Mark Brandenburg.

Commissioner Brandenburg.

Thank you.

We can hear you.

Thank you.

Okay.

I'd like to call this month's meeting of the Centennial Commission to order.

May we please have the roll call.

Chair Berkeley.

Here.

Commissioner Bryan.

Here.

Commissioner Arnold.

Commissioner.

Sorry.

Commissioner Arnold.

Commissioner Stotel.

Commissioner Brown.

Commissioner Coffin.

Commissioner Hilton.

Commissioner Sinnock.

Here.

Commissioner Mowbray.

Here.

Commissioner Trusdale.

He's excused.

Commissioner Brandenburg.

Here.

Commissioner Creer.

He's excused.

Commissioner Mills.

Present.

Commissioner Prado.

Commissioner Diaz.

Thank you.

We do have a quorum.

Thank you so much.

Agenda item number three.

Public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters on the agenda for action.

If you wish to be heard, I'm sorry, could you please announce that we are in compliance with the open meeting law?

Yes, we are in compliance with the open meeting law.

And we do have a quorum.

Yeah, very welcome.

Um, if you wish to be heard, um uh please 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.

We will limit this to two minutes.

Is there any member of the public that wishes to speak?

Seeing no one, we'll go to agenda item number four for possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the regular meeting of November 24th, 2025.

Is there a motion?

All those in favor of the meeting.

Thank you very much.

Anyone opposed?

Okay.

Did you get that?

Commissioner Sennet and Brandenburg?

Yes.

Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Agenda item number five.

Report by the City of Las Vegas Finance Department staff regarding the commission for the Las Vegas Centennial budget for fiscal year 2026.

Will you please state your name for the record?

Yes, uh Quinn Oshikeski.

I am the budget and treasury manager for the city.

Um good afternoon, and I see we have the presentation up, the backup from uh the financial uh there should be one page before this.

Uh we're missing the financial statement.

It's the first of the three slides.

There it is.

Okay, so it good afternoon, uh Mayor and Commissioners.

Uh today I'm going to present the financial results.

Uh Paul Bresnahan, who normally gives this presentation to you, just had his child or child arrive.

And so he's going to be out for a little while.

So I am going to substitute today and just give you uh a quick view of the financial condition for the commission.

So he has done the numbers through the end of the calendar year, 1231 25.

As of that time, uh the revenues that have been received for the commission are 521,540.

Uh of this, the amount coming from license place revenue is 421,540.

The expenditures related to programs, which would be the grants that the commission has uh granted that have been expended in the current fiscal year are 78145, which tie to the next chart that we'll go through, which is all of the grants and the amounts uh expended for them, and then the section down below are the general operating expenses, uh which total 108,593.

So the total expenditures for the commission are 89028, which means that uh there has been a change in the net assets of 368 487.

So the cash has gone down.

Uh currently uh the net assets that the commission has is 5.8 million dollars.

Are there any questions on that?

A couple of questions, and I realize that uh you may not have the answer stole all for the record off the top of your head, but we go back to the expenses, yes, and under management and administrative services, uh the working agreement between the city and the centennial commission is for 180,000 dollars annually, 90,000 has been taken out for the first part of fiscal year 26.

Uh we go down to uh administrative expenses, it says 15,000 dollars, and uh I'm confused, and maybe when at the next meeting, why there's administrative expenses that should be included in the 180,000?

Yes, so the management and administrative expenses are related to the support that the city provides.

So that would be the people that uh take care of the commissions, myself, Diane, the people that are paid through the city.

That is the amount that's being charged in the management and administrative services, so it's the services of the city that are provided to the commission.

I understand I have the work agreement here in in front of me, and it lists all of the the categories, but why is there it's an additional administrative expenses that should be already included in the 180,000?

So of that other amount that's there, there's 485 dollars that are for investment fees that relate to the interest that the commission receives.

There is two thousand seven hundred and eighty-six dollars that relate to patent and trademark fees, and then wait, are you talking about legal counting and auditing?

Yes.

I'm talking about the 15,000 above that.

Yes, so those other expenses down below are what I was just quoting to you.

That makes sense.

I I understand that, but I just why we have a category of $15,000 for administrative expenses.

That's legal accounting and auditing is already at $14,008.

And and quite frankly, the working agreement says those should be included, not separate.

So the only there is nothing charged to that directly at the moment.

Yeah, and uh is there a definition for that?

So the if there was something that would be directly related to the commission, where the commission should pay that bill, that would be what shows in there.

But as of this moment, there is nothing charged to administrative.

Okay, but but do you have uh does the city have like time or definitions of what each each uh expense category is?

Uh administrative these were uh developed by Paul, and they were trying to put it into a small category, it's fifteen thousand dollars that is put into the budget, so that it's there, but as of now it's not spent.

If it would be needed, at least we've appropriated something for the expensive.

And this is my last really the issue is for me is how expenses can be added to the uh cost of running the centennial commission without the centennial commission approving that.

We approved 180,000 to do all this stuff.

Now there's new charges that are being added, and we're not apprised of that.

So that's not you doing it, I understand.

And so please don't take it like that.

But if we could get some specific answers at the next meeting, it would be really helpful.

We can try to do that for you.

Great, thank you.

I'm thinking in uh would you tell me if I'm uh uh if I'm hearing what you're asking.

