Good morning.

The April 15th, 2026 meeting of the city council is called to order.

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Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mary.

We will now be moving downstairs for our ceremonial potion of the agenda.

Give a round of applause.

Our employees strive to meet our values of being kind, committed, and smart, and they work to build our community to make life better.

I am proud to announce that the employee of the month is Tim Beasley.

Tim, can you join us up here?

You got more applause than Michael Cunningham did.

Tim is a technical training specialist, and he has been with the city since 2024.

Tim has had an extraordinary impact on the city's water pollution control facility in a remarkably short time.

Previously a high school scientist and environmental teacher, Tim transitioned into the organization and quickly became an essential contributor and valued resource.

Tim has reinvented the training specialist role at the treatment plant.

He has built the framework, expectations, curriculum, standards, and instructional pathways entirely from scratch, delivering quality training and learning materials.

Tim has developed and conducted wastewater related training courses, supporting more than 50 team members.

He has prepared city staff for challenging certification exams in math, chemistry, and operations.

I I would not do well.

You can help me with mine.

All critical for obtaining and maintaining wastewater treatment credentials.

Tim's presence has reduced the need and cost of outside training.

Tim has also expanded training beyond the treatment plant by welcoming fellow wastewater operators, maintenance, and other staff from Henderson, North Las Vegas, and Clark County with the intention of strengthening interagency partnerships and reinforcing the city's commitment to collaboration.

Beyond the local wastewater entities, Tim has built relationships with Clark County School District Technical Academies and with the College of Southern Nevada to assist with future workforce development efforts.

Tim, thank you for your initiative, professionalism, and passion for improving our team at the City of Las Vegas.

I'm going to give Michael Cunningham a chance to say something.

But this sounds super impressive.

And if you haven't, if you don't know about the wastewater treatment facility, it is it's a lot.

And there's a lot of you that work out there.

What you do, I consider part of our public safety initiative because we can't have a city without what you all do.

So uh thank you to everyone, and you you train us all.

So thank you very much.

And I'll turn it over to Michael.

Thank you, uh, Mayor Pro Tem Knutsen and Council.

Um, it's always super exciting to be a part and see one of our members of our team get um recognized for their hard work.

Um, so as Mayor Pro Tem mentioned, so Tim came to us.

Uh he didn't have a huge wastewater background.

He came to us from the school district.

What he came to us with was a unique set of skills that is very hard to find.

Um that's the ability to learn what what Mayor Pro Tem mentioned is a very technical profession.

There's a lot of technical rules and um steps involved with these processes.

He was able to learn it.

He's able to then teach it, um, which is if anyone's been in a technical class, it's hit or miss.

Sometimes you have a really good teacher, sometimes you have some the someone that is not so um so well at the training piece of it.

Um, Tim's exceptional at the training in his short time here.

Um he's already made a huge impact on the team, as you heard.

He's also uh helped some of the other jurisdictions that are taking advantage of some of the training that he has put together.

Um so we're super excited for you, Tim.

Um congratulations and look forward to working with you still.

First, I just want to say thank you very much to um council, our city manager, um Charles and Kim who nominated me.

Um and everyone that's here today.

Um it's truly an honor to receive this recognition.

It means a great deal to me because public service is not just the work that I get to do, it's something I deeply believe in.

Throughout my life, I have seen how public servants help build the foundation for strong and resilient communities.

From those who work in education to those who support public infrastructure to those who provide everyday services that people often rely on without even thinking about.

Public servants make an incredible difference.

I know my own life has been shaped and supported by the commitment of people who chose to serve others, and that is a big part of why this work means so much to me.

One of the things I love most about working for the city of Las Vegas is the city's commitment to building community to make life better.

That simple phrase captures what public service should be about.

It is about creating opportunities, solving problems, supporting people, innovating, and making sure our community is stronger, healthier, and better prepared for the future because of the work we do today.

I also strongly believe in having a growth mindset.

No matter where we are in our lives, our careers, there is always more to learn, new skills to develop, and new ways to contribute.

What you already know or are already capable of in this moment is not ultimately what matters most.

What matters most is the willingness to learn, the humility to keep growing, and the drive to improve a little each day.

That mindset can take you farther than you've ever imagined.

I believe growth happens when we are willing to step forward, ask questions, try new things, stay curious, and continue developing ourselves in service of others.

That mindset has been instrumental in my own life and continues to shape how I approach my work every day.

Education has also played a major role in my life.

Learning has opened doors for me, expanded the way I think, and helped me understand how much is possible when people are given the opportunity to try.

Because of that, I feel a strong responsibility to help create educational opportunities for others.

Whether that means sharing knowledge, supporting training and development, or helping people build skills and confidence.

I believe education is one of the most powerful ways we can invest in individuals and in our community as a whole.

I am very grateful to work alongside so many dedicated people who care deeply about what they do and who show every day what public service looks like in action.

Shout out to my incredible team at the water pollution control facility who have provided so much support throughout my time with the city.

Without them, there's no way I would be up here accepting this award.

This recognition is really meaningful to me, and I accept it with a lot of gratitude and a renewed commitment to continue serving, learning, and helping others grow.

Thank you very much.

Yeah, that was incredibly inspirational.

Nice job.

For the WPCF team, can you stand up?

Because literally there is no city without you.

So nice job.

And next up for our final ceremonial item, Councilwoman Nancy Bruni is going to recognize the work of Just Serve.

Councilwoman.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good morning, everyone.

We don't coordinate our ceremonials, but it's clear that the theme for today really is service.

So last year I honored Just Serve, which is a national web-based platform where the needs of organizations, the volunteer needs of organizations are matched with people in our community who want to help and stay connected.

I like to think of it as a match.com for organizations who are serving our community and people who want to volunteer and help.

At this time, I would like to invite a couple people to come up.

Elise Norda, who is the Las Vegas Just Serve Director, Ann McDonough, Carrie Burton, and Natalie Levitt, who also play leadership roles in our city with Just Serve.

Just Serve has been operating here in Las Vegas since 2017.

It has supported hundreds of community service organizations and efforts and connected thousands of volunteers in our community.

And today we're not just organ um honoring just serve, but we're really using the opportunity to acknowledge and recognize the city of Las Vegas because the city of Las Vegas has been named a global just serve city.

So let's give.

The cities encourage unity and city values through inclusive and community-wide service and support partnerships between civic nonprofit and faith-based organizations.

For me, I think this award is particularly meaningful because I've lived in Vegas for over 20 years, and the narrative I always heard was we're not a city that's engaged, people don't volunteer.

We have the lowest volunteerism rates in the country.

And I think the fact that Las Vegas is one of the few cities to receive this award award, JustServe started giving this award in 2023.

So we are one of 15 states around the world that has received this award.

And so I think it shows that just as Las Vegas in the last couple of years has become a global sports destination or a cultural destination with our new museum, and we heard about some great things happening through the RDA this morning with festivals and you know, live entertainment.

We are now our city that promotes and uplifts our residents, our communities, and really believes in connection and service.

And so I think that's wonderful to celebrate.

Volunteers are so beneficial to our community, whether it's AmeriCorps members who have served in the city of Las Vegas, or it's volunteers, young, old, any age, all different walks of life, they are the backbone and the lifeblood.

The power of service is getting diverse people together, diverse communities around a common cause.

It's very powerful when you have people that wouldn't know each other if it weren't for a cause that they're interested in.

I think volunteers are vitally important to our community because they are our community.

These are the people who are living and working and playing in our community, and they care.

Volunteerism is the heartbeat of any city, especially here in Las Vegas.

We need every single volunteer to help us carry the work forward to uplift our neighbors and our neighborhoods, to mentor our youth or to distribute food and food deserts.

And so it definitely shows that we're compassionate, that we're caring, and that we want what's best for everyone in our amazing city.

I love the volunteers in our community because they get to know what they love most about themselves.

They get to know what's beating in the heart of that community, and they get to know each other.

That makes for a vibrant, healthy neighborhood, makes for a vibrant, healthy city of Las Vegas.

And it's clear that our community is connected and we're all working together to help each other and support great causes and come together to really elevate Las Vegas.

And so I have a proclamation, and again, this is not just about just serve, it's our city.

And so our city and all of you out here really do deserve a round of applause.

We're celebrating you and our city.

So the proclamation reads whereas the city of Las Vegas is committed to fostering a culture of service, unity, and civic engagement among its residents, and whereas Just Serve is a global platform that connects individuals, families, and organizations with meaningful volunteer opportunities to strengthen communities, and whereas Just Serve Las Vegas partners with local governments, charities, and faith-based organizations to foster empathy, cooperation, and hope through service, while mobilizing volunteers and strengthening partnerships throughout the Las Vegas community, and whereas a global Just Surf City is a distinguished recognition awarded to communities that demonstrate exceptional outreach, engagement, and measurable impact through volunteer service, and whereas these efforts result in measurable improvements to quality of life, stronger neighborhoods, and a spirit of compassion and unity among all people.

And whereas a global Just Serve City is a distinguished recognition awarded to communities that demonstrate exceptional outreach, engagement, and measurable impact through volunteer service.

And whereas these efforts result in measurable improvements to quality of life, stronger neighborhoods, and a spirit of compassion and unity among all people.

And whereas the city of Las Vegas has been named a global Just Serve City, reflecting its strong commitment to volunteerism and community collaboration.

And we're as cities receiving this honor, actively promote volunteerism, cultivate strong partnerships among nonprofits, faith-based groups, businesses, and residents, and implement innovative, consistent, and creative approaches to meeting our communities' needs.

And now therefore the mayor and the members of the Las Vegas City Council proudly recognize and celebrate the designation of Las Vegas as a global Just Serve City, and hereby proclaim April 15th, 2026 as Global Just Serve City Day.

And Elise Norda, our Las Vegas Just Serve director, is here with her colleagues, and I'd love to have you say a few words.

Thank you so much, Nancy.

And it really is true.

This is really a day of recognizing Las Vegas.

That's what it is.

We all know that things so much more can get done when we work together, and that's what Just Serve is all about is connecting the dots.

And the city of Las Vegas truly is just remarkable in its efforts to engage in volunteerism.

Some of the ways I was thinking about really the outreach that they do in creating volunteer opportunities, also encouraging engagement through support and resources, helping all of these things happen.

And then also the recognition of organizations and individuals that make our city stronger and more unified.

You truly are building a culture of service in the city.

And Just Serve does value our partnership with the city.

And we were so happy when the city of Las Vegas was recognized earlier last year as a Just Serve City.

And then at the National League of Cities Conference that was held last November, Las Vegas was named as Nancy said, named as one of the five global Just Serve Cities.

The others that were named, if you'd like to know, are Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Rochester, Minnesota, Caldwell, Idaho, and Colina, Chacabuco, Chile.

Just serve is truly spreading across, we're in 18 countries now, just trying to help and connect dots and make communities happier.

So one more thing in this year in celebrating our country's America's 250th anniversary, Just Serve is a programming partner of America Gives, which is a component of that America 250 celebration.

And as we in Las Vegas looked at what we wanted to do to celebrate this milestone, we decided that we really just wanted to recognize some of the many remarkable people and organizations in our valley that just do so much good in our area.

And as Just Serve, our leadership team, but also our over 40 other colleagues that work in areas all across Las Vegas, we really are kind of boots on the ground a lot.

And we see each of the city council members and Mayor Berkeley show up time and time again.

They are there at the ground level, and truly service is at the heart of what is happening here in our city.

And so we want to award each city council member and the mayor with the Heart of Service Award, a little medallion.

And it is presented in honor of extraordinary individuals whose service strengthens communities and inspires others to serve.

This medallion recognizes those who create lasting impact, bring people together in unity, and lead with generosity, integrity, and purpose.

Through their example, they help build a culture of volunteerism and advance the spirit of America 250 and of Just Serve, reminding us that service is at the heart of a strong nation.

Thank you, Las Vegas, for your leadership and your great efforts.

Two minute warning.

We are gonna go ahead and ring reconvene.

Councilwoman Summers Armstrong, are you on the line?

I'm here.

Lovely to hear your voice.

And we're gonna get started with item number seven.

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Does anybody wish to come forward?

Hello, my name is Shoshenna.

I'm a resident, and I want to remind the council that I'm allowed to speak on any matter not on the agenda according to Nevada revised statutes.

I'm here once again to urge the council to support the separation of religion from government by eliminating praying from our city council meetings.

But you continue to endorse and encourage religious services at this meeting, unless it's a religion you don't like.

Smells like bias, smells like discrimination because you have denied the satanic temple, which doesn't believe in the devil, unlike Christian groups, for a May 20th prayer date here in Sin City.

