Officially kicked off our movie in the park series in Laughlin and Searchlight.

Neighbors were invited to join us for family-friendly movie nights featuring complimentary blankets, popcorn, and so much more.

The next one will be on Friday, April 24th in Searchlight, and will feature Despicable Me Four.

Looking ahead, our annual Silverado Ranch Community Center block party is scheduled for Saturday, May 30th.

The event will showcase the wide variety of classes offered at the center, from ballet and music to cooking, along with games, crafts, and much more.

I look forward to sharing additional details as the event approaches.

Stay up to date on all things happening in District A and across Clark County.

And connect with us on Instagram, Facebook, X, and LinkedIn at Commission Aft.

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

Good morning.

Welcome to the April 21st meeting of the Clark County Commission.

Good morning, Manager Schiller.

Good morning.

For the invocation immediately followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.

Please stand if you're able.

Amen.

If all the girls and company would come on up while they're walking up here.

So can't brag enough about them.

And I can say a lot, but truthfully, just looking at them kind of says it all.

So thank you so much.

One more guy and three.

And if there's a a leader or someone who could say a few words.

So thank you so much for your support.

So do you want them to come down for a picture?

Yeah, if you guys can go down, go on down right in front of us.

This is these are not cheerleaders, these are professionals.

And because they're NCAA athletes, they are eligible to be paid money.

They're being recruited around the world.

So we gotta make sure they're happy here and we pay them well.

Commissioners, your next item is to present a proclamation to the Laughlin High School Interact Club in recognition of their service to their school, the township of Laughlin, and surrounding communities.

Chairman Kett.

Thank you so much.

Welcome.

We are glad to get to help recognize uh all the way from Laughlin, the Laughlin High School Interact Club.

Thank you all for making the trip in this morning to be here with us, along with your principal Jonathan Moss, and your advisor, uh, Mrs.

Zenevsky.

Uh, we are recognizing the Laughlin High School Interact Club for their outstanding impact on their community and on all of Clark County.

These students with us today helped lead an organization with the help of their advisor that promotes leadership that promotes uh integrity and service characteristics that are so important and valuable uh today.

With over 60 members, nearly one-third of the student body, it is one of the largest interact clubs in district 5495.

That's right, one of the largest.

So we're so thrilled to have you here and that you'll be spending some time with us today uh and to get to help recognize your accomplishments.

And I'm looking for Renee.

Is Renee here?

Renee, you gotta come join us up here.

Renee uh Yepes from uh Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is such an incredible booster of your organization of the work you do, and it's really uh uh incredible champion and is always uh been filling me in on the good work that you're doing.

So, Renee, thank you for being up here with us.

And would everybody just help me recognize and thank the Laughlin High School Interact Club Present that to you here, I'll hold it.

Thank you so much.

Um I am the very lucky advisor of the Laughlin Interact Club.

We only have 160 kids in our whole high school, but we have 60 kids in Interact.

And this year they've set a goal to meet a thousand hours of service, and they're almost there.

Um I've had the privilege, I'm also an English teacher.

I've had the privilege of watching these young men grow.

I was their teacher in sixth grade.

I'm still their teacher now that they're in twelfth grade, so I have watched them grow from annoying little sixth graders to great leaders.

Um, and they are really the best of the best.

I always say that our Interact Club is the best kids in our community, and I firmly believe that I'm super proud to be their advisor and super proud of these young men.

These are three of our officers, our co-presidents and our treasurer.

Um they came with us and our principal, Mr.

Moss.

So thank you so much for this recognition.

We appreciate it.

Commissioners, your next item is to recognize the week of April 19th through 25th, 2026 as National Crime Victims Rights Week, and invite the community to go purple to help spark more discussion about local crime, available resources, and the rights of victims and survivors.

Commissioner Kirkpatrick.

Thank you.

Today we're going purple and proudly celebrating National Crime Victims Rights Week.

This is a time that we come together as a community and shine a light on strength, courage, and resilience of crime victims everywhere.

Well, today we wholeheartedly support victims of crime across Nevada and the nation.

This week we honor our dedicated professionals and compassionate volunteers who work tirelessly to provide critical services, guidance, and hope to those in need.

This is an issue that impacts so many every day.

Um that people don't stop to think about it.

And we want to make sure that everybody knows that we at Clark County recognize it, and we are here to support you and to continue to be your advocate.

So our goal uh this year uh is the national theme is listen, act, advocate, protect victims, and serve communities.

These are very powerful words, and this gives everybody in this room, everybody in our community, over two million people the opportunity to at least invoke one to protect somebody, whether it be a child, whether it be an adult, um, everybody is counting on all of us.

So today we're gonna show a short video uh where we can highlight the importance of national crime rights week, and then I'll ask the commissioners uh we have a sign that we would like to take a picture so that we can post and to remind people that um this is a week uh to really be extra strong, extra advocate, and to listen, and when you hear something, you should act on it.

So, Victor, if you could play the video, please.

Every day, members of our community are impacted by crime in those moments.

It can feel overwhelming, but no one has to face it alone.

During National Crime Victims' Rights Week, April 19th through 25th, Clark County recognizes the strength of victims and survivors and reaffirms our commitment to support justice and healing for all.

If you or someone you know has been affected by crime, help is available from crisis response to counseling and advocacy.

These services are here to support you every step of the way.

Help is confidential, help is available, and help can make a difference.

Clark County encourages our community to go purple April 19th through 25th to raise awareness, stand with victims and survivors, and help ensure their rights are recognized and respected.

Resources are available through organizations such as the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada, as well as statewide victims' rights information through Marcy's Law for Nevada.

Together, we strengthen our community by listening, acting and advocating.

Together, we can turn awareness into action, support into healing, and move forward as one community together for better.

Thank you.

And as we go out of here today, just a reminder that today we renew our commitment to always ensuring that our victims are not alone and that we as a community can wrap our arms around them.

So thank you.

Commissioners, your next items to present a proclamation.

Oh, of course.

Of course.

I'm sorry.

I didn't know you were behind it.

Okay.

Commissioners, your next item is to present a proclamation to Silver State Fair Housing Council proclaiming April 2026 as Fair Housing Month in Clark County.

Vice Chairman Kim McCurdy.

This month holds deep significance.

It marks the 58th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, which is landmark legislation that affirmed a simple but powerful principle that everyone deserves equal access to housing free from discrimination.

Fair housing is not about where people live, it's about opportunity.

It's about access to good schools, economic mobility, and the ability for families to build stability and generational wealth.

When we protect Fair Housing, we strengthen the very foundation of our communities.

And here in Southern Nevada, we are fortunate to have organizations like the Silver State Fair Housing Council leading this work every day, ensuring their residents know their rights, advocating for those who face discrimination, and pushing us all toward a more just and equitable community.

And I would like to thank the representatives for already being behind me.

We have Emir Kragan, Heidi Griffith, and Roland Daniels, and your collective work does not go unnoticed.

And we are proud uh to proclaim this day uh this month as Fair Housing Month.

Please give them a round of applause.

Good morning, thank you.

I'm Heidi Griffith.

I am the vice president for the Board of Trustees for Silver State Fair Housing.

We just want to thank the county for all of the help that they provide and all of the work that we do to continue the fight.

We're going into our 58th year of the Fair Housing Act, and we're still working every single day to make sure that when we look to our right and our left, we're considering each other neighbors, and that we all have fair and accessible housing.

Commissioners, our next item is to recognize Clark County employees who have been selected as Clark County Value Championship.

Any problem that arises, Yvette has the wisdom to solve it.

She um handles everything with grace.

She helps us even when we're feeling overwhelmed.

She always encourages us.

We always get it done, and we do.

And not only does she look out for us in the workplace, but she also celebrates us and our milestones, whether it's a marriage, a birthday, or getting a new home.

She's always there to celebrate us.

And so we just I just wanted to nominate her, and congratulations, Eva.

You totally deserve this.

She works to ensure that her customers walk away from every interaction with both an understanding of the system and the processes to ensure that in the future they have more confidence and the ability to problem solve on their own.

This makes Pauline both a mentor and an asset to her customer base.

Congratulations, Pauline, and thank you for being a shining example to us all.

Hi, my name is Chris Jones.

I'm the clinical supervisor at Pallet Haven, and I'm happy to nominate Jesse Garcia as a value champion.

Jesse is an outstanding employee.

He goes above and beyond for projects that aren't even part of his job description.

He's extremely helpful.

He does a lot of work for our um for our sole committee, which is our fund committee that we have for clinical and community services.

He's always bringing joy and cheer and his personality to uh to the holidays and to all the fun that we have.

And I just really want to congratulate him and say thank you for all that you do, Jesse.

Hi, my name is Karen Cliff.

I'm the assistant district attorney at the DA Family Support Division, and I am honored to nominate Deputy District Attorney Lauren Pena as a value champion.

Lauren is someone who truly embodies our mission of improving the lives of children and families.

Every day, she approaches her work with dedication, compassion, and a strong sense of purpose.

Just as importantly, Lauren has a wonderful impact on the people around her.

She brings a positive spirit to the office.

She celebrates the successes of others, and she helps create an environment where people feel supported and appreciated.

Lauren truly represents the values we strive for, and our team and the families we serve are better because of her.

Congratulations, Lauren.

