You should have that.

Ashley should give us new ones too.

Good afternoon.

This is February 3rd, 4 p.m., the City of Las Vegas Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission meeting.

Items listed on this agenda may be taken out of the order presented.

Two or more agenda items for consideration may be combined in any item on the agenda, may be removed, or related discussion may be delayed at any time.

Backup material for this agenda may be obtained from Lou N.

D.

Holmes, City Clerk, at the office of City Clerk, four nine five South Main Street, second floor, or on the city's webpage at Las Vegas Nevada.gov.

Uh with that, I would like to go ahead and call to order and have a roll call, please.

Chair Becker.

Uh here.

Vice Chair Niger.

Excuse Commissioner Arminian.

Commissioner Gobrey.

Here.

Commissioner Keller.

Excuse Commissioner Zamora.

Commissioner Burgos.

Commissioner Cornwall.

Commissioner Robinson.

Present.

Commissioner Bockitz.

Present.

Commissioner Jones.

Excuse Commissioner Wool.

Commissioner Sleezer.

Present.

Commissioner Taylor.

Present.

You have a quorum.

Excellent.

Also, I would like to make an announcement regarding compliance with the open meeting law.

Are we in compliance?

We are.

Excellent.

Item number three is public comment.

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

And 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 speaker single speaker is allowed may be limited.

Do I have anybody here for public comment?

Great.

Remember to state your name for the record when you speak and the ward or the mayor, uh whichever you represent.

Um I usually scan for lights, so if you have a question that you have, you go ahead and put on your light and I'll use that as a prompt to call on you when possible.

And then just as a reminder, uh questions may be limited sometimes when we have uh open discussion, but keep in mind if we don't get to you, you'll always have that opportunity to contact staff afterwards.

Great.

And that will conclude uh public comment.

Now I would for possible action to I would like to call to approve the final minute meetings by reference to the regular meeting of January 6th, 2026.

I moved to approve the minutes.

Great.

I have a motion.

Second.

Great.

And again, uh gentlemen, if you could always state your name and then the word you represent.

Uh prior to speaking, that way we can get that in the minute meeting.

And people that are listening on the phone can hear that.

Are we good, City Clerk?

You got you got uh moving on, we're going to Oh, I'm sorry.

So with that, uh, let's go ahead and have a vote.

All those in favor?

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Okay.

Uh that's a unanimous agenda item number five is a report by the Department of Public Safety regarding the review of arrest citations and calls for service in the city facilities, all parks, all wards.

Good to see you.

Um did everybody get a copy by chance.

Okay.

A couple notes.

Um, year to date arrests and citations in city parks and rec centers increased by 35.7% compared to the same time frame.

There we go.

Uh same time frame in 2024.

Um activity increased the most at Gary Reese Freedom Park due to increased proactivity by patrol.

The top five parks and rec center locations are Justice Levitt Park, Lorenzi, Gary Reese Freedom Park, Ethel Pearson Park, and Rafael Rivera Park.

For Ward One, the number one arrest or violation for arrests and citations was uh park closure hours, and the number one location was Gary Dexter Park.

Um arrests and citations year to date increased 44.5% due to increase in park violation and lodging calls.

For ward two, it was Angel Park, and the number one again was remaining in park after hours.

For ward three, uh Justice Levitt Park was um the number one park for activity.

Again, remaining in the park after hours was the number one charge.

Year to date for that one went up 52.5 uh percent due to increase in park violations for ward four.

Again remaining park after hours, and that one um for the top location was Mountain Ridge Park.

That one increased 79.5, which can largely largely be attributed to increase in proactivity um for that sector or that ward.

For ward five, it continues to be Lorenzi and remain in park after hours.

Arrests and citations increased 4.6% uh due to park violation calls.

And then last ward six with Centennial Hills Park.

Um arrests and citations year date increased 166.7 percent due to increased presence at the parks.

And then for January, we had a couple um COP events.

Uh Police Memorial Park had the lead event, the law enforcement appreciation day event.

We continue to hold our physical fitness preparation um courses for uh applicants testing with the department to get them ready for the physical fitness test.

Um that'll also continue into February every Saturday um at Bill Breyer Park, and then uh Freedom Park had the NAFB national night out on January 30th.

So does anybody have any questions about the reports?

Uh go ahead, Commissioner.

Commissioner Governor Ward 5.

Good afternoon, sir.

Uh I do have a question.

What's on lawful presence in the child children uh park?

So for um a few parks in ward in ward five, their parks are designated as children's only parks.

So it's illegal for um adults to be in the park that and they're not supervising a child 12 years or younger.

So um it makes it a crime, and that's what that charge means.

So if they're basically loitering in the park and they're not supervising a child, um it's an arrestable offense.

So the parents should be responsible for that, isn't it?

Um it's it's for adults that aren't don't have children that aren't watching children.

So they're they're the parents would be there with their their children.

So they if a parent is there with their child, they wouldn't be subject to citation or arrest.

It's for um people who don't have children that are just hanging out in the park and using it for uh probably other than its intended purpose.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Great.

Uh Commissioner Sleezer.

Uh thank you, Mr.

Chair Jesse Sleezer, Ward 4.

Um, question I think potentially for you, Mr.

Burdett, but potentially for staff uh from the parks department as well.

Is there an established process that when a significant occurrence happens in a city-owned park that that you as the public safety department would notify the parks department and then the parks department would notify uh potential users of the park?