You've denied the satanic temple.

And so I checked it out.

I asked them, I said, why are they denying you?

And they go, We don't know.

I got the calendar of all the dates available to give an invocation.

They asked for May 20th.

You said no, and it's available.

Somebody here is lying.

Somebody should be held accountable for that.

You gotta stop the line.

And it's ironic because according to your Bible here, which I've read and it's absolutely gruesome.

Um, you created a Satan.

Um satanic temple doesn't even believe in a Satan.

And the kill count in the Bible, ironically, because your God ordered the children of Job to be murdered because God would wanted them to prove him to prove his love for God.

He asked Satan, oh yeah, go ahead and kill my 10 kids, his 10 kids.

And so, okay, Satan does it.

But the crazy part is too, your God in this Bible, and I've read it many times, has killed millions and millions of people.

Um, children, um, drowning, torturing, enslaving, mauling, capturing men, women, children, and of course the virgin girls that your God is so obsessed with, which is so perverted and sickening.

Yet the satanic temple is ironically against all the evil that's in this book.

They are not the bad guy.

And again, I really encourage you to support the separation of religion from these meetings, and stop hosting religious services at our government meetings.

Thank you.

Moving on to item number eight for possible action.

Any items from the 930 a.m.

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

Councilwoman Diaz.

Yes, uh, Mayor Pro Tem.

The following item has been requested to be held in abeyance with um so uh item 68A through 68B, 25-0459-VAR1 and SUP1, applicant owner, care access nevada one, LLC on point one nine acres at 5617 Grand Guinness Court, and they are requesting an abeyance to May 20th, 2026 meeting.

Uh the request is by the applicant.

There's a motion, please vote.

Aye.

And post.

And that item passes on agenda item number nine for possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the March 18th, 2026, regular city council meeting.

Councilwoman Diaz may have a motion.

Yes, uh, move to approve those final meetings for March 18th, 2026.

There's a motion, please vote.

Aye.

And item number 10 is being trelled to be heard after the closed session later in the afternoon.

Moving on to item number 11, items number 11 through 46 are on the consent agenda, are considered to be routine, are recommended for approval by the departments and may be enacted in one motion.

Are there any items the council wishes to bring forward?

Seeing none, Councilwoman Diaz may have a motion for the consent agenda for items 11 through 46.

Move to approve.

There's a motion, please vote.

And thank you.

And post and the consent agenda has been approved.

Moving on to item number 47.

Public hearing regarding the fair market value of the city of Las Vegas owned real property located on the west side of South Lamb Boulevard and north of East Wyoming Avenue in anticipation of the sale of the property on an internet auction website, Clark County.

And this item is related to council item 37, R-20-2026.

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

Ms.

Boyce.

Teresa Boyce Real Estate Manager, and here to take any comments.

Any comments from the board.

Seeing none.

Is it one?

Sorry.

Um, I just want, you know, because I think it's important the public know that this uh oh, this is not the one.

Hold on.

Can you just tell us um okay?

Just clarify what this means uh for us to have it on the agenda and what we're about to vote on.

What you're voting on is the value that the appraiser gave for the property so that you approve the value.

This is a public hearing, so people can speak out if they don't think the value is appropriate.

And just to augment that a little bit, I would uh hesitate to add anything to manager boyce, but the it is a public hearing item, no action, and then the reason for the public hearing is to allow the city to only have, and I say only, but to have one appraisal on the property rather than needing to go and buy two appraisals.

Thank you very much.

Anybody else want to comment?

Hearing and seeing none.

Thank you very much, Miss Boyce.

Moving on to item number 48, public hearing regarding the fair market value of the city of Las Vegas owned real property located on the west side of Oso Blanco Road and north of TP Lane in anticipation of the sale of property on an internet auction website.

This is in Ward 6 with Councilwoman Bruni.

And this item is related to council item 38.

This is a public hearing which I now declare open.

Miss Boyce.

Open for comments.

Is there any questions or comments from the board?

Hearing and seeing none.

Is there anybody from the public that would like to comment?

And not hearing any.

This is a public hearing.

No action is required.

Thank you, Miss Boys.

Thanks.

Moving on to item number 49, discussion for possible action to extend the critical labor shortage designation for the deputy city marshal position for a two-year period beginning May 15th, 2026 through May 14th, 2028.

This impacts all wards.

And Chief Potts and Miss Brown.

Good morning, honorable Mayor Pro Tim and Honorable City Council.

Um, for the record, Jason Potts, Chief Director, Department of Public Safety.

Uh, I'm here with Miss Sue Brown, Director of Human Resources to discuss a possible action to extend the designation of the position of Deputy City Marshal as a critical labor shortage position for a two-year period.

You all remember uh about two years ago this was an extension where we have since selected uh four retirees, three deputy city marshals and one Las Vegas Metro Police Officer to fill critical gaps, uh and they presently work with our uh Marshall Civic Unit.

And so with that, I'll pass along to Miss Brown for more information about the program.

Good morning, Council members.

Uh Sue Brown, Human Resources Director.

Um, I'm simply here today to provide a little bit of background for this item.

Under NRS 286 523, the public employees retirement system, PERS allows retired employees to return to work for a position that is deemed as a critical labor shortage position without impacting their retirement benefits, meaning they can come back to work and continue to draw benefits.

Um the CLS for the deputy city marshal position was previously approved by council and by PERS in May of 2024.

The approval is valid for a two-year period, and PERS requires an extension request every two years.

So pr to proceed with the extension, the city must present justification in an open meeting and obtain council approval prior to submitting the request to PERS.

Um we have completed the forms that are required by PERS, and it's been submitted as backup documentation to this agenda item.

Um, and with your approval, we will complete the process and submit the requests to PERS.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

And this is, I think, the third time we've done this uh for marshals, I believe.

For marshals.

So this is the first extension for the deputy city marshal and then municipal court martial.

We've done it twice.

Okay, and I've seen several of the folks who have, I don't know, taken advantage, or we've been able to recruit back to the city uh in and around City Hall.

They're doing a fantastic job, so it seems to be an effective tool for right now.

So I appreciate the presentation.

Is there any questions or comments from the council?

MPT, just uh comment that um we have heard from law enforcement entities that it is hard uh in these days to actually um fill positions and um having folks that have the experience in the background in law enforcement that want to continue to provide the service, I think is critical.

And so I just don't want people to think that we're using people who have retired to fill these positions, but they're hard to fill positions because folks right now aren't feeling an appetite to apply or don't want to serve in this capacity, and so we as a city have to ensure that we have uh the let's just say the the background and uh the quality of um public servants and um especially in public serv uh in public safety.

I'm sorry, I'm getting all these PS words um background uh mixed up in my head, but it's the allergy season, so sorry.

Would you like to make a motion?

I'll move to approve.

There's a motion, please vote.

Aye.

And post item passes.

Thank you both very much.

Thank you.

Moving on to item number 50, boards and commissions, discussion for possible action regarding the appointment of nominee Brianna Anderson to the arts commission as one of the mayor's designees.

The mayor is entitled to appoint three representatives to the board.

Heather Bednarstick was appointed as the mayor's designee in 2022, and her term is expiring.

Miss Anderson is eligible for appointment and wishes to serve.

And on behalf of the mayor, I move to approve the appointment.

Please vote and I.

Thank you.

And now post.

That item passes.

Item number 51, discussion for possible action regarding the reappointment of the following to the board of directors for CLV Strong Start Academy Elementary Schools incorporated.

Lorna James Cervantes, Deputy City Managers Designee, and Dr.

Ali Moore and Dashrasha Harris, Mayor's designees.

Mr.

Vantes, Ms.

Moore, and Miss Harris are eligible and wish to continue to serve.

If reappointed, they will serve a two-year term ending April 15th, 2028.

And I move to reapprove to approve the appointments.

Reappointments.

Please vote.

Aye.

And post.

And that's Mayor Pro Tim, if I may.

Please.

Decretia Harris.

Thank you so much.

I appreciate you doing that.

Moving on to item number 52, recommending committee bills eligible for adoption at this meeting.

Bill number 2026-9.

City attorney, would you please read the bill?

Jeff Dorkek, City Attorney with your indulgence and MPT.

I'm going to turn it over this morning to our all-star extern for the spring semester, Alex Stevens, a 3L at UNL Lee Boyd School of Law, also a member of their law journal, and one of our first Eagle Scouts in the office in a minute.

So Alex, will you go ahead and read the bill up for vote?

Number 52.

Bill number 2026-9.

An ordinance to update the description of Ward 4 boundaries to reflect an additional precinct number added to Ward 4 by the Clark County Election Department and to provide for other related matters.

Very well done.

And I move to approve.

That item passes.

Thank you.

Item number 53, recommending committee bills eligible for adoption at a later meetings.

Items 53 through 55, bills Z-2026-1, 2026-12, and 2026-13 will be heard at a later meeting.

New bills, item number 56, items 56 through 59, bills number 2026-14, 2026-15, 2026-16, and 2026-17 will be heard at the recommending committee meeting on Monday, May 4th, 2026.

City Attorney, would you read the new bills?

Bill number 2026-14, an ordinance concerning the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, Special Improvement District number 1485, all to drive landscape maintenance for fiscal year 2027, providing for the payment of the costs and expenses of maintaining street beautification improvements, assessing the cost of maintenance against accessible lots, tracts, and parcels of land benefited by said maintenance.

Ratifying, approving, and confirming all action previously taken, prescribing details in connection therewith.

Bill number 2026-15.

An ordinance concerning the city of Las Vegas, Special Improvement District Number 1516, that uh Fremont Street Mainance District for fiscal year 2027, Las Vegas Boulevard to 8th Street, providing for the payment of the costs and expenses of a neighborhood improvement project, assessing the cost of the project against assessment accessible lots, tracts, and parcels of land benefited by said improvements.

Ratifying, approving, and confirming all action previously taken, prescribing details in connection therewith.

Bill number 2026-16, an ordinance to authorize multifamily and mixed use development that includes a residential component as a conditional use on property zoned for commercial use in accordance with state law.

Bill number 2026-17.

An ordinance to amend Las Vegas Municipal Code 19.17 and Las Vegas municipal code 19.18 to revise the term affordable housing to attainable housing.

Update detainable housing to your descriptions in accordance with state law.

Revise criteria related to attainable housing bonuses and incentives and provide for other related matters.

Great job.

And new bills 2026-14, 15, 16, and 17 are assigned to the May 4th, 2026 recommending committee.

Members, Councilman Knutson, Councilwoman, Polensky, and Diaz, if so designated or unable to attend, the clerk's office will coordinate finding substitutes as necessary at the mayor's direction.

Thank you.

Item 60 is being heard after item 74.

Moving on to our consent agenda, item number 61.

Item 61 and 62 are on the consent agenda, but I understand staff would like to pull item 61 for discussion.

The remaining item 62 is considered to be routine and is recommended for approval by the Department of Community Development.

Councilwoman Diaz may have a motion for the consent agenda item 62.

Move to approve.

And post.

And that item passes.

Item 61, 25 0583 EOT1, abeyance item, third extension of time, special use permit.

SUP 77386.

Applicant owner is Pacific Classic LLC for possible action on a land use entitlement project request for a proposed 5,175 square foot beer wine cooler off cell establishment use at the northwest corner of Iron Mountain Road and Sky Village Road.

C One limited commercial zone ward six.

Councilwoman Bruni staff recommends denial.

Is the applicant present?

Yes, good morning, Liz Olson 1980 Festival Plaza Drive here on behalf of the applicant, uh Kevin and Jake Kentop.

Uh thank you for allowing us to be here this morning on this.

Um as you mentioned, this is a request for an extension of time.

If I could have the monitor, thank you so much.

So this is an uh a previously approved site over off of Iron Man Mountain near the Sky Canyon area.

Um unfortunately our SDR has expired um due to one of our anchor tenants falling out.

We are now in the final discussions with a different anchor tenant, uh Class A company.

It's going to be great if we're able to close that up with them shortly.

Um but with that, we would like to uh keep our use permit active on the C store on the bottom of the development.

Um we're happy to uh reduce the time for this extension to one year to allow us to submit for that new SDR if the board would like to see the one year instead of the two.

Um, but otherwise, I'm happy to answer any questions and appreciate the time.

Thank you, Miss Olson.

May I have a staff report, please?

Thank you, Mayor Potem.

The applicant has requested and has previously requested an abeyance from the February 4th City Council meeting to submit a new site development review to retain this special use permit.

No such submittal has occurred.

Um since the approval in 21, there have been several changes, both to the overall shopping center and convenience store development.