Hi, my name is Christina Badikian and I am a commission analyst.

And today I would like to recognize Ricardo Rivera as a value champion with RPM.

Ricardo has been amazing at all of our large community events, especially at Cashman Park.

His willingness and dedication and to help and jump in when need be has played a huge role in our events.

Ricardo, thank you for being such an amazing team player and contributing to these events throughout the community and at our parks.

Congratulations.

So never a dull moment, never something that's not breaking.

Always something to maintain and keep things looking good.

We have representatives from ERP.

I think that's one of the first ones I've seen up here, so that's a really good one.

Also, Justice Court and the DA, our criminal justice system.

We do lots of great work.

People always think of all the different pieces, family support, uh, criminal justice diversion, all those things, representing our courts and representing our system.

So just want to give a huge hand.

These are just huge representations of what we do every day.

Um and we never stop.

And with that, I'll hand it over to Commissioner McCartney.

Thank you, Manager Schiller.

Uh, on behalf of our board, we just want to thank you for the work that you put in day in and day out.

And we know that not all your days are great days, but yet indeed you still show up and you still present your best self uh to our constituents of Clark County.

So thank you for all that you do.

We truly appreciate you, whether you've been here five years or 23 years or more.

Uh we just want to say thank you.

And by the representation that we have here in the crowd, we know that we have the very best that we're recognizing here today before the Board of County Commissioners and all your colleagues.

Congratulations.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

This past weekend, our Clark County family lost a very special persons very suddenly.

Kayla started her career with Clark County working part-time at the Paradise Community Center while going to college at UNLV.

Kayla Parker was hired full-time in January of 2017.

She was an integral part of the communities for both uh Paradise and Whitney, where she served as a recreation specialist developing programs and special events for families, youth, and seniors.

She worked closely with our team in District G, because those Rick Centers are in our district, planning events for seniors, and more recently, planning events with best buddies and organization near and dear to her heart.

She served with passion, character, and dedication, evident by the relationships she formed throughout the years.

Kayla had a special way of connecting with patrons through her caring and compassion.

She was not just a public servant and colleague, she was a friend to all of us.

Kayla has touched the lives of so many here in Clerk County and made our county a better place in which to live.

Kayla's brother Sean, who is here today.

We all know he leads the Clark County maintenance division.

Kayla will be missed by her county family more than you know, and by all who knew her and had the privilege of working with her.

And now we would invite all of us present to uh reflect for just a moment on her and what she brought us in a moment of silence.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Gibson.

We'll begin today's meeting with the first time set aside for public comment.

Anyone wishing to speak on items on today's agenda can please come forward at this time.

Items on this agenda uh include items on section five and later please step forward, state your name for the record.

My name is Shoshana.

I'm a resident, and I would like to cite Nevada revised statute 241.021 subsection two that I'm allowed to speak on any matter that is not specifically included on the agenda as an action.

So you're going against the Nevada revised statute.

Nope you're not.

Okay.

I'll I'll look into that.

But again, I'm here for the separation of church and state.

This should not be treated as a religious service.

Thank you.

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

Anyone else wishing to speak on items on today's agenda?

Please come forward.

Good morning.

My name is Miguel Canales.

I'm a lead organizer at the Clunary Union.

I'm here with the worker from the DBE at uh at um airport, Harry Reed Airport.

And we're here to come in in item 19.

After three months of negotiations, the companies have still not offered a workers what it deserve.

The workers deserve a good contract.

They're not sick in class.

The DBE workers are still the lowest paid at the air at the airport, and they deserve better.

Hi, my name is uh Jacob Ramos.

I live at 2312 North Green Valley Parkway, Unit 3113.

I've worked for the uh day one group uh Mo's for over five years now.

Um, you know, after months of waiting for a DBE counter proposal.

Um here's a little update for you.

Um they offered zero improvements in terms of uh settling any remaining language disagreements, including uh uh technology disputes that could potentially save jobs.

Um in terms of you know economics, uh it felt like a backwards proposal because they removed retropade that we that we worked hard for.

Um overall, uh I don't think the company wants to do the right thing for us, and we deserve better.

And I hope that we can count on you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Hello, hi, my name is Melissa Bordenau.

I'm at 8116, Redskin Circle, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89145.

I'm here because my coworkers and I are still waiting on the back pay, and the union contract has still not been paid.

The layover bars and closure has now been moved back to June, which has given us an advantage to come back here and ask you for your help one more time.

Um I'd like to update you.

Although we found out that our working as a bartender, I have um been classified under a kitchen and food server instead of a bartender.

Um, I've been paying the union dues as a bartender, and the classification they have me under is not the same union dues that I've been paying.

So I was doing a bartender work, carrying bartender responsibilities, paying for bartender dues, and not being able, not being properly classified.

In my eyes, that's deeply wrong.

Now the co-workers are facing uncertainty, missed wages, and guaranteed of returning to their jobs, not knowing if they're gonna keep their jobs with the new company.

I am asking for someone to look into this and hold the company accountable and make the workers receive back pay protecting as we deserve for the company before they disappear.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good morning, Commissioners.

My name is Adam Levane.

Uh I am here to speak on agenda item 40.

Just for clarification, you are welcome to speak now.

Item 40 is a public hearing if you want to speak at that time.

Oh, I'll then I will save it at that time.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good morning, Commissioners.

Brian Ayala, AYALA 4149, Wagon Trail Lane.

I'm here with the day one group, one of the uh nine ACDBE companies that are negotiating with the union.

As I've kept you all updated regularly, um we are making progress.

Um with uh off the record discussions.

I don't know if these guys are aware that there's off the record discussions continuing, but they are, and we're making progress.

I suspect uh we should be wrapping this thing up pretty soon.

That's my hope.

Thanks, guys.

Thank you.

Anyone else wishing to speak on this first time set aside for public comment?

Please come forward.

Seeing no one, we'll close the public comment and turn to section four.

Uh the agenda.

Commissioners, your next items approval of the minutes of the regular meeting and the special meeting on March 17th, 2026.

I move for approval of our meeting minutes from March 17th, 2026.

Thank you.

There's a motion for approval.

Please cast your vote.

The motion passes.

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

Staff is requesting that item 10 under your consent section be deleted from your agenda.

For the record, I'd like to read a correction on item number 43 under the public hearing section under the item recommendation and the item background.

The special event date of May 16th, 2026 should be changed to May 17th, 2026.

There's also a revised presentation.

There's a motion, please cast your vote.

The motion passes.

Commissioners, we can now move to the approval of your consent agenda consisting of items number nine through 37 as a reminder, item 10 has been deleted.

Mr.

Chair, I move approval our consent agenda.

Thank you.

There's a motion for approval.

Please cast your vote.

That motion passes.

We can now move to the introduction of ordinances.

Item 44 is an ordinance to amend chapter 3.74 section 3.74.020, subsection two of the Clark County Code to amend the selection process for UM CSN governing board members and providing for other matters properly related there too and set a public hearing.

Thank you very much.

I'll introduce the ordinance and set the public hearing for Tuesday, May 5, 2026 at 10 a.m.

Yeah, commissioners, it's not yet 10 a.m.

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

Item 45 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.

Does anyone from the board have emerging issues?

Commissioner?

Yeah, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

And really uh apologize, Abby, for putting you on the spot here.

But um, one of the issues that not only are we seeing at the health district but at the school district is um the vaping uh and kids are getting exposed to vaping with or without marijuana or other substances in it.

So I was wondering if there was not something that we could figure out who to work with to maybe do a you know a push on to educating the kids, and it's really impacting sixth through ninth graders more than anybody.

And um, so I'm kind of worried because we've seen the numbers escalate, and I was gonna ask the school district too if there's a partnership that can be had because I just feel like maybe kids don't really know what they're doing, or that's my hope, anyways.

And maybe if we educate them, they'll realize to stay away from it.

So thanks.

Thank you.

Commissioner McCurdy.

Uh thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Uh we as you can see we have a new member uh joining us on the board today.

Uh I want to introduce to everyone, Miss Marissa Stewart, our 2025-2026 youth council member, uh, who will be shadowing us today and uh want to talk a little bit about her, but I'm gonna allow for time for her to introduce herself.

But she's also joined by her mom Felicia, who's up in the audience with us.

Uh but she's a passionate young leader uh who recently ran for youth mayor with a platform focused on mental health resources, increasing access to affordable child care, and improving uh safety for children across uh southern Nevada.

Uh and her advocacy has centered on critical issues facing the young people today, and she shared a little bit about what she cares about, but just some of those issues are you know, medical care access, uh access to healthy foods, uh, and the need for more safe places uh for physical activity.

Uh but beyond her advocate advocacy, uh she is an accomplished pageant competitor and was proudly named uh the 2026 American uh Idol Miss Nevada pre-teen, and she's also the founder of Brave Like Me.

Uh a uh Brave Like Me, a nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness and support for young people affected by uh cystic fibrosis.

So uh please uh join me in welcoming her, and she's gonna introduce herself a little bit.

Hi, I'm Mariska Stewart, a youth council member, and I am really glad to be here with you today.

And I really love doing pageants, so I do them every time I can.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you, everyone.

Thank you and welcome.

Anyone else for emerging issues.

