Okay.

I'd like to call to order the historic preservation commission meeting.

Um take roll call.

Yes, thank you.

Vice Chair Laramie.

Here.

Commissioner Stoddall.

Here.

Commissioner Levine.

Commissioner Hodgkiss.

Commissioner Cerfaz.

Here.

Commissioner Cosgrove.

Here.

Commissioner Palacios.

Here.

Commissioner Moody.

Here.

Commissioner Purdue.

Here.

Commissioner Grimmer.

Commissioner Harper.

Commissioner Cebrand.

Here.

Commissioner Gillespie.

Here.

Thank you.

We do have a quorum.

Great.

Thank you.

Item number two is our announcement regarding compliance with open meeting law.

Are we currently in compliance?

Yes, we are.

Seeing no one in our public audience today, we'll move on to item four.

This is our chair's announcement relative to the historic preservation commission.

Motion to approve the agenda as presented.

Discussion for possible action regarding approval of the second draft of the intensive level historic resources survey of the Cliff May Homes, roughly bounded by Evergreen Avenue, Heron Avenue, Easy Street, Upland Boulevard, and Idle Avenue.

Dr.

Sieber.

Seaburn for the record.

Our presenter is going through security right now.

So hopefully she'll be here momentarily.

I don't know if you we want to go to the next item or wait for her.

What I can say until she gets here.

I think you said you may have had comments on the second draft.

Please email those to me as soon as you can so that we can get it back to our consultant in order for her to make the changes.

So acting chair me, I'm as you wish to do.

Okay, we can um take item seven out of order and um let our presenter get here and get settled before we take her.

Is it do I need to have a motion on that?

Or no, okay.

Um we'll skip item six for now.

We'll move on to item 725-0428-HPC 1.

Report by the community development department regarding the walkthrough on August 25th, 2025 of the Huntridge Theater located at 1208 East Charleston Boulevard.

Okay, uh, thank you.

Seabart for the record.

Uh so um director Floyd and I did the uh walkthrough of the Huntridge Theater on August 25th.

Uh, we did send out a um mass email to everybody asking if they would like to join us.

I did not get any response, so I'm not sure if the email something happened or nobody was available, but um again, we'll always do that when we do those walkthroughs uh in the event anybody would like to join us.

The purpose of the walkthrough is of course uh part of the HPC respond the city's responsibilities with the um uh settlement agreement with the Huntridge Theater, and we were making our just our notes as far as the conditions that we vote on at the end of the year.

And if everybody um does recall, the um rehabilitation efforts refer specifically to the original 1944 exterior walls marquee as it presently appears after 1980 and 1993 renovations, the monument sign, and the interior configuration of both the lobby and the theater.

And so this is the first part of the marquee and the tower and the walls.

Um they are they look the same as they have for this past several years.

This is the lobby, the image on the left.

Is their left the same as my left?

The image on the left is looking into the lobby, and the image on the right is looking out of the lobby towards the doors, and the with the images and the photos you see um on that on the wall are left over from a couple years ago when they had the the sign lighting, and then the last uh part of the theater is that we look at is the theater um seating itself.

The picture on the left with the yellowish looking um panels, that is uh the um the stage, and then looking on the right-hand side where you see looking out towards the garage where the seats would be, and saying the where it has the Soho Playhouse um logo.

And it quite honestly looks the same as it did about three years ago.

Um Director Floyd, did you have anything you wanted to add to that?

So I I'm embarrassed to say this is actually the first time I had been in the Huntridge Theater.

Uh, I've been invited a number of times.

So I'll defer to Diane on what it looked uh, how it looked previously, but uh it was in good clean condition.

Uh obviously it had been cleaned out, and uh we were able to walk around and see some of the features of the building.

So I'm glad I finally got in there to take a look at it.

So happy to answer any questions.

Any questions from commissioners?

So um, I'm sorry, I would have loved to have gone with you.

I've been through it a bunch of times.

Uh I can confirm that uh council or uh Councilman Palacios for the record.

