Hannah Brown.

Hannah joined.

Thank you, Commissioner Brown.

We hear you.

Thank you.

I'd like to call to order the March twenty-third, twenty twenty six commission for the Las Vegas Centennial Board Meeting.

Are we in compliance with the open meeting law?

Yes, we are.

All right, and will you um do the roll call at this time?

Thank you.

Chair Burkley.

Here.

Commissioner Bryan.

Commissioner Arnold.

Here.

Commissioner Stodle.

Present.

Commissioner Brown.

Commissioner Coffin.

Commissioner Hilton.

Commissioner Sinna.

Here on the phone.

Commissioner Mowbray.

Present.

Commissioner Truesdale.

Commissioner Brandenburg.

Commissioner Creer.

Here.

Commissioner Mills.

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, 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'll limit it our public comments to two minutes.

Is there anybody wishing to address the commission?

Seeing no one, we will move to agenda item number four.

For possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the special meeting of the February twenty-sixth, twenty twelve meeting of February twenty-sixth, twenty twenty-six.

Motion carries.

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.

Good afternoon, Madam Mayor.

Uh Paul Bresnahan, senior financial analyst with the finance department.

Welcome.

So I'm just gonna go through these slides real quick.

Um this slide right here is your financial statements as of February 28th.

So eight months through the fiscal year, two-thirds through the fiscal year.

Uh the middle column is your actuals.

So uh license plate revenue.

We usually get four payments from the DMV.

We've received two payments for a total of eight hundred and twenty-five, almost eight hundred and twenty-six thousand dollars.

We have a hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars in interest income, total revenues of nine hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars.

Uh program expenditures, which we'll go through on the next slide, uh 1.1 million, 138,000 in general administrative expenses uh expenditures uh for a total change in net assets of 287,000 dollars.

So you be begin the year with uh 6.2 million dollars in cash and currently sitting on 5.9 million dollars in cash.

So is there any questions on this one?

Just a quick question.

I want to make sure that I understand how much money uh if we don't uh spend any more money or allocate any more grants for this fiscal year.

How much money are we going to have to take out of our reserves?

So uh this this program expenditures line item is is everything that's been approved, all the programs that have been approved, but about $800,000 of those are hold on about yeah, eight hundred thousand dollars of that extends into future years.

So if you spent all of that, it would be two point eight million in the current year, and your your current year change in that assets, you'd be down about one point two million dollars.

So, and our assets were going in.

Six point two, so you would end a year at about five.

And does this page or is the next page that tells us how much money we've already spent in the next fiscal year?

Uh the next page will tell you uh well, it's both pages.

So you spent one million one hundred and nine thousand dollars.

If you go to the next slide, there's the breakdown uh the third column of expenditures by program award.

Uh and then if you go to the last column, that is how much you have remaining on all these projects.

So you have about 2.52.6 million on uh amounts you've awarded.

Let me rephrase it.

I'm trying to get to to the to the dollar figure that we know next year we're gonna have 180,000 in operating expenses.

Sure.

What I'm trying to see is how much money we have a projected figure of how much we're gonna get in income.

What I'm looking for is what we have already signed our name off on for fiscal year 2027.

Okay, let's go to the next slide.

Okay, gotcha.

So if you go to uh fourth column down grant awards, fiscal year 2026, you have almost 2.9 million.

That is the amounts you've already spent, plus what is also expected to be spent in the current year, and then in FY27, you would have $784,000.

None of your program expenditures go past 2027.

So I'm just gonna repeat what you said.

So for next fiscal year, we've already have with operating expenses and grants that we have approved.

Uh, is uh the 700, no, is the uh 180 plus 784.

About 900,000 dollars.

About 900,000, and our income is projected at 1.6.

So we have roughly how much money for next year.

1.6 plus interest income of 201, so about 1.85.

So that would that would net you about $900,000 next year.

Okay, and my my confusion was the uh the the grant awards of the 2.8 or fiscal year 2026.

That's just for this fiscal year.

Yes, sir.

That is if everybody that you've awarded money to spends every penny you've awarded them.

That's what the number would come out to almost 2.9 million.

But a lot of times projects don't get fully spent.

We say, hey, we'll spend 205,000 on this project over here.

Sometimes they come on under, and the excess gets returned to unallocated.

Okay, but still again, it's it's the slowness in this brain.

We have 784,000 dollars already committed grants.

We have said this is the second or third year work for next year.

We've got that's the final year, 784,000 in grant awards.

Yeah, it's like the home in history, that one goes to 2027, El Dorado goes to 2027, MLK Parade goes to 2027.

So I think it's mostly those three, but I think also the I'm sorry, what did you said?

Heldorado parade.

Yeah.

Okay, great.

But also, I think the city of Las Vegas, 1970, 2005, that's not exp expected to be fully spent in the current year.

That's you know what you still have six hundred and fifty-seven thousand left on that one.

That's gonna stretch over into the next fiscal year.

Okay.

I guess where where I was going with, I just kind of trying to get a sense of how much we're nibbling on our reserves and at what rate.

Uh uh, because even though we're still good, good license plate money, it's it's declining each each year.

So those that that's the basis of my question.

How much we've already committed and uh for for this year, it looks like we're taking that uh a million out, and then and then next year we've already spent everything.

Yeah, so if you look at this slide, we you started the year at 6.2 million.

We're projecting you to be just over five million at the end of the current year.

Uh, and then at the end of next year, five point nine million.

So you would you know you would make eight hundred and fifty thousand back if you don't approve any more awards.

Uh the days of centennial sitting on a balance of six million dollars, that's like relatively new in the last few years.

Usually your cash balance was much lower.

Okay, thank you.

Yes, Mills for the record.

I believe you said that normally we receive four payments from DMV, and now we've only received two.

By June 30th, are we supposed to receive more?

You will receive so the next payment will likely come in April, and then the final payment usually comes after the year end.

So we book a receivable uh we record AR debit AR, credit revenue income, and that payment will usually come in July.

So it comes after the fiscal year.

So that'll take the variance down significantly.

Yes.

Mayor probably on one page indicates revenues, you know, the budget 1.7 million, rounded off, actuals as of 228 variants eight hundred and ninety-nine thousand.

Help me to understand what that is.

Looking at it, it may be a budget.

It looks like the revenue the budget of 1,725,000 would be for the full year, but you've only received two out of the four payments.

So you've received $826,000.

You probably have another $826,000 coming in.

So that would be $16.5 or one $1,650,000.

So you're probably gonna come in at the end of the year about $75,000 short of the $1.725.

Thank you.

One last question.

It appears uh Commissioner Stilwell made reference to this.

That uh it looks like the license plate fees are declining.

Looks like there's a trend there.

I know a lot of us were very pleasantly surprised after the centennial to see as many plates renewed and new ones uh purchased.

Uh give us your sense in terms of what you're projecting for the next budget that you put together for the city.

Uh I project the decline to continue at about five percent.

Um the problem is that there's so many types of plates now, and there's so much competition when Centennial was started 20 years ago, you were like the only plate in town, but now you have the Golden Knights, you have the Raiders.

Pretty soon you'll have the A's.

Um UFC, there's a metro plate that's been taken off.

There's there's all these various plates that people are buying, so I think that's kind of the sense of it.

So you're you're forecasting the decline as you've indicated, okay.

All right.

Yeah, I think for next year we had uh 1,650,000 projected for the budget.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Bob.

Thank you.

Just to real quick here.

Do we know if the Raiders are going to renew their free plate offer?

Uh and or if it's going to be continued.

You know, there was free for at least a year.

So are they paying people back somehow?

How do they do you know what they intend to do?

Uh I'm not familiar with that.

I can look into it.

Yeah, because it well, it could have an effect on us because right now the Raiders have been um not doing so well, but they they've nevertheless and the team have done lousy.

Yes.

But whether or not people will feel like spending the money on their own.

Versus letting the Raiders spend it.

I can't speak to that.

I could be with me, I would not buy it.

Mark Davis in here.

We have to talk to him.

So okay.

Call the Raiders.

I'll call the Raiders.

All right, did anyone have oh, yes, Edgar?

Thank you, Mayor.

So, you know, obviously we can't predict the future, but we can't predict the future, right?

We know where this is going, and the question that we should be asking is what are we gonna do about it?

And how are we going to stop the bleeding and what could possibly take place?

Is that you know, doing more to promote the plates?

I mean, there is a return on the investment if we invest in promoting the plate, whether that is through a digital campaign, whether that is through um a while back.

We talked about uh with about website and enhancing that and then doing something to enhance the the fact that this plates there, the fact that where it goes, the dollars that are raised are recommitted back into the community, right?

So that's important.

Do we co-op or try to co-op with the city with Casey L V TV?

Um, do we try to get on a website?

Do we start doing some direct campaign, a digital campaign or something to promote it?

Oh Mike, I don't think we should just sit back and say it's gonna be less next year, and we go, okay.

All right, we we need to figure out a plan.

And um, and I'd be willing to work with a working group or whomever to try to figure something out that would make sense, and if we committed some resources or dollars towards something, um, there's a lot you can do.

I mean, we the the city does a lot of um a lot of groundwork at different events around, even if we just had something at all the events that the city does and had you know, flyer or something or banner or something that says something that lets people know that this is important because it is important because these dollars that we give out go back into, I mean, we're here, we're gonna talk about spending these dollars.

It's not like it's just side like I agree with you 100%.

I I think that that's something that rather than you, I think maybe that would be Diane and and uh I agree with you 100%.

The last we also we have a brand new community head of communication for the city.

Yeah, let's figure out uh the the last one I think uh suggested, and we did it.

We put a little notice in sewer bills.

Uh I'd suggest we don't do that again.

