kids everywhere, uh across the valley, and hopefully we can do more of it.

Um I have two uh board related things.

I sit on the health district with Commissioner Becker, and we uh wanted to let the rest of the board know that they received over 2,000 uh surveys returned, and it was a little bit clunky because they sent emails first to the people that they had emails for, but the email uh came, it said social media at Southern Nevada Health District, which I didn't know that it that existed myself.

Uh, but it went into a lot of people's spam, so then they mailed out 18,000.

There's no item on the upcoming health district agenda.

They're going through all of those, and I anticipate that the regulations will look 100% different.

So please just give us time to um see what that looks like.

And then, secondly, I just want to make sure you guys remind me to ask our non-voting member about the start times.

I heard that they did a lot of um surveys, and it looks like parents would like to start school a little bit earlier for the littles and a little bit later for the older kids.

So I just want to make sure because I think we got to adjust crossing guards, we got to adjust social service, we got to adjust safekee, all of those things that might fall into that.

So I think it's important.

That's all I have.

Thank you.

Anyone else?

I just want to acknowledge Commissioner Gibson is absent today because he is representing uh each of us in Clark County at the 2026 CFP National Championship.

He's serving as co-chair of the host committee for the 2027 Las Vegas Championship game, which uh is anticipated to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in economic impact for uh for Southern Nevada.

Uh so we thank him for for doing that.

Uh Manager Schiller.

Commissioners, your next items to receive and accept that accept the audit report for the fiscal year 2025 prepared by the accounting firm of Crow LLP pertaining to Clark County.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Joining us today is Kathy Lye from the Audit Firm of Crow, who's here to present the results of the fiscal year 25 annual comprehensive financial report.

Good morning.

My name's Kathy Lye again.

I'm a partner with Crow and the lead engagement partner on Clark County and pleased to be with you this morning.

Um I'm just pleased to present the audit results.

Um I'll keep my remarks very brief.

I just wanted to cover the objectives of the audit, uh cover the audit results, and then do some required communications.

So, with respect to the um audit objectives, we were engaged by the county to perform a financial statement audit over the county as a whole, and to express an opinion on whether or not those financial statements are fairly stated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

Uh those standards require that we perform our audit to obtain reasonable assurance that the financial statements are fairly stated.

Um, and and with respect to the results, I'm pleased to present that we have issued an unmodified opinion.

Essentially, our opinion states that those financial statements are fairly stated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

And so if that statement is unmodified, it's actually excellent news.

It's the highest level of assurance that you can receive.

Um exciting uh news today, and then I'll finish off with some required communications.

Uh, first off, with respect to the summary of significant accounting policies and procedures.

Those are in footnote one of the financial statements.

We have reviewed those and have no comments uh to point out to you today.

Secondly, with respect to significant estimates, we have reviewed those as well.

Um, those are totally normal to be included in the financial statements that have no comments.

Uh, there were no material corrected or uncorrected misstatements to bring to your attention.

Um, and also the county has implemented new accounting standards.

We've reviewed those with management in particular.

There was an accounting standard over compensated absences, and uh we reviewed that and have no um items to bring to your attention.

And last but not least, I just wanted to point out that we are independent of the county.

That concludes my presentation.

I'm happy to address any questions that you might have.

Thank you so much.

Are there any questions?

If not, we thank you for your work and Ms.

Danchik and Miss Colvin.

We thank you very much.

We've come to expect this clean audit, but we don't take it for granted.

Thank you very much.

Is there a motion that we accept the audit?

Mr.

Chair, I move that we accept the audit and we ask for a motion.

Get a vote.

Please cast your vote.

Thank you.

Motion carries.

Commissioners, your next item is to receive a report from Clark County's non-voting member on the Clark County School District Board of Trustees.

Thank you.

We'll invite trustee Satori to come join us.

Uh, thank you very much again for being here.

Thank you very much.

All right, Lisa Satori for the record.

Thank you very much for having me here.

Um, let's see.

All right, today's agenda.

Um, I'll review the educational priority areas that are defined for my role.

Also any data requests from last meeting that we had, um, any board news and notes and upcoming events as well.

All right, and to review those are the education priority areas set forth.

Um, just a couple things to touch on recently pack passage of AB6 will strengthen penalty penalties for traffic infractions.

And I'm really excited to hear about that fair.

So thank you very much for doing that.

I'd love to share the word about that.

I'm excited to attend that.

I'm gonna get that on my calendar for sure.

I really love the partnership that that is gone on here between our municipalities and CCSC to really help um keep our students safe.

Um, also moving forward with pre-K updates, SB 460.

Um, we have applied for grant funds to continue that support for pre-K infrastructure, building modifications needed to adjust to more pre-Ks, um, playground installations and so forth.

So that is part of the core four for the superintendent's initiative moving forward and a focus area.

From the last meeting, a couple things I wanted to kind of share with you.

Um, let me grab my notes here.

Um we had talked about uh Commissioner Kirkpatrick had brought up about maintenance and replacement schedules, and I did get a little bit of information there as well.

Um I felt um in my one of my briefing is I kind of asked about a little bit more information there.

Major equipment like floor scrub scrubbers and sit-down cleaners are generally on a replacement schedule, so they do get replaced, um, while smaller handheld equipment is typically responsibility of the school.

Um I also got confirmation that schools do have to replace chargers and other small items out of their general fund, um, but the big ticket items like four scrubbers are usually funded centrally from the maintenance budget and small items managed by the school.

Um, I did ask about if there was a list anywhere kind of of what's provided to schools when they open and such.

Um, he was uh was not aware of one, but Brandon McLaughlin might be able to provide that.

Pause for a moment and Commissioner Capasco has a question.

Okay, I'm passionate about this.

I was gonna let you go on the preschool thing, but now I want to talk about these headphones and the chargers.

So uh what does that look like?

Because I I represent a lot of one star schools, and if you could show me where in their budget that they have money to buy the good quality uh headphones, uh I would and it really would be a site-based decision on what kind they purchase because those smaller items are responsible at school.

But I really like like you were mentioning, and I brought it up at that briefing as well about really trying to make an initiative or a drive to get some partners or to do you know in our school supply drives to try to get better quality headphones and such, like you were saying, it's really you know vital to well.

I mean, I listen, I'm not that the legislature cares what I think, but I think we got to go back to the legislature and we have to mandate good quality ones because at the end of the day, kids are expected to take the test that you're measured on from the maps test to the CVAC tests to on headphones.

In you know, I could buy my granddaughter five dollar ones, but I mean, what's the quality of it, right?

And they get they're on a time and all these other things.

So I just don't, I just it bothers me because I feel like when I was in the legislature ancient years ago, that in the technology fund we meant for that to be all the time, right?

So show me an adult that has the same earbuds they had two years ago, right?

So, how do you expect the kids to be responsible?

So I I just feel like we we need to really have a better conversation about that, and you're right, partnerships.

I reached out to Amazon to see if they'd be willing.

They apparently have an account with you guys, so maybe you're a community engagement person.

Maybe so, yeah, that might be a good question there.

Can get us, you know.

Well, we need 150,000, right?

So, in I I would say two sets, then one for just for testing, and then one for every day.

But it makes zero sense to purchase all this technology-based stuff.

If you're asking folks that are already struggling to go buy a $40 pair of headphones that their child is likely going to lose at the end of the day, right?

I uh that's a realist, right?

Um, and then on the other piece of it, so thank you for looking into it.

