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The May twentieth, twenty twenty-six meeting of the City Council is called to order.

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

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Before we proceed with the agenda, would everyone please rise for the invocation given by Pastor Jason Jason Adams, Good Samaritan Lutheran Church at the Lakes, and please remain standing as he leads us in the pledge.

Good morning.

Good morning, Mayor Berkeley and Council members.

Let us pray.

Holy One, you are good and provide us with everything we need.

We give you thanks for this day for the breath of life, receive our gratitude for the blessings we share and continue to protect those who lead and serve and work and live in the city.

As we gather in this chamber, be present, guide our thoughts and intentions that each effort and decision made today would be for the good of our neighbors.

We hold in our hearts our troops overseas and those here at home.

As the school year comes to an end, we give thanks for teachers and staff, bus drivers, and all who help care for our students.

We ask that they would all have a safe and productive summer vacation.

We are mindful of our neighbors struggling with unemployment and underemployment, those in need of affordable housing and rental assistance and health care solutions.

Let the work we do together serve those whose voices are so often unheard.

Lead us to care for our local water sources, our air and the habitats of all creatures.

Strengthen us to serve immigrants and refugees among us, to give help and hope where needed.

Humble us and help us to work for justice, equity, and inclusion for all.

Here are petitions and each silent longing deep within.

Oh, spirit of life.

Amen.

Pastor, will you lead us in the pledge?

I pledge allegiance.

And to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation.

Under God.

Thank you so much.

We will now proceed to our ceremonials.

There he is.

Our employees try uh 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 Zori Gomez.

Zuri, please join us.

Come right up here.

Everyone coming to City Hall to visit me or any member of the City Council has the pleasure of meeting Zori.

Zori is a city administrative receptionist for the city council offices and has been with the city since 2007.

She plays a vital role in creating a welcoming environment for the public and always offers a friendly greeting and a helpful attitude.

Zuri is also very organized and ensures residents are promptly connected with their city council office, whether by phone call, email, or in person.

Zuri also makes sure that the council offices have the supplies they need that we all need in order to be responsive to residents.

She uses her vast knowledge of the city to help direct residents to get questions answers and issues solved.

Zuri, thank you so much for your hard work, fostering a culture of warmth and appreciation throughout the city and throughout City Hall.

And I want to give Randy a chance to say a few words, and then we'll have a photo and congratulations.

And I know you were very surprised, but it's very well deserved.

Randy, there you are.

Thank you, Mayor.

Congratulations, Zuri, certainly well deserved.

I would like to uh yeah, as the mayor said, say a few words.

Um, but I'm gonna let the folks who nominate her speak.

I'd like to share some of the words that they said.

The nominations were many.

The praise and accomplishments were many.

I'm just gonna say a few of them.

Uh what truly sets Zuri apart is her ability to uplift those around her.

Her smile and encouraging words have become a constant source of morale for the team.

Whether offering a kind gesture, checking in on co-workers, or remembering important moments moments in people's lives, she creates a sense of community and genuine care that brings people together.

In every way, Zuri exemplifies the values we strive for as a city team.

Her actions improve both the inner workings of our office and I thought this was key, the experience of every resident who walks through our doors.

Another, her commitment to the city of Las Vegas is evident in all she does.

Another, beyond her job duty, Zuri is known for bringing a positive atmosphere to even the busiest days.

Her presence brings energy to the team, and her absence is immediately felt.

Uh-oh.

Zuri embodies the best of public service, approachable, reliable, and genuinely committed to her job.

Her reliability is a testament to her dedication.

Those are just a few of the voluminous uh words that that folks had to say about you.

Obviously, you have made quite the impression on the rest of us, the team, the staff on the seventh floor, as well as the folks up here.

So congratulations on this very well-deserved honor.

And we'd like to uh invite you to say a few words at this time.

All right.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

I'm honestly very grateful for this recognition.

It means a lot to me that the work I do every day makes a difference and it's seen and appreciated.

I'm lucky to be part of a team that supports one another.

It makes coming to work something I look forward to.

Thank you, everyone that helps me, teaches me, and encourages me.

I'm truly honored, and I keep doing my best to make our workplace even better.

A special shout out to our council support staff.

They're amazing.

You're my family, you're my friends.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you.

Thank you, council members.

I appreciate it so much.

And let's take a picture.

Yeah.

Is this your son?

Okay, let's make the picture again.

Everybody step up front.

Right in the middle.

Zuri, let's have that right in the middle.

You're in front of the phone.

Hello.

Perfect.

All right, everyone.

Go in three, two and line.

Okay, more.

Three, two, and more.

One more.

Three, two, and nine.

Perfect.

We're all wonderful.

For our final item, I'd like to invite our mayor pro Tem, uh, Councilman Knudsen to recognize a local nonprofit.

Councilman.

Thanks, Amir.

So I am recognizing Spread the Word Nevada.

I'm going to invite the team to come on up in an orderly fashion and stand right here.

Because the council is going to give some books, which I'm grateful for the council members for doing that.

And I am going to read a proclamation as they come up, but I'm going to do it very, very briefly because I want to give the chance for our CEO, uh, Lisa Habakcourse to talk about what Spread the Word Nevada does.

Um, so very quickly, Spread the Word Nevada has been operating now for 25 years, uh, advancing childhood literacy across Nevada by ensuring children in underserved communities have equitable access to books, reading resources, and literacy support.

You guys did a good job.

They follow directions.

Okay, so this is the end of the proclamation because nobody wants to read a proclamation.

Spread the word Nevada Day in the city of Las Vegas, and we call on all citizens to recognize and celebrate Spread the Word Nevada for its dedication, compassion, and transformative service in advancing childhood literacy and empowering Nevada's children.

It's a fixed with the city SIL and signed by the mayor in Las Vegas City Council.

So I'm going to hand this over here because I'm going to hand the microphone to Lisa.

But just a quick story.

So the I have a everyone knows I have a 10-year-old and an eight-year-old, and the very best moment of a parent is when your child first learns the letters and starts singing the alphabet.

But when they actually can read a book for the first time, the the what you see in their eyes is absolutely amazing.

And if you haven't experienced it before, go to a school and experience it.

Today I got to experiencing something completely different, which I I asked my kids to go and find books to donate, and they were so excited.

I gave them little bags, so I have my bags of books to donate.

And they picked out books and they were starting to give me instructions on what to tell the kids about these books.

And so that was this morning.

And in the car, they were reading the books back and forth, and so they were in song and telling it in different in different voices.

And it was a good memory for us to think about how when we read it for the first time, what it felt like.

And so at Spread the Word Nevada, what I heard this morning is there's people who work in schools who get to experience that every single day.

There are people who are on the administrative side who work to make sure the organization runs.

There are people who run four cliffs, there are people who work in the warehouse, which I would actually love to do because sorting out books sounds like a super fun job to me.

But this is a team that's bringing bringing literacy to Southern Nevada and Nevada.

Uh, and children and families everywhere get to benefit because of what you're doing.

So thank you very much.

And Lisa, can you tell us a little bit about Spread the Word Nevada and the 25 years here in Nevada and how your team makes Southern Nevada a better place to live?

Sure can.

Thank you for this honor.

Uh Mayor Berkeley, Councilman Knutson, and all the members of the City Council.

Thank you so much for this incredible honor and for recognizing Spread the Word Nevada's 25th anniversary with this proclamation.

I especially want to thank you, Brian, for helping bring this forward and for being such a strong supporter of our mission.

Brian, your encouragement and belief in the work we do for the children and the families in our community.

Truly means a great deal to us.

Receiving this proclamation is deeply meaningful because it represents something larger than just our organization.

It represents 25 years of this community coming together to support children through literacy.

When we started Spread the Word Nevada in 2001, we were responding to a heartbreaking reality.

Far too many kids in Southern Nevada were growing up without books in their homes.

And we knew that if children did not have access to books and opportunities to read, many would fall behind before they ever had a chance to catch up.

What started as a small grassroots effort has grown beyond anything we could have imagined.

Today we serve children and families across Nevada through school-based book distributions, reading centers, early childhood literacy initiatives, and family engagement opportunities.

Over the last 25 years, we have distributed more than eight million books and impacted the lives of more than one and a half million children.

But while we're proud of these numbers, the true impact is found in the stories behind them.

It is a child who gets to choose a book of their own for the very first time.

It is a parent reading with a child at home.

It is a student who discovers confidence through reading and begins to see new possibilities for their future.

Literacy does change lives.

It opens doors to education, opportunity, confidence, and hope.

And yet, we know that there is still much work to be done.

Too many children in Nevada continue to face barriers to reading proficiency and academic success simply because they lacked books, access to books, and literacy support.

Access to books and literacy support.

And that is why this recognition matters so much.

It shines a light on the importance of literacy and reminds all of us that ensuring children can read and succeed is a community responsibility.

I'm incredibly grateful to our staff and our board members and volunteers, educators, donors, and community partners who have stepped be uh stood with us for the last 25 years.

None of this work ever happens alone.

And to the city of Las Vegas, thank you for believing in this mission and for honoring the work being done to support Nevada's children and families, and we're hopeful for a future where we know what is possible when a community comes together to gather around their children.

