Good morning.

We're going to get started with meeting of the Clark County Redevelopment Agency.

Sure, manager.

Good morning.

We can move to our first section, which is public comment.

This is the first time set aside for public comment, and I wish you write public comment with regards to any matters on today's agenda.

Please step forward the microphone, state your name, and please limit your comments to three minutes.

So for the audience, I would caution them about trying to apply this policy to their specific situation.

The policy is very nuanced.

As we go through this presentation, you will see some of that, but I just wanted to provide this disclaimer as we get started.

So the goal of relocation assistance is to ensure that uniform and fair equitable treatment is offered to all persons who are displaced from their homes, businesses as a result of action by the agency in order that such persons shall not suffer disproportionate injury as a result of the action taken for the benefit of the public as a whole.

So we look to Nevada revised statute NRS 342 and also redevelopment law 279.

But we also need to incorporate uniform relocation assistance and real property acquisition policies from the federal law.

And we are revising information previously from the redevelopment plan.

And there are exceptions to this.

So anytime we do a willing seller, willing buyer transaction, this policy does not apply.

Related to no displacement with at least without at least 90 days' notice, identifying and making available replacement location for residential tenants, especially, relocation payments, making sure people understand relocation payments are not income, and so they're not subject to federal income tax, being early and transparent as possible, and opportunities for the right to return.

So in a situation maybe where you're doing a rehab, creating programs that provide that opportunity.

So

the purpose and scope, as previously stated, it applies to acquisitions, rehabilitations, and demolitions.

It covers residential and non-residential occupants.

It establishes standards and procedures for payments and schedules applicable regardless of project funding.

So as I referenced, there are there's federal law, there's state law, and depending on the funding mix, if the redevelopment agency ever had a project that included federal funding, there may be different nuances that we have to address because of that federal money.

So what is defined as a displaced person?

And so we have again, it's triggered by an action of the agency through acquisition, uh demolition or rehabilitation.

Um it applies equally to federally funded projects or projects using local dollars.

Um a displaced person is not a temporary relocation, so anything under 12 months is a temporary relocation and technically not a displaced person.

And then for projects that have federal money, um, if the person is not in the country legally, they would not be um eligible for displacement benefits.

Ms.

Gullman, I think uh Commissioner Kirkpatrick has a question.

Can I can I ask a question?

I I could read the PowerPoint all day long, but can you give me some examples of what a displaced person is versus a non-displaced?

Because I I don't

I

don't like redevelopment to begin with, and I usually get up and leave, but I'm staying today because I got some questions I want to ask.

But can we talk about it in real life terms?

Because you're we're saying to the constituents, ah, this may not apply to you, but I mean give us some examples of what that sounds like because they're reading the PowerPoint too, and I'm reading it and I don't know what that means.

What is displace means?

I give me some examples.

Sure.

So in the event we purchased a uh an apartment complex and for we wanted to rehab that apartment complex, and we could not do that um within 12 months or in a manner that allowed them to stay in the property, that would be considered a displaced person.

So a temporary anything under 12 months is not considered a displacement.

So anything that is permanent is a displacement.

Anything above 12 months.

So even if we do a rehabilitation and it it's we're estimating it's two years, even though the tenants could go back because it's longer than 12 months by law, it's considered they're considered a displaced person.

I I have a question just for clarification, because I I what when does the time start to toll for acquisition?

So is it something that was already acquired?

When does

that

time clock start?

So this is that that nuance we were talking about between public infrastructure and redevelopment activity.

So as the law is was originally written for public infrastructure.

If somebody were buying with the intent, say they purchase the property for a roadway project with the intent that okay, we're putting in this roadway project, so we're buying this price of property.

That is the that is the acquisition.

Where we do not think it applies is in redevelopment activity where we've purchased property and we're holding it for long term, and the board has not made a decision on an actual project.

And so in that instance, the demolition or rehabilitation decision by the board, that would trigger that act that would be considered the action, and that would trigger the agency to take action.

So

may I ask this question?

Because I I like this engaging conversation rather than reading me a PowerPoint.

Um so you come from the city, and the city did exactly that.