Um but I think you're 100%, and maybe that the idea is you you're suggesting is to have a little uh work group.

Yeah, something we can just talk about and and and at least come up with some thoughts and ideas.

I mean, the the commission does have the resources to put towards something, and I'm not saying to put a lot, but put towards something, and if we're strategic, then we can put towards something that we can identify with the RI of that is, and usually that's through a digital campaign and then through the grassroots campaign with our partner, the city.

Um we can do something.

You're talking about a PR campaign to encourage people to buy the city license.

Would you like to chair this committee?

Let's do it.

Outstanding, would anybody like to participate on this uh volunteered?

Yes, when you open your mouth for something you can't be shy about, you know.

Yeah, okay, and Mr.

Stodal will be a part of your committee.

We're making a we can give away raider tickets.

Oh, I'm waiting.

Yeah, let's figure something up.

We need three people on this committee so that we don't have a tie vote.

Mr.

Mowbray, do I see your hand up?

It won't be difficult.

We'll we'll come up with something.

We'll we'll do it, you know.

It won't be grinding unless we meet at PTs on a we will not pay for that.

I got you.

My donation to uh to the to the committee.

Yes, let's do it.

All right, then we have three members uh of our committee, and you'll come back uh the next meeting perhaps with a report.

Yeah, we'll see.

Thank you.

Yes.

All right, thank you so much for that uh for volunteering.

Um agenda item six 26-0065-CLC 1 abeyance item discussion from possible action regarding the approval of the first amendment to the grant agreement concerning commission for the Las Vegas Centennial Grant number 23 uh 0450 CLC 1 to the Plaza Hotel and Casino for the production of the 2024, 2025, 2026, Hel Dorado Days Rodeo to add grant funding for years 2026 through 2028 in the amount of 500,000 and extend the grant deadline from November 7th to November 30th of 2028 and authorizing the president to execute the grant agreement as approved by the city attorney, and this is in ward five, Miss Summers Armstrong.

Hello, it's a pleasure to have you.

Hi, Mrs.

Mayor, and hi Centennial Commission.

It's great to be back in front of you.

I'm very excited about this.

Thank you for having us.

Would you uh uh care to share with us exactly what you have in mind and how it has um a significance for uh historical significance?

Yes, firstly, I'm Jonathan Jocelyn, I'm the CEO of the Plaza Hotel in downtown Las Vegas.

I wanted to say um Cedric, if you're taking private members for your committee, Natasha's in marketing, she's volunteering to be an assistance.

She does market with us and thinks that she'll have some good.

See the mayor volunteers me, and then Jonathan volunteers you, so congratulations.

She's a she said.

I wouldn't have done that.

Um so we're here to talk about Hel Dorado.

Um I I want to remind the commission that I think we've been doing this at seven years.

Yeah, since 2019.

So uh seven years we've been doing this, and we were asked as the plaza with an equestrian sense to take on this event with a lot of historical significance since 1936.

Uh this rodeo has been running, and we took it on uh given that we had the infrastructure.

And we believe we've been very successful in building building back the brand of Hel Dorado, so much so that I got a call from arguably the the the greatest uh guy in rodeo in the city of Las Vegas, Michael Gorn, called me last uh uh November and said, What are you doing down there with this Hel Dorado?

How is it so uh sold out and so successful?

My daughter wants to go to it, can you get her tickets?

Um, and so we we believe we're building the brand, we're bringing it back.

What dawned on us uh a couple of months ago, which is why we're back in front of you all, because we decided we had agreed we weren't going to be, but we don't own Hel Dorado.

You guys, or the city owns Hel Dorado, and so we don't control the future of Heldorado, we don't get to say what happens to it.

If we want to do it in other markets, if we want to continue to evolve it, it's really not our brand.

It's it's it's not ours to say that.

So for us to keep investing in it and building it, did doesn't make sense if we don't own the brand.

And so that was the first thing.

And then the other the next thing that Michelle and Natasha will speak to is the history, but obviously we believe it is very significant historically.

It's been running for many, many, many, many years.

We take great efforts at the rodeo.

For those that have been there will see it.

If those you the those of you that haven't will see in the presentation in front of you some of the efforts we've made to continue to uh share that history, and one of the things you talk about is the license plates.

We're willing to get everyone there, the 5,000 people per night to be aware of the license plates and share it.

We've asked the Centennial Commission how can we be more uh influential in helping you be successful with it?

We know that we're getting locals down there that buy license plates, same way they got a Raiders game, they come to rodeo.

We could be teaching them about the Centennial Commission as well.

And we have uh with some guidance from the Centennial Commission members agreed that if if it would be helpful, we are willing to move the rodeo to May in 2027 to tie it into the parade so that that historical connection continues, and we would go from the parade into early evening because it is very hot in May, tough to do an outdoor event, but we could do it at night, and we would do the rodeo in May in 2027 for the three years after that.

So this year is a little too late for May, but next year we could move it into May and do it uh 27, 28, 29 in May, if that made more sense.

So with that, I'll turn it over to Michelle and Natasha to uh run through the presentation and the historical elements.

And Jonathan, before you uh turn it over for the presentation, did I hear you say that the city of Las Vegas asked you to take over the rodeo?

In 2019, we were we were said that it had nowhere to go because it was too expensive to build the equestrian center.

It had basically died for all intents and purposes, and we were the ones to bring it back.

We again I wasn't familiar with the history of Hel Dorado from the 30s.

This was asked of us to bring it in because we had the equestrian center and infrastructure.

Just so we're on on the same page solo for the record.

Uh the Plaza Hotel.

The Centennial Commission stopped funding it.

The Heldorado uh uh rodeo.

Just wasn't making any sense at all.

It wasn't working.

And then the Plaza Hotel came and said, we have an idea, and this is our idea.

And this is our idea.

And the Centennial Commission said, okay, and funded it for a couple of three or four years.

I'm gonna change it for a second.

Not Heldorado, Las Vegas Days.

And by the way, that's what the contract currently says.

It doesn't say Heldorado, it says Las Vegas Days.

As is the proposed amendment to the current contract, it also says Las Vegas Days, not Heldorado.

So if anybody's gonna move forward, we need to fix the contract.

But then two years ago, the Centennial Commission really started having questions what's what his history are we preserving.

And and for all the work that the Plaza Hotel had done, rather than cut the court at that moment, a deal or an arrangement was worked out where for three years we the Centennial Commission would fund it for quarter of a million, uh 200,000 or 150,000 and 100,000, and then the plaza would take it from from there if it wanted to continue with the rodeo.

But the the Centennial Commission didn't feel that this was really the preservation.

We have a statutory responsibility, and it's not the same as the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

We're focused on historic preservation, they're focused on bringing people to downtown Las Vegas, visitors, tourists, the local community.

So there's there's different missions.

I think that the plaza has worked, the team has worked their rear ends off, making this a success for bringing visitors in.

But we had 11.

I'm sorry, I didn't I went way off base.

I'm sorry.

It's perfectly all right, Mr.

Stowtall.

Um I would like the presentation at this time.

However, I would hope there would be an emphasis to the historical preservation.

Um, because I obviously have a difference of opinion with Mr.

Stodal, but maybe after your presentation, we will both be on the same page.

So go right ahead.

If I could just answer the one point though, is that when we tried to in 2019, it was determined that the Elks owned the rights to Hel Dorado.

We couldn't, we wanted to do Hel Dorada, but we we didn't have the rights to it.

And then two years ago, you guys got the rights to it, which is why it then changed.

It wasn't that we just made that decision to switch it.

We didn't have control of it.

Now it's in the possession of the city.

Correct, but it's it's it's okay.

Let's do the presentation.

We can have a long conversation.

So we're gonna fast forward because we are not doing the recap, we've already done that at our our previous meeting.

Um we are gonna kind of identify the historical side of the event.

Page John to go to that.

Uh so if you can go to slide nine.

Future plans.

I was making sure it's me.

Yeah.

Okay, so our thoughts and and plans are to partner with uh different organizations.

And let me start real quick.

I'm sorry.

So we're looking at this now as an exhibition grounds that has historical elements and a rodeo.

We're not gonna focus on the rodeo in and of itself.

So there is a map on here that shows the different areas we've broken it down, the additional partners will be bringing in the new contests we've added.

So we're looking at it at a different angle.

And so uh some of the organizations that we'll be working with.

Uh we have the Pai Uh, whoever is on the phone, would you please um mute yourself because uh we're getting a lot of feedback.

Thank you.

Okay.

Um I mean, you guys can see it on here, the Ma Museum, other casinos that are downtown, uh, the historical west side, and um expanding our our partnership with the CCSD.

Yep, we'll be opening it up to um parochial schools, different private schools as well because the uh CCSD just didn't give us the number of uh entries that we liked, so we're gonna be expanding that as well.

We're also gonna be bringing back the Miss Helderado Days rodeo.

Um coloring contest we just talked on, and if you flip to the next page, it is the I'm sorry, two more pages ahead.

I should have put the map first.

The era timeline on the left-hand side, the pink box, the founders corner.

We're gonna invite those downtown properties and those that enter the parade to either have their exhibits there, their float there, their acts there.

That entire portion of the parking lot is going to be dedicated to our partnership with the parade and all of those.

We've also added a mob influence area there as well.

Um to the right, we have the railroad and agriculture area, atomic tourism.

Golden era, we've got all these historical west side, we'll be including this year.

Uh we met um the gal at the at the presentation.

Jonathan was on a panel two days ago or so in this room, and um we met with her, Hoover Dam, all of these areas and timelines will be having a dedicated area, and you notice inside the arena itself is going to be where we acknowledge the inaugural Heldorado Days Rodeo, which was in 1936.

So back to the cultural heritage page.