And the reason I ask, um, we had an unfortunate event at Mountain Ridge Park recently where there was a fatal overdose that occurred uh not too far um from fields five and six, and we were fortunate as Mountain Ridge Little League that we were out of season at that point, but it did raise the question among our board and among parents of if it were to be in season.

It was very in the morning, I believe, when when the um fatality was discovered.

Is there a process that you would notify parks and then parks would notify us?

Um, I don't believe there is a process in place unless the park needs to be shut down for some reason.

Um, and I don't know if we would have shut the park down for that particular incident because I I believe it was far enough away from the fields to where we could have contained it.

Um but I and I don't believe there's a process to notify um patrons if the park is closed.

We usually just close it down and place officers at every entrance and and just prevent them from entering.

Um but I don't believe there's a public announcement system unless parks could chime in and so um Padomara Deputy Director, um I'll chime in on this a little bit.

So um oftentimes it will go up the chain of command over in Department of Public Service uh public safety, and um at some point the watch commander um generally writes up a report and then we get it.

Now the time between when the incident happens and we get it often depends on what their staff load is like, what other emergencies they're paying attention to, those kinds of things.

Um when we get them, uh sometimes the the issue uh sometimes the announcement is more along the lines of yesterday, this is what happened in the park.

Um, and here's the here's the wrap-up of it.

So there's not always a time where we would get it in an insufficient time to notify our patrons, but we would if let's say there was an active investigation, there was some sort of um ongoing thing that we become aware of that's still ongoing, we would do our best to reach out.

So sometimes we we are notified of them, but it's generally in the um in the hands of of the turnaround um whether we can actually notify the user or not.

Thank you to both gentlemen.

Appreciate it.

Hope that answered your question, sir.

It did, thank you.

Um it's ward one.

Um I'd like to start by uh asking you to express a hearty thank you to what all your staff do.

I know that it's a challenge being out there because I walk the parks myself.

Uh, but it's kind of interesting to see the trending stat higher for people staying in parks after hours.

I'd like to think it's because our parks are are really welcoming and people want to remain in them.

But is there a reason for that?

I mean, is there a tr uh something that that we're missing, or are we just increasing enforcement or uh why a higher amount of people?

Do people know to go home?

I guess is another way of asking the question.

Well, to answer that question, yeah, there are signs posted all over the park stating the parks clearly posted hours of um 11 p.m.

is when uh the majority of city Las Vegas parks close.

Um I don't know if there's an increase in that particular charge, or if um I don't know if I don't have the statistics if there's an increase on that in that particular charge.

The increases or the percentages is just overall enforcement, um, not necessarily related to one singular charge.

Um, but with that one, typically that's not enforced until significant time after 11 p.m.

We don't we understand people you know aren't always staring at their watches and things like that.

That's more people that are intending to use the park for other than its intended purpose, right?

They're they're trying to establish some sort of residency or stay there overnight uh do the overnight hours, or it's typically in the middle of the night where they're in the park um when they're definitely not supposed to be, and there's there's signs clearly posted.

But I don't know if this if the numbers the percentages are not necessarily related to a single charge.

So I hope that answers your question.

So I don't know if there's an increase in that particular charge, but that particular charge is um one that we commonly enforce.

So that's why you have such a high number for that for that one.

And just a follow-up question don't we turn the lights out at a certain time in parks?

They there the lights are on a timer and they will shut off.

It's typically at I believe at 11.

So that way everybody knows the parks closed.

Sorry, uh Padomara Deputy Director.

So there's a difference between amenity lighting and site lighting.

So amenity lighting would be the soccer fields, the pickleball courts, things like that.

Those are on timers, and they will shut off shortly after 11, if not at 11 o'clock.

Um amenity lighting is generally considered safety lighting, and so ground level lighting, lighting on bow on bollards, um, walkways, those kinds of things.

But be on a motion.

So it will it will be on a dim setting so that Department of Public Safety or Marshals can actually see in that area, but when you're walking through a sensor will catch you, and then it'll go back to 100% so that you have proper safety lighting within the park.

Some of our sites are a little older than that, and it will just be on.

All right, well, thank you very much.

Thank you, sir.

Great.

Any other questions, Commissioners?

No.

Lieutenant, thank you so much for coming in today.

It was an excellent report.

And I hope to see you again next month.

See you next month.

Moving on, we're gonna go to agenda item number six, a report by Steve Glimp Parks and Grounds Maintenance Manager regarding maintenance updates all wards.

Uh filling in for uh grounds maintenance manager Steve Glimp will be deputy director O'Mara.

Good afternoon.

As you can see, I'm not Steve.

Um my name is Pat Almara.

I'm the deputy director of the department uh overseeing parks and grounds maintenance and recreation.

So I will pick up for Steve, who is unfortunately out of the office this afternoon, um, and talk to you a little bit about a few of the projects we have going on in our wards as usual.

So in ward one, uh we just finished resurfacing the um tennis courts and uh converting uh one tennis court into four pickleball courts at Bob Baskin.

I believe that the handball court was also resurfaced at that time.

Um, and so there's some good site improvements over there.

Um we are working on some ADA improvements over at Charleston Heights Um Arts Center this month.

Ward two, we did some uh updates on uh through ADA on the Hualapai Canyon trailhead.

Um you can see some different color uh concrete in there.

Those of you who who have a good uh screen in front of you for some reason when we built it, the the pad with the bench was not connected to the trail, and so it was not ADA compliant.

So now we've filled that in, and you can actually roll over and um sit, or if you have a if you're able to walk, you don't have that transition that causes an issue.