You're always so great about I used to get up and walk out, but I stay for you because you do good.

Uh but I mean I do maybe think that that needs to be a community-wide drive or something.

They're $50 apiece for the ones that with the microphone that makes sense.

Because a lot of students have text to speech accommodations and such, so yeah.

Well, especially if uh ESL and uh speech, you gotta have the microphone if you're trying to help them.

So I don't understand why the school itself should have to do that because that is not a high priority when it comes to uh so many other things, right?

Um, the other thing is on the preschool, what what does that mean?

What what is the plan for you all?

Because we've stood up a couple pop-up preschools, which I like to call them, and we want to stand up a few more pop-ups preschools, but if it's your priority, what does that mean?

I mean, where where can we have those conversations?

Yeah, and I can loop Superintendent Eber in that because that's something she has said that she wants to continue to expand pre-K and to increase the education of our pre-K teachers as well.

That's a big component of it, also, to make sure that they have the capabilities.

So I can definitely find out kind of the long-term plan and get some more information, but I know it's an area of focus.

I really just think we should have a discussion about it.

So many years ago when we did the 309 money, we worked on preschool.

Commissioner Naft and Jones will remember for sure.

Uh and we were able, we we were estimated to get 14 half day preschools for 12 million dollars.

That was not a good return on our investment when we could do pop-up preschools for three and a half million dollars.

So I just would love if there's rags that we gotta wave.

Commissioner Jones and I have been really trying to work on this as there are regs because the state will waive some regs.

So let me give you some examples.

So one of the ridiculous regs that they say is every classroom has to have our or every classroom has to have their own playground.

That that doesn't make any sense because kids go to the park and we don't segregate them except for the type of equipment, but we don't say, hey, only these six kids can play.

And why can't they walk through and another group use it right?

So we have asked the state they would waive that reg to have one pre one playground that they all can use at different times or the or the same time for heaven's sakes.

The other one is um 50 square feet per child.

That that seems reasonable if you're depending on what you're doing, but however, a bathroom in every single classroom that is dumb because if there's a bathroom across the street or across the street across the hall, um they should be able to walk in there and that has been a holdup a lot of times as the facility.

But that but the state is willing to waive that if somebody would just ask, because at home they don't have a bathroom in 50 square feet of them, I promise.

So I mean they don't have small toilets, and they don't have the small toilets.

I've argued that too, and I think that there's a fix that we could do is to put a ramp for the little ones to get you know, a little like a handicamp rant so they can get to them because they don't have those small toilets at home, and those are triple the cost of a regular toilet.

So I if someone really wants to have the conversation, I know I'm a speak I'm gonna involve you, Justin.

We we want to see.

We use a stool at home.

So well, we use a stool too, but I'm sure that the risk management people and the lawyers won't agree to that.

So uh, but uh whatever works.

But we let's ask.

We've never asked.

We talked about what how to comply.

I'm tired of complying because it ain't working.

I need kids in a classroom where they're learning social skills and they're ready for kindergarten.

So I I really do want to have that conversation.

Commissioner Jones just agreed.

He we would engage.

Excellent.

I will do my best to put you in contact with the with who would best assist with that and see and help move forward.

Thank you so much.

Okay, I'm not gonna pay attention to the rest because I don't want to stop you every time.

I'm gonna have to have my own set my own meeting.

Um, and then the other discussion from last time was the at-risk funding calculations, and I had said you know, defining exactly what it was calculated by, and you kind of want to have that question.

So um I dug a little bit deeper just so I could answer that more clearly.

And the reason it's not a clear answer is because it's not clearly available.

It's a um proprietary algorithm developed by Infinite Campus rather than a simple count like it used to be in the past, it was so you know, simple like graduation count.

It's an algorithm, and the algorithm rhythm isn't publicly shared.

So they will tell you what it's part what it's made up of, but as far as like what percents and how it's exactly calculated, um, are not publicly shared, um, but it does analyze dozens of indicators, um, like attendance grant grades, mobility, um, and that's where your grad score comes from.

Um, lowest scores are at risk.

Um, the benefit of this is that it's a more predictive model to see these students that are likely not to graduate versus they already haven't.

Um, and also when SB460 was brought up in the last slide, um, when we talked about I mentioned that was some legislation, I know that they were trying to do some things to make this so it didn't fluctuate as much, and that's exactly what SB460 is, um, to have it more over a longer period of time so that any kind of fluctuations don't affect schools' budgets, like we were talking about the last meeting that I presented out.

So, um, and this I believe was shared with you as well, um, but previously um in your in your reports from the district, but I just wanted to bring it up again, particularly the two slides of chronic absenteism, and this is specific to unincorporated Clark County.

Um, really just noting that decrease over two years.

I mean, almost a 10% decrease, and the fact that that decreases also across all subgroups is really notable.

So that thought was excellent data for Clark County.

Um, student behavior, um, seeing some decline kind of went up a little bit, but not not quite as great as the chronic absenteeism, but still seeing a slight decline, um, particularly more in expulsions than suspensions, but we're definitely uh work to be done here, and um as well.

Um, community engagement updates coming up.

We are continuing our community engagement meetings, and I do have one coming up on January 27th, so that's coming up very soon at Foothill, and that will be I will be doing that with trustee as far as a stoffer again, and that's from five to seven.

Also, there's kind of a note, you can kind of see the attendees at the past ones.

Um let's see, one of them I know coming up.

I'm not sure if it's um not this one, but there's another one that's uh fully virtual as well.

So that will be, and we're hoping that we'll maybe get a more attendees also just because you've it's a fully virtual option.

All right, and other news and notes, um, we did have our new leadership leadership team elected at the January 7th board session.

So we're excited to have trustee Emily Stevens as our board chair.

Um Irene Bustamanti Adams will be vice chair, but she is also the president of the NASBY NAS uh Nevada Association of School Boards, which it's really great for us to have that representation on the Nevada board, and it's something that's been we've been wanting for a long time.

Um, and then uh trustee Dominguez as um as treasurer.

And um currently working on the proposed revisions to our governance policies at the last work's work session.

We um took we each took two to three each, and we're really diving in and sharing with the group of what we wanted to have changed, and um we were lining it with Washoe and with balance balanced governance, so we were taking ours and really going line by line through each one.

So we got through half of them at the last word work session, um, and we'll be um have another upcoming one to continue going through those.

Um and we also approved the 26 amended final budget um on December 11th.

Superintendent evaluation, we are continuing to work towards that.

I had shared at the last one, but we're continuing to move forward there to make sure that our evaluation um aligns with those core four goals and our strategic um goals that we set forth.

Um, so we'll have a mid-year performance review and revision in April.

And that will get us on track to be on that November as we go into um then to November 26th, the final evaluation, but just getting on that irregular cycle because of the timing we hired her, it wasn't a regular cycle, so we're getting back on track there.

Um that facilities master plan final recommendations are coming out, so we're in the process of looking through those, and um we'll be meeting a lot to go through those um recommendations, see what adjustments we want to make to some of our campuses, whether they be K-12s, with I mean K-8s or different modifications or different adjustments of some of our structures that we currently have.

Um we have another bright futures walk, and we go out and visit families that have left the district and talk to them about you know why they've left and encourage them to come back, and that is taking place February 2nd and 3rd, and like I said, that community engagement meeting.

Um I'll also bring up then also an upcoming events.

You brought up the survey, so yes, we have gone through the survey a lot.

Um, there is a press conference today at two, so that is when the new start times will be released.