Thank you so much for this honor.

So at the City of Las Vegas, we are going to be doing a book drive for anybody who wants to help their children clean out their rooms.

For Spread the Word Nevada.

There's a number of places.

So there's lots of ways.

Okay, we are going to do a picture now.

I'm going to move it on.

All right.

Let me have you guys fill in.

I need a couple more people to fill in on this side.

All right.

I need us to bunch in just a little bit more.

All right.

Perfect.

Alrighty, everyone.

Let's go in.

Three, two, and one.

I'm going to take a punch.

A lot of you.

And in three, two, and one.

One more discussion.

Three, two, and one.

Great, thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you for one.

We will out.

We will reconvene our city council meeting in two minutes.

Can we wait back to the primary case?

Oh, yeah.

We will now reconvene the city council meeting.

Agenda item seven.

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

The amount of time any single speaker is allowed will be limited to two minutes.

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

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

This is your opportunity to address the council.

But the council is not able to respond or engage in dialogue.

You may also address the council at the end of the meeting during citizens' participation regarding matters within the jurisdiction of the city council.

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

Again, we will set the time at two minutes.

Does anybody wish to come forward?

Hello, my name is Shoshana.

I'm a resident, and I'm here once again to urge the commissioners to support the United States Constitution and the separation of religion from government by eliminating the praying at our meetings.

And speaking of books, by the way, this is the Holy Bible.

I've read it.

It's horrific.

Does terrible things to children, to women and men as well.

As I've stated previously, this building is not a place of worship.

It is a workplace.

But since you continue to use the Bible as the source of your praying, I want to point out a few things.

Biblical scholars don't even know who wrote the scriptures.

Okay?

Nobody knows.

The names were made up.

There were no eyewitnesses to any of this because all of the characters in it were already deceased.

This book thinks the earth is 6,000 years old.

It's 4.5 billion years old.

Thank you, science.

Also, your Virgin Mary, that whole story about her was incorrect.

The Hebrews text identified her as an alma.

Alma is a young woman, not a virgin, but because the men who wrote this book were so obsessed with virgin girls, and there's a lot of stories about taking virgin girls.

Um they used her incorrectly and labeled her as a virgin.

Another thing I want to point out is you cater to certain religions here, and you deny the satanic temple their absolute right to be here as well to give the invocation to give the prayer.

And when you were asked, okay, why can't the Satanic Temple give the prayer?

You said, Oh, there's no no dates available according to your city clerk.

City clerk, we got the um actual documentation, the calendar, and everything in yellow were the dates that were available, months were available.

So someone lied, and I don't know why that person is still working for the city.

I don't think people should be lying to members of the public or citizens for that matter.

So again, I urge you to stop the invocations at these meetings and separate church and state.

Thank you.

And Shoshana, Shoshana, this um you are welcome to speak, but under the correct top part of our agenda.

This is the last time I'm gonna let you speak under public comment.

You're welcome to stay and talk it during citizen participation, but this must be an agenda item that you address.

I've given you great leeway.

I'm not gonna do it anymore.

You're welcome to speak under public comment.

I understand that.

Not going to be a good idea.

Sorry, understand.

Thank you, and please anyway.

Your time is up.

Okay, I'm following state lava.

Is there anybody else that wishes to speak under this agenda item?

Excuse me, Mayor, with all due respect.

I didn't intend to speak here.

I would like to respond to that since you gave her leave way.

I would like some leeway.

Mayor, I would I would advise to let the gentleman speak for the same amount of time, two minutes.

I would also was going to back up what you said.

You were 100% correct on the state law and what we have in the code.

Uh this is Jeff Dorkak, City Attorney for the record, not the code, but in the agenda.

Um so I have given the city clerk's office some highlighted language from NRS 241 to provide to the previous speaker to again support what the mayor said and basically put you on notice that you know you're not speaking on agenda items for action, you're just speaking on general points, which is not what the agenda is set up for over the state law.

Uh, but in order to keep things balanced, mayor, I would give this gentleman two minutes.

I quite agree with you, city attorney.

You may please state your name and you may speak for two minutes.

Thank you very much.

I appreciate that.

I think it's only fair and I appreciate the city attorney's evenheadness on this balance, is good.

My name is Kim Blandino.

I'm known by a lot of videos on YouTube, but I disagree a thousand percent.

I know it's kind of absurd to say with what this previous speaker spoke.

This country was its founding, it's 250th year under the Declaration of Independence, where the rights come from God.

They're only guaranteed in the amendments to the Constitution.

The First Amendment guarantees five different things.

This God is the one that created all things, and individuals like that just preceded me wish to deny the existence of that and think that somehow we came out of some rock that got into soup and somehow evolution happened.

It's just a complete fraud.

The Bible is historically, they've been people that have tried to attack it, scholars.

Um, I'm wearing a button right here.

G he is risen with the three crosses.

Historically, Jesus is the most historically supportable figure in history.

He lived, he died, and according to multiple recounts, he was rose rose from the dead, and he's alive today.

He will come back a second time, and he will judge all these people that are hate-filled and resentful, and that's the only thing that motivates this.

The declaration of independence, Ben Franklin, who wasn't an extremely religious figure, he prayed that God would intervene and make them allow them to pass what needed to be passed.

The invocation of God throughout sporting events throughout this whole country is not just a matter of religion, it's a matter of creed and history.

And so for them to try and deny this when we're so far down the road of Adam, Eve, Noah, the eight that got off the ark, we all descend from them.

And I highly object to this, and I appreciate the time.

Is it was that the book beep?

Yes, you uh you have two seconds.

Okay, well, thank you very much.

I appreciate the opportunity.

Thank you very much.

And again, let me restate public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters on the agenda for action.

Not one thing that man said is actually factually correct.

You know what?

This is the public service.

Do you have something that pertains to an agenda item to speak?

If not, you're welcome to speak under He didn't, he just came up in a lot of the city.

Because I did equal time for both.

All right.

Uh, let us not turn.

Let me say this.

Let's be fair.

We are no, no, no, no, no.

We're done with this.

We're done with this.

Let me make a statement for the record.

We all take our responsibilities as representatives of the city very seriously.

I will not allow this city council to degenerate into name-calling, yelling at each other, and being embarrassing to all of us.

So I ask you, as good citizens of this community, please abide by the rules the city council has.

Speak when you are at the appropriate time, and we will not get into a shouting match between each other.

We will proceed with the agenda item.

Now, is there anybody else wishing to speak under public comment?

Again, the uh it must be limited to matters on the agenda for action.

If you have a comment to make, wait until the end of the meeting under the appropriate comment time.

Yes.

My name is Mark Curley.

I was asked by Councilwoman Kelly to come back up again.

I know I talked to all of you earlier about uh tunnels to towns, and I just like to say that a lot of the organizations here in Las Vegas and in Nevada have given a lot to all of the veterans that we have out there right now, which is the Elks Club, the Military Order of Purple Heart, the Marine Corps League, and quite a few others.

And I do appreciate what you have done so far for our veterans.

We need just a little bit more to get over the edge.

And I just want to say thank you to all of the council members here, and also especially to our fantastic mayor that's always out there doing the best she can with what little we have left in our money.

So thank you very much.

Thank you so much.

Is there anybody else that wishes to speak under this agenda item?

Yes, please state your name.

Hi, good morning, Mayor, City Council.

Uh, my name is Jill Glass.

I've been a Las Vegas teacher for over a decade.

Both of my parents uh were retired CCSD teachers at Title I schools.

I'm also a democratic socialist.

I had been a loyal Democratic voter for over 25 years, but I don't plan on uh voting Democrat the way things currently stand.

Um there's some big problems with mass surveillance like flock, uh, which is in the budget item number five.

And the way it's being taken the way it's taken over our city, uh, under the guise of safety, which I find really offensive.

We know this technology has a track record, indeed a pattern of uh being gravely misused, like misidentifying a 16-year-old black high school football player, uh mistaking his bag of chips for a gun, wrestling, having eight cop police officers wrestle him down to the ground at gunpoint.

We also know there's a pattern of cops misusing this technology to stock their exes and people they dislike.

Um I am here though, because I'm mostly thinking about the well-being of our community, what safety really means, and what it means for our kids.

The presupposition that we need all this austere, oppressive uh technology for safety, uh, masked ICE agents, armed U.S.

service members in US cities, and now cameras, microphones, tracking our every move.

This plays into the dictator's handbook.

These are fear-mongering ploys.

Uh, this nightmare that our immigrants are currently enduring.

Uh the atrocities like the concentration camps that are being built, two American activists being murdered in Minneapolis.

This is all a result of a fear-mongering machine that needs people, everyday good people to be in fear of and distrustful of certain demographic demographics of their neighbors and community members.

Mass surveillance, like flock technology, is depriving our kids of precious private moments like sitting alone on a park bench and reflecting after a tough sports loss.

This has been.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Is there anybody else that would like to speak under this agenda item?

Welcome.

Would you state your name for the record?

My name is Vincent Palmer.

Wait, wait, wait.

