Good afternoon.

This is the Southern Nevada Council of Governments, our second meeting, and we are here on March 31st at four o'clock PM, and I will ask for a rule call if I can.

Councilman Knudsen.

I'm here.

Commissioner Jones.

Here.

Councilwoman Alan Polenski.

President.

Commissioner McCurdy.

Excuse.

Councilman Stewart.

Excused.

Councilwoman Larson.

Councilman Churchill.

Councilman Black.

I'm on the phone.

Oh, yes.

Councilwoman Ashurst.

Thank you so much.

And for those on the phone, thanks you very much for taking the time.

I appreciate it.

And I'm assuming we're in compliance with the open meeting law.

We are.

And item number three is public comment.

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

Uh your time is now.

Please come forward.

Hearing and seeing none, we'll close the public comment period.

And item number four is for possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the regular meeting of the February 24th, 2026.

Move approval.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Aye.

Hearing none, that passes.

And moving on to item number five discussion for possible action to select a Southern Nevada Council of Government's logo.

The most important part.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair Seth Floyd for the record.

Well, I was gonna say that uh I think you are all uh expecting to be so successful that you need to make sure you can market yourselves.

So to make sure you can do that appropriately.

Uh we have developed three mock-ups of some potential logos for you to vote on.

And they are on they should be on your screen now.

And we will open it up for you all to pick one.

And if we vote on that, we can move forward.

I will tell you um, never mind, because I think staff pick one that's not up there.

So never mind.

I was gonna say staff put one on the front of my binder, but it's not one of the ones that's the only distinction is the shades of blue.

I'll I'll defer to Marco because Marco commissioned uh the development of these.

But I believe these were approved through uh through through the city in terms of uh there is only one variation on uh the theme here.

It's I believe it's the color and the shading.

I would just say that, you know, for all of the logo wear that I know that we're all gonna be wearing as member of the council of governments.

I'm getting jackets, t-shirts, mugs, hats, everything.

Number three will probably be the easiest uh for the graphic art and the embroidery artists to do.

But just uh yeah.

This is a real test to see if we can all agree across jurisdictions on a logo.

So is it possible?

There's a a motion.

I'm gonna take that as a motion for number three, and I know on the phone it might be if you can't see it, it's uh it's a wonderful SNCOG Southern Nevada Council of Government's logo that the commissioner thinks will be easy to embroider with a motion to approve.

So moved.

Okay, there's a motion.

Let's see if we can do this.

All those in favor.

Aye.

Anyone want to venture a nay?

Hearing and saying not a nay.

Don't don't even tempt it.

Sounds good.

We all agree.

See that?

Southern Nevada working together.

I agree.

Sounds good.

That passes.

Thank you very much.

More complex issues now.

We will move on to item number six, discussion for possible action to identify one or more matters of regional significance of the 2026 calendar year.

Significantly more complicated.

Uh this this will be a little bit more complicated.

Uh Seth Floyd again for the record.

So uh we're gonna hand out uh here while I'm talking the I don't want to call it a final list because certainly you are it's in your discretion to add or amend these, but we over the last month or so since the last meeting, month and a half, we staff and I have met with all of you, uh, and I appreciate how engaged and enthusiastic uh and thoughtful uh you all were in choosing topics that you thought might be worthwhile topics for the SNCOG to take on for its first year or year and a half.

Um we have organized these, you'll see there are there are nine.

There were more than that that we there were more ideas than that, but some of them fell into categories that we thought were related.

Um if you disagree, we can talk about that.

But we were trying to not give you 25 and give you a reasonable number to work from.

So we have ranked them in order of how often they were mentioned, so they are in uh essentially uh volume order, not necessarily priority because we're gonna talk about that in a few minutes.

All of these topics are important.

You all did a great job.

We gave you a homework assignment after the last meeting, which was to go back and think through issues of regional significance that you are seeing in your jurisdictions uh or that you're seeing across the valley.

Uh and and the fact that you choose one over the other is not necessarily a reflex a reflection on whether they're important or not, but we obviously have a scope both of what the COG does and we have some practical considerations for you to think about as we go through this process of choosing a topic.

And you'll notice on the on the first page at the top, and I'm gonna put it up on the screen now, too.

Is the purpose statement for the COG, just to remind you of what the mission uh of this organization does, because I think that will help inform to some degree what topic you're gonna you're gonna choose.

And I also wanted to mention that uh there we asked you to think of a few things as we were going through the discussion as well, including one, is it squarely within the jurisdiction of the COG?

And I think for the most part, all of these topics are.

Second was is this something that we can feasibly take on within a year, year and a half?

Because what we heard from you all last time is it's important that we get a win that we come out with a deliverable that we can actually wrap our heads around in a year, year and a half and show some progress on that issue.

So uh we asked you to do that as well, and we're gonna ask you to do that uh again in just a minute.

So let me stop talking for a moment.

Uh if you all would read through these topics, and then we will start with our deliberation on how we're gonna get to choosing the final one.

We should know that councilman Stewart joined us as well.

This is a first bowl to city.

I do not have that on my screen.

Oh I apologize.

I'm actually gonna put that on the screen.

Oh, okay.

We're gonna do two things.

We're gonna put the agenda.

We're gonna put it on the screen, and then we're also gonna email it.

So if you have access to your email, we're gonna send that to you right now.

Perfect.

Thank you.

And we'll councilman black, we'll do that for you as well.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um Mr.

Floyd, are these ranked in any particular order?

Are you recommending you know one as potentially our priority or so the they're ranked in order of um how many mentions there were across our one-on-one meetings.

So it's not necessarily that we've chosen that any are more important than the other, but for example, senior fraud and senior services came up the most often in our conversations, and then on on down the line.

Um now uh several of them toward Toward from about number four or five.

Uh yeah, five through nine had about one mention each.

