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We'll do it.

We'll do it.

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Vincent.

Present.

Gail.

Present.

Michael.

Present.

I believe that Lisa is out today.

And uh Bob Potter here.

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Do we have any public comment?

Oh, yes, Mr.

Seth.

Uh thank you, Mr.

Chairman Seth Floyd for the record.

Maybe this is the first time since I can remember we've had public comment uh at this meeting, and I think it's appropriate, uh, Mr.

Chairman, because it is your last meeting, and I'm not on the agenda like Mike is uh all over the agenda.

So I wanted to come up with public comment and say a few words.

But first, uh we need you to answer a question for us that we have not even Google could not figure this out for us.

Uh who was the building official when you were appointed to the Enterprise Fund Committee.

Well, I'll give you I'll give you three.

We've got it, we've narrowed it down to three.

All right, guys.

It was either Earl Russell, Rod Clark, or Chris Knight.

Chris Knight.

It was Chris.

Okay, there we go.

Thank you.

All right, everyone, we now know the answer uh to who the building official was.

I think Earl Russell predates them and then God, I don't even remember Rod Clark being.

He was in an acting role, I think, for uh a very short time.

Uh I remember him one time when we were building a uh a commercial building early on up off of Sahara, and they made us put in a doghouse all the way to the street, which probably 250 feet, so someone could come there before the AI or the uh ADA route was in.

I said, You're kidding me, Rod.

He said, No.

So yeah.

Well, Mr.

Chairman, uh, it it is there are not many people who have been on a committee for as long as you have since 2008.

So that's uh what about 18 18 years of service on this board.

Uh and it's special for a few reasons.

One, obviously you've demonstrated a lot of commitment to the city, but I want to tell a quick story about the first time you and I met, and that was when I first uh started as the director of community development, and we came and reported to this committee that we were going to be merging a couple of departments together, and I said a few words and then I left the room, and as I was leaving, you said, excuse me, where where exactly are you going?

Aren't you now over this board?

And uh the message that sent to me was a couple of things.

One, uh, how much respect you have for this board and the high expectations that you have for others, and I think that's reflected in everybody who sits up here takes this role very seriously.

I know our team does, uh, and we always try to give uh the best information to you, give you solid reports and answer all of your questions.

And I think that's a legacy that you will leave to everyone who follows.

So I certainly appreciate that.

We don't have that on all of our boards.

Uh, so it's refreshing when someone brings that kind of uh approach to these boards.

So with that, thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Um, unfortunately, I do have to leave this meeting early, also.

Where are you going?

At 2 30.

I have a meeting with the city manager.

Um, so I think it's appropriate that we're gonna finish how we started, but I hope you won't be a stranger.

Uh, I know Jerry is planning to take you to lunch uh as the acting building official and glean some information from you.

But thank you for your service.

We really appreciate it.

Thank you for those compliments.

Okay, boy, that was unexpected and certainly uh certainly welcome.

Uh we work with all of us in the industry, the rest of the people up here.

Uh we do take this job seriously and we try hard.

So it's nice to be appreciated sometimes.

Okay, with that, we'll go to uh possible uh action to approve the final minutes by reference to the regular meeting of October 9, 2025.

Um I think everybody has seen them when I'll take a motion to approve those.

I'd like to make a motion to approve the minutes.

Uh all those in favor?

All right.

Aye.

Okay, so moved.

Thank you.

Oh boy, look at this.

Number five report by Michael Cunningham, Deputy Community Development Director and Building Official regarding the enterprise fund budget for fiscal year 2026.

All right, good afternoon, everybody.

It sounds like we are about to start the mic show.

So thank you for having me for the record, Michael Cunningham, Deputy Community Development Director.

Um, before I get into the report, I did also just want to say a few words.

Um it is it is truly impressive that you've been involved with this enterprise fund board um for as long as you have.

I remember when I first started shadowing kind of Kevin to kind of see all the different roles that a building official had to do.