Um next up, we are going to be working on uh finishing the all-American park parking lot with seal coat and and stripe that uh we have about half of it done now, and we um anticipate trying to get the other half started by the end of the month.

Ward three, we did um seal coating of the pavers in Boulder Plaza.

That's a regular uh process that we'll do about every five years or so.

Um, and we we took care of that this last month.

One additional um thing that we did, we we shut down uh JC Levitt Park uh for about two weeks and did some pretty deep cleaning um high impact stuff in that park while we were there.

So we planted a lot of trees, especially in the dog park area.

Uh we replaced the playground uh shade covers.

Um we did a lot of painting, um, updating on some of the uh landscaping, got a lot of that uh kind of deep cleaned and and taken care of.

Um, and then uh did things like remove the old bike uh maintenance station that had been vandalized beyond repair.

Um additionally, just prior to that, um, one item uh, and I'll kind of do a call back to the safety report.

Um, one of the main issues was in the park past hours.

Um we have actually hardened all the gates at this park now.

So it's a full gate closure at all the man gates, and it is actually a full gate closure for the for the vehicle gates.

So um it is uh significantly more difficult to get in after hours when the marshals come and shut it down after 11 o'clock.

Um so I think that that will help with those numbers.

Obviously, that was very high.

Um, but it will it will help us to you know keep the keep the park shut down at night when we don't want activity in there.

Um we are gonna we are coming back in in this next month or so uh to do some more significant soccer field repairs on the fencing that's there.

It's a normal thing after a bunch of wear and tear.

So also toward the end of uh December, we opened uh the police memorial playground.

That was a project that kind of dovetailed in with the larger remodel of uh police memorial.

Many of you who were with us this last year heard about the renovation going on up there in the closure of the full park.

Uh after we reopened it, my team went in and replaced the entire play structure.

So we have a lot of accessible features there, a lot of ground feet ground level features there, um several sensory level or sensory type play features there that will be it's a it's a very usable um play structure out there.

Um we did some adjustments, some new trees, um new concrete work, all of that.

Um it's very beautiful, um, super fun uh to play with.

So if you have kids or grandkids and want to bring them, um that's a great new spot to go.

Um we're also working on uh this month out at Majestic, we're gonna be updating the uh dugouts at Majestic with some ball uh some uh fence slats that will help with shading and um like climbability and and all that kind of stuff for safety.

So um that's coming up in the next month or so.

We've done uh small level uh renovation to Ethel Pearson.

This is mostly in house work.

This is not one that we would that we went and and designed and contracted and bid it out.

This was stuff that we did pretty much internally.

Uh we converted the uh former asphalt rink into a footsall uh court.

We resurfaced the basketball court, we added gaga ball, um, we did a lot of trees.

I think we put in over 30 trees uh into that park, and even though it is nearly done, um we will be replacing the chain link around the park with wrought iron to match the um the fence on the northern end of the park.

Um so that that park is getting some um much needed love.

Um the uh keonga soca uh playground is next up.

Um that is a that is a pretty large play structure with a very large shade that's built in, and so that that has taken some time that will receive a new shade structure coming up here uh soon.

I I believe it's um in the mail now on its way to us.

Um of the projects we took care of in Ward 6 was regrading and compacting the horse trailer lot at Bradley Bridal that was in need of some uh love for sure.

We're happy that we were able to get that done.

And then we have uh a handful of uh Eagle Scout projects that will help us to repaint the um corrals and um and uh fencing in that area at Bridley Bridal this next month.

Um often we get a lot of questions about where we are on a lot of different projects.

These this list right here is uh everything that I could remember for parks or amenities that we have either in design or in construction.

Um this is one reason my job is never dull because I'm dealing with a lot of these along with my uh counterparts in in administration.

So give you a little bit of an update on where we kind of stand on these on these projects.

So on the design side, we have uh firefighters memorial uh dog park that's in design to convert a turf area into a dog park.

It's about 60% design now.

Um Lorenzi Tennis Expansion, this is a snippelmo project.

Uh, those of you who are um who are new may not know what Snippel MA is.

Snippel MA is the Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act.

We will talk about that probably two or three times this year.

Um essentially it's a granting process through the federal government when they sell land in southern Nevada that that they manage, we get a kickback on that in the form of this granting program.

We apply for the granting funds and then we're able to do things like this.

So uh Here's Park is getting a renovation design right now.

That is about 90%.

Um do little park.

Do little park, we have it's actually the do little complex master plan.

So we're in the process of updating a few features, but we do have a newer master plan for the entire project, the entire site.

So that includes the community center, senior center, art center, park, all of it.

And we expect to have a meeting in March.

So I'll bring you the actual date at our next meeting for a public meeting where we will discuss the master plan with the community.

We'll be replaced.

We should be going to bid in the next three to four months for that renovation.

Wildwood Park is looking, we're looking at renovation of Wildwood Park.

We're about 50% design that will go for initial approvals to planning commission, I think in February at their meeting.

Then Bradley Bridal Park, we are working on site plans for future development out at that location once we get to a certain point, and then we'll have a community communications go out for that park.

Teton Trails, we are looking at building out that last parcel on that park, and that we're about 30% on that design right now.

So on the construction front, we broke ground within this last month.

Notice to proceed came out for Rancho Ogi Dog Park in the middle of January.

That's about nine months on a on an ideal schedule.

Ansan sisters cities park.

Regional Aquatic Complex that is scheduled to end substantial completion is within the next couple of months.