There's uh we have the 180,000 dollar budget that for administrative, like now we see 15,000 plus that isn't being hasn't been used, but what would be what expense would we charge to that 15,000?

And I think that's what uh Bob uh would like to know.

It's here, it's 15,000.

We haven't spent it, but what would we spend it for?

I can look into that if we've ever spent anything under that.

Um, we can get back to you on that.

I don't know if there's any ever been anything that's been put there.

Okay, just curious what what would be uh eligible to be charged to that fifteen thousand.

There was at the last meeting there was six hundred and seven dollars put into that account, and now it's it's gone.

But I I we spend a lot of time on on this.

It's just if you take a look at the existing working operating agreement, and it lists eight categories of things that the city can spend money on for the centennial commission, and so that's in the working agreement.

But I appreciate I really appreciate your help and your time on this, and at the next meeting, maybe a little bit of clarification on the two things.

One, what's the 15,000 for?

Nothing's in this report has been taken out, and then secondly, how expenses can be attributed to the centennial commission beyond the 180.

You know, there are the categories uh advertising.

That's that's listed here.

So we know that that's that's one isn't there a third one that is basically if it's an additional charge.

Doesn't the commission have to approve it?

Yes.

The answer to that is yes.

Uh would you continue with your presentation, please?

Yeah, yeah.

So the the next slide uh that we have is the grants that have been granted by the centennial commission, and it's been updated for the new ones that were added at the last meeting, and there have been waiting for them to put that up.

Could we have the next slide, please?

Uh the one before that.

There we go.

Yeah, so these are the outstanding grants which have been updated for the uh amount of expenditures that have happened in the uh current fiscal year.

were added at the last meeting and there have been waiting for them to put that up could we have the next slide please uh the one before that we go yeah so these are the outstanding grants which have been updated for the uh amount of expenditures that have happened in the uh current fiscal year so that's in the expenditure for year end is 630 26 this is what has been expended on each of these grants and at the bottom you're the new ones that you have approved have been added to the list so we will be tracking the those as we go along so that total expenditure of 78145 correlates to the program expenditures that you saw in the financial report and previously this is probably for the record a question for uh Dr.

Crant but have any of these uh grants been extended because the the applicant needed more time to finish a project uh so you might for the record correct and some of these have been completed uh the only one on there that needed an extension was the UNLV oral history for the sports project um and the Paul Revere Williams uh is the other one that's just been um uh given a bit more time usually is it like six months or a year we're kind of a is there a normal you need another year or well they they just let us know that um you know if how much more time they need for the and this is on my update but I'm happy to tell you it now if you want that's right I'll do it for my update then thank you so much please continue okay and then the the third slide that was included in the backup is uh the license plate history I believe at the last meeting you had asked for some additional plates to be uh presented along with the Raiders the nights and the centennial plate numbers so those are included on there uh we've now have UNLV UNR Metro Lake Tahoe which is a quite a big one and uh united we stand so we've given you the history on those and uh as you can see the Las Vegas Centennial pay plates are the largest does anybody have any questions or comments that they would like to make or ask in that case uh this is uh for information purposes only there is no vote required we thank you very much for your time thank you have a good day everyone thank you uh yes sir it is kind of ironic that I thought the Raiders were gonna catch up to us until the last few days last few games uh they'll be there for a while just in third place I think the Raiders Raiders yes they're raiders they're in third place that's pretty good well they've lost a lot of places oh oh I see what you're saying yes you're absolutely right okay to the game yeah actually we went to the last game to lend some support for the future having said that we are now going to agenda item number six final report by Jeffrey Carlson website content development consultant regarding the website content development for the commission for the Las Vegas centennial project um hello and would you state your name again for the record good afternoon I'm Jeffrey Carlson uh with a final report on the Las Vegas Historic Timeline this uh 100 year timeline was completed with input from Dr.

Siebrant and extensive fact checking and notes on content from Mr.

Stodal the thematic focus of the timeline is similar to the ongoing City of Las Vegas documentary series covering people places government economy and business geography and infrastructure institutions and major events key to the city's history on the screen we have the Las Vegas website's existing timeline page mocked up with content I created the new content is not yet published when and how it's published will be up to communications but like my previous updates I've created a few slides as an example of how it might look once it's there.

Each decade begins with the city population and the corresponding city of Las Vegas documentary every entry has a brief uh has a year a brief milestone title about 50 words of text a photo and photo credit small type in my last update uh Mr Bryant asked for a photo that better represented Heldorado days as it began in the 1930s here we have a photo of the parade from that time uh passing storefronts on Fremont Street some of these years have two or more entries underneath the uh golden nugget facade uh some of these years have uh two or more entries 1943 was a key year of expansion of

Underneath the uh golden nugget facade.

Uh some of these years have uh two or more entries.

1943 was a key year of expansion of suburban housing, and it was also a year of huge population growth of the West Side at a time when it was underserved and underdeveloped.

Two entries for 1950, Las Vegas Sun, one of three newspapers covered in the timeline, and the infamous organized crime hearings held at today's mob museum.

Uh 1960s, a civil rights landmark, and the acquisition of Tully Springs Park.

1980s flooding and flood response and the closure of the Union Pacific's downtown rail yard.

1990s, flooding and uh founding of the Neon Museum and designation of the uh medical district.

The last entry covers the centennial celebrations and the centennial grant itself.

Uh these slides are just about 20% of the full timeline in today's packet.

