Okay.

We're going to get started because it's nine oh two.

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Before we proceed with the agenda, would everyone please rise for the invocation given by Reverend David Dendy, Mountain View Presbyterian Church.

Then please remain standing for the pledge as he leads us in the pledge.

Good morning.

Good morning, Madam Mayor, Councilmember, distinguished guests.

Thank you for having me being being here today.

It's our pleasure.

11 years ago today, I began my work here in Las Vegas, Nevada.

So it's a pleasure to serve the community for these last 11 years.

Let us pray.

And on this April 1st, a day known for jokes and surprises, we pause to remember something deeply true.

There is nothing foolish about seeking wisdom, justice, and the common good.

Now, Lord, we confess for just a moment, some of us may have wondered if this meeting itself was the April Fool's joke.

But we are here called, committed, and ready to serve.

So we give you thanks for this city of resilience and reinvention, for its neighborhoods and families, its workers and dreamers, its leaders and public servants.

We lift up these members of the city council, grant them clarity and complexity, courage and challenge and unity where there may be division.

May they lead not for applause, but for impact, not for self, but for service.

Bless the decisions made in this chamber today.

May they reflect fairness, compassion, and foresight.

May they uplift the vulnerable, strengthen our community, and build a future where all can flourish.

And Lord, on a day when laughter is in the air, remind us that joy itself is sacred, that a light heart can coexist with serious purpose, that even in the weight of responsibility, we can still smile, still hope, still believe.

Guide us, guard us, and ground us in what is good and right.

We offer this prayer with gratitude and humility.

Amen.

Amen.

Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you so much.

We will now proceed with our ceremonial portion of the agenda.

This is the ceremonial portion of our council agenda.

And today, Councilwoman Sandra Summers Armstrong has the pleasure of presenting both of our items.

So this is her day.

Councilwoman, take it away.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Good morning, everyone.

It's wonderful to see you.

Today on April Fool's Day, but this is not a joke.

This is a real thing.

Let's give the Alliance members a round of applause as they join the City Council at the podium.

The Jackson Street Alliance is committed to a multifaceted revitalization effort that encompasses the land, the people, and the economy.

They believe in restoring the physical beauty of Jackson Street while empowering its residents and thro and fostering a thriving ecosystem.

Many people know that Jackson Avenue, known as the known on the historic west side as Jackson Street, was the economic epicenter of the area in the past.

Now the city is working with the alliance to create a bright future in the area through the 100 plan in action.

Having a good plan is important, but the engine that drives change is the community and the good people that are rolling up their sleeves to get the work done.

Those people are the Jackson Street Alliance.

So I just want to thank you so much for all your work.

And she introduced herself and she said, my grandparents owned this lot right here.

And my dream is to see that lot revitalized.

Six years later, actually less than that, they got a grant from the economic uh development agency, the federal agency, and with their team have done an amazing job turning what was a dream into reality.

So I'd like to thank the Jackson Street Alliance and give you a moment, Ms.

Deedra.

Don't be crying up in here.

To have a few words.

Come on.

Thank you, Mayor, Councilwoman, Council.

This uh is fantastic.

Um so I got up this morning and changed clothes about five times and ended up with this.

This is my grandparents' property on Jackson.

This is a picture of my grandfather and one of his butts in front of Johnson's malt shop.

Uh 418 Jackson, and then on the back is Margaret at 48 Jackson.

I had to bring them here with me.

And along with my parents that are in the audience, they've January made them married 62 years.

Yeah.

Mack and Shirley Edmund.

But this is, you know, this this whole thing is bigger than us.

We're all legacy property owners.

Um the Collins' um property is right across the street from mine.

Um their parents had a beauty and barber supply, uh, the first black one in in the state.

Um, and this is our dream.

It's this is our charge.

We were the last to see Jackson with any type of movement with salons and restaurants, and so we take this personal as being our charge to bringing it back bigger and brighter and better and bringing it into the future for our kids and grandkids.

Thank you.

Um, no, I think you've summed it up.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much, Councilwoman, and also to the regular council and the mayor hidden over here.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Wonderful.

So we have a we have a proclamation and a plaque, but the proclamation will not read the whole thing because y'all don't want to be here all morning.

Um I'll just do the therefore.

Therefore, be it proclaimed that the mayor and the Las Vegas City Council declare April 1st, 2026 as Jackson Street Alliance Day.

Do you want to have anyone?

Okay, do you want someone to hold the other one?

Okay, why don't you go right next to Sandra?

Okay.

There we go.

Okay, there you go.

Very good.

Okay, you're welcome.

I know my place.

Oops, wait a minute.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Very cool.

Oh, you're so welcome.

My pleasure.

My pleasure.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you again.

Thank you, Deedra and the Collins Sisters.

We are super, super proud of you.

All right.

Our next award today.

Um, I have the pleasure of presenting a second ceremonial.

And I would like to ask the Ward 5 Girl Scout Silver Award recipients, Daphne, Leah, Taydra, and Samira Barlow, to please join us at the podium.

And if I can have representatives from the Girl Scouts, Kimberly, uh Troba, Carolyn Wheeler, and Donna Namchek to also come up as well.

So we love our Girl Scouts.

We love them.

We love their cookies, which don't love my hips, but we love them anyway.

And today we have some of uh those that are making Ward 5, very, very proud joining us.

The three highlight awards that the Girl Scouts may aspire to are the bronze, the silver, and the gold awards.

The gold award is akin to the Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts.

Today we have four scouts with us who have achieved the Silver Award and are on the pathway to receiving the gold award.

Um I would like you to meet each of these young ladies.

So I'm gonna hand the mic and let them tell you who they are.

Hi, my name is Samir Lauren Barlow, and for my silver award, I made blankets for the for the Ronald McDonald House of Charities because a lot of the parents, because it's really cold in the hospitals, so I made blankets for them because they didn't have any.

That's what my project was about.

Um, I'm Tedra Simon.

Um, I'm Troop 194, and my troop for our silver award, we made a patch for our council showing that girls can fish too.

Um, my name is Leah Long, and I'm in the same troop, and we made a patch that girls can fish too, because boys were the only ones that had fish in patches.

Hello, I am Daphne Hegaseth, and I'm also in the same troupe.

Um the reason why we made this patch that wasn't already stated is because the Boy Scouts had a patch for fishing, and we all agreed that it wasn't really fair that Girl Scouts didn't have one, so we ended up making one.

Yeah.

So what I like about Girl Scouts, I wasn't a scout coming up, but over the years I've been able to witness the work that the leaders do and the work that the girls do, is that they are being taught to be inventive and to be bold and to create their own space in the world and represent themselves with courage.

Um they are entrepreneurs, that's why we all buy those cookies.

Um and they are they are leaders, and so I thought that it was only fitting since we honored the boys last year, and we will honor them again, the Ward Five Boys, that we also bring the young ladies in.

I want them to see that they could be me and maybe even better, right?

Um, that this door of leadership and opportunity is open to them, and that these hollowed walls of City Hall are theirs.

This is their space, and they have a right to be here and a right to be honored.

So I just want to also thank them and allow their leader to come and have a few words.

Hi.

Okay, so so unexpected.

Um, thanks for having us here.

Um, we're so honored.

Uh, we worked on this project for about a year, so the girls are extremely dedicated to um their cause and making the world a better place.

As they mentioned, um, there's things that people think that only boys can do, but I definitely want to empower the girls that we can also do anything once we set our mind to it.

The girls worked on uh showing the community uh that girls can uh have bait in their hands without squirming, they could uh uh real take a cast a line and also make certain knots, and it was a pleasure working with all these girls, and everyone's asking us when is the next event?

When is the next event?

Because these girls want to go out there and be a part of the community.

Um they talked about they learned about endangered fish, fish that um should not be in our communities.

So we want to exactly make the world a better place and keep our communities safe.

So it's a very, very uh heartwarming project, but also educating the um the community.

So I'm super proud of these girls, and we couldn't have done it without Nevada Department of Wildlife.

The girls reach out to them their sales and ask for help.

So I definitely want to have her to say some things too.

So we really appreciate everything you've done for us.

Yeah, the Girl Scouts a few years ago, um, every November we start our trout stalking at Floyd Land Park and the other community ponds, and uh they um always show up and we actually have like multiple days.

So um when the girls are excited to make it official and actually get a badge going, and yeah, we looked across the country, there is no Girl Scout badge regularly, it's just a fun patch.

So this is the beginning of making it national.

Um so very very proud.

Very, very proud that they did so much to get this going for us.

All right.

Uh the Girl Scouts leader have a few words.

You were thank you so much.

Um, thank you so much, uh, Councilwoman Summer Armstrong for recognizing our girls, just like you said, this is so important because if they can see it, they can be it.

And as we talked about this project um and the silver award and what it means.

This is more than community service.

These girls dedicate 50 plus hours in putting together a project plan, identifying the need, understanding the root causes to what's happening in our community, presenting that plan in front of a committee, getting it approved, and then rolling up their sleeves, working with partners and getting the work done.

Uh, this is the highest award that middle schoolers can earn, and as they get ready to go on to their journey in high school, they'll then start working on their gold award.

And we're so excited that we're gonna be recognizing our silver award winners, our bronze award winners, and our gold award winners later this year in June.

And we would love to invite you, Mayor Berkeley, and all of the council members to come because we have Girl Scouts from all over the city of Las Vegas who are doing this important work and leading because that's what Girl Scouts does.

We build girls with courage, confidence, and character who want to make the world a better place, and here they are right here.

You see them.

Um, and so again, we just so appreciate this recognition, and thank you all so much.

All right, so we're going to um give you some certificates and take some photos.

So, how would you like us to do this?

Yes, absolutely.

We are going to reconvene in about five minutes.

We will be reconvening in one minute.

Agenda item number seven.

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

The amount of time any single speaker is allowed may be limited.

All comments made will be cross-referenced to those specific items.

If anyone submitted a speaker card or who wishes to speak under this portion of the agenda, please come to the podium and state your name for the record.

Although you are not prohibited from speaking during both public comment periods, we kindly ask that your comments are not repetitive.

We will set the time at two minutes.

Does anyone wish to come forward?

And will you please state your name?

Good morning.

So it appears the wording on the agenda about public comment should be revised accordingly.

So I can speak about my position that we need separation of church and state.

So why is there unequal treatment, unequal access?

Why do you not accommodate all religions like the Satanic Temple?

But because you're using this government building as a place of worship, then you have to allow other viewpoints, even those that you do not favor.

Otherwise, we open ourselves to lawsuits.

So let's not even go there because the solution is simple.

Remove invocations.

Thank you.

And would you state your name for the record?

I did in the beginning.

Shoshana, I'm a resident.

Thank you.

Is there anybody else that would like to speak under public comments?

Seeing no one, we'll go to agenda item number eight for possible action.

Any items from the 9 30 a.m.

session that the council, staff, and our applicant wish to be stricken, tabled, withdrawn, or held in abeyance to a future meeting, may be brought forward and acted upon at this time.

Mayor Pro Tem.

Madam Mayor, I don't have any items.

Okay.

Do we vote on the motion?

No, there's no motion needed.

Hmm.

Okay.

Thank you very much.

Agenda item number nine.

For possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the March 4th, 2026, regular city council meeting.

Mayor Pro 10, may I have a motion to approve the minutes?

Madam Mayor, move to approve the minutes.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

Agenda item number 10.

Items 10 through 17 are on the consent agenda, are considered to be routine and are recommended for approval by the departments and may be enacted in one motion.

Are there any other items the council wishes to bring forward?

Mayor Pro 10, may I have a motion for the consent agenda for items 10 through 17?

Move to approve items 10 through 17.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

Agenda item number 36 will be brought forward unless there's an objection by anybody in that case.

All wards are impacted.

Okay.

Not seeing Miss Babski at this moment.

I would like to ask Mr.

Oh, here.

No.

Okay.

I'd like uh Joe Woody to uh please uh please make your comments and welcome.

We're very happy to have you.

All right, good morning, Mayor Berkeley, council members, city staff.

Thank you for allowing us to speak today.

Um we very much appreciate it.

Um I'm here with Rob Ballmer, he's our treasurer.

Uh Lisa Robinson, who's our secretary, and really just keeps all this going together.

My name is Joe Woody, and I'm here on behalf of the downtown alliance, an organization for the past 16 years, has quietly but consistently worked uh to strengthen the economic and social fabric of our downtown community.

The alliance is built on a simple the alliance was built on the simple idea that collaboration between businesses, property owners, city of Las Vegas, creates a stronger, safer, and more vibrant downtown than we could do otherwise on our own.

Over the years, the idea has translated into real measurable impact.

We've helped activate public spaces, supported small businesses, uh driven foot traffic to local businesses, and created events that bring both locals and visitors alike into the heart of downtown.

Just as importantly, we serve as a connector, bringing together stakeholders across downtown to align efforts and share information and support the city's broader goals.

I'd just like to walk through a brief uh slideshow here, just kind of talks about our purpose.

So our guiding principles, you know, the whole campaign, the we're down for downtown.

We were we were deeply entrenched in that campaign, and we feel is very successful.

Uh we want to see downtown Las Vegas grow and thrive and have an even brighter future.

So one of our initiatives this year is to meet with all of our membership of the DVA one-on-one if we can, if not, it's a Zoom.

But uh we want to get to know what everybody needs and and what their uh issues are so we can you know work with the city or whoever we need to work with to get those resolved.

Um we're focused on making it continually better for business uh overall and something that we think everybody should be down for.

So that's kind of our uh guiding principles.

And just to go over a couple of our events from last year, or for this fiscal year, I should say, September 25, 2025.

This was a great event.

It was at the AC Hotel in the Symphony Park.

It was a very uh beautiful, beautiful property.

If you haven't been there, you need to you need to go over there, it's it's unbelievable.

Uh we had the moderator was Tracy Reich from the City of Las Vegas Development Manager, Economic and Urban Development Department.

We had Carla Savaso's uh Southern Land Company, Patrick Brennan from Red Ridge, Joe Blewitt from Jackson Shaw, John Kern from Symphony Park Medical, and Sam Cherry from Cherry Development.

It was really enlightening, and and Mayor, we really appreciate you showing up for those events, and you were there for this one.

And uh, you know, I've been in the alliance for a long time, and from probably since the beginning, and this was one of the best events we were ever part of.

And you being there makes a big difference.

So thank you.

Um we had a uh we partnered with the mayor's fund.

That was in November 4th to kick off Homeless Awareness Month.

Um Sally Dobler was a big part of that.

Um councilwoman Summers Armstrong, very much part of that.

Mayor Berkeley, and uh, you know, our group, uh myself, Corey Fagan, Lisa and Rob.

So we I think we raised 17 or 18,000 uh in a short amount of time.

It was really well received and supported.

Um we just uh I think it's a great grassroots campaign that we hope to do some more of in the future.

On December 17th, 2025, we were up at the top of the circa at the Legacy Club, and we had our third Rich Worthing Legacy Award.

If you don't know Rich Worthington, he founded the Downtown Alliance 16 years ago with the support of my Myer Land or um Erwin Melaski, sorry, and uh Kenny Epstein, Mark Fine, Don Snyder, among others.

Um we we honored Don this year back in December, and and he was he was elated, and it's a super event that we started uh three years ago.

Kenny was honored before, and and Mayor Goodman, um Carolyn Goodman the the year before that, the inaugural.

So it was a great event.

We also do other activities where we invite the general public, so it's not just all members.

We did a tour of the YesCO facility.

Um one of our new members was Scott Hill from YesCO, and so he invited us.

We had our board meeting at their facility, and what a remarkable, what a remarkable learning experience that was.

Man, that place is very, very interesting, and and you know, we saw all the signs and development for all over the country.

So that was great.

And then uh just recently in February, we went to the RTC and we invited all our membership and others to attend uh uh a presentation by the RTC about the Maryland uh parkway transit um route and how they're coming along and and what this they see the benefits as.

So really good stuff.

Um we had a couple weeks ago, we had our uh second successes and insights at this the building across the way here, and what we talked about was the state of downtown gaming.

We had felt that the press and social media kind of got over emphasize what pricing and stuff that Las Vegas was was causing uh the decline in tourism, and we felt that was sort of unfounded or overemphasized, and so we wanted to address that.

We focused more on downtown, but we really spoke to the whole city, and I think we had uh what do we have for membership there?

There was probably 80 people.

We had 80 between 80 and 100 people who came from the community, not just our membership, and it was very well attended.

Um, and we're still getting media coverage that is coming out as a result of that panel.

Yeah, Andrew Woods from UNLV Research did a great job.

We had the review journal there, or Nevada Independent Global Gaming Insider, CDC Gaming Report, Fox 5, Fox News 3, and Channel 8.

So all really good stuff, and we have really got seen a great increase in our interest and our memberships, and um, we're really enthused about the future of the downtown alliance.

So looking ahead, we hope to have uh lunch with the mayor on April 29th.

That's our plan.

Uh we have a learning enrichment session on May 20th.

Uh successes and insights in the fall.

Um that will be a partnership with the city.

The DVA Legacy Award fourth quarter will happen for 2026.

And then we'll just any educational opportunities we can.

We met with um the head of CSN College of Southern Nevada, and you know, we offered to speak to their students.

You know, Rob could talk banking and I could talk casino and and Lisa could talk PR, and it was really uh encouraging uh event, and then some job placement.

We said, you know, then you can post some jobs for the El Cortez or for Western Alliance Bank.

So turned out really good.

And that's it.

Thank you.

Thank you to the mayor and all the council.

We appreciate your support.

Always, yes.

To demonstrate my support after I was sworn in, the very first event I attended as mayor was for the downtown Vegas Alliance.

And it's been a wonderful partnership with the city ever since, and long before I got here as well.

So I'm very pleased that you do the work that you do.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Ms.

Babsey, would you like to add to anything you've heard?

Yes, good morning, Mayor.

Uh City Council members, Dean of Abske, I apologize for um, I was a little caught of guard that this item was pulled forward.

With that said, I still wanted to come up and express my gratitude to Downtown Vegas Alliance.

We have partnered and supported them since 2008, and we formalized this partnership into a memorandum of understanding back in 2015.

So uh the city uh contributes 60,000 to do all of the engagement and uh the promotion of downtown as uh Joe just went over.

And so at this point, they're choosing to elect their second option for another year extension, and we're happy that they are doing so.

Uh and so we're gonna continue to partner and I appreciate everything that you do for downtown and so much more still to come.

Thank you.

Thank you all very much.

Are there any questions or comments from members of the council?

Um uh Ms.

Diaz.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

I just want to thank the downtown Vegas Alliance.

You truly are an amazing partner for us as a city for the areas that we really need to kind of shed light that they're vibrant, cool, eclectic, different um spaces and places where community can come and have fun and have good eats and learn a lot.

We have a lot of educational places as well that are nested within our downtown, and I am so excited to hear from other community members that you guys put your heads together about how can this area support this area and how could we be sharing our visitation across just a very small diameter of a couple of miles or or length of miles.

So I I really appreciate that.

You're all in for downtown Vegas, and uh would love to see our partnership continue to thrive.

Ms.

Bruni.

Thank you for the presentation and for the excellent programming you've been offering.

Uh, you mentioned that you're trying to meet with all the members, so I was just curious how many members do you have now.

We have between about 75.

So that'll be it'll be a push, but we're uh we're actively trying to, yeah.

And then we want to meet with our new members as well.

So that's that's on our agenda.

Okay, thank you.

Mayor Pro Tem.

Thank you, Mayor.

I have a pretty extensive history with the Vegas Alliance and grateful for the work that you're doing.

Um, I'm just gonna put a plug-in for your next big event if you could focus in on the medical district and the amount of development going in.

I can guarantee that the residential neighborhoods and the people working in the medical district think they're in downtown as well.