So the first three or four had multiple uh mentions across our conversations.

And we did combine a few.

I mean, there were some topics that were um different subcategories, I guess you'd say of each topic were discussed, but we tried to squeeze them into as few topics as possible.

So you'd have some fewer things to consider.

And only because you mentioned five, so my eye uh ran directly to it.

The commentary here, heavy reliance on SNPLOA funding, which is not sustainable long term.

What is the thought because snifflema is gonna go away because I mean, I guess we all heard nine months ago, our congressional delegation not speaking with one voice, but I thought we were beyond that at this point.

So we purposely didn't put any names, uh didn't attribute any of these to the folks who mentioned them.

So I would kick that back to you all if the person who uh made that comment wants to discuss the rationale for it.

We're gonna get into some of that when we get to the once you've had a time to review it, we're gonna kind of walk through and discuss each one.

Chair.

Yeah.

Yes.

Um without really good.

I I mean, I've reviewed these.

We we talked and uh without prioritize them in because there's so many good ones here.

If far as I'm concerned, I don't know how the rest of my colleagues feel, but as far as I'm concerned, I think one of the high metrics, highest metric of picking one, is one that we can achieve because of the first year.

I mean, there are so many good and valuable things to be done here.

I think this group needs to have a win, and I think that needs to be a high priority in picking one that we can actually uh achieve some kind of success.

And we and there's some kind of measurable, it's just not something, but something measurable.

I just put that out there.

Not trying to rank any of them right now.

Just I think that should be at least my mind, kind of a heavy overarching theme.

Yeah, Councilman Seth Lloyd for the record, that came up in almost every single one of our conversations.

So I think your colleagues all agree with you on that.

We have in just a couple minutes here, once everyone's done reviewing, I want to make sure the folks on the phone have a chance to review it too, since uh we we just emailed them.

We'll go through a few questions to try to narrow these down, and one of them gets at that exact question.

Is are any of these ones that we can't really achieve in a year, year and a half?

And if so, we'll strike those from the list for this year.

Mr.

Chair, this is Scott Black.

Um, through through you, Mr.

Chair, I did not receive an email.

It's uh my email is black as at City of North Las Vegas dot com.

Okay, we are resending that one right now.

So we'll we'll confirm in just a minute to make sure you got it.

Thank you.

Councilman Black, did you receive that email?

I did not yet.

Let me double check one more time.

Uh I did not, but it it's okay.

I I have a pretty good familiarity of the ones that that I was honing in on, and so I I'd be happy to proceed with the conversation.

I I'm good to go.

So, Mr.

Chair, if you don't mind.

I did not oh go ahead, I'm sorry.

I I did not receive the email yet, but but I'm I'm good to proceed.

Well, I promise we didn't do this on purpose, but uh let me let me read them.

Let me just quickly read through them just so to refresh your memory on these.

Uh the first the first topic, and we've divided this into a 1A and a 1B is senior fraud and senior services is 1A, one B is group homes, fraud licensing and safety.

Uh number two was child care, access to child care, cost and land use.

Item number three was traffic, street and school safety.

Item number four, housing affordability and land use reform.

Item number five, parks and regional recreation infrastructure.

Item six, mentorship and youth development, item seven, human trafficking, item eight, funding and legislative alignment, and item nine, education general and pre-K.

Got it.

As you were reading, it came through, so now I have double coverage in the Mr.

Floyd.

Do you mind just just for this um this committee?

Do you mind talking a little bit about your your own personal experience?

Because sometimes we want to make sure that we're aligning you as an executive director with the what you're able to accomplish and your skill sets, and maybe the team that's supporting you.

Yeah, sure.

I'm I'm happy to do that.

I think that may help uh with some of the questions down the line too.

So the SNRPC historically has had a planning focus, a planning and land use focus.

I mean, I think that's been largely what it has done uh since its inception.

I think what was interesting about these conversations is that conversation has expanded into other things because some of the limitations that were in state law no longer exist.

My background is I do have a planning background.

Uh I was a planner here at the city of Las Vegas um 20 years ago, almost 21 years ago now.

Um, and then uh was a practicing lawyer for a while and then back to the city in the planning department, and now over economic development and planning.

Most of our staff is at least on our team is housed within the planning department.

Uh Marco, who has been with the SNRPC for many years, uh, is responsible for our master plan.

So that does include a lot of things that aren't traditional planning and covers everything that our master plan covers.

I know most of the staff in the room, and I think uh most of those staff are also from the planning department.

So I think when you look at expertise, a lot of that is in the planning and land use arena, but um I think we have we're unique, we're all uniquely situated where whatever topic you choose, we will be able to support that from a staff level.

Is that what you were looking for?

Okay, thank you.

All right.

So with that, um let me first ask after having read through the topics.

Is there anything that you saw that we didn't capture that we need to add, or that was not exactly what was intended, and that we need to amend thanks, Mr.

Chair.

Um, number eight, the funding and legislative alignment, in my personal opinion, we need to have that in tandem with whatever we decide to go with, because there is no achieving the other thing without eight.

So I feel like eight we should adopt just as part and parcel of what this uh new uh board does.

And then focus on the models.

There can be more discussion.

But it just seems like one of the foundational reasons to do this is to have funding in the future, so we can't neglect that.

And the legislative alignment just seems like a natural if we're gonna bring all of these bodies together and we're gonna discuss the issue uh that that we leave cookie crumb trails for our legislature so that hopefully they can be a part of the solution as well.

And I I would just add this is a lot of these conversations we've had over the last year have been based on the success of Henderson with Southern Nevada Strong, which happened 15 years ago.

I don't know, 15 years ago.

Um and it was really based on Henderson taking the lead role on something that was about regional planning, uh and that ended up going to the RTC, but the ability to apply for federal funding as a regional body, uh it it increases our chance of federal or state funding.