I think we have these are two minute.

Okay.

We'll wait for the clock to reset.

I'll give the extra two seconds.

Go ahead.

My name is Vincent Palmera.

I'm the commander of the Military Order of the Purple Heart here in Las Vegas, Chapter 711, and I'm the region commander of the Military Order of the Purple Heart USA.

Good morning, Mayor and Council members.

I'm here today to support Tunnels to Towers Foundation in its effort to build veterans' housing here in Las Vegas.

The issue should not be political.

Supporting veterans is not a Republican, independent, or a democratic issue.

It's an American responsibility.

Some struggled with PTSD, traumatic brain injuries, physical disabilities, financial hardships, homelessness, and isolation.

Many veterans simply need stability, dignity, and a safe place to rebuild their lives.

Housing is one of the most critical issues facing veterans today.

Housing alone is not enough.

Environment matters.

We should want our veterans to succeed, not simply survive.

They have already sacrificed for our country.

They deserve housing that reflects dignity, respect, and real pathway toward a better future.

Without stable housing, it becomes much harder to maintain employment, access health care, attend counseling, reconnect with family, or successfully transition back into civilian life.

Organizations like Tunnels to Towers Foundations are stepping forward to fill the gap.

They are not asking us to forget responsibility.

They are asking us to become solutions in partners.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Please state your name for the record.

Hello, my name is Sarah Levitt, L E A V I T T.

I was born and raised here in Las Vegas, Nevada, and I want to speak about the budget today.

Specifically, I want to speak about flock mass surveillance.

I don't think our budget should be spent on this.

It doesn't keep us safe.

What keeps us safe is housing and health care.

Housing and health care keeps us safe because health care includes mental health care.

Everything we were just talking about, veterans, let's do that.

Let's house veterans.

Let's house everybody.

That is really what's gonna keep people safe is being able to afford their housing, afford their health care, afford their child care.

So I feel like if you're for what we care about is public safety, let's focus on meeting people's needs, and that is gonna keep us safer than uh a bunch of cameras tracking or every move.

Also, I don't really want some private company having all of my data or your data.

It's like we don't even know who it goes to.

So yeah, that's all I have to say.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Please come and state your name for the record.

Hi, good morning.

My name's Audriana Chan.

That's A U D R I A N N A, C H A N.

I'm a resident of Las Vegas and uh Ward 3.

I am also here speaking on the budget this morning.

Um I also have a concern about flock uh safety in our community.

There have been a lot of instances of police misuse.

Um so you may want to allocate some legal funds for the inevitable incoming uh consequences of flock misuse, as well as just flagging for the council that this is not something that is proven to keep communities safe, and it is across the aisle a pretty concerning violation of privacy.

Um I urge you guys to reallocate those funds into something that is not going to violate our Fourth Amendment rights and look into flock safety more.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much.

Is there anybody else wishing to speak?

Please uh state your name for the record.

Hi, City Council.

My name is Armando Garcia, citizen of Las Vegas for 21 years, and I'm speaking on the agenda item regarding the City of Las Vegas tentative budget of the fiscal year 2027.

Um I do not want any of our taxpayer money for the flock surveillance.

It is not proven to reduce crime, and it is a liability as it is an AI technology.

I'd like to remind you that it is a language model, so it does make mistakes.

It just wants to generate the correct answer for whatever the user prompts.

It doesn't actually provide truth or transparency.

It is also known to in other states like New Mexico, for example, there was a 12-year-old girl that was pulled and held at gunpoint because the Flock AI camera misread one digit of her sister's license plate.

It was a seven and not a two.

And there is an accuracy that would eventually lead to needing to correct this.

I would recommend to not have any of this funded.

And even if it's given as a donation or a gift by other people, the City of Council and the Metropolitan Police Department should not be using these flock devices.

It is also a violation of our privacy as citizens.

And if you know you continue and approve this, eventually you will have to face those consequences.

And if you approve this for your budget, you might as well approve a budget for your litigation and settlements for this flock.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Is there anybody else wishing to address the city council?

Please come forward and state your name.

Good morning once again, honored members of the council and mayor.

My name is Eric King.

Great to be here again.

And I want to say thank you to Councilwoman Ellen Pelesky.

I hope getting the name right, um for uh reaching out the other day.

Uh means a lot to me.

Um, what little I know of what much you've done to help veterans and I'm sure all of the council members in their own ways as well.

Um I wanted to touch on a couple of uh items today.

Uh this juncture here.

Uh, one is to second the motion with the fire and rescue facilities that uh you're looking to approve funding for.

That's item 18.

And uh not only am I all for it, but I wanted to um just offer an idea with uh uh personnel training for paramedic and so forth, um, to uh just find out uh if there has been you can't respond, I know, but um just if there hasn't been consideration for uh any um uh wellness efforts in regards to how paramedics may uh have uh maybe that's out of the scope of what you all can do, but it's just an offering.

There's a lot more wellness uh facilities coming out coming into town and helping people live longer, healthier, and happier, and I would certainly want that for our heroes that help people not die early and live a lot longer.

So um if we could consider some dialogue to explore that, that would be most welcome by me for sure, and I think other citizens too.

Um one other um public safety item.

I know we have an agenda item there, 22, but I had a personal experience recently.

I'm not pointing fingers at all, but I'd like to prevent harm to anyone.

I have 20 seconds.

Basically, I was at um Bonneville and right near the Clark County Government Center just not long ago.

I'm requesting please, because I wasn't able in my wheelchair to get past the tape and the cut curbs to push the button to crosswalk, and I need to get where I'm going.

Um twice that happened on the same intersection.

So please consider the mobile traffic lights and crosswalk units that probably the city and county have to amend those problems.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Is there anybody else wishing to address the city council?

In that case, we will move on to agenda item number eight.

For possible action, any items from the 9:30 a.m.

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

Mayor Pro Tem Madam Mayor, um, I would like to request that we pull agenda item number 15 so that our staff can speak to what we are funding with the approval of that agenda item.

I think um clarity and transparency is important today on that item.

So with that, I'm gonna move to pull agenda item 15 off of consent so staff can brief um everyone about the intent.

Okay, thank you.

Okay.

Um Mayor Jeff Dork City Attorney, you you officially don't need to do uh that there.

Councilwoman's item is when we get to item 10 through all the consent items.

I'll do it a little bit later.

No motion needed anymore.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay.

Um that case mayor pro tem.

I need a motion for agenda item number eight.

We don't have anything today.

Exactly.

We move on to item number nine.

Great.

Agenda item number nine for possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the April 15th, 2026 regular city council meeting.

Mayor pro tem.

May I have a motion to approve the minutes?

Move to approve the minutes.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

Okay.

Agenda item number 10.

Uh items number 10 through 31 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 other items the council wishes to bring forward?

And I'll just go ahead and do it at the right time this time.

I move to poll agenda item number 15 so that our um staff can brief the entirety of those that are present and tuning in on what that seeks to do for us as a city.

Thank you so much.

Mayor Pro Tem, may I have a motion for the consent agenda?

I'm gonna move to approve the consent agenda item with the exception of item 15.

Please vote.

Post motion carries.

I'd like to bring item 501 metro here.

I just think if we speak, I think like what we are up getting with it.

Maybe not.

Okay.

Um, at this time we will hear agenda item 15.

Mr.

Cunningham, will you state your name for the record?

Good morning, Mayor Council.

For the record, Michael Cunningham, acting public works director.

Um, so here I'm to uh today I'm gonna talk about um item 15 was a traffic safety pilot that we are proposing to council um in the associated contract with it.

I do have RTC is here if there's any additional questions for RTC.

We have our traffic engineer here, and we also have finance if anyone, if we have any additional questions that need to ask.

So I'll run through a quick presentation, kind of tell you what the program's about, how the pilot's gonna be run, what kind of data we're looking to collect, and how we're gonna be using that data.

Um, to start off, the main purpose of this pilot is to address our road safety challenges and some of the issues that we have on our roadways.

Here's some of the statistics over a time period that just indicates total crashes, total fatalities, and serious injuries.

And what we're trying to do with this pilot is collect data to see if there's something that we can do moving forward to help get to towards our vision zero goal of zero fatalities on our roadways.

Umil studies have been done.

Uh, this is an example of one of the projects that RC RTC did at Charleston and Valley View, one of our heavier traveled intersections.

That study showed that there was over 6,000 red light violations over the period of a month.

Um, we are looking to kind of get a little bit more granular data on that.

I do want to clarify these aren't these aren't flock cameras, these ones aren't integrated.

Uh these ones are independent site-specific.

Um, we we own the data, and the data just comes directly to us, and I'll talk a little bit about the data that we would be collecting.

This is our pilot.

Um, so phase one is site selection.

I'll show a map later on, but we went through we're trying to be geographically equivalent.

So we have 12 sites located, two in each ward, spread out amongst our high injury networks or high injury intersections, uh, school zones, and in construction zones, which is where some of our more vulnerable road route users are.

Phase two is the outreach.

So we'll be working with our communications team to do a public outreach once if this is approved, and we get to go ahead to work with this pilot, we'll work with them to do some outreach throughout the process of this pilot and gather some data back from them.