There definitely are changes, so it will be changing and adjusting those times to just for a later start time and some adjustments of um for grade levels.

So, yeah, that's coming out as well.

But there wasn't a clear winner.

I was definitely say there was a lot of decision making because it definitely affected so many families differently.

Um so a lot of the decision was also made based on data of just looking at what where the best results lie and how other school districts have done their start times and and such.

Thank you so much.

Uh while you're up here, Manager Schiller, since it sounds like the decision on start times already been made.

Um have we been engaged?

I think Commissioner Patrick is right.

There's at least three departments off the top of my head that are significantly impacted.

No, so what we will do is uh once we receive those start times, we'll jump on it with our affected departments.

Obviously, um there can be a domino effect if parents can't pick up and drop off at according time.

So we'll have to do some adjustments, and then we can report back to the board so you guys are aware of what's happening.

Thank you.

Any other questions?

Commissioner Singerboard.

Yes, so several of my schools in East Las Vegas, maybe all of them have had uh decrease enrollments or losing teachers as the district uh focused on trying to figure out why these students show up.

Are they the charter schools?

Are there is it immigration issues?

I think it's really important we understand what happened.

Yeah, and that's the part of the bright futures walk to actually go out and talk to them to try to get some more input.

Um, and it it is in our schools that have been the hardest hit.

So we're definitely focusing the impact there.

Commissioner Jones.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair, and thank you, Ms.

Torrey.

Um, on the facilities master plan, are there preliminary recommendations that are public that we could review?

Um I don't believe so, but I can find out.

I don't know if we have because I know they're still in the doing those final recommendations currently, and so we do have some presentations um coming up that we should I should be able to get to you.

Okay, I think that'd be important because particularly in my district uh Mountain's Edge High School, it's been back and forth and back and forth, and they hired a contractor, and then they didn't hire the contractor.

So those decisions don't just affect the school district, they affect our real property management team, our parks and rec team because they are in conjunction with our own parks master plan.

Okay I think that'd be important because particularly in my district uh Mountains Edge High School it's been back and forth and back and forth and they hired a contract and then they didn't hire the contractor so um those decisions don't just affect the school district they affect our real property management team our parks and rec team because they are in conjunction with our own parks master plan same thing goes for cashman where um that was on again off again on again off again um and then I'm gonna have my obligatory uh ask of what's the status on open doors open schools yeah and I don't know as that there have been any further follow-up since we had last spoken there was thank you I will reach out again so much um and I just let me know in the start times I know I was told that there was a lot of collaboration with the municipalities and talking about how it would affect our different wraparound services and such but after this is released please reach out if there are other considerations that come up that we need to kind of we're trying to you know come up with all the different how you know how it would affect families and all the different aspects but um so yeah please reach out if there's other things we haven't thought of thank you Commissioner Patrick yeah thank you and I just have uh first Lisa I can't think of enough for what you do and the extra time that you put in to to do this and but I do think that we have because of you we have better relationships and knowing how some decisions that you all make may impact us right social service um all these different things where we can get in front of it for all the kids right and you see in foster care we prepare those kids ready for school we send even stuff for the teachers so we're always trying to make sure that we too are doing that um where are we on didn't you guys get the ability to vote now didn't they pass that law 47 yes so at the end of the month you can vote oh 2027 yes are you kidding me for what nothing could be closer so when can you put stuff on the agenda at the same time yeah good lord okay well you'll still be there I hope yes that's my plan uh we appreciate you and um I I do I would be curious on these facility master plans it would be helpful for us to kind of know what's coming what's changing um I have heard in my district that um there's some closure conversations there's some and which I support right there um if we got to close it if we got to change it if every could you know I'd love to see in my little rural areas where okay eight because if the kids missed the bus it's six miles they're not going to school yeah and no matter what you do they're not going so I would love to see some of those new ideas even if um I'm sure to be all part of the press and the next time that you come maybe it'll be um it would be important to see what that looks like so we can plan just Clark County and show you some of the what some of the plans are once we get those yeah well and especially as we start planning for crossing guards right so if you're going to if a couple schools are going to change um the type of school it is that that may impact us too so um but I most importantly look forward to the conversation about preschool and really please ask your community engagement to go find some headphones for kids or buy them out of your I'm gonna bring that up at the next uh bond oversight uh before you go one more commissioner McCurdy uh thank you Mr.

Chairman um appreciate the presentation it's uh very thorough uh you're really out there doing the work uh my question is centered around the bright futures walk uh how can the public participate uh in that walk and how are we um approaching going out into the communities is it gonna be by sector or by trustees who are leading the bright futures walk and is it also only in unincorporated Clark County or all the school district as well yes it is all school districts and it is divided up like I said in some of the higher need um where there was more students that have have been lost um but they do wear shirts so that that way this they're clearly we're clearly identified when we go up um and so and it is targeted you know homes to to go speak to with the group um so yeah I could definitely try to get some information for you to to be able to join because I know there is might be another one after this one scheduled as well so yeah so this one and any upcoming ones to participate in thank you thank you so much Trustee Story for being here once again and for your service it's tireless we know we appreciate it thank you manager Schiller commissioners your next item is to approve and designate up to 10 million dollars in Clark County Capital funds for construction of the October one memorial project and direct staff to prepare a donation grant agreement to the Vegas strong fund with necessary terms and conditions for future board consideration or take other action as deemed appropriate as a means of introduction as this board's aware um we provided initial seed funding in over two million dollars um couple key tenets of this as it indicates the donation grant agreement um would come forward at a future um board item um want to highlight a couple pieces to this in the prior approval of those funds there was the assumption that the land would transfer to the county um with this 10 million dollars or up to 10 million dollars um county would not be responsible for the land it would not receive that land um not responsible for maintenance and or the staffing associated to that and then in the future agreement we would bring forward um milestones related to the construction which could include construction timelines and then also um full funding being attained prior to the disbursement of those funds it would be open to the public

County would not be responsible for the land.

It would not receive that land.

So I'll turn it over to the board for discussion.

Thank you.

I I I definitely have a few things.

For me, uh uh Kevin, I think what you laid out is really important.

There's got to be some hard timelines, benchmarks, and when we do see this item come forward as a uh an actual funding allocation.

Uh, I think those are gonna be expectations.

Everything that you just led, I I would imagine that the motion would be in inclusive of those as a condition of approval today.

Um, I think it is really important that we have a um an alternative plan for the long-term maintenance because there is no land transfer to the county.

That will not be, it's not my expectation that the county uh this week or ever takes over ongoing long-term maintenance.

Uh, I don't think we are best equipped to do that.

Um then I I do, as you mentioned, um there's got to be some milestones.

We can't just be authorizing uh one lump sum uh without any any kind of construction timelines attached to it.

Commissioner Kappatrick.

Um thank you, uh Mr.

Chairman.

And so, you know, I feel like I'm the today.

I'm the only person that was here during uh this October one, and you know, I I don't want to lose sight of what the county's been doing, right?

So we gave the first one million dollar seed money, we um hosted a fundraiser with many of the survivors right here, and we pre-funded that so that they they could also do that.

And um, but this 10 million has to be the last, right?

We still have to, we still we contributed to the resiliency um center.

We gave additional dollars for that through our ARPA, and so you know there's mixed conversations out there, but for me in particular, I think this 10 million kind of puts us pretty close to the 15 million.

Um, and I think that we need to I I want to be done uh and get the project up and going.

Uh, but I'm um I feel like there's gonna be negotiations on an MOU and I want to be very clear on some of the things, right?