Um, we sat down, we talked about this board, we talked about the importance of it.

Um I did not realize your tenure was as long.

Nor did I until we saw when you were first appointed to the board.

So it is it is a press impressive.

Um appreciate um all the years that you put into it and hope you you get to move off and enjoy the next chapter in your life.

And with that, I will jump into our report.

So um, so unfortunately now the bad news starts.

Um, so with our budget, um, kind of like we've been having over the last few meetings, we still haven't seen a huge increase in permit volume.

So if you had a chance to review the the budget for this year so far, we're still kind of in the red um monthly.

There's a few things I wanted to point out.

One in January, uh, you'll see a large deposit, um a big increase in our revenue dollars.

That had to do with um our deferred revenue.

So, as you guys know, we have the deferred revenue account when we issue permits, we put money into that fund, and then as projects are completed and we complete certain milestones, we transfer that money back every so often when we check.

Uh, we did a check in January and we needed to transfer 923,000 back into our account, um, which is good.

It helped us be in the green.

Um, what that does show you is kind of what the permit volume is showing.

We're getting more projects that are closing than are kind of being submitted, so we're starting to see that backlog of open permits kind of finish out.

A couple other things I wanted to point out just because we are getting close to the end of the year.

We only got uh four months left.

Right now we're projected on our revenues to finish at 13,488,941 dollars.

That's down about 15% from what we originally projected when we when we submitted this budget last year.

So our original projected amount for revenue was just over 15 million.

Um, and then if you look at our expenses on the labor side, um, we're gonna projected to finish at 10 million, 32,000 245.

That's down 17% from what our projected salary or labor account was.

And as you can imagine, that's a lot of the frozen positions that we've had.

If I've as I've mentioned in this meeting before, due to where our current revenues are, we have been holding our positions.

Um, so that's kind of reflected in our labor dollars.

And then if you go down to our discretionary account and you add everything up, right now we're projected to finish the year with total expenses at 16,432,496.

Now, while that's down 16% from what we projected to spend of just over 19 and a half million, that still will put us in the red at the end of the year at almost three million dollars.

Um, so that's something that we're continuing to keep an eye on.

Um, we are obviously aware of that.

As I mentioned before, we are working on our fee study.

Uh, we have another meeting with our consultant next week to try to wrap up that process with the hopes of trying to get a fee study approved sometime this year so we can try to correct um some of the loss that we're seeing just due to increases in our operating revenues.

Um, and then hopefully we'll we'll start to pick up and see a little bit more permit volume.

Uh, with those two things combined, I think we can get kind of our revenue situation corrected.

Uh, we do still have money in our deferred revenue account.

Um, so we will still continue to draw on that as we close out some of the bigger projects.

Um, and then we do still have reserve balance as well with some money in our reserve balance, and then I'll talk a little bit later about some of the bigger projects we got coming up that'll hopefully help us correct this as well.

Okay, excuse me.

Um, Chair Potter, does uh anybody have any questions on his report?

Yes, thank you for the update.

Uh this is member Tatum for the record.

Uh I thought that uh the fee study was supposed to conclude sometime around uh the beginning of the year.

Uh what's the update on where that sits right now?

Um so for the record, Michael Cunningham, deputy community development director.

Um so our goal was to have it start with the fiscal year, so the beginning of the fiscal year, which would be July 1.

Um, unfortunately, I don't think we're gonna hit that.

So we have our next meeting uh is next week.

Probably have one to two more meetings before it'll be finalized, and then we have to start the process of business impact statement, getting it on a council agenda, notifying the industry, all that.

So I'm I'm guessing we're probably gonna be closer to the fall time frame before it'll be um in effect.

Uh but the original goal was that July 1, so we'll miss that probably by a couple of months.

Um, but we will continue to work with after this next meeting.

We should have a ballpark on what our increase will uh may look like, and that's when we can start to talk with the industry just to give the industry kind of a heads up on what we're what we're thinking uh might be the increase.

Okay, thank you.