Baseline data.

So since we are trying to look to see if there's an impact on signage and driver behavior, we want to collect over a five-week period some baseline data.

That would give us what the intersections and school zones are currently experiencing in terms of number of incidences with speeding and red lights.

Then we would install some signage, and I'll show an example of that signage here in a little bit.

That signage again is to see if it's going to have an impact on driver behavior that's part of this pilot.

Through traffic engineering, we we have a lot of different tools that are disposable at disposal to try to address driver behavior and increase road safety.

And so this one we're trying to see if that signage has any impact.

And then the last thing will be an evaluation.

So once the pilot's complete, we'll have the data over that 12-month period, and we will have a chance to look at that and see if there's been any impact.

This is the technology.

So, like I said, these aren't flock cameras.

These are independent cameras that'll be at these each of these locations.

They're not interconnected.

The data we would be collecting as speed, uh red light running, and then the vehicle classification.

So the only data we're gonna get is at this time, at this time snap.

Uh, this was the speed of a vehicle going through the intersection, what lane they were in, and this is the type of vehicle was.

Was it a truck, was it a car, was it a passenger vehicle?

They're solar powered, um, so it's an easy installation.

Uh we can install them, they can run on their own.

And it allows the ability for us to get multi-lane coverage.

So similar studies get an aggregate number.

This will be able to tell us in each individual lane what type of incidences there there are.

Um, and then remote management.

So there's gonna be little impact to the road users as we get these installed for this pilot.

Some of the challenges and safeguards, um, you've heard some of the um concerns with with this type of for camera collection.

Uh, I do want to clarify again, these ones are not similar to flock cameras.

Uh, I mentioned we're trying to do geographic equity, so we're spreading out throughout the city.

We want to make sure each ward kind of has coverage.

Image restrictions, so it's specifically in the contract.

No images are being collected from this program.

Uh, we're not storing any images of the drivers, passengers, rear room, shields, license plates.

None of that is part of this pilot.

Um, this is literally to get us the number of vehicles that are going through an intersection, the speed that they're going, and if they're at the intersection during a red light phase.

There's no facial recognition.

Again, it's expressly prohibited in the contract, so there's no facial recognition as part of this program.

Um, and then the data is confidential, it's in the contract, it's our data.

Um, at the end of the pilot, once we confirm the data, the company is required to wipe their system clean.

They're not allowed to reuse, repurpose, resell any of the data, and they have to wipe their system of any of it after the pilot's completed.

Measuring success, the things we're trying to look for are speed reduction.

So we'll have our baseline data once we install the signage, we'll see if the number of speed infractions goes down.

Similarly, traffic signal violations, so we'll see if the number of red lights runners goes down.

And then stakeholder perception as we work through communications to see if there's any um increase in perception or any perception from the stakeholders in general of the residents of the city, and then we'll have our analytics at the end to see uh what kind of data we're able to gather.

Here's the map of the tentative locations.

Um we've worked with uh Metro to try to find some of the areas where we have the higher crash incidences, and like I said, we're focusing on school zones and then construction zones, which are some of the more vulnerable vulnerable road users.

These locations aren't set in stone.

We do have the ability to move them, especially the construction zone ones.

If construction moves beyond where we originally anticipated, we may have to shift it by an intersection to make sure we're within the construction area.

And then this is the example of the sign that we are gonna be proposing.

So we would do our five weeks worth of data, and then we would install these traffic safety cameras at all approaches to the intersection.

Um, so as drivers are approaching that intersection, they'll see this informational signage that says traffic safety camera to allow them to let them know that there's a camera in use at that intersection.

Um, here's the cost, the cost that's in the proposed contract.

So it includes the the rental of the cameras, um, the data uh transferring, so getting us over the data.

There's a dashboard that's involved with it that we'll have access to monitor and look for trends throughout the pilot, um, and then giving us all the information at the eye at the end, and then the site setup and installation of the cameras.

Um, and then as I mentioned, it is a 12-month pilot.

At the end of this pilot, they get their cameras back, we get our data, and then we decide from there if there's any improvements to the intersections that we can make based on this pilot.

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

Thank you, Mr.

Thank you, Mr.

Cunningham.

Are there any questions and comments from yes?

May approach him.

Thank you, Madam Mayor, and uh Mr.

Cunningham, I appreciate uh you've been on this ride with me.

So I just for the edification of the those in the the council chambers and the council members.

So I've spent about six months working on this along with the city's team and the Metropolitan Police Department team.

And we gave this presentation yesterday to the joint infrastructure, joint infrastructure committee for this Nevada State Legislature.

So I'm gonna go through some of the questions that they asked because I think they are relevant and some of the responses that uh we have as well as the Metropolitan Police Department.

So they're infinitely concerned about the allowance of data and how we transfer data, how we store data, what we do with data.

Uh they're very much worried about the private sector using data.

And so in our conversations with the legislative body, they asked for Metropolitan Police Department's policies and procedures around how they control data, what data comes in.

Uh the Metropolitan Police Department is going to submit those those documents.

There's a variety of policies and procedures, all of when all have gone through the fiscal affairs committees over the last several years.

Um so they feel it's been a transparent process through the Metro Fiscal Affairs Committee.

They are going to be submitting those documents uh to the Nevada State Legislature through the infrastructure committee uh probably today.

And that was the request of the legislators is to be able to review those documents.

Um we also had a conversation pretty back and forth between the state and the metropolitan police department is there probably needs to be additional guardrails in place that the state legislature should consider in the next legislative uh session in in 2027.

And so that was an agreement is that Metro, which is our our police body here, uh would work with the legislative body on establishing what those guardrails could look like, should look like, and probably expand beyond what Metropolitan Police Department has.

This study is not that.

The study has really there's there's no data sharing between us and Metro other than what the results of that study would look like, which is how many people have gone through a red light, how many people are speeding through red lights.

That's data that the RTC has already collected in certain intersections, and so this is really intended to provide additional data to the legislature, which they have asked us for.

They want to know if signage makes a difference if we were to increase the amount of signage at specific intersections, does it make a difference?

If we are to change signage and um additional law enforcement presence in construction zones, does that make a difference?

If we were to do that in school zones, does that make a difference?

And so this is really just a data collecting process, which is something the city does on a pretty regular basis with regards to when one of our constituents calls and asks for a stop sign or a speed hump, our traffic engineering division lays out those little pipes along the road and they track how many people are going through and how fast they're going.

So this is an expansion of collecting data around traffic so that we can make informed decisions at the city with our police department partners and with the state of Nevada.

Um it has got conflated because of the flock issues that was asked repeatedly over yesterday in our three hour hearing.

Um this is not flock camera usage, and this data is the cities and the cities only.

There's contractual language within the contract that the city put out uh that would protect that data.

And after the study's done, this the data goes away.

Uh we just know how many people are speeding and how many people are running red lights.

Uh and I would just say I'm a supporter of this program.

I uh worked over the last six months with our team on it because it's the number one cons constituent request that I get.

It's the number one uh complaint that I get is the amount of bad drivers out there.

It's the number one um issue that comes up in my neighborhood meetings is I need to do something about traffic, and I'm I mentioned this yesterday.

I've had the city install stop signs, I've done yield signs, I've done flashing stop signs, I've done speed humps, I've done pork chops in roads, I've done traffic circles, and all of those things have not had any real impact on the amount of people who are dying in our streets.

What has had an impact is Metro's increased presence around traffic.

And so the sheriff Kevin McMahill, about say nine to twelve months ago, um changed how he was staffing traffic, and he put a bunch of more officers on traffic.

And because of that, and I'm gonna say there's probably a high correlation there.

I can't say it with certainty, but there's a high correlation with the more amount of officers you put on traffic.

We saw a decrease in the amount of fatalities we were seeing on the roads.

Uh so I asked the city and I asked Metro to partner on this one particular issue is if increased officer presence makes a difference, will increased signage make a difference.

So people know that we are paying attention if they're following rules, breaking laws.

Uh and the intent, the entire intention of this is to make our community more safe.

And I did bring this up yesterday because it's a point of contention that I have is my insurance rate went up.

I don't know if every everyone else's insurance rates went up, uh, but net Nevada has uh insurance that is 30% higher than the national average.

One of the factors is because we have such bad drivers on the road.

Uh and so I appreciate all the energy the city has put into this.

I knew from the beginning this would be a hard topic to talk about.

This is not fun.

Nobody wants to be big brother.

Um, nobody wants to collect data, nobody wants that information.

We just want safer drivers, and that really is it.

And so um I appreciate uh Mr.

Cunningham your your energy into putting into this.

And it's you're the staff, and I'm the elected official, and I appreciate you all letting me kind of work on this because this is the this is the constituent complaint that comes up over and over again that I don't have an answer to anymore.

And with that, Madam Mayor, I will stop talking.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Not thank you for stop talking, just thank you very much.

Um Ms.

Falenski.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Uh could Jeff in the back maybe put the uh last light show up with the numbers.

Uh Mr.

Cunningham, just for clarity.