Commissioners are next items to approve uh approve the reappointment of Anna Danchek, Joseph Burkowski, and David Dobrinski to the Clark County OPEP Board of Trustees, effective July 1, 2026 for a term set to expire June 30th, 2028.

Mr.

Chair, I move approval.

Thank you.

There's a motion for approval of item 46.

Please cast your vote.

That motion passes.

Commissioners, your next item is to authorize the chair to appoint five members to the local law enforcement advisory committee, including three Clark County Commissioners, Tixegroom Chair, William McCurdy the second, Vice Chair, and Michael Naft, and two Las Vegas City Council members, Francis Alan Pelinski and Olivia Diaz for a one-year term expiring April 15th, 2027.

Mr.

Chair, I move approval.

Thank you.

Just uh before the motion, I just wanted to comment on this.

Uh Commissioners McCurdy uh Sagerbloom and I have worked on this committee for a number of years now.

Uh we're we're really the only ones in the whole country who use this process for distributing these funds for the organizations that are recipients of these funds.

It's a very difficult process.

Uh the dollars that we receive from the Justice Department vary dramatically from year to year.

Uh it's hard to depend on these funds.

And so we've asked that uh we work through ideas to bring back to the full board for how these funds could be uh uh more strategic strategically utilized, but also uh not so cumbersome in the way that the process works.

Um and so I don't uh Commissioners McCurdy or Sager Bloom might have a opinion on that.

Uh yeah, ditto.

It's uh it's a very cumbersome process, but uh looking forward to exploring our target ways to distribute.

Thank you.

And the purpose of today's motion is uh that there is some unfinished business that the committee has to do that's required of us.

Uh and so uh I think that's why the motion is made today and why this agenda item is here.

Uh so there is a motion for approval.

Mr.

Chair, I just want to make a comment though.

One thing we did see was all the incredible nonprofits that are out here and the need that's out there, so we need to figure out a way to try to subsidize them anyway we can because they're just fantastic groups that we were voting on.

Thank you.

Thank you.

There's a motion for approval of item 47.

Please cast your vote.

The motion passes.

Commissioners your next items to receive a presentation from the Las Vegas Clark County Library District about their various programs and services.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Welcome back.

Morning, Chair Nav, Commissioners, distinguished guests, and community members.

If you there should be a handheld microphone there, if not, use one of the stationary members.

I'll start over.

Good morning, Chair Nav.

Commissioners, distinguished guests, and community members.

My name is Kelvin Watson.

I am the executive director for the Las Vegas Clark County Library District, and it is my honor to join you today in recognition of National Library Week.

This annual event salutes the important role that libraries play in our communities every day.

This year it is being celebrated from April 19th to the 25th, and I greatly appreciate the opportunity to join you today to share some of the exciting events and promotional partnerships that the library districts district has worked on in this past year.

There we go.

We began the fiscal year with encouraging gains over uh the prior year.

Results I firmly believe reflect the dedication, creativity, and hard work of our staff that they pour into the programming and resources that we provide to our community.

Year over year we serve 23% more customers.

Our program attendance increased by more than 56%, and our website visits have surged over 72%.

Based on this momentum, we've built, and the work that continues to happen every day.

I fully expect that these numbers and engagement will continue to increase.

We had over a thousand attendees at the grand opening.

The building offers a wide array of impressive facilities and features and highlights that include an art gallery, an event center with a state-of-the-art sound, lighting, and video systems, a podcasting room, a K through 12 homework help area.

We have an adult learning program space, a business incubation space, many creation labs, and we also have a dedicated teen and tween zone, just to name a few things that are in that library.

In anticipation of our future growth in Good Springs and surrounding areas, a larger library is needed.

Our current branch is housed in a 600 square foot single-wide trailer located in the Good Springs Elementary School parking lot with no access to running water or sewer.

In March 2025, the library district purchased an adjacent 1,372 square foot home situated on one and one-third acres, where we plan to relocate the Good Springs Library.

Some of the features in the new library will include a maker space, separate adults and kids area, an outside porch and expanded parking lot.

We don't currently have an opening date, but we will continue to share updates as we move forward.

Some of our national and local recognition.

We were truly humbled by the local and national recognition that the Las Vegas Clark County Library District has received this past year.

I'm especially grateful to the county for your continued support of the library district and our staff.

In January of this year, Library Journal recognized me as the 2026 Librarian of the Year.

But this honor really belongs to our 678 employees whose passion for our community and uplifting lives shines every day across our 25 locations.

Since launching the Whitney Library's annual Teen Empowerment Summit in 2023, we've continued to expand its reach and impact.

This year, I'm proud to share that we actually partnered with UNLV to host the summit on their campus.

We had a 140 local high school students from across the valley.

They had an opportunity to experience firsthand what higher education is and how it is achievable and within their reach.

Engaging with UNLV, students, and faculty while envisioning themselves on campus.

The summit also highlighted a range of career pathways from college and trade schools to other skills skilled professions.

Our partnership with Three Square continues to address the food insecurities in our community and our neighborhoods with nutritious, predictable meals along with meaningful meaningful social and connections for kids, teens, and seniors.

Since 2023, the library district has served 371,390 meals through our meetup and eat up after school meals during school year, our kids' cafe, which is free summer uh lunches for kids and teens, and our senior community lunch and social hour for ages 60 plus.

We are incredibly grateful for our partnerships with the Vegas Goget Knights and the Las Vegas Raiders.

Both teams value and promote literacy and learning and support awareness by supporting our programs and services.

Both teams provide the library district with branded library cards, co-branded t-shirts, and we also use other promotional giveaways to our customers.

The collectible bookmarks feature teams' favorite books, movies, and music, which can be checked out for free with your free library card.

Additional partnerships have also enriched the library district with grants and funding for specific programs.

This year, the Pizza Hup Foundation recently uh generously awarded the library district with a ten thousand dollar slice of a literacy grant in support of our partnership with Barbershop Books, which brings the joy of reading into neighborhood barbershops.

And thanks to another generous $25,000 donation, this one from local ticket seller, but comers activity kits program continues to grow at our enterprise library.

The kids are loaded with books, skill building exercises, crafts, and activity projects with the goal of empowering caregivers to encourage early literacy and skill building at home.

A federal grant is helping the library district to launch Star Lab, an inflatable portable dome with a projection system that immerses children and adults in spectacular visual learning experiences about everything from ancient civilizations to the farthest corners of the universe and everything in between.

The library district staff are just beginning training on this unique and exciting experience.

Star Lab is launching this month to the public at our East Las Vegas Library, just in time for STEAM Month, and will travel to more branches throughout the year.

This allows the library district to continue to bring cultural experiences of all kinds to our community.

Three recent examples that open to packed houses include Pepperland, a 50th anniversary tribute to the Beatles Sergeant Peppers album, Disenchanted, a comedy satire for adults that flips the script on a di on traditional storybook Princesses and Bach to Beyonce, a musical journey across genres from classical music to contemporary pop.

Summer Challenge is the library district's largest literacy program of the year, and we're working to launch it in just a few weeks.

The program promotes literacy and the joy of reading for all ages, from babies and kids to teens and adults.

All ages receive fun rewards just for reading or just being read to.

Early registration begins May 1st and program runs May 15th through July 15th.

Thank you as always for inviting me here to share what the library district is doing and accomplishing along with you, and now happy to answer any questions, Chair.

Thank you so much.

Are there any questions?

Commissioner Sagerbloom.

It's not really a question, but it's a statement.

I know the property on Hollywood is ripe and ready to go, so we're looking forward to that new library on Hollywood.

Across from the police station.

Thank you.

Anything else?

Thank you so much.

Thanks for being here and for your work.

All right, see you next year.

Appreciate the partnership.

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

Good morning, trustee.

Thanks for being back with us.

Hello, thank you so much.

Remind us when can we stop saying non-voting member?

I know soon, 27th.

Slide four isn't.

Okay, I'll call for your help.

Okay, we'll see what we see what happens there.

All right.

All right.

Good morning, Chair NAFTA, members of the commission.

Lisa Satori for the record, appointed trustee for the for unincorporated Clark County.

I'm here today to provide a brief quarterly update from the Clark County School District.

I'll briefly cover our educational priority areas, provide updates for the core for work, highlight recent data requests, share community engagement efforts, and close with a mid-year performance update and keyboard notes.

These are the education priorities that were established to guide collaboration between CCSD and the Clark County Commission.

The following slides provide aligned updates by category.

Today I'll walk through key priority areas, progress updates, and next steps.

Okay.

All right, one eight update tied to rural education as Good Springs.

The board will be voting on April 23rd regarding the proposed closure due to low enrollment, extremely low enrollment.

If approved, students would be rezoned to Sandy Valley.

This reflects the broader challenge we're seeing in some of these rural rural areas.

Good Springs does have his historical significance and legacy as the longest operating school opening in 1913 and is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places.

Any questions there?

That's fine.

I'll just I'll just share.

It's the slide before that.

But uh we received an update on our core four bridge um work on the April 1st work session.

Uh pre-K, we've identified four key root causes.

Those include funding, infrastructure, workforce challenges, and family engagement.

Um so this is really about building the strong foundation, and that's what a lot of the core four is about.

That early literacy, pre-K, math skills, um, developing those foundational skills.