The final work is 72 separate entries, totaling about 3,000 words.

For young city, the timeline is rich with information, concise enough for quick reference and long enough to be a jumping point into Las Vegas history for educators, journalists, and casual readers.

I had a great time writing this timeline, so thanks for the opportunity.

Um happy to answer any questions.

Does anyone have any questions or comments?

Yes, Commissioner Mulver here for the record.

You know, well, we've done a lot of documentaries on the history through the years, and what's recently come to my attention because some researchers have reached out to me, was an event in 1976 and 77 that's completely been lost under the radar, and that was the death of Howard Hughes, and the subsequent Mormon will trial that was trial here in Clark County, a nine-month trial.

Um, and at the time Mr.

Hughes died, it was reported he was the wealthiest man on the planet, the latter-day Elon Musk.

And that somehow has been lost to the ages.

So maybe if it's ever revised or uh reconsidered, um, you might want to give some thought to that.

I know the uh mob museum is gonna have a presentation on that uh in a couple months, and you might want to attend that just to see.

Uh I uh I wrote about the uh Hughes House for the um for the Clark County Museum.

Uh the Howard Hughes is not mentioned in this timeline.

I I I think that that was appropriate because Hughes was a a uh phenomenon to the the strip and the hotels on the strip.

Um so uh this timeline taking the same theme as the city documentaries uh is focusing strictly on the uh uh city boundaries.

But the trial happened about 200 yards from where we're sitting.

True.

Uh in the uh it was a nine-month trial, and the eyes of the nation were on the city of Las Vegas.

Okay.

There's lots of things that could that potentially could be added, specifically trials, because the trials would all take place within within the city, the city of Las Vegas.

I agree with you about Howard being the early years on on the related to the Las Vegas Strip.

And and I could have made this pitch to you before, but he did have, of course, with Summerlin.

Uh he bought that land which is now in the city of Las Vegas.

Uh I know it opens up a door to lots of trials, but this one could could very well could very well stand out uh uh as being uh you know, we had lots of trials in Las Vegas that were were were major.

So I but again it's Howard Hughes, the strip where he owned all the hotels and where he did his investments.

With the exception of this big piece of land he bought during World War II for was gonna build a defense plant.

Never did, but it was turned into what is now now summer and so on.

Bob, you will recall that the maps used by the realtor referred to as Hughes site.

H U S I T.

If you look at all those old real estate maps that the brokers used, yeah.

That area out there that was before Summerlin, yeah.

And that was the the property you're talking about that was acquired during the war.

That's right.

Well, it really brings up a question.

Uh, and it's more, I think, for Dr.

C.

Brandt.

Brent, who has the authority to change the elements of this particular uh uh timeline.

Is that something your office or something communication?

Or how what's the what would be a process?

I know we've got to add a few, like with the documentaries, and there may be there may be another mistake uh uh that uh who would have the authority to change it.

So C Burn for the record, so communications um ultimately has the authority for what's posted on the website, but we give them content, and once we give them content, I mean, unless it's offensive, which we would not do, they wouldn't put it up, but they'll put up what we request if it fits in with um the perimeters of how they're you know promoting the city.

So are you saying that you want to add to the timeline and who would approve that?

Is that your concern?

No, I'm just thinking that's gonna we're gonna add the new documentaries, the 80s, the 90s, we're gonna add that.

That would be yeah, communications does that immediately.

Uh but you use the word this timeline is not the market Las Vegas.

This timeline is a historic timeline, and it's got some odds and ends in there that the city has grown up and developed.

But the filter that uh Jeffrey used to make the selection working with you, it doesn't look like that's what communication is going to use.

And they've got a whole thing on the on the golden nights on the timeline.

That's great, but it's not the city of Las Vegas.

So somebody needs to have some historic authority to say, eh, that fit or doesn't.

If it's if the communication department can put whatever marketing stuff they want, then so be it.

That's that's up to the city council and the mayor to decide if that particular authority is what we want a historic timeline about.

But so at this point, we don't know exactly when it's going to be put online.

So Steven, for the record, so right now we are working with communications on um finalizing all the edits for the the grant summaries that Jeffrey did as the first part of this project, and those should be going up.

Um I have to talk to them uh this week.

And then this will go up as soon as we as soon as this commission, if you want to change anything or edit anything.

Um, if you are if everybody is okay with what uh Jeffrey has provided, then we will pass this on to communications and they will get it up after they look at it to make sure it again is in line with um the language that the city uses.

You think may the first quarter?

I think so, yes.

Okay.

Your honor.

Yes, this is if I may through you.

I um not directing any particular particular person, but uh, it's been on my mind a long time.

The uh the uh boundary lines set by decadal of movie lengths, if you will.

We're having a problem, I think, because we do miss things, or we maybe give a little too much attention to something we probably ought not to in reflection, but I always look back on who pays the bill, and ultimately we've been very good at making sure that this was Las Vegas, but was all Las Vegas, and it's all currently defined as Las Vegas.

Anything that happens in these in this valley is Las Vegas, and we have uh an opportunity to pay back our citizens who don't live in the city, but are paying for this.

So one has to say, well, you know, I bet you half or more than half of the plates are actually purchased by residents of the county.

So there's an element of fairness to consider, and I like the idea of bringing Hughes in because I was here inactive at the time.

In fact, I even saw him once.