Again, we're looking at all of these areas.

We will have displays, we will have exhibitions, we will have interactive um areas as well, bringing back the Chuck Wagon from the Combs family.

They come every year, right?

They come every year, yes.

Yes, they're dedicated to that.

Um Chuck Wagon cook-offs.

We will be looking at all things historical.

Um what did we start 1905 to 1936 and and onward?

Yeah, did you have a question?

The map?

Yep.

Yeah, I think where is a lot, where is global of our net?

I mean, at the top at the end of the day, the line commissioners.

At the top of the page.

So right below era timeline map.

That's Main Street.

And then the railroads are at the like would be at the bottom of the page.

The railroad is like the orange stripe.

So those are the improvements and the the areas that we're gonna be dedicating strictly to the historical elements of Las Vegas, not just of the rodeo.

But at the last presentation, you did the recap of the previous rodeo, where we also had other.

Yeah, we we have additional and and I know because this is the abeyance of the original ask of the extension and additional funds.

If you at another time want to go through, we look um, we talk about subsection six where the final report to the commission is, the receipts, um all of the items that were in question, um, the centennial recognition, all of those things that Mr.

Stoddall brought up last time, we did include in this, but it's not on the agenda, so we can't speak to it, it's just there.

All right.

Is that your presentation?

Excellent, thank you so much.

And now we'll take entertaining questions from the uh commission members.

Well, what you guys Mr.

Stodall.

Oh, oh I'm sorry, let me Ryan.

So all that hello before you get done.

Thank you.

Well, it maybe not.

Um I wasn't here, I apologize.

Uh, wasn't here for the special.

Um, I've been pretty consistent on my position over the years.

Um, I think the biggest challenge for me sitting in the seat is to understand the subsidy per ticket, and I feel the whole goal of us giving you well, it was a give and take, right?

You guys asked for a longer period uh to run this and be more consistent, our commitment was longer for you.

And what we wanted was to see a decrease in what we were contributing to try and get that average, you know, subsidy per ticket down to something that we felt a little bit more comfortable with.

And so that's kind of where I'm coming at again on this one.

I don't know if you can speak to that.

This go-around.

I don't recall what the last rodeo was.

Um, and then I'll end it with I'm a supporter.

I mean, I think it goes back to our heritage and there's something to tie into.

I don't know if the current makeup is necessarily getting us there.

I don't know if we need to go in a little bit more depth, maybe to sell a few other folks up here.

Um, I'd like hearing that you want to include some of that historical stuff.

Um, so I'm just I'm looking for something to give me a reason to continue to support.

Um increasing the money and increasing the length of time, that's a tough one for me.

I just I was hoping to see a trend that would say, all right, we're we're going in the right way.

That's a great question, and thank you for that, and thank you for the support.

So it was 250,000 and decreasing, and now we believe, although we are saying we need 250,000 to put on the rodeo, we do believe that by adding more seats and with a lot of community support now with sponsorships, we think we could do it for 150,000, which would perhaps uh answer your question that shows a decrease if we knew that it was guaranteed for a future number of yours.

We can continue to build this.

It's just tough to do it.

Our goal was to go to zero with you guys thinking we owned the rodeo, but we do not own the rodeo, and we can't then do whatever we want with Hel Dorado because it's ultimately not ours to go to zero with, which is why having partners who do own it makes more sense to us.

So to to make you feel good, we think that even though we're asking for 250, which is what it really does cost to put on the rodeo, if we could get to 150, that would give us enough cushion to then go to the community, get sponsors, and ultimately grow this thing where we're selling tickets that offsets it and continues to uh continues to share the history of the rodeo.

I I guess just to touch on the the ownership of the name.

That was a very protracted, lengthy painful process for us on the board, uh, for certain members.

Um I'd be shocked if we're willing to give that up.

But you have a I mean, I don't know how else we can we can share sh show our commitment other than the continue to fund you at some level.

So I don't know, maybe I'm not fully understanding the need to own it on your side.

Your so I can answer your commitment to fund it is all we need.

The issues is gonna go to zero.

The funding was gonna go to zero next year, in which case I'm talking about the name at this this point.

Right.

We want to own the name if the funding is zero.

Oh, I see you have to then invest.

I misunderstood that.

We're saying if you if if you want to give us the name and we can then build a brand that and I understand the pain, which is why I'm not pushing that subject.

I did, and I gave up on that after a couple of conversations.

But but um, but that's why we're gonna be able to do that.

So if you're saying 150 and you keep the name, fine.

What we didn't want to do is we put up the money, build a brand, and somebody comes along and says they want Hel Dorado, and then we're we're out of luck.

No, it or I understood that.

Thank you.

Okay.

Well the let me just finish.

Does anybody else care to comment at this moment?

Yes, Edric.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh look, I'm a big fan, right?

I was the one that sort of asked you all to come in and I think it's important for us to show a multi-year commitment so that you can go back and operate knowing that you have the support instead of coming back every single year, wondering if you have the support, wondering if it's gonna be there or not.

It's hard to plan like that.

So I I think that it's money well spent uh for someone that was born and raised here and knowing El Dorado and growing up with the El Dorado and seeing it, and other members of this board have as well.

Um I think it's important that we do what we can to help maintain the Hel Dorado.

There's not many things in this city that we can really claw back to and say, man, you know when I was a kid, I did this.

Um, outside of trying to play blackjack before I was 21.

Uh we all did that.

You never did that, Mayor.

All right.

Oh I think that it's important.

I think this is important for our city, it's important for our community.

I applaud you all for for really wrapping your hands around it.

I mean, the the actual facility itself was supposed to be temporary, and we worked to keep it.

Jonathan knows uh intimately, and it's really turned into something.

I think that none of us plan for what it's gonna be, and I think we need to figure out how to embrace it and to continue to support it.

And uh I would be in support of supporting it for another three-year commitment.

Um if you say the numbers 250, then support it 250.

If you say the number is 150, then the support of 150.

But I think it's important.

I think the things that you that you've done to tie in better the historic preservation of that, I think is great.

And we'll build on it.

Um, and I think it's something we should all be proud of.

So I am a fan.

You tell us what the number is, and I'm here to support you.

Thank you so much.

Yes, Mr.

Mowbray.

Uh Commissioner Mowbray here.

Uh, I want to make sure we're focused on what the issues are.

Number one, this commission does not have the authority to grant you or sell you the uh trademark.

You recognize that, right?

Yeah.

Right.

So we're just talking now about funding, correct?

All right.

And I think as far as the protections for you moving forward, because you don't want to have somebody pull the rug out from underneath you.

That's really an issue between you and the city if you have exclusive or non-exclusive license.

Um, that's a whole other thing, which you can work out with you know this the the council on that.

Going back to this funding, am I hearing a motion to amend your grant to go from 250 to 150?

We didn't make that motion.

I was just uh offering it.

I was offering two.

I think there was speculation on the part, all right.

And that doesn't mean we won't get there in our discussions, but right now there is no amendment to their original grant proposal.

Okay, I just for the record wanted to make that clear as far as the name goes.

And who has the authority to modify grant or rescind?

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Mr.

Stodal.

Couple of questions.

One is it seems that that there are two proposals there you're offering that the city uh provides you with the uh uh the title Heldorado, and then you'll take care of business, and we don't give you any money, or we give you money for uh another two years to extend it out, I think twenty seven, twenty-eight.

We asked for another hundred.

To me, there's a third option, and this is going to sound, and that is that the plaza hotel lives up to the current agreement.

You have an agreement with us, we funded you for two years, we're gonna give you another hundred thousand dollars for this year and for the for the rodeo, and then we're finished.

Then we're done.

So that that's really is is is the third option.

So the hard question is if this commission decides for whatever reason that it's not going to fund any additional years, are you still gonna put the rodeo on?

Would we put on under Heldorado?

No.

This this coming year, 2016.

This coming year, yes, because we're committed to that.

Yes.

You would you will do it for 2026?

Yeah, we're committed to that.

We agreed to that.

Okay, for the hundred thousand.

Yes.

Okay.

The issue is in the future, and I understand it could be pulled from us, but we're we're we're long-term believers.

We want to invest in this thing and build it the right way, and to have somebody put it from us after investing, and it would be a very poor business.

Well, you've invested two years into it, and the money has come from us.

The money, the investment has come from us.

You guys have come up.

No shaking your head.

You you gave us a portion of it.

We still have to put in our money too.

We have to put in our time and effort and continued investment.

You don't cover the full expense of the rodeo, if that's what you mean.

No, and we were we were actually looking for that in the final report.

What is the cost of putting on so we would be able to answer Ryan's question?

Well, what is the cost, the real cost?

So we don't have that information, and so it's hard for us to make a decision without accurate financial information.

We we have I know I don't know about this year, but we did share the full budget with you in previous years.

A budget, but not the the all the final little little numbers so we could see it.

Pardon me if I'm not mistaken.

The the agreement called for the financial report of the portion that you covered, which I did email.

Um it was submitted prior to, which we had a lengthy discussion the last go round.

Yeah, um, and then I emailed the the backup, the receipts for that as well.

I unfortunately I just got it to Diane today at Dr.

C.

Brandt today, so I apologize for the delay, but it it was already recapped, it was sent back in um November.

So if you're looking for the receipts for the entire rodeo, that's what he wants to see.

No, I'm simply looking for what's in the contract, and the contract says you're gonna give the commission a detailed report on on the finances.

This commission didn't receive that.

So I don't have a way for to look at the numbers and say, Jonathan, nice deal.

You really you brought it in the budget, or you had more expenses, and therefore we what so and uh so that's kind of a challenge for me to move forward whether or not staff has got the information, the commission is supposed to get that in the 90-day report.

But we'll move on.