When we had the the injury and death toll numbers, that's just for the city of Las Vegas, correct?

Oh, the this one?

Yes.

Yeah, in the and I believe it was in the Las Vegas Valley, but yes.

Okay, in Los Lost Valley.

I just want a clarity on that.

And my two remarks, uh, I want to focus on specifically the signage.

Could you go to the slide that has the signs or the sign that will be put up?

Uh my question is is that going to be erected on a freestanding pole, or is that going to be on the actual street light?

Uh, for the record, Michael Cunningham.

So we would put it on a street light.

We put on a street light pole.

We weren't intending on putting it on a freestanding pole.

Um, so that's why the distances vary.

We'd buy the next closest uh street light, and we would mount it to that that street light.

Okay, thank you.

Ms.

Summers Armstrong.

Thank you, Madam Mayor, and thank you so much, uh Mr.

Cunningham, for your presentation.

Um this has been a contentious uh issue for me uh because I live in and represent communities that um have experienced um significantly higher rates of policing and surveillance than um some of the other areas in the city.

Um and so this is a real concern that I hear in my community about surveillance and cameras and and these things happening, and I will let the folks in the audience know that um I gave them a hard time about this because I did not want data shared with anyone.

I was adamant that the contract uh that they double check and triple check the language to ensure that the language only allowed the data to be within the city and then destroyed at the end.

Um I agree with my colleague um Councilman Canute that we are struggling mightily with traffic deaths.

We are struggling with injury, we are struggling with speeding, but I want to mention a couple of things.

We do not have driver education anymore.

We don't teach anybody at school level driver safety.

I don't know about you, maybe I'm too old, but when I was in high school, you couldn't get a license without doing so many hours.

And my guy was Mr.

Trinell at California High School, uh, and he made sure that I knew how to three-point turn, how to park parallel, and how not to ride in a holding lane more than a hundred feet when I was making a turn, and that I needed to be have the the proper safety precautions.

We don't teach.

And so our young people are witnessing and observing bad driving, and then they are replicating bad driving.

The thing that I've asked the city to be absolutely pointed in their and our public works and Mike and Ravi are getting an earful from me all the time and my colleagues, is how we design our roads.

And I think that these things that uh Councilman Knooson has talked about that the city has done matter, but the other part of this is our roads.

Our streets resemble our freeways.

You get off the I-15 and you merge onto a city street, and it's just as wide and just as fast as the freeway.

And I think that we have to become intentional about what how we design our streets, and I think that that will be the next um thing that we're gonna have to seriously consider is how we design our streets.

Our streets should not look like freeways, they should not have high speeds, and the lanes don't need to be 14 feet wide, three and four lanes across on both sides.

Martin Luther King, which runs immediately through uh Historic West Las Vegas, is three lanes, all 14 feet.

It's supposed to be 35.

We have had numerous deaths.

People constantly are doing 50 and 60 miles an hour on that street.

So I am um grateful that we are going to try something else to see if we can't get uh the community to respond.

I'm grateful that you all heard what I asked for, which is an assurance that this data is kept in a closed uh circle.

Um, and um I hope that this community will begin to be respectful to its neighbors, to pedestrians, which are humans, that we slow down, that we respect when people are in crosswalks, that you can wait a minute, 30 seconds for the next light.

You don't have to run through it.

Uh and if you're late for work, you're just late.

I'm late all the time.

You're just late, just slow down.

So um thank you very much, Mr.

Cunningham.

I appreciate you.

Thank you very much.

And you're not that late.

Ms.

Kelly.

Uh thank you, Madam Mayor.

Michael, uh, I had raised a couple of questions.

You had gotten back to me earlier this morning.

I didn't have a chance to review it too close.

So if you if you don't mind, so my question was related to the original proposal, which had let I'm I'm the benefit of the public letters that we were going to send out, and uh that was amended to not do so.

Um, and your explanation of the change in the budget was the notification letters, and you've got in uh including imaging, data processing, which imaging is now taken out, but uh and we're not doing the letters, uh and dashboard reporting was about 150,000, and so the net and savings of removing the part of that related to the actual letters and the imaging is a savings of about a reduction of 90,000.

Yes.

You went into some detail about why the data processing is still important relative to a dashboard.

Can you explain that further for me?

Yeah.

Uh so again, for the record, Michael Cunningham uh acting public works director.

So, yeah, so the original uh proposal had a line item in it that was these notification letters that we were originally considering.

Um within that that number, there was other pieces, the data processing.

So, with this ultimately their technology will um capture this data, then they got to give it to us in a report, and then there's a dashboard that's available to the city.

Um when we had those notification letters, um, that was kind of all lumped into one.

Um so when we said, hey, we don't need the letters anymore, and we're not doing images, so we need you to break that out.

Um, the pieces that still remained is that dashboard, so we still have access to the dashboard, so we'll have access throughout the pilot, uh, which will allow us to get a quick snapshot of the data that's being collecting or collected, um, and then the data itself still needs to be processed.

Um, with the with the letters, there was an additional level of processing because we were doing a certain number of um letters, and there was some other things in there that would have to have them further refine the data.

That all got removed, but the the rest of the data still has to be processed.

Um, and so the number that's in here now uh reflects those those changes.

Okay, thank you very much for that.

And um I'd like to add my comment to echo what the mayor pro tem was saying about the number one issue that comes up at my constituent meetings.

Um I live in a community where we can't get our residents to drive the speed limit.

Um, and they live there with the the children who live there and all of that.

Uh I want to um while I've not been at this as long as as the mayor pro Tem, you know, one of the things that he asked me many many, in fact, I think it was even in December about considering this.

Um I gave it a lot of thought.

I could, you know, there were some I I shared some of similar concerns that were raised earlier, raised by Councilwoman Summers Armstrong, raised by uh some of the constituents and public who testified today.

And I um and I concluded after all that, and and we have we have talked about this even individually with with Michael and his staff.

I feel that we've come to a agreement and a structure that does still protect the best interests of our citizens.

Uh I don't love it either, but but I agree that we're sort of at a wit's end.

And I really hope that the signs and you know collecting the data, the the you when you when we saw the numbers of deaths, you know, the quick math in my little head is you know, that's that's that's essentially a death a week for five years.

Um, and and we don't want any deaths obviously, and this is not even just the injuries.

So I am in support of this in its current form, and I want to thank you, Michael, and your staff, because we have put a lot of uh uh claims on your time and your staff to keep going back, explain how this is gonna work.

Why is this that way?

Why is that that way?

And I feel very confident that we've come to an agreement that at least for me is acceptable and provides an answer to not an answer, but uh a step forward for my constituents in Ward 2 to say, yes, we hear you, we understand, and we're we're doing we're doing a pilot in a way that still protects the information and protects your anonymity.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Ms.

Rooney.

Thank you, Mayor.

I would just briefly echo some of the comments from my colleagues.

I I too acknowledge that this is probably the number one issue for my residents.

It feels like we've installed so many traffic lights and stop signs in Ward 6 where we've had a lot of growth, and yet we still have accidents.

So I I do hope the data that we collect through this project will allow us to think about strategies that are effective.

I will also say, you know, this um I just want to thank my colleagues because I think this is important for the public to know.

This pilot has undergone lots of different conversations.

Uh we've had lots of discussion among this body with the staff, and so I think it just shows or as an example of how we're all working really well, taking input from the public, um, working with staff, but again, with that sense of professionalism and collegiality among all of us.

I want to thank all my colleagues for I think getting to a pilot that addressed some of our concerns, um, and will hopefully be great for our constituents.

So thank you.

Thank you so much, uh Ms.

Diaz.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

And so I'm not going to belabor the point anymore, but just as councilwoman Bruni um stated, this red light um pilot has been through an evolution and a transformation based on all of the council members' input.

Um doubt about it.

Red light runners, I'm seeing more and more.

And as a mom of a 15-year-old getting my kid to and from school, it just makes me more annoyed and more upset to see that people don't care about their own neighbors, that people are just flying through an already very red light, and the rest of us have to wait an additional minute or half a minute to make sure that we're safe crossing an intersection.

It's not okay because speed kills.

That could be a mom, a dad, a grandma, an aunt, a kid that we take away from families, and we don't want to see any more of it.

We do need to collect this data.

We do need to ensure that we're as a city equipped with information that can help us make transformative changes, and also we don't want to make these substantial investments in camera technology down the road if we see that it's not working to help us um correct or cure this very specific issue.

So, as a passionate mom, I feel like we do need to step up and do something, um, whether it's reinstating educational classes that are no longer in our school system or signage or massive PSA campaigns.

I don't know, but we need to do something as a collective city to rally behind telling people it's not okay to run red lights and that we need to stop this behavior because we are taking people away from you know, family members away from folks uh, you know, prematurely are just snatched away and gone.

And it's it's heartbreaking, and it can be avoided if we just respected traffic lights.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

And before we call for a vote, um, I'd like to make a couple of comments.

I am supportive of this uh initiative.

Um I had uh an opportunity to listen to the sheriff um at a speech that he gave uh recently, and what struck me it was very graphic depiction of what's going on on our streets.