Um this target focuses on supervision and support of pre-K programs with a pre-K instructional leadership cohort launched, including 20 teachers across 17 schools.

The district has completed 55 coaching cycles, providing specialized technical feedback to enhance program quality.

A 30-hour instructional leadership series and formal implementation manual will be launched to ensure district-wide standards.

And the district has added 500 pre-K seats and plans to add an additional 1720 seats next year, with and that is due to a 2.2 million dollar infrastructure grant from the Nevada Department of Education.

Um so in response, the district is focusing on teacher retention.

Um, that teacher pipeline is a big as a huge key in that pre-K is developing those skills, developing those partners, particularly with UNLV and some of our feeder pipelines for some autism teachers and um developing that professional development, then once we get them in the door, that structure and professional development moving forward for them.

Um, the second of the core four bridge work is early literacy.

Um, and early literacy, the focus is on instructional quality, teacher support, and readiness.

Um, the response is very targeted, tiered instruction, high dosage tutoring, and differentiated professional learning.

Um so the key is, and we've been moving this way in a little while is that consistency across all grade levels, consistent curriculum.

Um, and then um the focus this year was focused on identifying the students in the lowest quintile of achievement and doing um intensive support there.

Um so we currently operate 39 reading skill centers, which provide small group tutoring and reading comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and phonics.

I mean the data is definitive for English limited proficient students.

These centers have shown a 14 to 48 percent higher growth in their peers, while our English learners saw a gain of 15 to 38 percent, um, showing that this model is definitely uh helping to improve the achievement gap, particularly in some of our highest need students, and um also expanding those reading skill centers.

We did those bright futures walks.

Um we had 1300 home visits through those walks.

Um, and those were a great opportunities to get some feedback.

Um, also some other opportunities for early literacy I wanted to highlight is the reinstatement of the read by grade three literacy specialist candidate selection pool that allows us to get some qualified read by grade three strategists in the building and making sure that we have qualified support there and aligning formative and summative assessments at that early literacy stage.

And number three is middle school math.

Um, we've known for some time that middle school math has shown in the data to be a deficient area.

Um the challenge is center around instructional consistency, teacher capacity, and alignment.

Um, so our response includes strengthening teacher training, increasing small group instruction, small group instruction tends to not be as prevalent in middle school instruction as elementary, and re-establishing common assessments.

Um, common assessments had kind of gone away for a period of time.

The schools were kind of doing their own assessments now realigning back to those common assessments, um, and is about ensuring rigor and consistency across all middle schools.

For middle school math, the strategy centers on that vertical coherence, ensuring that math, and that's why middle school is the is a huge focus of it, because we want that vertical alignment from when they start in middle school through their progression of um courses in high school.

Um, a big component of the math instruction this year and kind of increasing that professional development for uh teachers and leaders is Millie, the math instructional leadership institute.

Um, and the data from that most recent cohort is very compelling.

81% of our schools whose administrators participated in Project Millie demonstrated increased student achievement in math.

Um so it really is about standardizing that math instruction, starting off with the leaders in our building and then um providing that scaffolding down.

And workforce and college readiness, our fourth um core core bridge area for workforce and college readiness.

The main issues were pathway design, support systems, and workforce shortages.

Um we are addressing these through stronger scheduling systems, expanded work-based learning, and increased collaboration with higher education.

That has been a big focus in a lot of these areas is that collaboration with higher education.

Um, additional work includes improving communication and expanding access to CTE pathways and addressing barriers for instructors.

So you could just pause there for a second.

Yeah, absolutely.

Commissioner Kirkpatrick.

Of course, I think.

I know I know.

Well, I was trying to maybe let you get through the whole thing, but I want to I'm I'm curious.

Um I'm glad to hear about the math, but I think that part of the problem is that math can be fun and it can be super exciting to learn how it works, but I I don't think the lecture type math works for students, at least that's what they tell us.

Well, that is a big component of the small group instruction, the differentiation that it is not a one-size one-size fits-all.

You do have a common curriculum, common core curriculum, but you also need to be pulling students and differentiated, and that's what the big big focus is.

So, what is the um component to I I get we've done this for years, right?

Where we have the RIP teacher is the main learning person, the reading person, but if that person leaves, then there's no underlying to fill that.

So, are we doing something to try and keep that person that we're asking for as far as strategists?

Yeah, and that is part of that pool of having that um pool for the strategist that has a common criteria for those entering the pool that we know they have those qualifications, but that also gives us the pool to go back to when we lose some of those strategists to keep some some other teachers in the pool who have that certification on their license.

And is that come out of the school's budget, or is that come out of like the general budget?

Because I worry that when the principals have the question next year about that, every school would have that position.

So I would have to well, I would just be curious because it probably would be a school.

When they're forced to cut, those are the first people that go, right?

Uh okay.

So let me ask you about workforce.

Um I want to understand work first.

So you know, I spend a lot of time with kids in my district, and I feel like we're only doing the CTE programs specifically to the AI world, right?

When at the end of the day, you still need someone to cut your hair, you still need someone to work on your car.

You still need someone to, you know, call a plumber, right?

So are we uh have we talked about putting some of that stuff back, some of the basic skill set?

Because I gotta tell you my personal I waited four weeks to get my car fixed to get the brakes changed because they're short on mechanics, and that is ridiculous, right?

Because those jobs are never going away.

I imagine if we it's great to be the AI piece and the drone piece and all those other technology pieces, but I feel like we gotta have at least a couple of schools that focus on the basic essential things that everybody needs in life, right?

You need your haircut, you need you probably need a dentist, you probably need some of the basic stuff, and that's lost.

I do know when I had the opportunity to or um South CT, um South CTA that that was they did have some trade focuses like that, like welding and some of those.

I don't know specifically, I can't remember all of the um courses of study that they offered, but that being a brand new school, I was very impressed with the range of services that they were of coursework that they were providing there.

Uh but yeah.

Oh, he says he can't hear you, Lisa.

Oh, sorry.

I was saying when I went to South CTA, um, I was impressed that they were offering some of those courses.

I know there's also discussion about um getting together our instructors across the valley, say for welding came up as an example and getting those instructors together and developing a cohort of them so they have some strength together and you know in their profession.

Um but yes, there's been has been a lot of discussion about and some of those fields too, um, they're just being done differently.

So they they still exist, they're just being taught differently in some cases, but definitely all of those high need areas, you know, of daily life are still there for sure.

So could I ask this?

Uh I I share a lot of stuff in my newsletter, right?

Like on the pre-K stuff, we've been sharing that all year long because we find from the principals that kids are not ready or they're not getting assessed and they may be autistic and showing up for the first time in second grade, and we're like, what do we do, right?

So could we get some of that a better marketing piece of it, I suppose, so that we can kind of tell because the one thing when it opens in January, nobody really knows what what opportunities there are.

Identification of students, that's a huge component to try to, especially for next year with having so many additional spots to try to get those the word out in the community and get the communication out so that we can fill those spots that we'll see what we will have.

I feel like I'm a better person for having shop, home ec and uh explorations, you know, in high school when I was a kid, and I maybe learned a few more things than they might learn today.

So I worry that we're the basics should be in every school, right?

Every one of those should be in every school.

Okay.

Um this slide really shows the system working together, master scheduling, work-based learning, advanced coursework, and family engagement.

So the goal is really clear.

A lot of it is working with counselors and the master scheduling to make sure, like I said, that there are these clear pathways for students, they that they know which what trajectory they are on in their college and career readiness.

Um, did I go backwards?

Okay.

And um recent updates also include new career guides, expanded advising and efforts to reduce vacancies.

Um, we're also prepping for the 2027 legislative session session to address long-term workforce and funding needs.

What what is that?

What is that, Lisa?

What is the long-term needs?

I mean, um, everybody's looking for dollars, right?

We get federal dollars for that, we get the Perkins grant for that.

But what what what is that?

How did you guys already decide that?

Are you working on it?

That's what we're working on, yes, for our needs for the next session.

I got some.

Yes, we actually have individual meetings scheduled with our representative with our liaison, so that's what we are each going to go and share our input, and then it will be a collective um input together from the board.

I I'll I'll send you some input.

Okay.

Um, one notable update several four A and 5A football programs will move to independent status for the next realignment cycle.

While this limits post-season participation, it provides flexibility as programs evaluate scheduling and competitiveness.

Um, independent status for four A and 5A football programs.

Um they have formally notified NIAA um that they will be on independent status for the 26, 27, and 27-28 realignment cycle.

Um, it will be for a minimum of two years in accordance with NIAA regulations during this period.

The football program will not participate in any NIAA sanctioned postseason competition, including league, regional or state competition playoffs, and this is only for football as well.

And this is only for football as well.

Also in response to the commission priorities, we continue to provide data transparency, and this includes updates on staffing, especially surplus and vacancies.

We're seeing ongoing challenges tied to labor shortages, but also progress in filling positions and stabilizing staffing.

So where we started with support professionals, let's see, this was for April 9th when I provided this.

So my data right now is a little bit different.

But we we started the process initially with 534 support professionals identified for surplus.

Once budgets closed, going into actual surplus, and as of last week, we had 408.

And so some of those were able to accept positions, which is exciting.

Some people um did retire or resign.

And so 188 support professionals selected positions last week and 208 selected no position.