We are expecting right now, although things could change, we are expecting to have that open before the summer months hit.

Let's see, Angel Park renovation.

So we are working on a few updates to that location, primarily as it relates to the bathroom there.

That will be a renovation, and then I think some adjustments to the tennis court and some additional tree plantings and things of that nature.

So that one is we're preparing the construction bid package now, so we should be in construction sometime early late spring, early summer.

Fitness courts, uh, so we're working on we're working on a master plan for fitness courts out in our parks.

And what this means is the fitness amenities.

Um there's there's one group in particular we're um we're working with uh and then that way we have a kind of a uniform design across the city, and um there are apps for users to be able to participate, and um, and of course you wouldn't need them either, but uh we are working on those.

We have two that are scheduled to be completed sometime this spring.

Uh and we'll bring fitness cords back as a specific item in the future so that I can go through that a little bit more in detail.

Um but we are looking at uh East Las Vegas Family Park and KZ getting these fitness uh these the fitness equipment um features coming up soon.

East Las Vegas uh Family Park Dog Park is under construction now and expected to finish late summer, early fall.

Nevada State Veterans Memorial broke ground on January 14th, and we're expecting that to be done in the third quarter of this year.

So we're hoping no later than October time so that we can actually utilize it on Veterans Day.

Um regional pickleball complex broke ground early January, and it is about 12 to 14 months construction time under ideal circumstances.

So sometime first or second quarter next year.

Uh Igor Soldo Park, uh this one is a developer park, so uh the developer of the of the community around there will actually build the park and then turn it over to the city.

We have been working with them on some of the design, some of the staff in the past.

And they should be breaking ground any time.

Permits have been pulled, and we expect them to get underway soon.

Once that happens, we're expecting it to be about a 12-month turnaround for uh for us to take that over.

And then we have a new bid that hit the streets on Monday.

Um, the Centennial Hills Park Playground and Place Structure and Splash Pad.

Um that will be completely replaced and and it will we're out to bid now.

We expect that to be a four to six month process.

It's a pretty large park to be replacing.

So I can answer any questions over the report that I've just provided.

Um if there are other things, you're welcome to share those with me offline as well, and then I I can address them at a future meeting.

Excellent.

That was an excellent report, uh, Deputy Director.

You filled in nicely for Steve.

Well learning.

Commissioner Sleeser, go ahead.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh Jesse Sleezer Ward 4.

Um, I think there was so much good work that was highlighted there, Mr.

Amara.

You might have jumped over the Sky Canyon Park bullet.

So do you mind just touching on that really quickly?

Thank you.

I sure did.

Um, so uh Sky Canyon Park, that's the third from the last one there.

Um actually I skipped over several as or two of them.

Um I will let Lisa handle the Doolittle Active Adult Center because she is covering that in her report.

Uh but Sky Canyon Park is actually we have a parcel that will be um uh it's going to be utilized for uh a metro substation as well as a park.

Um so this is a construction project that's probably in closer to the 18th month uh timeline.

We we have recently broken ground um and it is under uh um under construction now, but uh the the contractor is tasked with uh building a full um metro substation parking lot, all the amenities that they're going to need to do their job uh in that location, and then also a park for us.

Um so we will have uh we're gonna call it a practice field.

We'll have a small patch of um of uh natural turf.

Um there is gonna be an obstacle course, a play structure, um uh picnic pavilion, bathrooms, things like that.

Uh I think that we're putting in a small walking path and that kind of thing.

So um we expect to take that over um at the end of the full construction timeline.

Um so we're not expecting to see it soon.

Uh for those of you who don't know, and even those of you who do, the location of that um is generally on the corner of um, let's see.

Hualapi and Grand Teton, I believe, are the two are the cross streets.

Um we don't have the corner.

The corner is a Green Valley grocer, but we do have the L-shaped three parcels behind it.

So thank you.

Commissioner question.

Hi, um Commissioner Cornwell, Mary Licked.

Um couple things.

Do you have any obstacles planned for Bradley for the horses or no?

Is that in your we're too early on that right now?

We're working on site plans, so essentially we're looking at options for the different parcels and what the configurations might look like to then bring them to the community and and see what they like best before we actually go into full design.

Okay, do you need any input from the community at this time on what they would like then?

No, because no, because we're we're looking at multiple different options for what to put on those parcels, and then the community will have their input on which of those items they like the best.

Okay, understandable.

And then I would just like to thank you for all the work that's being done at the healing garden right now.

Um, it's gonna be amazing when it's done.

A lot of you know, things that have been a problem from the beginning, you know, are gonna be no longer.

So I appreciate all the love and support that you give us at the garden.

So thank you.

Absolutely.

Great.

Additional questions?

Uh seeing none, deputy director.

Thank you so much for that report.

Thank you.

Uh moving on to agenda item number seven.

We have a report from Lisa Tover, recreation manager regarding the recreation and center updates all wards.

Hello, Lisa Tovar, Recreation Manager.

I have a few updates to share today.

The first is we kicked off Peace Week in January, and we have all kinds of Black History Month events occurring uh throughout February.

We have a committee at the city that's actually run by our cultural division.

So you'll hear from their deputy director in a little bit, but we have a lot of uh recreation employees that participate on the committee, and then we host a lot of the events at our center.

So there's a lot of great events coming up for that.

And then we also have at Pavilion uh pool, they're doing a water polo game before the Super Bowl.

So that should be super fun.

