Hi, I'm Michael Knaft, your Clark County Commissioner for District A.

On March 21st, I had the pleasure of kicking off the Great Chef Run 5K at James Regional Sports Complex for the third year.

This annual event, hosted by the Nevada Hotel and Lodging Association Foundation brings together community members and resort operators to raise scholarship funds for future hospitality leaders.

Thanks to everyone who participated and who volunteered to help make this event such a success.

The following weekend, our District A community centers hosted two spring-themed family-friendly events.

First, Helen Meyer held our spring family fun fair and children's mini market, where young entrepreneurs showcased businesses they had developed through a class at the center.

Meanwhile, at Silverado Ranch Community Center, we hosted our spring spectacular, featuring music, food, games, and egg hunts for kids of all ages.

Thanks to our parks and recreation teams for making both of these events so enjoyable for our community.

On April 4th, I hosted the annual Echo Trail Park Day of Play.

Hundreds of community members joined us once again this year for food, music, games, and a park cleanup in conjunction with our partners at Get Outdoors Nevada.

This year, attendees were also able to meet with Real Property Management and Parks and Recreation Teams to learn more about the community center we announced coming to that site in 2028.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for another successful Echo Trail Park event.

To stay up to date on all of things happening in District A and across Clark County, connect with me on Instagram, Facebook, X, and LinkedIn at Commission Aft.

Until next time, I look forward to seeing you all around Amazon.

Good morning.

Call to order the April 7th meeting of the Clark County Commission.

We'll begin today's meeting with the invocation led by Christiane Marish of Peaceway Christian Center.

Good morning.

We'll immediately follow the invocation with the Pledge of Allegiance.

Each leader who is here, God.

Bless them with her wisdom.

Give them wisdom to see what is right and what and also to do what is right.

We ask, oh God, for our communities, for our schools, for our hospitals, for our fire department.

Bless them, bless them families.

Also, God, we ask to protect those who call Nevada home and they are deployed right now in the Middle East.

God will ask a blessing for these states and for our nation.

In Jesus' my name we pray.

Amen.

Thank you very much.

Good morning, Mr.

Schiller.

Good morning, Chairman and Commissioners.

Your first item is to recognize and present a proclamation honoring Parkinson's Awareness Month.

Well, thank you so much.

I'll ask that our guests here today on behalf of the Parkinsons Foundation join us up here on the Dais uh as we present to the Parkinsons Foundation uh proclamation recognizing their efforts and thanking them for the research they conduct, the education work that they do, and the community supportive services that they offer for those living with the disease here in Clark County and their umbrella organization nationally.

Each year, 90,000 people are diagnosed with Parkinson's.

The disease presents differently from person to person, but symptoms can include tremors, slowness of movement, and rigid, balance issues, cognitive impairment, and dementia.

I'm also glad to get to help them announce, uh, and I'll ask Melanie to speak to this.

But on Saturday, April 18th, the Parkinson's Foundation will be hosting Moving Day Las Vegas at Clark County's James Regional Sports Complex.

Moving Day is their annual fundraiser and their walk, uniting people and partners to help the foundation provide vital resources, deliver quality of care to 365,000 people living with Parkinson's in the United States.

And with that, Melanie, I'll turn it over to you.

Okay.

I'll move my chair out of the way.

All right.

Is this on?

It's on.

Thank you so much, Chairman NAfton, members of the commission for this meaningful recognition and for declaring April Parkinson's Awareness Month in Clark County.

Um, Chairman Naft just went over some of the very important statistics.

There are over a million people in the United States living with Parkinson's disease, including an estimated 7,000 just here in Clark County.

It's a progressive neurological condition, and it impacts not just movement, but independence, mental health, and quality of life.

As someone who has personally cared for a person living with Parkinson's, I know how deeply this disease affects not just the people of uh that are diagnosed with it, but also their families.

This proclamation helps bring visibility much needed to the Parkinson to Parkinson's disease and reminds those affected that they are not alone.