So those are the ones we are working with who secure positions.

Um as far as licensed professionals, when we started the process, we had 700 707 identified after budgets closed.

Um that number went down very excitedly to 337, which means 400 people were able to select jobs or retire.

So that's a good large number.

So we have 103 left.

Um sorry.

103 remaining to secure positions if I got that number correctly.

So but those are all in process, so we've had a good position of and we're they're on a hiring freeze as well of not accepting any internal hires.

So the process right now is getting all those people secured positions.

May I ask absolutely your question, Lisa?

So let's talk about these pending pre-K vacant positions.

So greasy enough, I've learned over the years that you have to have a higher education to be a pre-K teacher than a first grade teacher.

Is there any conversation?

Because at the end of the day, kids do need pre-K.

It's good for them, right?

So that they're like little sponges, and the sooner we can get to them, but you have all those positions because the requirements you actually have to go to school longer for pre-K than middle uh grade school.

So are is anybody talking about that or am I just falling on deaf ears all these years?

I'm growing tired of advocating for pre-K if we can't get the teachers because you have to go to school longer in the cost of partnership with UNLV is to try to or at least make that that transition that process smoother and kind of help guide them through it and give them a position that they have right when they finish.

So that way they've got a position.

I've tried to fix it at the legislature and they won't buy it, but I mean, some of the best pre-K teachers are the and how do we even have a pipeline with our high school kids to get into that field if they don't have this.

Which has been great to see the teaching and training program, CTE program growing in our schools.

So we are promoting that as well and trying to get some of our students in the high schools into those fields, like you mentioned.

Yeah.

And so do we think we're gonna fill those 150 spots this year?

I'm hope I'm hopeful.

The filling of positions has looked really well.

I mean, definitely um where we start at the beginning of the year, license vacancies way down from previous years, um, lowest in many, many years.

Um, so definitely have been doing a good job, like I said, and right now with hot hiring, pausing the hiring of any external.

I think we can definitely be in a good place for next school year from the from the reports that we've been given as well.

Okay.

One question.

Yes.

Uh trustee.

We see these numbers, the current number of known vacant positions, then the pending vacant positions that relate to pre-K ELL and early childhood education.

How many positions are there all together in the uh ELL Nevada pre-K.

You probably don't have that number in front of you, but could you supply that to us in the early childhood special education?

Sure thing.

The number, say that again.

It's 150 licensed employees that are pending vacant positions.

Okay.

How many are there all together?

Not the ones who have a job and the ones who likely won't have.

Okay, excellent.

I will get that for you.

Because you could provide that too.

So that'd be helpful.

Thank you.

Um, community engagement remains a major focus.

We're actively working through the facility master plan process, hosting meetings across the valley to gather input and ensure community voice is reflected in future planning.

So we have scheduled more than 40 community forums.

Um, some of those are virtual as well to try to make it convenient.

There's some on some on Saturdays, and there's some Saturday virtual as well.

Um, and so feedback from those forums will inform the building brighter futures facility master plan that will be presented to the board this fall.

Um, the options that will be discussed as part of this are not expected to begin until 2030 or later.

So we are just in the gathering information stage currently.

Um CCSD with contractor canon design has already gathered feedback with forums last spring, along with enrollment trends, facility evaluations, and other data to develop possible options that balance current and long-term future needs for the district's buildings.

So the forum dates, so this flyer has all the upcoming dates for our meetings.

Please, we encourage you know as many people as possible to attend these.

And like I said, if you can't, virtual options are available.

Um, all the forum dates can be found at FMP.cc.net.

On April 9th, we received our mid-year performance report from Superintendent Ebert.

She has also completed her first hundred days in the job.

Um this is a formative check, and the first time we have utilized a specific process for this.

So it was just an informal report that was provided to um discuss factors affecting goals.

We selected these goals actually last November as a team of 12.

Um, and so we discussed areas going well and potential areas that we wanted to revise moving forward.

Um Superintendent's mid year report highlights um some key metrics, including 136 schools improving their star ratings, a graduation rate of 86.6%, which is higher than many other um large urban districts that we compare ourselves to as well.

Um, and over 16,000 classrooms staffed by licensed educators, as we talked about earlier.

Um, the district secured 15.8 million in philanthropic gifts.

Um, that number is hugely up from where it has been in the past.

So superintendent has made an Ebert has made a big focus on these community partners and um raising funds for our students.

Um let's see, and we talked about the pre-K somewhere there.

Um and then Mathematics Initiative showed an 81% increase in student achievement.

The strategic plan is being co-designed with the community and extensive outreach, um, including those surveys and community sessions.

Um we receive through the destination district survey, we received nearly 48,000 responses in over 130 languages.

And the cool thing about this was that 63% of those voices were from our students.

So I really loved reading the survey and seeing how the voice of our students come out in that.

That's not typical.

Um then our community dream sessions.

Oh, the community dream sessions as well.

They were highly engaging work sessions with over a thousand community members.

Um, and they were hands-on if you had the opportunity to attend them.

We had butcher paper out and defining goals and uh really getting down to business.

Um, this mid-year report is a pulse check to ensure actions are designed to yield desired results before the final report in September 2026.

So we will take these same goals and take a look at them in September as well.

All right, and that is all I have.

Um, thank you very much for the opportunity to present, and I will build any questions.

Thank you so much.

Are there any additional questions?

Mr.

Chair.

Commissioner Jones.

Um, thank you, Trustee Satori.

I I saw a reference to open doors open schools on your first slide.

Uh open doors open schools.

But I didn't hear you talk about it.

Can you yes, uh, yeah, I do not.

I definitely have not heard any more updates.

My apologies.

Okay.

Can you make sure on the next one?

Because I've asked about it every single time.

Yes, yes, and I have asked to be have updates provided to you as well.

So I will continue to ask.

Thank you.

Seeing nothing else, thank you for being here and for your work.

Commissioners, it's now 10 a.m.

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

Item 38 is to conduct a public hearing and approve, adopt, and authorize the chair to sign a resolution approving the issuance by public finance authority of Wisconsin and one or more series of tax exempt or taxable 501c3 revenue bonds in an amount not to exceed 35 million in order to finance or refinance the acquisition, construction, development, improvement, equipment and/or operating of a charter educational facility located at 7038 and 7058 Sky Point Drive.

Las Vegas Nevada 89131 for use by Somerset Academy of Las Vegas, fund a debt service revenue fund for the bonds, pay capitalized interest with respect to the bonds, and based certain costs of issuance of the bonds.

Thank you.

Is there a presentation on the item?

Mr.

Chair, I don't think usually there's a presentation because it doesn't actually impact our, but they're required to have a public hearing.

Yes, I'm aware I thought there might be though.

Okay.

Any anything you'd like to place on the record?

Just to clarify, these aren't obligations of the county.

It's just required by the internal revenue code to present to the board.

Thank you very much.

Uh this is a public hearing on item 38.

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

Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing.

Uh is there any discussion?

Commissioner McCready.

Move for approval.

There's a motion for approval.

Please cast your vote.

Commissioners, your next item is to conduct a public hearing and approve, adopt and authorize the chair to sign a resolution approving the issuance by the public finance authority of Wisconsin in one or more series of tax exempt 501c3 revenue bonds in the amount not to exceed 20 million in order to a finance, refinance, or reimburse the acquisition, construction improvement, equipping, and furnishing of a charter educational facility located at 4025, 4035, and 4055, 4145, and 4075, North Matro Drive in Las Vegas, Nevada 89130 for use by Quest Preparatory Academy Funding Debt Service Reserve Fund for the Bonds, pay capitalized interest interest with respect to the bonds and related working capital and pay certain costs of the issuance of the bonds.

Thank you very much.

I'll open the public hearing.

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

Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing.

Commissioner McCurdy.

I'll move for approval.

There's a motion for approval.

Please cast your vote.

Mr.

Chairman, may I ask uh I I do think common courtesy is the applicant, both of those are in my district.

I do think common courtesy, they should at least show up, right?

Because what if we had some questions?

So these for my district, I don't want them on my agenda if they can't have the courtesy to show up.

Would would you like them to come forward, Commissioner?

No, but just for the future, they could at least, because we have to explain to the public that this is not Clark County dollars, this is a whole nother thing, but so at least they could come to the podium and state.

Yep, I totally agree, and I I think maybe finance can advise individuals in this cases to reach out to the commissioner whose district it's in.

If you just apologize, we thought you guys wanted to kind of move quickly.

Um, I'm Jessica Shaham on bond counsel from Kutaq Rock for the financing.

Um I'm Wendy Sidlecki from Quest Preparatory Academy.

Um I did reach out to Ms.

Kirkpatrick by phone and I was at a funeral, but the point is you could at least come up when we call the item.

So I should not.

This is our first time ever doing this, so that I apologize.

So thank you.

Thank you.

I'd like to also thank the um the board and also staff for making this process so professionalized and helpful.

Thank you very much.

You can have a seat.

Thank you.

Uh we got a motion.

Passed.

Uh the motion did pass.

Okay.

Item 39 has passed.

That brings us to item 40.

Commissioners, your next item is to conduct a public hearing to receive a report on the non-binding fact-finding recommendation for the FY26 collective bargaining agreement between Clark County and the District Attorney Investigators Association.

Thank you.