So, like we do with our OAG grants where we give the money when we have a budget and we have all of those milestones so that we know what that looks like.

And I um this will be my fourth time that I've heard that um it's gonna be privately funded.

So what happens in the event?

So I know it on the OAG grants that let's just say, you know, someone in my district asks for five million and we give them 75,000, they have to go back and rework their budget and tell us what that looks like so that we kind of know what what we're paying for because survivors are gonna want to know, constituents are gonna want to know.

Um, what did the county's 10 million dollars go to?

Um in people don't think that that's true.

When we gave the seed money, I got hundreds of phone calls from the survivors in particular.

What exactly is that going to?

When is it gonna get done when we did the money for the fundraiser?

Tons of local people in you know, many um who were not here when um we had the initial money, the voca money and all of that.

Everybody specifically wanted to know where all of those dollars went, and they still last today is the crazy thing, right?

So I just I think that we gotta have that for ourselves to know what exactly did our dollars go to because it can't go to can't go to employees, can't go to um uh maintenance or any of those things because those are things that we were very clear about in the beginning that we would not be comfortable uh funding.

So it I feel like Lisa, you gotta have enough to put together something so that um we can move on from this point.

And at the start, I I believe that 2027, October 1, 2027 is a lot of people are anticipating that that's gonna move forward.

Any other uh Commissioner Sager Bloom?

Uh just uh talk about the other side of the coin.

I think it's important to remember that the county is stepping up.

This really is important to us, and so hopefully the seed money will be useful for you guys going out to the community and trying to raise more money.

But um, we are showing from our hearts that we really support you um and believe in you and know that you can do this.

So thank you so much.

There's no other discussion.

Uh we'll talk about a motion, but I uh just so it's crystal clear.

What we're doing today is designating 10 million dollars uh for this purpose.

We will this board will see it again as an authorization of those funds tied to some of those action items.

Uh yes, uh Chairman.

So the specific details that I outlined and you um reiterated would um come forward in that donation grant agreement um in a future item, um, and we will try to turn that around as quickly as possible and bring that back to the board.

Thank you very much, Commissioner.

Uh uh, thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Um I move that we approve and designate up designate 10 million dollars in Clark County Capital Funds for the construction of the October 1 Memorial Project.

Can I ask a question?

So, Lisa, I I think that uh just for me, because I feel like I'm the history channel at Clark County, but uh in the preamble, can you put something in about kind of how we got to this point and you know what we've done leading up to this point, and then the additional because I think that it's important for future boards to know what that uh looks like.

Yeah, we can include that in the grant agreement.

Thank you.

There's a motion cast your vote.

That motion carries commissioners.

It's now 10 a.m.

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

Your next item is to conduct a public hearing and approve, adopt, and authorize the chair to sign an ordinance to change the name and amend the boundaries of the area served by Lower Kyle Canyon Citizens Advisory Council and providing for other matters properly related there too.

Thank you.

If there's no further presentation, I'll open this item up for a public hearing.

Anyone wishing to speak can come forward at this time.

Seeing none, I'll close the public hearing and turn over to Commissioner Becker.

Um as we discussed before, um, this is just uh we wanted to change the ordinance to reflect what the boundaries are for uh the upper Cyle Canyon and Lower Kyle Canyon, and wanted to be uh more in the in the description of the board's name.

Uh the citizens advisory council.

We wanted it to represent what the boundaries were better.

So and if if there's no other discussion, I would just move to approve.

Thank you.

There's a motion, please cast your vote.

A motion carries.

Uh commissioners, your next item is to conduct a public hearing, approve and adopt and authorize the chair to sign an ordinance to amend Title IV revenue taxation of the Clark County Code to add a new chapter 4.35 to impose a 911 telephone line surcharge and providing for other matters properly related there too.

Morning.

Uh good morning, Chair, Commissioners.

Mike Harwell for business license.

This is an ordinance um that is uh authorized by uh state law.

This would impose a uh surcharge on telephone lines throughout the county, including the current uh the incorporated cities.

Um the business impact statement was approved last meeting.

Um there has been some discussion from commenters about some of the terminology regarding trunk lines, and they wanted a clarification.

Uh the definition of trunk lines is uh in state law and in our code, and it means a line which provides a channel between a switchboard owned by a customer of a telecommunication provider and the local exchange of the telecommunication telecommunication provider.

Uh this is a term that's been around for decades, maybe centuries, I don't know.

Uh and I've actually been asked by a telecom company what that means.

So I'm trying to clear that up and put it on the record.

Uh and this has been asked by large customers like resort hotels.

Um this does not mean a trunk line is one line between the telephone company and the switchboard of that customer.

It does not include all the lines that go from that switchboard to all the uh rooms in the hotel.

If it's an extension, if you have to dial nine to get to out, that's not an access line, and it's not a trunk line.

So a big resort hotel may only have one trunk line.

Um, but they may have thousands of extensions, but those would not be part of the calculation of this uh this fee.

Um for example, uh a facility like uh uh Venetian and uh Palazzo, they may have two switchboards, that would be two trunk lines, but that would be ten dollars, not thousands of dollars a month.

So I'm I'm hoping that clarifies that point.

Um this ordinance would uh impose a one dollar per line for landline and wireless and ten dollars per trunk line per month.

Um, and it would be effective uh for collection starting April 1.

I believe fire department has a presentation that they would like to uh uh uh present regarding the um five-year plan and and what the funds are used for.

Thank you.

Could we just clarify?

Is it a dollar or up to a dollar?

The state law says up to a dollar, that's the maximum, but the in the ordinance it has a dollar there.

We have discretion in the vote today.

Yeah, that's that's for you to decide on today if you want to leave it at a dollar.

That's the maximum.

That's what Washoe County is.

They started out at the middle as a smaller amount and they ratcheted it up to a dollar.

I don't live in Washo.

I don't care about Washo.

But that's the maximum per state law.

As a comparable, though, Washo did this how many years ago?

Huh?

How many years ago did Washoe County institute this?

Uh I think it was only 2017 when the state law changed to allow Clark County to be able to do it.

Prior to that, counties under 700,000 population were excluded from the legislature authorized it, I think, in 1995, though.

Yeah.

Yeah, they jumped on it right away.

Clarify question.

Commissioner McCurdy.

Uh thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh, can you just please clarify?

You I thought I heard you say if you have to dial nine out, then that line would the those will be the impact that lines.

That would not be an access line.

So that would not be subject to the the fee.

Got it.

Uh that the nine that you dial is to get to the switchboard to get it to an outside line.

Perfect.

Um, because all the like all the rooms in a hotel, they don't each individually have a seven-digit number assigned to them by the telephone company.

So those are not direct access lines.

So that's not part of the imposition of this fee.

But the trunk line from the telephone company to the switchboard of the customer would be subject to the $10 or whatever fee that is.

And the trunk line fee per state law must be 10 10 times more than whatever the landline fee is.

So if you set it at a different amount, um, that trunk line fee has to be 10 10 times more than the access line fee.

Are fax lines included?

If it's uh asking for a friend.

If it's if it's uh an access, well uh I don't know.

I it might be, and 800 numbers might be, because that's a direct line to from the customer to the uh telephone company.

Okay, I think I heard you say Chief Samuels has a presentation.

Good morning.

Thank you, Commissioners.

Uh let me get this presentation.

I have Damon Harris, the chief financial officer also from Las Vegas, Michael and the police department to kind of answer some of the other questions that uh might stump me.