And so if we keep that as a as a priority, maybe it happens.

Maybe this isn't the right funding season, um, but maybe the next funding season is right.

And maybe the way to frame it is that that is the a long-term goal of the COG.

That's not a thing that we're gonna accomplish per se this next six months, but it's a long-term goal of the COG that we're gonna continue to sort of keep on the agenda.

Um, but that we're gonna pick a more shorter term goal today, too.

Mr.

Chair, yeah.

Um I don't know if it'll make it any easier.

I doubt it because it wouldn't probably be picked anyway, but I'm uh number nine, the last one is the one I kind of got my head around.

And uh it's just I just it's just too broad for this, I think.

So I'm I'm I'm happy to say maybe we ought to take number nine off.

And uh, but I would keep the pre-K and that I think that's part of the uh childhood uh number two, child care could be.

But uh education is just so broad and so big, I don't think there's a lot this group can do it this time.

So I don't know if that helps.

Now there's eight instead of nine.

Yeah, but well, you beat me to what I was gonna do next, which is start uh having us sort of narrow our focus.

But I got your text.

Oh good.

That's good.

Uh and thank you for going first.

You were the first volunteer.

Um so you'll notice on either side of the room as we go through this next process, which is kind of the workshop part of the process.

We've got uh Ian and Marco on my team, sort of memorializing kind of where we're headed, writing some notes on the other topics.

So with that, let me let me ask a first question.

We'll see if we can get it from eight down to uh fewer than eight, and that is if you look at the uh vision statement, and let me put it back up on the screen here.

So, Jeff, if you can go back to the PowerPoint.

Perfect.

Are there any of these that align most closely with the statement of purpose?

So when and then just as a reminder, the purpose is to cooperatively address regional issues, identify common needs, coordinate government services and responsibilities, engage in comprehensive regional policy planning, and assist the members in the conduct of their affairs, the activities perform by the council are intended to complement and not duplicate or supersede the functions of the members and their governing bodies, agencies, boards, or other bodies.

So are there do you have one or two topics that most closely align with the vision statement?

And if anyone wants to volunteer or we can go down the line.

I can volunteer because I have an issue that's come up that I think uh kind of fits the purpose.

Uh and I did bring copies because it's it's hard for me to talk about land use because I'm not a land use attorney and not a planner, um, but each of us have to deal with land use on a pretty regular basis.

And so I was approached by a group about expanding access to child care.

So, councilman Stewart, this is kind of to your point.

We don't maybe get to education, but all of our jurisdictions somehow influence it in some form or fashion.

So I'm gonna just pass this out because I I find it interesting, it's an academic exercise for me, so I'm gonna give one to the clerk.

Um, and this was a group uh that was met uh that had representatives from Henderson, North Las Vegas.

Uh Mayor Pro Tem Black was part of it, the county was part of it, and what the group was talked about is how do we expand access for child care, and some of the barriers that were listed by the advocacy group was our local levels are creating barriers, and we're not communicating effectively with the state.

And so they came up with a variety of different solutions at the local level that could potentially impact the access to child care within each of our jurisdictions.

Now I'm not advocating for their policies, um, but I do think it's a worthwhile conversation to say can we go back with our planning teams or building officials to say, are we doing the same things across all of Southern Nevada so that child care uh employers have the same equal footing in each jurisdiction?

I think that's a worthwhile conversation, and that's something that I think goes into that land use conversation that could potentially be addressed by the COG.

Um a related conversation, and Seth and I have talked about this a lot is the conditional use permits and special use permits.

Um right now they're being licensed by the state for say uh sober living homes or veterans' homes or um other other kind of home situations, uh, and the state and the cities may not be completely aligned around what the jurisdictional requirements should be.

And so that I think it's the same conversation from a planning perspective, I think, from a conditional use permit, special use permit, and the state licensing requirements from child care to group homes, and I think that would be worthwhile for us all to get on the same page.

And my guess is that there may be some statutory changes that we need to look at.

I don't know if it's right or wrong, but I think it's worth exploring as a region.

So that that's kind of my pitch for land use and talking about education and really servicing people in our communities.

Just based on what you said, uh, it seems as though someone's having this conversation already, right?

Because you were on another board with some people from the county discussing this, and this was generated.

So is it possibly debicative if we choose that because somewhere someone else is doing this deep dive already?

They did this in Reno, they can't figure out how to approach Southern Nevada because the people who are approaching this topic don't understand the local government jurisdictions within Southern Nevada.

So they came to me um with with a request and I told them I would explore it.

And I I I can explore it just with the city of Las Vegas, but then there's value in probably looking at other jurisdictions at the same time.

And I may be able to add just a little bit of of clarity.

So I'll put on my uh city of Las Vegas hat per second.

We are we are doing a deep dive now on, and it comes in a variety of forms.

Building officials have a group that actually just I just got an email this morning that they've they're assigning tasks uh related to looking at group homes.

Um we are meeting with uh the state as well to try and figure out licensing because it's a little convoluted how the licensing works between some of these.

So but I don't know that there is an agency that is tasked necessarily with putting all that information together.

So the work I think you're right is being done.

Not sure that there's necessarily a regional agency or body.

In my in my how I can see this if if the board agrees is if we ask Seth and his team to kind of put together the basic framework of what policy options there would be present to this group, and then maybe maybe each of us think it's a good idea, and then we go back to our own jurisdictions and sponsor an ordinance.

If if that way it gets heard multiple times, there's opportunities for the community to engage, and we create some cohesion amongst other Nevada entities.

That's kind of how I would see this playing out, and then maybe Seth is able to work with the other jurisdictions to kind of parse out the work.

Whether whatever whatever that work is.

And if there are things that we can't do locally within our own jurisdictions that need legislative approval, then the COG would say, hey, we need help with this.