And so I would encourage you to escape beyond the 15 boundary and look at how much development and employees are gonna go in the medical district because they're the next visitors and uh people purveyors of business within the downtown core.

So thank you very much.

Absolutely, thank you.

Thank you so much.

Uh, this was a report only, so no vote is required.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, council members and city staff.

Agenda item number 18.

This is a public hearing on local improvement district for special improvement district number 1485, all to drive landscape maintenance for uh uh fiscal year 2027 ward one, Mr.

Knutson.

This is a public hearing, which I now declare open.

Mr.

Alamou.

Uh thank you and good morning, Mayor and Council.

I am Zalala Malamo, Engineering Project Manager with the Department of Public Works for the Record.

Uh this item is concerning special improvement district 1485 Alta Drive Landscape Maintenance.

SID 1485 consists of 37 properties along Alta Drive between Ranto Drive and approximately 275 feet west of Lacey Lane in Ward 1.

The district covers the annual costs of landscape maintenance, utility services.

And planned attrition for the period between July 1st, 2026 and June 30th, 2027.

It is renewed annually, and the assessment for the period uh totals 118,050 dollars.

Uh it is paid 100% by the property owners.

Uh no written Norton protests have been filed by the with the city clerk's office.

And this concludes the report for SID 1485.

Thank you very much.

Uh, there are any questions or comments from the council.

Seeing none, I thank you.

This um uh does anybody else wish to be heard on this item?

Seeing no one, uh, we will close the public hearing.

Uh this was a public hearing only, so no action is required, and we'll move to the next item.

Agenda item 19, public hearing on local improvement district for special improvement district number 1516, Fremont Street Maintenance District, fiscal year 2027, Las Vegas Boulevard to 8th Street.

This is in Ward 3, Ms.

Diaz.

This is a public hearing that I now declare open.

Uh Mr.

Alamou.

Uh once again, Mary and Council, I am Zalala Malam, denoting project manager with the Department of Public Works for the Record.

This item is concerning special improvement district 1516, Fremont Fremont East Entertainment District Maintenance.

SID 1516 consists of 32 parcels bounded by Las Vegas Boulevard to the west, Ogden Avenue to the north, Carson Avenue to the south, and 8th Street to the east in Ward 3.

The district covers the annual costs of landscape maintenance, street cleaning, public utilities, promotional events, and marketing for the period between July 1st, 2026 and June 30, 2027.

It is renewed annually and upon close coordination with the uh Fremont East Entertainment District Board.

There will be no assessments for this year due to sufficient reserves uh to uh to cover expected expenses.

The SID is paid 100% by the property owners.

No written protests have been filed with the city clerk's office, and this concludes the report for SID 1516.

Thank you so much.

Are there any comments or questions from the council members?

Seeing none, I will is there anybody else wishing to be heard on this item?

Seeing no one, I will close uh I will close the public hearing.

Uh this was a public hearing only, so there will be no vote required.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you.

Agenda item number 20.

Discussion for possible action to amend the condition on a full alcohol off-premise for the Salar Shawnee uh D uh DBA Family Food 2 at 1602 H Street.

Um Salar Shahani is the owner in ward 5, Mr.

Lloyd is not here.

Okay.

Is there Mr.

Floyd?

It's me.

Okay, Darcy.

Um I understand you're standing in from Mr.

Floyd.

Go right ahead.

All right, good morning, Mayor and Council.

Darcy Al by Heard, Business Licensing Manager.

Um, so the item before you um is a request from Family Food Martin Family Food 2, located at 1602 8th Street for the modification to a council imposed condition on their full um alcohol off-premise license.

The condition number three currently reads hire security personnel experienced and highly visible by means of identifiable uniform, unarmed, and must obtain possession of a valid work card during employment.

The security firm is to address parking lot issues during the hours of 4 p.m.

to 12 a.m.

daily.

The um this condition requires the use of a licensed security firm during the specified hours.

The applicant is requesting to modify the language to allow security staff instead.

Um, instead of a contracted firm while maintaining all other requirements of the condition.

Um, as this is a council imposed condition, staff has no recommendation on the requested change and defers to council's direction.

For the record, staff received communication um from LBMPD's Bolden Area Command and Special Investigation section indicating that they do not support the proposed uh modification, which I will read into the record.

We received um on March 26th from uh Captain Kurt McKenzie this following statement.

I want to acknowledge the value of our relationship with the Family Food Mart II.

They have been collaborative with us and have made efforts to improve conditions at their business and the surrounding area.

We want nothing more than for them to be successful and remain a positive part of the community.

Before the current security model, the location experienced ongoing challenges, including higher crime rates, increased calls for service, and concerns about how security was carrying out its mission.

Based on those conditions, there was a strong recommendation to contract to contract a security company.

Since that change, we have seen vast improvements.

There has been a reduction in calls for service, fewer incidents overall, and a noticeable decrease in violent activity.

Just as important just as important, there have been no security performance issues during this period.

From our perspective, the current model has been effective and has contributed to a safer environment.

The installation of H Street and Owens Crime Camera is an added component in the fight against crime in the area and is not mutually exclusive.

The camera the crime camera provides real-time visuals of the area, however, it will affect crime within the business.

We remain committed to working with Family Food Mart 2 and supporting their business.

If there are ways to enhance the current security model and address concerns while preserving the progress made, we are open to discussing them.

In conclusion, based on the results we have seen, I would recommend maintaining the current security structure.

If you have questions, feel free to contact me.

This is going to be from SIS.

This is Detective Unique Dureau.

SIS is in full agreement with Bolton Area Command.

We believe in having in-house security could lead to higher crime rates and increased calls for service as it did in the past.

Ultimately, outsourcing a third-party security company ensures a more consistent and efficient approach in not only protecting the business and its employees but also protecting the customers.

Condition number three should be kept as it is.

Thank you for your time.

So I will submit this for the record.

Thank you.

Staff would also note that regardless of council's direction, the current condition contains grammatical inconsistencies.

So staff request the opportunity to revise the language for clarity while maintaining council's intent.

If you want me to read the requested changes once we make the decision, I have recommended language.

So Laura Drea is here on behalf of the applicant, and she would like to make a presentation as well.

Welcome and would you state your name for the record?

Certainly.

Laura Drea, Brown Law 520 South 4th Street.

I'm actually standing in for a colleague today who's worked with Family Foods, so I will read his thoughts into the record.

Family Foods has existed since 2001.

A condition to have a third-party security in the parking lot was placed on the license long ago.

However, the proprietor has found that this is a very difficult neighborhood, and the security guards are rotated by the different firms.

The turnover is high, and the guards don't often show up to work.

Again, this neighborhood can sometimes be difficult.

The family, however, is very dedicated to the business.

They've paid $3,600 to a mobile, a metro mobile surveillance unit and pledge to do so for at least a year.

After so many years, the owner and the staff believe that they have more awareness and sufficient experience in the neighborhood to maintain a secure property.

They will continue to work with city staff to finalize a training manual that ensures that the problems are addressed without escalation, et cetera.

That's been thank you so much.

Are there any questions or comments from members of the council?

Miss Summers Armstrong.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

I did meet with you last week, and these we met before these comments from L VMPD were submitted.

And they do give me a little pause.

And just compliance with the things that we discussed.

I'm always a little hesitant when people say that the neighborhood is difficult.

We're dealing with people, right?

And we have to, I believe, speak what we want to see in existence.

And you're selling liquor at your facilities.

So you kind of get what you get, right?

So I would be inclined to give you all one year with a lot of visitation from our staff and reports from L V and PD to see if you are complying.

Would you make a motion?

Thank you, madam mayor.

Um first of all, do we have to read anything into the record, ma'am?

Um yeah, so the clarification um is that the wording was a little bit inconsistent.

So this is the um the wording that we came up with.

The licensee shall provide unarmed, readily identified, readily identifiable uniform security personnel through in-house staff as um all security personnel shall possess valid work cards while on duty.

Security personnel shall be present daily from 4 p.m.

to 12 a.m.

and shall monitor and address the activity within the parking lot.

Madam Mayor, I do not hear anything in the condition about training.

And so my understanding is when we don't say it, it's not written down, it doesn't exist.

So is there some way um that we can add um that they're directed specifically to work with um our staff and LVMPD on a training program so that we can ensure that staff is properly trained to de-escalate and to know how to react in situations.

Laura, do you accept that condition?

Yes, we understand that a professional security firm is trained to de-escalate matters as they occur, and that we would benefit from formalizing that training as well.

All right.

In that case, Madam Mayor, I move to approve.

Please vote.

Post motion carries.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Agenda item number 21.

R 15-2026 abeyance item, discussion for possible action to approve a resolution, adopting the sustaining Las Vegas 2050 action plan.

This it impacts all wards.

Mr.

Mr.

Floyd and Mr.

Vellato.

Thank you, Mayor Seth Floyd for the record.

Uh and I'm actually just gonna turn this one over to Marco Vallada, who's gonna do the presentation, but I'll be here and available to answer any questions as well.

Good morning, Madam Mayor, Madam Mayor, members of City Council, Marco Vallada City, Las Vegas Department of Community Development for the record, as your chief sustainability officer, and because this is the beginning of April and we're kicking off Earth Month.

What better time to talk about sustainability in Las Vegas?

We have been the leader in southern Nevada and arguably across the country when it comes to sustainability.

We have been at the forefront of renewable energy.

We have 40 renewable energy installations at our city facilities.

We have lead certified green buildings and energy efficiency projects that are throughout our city facilities.

It's in our DNA.

This building is a testament to that.

It's in its architecture and it's in its its its design.

We have been uh a leader in terms of water conservation, not only at the city, but across the region.

We have recycling.

We're one of the first in the state to have recycling at our city facilities and at our parks.

And we have been leading in terms of reducing our energy costs and our environmental impact.

Over time, we have been able to reduce the amount of power that we've consumed and our our overall cost.

Water say water is a similar story, but for other reasons we've had increases of water, but some of that is retired to some of the necessary infrastructure that is out at Lake Mead, the third intake, uh which we'll get to in just a second here.

But in terms of our water consumption, we have been leading the way.

In partnership with NV Energy, we were um we received 100% of our municipal retail load, something that we've carried forward year after year in concert with our city facility, solar generation, as well as hydropower we receive from Hoover Dam.

We also, through that resolution, took a look at our overall sustainability metrics, and that resolution set us on the path to adopting our 2050 master plan.

And to take a look at how things are going forward.

You have this resolution in front of you today, and the sustaining Las Vegas 2050 action plan that kind of that will guide us in how we continue on that momentum that we've built up over the last 15 years.

The plan uh is broken down into different subjects.

Uh starting with water, uh, just just to note, you know, no need to belabor this.

We understand that we have a serious issue in the American West with respect to water.

This has been going on for 26 years now.

This winter was especially dry.

We've had warming trend in the Rockies, which is where our water is coming from, primarily.

That warming trend did lead to some snow melt, and you look at Lake Dillon in Colorado, you look at some of the other reservoirs in the upper basin, and you can tell that we have we have some issues that we're working with SNWA on and our other uh states as part of the Colorado River Compact that has been playing out over the last uh last couple of years and it's culminating right now.

Uh fortunately, we've had a very robust water conservation policy, um, and we have been participants in SNWA's programs, and City Council has adopted uh some of the bills that uh that were put forward by SNWA and were approved at the state legislature.

Uh I'll touch on the uh non-functional turf removal.

We are participating at that and removing uh non-functional turf at city facilities.

We have 30 projects that are active or have been completed at this point, uh, which have has resulted in up to this point 200,000 square feet, uh, as well as uh $330,000 that have been rebated, as well as new trees that have been planted as part of those projects.

That will net us uh an annual savings, at least for the first batch of up to 50 to 100,000 dollars per year, depending on um weather and other factors like that.

With respect to clean energy, uh we have uh new uh opportunity for that extending that uh renewable green energy green rider with NV Energy.

We'll brief the council on that at a later date, but that is something that uh will help us continue on with our uh with our renewable energy efforts.

We also received uh through the Colorado River Commission uh small remarketing of high uh hydropower from Parker and Davis Dams.

Uh so that will also help supplement our wastewater treatment load.

Uh we have so uh two solar uh installations that are in permitting right now, as well as a community-based solar project uh at Lorenzi Park to complement the one that was completed over in East Las Vegas at Freeman at Freedom Park.

And we we've also been working with NV Energy and their uh power shift program.

We've uh last year we did uh uh five projects, including a new chiller at uh uh at Durango Hills Community Center, uh, as well as all the energy efficiency features over at Civic Plaza.

Uh that gets us an additional incentive on top of that.

And that's something that commercial uh commercial and civic projects can participate in as well, as well as residential projects.

With respect to recycling and waste, we have seen um quite a bit of uh increase in our waste costs.

So we're going to be looking at all of our facilities and conducting a waste audit to determine how we can reduce our our cost with respect to uh rate waste and recycling and promote uh recycling and waste education efforts.

That is something that is a part of the Republic Services Franchise Agreement that we can take another look at.

We've been doing quite a bit with respect to clean transportation.

Uh we have a number of uh of efforts that are underway right now with respect to bike infrastructure and a mobility master plan update that public works has been leading on.

Uh in a couple of agenda items, we'll talk about the transit-oriented development zoning overlay.

That again is to help complement moving around uh Las Vegas more efficiently.

Our environmental impact has been notable as a result of all the things that we have done.

We've seen a 4% reduction in our emissions, and there is other additional opportunities that we've identified, uh, including biogas reutilization out at our wastewater treatment facility, as well as that supplemental hydropower community-wise, we have seen the benefits of our state renewable portfolio standard.

Um, we have seen uh a decrease in overall emissions from our baseload uh and transportation is is certainly going to be up there in terms of our uh next largest sector of emissions.

But we have seen a lot of clean energy improvements lead to uh a positive environmental impact, and that's something to be proud of.

For urban forestry, we have done uh extensive work with respect to implementing uh assembly bill 96 from the last legislative session.

The council adopted the urban forestry management plan, and we are doing tree plantings later this month.

We have one at Kellogg's Air Park, we have another uh that's uh going to be happening uh at Rainbow Family Park.

Uh throughout the community, there will be tree plantings as a part of Arbor Day, and our urban forester Brad Dassler has been leading on those uh efforts that are often often done in tandem with community groups.

So uh that and our community forestry uh project, which uh my uh colleagues Rachel and Kat have been working on to plant trees in uh wards one, three, and five uh a free tree.

Uh we're we're still doing that, we'll be continuing to do that over the next couple years, taking a little break for the summer.

This has been done in collaboration with a lot of different municipalities.

Uh Clark County has adopted their own uh their own uh climate action plan as has uh City of Henderson, City of Reno has done similar efforts.

Uh this has been an effort uh that they've done under the all-in-clark county uh action plan, and there has been a lot of push to try to get sustainability integrated into the community at large, and we're doing our part by with with this effort and the efforts that we've done previously.

So, in terms of next steps, uh you have this resolution in uh in front of you.

We're going to continue to evaluate how our progress is with respect to uh to this to this action plan and the other sustainability efforts that that have been outlined in the 2050 master plan.

We are a lead gold certified uh leap for cities community.

We're going to uh look at recertification here this next year's uh part of uh as a part of our sustainability efforts, and again, you'll have some upcoming opportunities to weigh in further about things like uh uh continue our renewable energy efforts uh with respect to the hydropower and uh and our and our municipal retail load.

And with that, if there is any questions, I'd be more than happy to answer them for you.

Thank you so much.

Do any members of the city council have any questions or comments?

Yes, not a question.

I was just gonna say you did a great presentation, and uh I'm really proud to be part of a city that thinks so much uh into the future.

So thank you for all of your work because this is not just one report, this is over the last 15 years that you've been working on this, and proud to be part of your team.

So thanks.

Thank you.

Ms.

Diaz.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Um very comprehensive.

Um brought a lot of things that I need to request updates and briefings about how things are moving and um hopefully for the positive in the in the ward.

But my question is specific to the tree planting efforts, and I wanted to kind of know to date in this first push, how many trees have we been able to augment into our communities and the zip codes that we're providing a free tree for, and then also when is the next period that will I know the heat is coming in, so we're gonna take a pause because then the tree won't survive.

But when do we then pick up the next push for free trees?

So we can start planning as a wards um how me we may in the interim start getting people on board to claim their tree.

Yes, uh Marco Vallada, uh Madam Mayor through you uh to the councilwoman.

Uh we have about 300 trees that have been planted thus far over the last couple months.

Uh we have more that have signed up since then that we're working with our contractor par three to get into the ground as we speak through about memorial day or so.

We will restart again um labor day.

I mean, this is gonna be a little bit weather permitting, so we'll have an idea, but uh we're gonna continue to roll it through uh fall, winter 2026-2027 for those areas, and over the summer we will uh look to assess how we uh can get the word out to uh those those areas in the qualifying zip codes.

Awesome, Mark.

Thank you so much.

Ms.

Kelly.

Thank you, madam mayor.

Mr.

Relata, thank you so much for this.

I you know, I echo what uh the mayor pro tem said.

I it's has been a terrific learning experience for me to come to the city and um understand and discover the breadth of things that we do to serve our valley and our citizens, and this is another area that is um stellar in terms of how we dedicate our energy.

So thank you very much.

I you know, I I also love to see it based on data.

Um, and speaking of that, I've got a question.

I was also pleased that you had a blind and were able to get some of that Parker Dam, uh Parker Davis Dam um uh hydropower because that that make it a little more challenging to deliver from the state in the future.

There's no pages, it is this it is this slide that says water conservation.

Um, and I have a specific question if you'll pull it up.

So it's I don't know who's doing the PowerPoint.

Yes, thank you.

Okay, um, and it may be because the type is so small, and I don't have stronger enough reading glasses.

But the map on the right that shows, and if I look at the legend at the bottom, uh all white is an indication of none, which I'm assuming means no drought.

And so I'm looking at Southern Nevada on this map and seeing the part of Southern Nevada that's in white.

And I and I'm confused because we're not out of drought.

So can you explain that to me?

Or I could also be completely misinterpreting it, and then you need to just inform me.

Thank you.

So uh Marco Vallada uh for the record mayor to you.

So this is uh these are snapshots here.

Um these are based on the current conditions.

Uh what what is what you're seeing here is uh conditions as of uh the end of February 2026, and I've just gave you kind of a comparison of what it looked like in 2018 when it was when it was especially bad at the height of summer here.

So at about that point, uh you know, we have had um, you know, and I could show some additional some additional um maps as well to help supplement and augment this one at a later date.

But this is sho this is depicting kind of current conditions on the ground, and you've had you had some of the um precipitation that came in, I think at about at about that time.

Um and then we've had the month of March where we had an increase in temperatures.

California with respect to how drought is defined for the uh for the at the federal level.

Um they're basically saying that there were no drought conditions, there were some the storms that that affected um that affected California at some point leading up to this point.

There's no drought going on there as as they define it, and that includes up to Las Vegas, but a little bit further to the east, they were not having those those same storms and those that same snowpack that was that was happening.

So, in terms of their definition of drought in different categories, and we can kind of drill into that at a separate at a separate disc as a part of a separate discussion.

Those areas where the Colorado River Basin is and where our snowpack is, they're not they're not seeing that same level of precipitation, they're having other um factors that are contributing to their definition of what is abnormally dry to exceptional.

And where it meant and where it matters is the Colorado Rockies.

Yeah.

Right.

And so this can be misleading, and my concern is that we have done so much in southern Nevada for conservation.

You know, the 93% of our water comes from the Colorado River.

Um we continue to have less and less um water being available.

This has been one of the worst uh winters on record.