I can confirm that this looks very, very similar to when it did on the on the light signing party.

Um question that I had was were we expecting change or this this is really to look and see that things hadn't gotten worse from the last uh walkthrough, and was there a last what was the uh what was the expected outcome here?

What was the goal?

So the goal is part of the settlement agreement, is uh the city is allowed to do well as the HBC um at least two walkthroughs um a year.

Of course, Mr.

Dapper has always been very generous that anytime we want to go, we can.

The purpose of this visit is just to meet those uh settlement agreement requirements that let us walk through.

Um we didn't take a checklist that says, you know, this is done or that's not done, but we did the overall um imagery that shows you what those elements that were responsible for look like Chair Larry.

Go ahead, Chair Stodal.

Uh the question here is uh first of all, uh Mr.

David should we give you credit for really stabilizing the structure and cleaning it up uh and maintaining it.

The challenge that he faces, the agreement calls for restoration.

Um and if if there is no restoration, then the HBC uh cannot reduce the judgment that was accepted as part of the uh sales agreement.

It doesn't penalize uh the current owner, it just simply says that we cannot reduce it.

He has the opportunity once restoration begins to erase the judgment against the building.

Um but again, he has stabilized the structure, which is important.

Um and at this point, actual restoration, which is part of the legal agreement that was signed by Mr.

Dapper, the city of Las Vegas, um, and the state attorney general's office actually calls for the reduction of the judgment against the uh the uh uh in the sales agreement following restoration.

And so at the end of the year, the HBC will be charged with determining whether there was any restoration.

Can the judgment be reduced?

If not, we we move on.

Uh uh and and hope that Mr.

Dacker will be able to begin the restoration uh process in 2026 and therefore reduce the the judgments against him.

Thank you.

Thank you, Chair Stoetall.

Um I I do have a question as well.

When you do these walkthroughs, because I think I agree that what we expect at this point is just to um ensure that the building doesn't fall into further neglect and disrepair while he's working on his restoration plans and getting the building permits and tenants um lined up.

So we know that you know physical change to the building is gonna be slow in these early years, but when you do the walkthrough, is anybody from code enforcement or anybody else there as well who could maybe recognize if there's some like structural degradation or you know, some other maybe issues related to maintenance that um you know, just so that we are confirming that it's not you know becoming more neglected as we're in these kind of years of waiting for everything to get designed and approved.

So, Madam Vice Chair Seth Floyd for the record.

Uh so no, we don't take code or the building department on these reviews.

Um I have to give a little thought about how we might utilize that uh in the future.

That as Diane pointed out, the purpose of this is just to document what is there so that when you get to the end of the year, you all can make an informed decision about whether to reduce um uh the amount that's owed under the covenants.

Um if we were going to take someone, it would probably be the building department uh who we would take an inspector to take a look at those structural elements.

Uh I think what we could do though is we have a lot of photos.

We can certainly show those to our building official and see if there's anything of concern that warrants further investigation uh and and proceed if we need to at that time.

Okay.

Um I'll you know leave that up to your judgment and whether that's something that would be appropriate under our role as HPC.

Um but I'm you know, was just curious how we're kind of confirming that the building is at least um staying as stable as possible.

Uh any other questions from commissioners.

No.

Okay, thank you, Dr.

Seabrant.

Thank you.

And if we can go back to our previous um item, uh the consultant did just walk in.

Great.

Okay, we will return to item six, twenty five-04 seven.

Sorry, 0427-HPC1.

Discussion for possible action regarding approval of the second draft of the intensive level historic resources survey of the Cliff May homes, roughly bounded by Evergreen Avenue, Heron Avenue, Easy Street, Upland Boulevard, and Idol Avenue.

Okay, there we go.

Thank you so much.

I apologize for being late.

I took Bonnieville, and uh this is my first time being in this building, so I was a little confused.

Um so thank you so much for having me.

Um let's see.

I believe the first draft.

Oh, my name's Zoanne Campana from Calts Environmental Consultants for the record.