I am honored to be joined here today by some Parkinson's Foundation volunteer ambassadors, who are people living with Parkinsons in our community whose strength and resilience inspire our work every day.

On behalf of the Parkinson's Foundation, we are proud to serve this community by connecting people to care, resources, and support, including world class care, right here at our Parkinson's Center of Excellence at the Cleveland Clinic.

And as the chairman mentioned, uh, we are excited to invite you to our moving day walk on April 18th at James Regional Park.

So thank you very much.

Thank you.

As we present this to you, we thank you and the ambassadors for the work that you do to spread good quality information, education, and resources to those who so badly need it.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Thank you, Manager Schiller.

Um today we come together to celebrate not just career, but a legacy, one built over more than two decades of passion, creativity, and unwavering commitment to community.

Uh, that is Brian Saliba in a nutshell.

For many years, Brian has been more than a public servant.

He's been a visionary, a builder of experiences, and a true champion of the people of Clark County.

From the very beginning, when he stepped into the role of special events director, Brian saw not just what it was, but what it could be.

He embraced the challenge of reimagining community programming with energy, imagination, and heart.

One of the most powerful examples of that is Extreme Thing.

What began as a small neighborhood gathering of just a few thousand people quickly became something much more, a cultural touchstone for youth across our region.

Brian did just grow an event.

He created a space where young people could feel seen, inspired, and connected.

He also understood the importance of honoring what came before through his leadership, beloved celebrations like Jazz in the Park, the Moonlight Concert Series, and Red White and Boom didn't just uh come to fruition, they thrived.

Brian's also been a quiet but powerful force in shaping the local music scene.

Um he likes to talk about uh some guy named Dan Reynolds, um, the lead singer of Imagine Dragons, who he gave a shot at Desert Breeze many years ago.

Um, and when I got to see Imagine Dragons uh at the large allegiance stadium, Brian got a shout out for good reason.

He's really been a driving force between so much that has happened here in Clark County.

So we want to just say thank you so much, Brian.

We know that this is maybe the end of your time with Clark County, but not the end of your journey here in Clark County, and uh we want to wish you the best in your next endeavors.

Um, and thank you so much for your more than twenty-five years of service here.

Thanks, Brian.

Speech.

No, I just like to thank everybody here.

I'd like to thank Clark County Commissioners, Clark County Management, especially Clark County Parks and Recreation staff for allowing me the opportunity to produce these events and to help grow a special events unit for our entire community.

We had a lot of fun.

We uh we had some hard times, but we had many more good times, and uh hopefully the department and the events will continue to thrive, and I'll be here to help uh any way I can.

But again, I appreciate everything.

It's been one heck of a ride, and thank you to everybody for allowing me that opportunity.

Thank you, Brian.

So we're very proud of them.

Um I went to Billy McCurdy's celebration of life.

So this is gonna be another celebration of Billy McCurdy's life.

So thank you so much.

Maria Chuchena se fue.

Maria Chuchena se staba y el Pascal.

Thank you so much.

If you guys can come on up here quick.

We'll put them in front of us.

Then this fast kiss if you'll come on up.

And the principal come on up.

So congratulations again to Keller Middle School for coming back with the big prize from California.

Thank you so much.

I'm sorry.

All right.

And the principals here too.

Thank you, everybody, for this special moment.

It means the world to us.

It means the world that we would not be here if it wasn't for our community.

Our community raised the funds to send us to San Diego.

Our community has sent nothing but love and support.

We have our estimados amigos de Telemundo.

We have our wonderful friends from Fox Five.

It is thanks to the media as well that all of this got kind of out of control.

And know that their community is backing them up a hundred percent.

And it took a whole village.

Um we are beyond honored.

Thank you so much for all the love.

There you go.

You're too tall.

Okay.

Ready right here?

We'll go first.

One, two, and three.

And my turn tilt the top of that proper proclamation forward.

Top of the award forward, very good.

All right, in one, two, and three, everybody.

Got it.

Thank you.

Thank you so much again.

We love Calor Middle School.

And we love Billy McCurdy.