And I have another question that might be a little bit more challenging to answer.

What's the balancing act?

I guess between revenue projections and just shortfalls just due to market conditions versus the fee studies intent to try to what I presume to be to right size the fees to account for some future uh you know expense profile.

Like what's that balance between when the market's just down versus when it's normal and how the fee study correlates?

Um, again, for the record, Michael Cunningham, deputy community development director, and I don't know if Gail wants to speak on this one either.

But from the building perspective, when we do our fee study, um, so we try to take in an average year.

So when we look at our fee study, it has a breakdown of workload, how many positions are total in our staffing plan?

So it assumes we're fully staffed, and what a normal work year would be for us.

Um that's how we come up with like our baseline data.

Um, outside of that, the market volatility is something that unfortunately in the construction industry, as you guys know, is just a volatile industry.

Um, and so we're gonna have up and ups and downs.

We always try to hit that midpoint, knowing that there's gonna be some low months and then there's gonna be some high months, and the hopes is at the end of it, we'll kind of balance out in the middle.

Um, but to get that baseline, that's what we use.

We use an average year because we've been down these last few years.

Um, we've been using I think it was two years, or we're in 26, 20, 24.

Calendar year 24 is the the permit volume year that we've been using to kind of establish um this fee study.

Uh member Tatum for the record, which is another follow-up question.

So, in terms of the I guess staffing projections, when you said that it's based off of a full load staff profile.

Um, is there a certain point where the remedy to some of the shortfall is to consider staffing reductions of any kind?

And if so, what does that look like in terms of the thought process that triggers that?

Uh for the record, Michael Cunningham.

So uh right now the we're holding those positions, so we don't have to look at any staffing reductions.

So that's it's kind of just the the ebb and flow of the um of our staffing.

So if we're in a up up month and we can see a trend going up, we usually look a few months out and then we look back a couple years to kind of see what our um trends have been, and so we will staff based on that.

Um, with our current market right now, like I said, we're gonna be holding those positions.

Our fee study is gonna assume that we'll fill those positions so that we can, if we ever got fully staffed and the permit volume supported being fully staffed, we could afford it.

Um, right now we're gonna be in that gray area where the the fees and the permit volume aren't coinciding with our staffing, and so we'll just have to manage it on a month to month basis until we can start to see some better trends.

All right, member Tatum for the record.

Thank you for clarifying that because one of the things I think I'd be most sensitive to, and I think a lot of people would be is some short-term kind of shortfall of revenue and then that equating to reduction in staffing, and then when things pick up, then the staffing is not available to actually keep up with the market requirements.

So I can appreciate the delicate balance of trying to hedge between both, uh, but just wanted to get that clarity from you.

So thank you.

Yeah, and then I'll just add one more thing since um that added a little bit more context for me too.

So that is one of the reasons too.

We have the plan review consultant contract.

So if you remember in our in our budget, we have a very large amount of money that we use for professional services.

So as permit volume, if it continues to trend down, we'll pull back from the consultants first.

And so we would end up potentially getting down if it if it got to the point where we weren't spending any money on professional services, which is a is a pretty large gap for us.

So that also helps us do this this balancing act balancing act and why those consultant contracts are so important.

Thank you.

Very good.

That was all very informative.

Michael.

All right, one more time for the record, Michael Cunningham, Deputy Community Development Director.

Um this one's gonna be a pretty short presentation given where we're at.

You can imagine it's a flat budget.

Um it's actually down slightly on our expenses or up slightly on the salary and labor just because of contract um obligations.

Um our overall expenses, you can see we're projecting down just negative two percent.

Um, revenue we are because we are seeing that trend.

We did update our revenue balance.

So you'll see our revenue we're projecting to be down 10% from what was budgeted this year.

That will put us slightly above what we're planning on collecting this year, but we do see um larger projects and stuff coming in.

So we feel confident we'll be able to make more than we did this year, um, just not what we originally projected.

So as you can see, that puts us in a very negative um budget if you just look at revenue and expenses.