And one of the statements he made was that he was tired of his officers having to scrape people off of the asphalt after a preventable tragedy where they go home to their families impacted by what they have seen and what they have done that day.

And I don't think that's appropriate.

I have also, as many of my colleagues, personally witnessed some of the most egregious behavior on the roads at every press conference that I give.

I start by saying a red light is not a suggestion.

You're supposed to stop.

And what I have seen on the roads is absolutely astonishing that people could be so foolish to risk their own lives and risk the lives of their fellow citizens because they think they have to get somewhere in a hurry.

Our school zones, you talk to any parent that has children in any of our schools, they are concerned about the very poor driving habits of people that are speeding through school zones, not paying attention, and putting our children in serious harm's way.

So I think this is a very important thing that we're doing.

We cannot tolerate this sort of behavior that harms people, kills people, creates tragedies that families can never get over because of bad behavior on the roads.

So with that, I thank you and your staff for all of your efforts.

My city council members, I thank you for uh being very diligent in narrowing the focus of this study, but it is an important one so we could address the challenges that we have in this community and that our constituents are demanding that we do.

And with that, Ms.

Diaz, would you make a motion to approve item agenda item 15?

Yes, Madam Mayor.

I move to approve agenda item 15, and I'm gonna give a shout out to former traffic city employee, now RTC Joe Norby, who's in the House.

Uh please vote.

Post motion carries.

Thank you so much.

We will now hear items 32 through 36 together, but act on them separately.

Agenda item 32.

Discussion for possible action regarding an allocation of $5,255,867 in FY 2026-27 community development block grant funds to the City of Las Vegas by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development for Projects, Programs, and Services that benefit individuals and families.

This impacts all wards.

Agenda item 33, discussion for possible action regarding an allocation of 469,81 dollars in FY 2026-27 emergency solutions grant funds to the City of Las Vegas by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development for Homeless Prevention and Emergency Services.

This impacts all wards.

Agenda item 34, discussion for possible action regarding an allocation of $4,083,947 in FY26-27 housing opportunities for persons with AIDS funds to the City of Las Vegas by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development to benefit low-income persons living with HIV AIDS and their families.

Again, impacts all wards.

Agenda item 35, discussion for possible action to approve an allocation of $2,218,893.15 cents in Federal Home Investment Partnerships Program funds awarded by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, an estimated allocation of 365,638 in state home funds and an estimated allocation of 1,015 1,158 in state accounts for affordable housing, AAH funds to the City of Las Vegas for FY2627 to build or rehabilitate affordable housing or wards and agenda item 36.

Discussion for possible action to approve the submittal of the City of Las Vegas, FY 2627 HUD annual action plan that secures 12,28,188.15 cents in an estimated 1,381 451 dollars in State of Nevada Home Investment Partnership Funds and account for affordable housing totaling $13,409,639.15 cents for housing homeless and community development activities, all wards.

Ms.

Barajas, would you please enlighten us?

Good morning, Mayor and Council.

Arcelia Banajas, Director of Neighborhood Services for the City of Las Vegas, and I'm here with Carmen Miller and Mac McKnight.

They are our chair and vice chair on our community development recommending board.

And today we will be presenting together for you our fiscal year 2026-2027, HUD entitlement and state allocation awards, as well as our action plan information.

So with that, in order for us to receive our annual allocation from HUD for our for this upcoming fiscal year 2026-2027, we are required to submit an annual action plan that describes the activities and the work that will be done with these funds and how they will be used.

Our 2026-2027 action plan establishes the city's federally funded public service and community development activities, and it incorporates strategies for affordable housing, public facilities infrastructure, and public service programs.

Our 2026-2027 action plan is also in alignment with our five-year HUD Consolidated Action Plan.

HUD provides funding through the community development block grant, the emergency solutions grant, our housing opportunities for persons with AIDS grant, as well as our home investment partnership program.

These grants support communities to carry out a wide range of community development activities, and these programs are formula grants.

Eligible recipients include cities, counties, urban territories, and states, and the formula is based on various factors, including poverty rates, housing units, and population.

Our 2026-2027 action plan integrates our community development recommending board funding recommendations.

It also includes funding for CEPAL improvement projects that meet HUD national objectives and align with city priorities with an emphasis on citywide strategic priorities, including homelessness, education, health care, and community services.

Our action plan is required to be made available for public comment.

Our plan was posted on April 24th, 2026 for a period of 30 days in the local newspaper.

Printed documents were available in our office as well as on the city's webpage, and we received no public comment during those 30 days.

And I'm going to start with our community development block grant.

As you mentioned, Mayor, our allocation is 5,255,867.

20% of that is allocated to our administrative costs, which includes our salary staffing and all of the administrative work that goes in to support carrying out all of the activities that are funded through this program.

15% is allocated for public services.

500 of that this year is awarded through our community development recommending board, and our members here will report on their recommendations shortly.

And a portion of it has been set aside for the operations of our upcoming boardwalk motel, which is scheduled to be open sometime in this fiscal year.

So this grant is not made available through the community development recommending process.

And they'll share those with you as well.

And we were able to make those programs whole with some funding that was left over from a previous year.

Our home investment partnership program and our state funds.

We are a pass-through from the state as well, so we receive some of the state home allocation.

Our federal programs application process is a rolling application process.

We take applications from developers throughout the year that are interested in applying for these funds.

We do have an internal committee that scores the applications as they come, and the programs are awarded in that manner.

Some of these funds are set aside to support our choice neighborhood initiative programming at Marble Manor, as well as some programs that we have already allocated, such as Silver Desert Estates, which is a development, and the rest we will award throughout the year again as applications come through.

So with that, I'm going to hand it right over to our guests today.

Did you want to thank you?

Good morning.

My name is Carl Sean Miller, and I am the chair of the CDRB.

And my member standing to my right is our chair Mac McKnight.

Um the community development recommending board, CDRB is a citizens advisory group appointed by city council.

The board consists of 13 members who collectively represent all six wards.

Through a series of open public meetings and with the support from neighborhood services staff who do a fantastic job.

I just want you to know that.

Okay.

So the slide that you see before you is a list of the 13 members appointed to the CDRB and the awards that they represent.

The CD, excuse me, I'm so sorry.

Getting a little tickle there.

Excuse me.

The CR was entrusted with the responsibility of recommending awards for applicant agencies for the CBG, public service and HOPA grant programs.

Recommended awards were based on the funding amounts by city staff, CDRB program $500,000, and HoPWA program $3 million $300,000.

Board members reviewed multiple grant applications and hosted three public meetings where applicants were invited to present their programs and answer questions of the board.

Grant recommendations were made for a two-year grant period.

Two grant two-year grants will provide for continuity of services and program sustainability.

Agency performance during the first year of the grant will determine CBRB recommendations for the second year funding and a minimum award request of $65,000 was required for the CDBG applications.

The CDRB recommended awards based upon the services provided by the proposed program, the agency application and presentation, and by priority focuses, which are homelessness, health services, youth services, and employment training.

So here we are with the recommendations that we would like to present to the board.

The board is recommending two CDBG awards that focus on homelessness service services totaling 150,000.

The board is recommending three CDBG awards that focus on youth and early childhood services totaling 200,000.

The board is recommending two CDBG awards that focus on health services totaling 150,000.

The board is recommending that six HOPA awards that focus on special needs totaling $3,300,000.

Additionally, staff recommend two HOPWA awards that focus on special needs totaling $800,000.

Thank you so much.

So with that, um we are happy to answer any questions.

I'd like to thank our board chair and vice chair, Carmen and Mac, as well as all of our CDRB board members.

It is a heavy task to sit through a lot of presentations, read very long applications and scores, so we really appreciate their time and commitment to this process.

And we appreciate what you do as well.

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

No.

Seeing none, we thank you so much for your presentation.

We appreciate it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Is there a motion for item 32?

Thank you, Mayor.

I'll move to approve item 32.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

Mayor Pro Tem.

Is there a motion for item 33?

Move to approve.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

And agenda item 34.

Move to approve.

Please vote.

Post.

Aye.

Motion carries.

Agenda item 35.

Move to approve.

Please vote.

Aye again.

Post.

Motion carries.

Item agenda item 36.

Move to approve.

Please vote.

Aye.

Post.

Motion carries.

Thank you very much.

And then I'm window hopping, so I'm gonna get there.

Okay.

Agenda item 37.

Discussion for possible action regarding the appointment of nominee via spell to a ward five seat on the youth leadership advisory council.

Ward five is entitled to appoint up to three members to the board.

Uh Miss Day Spell is eligible and wishes to serve.

Is there a motion?

Miss Summers Armstrong.

So moved.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

Congratulations.

Agenda item 38.

Recommending committee bills eligible for adoption at this meeting.

Bill number 2026-14.

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

Yes, Mayor.

Bill number 2026-14, an ordinance concerning the city of Las Vegas, Nevada Special Improvement District No.

1485, Alt to Drive Landscape Maintenance FY 2027, providing for the payment of the costs and expenses of maintaining street beautification improvements, assessing the cost of maintenance against the accessible lots, tracks and parcels of land benefited by said maintenance, ratifying, approving, and confirming all action previously taken, prescribing details in connection therewith.