So thank you so much for honoring him.

Sure, you're there Monday.

And only person happier than we are is Stephen at Las Vegas High School because Steven Blanco, because he's gonna get all these kids.

Good morning.

My name is Shoshana.

I'm a resident, and I would like to address the uh invocation that is always on our agenda and the actual.

Just for clarification, ma'am.

The public comment period is for section four.

I referenced that three weeks ago.

I'd like to cite Nevada revised statute on that.

Um that addresses the fact that we can talk about any matter that we want to.

Sure.

I'll be happy to ask our council to provide feedback.

There is a second set of public comment at the end of the meeting that is open for any matters before this.

Okay, I support agenda 25.

There we go.

And what item is that I would like to not have my first amendment rights suppressed.

We are doing the same.

You can speak for up to three minutes at the end of the agenda today.

Or you can speak on an item on today's agenda right now.

Okay.

The agenda always has prayer on it.

It always has an invocation, and we always have the action to pray.

I don't consider this a house of worship, although you do.

I absolutely support the separation of church and state.

There are thousands of churches in this area for people to pray, but I don't know why we have to use this as a house of worship.

70% of the cities and the city.

I still have the right to express my freedom of speech.

We should separate church from this.

Understood.

We'll look forward to hearing from you at the end of today's meeting.

Anyone else wishing to speak at the first time set aside for public comment related to items on section four and after of today's agenda.

Seeing none, I'll close the public hearing.

Uh Manager Schiller.

Commissioners and MC your agenda section.

Item five is approval of the minutes of the regular meeting on February 17th, 2026.

It actually should be corrected to uh March third.

March 3rd.

My apologies.

Mr.

Chair, we will approve the meeting minutes from March 3rd, 2026.

Thank you.

There's a motion for approval.

Please cast your vote.

That motion passes.

Your next item is approval of the agenda with the inclusion of any emergency items and deletion of any items.

Staff is requesting that items number 34 under your consent section be deleted from your agenda.

Staff is also requesting that items number 38 under the public hearing section be deleted, and also requesting that item 46 under your business section be deleted from your agenda.

With those deletions, I'm approval the agenda.

There's a motion for approval.

Please cast your vote.

The motion passes.

We can now move to the approval of your consent agenda consisting of items number seven through 36.

As a reminder, number 34 has been deleted.

Move approval or consent agenda.

Thank you.

There's a motion for approval of the consent agenda item seven through 36.

Please cast your vote.

That motion passes.

It is not yet 10 a.m.

Commissioner, so we'll now move to the introduction of ordinance sections of your agenda.

Item 42 is an ordinance to amend title 13, Chapter 13.04, Section 13.04.070 of the Clark County Code to correct clerical errors in table 108.2.6 subsection two and table 108.2.6 subsection five relating to gas quantity ranges and the standpipe permit fee and providing for other matters properly related there too and set a public hearing.

Thank you.

I'll introduce the ordinance and set the public hearing for April 21st, 2026 at 10 a.m.

Now move to the business section of your agenda.

Item 43 is to identify emerging issues to be addressed by staff or by the board at future meetings.

Receive updates on the activities of the various regional boards and commissions that direct staff accordingly.

Thank you.

Commissioner Singerbloom.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um the last couple of months, uh, there's been some pretty horrifying revelations about Cesar Chavez.

Um, not to take away from what he accomplished, but there's a park in my district, which I think uh based on the the revelations should be renamed.

And so uh I'm gonna ask staff to start that process to um take his name off the park and then start a process through where we we can rename the the park.

Uh it's in the East Las Vegas up high on Sunrise Mountain, and I think it would be appropriate to find some name that that reflects the good that he did and affects the East Las Vegas community.

Um so just want to let everybody know.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Anyone else for emerging issues?

Uh the only addition that I would make is that on April 23rd is bring your kid to work day.

Uh for I think the first time we're gonna or first time in a long time, we're gonna open the chambers up.

Uh if any commissioners, I think we sent around a sign-up sheet.