Um and if you're just looking in the paper, I mean, there's all sorts of conversations about whether the lower basin is having agreement, it can get into an agreement, how the the disparity or dissidence between what the lower basin thinks we need to be and what the upper basin um believes.

We also live in the middle of Mojave Desert, so born and raised here like you, Marco, and when people say when it rains and they say, Oh, thank goodness we need it, we don't.

We need it in Colorado.

We need the snow, we need a slow winter and a very slow spring, so it gets into or a heavy winter, slow spring, so it gets into the Colorado.

Um, and it's a very complicated issue.

And so why so I'm not disagreeing with you about your explanation of what this says, but I think it's inclusion does not help uh because as a community we are not out of drought, and in fact, I would suggest that it's even dangerous anymore to use the term drought because drought comes across as something that's temporary, and our issues with with how we get water into our valley and the allocation is going to um it's going those issues will maintain itself clearly, I believe the rest of my the rest of my life.

Suggest that it's even dangerous anymore to use the term drought because drought comes across as something that's temporary and our issues with how we get water into our valley and the allocation is going to it's going those issues will maintain itself clearly I believe the rest of my the rest of my life so I just say that not to it's not to be critical but maybe to be more thoughtful when we're doing presentations that we're putting out into the public um people don't study this as much as I happen to as an individual and it would be it's open to misinterpretation so thank you for that the point well taken and oh for the future there there'll there'll certainly be more thought into how we can uh demonstrate how it's or all with a qualifying asterisk is fine just uh just to show it's a it's a snapshot of a point in time and not relevant to really um when we talk about drought as a community what that means.

Yes, thank you.

You're welcome.

Okay, thank you so much, thank you so much.

And is there a motion?

Mayor Pro Tem Happy to make it.

I will move to approve.

Please vote host motion carries.

Thank you.

Would you care for us to move your agenda item forward?

I in that case.

Agenda item number 35.

Reports and presentations.

Report by Jaime Cruz, executive director, and Irene Bustamante Adams, Deputy Director and Chief Strategy Officer for Workforce Connections regarding an update on the local workforce development boards with the city of Las Vegas.

This affects all wards.

Welcome.

And I should have done this a little earlier.

So we're happy to have you.

We appreciate it.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Dr.

Tammy Mallinch, uh Director of Youth Development and Social Initiatives for the record.

Um, as the mayor mentioned, we have a report by our friends from Workforce Connections, including Jaime and Irene, as the mayor mentioned.

Also, Dr.

Ricardo Villalobos, chief programs officer, will be joining them.

And I just want to set the presentation up by saying Workforce Connections has always been a great partner to the city of Las Vegas all at large, as well as to my team and our workforce efforts.

Long before they moved in across the street, they were a partner with an employee in V hub at our historic West Side School, and now that they're across the street, uh, we are able to pop in and come up with ideas on the spot.

And so I value and appreciate this relationship and partnership.

And with that, I will turn it over to workforce connections.

Jaime.

Thank you, Tammy.

Yeah, friends and neighbors now.

Yes.

Thank you so much for moving us forward.

Uh I'm excited because last time I was here, uh, the council voted on a uh approval of a 20-year lease for us.

And um, you know, quickly the amazing Dina Basky wheel us out to the back to sign a document.

So we locked it in, uh, Madam Mayor.

So uh thank you again, Madam Mayor, members of the council for for that for trusting us to be here with you.

Uh Mike, you and your staff are amazing.

Everything since we moved in, it's been four months now.

Uh every need we've had has been met with most kindness.

We are included in in the events that happen in the park.

Uh it's just been great.

So but want you to know we're very happy here at Civic Center.

So, with that, we are here, of course, to give you a quick report on our work.

Uh today uh I'm gonna be helped by Irina and Ricardo.

We're gonna touch on four things.

An overview of uh who we are, because I know there's some new members to the council since we've been here, uh familiar faces, but um, so a little bit about who we are.

Uh gonna touch on some of the partnership initiatives we have with the city.

As Tammy said, uh this has been going on for a long time, and we are excited about the proximity and the ability to uh just cross the street and work closer with with your team.

We'll talk a little bit about future collaboration, and then at the end, I'll give you an update on an exciting conference that happened last week.

And so Irene, over to you.

Thank you, Madam Mayor, uh members for the council.

Irene Busamantha for the record.

Um for the new members uh on the team.

Uh we are the local workforce development board for Southern Nevada.

We oversee four counties, so not just Clark, but also Nye Esmeralda and Lincoln, and then our counterparts up north do the other 13 counties.

But we are privileged to be able to serve you as your local workforce board.

And uh our main thing that I want you to take away is that we're conveners, right?

And so that's a good thing, and you'll see the picture in the next slide, but also herding cat is probably one of the most complex things to do.

And so the ecosystem is made up of 17 partners, and our job is to convene that ecosystem to be able to row in the same direction, even though we may not have jurisdiction over those entities.

So collaboration is very key.

It has to be intentional.

You have to want to be at the table and figure out how could we, as a region, collaborate together.

And so our mission as a local board is to connect employers to a ready workforce.

Here's a picture right here.

Here's the ecosystem, 17 partners, conveners, but we do not have jurisdiction over the other entities.

And so we are one spoke on that wheel, and it is complex, not impossible, but in this region, we have been able to build collaboration with not only local municipalities but our other entities to be able to serve this region, and that's one of the reasons I believe that we are thriving.

One of the intentional decisions was one of we're Title One, that's what in the ecosystem in that spoke.

And the third one, which is the Department of Employment and Training, made an intentional decision under our executive director's uh leadership to be and DEAR to become a state brand so that when we're serving job seekers and employers, they uh are not confused.

Uh so they're not saying workforce connections are called DEAR, but our brand is called employee and v.

And so when you're an employer, you have those constituents that are thriving in your community, but they want to expand and need a workforce.

We serve them through the state brand called Employee Envy Business Hub.

And I know some of you have invited us out to speak to your business owners.

Thank you for considering us as your thought partner and strategic partner in that, and we share the resources available.

Uh the other brand is the career hub.

Those are for job seekers.

So your constituents who are in that journey, that's where they would uh be able to go to to get the resources that are available.

And then we have a specialty because in this region, we have a large amount of youth that are disconnected into being productive taxpayers, and so we concentrate on youth through the youth hub, um ages 16 to 24.

We have been very intentional in our partnership with the city.

Um here is an example.

So we have approximately 12 uh hubs where we take the employee and v youth hub, the career hub, and the business hub that I just talked about and share it throughout your wards.

And so we have six career hubs, two business hubs, and one specializing in youth.

Does that mean that that is the end of the line?

No, that just means that's where we are in our journey together.

One of the beauties of the collaborative relationship is that we have been able to partner with entities like the library to be able to be in the community where the your constituents meet and gather, so they don't have to travel far to get access to our resources, and that intentionality has been able to put money back into the bucket to actually serve more people because uh they uh give us the space in order to serve.

Very intentional, very strategic in order to meet the needs.

Jaime.

Okay, and uh one of the I think best parts about being here with our partners with the Vegas Chamber is that they get to serve those businesses right here at Civic Center, and as you know, uh there's another uh tenant about to move in on the first floor that will make that those services even more comprehensive, having the Secretary of State right here at Civic Center really uh starts to create a one-stop for businesses here downtown.

I'll give you some examples of uh how how much uh how many of these services we provide.

You see in this slide that over the last uh year we have, or I'm sorry, over the last period of five years, we have served uh 13,000 businesses, provided about 165,000 employer services, posted about 78,000 job orders for 244,000 positions and provided 238,000 referrals to open positions.

Would you slide that for me one?

Please, and so here you kind of see uh these are actually another example or some examples of those services, these are employer reimbursements, and you would ask why are we reimbursing employers directly because sometimes the employers do the training themselves.

So sometimes we will pay for a training that happens at the community college or at a vocational school, but in these cases, we are actually reimbursing the employer for training that they're providing those employees, and so you see there are five examples or five projects that we had.

And so you see there are five examples or five projects that we had.

The first one was a state project called LayF Aversion that happened after COVID, and that was $1 million of reimbursements to employers.

The next one was a grant here from the city of Las Vegas from the ARPA funding, and that was uh $900,000 of reimbursement to employers.

The third one is is still going on as an incumbent worker training, so that's to scale up existing workers to be able to provide the new skills that new technologies sometimes demand uh and with employers.

So that was 1.3 million dollars of direct reimbursements to employers.

And the sec the next one is industry sector partners.

This is an important one because uh the state for the longest time had tried to convene industry sector partnership across the street, and and it could never uh it could never happen.

It was just very hard to do it at a state level.

And so now both local boards here in the south and the north have stood up 12 industry sector partnerships, and the state is funding us to be able to convene those employers, and that's uh right now $800,000 of reimbursements to them.

And then the last one is our bread and butter, and we'll talk a little bit later about numbers uh for those on the job trainings, but that's uh $3.6 million of reimbursement for employers.

Next slide, please.

And so here we're gonna kind of uh we kind of separated to tell you well, what if we just do Las Vegas based businesses?

Because you see in that second bullet, the the grant that we got from the city of Las Vegas, we used it specifically for City of Las Vegas businesses.

So you can see that amount matches is 900,000 or all of the the money.

But in the other grants, you can see that uh the portion of those grants that were applied to specific businesses in the city of Las Vegas.

Next slide, please.

And here we got to see our our system because more robust than data when it talks about the job seekers just how the federal uh system was built.

So here we give you a snapshot of the last four program completed program years, and this is specific to all the wards of the city of Las Vegas.

So in the last uh four program years, we made an investment of roughly 22 million dollars to serve uh 3,700, uh roughly 3,700 participants.

Now, I want to make uh uh a clarification here because if you see these are numbers of individuals to complete the Wi Oa Title I program.

So this is what we call intensive services when there's lots of barriers to be removed, training to be provided, but we also serve twice this amount of it's just very quick, what we call basic career services.

So polish up the job resume, refer them to an employer, help them with a job search.

So this number is just the more intensive months-long Wii Oa Title I program.

So again, for the city, you can see if you invest 22 million dollars and you serve 3,700 people who later go to work and earn almost 90 million dollars of annualized wages, that's a return on investment of just three months.

So it's uh it's a great investment of the taxpayer funds.

And here we start to break down just to give you uh per ward what's happening.

So in Ward 1, it's roughly 4.5 million dollars for 788 participants, ward two would be 2.1 for 329, ward three would be 4 million for 709.

Ward four would be 2.4 for 371.

Ward five would be 6.6 for 1,062, and ward six would be 2.3 for 369.

Next slide, please.

This is required.

All right.

Yeah, thank you.

Thank you, Hyman.

Madam Mayor, members of the council, thank you for this opportunity.

I wanted to highlight a couple of the collaborations that are taking place between the city and the local workforce board, uh, workforce connections.

I want to highlight two, and then I know Irene wanted to mention a few.

Uh, number one, the employee business up at the Vegas Chamber that HyMIP and Irene have both alluded to.

Uh, since January, we've hosted two cohorts of 22 employers uh that have each received $10,000 to upskill their employees.

So almost a quarter of a million dollars that's been invested in businesses to upskill their employees, and that happens because of us being right across the street.

The second one I wanted to highlight was the City of Las Vegas Youth Development and Social Initiatives.

Uh a special thanks to uh Dr.

Tammy Malik who introduced us as well as Dr.

Tiffany Tyler Garner.

Irene alluded to there being uh disconnected youth in the city of Las Vegas alone, or actually the Greater Valley.

We have over 40,000 disconnected youth, 16 to 24 year olds that are not working and not in school.

And so in partnership with the city specifically through uh uh Dr.

Malic and Dr.

Tiffany Tyler Garner's leadership.

We've convened over 60 partners that are coming together on a quarterly basis.

We've received philanthropic funding to do some pilots, and uh, we'll soon be establishing an intermediary to pursue uh philanthropic funding here locally to do even greater things for our youth in the community.

So we're excited to work with the city on that particular objective.

Some other things that we have been very intentional.

Uh you have invited us to the table, and that's bullet uh point number two, your leader, um Dina Baspe at the City of Las Vegas Economic Development Team had invited us to the table regarding companies that you are exploring to bring to your area, and so very intentional strategic.

We added to the conversation when it came to talent pipeline development, um, and we are grateful.

That also is taking place with your human resource department before your director retired, had a great conversation and introduced us uh to another leader on the team to be able to set up a conversation and talk about the gaps in your talent pipeline, those that are hard to fill, but in addition, the tsunami of individuals that may be exiting because they're retiring out of your workforce.

And then, in addition, uh thank you, Councilman Knutson, for inviting uh workforce connections to be part of your biohealth innovation challenge selection committee.

I know that that is a process, but you being intentional to invite us to the table to be at the conversation regarding talent, uh, very critical, and we are grateful.

And then just lastly, um, on the redevelopment team on Dina's team, Jennifer Henderson being intentional and saying, okay, we have two restaurants going into Civic Plaza.

How can we be part of the conversation to help them staff the restaurants uh with your constituents to be able to serve uh this area, and so every time that we are talking about talent pipeline, you pick up the phone or send an email and you ask us to be part of the conversation so that we can be your thought partner on the solution.

Yeah, here I mean ultimately we just wanted to say thank you to this to the mayor and to the council for your vision of just not only having workforce connections there, but as Hyman mentioned earlier, um the Vegas Chamber is there, the largest chamber of the state.

Uh the Secretary of State is going to be there.

And so, what it has allowed us to do was that example of serving businesses here in Las Vegas, uh, but also to do work better and to do work uh more productively, more effectively, and more efficiently by having these entities together in one building.

So, special thanks to you for making that happen.

Next slide, please.

I wanted to highlight a few uh participant success stories so that you know that lives are being impacted through these hubs.

Our career hubs, as I re mentioned, are adult centric.

We had an individual by the name of Arthur who was a WIOA adult participant, come through the employee uh uh career hub.

He was unemployed, he was low income, and he was on public assistance.

He received career guidance, he earned his uh commercial driver's license, and then secured a job here locally uh with the company, and then he continues to advance his skills uh for advancement.

Here's what I wanted to highlight from what's uh there on the slide.

In his own words, he's said this I've never had this much confidence in anything in my life, and that's the impact that these hubs are having on people's lives.

Uh, the next slide is in reference to a youth.

Our employee v youth hubs, of course, are youth-centric.

This is a really cool story because it's two brothers who came together to an employee v youth hub, Isaiah and Elijah.

Both uh we OA participants in the hub, low-income, unemployed, and with limited work experience.

Through EmployeeMV, they received a work experience opportunity to develop their foundational skills.

They both participated and completed electrical technology training, and then in turn received an on-the-job training opportunity with Ventura Integrated Systems as low voltage techs, and as a result of uh their efforts, uh, they earned permanent employment with Ventura.

So we're really excited about the impact it's having on our youth as well through the hubs.

Lastly, uh, we have a video that hopefully can play so you can hear from the employer directly about the impact that the employee business hub is having on their company.

My name is Al Gibson, and I am the founder and CEO of Cyroots and Cyroate Academy.

We're an IT and cybersecurity management company here in Las Vegas.

Cyberwood Academy is here to provide technical education through ComTia, Cisco, and other programs to upskill the workforce here in Las Vegas.

I was able to tell my story of the first employee I ever hired.

It was one of my students that didn't have the experience in IT and cybersecurity.

So I brought her on to give her on-job training.

And now she is my director of operations.

It gave me the courage that as a small startup, I could hire somebody.

So if that didn't happen, I'm not sure how long it would have took me to build the courage to hire uh employee one.

Over the last few months, I was able to scale up to 10 employees in addition to contractors and instructors that help us teach the education program, not only here in Las Vegas, but nationwide.

What I love about this is the amount of support I've received over the last few months.

Just a year ago, I met Miss Amy Aspini for the first time, and I talked to her about my fear of needing help, wanting to hire someone, but didn't know how.

So she led me through the program, and we kept in touch where we had a review every 90 days.

To be honest, if I didn't meet Amy a year ago or never heard about this program, I wouldn't be here today.

So we're grateful for the impact that we have an opportunity to be a part of in partnership with you all for the city through through the local workforce board.

Um I just wanted to turn our attention to uh three particular opportunities that we have regarding future collaboration between the city and the workforce board.

Uh number one is the opportunity to develop uh public service career lattices and pathways.

This is in essence developing structured entry and advancement pathways uh for particular departments of the city that we'd love to work with you on.

A few of those are mentioned there fire and EMT, public safety, public works, administration or administrative and tech uh classifications.

Uh, number two, a fellows initiative expansion.

You may have heard about our fellows program for high school counselors that are able in turn bring workforce development to high school students throughout the county.

Uh we're excited about the possibility of working with the city to develop a fellows program to integrate the workforce development initiatives, efforts, goals, and ideas through a fellows program working with the city of Las Vegas employees.

So that's another opportunity.

The third one is employing V co-location uh at the East Education Training Center and at the medical education and training center.

One of the things that we've seen, excuse me, be very uh highly effective and productive is when the model of a hub gets integrated into an existing building.

And so what we're hoping for is that opportunity to integrate an employee V hub at these uh two education training centers in the future so that there's proximity to those individuals that are visiting those ETCs in the future.

So we're excited about these opportunities.

Look forward to not only those, but uh potentially a lot more that they can come to fruition as a result of the partnership.

Thank you.

And before I close with the uh the sharing with you the news about the conference, I wanted to share with you that you know, one of the things we've gotten used to very quickly is the level of security here.

I mean, we love the Marshalls, they're so friendly.

Uh, we've never felt safer.

Uh we had to get used to, you know, we're working in this environment of high safety.

Uh, but we do appreciate another thing we learned is you don't mess with the parking department.

They don't play, Mike.

So very serious the parking department.

I hope Maria's not here.

Don't give me a ticket, Maria's.

But uh, so let me share with you about last week.

Last week was monumental because for 35 years, the 575 boards across the nation, like workforce connections were all convened in Washington, DC every every March.

And we get together so that we can get updates from the Department of Labor, so we can share best practices, uh, so we can, you know, also recognize those boards that are doing great work.

Uh, but because of all the great things you've heard, the things happening here in Southern Nevada, they picked us uh to be the very first time they left Washington, DC because they wanted my peers to kind of see what we have here.

First chamber of commerce in the nation to host an American job center at no cost, first private business in the nation, movement fitness, all the Las Vegas Clark County Libraries uh that then triggered the other Henderson, North Las Vegas and Boulder City Libraries.

So all that great stuff was highlighted last week.

And I think it was money monumental for us because not only did uh that we get to highlight these great partnerships that you've just heard about, uh, but they exceeded the goal was for uh a thousand people to come.

They they hit 1100, so the organization is gonna make uh a hefty or nice profit.

Uh and we were grateful also because, besides that, what we call the Silver State Showcase, where we had Mary Beth Sewell from the Vegas Chamber, the Neil Casey from the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance, Kilwyn Watson from the Las Vegas Clover County Library, John Ponder from Hope for Prisoners, uh Chris Sewell, the director of uh the Nevada's Department of Employment Training and Rehabilitation, and my peer from from Reno from Nevada Works.

We kind of shared uh the stuff you've heard about today plus more.

But then in the afternoon, the attendees were also treated by a local elected official, Fire Side Fireside Chat, which uh I heard Mayor Berkeley stole the show.

She was awesome.

And so uh the other mayors joined her, Mayor Romero from Henderson, Goings Brown from North Las Vegas, Hardy from Boulder City, and then County Commissioner Michael Neft.

And so they had a conversation moderated by Congressman John Porter, and uh my peers really appreciated that to the point where they said, You're so lucky you have the best local elected officials ever.

And so we are.

We feel lucky.

Uh, Madam Mayor, thank you.

And so we appreciate it.

And uh with that, I'm also grateful because uh our own local official has been with us for years now was there with us, and so thank you for joining us.