We can uh that's the uh uh but the fact is the commission, the city of Las Vegas has been providing a significant amount of money for the plaza to put on the the Heldorado parade for the last two years.

Not just that's a fact, yes.

Okay, of course.

So it's it's uncomfortable for me for uh to I what I don't understand, Jonathan.

What's changed from two years ago when we we cut this deal for three years and then you guys would take over?

What's changed?

What's changed is the realization that this is gonna take a number of years to build the brand to being a good business, and we cannot invest in something that we don't own.

That's not our business.

And so while we thought Heldorado could become profitable within three years, it's gonna take longer than that to build it up, and it's not our brand.

And so without owning Heldorado, we are investing in something that could be taken from us out of our control.

That's the only thing that's changed, and the fact that we're now discussing moving it to May, which I'm not sure if there's any feelings on that from the board.

But the what's what's changed from a business standpoint is if we had to put up all the money to fund a rodeo and lost money, it we would be okay to do that if it was investing in our future, but it's not our future.

So you could call it Las Vegas Days, but you wouldn't be happy with that.

Well, Hel Dorado is is the brand that is associated with the 1936 rodeo in the history.

That's I mean, when I when Michael Gorn called me for tickets, he didn't say my daughter wants to come to Las Vegas days.

He said, Wow, you've made Heldorado.

I mean that's Michael Gunn, and and he he's he's only the part of this history of this committee, so he wouldn't wouldn't call Las Vegas Days no matter what.

No, no, neither would I.

So it just centers around we either the city gives you Heldorado for a rodeo, not just entirely, just for a rodeo.

It gives you exclusive permanent rights or rights for two years, or what's what's your idea for a contract?

I I don't I think you want right now you're looking for may I thank you.

Um I think the question boils down to um the rodeo.

Do we want to continue with the rodeo in and have the plaza hotel put it on?

And if we're gonna ask them again to put it on, they're telling us that they uh they cannot continue to put it on for the amount of money that they have received because it costs so much more than they anticipated.

So they're coming back after the three years and saying, look, we want this, we'd like this, we think it's part of the historical uh uh significance of the city of Las Vegas, but we need some more help.

And I think it's a decision that where is the rodeo important enough to the city of Las Vegas and to our past.

And I know you said technically Las Vegas is not uh rodeo city.

That may be, but when my family came in 1964, one of the things we went to do as a family was go down to downtown Las Vegas for the Eldorado parade.

Now, I'm not a cowgirl type of girl, you know.

Um the irony is that I am one of the biggest proponents of continuing this, because I think it is so important to the history of our city.

And I am willing, and perhaps we can negotiate that if we aren't gonna give that everybody is tightening their belts, if we can't do uh extra money this year and 250 and 250 and 27 and 28.

What can we give to preserve and protect this rodeo?

I love the idea that they're willing to move it to the Heldorado Day Parade, because I think then you're creating an entire um event that people will come downtown.

Now I know that the Centenni Commission's responsibility is not to put heads in beds.

I get that, but I also think what a hoot and a half this is, because people do think that is our history.

And so I I think this is uh terrific.

I mean, it's not our history, but it is.

It is our history.

But what we're saying here, what Jonathan is saying here is we're gonna put the hotel rodeo on at the hotel in perpetuity.

We're gonna be funding it.

No, he's saying now let me get this straight.

Jonathan, this is the last time you're coming to us.

You are saying that if we I think so much fun here.

Why would I do that?

Well, I for one enjoy having you here.

So it just gives you an idea of what our meetings are usually like.

Um, that this is enjoyable.

Um so you are saying you came to back back to the uh the commission and saying we need some help.

We want to continue this, we want to expand it, we want to build the brand.

We need help from the city.

And so you're asking for a little more money for this year, and then you're asking for more money for 27 and 28.

At which time you will take it over, comes hell or high water.

Well, I'm saying that, but if if in fact comes hell, it's losing the proposition, which I I don't think it's going to be.

I think it's it's already turned out to be very successful.

We're getting sponsors, the LVC VA is now interested in it.

I think we can build it in something that is self-sustainable.

But I'll remind the commission that we would then be building a brand that we don't control.

Right.

And at any point it could be taken from us.

So maybe your point of an exclusive use agreement would make sense at that point.

I feel very comfortable.

If you're investing in it, great, you're great partners, we're happy to do it.

But I wouldn't be comfortable if we're paying 100% of taking a hundred percent of the risk.

That that that um with no guarantee.

That we could lose something that we are now working on.

That is what would scare me about saying 100% yes to what you're you know if South Point came and said, gee, Jonathan built such a great event downtown.

That's let's go to Centenni Commission tell them to move it to us.

Well, and they'll pay for it because they can do that, and we lose it, then we've we've invested in something for 10 years that isn't ours.

And maybe the county will pay for it then because that would be my only reluctance to say 100% this is the last time I'm coming to you.

This is the last time I'm coming to you.

But yes, well, this would be the last time, whether you choose to keep it going.

That's what that's a fair.

If we can't make it self-sustaining in the next one, because that'll be six years.

Yes, I agree with you.

Okay, that's a fair deal.

Okay, we gotta make it, but I would then need some kind of exclusive use to use it.

That if we're gonna do this, we know that it can't just be pulled from under us once we build something successful.

And I would imagine uh, Mr.

City Attorney that we would work on it at the city would work on an agreement.

Correct, Jeff Dorcak, City Attorney.

We already have a license agreement with the plaza for the use of the trademark Heldorado days.

I don't have the agreement in front of me, but I presume it goes through at least this calendar year to cover uh the current contract and their rodeo this year.

But yes, we would definitely keep it exclusive for the number of years that they are funded for.

Would it make sense otherwise?

I looked at the contract and the recitals is all Las Vegas days.

Right.

You're talking about the Jeff Dorkak again.

Uh Commissioner, so I think are you talking about the grant contract?

The the one that we uh correct the grant agreement with the plaza was done as someone already mentioned prior I think uh Mr.

Jostle prior to our obtaining the El Dorado days trademark with Mr.

Bryan's help, yeah.

Correct, but also the the the amended version that we were are looking at today in the recital that says Las Vegas Days, right?

And that's just to keep everything consistent back.

It's a my you erase it and you type in El Dorado, but I just want to make you know uh as long as we can get it for the Euros beyond, so that we're comfortable investing in something that we know we can use for a window of time, we'd be fine with that proposal.

So I heard I heard from the mayor and and from Jonathan, and basically the that my question was if we approve this today, that means you're gonna come back at the end of this agreement and ask for more money unless we give you the exclusive rights.

And then the mayor said that's not gonna happen.

You're not gonna come back.

This is your this is this is it.

We're gonna not come back because we're gonna get a proposal proposed language for us to use the trademark for a period of time beyond the next three years that we know was secure using Haldorado and can continue to invest in the brand.

Oh, well, I didn't know that.

Yeah, what do you guys think?

What do you have to do with the brand?

Um we have a commission member that wishes to speak.

Yeah.

I think the the rodeo is well maybe not the ultimate history uh preservation that that we'd all love it to be.

It's it is incredibly strong historically since I came here, and I came here in 64 as well.

And uh this community feels uh kinship to it, but it it hasn't been consistent.

Some of that is the elks doing, some of it is just the market, people lost interest, whatever.

I think I look at the amount of people that come downtown that aren't heads in beds uh for the mint 400 uh days, I mean the the weekend before the race, and think the rodeo has the same capacity to grow over time.

I would rather look at this is and and this is a little different than I think everybody was thinking, but I would rather look at us entering into a five-year license agreement with you, and make our maximum contribution annually at 150,000, starting from today, and have some specific reviews that you're meeting those expectations of bringing more people in, expanding the offering, and get it back to what it it originally was, but give you time enough to say, hey, we can make a financial if we have five years, we can make a financial investment to where if you come back to us.

If you're doing your job right, you come back to us, we won't be able to say no.

You know, you gotta be too big to fail type type solution for us.

And but there's some just there's some haircut up front, but there's some time on the back side.

And if there was no objection, I'd like to make a motion along those lines, because I think if you have the rights to monetize the name for a period of time, and that's what you're really talking about.

Uh maybe instead of the haulers carrying all the NASCAR down the strip the weekend before the race, maybe it could be a chuck wagon parade of 10 truck wagons coming down the strip to downtown.

Really promote downtown.

Because I don't think anybody on the end of the strip cares if downtown survives or not.

Personally, I I've always believed that.

And as a planning commissioner, I used to argue it all the time.

City stops at Sahara, and no one cared.

Uh individuals care, but those corporations don't.

But you need to grow this to where it's turnaway crowd.

It's a t-shirt everybody wants.

You can bring us financials to say, yes, you put in this much, but look what it brought not only to the plaza and the and El Dorado, but just what it means to the city of Las Vegas.

And that's what I would propose we we look at.

Is this in the form of a motion?

Uh I'd like to make it in one.

Can I ask you to hold off on your motion while we continue our discussion?

All right.

Yes.

And then you'll have a c we'll have a clarification of your motion and see uh, Mr.

City Attorney, that is somewhat different than what was agended.

Can we in fact entertain that motion?

Correct, Madam Mayor, Jeff Dork City Attorney.

Uh what Commissioner Truesdale laid out of what he laid out, the only things that we could do today would be lower the amount to 150,000 a year from the 200,000 for the two years, and we can we can't go to five years.

We're only agendized for uh calendar year 28.

So we'd have to come back with a whole but we could do 150 and we could do the accountability metrics.

I don't know if we're gonna be able to do that on the fly, but okay.

Bob, did you care to say something?

Yes, ma'am, thank you.

I think it's um I think he's just opened up a grand bargain opportunity.