But we are treating this budget um very much like a deficit budget.

So we know that there is that shortfall right now.

Um, so we will continue to operate that way, withholding um positions, limiting our spending um to only what's mandatory to try to help again wait until we get this fee study and hopefully some more permit volume to get it um corrected.

And with that, I can answer any questions.

Any questions, Vincent?

Gail?

You you know the budget.

Okay, with that in mind, then we'll go ahead and move on to item eight report by David Cross, fire plans review section manager regarding updates on Las Vegas fire and rescue issues that can affect the administration and finances of the building and safety enterprise funds, such as updates on fire sprinkler inspections, plan reviews, and or fees.

Oh, gee, whiz I did skip it, you know.

You know, these last timers gotta watch them.

Gotta watch them.

Okay.

Well, we'll go forward.

That's embarrassing.

Report by Michael Cunningham, deputy deputy community development director and building official regarding project with significant impact, the building and safety division resource.

Now, how can I miss that one?

That one's important on our budget.

Hey.

All right, sorry.

Uh one more time for the record, Michael Cunningham, uh deputy community development director.

Um, so this is the report I've been given the last few times, kind of just to go over some of the projects we have in the pipeline, um, so that you guys have an idea of what we're we're looking at and some of the projections that we're using.

So, first I like to start off with just our overall valuation project.

Um, so projects under 5,000.

So we kind of track two categories.

We track projects under $5,000 in construction valuation, and then we have projects that are over $5,000 in construction valuation.

So right now on projects under $500,000, we have uh 97 projects, so that's a total construction valuation of $16,507, $636.

So as you can see, we still have a lot of projects in the pipeline.

Um, a couple of the bigger ones.

So as we've talked about many times, Area 15 is just continuing to bill out.

So there's uh a new bar restaurant going in there called Fuku.

Um so that's in there, and then the uh TI for Birken stock out at the premium outlet mall, one of the remodels.

So those are two of our bigger projects that are right under 500,000 in valuation.

And then when we go over to the projects over 500,000 invaluation, we have 92 projects in that category with the total construction valuation of 747,868,494.

Um the bigger ones on that one is the English residences, that's also called midtown.

I mentioned that at a couple of these presentations as well.

Um so we've issued a couple permits on that one.

We just recently issued the North Tower, they had the other tower foundation only permit, um, and then the share foo hall, share food hall, uh, which is right next to Share West Side was uh is on that list as well.

That one's under construction as we as we speak.

Another new one that we haven't mentioned yet is a home two suites going in the medical district just south of Charleston or on the south side of Charleston, um just west of just west of Westwood.

Can't speak today.

Um so that one it's gonna be a hundred and thirty room key hotel with five floors, and then it's gonna have the traditional amenities that you would find with the home two suites, um, a little restaurant, pool area, recreational area, um, and free breakfast, all the things that normally come along with one of the the home two suite product lines.

Another one is Alta and Tonopah.

This one's also in the medical district area.

It's a class A apartment project.

Um five stories, 200 units, and it's 5,000 square feet of retail.

It's just caddy corner to one of the groundbreakings we just had, that's just south of Alta and Tonopah.

So this is another big uh apartment project coming to the city.

And then this one's actually under construction, but I never had a chance to mention it in this meeting, so I wanted to mention it.

Um, the the site where the UNLV School of Medicine building, the Kirkorian Kirkorian School of Medicine building is they're starting this building.

It's under construction now.

If you drive by, you'll actually see the steel starting to go up.

Um it's a Southern Nevada Health Labs laboratory.

Um it's a two-story building with 34,000 square feet of medical labs to help um grow out that campus for the medical students.

And then a lot of medical stuff as you can see on this one.

So under out at Symphony Park.

This one I mentioned before, but this one has a better rendering of it, so I wanted to show it, and I got a little bit more details on it.

Um, so this is over by uh the um Lou Rove Brain Center, um, just across from it.