Uh I believe the first draft of this report you all reviewed probably almost a year ago.

Um, and we were waiting for Shippo to review it and get their comments back.

Um so basically what you're seeing in the second draft is any of your comments have been incorporated into that report.

Our review back from Shippo, they didn't have any substantive comments, um, and they concurred with our findings.

Um that's pretty much where it's at now.

Thank you.

Um Vice Chair Laramie for the record.

Um, are there any could you maybe give kind of a summary of any substantive comments from the commissioners that may have been addressed during in this second draft?

It was a long, quite a long time ago that we did our review.

It was.

I think I'd have to pull up the email.

Um, but I believe I had comments from um both Vice Chair Laramie and Chair Stoldal.

Um just asking for a little bit of additional information about some of the uh Cliff May stuff, um, which we were able to find and answer to the best of our ability.

Um I believe we also had comments from Commissioner Purdue about fireplaces in um the houses, and that was included in the second draft as well.

Okay, great.

Um and I know Dr.

Seabrant mentioned, I believe Chair Staldal, you had some questions or or comments for our presenter.

Thank you.

Well, two things.

One, I'm uh I will be submitting, and and they are quite frankly uh more ideas and thoughts than than corrections.

But let me say at this point that this report uh really stands out as a model for future reports for potential historic neighborhoods.

I mean, I I found it also an enjoyable read in the sense that not only we learn about Cliff May and the Las Vegas homes, but uh the the producer of of this report also gave us a context of the time and the and the details of the people that were buying this house through you buying those homes.

You really have uh uh a sense of the historic value of of these of these homes.

I this was a very special report for uh a unique neighborhood.

I I don't know what the next step is going to be.

Um as far as whether or not we're gonna try and create uh a move forward with any of the recommendations, but for this report, uh excellent report and my comments who are maybe a comma or a period should have been here, or that one word is misspelled, so they're not really substantive.

So thank you, Chair.

Any other comments or questions from commissioners?

Yes, I had a question about the reference to crawl space underneath the concrete slabs, which is made on page 59 and 60.

It's my understanding that underneath the concrete slab there is no crawl space.

Um that may need to be corrected.

Um it's the foundations wouldn't in that case be a concrete slab, it would be a perimeter foundation.

I think they make reference that most of the construction was a poured slab.

Okay.

Um I know that it I've never seen a crawl space underneath concrete slab, but maybe it exists.

Okay, yeah, I'll double check because the houses certainly do have crawl spaces.

Um I'll take a look in the report and fix that.

And one other thing, uh, I would have been interested to find out how Ernie Becker came into contact with Cliff May.

Was it just through his experience in California, reference from someone?

But he selected somebody that was evidently very much in the news at the time, and maybe he just heard it by word of mouth, but I would have appreciated a reference to how they came into contact with each other.

Okay, yeah, I don't think we were able to find that information.

We tried to source a couple things back to Cliff May in California and how uh he ended up being here in Las Vegas specifically.

Um so we can always clarify that we looked for that information, but we weren't able to locate it anywhere.

Thank you.

Any other comments from commissioners.

Well, sure I mean I'd like to make a motion to uh approve, except the uh the report.

Great, we have a motion.

Um all commissioners in favor.

Aye.

Aye.

All right.

Any opposed that motion carries with the vice chair also voting in favor.

Thank you so much.

And I also echo our chair's comments.

Great report.

Thank you so much.

And I I can send you a summary of those comments that were addressed.

I do have a document if you'd like to see it.

Sure, I would I would love that.

Okay, perfect.

Thank you so much.

Okay, um, we're now on item eight, 25-0429-HPC1.

A report by the community development department regarding the National Alliance of Preservation Commission's virtual summer short course, which was held online August 20th and 21st, 2025.

Thank you.

Uh CBR for the record.

So this was the um virtual short course that there were several uh sessions.

Um I still need summaries from three of you.

I'm not gonna call out names, but I really need those in order to get our reimbursement back from SHIPO.

Uh and thank you to those who have uh submitted their summaries.