Yeah.

So anyone else have a topic or two that uh other than this one uh that they think aligns most closely with the purpose of the COG.

I'll step up and advocate for item number three, the traffic streets and school safety.

I do think we're at a point where it's a public health crisis, getting kids to school safely, and the number of uh incidents of cars hitting kids is alarming.

It's also something that I don't know that any other body can do independently.

We have multiple police departments and metro down here.

We have different local governments, everybody's got a different public works department, so it is uniquely within the the purpose mission statement there to work cooperative cooperatively to find uh to find reasonable solutions to something that we're all impacted by dramatically.

And I'll just sort of chime in on that of if you roll back nine months, say, to to the e-bikes, the e-motorcycle issue, right?

Yes.

We all sort of were confronted with it.

We're all sort of independently working on the issue, and we pretty much got to the same place.

But you look back and if we had a cog in place last September, then we could have easily just put this kind of thing on agenda for the COG and said, hey, what do we want to do?

This is best practice.

You know, our public works safety and planning teams could have collectively worked together as they sort of did after the fact.

Um, but it would have been it would have been cleaner and we would have had a better voice to the public of like what are we collectively trying to do um if that had come through come through the cog.

Please thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh I tried to identify issues that were more or less visible to the general public.

I I think all of these um these items over here are excellent to take on, but as my colleague had mentioned early on, um, that we need something that would be able to accomplish within the first year, or have a better opportunity to accomplish in the first year.

But by the same token, um have merit to move forward to uh the kind of uh assist the public in general.

And uh I I pretty much uh picked mine out already.

One of the main ones I picked out originally was parks and regional recreation uh issues.

Uh I think that's uh that goes rather across the board with all of our uh jurisdictions, particularly uh speaking of North Las Vegas.

You know, we we're growing by leaps and bounds over there, trying to keep up with the um the growth and uh parks and recreation, those are all very, very important things that I think uh we could all benefit from.

Things that people could actually see uh that were making progress with something visual to the to the general public.

Um the other thing uh was just mentioned uh traffic street and school safety.

Um I don't know about all of you, but I've never seen so much speeding going on, donuts going on, and uh muffler modifications going on, uh license plates uh being covered by dark plastic, so you can't read the license plates.

Um it's gotten worse progressively over the past uh year.

Um, and I could tell you when I when I speak with our police department, they do the very best they can.

But I had suggested uh some type of um group within the police department, not just the motors to get out there on traffic safety and ticketing, but just to have a traffic um uh division that would be visible to the general public, not just the police officer on a motorcycle, but a vehicle marked as traffic safety or traffic um you know enforcement.

Um I I think that's a very important topic.

I think that that affects uh not only seniors, children in particular, too many children are are getting uh injured, killed uh with the reckless drivers who could care less, and not even talking about the people that drink and drive.

Uh, but uh those would be uh at least the two that uh that I would uh put on there, and then first and not necessarily first, but number A, 1A and B.

Um I have a lot of problems with that uh in my ward.

And I don't know if there's a general uh lack of communication when they uh when you organize a group home.

Uh a lot of our communities are uh HOA covered, and uh a lot of these group homes going in there uh have absolutely no communication with the with the uh the homeowners association, and they just move in there and they um they set up shop and nobody knows they're there until after the fact, and then it's very difficult to uh address the issues, particularly if they land next to you as a private homeowner, and you see four or five cars pulling up there every single day, different cars, and then they have parties over there, and how do you get them out?

How do you find out that they're it's almost like the uh the uh uh what do you call it?

The uh not the group homes, but uh the ones that you rent for yes, yeah.

But yeah, we have an ordinance for that, so we're pretty much in control of that.

But when it comes to these these types of issues, it seems like nobody has real control over that.

And these three items at least, and they're all good.

Uh I'm willing to select anything that uh that we we kind of uh lend the hand to make it happen.

But I I I think these three uh should be considered uh for us to go ahead and tackle the first year.

Thank you.

Councilman, yes, I was gonna say for I'll go through a few, like all of them I think are good.

The senior fraud and senior services.

I started something like that already in our ward.

I have a retired law enforcement and FBI agent who specialized in this, and he conducts these free um trainings.

He goes anywhere.

He said, wherever you schedule me or put me, I will make sure I provide that information because it is very, very prevalent.

Um I just don't know, you know, he's one person, and so we have been doing something like that in Henderson already, but he's he's welcomes going anywhere, and he can assemble a team to provide that.

Um, but again, the measurable part is um what I have a question on um traffic street and school safety.

I agree it's an issue.

Um Dan and I were talking about that be councilman Dan and I were okay, Dan and I were talking about that because we already have a motorcycle um brigade that does that.

However, they're limited.

We're down uh staff right now.

We will have our highest graduation class coming, but you know, until they get ramped up, they said they don't have dedicated services to go to the schools.

The city of Henderson is um we pay for crossing guards or some.

I think all the interviews do right now.

Yeah, yeah.

Because even some schools, the principals and staff are going out there trying to help too, because it is an issue, and they should not be doing that.

And they've told I said, don't do that because a liability.

And so um it is an issue, but the question uh remains staffing, staffing levels.

But the one that interested me the most, but I'm willing to go with whatever we decide, is the mentorship and youth development.

I think that's something we can uh get our hands around right now.

I'm working with the Raiders doing just that.

Um we've been having um bi-monthly sessions at the Raiders training facility, and they've even busted children in, and they have the vendors come in, and it's kind of like a passport type of thing where the children get to speak to the uh vendor about what they're uh what they provide.

Um they get receive training, they receive breakfast, lunch, and and uh potential internships, depending on what grade it is.

But we did something like this uh similar in uh Illinois.