Uh just kind of read to you what Mike just kind of discussed as well.

Um for hotels and similar facilities, the proposed surcharge would not apply to individual guest room telephones.

Guest rooms operate behind that shared trunk systems, and any applicable charge would be assessed at that trunk level, not per room, per extension, and not per call.

All right, can we go to my uh first slide, please?

I'd like to go over a couple little things before we kind of get into the ordinance itself.

Oh, do I have it?

Huh?

Look at that.

You guys give me control.

This is not good.

All right, I do a little history of the 911 surcharge and the system where it came from.

Starting in 1995, the Nevada Slature, the Mata legislature enacted sent a bill of 473.

This was under NRS 244A, which actually gave the opportunity or the allowance to let uh counties uh charge that up to a dollar surcharge fee.

I'm actually got increased up to a dollar.

In 2017, uh, this allowed counties of populations greater than that 700,000, which is where Clark County would have fit into.

Uh in two in 2025, Clark County with support from incorporated cities and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

We did request uh to implement the surcharge to enhance the current 911 system.

Um that's the history of the 911 surcharge.

I want to go into a little bit of the history of the um operations that we've had affected due to our 911 system that we currently have.

In April of 2024, uh the affected um following PSAPs, that's that public safety answering points uh were um altered due to the fact of that incident.

Uh that was LBMPD, North Las Vegas PD, Henderson Police Department, and the Combined Communications Center.

Uh just for clarity, the combined communications center is what houses Clark County Fire, Las Vegas Fire and Rescue, and North Las Vegas fire.

This didn't require a multi-agency coordination center to be activated and operated for about a seven hours that night.

December of 2024, the Combined Communication Center again was affected by receiving transfer calls from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

L VMPD is our primary PSAP.

That's the one that actually takes the calls initially in within Clark County, and then those calls get routed over to the Combined Communications Center should it be something other than uh police activity.

Uh October of 2025, uh, this also affected the combined communication center, and this was actually in the rural division with Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

Uh, we actually staffed um it was uh Good Springs and Sandy Valley where we uh stationed units there available because the 911 system was down again.

Uh the reason those systems were down, uh it was that analog system if you guys remember the same type of that happened from Missouri when it affected us in 24.

The same thing happened in another line was cut that affected the Sandy Valley and that southwest part of the Valley um incident.

Um the why, why are we asking for this?

Uh currently we operate on an analog system.

Um with with the today's technology, uh, we need to start advancing and progressing.

Um this allows us to use that surcharge for equipment, licenses, subscriptions, and enhancements like next gen 911.

We ask about what is next gen 911.

It's a fully digital compute communications um from call maker to call taker.

So whoever's making that call, it's going to dispatch, it's digital now.

Uh this can actually support voice, text, images, and videos.

So we can get a little more accuracy on what the call is occurring by that call maker to give it to dispatch to kind of see what we're actually going on.

Uh the location on information, this is actually it'll it'll drop a pin on where the person actually at we still have this now.

However, this is more accurate.

Um, it can actually affect even the x-axis and the y-axis, so you know where you're actually at, not just um horizontally but vertically.

Um and then the tree routes calls quicker coming from the PSAP over to the combined communication center.

Um it's just a quicker transfer as you can imagine with technology.

Um the ordinance timeline, just to give a history on kind of how we got to today, uh in December 17 of 2024, the Board of County Commissioners directed staff to develop the 911 surcharge master plan.

Um it took takes a while.

Uh November 4th of 2025, the BCC adopted a five-year 911 uh surcharge master plan.

Uh January 6th of 26, the BCC approved the business impact statement.

Uh that same day, the BCC also introduced the 911 surcharge ordinance.

Uh today we will uh the BCC will conduct a public hearing and adopt the ordinance.

And then looking forward on February 3rd, 2026, the Board of County Commissioners consider appointments of the two county members to the 911 Emergency Response Advisory Committee.

And talking about what that committee actually is, um, let me go over the ordinance first on what that looks like, and then we'll go over the committee.

Uh as uh Mr.

Harbell explained, uh, April 1st, 2026, we can actually start receiving the charges for those access lines, trunk lines, and mobile telephone numbers assigned to customers within Clark County.

Some the some of the questions that have come up are if you have a 602 area code, um, are you affected?

It really depends on where your address, your billing address is gonna be, and that's how it denotes who's being charged that surcharge.

This is a dollar per month for each access line to the local exchange of a telecommunications provider.

Uh as Mike also said, $10 per month for each trunk line because it's 10 times the amount to the local exchange of a telecommunications provider.

One dollar per month for each telephone number assigned to a customer by a supplier of mobile telephone service within Clark County.

And each month the telephone company shall collect the surcharge and remit it to the treasurer of the county.

Uh Cent Bill 208, uh, this um it actually increased the capabilities on what we're at actually how to use those funds for.

We're able to use it for facilities, hardware, software, and to physically occupy that center.

Um encumbered over 15 million dollars uh at any of the fiscal years, uh the the BCC shall reduce that surcharge.

Uh the ordinance host for the advisory.

Chief, if we could just take a question, Commissioner Patrick.

Can I ask a question on that last point that you just made?

So I have two points.

So what does um I'm skeptical of people giving us reports that match um, you know, everybody always tells us they can do all these things.

So what what does the what does the report look like that we're getting from the telephone companies?

Companies, because there's a lot of them that aren't the um the main ones, you know.

So there's uh there's the off brands, right?

They're not the ATT, they're not the T-Mobile, they're not the Verizon.

What does that look like?

What they give us?

Because I do I I worry that when they start merging that we might lose information.

So what are we asking them for?

Yeah, I'll I'll kick that over to Damon.

He probably has a little more idea on the provider side.

Actually, I was gonna kick that over to France.

PSAP, Lisa, what are we asking for?

Somebody several good sign when two out of three.

Uh Mike Harwell for business license.

Um the phone companies are already uh remitting uh franchise fees to the county.

Uh and some of these are the uh ones that resell the smaller ones.

So they would they would uh add this fee to their billing and uh remit that to us.

So my question, I'll be a little more direct.

My question is this so when you get the franchise thing, do they give you a report that says two million people were uh have a cell phone and we're paying you five percent of the gross?

Is that how it works?

Yeah, they the uh phone companies, the cell phone companies uh add a five percent uh charge up to fit up to 25 cents on their bill right now.

Uh this is the franchise fee that they pay us.

Um, and this would add uh another dollar per line they would have to include in their bill.

And so are there any telephone companies?

Are there any cell phone companies that don't have a franchise agreement with us?

There's a lot of them that do not have a franchise agreement.

Uh my point.

The reason the ones that have a franchise agreement are the ones that actually put infrastructure within our rights aways, they still have to pay the ones without a franchise, still have to pay the same fees that a franchisee would have to pay.

So um if they're uh and when when we get an application for a fra for a telecom license, one of the things we do is make sure that they're uh properly certificated by the PUC to provide that service, and um and give them the same license as we would a franchisee.

The difference with a franchisee is that we have to go through the process of issuing and granting a franchise, and that not only earmarks them as a telecom company, but it uh then allows them to actually put their infrastructure in our rights aways, and that's the big ones the ATTs and the Verizons and such.

So it's pretty consistent on the amount of people.

So if I said to you after this meeting, please give me the history on how many people are using the cell phone in the last three years, you could pull that up pretty easily.

Yes.

Okay, I'm gonna ask.

Okay, and my second piece is for million Damien on this 15 million.