And so I just want to give you my summary and what uh I felt were important um topics for this commission, and then I would like to hear from the commissioners that also attended this virtual uh short course.

So overall, I mean, you can read what I've written here that it was excellent overviews, and they they did present in a lot of these sessions good and uh bad preservation initiatives that hopefully are very useful for everybody to keep in your mind as we move forward with our work.

Um the sessions I felt were really geared towards uh entry level positions, but that's really helpful for those of you who are new to HPC or are still learning about what um HPCs uh do.

And what I took away from the main points that I found were important is bouncing priorities, and that particularly understanding staff resources.

I know we want to do a lot of projects, I know that you know there's a lot out there that we would love to do, but also understanding that it's staff is me and Teresa, so there has to be a priority of what we are going to do because we can only do what we are you know physically capable of doing.

Um also they did talk about space contributing to the meeting dynamics, and as I said repeatedly, I'm very happy we're in this space.

They actually suggested that um commissions all sit together at a table so that you know it's it's supposed to be an egalitarian type um commission, so that uh we are all working together, and so um I do hope we stay in this space because I think it is more conducive to what we are working on.

And the last one may be difficult to do because we are humans and we do have emotions, but remembering to stun stay unbiased of reviews.

Um a lot of people this is a fairly small community with a fairly small um historic um buildings, and so a lot of people are very emotional or tied to those buildings or places from childhood memories, but when we're in this capacity, all of that has to go.

It has to be are the certificates of appropriatenesses that we're looking at.

Do they are they meeting the um requirements or not without putting a motion into it?

And again, I understand that being can be difficult, um, but those are the main takeaways I took.

Um and so Hollis, did you want to start with what you felt was uh then again?

This is the virtual, not yet the um Milwaukee.

I'm glad they didn't hear that.

Hollis Gillespie for the record.

Um so I probably still fall into that category of a more of an entry-level preservationist.

I found that this virtual short course was very useful in a couple things.

One is I'm still learning some vocabulary and how cities and municipalities work and address historic preservation.

So the ones that were particularly useful and kind of dovetailed were on zoning ordinances and also um easements, and so there were several.

What I like is there's usually some really good case studies and how uh using those tools either help or in some cases don't help, and and how people have learned from that, and I found that that is something I want to continue to learn more about, particularly as it relates to this city.

Um then since I happen to always be a fan of building materials and that kind of thing, um, I was particularly enjoyed the session is looking at some of the Secretary of Interior standards on rehabilitation because there were several case studies related to when can you actually replace or repair material that is in various stages of degradation and when is it appropriate and and also still can be consistent with historic preservation standards of using a newer material or newer technology, and so that was useful for me.

Um my hobby horse complaint uh with most of these sessions is there still seems to be kind of a temperate weather east coast bias, and um, and that's only because I'm looking for case studies of places of the Arab Southwest, and you know that'll happen.

It's just a matter of of happenstance.

Okay, thank you.

Should we just go down the line then, Todd?

I think you were the next one that also participated.

Yes, thank you, Todd Moody.

Um I'll be brief.

I I thought it was a great primer, and it would have been really helpful for me as uh a new commissioner to have been able to you know to watch something like that.

So I don't know if it's possible for new commissioners to be directed to this.

I don't know if it will still be available, but uh I think it would be super helpful.

Okay, thank you.

Cheryl.

What I have read, um, I have enjoyed it very much.

I think it's been very insightful.

Uh one uh idea that I liked uh was for they had sidewalk markers and uh with pedestal with pictures on the top, and I thought possibly on Fremont Street, because there's so much foot traffic, uh that would be an ideal spot for early photos and early history street because so many people come to Las Vegas.

So many people come to Las Vegas and have no idea of what our history is or where it started or how it started, and I think possibly putting it in front of them would be um a real help.

I also enjoyed very much the restoration of the built buildings, especially the train depot.

But it was excellent, and I think it would be a help to any new person.

Okay, thank you.

Uh Nathan.

Uh Commissioner Harper for the record.