This is a public hearing.

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

Thank you, Commissioners.

Uh, as I indicated earlier, my name is Adam Levine.

Uh, I have the privilege of representing multiple uh law enforcement unions here in Southern Nevada and in Northern Nevada, and one of those that I have the privilege of representing is the Clark County District Attorney Investigators Association.

We it is important that the Commission realize that you have a formal legal recommendation from an uninterested third party that was selected by both parties, and both parties had the opportunity to present evidence and arguments to them.

What the commission needs to understand is in the prior contract, the DAIA told the county we are grossly undercompensated.

And the county is like, well, we're gonna do a compensation study.

So we deferred the compensation that we should have received to this contract cycle, and lo and behold, the compensation study sought by and from the county revealed that our entry level salary for the investigator two position was 29.6% below the market.

The midpoint was approximately 21% below the market, and the top out was 16% below the market.

It is what the fact finder referred to as in issuing his recommendation as because of the magnitude of the undercompensation to the market that he made the recommendations that he did.

Um the county historically, when it has been receiving fact-finding recommendations, has not been accepting them.

This is a disservice to the taxpayers.

Uh I would go back to 20 fiscal year 2022 for the fact finding with the prosecutors association.

The fact finder issued a recommendation.

This commission did not accept it at the public meeting, and then spent thousands of dollars on outside counsel only to finally accept the recommendation on the eve of binding interest arbitration.

That same fiscal year, the same process played out with the public defenders union.

You did not accept the neutral recommendation of the fact finder.

You spent thousands of dollars on outside counsel, and then right before the binding interest arbitration, you accepted it.

The following fiscal year, the same process played out for the prosecutors again.

We had another fact finding.200 sub eight says that at this meeting, the commissioners are supposed to have a discussion of the issues of the parties submitted and the report and finding of the recommendation of the fact finder.

You should not be just simply passing on the matter.

You should be explaining to your constituents why it is that you believe that spending thousands of dollars of additional money paying outside counsel is in the best interest of the public.

I don't think I'm just about to wrap up.

Uh the irony should not be lost on anybody that this uh commission has recognized national crime victims' rights week, yet the district attorney investigators who are integral to the process of securing rights for the victims of crime are not being appropriately compensated.

This isn't just my opinion.

This is the opinion of a very experienced neutral arbitrator.

Finally, I do want to point out if you could just conclude your remarks, Mr.

Um, your fiscal impact summary has a misstatement, which is misleading the public.

It states there is an additional five percent cola for fiscal year 26 and a 5% colour for fiscal year 27.

These are not COLAS.

A COLA is a cost of living adjustment to address purchasing power.

This is a wage adjustment, and your management team knows the difference and is deliberately uh putting what I believe to be false statements into the public record.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Anyone else wishing to speak during public comment on item 40?

Please come forward at this time.

Seeing no one, I will conclude the public comment period on this item.

Uh Ms.

Logson, this requires a vote.

This does not require a vote, it's just required to give this report to the commission, which the report is in your backup in your summary.

So we accept the report.

You don't even need to accept the report for an action item.

Thank you.

Then we will move on, Mr.

Schiller.

Commissioners, your next items to conduct a public hearing and approve and authorize the chair to sign a letter of agreement, LOA between Clark County and the Service Employee International Union, local 1107 for both supervisory and non-supervisory units, effective July 1, 2026.

The LOA between Clark County and the International Association of Firefighters, effective July 1, 2026, and the LOA between Clark County and the Carclone Law Enforcement Association, effective July 1, 2026, and extend the same salary and benefit changes to non-union employees not otherwise covered by a collective bargaining agreement effective July 1, 2026.

Thank you very much.

This is a public hearing on item 41.

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

Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing.

If there are no questions, I'll move for approval.

There's a motion for approval.

Please cast your vote.

The motion passes.

Commissioner is your next items to conduct a public hearing, approve, adopt, and authorize the chair to sign an ordinance amending 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 Stamp Pipe Permit fee.

Thank you.

I'll open the public hearing on item 42.

Anyone wishing to speak, please come forward.

Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing.

Uh turn over for possible action.

There are no questions that move for approval.

There's a motion for approval.

Please cast your vote.

The motion passes.

Commissioners, your next items to conduct a public hearing to approve or deny a special event preliminary approval application from Tau Group Elite Immediate Holdings LLC to hold a special event on May 17th, 2026 at Caesars Palace, located 3570 South Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89109, and providing for other matters properly related there too.

Thank you.

Good morning, Director Keanu.

Morning, Mr.

Chair, members of the commission, Vince Keanu, interim director of sports and special events.

So this special event application is in partnership with Caesars Entertainment and Tel Tower Group Tower Group Holdings.

So the proposed event is on Sunday, May 17.

It's a motorcycle jump to celebrate Tower Group's Omnia Nightclub Grand Opening and also to commemorate Caesar's 60th anniversary.

We have I see Fire Chiefs Daly and Horvath in the audience to answer any questions at the conclusion of the presentation.

I believe we also have Caesars, Richard Von Feld, Director of Security to answer any questions.

But for now, I'll turn it over to the Tower Group for their presentation.

We have Senior Director of Security, Chris Vasulo, and Director of Compliance, Renee Rivera Schaefer.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Morning, Commissioners.

My name is Chris Fasulo.

I'm here on behalf of Tau Group Hospitality.

Good morning, Commissioners.

I'm here, Director of Compliance, Renee Rivera Schaefer, Tau Group Hospitality.

So we're here to discuss the motorcycle jump that Director Vince mentioned.

Brief overview and impact of this motorcycle event.

Tau Group Hospitality stands as global leader in entertainment in nightlife and daylife with a strong presence in Las Vegas.

Tau Group currently operates approximately 85% of the large nightclubs and day clubs along the resort corridor with over one million visitors a year.

Omnia Day Club, which this uh motorcycle jump is for, is a $60 million plus investment located in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip.

Has created hundreds of new jobs and continues to elevate the city's hospitality landscape.

This uh world record motorcycle jump will bring a dynamic piece of Las Vegas and Caesar's history to the resort corridor, building on the legacy of iconic stunt performers like Evil Conevel and Travis Postrana.

This event also serve uh will also serve as a lead-in to Caesars Palace's year-long 60th anniversary celebration.

The motorcycle jump on Sunday, May 17th, uh is planned uh by Colby Raha, who will be doing the motorcycle jump.

He's a seven-time X-Game gold medalist and a four-time world record holder.

This event is expected to generate significant economic impact through increased hotel occupancy, dining, and local spending.

The guest list will include A-list celebrities, influencers, and key hospitality industry leaders, amplifying reach and visibility globally.

Um estimated global media impressions are uh projected to approach one billion, driven by the historic world record attempt, grand opening of the day club, world class entertainment, and high profile celebrity presence.

To get into the details of the event, um, as mentioned before, it is Sunday, May 17th.

Uh the event time will take place between two and three.

We are looking to close the sidewalk along Las Vegas Boulevard from 12 p.m.

to 4 p.m.

Um and here on the map you can see uh at the fountains where the event location will be, where the motorcycle jump will be.

Um it is a professionally coordinated motorcycle jump.

Uh it's a vertical jump only.

There will be no jumps conducted over any persons or structures.

Uh there will be installations of barricades to secure the event area.

Uh we are coordinating with Metro and American Medical Response.

Uh we have designated staff for pedestrian direction.

We'll have clearly marked sidewalk closed signs and detour routes for pedestrian flow, and no pedestrian access will be allowed on the closure of the sidewalk.

Here is a uh a map that we have of the closure.

The blue X's are where the closure is already.

There's already a closure there for the new construction of the Caesars Marquee on the corner of Flamingo and the Boulevard.

We are looking to extend that closure with the red Xs.

Um north to the southwest corner of Caesars Drive and Las Vegas Boulevard.

Um the yellow arrows represent where pedestrian traffic will be redirected.

Uh they'll be redirected onto the Caesars property across the crosswalk towards the main valet, around the main valet, and towards the pedestrian bridges.

On this map here, this is where we will have parking and transportation group flaggers represented by the yellow dots with a red dot as their supervisor.

The black and blue are metro that will have staff there.

We'll have uh two per post.

Uh so we'll have eight total metro with a sergeant.

Those metro will work in conjunction with the Pat G flaggers to make sure pedestrian traffic has uh safe passage across crosswalks with vehicle traffic.

Um and then the red and blue is uh AMR, where we'll have EMTs on site for this.

Um also this is our third party uh security positions that we'll have dedicated specifically for the event.

Um there will be 25 security positioned around the events for crowd control and to ensure safety of the event.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

If that concludes your presentation, I'm gonna go ahead and open up the public comment period on item 43.

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

Seeing no one, I'll close the public comment period.

Commissioner Sagerbloom.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I just want to congratulate you for doing this.

I want to point out to um everyone that earlier in that week, Maryland's parade is going to be at the north end of the strip, and then in this also in the north end of the strip is gonna be this event on Sunday.

So I mean EDC and what you're doing and the 60th anniversary, the North Pilot Strip is going to be jumping.

So Bruno Mars, eat your heart out.

I I think that was a motion for approval.

If there's no other questions, seeing none, uh, there's a motion for approval.

Please cast your vote.

The motion passes.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Commissioner.