Um if you start to think outside the box, which I'm glad you are because it's not on the agenda.

The idea would be that you really think about incorporating the parade into this.

I really, of course, I marched in the parade as a kid, you know, in the 50s, but I feel that that is the unit that has to stick together.

If we're really gonna be historical, uh, and we we I believe could have a parade at the same time, and it could either begin or end at the rodeo grounds, and or at the other end at the lot under the side of the Il Cortez, uh sixth or seventh street.

It would mean to me that a diminished parade, not the big old fancy thing with three years, three different parades, but one parade that was made for, specifically for the real estate of Fremont Street, all the way down to Maine, or back from Maine.

And I really believe if it works together, then there's real synergy because people will hear about the parade, oh, and the rodeo, and they'll start thinking about it instead of a different location.

And the one we've been running on parades, city parades have been terrible on Fourth Street or wherever it is.

It you know, it just doesn't have the feel.

And I I say that as a grand bargain.

Maybe, Mayor, we should be considering all of this together so that we clean up what appears to be long ignored aspects of this.

Thank you so much.

Um, Mr.

Bry uh Senator Bryan Jonathan, there's no question that you've done the heavy lift on that.

What you've done, I think is commendable.

I'm all for it.

I feel like uh our old friend here, Yogi Berra.

Uh it's uh the same time over again because so much of this brings back memories of dealing with the elks.

Jonathan, I have a warm spot for them.

My father was an exalted ruler, dedicated the stadium.

I grew up in an environment I was in the elk troop, and what we're told, I'm not saying that they were in bad faith, give us some money for this year, then we're gonna generally wean ourselves away.

I have some concerns about that.

Now, beyond your control, what irritates the hell out of me, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, 25,000?

Did I get that right?

Yes.

25,000.

That's a nickel, maybe a penny.

I mean I'm actually outraged by that.

Now that is nothing you have any control over, Jonathan, so I'm not suggesting that you do.

But one question that I did ask when it came before here, what about the other casino properties downtown?

I agree with your premise that the rodeo brings people downtown, not only helps the folks at the plaza, but people are gonna wander up and down the street to see what's there.

So I think that's true.

But now you're planning on reaching out.

Have there been any preliminary efforts to see if other properties downtown would be willing to participate financially.

I I can answer that.

So we have reached out in the year 2019.

The only property that was able to participate with this was um the California.

And so I mean, even with the parade, they don't participate.

We're the only casino that participates in the city.

Let me answer it in a slightly different way, which is to say it's been a fair rodeo in the sense of it's like a state fair.

There's a few thousand people, which is a drop in the bucket for downtowns of tourism.

When we look at building this to 10,000, we know we're gonna get everyone's attention downtown, and they're gonna want to participate.

They all like the event, they've come to the event, they have nothing bad to say about it.

But in terms of sponsoring, if that's what you're talking about, which is what you're talking about, they are a hundred percent going to be on board with this when it gets to ten thousand paid tickets.

In the same way that they all got behind Life is Beautiful and other events.

Right now it's just too small, and we have to do a better job of building up the profile, which we started doing last year, and now we're on to something.

And and so I'm very sure in the same way that uh the LBCBA, I agree with you, the 25,000 was somewhat of a throwaway, they will increase that as well.

So we're we're we believe that we're on the right path to building the brand, and that the others downtown we have got a lot of community support from other sponsors, but from a hotel perspective, it's a very small event relative to Fremont Street experiences for traffic.

So we're gonna build that, and then they're all gonna get on board.

And we we have great relationships with all of the other casinos downtown, and I feel pretty strong with them supporting it once that built.

I don't know if being compared to the elks was a compliment or not, because I never met with them, so I'm not sure how to take that, but we are not trying to renege on our proposal.

We just realized that we cannot invest in something that isn't ours.

And that was the genesis of us coming back to you, not that we're trying to renegue.

Let me hear it.

I know uh Congressman Hugo, you say uh everything's been said, but not everybody has said it.

Everybody's asked a question, but I haven't had a chance to ask one.

Let me be clear.

So at the end of the contract, the amended contract, assuming it passes, uh, uh, and the city makes the determination, and you know, that's I don't buy the uh jumbo-sized toothpaste, so I don't think I'm gonna be around when that decision is made.

But uh basically, you're gonna make a decision whether to go forward or not.

Uh if uh in 28 at the end of the the contract.

If I got that right, yeah.

The way I understand is right now the contract expires this year.

This is the last year right now.

We're here for an amendment.

You I take it that if you want to go continue beyond that, you're gonna continue to ask for the city's support.

What I said with sh uh the the mayor.

Can you bring that microphone a little closer to South?

Thank you.

The way I understand is right now the contract expires this year.

We're here for an amendment.

So we're saying if if the decision was we're not spending any more money on this rodeo, we would not continue with Haldorado rodeo.

If in fact we got three more years, okay, or five years, depending on which proposal you go with, we would appreciate your honesty.

So the answer would be no.

If the city said at the end of the contract we're not going to participate, your decision at this point would be you're not gonna go forward with it.

That's a super important.

Because we don't own Al Dorado.

We we believe in Haldorado, but we would not want to invest in something that isn't ours.

Does that mean Jonathan?

Another question.

Oh, did you uh yeah, please?

Mills for the record.

So, like three or four other members here, I'm born and raised here, and I have very fond memories of of El Dorado days downtown.

And uh when when this first came around, I believe it was Las Vegas days, and it uh wasn't possible to connect up the parade with the rodeo because the circuit didn't come through here until September or October.

I'm I'm delighted that we can link the two up.

And also the the other thing that bothered me was there it wasn't possible for the parade to come down Fremont Street anymore.

If we could do something to both link this up and bring bring the parade more down Fremont Street, you might get uh a lot more enthusiasm from other casino owners.

I I would go along with Mr.

Truesdale's idea of of extending the funding for a level amount for the next five years, let you get your legs under you here, and then uh possibly giving you exclusivity without our contra contributing going forward from there, because it's gonna be it's gonna be big then, right?

You're doing a great job.

Uh I agree with that.

The only thing is our city attorney has advised us that because of the way this was agendized, that we cannot change it from three years to five years, and I am not sure that um that the uh uh Jonathan would um uh come here and leave with less money than he's asking for, and that's kind of what Mr.

Truesdale's um uh uh uh motion would be when he makes it that it would we'd pay 150,000 dollars a year for five years and then be done with it, give them an opportunity to get some heft behind their uh the rodeo so that it is self-perpetuating.

But uh I cannot go to five years because that that sounds good to me.

Correct, ma'am.

Jeff Dorcak, city attorney, based on the grant requests submitted and the way it's agendized, what we can do today can only go through calendar year 28 and can only equal an amount of 500,000 new dollars, so you can play with the money, 500,000 within the scope of 2028 calendar.

If the mayor as chair gets the sense that they should come back with a new item for five years, then that's gonna have to be a new item.

Um Jonathan, I can anticipate what you're gonna say.

Go and say it.

Well, if there was a way that we could have the 200,000, because we're so late now into the calendar, if we could have the 200,000 for this year, but then we come back at a future date and and go with your proposal for the additional four at 150, we would be fine with that.

We're very grateful for that as well.

If that's well, here's the thing though, right?

According to uh the uh agenda item, you're asking for a hundred thousand dollars this year to supplement what you already have, which was a hundred, so that would get us to the two hundred thousand for this year, and then we could come back at a future date and commit to the other four years at the hunt at the lower amount, which hopefully Hans is uh gets Commissioner Arnold comfortable with the reduction that we are headed in the right direction, and with the commitment that we would continue to operate beyond those five years with an extended license agreement to use the brand in May.

I now let me see if I get you are willing to have a motion presented that would agree to fund this year by giving you an extra hundred thousand, and then you will come back and request um uh a different agenda item that would stabilize what you're doing instead of uh three years, you would well go to four years at 150,000 dollars the the commissioner the commissioner truesdale proposal, yes.

That commissioner true we will be forevermore, it will be known as the truesdale proposal.

Well, still not for the record, the truesdale proposal in essence is funding the rodeo forever.

Because at the end of the five years, they'll be back and ask for more money, and because we've committed for the last 10 years, how can we not get them?

You've got to remember what you're asking for is going to be 25 percent of our annual budget, a quarter of our budget you're asking us to spend on a rodeo, not historic preservation, not historic education because a coloring book and whiskerino don't count in my although I will say that the new stuff that you guys have come up with, uh that's some good stuff in there.

So but you're saying two quarter of a million, we're saying we're going down to 150,000.

You're saying you you're gonna come up with not the because you the deal is 200,000 for the next uh two years.

No, no.

What do you mean no?

It's it's a hundred to bump them up to a hundred this year.

Right.

And then moving forward twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty.

Or no, I'm going to the current contract.

The current the current proposed amendment.

I understand.

Okay.

We're amending that to a hundred for twenty-six.

Right.

They'll come back, and that's it.

They come back.

We talk about four-year, the truesdale amendment, it's 150 per year, but the licensing agreements go beyond that.

Not that we're paying for that, but that they will have the agreement.

But on the record, so how many years is that for the Eldorado?

Five.

That would be five, six, seven, four more.

Nine years, and you think at the end of nine years, we're gonna say, Jonathan, hold on, go away, we're not gonna give you any more money.

No, no, but you're giving it.

Ryan, uh, pardon me.

Sorry.

Ryan.

We won't be so we're on the record.

What I thought I heard, Jonathan, was that you committed if we do those additional four, which is somewhat the five, 2030, is that right?

2030, is that right?

And you'll never talk to any of us ever again.

No, but what you might say, Jonathan, you've sold so many license plates.

Please can we fund this?

This is amazing.

But I believe the commitment was yes.

We're funding, we're good.