Uh I just want to echo what uh Commissioner Gillespie and Englishman.

Commissioner Moody said there really was a fantastic uh rundown.

Um good primer uh for folks learning about some of the stuff.

In particular, I think the zoning, the zoning session and the easement sessions were both really important.

I think uh all the commissioners have really benefit from from watching those.

Uh and these I think are available for 90 days after the so there's still a chance for you to to go and see these.

The other thing I want to highlight is there were over 300 people in these sessions, and a lot of them were in the chat, were commenting, we're asking questions, so it was very active.

And the other thing, exciting thing about that is is you know all these names now, you know, all these people that were in there.

So if you do have a direct question, but you can you can go to those people directly now that you're your virtual friends from the NAPC virtual summer short course.

Thank you.

That's a good point, yes.

Um, anybody else?

Sandra, did you participate?

No.

Okay, did I miss anybody?

Oh, I'm sorry, Chair Stuttle.

Yeah, I uh really echo what everybody was saying.

Uh, in the sense to me, this wasn't a fundamental for somebody just starting in the historic preservation.

It was a reminder to whatever level you were in the historic preservation process.

The the key duties that we have, and uh I'd almost like to see this every year to remind me what are the our fundamental goals.

Um I also took away some smaller things like the marker program.

I think that's a real opportunity for the city of Las Vegas.

We have markers throughout the community from different projects and different times and they're outdated and some have been stolen.

So there's an opportunity in that.

So there are a lot of reminders in these sections that it made notes for the future.

But I I thought they were great and almost something we should require watching for every year.

So thank you.

Okay, well, thank you for everybody for participating.

And again, these are offered once a year.

And I do encourage everybody to raise their hand when we ask you if you'd like to sign up because if you can't watch them live, you are able to watch them as recordings at a at a later date.

So unless anybody had questions for me.

So the first, you shared that there was some excellent examples of kind of both good and bad preservation initiatives.

I we we did jump everything into our database, so I'll I'll look and see what they have and send it to you, or it'll send it to everybody.

Okay, that would be great.

And then I also just wanted to share related to your um kind of takeaway of staying unbiased and trying to leave your emotions out of it.

I attended an NAPC training um some number of years ago that was really helpful for me that talked about how to use the Secretary of Interior Standards to really guide your conversation about um, you know, when you're discussing certificates of appropriateness, and that if you can't find a standard that helps drive, you know, the the point you're trying to make or the conversation that you're trying to have, then it's probably an emotion-based argument that doesn't really fit within the context that we should be reviewing buildings.

Um, and that really helped kind of guide how I approach my reviews.

Um, so just wanted to share that as a really useful tool and a lens to use when when we're trying to stay unbiased on these things.

Um, any other questions or comments from commissioners on what was shared?

Paula Scillespie for the record.

Uh, this is a reminder because I have also benefited by throughout the year.

I don't know if it's monthly, but it seems with great frequency, we can sign up for free for additional um webinars.

There's one tomorrow, which I thought was today on historic preservation and context.

And so, you know, if you don't get the the actual conference timing, um, you can keep up.

Great.

Thank you, Dr.

Siebran.

Um, we'll go to item nine, 25-0430-HPC 1.

A report by the community development department regarding the National Trust for Historic Preservation Pass Forward 2025 conference held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 16th through 18th, 2025.

See, for the record, and thank you.

So, this was uh our conference just last week, so it should be fresh in everybody's mind.

Um, and just want to give you uh I can't give you everything that we saw, but just some of the highlights.

Um, there were quite a bit of um field studies and tours that were taking us around to different sites and places.

So you get that really not only sitting in a conference listening to this, listening to somebody speak, but you're out there, you're with the experts, they're explaining what they did with a building or what wasn't done with the building, and so you get like uh every sense is um able to concentrate on uh whatever topic was being discussed.

So I found um several of the uh uh adaptive reuse um buildings that were very very interesting.