If you want to participate by taking a half hour block to welcome kids into the chambers, show them what uh how a meeting goes, we'll have some stuff for you to discuss if you'd like to use it.

Uh just ask you to sign up.

That's on April 23rd.

Seeing no nothing else for emerging issues.

Okay.

Commissioners, your next items to reappoint Christopher Stallworthy and Joe Davis to the Moppa Valley Fire Protection District Advisory Board for a two-year term ending April 7th, 2028.

Commissioner Kirkpatrick.

Uh thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I uh move to approve Christopher Solworthy and Joe Davis to the Moapa Valley Fire Protection Board.

There's a motion uh to make those two appointments.

Please cast your vote.

Commissioners, your next item is to appoint Jeffrey Banks as an additional individual to serve as an ombudsperson for the police fatality public backbinding review process or take other action as appropriate.

Mr.

Chair move to approve Jeffrey Banks.

Thank you.

There's a motion to approve the appointment of Jeffrey Banks.

Please cast your vote.

The motion passes.

Commissioners, your next item is to approve and authorize in accordance with NRS 4.032.

Additional members for the panel of the justice of the Pro Tem effective through December 31st, 2026, from the judicial townships of Henderson and the judicial townships of the outlying justice courts to include Boulder, Bunkerville, Good Springs, Laughlin, Mesquite, Moappa, Moapa Valley, and Searchlight, Christopher Laurent, and Nayat Denise uh Be Ramogulu.

I I think we were actually on item 46.

Oh, that's been deleted.

Oh, you withdrew that.

Okay, excuse me.

I think there are our screens just need to reflect that then.

Okay.

Uh the clerk can move forward to item 47.

Thank you.

Uh thank you.

Mr.

Chair, I'm move to approve the individuals listed below.

Christopher Laurent and Nihat Denise Vermo.

Thank you.

There's a motion for the appointments of the two individuals read into the record.

Please cast your vote.

That motion passes.

Commissioner can now move to item 48, which is to accept and approve the business impact statement pursuant to NRS 237.090 for the proposed ordinance to amend Title 13, Chapter 13.04, Section 13.04.070 of the Clark County Code to correct clerical errors, errors in table 1.08 2.2.6 subsection 2 and table 108.2.6 subsection five and providing for other matters properly related there to presentation on this item.

Are there any questions on this item?

Is there a motion on the item?

Seeing none, uh move to accept and approve the business impact statement.

Thank you very much.

There's a motion to accept the business impact statement.

Please cast your vote.

Commissioner next items to discuss amending requirements for special events preliminary approvals, fees, and distance separations and direct staff accordingly.

Commissioner Jones.

Thank you, Mr.

Manager.

Um Commissioner Kirkpatrick had brought forward the idea of creating a sports and special events office.

This commission was very supportive of it and remains supportive of it.

Since that time, I think there's been a bit of uh going awry from what the the commission had originally intended.

Um it was intended for larger events on the strip, coordination with uh with first responders and our own departments.

Um, and it's gotten a little bit too down in the weeds of um smaller events uh in farmers markets at uh parks.

Um, and so I'd like to suggest that we uh make a couple of changes um to where the sports and special events uh team is headed currently.

Uh so one would be to remove the requirements for farmers markets and holiday events.

Um sports and special events has found that these small events are being captured, which was not what was originally intended, um, as well as large large markets and Hall events will still meet requirements due to attendance of a thousands or more.

So if it's still a large event, it would still need to go through the same process, but we don't need to be capturing very small events.

Uh second one is exempting HOAs from the preliminary approval process if they are operating at a county park and who have already obtained approval from the BCC.

Uh good example is Exploration Peak Park in Mountain's Edge.

Uh, we've had them jumping through many, many more hoops than was ever intended.

Um, and as a result of that, they've basically just sent uh a lot of um birthday parties and smaller events over to sports and special events when that was never what was intended.

Uh and then the other one that is for comprehensive planning, which we've discussed is the distance separation.