Please explain to me how this works.

So it's based on the numbers that I have, um you're gonna get to that 15 million pretty easily.

Um depending on whatever number that you start with, right?

Unless you start at 25 cents, uh, you're likely gonna get to that 15 million, right?

50 cents is about 17 million dollars.

So the both the ordinance and the law is pretty uh it's pretty broad, which concerns me because it just basically says that um if during the year that it's not encumbered, then we have to lower the rate, which you and I both know that's likely never happened, but my concern is this that it would be encumbered just because I understood that the process was you were gonna come back to the county and ask what our priorities were.

Is that done the previous year for the upcoming year?

Because I I could see a I could see where you could end up with some going over that 15 million and I've been promised by both of you that we're the last stop, and so I want to understand how that process works because it's not clear to me.

So is it like April to April?

Is a five-year plan to change, or what does that look like?

So the five-year plan isn't dictated necessarily by hey, it's got to start on a July 1st or January 1st, though when the advisory committee is created, uh, presumably at the next BCC meeting, um, that's one of the topics they'll discuss is what does that fiscal year look like?

Just being asked it's all government agencies, local government agencies, it's likely to follow our typical fiscal year, right?

July to through June.

And so the expectation is once we have the rate and we can back into how much revenue we believe it'll generate, that advisory committee is gonna basically propose hey, here are the things that they recommend get purchased through this.

That's what's gonna come back to this board is that recommendation uh for the following year, if you will, and hey, this is how they'd like to purchase the monies.

Once the approval is given by the board, at that point we can actually start encumbering the funds to go purchase the X, Y, and Z.

And so I will say there are fine, there are hard things that are already included in that five-year master plan that have been identified for future purchase.

So those funds are certainly gonna be encumbered to things that have already been identified.

See, that's where I'm uh struggling because the five-year plan is a concept plan, right?

And you're supposed to come back to us.

And I feel sick at the thought that it's gonna be be on a consent agenda, and we're not gonna be able to talk about it, right?

Because our priorities change too.

I mean, for me, I would tell you that the communication centers top priority, right?

We know we need it, we know we need to get away from the antiquated stuff, but also within this ordinance and the law and and your own report, it allows for reoccurring dollars.

So I just wanna I I would hate the reoccurring dollars to be to be broad.

I I mean I'm sorry I'm asking all these questions, but I'm struggling on um how does this board stay on top of it so it doesn't become doesn't it just doesn't the 15 million dollars never even uh builds up, right?

Because I would tell you in our normal budgets when we do capital plans, which is essentially what this is, right?

It's funding capital plans and some FF and E's, but we typically say, okay, this year we're gonna hold three million dollars towards the animal shelter, and the next year we'll do 10 million dollars, then we'll do 5 million dollars.

But I don't see I don't see how that's a doable conversation based on what you presented.

So please make me feel better about maybe Jessica.

You could uh chime in.

Yes, Commissioner.

My thought was during the budget process, we would also be working with the committee and our representatives on the committee on what that based on the recommendation that's given to the board and the board's direction, then we would build that budget with the committee going into the July 1st of the next fiscal year.

So when we're talking about there's an automatic amount that's encumbered with the five-year plan, I think that would first need to come to the board quickly.

Um then we would build that into the budget going into July 1st, and then that would also be approved by the board.

Okay, and there, and so on that note, which is all the more reason why I want a fiscal person on it, because there's tons of law enforcement people, but at the end of the day, but and I know that fiscally all you guys talk across the valley that way, people kind of know because I would assume there are some instances where we the county and the city for Metro in particular may have to add some additional dollars in our capital budget to offset some of that because um just of timelines and different things.

So is that your guys' understanding that we're going to jointly build the budget together?

Because that's not what I keep hearing.

So I just it'd make me feel a lot better if you told me that when it comes to the Clark County side.

Um, we are gonna recommend we're one of a few votes on there, and we know how this works.

Many times we get outvoted.

So, what is what is your intent to tell the committee?

Yeah, you want to start?

No, go for it.

No, so um, we're obviously gonna work at some of those larger projects that we've already all identified.

Um, some of those nice to have, so I probably shouldn't default to this committee.

That's not what it should be for.

It is more for enhancing the system, uh building out the facility that we're looking at at the shared communication center.

Um, but we are gonna have a county fiscal representative, or we're suggesting to the board that a county fiscal representative would be part of the Clark County um uh group themselves uh for that to you, so you guys do have that information, and we can work closely with Ms.

Coleman's office.

Okay, I I'm gonna ask for our own person, right?

Because I don't want it to take away the two.

I'm gonna ask for a third person.

So I as much as you guys tell me about Washoe, I went back and read all of Washo stuff over the weekend and checked out all their bylaws, all that good stuff, and they have uh nine voting members, odd number, always makes sense, and then they have one non-voting member.

So I'm gonna ask so that we have an odd number members, and at least we have our county fiscal because I also know that the fiscal agencies across the valley talk on a regular basis, and I just think it would make sense, and I appreciate law enforcement uh having a they're like one of every two seats on on there for the for the most part, or public response, but at the same time, someone's got to pay the bills.

So I'm gonna ask for that when you finish your presentation.

Yes, ma'am.

Uh talking about the movement over to the ordinance and advisory committee and what that looks like.

Uh, there is a total of 14 members, uh, two members from the following.

This was through the NRS 244A- or uh dash 7645.

That's the city of Las Vegas, City of Boulder City, City of Henderson, City of Musquete, City of North Las Vegas, Clark County, and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department that has to be appointed by fiscal affairs committee as required by NRS 244A.

One member must be the chief law enforcement officer or the designee, and one member must be the chief law enforcement officer design of the city's marshal division.

So it's a little bit um they it is scripted on who they actually have to uh assign to that committee.

Um and then the one member must be the chief law enforcement officer or the designee when you look at the L VMPD side.

Uh on the adornance uh ordinance and the advisory committee, a couple more things that come through.

Uh there are expectations is to develop maintain an annually review of the county's five-year master plan, recommend surcharge expenditures to the board of county commissioners.

Obviously, the board of county commissioners has final determination of how those expenditures are met.

Uh the committee themselves, they will do four-year terms.

However, if somebody does uh retire or get promoted out or leaves, then uh they will uh appoint that person again right away.

Uh the chair and vice chair are elected annually, and then we will follow Nevada's open meeting law per NRS 241.

Uh in summary, uh the allowances to help offset the increasing costs that we're all seeing.

Uh we can't continue to repeat history like we've seen with the analog systems.

This provides up-to-date technology for our command communication center and all of our PSAPs, and then also provides a more reliable and resilient 911 system.

And then questions, please.

I have more.

Yes, ma'am.

So I do think it's important that you point out that the chair, whoever the revolving chair is, their staff, because this always becomes an issue.

We and many committees.

So your um, I do think you should point out that the chair there are responsible for the secretarial duties of notifying and and doing all of that.

But it becomes an issue, believe it or not.

I you know, sit on the civilian military board, but I can't go unless I pay a thousand dollars, and I'm not paying a thousand dollars of county money to be on a board.

I have no vote, right?

So I just want to make sure that you point that out because I want to very clear with the other local jurisdictions that when you're the chair, you're responsible for all of that, and that information has to keep moving.

Is that the way it works, right?

Yes, ma'am.

And currently, uh the Office of Emergency Management for Clark County has assigned someone to be that note taker currently.

So moving forward, if it's the uh determination of this board, we'll make have the chair assign that.