So this uh on your slide or in front of you is uh sugar beet factory that was constructed in 1906, and this was actually in Madison, Wisconsin, about like an hour or so and an hour and a half from from Milwaukee.

It was a sugar beet factory, um, like I said, starting in 1906, and it operated as a factory um until the late 20s.

The image that you see on the left is as it looked in uh the early 1900s, and then became a general store and a feed store, uh and now it's called Garver Feed um factory, but it was abandoned in the late 90s and then uh purchased by a developer in when was it 2016, and they redeveloped it into this space that you see on the picture on the right, that's the interior.

So you can still see the factory type windows, but there's um a bar lounge in there, there's a coffee place, there's a pizza place.

They have some boutique kind of clients, the yoga plants, artwork.

It's it's just it was a really interesting case study, and using a giant abandoned building for something that now is quite popular.

There's uh some colleges around there, so there's a lot of young people riding their bikes coming over there and utilizing that space.

Um thought that was very interesting.

And the other one uh was the Paps Brewery bottling house, and this is in the heart of downtown Milwaukee.

It was uh built in 1889, and for those of us who remember uh the TV show Laverne and Shirley, they actually um filmed the opening inside this bottling um house when it was still a bottling house.

Um, and so now um it's actually student housing.

It went into disuse in, I think they they sold it in 1996.

It was remodeled in 2015, and that was from they actually the developers bought it in 2006, and from 2006 to 2015 they did the redevelopment.

So the image on your right is the interior that was once part of that factory, and they've put in it's uh they they kept the original steel work, but they've put in a sidewalk, and they're they're very small, really sweets, so um catering to the the college age um clientele there.

But again, just a really good example of you see that they've kept the exterior completely um original.

It's just the interior that they they did redesign.

So um those are my two slides in Hollis.

Did you want to come down or stay up there?

No let you switch.

Okay.

Hollis Gillespie for the record.

Um so one of the things I wanted to say is a general comment.

The last two historic preservation uh conferences I've been generously supported by this commission in the city, have had a lot more focus on conservation districts and landscape conservation and things in a kind of a bigger picture.

And I really appreciated that because I see that we have in this city a lot of opportunity for communities that may not have enough contributing resources in to name a neighborhood, but to get you know expanded out a little bit and look for some ways of bringing in that historic significance.

And so one of the things, and also because I happen to be a longtime fan of Frank Lloyd Wright, is that we got to look at a lot of uh examples of architecture, in this case, uh an iconoclastic and unyielding architect who from the late 1800s is still relevant and still has adherents and students, and looking at some of the buildings and furnishings that um don't really look that old.

There's still a lot of contemporary aspects of them.

Um, you know, you can read till the cows come home, how the you know, falling water is leaking, and you know, so on and so forth, but there's still some principles of architecture and design that um informs a lot of preservation efforts and not just in those particular uh design buildings.

Um the next one.

Paula's Gillespie for the record.

I I concur with Dr.

Sebrink because one of the benefits that I put particularly got each of the sessions I attended had several examples of adapted reuse, and I thought that was really useful to see and to learn about.

I thought I took pictures of the Horlicks factory, which is a campus of like nine former factories that they're still in the process because they're using tax code and other easements to get these things done, but they in um Racine, Wisconsin, they've got several buildings that are completed that they've converted to both market rate and affordable housing, some um maker space and entrepreneurial uh workshops and uh some presentation spaces.

So that was that was handy.

But um I also attended a uh a session on sacred spaces and some of the historical um work that's been done there.

We went and this was interesting to me.

The Conrad Schmidt Studios is a long time facility that works with a number of clients, but a lot with uh sacred spaces.

So we saw working in restoring um different types of stained glass, uh, murals, um looking for original materials, original pallets, and very much a current and busy place.

And you know, I think I asked one of the workers where they got that training, and it was his father.

I mean, it was sort of, you know, there was a family connection where things are passed down.

And it looked like from the different sites we went to that there were a number of facilities.

We went to a seminary, we went to a couple of more modern facilities that some of them really need work and probably don't have the funding or the wherewithal to do it, but we we saw what could be done and some of the materials that they used that were really innovative for that time, some things, particularly from the early 60s.