Um we know they like to do their creative events, so um, I wanted to share that one with you.

Corporate challenge registration closes this Friday.

Right now we have 52 teams registered.

Last year we had 55 participate, so we should be on track.

When I looked this morning, we were at 49, so we already picked up three this afternoon.

So I'm sure we're gonna get another three and and meet where we were last year, and then the games will run from March 1st all the way through May 16th.

And then lastly, I did want to share with you a little more about um Doolittle Active Adult Center and the renovations that are occurring there.

So currently this is their front door.

So the the picture on the left is what it looks like when you're walking up to the center, you can barely see the door.

Um, it's kind of hidden around the back, and that's where the seniors enter, which causes a few problems.

We can't really see anything in the parking lot.

A lot of them rely on um different forms of transportation to get to the center.

So in the summer they wait outside for their ride or the bus, and it's very hot.

We don't like them doing that.

Um, so the the staff there have really been advocating on behalf of the seniors for a new design, and so it starts this month.

This is what the new entrance rendering um will look like.

So you can see it's really wide, open, welcoming space to sit outside, but also a lot more visibility so they can sit inside and and see their um their transportation when it arrives.

So, like I said, uh uh construction started, it will be done in May.

Uh so the front of the um the normal entrance won't be available to the seniors.

We've identified an alternate entrance for them, talking uh with the participants there.

They prefer to stay at do little active adult versus moving some of their programming next door.

So we're keeping everything running during this time for them so they'll have all their regular classes, events, activities.

Um, the parking lot will have a portion of it shut down where they'll be staging some of the equipment for the construction.

So we've been working with the school across the street who uses it for car loop, um, and as well as uh do little community center.

We're gonna have the staff park in the back lot so we have as much spots as we can available to the seniors during the construction.

And that's everything.

Do you have any questions?

Go ahead, Commissioner.

Commissioner Gary Ward 5.

Good to see you, Lisa.

Uh about community uh do little the entrance looks really great.

I see a lot of problems in the past.

And well, that means the adult uh they would be very happy anyway.

So another problem we uh I see also the parking.

It's very very difficult to park there.

And the line is faded, and they cannot see that in a parking, you know.

And is that gonna be improvement for the the parking?

Do you know if that's a part of this project?

Or we can so that's not specifically called out in the project.

Um, the area that they disturb with staging and things like that will be restored if there's if there's that necessity.

But um, we had we had been wanting to do it uh through my trade screw and parks and grounds maintenance um a while back, but knowing that this was coming, we put it off.

So if it's not done through through the restoration portion, it will be um it will be taken care of uh shortly, not maybe after the new fiscal year, those kinds of things, of course, are always a consideration.

Um, but similar to the way we're taking care of Angel Park, or excuse me, not Angel Park, all American Park with redoing portions of the of the um parking lot.

We would we would come in after the fact and and take that uh take care of that.

So thank you.

Yeah, thank you, Lisa.

Any other questions?

No, I guess you you stunned us to silence.

Thank you so much for your report.

Moving to agenda item number eight.

We have a report from Jennifer Clevin, Deputy Parks and Recreation and Cultural Affairs Director regarding cultural programming awards.

Hey, welcome.

Hi, thank you so much for having me, Jennifer Clevin, Deputy Director, Cultural Affairs Division.

I'm really excited to share what the Cultural Affairs Division does, and I tried to make my presentation a little bit more aligned with the ways we intersect with parks and rec.

So I thought I'd get started with our public art division.

Public art and gallery is overseas a number of public art projects, and we have five galleries throughout the city of Las Vegas.

We are funded through an ordinance that was established in 2003, the percent for the arts.

This allocates 1% of CIP dollars to the municipal arts fund.

And then we use those funds to purchase permanent public art, and we use it also for maintenance and conservation efforts.

When we purchase artwork, we know that we need to maintain it.

So as we have more artwork that we purchase, we need to grow our conservation and maintenance funds.

So we're very um concerned with that, and we also pay very close attention to those funds.

This past year for fiscal year 26, our transfer was a little over 395,000.

And again, that goes just to permanent public artwork.

Um these projects are really long.

Um as you know, with um Pat's presentation with parks, they take a very long time.

These are also considered capital improvement projects, so they also take many years.

Um, but they also help to enforce and establish identity for certain communities, and we know that those change, communities change, and so we like to use art as a way to foster that.

How are these projects selected?

I'm sure you're gonna ask that question next.

We also have an arts commission, just like you guys are commissioners for parks and rec.

Um, our arts commissioners oversee the percent for the arts projects, and so we meet with every one of them.

They all just like you represent different wards, and they're also mayoral appointments.

Um, we meet on every fourth fourth Thursday of the month at 4 p.m.

in this room, and we ask those ward representatives to work with their council people to suggest options for different um public art locations, different sites.

Um, our our staff then work with the commissioners, our parks and rec team, um, because they really are the ones that are at the front line, and so they understand how the people interact with our spaces and our facilities and really what can enhance those.

Um, our then our public arts staff will scout the location to ensure the projects are feasible.

Then the staff will present those to the arts commission for approval over the summer.

Um, and then after the we do that over the summer because that's when we know how much money we'll have.

So we don't want to suggest any projects that will go beyond our reach for that year.

Um, after the arts commission has approved it, then that plan goes to city council for final approval.

This year that happened November 5th, so we're sort of in the beginning phases of starting some of our new projects.

I wanted to share some of our recently completed projects that happen at parks or community centers.