Move to approve.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

Agenda item 39.

Bill number 2026-15.

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

Yes, Mayor.

Bill number 2026-15 and ordinance concerning the city of Las Vegas, Nevada Special Improvement District No.

1516, Fremont Street Maintenance District, FY 2027, Las Vegas Boulevard to 8th Street, providing for the payment of the cost and expenses of a neighborhood improvement project, assessing the cost of the project against the accessible lots, tracks, and parcels of land benefited by said improvements, ratifying approving, and confirming all action previously taken, prescribing details in connection therewith.

Move to approve.

Please vote.

Motion carries.

Agenda item 40.

Bill number 2026-16.

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

Of course, Mayor.

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

Move to approve.

Post.

Motion carries.

Agenda item 41.

Bill number 2026-17.

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

I can't wait.

Bill number 2026-17.

An ordinance to amend L VMC chapters 19.17 and an LVMC 19.18 to revise the term affordable housing to attainable housing.

Update attainable housing tier descriptions in accordance with state law revise criteria related to attainable housing bonuses and incentives and provide for other related matters.

Move to approve.

Please vote.

Motion carries.

Agenda item 42.

Bill number 2026-18.

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

Let's see if you can go faster.

Bill number 2026.

Bill number 2026-18.

An ordinance creating the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, special improvement district number 614, Sky Summit Phase 1.

Ordering street projects, a storm sewer project, and a sanitary sewer project, a drainage project, and a water project within the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, and providing other matters related there too.

Move to approve.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

Agenda item 43.

Bill number 2026-19.

Councilman Knutson, what about this bill?

Would you like it read?

Please, I can't wait.

Bill number 2026-19, an ordinance concerning the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, Special Improvement District number 614, Sky Summit Phase 1, assessing the cost of local improvements against the accessible property benefited by the local improvements and providing other matters related there too.

Move to approve.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

Agenda item 44.

Bill number 2026-20.

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

With some emotion this time.

Bill number 2026-20, an ordinance authorizing the issuance of sale by the city of its special improvement district number 614 Sky Summit Phase 1 local improvement bonds series 2026, approving the form of certain documents with respect to such bonds, ratifying action taken by city officers toward the issuance of such bonds and providing other matters related there too.

Move to approve.

Please vote.

Motion carries.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

Any person representing an applicant, 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.

Agenda item 46, 26-0042-mo D1.

Applicant owner, the Howard Hughes Company, LLC on a land use entitlement project request for the proposed modification of the Summerlin West Village 22 Development Plan to amend the special land use designation of parcel X and partial partial 11 II.

Does anybody know that for clarification?

Madam Mayor, that would be okay.

Then it must be uh and uh two from EC MF3 Employment Center, high density multifamily to VC Village Commercial on 35.31 acres at the northeast corner of Summerlin Parkway and Oraq Street, Ward 2, Miss Kelly.

Uh agenda item 47, 26-0058-SUP1.

Applicant, American Multi-Cinema Inc.

owner, Rainbow Plaza Enterprises LLC on a land use entitlement project request for a proposed alcohol on premise full use at 2321 North Rainbow Boulevard C1 Limited Commercial Zone.

This is ward five, Ms.

Summers Armstrong.

The Planning Commission and staff recommend approval on all items.

These are public hearings now that I declare open.

Is there anyone wishing to be heard on items 46 or 47?

Okay, they're not coming.

Seeing and hearing none, I'll close the public hearing.

Mayor Pro Tem, may I have a motion for the one uh may I have a motion for the one motion, one vote items 46 and 47.

Yes, Mayor move to approve items 46 and 47.

Please vote.

Post.

I think she voted.

She said aye.

Motion carries.

Agenda item 48.

25-0459.

Abeyance item on the following land use and title and project request on 0.19 acres at 5617.

Grand Guinness Court R1, single family residential zone.

Note the ward was amended at the planning commission from ward one, Mr.

Knutson to Ward 6, Miss Bruni.

48A, 25-0459, uh VAR 1 abeyance item to allow two parking spaces where four are required.

48B, 25-0459-SUP1, abeyance item for the proposed individual care group home use.

The applicant owner is Care Access Nevada 1 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 6, Miss Rooney.

These are public hearings, which I now declare open.

Is the applicant present?

Mayor, if I guess you may.

We received a late application for an abeyance.

So the apple, I know I was informed last night the applicant could not be here today.

So I would like to ask for to honor the abeyance request, but I also couldn't let all the residents know that this would be a base.

So if there is anyone here to speak on this item, I would like to give them the opportunity to share their thoughts at this time if that's okay.

Thank you so much.

Is there anybody that wishes to speak on this agenda item?

Seeing no one, do I need a motion to obey?

Yes, ma'am.

May I have a motion?

Yes, I'd like to make a motion to obey item number 48, 25-0459.

Items A and B, please.

Oh, till the June 20th.

It would be the request was for the June 17th meeting.

June 17th meeting.

Thank you so much.

Please vote.

Post motion carries.

Agenda item 49.

26 stairs 0024 on the following land use and title and project requests on 5.28 acres at the northwest corner of Rancho Drive and Jones Boulevard.

C2 General Commercial Zone.

49A, 26-0024-SUP1 for a proposed residential multifamily use.

49B, 26-0024-SUP2 for a proposed alternative parking standard to allow 120 parking spaces where 168 are required.

49C, 260024-VAC1 petition to vacate a portion of public drainage easement.

49D.

26-0024-SDR1 for a proposed three-story 118-unit residential multifamily development with waivers or parameter landscape buffer requirements.

These are in Ward 5, Miss Summers Armstrong, and these are public hearings, which I now declare open.

Is the applicant present?

Yes, Madam Mayor.

Would you care to tell us about your project?

Yes.

Good morning, Mayor, City Council members.

My name is Susan Florian from Danny Engineering, 6030 South Jones Boulevard here on behalf of the applicant, um, Tunnels Towers.

Uh we are respectfully asking for a use permit, waivers of development standards, a site development review.

Um this uh this uh item is uh located south of Jones uh drive and west of Jones Boulevard.

So the uh a just little description about the organization.

Tunnels to Towers Foundation is nationally recognized as a nonprofit organization dedicated to support veterans by addressing critical needs such as housing stability, uh financial hardships, and long-term independence.

Through its various programs, the foundation provides supportive services to veterans and their families nationwide, helping them work towards financial stability, self-sufficiency, and improved quality of life.

Their assistant includes uh housing support, emergency financial relief, and comprehensive services designed to honor the sacrifices made um by those who have served.

Um we uh this project is approximately 5.29 acres.

Um the property is zoned C2, commercial general.

Um the site has a land uh use designation of uh TOC2 transit oriented uh corridor low.

Uh no modifications are being made to the zoning or land use at this moment.

Um this is for a proposed uh multifamily residential development.

Uh primarily uh we have a 40-foot uh uh foot driveway entrance.

Uh the building strategically loaded it uh located on the northern portion uh to buffer between um the RE and uh this multifamily uh development.

Uh the proposed building is three feet um high, and uh we have intense uh landscaping um that uh surpass the requirements uh by planning.

Um the applications that we are asking for is a use permit uh for um C2 uh to uh be able to uh have a multifamily uh residential instead of uh using it for uh uh multi-purpose.

So uh we're just doing um multifamily residential.

Uh the first uh waiver is for mixed use development and C2 commercial, so um mostly the same thing for a waiver, and then the second waiver would be to provide a so we are required to provide a 179 parking spaces.

Uh currently we have 118.

Uh we do have a um traffic study conducted by Wooster.

Um they said that we uh they calculated that we would only need 118 parking spots uh for this specific uh project.

Uh many veterans uh participating in this uh program are expected to have limited access to personal vehicles.

In addition, uh the foundation will provide transportation assistance and services to prov uh to provide resident support, mobility, and access uh to essential sources.

Um we did have a um a member of uh NARA uh uh give us a letter of recommendations for parking ADA mobility, uh door widths, uh nearby schools uh that's the surround the proposing facility.

Um the applicant approves uh appreciates the input and recommendations provided by NARA representatives regarding the proposed facility.

Uh Tunnels Towers has extensive experience in the development and operation similar facilities that that carefully designed um the project to meet the needs of residents while complying with the applicable um the applicant uh the support.

That's the design supports appropriate uh needs for the project, and after careful consideration of the recommendations provided, uh we are not proposing to make any revisions at this time as this development is intended to operate as a supportive housing uh rather than an assisted living facility.

Um we did have a uh neighborhood meeting um that wasn't required um to show this project to um the the surrounding uh adjacent um neighbors.

Um we here we have uh Gavin Naples uh from the towns covers.

If you have any questions about um operation, um with that I conclude my presentation and I'm here to answer any questions that you may have.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

May I have a staff report, please?

Yes, Madam Mayor.

Peter Lowenstein for the record.

The development further's goals of increased housing options as identified in the 2050 master plan and is designed with urban heat island mitigation elements.

The development generally conforms to Title 19 development standards as the request waivers and exceptions for landscaping are minimal in nature.