You also uh we don't have to ask you, you just show up.

And so we appreciate that as well.

So uh with that, uh we'd be glad to take any any questions you might have, but that concludes our report.

Thank you for bringing us up.

Thank you for a very comprehensive presentation.

We're all so very um proud of you, proud of what you do.

It is very important to the city, and we so appreciate the partnership.

Um I have to say, when I walked out on that stage, that was an impressive conference.

I don't think I I don't think I was ever in that room at the cosmopolitan, but it it was impressive.

So, congratulations for that as well.

Uh, there are any questions or comments from members of the city council, Mayor Pro Tem.

Thank you, Madam Mayor, and thanks for the presentation.

Um kind of looking at your slide when you're you are working with us with Wexford Technologies and the Bio Health Innovation Challenge.

I've been working with Mike and his team, uh, including uh the entire team on organizing our higher education institutions around health care.

Um the mayor knows this.

We don't we don't have enough residency slots within Nevada, but we're also not producing enough people to uh significantly impact health care over a long course of time, and that ranges from phlebotomists to x-ray techs to uh occupational therapists to therapists to physicians and cardiothoracic surgeons.

And so as the city kind of organizes and works with those higher education institutions, we have some pretty exciting initiatives on the way within the medical district and maybe just as brainstorming in the future.

I don't know how to engage workforce connections, but when you said fellowships, I know we need some more fellowships.

Um I don't know if you do that with with cardiothoracic surgeons and neurosurgeons, but we need those too.

So just as a brainstorming opportunity, maybe not here on the diet, I want to put you on the spot, but in the in the near future, I would love to kind of think through what that looks like because I think that's a significant portion of our workforce that we really need to focus in on.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Ms.

Diaz.

Through you, Madam Mayor, I just love to say that the simple answer is uh thanks to the decision you made a few months ago, how you connect with us as you cross the plaza.

We would love to host any of you who want to uh explore these partnerships opportunities.

Just tell us you're coming, and we'd be glad to rue you a cup of coffee and and talk and and craft the solutions that you might need.

Uh I personally, I think some of you know this.

Uh I did my part to build a health uh health care workforce.

I have a daughter who graduated from UNLV as a doctor in physical therapy.

So I'm doing my part, Councilman, to uh you know, build you your workforce.

And she uh she has a clinic in ward six in Las Vegas.

So that's great.

That's great.

Stop by after the meeting.

Thanks.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

And I'm just gonna close the gap for people who are wondering who is Mr.

Cruz alluding to about showing up for everything workforce.

It's been me.

Um, I've been on the workforce board, I think, ever since I joined the ranks of the city council, and it has been truly a pleasure to serve um on the LEO board and helping um ensure that we continue to do the best uh by our community, uh by our businesses, by our work for by folks that are barely surviving, but needing that extra support so that they can be living their best life and thrive and feel confident and have the means to support their families.

That's so important to me that we don't import a workforce, but we develop it and create it from the people that are already living here because there's so many people who are um working hard but not making enough, and so that opportunity for growth is so important for us to capitalize, and I think it's a win-win-win across every single board, especially when you look at every single ward and how many lives are being touched and the investments being made, but then also the ROI that brings what or what that comes from developing a person and um having the ability to help give them the skill set to elevate their position and the workforce is just amazing.

Um, I did want to speak about really briefly um knob being held here is amazing.

We're the first city outside of Washington, DC, to host this um conference.

And that's just a testament of like the caliber and the abilities of Hyman, Irene, and Ricardo, who are part of the workforce connections team, and how we are so diligent and removing silos, removing barriers, and talking to all of the systems so that we're all on the same page and we're able to move the ball down the field a lot more and just bring that Super Bowl every single time.

And speaking of Super Bowls, we've not been short of winning accolades and prior um awards uh as a workforce board.

And so this year, the National Association of Workforce Board created a new award called the Bob Knight Board of Distinction Award.

And it's not necessarily gonna be given out every year.

It was created to make sure that it acknowledges the local impact of a workforce board and that it rises to the occasion to be highlighted as a national example.

And um the inaugural recipient of that board of distinction award, that Bob Knight award was our workforce connection.

So I think that deserves a round of applause here to recognize you all.

That's the caliber of work we're talking about.

So I just needed to get on my soapbox and soap soapbox and say you guys are doing amazing.

And every time we tell you to elevate and keep reaching higher and higher, you meet our expectations.

So we we have a lot of work still to do.

I know that I'm one of the wards with the highest unemployment rates, and we still have to tackle and help and assist those folks, but we're on the right track, and I feel encouraged that we can and are making a difference.

Thank you.

Councilman Summers Armstrong.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

I just want to tell you all thank you so much for the work that you're doing.

I see that on the slide uh ward five has some of the highest numbers of participants.

Um, I would like to um find out if there's a way that we can track um how that participation is affecting the um the base uh income levels for ward five, so that we can have some some correlation between how folks are how their in uh training is a is impacting the overall um AMI in Ward 5.

I think that's really important.

Uh and I just encourage you to keep on doing the good work.

And I look forward to seeing you all pretty soon for an update.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you all so much for coming.

We appreciate it.

Thank you very much.

This is a report only, so no um uh no action need to be taken.

Agenda item number 22 will be heard after the community development discussion section of the agenda.

Agenda item number 23, boards and commissions.

Discussion for possible action regarding the appointment of nominee Carla Yolanda Beltran Delgado to award three seat on the youth leadership advisory council.

Is there a motion?

Councilwoman Diaz.

Yes, madam mayor.

I move to approve the appointment of Carla Yolanda Beltran Delgado to the youth leadership advisory council.

You said it so much better than I did.

All right, shall we vote?

Please post motion carries.

Agenda item.

Oops, number 24.

Recommending committee bills eligible for adoption at this meeting.

Bill number 2026-10.

Councilman Kenutsen, would you like to have the bill read?

Yes, Mayor.

Bill number 2026-10, an ordinance to adopt that certain document entitled First Amendment to development agreement for property, formerly known as Cashman, and to provide for other related matters.

Thank you so much.

Move to approve.

Thank you.

Shall we vote?

Post.

Motion carries.

Agenda item 25.

Bill number 2026-11.

Councilman Knutson, would you like to have the bill read?

Yes, Mayor.

Bill number 2026-11, an ordinance to adopt that certain document entitled First Amendment Development Agreement for Property, formerly known as Grant Sawyer, and to provide for other related matters.

Move to approve.

Please vote.

Post motion carries.

Agenda item number 26.

Recommending committee bills eligible for adoption at a later meeting.

Item 26, Bill 2026-9 will be heard at a later meeting.

Agenda item number 27, new bills.

Items 27 through 29, Bill Z-2026-1, 2026-12, and 2026-13 will be heard at the recommending committee meeting on Monday, April 13th, 2026.

City Attorney, would you read the new bills?

Yes, ma'am.

Bill number Z 2026-1, an ordinance to amend the official zoning map of the City of Las Vegas by changing the zoning designations of certain parcels of land to reflect and formalize rezoning applications previously approved by the city council and to provide for other related matters.

Bill number 2026-12, an ordinance to amend the unified development code to establish parameters for cottage cosmetics operations to be conducted as a home occupation and provide for other related matters.

Bill number 2026-13.

In ordinance to amend various provisions of L VMC Title 19 to establish the transit-oriented development overlay district.

Make parallel adjustments and provide for other related matters.

Thank you so much.

These bills are assigned to the April 13th, 2026 recommending committee members, Councilman Knutson and Councilwomen Balensky and Diaz.

If any so designated are unable to attend, the clerk's office will coordinate findings of substitutes as necessary at my direction.

Thank you.

Items number 30 through 32 appear on the one motion one vote agenda and may be considered in one motion one vote as they are routine items with no condition changes.

Any person representing an application or a member of the public or member of the council not in agreement with the conditions and all standard conditions for the applications recommended by staff should request to have that item removed from this portion of the agenda.

Item 30, 25-0396-RQR1.

Applicant Clear Channel Outdoor Owner Willock Investments Inc.

on the land use entitlement project request for required review of an approved special use permit, U-0176-90 for a 40-foot tall 14-foot by 48 foot off-premise sign at 3591 East Bonanza Road, C1, Limited Commercial Zone, Ward 3, Miss Diaz, Agenda Item 31, 250399 RQR1.

Applicant Clear Channel Outdoor LLC, Owner Silver State Equity Partners LLC on a land use entitlement project request for a required review of it approved U-0006-90 for a 40-foot tall 14-foot by 48 foot off-premise sign at 1535 Northeastern Avenue.

C1 limited commercial zone ward 3, Miss Diaz.

Agenda item 32, 25-0405-RQR1.

Applicant Clear Channel Outdoor Inc.

Owner George A.

Brew Cother.

C2 General Commercial Zone Ward 1, Mr.

Knutson.

Staff recommends approval of all items.

These are public hearings that I now declare open.

Is there anyone wishing to be heard on items 30 through 32?

Hearing and seeing none, I will now close the public hearings.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

The Planning Commission and staff recommend denial of the entire land use entitlement project.

These are in Ward 3, Ms.

Diaz, and our public hearings, which I now declare open.

Is the applicant present?

Yes, Your Honor.

Good morning.

Good morning, uh Council members.

My name is Bob Gronauer, 1980 Festival Plaza Drive.

With me are my clients, Gary Gum and Bradley Gum.

They're both here.

They are the applicants on this property looking to develop the project that's before you today.

So the first thing I'd like to do is get you oriented to the location of the property, and then I'll get into what we are proposing here because this is a unique proposal that we have before you today.

So first of all, this is about a two-acre and a quarter piece of property.

It's vacant piece of property.

You have 23rd Street located here to the west, to the south of us is Cyrils.

And then if you go from a little bit further here to the east, you have East Eastern Avenue located here.

So as you know, this uh familiar, if you're familiar with this area, uh this is an infill piece of property.

This is uh part of your 2050 master plan where it's known as your East Las Vegas district.

Um as you know, housing is a major concern here in southern Nevada.

As a part of this plan of the East Las Vegas uh district, one of the uh goals and policies that they wanted to improve in this area is to incentivize in fill housing for uh residential development.

Um so what we have here today is a piece of property, as you can see, is definitely an infill piece of property.

The property is master plan in zone four, multifamily development.

So what we are here today to propose is a unique multifamily development here on this piece of property.

It's gonna cost approximately about this is about a six million dollar infusion of development into this area, which I which we believe and my clients believe that this will help hopefully start more people investing into this area and making better improvements also within the land that you see in this area here.

So we think that this is a great opportunity today.

It's the first step of many steps that you'll see of redevelopment in this area.

And so we're happy to present the project that's before you.

So what's unique about this project is um this is what you might have heard out there is known as tiny homes.

Um some people call them casita homes.

Uh I call them also studio homes.

Uh these these are unique.

Um, and what's unique about this is because what uh my clients are doing here today, they're gonna take a product that you heard of the boxable product uh that is here, a local manufacturer actually located in the uh city of North Las Vegas where they do their manufacturing.

And not are we only going to use a boxable product here, but this is gonna be for the entire community.

So it's taken a long time to go through the process.

And uh, you know, on behalf of my clients, we're gonna thank Councilwoman Diaz.

She's spent lots of hours on this to make sure that we're if we're gonna do this, we're gonna do this the right way.

And uh so it's taking some time, so I appreciate the council uh allowing us to hold this a few times and working through all these issues.

I'm gonna go through a few things of where we were, and then when councilwoman Diaz gets involved, this is where we're at.

So you'll see the big difference between the two as we go through in the development.

So the first thing that I want to show you is just the elevations alone.

Okay, this is the boxable product.

It's about a 361 square foot product.

Um what we are proposing is on the interior, and I should have started with the interior, but I'll just give you a little bit of information.

Is the goal here is this is going to be fully furnished product, okay, just like any type of studio.

Uh utilities are going to be paid for, and without any subsidies, what Gary would like to do is make sure that these rents are under market versus what's in that area.

So essentially you're going to have affordable or retainable housing here without any subsidies, and with this type of product that's going to be fully furnished and fully uh utilities will be paid for.

So this is the base model that we started in the beginning of the process.

And I'm not going to go through we we've gone through like eight or nine uh iterations of elevations, but this is pretty much what we were where we were at early in the stages at the planning commission level.

And as I said, I got seven other versions to go through, but I'm going to tell you where exactly.

I'm shaking my head too.

I want to hurry up and go through this.

So in our discussions as the councilwoman wanted to make sure is that we provided different elevations, and we came up with is with 50 homes, we have three different products, and we're going to call out those three product elevations.

So you don't have the same cookie cutter type of unit as you would see in a typical residential development.

So what you see here is some of the directions that we got is to come in with at least desert colors.

Different colors of the door, floating wall in here.

So when I go through the site plan, when you see elevation A, we have that earmarked on the site plan where you're gonna have anywhere 16 to 18 types of elevation A.

When you take a look at elevation B, as you can see here, this is a different different design, but we still incorporate the added what I call the added goodies to the house instead of what you saw the basic of the boxable that you saw earlier.

And then also we have elevation C.

As you take a look here, so as you can see of the elevation A, B, and C, none of these are going to be next next to each other.

They're gonna be spread out as we do ABC, ABC elevations throughout the development for the 50 units.

Now, next I want to get into the site plan.

Fairly quickly, just to highlight a few things on the site plan.

I want to thank your staff along with uh councilwoman and working with us on this.

And so the the top site plan that I'm showing you is the initial site plan that we submitted here to the uh city.

And we can zoom in a little bit more.

Hide my notes.

Uh but anyway, uh, on the site plan, it's two and two and a quarter acres.

Ingress and ingress is coming off Cyrils.

In this plan up above, this is the initial plan.

We had block walls around the property.

What we are proposing to do here with the councilwoman's suggestion is we have rod iron fencing that's gonna be along the 23rd street, and we have rod iron fencing along Cyril's in this area.

And if you take a look in here and it's in your backup, you'll see the look of the exterior fencing here that's gonna be rod iron fencing with pie lasters.

There is a condition in the added conditions working with Peter that that is making sure that we are doing that, but that's already in here also.

So, but that's an over that's an extended overlay with respect to making sure we have that that as a condition.

The second thing here, um, talking to the councilwoman, what we did is we added some pavers.

In this area, there are no pavers.

As you can see here, we have some pavers on the entranceway here.

It's for a little bit more beautification as you go come in and enter into the product.

Um, as you enter in here, as you see, this is more symmetrical where we have all these units facing out into the parking lot area.

One of the things that we discuss is looking at turning the orientation of the buildings.

So as you come enter into this community here, you'll see with this elevation A and B, these are facing out into the parking lot.

But when you get to elevation C and elevation B in here, you can see that they're facing each other in here and not out to the parking lot.

So you'll see that design as we move around in this area here, which is much different than just having them all symmetrical and facing out one way in one direction.

Uh, the other thing that we did is we had some room where we've been able, although you can't necessarily see it per se, but we've been able to move the lots or the units about a foot or two wherever we had some room to move them, so they're not again all symmetrical in one line and lined up in a certain way.

Um, with respect to uh landscaping, there's concern about heel heat heat island effect.

Uh we wanted to make sure we have more trees than what the code requires.

We're making sure all the trees are uh will be in the landscape islands and additional trees on the perimeter.

Um, as uh and we put our landscape plan in there, there's a condition that we got to comply with landscaping with those requirements.

So where we started, we were a little bit shy of having some trees, and now we are, I think nine or ten, about nine plus trees above what the code is requiring, and so we have some more uh canopies that will be in this area here on this piece of property.

Um, the other thing is as far as amenities, um, we have a dog park, uh, we have barbecue areas, picnic covered areas, a yoga area, we have a community center where you have a business center that's gonna be located.

Uh, we'll have staff on property.

Uh, one of the concerns is the durability and the maintenance of the product.

Um, there is a condition in here that is being proposed that we come back for a three-year review.

Gary and Bradley are fine with that because this is one of their legacy projects here.

This is the biggest project they're building, and this is a legacy project.

It means a lot to get back into the community.

These are local guys, local developers have done a lot already.

And so, as that condition that we're accepting, is not a problem.

We'll see you in three years with the development and showing you how beautiful this this uh location is.

And then um, I believe that is pretty much it with some of the conditions.

I know we do have some neighbors in the area that are in support because they want to see development, they want to see this cash infusion in here, they have pride in the neighborhood, which is exciting.

Um, but we're here to answer any questions that you have, and I definitely, on behalf of Bradley and Gary, want to thank Councilwoman Diaz because as you know, as you work in your word areas, you roll up your sleeves and you do a lot of work behind the scenes, and we put a lot of work into this.

And I know Peter's here, it's my honor to have Peter standing up here at the podium with me because uh usually sitting down in there.

Exactly.

For him to stand up here, it means a lot to me today, so it must be a special day.

But I'm sure I'll turn it over to see if he has anything else.

But there are some conditions in the backup about four new conditions that we are agreeing to, but I've already addressed them with the rod iron fencing, the reviews and the upkeep of the property and so on.

So that's about it.

Thank you, Mr.

Grunauer.

May I have a staff report?

Yes, Madam Mayor Peter Lowenstein for the record, as Mr.

Gronowers um I didn't find in your backup materials.

You'll find an updated staff report and associated uh backup materials.

These include uh the updated building elevations that were depicted.

Those were actually the renderings, but the the dimension drawings are in your backup as well.

The report also contains the conditions of Mr.

Grownover is indicating there are four of them uh or five, actually, the condition of approval with the new date stamp for those backup materials, uh, as well as the three-year required review, a decoration for private maintenance uh requirements, as well as wall and landscape requirements that were also brought up that are also now depicted on the plan.

Uh in regards to staff's position on it regarding the project as it's designed.

Staff finds the requested variances of the required setbacks are not supportable and kind of reinforces unsuitability uh of the project with the surrounding development, and therefore staff is recommending denial on the development.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Uh is there anyone else wishing to be heard on these items?

No.

Yeah, that's what I am.

Okay.

Okay.

Please uh please step forward and uh state your name for the record.

Oh, I'd be all now.

Um my name is Linda because he's uh currently.

So much.

Hi.

Uh my name is Linda Casillas, and I currently live at one of Gary's um apartments in Las Vegas.

Um I'm um part of the 50 and older group of uh the fastest growing uh people experiencing homelessness in um our our uh numbers are estimated to to triple by the year 2030, which is very close.

And we are um where do I live for for 1200 a month?

I worked, raised my family here, I've worked here, I I um can contribute to the community, and um I have just very limited income.

And where are you gonna put me?

Um I don't know where to go.

I and we have such a need for this, and it's the fastest way I believe to solve some of these problems because it's affordable, not only for the person building the person that has a need, and um I think it would be um unique and sample, and it will be beautiful in landscaped and we'll great and help people like me because see a lot of people have income, but they're on the street, they have nowhere to go.

And I representing them.

I knew um, I lived actually in that in that lot that you that you're talking about.

I actually lived there in a tent at one time, not too long ago.

My husband died down, and I ended up there.

And if that serves any and between Eastern and I lived there in that lot, almost in there.

I have the money, I just don't have enough.

And um, you gotta do something quick.

You can't just you know, worry about how beautiful it's gonna be.

You need really help.

And you need to get grandma off the street and give her some pieces and the house and lock on the door.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Would you please state your name for the record?

Yeah, my name is Heather Anderson, and um right now I live in uh the 115 apartments on 14th Street.

And which they're good apartments, but you know, they're the same, you know.

You got people on the left and right, and people above you, and kids, and I don't have kids, so I would you know you don't want to hear them every day, and you don't want to hear everybody else's music every day, and having something like this that's split up, but it's still small, it's affordable.

That would be amazing, and you don't have to go upstairs.

And you don't have to go upstairs.