I will say, Commissioner, it is in the ordinance already that the county will provide the recording secretaries if you want that to change to the chair of the you know, the jurisdiction of the chair.

I just whoever the chair is, I just want to make sure that the we had this issue.

What is that crazy board that you're on Justin that never meets because they can't find staff?

Uh well, SNRPC is at issues, but it's uh DJ JS policy and fiscal affairs because we can never have a quorum.

Yeah, so I just want to make sure that whoever is the chair is responsible for doing all those other things, and then we the county do what we're supposed to because I I just don't want to hear that we don't have the staff, right?

We always figure it out in administrative services, yes, ma'am.

Commissioner Sega Bloom.

Um, as a side note, I just want to brag about the chief.

He's the most healthy, most active chief in the history of Las Vegas, uh Clark County uh yesterday.

He was up and running up and down the sides of the Martin Luther King parade, had out these little plastic fire hats.

So just shout out to you.

It's incredible.

You're you said a great example.

Thank you, sir.

Any other any other questions or comments?

Commissioner Kapatrick.

I'm ready to make a motion, and I wrote my motion down to make a clear please to get it.

Excuse me.

This is a public hearing.

Anyone wishing to speak can come forward at this time related to item 34.

Seeing none, Commissioner Kirkpatrick.

Uh thank you.

Uh Mr.

Chairman.

Uh so um I uh I had Lisa help me write a potential motion that I wanted to do.

Um so I'm gonna read it specifically.

So under section one, chapter 4.35.020, subsection one, amend subsection C from one dollar to 50 cents per month for each telephone number assigned to the customer by a supplier of mobile telephone service within Clark County and add a provision that the charge imposed by this subsection be increased annually on April 1st by 10 cents up to a maximum of one dollar.

So that means in five years they'll get to their one dollar, and it doesn't have to come back from us, but we can uh we don't ever undue rates.

This way we can control the rates.

And then on subsection one, uh chapter 4.35.035, subsection one amend subsection G from two members appointed by the county to three, one of which uh a member shall be an employee of the kind of the county's finance department.

Um would be my motion.

So they still get to where they're trying to get to.

We have a finance person as well as our two um folks, and then um we can better stay on top of that five-year plan.

And then too, is as Mr.

Harwell alluded to, the trunk line will by statute be 10 times the amount of the surcharge.

The trunk line will go down to five dollars and then will go up every year as well.

So we'll make those consistent changes.

I think the motion's pretty clear.

If there's no questions, uh please yeah.

Mr.

Harwell has a comment also on and subsection C, the um the fee for the wireless would also go down to 50 cents with the uh increase of one uh 10 cents a year to be consistent with state law.

And then Lisa just can make those consistent so that there's nothing further.

Please cast your vote.

That motion carries.

This is the final time set aside for public comment.

Anyone wishing to speak on anything on or off the agenda can come forward at this time.

When you do, please state your first and last name for the record.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Um, my name is Tanil Pereira.

Uh good morning, Chairman NAFT and the other commissioners.

Um, I'm grateful to be here this morning uh to express the gratitude of the survivors, the families, and the entire impacted community for your ongoing continued support.

Since one October 2017, the county has been an incredible leader in leading for healing and for hope for tens of thousands of impacted individuals.

You guys stepped up, supported the resiliency and justice center, continue to support their work so that they can provide needed support services.

You've created a more resilient community for our entire community and for all victims.

You supported the one October Memorial Committee in supporting staff and uh supporting us as we developed a process that empowered victims, empowered families to come forward and say what was important to them and what their voice needed, what they needed heard, and what they needed seen to honor and remember that day and their families and the impact it had on them for generations to come.

So I'm here to say thank you.

Uh, we have an incredible vote board with the Vega Strong Fund.

They have been working tirelessly.

They have the plans, they're ready to go.

And today, this is a monumental uh support from you to get this done and to be able to hit that mark of October 2027.

So thank you from the bottom of my heart and from them.

Good morning, commissioners.

For the record, my name is Taylor Avery, and I am the manager of political affairs for the Vegas Chamber.

Um the Vegas Chamber has a long history of supporting public safety in this community.

Most recently, the chamber was a leading advocate for Senate Bill 451, known as same cops, um, during the 2025 legislative session and before this body.

The chamber also supports efforts to increase the efficiency and the strength of the county's emergency response system as a safe community allows employers and employees to flourish.

The chamber agrees with the approach of implementing the initial 911 surcharge fee at a lower rate, followed by a multi-year escalator that caps at $1.

Once it reaches $1, this new fee will generate $35 million a year in new revenue and is a significant amount of new taxpayer funding.

This incremental increase will allow Southern Nevada residents and businesses to digest the fee more easily.

This is a prudent and responsible approach to managing taxpayer dollars, and we appreciate the leadership of the commission on this matter.

It also makes the proposal more feasible and the process more transparent, giving the public more time to better understand how the funds will be used for 911 services and the oversight mechanisms implemented by the commission.

On behalf of Southern Nevada taxpayers, which include the business community, we want to ensure those public dollars are spent prudently and managed carefully.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker, please.

Good morning.

My name is Brandon Bunts, B U N C E of Las Vegas.

I'm here today to call for action against L VMPD's unprecedented use of dragnet surveillance technology, specifically the department's continued choice to utilize flock safety systems in Clark County.

Flock safety manufactures and administers what they describe as automated license plate readers.

But this is a misnomer.

These are AR-powered cameras that capture and analyze images of all passing vehicles and their visible interiors.

Turning your car's information such as model dents, bumper stickers, occupant clothing, and more into searchable data points.

These cameras collect, to paraphrase Flock CEO, a problematic abundance of data on millions of vehicles, regardless of the driver is suspected of a crime.

Flock markets these systems as indispensable tools to fight crime, which ignore the already powerful tools police have to track criminals, such as cell phone location data.

But Flock created a loophole that does not require a warrant.

Additionally, in the few years these cameras have been around, independent research has yielded significant security concerns.

Recently, researcher John Gaines found 67 cameras exposed to the internet without protection.

Earlier last year, he also found that flock cameras run an insecure version of Android from nearly a decade ago.

Flock generated data does not remain local.

It is retained by a private vendor and may be queried and shared across jurisdictions, including with other law enforcement agencies and federal partners like ICE.

Yet there is no county level ordinance clearly defining data ownership, retention limits, access controls, or uh public reporting requirements.

Under Nevada law, counties are responsible for ensuring that technology is used in public safety, comply with constitutional protections, public records obligations, and procurement ethics standards.

At present, there is no transparent framework establishing whether Flox data is a public record, a vendor-controlled asset, or something in between.

This creates legal risk, unclear accountability, unclear remedies for misuse, and no formal mechanism for public oversight.

When a company uh private company controls surveillance infrastructure that materially affects residents' rights, the absence of clear rules is not uh neutral.

It is a policy choice.

Finally, I want to address the most basic question.

Whether this technology should exist here at all was never meaningfully debated.

A significant portion of Clark County surveillance expansion occurred through private donations from Ben and Felicia Horowitz, used to acquire technologies such as flock safety cameras and SkyDo drones.

At the same time, Mr.

Horwitz is a co-founder of Andreas and Horowitz, a venture capital firm that invests in both of these companies.

Even assuming good faith, this alignment of private financial interests with public law enforcement adoption shifts and ten incentives towards rapid deployment rather than careful justification.