Uh I know just in my district, we've had a number of situations in which uh we've had to uh turn away um small events where there was uh potential live entertainment and the live entertainment could be anything from just a small speaker and to allow for a waiver process under 30.03.06 F6D.

So I don't know if anybody has any other thoughts on that.

Anything for discussion.

I think that means that you've got support, Commissioner.

Cool, thank you.

Uh there's no action required on that item, so we'll take it as direction.

Uh because section seven, our public hearing items requires us to wait until 10 a.m.

We will research re uh well.

We're gonna enter into item 50 at this time, closed door session, uh, and return at 10 a.m.

Uh for the public hearing items.

Patience as we waited until 10 a.m.

to move to section seven uh items to be heard for public hearing.

Uh well that'll take us to item 37.

Okay.

Commissioner's item 37 is to conduct a public hearing to review the funding award recommendations for the FY 2026-2027 HUD emergency solutions grant funds.

Select projects for inclusion in the FY 2026 HUD Action Action Plan for a total of 744,845 dollars in FY26 and 27 ESG program funds to provide homelessness prevention services to individuals and families at risk of entering homelessness, as well as for the homeless management information system and authorize the county manager or his design to accept the grant funds and allocate according to the approved HUD plan and or to execute any necessary documents related there to good morning.

Good morning, Mr.

Chair, uh members of the commission.

Dagney Stapleton, community housing administrator.

Um, this item is a public hearing on the allocation of the county's 2627 HUD emergency solutions grant or ESG funds.

ESG funds are part of the county's HUD entitlement grants, which we receive annually.

ESG specifically is provided to help those experiencing or at risk of homelessness achieve stability.

We estimate the county will receive approximately 744,000 dollars this year in ESG funds.

In response to a public solicitation for proposals, six applications were received requesting a total of a million, a little over a million dollars.

Um the applications were reviewed by staff to ensure completeness, and then the applications were scored by a subcommittee of the community development advisory committee and the Clark County Continuum of Care.

The recommendation before you today is to award four of the applications for a total amount of $609 uh $962,000 along with approximately $55,000 for program administration and $79,000 to the homeless management information system or HMIS.

Um, I'd like to take the opportunity to thank uh the CDAC committee and the CDAC members for all their hard work this year.

There's a few of them in the audience today.

I want to recognize them, including the CDAC chair, Eric Jang.

So I want to thank him for his leadership on the CDAC this year.

Uh, if approved today, these funding recommendations will be included in the county's draft 2627 HUD annual action plan.

There's currently a public comment period open on that plan, and that plan will come back to you at a future meeting for final approval and then we'll be submitted to HUD.

I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Thank you very much.

Before we take questions, this is a public hearing.

I'm gonna go ahead and open the public hearing.

Anyone wishing to speak on item 37?

Please come forward at this time, state your name for the record.

Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing.

Are there questions from the commission?

Seeing none, I'll move for approval.

Thank you.

There's a motion for approval on item 37.

Please cast your vote.

The motion passes.

Commissioners, as a reminder, item 38 has been deleted.

We'll now move to item 39, which is to conduct a public hearing and approve, adopt, and authorize the chair to sign an ordinance to amend Clark County Code Title VII, Chapter 8.20 to modify the requirement for a structural barrier separating minors from bar and or lounge areas and restaurants and taverns by allowing in lieu of such a barrier a written security plan approved by the department director that effectively prevents minors from entering the bar area and providing for other matters properly related thereto.

Good morning.

Morning, Mr.

Chair, members of the commission, Vince Keanu, Director of Business License.

This text amendment is to allow licensees an option to submit a written security plan to prevent minors from accessing the bar lounge area in lieu of a structural barrier.

Thank you thank you.

Uh since that completes your presentation, uh we'll open up for public hearing.

Uh this public hearing is open.

Anyone wishing to come forward at this time?

Seeing none, we'll close a public hearing and ask if there are any questions or comments from members of the board.

There's no questions.

I move for approval.

We have a motion.

Please catch your vote.

Motion is adopted.