We have a we have a question.

You're Fasulo.

Is Todd related to you?

He is.

How?

He's my father.

Okay.

Good.

Thank you.

Yes.

He knows security.

I do.

Thank you.

I just want to say, on behalf of the Tau Group Hospitality, we really appreciate you allowing us to do this presentation today.

Thank you so much.

Commissioners, we can now move back to the business section of your agenda.

Item 50 is to discuss issues in the resort corridor regarding excessive noise and artificial amplification devices in the public right-of-way and potential ways the county might address the issues and direct staff accordingly.

Commissioner Gibson.

Thank you.

Over the last several years, uh, we've received and the resorts have received countless complaints about the uh noise and the conflicts when uh there are activities that are resort related that are licensed and authorized by the county in and near the pedestrian traffic that moves uh north and south on the boulevard.

The issue seems to be the um commercial activities that are occurring on the sidewalk and the uh dining areas in particular.

And uh those conflicts are increasing.

Uh we were out there uh just uh the other day, and um there were folks that were conducting commercial activities collecting money uh from uh passers by in an effort to um be heard, I suppose, but the problem is that the noise levels are very difficult to manage.

Uh it turns out that we have a noise ordinance in the county, but it doesn't apply along Las Vegas Boulevard for reasons that existed in the past but may not any longer exist.

And uh because of the exemption, uh it feels as though there may be an opportunity here to do something that would uh provide us some relief.

The there are also issues related to distance separation between the outdoor commercial activities and resort dining, and one of the other issues that has come up is the extent to which many of those uh commercial activities on the sidewalk are using amplification of the sound, which is making it even more difficult to enjoy oneself at a dining experience uh outside.

Uh we have with us today um Lieutenant Mullins from the City of Las Vegas Marshall's uh office and Captain Dennis, the uh area commander at the uh the convention center area command.

Um we know that uh other jurisdictions have done things to address these kinds of conflicts, and in particular the city of Las Vegas has uh adopted an ordinance that governs uh much of what we're considering or what we're concerned about, I suppose, um at Fremont Street.

And um it's been um a I I guess my observation has been that it's been kind of a mixed bag, they've made progress, but it's uh it's a a little difficult to manage all of the different things that occur.

Um and my thought is that many of us here have taken the tour.

We've gone out with resort folks and uh the police and others, and we've walked up and down the strip at night, and we have seen these conflicts.

Uh we know that there are gatherings around uh those commercial activities that tend to block the flow of traffic.

We also know that there has been additional uh trash generated along the boulevard that uh needs to be collected.

I believe that action is being taken to increase the tracks trash collection and keep it cleaner.

We also uh have repainted stripes that designate uh pedestrian areas and areas where there can be uh some measure of uh gathering done by those who are conducting those commercial activities, but we're not to a point yet where we've overcome the uh issues that are affecting us, and in a time when we're competing with the entire world to make sure that the experience that people have when they come and visit Las Vegas is unique on the positive side.

Uh, this appears to be a time where we need to take a really hard look at both the process and then the particulars, so that we come up with something that passes legal muster, but that addresses the problem because these conflicts are intolerable.

Now, I've asked um or I'm grateful to Lieutenant Mullins and Captain Dennis for being here.

Um it might be uh good, uh Lieutenant, if you were to help us understand a little bit about what the unique challenges are uh at uh Fremont Street.

Um, and then um Captain, we'd have you come up and maybe just to take a moment and help us understand that the frustrations that the police department is experiencing because I think that there are plenty of things that can be addressed if we think about them in advance.

So thank you, sir.

Good day, Commissioners.

Thank you for having us here.

This is Stephanie Scott, she's actually uh our tourist liaison officer down there.

So I brought her along because she is going to be far well abreast of all the ordinances as it relates to what you all are are talking about.

She actually wore convention center area command for uh for a few years as well, so I thought that best of both worlds uh that she'd be very different.

So what we have here at Fremont Street just excuse me, yes, sir.

I said your name, but under our rules, would you please say your names before you start?

Yes, Timothy Mullins, M-U-L-L-I-N S, Lieutenant with Department of Public Safety, City of Las Vegas.

Stephanie Scott, Department of Public Safety, City Marshal.

Okay, so you guys are familiar with Fremont Street.

Uh I came, I took over the Fremont Street substation about two and a half years ago.

So it was a it was a new entity for me.

I'd never really dealt with anything to the level of you guys are referred to it as outside uh commercial activity on our side of street performers.

So that's uh a new that that was certainly a new challenge for us, but what we came to learn is that that the mechanism, I know that you all don't have circles and it's more about noise ordinances, but those circles ended up being a tremendous asset for for all parties involved.

That's stakeholders, that's tourists, uh, that is that's city officials as well.

Believe it or not, the performers actually came to that they they actually love the circles at six-foot radius that they're engaged with.

The uh noise ordinances as to what you're specifying, sir.

That's that the there are certain there's certain distances, uh, ATM machines, intersections.

Uh it's if if there's an active stage that that performers can actually amplify their their music, if you will, or their voices for that matter.

Uh we have decibel meters, there are individuals that are certified in that, so it's about 177 uh 107 decibels that they cannot exceed from a foot away.

And that's that's really a one-second read on up to uh 80.

I think it's 85 decibels from 25 feet away.

So to expand a little bit more, I'm gonna I'll let Officer Scott go ahead and give you guys more info.

Thank you.

Good morning or good afternoon.

Yes, the FSC security officers regulate the noise.

It is 107, they cannot exceed that.

If they do, it is a citable or an arrestable offense.

So there is a criminal aspect that follows behind it.

Um the 85 foot uh 85 decibel reading is about 25 feet away.

I think that's less important.

They are approximately 40 feet away from another performer.

They have to be 20 feet away from every ATM, every door, every intersection, anything that has to pertain to fire hydrants, anything of that nature, 10 feet away from any kiosk and 10 feet away from a patio.

Um they also have the ability, unlike the strip at this moment with the circles, they have the ability to close circles.

So they work with stakeholders in order to close the circle, maintaining 25 circles at all times out of a 38 circles that they have down there, which allows if there is a high traffic weekend and there's a beautiful patio going on and they have music, they can close the circle for those three days and reopen a different circle.

So it's really working with the stakeholders, really working with the area down there to make sure that everybody's happy at all times.

Uh if I can ask a question, uh I want to make sure I understood properly.

You so your officers carry decibel readers and are able to enforce the decibel coming from one particular performer versus surrounding sound, they're able to isolate that in an enforcement in a way that is enforceable.

Commissioner, we don't have anybody that's certified with with our agency, how our Fremont Street Security.

We work hand in hand with them.

There are 70 security officers, and they do have security that is certified.

So they will usually walk with us and capture the private security that is doing that piece.

Yes.

Thank you.

Are there other questions?

Yes.

Uh thank you, Commissioner Gibson.

Uh, so approximately how wide is a free mile street experience?

Do we know?

80 feet wide, I believe it's about three-tenths of a mile long.

Okay.

No, thank you.

All right.

Thank you.

Thank you very much for being here.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioners.

Tim Dennis.

Good afternoon.

I'm uh Captain Chris Dennis with uh Las Vegas Metro over at Convention Center Area Command.

I have with me Sergeant uh Joseph Inez.

Sergeant Josephinez, I've been with uh Kabichta Center Command for about seven years and worked uh extensively on those trips.

So no, obviously we've all gone down there and done the walk of the strip and looked at some of the outdoor commercial activity that takes place down there.

Um obviously there's there's certain laws that are already on the books that we can enforce that are extremely helpful with obstruction and uh certain types of amplifiers, whether they are uh the type of a uh generator uh or something that you actually have to physically plug into an electrical socket, obviously those kinds of things that we can uh definitely enforce.

But one of the complaints we're getting from a lot of our stakeholders up and down the strip is a lot of these um the outdoor activity that's taking place, they're bringing now you have the Bluetooth ones battery operated, or you even just have some of these acoustical instruments that are extremely loud, um, and then there's no really zoning for it, so you'll have different um different entities coming out and kind of competing with each other, trying to get louder and louder.

Obviously, if crowds don't form, then we can go in and we can move people along and um have them stop or go to another location.

However, what we're trying to do is figure out a way to prevent the problem from actually occurring.

Um so a lot of these people that are coming down to our city that want to go enjoy the outdoor dining, they can actually listen to the music or whatever's taking place um at that establishment versus waiting for the crowd to get so large that we have to go in and take enforcement.

Um I can answer any questions or uh Joseph can answer any questions you guys might have for us.

Thank you.

Are there any questions?

I have a few.

Please ask them.

Sorry.

Uh and maybe this is more for our attorneys, but it feels like years ago when we went this long before I was sitting in the seat, but we went through, spent tons of money uh with the newspaper racks and all those things on based on the traffic flow of the strip.

So it it feels like they would, at least when I was down there, they're impeding traffic because people are stopping.

Is that not reason enough to move them along?

Or I I've said I like the circles for a long time now because we could put them all six miles because it seems whatever we do today, they're gonna find a loop pool and do something different, right?

But I'm just wondering why how do they get stationary to begin with?

Um once they've created an obstruction of the sidewalk, yes, we can go in and we can enforce that and we can move them along.