When technology arrives, framed as a uh donation or upgrade, the threshold question, necessity, proportionality, and whether less intrusive alternatives exist is often bypassed.

Systems capable of automated large-scale track uh tracking permanently alter the relationship between residents and their government.

Once embedded, they are difficult to unwind and tend to expand beyond their uh original scope.

That is why I'm asking this commission to pause L VMPD's expansion and require a public evidence-based justification for whether AI enabled mass surveillance should exist in Clark County at all before deciding how to regulate it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker, please.

Good morning.

Hi, good morning.

Uh, for the record, uh, my name is Michael Hoffman.

Uh, last name uh HOFFMAN.

Um address 7735 Lofty Hill Court.

Um, thank you uh for allowing the public the opportunity to speak.

Just want to say home means Nevada to me.

Um I'm here today.

I have a petition for myself and my neighbors in regards to um short-term rental that's on our block.

Um, I hope this gets resolved soon, and I am available for contact for more information.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you for all you do for our county.

Um, I have this petition I'd like to provide to your right.

Thank you, Kylie.

Thank you.

You guys have a great rest of your day.

Good morning.

Yes, good morning, commissioners.

My name is Margaret Coleman.

I came to address you as being the chief recovery um trustee of the Margaret Colvinic state.

I was told to address you in that manner due to the fact I have not been able to gain control back due to a lot of violations by the committee and partners concerning with partner uh pockets um petis, PA GYA has interfered with me gaining control back to 1316 wizard that I am entitled to for the correct living in a house.

And I have given the opportunity through the HUD to stay inside uh to get my business in order to address you as I am now today.

But I'm not uh I'm needing money.

I'm trying to get back control of money.

Uh they keep calling it only for medical.

If you could release my money, I can go straight ahead and I can open up this foundation.

The one that I was trying to do and not peg us.

This is a artistic lead poison foundation that was supposed to find a cure, but everybody's on weed and nobody has the thinking and the uh you know opportunity to be themselves again due to the fact that it has a non-caring uh with this drug that is controlling that uh mental capacity of your mind.

So if you could wake up, this is what this is.

I have uh had Clinton produce this wake-up alert pill due to the fact it fatigues us at the courtyard.

They have created uh a block for me concerning um called um ambassador.

You heard of that, right?

Well, they took the money and it gave it to everybody in that uh facility at the courtyard, whereas it left me out.

I have not received a dime of that money, the three million, which was placed in there, and now the eight million was given to the children.

And as you know, those vapor pipes is a destruction.

It makes you angry, and it turns your whole personality uh to negativity as far as I'm concerned.

So if you could let me open up my charity foundation, I have given you the antidote, and we are needing to be on vitamins to control your intestines, and also uh we're needing our pain pills that is uh predict for our uh rheumatoid arthritis.

Uh, as you know, I lost my wound.

I can't be uh uh bury any more children.

Thank you, Miss Coleman.

Thank you.

Next speaker, please.

Thank you.

Morning.

Hi, my name is Sue Ann Cornwall, and I'm a survivor of the Route 91 shooting.

And first of all, thank you all for what you've done.

This committee has been amazing in supporting us from day one.

And the early morning service, everything that you guys do for us is something that we look forward to on every remembrance for our healing.

Um I would just like to say I truly believe the Forever One Memorial will be a place of healing, peace, growth, and community and history.

The memorial will tell the whole story from the excitement of getting our wristbands to the amazing time we had, to the tragic event and beyond.

It will tell about the laws that have been passed, the training that has been implemented, and the relationships that have been developed with strangers that have become family.

It will tell how ordinary people became heroes afterwards, how the community came together and showed that the world that compassion can kindness and humanity still exists and it exists here in Las Vegas.

I believe the Forever One Memorial will be a place we want people will want to see and people will want to come to.

I am sure it will surround any that enter and give them peace.

This memorial, first and foremost, will honor our 58 angels who are the backbone of our healing.

This memorial will explain that you did not have to be behind the fence to be a survivor of the tragedy.

This tragedy encompasses the Las Vegas community and survivors and people around the world.

As a whole, the Forever One Memorial is one more good thing coming out of a tragic night.

With everyone working together for the greater good, we will get this done.

Not because we want to, not but because we have to.

We all wish it never happened, but it did.

So we have a choice.

Do we normalize it or memorialize it?

The answer is an easy one.

The Forever One Memorial will memorialize and represent the history.

This is our history to tell.

Clark County has helped us to this point, and 10 million dollars from you will speak loud and clear to our community as we continue to find funds to support this amazing project.

The goal in hand is to have the money in order to break ground.

My goal is to break ground in April because I don't wait well.

This will allow us to cut the ribbon and open the Forever One Memorial on October 1, 2027.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Good morning, Commissioners.

My name is Kelly McMahill.

I'm a retired deputy chief from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

I was a member of the One October Memorial Committee, and I'm now the treasure of the Vegas Strong Fund.

Today I'm going to speak on behalf of the first responders that I was blessed to represent over most of my adult life.

When 1 October occurred, I was a captain at the time, put in charge of investigating the suspect.

And then after that, I was tasked by designing and co-authoring the after action report.

We made 93 recommendations for improvement based on lessons learned.

Today we have accomplished all but one of those recommendations, and that is only because the technology that it requires is not available yet.

Eight years later, we have a regional training center that is second to none.

We're all first responders trained together in this valley.

We have snipers that can shoot from a helicopter should we ever encounter the terror that we had that night.

We have large trauma bags full of life-saving equipment stationed at every venue where crowds gather.

We have rifle overwatch at every large scale event, and we change the way the hospitality industry conducts business literally across the world due to lessons we learned that night.

We have an employee wellness bureau at L VMPD, where therapists are seeing over 450 employees every month to ensure that the men and women who are tasked with keeping you safers healthy as possible.

Everything we did as first responders after going through what remains today the worst mass shooting in U.S.

history was for one reason.

So the lives of the 58 that we lost that night, and so many after that event will never be forgotten, and we know their lives are not lost in vain.

There's a handful of people that seem to think this beautiful memorial will simply be a reminder of the worst night our city has ever endured.

And to them I say you could not be more wrong.

This memorial will be light come to life.

It will tell the story of the incredible souls we lost, and not the story of how they died, but the story of how they lived.

Perhaps most importantly, this memorial will show the world that when one man intended on destroying us, we came together and became stronger than ever.

Not only did we fail to crumble, but we rose up loudly, hosting F1, the Super Bowl, the NFL draft, WrestleMania, a Stanley Cup winning parade, and so many more events.

For once, I'm actually at a loss for words to describe the magnitude of what you all have done by donating and designating this money.

So I'll just leave it at this.

I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Thank you very much.

Next speaker.

If there's anyone else wishing to speak, if you want to come forward in the aisle.

Thank you.

Hi, my name is Caressa Royce for the record, R O Y C E.

I live in Henderson, Nevada.

I was the gubernatorial appointee for the One October Memorial Committee.

I want to thank you all for that experience.

You supported the committee in their four years of work in addition to many other efforts that you supported us with.

That the county has done so much to help the committee and the impacted community, and I agree.

I'm just here to express in short my thanks and gratitude for all of your efforts.

So thank you for all that you've done to help all of us, and we appreciate it very much.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Seeing no one else for public comment, uh, we will adjourn this meeting until 9 a.m.

recess this meeting until 9 a.m.

tomorrow morning.

Uh commissioners, there's a closed door session scheduled in the Joshua room.

If we can maybe start at 11 o'clock.

Thank you.