Commissioners item 40 is to conduct a public hearing on an amendment to Glark County's FY25 through 29 U.S.

Department of Housing and Urban Development Consolidated Plan and the FY25 Annual Action Plan for Housing and Community Development to update the categories of housing and economic development in both plans.

Approve and authorize the community housing administrator or her designee to submit the amendment to HUD, approve and authorize the county manager or his designee to sign any necessary documents related there to Hi.

Good morning, uh Mr.

Chair, members of the Commission.

Um this item is to put forward and request approval for an amendment to the county's 2025-2029 HUD Consolidated Plan and 2526 annual action plan.

Both of those plans are required for Clark County to receive its HUD entitlement funding, including CDBG, ESG and home.

The proposed amendment is to add affordable housing as an allowed activity for CDBG funds and to update the economic development section of the plan to reflect that no projects were funded during the first program year.

A draft of the proposed changes are included in the materials provided.

We did open a 30-day public comment period on these changes, and that comment period closes today.

We have not received any comments, and I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Thank you.

I'll open the public hearing on item 40.

Anyone wishing to speak, please come forward at this time.

Seeing no one, I'll close the public hearing and turn over to the board for questions.

Seeing none, Mr.

Chair, I'll move for approval.

There's a motion for approval.

Please cast your vote.

Motion passes.

Commissioner is your last public hearings to conduct a public hearing pursuant to NRS 354.6118.

Approve, adopt, and authorize the chair to sign a resolution authorizing the chair to execute a cooperative interlocal agreement between Clark County and Big Bend Water District to finance the design, construction, and related studies of water projects in the Fort Mojave Valley.

Thank you very much.

Ms.

Colvin, did you have some comments on this item?

Um, yes, Commissioner, just an overview.

Um, Clark County, there is a fund available called the Fort Metha Fort Mojave Valley Development Fund.

Um, it allows for um expenditures towards the future development of the Fort Mojave Valley, which would include Laughlin.

Currently, Laughlin's restricted on future development due to water storage capacity.

So, what this resolution or um interlocal agreement would do would allow us to loan Fort Mojave development funds to the Bakebend Water District to design and build um two water tanks.

Now, the initial phase of this um resolution would be for a hydraulic study and the water tank design not to exceed two million dollars, and it would come back to the board for approval for an additional nine million dollars for the construction if you chose.

Um the other related terms would be it would be a 30-year term payable from connection charges that were connecting into for new development following the construction of the water tanks at zero percent interest, and at the end of the 30-year term, any unpaid balance would be forgiven.

Thank you very much, Ms.

Colvin.

Um, we'll go ahead and open the public hearing at this time on item 41.

Anyone wishing to speak, please come forward, state your name for the record.

Good morning.

Thank you for making the trip.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Uh, my name is Kathy Oakes.

I'm the vice chair of the Laughlin Town Advisory Board, and we've been working on this project since about 2018.

And I'm here if there's any questions.

Um, in addition, uh, just uh ancillary information, you know, as far as the Fort Mojave Development Fund.

We have some contracts going forward with uh solar projects and any type of grants or anything that we have.

So instead of it just being an amount for given, um the town advisory board and stakeholders in the community will work very hard for grants and things to offset this loan so that it doesn't have you know a larger cost.

Um, but this was an agreement that fortunately you were able to help us uh bring in Guy Hobbes through the process to help us to see a way clear and to make this happen.

Um, it's vital to Laughlin and in uh I've been volunteering since 2001 on the town advisory board.

This is the only second time that I've appeared uh before you, and it's because of the vitality of our community is directly tied to our ability to uh continue to grow and prosper, and it's vital to us, and so I just wanted to let you know that from the boots on the ground, government, local uh representative, we're very much in favor of this.

It's a solution uh that we hadn't thought of, and we needed help.

Uh, fortunately, our commissioner did step in and bring some people to the table to help us see this through to the finish line.

So I'd appreciate your support in this.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Anyone wishing anyone else wishing to speak during public comment?

Please come forward at this time.

If not, I will close the public hearing and just some comments for myself.