The applicant cites that currently there's a lack of anchor tenant for the center and rising finance costs as a reason for delaying the completion of the convenience store and issues issuance of that license for the off sale of beer, wine, and coolers.

Um the site development review that includes the convenience store did as expressed was expired on June 2nd of 2023, more than two years ago, with the accompanying vacation of excess public right-of-way.

As the approval of the beer and wine special use permit was tied to the site development plan review for the convenience store through conditions of approval.

It is recommended that a new special use permit be obtained at the time entitlements are requested for the new special uh site development plan review.

Staff therefore recommends denial of this third request of an extension of time.

Thank you.

Thank you very much, Mr.

Longstein.

Are there any questions or comments from the council?

And councilwoman Bruni.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem.

Uh, I did meet with the applicant last month, and we had a conversation around ongoing conversations with potential tenants, and so I do feel comfortable that the group will be coming in shortly with third site development plan uh for review.

So I'm happy to go ahead and recommend approval of item 25-0583-EOT1 and extension of time.

Um, uh for one year.

Okay.

Um through you, Mayor Potem or the councilwoman.

So that would amend condition uh of approval number one of the extension of time.

That condition would then reflect a date of December 4th, 2026, because that would be the one year extension from where it would previously had expired.

Thank you.

Miss Elson, does your client agree to the condition?

Yes, thank you.

Thank you.

There's a motion on the table.

Please vote.

And post.

And that item passes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Item number 63 through 67 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 63, 25-0555, SUP1 abeyance item.

Applicant Mustafa Rabaj, owner, VMC properties, LLC, and a land use entitlement project request for a proposed massage establishment use with waivers of distance separation requirements from a church, house of worship, school, city park, individual child care center, license for more than 12 children and a massage establishment at 2441 Tech Center Court, suite 109 CPB.

This is zone ward one with my councilman Knutson.

25-0554 SUP1.

Applicant owner is FBGM Investments LLC on a land use entitlement project request for a proposed alcohol on premise full use with waivers of distance separation requirements from a church house of worship and school and appendix F interim downtown Las Vegas Development Standards for parking area two at 401 South 6th Street C1 limited commercial zone ward 3 with Councilwoman Diaz.

25-0617 SDR1 applicant owner Miguel Gutierrez on a land use entitlement project request for the addition of a proposed one-story 9,000 square foot building to a site containing an existing commercial building with waivers of perimeter landscape buffer requirements and of Title 19.08 building facade development standards on 1.21 acres at 4485 North Rainbow Boulevard.

C1 limited commercial zone ward five with Councilwoman Summers Armstrong.

26-0022.

Applicant is extra space storage.

Owner is SONV 9770 West Cheyenne Avenue, LLC of the following land use entitlement project requests on 4.22 acres at 9770 West Cheyenne Avenue, C1 limited commercial zone ward four with Councilwoman Alan Palensky.

26 S0022 SUP1 for a major amendment to an approved special use permit SUP-0105 for the proposed addition of units to an existing mini warehouse facility use and 66B 26-0022 SUP2 for a major amendment to an approved special use permit SUP 1107 for the proposed removal of storage spaces from an existing recreational vehicle storage and boat storage use and 66C 26-0022 SDR 1 for a major amendment to an approved site development plan review SDR 1020 for a proposed two-story building addition and parking lot reconfiguration to an existing mini storage and recreational vehicle and boat storage development with a waiver of title 19.08 building facade development standards 67 26-0040 GPA 1 applicant owner is the city of Las Vegas on a request to amend the City of Las Vegas Master Plan of Streets and Highways map with Ward 1 Councilman Knutson.

The plan planning commission and staff recommend approval of all items.

Hearing and seeing none, I'll close the public hearings.

Councilwoman Diaz may have a motion for the one motion, one vote item 63 through 67.

Move to approve.

Aye.

In post.

And uh the uh that item passes those items pass.

And 68 and 68, 68A and 68B were held in the Bayance to the meet May 20th, 2026, City Council meeting.

Item 69 25-0472 for a possible action on the following land use entitlement project requests on point eight four acres at 1622 and 1630 Sunset Drive M industrial zone 69A 25-0472 VAR2 to allow existing perimeter walls and fences that do not conform to titles 19.08 outdoor storage screening requirements 69B 25-0472 SUP1 for a proposed salvage or reclamation of products outdoor use and 69 C 25-0472 STR1 for proposed salvage or reclamation of products outdoor development with waivers of perimeter landscape buffer requirements and building facade development standards and to allow chain link perimeter fencing and barbed wire where such is not allowed the applicant owner is Rosalio Mendoza Navarro the planning commission recommends approval on the entire land use entitlement project staff recommends denial on the entire land use entitlement project these are in ward five with councilwoman Summers Armstrong and our public hearing which I now declare open is the applicant present hi yes um my name is John Vargas I reside at 29698 in Avenue Las Vegas Nevada 89123 and I'm here today on behalf of the property owner Rosalia Navarro followed by lead architect Javier Burrough uh we're requesting land use approval for a proposed recycled wood pellet storage facility in support of this request we are also requesting a variance um it's hereby approved to allow no wall for outdoor storage screening where a solid eight foot CMU wall is required along the north

Yes, um my name is John Vargas.

I reside at 2969 Aiden Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89123, and I'm here today on behalf of the property owner, Rosalia Navarro, followed by lead architect Javier Burola.

We're requesting land use approval for a proposed recycled wood pellet storage facility in support of this request.

We are also requesting a variance.

A variance to allow no wall for outdoor storage screening where a solid eight foot CMU wall is required along the eastern property line.

A special use permit for the recycled wood pallet storage facility, a site development plan review, including waivers for perimeter landscape buffer requirements, building facade development standards, and alternating fencing along the property south perimeter.

Our proposed site improvements are full off-site improvements, including sidewalks, curb, and gutter to match existing improvements to the north and south, a 10-foot landscape buffer with 24 inch box trees spaced every 20 feet along the west and east property lines, two commercial 28-foot gated driveways constructed according to standards on our drawing 224.

Parking spaces provided in compliance with development code requirements, office and storage structures with architectural enhancements such as paint trims and signage.

A trash container on site eliminates the need for a trash enclosure.

This will be located at the rear of the property.

We have a note here from Republic Services.

That no service is required.

A new office trailer will be installed on the property, a storage container placed adjacent to the existing 500 foot shed, existing structures in the northeast corner will be demolished.

A new eight-foot CMU block wall along Sunset Drive, and to derase the existing CMU wall on the east side of the property, andor build a new eight-foot wall on the east side, depending.

Bar bar will be removed, a six-foot chain link fence along the south side.

And we respectively request respectfully request your approval.

We agree to comply with all conditions required by the city.

The client has agreed with the proposed additional conditions for uh of approval amendments.

Here's a signed letter from the owner.

And we will submit a fire protection report regarding the storage arrangement on the of the on-site pallets.

This will be submitted for approval before building permit.

Thank you so much.

And we also have letters of support from neighboring communities.

Yeah, and properties.

Thank you for your presentation, Mr.

Lovensee.

Thank you, Mayor Proton.

Peter Lowlandstein for the record.

As activities for the salvage of reclamation use will not be located within enclosed structure per the code requirement.

The site will not be adequately screened, and waivers of various landscaping requirements will not be met.

Staff recommends denial of variance, the special use permit of the site development plan review and subject to conditions if approved.

The conditions that were just displayed on the overhead at the point of a motion if it is for approval and those are wanting to be added.

Thank you very much.

This is a public hearing.

Is there anybody from the public that would like to comment?

Hearing it's seeing none, I'll close that public hearing.

Is there anyone on the council that would like to ask any questions or make any comments?

Not seeing any councilwoman Summers Armstrong.

I'm trying to turn off the phone.

Okay.

Sorry about that.

Um I did have a question just about something that was said by the applicant, which was that they have a letter from Republic Services that doesn't require them to have service at this location.

Could he please um further explain?

I councilwoman, it's a little hard to understand you, so I'm just gonna kind of repeat what I heard.

Is you asked them to explain the letter that they got from Republic Services, is that right?

That is correct.

Okay.

Okay, thank you.

Gentlemen, do you mind just showing that letter on the screen again and just reading it so the councilman just to make sure we're on the same page?

Yes.

Is it on screen?

Okay.

After discussion with Belova Engineering, it has been determined that above property will not be in need of any trash services at this time.

It currently will be used as a storage yard and will not be generating any waste that needs to be removed in the future if the property begins to generate.

Um refuse service will be required.

If there are any further questions, please reach out.

And that was the letter from Republic Services.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for reading that.

So MPT, I guess my question is they expect not to have any garbage at all on this site.

And if they do, um, how are they intending to remove it if they're not using Republic Services?

Um they will have uh container storage containers that uh will be implemented on the east side of the property.

If there is any, but it is a collect source, store and resell wood pallets business, so that's mainly what it's gonna be.

Okay, I understand that, but you all this is the first time I've heard about this, so this is why I'm asking the question.

You're going to have a small office building on site.

Is that correct?

Yes.

It is hard for me to believe that you will not at least not have some business garbage coming out of that office, and so I would just be concerned about not being able to have Republican at least pick up the small amount of refuse that will be generated by the office.

And so, how are you planning?

How are they planning to dispose of this standard office garbage?

They can think of daily or they can put on the touch one thing that's needed.

Um if needed, it can be taken out daily off-site, or uh the trash containers can temporarily store it until it is taken off-site and disposed of okay.

Um we had several conversations with this um applicant and their representatives.

They had another representative come to our office to talk to us about um their business and what they want to do.

I do have my concerns and I did express them, and the uh items that are of immediate concern have been placed in uh in writing, and so if Mr.

Lowell's dean could read them, um I think that I would be in a agreement to approve this item uh with those conditions, but this additional letter of not having garbage service also gives me pause.

Is there any type of just one more thing about this?

Is there a garbage container on site at all where garbage can be stored?

No.

No.

No, there isn't.

So this is a surprise to me uh that you would have no garbage service at all on this site.

And even with the other items that we have discussed about laying out a site plan for the pallets, um, making sure that we've got your your neighbor to uh uh approval to raise the wall on the screen side that needs it to not have garbage service when you are collecting pallets, some pallets may be broken and need to be disposed of.

To me, I'm can it doesn't make sense not to have any garbage service and not to even have a container that would be able to hold broken pallets uh in any refuse doesn't make sense to me, and I'm just frustrated because this is a new hold up or a new uh glitch in our discussions, which were never ever mentioned before.

Oh, yeah, we understand your frustration.

We will propose to add in uh trash.

That's not out of the an enclosure for trash.

That's not something we are stuck on, but we open to them.

Yeah, we're very open to adding that in.

So um, Mr.

Lohmann I I am.

Yeah, this doesn't make any sense to me.

Uh Mr.

Lowenstein or legal counsel, what are my options here in order to ensure that there is garbage service?

Can we put that as a condition that they at least have uh once a month garbage service at the very least, or whatever the agreement they can meet make with uh republic services so that we have at least a vehicle by which to remove refuse that is invariably going to happen off this site on a on at least a monthly basis?

What are my options?

Jeff Dorcak City Attorney, are you uh to the applicants?

Are you guys good with setting up what the councilwoman laid out, which would be uh at least one trip a month from Republic to gather?

Yes.

And then uh Peter, either now or we could do it after the fact, they're they'll agree to the idea of the condition.

So can you put that together?

I think you may approve.

I would probably suggest just republic services provide curbside pickup, um, and that's the regular schedule for that neighborhood.

Whatever that is, it's every week.

Um, and then it's a small um rolling bin that you put out and then take back in versus a full trash enclosure, which would impact the the site design.

Um I can wordsmith something for that, and whenever needed, I can read the other um conditions of approval that are amendments or additions that are needed.

But are the applicants comfortable with the concept he laid out on the curb side?

Yes.

All right, then he doesn't have to necessarily get the language today, so we're not holding it up, but he can read the other one in and we'll have you accept both.

All right, so in totality, uh I'll I'll read all the existing proposed conditions of approval and what applications they will impact, and then on top of that, we're talking that the applicant shall uh secure curbside uh trash pickup from republic services.

Um from the top, uh amend condition of approval number one of 25-0472-VAR2 to read as follows.

A variance is hereby approved to allow no wall for outdoor storage screening where a solid eight-foot CMU wall is required along the north property line, add a new condition of approval to 25-0472-VAR2.

A variance is hereby denied to allow no wall for outdoor storage screening where a solid eight foot CMU wall is required along the east property line.