But we did something like this, uh similar in uh Illinois, they called it vocation vacations, and it was similar to where the businesses um volunteered, and there was a drop-down menu for the different genres that the children wanted to select, and then they got to shadow at that um particular business, and then uh depending on the age, they could uh work into an internship and future future job.

So it's feasible we're kind of working on something like that, but that would be my pick, but I'll go with whatever the the uh team decides.

Please.

Yeah, I just want to say on on one A.

This is Scott Black.

I have to drop off at uh 445.

So I thought if it's okay, may I weigh in real quick?

Yes, please do.

And then also um by dropping off at 445, I won't jeopardize quorum, will I?

No, we we have five in the room, councilman, so we are good.

Okay, so I think when I when I look at this through the through the lens of being able to tackle something in a short fixed period of time that um we can have an action action steps, deliverables that are quantifiable and deliver uh a win right out of the gate for the cog and build some momentum and and prove our concept.

I think that that is is is a high priority for me, but then also of these items on this list, they're all relevant, they all have um there's a need in each of these categories, but which one is really resonating from our community from the public.

What's what's the outcry or the visible demand for action that um is is super relevant.

I think that one is what uh councilwoman um um Francis said, which is the school safety traffic.

Um I think that's one that we could be all the all the raw ingredients are there.

We have Aaron Breen at the Vulnerable Road Users program at UNLV, she has the data, she has the uh you know connection, the network to all the the agencies that we do, the joining forces task force.

So I uh it it already has some visibility and pieces all throughout the community, but I think that COG could bring it together in a real cohesive, meaningful message with continuity and what we can do as a community, even above and beyond the limited law enforcement capacity we have through messaging, through you know, um being a good neighbor, advocating you know, neighbor to neighbor, peer-to-peer uh for best practices and good behavior.

So I like that one a lot, and then also second to that, another one I think that we could uh that there is a demand in the in the community that's unmet that I think we could get um show some movement on is an a really robust education campaign and action steps regarding uh fraud in our in our senior community.

So those are the two that I think are super relevant.

There is an unmet demand or need in the community, and I think that those are two that we could get behind as a group regionally put the pieces together that are already existing and make th them uh meaningful and move things forward.

Thank you, councilman.

And just before you drop off the phone, I just want to maybe give a a highlight to something that we're working on at the city.

I have worked with most of your jurisdictions, representatives from your jurisdictions on uh and with the metropolitan police department on uh red light enforcement, it's traffic uh speeding and red light enforcement.

Yeah, that contract is going to the council in the next couple of weeks.

I don't know if it's gonna pass or not, but but if it does, we're intending on collecting a whole bunch of data around the the type of infractions happening within multiple intersections within the city of Las Vegas and sending out a just kind of a warning letter.

We can't send out citations, but a warning letter to people saying, hey, we we know you're speeding, we know you ran a red light, please don't do that again.

Uh and then using that data for potential legislative action in the future.

Now that's super controversial.

I don't know if uh if the group is interested in that, but that is something the city's doing, and to a certain extent, each of the jurisdictions have been having those same conversations with the sheriff.

So before you dropped off, I just wanted you to be aware of that, uh, Mayor Protem.

Thank you.

And then I think next up, uh Commissioner.

Yeah, I just want to say I I think um one A is very noble and and something that that makes a lot of sense.

I do think it it it seems a little bit farther afield from the planning staff's wheelhouse, and so I think they'd they probably have to look beyond um their current skill set in order to get that expertise.

So I just wanted to raise that.

I think it did say he wasn't a planner 20 years ago, so he's in that senior group now.

So maybe he has that experience.

Almost almost.

Um yeah, so I just wanted to say that.

I I think the group homes and the child care sort of fit into the land use piece of it that is in the wheelhouse a little bit better than the the the going after fraud piece of it.

And Mr.

Chairman, I would note so of all the topics that have been discussed, if you look at Marco's the way that he has framed your responses to that question, there is one on here that is not directly reflected on your nine, and that's group homes, because I think that as you were discussing that, you kind of combined a couple of them into that topic.

So we've added that as a an additional topic here that I think does encapsulate components of both 1A and uh the child care, which is number two or three.

Number two, Mr.

Chairman.

Uh and uh I apologize before I even get started here because I don't want to get off into the weeds and trying to solve the problem or problems already.

But is there a way maybe you Seth could just kind of it would help me decide on maybe what is the best?

How do we go about attacking this?

That as a group.

Um I mean so we pick one.

What are the next steps?

And that might help me kind of focus.

Yes, thank you, Councilman.

We we are only on question one.

So uh we have I have a whole it's like a it's like a reverse pyramid here.

We're we're we're still at the at the top of that.

So if if you all are comfortable with these, I think we've identified it as six that we've put on the sheet here.

Um I've got a couple of other questions that I think will help us get down to, and I'll just I'll telegraph this so you're not wondering where we're going with this.

I've got a couple more questions to try to get us down as close to three as possible.

And then we're gonna essentially do a ranked choice vote to see if we get to our final one.

That's what your ballot is for if you see a blank ballot on there.

Uh and and if we're at one at the end of that, then we're done.

Um otherwise I've got a few other fun things to try to get you down to the to the final one.

So uh the the next question to help us oh and Mr.

Chairman, I apologize.

Commissioner uh Councilwoman Ashurst is also on the phone.

And she has to drop off as well.

So I yeah, I know he was gonna get to you too.

Actually, councilwoman.

Actually, I don't have to drop off.

Okay.

Excellent.

Well, do you want to uh provide some feedback on yours?

I I do to kind of narrow down your list.

I am a totally in agreement with item number three, uh, the traffic street and school safety.

That is continuity and uh all of our jurisdictions.

I think everybody's having a problem with that, and you could almost roll that into mentorship with the school safety with a maybe education program for the children on e-bikes.

So that could kind of roll in, but I think we all have the same consensus on uh number three for sure as one, and then my other one that um I had oops, my computer just dropped off was the mentorship.