We and plan on being self-sustaining moving forward with a licensing agreement, so we have control of our destiny.

We're good.

Correct.

I mean that's that's what we're saying.

Or yes, we could do the truesdale, but in two separate tranches, because we would be voting on giving you a hundred thousand dollars for this year, and then you'll have to come back to us.

Um, or you can go with the original proposal and uh have enough to keep you going till uh uh for 26, 27, and 28.

So do we have an agenda a motion, an actual motion?

No, we do not yet because I haven't entertained it yet.

Do you want two more before no?

I'm looking at our city attorney more on this current no, no, just this year.

The the Jeff Dork City Attorney, the current agreement ends this calendar year 26, and then they are before you with, like you said, uh Commissioner Arnold, an augmentation for 26 and then two additional years.

Yeah, yeah.

And we're we're we're very happy with the the Truesdale.

And I will find a way to carve back that 50,000.

Okay.

Sorry.

I will find a way to carve back to 50.

Appreciate that.

Okay, so everybody is in agreement that uh the motion is going to be for one year to fund 100,000, and then Jonathan, you will come back and request four years of funding at 150.

Will everybody on the commission remember this discussion?

J just to be clear though, you're saying the 100,000 because we've already been granted 100,000 for 2026.

Okay, yes, yes.

So it's a total of the yes, I'd make that motion.

All right, you are moving to fund uh the um uh the El Dorado rodeo um this year and give an extra hundred uh we've already given them a hundred and now uh at another hundred thousand to this year.

Okay, so we uh the motion on the table is that um we are voting on um giving a hundred an extra hundred thousand dollars for the plaza to put on this rodeo for this year, with the option that you are welcome to come back and and uh uh propose a four-year contract at a hundred and fifty with some sort of special rights, yes, over here.

Um just for Mr.

Jossel, I know that uh many commissioners have expressed the desire to see if there could be alignment of the rodeo with the Eldorado days, and so we just if when you come back, you can see if that is gonna be a possibility or why it's not gonna be a possibility, it would just be helpful because I know that a lot of people growing up in Vegas are used to having the parade and the rodeo go hand in hand, and currently they're not in sync, so just if that is workable, and if not, you can just explain why not.

It's absolutely our intention next year to move it to May and work with the parade so that they're mocked it together, branded together, and somehow can you?

The motion is for a hundred thousand only to supplement 2026, okay.

With the understanding that uh we anticipate they're gonna come back with another request.

Okay, all right.

There is a motion on the floor to give um uh a hundred thousand dollars to the plaza to continu to put on the 2026 Hel Dorado rodeo this year.

Mill's here, I'll second that.

All right, all those in favor of granting another 100,000 dollars, please say aye.

I think any opposed.

Excuse me.

I uh okay, we have one no vote.

Do uh have one no vote?

Okay.

Um, who was that no vote?

Mr.

Soto.

Thank you.

Motion passes.

Thank you very much.

You're very welcome.

Thank thank you.

I do have one side note on the original amendment.

The rodeo dates this year were November 6th and 7th.

But the Wilderness Circuit is having their finals that day, so we'd like to do November 13th and 14th.

We're just bumping it a week.

Yeah, right.

Does that require uh uh no?

Thank you.

I'm gonna make sure.

Thank you all.

Thank you very much.

Agenda item number seven, 26-0130-CLC one.

Final report by the Dr.

Martin Luther King Junior Committee of Las Vegas regarding the completion of the 2026 Dr.

Martin Luther King Parade funded by the Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial.

Welcome and please state your names for the record.

Hello.

Hey, hey.

Thank you.

So thank you, Madam Mayor, Madam Chair, and all of the commissioners.

We do appreciate the this is our first time doing it, so be easy on us a little bit.

We also will have a financial part in the in the in this part as well.

As far as um our uh introduction, um, it is great to one thing I always say was great about Las Vegas.

I've been now here 39 years and got here in 1987 by way of the United States Air Force.

And one of the things that I loved about be what I still love about being in Las Vegas is you get to meet history and talk to history.

So you'll see in our presentation that um not only do you get to uh see Las Vegas history intersect with the King Week, but you also will see how the young people like uh Miss Wilson here um was actively involved, but also got to meet the people that we talk about in history.

So uh living living the dream, um, justice in the journey, hoping the hardship was our theme.

And if you notice, we actually were promoting people to purchase plates with the Las Vegas Centennial Commission because we wanted to make sure that they understood where the funds came for came from to make this work.

So I'm gonna click.

Hopefully, this will give you first a preview of what we've done.

I don't know if we got sound.

Well, I don't know what will happen now.

We've got some difficult days ahead, but it really doesn't matter with me now because I've been to the mountaintop.

And I see the promised land.

I may not get there with you.

But I want you to know the night that we have a people will get to the promised land.

About anything, about anything.

So we want to thank you for watching that short video.

That's part of uh some of the footage that we'll have that'll talk about the history of the parade and how it intersects with the uh with the current with the uh future of the parade.

Um we utilize uh again um it's great to work with Wendell P.

Williams and have an opportunity to walk us through the history of the parade.

But one of the the theme, the national theme for the parade is remember, celebrate act, and you guys can read that on on your own time there.

I don't want to take too much time, but also just to uh let you know that a lot of people discovered that um you know our our esteemed uh um commissioner here, uh Senator Bryan was the person who signed the bill as governor um honoring King Law.

Um, and then he was also um in the parade this year uh with um Mother Tolin, who was also one of our first grand marshals.

So that was part of us bringing um the the past forward.

And then connecting to the city, um uh uh Mr.

Mr.

Wendell got a key to the city from our honorable mayor um at the uh banquet, which uh but so she so you guys understand we didn't we didn't co-mingle any fun.

So just so you know, um the the banquet was sponsored by many others.

The parade was taken care of by the parade because this commission authorized us to do the parade.

Um we we also had um created an event with uh councilwoman um Chandra Armstrong.

She wanted to do an event with the uh uh uh in in the historic uh where the historic West Side School is and where KCP, which is again um landmarks of the city, uh where uh we we hosted um taste the dream.

So um connecting the city on that level and taste the dream was really talking about um the history of uh of and bringing the community together, bringing the entire community out prior to the parade, um, so that they could uh see uh what was what was going on.

We also did interviews inside the uh design room.

If you've never been to the uh uh that that campus where the historic West Side School is, we actually did um interviews with folks like Mr.

Wendell P.

Williams with Ida Gaines and folks who were um who met Dr.

King and actually uh uh had the opportunity to work with Dr.

King and then some of the young people came in and and and watched was a part of that.

So um we were connecting the city all the way around.

And then uh, you know, really we had a lot of uh interaction during King Week, where we continue to really our King Week is uh is is the whole uh culminate culminates with uh with the parade, but mainly it was about making sure and ensuring that the entire community had a chance to uh celebrate the accomplishments and uh of Dr.

King and engaging our young people as you can see, engaging the uh key components that is Dr.

King, whether it's the churches, whether it's the HBCUs, um Dr.

King was involved in so many things, some of the organizations that um evolved in this city because of the influence of Dr.

Mondo King Jr.

And just so just a side note uh when the Wendell said that Dr.

King um officially had one visit to Las Vegas, but on many occasions, Dr.

King um did not announce that he was coming to town.

So he was here uh meeting with folks um, you know, undercover pretty much because of the dangers at that time.

So um while while history documents one way it goes another way, but we did a lot of different events around that.

And then the media coverage was just phenomenal.

We had uh all different um all the stations were involved, were connected.

We even worked with um uh access city council um with councilwoman Chandra Summers Armstrong and and talked about the uh talked about the parade, but every media outlet was part of it.

And then who was in the parade?

Um, of course, we had the RTC, the College of South Nevada, South Nevada Regional Housing Authority, the Divine Nine with all the different um sororities and fraternities, um the and then um the uh the Raiders and and many others and the MGM and all these different so we had over um almost 200 entries, so it's 100 plus, but we almost were at 200 entries.

Um and so these are these are just a couple of the uh the organizations and what we did was we connected the future organizations of some of the uh fraternities like um what Mr.

Mr.

Wendell is part of and Mr.

Creer is part of, um, and we brought in the young people so that they could learn the history of uh Las Vegas and the history of the parade.

So it was really more about making having people live through the um live through the experience of the parade.

We had bands, we had entertainment, we had the summer league out doing the pre-parade uh function, and we did uh young dreamers out at uh Second Baptist Church with Second Baptist Church.

The first um parade grand marshal was um Willie Davis, who was my former pastor when I first got to uh Las Vegas.

Um and and Wendell has a funny story to tell about that one.

It's how how you chose Mr.

Uh Dave uh Pastor Davis.

Oh, it's my turn.

Thank you.

Uh I want to uh first of all say that we have two members of our organization, longtime members in the room as well, Miss Betty Forson and Ms.

Tiny Forson.

Uh they always tell me you're the face of the organization and put me up to speak.

So but they're here and they're very, very viable and as uh they are an asset to our organization.

We couldn't function without them.

I wanted to acknowledge that.

I also want to acknowledge uh Senator Coppin, who was a sponsor of the holiday bill, and of course, Governor Bryan passed it in the law.

And that's very important to me.

I mentioned that last time.

So Governor Bryan was uh one of the first grand marshals back in 1983, along with Helen Tolman, whose birthday is coming up in about less than a month, she'll be a hundred years old.

So we're bringing those grand marshals back because there are a lot of people in Las Vegas who don't know them, who many times ask who they are, and we want people to know the historic values that it they contributed to our community.

Another thing about our parades, and I usually communicate with all the folks who do parades in Las Vegas, all the parades in Las Vegas take the same route down 4th Street.

So we communicate a lot.