But um I think that if we had a series, or perhaps one that highlighted the famous men and women of Las Vegas, not just when they were here, but certainly Hughes would fit into that category.

And so it's a thought uh for a future program.

I think maybe more than one, the famous men and women of Las Vegas, without defining where they actually did their business.

And I'm glad you brought up uh Hughesite uh, because that definitely in fact, I think he almost got that for free as a payment for war debts.

So Bob, one of the challenges that we face solo for the record, is that the Nevada Revised Statute, which you helped uh uh push through, talks specifically about the city of Las Vegas.

It doesn't talk about the generic term Las Vegas.

And this this series of documentaries is focused on the city, the incorporated city of Las Vegas, the its development, it's meeting the challenges and so forth.

So there could be another timeline that's that's developed for the Las Vegas Strip of the County.

The county has their own timeline on their website, uh, which is clearly not as good as the one that you have produced, uh, both with images and factual and and so forth.

But if if I don't think the Centennial Commission would be allowed to fund a generic Las Vegas one that would include the Las Vegas Strip.

One needs to be done, but I don't think that we have the authority to do that with Centennial Money with Centennial Money.

Uh Bob, let me ask you a question.

Um, and I guess this will ultimately be directed to Jeffrey.

Um, I think Howard Yew's impact, particularly on Summerlin, which is a very large part of the city of Las Vegas.

There probably ought to be a mention in our timeline because it has been so significant for us.

Um are you comfortable with that?

Not with his impact on the strip.

And I am one of them.

You live in the city part.

I I better live in the city part, yes.

Um if we could uh make a mention of that, because that was rather significant for our growth and development as a city.

Um Jeffrey Carlson for the record.

I I wish I could uh pull up the the full timeline to see.

I I think I partially misspoke when I said Howard Hughes was not mentioned in the timeline.

In fact, Howard Hughes Company is mentioned in uh an entry I have about the uh um acquisition of uh Summerlin and the creation of Summerlin.

Okay, so it's in there.

Yes.

Oh loves it.

It's if I can interrupt Seabrant for the record.

So what Jeffrey just showed you is just an example.

The entirety of the timeline was included in the back backup.

So everybody should have been able to look at it and read everything that um he created.

Okay.

Oh, thank you.

So all right, Jeffrey.

So you just gave us a taste.

That's right.

But all of it is in our backup information.

Yes.

I then I would uh invite all of our members to just look at the backup information before we ask for any changes in something that might already be there.

Okay.

All right.

Any other questions or comments directed at Jeffrey before we let him leave?

One quick one quick one.

Uh Dr.

Siebran.

The uh there's another timeline on the city's website right now, and it is filled with errors, and that's the West Side uh timeline.

And it it needs we need to have respect that by having a factual factual story.

There's a picture there that says it's West Las Vegas when in fact it's Fremont Street.

Those things all need to be all need to be cleaned up, but then that brings about the question do we need to develop a timeline, a historic timeline for the Hispanic community, uh andor the Asian community.

I know you can we can keep going down the line, but but those seem to be the three largest uh so I I don't have I was just thinking about that as we need to fix the the West Las Vegas timeline.

Is anything in the works?

Uh C B for the record, no, there is nothing in the works at the moment for the West Side timeline.

I think we should how do we uh how do we go around uh how do we go about um revising it to be more accurate?

Um for the record, if we wanted to um update that, and this is something that the Centennial Commission wanted to support, then we could um and if everybody's happy with Jeffrey's work, he can submit a proposal um in order to do that and do the updates and um but I would like to point out that the Westside timeline, it's about the West Side, it's not specifically is is it listed as West Side about the African American community?

So we might want to do if there's you know, we know there's um well it really it would be.

But then we should then we should really then call these like African American community history, Hispanic community history, Asian American community history, however, it is that we want to do that.

Well it it it should be Las Vegas uh history, but I think the it's important, particularly in East Las Vegas, West Las Vegas, that we uh that we present um uh the actual facts because they do have a very storied history in this community that has been long ignored or misrepresented.

So perhaps uh in a uh later um meeting uh we could have this on the agenda to discuss.

Yes, ma'am.

All right, thank you.

Is that all right, Bob?

Thank you.

All right.

This was informational only.

Uh Jeffrey, thank you so much.

Oh, wait, oh I just wanted to say thank you to Jeffrey because you know, we went into this with strong opinions and a little bit of a fractured uh group trying to figure out how to do this.

So, with you coming on board, I'm thrilled with what I'm seeing.

So I just want to make sure you heard it from us.

Thank you.

Yes, we're very appreciative.

Thank you so much.

Agenda item number seven, 25-0612-CLV CLC one discussion for possible action regarding approval of a grant request for 81,992 by MV Star Group for the costs associated with the restoration and reinstallation of the Star Motel sign, located at 1418 South Third Street, and authorizing the president to execute the grant agreement as approved by the city attorney, and this affects Ward 3, Miss Diaz.

Um, welcome, gentlemen, and would you please state your names for the record?

Hello, my name is Glenn Plantone.

Two ends on Glenn Plantone is P L A N T O N E.

Good afternoon.

My name's David Renan, D-A-V-I-D-R-A-A-N-A-N.

Thank you, sir.

Yes, sir.

Star Motel.

That's right.

It's a little advertising, Bob.

Um postcard for you, Mayor.

Oh my famous Star Motel from the 60s.