Add a new condition of approval to 25-0472-SDR1 that reads if agreed upon with the adjacent property owners, the eastern perimeter wall shall be raised to eight feet in height and if structurally sound and permissible.

If not applicable, an eight-foot wall shall be constructed on the subject's site in conformance with Title 1908 wall standards, including wall separation requirements.

This condition of approval shall be met prior to the issuance of a permanent business license for the subject site.

Additionally, amend condition of approval number 19 of 25-0472-SDR1 to include the following sentence.

And that would be the additional and amended conditions.

And then the insistence on the councilwoman that there's weekly trash pickup along with the regular schedule of the rest of the neighborhood.

It would be the curbside pickup provisions by republic services, which is weekly.

Do you agree to all those conditions?

Yes, we are in full agreement and prepare to comply with uh all the requirements.

Councilwoman.

Thank you, MCT.

Uh, with these conditions met, I move for approval.

Just uh approval of A B and Ces, thank you.

Okay, there's a mayor appropriate.

So that's with all the amended and added conditions as stated in the record and the specific to the trash uh pickup, uh curbside pickup, that would be on the site development review, so that would be on C.

Okay.

So we uh councilwoman, just to reiterate, so it's approval of ABC with the amended conditions and then the addition of the regular curbside pickup on uh letter 69C.

Yes, that is correct.

I just want to ask um Mr.

Lowenstein one additional thing.

If they have to have a medium-sized hand or or receptacle for trash um through Republic Services, then what happens to the site design?

Because now they may not be able to use a small container, they may have to use a commercial size container.

How would that affect the site design?

Okay.

Through you, Mayor Pro Tem.

So if they're moving from a rolling curb into a rolling dumpster, uh then the code provisions would require them to have you know not store that in the right way and that be stored on site, and our typical provisions are for trash and closure for in which the dumpster to be placed.

So at that point, as long as the trash enclosure is not encroaching into any required setback areas and meets the development standards in Title 19.

I believe we could handle that administratively in the future.

I appreciate that.

And uh this would also mean that they could not alter any of the conditions that we have put in place for a fire inspector and polls that that um require a height designation.

Those things don't go away.

Is that correct?

Through your mayor time, yes, that's correct.

All the other conditions apply and would not be impacted by the addition of the trash enclosure.

Thank you so much.

So, councilwoman, after that conversation that your motion is to uh move to approve with everything that Peter just stated uh 69 A through C.

Is that correct?

That is correct.

There's a motion, please vote.

Aye.

And post and that item passes.

Thank you, gentlemen.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Items number 70 through 70J, 25 0444 for possible action on the following land use entitlement project request on point six three acres at the northeast corner of Jefferson Avenue and E Street, 70 A 25 0444 Z O N1 from T Ford MS, T4 Main Street to T4N, T4 Neighborhood, 70 B, 25 0444, WVR1 through W V R8 to allow waivers of Title 19.09, form-based code development standards, lots one through eight.

7DJ, 25-0444, TMP 1, Jefferson, and E for an eight lot single family attached residential subdivision with waivers of Title 19.09, form-based code development standards.

The applicant is neighborhood housing services of Southern Nevada, and the owner is city of Las Vegas et al.

The Planning Commission and staff recommend approval on the entire land use entitlement project.

They're in Ward 5 with Councilwoman Summers Armstrong, and our public hearings, which I now declare open, is the applicant present.

Yes, good morning, Mayor Pro Tem and City Council members.

My name is Ben Mahoney.

I'm the senior project manager at NHSSN.

This is our project Mosley Commons, located on the corner of Jefferson and East Street.

Um there's three city-owned parcels of land combining with one parcel of land we already own.

Uh it's located on the historic west side, and we're going to be creating eight single family attached homes with a detached garage, uh very long backyard in between, uh, ranging in sizes from 1600 to 1800 square feet.

Um I'll hand over to Susan Florian from Taney Engineering who will discuss our requested waivers.

Thank you for your time.

Uh good morning, uh, Mayor Pro Temp and City Council members.

My name is Susan Florian from Taney Engineering, uh 6030 South Jones Boulevard here on behalf of the applicant.

Uh we do have a zone boundary amendment.

Uh two of the parcels are already zoned uh T4N, and the other two are zoned uh T4MS.

Uh we're planning to rezone all parcels to T4 uh N.

And then we do have uh some waivers that we're asking for.

Uh the first waiver is for accessory structure gross uh floor area.

We are required by code to have a 2001 uh 218.27 square feet.

Um, but we are proposing a garage of 455.18 square feet, which it which exceeds uh the requirement.

So that's one of the waivers.

Uh the second waiver is for the window on the side um of the last uh parcel.

Um I can pull this up.

We are required to have a um 10-foot uh site setback, um, but we are uh asking for a six-foot site setback, and then the last one is a waiver of row house depth.

Um the the code requests that the width be between 18 and 36 feet and 45 for the depth.

Uh we are now proposing 22 feet and eight inches with a uh width and the sorry in a depth of 48 uh feet.

And um we agree with staff's recommendation.

Um, and I'm here to answer any questions that you may have.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Lowensey.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem.

The proposed rezoning is consistent with the zoning of the other parcels in the area of the historic West Side District and allows for uniform application of the form-based development standards across the site.

Staff there for recommends approval of the rezoning.

Staff considers the proposed waivers to meet the intent of the form-based code, introducing diversity and housing type and encouraging walkable urban areas.

Staff therefore recommends approval of the waivers and the tentative map subject to conditions.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

This is a public hearing for anybody who would like to comment.

This is your time.

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

Are there any questions or comments from the council?

Hearing and seeing none, I'll turn it over to Councilwoman Summers Armstrong.

Thank you.

I am super excited.

Thank you.

I'm super excited about this project.

Um, another amazing opportunity to bring um attainable and affordable housing into uh historic west side uh to make sure that we have a balance of both houses for rent.

As addition to houses for sale.

Um I think people are going to be extremely pleased to see this new development.

Um this organization is been a partner in the community.

They know how to help people first time buyers, um, get housing uh and support, and I support this project wholeheartedly and therefore make a motion um for approval at 78 through I, I believe it is.

I think it's J.

Oh, J.

I think.

Yes, okay.

Uh there is a motion, please vote.

Aye.

And post.

And that item passes.

Thank you very much.

Appreciate it.

MPT, if the record can reflect that I'm an eye on items 69A through 69 C.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Moving on to item 71 through 71D, 26-0012 on the following land use entitlement project request on 3.10 acres at the southwest corner of Helena Avenue and North Grand Canyon Drive, R.

E.

residential estates zone.

71A 20 through 71 D, 26012, V A R V A R 1 through V A R 4 to allow a proposed front yard wall that does not conform to the Title 19.06 development standards for height and pilaster distance.

Lots one and three through five.

The applicant owner is Lone Mountain Estates LLC.

The planning commission recommends approval on the entire land use entitlement project.

Staff recommends denial on the entire land use entitlement project.

These are in word four with Councilwoman Alan Palensky and our public hearings, which I now declare open.

Is the applicant present.

Jeff Thompson, Tanny Engineering on behalf of the applicant, 6030 South Jones Boulevard, and I'm 118.

Thank you guys for letting me come here.

Um first just give you a little bit of overview of where this is at.

Um this is in the northwest area next to Lone Mountain.

The lots that we're talking about are these four lots here.

Thank you.

Um this is kind of a a uh the community kind of consists of these lots as well as these lots to the south, and then these lots along Jensen.

Um we're here to request a waiver for front walls.

Um as you can see, there's already a lot built that has this wall that we're going to construct.

This was a previous waiver that was approved.

Um and it's expired, and now we're going through that same process to hopefully get the same thing approved.

But this is kind of the front elevation of those walls.

Um we're asking for five feet of CMU plus three foot of rod iron on top.

Um it's a beautiful wall, um, but we're gonna just try and keep it consistent through this neighborhood and this estate's area.

Um, and are just here to answer any questions that you guys may have on on this topic.

So again, appreciate it, and I'm here to answer any questions.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Lowenseen.

Uh thank you, Mayor Pro Tem, Fred Solis, for the record.

Uh no evidence of unique or extraordinary circumstance has been presented as the applicant has created self-imposed hardship by proposing walls and gates that exceed the maximum height allowed and pie lasts are space further apart than the maximum allowed.

In the absence of any hardships imposed by the site's physical characteristics is determined that the applicant's hardship is preferential in nature, and staff is recommending denial of the request.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Solis.

This is a public hearing for anybody who would like to comment.

Now is your time.

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

Are there any questions or comments from the council?

Seeing none, I will turn it over to Councilwoman Alan Polinski.

Thank you, Mr.

Mah Mayor Pro Tem.

Um thanks, Jeff, for taking me along this ride with you and for meeting with me multiple times over this matter.

Uh just one question.

I try to be thorough, read everything.

Yes.

Uh there are six postcards that were returned in support of the project.

Uh do you know who a Sam and Gert Feldman?

You know who they are, LLC?

I do not.

Odd that they so vociferously six times over, sent support card postcards from the same LLC.

So they must own.

What was the LLC again?

Sam, S A M and Gert, G-E-R-T, Feldman.

I do not, I do not know that as known.

They're very much in support of it, as am I.

Definitely having continuity there and a sense of space is going to be beautiful.

And uh we look forward to those homes that land selling and we get home sometime soon.

Yes.

Uh, because raw dirt doesn't generate any property tax income for us.

And with uh respect to Mr.

Solis, of course, and our planners, I'm gonna move forward in consist in um consistent with our planning commission's vote to move to approve item number 72.

No, 71 A through D.

I should put these on.

There's a motion.

Please vote.

Aye.

And post.

I never get votes for support.

It's always a mixed bag with me.

It was strange.

Thank you, Council.

That item passes.

Thank you very much.

Appreciate it.

Uh Salford County, actually.

So it's city, county, city.

Moving on to item number 72, 26-0020 W VR1 waiver public hearing.

Applicant owner is Howard A.

Keys Trust for possible action on a land use entitlement project request to allow a proposed 80-foot tall flagpole where 40 feet is the maximum allowed on 8.30 acres at 6551 Centennial Center Boulevard, TC, Town Center Zone, G C T Ceneral Commercial Town Center, Town Center, Special Land Use Designation, Ward 4 with Councilwoman Alan Palensky.

The planning commission recommends approval, staff recommends denial.

This is a public hearing.

I now declare it open.

Is the applicant present?

Uh Josh Hunter, 5115 Arville.

Uh Patrick Science representing the applicant.

Uh we're the installer and supplier of the flagpole.

We just we just want to put a larger flagpole on the property.

We're going with there's a 40-foot uh allowed height, and we want to double that basically, so there's good visibility for people passing by and seeing this as a landmark, basically.

Uh so we're seeking a variance for an increase in height to 80 instead of 40 and an increase in the flag size from a six by ten to a twenty by thirty.

I know there was concern with uh noise, um and I want to hopefully put that concern to rest because we as the installer recommend you take the flag down during these high winds so uh it won't make the noise, number one, but it also won't damage the flagpole component, so we won't be out there fixing it and doing things.

So um that would be the first thing.

And then uh I can we can add that as a condition, is what I was kind of getting at there.

So um we just are trying to put a pretty flagpole up there and represent America and that's it.

Any questions?

This is relatively easy for me to understand.

Some things are not.

I understand a poll.

Okay.

Please thank you, Mayor Potem for your loan steam for the record.

Staff finds no evidence of a unique circumstance, has presented it to warrant the proposed flagpole that is inconsistent with the town center development standards as such.

Uh the request is preferential in nature, and staff recommends denial of the waiver.

Thank you.

Thank you.

This is a public hearing for anybody who would like to comment.

Now is your time.

Hearing and seeing none, are there any questions or comments from the council?

Seeing none, Ms.

Mayor Pro Tem this is Yes, please.

Councilwoman Semers Armstrong.

Is the installer the owner and would they have control over ensuring that the flag is taken down in high wind situations?

No, we are not the owner.

We just can recommend that and and put a condition in to the application if necessary to tell them to you know basically take the flag down during those conditions.

Uh thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh I appreciate you Josh coming today, and uh I love the American flag as well.

Uh I just want to uh make clear to my colleagues that we have heard about past applications for oversized American flags going in near residential areas and uh that causing a sound element that the neighbors didn't care for.

But this is a a very dense commercial area, not near a residential area, so that gives me some comfort, and you'd think that the business owner, should they want to extend the life of the actual flag would take that down, but I don't know that we can mandate or condition that Mr.

Um Mr.

Lil Scene, would you be willing to read the condition that you have prepped for us into the record?

Sure, through you, Mary Pro Tem.