Um that was my second pick again, but I could roll that in with the school safety and traffic.

Of course, as far as continuity is concerned.

No, thank you very much.

I there was a comment here about uh affordable housing.

Um but I I appreciate I appreciate you saying that.

Thank you.

It's just it ranks quite high.

I I hope you make it to a meeting because it's a lot of fun up here.

Yeah.

Or or we could do a traveling show, the Boulder City.

That sounds fun.

Absolutely.

You're hosting.

Monica and I will go through that.

All right.

So if we're comfortable with these six, uh moving on to the next question from there.

Uh one of the things that Councilman Black mentioned, and all of you talked about this uh in some form during our one-on-ones, is it's it's one thing to pick a topic that meets the purpose, it's another to choose one that has a deliverable clearly defined deliverable.

So I'll ask this question in the positive, but you could also think of it in the negative.

Which of these topics has the strongest potential deliverable, or if you're looking to just cut a few, which have the least well-defined deliverable, and maybe we can drop off one or two of these.

The process of elimination, this is the name from Boulder City would definitely be uh housing affordability.

That seems like a broad uh subject to tackle and to get a deliverable within a year.

I will say on on traffic safety, the county along with a lot of the jurisdictions had already worked in the legislature in 2025 and in the special.

So I think there's already sort of a list of priorities there that we could just sort of like adopt and push push forward.

I agree just from personal uh interests, the the group homes, child care centers, SUPs, uh conditional use permits, all of that is is directly impacting me right now.

So that's that's why I bring it up.

And I it seems like it might be impacting everyone.

And you got it.

And I brought a handout.

I came prepared.

So is that uh councilman, Mr.

Chairman, is that your way of saying that that one has a well-defined deliverable for you, or I assume that's what you mean by that.

If if we're in agreement, I heard it multiple times up here.

Uh I don't know that I'm the one to define it, um, but I'm hoping that the experts around the room can help define what those policy agendas look like because it does seem like we we could potentially have some ordinances come out of it and some potential legislative changes as well.

And maybe you are your conversation with the state of Nevada could help illuminate what's happening at the state for Southern Nevada jurisdictions.

Mr.

Chair?

Yes, just to mention it kind of goes in line with the and I agree uh what I was looking for when I was given all of these um suggestions here, and when we spoke uh last week.

Um I'm trying to find something as we all are to accomplish.

Uh but I think it's also important that whatever we select is going to be visible to the community to the residents, have some type of um you know quality of life benefit to the people.

Uh and I think that's what will help us to succeed in what would ever we choose.

So there's a whole bunch of good items over here, but uh I would focus in on what we just mentioned.

Uh that that's a very good item over there because I think that's what has one of the biggest uh impacts on the quality of life within our communities.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And councilman, you're referring to the group home issue.

Okay.

Councilman Stewart.

Yeah.

So I'm kind of lost.

I can't uh because I can't really read the boards.

Could you kind of recap as to what everybody's been saying?

Yeah.

Kind of where we've kind of ranked them just verbally.

Yeah, so Marco, if you'll go back to the previous slide, and I apologize.

That's a that's a good point.

We should figure out a way to uh project these on the on the screen.

So uh from the first question, you all narrowed it down to from nine topics to six, and those were expanding access to child care, uh, school safety and uh traffic safety, especially around schools, uh, parks and recreation, group homes, senior fraud and services, and mentorship.

Uh and so then the question we're on now is of those six, which lend themselves to the most clearly defined deliverable that we can achieve uh during this first year and a half.

So going to the next slide, what we've got so far uh based on the comments we've heard are the traffic safety and the group homes topics.

And I and I'll I appreciate that.

I'll continue to read out what we've got on on these, and then of course we can memorialize those later.

One one suggestion, um and maybe there is interest or not.

Um, but listening to what you're doing around mentorship, um, like there might be opportunity for you to present or have someone from Henderson present because there might be ideas that I would want to take back to the city of Las Vegas.

So maybe it's not a a report, but maybe it's just like a hey, this is what we're doing over here, because there's not a lot of real opportunities for us to talk about the things that we're proud of within our jurisdictions in a way that we can kind of take it back and do something with it too.

So maybe maybe that's just another agenda item is if we want to share something from our jurisdictions we can do that.

We have a senior citizen advisory committee, and your your guy would love to have him come present.

That would be wonderful.

Yeah, I just made a note that we may want to consider some future agenda items for those types of hot topics or or issues we want to want to share out.

All right, so so far, well, we're now down currently we're down to two.

So we've got traffic safety and group homes, unless anyone wants to add another from the six from the previous slide on to the I'm gonna advocate for the councilwoman's point around looking for funding, the the state and federal funding, and being that group that is available for funding if it comes to that point.

Number nine or eight.

All right, all right.

Uh that was number eight on the uh on the full list.

All right, so if there are no other takers, then and I think I know what the answer to this question is gonna be.

The last question I had to narrow this down, and maybe we'll get to one is which of these can the COG reason realistically achieve the deliverable in the next one to year to year and a half?

Um based on the discussion, I think you all agree that we can probably do all of these in a year to year and a half unless anyone disagrees, but that's I think that's what I heard.

These the the lat the three that we're down to now.

Which and let me read those again.

So we are down to uh traffic safety, group homes, and uh acquiring state and federal funding.

Okay, councilman, could you help me with the state your thoughts on uh this the state and uh federal funding?

Wouldn't that be kind of a subset of both of the one and two, or is that a separate so it would go back to the the concept of Southern Nevada strong is each of our entities goes after federal funding or state funding, but federal funding, and sometimes the federal government, maybe not in this administration, but in maybe in future administrations, they would look for a regional entity to to fund.