And then that same time we went over, um, wanted to see another Frank Lloyd Wright building.

This was uh a commercial building, it was a yes C.

Johnson admin building.

It's still a workable company, and uh I took a picture of the car park because there were some um innovative pillars there that looks sort of like they're upside down, but at the time that was um pretty groundbreaking and and structurally sound and still visually interesting, and some place that's still used today.

I think Michelle might have some other things to say too, because I apologize as I don't have any slides.

These other commissioners are really showing me up here.

But um I do have some takeaways to share.

Um a couple, I guess, kind of random thoughts that I've been having since I went on the trip.

Um, so the first one I'll share is just a quote that really sat with me from one of the sessions is that preservation is a blend of humanities, science, and economics.

And I thought that was a really great way to think about what preservation is and what we're actually, you know, kind of the realm of professions that we're working with here, um, and why it can be so important to preserve kind of our our cultural and humanities aspect, um, taking the science into account of how do we actually restore and preserve buildings, but then also at the end of the day that it does need to be um economical, and even if it potentially doesn't pencil out financially wise, what is the return on investment to the community?

And so those are all very important things to consider.

Um, and I thought that was a good way of kind of blending the different the different um issues that were juggling in preservation.

Um, the other aspect, another aspect is as Commissioner Gillespie shared, was just having the opportunity to visit um some very iconic architecture and Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings and design.

Um, and I'm also you know, personally um very uh inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Um, but even you know seeing buildings that are just preserved as time capsules, I think can have the same type of inspiration for people.

And so finding and understanding what are our time capsule buildings in our community, I think is an important exercise for us as a commission to do.

Um I sketched while I was there, and that has not something I have done in many, many years.

And so I think it just really kind of highlighted the importance for me that some of these buildings and masterpieces and seeing in their you know, original context, the impact that that can have on people, um, and also tying our preservation efforts into our local student and education community and helping educate our students about what preservation is and why it's important and bringing that work to kind of our next generation of designers and tradespeople, I think is very important as well.

Um, and that kind of reminded me of the importance of sharing um our work with the broader community and and those who are you know gearing up to work in it in future years.

Um the last takeaway that I'll share is there was a big emphasis on the conference um about tying preservation efforts into sustainability and kind of the green building movement.

And I especially think with the city's focus on sustainability, there may be some overlap in our goals as a commission that we haven't really looked into or taken advantage of.

And so spending some time as a commission in the future to better understand what the city's sustainability goals are and how preservation can help progress some of those goals is an important exercise and something I'm gonna be suggesting for future projects.

So that's what I have.

Thank you in Seabrant for the record.

And uh we did have this conversation.

Um those of us who attended, and looking at having Marco come in and giving us um some information because he is our sustainability expert.

Um I'm just telling Seth this while he's sitting here.

So but I think that if this is this could be a very interesting way to go, um, and we'll definitely ask him to come in and and discuss how we can perhaps marry those two together.

Thank you.

Quick question, Commissioner Moody, where is next year's conference?

Um what no, that's the different one.

I think it's Minneapolis.

Oh any other questions or comments from Commissioners on the information we discussed?

Commissioner Surface, I just want to thank you all for bringing this information back to us and uh highlighting uh the importance of sustainability, adaptive reuse.

And uh I know this in my personal opinion, the city's out in the forefront in this area compared to a lot of the other municipalities.

So I think that'd be a great idea if Marco could come and talk to us and and uh share some vision and some ideas coupled with uh what you folks gleaned from attending the conference.

I think that'd be great.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any other comments or questions from commissioners or Chair Stotl on the phone?

No, I simply echo what was just said.

The the time that uh has been taken out of your time by going to these conferences, and what you bring back is just invaluable, and uh I was gonna have some comments at the next meeting regarding uh the work you've done at these conferences, but uh I just echo saying thank you for your time.

Thank you, Chair Staldal.