But we're the only one that actually bring in a lot of groups from out of town.

As a matter of fact, I've gotten calls already for two schools that are in a two-mile proximity of the Los Vegas of the Los Angeles parade, which is the same day.

So we bring a lot of folks in.

That's important to us to look at filling uh the city up with people from out of town that will spit that will uh spend money.

But I want to mention Governor Bryan again if I can, because he's a really special person to me.

I found out later when I went I went up to Carson City, I think in 1985 or something to do an event for King.

I didn't know that he had planned to get me to run for office.

But he was so strategic in getting that done.

He recommended that he had Senator Coffin to talk to me on the plane when I was coming back home.

They kind of like I just hood winked me all together.

But he uh uh Governor Bryan has been one who I just uh have a lot of respect for, and I can't say that about a lot of folks that they're still alive.

And we were uh we didn't get a chance to really really honor him this past year, but we can take like a minute uh to do something for him today.

We want to present to him a lifetime achievement award from our organization.

Uh I love that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So with that, we just we'll we appreciate uh well no, thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

You're very, very well.

It's an honor for us to do it.

So people were talking about money earlier, uh, and how much money was given in the past.

You know, we survived 43 years without asking for any money.

So uh but we're just we're just so thankful and honored to be able to use it.

We keep expanding our events.

We're up to about maybe 10 or 12 days of events.

Uh so we actually was keen, we we actually moved into a month uh to do it because we have to keep building things in our community that will that will teach generations how to to be better people in our community.

So we don't all have to, as I said, live together, but we have to respect each other.

That's a part of what we want to do in our community.

Just a quick question.

Uh uh parades are great.

Our person will continue to support this particular particular parade.

Thank you.

But the question I have is is there a place in this celebration that we will hear from we hear Dr.

King.

Is any of his speeches being used during the rather than clips?

Uh uh those speeches that he has made that just unbelievable.

Unbelievable.

So I mean, to me, the parade's great, we should do it, but I'd also like to see a portion somewhere where we hear his voice and see his voice, and not a clip, but the whole yeah, and and you know, we do uh an interface service uh with all denominations that we can come up with, and that's based on Dr.

King's letter from the Birmingham jail when he reached out to all clergy that we have to all work together to save everybody.

We do that and we do a lot of events.

We've been doing our we mentioned our Young Dreamers Award, which we give uh an award to students who are selected by their school, who exemplify the King Blueprint, not doing your homework, uh not bullying, doing the things like that.

So now we've been working with the school district to now take those students and form peace clubs at the schools.

And uh that doesn't directly ask you a question, but at any chance we get uh we always want to teach the tenants of Dr.

King and and the Brotherhood and Peace that we should be living as brothers in this town.

And there's a lot of turbulence in the world right now and uncertainty, and we want to be the other voice that that always sings out to say we we can get along, we can do better.

And yes, we actually we actually do play some a lot of people play the actual speeches during some of their floats prior to the parade.

There's a long build-up, and there's a lot of people stand in line, so we do play those as well as they will play them um on KCP Power 88, which is our partner uh who has been a partner since the beginning of the parade.

And and we also um ensure that we do that during with social media, which is a new thing that we beefed up this this year, um, thanks to a lot of our younger members of the committee.

They they made sure that the the speeches were there, some of the excerpts, but also connecting it with people who actually worked with Dr.

King or met Dr.

King or some of their relatives.

We had some of their relatives come as well and join us.

So I know we wanted to uh talk about the expenses.

So we we just basically lined up exactly what we did um as far as what we requested and what has already been expended.

Um you'll see that there are like three items that are a little bit over uh what we what we um what we had as far as uh a request and what we've um already expended.

Um but we also have some pending items because we don't know if people are gonna donate them or they they're gonna send us an invoice, so we're not we're not taking it for granted right now.

We're gonna wait and see if they uh say, hey, we want to get something in writing saying, you know what, we're gonna donate the golf carts or whatever.

We we just want to wait on that.

The reason why some of these uh items went over, for example, the portable restrooms.

Once um Ms.

We we had uh Miss Wilson working with the uh with the city, and we realized that um people were gathering too much around um AMP, so we added some restrooms in that area to uh kind of mitigate that a little bit.

And then the barricades, we also added some extra barricades uh for um safety reasons and other reasons that for lineups and and how we uh adjusted our lineup.

The uh and then some awards.

Um I I'm glad he gave that one uh to former Senator Bryan, um, Senator Bryan, you know, because uh that you see we we yours was expensive.

No, I'm just kidding.

No, no, it's just that we had decided like um like what Wendell was talking about is that you guys won.

Can you somebody make a motion and with this we we we really did expand a little bit and honor some of our past um uh um grand marshals and they participated in the parade.

We also had um our traditional grand marshals, but then we had youth grand marshals, one young man um, and he's right now attending South Carolina State, and he came back, and his band and his and his folks wanted to join him, so they came back with him.

Um so we were basically what we're looking to do all the time is intersect, you know, history with the current um and with the future.

So that's what we've done.

So and you'll see here that we do we'll we'll we'll come back with an adjusted budget after we pay some more of these expenses.

We still have um left over uh even going into next year, um, a little bit over 131,000 still left to uh spend, but a lot of that is gonna be going towards the uh documentary.

So part of it is not it's not all the parade.

There's a documentary that we're working on with a local uh agency, um, gas station studios, um, a young man born and raised in Las Vegas, and we're we're working with him, and he's working with um his uh super consultant over here, Mr.

Wendell P.

Williams, to get all the information we can give um by his words before he forgets.

Thank you.

Are there any questions and comments from any of the members of the commission?

Seeing none, I don't believe that there's a vote required.

So thank you very much for the update in the report.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Agenda item number eight, 26-0131-CLC 1.

Discussion for possible action regarding proposed revisions to the bylaws of the commission for the Las Vegas Centennial.

Diane.

Thank you, uh Seabert for the record.

Um first of all, I wanted to um let everybody know that Seth is on the phone.

He's uh bit under the weather, so he didn't want to come in and spread his germs.

So we appreciate that.

So he is on the phone if there is a question for Director Floyd.

So first um want to thank everybody for their hard work on this.

Um Senator Bryan and Um Commissioner Stowdall met with uh myself, um, our city attorney, um, city attorney staff.

Uh, we went through many meetings and many revisions of um what to do with the bylaws.

It was a lot of administrative cleanup.

You know, we had to update the address, and there are some repetitive um language in there that was um taken out.

Uh you really won't see any changes of the way that this board operates.

Um the op the staff still does all the the work.

We still do all the day-to-day duties, um, anything that's operated for the grants and everything that we do will still remain with staff, but um will the president, vice president, treasurer, and secretary will be uh board members.

Um so if you have questions, hopefully Seth's still there that can answer.

Jeff's also here, and um I can answer something as well.

But for right now, this is just to um have this commission recommend this to be um forwarded to city council because city council does need a vote on it.

Uh Commissioner Mowbray here.

I just have uh one suggestion, and that is a preamble to recite that the original bylaws were adopted on a certain date, and there were there was one amendment on another date, and then the third uh second amendment on another date, and this is a total restatement of the bylaws as of this date, so that when someone looks at this document, they know this is the Bible moving forward.

Jeff Dorkheck, City Attorney, yes, uh Commissioner Mowbray that he mentioned that to me before the meeting.

That was a good catch.

We'll make sure to adjust the title, probably to uh revised and restated bylaws, and then have at the end of the document the dates that you mentioned, which would be the original bylaw date, and we had two amendments back in 2003, so we'll make sure that that's all historically memorialized within the document, but that's all a little cleanup we'll do on the back end.

Uh just a couple of thoughts.

One uh uh with the Diane and Seth and the city attorney.

Uh this was a year's worth of work, not daily worth of work, but a forty year's worth of work.

Some of it is basically simple when Seth provided the uh commission with the uh uh the bylaws uh a copy of the bylaws have always been there, but he sent out a copy in November of 24.

Are we already in 20?

So uh and during that year uh looked at it, and there were simple things like it says we're supposed to hold an election every year.

Uh two other things where it said that uh the chair of the commission was the chairman, so a little, I mean that's not little, but I mean things like that were were updated and and so forth, and so a lot of the changes in here are are cleanups and adjustments.

We will have to decide, I believe, at the next meeting whether we hold elections every two or four years, or or what is the date that's in the proposal here?

Thank you, Commissioner Stoddall.

Jeff Dorkak, City Attorney.

We can actually take that item today with the bylaws.

So that as Commissioner said, that was the only open issue.

It shouldn't take that long to have a discussion uh at the chair's uh indulgence.

Basically, we have it set up in the revised bylaws to be every two years.

The thought would be whether the officers should be elected every two or every four or some other number, but two or four was what uh Senator Bryan and uh Commissioner Solal have recommended.

So that's the only decision for today.

Otherwise, I would concur with uh uh Mr.

Stolal and Dr.

Siebrant's remarks in general.

It was a modernization and cleanup of the bylaws to bring the commission up to 2026 from its original bylaws 25 almost years ago, and uh like Commissioner Stolal said, things like chairman into chair and making sure that we identify that the officers of the corporation will be board members, those were the major changes, but then in terms of your practical staffing purposes, Diane remains as your lead liaison to take care of everything on the city side.

Thank you.

So uh I just asked the uh I I'd recommend four years.

I mean that matches what the the chair is.

The chair almost automatically is going to be the mayor.

I don't think that that's specifically said in that, but but the mayor is for four years, and I recommend uh the board members, and it's only for the office, not for being on the commission.

So I'd I'd make a motion to accept this document, uh changing the elections every four years.

I'll second that.

Yeah, uh along with what uh Mr.

Mr.

Mowbray uh included now.

Let me ask you something.

