I now call the October 2nd, 2025 Senior Citizens Advisory Board Meeting to Order.

Has this meeting been properly noticed and posted in compliance with the Nevada Open Meeting Law?

Yes, it has.

Would the Deputy City Clerk call the role, please?

Chair O'Rearch Cameron.

Present.

Vice Chair Graham.

Present.

Member Galati.

Present.

Member Mosdean.

Member Drum.

Present.

Member Lee.

Excused.

Member Tilzer.

President.

Member Young.

Excuse.

Thank you, Chair Yavakorum.

Thank you, Deputy City Clerk.

Item 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 speakers allowed may be limited.

Do we have any public comment?

Seeing and hearing none.

Item number four for possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the regular meeting of September 4th, 2025.

Do we have any amendments or a motion?

I move to approve the minutes for September 4th meeting as a as presented.

Thank you.

So we do have a motion for approval of the minutes for September 4th, 2025.

All in favor.

Item number five, presentation by Maurice Page, Executive Director, Nevada Housing Coalition regarding housing updates and services for seniors.

All ward.

Can you please state your name for the record?

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Maurice Page, MAU, R I C E, Last Name Page, P A G E, and I'm the Executive Director for the Nevada Housing Coalition.

First and foremost, I'd like to say thank you very much for allowing me to present today.

Today I'll be giving a overview of this uh past 2025 legislative session toward get more towards the housing and what was accomplished and what things we can work towards uh moving forward through our great state.

So a little bit of background information on the Nevada Housing Coalition.

We are a 501c3 statewide member-based nonprofit.

Um our mission is to promote the development and preservation of affordable housing for all Nevadans uh through collabor collaboration, education, and advocacy.

We've been in existence um seven years, um, and we uh we have provided um a lot of advocacy and grassroots um uh work um around housing throughout the state of Nevada.

Um we also work with um multiple a multitude of organizations and individuals throughout the state to uh further push the agenda around affordable housing and attainable housing.

So let's take let's before we jump into the legislation.

I want to kind of give you a breakdown of where we're at as a state.

Um in 2022, uh working with the Nevada Grant Lab, we came across um and did a study, and we were able to see that Nevada ranked in the bottom 20 percent in five of the 10 largest funding categories.

So if you look at the screen, you'll have agriculture, education, you have health, non-Medicaid, income, social services, um, and you could do a toss-up between uh either energy environment, natural resources, and transportation.

Um looking at those, and of course, we have moved the needle a little bit in some of these areas, and we will be updating our numbers and redoing a study over the next couple of years.

Um, but as you can see, during that time frame, we were one of the least funded states across the country.

Um, and we still are.

So, as again, as you can see, we receive approximately eight hundred dollars less per person than the national average.

And then the Nevada receives amongst the least federal grant funding, despite having some of the highest needs, particularly around housing.

So the National Low Income Housing Coalition, which is based out in uh Washington, DC, gives out where we're at as far as affordable housing annually.

This report was uh was brought to us in March of earlier this year.

And what you'll see at the top under the Nevada State data review is that 93% or 93,574, 19% of renters are extremely low income here in the state of Nevada.

The average income for a four-person, extremely low income household is 30,000.

We are short 77,928 rental homes uh throughout the state.

In Southern Nevada alone, we are at 66,000.