Um is still within, you know our neighborhood, you know.

And I think it would be a great idea if you even had you know a couple of these everywhere.

Um I could probably afford this a lot better than where I am right now.

Thank you so much.

Uh would you state your name for the record?

Chrissy Teagues.

I have no idea what I was gonna say, but I think this is a great idea.

I don't understand why it was denied so quickly when it's a great idea.

I mean, affordable housing, we don't have that here.

My income is less than my rent.

I mean, yeah, so this is awesome, and yeah, it's too quick to deny.

So I'm hoping you reconsider it because it's a great idea.

No one above us, no one below us.

Bugs can't crawl in from the neighbor's apartment, no more itching.

I'm just saying it would be a great idea.

Where I'm at is an awesome place, but it could be better.

Thank you so much.

I appreciate it.

Thank you.

Does anybody else wish to come forward?

Welcome and please state your name for the record.

Yes, my name is Bobby Solwick, S A W I C K.

I'm 84 years old.

I live at 115 cells 14 apartments, and my rent is $975 a month.

If ever I was forced to live uh leave the 115 apartments, I don't know where I would go.

I would join the homeless people here in Las Vegas.

There are other apartments in Las Vegas in the range from 700 to $800, but they have a low income housing.

You have to have two and a half times the rent to be able to get into this place, even though they're $700.

This low-income housing project that is before the council is a giant step for the city of Las Vegas to get the homeless people off the streets.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Please step forward and state your name for the record.

Hi, my name is William England.

I also live there, the 115 apartments.

Um the whole thing is sounds a really good idea to me.

I mean, it's cheaper.

It's um less crowded.

I just like the whole idea.

I mean, I don't know why it's turned down either.

I don't know.

But um I'm just for it in the way, you know, I'm for it, so that's it.

Thank you so much.

Would you please step forward and state your name for the record?

Yeah.

Hi, my name's Raymond D'Angelis.

I live in the 115 apartments also.

And in regard to the housing, I mean, um, I was just watching on the news this morning.

There's another one of these small housing projects coming up.

I don't know how you can say no to affordable housing in Las Vegas with the homeless people all over.

I mean, it's it's a need.

Nobody can say it's not a need, so uh I don't know the reason it was denied.

I didn't look into it that much, but um, it's affordable housing, it's private, it gives you some pride in your home more than an apartment.

Everybody wants that, even if you're renting it.

It's your own little place, you know, and it's it's like everybody's saying, you don't have to worry about bugs from the neighbors if you have a dirty neighbor.

And it's you know, you got your own little yard, you got your own little front yard, and it seems like a great great idea, and I'm in favor of it of it.

Thank you so much, Mr.

DeAngelis.

Thank you.

Would you please state your name for the record?

My name's Michael Pope.

My rent is about 1100 a month for one dozen.

That's tough.

It's real tough.

Um when you're a senior citizen, you're not not being able to be hired anywhere.

It's better to uh have a small place than be out in the streets.

I've lived in uh Catholic charities with a big bugs, and I've lived in Las Vegas uh rescue mission with bug bugs.

I've lived quite a few places, and if somebody's given a lifting hand, a helping hand, it'd be a lot better than something like on the sewer.

Okay.

Thank you so much.

Hi, my name is James Ferris.

Welcome.

I've been a resident here at 115 apartments for about a month.

And everyone there seems happy.

Someone is there because this is a clothes builded.

And uh I like my apartment, and I probably would like these little small houses also.

I've never been in one, but I'm willing to look at one to see how they are.

So thanks for having me today.

Thank you very much.

Would you please state your name for the record?

Yeah, my uh uh I think it's a good idea I had these um apartments.

I don't know why y'all say no.

No, but thank you so much.

Welcome and state your name for the record, please.

My name is Gregory Lacefield.

Um obviously this isn't the only option for affordable housing in Las Vegas, right?

But um it is a little bit different.

Um it does give people of uh lower socioeconomic status and opportunity to have a place that they can take more pride in.

Uh have a little piece of yard.

Um everything has financial constraints, right?

Um, and I understand that owning or renting a piece of property comes with financial constraints.

But if somebody's figured out how to make affordable housing in a situation like this where they can price it at a point where it can be profitable for them, and it can be managed by the people, and I don't see in any way that this would have any kind of damage to the community or something, right?

So if someone can price it so it's affordable and they can still make a profit, and the only thing in the way is um arbitrarily set rules, right?

Then I think that's a pretty ridiculous bottleneck for it, right?

It's the only reason I can't have a yard isn't because somebody can't figure out how to price it in and low enough for me.

The problem's just the rules say that I can't have it, right?

So I don't see any any real legitimate barrier to this project, and it does create a you new unique different form of housing for low income, and uh they should be trying different things to try to figure out what works, and so you have to have a variety, you have to have new stuff coming in so that you can see what new things might be able to work out to solve the problem, right?

So it looks like it'll work.

It looks like there's no real negative drawdown on it, right?

So that's all I gotta say.

Thank you so much.

Would you please state your name for the record?

And these are the last two people we're going to hear from.

My name is Heather DeGrand, and I think this is a great idea, as I am homeless staying at the courtyard.

Um being homeless to being put in housing, um can be difficult, especially if moving into some kind of apartment.

Um you're not used to being around other people.

Um I just think it's a good idea for that to be done.

Staying at the courtyard, we're waiting for case management to tell us that there is housing available that's affordable for us is very difficult.

So I hope that this gets approved.

Thank you so much.

Will you state your name for the record?

Yes, ma'am.

My name's Teresa Norfolk.

I believe it's uh 115 apartments.

I believe they're for about a year and a half at Gary's property.

Uh I know that the uh maintenance and upkeep is is very good.

There they're quick to fix any problems.

I think it would be the same way with the houses.

Um I miss having outdoor living space.

I don't have any of that right now.

My neighbor calls me at night out because I'm still up at 10 o'clock.

She goes to bed at eight, you know, so has a window open and hears me a lot.

So I know tiny houses are different, it's a different way of thinking about living, but you know, for me, like I don't need a lot of space.

I don't need a great big yard, and I've raised all my kids.

I, you know, me and my dog, you know, in a small area would be great for him.

So I think it's a great idea.

Thank you so much.

And thank all of you for taking time out of your lives to come and speak with us.

Um is there anyone else wishing to be heard?

Seeing no one, we will close the public hearing.

Um, Mr.

Grunauer, does the applicant agree to all of the conditions you've already so stated, but you will on the record.

Thank you.

Uh, there are any questions or comments from the council.

Yes, Ms.

Summers Armstrong.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Um, I just have a question about affordability and how, since that's the premise, um, you're talking about um have you all are covering the cost of utilities um which are doing nothing but going up right now.

Um, how do you um plan to ensure that there's um continued affordability if you're not using any of the federal or state funded programs that give conditions about affordability?

I think that would be the thing that I would be concerned about is that um possibly after a time uh we would see uh a uh more commodification of housing, and that you know, maybe you sell, and then we have you know, some real estate investment trust coming in uh to you know rent these at uh market rate.

I think that that's a really big concern for me.

Yeah, um I'll answer quickly.

I mean, number one, there's no guarantee what's gonna happen 10, 15, 20 years from now.

Uh, one of, as I said, as part of being the legacy project here is uh Mr.

Gum has properties in the area, he knows what those rents are.

The goal is to be a couple hundred dollars less than what that market rate is in that area, and the goal right now is to hold on to those apartments, and they have that.

Um, and there is no subsidy.

If there was a subsidy, you could tie it to restrictions and so on.

Um, but I think the most important thing you'll see where where we are in the three years, and when we come back for that review, no problem having those discussions with you.

But um, as you may or may not know, Mr.

Gum has experience in this general area, he understands where the rents are, and this is given back to the community uh uh what you're doing here.

Okay, anybody else?

Miss Diaz.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Um, I want to thank uh both um Mr.

Gary and Mr.

Bradley Gumper.

Um being amenable.

Uh this has not been an easy project to navigate because one, it's one of a kind, and the city really hasn't spoken to this type of development where it's prefabricated.

Um, everything that has been a tiny home has been built, much like we build the housing units or things that are for sale.

Um, so I did want to do my due diligence as the elected that represents this area because um I think that my residents get tired of always um feeling like you can do less for our community or our area than in other areas, and I take that to heart when I'm vetting things that it needs to be just at the same level as any other development and any other part of the city, and that any of my other colleagues that are sitting here aside me would be proud for this to be developed in their neighborhoods.

Um, so that's how much thought and intentionality has been put into this because um we want to ensure that we're taking care of the future tenants and residents of your property, and we want them to be happy, and we want the best for them.

So that's why I really wanted to make sure landscaping was amazing and beautiful.

I wanted to make sure that there were different elevations, that it looked like and it felt like any other neighborhood, any other housing community that we have, and there may be people watching right now who are trying to figure out how to finance um a build of offering residential opportunities to our community, and they're they're the construction numbers aren't penciling, um, and so therefore they may pivot.

And so you are not this is not only a legacy project as stated by Mr.

Gronouer for you, but I feel like it somehow, some way we are also kind of putting the bar and setting the bar as to what our expectations for caliber and quality and amenities and aesthetics and everything in between is.

So I appreciate you.

Um I think that if you all saw the initial white rendering of a boxable and where we are now you know what I mean, like we this is what I always envisioned.

And yesterday we took a tour of tiny homes in the Northwest and Councilwoman Bruni's area.

And now that I see the renderings and I compare what I saw yesterday, it makes me feel confident in having you know this back and forth conversation and and extending your thinking.

Can you give me, can you do, can you modify?

And I think that we both can walk out of here proud that we did best by community and we're doing best by attainability.

I, Mr.

Gum, will take you at your word here.

You're saying it on record that your intent are for these units to be attainable and affordable to our community.

And there's not very many developers that are private developers coming and knocking on my door stating this, right?

Let alone wanting to do it.

And so I appreciate, and I I heard from the residents that came out that you do keep the price point attainable and affordable for them.

So if you have been doing that currently, I have complete faith that you will do this for this property as well.

Um, I did have a question about um age.

This is a non-age restricted community, correct?

So anyone of any age, as long as they qualify with your property management ground rules and whatever that looks like, they will be regardless of age, as long as they qualify, they will be able to live here.

That's correct.

Okay.

Um, and then for you, Mr.

Loinstein, I did have a question about the amended condition on going and doing inspections and reviews post-time.

For me, the boxable product is unknown, it's uncertain, I don't know how it's gonna hold up over time.

We're a desert, there's high heat.

I just there's just too many.

I don't know.

I I didn't have another boxable community to I I went to the actual site and saw their model, but I don't know how they keep up over time.

So my question would be is this a one-time um going back to review the res the residential neighborhood or this um development?

Is it a one-time review in three years, or can it be extended, say, three times so that we can see the state at nine years?

Because I I just don't know.

All right, through you, Madam Mayor Peter Lonescan for the record.

So this sets the first of the required reviews at the at that time.

You can set a subsequent one to it, and you can do that continuous, or if you've you know satiated, you can then stop the required reviews.

Um, it is set in the condition to be three years from the issuance of the first final inspection of the first uh residential unit.

So three years from the first one being able to be occupied, is when you'll see uh this back before you okay.

I prior to making a motion, may I say something?

I'm absolutely elated by this project from the first time I heard about it.

I'm glad that you work so well with uh councilwoman Diaz to make sure that this is a project that we're all proud of and we all are.

Um we talk about in fill on the county uh on the city council, um, and this is a project that fulfills that.

Uh we talk about um low-cost housing, which is so important in this community, and I have a little experience with tiny homes.

Uh, we've been talking about that for a long time, and they are extraordinarily the ones I've seen are extraordinarily spacious and accommodating inside.

So, for all of those reasons, I'm very excited to see this project, and uh we will review it in three years and look forward to many more projects like this.

So, Ms.

Diaz, I'll entertain the motion.

Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Bruni.

Thank you.

I have a question.

As Councilman Dea said, we did tour some tiny homes yesterday, and um one of the questions I asked, because you know, there is not a lot of space between the different units, and so I was wondering whether that particular property had a policy around kind of storage of items or what you could have in your little solar.

And so I don't know if if in this community you've thought about um rules or guidelines about you know what the residents can store around because you know you don't you can imagine just the pathway between one unit to another could be filled with different things, and so I don't know if you've thought about that at all.

Right.

Yeah, no, of course.

I mean, you know, we've been in property management for many years.

We've run apartment communities for many years.

So we're well aware of all those issues.

Um, and so this property is unique because and innovative because you have a front door on these units and a back door, which is really cool, which is allows for like some backyard space, so to speak.

Um, and so you know, we anticipate they'll store you know, e-bikes and scooters have all become super popular, and so they'll have some space for that.

Whereas you're in your typical two, three, four-story garden style, you know, some of these are interior hallways.

There's no, and you're and then you're already in a micro unit.

Where are you supposed to put anything?

You know, these have the ability for them to be able to do that.

Also has a porch and a patio out in front there where you saw that floating wall and that overhang that creates the shade there, so they can sit out, have some coffee, um, and and a bike can be stored back behind that floating wall and locked up, you know.

So this uh, you know, uniqueness of this project allows for those things for sure.

And of course, there's rules and regulations, and um, you know, there also is the fire codes, you know, they can't have a barbecue, you know, within a certain number of feet of the unit.

But we have we're gonna have on-site gas barbecues in shaded areas with picnic areas, any way to accommodate.

So I you know, we're we'll be on top of it.

I can assure you, this is what we do.

Um, and we have a track record of taking care of our properties, and and you know, I I think this is gonna be received very well.

I think that you know, people are gonna love it and they're gonna want to stay there and adhere to any rules that we put there, uh, which is for the betterment of everybody in the community.

Yeah.

Thank you so much.

All right, thank you, Madam Mayor.

And so uh with that, I'm gonna move to approve agenda items 33A and B with all of the stated conditions by Mr.

Loinstein, and uh that is my motion.

Please vote.

Post motion carries.

Thank you very much.

Have a good day.

Thank you.

Agenda item number 34, 25-0594-GPA one, uh, re-notification general plan amendment, public hearing, applicant owner, city of Las Vegas for possible action on a request to amend the city of Las Vegas 2050 master plan to modify certain general plan categories and corresponding compatible zoning districts, consistent with the creation of the transit-oriented development overlay district, and to provide for other related matters.

This affects all wards.

The planning commission and the staff recommends approval.

Mr.

Floyd.

Yes, thank you, Mayor Seth Floyd for the record, and I'll be brief, but I want to give a quick intro on this.

Marco mentioned transit-oriented development earlier in the sustainability presentation.

Uh, you may have heard that word a lot, both from us and from others in the city, and that's because when we adopted our current master plan back in 2021, a key component of that was creating areas along our major corridors for future transit oriented development, which would of course spur growing up, not out, which is kind of where we are uh in our history right now.

And the next phase of that is to adopt an ordinance that actually puts standards to those transit-oriented areas.

And I will turn it over there uh to Marco to explain what this is and what this will do.

Good morning, madam mayor, members of city council, Marco Velata City, Las Vegas Department of Community Development for the record.

As Mr.

Floyd just mentioned, this is a uh the basis for the 2050 master plans, land use and transportation strategy of growing up and not out, and really it dovetails well with infill and redevelopment as well as other concepts like attainable housing.

Uh and we did go to uh uh the legislature last session uh as part of uh incentivizing the uh this concept uh through Senate Bill 28.

So, what is TOD or transit-oriented development?

Um with a backbone of a fast frequent transit, whether that's bus-based or whether that's rail-based, it is uh it is development that is immediately uh surrounding or adjacent to that uh that transit.

Um it's seen in many different forms all across the country.

Uh we have a lot of examples that I'm I'm clicking through here, but again, you have compact, medium or high density development that is immediately nearby.

Uh there's pedestrian-friendly design, people that can come from a short walk or a short distance or bike to it.

Uh and again, it's complementary uh with a number of different uh use types residential with commercial, commercial, uh different types of commercial, restaurants, retail, uh, and then it some of them often include some form of affordable or attainable housing uh as part of it.

And that's something that we've already integrated into Title 19 as part of our incentive package.

So there is this high quality design focus, and really that that center transit stop immediately adjacent to it, you'll have that walkshed of residential, and then you have that vertical development uh with a mix of uh active ground floors and uh retail uses uh sometimes uh exclusively residential, sometimes exclusively commercial, but there's a nice integration of uh of mixed use.

It is uh also used as an economic development tool.

This is a uh picture from Salt Lake City at the 900 South Station.

There's a robust rail and bus rapid transit network that you Utah Transit Agency UTA provides.

Uh and you can see that with the presence of that uh of that infrastructure, you can get a lot of different types of development.

And with the 2050 master plan being developed in conjunction with the RTC's onboard future mobility plan, we've started to see some of that uh develop and evolve over the last couple of years since their adoption.

We have our land uses for transit-oriented development already determined.

Um those have been in the master plan since its inception, and they roughly parallel where RTC has been planning and building the high capacity transit uh, notably Maryland Parkway.

We have that going on right now.

Uh that is uh going to link downtown with the airport.

Uh you can see right here a good example of transit-oriented development right at our doorsteps, literally at Civic Plaza.

You have the integration of the Bonneville Transit Center Bay right next to our our civic plaza, our uh transit center itself, and then a close walk to uh civic services, uh residential uh nearby.

The same thing is happening in Henderson along Boulder Highway.

Bus Rapid Transit is under development right now, center running uh from Nevada State College through downtown Henderson all the way up to uh to uh about Sunset Road, and that will continue on northward to uh downtown Las Vegas.

Again, this is a prime opportunity to take advantage of transit-oriented development.

So we're TOD TODO, this overlay that uh that Jeff readed to the record is as a new bill here a couple items ago.

Uh this will be uh applicable to our transit-oriented land uses and our zoning districts that they'll be compatible for will be our our high-density residential R3R4 and RTH, our appropriate commercial zit districts, C1, C2, and C and O, and our civic districts, those are where the overlay will apply.

And as we go through recommending and we go through the the next steps from the text amendment itself, we'll get into uh the those standards themselves.

But more or less what the what those standards in that bill will reflect is what I what I showed you in the first couple of slides.

That mixed use, the ri the retail uh that is that provoke promotes density and mixed uses.

Um, and again, we've seen this all across the country.

I was fortunate enough to live it over the last uh last couple of weeks, you know, in Southern California, even in suburban settings.

You know, I was able to walk to a transit station, take either the rail or bus to uh to my destination, and you know, grab a cup of coffee along the way, uh go shopping at uh retail in Azusa or K or Acata.

Um it it works out.

You know, I got my 10,000 steps, I had all the amenities nearby me.

I was able to recreate as well.

I was able to conduct business and do what I needed to do.

So we have the the ability to do that in Las Vegas.

And this bill and this uh and this general plan amendment helps um set the stage for where we are going to uh be able to go next in terms of 2050 master plan implementation, as well as some of the other text amendments that were adopted by planning commission at its March 10th meeting that all complement it, including some parking standards, attainable housing incentives, and uh residential commercial infill uh zoning standards.

And with that, if there's any questions, I'd be more than happy to answer them.

Thank you so much.

Is there anybody else wishing to be heard on this item?

Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing.

Are there any questions in cat or comments from the council?

Uh Mr.

Knutson, thank you, Mayor.

And again, uh Mr.

Pilata, thank you for for making the presentation.

I just want to say, like from my perspective, I have some of the longest standing residents of Las Vegas that live in my area, and I've had this conversation a dozen times uh over again.

Uh there's an intense fear around transit-oriented development.

There's an intense fear around people who don't want to walk because they think that Las Vegas is not walkable.

Uh and so my conversation with them is always about the fact that we're gonna grow by another 500,000 people over the next 20 or so years, um, and that is that is a lot to think about.