The facility size is 100,000 square feet, a total investment of over 40 million dollars, um, estimated 388 jobs, um, economic output of 66 million, um, and it's a total, it's on parcel J just over 1.3 acres.

And then Desert Pines, this one I think I've mentioned at every one of these ones, but it's a long project and it's still going through the process, so I just want to keep it up because this one is a big project for us.

This one will bring a lot of permits.

Um, it's getting even closer to actually breaking ground.

Um the lease that needed to be transferred or the reservation that needed to be transferred is in the works, and once that's done, then the developer will be able to take control of this land and start working on the initial demolition and getting the the land ready for uh development.

Just as a reminder, it's around 1500 housing units.

It's gonna be a mix of rental and for sale, affordable housing, mixed income, and market rate.

There's some open space, and then if you recall, the portion up there that says not a part is reserved out for the um east side training center that we will be working with CC CSN on.

I almost said you know CCSN, uh CSN, uh similar to their West Wide or West Side Education Training Center that we've built with them.

Um and they are looking, like I said, to start construction, which will be the initial demo phase um later this year.

And with that, I would be happy to answer any questions.

Um member Tatum, uh for the record.

Now I just want to I don't have any questions.

I just want to say thank you for providing that clarity.

I think I mentioned at every meeting that it's helpful to get a sense of the types of projects that are happening in the jurisdiction and also some of those that uh you can be anticipating to help achieve the projected revenue goals.

So thank you for doing that.

You're welcome.

Um Chair Potter, I uh reiterate that.

I go I go away very blessed when I hear that.

I think there's future ahead of us.

Yeah, there's a lot in the pipeline.

Anything, Gail?

No.

All right.

Then we'll now go to item eight by David Cross.

Thank you, David Cross for the record, Las Vegas Fire and Rescue.

Um, so for our plan review section, uh, over the last since the last meeting, we've seen a 35% decrease in reviews, overall reviews uh completed, um, which is uh still a 20% increase over last year's uh same time frame reporting.

Uh during that period, we witnessed uh an average increase in meeting our our two-week turnaround goal uh by uh 5% to 86% overall.

Uh and that that equates to a 7% increase from the same time last year.

So we're trending to be uh better in getting our review times met on that.

Uh despite uh despite all that, we were short staffed over the um holidays and numerous vacations and that people taking time off.

So we were still able to maintain that higher level of uh commitment and uh during that.

On our inspection side, we filled uh our vacant inspector supervisor position that we've had for over a year.

Um we were able to backfill that with one of our uh current inspectors, and with that we were able to backfill that, and we also had a uh retirement, so we've uh backfilled two inspection positions with two trainees right now uh for maintaining service.

Um, and then for us over the next six months, we're gonna be working on uh strategies to improve our plan review consistency, uh just to make sure that all of our plan reviewers are on the same page and and as consistent as possible.

Uh training, and uh then also evaluating some of our processes to see if we can do any process improvements and streamline, make uh the reviews go faster and better.

Chair Potter, I want to uh compliment you on promoting from within.

That's always a good sign of stability and and thank you.

Thank you.

Any other question?

Yes, uh, member Tatum for the record.

Uh I was hoping maybe you can elaborate a little bit more on the next steps where you said you're taking a look at the plan review, I guess maybe continuity or consistency, and then also the training and then the process improvement.

Can you explain a little bit more about what that looks like and how I'm I'm curious, how often does that occur?

So it is uh it is a new program that we are uh trying to roll out.

Um throughout the fire service, there's very strict training guidelines for our firefighters, our paramedics, and and that and in our plan review and inspections division, we we've kind of fallen behind that.

So we haven't had that strict regimen of training.

So we're really developing that training is from a new hire, the steps and processes to get them up to speed uh to be able to contribute faster.

Um, and so that is one of the things that we are really working towards streamlining and making sure that plan reviewer A and plan reviewer B are kind of seeing the same things.

So that's one of the areas that we're really working in.

Uh member Tatum for record.