Uh, first of all, Vice Chair Oaks, thank you very much for your leadership on this issue along with your colleagues on the town board.

Also want to thank Ms.

Colvin and Mr.

Hobbs uh who is here for spending many hours in Laughlin working through this issue.

Um, and uh Kathy, you explained it really well.

This has been years that it's taken to get to this point.

I think it is critical for uh to ensure that we prevent stagnation in the township.

Uh, this will go a long way.

So I thank everybody who had a role in getting us to this point and would uh ask that the board uh accept my motion for approval of item 41.

That motion passes.

Thank you very much.

This is the final time set aside for public comment as we've concluded our agenda.

Anyone wishing to speak on anything they'd like that is before the jurisdiction of the Clark County Commission, please come forward at this time.

Please state your name for the record, and you can speak for up to three minutes.

States that the public body right here must allow the general public to comment on any matter that is not specifically included on the agenda as an action item.

Therefore, I would like to continue my position that there should be separation of church and state.

As I said earlier, uh 70% of cities and counties in Nevada do not pray via invocations because it does not belong in government.

They understand that mixing personal religious beliefs with government is completely unnecessary and improper.

But when you open your meetings with prayer, you send a message, whether you admit it or not, that this government endorses religion.

That message excludes people.

It tells people who don't share those beliefs that they are outsiders in their own community, and that is unacceptable.

And let's be honest, you don't need prayer to do your jobs.

Your duty is to serve all of the public regarding non-religious, including non-religious people, and not to perform religious rituals.

So please stop doing that.

Please continue having these proceedings and not endorse religious beliefs.

The Bible, after all, and I've read it several times.

I encourage people to actually read it, especially people who say they believe in Jesus, they believe in God.

Please read it.

It is horrific.

It's the most gruesome book I've ever read.

The God that is worshipped in the Bible has an obsession with little girls who are virgins.

It's very disturbing.

The God also talks about in the Bible, because it's the word of God, the incest of daughters, rape, murder, mauling of 42 children, boiling children, eating children.

There's mass murders.

There is the murdering of firstborn children, mass drownings, polygamy slavery, pillaging, torture, burning of women, ripping open pregnant women, gang raping a woman and cutting her body up into 12 pieces, cutting off a woman's hand, killing men for the skin on their penises.

This is the worship you are bringing into this forum, and it needs to stop now.

We the people support the absolute separation of church and state.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Next speaker, please.

I have a picture.

Hello.

Can I show it as I continue my discussion?

If you display it on the center of the dais uh on the podium there.

Okay.

I'm in a few minutes.

So my name is Grace Albanese.

Um Las Vegas is becoming a very dangerous place.

People are dying every day because of me.

They're selling pictures of my thoughts and dreams.

And they're dying, literally dying to sell these pictures.

The place is on fire.

And uh Trump is nowhere to be found.

These are federal crimes that these is making us so dangerous, and it's gonna require a federal uh solution to it.

President Trump needs to get out here and put the fires out and clean this mess up.

Um people are you know just dying to sell these pictures of me uh of my thoughts and dreams.

And uh many people depend on me for their living or to supplement their money, their uh they depend on me for money.

And so they go to sell these pictures and it turns into a stick up, and people are dying uh because of me.

They want to sell these pictures of my thoughts and dreams.

So here's the picture.

It's President Putin.

Um the picture of President Putin, it's not up there yet.

And President Trump if you'd like, it could just be submitted for the record.

No, I'd rather it be shown.

Because it's from 2018, it's President uh Putin telling President Trump, who has a very serious look on his face, what's going on and why we have this problem now.

He's telling them on microchip.

They took the bait, they did it.

Putin, uh Trump looks very you know serious and unhappy about it.

You can't see the picture.

Google it, I guess.

It's from 2018.

And so Trump is known since 2018 about this serious issue that's now resulting in Las Vegas becoming the most dangerous city in the country.

And Trump needs to get out here and put the fires out.

He's got to clean this mess up.

He's known about it since 2018.