Um it says on my agenda that this is a discussion, so it had possible action.

So if the motion is live on the on the floor, I can accept the motion.

Correct, you can, ma'am.

And uh we will need a motion in action, which effectively will be the recommendation of this commission.

Do they recommend the revised bylaws?

If so, then we'll go ahead and get them on a council agenda as soon as we can for council approval, and then these new revised bylaws will go into effect.

So, in other words, we are voting on the all the revisions and changing the one year uh election to four years.

Correct, if that was the motion that was made.

Right, is that all the all of all whoever elections a vice chair okay for all of the officers?

Yeah, yeah.

Correct, and your officers are president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer.

All right.

Um I'm not sure a second is needed, but is there a second?

Oh, excellent.

All those in favor of the motion uh to accept uh the revisions of the bylaws and have the officers elected every four years, please signify by saying aye.

Any opposed?

All right.

Motion carries.

Thank you very much.

Agenda item nine.

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.

Thank you, Seabrant, for the record.

So as you can see on the slide in front of you, we um have the remaining decade films.

The 1990s comes out in May of next year, and then the final film is 2028, and that will wrap up the decade films.

Uh the Paul R.

Williams documentary, the everybody should have received that email with an invite for the premiere, which is March 29th, um, at the Doyle for the rodeo.

Um we were just advised that that November date is changed, so we'll update that to the 13th and 14th.

Home in history this year is April 16th and 19th.

Um, they have asked me to be on a panel to discuss putting properties on um our historic registers.

So um be able to, you know, hopefully have more awareness spreading about putting more properties on our register.

The UNLV Sports History Project is still in uh progress.

The new West deal over at the State Museum is open through October.

And then we do have the two other documentaries that Boyd's working on, the 1911 and Fremont documentaries.

Fremont will be done first and then the 1911 next year.

Uh the parade this year is May 9th.

And so that we don't meet again until after May 9th.

So hopefully everybody's able to go out and uh watch the parade, or um our cultural affairs, parks and rects department has always extended an offer for any commissioner who would like to participate.

Um we can put you in that parade.

Usually they have big red uh fire truck.

Um I think it was down for repairs, but I think it's back, but if not, if somebody really wants to participate, we'll find a vehicle to put you in.

Uh the Marble Manor Oral History Projects continues, and we have our newest documentary is uh in progress due for the release on October.

The Atomic City Project over at the museum is in progress, and the 1980s film premiere um is on May 16th uh over at the Beverly Theater, and you will be receiving invites from Teresa in the coming weeks.

And the only other thing I had is um congratulations to our own uh Senator Bryan.

Um he was honored at City Council on March 18th for his contributions to to the city, and he you got an award today.

May 18th is I believe Senator Bryan Day.

I mean, it's your day.

Thank you for all you do.

At least it wasn't leapier, thank you.

That's a good point.

So that's everything I have.

Does anybody have any questions?

Mayor, I've a question, Mayor.

Yes, oh yes, thank you, Mayor.

Um are we allowed.

Well, I guess I'm going to say this out loud, so I guess that kind of puts it on the table.

We don't have new business.

And we talked about the documentaries that we've done, which I think have been great.

Um, one documentary I would love for the Centeno Commission to entertain would be a documentary on all of our mayors.

Um from we've had what 20 mayors or so.

And uh I think it'd be a great documentary, and I think we should start with the Goodmans, considering the fact that just their their impact has been in some.

I mean, it's kind of wow for 25 years of that.

Um, and then sort of work our way through our mayors.

I'm not telling you how to do it, but I think it'd be great, and then leading up to our current mayor, um, who has had a tremendous distinguished career um in serving our community and then having to serve as mayor.

I I think that is something that we should we should take a look at.

Yeah, I think it's I think it's a great idea.

You already got it going, Mayor.

But I think um maybe we should start from the beginning and work our way up, then rather starting with the good news.

Yeah, but the challenge, you know.

Here's a here's yes.

Yes, I can I can I can respect that.

Um, and you're 100% right.

The caveat is this it'd be nice to do something while they'd be able to enjoy it and see it.

You know, and I mean I completely understand what you're saying.

Pardon me?

I think there are already several video projects in the works uh specifically.

I know one for Oscar, and I think there's one for the two of them, but not necessarily just as mayor, but for their whole life.

Yeah, but so then it'd be great though.

The Centeno Commission, I guess I'm sort of thinking outside of just those two mayors, just the mayors in general, right?

And and I think that is something that would be awesome for the Centeno Commission to sort of head up and to and to and to create what that looks like.

Um I don't know.

I'm not the well, we're starting.

I mean, actually, we're starting with the one documentary that is when we became a city.

Yeah.

So we will have the first mayor, Peter Buell, uh, as a significant part of that, but but also, and those were two-year terms, by the way.

Uh, and and the city council and the mayor were all elected every two years.

There was no alternate uh like Congress.

Yeah.

Which I never understood.

I don't know.

I don't know how you handle that one, Mayor.

But I think that that each one of the harvest time in the 1700s.

I think you're right.

Each one of those mayors played a very significant role in the in the development of the community, including the one that was indicted by the federal government.

Uh who things happen?

Prohibition.

Oh, oh, oh he was found innocent.

Oh, I'm glad to hear that.

Um I think that's a wonderful idea worth exploring.

Yeah.

Uh we can't do anything now, obviously.

Um, but uh does anyone have any other questions of Diane?

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

All right, seeing none, we're going to agenda item 11, citizens' participation.

Um rather than reading the item 10.

Item 10.

Ah, of course.

Oh, actually, exactly what we were talking about with dovetail nicely with item 10.

Um, this is a discussion regarding topics for future agenda items.

Does anybody have a topic that they would like to propose?

Mr.

Stodolph.

For the record, I think everybody saw the the front page of the uh the RJ over the weekend, no preserving motel pass and the motels are being demolished.

I this commission through the centennial through the city council spent upwards of a million dollars preserving the neon signs on Fremont Street.

I think we need a report in there's just the communication bar for the city says don't worry about it.

But we need a little bit more, we need to understand what what the action plan is.

Yeah, they could go to the Neon Museum, they could, etc.

etc.

But if we could get one at the next meeting, that would be great.

All right, Diane, are you uh you understand your charge?

Yes.

All right, thank you so much.

Anyone else would like to bring up something?

And just mayor, officially, if Mike sort of repeating my comments, if my comments on agenda item nine could be repeated and inserted into agenda item ten, I'd greatly appreciate that.

Commissioner Mobrey here, I'd like to propose a uh documentary on law enforcement in Las Vegas, uh starting with the inner, you know, going back to the 60s with Sheriff Lamb and his uh relationship with the FBI uh and how we managed uh the bad guys when they would come in.

Uh he'd meet them at the airport, take them down, fingerprint them, photograph.

You could never get to that today, and then tell them to get on the next plane out of town.

Um and then also, you know, uh when the strike force came in, uh, he was tried for income tax evasion and he was acquitted in 1977.

I sat in that courtroom for that.

And then the FBI.

Uh all those I I grew up with those agents.

They were over at our house.

Uh in fact, one of them I would say well, I'll tell you, he gave me the facts of life.

My dad never did that, but this FBI agent did it.

I said, Don't worry, I won't be in a room by myself so that somebody can blame something on me that I didn't do.

I got it down.

Anyway, if we could uh think about that as uh a topic uh in the future, because we've the town grew up with uh you know a mix of uh good guys, bad guys, and everything else, but I don't think there's been a lot really highlighted about um how Sheriff Lamb really uh kept things under control um during his term in his own way.

Yeah, big hand.

I'm not sure we want to broadcast his own way very much, but that certainly is a good topic for discussion, that's for sure.

Well, I think the law enforcement, I think you're right about the history of law enforcement.

I would, of course, start uh start earlier, and I'd even do one on on the city of Las Vegas police chiefs during the 1940s.

We had 10 of them.

Ten police chiefs in the 1940s, including one that committed suicide.

So there's a lot of interesting challenges that law enforcement has faced in growing up in the town that has legalized gambling and and real challenges that they face as well as this as a city base.

But I think law enforcement, I think we got to parse it out though.

You know, uh Lamb could be real interesting.

I'm sure I guess you're absolutely right.

Agenda item 11, citizen participation.

Just a real quick one.

I wanted to reprise what I'd said in the discussion on the Union Plaza or Plaza, and that would be to begin to work on a global agreement of some kind, including casinos downtown, the experience, the Fremont experience, us, the commission, and all of us to be sure that we work a parade route into Fremont Street.

I think ultimately that'll be up to the city, and there are very, very definite rules on where those parades can be.

So I'll make sure you have it.

I don't think that's within the jurisdiction of the Centennial Commission.

Well, I'm just saying maybe it could be a topic for a future discussion, the parade route.

I I think that would be a topic for the city council.

You do, huh?

I do.

Okay.

Would the lawyers no, I don't, I'm not necessarily, but certainly not with uh the the parade routes that we have are not within the jurisdiction of the you're welcome to come uh if the uh city ever wishes to discuss parade routes, you're certainly welcome to come and give us your implications.

I think you ever will.

I think you ever will.

No.

No.

All right, I'll have to be a gorilla fighter.

Perfectly honest.

Um, unless Olivia, do you have a burning desire to uh reexamine the parade routes?

I would say if um former councilman coffin can bring in a petition signed by all of the businesses supporting the change, then we would embrace the discussion.

But usually they are saying how it is so impactful to them to have shares in a negative way.

So I don't know.

Okay, I was wondering the the hotels.

Let me go.

Okay, agenda item 11, citizens' participation.

Is there anybody foolish enough to address this commission?

Seeing nobody, we will go to agenda item 12.

This meeting of the centennial commission is now adjourned.