Um some of the issues is is during, you know, let's say during lunch hour or whatever, we'll get a complaint from one of these outdoor dining establishments where they're not really impeding traffic, but they're just a noise nuisance to the outdoor dining establishment that they're the ones calling in and complaining about it.

So unless we can actually show that they're actually causing an obstruction of the sidewalk, where you have people walking around them if they have to go into the street, absolutely you're you're correct, and we can go out and enforce that.

It's when maybe they're just a single person out there and they're not causing that obstruction, and people can walk uh past them.

The dining establishment still has the issue of the noise, and they're competing with them.

So when I walk this trip, I collected a lot of business cards because everybody had a business card down there, and they didn't have a business license.

Is that not another way?

Do we need legislation for that?

I just am trying to figure out because I get it.

There was rock bands out there, right?

In front of a place that you go to hear the ambience and have your, you know, look across the way at the fountains or whatever, and then you you can't hear or even talk to the person you're sitting with.

So I I I get that, but I'm just like, sir, I feel like we have to come at this at like 10 different ways.

And I'd be curious as to what do they do in Times Square?

What do they do in all these other places?

Because I feel like um if they don't have a business license, they shouldn't be there to begin with.

I I agree with you, but based on the way the law is written, is if they're not actually charging people, they're allowed to ask for tips.

And then you can't you cannot charge them for the business license.

That's an additional law we need to maybe look at.

Anything more?

That really is the extent to which we can talk about this.

I mean, we we know what the uh complaints are, we know how that there are far more today than there ever have been in the way of these uh folks that are conducting these commercial activities out on the sidewalk.

The uh we're getting more complaints as a result.

Uh that means you're busier walking up and down the strip trying to keep peace.

Uh we've got to do something to uh deflate the conflict.

And uh we appreciate very much the way that you're responding and what you're trying to do.

While we were over there, we had a couple of uh officers show up and talk to both of the groups that were doing their activities.

Um and that's helpful uh and it was helpful that day.

But the thing that we we also want to avoid uh kind of a battle of the bands thing where you have a restaurant that doesn't want the people to be bothered by what is what noise is coming from the sidewalk that has sound piped into the air the outdoor area, and so they're turning up the volume and it ends up ruining the experience for folks.

Uh my thought was that we direct staff to take a look uh at all of these complaints, the challenges that Metro uh the experience at the Fremont Street experience and any other jurisdiction that has been down this road, come back to us with a process recommendation that would yield some action.

Uh and and if it turns out that maybe we do something about proximity early on or something about noise early on and come back and look at it after you had an opportunity to look at all of the rest of the considerations.

That's fine with with us, we would leave that to you to recommend something, but this isn't something that can take forever.

It's something where we really need to see you back and reporting on at least the process but process and uh the particulars of outcome uh as fast as you possibly can.

And I I would leave it to my colleagues to uh offer their comments.

I I would just add, and Commissioner Gibson, thank you for you've been leading on this for a long time.

I think we all share the passion for needing the strip to continue to be successful.

Um I would just add, uh and I realize this item is narrowly tailored around noise, uh, but we have all had conversations around some of the other things you mentioned, like the the trash.

The county is the supervisor of the contract for the strip cleanup.

We have to have better supervision of that contract.

I know, Ms.

Kramer, you've been working on that.

Um I I would ask perhaps public works comes before this board and explains that contract because I think we need to look more seriously at how it's supervised, the number of individuals that are on the street.

Those uh that contract is paid for out of strip dollars, so it's not a uh there's a different sensitivity to the budget there.

Um, but I think we ought to do more there.

Just today we had an item getting after some of the issues that Commissioner Gibson, you've been working on related to the uh elevators and escalators on the strip.

I think that's really important.

It probably is important for the whole board to be uh involved in that conversation because it's a high dollar uh issue, but it's a high dollar problem too, and it is all related to how Las Vegas Boulevard functions in a successful way.

So uh thank you for getting after the noise issue.

I think it it is an important piece of many of the challenges, uh, Captain, that you and your colleagues have brought to our attention.

Is there Commissioner Sagerblum?

Just to follow up with both of you, I totally agree.

Um we need to make the strip like Disneyland, as far as spotless and as far as noise goes, there's gotta be a way that we can differentiate between uh constitutional and unconstitutional noise, and when you go out there and sit at the Motobigui and you can't talk to your person with you because there's some guy on the street with a loudspeaker pumped up.

Uh that that's gotta be illegal.

So we gotta thank you so much for your help.

Thank you.

Thank you for being here.

I I I wanna say the the elevator, the escalator issue and the bridges on uh the boulevard is a mammoth problem.

And uh I something I I'm remembering something like 40 million dollars and intersection, or I think it's four it might be 70 per intersection, 40 per uh set of stairs or something.

It's terrible.

And some of the um escalators we inherited from the state, the ones that we spec't out and um built and paid for ourselves are doing a little better in terms of their maintenance, but the the low bidder one when the state uh put those out for bid, and there is an enormous expenditure that is coming to us to keep those moving.

So thank you very much.

We know you have to deal with that as well.

And uh, we appreciate the work that you do out there for us.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Appreciate it.

This concludes today's agenda with the exception of the final time set aside for public comment.

This is where anyone can come forward and speak on any matter that comes before the jurisdiction of the Clark County Commission.

Uh please state your name for the record.

Hello, my name is Shoshana, and I'm a resident, and I would like to speak about the urgency for the commissioners to consider the separation of church and state by eliminating prayer from these commission meetings.

I also want to give a shout out, ironically, to the Satanic Temple, who will be here next month to give their invocation prayer on May 19th, since they too are a religious organization, because when you want let one in, you have to let them all in.

And going back to the whole issue of the Bible, which is incredibly gruesome.

I've read it many times.

I encourage people to read it.

Most don't.

Most religious people have no idea what's in it.

Um, and to mention to you the irony of the satanic temple, they don't believe in Satan.

Christianity made up Satan.

It's not even in the Jewish Bible part of this, which is 75% of this.

It was made up by the Christian groups.

Um, they added a Satan.

To me, it's completely fictional, but you a lot of religious people believe in it.

Um and the irony in it is that in this book, if you do the killing count, God versus Satan, because this is the source of our invocation, that's why I'm bringing it up.

Satan killed 10 people.

God murdered millions and millions and millions of people.

Your God actually aligned with Satan in this story and had him kill the 10 children of a man named Job.

And Job is a man who's professes loyalty to God.

And so Satan's, or God said, Well, let's test his loyalty.

Let's torture Job, and they did.

In this story in the Bible, God killed his livestock, ruined his life, did terrible things to him, and put sores all over his body, among other things, just to test his loyalty.

That's what's in this book that we are using as a source of our invocation.

Your God murdered millions and millions of animals by sacrificing them.

There was killings, drownings, torturing, enslaving, mauling, capturing men, women, and children, and of course the virgin girls, because God is obsessed with virgin girls.

It's disgusting and it's perverted.

Yet the Satanic Temple who will be here next month is against every bit of evil in this book.

They are not the bad guy.

You go to their website, satanic temple.com and see what they are really about.

They're very action actually about a lot of rights.

They're very liberal-minded and they're about sovereignty and the freedom to question authority.

Again, we the people support the complete separation of church and state.

So please stop hosting religious services at our government meetings.

Since 70% of the cities and counties in Nevada don't pray at their meetings, and we should be one of them as well.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Anyone else wishing to speak?

Please state your name for the record.

My name is Daniel Stanford, a citizen here of Las Vegas and Clark County.

As a born and bred uh Las Vegan, um I've lived here all my life.

My family has my father worked on the strip.

Um and I wanted to give a bit of probationary support to such an effort to review ordinances and things that can be done.

Um however, I wanted to express my concern to make sure that any activity and any undertaking that we do takes into mind two elements.

One that none of the ordinances or efforts that are passed result in any type of potential loophole or can be abused for the infringement of political speech.

Um to make sure that it's not used in an excuse of shutting down uh political activities.

Um the second thing I wanted to bring up is that as somebody who has grown up my entire life here, I remember a time when the strip was a set of buildings that were either set back or were in and of themselves fairly closed in.

The noise contained within the buildings tended to be within.

It wasn't until you approached the uh the openings and actually stepped inside that you tended to hear the activities going on in the hotels and casinos.

Um in fact, I remember my father worked for Harris Entertainment at the Harris property in the party pit.

And one of the biggest things that happened was a bit of a uh a brouhaha around the fact you could hear the music from the sidewalk.

It caused some concern and issues about ruining the ambiance of the strip.

Now we end up with these uh a uh business entities actively putting patios in public thoroughfare areas.

In my opinion, when you open such an establishment, you admit and accept a certain level of you don't control that space.

So when we make sure that we move forward with this effort, it does have to be a bit of a compromise and consideration of you have accepted a bit of that you will have these outside noises.

But that being said, you shouldn't have outside performers overwhelming uh business entities that are set up.

There can be a compromise of hey, let's move it down just a little bit so that we don't have that competition going on.

So any efforts that are taken, I just ask that care be considered to make sure that it is a good compromise for both parties, and then again, it does not infringe on any political activities that could possibly be happen.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Anyone else wishing to speak during this final time?

Come forward now.

Seeing none, I'll close the public comment period.

We will recess until tomorrow morning at 9 a.m.

Thank you.