The May sixth meeting of the City Council is called to order.

This meeting has been properly noticed and posted in compliance with the open meeting law.

These proceedings are being video recorded and can be viewed live on City of Las Vegas TV on Cox Cable Channel 2.

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The proceedings will be rebroadcast on the City of Las Vegas TV the Wednesday of the meeting at 8 p.m.

and also on Friday at 4 A.M., Saturday at 7 p.m., Sunday at 7 a.m.

and the following Monday at 5 p.m.

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If alarms should activate during today's meeting, please evacuate using the exits at the back of the chambers out to the mezzanine, proceed out the double doors to the terrace and down the back staircase.

For anyone that has difficulty with stairs, please check with a marshal or fire official for assistance.

Once outside, assemble on the northeast corner across the street from City Hall at Lewis and First Street.

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Before we proceed with the agenda, would everyone please ride to the invocation given by Reverend Charlotte Parker, Centers for Spiritual Living Greater Las Vegas, and please remain standing as she leads us in the pledge.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Good morning, Madam Mayor, Council.

Let us all take a deep breath together.

Let us center ourselves within.

We recognize the presence of a power greater than ourselves.

Name it what you will in your own way.

Connect with that present.

May we hear today, speak with respect and kindness.

May we gather in community to find ourselves in compromise for the good of our city and our community, greater community.

May we hold these thoughts in mind and heart.

In all of our actions, may we be kind in all of our words.

May we be careful.

And may we carry that through this week and on into the future as we continue to shine a light that says, yes, this is our shared humanity.

And this is how we create a city, a county, a country that works for all.

And so we begin.

Amen.

Amen.

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

Thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you.

And now we will proceed to the recognition of the citizens of the month.

Welcome everybody.

We're so happy to have you in our city council chambers this morning.

We are now going to do our citizen of the month.

This is the ceremonial portion of our council agenda.

And today, Councilwoman Bruni has the honor of recognizing our citizens of the month.

Councilwoman.

Thank you, Mayor.

Good morning, everyone.

So as I've shared before, one of my goals in this office has been to build community.

And I will say that it makes uh it's a lot easier to do my job and meet my goal when we have residents who are doing that already in Ward 6.

And so I was thinking about all the people that I've come across, and it's amazing how many have jobs but are also going above and beyond and doing things in our community just because, like me, they care so much and are interested in building community.

And um, I couldn't just think of one because there are so many people doing this, and so I'm taking a little bit of privilege, and we're gonna honor four citizens of the month in ward six.

So I'd like to call them all up.

Ken Kraft, Patty Chess, Corey Ravisay, and Kim Bishop, who cannot be here but her husband, Mitch will be coming up in.

So I'm gonna share a little bit about each one, and then we have a video where um our honorees share a few of their own words.

So Ken is a senior manager at IGT, he's been in southern Nevada since 1997.

We're actually almost neighbors, but you know, in talking to Ken, first of all, he always steps up.

He was involved with North Las Vegas when he lived there.