Um so for regarding the size of the of any flag, uh American or otherwise being used on the on this poll, the maximum size flag that can be attached to the flagpole shall be 20 feet by 30 feet.

As far as high winds, um I can draft something if you'd like.

The weather service says that's about 40 miles per hour or higher.

Um this is a discretionary review.

Feel free to choose whatever wind speed you want, if any.

I think a condition limited to the limits the size of the flag is probably ideal if uh as Josh as the applicant, would you agree to that?

Absolutely.

And and just to further the point of a 20 by 30 flag, that is huge.

And to go bigger than that, you'd have to go custom and it would be very, very expensive.

These flags are already like $2,500 a piece.

So I doubt that they would want to buy an additional, you know, spend double that to get a larger flag.

So I'm an agreement, yes.

Um Mr.

Pro Tem, I move to uh approve item number 72 with the condition of size read by Mr.

Lanstein earlier.

There's a motion, please vote.

Uh-huh.

And post.

That motion passes.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for your time.

Items number 73 through 73B, 7326-0025 for possible action on the following land use entitlement project requests on 9.88 acres at 4500 North Teneo A.

C1 limited commercial zone 73A 26-0025 DAR1 to allow a proposed off-premise sign to be constructed to a height of 65 feet, where 55 feet is the maximum allowed.

73B 26-0025 SUP1 for proposed 65 foot tall 14 foot by 48 foot off-premise sign, not qualifying as a city communication sign, used with digital LED electronic message illumination.

The applicant is Las Vegas Bill of Origin, the owner is South Main LLC.

The planning commission recommends approval on the entire land use entitlement project.

Staff recommends denial on the entire land use entitlement project.

These are in Ward 4 with Miss Alan Kalensky in our public hearings, which I now declare open.

Is the applicant present.

Good morning, uh Mayor Pro Tem, uh members of the Council.

Greg Esposito representing the applicant in this matter.

So uh as it was read into the record, uh we're requesting a billboard.

Uh as you can see, uh the it meets the uh separation requirements to the most nearby residences.

The reason we're asking for a waiver is because uh if the billboard were to remain at the 55-foot height as you are approaching it uh from uh the 95, which is our, of course, uh main audience, you wouldn't be able to see it.

You wouldn't be able to see about half of it.

So it'd be obscured by the sound wall.

And so we feel that creates the uh extraordinary condition uh that should allow um the waiver uh for us to go up to 65 feet, which then would enable the full view of the sign uh from the 95.

It was mentioned at the planning commission meeting how this is only a condition uh from the north, uh that from the that the sound wall ends where the residences are.

Um the reason uh it is as far away from the sound wall as it is, is because we needed to keep the separation to the nearby residences.

So, yes, the condition is only uh from one direction, uh, but you can't build a billboard with two different heights to take into account um the direction of traffic flow.

This is an overview of the area, uh as you could see the nearby residences are right here.

This is an existing sign, the big lots sign that's that's already there, and this is where our um our sign would go.

And I wanted to show a picture of what it is that so that's the existing sign.

This is a picture from Google Maps.

I went out there with my camera, but it didn't do the uh area justice.

So you can see that that our sign is uh set significantly further away from the homes than an existing sign, which of course doesn't have the same height, but uh there's already a sign there.

And I do want to point out um, because it's it's important to what I'm gonna say a little bit later, that there are a lot of um very bright lights uh on the Craig Road exit or illuminating the crit uh the Craig Road exit um that already really affect the area uh with a lot of um um light pollution, ambient light, things like that.

Uh you can see uh those very bright, very tall um light poles from the cul-de-sac uh where the the nearest residences are.

The technology that we're going to use.

This is what a typical LED illuminated billboard.

It's the light profile of a typical LED unlimited uh billboard, and you can see that it has a very wide spread and uh out to where the second set of residents, second row of residences are uh it would be 0.024 foot candles.

As I mentioned about a month ago on a different application, a foot candle is the amount of light that you would see if you had a candle, you're holding a candle one foot from yourself.

What we are proposing is louver technology.

Now, the louver technology we're only going to do on the residential side.

There's nobody here to to bother with the light pollution.

So we're proposing the louver technology facing north facing the residents, which by way of comparison severely drops what is visible by much fewer residences.

So if there was no louver technology, you know, there would be like six houses that could see it at you know a certain intensity.

That intensity drops uh by more than half and will only uh be mildly seen by three of the residences uh that are closest to it.

Um both sides of the billboard will have uh light sensing technology that uh will respond to ambient light.

Um nighttime operation um is uh significantly less to where and as I said last time, a full moon is 0.1 foot candles, and and you can see uh here at this, you know, further at the second set, you're at 0.019.

So you're just barely above moonlight um where this uh billboard is gonna hit.

And according to the studies that I have, a street light on a major road, which as I pointed out there's significant um major road lighting, uh, is one to three foot candles.

So the area is already flooded with quite a bit of uh of light from the freeway, and our billboard uh won't add a significant amount of light uh that will negatively affect the neighbors.

We respect staff's um recommendation to denial, understand it, uh, but we do feel that the sound wall being there and not being able to see uh the billboard really uh reduces its effectiveness to accomplish the goal uh that it's there for.

I appreciate your time and I'm here to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you very much.

I'll turn it over to Mr.

Lucian.

Uh thank you, Mayor Pro Tem.

Uh there is no unique work story or circumstance related to the physical characteristics of the subject property that warrants the requested height variance.

As such, the hardship is deemed to be self-imposed, and staff recommends the now of the variance and special use permit.

Thank you.

This is a public hearing for anybody who would like to comment.

Now is your time.

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

Are there any council members who would like to question or comment?

Seeing none, uh Ms.

Alan Polanski.

Uh thank you, Mr.

Mayor Pro Tem.

Uh one question.

I know that there was a billboard application here in the past that was approved.

Did your client or the person you represent uh have uh had gone through this process before, or was it another billboard operation?

No, same same exact company as Las Vegas Billboards, they're a local family-owned company.

Um they've been around for a while.

Uh it was a month ago.

Uh it was in uh uh uh councilman Diaz's uh district.

Same technology, same Louver technology.

No, no, no.

I'm talking about in the spot.

There was one, I believe, in the past approved.

I'm not aware.

You're not aware?

Oh, okay.

Okay.

Fair enough.

Um secondly.

Did you have a neighborhood meeting on this?

Or did anyone show up at planning commission?

No, no neighbors showed up at the planning commission.

Okay.

And I'm being told that no, there was never a previous billboard application at this location by this company.

Oh, well, that's just one company.

Okay.

It may have been another company that I'm not aware of.

Yeah, for sure.

Sure, you may repair Tem in 2008.

There was an application approved by the city council for a billboard at this location.

Any reason why it wasn't built then?

We don't have any idea.

I just okay.

Not this company.

Not this company.

Okay.

Interesting.

Well, I guess I'll have to do some retract research on my own on that one.

But I don't have any objection to it.

It has been approved in the past.

I appreciate you using the Louver technology so that uh the neighbors have uh little to no impact.

Um could you elaborate just while you're on the record, and I always like to hear this with your company about your policy not to put anything explicit up?

Oh, yes, um, that's something that uh Ms.

Stewart uh likes putting onto the record.

Yeah, family owned business definitely uh doesn't uh uh allow adult uses.

Um I'm not exactly sure you know what that all entails, but definitely no strip clubs, adults, uh adult entertainment uses, um things like that.

Uh family owned uh across the valley uh doesn't uh doesn't need that sort of business.

Okay, I appreciate that.

Fair enough.

Uh Mayor Pro Tem, I'd like to move to approve item number 73 A and B.

There's a motion, please vote.

Aye.

And post.

No item passes.

Thank you very much for your time today.

Thank you very much.

Moving on to item 74.

26 0080 RQR1, required review special use permit 24-0672 SUP1.

Applicant owner of 7th Street Properties LLC for possible action on a six-month required review for a proposed 12,700 square foot alcohol on premise full use with a 7,650 square foot outdoor patio at 115 North 7th Street T5 MS T5 Main Street Zone Ward 3 with Councilwoman Diaz.

Is the applicant here?

Yes, we are.

Uh my name is Hara Armenion on behalf of the landlord 7th Street Properties.

Our business address is 1013 Whitney Ranch, Henderson, Nevada.

And the business location is 115th North 7th Street, as you just mentioned.

And we're here for the six-month review of the SUP.

Of course, we support staff's approval and request that the SUP is approved and tenants continued tenancy is as well.

Thank you so much.

I'll turn it over to the staff.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem.

Since the issuance of the business license on the subject site, uh the subject has had one code enforcement issue pertaining to construction without permit, which has been resolved, along with service requests related to graffiti removal and routine routine sanitation.

No concerns related to noise have been received by the city to date.

The business has operated according to its license for the on-premise sale of alcohol beverages without direct incident or violation over the past six months, and has shown that the use can be conducted in a manner that is harmonious and compatible with the adjacent commercial and multifamily residential uses.

Therefore, staff is recommending approval of the six-month review.

Thank you.

This is a public hearing for anybody who would like to comment.

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

Are there any questions or comments from council?

Councilman Diaz, this is yours.

Thank you, MPT.

Um, thank you for being before us.

Uh, wanted to ask um what has happened since uh you opened uh your establishment.

Can you kind of give us a flavor and a taste of what happens?

How many times a week are you open?

Um, what kind of programming have you brought?

Uh just interested in and the undertakings thus far.

Hello.

Um my name is Jordan Stevens.

I'm the key employee here, so I'm um on ground for the business on the nights that we are open, which is Friday and Saturday nights.

Um we just have um you know DJ performances and then cellular alcohol.

Um, and then we're typically closed by 1 a.m.

on Friday, Saturday nights.

Okay.

Um and what's the music, the genre of music that you guys mostly showcases a variety through your DJ, or is there like a specific uh correct?

It's it's house music.

Okay, awesome.

Um I remember your item well from when I imposed this condition, there were a lot of community members uh that were a little apprehensive about the use and um that we were entertaining at that time, and so the best way to uh move something forward is to just ensure that we inspect what we expect and that all of us are living up to our word when we were here at the dais last time.

And so um it's good to hear that there have been no calls for service.

Um the folks that had concerns have not been blowing up my phone.

Um, and they got notice that we had this six-month review, and so if they're not speaking up saying that they have an issue or heartburn with you, then I think everything is uh going well, and I'm ecstatic to hear that.

Okay, we are going to reconvene.

We are back from the closed session.

Councilman Diaz may have a motion to reconvene.

So moved.

And post.

Mr.

Davis.

Mr.

Davis is up here in the days, but I think we're good to go with the council's comments and then any motion.

And I will open it up for any comments and I'll end with Councilman Woman Diaz for a motion, if that's okay.

I'll begin.

Um I just wanted to um say a couple of things.

I've had the pleasure of serving on the audit committee for almost the last year, and I I just want to commend you for your leadership.

Your the meetings are a pleasure to attend.

They're very when you we do audits, your presentations and the actual audits are very um researched and sort of informed, and I think you've done a great job building a culture within your own department, but also across the city, so that the whole audit process doesn't feel punitive or like a gotcha moment, but really is the framework is such that it's clear that you set the tone that this is really to help the city, it's to help our city manage its resources effectively, and so it feels collaborative, and then I also just want to thank you for being so accessible not only to the audit committee members but also the members of the council.

It's been a um a wonderful change, and I really appreciate it.

Thank you, Councilwoman.

Yeah, councilwoman Kelly.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem.

As a member of the audit committee, along with councilwoman, Councilwoman Brunei, uh, I feel uh it's important to me to put on the record of my experience working with you in the short time that I've been here, and to articulate the value that is added because of the perspective you have about your role and your interaction with the city departments and city employees and and the directors leading and and managers leading those groups.

We've talked uh many times before, and I believe this is your philosophy, that the audit process, the internal audit process is not a necessarily uh created to be a gotcha process, that it is a way in which we can we being we being the audit committee, you know, through the efforts of you and your team have a have a focal um have a focalized point when we're looking at certain of our operations, our duties, how we execute on what we're trying to achieve in a way that helps us to be as managers and leaders more efficient.

Um it brings in a um a more uh not necessarily a third-party perspective, but certainly one who's not one who's not involved in the day-to-day machinations of what we do and can see things differently.

And I have been very pleased to be part of um I've had an experience being on audit and finance committees and chairs of of subcommittees, and I really think that the complimentary way that you view while you work with our city manager and our city attorney to um have that audit that internal audit process be one of opportunity, be one of um reflection about continuous improvement, and while there are times we that that the audits reveal um things that that are maybe even problematic, and those need to be addressed, and these are perfect ways to do it.