That's a lot of people that we have to cram into our valley.

Uh, and so I think, and I have a strong belief that our job as as leaders within the city of Las Vegas is to not think about what's happening right now and what the people expect right now, but to plan for what they'll need in 20 years from now, and that means that we're gonna have to have uh more development, higher development, and transit that moves people around as complicated as those conversations are, and it's hard to imagine what it is in 20 years from now, but we're gonna have a lot more people, and so your your thoughtfulness around how we approach this is appreciated.

So thank you.

Ms.

Summers Armstrong.

Thank you, madam mayor.

I'm always excited when I see uh this type of um discussion.

Um I'd agree with my colleague that we are growing and we have to find a solution, and we have to model that solution.

Um, and I would just like to see us ensuring that all of our major corridors that we're thinking along the lines of uh transit oriented development from the planning perspective, but also from the public works perspective, that we are looking at every street that we touch from that perspective.

How do we ensure that people can access transit safely?

Um, even if we don't anticipate a five-story building going up in the next few years, how do we make at least the transit portion of it accessible and safe?

And transit meaning not just getting on a bus, but how do people walk, how do they traverse on foot, how do they traverse on e-bikes and other forms of transportation.

Uh we are an aging community, and we have to also recognize that many of our residents use mobility devices.

Um we were visiting, you'll see in um my clo in my closing, a senior center on Cheyenne and Jones last week, and there were probably 15 seniors there who don't drive anymore.

And the number one thing that people were scared of is not that there was not a place for them to shop, it was.

It was when they were using mobility devices, whether or not they had enough room on the sidewalk and they felt unsafe that their devices were sliding on the sidewalk and that they might roll into moving traffic.

So when we're looking at these things, I think we have to look at this from the perspective of not just building housing that has access, but how do people use the facilities that we are installing?

So I love this, but I think that we can always be more thoughtful and um and make sure that we're every time we touch a street that we are thinking about how we help folks traverse.

So thank you all for your your work.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Is there a motion, Mayor Pro Tem?

I will move to approve.

Thank you.

Please vote.

Post.

Oh motion carries.

Thank you.

Agenda item number 22.

Discussion for possible action regarding the recommended fiscal year 2027 tentative budget for the city of Las Vegas and the City of Las Vegas redevelopment agency.

This impacts all wards.

Hello, Mr.

City Manager.

Good morning, Mayor Berkeley, members of City Council, Mike Jansen, City Manager.

And uh, this is a uh tag team presentation for you today, so I'm gonna let my colleagues to my right introduce themselves.

Good morning, Mayor and Council, Susan Helpsley, Chief Financial Officer for the record.

Good morning, Mayor and Council.

Rosa Cortez, deputy city manager.

All right, uh Mayor and Council.

Uh, before we get started, I want to just take a moment to thank uh all the work that's been put in to bring in this budget to you today.

Uh budgets are very challenging to put together.

There's uh never an easy budget.

Uh I'd say every year that I've been a part of one, uh they've been challenging for various reasons, and um putting a budget like this together uh is through the work of our directors, uh their administrative team, our entire finance team, and certainly our entire CMO team.

And so just uh as we get started, I want to put that word of thanks out.

So jumping into this presentation, uh, you know, again, every every year we have different things that we are focused on.

Some recur, um, such as our city council priorities and how we take them into account for the budget, uh, capital projects, how do we manage the needs throughout the city as it relates to the capital program?

But this year, a couple of unique things uh were part of our um evolution of this budget.

Um as you see here in the first bullet, with Badlands now behind us, we really need to focus on re-establishing our general fund reserves.

Um, and we want to maintain a balance greater than 20 percent.

That's to protect our A plus bond rating that was just uh re approved by SP, and they made it clear that if you fall below 20 percent, you will risk a uh rating downgrade.

And so it's really important because we're so uh uh in need of bonding for various projects we do.

We want to get the best interest rate.

So that's a top priority for all of our budgets is to at least maintain that 20 percent general fund reserve.

Uh our own policy states that uh we should have a little bit more than that, 25 percent.

We were not able to do that last year, but this year, from the start of our budget development, we focused on how can we get ourselves back to that policy level of a 25% general fund reserve.

Uh to help us get there, uh we needed to ask our departments to provide us with a two and a half percent decrement so that we could use those savings towards building up our general fund reserves.

Um another unique thing that came uh into this uh budget development really happened uh very quickly.

In January, we met with our financial advisory committee, and that committee helped us try to look at what should the CTAX growth look like for this upcoming fiscal year.

And again, it's a very important group.

It's a number of CFOs from the casino industry, it's the home builders, it's multiple economists.

They really help us build a budget.

And at that time in January, the projection was C tax growth somewhere in the neighborhood of two and a half to three percent.

Fast forward a month and a half later, and the Iran conflict began, and what's happened since that moment in time is a pretty significant surge in energy prices.

Um we don't know if it's short-term, medium-term, long term, but as of today, building this budget, trying to be conservative on what our C tax growth could be, we have to take that into account.

And two of the major elements associated with energy prices that uh can have a big impact on our community, particularly as it relates to visitation, is first one you see here is jet fuel.

Jet fuel ended the uh the week at almost 200 a barrel.

Um it was uh under 100 a barrel uh pre-conflict.

And so why that's important is a lot of our tourists that come here when they order their ticket, um, it's gonna be a higher ticket uh unless that number comes down.

Similarly, on the gasoline side, a lot of our tourists come in driving from California.

Um their rate today is almost six bucks a gallon.

Um it's a significant increase from where it was when we were looking at this in January.

So we're mindful of that, that if it gets corrected in a reasonable manner, we'll we'll be in a better position, but we're trying to plan for uh something that could be more impactful.

Another unique thing that happened this year as it relates to parks.

Um, pick any park projects.

Sometimes they're complicated to where we have to buy land before we can build a park.

Sometimes they have federal funds that make them take longer.

Uh a lot of uniquenesses that come with parks, but this year the stars aligned.

As you'll see in an upcoming slide, there are so many parks that are all going to be coming online, open to our community in this fiscal year.

And as a result, uh it was a bit of an anomaly in terms of the amount of staffing services and supplies that we needed to add into this budget to reflect that all they're all opening around the same time in this fiscal year.

It's a good thing that we got these beautiful parks and recreational facilities that are gonna be open for our community.

It's just the way they've lined up this budget had to uh significantly incorporate that.

As I mentioned earlier, every budget would if there's something that's consistent, it's the city council priorities being taken to an account as we're looking at what we can and cannot afford.

Uh it certainly starts with public safety, um, health care, economic development, diversification, and housing and homelessness.

And just to give you a snapshot of uh what you'll see in some of the upcoming slides, it's fair to say that this budget has public safety as our number one priority.

Um in the uh draft budget that's been discussed for L VMPD, which we cover about 35% of, there's 18 new commissioned officers in that budget.

Uh, they would be mostly covered under 11 for traffic officers and seven for counterterrorism.

Uh in the fire department, we have 15 new firefighter positions.

Those positions are going to be primarily to staff a new ladder truck for FS4.

Uh that need was identified multiple years ago.

We ordered the truck, it is now arriving, and so we have to staff it.

Luckily, we were able to get a grant that's going to offset some of those costs.

You'll hear more about that as we get through the upcoming slides.

We are also allocating $16 million to rebuild our oldest fire station in the city.

A 63-year-old fire station known as Fire Station 103.

That is a very busy fire station in these days with its proximity to the freeway and a lot of freeway crashes that it responds to.

That station is going to be rebuilt to a four-base station.

And again, it's a significant investment in public safety.

And lastly, as our public safety needs evolve throughout the city with growth, tremendous growth in the Northwest, particularly in Ward 4 and 6, huge amounts of housing developments in that area.

This budget is also advancing the design of a new fire station to service the Northwest area.

So fair to say public safety is for sure the number one priority in this budget.

Just a note on health care.

A note on economic development diversification, as we've discussed in some of our budget briefings, our best role is trying to help the workforce develop, and that partnership with CSN is strong.

This budget includes funding to support the continued growth of a CSN Eastside Training Center and a CSN Medical Education Training Center to complement the recently opened, and I think we're giving it the name of the Jewel of the Historic West Side.

That's our West Side Education and Training Center.

So I'd be remiss if I just didn't take a moment to say CSN, the partnership has been incredible, and this budget is going to continue to move those partnerships forward.

And then on housing and homelessness, this budget is funding 58 new transitional housing units for a property that we acquired that's going to be having some rehab to it.

So again, uh a couple of points on some of your priorities.

As it relates to capital projects, this budget is going to incorporate a new bond from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

So with a prior bond being paid off, we're able to issue a new bond and continue to move a number of uh park projects forward.

Similarly, you'll see in an upcoming slide all of the public safety projects that we've talked about in many briefings, they're all moving forward.

We're able to keep those on track.

And then lastly, as it relates to capital, uh this year's budget's a little bit less than last year's.

Last year's it was about 150 million.

And again, this is capital that doesn't include some of the outside agency sources such as RTC regional flood.

This year's budget has about 115 million dollars in the capital.

Last year's there was 150 million.

Moving on to our uh next slide related to our budgetary challenges.

Um, we've got to identify strategies how to navigate some budget challenges.

Again, the challenge is bring our reserves back up where they need to be to protect our rating and to give us room in case there's a bump in our economy.

So uh most of our departments historically have used a 3% vacancy rate.

Um, but this year we took a closer look at every department over the last couple of years what their vacancy rate really looked like, and what we found is some of our public safety department vacancy rates are traditionally higher.

Uh to the best of our abilities to fill all those positions, their rates are higher because of limitations in our police and fire academies, higher retirement rates, higher resignations, and in many cases a non-confirmation uh during an academy.

So this budget is capturing that reality and incorporating a 7% vacancy rate for our marshals, a 9% vacancy rate for corrections, and a 7% vacancy rate for IAAF.

Um to how are we dealing with that decrement?

How are departments trying to help us get those dollars set aside to build up our reserves?

Mostly it's for vacant positions.

When someone retires, when someone leaves the city, someone may get promotion.

Um we have a vacant position, and uh the plan proposed from some of the departments was to use some of those vacancies as well as some of their services and supply contracts to try to help us get to that two and a half percent decrement.

Of note, it's important to know we can't predict what's gonna happen throughout the rest of the year.

If all of a sudden we go on a good stretch and things are coming in really well, these positions are remaining in the staffing plan, but right now they will have zero budget assigned to them.

We have the potential to come back to you during the year and do an augmentation to add those positions back if our economy allows us to do that.

We're also in the second year of our voluntary separation program.

This was a program we offered back in uh 2025's budget year.

Uh it was a program where we were looking to see if some uh staff would uh retire early uh with an incentive uh related to their health care.

This year is the second year of that program, so that's another area where there's a uh component of it for the decrement.

It's important to note uh the decrement doesn't include any uniformed officers or firefighters, and uh also it's important to note that in FY26, the uh decrements we asked for were five and ten percent.

So this year it's two and a half, prior year was five and ten.

Lastly, in our briefings throughout the year, we've brought before you a number of presentations from departments who's had a fee in a schedule that had not been adjusted for many years.

In many cases, they're nowhere near able to address the inflation we've seen.

So, as part of this budget, um we are looking to adjust those fee schedules so that they have a built-in CPI so that going forward um that adjustment will happen naturally as the inflation rate goes up.

So, with that, Mayor and Council, I'm going to pass the mic on to our CFO.

Thanks, Mike.

The mayor and council, Susan Heltsley, CFO for the record.

Uh, before I get into my slides, I also want to reiterate what Mike said earlier.

It takes a village to build this budget.

So thanks to all the directors and thanks to the finance staff who are all sitting out there in the audience.

So, led by Gail Lloyd Likos and our budget manager Quinn, they put a lot of work and a lot of effort into this.

So thank you so much.

I know how hard it is because I was their director for a while.

So, anyway, I get to talk about our FY26 general fund year-end estimate summary.

We believe our revenues are going to be greater than budget by almost 12 million dollars.

Property and room tax coming in about 4 million over budget.

Our C tax year-end estimate is 19.7 more than budget.

We budgeted at 424 million.

We believe it's going to come in around 442, 444.

So it's a the year is looking pretty good.

Um, the year in revenue estimates for licenses, service charges, and franchises are 21 million dollars below budget.

There's a few things going on, especially in our franchise revenues.

Our electric franchise revenues are 19% below last year.

If you guys remember last year we had a really hot summer, so people were really cranking that air conditioning.

When energy energy charges more, we receive 5% of that revenue.

So when folks have those more mild weather, we're not getting that franchise revenue.

Same thing with our grass our gas franchise revenues.

They're actually 31% down from last year.

Again, we had a pretty mild winter.

People just were not running their furnaces.

Cable revenues continue to fall below our amounts collected.

They're 23% down.

We're seeing more and more people cutting the cable and just going to streaming, and we don't get the franchise revenue on our internet.

So that's a thing that we have are very much aware of.

And I know I'm one of those people guilty of cutting the cable, and I stream everything now.

Uh we have other things that are just really uh, I talked about oh, and the increase in solar energy use, too.

We're seeing a lot, I I was telling in council earlier, I think most of my neighborhood has gone to solar panels.

And so that really helps with people's energy bills, but it's also taking the prices away from NV Energy.

Um, our permitting revenue has also been down 22% this year between last year.

We're just not seeing the development coming in, but we do have some big developments on the horizon, so we're hopeful that it will build back up for next year.

And then our settlements and judgment and other revenue, that's 9.2 million dollars greater than budget.

And we found that our reimbursable revenues were higher.

We thought that the FRI was not going to come back, but it passed this last legislative session.

And so we've got additional money from RTC.

Our cart revenues are almost 2 million dollars better than expected.

That's due to higher traffic ticket volume, and then our interest revenue is actually 2 million higher than we thought it would be.

We have less cash in our bank, but the interest rates did not go down as quickly as I thought they we thought they would.

So moving on to our estimate summary for our expenditures.

We're we're believing that those are going to come in over budget by about 54 million dollars.

Services and supplies are projected to exceed budget by 1.8 million.

Our salaries and benefits are flat.

We are going to come under budget by about 100,000.

And when you figure that salaries and benefits are almost 50 percent of our budget, that's some pretty good forecasting.

Uh the rent contributions, capital outlay, and debt related, they're going to exceed budget by about 2.1 million.

And then we're also the big thing that's driving this is we're transferring an additional 10 million dollars to the liability and property damage, internal service funds for potential lawsuits, and another 40 million dollars is going to capital projects from excess beginning fund balance that we saw from last fiscal year in FY25.

Most of that is going towards bid reserve, just in case of tariffs, and as Mike was saying earlier, we don't know supply chains that could happen with this Iran conflict that we're having having, and we just want to make sure that we've got enough money set aside for contracts that could go up, and also the fire station 103 reconstruction.

So moving on into FY27, we believe our revenues are going to decrease by about 2.9%.

Our C tax, we're keeping it flat to the FY25 estimate, or FY26 estimates, sorry, I'm a fiscal year behind.

Flash FY26, just to due to concern over those geopolitical uncertainty or local economic impacts, as Mike was saying, with jet fuel being up and the price of gas being up, we could see some tourists not coming, and of course, that's what drives a lot of our C tax revenue.

We're also looking at a property tax increase of 6.2%.

The assessed value is going up 4.1%, the tax cap for this year is 3% and 8%, and our abatement has come down a little bit from about 60 million dollars to 56.3 million dollars.

A lot of that is driven by the depreciation on the properties is actually higher than the assessed value.

So as that comes down, our abatement, we eat into that a little bit.

We're looking at license permits and franchise fees increasing at 5.7% over this year's estimate.

Google Fiverr is one of our driving factors.

They have committed to investing about several hundred million dollars into our community.

They'll need permits for that, and we also have a 2% franchise fee on when people actually sign up for their internet service.

And fines charges for services and other revenues are going to be down about 1.6%.

We're keeping our Medicaid reimbursement at $8.6 million, our RDA is $3.7.

And this year we will not have a general fund reimbursement of bond proceeds in FY27.

We had bond proceeds last year, we won't have them this year.

So that's really what's driving most of that decrease for this year.

And this is the chart that just shows our revenues.

You see that our consolidated tax is 53% of our general fund, $444 million.

Our property tax at $172.3.

That is one of our most stable revenue sources that we have.

We we collect 99.5% of the property taxes, which is great.

Licenses and franchise fees are 13.2% or 111 million, and then our other funds, which is transfers in from other sources mostly, and interest and whatnot, 13.4% or 112.5.

So our total is almost 840 million.

This just shows our consolidated tax history.

You can see back in FY13, we were at 232.9 million.

We have doubled in 15 years, which is pretty amazing.

We're up to 444.

We had some really impressive growth, uh, especially from FY20 to FY24, but it's really slowed down the last couple years.

So we're looking at about a 2.5% average growth over the last five to six years.

And then our property tax history that just shows back in FY13, we were at 88.8 million, and this year we're going to be at 198.4.

That includes the money that we get from the fire safety initiative.

That goes directly to fire to fund their apparatus and whatnot.

So we've I it's really interesting to see how long it took to recover, though.

We were up over 100 million prior to the recession, and it took about 10 years to get back to that.

It doesn't show on this chart, but it's always really interesting to think where we were even 20 years ago for property tax.

And then our FY27 expenditure highlights.

Mike touched on this.

Metro had a base, their base request increased by 8.5%.

A lot of that was driven by their contractual labor increases.

They had higher really high PERS costs this year.

It went up 4.375% for both employees and employers, just those related employee benefits.

And there's also an actually driven increase in contributions to their liability fund.

That's for any motor vehicle accidents that they have, and also any lawsuits that come down the pike.

So they're they're making sure that those get funded in the future.

And they also put in for some supplemental requests, those are additional to this increase and being required are being considered.

That's where those 18 new uniformed officers come in, the 11 for the traffic, and the seven for counterterrorism.

There's also a few other items in there that they that are under consideration.

Within our individual budget or just the city's budget, we have contract increases for inmate medical care, our contracted securities going up.

Fire turnout gear replacements.

Uh, in this any time something happens in a hazardous situation, they have to dispose of that gear.

So we're finding that they're doing that more and more often.

Our inmate culinary, it's going up as well.

Um, Senate Bill 170 required additional medical screening requirements for fire employees for the our firefighters.

And so we're funding those are those additional requests.

We're also putting in additional money for school crossing guards.

This will fund all of the middle schools and three of our high schools.

A decrease that we actually thought saw this year is for the animal foundation.

We were able to go in and adjust their contract down to what it really will be happening.

Last year, when we were doing the budget, we weren't sure where we would end up, so we budgeted pretty high.

So now we can go back and make that adjustment.

And then as Mike was saying too, parks and recreation facilities that are coming in line.

That requires additional staff and supplies to run the parks.

And you can see just the long list that we have nine parks coming online, which is really exciting.

It's kind of that perfect storm.

It took forever to get them built, it seems like, and all of a sudden they're all here, and now we have to pay for that additional staff and supplies so that we can all enjoy them.

So we're looking forward to that.

Some more expenditure highlights that we have.

This just goes through the positions that we're adding for this year's budget.

We have 27 new positions within the general fund, as Mike was saying, we have 15 new firefighters that are coming on board.

And those are the staff that ladder track at Fire Station 4.

They are funded by a safer grant for the first three years.

Two years at 75%, and then it falls to 30%, and then the general fund picks it up in year four.

We have a new position coming into finance.

It's a financial analyst that's going to be funded by one of our we have a nonprofit here, the LBCIC, and it supports our new market tax credits.

We received not almost 100 million dollars in allocations over the last two years, and that's a lot of work for both the finance team and also EUD.

So we're getting some extra help for that.