And and that that's it, if if it's nothing specific or directed, be kind of copying the Southern Nevada Strong is if they're looking for regional entity, we have one.

Okay, thank you.

And can I just uh suggest maybe not to take away from the idea of only picking one because I 100% get that, but sort of back to my prior comment of this is sort of the issue that's going to be at the top of everybody's minds, probably indefinitely, and so maybe we frame it as today.

We're gonna pick one of those top two things as sort of our let's get it done in the next six months.

But maybe there's opportunities that we sort of say we're gonna continue to be involved in this, and so we want some presentations over the next couple of months so that we can start framing over the next 18 months, 24 months, whatever it is, and that we're all educated, we're educating our jurisdictions on where we land, and it may be that for the next legislative session we decide that hey, we should probably pull together and we're gonna take a stand on on X policy, whatever it is, but we don't know today if we're ready to sort of commit to a particular property tax reform or sales tax retorium or whatever it is, but that we sort of take a short-term and a long-term goal.

So, Seth Floyd for the record.

Yeah, I don't the reason why and I think the reason why I have focused on choosing one is just because with this board transitioning from the SNRPC, we didn't want to spread our focus too thin.

Uh but I do think having heard the discussion today, I think there are some things that either are just reports uh or lend themselves to pretty short turnarounds that you we can probably accomplish along with a bigger goal that does have a specific deliverable.

And I in fact I've made some notes here that we as staff will go back and kind of figure out how we want to maybe tinker with our agendas to have some of those items on there.

Um I I think I'd still like to choose one as our main focus, but I think we can accommodate that as well.

Mr.

Chair, please.

Uh I'm kind of torn between uh traffic safety and group homes.

Uh, but I would probably uh look more towards group homes because they're easily not easily, that's the wrong word, but they're identifiable and they're in a place where traffic safety is a matter of trying to catch them as you're going around and going different locations.

I I think the group home issues and uh the fraud and licensing are there for us to pick and look for within our communities, where the other one is just based on whether or not uh we have the ability and the luck to catch them out there doing what they're doing.

Both have you know uh amazing uh positive impact on uh the quality of life to all of our residents, but I think the group homes a little more so because they're within our communities.

Could I ask Mr.

Floyd if if maybe let's say over the next several months uh you and your team in concert with the other jurisdictions will come up with a report on this this child care licensing and SUPs and conditional use permits, and then maybe come up with a couple of recommendations, report back to this board.

Maybe there's individual ordinance changes that we need to make at our jurisdictions, or maybe there's some legislative changes, but that's probably within like three or four months, and maybe that's we focus in on one, and if it works out well, then maybe we jump to the next one because after you make recommendations and ordinances get changed and a legislative agenda gets created, there's not you just gonna have to wait for the next session, really.

Because after you make recommendations and ordinances get changed and a legislative agenda gets created, there's not you just gonna have to wait for the next session, really.

Is that doable to do one at a time?

Yeah, I think so.

I think that if if if that is the topic that's chosen, what we would do is for the next for your next meeting, we would prepare we would have dialed in exactly what that deliverable is gonna be.

And we might even have some preliminary reports ready.

I don't know that given all the different groups that are looking at this that I'm aware of.

I'm not sure that they will all be finished uh by your next meeting, but we can at least give you that direction so you know where you're going.

And yeah, I think if we could have a report that that gets you right before the legislative session, if we do your it'll be your fourth meeting, but it's your third regularly scheduled meeting uh in the fall, and if there were legislative recommendations, that would be just about the right time to get those in.

I just had a statement more so regarding the group homes.

It is an issue.

It was more um high profile child care, uh, where the person did not have a license for over 20 years.

What is it?

A slap on the hand, a slap on the wrist.

There has to be some type of consequences, but what's in our purview to be able to have some type of accountability and consequences.

I I think those are the perfect questions to ask because those are some of the most severe issues I'm dealing with in my neighborhoods right now.

If we're choosing between the the top two, I would just and this is just for consideration on traffic safety.

I think there is at least there are at least conveners currently on that.

There is, you know, statewide um traffic safety coalition, Aaron Breen's group does bring a lot of folks together.

There was a lot of efforts going to the last legislative session to bring uh jurisdictions together, so there is at least a convening effort on that.

Whereas I think on the group homes, there's nobody that's doing that really.

So that's just sort of a a consideration.

Please uh just let me add to that just a little bit because you brought out I can't remember his name completely.

I think they call him uh Big Mo.

Uh sounds like he's from Brooklyn, right?

But it's not.

Uh he seems to have a uh uh a group of homes around the valley uh that he rents the homes out and then he refabricates the inside, knocks down a wall, this and that, and he makes individual bedrooms and he rents them out to people who need them mostly veterans, and he charges six, seven hundred dollars for one bed, you know, uh double that maybe for a larger bedroom.

Doesn't feed them just to give them a place to stay.

And uh this is all he does.

And it sounds like he's doing it.

Well, I've been told by the people I speak to, and you may be aware of it, he's doing it all across the valley.

The only problem is that he wound up opening one in my ward.

Uh and uh now we're after him.

But this is what I see happening, and they're all very good.

I agree, you know.

Look, we're all very involved, uh, representatives of our community.

We're we're good public servants, but you know, this seems to be affecting both the young people, the older people, the veterans.

I mean, there's a laundry list.

Plus, if we were gonna close one of these and eliminate it, you don't only help one person, you could almost help the entire community in there.

So I I think again, you know, I'm open to anything you all want, but uh, I think this could be like you said, uh, something that nobody's missing with missing with right now.

So since it seems like we're down to two, we really we can we can do the rank choice option where you all write in your ballot, or if anyone is ready to make a motion, we can do it in the more traditional way.

Uh Chairman, whichever you prefer.

You guys can write them in and we'll see if one gets a majority, or uh we can take a vote.

Can you all agree?

I think so.