It also helps to shore up when things are being done right, uh, when processes, et cetera, are being done right.

And I really do believe, Brian, that your professionalism and your attitude and the way that you lead has helped continue to positively um affect your ability to be effective when you're out doing doing audits.

So I thank you for that.

Um I know that uh the audit team works, well, the audit team, but the audit team board also works very hard to support your efforts at identifying and eliminating fraud and the uh uh the helpline, not the help line, what is it called?

Fraud hotline.

Yes, hotline not helpline.

But either way, help us help you.

The that that's been very effective as well.

So I'll look forward to your continued success.

And as you know, I just want to make one point.

We had talked about you and I, I was sharing a um a perspective that I had about everything, you know, whatever you do to make things better and cover uh cover something that needs to be corrected is is very positive.

And you made the point about how critical the integrity of your work, that uh what's really important is that conclusions that are made are conclusions based on fact, that they're not uh subjective, that they're not based on interpretation, but they're really based uh and can withstand scrutiny because that is so very, very important.

I was really pleased that you helped remind me that that is an almost an unspoken part of what what we do, what you do, and is so critical to ensuring that the work that you do that comes out it can be respected and referenced as a point of improvement and a point of pride.

So thank you very much, Brian.

Congratulations.

Thank you so much.

And I'll turn it over to Councilwoman Diaz.

Thank you, MPT.

Um, and thank you to my colleagues.

Uh obviously, everyone is very pleased with your performance as our auditor.

Um, you're leading the charge to ensure that we're doing performance audits, and this isn't just to um kind of have a gotcha moment or find people not doing what they're supposed to.

I think overwhelmingly you are finding that most of our employees are very efficient, they're doing their job to the best of their abilities, but we sometimes have to kind of do a temperature check to see if there's some dated practices or there's better controls or better programs that could be uh deployed and implemented to even make their life easier sometimes versus what they've been doing.

So, all that to say that we're really happy, we want to keep you on board, and um we want to uh then renew you at three uh with a 3.3% cola and the 4.0 merit that is consistent with the point of and executive merit program of this fiscal year.

And would you be amenable to that?

Definitely thank you, councilwoman.

Thank you, council members.

Uh very generous.

And that would be my motion.

There's a motion, please vote.

Aye.

And post that item passes.

Thank you very much, Mr.

Smith.

Thank you, Council.

I just want to give a shout out to my team also uh for the work that they do and the support that they provide to me.

And once again, it's uh an honor to work for the city of Las Vegas.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Moving on to item number 75, reports and presentations, report by Maggie Plaster, director, Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs regarding an overview of the Las Vegas Mayors Cup International Soccer Showcase and City of Las Vegas Soccer Fields impact on quality of life and the local economy.

This affects all wards.

And I would just start off by saying your husband is texting me about a big bush in Ward One.

So your entire family are amazing constituents.

So thank you.

Good morning, Mayor Pro Tem and and Council members.

My name is Maggie Plaster.

I'm the director of parks, recreation, and cultural affairs, and I'm here today at Mike Jansen's invitation to talk with you about all things soccer.

So to start with uh there are two overarching reasons why you sports are important to our participants and our entire city.

First of all, there's the social impact, and when considering this social impact, we take into account that sports align with the council priority of health care.

It's a healthy activity.

They bring people together from all walks of life, and they often result in participants being more focused in school and better students overall.

And then on the other side of things, another major benefit is that it has an impact on our economy through spending of the tourists who come to Las Vegas for sports tournaments, and also locals spend a lot when their children are involved in sports.

So to delve a little bit further into the social impact, um, sports promote physical fitness and lifelong healthy habits.

They build confidence, discipline, and leadership skills that carry into adulthood.

And participating in sports teaches teamwork, communication, and accountability.

And finally, involvement in youth sports keeps kids engaged in structured, supervised activity, and provide safe environments that reduce exposure to negative influences.

Now let's turn to economic impact.

Youth tournaments bring in teams, families, and spectators from across the country.

They often stay multiple days, they're filling hotels, eating at restaurants, and shopping locally, especially during weekends and off-peak seasons.

Tournaments are spread throughout the year, helping stabilize revenue beyond major conventions or peak tourism periods.

And this creates consistent income for businesses rather than seasonal spikes.

Restaurants, retail stores, entertainment venues, they all benefit from increased foot traffic, even when those venues aren't actually tied to sports.

For one example, kids come into town, they need something to do, maybe they're going to adventure dome or other kid-focused activities.

And they help diversify our economy beyond gaming and nightlife.

So overall, youth sports act as a steady, reliable economic engine, bringing in consistent visitors, supporting jobs, and helping reshape the image and economy of Vegas.

And long term, we're hosting these large youth soccer tournaments, and it's basically proof that Las Vegas is a premier premier youth sports destination.

Youth Sports Participation Development develops pathways to leadership through team captains, junior coaches, and peer mentors.

And large tournaments like the Las Vegas Mayor's Cup often become signature events for a city.

When residents participate in well-run tournaments, it builds community and pride, community pride, and sometimes it encourages more high-level sports facilities.

To show you a little bit about what's happening on City of Las Vegas sports fields, this includes all sports, but with our local youth leagues, we're seeing about 25,000 participants in 2025 and almost 200,000 participants in our tournaments in 2025.

And when you take spectators and families into account, that number drastically increases.

For example, we use Placer AI at our park with the most soccer fields, 11 soccer fields, which is Kellogg's Air, we generally see 1.5 million people there every year.

Let's talk a little bit about the revenue that comes to the city of Las Vegas through our sports fields.

The soccer fields are the primary source of revenue for our municipal sports unit at 1.6 million, but over all of our fields, we pulled in 2.3 million last year, and that was just on field rental fees.

The city established the Las Vegas Mayor's Cup in 2000 or former mayor Oscar Goodman.

We had just developed the Betty Wilson Soccer Complex.

It is the premier soccer destination for youth sports in the whole valley.

That is the number one place at any tournament will want to use.

It's at Buffalo and Tanea.

And when we had this facility online, we decided to start doing the Mayor's Cup Soccer Tournament, which the City of Las Vegas initially ran.

The first tournament had 68 teams, four of them were from abroad.

We relied heavily on volunteers to support the operation.

And downtown Las Vegas Soccer Club constituted the largest group of volunteers and was instrumental in standardizing tournament quality, training referees, and they were very good at marketing the tournament.

The Las Vegas Mayor's Cup today has expanded greatly due to the efforts of Roger Tabor and Gary Sorosman, who are with downtown Las Vegas Soccer.

It's become probably one of the top three youth soccer tournaments in the country.

In 2025, the two showcase tournaments in February had 800, I'm sorry, 695 boys' teams and 325 girls' teams.

The fall tournament in October had 560 teams.

So that's a total of 15, 80 teams last year and a 2,000% increase since we first started the tournament in 2000.

So we're bringing together teams from around the world.

We're providing young athletes with opportunities to compete at advanced at an advanced level, and they're often college scouts at these tournaments, so we're helping kids get into college with soccer.

So as I've said, we've it's evolved into one of the largest international youth soccer tournaments.

It generates millions of dollars in economic activity.

Our best guess is that all of the sports on our sports fields generate 124 million dollar impact to our local economy each year, and the Mayor's Cup is the largest contributor to that number.

And we base that calculation on average visitor spending as outlined in a recent LVCEA, sorry, LBCBA Economic Impact Report.

Now I wanted to draw attention to this photo because not only do our soccer tournaments have an impact on the community and international visitors, but they also have an impact on our employees' kids.

And so in this one, the kid in the black on the far right is Simon Lewinstein, whose dad Peter likes to go to tournaments on his weekends.

Just to tell you a little bit about the fields in our inventory that are used for soccer tournaments.

As I've said, Betty Wilson is the main attraction with 10 fields.

Centennial Hills, we have two fields at Fountain 5, Kellogg's Air 11, and Teton Trails, three fields.

And the total hours that are utilized at these fields is like 70,000 hours per year.

And then just to share that the city cares about this infrastructure and we continue to invest in it.

We do have some soccer fields on the horizon.

We've got a sniploma grant to do four more fields at Betty Wilson.

We just opened Craig and Park with one new field.

We have Igor Soldo that's coming online.

The groundbreaking will be happening soon.

I thought it was actually one field.

Craig and Park is two fields, excuse me.

Igor Soldo is gonna have four short-sided soccer fields, and usually two of those equals a field, but with the layout there, we're only gonna have one full-size soccer field.

Northwest Regional Park will eventually have 10.

Sky Canyon Park is gonna have one practice field.

We're adding an additional soccer field at Teton Trails, and eventually on the upper Las Vegas wash, we will have three fields.

So in summary, youth sports is very important for our tourism.

It's helping diversify our economy, it's strengthening community engagement and youth development, and it's providing long-term municipal value where sports infrastructure will continue to reap dividends for our residents in the city for decades to come.

And ultimately, we're making life better for the children of Las Vegas in our community who love soccer, like Rosa Cortez's daughter.

I'll let you guess which one is Raquel.

And then before I close, I just want to thank the people who made this presentation possible.

Kathy Mayer, Sandy Foley, and Ashley Foster were the ones who put this together.

And then the team that we have actually reserving the fields and coordinating the field rentals are Adam, Crystal, Keisha, Vanessa, and Tanya.

And then we have amazing sports leagues that are recreational leagues within our department that are growing every year.

And the people in charge of the soccer leagues are Prey, Nate, Josh, and Billy.

So thanks to them for all that they do to make to advance soccer in our community.

And that's the end of my presentation.

Thank you, Ms.

Plaster.

That was a great presentation.

And I was just gonna make a suggestion that it is a lot of fun to hand out the trophies at the mayor's cup.

And so when the invites do go out to council to hand them out, maybe extend that to the entire council so they can experience the wonderfulness of trophies to kids.

That's a great idea, and I know that downtown soccer would be really happy to have more participation in the ceremonial part.

Yeah.

Are there questions or comments?

Please.

Thank you.

Thank you for the presentation.

I think as I've shared before, I am a soccer mom and I've been, and thank you for being so responsive to my many requests to try to add more fields.

Given that I'm a soccer mom, I spent a lot of time talking or traveling and doing tournaments around tournaments around our region.

And I would say pretty regularly one of the games is played on school fields.

And so I was wondering now that we have a new superintendent and our school district is also facing some budget constraints.

Have you had any conversations or is an opportunity to have a conversation to maybe open some of the school fields so that we could actually host bigger tournaments and maybe even enter into a revenue sharing agreement with the school district?

But you know, we have so many fields that our schools have, and in other states in the region, they do use their school fields for a soccer tournament.

So just wondering if you had explored that to date.

We could certainly talk with them.

I know that the tournament organizers like to have as many fields as possible in one location.

And as you saw from these slides of the fields that are that they are using, it's not ideal for them to be using Centennial Hills, but they're kind of forced to because there's only two fields there.

So I I we could certainly talk to the school district, but I think in the end they're gonna want to use the complexes that have the most fields because of the the way their tournaments are structured and you know, running around all over the city is difficult for them.

But I was just imagining if you had one at um Betty Wilson, right?

You've got Cimarron right there and um the middle school's not too Garsack not too far away.

So at least like you could stay pretty concentrated as opposed to coming out to Centennial because that's a huge hike from Betty Wilson.

Definitely.

We will reach out to the school district and talk to them about their field use.

Okay.

Please.

Thank you, MPT.

Um, Miss Plaster, this is very enlightening.

Um, I get to witness it a lot.

Uh I'm I frequent Kellogg's air for my own recreation, and I'm always amazed at how many out-of-state um cars are parked um and how many tournaments are being played.

Um, and it's pretty consistent.

Uh, the the level of programming that's happening there, which makes my heart happy, and we know our assets are being utilized.

Um I was just I just think about the number of feet and cleats that are going through our field, and so I wanted you to speak a little bit about obviously it generates revenue, it's all of that revenue then um kind of set aside for the maintenance of the field because I I assume we're going through those turfs pretty rapidly with the amount of um kiddos that you cited are are partaking and and participating in these tournaments.

So the the money that we bring in from our field rentals and for our tournaments pays for the programmatic staff, it doesn't actually pay for all of the field maintenance.

Um, occasionally we we're able to build up a balance where we replace an artificial turf field with those funds.

Um it's difficult to divide up how much of our PGM is our parks and ground maintenance team is spent on fields um as compared to the rest of the parks we have in the city because we do have 87 parks total, but um I did look at those numbers before this presentation, and about 11 million dollars of PGM is spent discretionary-wise, five million spent on water.