Now I appreciate you doing that because I think that's probably a big part of what some of the community looks for in terms of uh I guess reliance on a consistent message.

Certainly aware of the things on the community side that they can be doing to assist with that.

But I do uh admire that you're putting the program in place to at least try to address it and would love to hear uh maybe in the next time when we come back as to like how that has you know transpired and what you've seen, because I definitely hope that more departments and more jurisdictions look at that as a model because I think it's a positive thing.

Absolutely.

Thank you.

Okay, item number nine discussion regarding topics for future agenda items.

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Do we have any discussion regarding topics for future agenda items from the board?

Uh for the record, Michael Cunningham, Deputy Community Development Director.

So just to make sure that we have um the ones covered that I that I think we should have.

So I just heard an update on the fire training.

Um I was planning on giving an update on the fee study at the next meeting at the by the time we have the next meeting in September, October.

Um, that should hopefully be adopted or at the very final stages.

So I was gonna give an update on the the fee study.

Um if everyone on the board agrees with that.

Uh member Tatum for the reggae, yeah.

I agree.

Thank you.

Okay.

And then and then from that, I'll have the same three items that we always have.

So we'll give uh budget how we finish FY26.

I'll let you guys know what the final budget for FY27 was with any updates so that we're current on that, and then the project list.

Um we will do that one as well.

And then unless there's anything else, those that would tend to be our topics for the agenda.

It's a good agenda.

Has been okay.

We'll move on to item 10 citizens participation.

Oh, real quick.

Sorry.

Sorry.

Uh, member Tatum for the record.

Do is it also at this time that we start to determine when the next meeting would happen?

I will turn over to Tosh.

I think we have the dates.

Yeah.

I was going to say I think everybody's behind.

Tasha Ailey, it's October.

It's in October.

It's like October.

It will be um October 8th at 2 p.m.

It's a Thursday.

Very good.

Thank you.

Anything else?

Two two o'clock.

Okay, so this is participation.

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If you wish to be heard, come forward and give your name for the record.

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Now, I know that we have a gentleman out here in the public.

Are are you prepared to come forward and introduce yourself?

I don't know.

I don't see it on the agenda, but I know he's there, so I'm just asking.

So for the record, Michael Cunningham, not to put it too much on the spot.

So Jerry, I asked him to come, so he's our acting building official right now.

Um so I asked him to come to this meeting so he can kind of see how it runs.

Um depending on how the the rest of this time goes, uh by September.

Hopefully, we'll have some decisions made, but if not, Jerry might be um in my role um just doing the the interim report.

Um Jerry's been with the city now in the building department for over 23 years, 26 and a half.

I did not I did not give him enough credit where credit is due.

Um he's always been in the building department with us.

Um he started off as one of our permit techs, and then he became our plans exam accommodation plans examiner, then he became our supervisor of our plans examiners, um, then he became our manager over the plans examiners and the the building inspectors, um and now he's sitting in the acting building official role.

So this is his first meeting.

I didn't I didn't I didn't expect to put him on the spot, but he did sit in the front row, so it's kinda on you, Jerry.

Well, listen, so that was my comment to you.

My comment to everyone here and the board is as you well aware, this is my last one, and no one no way did I think I've been here since 2008, but you know it's been a good run, and uh I've always felt privileged to set up here with the the talent that is the next to me, and and I'm telling you, all professional people, it's always been professional on the other side, and uh, you know, I'm gonna miss it, but it's time to move on and let the smarter ones take my place.

So and I want to I want to thank Michael for doing such a good job at the building department and Jerry, you have big shoes to fill.

Big shoes.

And I don't know whether I'm allowed to say this, but congratulations on your promotion.

It's not on the agenda, but against this is my last one, so I get to push the envelope a little bit.

So congratulations.

Thank you.

And with that, then I'll call for adjournment.

All those in favor?

Aye.

Aye.

Aye, aye, median adjourned.

Last guess.

You don't want to hit that harder than it last one?