The Las Vegas City Parks and Recreation Commission met on September 2, 2025, at the new Civic Center building. The meeting included updates from the Department of Public Safety, Parks and Grounds Maintenance, and Recreation, as well as commissioner reports. The commission approved the minutes from the June 3, 2025 meeting.
For folks waiting on the call, we're just waiting for a city attorney and then we'll get this meeting starting. Chair Becker, how are you? I'm doing great place, Chair Niger. Thanks for asking you. Let's get this meeting started. Call to order. Items listed on the agenda may be taken out of the order presented. Two or more agenda items for consideration may be combined, and any item on the agenda may be removed or related discussion may be delayed at any time.gov. Moving on to item number one, call to order and roll call, please. Chair Becker. Vice Chair Niger. Commissioner Arminian. Excuse Commissioner Gabra. Excuse Commissioner Howard. Excuse Commissioner Keller. Present. Commissioner Martin. Commissioner Zamora. Commissioner Cornwall. Commissioner Burgos. Excuse Commissioner Robinson. Present. Commissioner Stitt. Excuse Commissioner Vogitz. Present. Commissioner Jones. Present. Commissioner Wall. You have a quorum. Thank you very much. Moving on to agenda item number two, an announcement regarding compliance with open meeting law. Are we in compliance? We are. Wonderful. Moving on to number three, public comment. Comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters on the agenda for action. If you wish to be heard, come forward and give your name for the record. The amount of discussion as well as the amount of time any single speaker is allowed may be limited. Hello. Good afternoon. I think given the new location, I wanted to jump in toward the beginning of the agenda today and um participate during public comment for my uh welcoming remarks. Uh for the record, Patomara, Deputy Director of Parks Recreation and Cultural Affairs. Um, it's my privilege today to welcome you to uh this beautiful new Civic Center building. Um the new home of our administrative team for parks recreation and cultural affairs as well as other departments. We have human resources down on the first floor where you entered and then IT above us, bringing a lot of not quite all of, but a lot of the city's staff together in a more cohesive unit. So it's been a dream for a lot of people for a lot of years, and it's it's great to see it coming to fruition. Um I wanted to mention to you uh that this Thursday, September 4th at 8 30 in the morning. Um we will be doing our ribbon cutting uh for the building and for our Goodman Plaza outside, which you uh may have seen on your way into the building. Um I encourage you to uh be taking a look from um some of our uh higher vantage points here on the second floor to see the beautiful space that we have for some of our special events and is part of our city hall campus. Um and then uh finally I did want to also uh welcome and introduce all of you to uh Miss Rebecca Holden.