We have a new person coming into Muni Court, a pre-tital uh pretrial service officer.

That's going to be offset by revenues and then savings in the jail because this person's actually gonna be the person that helps to process those cases and release people on their own reconnaissance so they don't have to go to jail.

So we can keep them out of save some money there.

In neighborhood services, we're adding a licensed clinic, clinical professional.

We believe that 25% of that cost can be upset by my for met uh excuse me, Medicare revenue.

And then you'll see the positions that we're adding to parks and rack just to make sure that we have, as I was saying before, we have all of our new parks staffed at level they need to be.

We're also adding three more positions, two of them in enterprise funds, the two in parking.

That's for that brand new arts district garage that's opening in July.

So we're very excited about adding 500 parking spots to the arts district.

And within our internal service funds, we're adding a new locksmith to facilities, our facilities, internal service fund.

That per we are adding more facilities, adding more buildings, we just need more locksmiths to go around and make sure that everybody can get into them safely.

This shows our full-time equivalent history.

You can see where we've been adding positions back from 2019.

We were really robust in 2019, then COVID hit, added a few, we froze everything in 21 and 22, slowly started adding people back in 23, and we've been adding them gradually.

But what I like to point out is that since 2021, our growth in public safety positions is increased 10.7% versus 5.3 for the non-public, excluding, of course, Metro.

So it just goes back to show that uh public safety is our number one priority.

And our general fund expenditures, our total is 826.6 million.

You can see salaries and benefits is almost 50 percent, so 407 million.

Metro's contract this year will be about 206.5 million dollars.

That's 25% of our budget.

Um, our non-labor, 21.8.

That's all of our personal service contracts, any travel, any training that we have, our IT budgets, all of those things, and then other is a 6.3 million.

And if we look at another way, here it is by function.

So you can see that by function, public safety is 67.4% of our budget.

So again, makes up the vast majority of what we spend on our general fund here at the city.

And here is a quick snapshot of our general fund tentative budget.

You can see in FY26, our estimate is we will have a shortfall.

A lot of the reasons because of that is we're still paying off bad lands.

We had to pay off our 125 million, I think 123 million dollar loan that we took from the sewer fund.

So we've paid that back, and just the money that we're moving over to capital and whatnot.

So, as Mike was saying, we ended at 20.8% for our fund balance.

But moving into FY27, we are actually having an excess budget, so we'll have to be filing a surplus of 13.2 per 13.2 million.

Our unrestricted fund balance will be at that 25% policy level, which we're very happy about.

And you can see that our consolidated tax, we've got it being flat and all of the other revenue sources that we have.

Where I was speaking earlier about our bonds, you see that in the other line in FY26, it was 134.3, that included 40 million dollars in bond proceeds.

It's not there in FY27.

And I'm going to turn it over to Rosa to talk about our capital improvement plan.

Thank you, Susan.

Rosa Cortez, Deputy City Manager.

Uh, good morning, Madam Mayor and Council members.

Before I begin, I too want to echo the sentiments of Mr.

Janssen and Ms.

Helsley about the hard work and efforts by our finance team and all the departments as we get to this point today for our tentative budget.

So thank you all.

Thank you for being here.

So on this first slide, uh, we are showing the where all the funding comes from for our capital projects.

And you will see various sources from most restricted to eligible funding source use.

And as Mr.

Jansen mentioned, our FY17 bond will be fully paid by the end of this year, and it gives the city an opportunity to issue a new park bond in the amount of 21 million dollars.

As we mentioned early on, uh public safety is our number one priority for the city of Las Vegas, and here is a list of public safety projects in each of your respective wards.

We touched on fire station 103.

We expect this project to start construction by the end of the year.

And then we have in ward two the new Summerlin West Fire Station.

We're working with the developer amending that DA and the associated dates are shown there on your screen.

We hope to have this fire station constructed and fully equipped by FY29 FY30.

Next, we have the fire training center phase one.

That project is uh starting construction here shortly, and that will come with additional phases in the future.

Then we have the multi-agency joint 911 center.

This project is a collaboration with Metro City, North Las Vegas and Clark County to all work together, and this project we hope to start also in quarter four, 2026.

Next for ward five, we have Fire Station 1, the rehab project.

We expect that to start construction in Q2 of 2027.

And then in ward six, the Sky Canyon Metro Substation City Park.

We expect that to be complete by the end of the year.

And just recently, we talked about and Mike mentioned earlier the advancement of the design for the Northwest Fire Station, which will be located near Schombur and Tropical, also in Ward 4.

Next, I will take a moment to talk about the major projects going on in each of your wards that are either under construction or will be again begin construction, and these dates are calendar year.

So in ward one, we have the Ranchoki Dog Park.

We expect that to be complete at the end of this year.

Firefighters Memorial Dog Park should start beginning of 2027, and we also have the Charleston Heights Arts Center Theater Upgrade to start construction in early 2027.

In ward two, we have the regional aquatic center pavilion pool, very exciting project.

We've been looking forward to seeing that complete, and that was funded by Snippama, and that project should be complete this summer.

We should have a grand opening.

That is a project that consists of rebuilding the restroom facility and putting in a new water plate area.

That project shall start construction also in quarter two of 2026.

And then we have the Dolling Tennis Center, the new pavilion there that'll start in Q2 of 2027.

In Ward 3, we have the Arts District Parking Garage, very exciting project we talked about, opening soon the summer.

The East Las Vegas Family Dog Park also going to be open this summer, and then we have a couple of projects starting construction, Freedom Park Restroom Replacement and Upgrades that will start construction in the summer, and then the Health and Wellness Center as well.

So lots of fun things coming online in Ward 3.

Ward 4, the Nevada State Veterans Memorial Thunderbird Park, a very uh important project for Ward 4 and a collaboration with the state that will be complete at the end of the year.

Looking forward to that.

Hopefully, uh Veterans Day grand opening celebration.

The pickleball complex at Wayne Bunker, also a project that was funded by Snipema, and the construction should be complete by Q1 of 27.

In Ward 5, we have the strong start career connection center that we hope to start construction in Q3 of 2026.

Here's park upgrades to start construction at the end of the year.

And then the Lorenzi Park Tennis Court Expansion funded by Snippema to start in quarter four as well of 2026.

And then the West Las Vegas Library Remodel, our feature art center to start construction in Q1 of 27.

And Ward 6, Sky Kang in uh Metro Substation we touched on to be complete by the end of the year.

And then we have the Centennial Hills Pump Track and Dirt Jump Park that we had started a few years ago.

We hope to start construction that in the Q1 of 27.

And then the Igor Soldo Memorial Park, which is a developer constructed, and we shall have that complete by Q2 of 27, and we're working on a grand uh groundbreaking ceremony soon.

Cool.

With that, I'll turn it over to Mr.

Jensen.

Thank you, Rosa.

Thank you, Susan.

Um shifting gears to the RDA.

I think the RDA is an area of the city that we really are excited about.

Uh so many great things are happening.

Uh cranes are all over downtown.

Uh just a whole lot of activity is happening both behind the scenes and on the street.

And uh just wanted to highlight a couple of them today.

Now you'll see here the FY27 projections for assessed value and tax increment, they're not as big as you would think because you see one percent increase in FY27 assessed value and 0.6% increase in tax increment revenue growth, and you see all the new projects, and you say, how is that possible?

Well, it's because the assessed value additions of projects like the um Southern Land that Symphony Park Tower, the Midrise, the Cedar Street Midrise in the Arts District, and the Southern Land Um Midrise in the Arts District, all of those projects are gonna be leasing next month, but they don't get added to the tax rolls until one year after they receive a certificate of occupancy.

So, what that means, those projects alone uh are really gonna change the outlook on the assessed value uh that you'll see in FY28.

Additionally, as you know, we're in the final stages of selling the Cashman site as well as the state selling the Grant Sawyer site.

Both of those properties are currently government-owned properties.

When that transaction occurs, they will then be added to the tax rolls because they'll be privately owned by Lenar.

So I'm looking at FY28 and saying, wow, what a what an uh uh exciting moment for those two components of the RDA.

Um, and then you look at development that we're seeing.

Uh it seems like every week I'm in another meeting with Mayor Pro Tem on some project in a medical district.

We've got a new medical office building at Wellness Shadow, we've got a Hilton Hotel on Charleston Payor, we've got another medical office building at Westwood Charleston, we have the Cedar Street Midrise that just had a groundbreak.

We talked earlier today, I think about the Biomed Challenge, and then a newer project.

I know Mayor Berkeley you and I discussed this as well about Turo.

Turo has an incredible presence in New York.

They've got a presence here in Nevada, and they want to bring a New York component here, specifically a genomics bioinformatics lab.

And so we're in the early stages of that, but when there's motivated folks, and when I say motivated folks, this would be a partnership with Turo with uh Southern Nevada Health District, Metro PD, and the city.

Um, this is an exciting addition if we can bring it to the finish line.

But the fact that everyone is talking about it, um, we're we're working through the process.

Similarly, at Symphony Park, you know, uh last year it was recognized as the place of the year.

Um, and it's because of all the hard work that's gone into uh making it a beautiful site.

Uh, we've got a prospect street medical office building that uh is going to be coming in soon on a parcel and important update on that UNL V Health, the practice.

They're gonna be taking 25,000 square feet.

Of course, we've got the incredible uh museum of art, the Cello Tower, and the newest edition of Symphony Park.

You can't miss it if you're coming down on um I-11, uh, the signage is now up, and that's comprehensive cancer that has moved into Melaski Corporate Center.

In the arts district, um Midtown is fully underway right now.

That is one of our developers uh who's doing a brand new uh multi-building condominium complex right on casino center in Coolidge.

There's all kinds of equipment out there now building that site.

We have a really cool project that uh developer Jay Dapper's been working on for a number of years, the Mission Linen Redevelopment.

It's near the completion, it's really looking nice.

Um, the Cedar Street project is almost ready to lease, and Southern Lands Project is almost ready to lease.

I mentioned earlier Cashman and Grant Sawyer were on the final uh stage uh for bringing that project to the finish line, and again, that's gonna have an impact on our downtown of uh approximately 450 million dollars.

And then just the RDA is really the the tool that developers that are within that area come to for a cost sharing opportunity with some of our grant programs.

For years we've had the visual improvement program.

More recently, the safety security grant, uh special event offset to keep special events downtown, power line upgrade grant, and then uh also a contribution from the RTA for maintenance.

So, really some really great stuff in the RDA.

On the budget slide, there's just a couple of things I wanted to point out here, and specifically when you look at program expense, you'll see a big jump there from 22 to 35.

The programs are all those ones I just walked you through.

But this year, what we have in there is funding for the CSN Medical Education and Training Center.

That grant that we submitted was a 50-50 match, so we're adding dollars into the RDA to be able to plan for that project, so the funds are there.

Additionally, across the street in our civic plaza, the third story.

Uh, we're very optimistic in the next month or two, uh, we'll be able to announce who the tenant is going to be in that building.

Uh, we're not there just yet, but we're putting dollars into this budget for the TIs.

As you know, Jaime was here earlier from Workforce Connections and uh Mary Beth was here from Chamber not too long ago uh with the long-term lease, we helped them up front with the TIs.

We'd be doing the same thing for this third floor tenant.

Stay tuned on that one.

So um the only other thing I want to point out here is you'll see the contribution to CLV debt service going from 1.3 million to 2.6.

That is capturing the new 10 million dollar bond that was issued for the Arts District parking garage, an extremely important uh project for the arts district, and the RDA has a piece of that cost, as does the parking enterprise fund, as does our general fund.

So again, a snapshot on where things are with the RDA.

This last slide really tries to capture the full picture of city operations, and there's a lot of different funds that come from different sources, and it really just captures it all that this year our our FY27 budget is about 2.1 billion dollars, and that's a lot of money.

Um but there is a lot in that account uh breakdown that you see there.

Uh the biggest one, of course, is our general fund at the top, the 827.

Um the next biggest one you see here is the capital program.

And what's different in this slide than our prior discussion is that this capital program includes all of the outside agency funds.

Many of you are on boards with outside agencies, including RTC, including regional flood, including some funds we may get from the health district, funds we may get from NDOT, a whole host of things are in this full capture of CIP.

But in a nutshell, um, that's where we stand with fiscal year 27.

At the bottom, I really like to take this bottom slide and just say we would not be the city we are if it wasn't for our employees.

And as you'll see, we have regular employees, those that work a full-time job.

We have a handful of temporary employees, a whole bunch of hourly employees, and um you'll see our net FTE is just under 4,000 positions for our city of about 687,000.

And uh again, a word of thanks to all of our employees.

It's the job they do that makes people want to live here, makes people want to develop here, and makes us a great city.

So, with that, um, here's the takeaways for you.

This budget is uh navigating some fiscal challenges.

Again, really the challenge is bring our reserves back so we can protect our credit rating.

Um, and recognize that there's some there's some unknowns going into this fiscal year that can affect our CTAC, so we're trying to be conservative on just what that number might be able to accommodate.

I think you've heard from all three of us at least one slide where public safety remains our priority.

It's been your priority for many years, so we continue to carry that forward.

Uh this it's fair to say this is a conservative budget.

We're not trying to get too aggressive that could call catch us later on down the season.

Um and uh a good news this year's general funds are gonna be in a surplus, which is something to be definitely happy about.

What's next?

The steps are if uh this budget is approved today, uh it'll be filed with the state on their by their deadline of April 15th.

We will be back again in May to see if anything has changed that causes us to make adjustments to what you've seen today.

That budget is due June 1st to the state, and then last but not least, our five-year CIP really a projection of what things might look like over the next five years.

That's due August 1st.

And Mayor and Council with that uh myself, our team would be happy to address any questions you might have.

Um thank you very much for that extraordinarily uh comprehensive presentation.

We appreciate it.

Um but I am going to do in the interest of time.

I don't know who or if anybody on the city council wishes to ask questions, but I'm gonna limit everyone's time to three minutes for asking questions.

Is there anybody on the city council that wishes to ask any questions at this time?

You have three minutes.

So I'm gonna go really fast.

So I'm gonna go really fast and instead of leading up to it.

Can I clarify there was uh lots of numbers and thank you again for you, your staff, all the work.

Um 35 percent of our total budget is public service uh mayor through you.

Our public safety is actually 67 percent.

Is that what is that it?

So for six of our total budget, 67 percent.

Of our general funds.

And it's my understanding that for uh the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, as I've asked about the process many times, that that we do we are not able to or not offered the this we being the city of Las Vegas offered the opportunity to provide input to the sheriff in advance of the sheriff uh creating his budget.

Generally speaking, the since the sheriff is his own entity, he's an elected official.

They do have the ability to create their own budget.

In years past, we have I'm gonna cut you off for a minute because I'm watching my time, so I don't I apologize.

So, yes, and I and I recognize he gets to put together his own budget, but if we're if 65 percent of our revenues are going to the police department or to public safety, let me clarify to both the marshals and public safety, and there is a significant portion that's going to Metro.

I have concern representing the city and more too specifically, that we don't have a chance to have discussions and conversations that are created in advance with the sheriff.

So as they're receiving free uh free contributions that have to be free vehicles, whatever, manned, staffed, whatever.

That adds a huge burden, and and those are not the sheriff's burdens alone.

So I wanted to register my displeasure about that and uh and in recognition that I think that needs to be part of the process.

I think we see ourselves as partners with the sheriff, and I think he sees us as partners, but I think part of that partnership is a record recognition of how much we contribute, as well as Clark County, certainly.

And I think in terms of outlining those priorities for him, et cetera.

And a uh tangential conversation is about our parks and interested in how we uh decide to build a park, and and because we've got have to fund it at some time, and so I've got a whole bunch of questions about that.

Um I would say that if there was a motion to approve this at the time, um I would do so, but I have reservations about the stability of uh what you recognize the stability of our revenue prediction predictions.

Uh we've gone through a time period where we have not uh seen the full recognition of the Iran war or the full recognition of the cost of gas, et cetera.

And I'll just wrap up, Mayor, if you'll indulge me for another 30 seconds.

Um that a significant part of our expenses.

Uh we don't get input in how to do that.

I think we're expected to fund them, and I think that's a backward way to do that.

And then that uh we although I recognize that a zero-based budgeting process might be completely inefficient.

Um I I recognize also as you've told me, Sue, that we rely on our directors.

I would like to have more of a discussion understanding of how, particularly Mike, and your executive team work with your directors to make sure that they are getting support throughout their year in evaluating programs and their expenditure.

Councilwoman, please please wrap up.

And I'm done, thank you.

Thank you very much.

Uh thank you all very much for the extraordinary work that you do.

Um it's a pleasure to work with you on an ongoing basis, and I appreciate all the effort you put in.

Thank you.

Agenda item number 36 has oh heavens.

Does anybody want to make a motion?

Yes, Ms.

Felenski.

Uh thank you, Madam Mayor.

I move to approve the budget as uh mentioned and as our CMO team has indicated.

That is item number 22.

All right.

Um please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

Thank you all very much.

Agenda item 36 has already been heard, as has agenda item 35.

Agenda item 37.

Set date on any appeals filed or required public hearings.

I would instruct the city clerk to set the public hearing dates and appeals from the city planning commission meetings and dangerous buildings or nuisance litter abatements.

Well do thank you so much.

Citizen participation, agenda item 38.

Citizens' participation.

Public comments during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters within the jurisdiction of the city council.

No subject may be acted upon by the city council unless that subject is on the agenda and a schedule for action.

If you wish to be heard, come to the podium, give your name for the record.

The amount of discussion will be two minutes for any individual.

This is your opportunity to address the council, but the council is not able to respond or engage in dialogue.

Are there any members of the public who wish to speak under this portion of the agenda?

Madam Mayor, Heather DeGran and Shaitan Daniels.

This is your time.

Please state your name for the record.

Good morning.

My name is Heather DeGrande, and I want to speak about the disrespect and inconsistencies still occurring at the courtyard.

Everyday people are spoken to with irritation, dismissal, and profanity.

Security and staff talk to us like we're criminals inside of an institution.

Like we are problems instead of people.

That kind of tone affects the whole environment.

There's also problems with inconsistency.

Different staff give different answers.

Rules change depending on who is working.

People are corrected for things they were told were okay.

That creates confusion, stress, and conflict for people who are already trying to stabilize their lives.

There has been numerous people over the months who has received lice from the courtyard.

Weeks later, I was informed I had lice by a licensed barber at the courtyard.

I then received treatment, and later on that night I was told by security that I need to pack my things and leave the courtyard because I had lice.

The next day I was given an apology by an employee who works at the courtyard and was told they did not follow protocol.

I had one to the doctor, and I found out I did not have lice.

Protocol wasn't followed, and I was forced to sleep outside.

That situation could have been handled with clarity and dignity, but it wasn't.

Disrespect and inconsistency harms people.

A charm-informed environment cannot exist without consistent, respectful communication.

People deserve to be treated equally and with respect.

And right now that is not happening.

We are homeless, but we are not our circumstances.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Is there anybody else that wishes to speak?

Please state your name for the record.

Good morning.

People who come there are already carrying in trauma, instability, and vulnerability.

The people working there should reduce harm, not add to it.

NBH says they operate under a trauma-informed model.

But the people we interact with the most are security, and their approach is not trauma-informed.

So that creates a contradiction.

Excuse me.

You cannot claim a trauma-informed environment when the first point of contact is untrained and consistent and disrespectful.

I'm not saying we need secure.

I'm not saying that we don't need security because we do.

But we need security who match the trauma-informed standards that Nevada behavior health claims to follow.

The approach we're experiencing are harming people.

While informing people of how to file a grievance, I was told to shut up by security.

These are harmful responses, not trauma-informed responses.

People can't heal in a place that harms them.

The courtyard is a low-barrier public accommodation that I would like to believe was created to provide a safe place.