Okay, we will move on to item number 10 a report by the community development department regarding directors' updates.

Thank you, Madam Vice Chair Seth Floyd for the record.

Uh Diane covered a lot of ground today with those reports, and I don't have anything else to add, but I'm happy to answer any questions.

Okay, do we have any questions from our commissioners for Director Floyd?

Okay.

Hearing none, we'll move on to item 11, which is a report by the community development department regarding our project update list.

And once again, CBREM for the record.

So we just have our um four projects.

I'm sorry, there's really just three projects in place.

The fourth one is our uh for our information.

So the old Mormon Fort National Register um update because of the state's cyber attack, and Hollis can weigh in on how this is still an ongoing issue.

Um, they weren't able to get the material out to the board members.

So that report, the update um for that national register is not gonna be until the December 5th state board meeting, which I believe is in Politics for the record.

It is at Lost City Museum and Overton.

So please come.

Yes, yeah, everybody is well is welcome to go.

Um the Cliff May Homes, we did have the uh second report, uh, the second draft report today.

Again, um, send me the the comments that um for those slight any slight changes that that we need before we have the final report, which is in our um October meeting.

The Floyd Land Park Historical Report, uh, that is also going to be at our October meeting.

Um, I'll be able to get that to everybody this week before the end of this week.

So it's again a quite robust report that will take a bit of time to read.

And then for the original Las Vegas High School, now the Las Vegas Academy of the Performing Arts, they will be giving a campus update also at our October meeting.

And then just one last time is the reminder that I need those summaries by October 6th for those of you who attended the virtual summer short course.

And happy to answer questions if there are any.

Thank you.

Any questionnaires for Dr.

Any questions from commissioners for Dr.

Siebrant?

Any questions from Chair Stotl on the phone?

No.

Thank you.

Okay.

Thank you, Dr.

Siebrant.

We'll move to item number 1225-0431-HPC 1.

A report by the community development department regarding historic and archaeological resources in local media.

Dr.

Siebrant.

I I'm sorry, that's just the list that everybody reads.

Yes.

Yeah.

So if everybody read it.

Okay.

Nothing nothing to add.

We got our great list of media coverage as usual.

So we'll move on to item 13, a discussion regarding topics for future agenda items.

Comments made during this portion of the agenda by individual members shall refer solely to proposals for future agenda items.

And any discussion shall be limited to whether or not such proposed items are within the purview of the commission and or whether such proposed items shall be placed on a future agenda.

No discussion regarding the substance of any such proposed topic shall occur, and no action shall be taken.

Any commissioners have any future agenda topics they'd wish to propose.

And Diane talked about this a little bit in her summary of the NAPC conference, and it was something that we discussed together.

So the last time we really did any strategic planning together as a commission, I think was a little over five years ago.

I think it was right when Dr.

Siebran was coming on board.

But I think it would be important for us as a commission to kind of re-strategize around, you know, what are our resources, what are our goals, also what does the community want from a preservation perspective, and kind of put together, you know, a plan based on our resources and our goals for what priorities we want to achieve over the next handful of years.

So I'd like to suggest or ask for a future agenda item to kind of have that discussion on how we might accomplish that, and then we can work through, you know, however many discussions we need to move that forward.

Umicks to consider for future agenda items by commissioners.

Okay, we will move to citizens' participation.

Public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters within the jurisdiction of the commission.

No subject may be acted upon by the commission unless that subject is on the agenda and is scheduled for action.

If you wish to be heard, please come forward and give your name for the record.

The amount of discussion on any single subject as well as the amount of time any single speaker is allowed may be limited.

Um we do not have any audience members, but do any commissioners wish to make public comment.

I just wanted to note the passing of Guy Roche.

Um there was a a very uh thorough uh recognition of him in the Nevada Independent just a few days ago.

So I just wanted to make sure that we we recognize his contributions to Nevada history.

So thanks.

Thank you so much for that.

And we'll probably see that pop up on next month's media coverage.

Um it looks like that's all the comment we have, and this meeting is adjourned.