We could look at we could look at you know, trying to cover more of those costs through the um municipal sports fund, but right now it doesn't, we don't charge enough to be able to cover those costs.

And we don't want to make it cost prohibitive to where they don't come to us, but I just think it's something that maybe we think about how do we maybe have a little set aside to especially address those fields that are needing the TLC faster.

Sometimes, you know, we are banking on awards, um coffers to be rich to do the work, and then sometimes the money's just not there, depending on how much development is happening.

And so I just think we should kind of look at the breakout of the monies received and what we do have to cover, and then if there's any extra that we could be putting into a little fun uh for upkeep and maintenance because we want our fields to be top-notch and the best and pristine.

And they actually our fields have the reputation of being the best.

I mean, that's what all the tournament directors tell us.

Um, our natural grass fields, we do take them down four to five months every year so we can do overseed and bring them up to you know the best in Las Vegas.

So thank you.

Thank you, and thank you to the entire um parks and rec team that make it happen from our maintenance to our scheduling to everyone who's ensuring that this is seamless and flawless and easy uh because when I see all the folks, it doesn't look that it looks chaotic to me, but it's a good it's a good chaos and a good energy.

Thank you.

Other questions or comments?

Please.

Thank you, Mayor Print Pro Tem.

I I wanted to um just add my uh kudos to Maggie and her team.

Uh from when the first time I met her, I I've always I have I've so appreciated her joy de Viv about our parks program.

And um when you talk to her about an individual effort, she is so well.

I'm sorry, you are.

How's that?

You are you really are so delightfully happy about what we can do and what we're able to do and proud of the work, and it takes a lot, and I know that, and I hear from our constituents all the time about how much they love our parks and recreational opportunities.

So just thanks.

Thank you.

Honestly, this is the best job I've ever had at the city, and a lot of that has to do with the mission and the the people who are working in this department.

They're very passionate about what they do from parks maintenance people.

I mean, the whole the whole gambit, so it's a joy.

This is a report on the oh, yes, please.

I remember when we talked about uh soccer last year in one of our briefings, and I didn't have much of a connection because we have been uh a different sport family.

Um, but now I've learned that my granddaughter is a soccer player and will be here for the summer, and we're adding soccer to our list of activities, and I'm excited to know that I'll be able to take her to public spaces, public parks, look into her getting some training uh and enjoying the outdoors and parks that the city of Las Vegas is taking very good care of.

Um, Maggie, I'm I'm just very proud of the work that your team does in every area.

I'm grateful, and um, this is wonderful to hear.

So I guess I'm a soccer meme now, in addition to a tennis meme, and to be able to do it in public spaces really speaks to my heart as a person who believes in um our uh our communities having access.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilman.

Thank you, Ms.

Ploster.

Thank you.

This is a report only, and no action is required.

And item 76, set date on any appeals file the 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 abatements.

We'll do thank you.

Thanks so much.

And item 77, citizen participation, public comment 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 is scheduled for action.

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

The amount of discussion on any single subject, as well as the amount of time any single speakers allowed, may be limited.

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?

Hi.

Hi.

We'll set the timer at one minute.

One.

I need two more people to finish my speech.

Hi, good afternoon.

My name is Barbara Wolf, and I am co-founder of Indivisible Las Vegas, representing over 8,000 men members in southern Nevada.

Uh, we are a grassroots volunteer-powered civic organization working to ensure that our community can safely and visibly participate in the democratic process.

Uh, since our formation in November 2024, we have led 51 peaceful protests throughout Las Vegas Valley.

I'm here today to address uh an issue facing all of Las Vegas.

Unlike major uh many major cities, our city does not have a free designated public assembly area that can accommodate eight to ten thousand people for peaceful political demonstrations.

After No Kings 3, a city spokesperson was quoted on Channel 13 saying the sidewalks in the city of Las Vegas are free speech areas.

I am here today to say that is not enough.

With national mobilizations expected to grow significantly over the next three years, we must address the shortage of adequate assembly areas.

Now I'm asking that we get our issues on the city's agenda so we can come together to facilitate new laws.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you.

Who wants to consider?

Please step forward.

Go ahead.

Come on in.

This is their public comment period, yes.

How'd she cut the line?

I think it's a good one.

I didn't know there was a line.

Yeah.

I didn't know we're not this.

Let's do one at a time.

If you want to line up, there's three microphones.

Let's try to be efficient about it.

Please.

Okay.

Do I need to say my name?

Please state your name for the rest.

My name is Julie Kemp, also a member of Indivisible.

I will be finishing Barb Wool's speech Wolf's speech.

We would like to emulate the free speech protections offered by Reno.

Reno offers four designated free speech zones that are free.

Special event permits for First Amendment expressions are exempt from standard insurance requirements.

Road closures are covered under free speech protections.

I'll give you that time out.

Sorry, I don't want to interrupt.

I uh start start again because I interrupted here.

That was weird.

Uh road closures, police fees, and park rentals are covered under free speech protections.

In Reno, free speech is free.

In Las Vegas, No Kings 3 cost invisible Las Vegas over 24,000, 95%, which could have been waived by the city.

Not waiving the insurance requirement was a choice the city made, and it cost us $16,100.

We also experienced multiple breaches of trust by the Metro Special Events Department and will address them with the sheriff.

Las Vegas has built arenas for sports and convention centers for business, but no planning was done for constitutional civic expression.

We plan for tourists and everything but democracy.

Please please note this is not a partisan issue.

It is a constitutional one.

It's time to make space for the people because democracy deserves infrastructure, and we're not going away.

We ask that you please meet us to discuss how we can best move forward.

Thank you.

And there are three microphones, so please step forward and we'll.

Good morning, Mayor Pro Tem.

Good morning.

And city council members.

I am a constituent of Councilwoman Alan Polinski, and I am very appreciative of this opportunity.

Today I want to talk to you about breaches of trust.

The rules were changed by Metro and then the days prior to and on the day of the March 28th event.

We paid good money for our protesters to have two northbound lanes and a way for people who were driving by to hawk their horns in support of us on the south side lane.

This protest cost over 24,000 dollars, and we did not get what we agreed to.

We got one northbound lane, and the southbound side of the street was closed on that morning.

The police presence was supposed to be less intimidating, and they were not supposed to wear their helmets.

Granted, they were kind enough not to carry their assault weapons, but the sheer numbers and the fiddling around with their zip ties were quite intimidating.

We had 170 officers present, plus 50 in reserve on a nearby street for Metros reported 1400 attendants.

Reno, by contrast, that same day had 20,000 attendees and eight visible police officers.

Cost estimates were changed midstream by Metro, and we had to pay for the Marrick Barricade Company.

We were told the insurance requirement had been waived, and it was not.

We met one obstacle after another.

Thank you.

Please.

Hello, thank you for the opportunity to speak today.

My name is Laura Garecki.

I attended the No Kings event here on March 28th, and it was a peaceful and impactful day, not just here in Vegas, but around the world for people exercising their First Amendment rights.

The event was well attended, it was very enjoyable, but the police presence was unnecessarily overbearing.

It seemed disproportionate to the crowd size, and it seemed like a waste of public resources and police time.

I've been at numerous um similar events around the country, and none of them had this level of police presence, including an event last year in Washington, DC, with over a hundred thousand attendees with nowhere near this level of police presence.

I felt like the close proximity along the route was intimidating, and I felt like it was intentional to try to have a chilling effect on free speech, not just at this event, but to deter participation in future events.

Thank you very much.

Thank you so much.

Hi.

Hello, good afternoon, Mayor Pro Temp and members of the council.

My name is Kayla Myessa, that's K-A-Y-L-A H M A E S E.

I serve as a policy manager at the ACLU of Nevada.

We support Indivisible and their testimony that was shared.

People in our community shouldn't be subjected to over-the-top policing tactics at peaceful protest.

So we think that's something that the council should address moving forward.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Please step forward.

There's two other microphones.

Good afternoon, Mayor Pro Tem Knudsen and members of the council.

I'm a Reverend Dr.

Martha Poling Schmidt, and I'm very pleased to have this time to be with you.

On Friday, March 28th, 2026, Kendall Bell told us that our second permit application was approved with some modifications and that the insurance requirement was being waived.

We were ecstatic.

On the Wednesday before the protest, Valentin from the city special events department asked for proof of insurance.

Kendall Bell was on the email chain.

We stated to Valentin that the insurance had been waived.

Why was he asking us to make the insurance person work on a policy if we weren't going to be paying her for her work?

Kendall answered saying stop bugging her.

Kendall also emailed saying he was in a high-level meeting and that the event would be fully approved that day.

When we spoke to Kendall after his meeting, he gave us the impression that he had more power than Valentin and to listen to Kendall.

So we did.

On Thursday, the special events team made it clear that two insurance policies were needed, and that even if Metro waived their requirement, the city would not.

So we went from having not to have an insurance policy to having not one, but now two.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um thank you for listening to me.

My name is Karen Newcomer.

Um I spoke to you guys several times for like the last year, off and on.

I've been coming and saying how the over policing is uh detrimental to the protesters, to our city, and to L the MPD, but nothing has gotten better.

We're just trying to exercise our First Amendment rights.

I'm unaware of any other jurisdiction having to battle their local governments and protest, and we spend way too much time trying to work around the around the demands of them for the law enforcement.

They should be assisting us, not trying to harm us.

No Kings 3 for me was a straw that proverbial broke that broke the proverbial camel's back.

The cutting down of the six beautiful old trees that were in front of the regional justice center, done two days before our protest with weather we were expecting to be and was very hot.

Uh that seems very purposeful.

Um I've seen at a protest, it wasn't that one, but another one, where an old lady, I'm 66 years old, and she was probably old enough to be my mother.

She had a foldable plastic umbrella, and our cops made her not only put it in her purse fold it.

What is a 66-year-old lady going to do to harm our police people with the plastic little tiny umbrella?

It's a matter of health and safety.

And this is we need y'all's help to get what we should, what should be being to provide it by our tax dollars a place to peacefully protest without being over policed.

Hi.

Hi, my name is Carol Nerby, and Mayor Pro Tem Kenny, you are my councilman.

And on a personal level, I'm just disturbed why any leaders in this city would want to prevent and or unnecessarily and severely restrict peaceful protests.

I'm wondering if there is any confusion and what our leaders think is the purpose of our peaceful protests.

These protests are being done to benefit our communities, to make our communities a better and happier place to live, not to create any division or chaos or violence.

We protest to protect yours and everyone's rights.

And we protest to protect the rights afforded to all of us by the Constitution.

And in protesting, we show our passion and joy in doing just that.

Peaceful protests are not just a way to protect our own futures, but even more importantly, a way to protect the futures of our children and our grandchildren.

So I ask that you consider decisions that you make concerning these situations, keeping in mind that we do this to help our community and all our futures and hope that you want to do the same.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Hi, my name is Deborah Shomsky, and I've lived in Las Vegas over 40 years, and I have marched and rallied and protested more times than I could count.

And have never run into a violent situation.

But yet we can't have a porta potty because that could be used as a weapon.

Well, who are we gonna throw it at?

Ourselves.

There's nobody else that sees us anymore because they confine us to these few streets.

And like my friend said here, we can't even have a little parasol to protect ourselves from the sun after the city cut down the beautiful tree.

So do better.

Thank you.

Hello, council members.

My name is Amy.

Excuse me, we have one technical issue.

Just one second.

The anticipation.

Your problem began shortly.

I need your pain number, followed by the pound plan.

I appreciate your patience.

If there's music, I would dance.

Okay.

We have a councilwoman on the phone, so we're we're trying to tap back in, I think.

I joined.

All right.

Are we back?

Are we are we good?

Okay.

Now we're ready.

All right.

Pressure's on.

Thank you for being here, everyone on the phone and here as well.

Councilmember Nunson.

I'm a former resident of Ward 1, and I'm current resident of Ward 4.

Um, and uh my name is Amy Pospiak.

This is my first time appearing in front of City Council.

I have been to a few rallies over the last few years.

Um newer to this group, but this is the first time I'm really moved to be here because I think this is a very, very important thing for our democracy.

So I just wanted to echo the sentiments of everyone before me and say that please, please do put something on the agenda for us to discuss and um investigate what happened and discuss a path moving forward for us to be united in uh hope and uh democracy.

Thank you so much.

Hi.

Hello, I'm Katie Tice, K-A-T-I-E, T is in Tom, I C E.

I am a member of Indivisible also, and I would like to make sure that everyone knows that I agree with everything said, and what this seems like to me is that the NRS and the Nevada Constitution are not communicating with each other.