This one is at the Doc Romeo Skate Park.

Um, this one was done by Nico Rusin and Paints with Care.

This was a really fabulous project.

Um, you can see the budget on it was a little over 74,000.

It was completed in 2024.

This is kind of um a standout project for us.

Nico Rusin is a local artist, and he actually came to the arts commission with the idea to do this.

And so he pitched the arts commission the idea to paint the bowl.

And now we know that you know, roll um roller skaters and rollerbladers and skateboarders.

There is a really specific surface to these.

So we needed to test the paint, um, make sure that it was adhering properly and wasn't gonna be scraped off.

So once we knew that this project could be successful, the arts commissioners voted on it, they approved it again, it went to city council, it was approved, and so this was the outcome.

You can see in the smaller photo that there is a family that's working on the project.

Part of our work with the arts commission in our projects is to make sure that there's community engagement in these, not just after the artwork is done, but in the process of doing the art, so that they feel connected and they feel a lot of ownership in it.

So I'm really happy to say that this project is still in really good condition.

Um, and I I like to believe that a lot of that has to do with the people who came to the engagement, and so they protect it.

So they go out and they make sure that no one is messing with their artwork because they take a lot of pride in it.

This is one of our more recently completed projects.

This is at Mirabelli.

This was just dedicated in the middle of December of last year.

This was by artist Matthew Murphy.

He also goes by Black 75.

He's a member of the ISI group of muralists.

This project was really came to us from the center staff at Mirabelli.

They saw the impact of the mural that was placed on the East Las Vegas Community Center, and they wanted to kind of grow that community connection through the arts.

So they worked with our public art and gallery staff to really select the location that would have the best impact as people were driving by or as the community members were coming to their location.

They identified these walls.

They were part of the evaluation panel.

And so they really had a lot of buy-in of what artwork was gonna go on the walls.

So really it was the community center staff that selected Matthew Murphy.

And he also again had to do a community engagement project.

So during summer camp, he taught all of the kids, everyone at summer camp, which I'm not sure that he realized he was getting into, but 50 students how to paint a landscape.

So it was a lot of fun.

He learned a lot.

We we see these opportunities as a way for artists in our community to grow as well.

So this is growing his scale of presentation.

Another one of our current projects is the here's here's park tile mural.

This is gonna go on the restroom there.

This will be part of the upgrades that are happening.

So we won't actually implement this program, although we have selected the artists.

We won't implement this until after the upgrades to the park are done.

The Centennial Hills Tile Park Mural.

This is in progress right now.

We're in the final stages of selecting the artist, and this should be done by the third quarter of 2026.

Again, this will go on the restroom.

What we found is it's been really wonderful having cultural affairs and parks and art connected because it makes these projects so much easier, and we get great buy-in from our colleagues.

And now I'm happy to share our projects that were approved for fiscal year 26.

And you can see that most of these are either at a community center or at a park.

So we have this DuPac Community Center Mural, the Arts District Garage Mural.

In Ward 4, we have the Cimarron Rose Community Center Mural in Ward 5, we have the do little pool mural, and then ward six, the Pop Squires Park Mural.

We also have an artwork purchase project that helps us purchase artwork like you see around the building here.

So indoor art that we program not only at our Civic Center and City Hall, but we also program them at our community centers like East Las Vegas.

The public art map project, this will actually create a map so that people can view it online or pick it up at one of our locations and they can go on their own self-guided tour.

We have a conservation and maintenance fund, and then we also have contingencies.

As we know, projects can go over budget on occasion, and so we like to leave ourselves a little bit of room.

Okay, great.

So now I'm gonna share with you where those murals are gonna go on these centers.

So at StuPak, you can see that the this is gonna go kind of on their back building.

This is west facing and north facing.

And we hope that the mural is gonna bring color and vibrancy to this center.

The budget for this is 70,000.

It will go the whole span of the wall, so it will make a great community impact.

We have not begun the selection panel on this.

The word for Cimarron Rose Community Center.

This is gonna go right in the center of the two larger buildings, kind of like piecing it together through a mural.

This is a $15,500 project.

The do little pool mural.

This will go on that entire back wall that you see in the image there.

This will be a $70,000 project.

For all three of these that I just showed you, we have not begun the process yet, but we will always work with the community centers, and they will really be the stars on our evaluation panel.

We want to know what they want because they know what their clients want.

And then Pop Squires Mural Park.

One of our big goals and that was identified in our public art master plan was to bring art to every ward.

We know that ward six doesn't have as much public art, so we make it really intentional to program that area.

And so we identified this smaller building at the Pop Squires Park, and so we will place some mural on that one as well.

That is for $15,500.

And so now I wanted to share a little bit how our performance and festivals division works in parks.

We activate the parks with really different types of events throughout the year.

We try to take a break during the summer because we also know that it's unsafe for some folks to be out there in the middle of the day, including our staff.

One of our most popular festivals is the Bluegrass Festival.

It's held at the Centennial Hills Amphitheater.

That'll be on Saturday, April 11th from 11 to 7 p.m.

And our headliner this year is Sierra Hull, who's featured on the image here.

She is a virtuoso mandoliness, a six-time Grammy nominated artist, and a groundbreaking songwriter.

She's recognized for her claimed albums A Tiptoe Highwire, 25 Trips, and Weighted Mind.

She's also a seven-time IBMA Mandolin Player of the Year, the first woman ever to receive this honor.

She, I'm sorry.

She has played at the Grand Ole Alpri, the White House, and at Carnegie Hall.