Look at that, Bob took it from me.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, you can have it to whoever wants.

See, there are certain advantages to being the mayor, Bob.

This this is fabulous.

Oh my goodness.

Um, you've stated your name for the record.

Will you tell us something about this project?

Yes, thank you.

Good morning, Mayor, City Council, or it's not city council, council members.

And Governor Bryan, nice to see you.

Uh, when I went to college at UNLV in the early 80s, you were my man.

So good to see you.

Um that's a previous century.

I know it's been a long time.

It's been a long time.

Yeah, actually, I think it is another century.

Oh.

So David and I bought the property about two and a half years ago.

Um, this is the sixth oldest motel in all of Las Vegas.

Uh the world famous Star Motel, as we like to call it, and and Mayor Berkeley would was kind enough to mention us at the parking garage uh grand opening uh a couple months back, which was nice.

Um so the property was built in 1947, and it's located in the Arts District.

Uh as I said, it's the sixth oldest motel in all of Vegas.

In the past few years, we've invested about a half a million dollars into restoring three uh buildings.

There's three different buildings.

We call it A, B and C.

The property has 23 units, and we only have three units left to renovate, and then we'll be 100% done with the interior units.

Um of the most iconic features of the Star Motel is is the original 1947 NEON sign.

The sign isn't just a piece of metal and glass, as our friends from uh ESCO will adhere to, is that it is a visual reminder of Las Vegas history, Route 66 culture, and it's what made Las Vegas very famous way before the mega resorts were involved.

The grant would allow us to properly restore the sign and return it to its working condition, enhancing not only our property, but the entire streetscape, a revitalizing historic neon sign ads, walkability, pride, tourism, interest, momentum to an area that already is becoming one of the most exciting parts of Las Vegas, and we believe that restoring the sign supports the historic preservation, economic development, and the broader revitalization that benefits the city as a whole.

We've invited with us our friends from YesCO, the grandson of the founder of YesCo is here with us, Jeff and Mark.

And we'd like to invite them up to talk about the oh, you're probably already looking at it.

Uh, the little uh item they've created, a PowerPoint they've created.

So we're open for questions.

We appreciate the opportunity to speak in front of you guys, and we're open for any questions.

Before that, uh gentlemen, would you care to add something to the discussion?

And please state your name for the rest.

Thank you.

I'll kneel down.

How's that?

Oh, heaven.

My name is Jeff Young, and I'm with Young Electric Sign Company, also known as YesCo.

We are grateful as an organization, a family to be part of Las Vegas' history.

And we've enjoyed every we love signs, so I don't have to say that.

We've enjoyed every renovation project we've been involved with 2019, the Hard Rock Guitar, which sits prominently in the Neon Museum, Vegas Vicky, which is a uh a stellar reminder of our history, along with all the renovation projects we did uh with the expansion of Las Vegas Boulevard.

In our minds, um, this project would be absolutely fantastic for the city of Las Vegas.

Not only are we well suited to help you with this, Oscar Gonzalez, who is our lead neon tubeender, would pour his heart and soul into this, making sure that the neon represents the true history of the sign uh as it was.

We're gonna do everything we can to retain every part of the sign that's safe.

Uh we'll likely need to do a new footing.

We'll likely need to do a new poll, but all the rest of the signs, best we can, we're gonna keep it and save it and use the colors that represent how the sign looked in 1947.

So we'd be honored to be a part of this project and would value your questions and input.

Member Brian, for a personal question, how are you related to Rennie Young?

Rennie Young is a distant uh cousin of my grandfather's.

Thank you.

I've got a couple questions.

Oh, yes, please.

More about the family, I hope.

Can you hear me okay?

I'm surprised that that neither YesCO or the city or you know when the sign was built.

47, right?

1947 is the date we have.

Well, that's the motel opened.

But the the grand application says the signs from the 1950s.

Uh we may have misplaced that.

I thought that we'd got that information from uh Diane, but I'm not sure.

So I apologize if we had the able to confirm that the sign was built in 1947.

That might be hard to do.

Uh, you know, records are lost.

So that's awfully good.

Oh, I'm so happy you did that for you.

Beautiful building we've had.

I actually got a chair here, so thank you.

Yeah, we're not we may not be able to confirm exactly when the sign was built, sir.

But I'm gonna imagine may I interrupt?

Um, I'm imagining that it was pretty close to when the motel was built as uh as advertising for the motel.

So anywhere between 47 and 50.

And the design and the tilted pole is reminiscent of the late 50s.

And the late 50s.

Right, that's our big of a I like it.

And just a minor FYI wasn't on Route 66.

Yeah, no, it was not.

I mean, Route 66 came up through Fremont Street and made a uh a left down Las Vegas Boulevard, Fifth Street, all the way and picked up Route 66 at Barth Show.

But we had uh Route 466, which was off of 66.

But but that that's just me babbling.

Um back to the signs.

Uh uh my concern is that as I drove up Primont Street today to see uh a bunch of neon signs standing by themselves in front of the rubble of of motels back in 2018.

The city, the Centennial Commission funded 750,000, three quarters of a million dollars, to restore the signs, repair the signs, and and keep them in good shape for 10 years.

Now, while there's a story in the RJ this weekend that said somebody from the city said, don't worry, the signs are safe.

The reality is that 10-year deal comes to a close February the third.