And he needs to do something about it.

The picture is of Putin telling Trump back in 2018, you know, that I'm microchipped, and now people are literally losing their lives trying to sell pictures of me.

And uh a lot of people depend on me to make their money to make money and to supplement their income.

And it's resulting in the deaths of many of these people who are just trying to, you know, make some extra money selling pictures of me.

And uh we've become like a very dangerous city.

Uh there's a lot of shootings going on, and it's very dangerous here.

Thank you very much.

Good morning.

Oh, I didn't come prepared to speak today, but I've felt compelled to speak.

I would like to everyone to know that I support you doing your invocation and continue it, please.

If you if you've noticed the the more that we remove God from the schools from our communities, the more violent things become.

And I've noticed that over the years, and I support your invocation.

Uh, it's very hard to keep things like the Ten Commandments up around us anymore.

But uh please don't let these godless people interfere with what you're doing in your work.

I I support you completely.

And in fact, two days ago, one of our F-15 pilots was shut down.

He was hiding away, bleeding, wounded, and he sent a message to his uh to his peers.

Three messages, three words.

It said, God is good, and soon after that, they rescued him.

We all feel that way.

Some point in life, this country was founded on people that came here to worship God without persecution.

I really appreciate uh your invocation and keeping what we can in our communities.

And I I have some evidence here.

Here's a dollar bill, and right on the back it says, in God we trust.

I challenge you to find any currency that says, and atheists we trust.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Good morning.

My name is Delon Baber.

I live at 6068 Thistle Medal, Las Vegas, Nevada.

I have been a resident of Las Vegas for 50 years.

I come before you today to try to raise awareness regarding the desert end arterial bridge over the I-15.

On March 14th, I tragically lost my little brother, Dion, in a motorcycle accident when he was ejected from his bike onto the I-15 traffic below.

Regardless of the circumstances of his accident, no rider or motorist should have the same, should have the same fate as my brother Dion.

The Jersey wall in that particular area is only 33 inches tall.

Most bikes sit around 27 inches to 31 and a half inches tall.

This area is considered a high-risk area due to the amount of traffic that goes over that bridge.

Our goal is to plead for, at the very least, some safety fencing protecting motors motorists below and above from something to catastrophic so catastrophic happening.

This is not the first accident where this has happened.

In fact, a four pickup truck was in an accident on that bridge and went over that wall onto the interstate in 2007, also ending in a fatality.

There is nothing protecting the interstate from debris from falling from above from falling.

So my question would be how many deaths or accidents does it take for an action to be made for the safety of all motorists?

I would say one is enough.

We are here just trying to turn our family's tragedy into something positive and hopefully save others from this heartache.

Thank you for your time and consideration regarding this safety matter.

Thank you very much.

We're very sorry for your loss.

Thank you for being here.

Stage fright.

Okay, my name is Heidi Baber.

I live at 901 Rockview Drive.

I'm here today alongside my brother Delon.

You've already heard about my brother Dion and what happened to him on an overpass above Interstate 15.

I'm not here to repeat that story.

Because the this is bigger than one person.

Jersey barriers are designed to redirect vehicles, but they are not designed to prevent every type of ejection, especially on an overpass and especially for motorcycles.

That means there is a known gap between these barriers and what we need them to do in worst case scenarios.

And when that gap exists on a bridge, the consequences isn't just another crash, it's a fall, a preventable fault.

Other regions have already recognized this and started adding safety measures like taller containment barriers, anti-ejection systems, and protective fencing on overpasses.

So the question isn't whether solutions exist, they do.

The question is whether we are willing to take a closer look at where those solutions are needed here in Clark County.

Identify locations where ejection risk is present, and consider adding protections that prevent people from going over the edge.

What happened to my brother should not be something another family has to experience.

Please, if you pass it to your right.

Okay.

Thank you very much.

Anyone else wishing to speak at this final time set aside for public comment?

Please come forward at this time.

Seeing none, we will close the public hearing and recess until 9 a.m.

on April 8th.

Thank you.