So I'm asking to keep us safe and stop harming us by allowing contractors to call us out our names, yell and belittle us.

We are homeless, but we are still worthy of respect.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Is there anybody else wishing to address the council?

Seeing none, I will move to agenda item number 39.

Council emerging issues.

Discussion regarding potential items for future city council agendas or wards.

Any discussion must be limited to whether or not such proposed items shall be placed on a future agenda and no discussion regarding the substance of any such proposed topic shall occur.

No action shall be taken.

Do any members of the council have any topics they would like to bring forward under this item?

Thank you.

Madam Mayor, um, I think um it might be helpful for us to have some reporting every 60 to 90 days as we are still in this Iran conflict, um, just so that the public knows where we are with our budget and whether there are anything that is happening that would truly affect what is going on with our with our uh city's budget.

I'm super concerned.

Um I know that we get briefed, um, but if those changes or those um issues affect how we deliver services, maybe it's something that we need to have public.

Um, Mr.

City Manager, would you be able to brief us in our um the Tuesday briefings uh every 90 days?

That'll be not a problem at all, Mayor.

And let us hope that we don't have to have one in 90 days.

Anyone else?

Oh, yes, Miss Kelly.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

I'd like to have more discussion on the budget process specifically regarding the very brief comment I made about um how we uh work uh uh with the uh sheriff in preparing budgets.

I know since we do budgets one year at a time, we'll be back to this subject matter uh in the spring, and I mean not in the spring, I'm sorry, in the fall, as we start that process.

Um, and it while it may not be the appropriate uh time on an agenda item per se.

Um, I would like us to consider having a dialogue on how that can be a healthier experience for the taxpayers of the city of Las Vegas.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Anyone else?

In that case, we will move to agenda item 40.

Council member recognition.

Comments made by individual city council members during this portion of the agenda will not be acted upon by the city council unless that subject is on the agenda and scheduled for action.

Um, let's start with uh Miss Kelly.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

In light of how long our meetings are going, I will bypass uh my contributions today.

Thank you.

Oh, okay.

Miss Bruni.

Although let me uh uh Miss Kelly, I have to congratulate you on a wonderful event at a new uh business in your ward.

Um pretty petals.

It was truly uh an outstanding uh event.

Thank you, Mayor, and that's part of our uh small business spotlight series, so they'll be getting the appropriate attention on our channel and on YouTube.

Loving it.

Miss Bruni.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

For our March Connector series, we hosted applaudings in the park at Pop Squires Park.

Attendees enjoyed relaxing, connecting, drinking healthy juices, and building community with us.

Thank you to the Centennial Hills YMCA of Southern Nevada for partnering with us on our excellent Aqua Egg event.

Participants enjoyed an aqua egg hunt, goodybags, and vendors.

Thank you to those who attended our town hall on the Iron Mountain Capitol Project, which is focused on road and storm draining improvements and traffic calming measures.

Thank you, Gina Venglass and Robbie Sierra for presenting.

Team Bruni was proud to attend the North Las Vegas State of the City.

Congratulations to Mayor Pamela Goines Brown for the incredible projects on the North Las Vegas horizon.

Our spring blooms walk last weekend was a beautiful way to welcome spring at Floydland Park.

From blooming flowers to hummingbirds and little bunnies along the trail.

It was a lovely morning with Nevada Department of Wildlife.

Thank you to Endell for your partnership and to Maria Valiente Cafe for the best coffee boost.

Moving to upcoming events in Ward 6.

We're four days out from our, actually, three days out from our annual spring fling of 10 to 2 p.m.

at Floydland Park.

Attendees will enjoy a classic car show, food trucks, arts and crafts vendors, a pet parade, and pet adoptions.

Join us next Thursday, April 9th from 10 to 11 at our satellite office for our monthly bocaditos with Bruni event.

This is a great opportunity for neighbors to come and share their concerns or find out what's happening in Ward 6.

Next Saturday, April 11th from 9 a.m.

to 12 p.m., we'll be hosting our Nevada Fossil Day event at the Ice Age Fossil State Park in partnership with the City of North Las Vegas and Councilman Scott Bat Black and the Protectors of Thule Springs.

Later that evening, again on April 11th from 7 30 to 9 30 p.m., neighbors can head over to Floyd Lamb Park, where we'll be hosting our second annual A Night Among the Stars event in partnership with the Las Vegas Astronomical Society.

Volunteers from the Astronomical Society will bring their high powered telescopes so that our neighbors can get a closer look at our magical stars and space.

All for free.

On Saturday, April 18th from 9 to 1, we'll be partnering with Sky Canyon for our pickleball social.

Feel free to scan the code or contact our office for more details.

We always want to hear from you.

Email us at ward 6 at Las Vegas Nevada.gov or call us at 702 229 5463.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Miss Diaz.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Happy April to all.

I can't believe we're starting the fourth month of 2026.

It's flown.

And I've been trying to come up with uh jokes for April 1st, but uh it's it's incredibly difficult to figure out what to pull over people these days.

But um I hope some people are getting some good laughs out there.

Um just launch what we've been up to in checking out uh in the city.

We took tours of the Culinary Academy and also the Las Vegas Jeremiah program.

My team and I recently toured um these amazing two community partners, the culinary academy of Las Vegas offers a wide range of opportunities for students in food, beverage, culinary, housekeeping, continuing education, and English as a second language program.

So if you haven't been by, they completely revamped all of the areas that they provide the different classes.

I I recommend you guys stop by and check out the changes.

And fun fact did you know that you can eat yummy yet budget friendly food at the Bistro Monday through Friday, 11 a.m.

to 2 p.m.

If you haven't been by, check it out.

Um it's a really great um, it has great offerings on the menu.

And the Jeremiah program is a valuable nonprofit partner based in downtown, Ward 3, whose mission is to disrupt the cycle of poverty for single mothers and their children.

I want to thank Dr.

Maria Tucker and her incredible team for the tour of the space and for sharing the impact that the Jeremiah program is providing for these amazingly strong women in our community and their children.

On March 20th, um, Anastasio Nidolina from the Ward 3 team joined the ribbon cutting celebration for Los Corales on Friday, March 20th.

Congratulations to Guadalupe Valdivia and her family on this beautiful accomplishment.

Thank you for bringing us delicious delicious seafood offerings and Mexican dishes of Mexican dishes.

Check them out at 1515 Northeastern Avenue, actually very close to the tiny home development that we talked about today.

It's between uh it's on Eastern between Searles and Owens.

Uh on March 21st, we had our UNL V family day.

As a first generation college graduate, I know college can be uh incredibly intimidating idea for many students and not just in my ward but citywide.

But we chose to focus on the ward three students, and for that reason, my office collaborated with partners to host a UNLV family day to help connect families to resources for college that included college planning workshops, bilingual speakers to answer questions for the parents.

I'd like to thank Mario Rodriguez with UNLV, Astrid Silva with Dream Big Nevada, and Missy Frederickson from our very own YDSI department for helping us uh work very hard and diligently to make this uh event a reality.

The only learning point is don't plan it during spring break.

Um but I want to thank our assistant city manager Rosa Cortes for also participating and giving of her time during spring break.

See how committed she is to being a rebel and a city employee.

All right, on March 21st, um, local churches hosted a day of service in partnership with neighborhood services.

Um, so members of the Seventh day Advent Church and several other churches teamed up for the day of service on March 21st, the same day as the UNLV Um tour.

80 amazing volunteers help beautify uh the neighborhood in Ward 3 known as Nursa, a neighborhood revitalization strategy area located on 28th in Marlin and surrounding streets.

In total, over 400 pounds of trash were picked up.

I'd like to thank everyone who truly helped us make a difference in this area, including Vanessa Acosta in our Department of Neighborhood Services and her team for facilitating a very smooth cleanup.

And all cleanup supplies were provided thanks to the tool lending library from the Department of Neighborhood Services.

Please feel free to reach out to our neighborhood services team if you'd like to learn more about neighborhood-based programs to clean up your area and their phone number is 702-229-2179.

Wanna highlight Cristo Rey interns because we're coming to a close on their school year, but I want to show some highlights of things that they're doing while they're here with us in the city last week.

Two of my Cristo Rey interns had amazing days shadowing our Department of Fire and Rescue and Youth Development and Social Initiatives departments.

Isabella is a junior.

She spent the day shadowing Jordan as she visited several of our fire and rescue facilities and her home base at Fire Station One.

Isabella's highlight was taking live calls at the dispatch center in action.

Talk about being freaked out right away.

All right, and Leila, a sophomore, spent the day shadowing Julie and Mariela with team YDSI.

Layla's highlight was participating in Munchie Madness and helping prepare materials for teachers for our strong start go academy.

Thank you, staff.

It truly is meaningful when our interns get these real life experiences in high school.

All right, what's coming up?

Artist presentations for the Arts District Garage Mural, April 1st.

Today, you're invited.

It's not an April Fool's joke, please.

Um this is legit.

You're invited to the Arts Presentations for the Arts District Garage Mural on uh today, Friday, not Friday, Wednesday, uh 4 to 6 p.m.

The artists presenting are Victoria Hart and Giovanni Morales and Trenton Larson.

Presentations are open to the public until the second hour for the reservation panel.

Park on 500 South Main across City Hall for a parking validation of two hours.

And this is in the public meeting room in the Civic Plaza.

So not these chambers, but what we call the mini chambers over there by um the newly added Civic Plaza.

On April 14th, we have a safe uh not 14th.

On April 4th, we have the Safe Village Cleanup.

It's um happening with all of our awesome partners, downtown Area Command, Casa de Luz, and the neighbors in the Gateway District for um a morning of service.

So this is to help us make everything adjacent Stupec Community Center a little bit better, cleaner, and we want to make it shine and sparkle.

So join us 8 to 10 a.m.

this upcoming Saturday, 251 West Boston Avenue.

Wanna also put on your radar, we have a free shredding event.

Yes, tax day is coming in two weeks, and we want you to get rid of any extra documents you've been hoarding or holding on to.

So, in association and partnership with the Las Vegas um City and Employees Association.

We're hosting this in Ward 3, uh 857 Northeastern Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89101.

And it's 9 a.m.

to 12 p.m.

And uh right there you'll see what we accept.

Um, but just make sure you spread the word so that we take lots of documents off of your hands and shred them.

Uh, last couple of uh tidbits, we have an April 29th Save the Date.

We have a meeting, uh a community engagement meeting to talk about Justice Myron Levin JC Community Park.

Um so come join us at KO Knutson Middle School.

And he's it's not named after MPT, but very similar.

April 29th, 6 p.m.

at 2400 Atlantic Street.

We want you to share your thoughts on what you want the future of the park to look like.

So please save the date and join us so that we know what to do.

And last but not least, um, on June 2023, the city council adopted the Nuestro Futuro Este de Las Vegas, East Las Vegas.

It's your it's our future plan.

And one of the action items was the creation of a redevelopment area to assist with all the list of things that people wanted to see more of on the east side.

Uh, we want to create vibrant, livable communities, but the RDA is instrumental in us achieving that.

So I'm happy to share that our EUD department recently completed a blight study in the east side of the ward.

And please stay tuned as this process continues to evolve, and we hope that we can establish this new RDA area to help eliminate blight.

And that's it.

You have the last slide there, and you know how to get a hold of us if there's any need.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much.

Um, Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you very much, Mayor.

This is Child Help National Day of Hope.

This day reminds us that everyone has a role in protecting children and helping create safer, more supportive communities.

And we have Art in the Park unleashed coming up.

It's one month away.

It's May 2nd from 10th to 2 at Wooftor Family Park.

Enjoy a DJ pet parade, bounce house, arts and craft vendors, community support, vendors, and much more.

The pet parade was not my idea.

But we'll be doing it.

So that's all I got.

Thanks a lot, Mayor.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

On the morning of Thursday, March 26th, I had the opportunity to tour West Care's Nevada Women's and Children's Campus.

This campus provides a range of programs to meet the needs of women and women with children, all within a residential family-like environment.

These programs not only focus on recovery and stability, but also emphasizes healing and personal growth.

Thank you to the West Here team for taking the time to share the progress that has been made.

It was an honor to be invited.

Later that day, I gave a presentation to students at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNLV.

The OLI program is a member-driven community of retired and semi-retired adults dedicated to lifelong learning.

I spoke to them about the work we do here at the city and what it means to serve locally and how that it connects with their everyday lives.

I was also able to answer every question they had.

It was an awesome afternoon.

On Friday, April 24th, I went to the Spring Festival at Sandra Thompson Elementary, hosted by their PTA.

During this event, families, teachers, and students came together to enjoy food trucks, outdoor activities, games, and supported local vendors.

It was a great way to bring the community together and spend a springtime Friday night.

On Tuesday, April 7th, the Summerlin Area Command will be hosting their first Tuesday evening at the Starbright Theater in Sun City Summerlin.

This event will feature that presentation by the drone unit.

It will be a night to learn how drones support public safety, assist in search and rescue, and help officers in the field.

It'll be a great opportunity to see the equipment close up, meet the team, and ask questions.

We hope to see you there.

On Saturday, April 11th at 9 a.m.

We will together with Nevada Get Outdoors Nevada host a park cleanup at Police Memorial Park.

To volunteer at this event, you can scan the QR code in the post or uh check out more information on our social media.

It's a wonderful way to come together for Earth Month and spend some time outdoors and take pride in keeping our neighborhood beautiful.

There are eight missing teens in our community.

Isaiah, Kamami, Aidan, Noah, Caden, Juan, Alex, and Noah.

If you have any information about these teens, please contact LV MPD Missing Person Detail at 702 828 311.

Thank you so much.

Lastly, call any time, reach out, contact us through social media, newsletter 702-229-2524.

We're here to provide any help that we can.

Thank you so much.

Miss Summers Armstrong.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

I'm still giggling uh about um the dog uh parade.

I I'm like, is this gonna be like you know, uh a runway show?

I I'm I'm still giggling.

Thank you.

Uh I I you know I'm how I feel about dogs, but I'm just gonna laugh about it in my head.

All right, so thank you so much uh for giving us some little time on uh March 18th.

Uh we uh went to uh see Contour Homes.

They are building homes at Decatur and Lake Mead.

This is one of the first items that I got to um approve as a city councilwoman.

It has actually broken ground.

Uh these we are so happy and congratulations.

Maurice Mosibeck, who is the owner and operator of CONTU Homes.

These are beautiful town homes with backyards, 1500 square feet, walk-in closets.

This is the time to start looking at ward five as your home and an awesome place to live.

On March 20th, uh, we attended the 12th annual Women in Business and Politics luncheon.

Uh, grateful to my staffer, Ara Ortiz, who represented our office well.

I actually had several people touch me and say, hey, she did a great job.

Proud of my staff.

Um the Urban Chamber of Commerce presented this award, and I'm really honored to have been recognized with the Women in Politics Award.

Um thank you, Urban Chamber.

Um, we are um excited about the work that you do in our community.

On March 21st, there was a uh cleanup at Palacio Park and a shredding event.

As you can see, uh Ward 5 is attracting uh community folks to put in their volunteer hours.

There were over 50 people there.

Uh the park looks beautiful, um, and we are just excited that the community is answering the call.

Thank you, Get Outdoors Nevada, for being an amazing partner with us, and we look forward to more activities.

On March 23rd, I had the uh just honor to be at Berkeley El Berkeley Bunker Elementary School.

Um, I was writing on the chalkboard like I was a teacher.

It was crazy.

Um, but the kids were super attentive.

Um, we talked about civics and about the job that we do here um at City Hall and just trying to inspire young people to know that um this is their community and they are the future leaders and to consider civic uh work for their future.

We had a really good time, so thank you, uh Bunker Elementary.

On the 25th, uh, after work, we were at Vegas Vista Academy for their book fair and open house.

I got to read a beautiful book called All Kinds of Awesome, and it was raffled at the end.

And this beautiful young man uh won the book fair, and uh we had a great time.

So thank you always, Vegas Vista for opening your doors and welcoming us to your events.

On March 27th, we took a tour of Avameir at Cheyenne, Senior Living.

I mentioned earlier that I had visited these seniors.

Um, they had about 15 who had great um great questions uh for us, and uh we are really trying to make sure that we are listening to our constituents who are differently abled and at different points in their life um and their abilities, and we are grateful that they took the time to talk to us candidly, and we're hopeful that we will be able to be helpful um as they continue to live in Ward 5.

Uh, the 28th, we had Easter in the 106, a partnership with LVMPD and neighborhood services and ward 5.

I was in Cali visiting my mom for her birthday.

She just turned to 83, but my staff uh was there to represent the office.

As you can see, it was a time, a time was had.

They had a great time, and I'm just grateful uh for the partnership with the community.

Um, the church, oh my goodness, the name of the church is not here in my notes, but the church in the background, which is at 3050 Holly, I believe, is the primary sponsor, and they get us all together to do this community work, and I'm really grateful for the collaboration.

On the 29th, we were at Oboto Gardens with the ACOU Emerging Leaders, their first fourth annual young women's empowerment brunch.

Um, the young lady in the pink dress uh is from the A's, and she was one of the speakers, and we had folks who were her name is Stephanie, and she was their um their primary speaker, and we had community members who received awards.

Uh, it was a beautiful, beautiful event, and I'm really always excited uh to be out at Obodo in the sunshine.

Thank you, Tamika, for always just lifting up our community.

On March 30th, here at City Hall, we had our essay winners, Black History Essay Contest winners from Quiet Storm Foundation.

Um, this is the second year in a row they brought their winners to my office, and we got to sit around and chit chat with the moms and dads and the students.

I think the parents enjoyed it more than the kids.

Uh, but it was wonderful.

They got to um see their awards, their certificates.

They also got to go down to the KLAS Um studio and be interviewed.

So look forward to some snippets at our next Access Las Vegas.

Thank you, CJ Watson and the Quiet Storm Foundation for your work in the community.

He is a son of this community, and he continues uh to give back.

Um, the 31st, we were at Seville Middle School in Councilwoman Bruni's uh district.

Can I just tell you that that is I should have taken some potato chips and some red pop because that was a journey.

Uh but once I got there, it was wonderful.

Um, the students uh prepared a sash that I'm wearing in the picture, and I've got some beautiful um silk flowers that were made as an honorarium.

Uh I wore that sash all day.

Everybody was asking me yesterday.

Was I in a contest?

And I said no, but I feel like I am was in Miss America.

Yes, it was wonderful, wonderful.

Got to talk to about 250 children in the library about what we do, my journey into public service.

They were attentive.

I was interviewed by their press corps who you see at the bottom.

It was wonderful.

The most exciting thing that I do is when I get to go out and talk to kids because they are our future and they're going to be our replacements, and I hope I said something that encouraged them.

So a few upcoming events.

Journey Forward for Autism, a Ward 5 business is hosting an autism Easter egg hunt at Hills Park, 5 30 p.m.

to 7 p.m.

tomorrow.

Families who have students or children or young folks who are autistic, they do these things really with you in mind.

Please go out, enjoy, learn about their services, and have a wonderful time.

Don't eat too many Easter eggs at once.

On the 4th at the Neon Museum, another wonderful Steam event right there on Las Vegas Boulevard near Washington.

Take your babies, folks.

These are amazing, hands-on activities for the whole family.

Please go out.

Reminder to our folks in the community that volunteer income tax assistance program is still going on.

If you earn less than $69,000 in 2025, you may be eligible.

Please sign up and get assistance.

And finally, my awesome team.

Thank you, Nora, Julius, and Aura for all that you do.

Reach out to us at 229-5443 or email us at ward 5 at Los Vegas Nevada.gov.

We are here to help and to serve.

Have a great weekend.

Thank you so much.

The April 1st meeting of the City Council is now adjourned.