We don't have public spaces here, but in the Constitution, we're giving the right to assemble and peacefully protest.

So I would like this to get on the agenda so that that can be rectified and fixed for future events, and so that anyone, no matter what their beliefs are, can protest peacefully and know that they have the right to do that.

Thank you very much.

Hi.

Hi.

I'm Emily Eastwood.

This is also my first time appearing in front of you guys.

So thank you for your time.

Um I just wanted to say I went to the protests on the 28th, and I felt extremely intimidated by the police presence there.

Um part of my initiative with that was trying to get a lot of younger individuals involved.

I turned 18 in 2016.

And I have not been able to vote on a ballot that does not have a certain name on it.

And I'm watching my future as well as my peers' futures get taken away from us.

And so it's important to me that young people feel safe to exercise their first amendment right, uh, which is these protests.

Um I have younger siblings that are just becoming 18 and 19 years old.

I have a sister-in-law who's about to have a baby, and it's important to me that the future of America, our youth feel comfortable enough to come out on the streets and share what they believe.

So thank you for your time.

Thank you very much.

Hi.

Hi.

Hi, uh, my name is Deedra Radford.

I'm president of this.

I'm president of the Centennial Hills Democratic Club.

Uh, Councilwoman Bruni is my uh councilwoman.

Um Centennial Hills Democrats will be mailing 20,000 candidate guides to the Democrats in the upcoming primary and general election.

It's a lot of work to do.

I mean to do it, and sometimes it's it's a lot of work for one person, but I'm gonna do it anyway.

I'm very motivated.

Um I was one of the MCs at the March 25th No Kings protest.

I was really shocked by the sheer number of police and police vehicles present.

Now, the other day I heard that the city of Las Vegas is actually run by casino owners, not a people's government.

I really hope that's not true.

Uh, furthermore, I've heard that the police force does the bidding of casino owners, not the people's government.

I really hope that's not true.

Um, but with 170 cops present and 50 cops in reserve to police 1400 protesters, the city, whoever runs it, has proved based on results that it is protest averse.

By comparison, Reno had 20,000 protesters and had only eight cops.

We paid 24,000 to protest while Reno paid nothing.

I've been adv advising indivisible not to go through the city or the police, and the reality is we don't have to.

And we will continue protesting.

We will not be deterred.

But I have to wonder what is going on behind the scenes that this kind of over policing, uh, this kind of intimidation and injustice is going on.

And I direct this to the Democrats up there.

What are you going to do about it?

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Yes, my name is Grace Albanese, A-L-B-A-N-E-S-C, and Las Vegas is becoming the most dangerous place in the country.

Uh every time I look up, uh people are selling pictures of me everywhere I go.

I was at uh Walmart when that man uh hijacked that car and it crashed.

I seen them pull the driver out.

I was there.

Uh there people are selling pictures of me everywhere I go.

Um it's just a very dangerous place.

And uh a lot of people depend on me for their income, their sole income, or their uh, you know, just to add to their income.

And it's just become very dangerous for people when they want to go sell these pictures of me.

Uh possibly like in that Walmart parking lot where I was when that man hijacked that car, and the these uh transactions, metro calls them undetermined uh transactions, they go south and people die.

Thank you so much.

MPT uh city attorney Jeff Dorkek, if I could have a second, please.

Um for the First Amendment speakers.

If any of you have any additional comments, I can meet you out in the lobby uh after they finish uh this segment to get any additional feedback uh for myself, the management team and our special events group.

Uh I will say that some of the comments made, obviously, uh, while we are a payer into metro, a lot of that has to do with metro uh cops and things like that.

Um and I'm not saying that negatively or positively, just to that you know, you're speaking to the city council, they don't have direct uh control over uh speak speaking reality in fact.

But the other thing is on the insurance requirement, a special event permit was submitted for the protest.

And that is what I am almost 100% confident Valentin said back to you all, and thus the insurance requirement was upheld under the special event permit.

But um, just give me a couple minutes and I'll meet whoever wants to talk back there so I can get more information because yeah, we're fine with you know discussing and figuring out what we can do better.

So thank you.

Thank you very much.

And again, thank you for caring enough about our community to show up.

And we will now move on to item number 78, Council Emerging Issues discussion regarding potential items for future city council agendas.

This applies to all 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?

Councilwoman Summers Armstrong.

Not at this time, thank you.

Okay, thank you.

And now everyone's favorite item, but my least favorite, council member participation.

Councilmember 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.

And we will start with Councilwoman Alan Polenski.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim.

On the morning of Thursday, April 2nd, I toured the 525 JATC Pipes Pike Trade Apprentice School.

This is a five-year apprenticeship design to prepare individuals for careers as plumbers, pipe fitters, or HVAC technicians.

Classes are held during the evening, evenings and weekends, allowing students to gain hands-on experience while maintaining other responsibilities.

It was impressive to see how much real work training takes during um during this program.

Uh on Thursday, April 2nd, I attended a walk with Jesus event to celebrate Easter.

It was an open house experience designed to help visitors reflect on the life, ministry, and message of Jesus Christ.

I was grateful for the opportunity to attend and to take part.

Next up on Thursday, Tuesday, April the 7th, I attended the Summerlin Area Command's first Tuesday in Sun City.

We learned how drone technology is being integrated to better protect our families and neighborhoods.

We also got to learn more about cyber trucks, and they were a huge hit.

Thank you to everyone in Sun City Summerlin for hosting such a meaningful and informative event.

Looking forward to more.

On the morning of April 11th, the At Outdoors Nevada hosted a park cleanup at Police Memorial Park, which we are grateful for.

Together, we removed 67 pounds of trash and spread new mulch around 60, excuse me, around 95 trees.

Thank you for the volunteers who dedicated their mornings to keeping Police Memorial Park a beautiful space for people, wildlife, and the other trees.

Later in the morning, I had the opportunity to present a proclamation at the Friends of Parkinson's funny bunny race.

The purpose of this race is to bring awareness to Parkinson's disease.

Thank you to everyone who walked for awareness research and most importantly for each other.

I had a wonderful time.

Later that afternoon, I attended Summerlin Area Command Spring Family Event.

It was a great opportunity to for families to come together and enjoy the day.

It was also a great opportunity to wish Captain Fennis well in his transition to his new role.

Next up, there are still nine missing teens from our community.

If you have any information about these children, please contact LVMPD missing person detail at 702-828-3111.

If you are a uh missing teen, there is always a bus ride home for free on the end of the other end of that phone number.

And lastly, you can stay up to date with our updates, community news, and upcoming events, all the happenings in Ward 4 by following me on Facebook, Instagram, X, et cetera.

Or the old-fashioned way, which always works, 702-229-2524.

We are here to provide any assistance that we can.

Thanks.

Thank you, Councilman.

And Councilwoman Diaz.

Thank you, MPT.

And I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but today is tax day.

So if you haven't filed, you have until midnight.

Um or file your extensions so you have a little bit more time.

Um just gonna go over some awesome work that's been happening uh or visits we've had.

So on April 4th, uh there was a safe village cleanup in the gateway district.

Um, thank you to all the amazing neighbors who joined us for this amazing cleanup.

Uh, right around our Stupak Community Center.

We had our partners from LVMPD Downtown Area Command, Casa de Luz, the Strat Las Vegas, and our neighborhood services team.

This cleanup qualified uh the Safe Village Group into the official Adopt a Spot program, and over 400 pounds of trash was hauled that Saturday.

So congrats to everyone who partook on April 6th, Public Health Week at Gavin Gourjon Community Health Center.

Um the LGBTQ Plus Center convened patients, providers, and community partners at our Gavin Gorgeon Community Health Center to highlight the importance of Pound 340B drug pricing program, which is federally funded and currently at risk.

Or hashtag, I think it is, sorry, hashtag 340B.

Allows the center and many other community health partners, offer accessible health care to countless members of our community through prescriptions at discounted rates, supporting labs, transportation, and whole person care.

Thank you to Dr.

Ramirez and the center's team for raising awareness and educating us about how this and similar federal programs make it possible for them to offer invaluable health care coverage to our most vulnerable neighbors.

We definitely need that funding to come through.

On April 11th, Duncan, there's a new Duncan in Ward 3 on Maryland Parkway and Sahara Avenue.

So we were able to partake in a ribbon cutting ceremony with Valley High School administrators.

And we always love to celebrate the grand openings of newest editions to our city.

This Duncan location is at 2350 South Maryland Parkway.

And I just want to wish franchise owners Eva Holzler and Frank much success on this new location in our amazing city.

On April 13th, we took a tour of the Love Story Chapel at 704 South 6th Street.

And Julie and Arnold are the proud owners of the Love Story Chapel, and I was introduced to them.

And it's so amazing to walk through their beautiful wedding venue.

And they want to ensure that people know that Vegas is truly the wedding capital of the world, and that they are truly invested in making sure we do it old Vegas style.

Like we go all out, pull out the red carpet, roll it out, and that they go the extra mile to make that special day amazing for everyone.

So just uh ensure that you check them out at 704 South 6th Street because uh their love for making wedding experiences, including vowel renewals, um, super special is evident, and uh I was really impressed with their ability to offer indoor and outdoor wedding ceremonies.

Uh they want me to.

Uh they asked me how long have you been married?

I said 25 years, and I didn't do my vowel renewal last year at 25.

And so they're like, you have to come back.

So I'm trying to see if my husband will come along and uh do that for 24 five more years.

Um this Friday, April 17th, 9 a.m.

to 12 p.m.

We're gonna have this free shredding event.

So please stop on by 9 a.m.

to noon at the LVCEA parking lot, 857 North Eastern Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89101.

Um, please do not bring your documents in heavy binders.

We don't take credit cards and bank cards, electronic devices, or wet or damp paper.

But we do take everything else that is a document that needs to be shredded, especially after tax day.

So uh hope to see you all the first hour.

I'm gonna be there.

So swing on by.

Um, next we have April 18th, Baker Park Cleanup in partnership with Get Outdoors Nevada.

That's happening 9 a.m.

to noon at 1010 East St.

Louis Avenue.

Come celebrate Earth Day this Saturday with this amazing cleanup at Baker Park.

Scan the QR code that's on the screen and sign up right there for this volunteer opportunity.

Uh also wanted to let everyone know um that this Saturday, Chalk It Down in the Arts District is happening from 10 a.m.

to 5 p.m.

And it really is an amazing festival.

So if you haven't been able to see the past to, I highly recommend the experience.

So many artists come out and transform the arts district that day with their chalk art.

So come over.

Over 60 artists will transform the sidewalks with colorful chalk art while the community enjoys the vendors' activities, contests, food, and more.

Many thanks to Market in the Alley, the ATB Las Vegas Arts District Neighborhood Association, local businesses, residents, and of course, First Friday, Las Vegas for bringing us this wonderful annual event.

Wanna just flag, save the date.

There's gonna be a children's soccer fest at Gary Reese Freedom Park.

We want everyone to feel the excitement towards this next World Cup.

Um, and we're doing our part on April 25th, 2 to 5 p.m.

at Gary Reese Freedom Park, 850 North Mojave Road.

Attention, families, bring your little ones to a special Children's Day celebration on Saturday, March 25th.

Activities include raffles, prizes, a magic show, and much more.

Make sure to come in comfy clothes.

We'll probably start warming up that week and partake in soccer demonstrations and bouncy houses.

Last announcement I have is just around the engagement meeting we're having for Justin Myron E.

Levitt and JC Community Park on April 29th, 6 p.m.

at KO Knudsen Middle School in the library.

We just want all the neighbors that live close to or around the park to come and share their thoughts and ideas for what we think the best next step is for the future of that park.

We want to potentially extend uh the children's area, but we want community input before we make that decision.

So scan that QR code on the flyer above.

Um there's also a survey that is currently underway, and we want to hear if you can't make it to the meeting, fill out that survey, and then we have your input.

So please save the date and share with your neighbors again, April 29th, 6 p.m., KO Knutson.

And that's it for me.

Um, our office is always there.

Call us, email us, or scan to sign up to our newsletter.

Thank you, MPT.

Thank you too.

And Councilman Summers Armstrong, are you still on the line?

Of course I am.

Did you did you want did you have anything you would like to comment on?

No, I'm going to let every I'm out of town, so I'm going to pass on community um uh updates and bore you all massively at the next meeting.

Sounds totally fair.

Enjoy your time, travel safely.

And Councilwoman McKelly.

We do not have anything to add today.

Wonderful.

Well, thank you all very much.

Thank you to the management staff, the marshals, the clerks, communications, the people behind the secret window back there.

I appreciate everyone.

And we are officially adjourned.