Uh and and and I'm gonna ask Diane later on on to uh to see if we can get an update on that.

And I read the contract.

Nowhere in this contract, if the decision is made that you or the next owners decide they don't want the this this apartment sort of motel complex.

They want to build some sort of multi-thing.

We don't know what will happen to the sign.

And that that's really my concern.

The contract doesn't, it says, yes, we're gonna do it right now, that looks good, but what about tomorrow for the for the neon signs?

If I could um uh first of all, I know how much time and effort and love you have put into restoring that motel.

And when we were doing Olivia and I were doing the groundbreaking for the uh new parking garage, it was right uh right there in front of the Star Motel.

So it's gonna get a lot of people are gonna be uh looking at the Star Motel, they're gonna be reminiscing about it, and I think this sign is absolutely beautiful.

I'm wondering, and I'm glad you brought that up, Bob.

Could we get I I nothing lasts forever, but I'm wondering when uh the life of this sign has um is over.

If you are planning and would you be willing to donate it to the neon museum so that we will have this this beautiful sign as a remembrance of the Star Motel, uh the way it was and the way you're restoring it.

Would that satisfy you if you knew where it was going?

Yeah.

Would you be willing to very much so it'd be an honor to be?

The fact that it's already 75 years old, uh roughly.

Um yeah, because I plan to be around for another 50 years, so we'll definitely do that.

Is uh from your mouth to God's ears.

I know I'm I'm hoping I'm here with you.

Um Diane, is there a way of um uh changing the document where it reflects that upon the end of its life or when they no longer want the sign that it will be donated to um the NEHA Museum?

Yes, Seaburn for the record.

And also, I just did want to point out where those dates were coming from.

Um UNLV did a Southern Nevada Neon survey back in 2017, um, Bob, and they included this sign.

And the building was constructed in 1947, but the researchers did not find a date, then that sign was specifically built.

They just said 1950s.

There's no question about the the I read the report that it was constructed in in 1947.

The challenge also is that we we face in the early history, it changed ownerships rapidly within the first three or four years, boom boom boom.

So it indicates to me potentially that the last owner is the one that said, I'm gonna be here for a while, I'm gonna put up put up a neon sign.

I think it's important.

There's got to be some record of the planning commission or somebody that you just didn't put up a neon sign of that height without the city.

Approving it serving.

Great to know the actual date.

Yeah, that would be terrific.

If we can figure it out, sure.

And and YesCO doesn't have any records going back that later.

We do have some records, but this one we don't.

Okay, thank you so much.

Thank you, Your Honor.

And Seaburn, for the record, if I can answer your other part of your question, Mayor.

Yes.

Um, as far as um amending or editing the grant agreement, yes, we can put that language in there.

Um we'll have to work with the city attorney's office to get that language changed.

Jeff, did you have anything to add on that?

City attorney Jeff to work for the record.

Yeah, we'll make we can vote with the item as is.

It sounds like they're agreeable to Mayor and Mr.

Sulall's.

And it sounded like if I was catching the concept, um, if they're not running the motel as a motel, we would want to take possession of it and get it to the neon museum.

Is that essentially it?

That that is it.

If you decide what I understood.

Well, what what works for you?

Well, the way it's set up now, we have part of it motel and part of it's long term.

So we don't want to, because it's a long-term residency, we don't want to have to turn the sign over.

Oh, no, no, no.

I'm thinking when we're done, if we decide to build a multifamily, which we're not planning to do, then of course we would donate the sign for sure.

Or a new owner does something.

So we plan to be long-term owners also.

So the mayor's language's original language is.

Sorry, my fault.

Um so the mayor's original language was if you didn't have use for it anymore.

And I can do something, I just didn't want to get in the scenario where everything's closed, the signs up, and then you say, Well, we still have use for it, but I don't think that's what you're planning on doing.

Just so we're all clear.

Okay, then we'll do the mod language after, and you could vote on it today.

Okay.

Thank you.

Senator Yes, Commissioner Brian, uh, as I understand, this could be included in the contract.

Yes.

That's the only got that right.

Thank you very much.

Yes, Olivia.

Oh, you're pointing over there.

Oh, hi.

Okay.

Well, thank you very much.

Hello over there, Bob.

Thank you for respecting the elderly.

Uh just thinking there are hundreds of postcards that are shot of the boulevard and when it was 5th street, and all of these things will show, somebody will show that sign and the motel.

And we should be able to nail down the date of the printing of the postcard.

I I suspect that in informal ways, the date of construction, the date of installation is ready.

It's available.

We just haven't looked.

This is third street, so it's doesn't have to be well, but it's right there at the boulevard.

In other words, a photo of another installation could easily show, you know, in a period time if we nailed out the period.

Anyway, I just throw that in as there is a somebody with a huge supply of postcards, uh, very, very old postcards sitting here on the commission could probably help on that score since he brought up the issue.

Thank you very much, Mayor.

You're very welcome.

Ryan, did you have anything to add to this robust conversation?

Mayor, if I may.

Yes, Olivia.

Thank you.

Um, I just wanted to say, as a councilwoman whose ward this is going to have a favorable um impact on the area and the adjacency is very mid-century modern, and I feel that the sign being of that time um is very fitting for it to remain as long as we can conserve it in that part of our community.

And I know that there's many mid-century modern enthusiasts that live uh very adjacent.