Her artistry has earned praise in collaboration with legends like Alison Krause, Bella Fleck, Dolly Parton, Brandy Carlisle, and Billy Strength.

So we have a staff that are dedicated just to programming these areas throughout the city.

We also have the Caribbean Heritage Festival at the Sammy Davis Junior Festival Plaza located inside of Lorenzi Park.

Our upcoming our one of our upcoming events is the Caribbean Heritage Festival, and that's going to be on April 25th.

This one really celebrates the Caribbean area broadly with different types of dances and singers and performers.

We also will have the Kazuna Festival there.

That is a Japanese heritage festival.

That'll be in March.

In my division, we also help plan the mayor and council events.

And you for some of you, you may have met Christy Garnish.

She has been doing that for many years.

She does a great job.

I wanted to highlight some of the work that she does in Ward 3.

You can see this image here as most recently taken at the Thanksgiving luncheon at East Las Vegas Center.

And then she also helps plan Cowboy Christmas and the car show at Floyd Lamb Park.

We really see that the parks and the community centers are great resources for the community, so we try to drive attendance to them.

Annually, this group works on about 500 events.

So they work with all of our council members and the mayor.

And then our West Las Vegas Arts Center is located near the Doolittle Community Center.

This is located in the historic West Side, and they're really focused on expanding arts education, but really specifically arts education related to the African diaspora.

And so I thought I would share just a couple of their signature programs.

The Boys and Girls Rights of Passage.

This is a 13-week program for teens, and they work with mentors in the community, and they celebrate through a crossing over ceremony during Kwanzaa.

It's a really beautiful experience, and then this is also a pipeline for our performing and visual arts camp.

Both of them kind of work harmoniously like that.

Typically, students that go to the performing and visual arts camp will also do the boys and girls' rights of passage.

The performing and visual arts camp is an eight-week program over the summer, so it's all summer long.

And the students are really learning all about visual and performing arts.

They also receive information and some education on theater management and lighting, sound design.

They are now learning how to do filmmaking and different graphic design work.

So all of that is presented at the end of camp in a two-day performance to the community at the West Las Vegas Theater.

And I just wanted to note that the West Las Vegas Library that was once next door to the Doolittle Community Center has now moved around the corner to Lake Mead.

The City of Las Vegas will take over that parcel, the old library building, and we will transform that into the new Las Vegas Arts Center or West Las Vegas Art Center.

We are continuing to program the theater, although the library is not there in the Arts Center, is just next door.

And then the Charleston Heights Art Center is home to the Rainbow Company Youth Theater.

This has been a program that has gone on for the last 50 years.

And it's really an ensemble youth program where you learn how to do acting, playwriting, directing, stage management.

You do a lot of tech work.

So this happens for about nine months throughout the year.

You audition for it.

Then over the summer, there's some camps.

We do four productions a year with the students as well.

The Charleston Heights Art Center has a beautiful ballroom.

And then we also partner with Las Vegas, or I'm sorry, the Vegas City Opera.

They do performances in our proscenium theater that we have there.

We're working with the different partners throughout the city all the time at Charleston Heights and at West Las Vegas.

We have the resources we like to share it.

So with I think that concludes my presentation.

I hope it wasn't too long.

It's really just a snippet of everything that we do, but I thought it would be nice to share with you guys how we really intersect with Parks and Rec and how wonderful the experience has been.

So I welcome any questions.

Commissioners, do we have some questions?

Yeah, go ahead, Commissioner.

Commissioner Cornwell, um, Mary Lecked.

Uh a couple questions.

Do you have you guys ever reached out to like the juvenile court system to get some of those kids involved in a positive art project rather than taking yeah?

Um not directly.

We usually work with partners who are working with them.

So for example, Las Vegas Museum of Art recently had an exhibition downstairs.

They worked with the Regional Justice Center to bring students over.

They had about 40 students in December that came and visited the exhibition.

Okay, great.

So there is something.

Yeah.

And then who is does it have to be a known artist that um submits artwork for your projects that you have on the on the board?

For the public art projects, we have two different pre-qualified lists.

We have a pre-qualified muralist list and a pre-qualified sculpture list.

We offer those to our evaluation panel.

The panelists can decide if they would like to see seek proposals from anyone on those lists.

Um if they don't see anyone they like, then we open it for an open call.

At that point, it's put out into our um website onto NGM, and then anyone can apply for that.

It's usually open for four weeks.

So, what I always recommend if you know people who are young artists or just starting, join our mailing list.

The public art and galleries mailing list, we put everything on there.

We also have a page on the arts and culture city of Las Vegas page that's just for artist opportunities.

So that's what we have open right now.

So, for example, right now we have an open call for exhibitions.

So if a visual artist has an exhibition that they want to put together, it doesn't matter if they're, you know, if they're an emerging or an established artist, they should apply and then seek guidance.

Okay, so like if a school art program wanted to apply with a specific thing that they do, project they do, they could apply for it at that time.

Yep, and you you're always welcome to share my contact with them, and I could also work with them to figure out what it is they want to do and maybe how many artists are involved.

Okay, I'll can I get that after that.

Yes, absolutely.

All right, perfect.

And then um I can't read my own notes, so hold on one second.

Okay, I guess I'm done because I can't read my scribble.

So thank you very much for your time.

Uh Commissioner Armenian.

I mean in May Rule appointee.

Do the artists have to be local Las Vegas artists, or it's open for out of town artists as well.

It's open.