Councilman Stewart, I'm looking at you.

Okay.

Uh I'm just parodying or listening to my colleagues, and it sounds like the group home child care kind of thing is what everybody's kind of leaning in on.

If I'm understanding it correctly, I'll make a motion that would be the one that we focus on.

Can I check?

I just want to check with councilwoman Ashurst on the phone just because I don't want to forget you out in bulldoze.

Yes.

Thank you so much.

So the group home, uh, obviously Boulder City, we're not having any problems with that that I know of, but it would be something that I would look at the rest of the body and you know, maybe start investigating in Boulder City.

Um, so obviously the uh school safety is uh traffic uh street and school safety is more something that I could contribute to.

I don't know how I could contribute to the uh group homes, but it is something that I can't look in look look into here in Boulder City to see you know if that does impact me.

But whatever the body goes with, I would definitely go, and it is it came down to the group homes and uh street safety.

I'm leaning towards the street safety, but I'm willing to learn when it comes to the uh group homes.

I know you guys are impacted more in the larger municipalities than Boulder City.

Thank you, Councilman.

Councilman Stewart, you want to make a motion.

Uh yes, I will with regards to that.

I uh from understanding my colleagues, all of you correctly, I believe we are leaning towards uh focusing on group homes, child care, that sort of thing.

So I'll make a motion that this group uh designates that.

I guess it's number one on our list, or no, number two on our list as uh make a motion that that is what we focus on.

There's a quick question on the motion, just for clarity.

Um is the motion for group homes or the child care?

Yeah, uh are we combining?

It seems like we were combining one B with two.

That's what my just for my background, because I'm not a planner, um, but SUPs, conditional use permits, and the licensing requirements at the state affect uh multiple populations, including child care centers and veterans' homes and drug and alcohol rehabs, and it's all affecting neighborhoods.

Correct.

Okay, so yes.

Yeah, that's my understanding too, and I think that's what that's why Marco am I messing things up here, make it more complicated, or no, I think we're all good.

No, no, you're good.

I think we what happened, I think is exactly what the uh chairman described.

You you took a couple of these topics, and as you were discussing them, realized there was a nexus between the two, or between maybe even more than two of these.

Uh, and so what we'll do on the next item is sort of craft exactly what that's I have a few questions for you about what that scope is going to be, but I think we understand what the topic is.

Okay, there is a motion, please vote.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

And any opposed.

Aye.

No opposition that passes.

Thank you.

All right.

Good job.

We we just did something that has not been done in the last eight years since uh we've all got a lot of.

Someone do a press release, cause media.

Interjurisdiction cooperation.

Nine.

I've been on this scene for nine years.

Mr.

Floyd, we move on to item number seven seven discussion for possible actions prepare reports on the chosen matters of regional significance.

Uh, thank you, Mr.

Chairman Seth Floyd for the record.

So, in light of that topic that you've chosen, one thing that would be helpful.

Well, well, there's a few things that would be helpful, but the primary thing that would be helpful for staff is what that deliverable is going to look like.

And as I was listening to you speak, it's I think it might actually be a couple of parts.

I think one is probably a report that outlines the full scope of what the issue is, because I'll be honest, I don't we've started digging into this in the city, and I don't know that I still have the full grasp on what the problem and issues are.

I'm getting close.

Um, but I think that's first is compiling all of that and understand because each jurisdiction I think treats these homes similarly but slightly differently.

Uh, and so pulling all that together in one place.

Um, but I want to make sure that so I think a report is probably step one.

Are there any other things that you as a board want us to be including as we move forward in the next year, year and a half with this topic?

From my perspective, your engagement with the the planning directors with the other jurisdictions as well as uh building officials.

I think the the viewpoints from all of those around these potential issues and then conversations with the state of Nevada around what are the legal requirements, the statutory requirements and their licensing requirements to see where we need to make potential policy changes at the local jurisdictions, ordinance changes, um, and then if needed, then NRS changes.

And and I'll just volunteer on behalf of Clark County, Abby Frierson, who's dealt with these issues on the enforcement side.

Um Joanna Jacob from our uh government affairs team, similarly involved, and then Vince Chiano from business licensing.

All three of them been involved in a notable uh one who was lost their license for the state.

So it's a complex media issue.

So, Mr.

Chairman, then I think what we will do.

Um I need to give a little bit of thought to that.

What we'll do immediately is engage all the jurisdictional staff who've been meeting on these issues, and and I think we'll further flesh out exactly who from each jurisdiction who's not in this room, uh, we need to engage, and then we'll identify those folks from the state as well from the enforcement agencies, and then we'll go from there with pulling something together.

What we'll do, and then we'll have to figure out we'll put an agenda item on for your next meeting to report out on where we are with this at the next meeting, and then we've got a few other items that I think you all want to put on your agenda as well, so you all can report out what you're doing in your jurisdictions as well.

And we'll do follow-up.

I if everyone liked the one on one meeting, I know they're hard to schedule, and we had to reschedule a few of those, but honestly, I think they were incredibly valuable for us to make sure we understood what you were looking for, and maybe vice versa.

We could have a two-way conversation.

We may do some more of those as well as we get into this if we feel like we need to do it as unless anybody objects, but I think that worked pretty well for helping us uh frame some of the issues.

We need an action on this one.

It's for possible action, so I don't know that we necessarily if if it's just direction for us to start start compiling all this, I think we're good.

Okay, perfect.

That brings us to item number eight for citizen participation for anybody who would like to comment.

Now is your time.

And hearing and seeing none, I'm very very grateful for your time and energy.

I do think this stuff is important, and I think our constituents will benefit from that.

So thank you, and thank you for the staff members who uh allowed us to think through this.

So thank you for your time and energy in making southern Nevada a better place to live.

I appreciate it.

We can officially adjourn.

Thank you.