And um, just like the mayor pointed out, it being in such close proximity to the upcoming um or the ever so uh being built out, the new parking structure that we're developing.

I think it's gonna get all of the eyes and um live some old glory days.

Uh, some folks that may have never known about its history are gonna actually see a neon museum uh neon sign, excuse me.

And I think it's so important because neon is so much part of our DNA as a city that as much as we can preserve it, um, that ethos, that spirit, that um just pride in Vegas is neon, everything neon.

So um super ecstatic that Mr.

Plantone and Mr.

Renan are willing to put in writing that they will do what's responsible with that sign because we do know that the reality is um land isn't someone's forever, and uh the assets on that land also change hands, and then we need to be able to then make sure that the signs that this commission has tried to preserve also are going to be dealt with in a response in a responsible manner.

And whether that's still at the locate the original location or finding an alternate home for it, I think that's something that should be at top of mind given um the unfortunate history of what happened to all of our signs off of Fremont.

We're all kind of worried about it because now the motels are no longer in existence, but we have the signs that have been refurbished, and we're just we just want to make sure that they can continue to be lit up at night and admired and viewed and and that they're gonna stay pristine and and give our community what we want.

Kind of a little uh hurrah from the past.

So uh appreciate everything that all the commissioners are noting because I think it is important for us to make sure that we do document it, put it in writing, and say we need it.

If we're gonna put some love into the sign, that we we put it in the most responsible hands long term.

Thank you.

I will entertain a motion.

Uh so I'd like to make a motion with with all the information that's been shared.

It's kind of uh it'll add maybe 27 pages to the contract if we include everything, but I'm sure that with the city attorney's office and the and two and and the commissioner that the council member dated myself uh that I'd like to make a motion to approve.

I'll second it.

Thank you so much.

All those uh everyone in favor of this motion, please say aye.

Any opposed.

I motion passes.

May I add one quick thing?

You may councilwoman Diaz has a one up on everyone.

She's been to our factory to see how neon is made.

We invite the rest of you to come down to watch this sign be made.

We'd love to have you down.

Thank you.

Oh, that would be very cool too.

Very cool.

Thank you guys so very much.

Thank you, appreciate it.

Thank you.

Agenda item number eight.

Report by the executive director of the commission for the Las Vegas Centennial regarding completed projects and announcements relative to the commission for the Las Vegas Centennial.

Okay, thank you, Crent, for the record.

And just wait for the slide here.

Oh, it's right there.

I'm looking at the wrong screen.

Okay, so for um the projects that are already in progress.

Um, we have the due that the due dates in red under each one of the the projects.

So, I mean, pretty much everything is in um production.

Uh, as far as the Paul Williams uh documentary, um, he's conducting some final uh interviews of the rodeo.

They will be giving their report about the 2025 rodeo at our March meeting.

Um, and then the 2026 rodeo, which is the last year on the their current contract, is um in November.

We'll of course remind you of that as the dates gets closer.

Uh as the um the city of Las Vegas, um, the film documentaries that are in production.

Everybody, please mark your calendars.

May 16th is going to be the film premiere for the 1980s, and that is going to be overlay over at the Beverly Theater.

Um, home in history, April 16th through 19th of this year.

Uh, UNLV Sports Oral History, that one um did need to be extended till August.

Uh the new West Steel exhibit over at the State Museum uh should be wrapping up um in March of this year.

And the 1911 and Freemont documentaries, those are still on track to finish.

And the last one will be finishing in December of 27.

Helerado Parade, again, make sure you mark your calendars for this year.

It is on May 9th.

We also have the Marble Manor Oral History and Documentary that is in progress, the 1905 documentary in progress, the Atomic City project over at the museum in progress.

Thank you, Diane.

Real quickly, this is for the record, Michael Howe, Department of Community Development.

This Thursday, we do have our Mayor's Urban Design Symposium as mentioned.

We have Honorable Mayor Berkeley will be kicking it off 10 a.m.

The focus this year is on education design.

We have three sessions.

First beginning at 10 45, Carrie Upton and Dr.

Adam Almeida with the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District going over some of their plans that they've successfully carried out in the Malibu area.

That's followed up at 1 15.

We have From Pedagogy to Practice, another session that's focusing on larger scale and for design professionals basically in working with school districts.

And their last session, designing for success, uh we have at 245, and that's with William Sullivan, Professor Landscape Architecture from the University of Illinois, also partnered with Kevin Daly, FAAIA, another architect operating out of Los Angeles.

And again, the focus in different levels in different sessions is the impact the design has on education facilities.

But it's everyone that's interested in design in our city.

Thank you so much.

And Seabron, for the record, just two more things.

And my apologies, it's on third.

I said Friday, it's Thursday.

Um and it's free for everybody to go.

So if you don't have anything going on Thursday at that time, historic fifth street school, everybody is um be able to attend for free.

And also, Director Floyd also had another quick update.

Uh thank you, Diane.

Actually, well, now I have three updates because if you want to have a full day of um educational related programming, the Clark County School District Superintendent is also doing her state of the district address, 8 30 to 10 a.m.

the same morning as the design awards at the Las Vegas Academy.

So uh you could go from one to the other if you want a full day of educational opportunities there.

Uh the second update, and I probably should have done this with uh the item on the website updates.

I just wanted to mention that has been a lengthy effort by a lot of people, including the commission to get this website in much better order.