Um, we like we prefer to always work with local artists, but we also understand that some of our public art requires artists who have a little bit more experience in large-scale public art.

So in those cases, we have to go with the most qualified artists, but I would say probably 90% of our projects go to local artists.

The other commissioners?

No.

Yes.

Commissioner Vogels Ward One.

I just have a if a group wanted to bring uh a work of art to a park.

Where would they start?

Would they start with your division?

Would they start on the park side or how what would be the process there?

Let's say they even have funding, you know, and they want to bring a unique thing and to a park in the city.

I would recommend that they reach out to the arts commissioner for that ward.

That arts commissioner can then request that they have an item on the arts commission agenda so that artists can talk about the project that they like to see come to fruition at that point.

They'll be connected with staff and then staff are the public art and gallery staff will work with park staff to identify if it's feasible.

Um there are certainly times that we get donations of artwork, and it's not feasible for us to accept everything because for many reasons we don't have the space, we don't have the budget to maintain it, and we don't have an I identifiable site to cite that project.

So we would never want to take something and put it in the storage for a hundred years because we know we're not gonna be able to show it.

So I would I would point them to your counterpart at the arts commission.

They'll get them on the agenda.

They can present their idea and project to all of the commissioners, and then if we request additional information, they can put a proposal together with the staff.

You're welcome.

Commissioner Cornwell, are you good?

Okay.

Oh, Director Clevin, I just want to thank you uh for the excellent report.

It was really fortuitous.

I actually just recently met with uh our new Ward II arts commissioner, and we talked about some of the art projects he has in mind for the parks and how they might um kind of uh pay homage to the activities that are already inside the parks if we can get that budget together.

So I just this is like a perfect timing.

Great.

I mean, I I think what we'd like to do is um you know, really share your guys' um your contact information so you can have those kinds of conversations, and then you'll also know what's going on in the parks in your ward.

Yeah, and it was perfect.

It was actually the uh it was um councilwoman Kelly actually brought us together.

So she's you know was very good at instrumental in doing that.

We met, and I was like, wow, he he really listened to some of the ideas that I had to begin with.

So we're uh not really on the same page.

Great.

So that's great.

I love to hear it.

Yeah.

Uh Commissioners, uh one more question.

Uh-huh.

Commissioner Gabray Ward 5.

Thank you, Jennifer.

It's a great presentation.

And it's so great.

The art program you have is wonderful.

And uh, I do have one question about the events.

Um's uh plaza.

It's a very small plaza.

How do you pick the vendors?

It's very crowded all the time.

And I just want to know how you pick the vendors.

How many spaces you allowed them?

That's a good question.

Um, I think we typically have 10 spots for vendors there, and we have an open form stack, which is like a web form that people can apply online.

So for the events that we produce there, we will open that up in advance, and typically a news release will go out, notifying people that that's open.

Um for co-produced projects like the Kazuna Festival, they typically handle their vendors.

So they will post on their website when their vendor application is available, and then we encourage people to go to their site since they handle their their vendor registrations.

So you say limited is 10 vendors only at Sammy Davis Jr., yes.

But I'd say more than that.

Um it it I think it really just depends on the size of their either their tent or their table.

So I uh I think there's often times that we can reduce the size of the uh table and then groups will split the cost.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Great, thanks everyone.

Um I think that was an excellent report.

Thank you so much.

Uh just so everybody's aware, we are um right against that that wall we'd like to finish at.

So with that in mind, uh keep please keep any contributions in the next agenda item uh brief as possible if you have them.

So this is agenda item number nine report by commission members regarding park issues and events within the respective council wards and programming awards.

I was gonna say, I was gonna say you guys really uh listened to me and kept it brief.

Well, I've been quiet, so I have to say that Commissioner Burgos Ward 6, and actually it's not for Ward 6, but the city at large.

Um, the A games are coming back to Las Vegas April 11th, which the A games are similar to the well-known X Games, but for individuals on the autism spectrum.

Events have been modified to ensure inclusive participation.

So registered individuals will have the opportunity to participate in two events Rockwell, obstacle course skateboard events and biking events and roller skating events.

Um there also be DJ uh ceremony, entertainment of food.

And you can register registration is free for all participants.

You can go to the A Games Las Vegas.com for more information, but I think it's a great opportunity to make a more inclusive uh participation for all of our local act uh artists and athletes.

That's it.

Excellent.

Yes, uh Commissioner Slow Slazer, go ahead.

Mr.

Chairman Jesse Sleezer Ward 4.

Um, be remiss if I didn't take the opportunity to mention that uh Saturday, March 7th will be opening day for Mountain Ridge Little League.

Um, 800 players this year, uh, more than 70 teams at this point, probably our largest spring season that we've ever had in our history.

Uh in the interest of time, I'll bring more detailed agenda at the next meeting will be just before uh that opening day.

But uh the parade itself will start at 9:30 that morning.

Uh the opening ceremony will be at 10.

Uh, in fairness to the other little leagues in the area as well.

I know that there are several others who have also scheduled their opening days for uh for Saturday the 7th, but you are more than welcome to come up to Mountain Ridge Park and enjoy it and join us, excuse me, uh, for opening day.

Excellent.

I'd also love to know your son's schedule.

I'll come out and watch a game or two.

I would appreciate that.

Anyone else?

Great.

Uh then we're going to move to agenda item number 10, which is 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, give your name for the record.

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

Do I have anybody here for public comment?

Uh seeing no one, I would like to call for adjournment.

Thank you.