Uh Commissioner Arnold, I appreciate you bringing that up because we spent a lot of time.

Uh I know a lot of you and staff had a lot of headaches as well over getting that to the finish line, but I think it turned out really nicely.

I was just browsing the the website now, and it looks so much better from where we started a year or two ago uh when we when we hired uh Jeffrey to do that.

So that's looking really good.

And then the final update, uh, and this is a continuation of a conversation and a question we had from last time.

We are almost at the finish line on the uh revisions to the bylaws.

Uh we've been working with primarily Commissioner Stotall and Senator Bryan, and we uh we have a I have a final draft sitting in my inbox from the city attorneys last week.

We've met several times.

I think you're gonna be pleased with how where those stand right now, and we will have that on the agenda, uh, barring some of our same circumstance, but we should we're on target right now for March, and so we'll be bringing a fresh set of bylaws to you all in March.

So thank you to everyone for your comments along the way.

I think this is gonna be these are gonna be some good changes that'll uh keep pointing us in the right direction.

Commissioner Bryan for an observation.

Jeff, we'd like to thank you for helping us to organize to get together and the cooperative approach that you had to some of the proposals that we made.

That's in the best tradition of public service.

Thank you all.

I'd like to jump in and quite frankly, thank the city attorney's office.

Uh it was a uh could I hear that again?

What was that?

Uh I was sneezing.

Don't make me say something.

The representative of the city's attorney's office really got us.

Uh there was so much clarity that they brought to the meeting, and and we were able to move.

One of the challenges that uh uh that that we face is the operating agreement or the bylaws are 20 years old.

Uh and uh it calls for this group to have an election every year uh along with other other outdated things, and some of those things this commission will have to vote on.

Does it want it every two every two years, every four years, what whatever?

Uh uh, but it was a significant effort, I think, by the city to uh to really update and clarify that, and again, thanks to the city's attorney's office for their for their guidance and their attention to the details.

Thank you so much.

This um uh this agenda item is informational only.

Does anybody have any other uh comments or questions that they'd like to ask at this time?

Yes, yeah, real quick.

Uh uh the the budget, the finance director uh the report lists 50,000 for advertising.

And uh it would be uh uh not speaking for Louise Heltman, but but it we would look forward to some sort of a presentation on what we would advertise.

Uh is it going to be uh a public advertisement saying this is the Centennial Commission, and if you have a project that fits these guidelines, or is it going to be a marketing of the license plates or something, or is there already a plan that the communication department has to uh uh for for the advertising budget for the fiscal year 20 uh 26?

And the last thing was the minutes uh our last minutes indicate we were going to get a report on the 2005 uh rodeo with an update on the 2026.

Um that was in the minutes.

Sabrent for the record.

Um I apologize that sometimes people aren't able to make it when they promise.

Um so when we originally spoke with the rodeo, they said they'd be able to present at the January meeting.

They were not able to, so as I mentioned in my update, it they'll give us an update in March.

Okay.

All right.

Well, seeing no other questions, we'll go to agenda item number nine.

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 may be placed on a future agenda.

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

Is there anybody that wishes to speak under this agenda item?

Quick question so off of the record.

Seth, if we get on March, the uh the centennial commission votes on updating the bylaws.

Would we also be voting on new members of the uh of the I think the mayor's position as chair is is already set, but uh there's a vice chair, a secretary, a treasurer.

Would we be voting on them or or what would you think?

Well, I believe the way that we uh revise that in the agreement is that once a year um or at certain interval you will vote on your officers.

I don't believe that's set for the next meeting.

Okay, so we would clean up the bylaws, and then at the next meeting that where you voted on your officers, then you would choose your new officers for the remainder of the year, and then we submit everything to the Secretary of State and do it all on that cycle.

Great.

Okay, you're good.

Anyone else?

Yes, uh, Commissioner Mowbray here.

Uh Mr.

Mobile.

Kind of a follow-up on the Howard Hughes Mormon Will trial.

We've had some very notable trials in Las Vegas, not just Clark County, but within a I would say a one mile radius where we sit right now.

Uh one of them would be the MGM MDL fire litigation at that tragedy back in November of 1980.

Uh I can think of several rolling out.

If we have someone would take the time and maybe get a hold of the uh judicial uh historical society and chronicle that for the for the ages and make sure it's tied into a Los Vegas courthouse.

I I you know uh I sat as a law clerk for Judge Roger Foley during the Ralph Lamb trial in 1977.

Uh I can think of some others, the bookmaking trial, which is now what was illegal then, but now it's all over the internet.

I mean, you could have there's a lot of body there that could be explored and preserved for the ages.

There's a timeline on on legal.

Yeah, that needs that needs to be uh done and maybe changing the Thule Springs Park from a convicted felon Floyd Lamb to just Thule Springs or Las Vegas.

So a lot of things we can discuss.

Operation YOU back in 1980s.

Remember that one?

Not to mention more.

Every twenty my old partner Bill Morris have been practicing since 1950.

Sat down with me one day, and he said, John, expect every other decade it will be a big scandal.

True.

Well, thank you for those words.

Can't wait for the next one.

Okay, agenda item number 10, 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.

I will limit it to two minutes.

Is there any member of the public that wishes to address the centennial commission?

Seeing none, we will now go to agenda item eleven, and I uh adjourn this meeting.

Okay.

There you go.

I think we may sit back.

Uh