The applications uh for an alternative parking standard is appropriate given the unique operation of the development and the proposed development is compatible with the development in the area.

Therefore, staff is recommending approval of the requested entitlements.

If approved, staff has the following condition amendments, deletions and additions to read into the record.

Uh public works is requesting the deletion of condition of approval number 23 of 26-024-SDR1.

Uh as far as amendments, there's the uh amendment of condition number three of 26-0024-str1, which shall uh now read all development shall be in conformance with the site plan and landscape plan date stamped 31726 and building elevations date and stamped 21926, except as amended by conditions herein.

The first phase of landscaping shall be in conformance with phase landscape plan date stamped 51926, and then we have the two added conditions that we'd like to place on the application 26-0024-strong.

The first condition would read the approved landscaping shall be installed in phases.

The first phase will consist of the construction, constructing a detention basin and or storm drainage improvements on the subject site.

Landscaping will be installed or feasible in those areas in accordance with the approved technical drainage study.

Subsequent phases will remove the temporary detention basin and/or standard improvements upon completion of the Clark County Regional Flood Control Districts, parentheses CCRF C D and Parentheses master plan facilities along Rancho Drive and Alexander Road as constructed by the City of Las Vegas Public Works.

The final drainage configuration will allow the applicant to fully implement the approved landscape plan.

The second condition would read an administrative required review will be conducted five years from the date of building permit issuance.

An additional required review shall be required.

That would conclude the additional conditions, amended deletions and added.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Is there anyone else wishing to be heard on this item?

Yes, sir.

Please come up and uh state your name again for the record.

Good morning again, Council Mayor.

Um Eric King, uh huge fan of this organization for a long time.

I actually missed them over at uh a post-date event they had uh I think it was a couple years ago.

The uh chef told me they were there for two days.

He got it wrong.

And uh I know you guys did great things there and so many other places now in town and our country.

So thank you for not only your courage, bravery, and service, but the inspiration you give to other heroes, their families, loved ones, and those in need who care deeply about helping them too.

You guys are heroes to me, and almost every penny of every dollar that this organization gets goes to help veterans.

I'm sure you all know that.

I just wanted to say it for the record once more.

And thank you very much, sir.

It's an honor to know you guys are doing what you're doing.

Thank you, Mr.

King.

Pleasure, and also thank you, City, for uh working with them to uh smooth this all out and for all the great trees that we're bringing here into the town.

So thank you guys.

And it's a great location, by the way.

Thank you so much.

Is there anyone else wishing to speak?

Now, who is this stranger?

Retired stranger.

Good morning, Mayor and members of council.

Steve Ford, Twilight Cove Circle.

I'm here today to speak in favor of this project.

As a 23-year Air Force veteran, someone who has worked on the fringes of the homeless situation here in the valley for many years.

I greatly appreciate and support the efforts of the Tumblr Tower organization.

I'd also like to give a quick two-minute recap of how we got here today.

From my perspective, and for those council members who may not be aware, especially Councilwoman Kelly, who was not here at the time, um this all went down.

So shortly after moving into the city manager's office, I heard about this project up off the 215 beltway for veterans housing next to the VA hospital.

I thought, man, that's a that's a pretty cool project.

I wish I could be involved with that.

That's that's pretty neat.

Shortly after that, I found out that our good friends and colleagues to the northeast of us denied that application.

Yeah.

And Mr.

Jansen can tell you that I was a little bit more than excited for that.

So I did some quick research and uh got on a phone call with Gavin from Tonal Towers and asked him if he'd be interested in working with the city.

And I had some project, I had some parcels, some BLM parcels up in the northwest part of town, just off the 215 beltway, straight shot down to the hospital that uh could be acquired for a very deep discount.

But after a lot of discussion and back and forth, it was decided they wouldn't work for a variety of reasons, mainly the timing.

So one day I was driving down Rancho and I noticed the VA clinic, and I looked across the street, and there's this big vacant parcel, and there was a for sale sign on the fence.

I thought, holy crap.

So I went directly to Councilwoman Summers Armstrong and asked her if for her permission for me to uh pursue this project, and she graciously consented.

Shortly after that, I was on the phone again with Gavin, gave him the information, the idea, and after going through some hurdles with public works and with planning, um, here we are.

And I am I am happy that we are here.

I support this project for two major reasons.

First, there's obviously a huge need in our community.

As I mentioned, I've been on the fringes of the homeless efforts for many years.

And this organization, the Tunnel to Tower, is boots on the ground getting things done nationwide, and I really support this.

It's it's just needed.

The the location of this project, the location, not too far from the hospital, but across the street from the clinic uh on rancho with all the transportation, the other services, it's just a great spot.

The second reason is along with all the other work being done with the city from the veterans programs in Parks and Rec, with which I'm also familiar.

The uh work that Councilwoman Bruni is doing in Ward 6 in trying to get housing for Creech Air Force Base service members closer to Creech Air Force Base.

Um, and then finally and last but absolutely not least, the relocated state veterans memorial currently under construction in Councilwoman Polenski's ward, drove by today, the walls are going up, looks good.

Um this project will put the city of Las Vegas on the map as a preeminent veteran and service member friendly municipal organization in Nevada.

And so with that, I encourage the approval of this project to help move it forward.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Ford.

Is there anybody else that would like to speak?

We know who you are, but would you state your name for the record?

Vincent Palmer, commander of uh military or the Purple Heart chapter 7 Eleven.

I just want to add to uh what I said earlier this morning, and uh I like to ditto what Mr.

Ford said.

When I first came here 10 years ago, uh I noticed that uh Henderson uh does uh a lot for its veterans, and I felt that Las Vegas, the city of Las Vegas was lagging behind uh, if you may.

And so I got involved, and I met uh Gavin and I worked hard with a lot of other veterans with the mayor of North Las Vegas to try to try to get this project put by the hospital.

But I'm glad that all of you are supporting this here in Las Vegas.

Um Las Vegas has always been a city that supports veterans.

In fact, if many of you don't know, Las Vegas is a purple hot city.

Um combat veterans, disabled veterans, purple heart recipients.

They deserve more than words on Veterans Day.

They deserve action.

Supporting a veteran's residency and investment is an investment in people who have already sacrificed for this country.

It creates stability, hope, accountability, and opportunity.

It tells veterans that this is a community that has not forgotten them.

I also want to remind everyone that helping veterans strengthens the entire community.

When veterans succeed, communities become safer, stronger, and more connected.

The veterans continue to serve long after we take off our uniform.

I want to thank the mayor and the city council, and I urge you to really to support uh this residency and hopefully many more, Gavin.

Thank you so much, Commander.

Is there anybody else that wishes to speak?

Welcome and please state your name for the record.

Good morning, council.

My name is uh Frank Bizarro.

I'm a two two tour Iraqi war veteran and a 22-year veteran of the New York City Fire Department.

I uh 10 years ago moved to the Las Vegas area, and it's everything that I expected it to be and more.

And today I'm very proud to stand before you for such a project.

You know, I had the privilege of working for the Tunnels of Towers namesake, you know, during 9-11, and I survived, and I spent six months uh digging out our fellow citizens from that tragic day.

And uh it's unfortunate that uh the others to the north weren't able to see this vision, but I thank you for taking the time and realizing the sacrifice our men and women have made uh and our first responders.

Uh it's a big undertaking, and they don't take it lightly, and they want to do nothing but good to honor those who have served.

And I thank you for taking the consideration of making this a reality.

And I'm now proud also to not only be a New Yorker but a Las Vegas citizen.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you so much.

Is there anybody else wishing to uh speak with the city council on this issue?

Seeing none, does the applicant agree to the conditions?

Yes, ma'am.

Thank you.

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

Uh Ms.

Alan Polenski.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Uh thank you, Mr.

Naples, for coming all the way uh from the other side of the country to join us today for the hearing.

Uh I have to acknowledge and thank you personally for your contribution.

Uh the Tunnels per Towers organization has contributed $5,000 to our Nevada State Veterans Memorial that we're building in Word for.

I'm grateful for that.

And uh I hope that uh everybody in the in the internet universe is hearing and it helps us uh build momentum for our project.

Uh also like to acknowledge Mr.

Ford's work on this project.

He was there in the very beginning, and I think it took him about 50 seconds to find the right parcels.

So when you got the right guy uh advocating for you, you got the right guy.

And uh just uh a side note if you could hang out just for a little bit.

I know you have a flight, and I know you have a new baby, but we have more good work to do within the city of Las Vegas.

Thank you for investing in our veterans at the city here, and uh look forward to working with you more in the future.

Thank you very much.

Thank you both very much for the presentation.

Um, is there a motion, Councilwoman Um Strong?

Yes, madam Mayor, but I would like to make a couple of comments before we get um to the motion.

Um, Steve, thank you so much.

This was one of the first big things that he brought to me when I first got into this seat uh in December of 2024.

Um may not know.

I came to Nevada in December of 1990 with a military husband.

We brought two babies under the age of two years old from Germany to live here.

And when you're in your 20s and you're healthy and you think everything is going well, you just don't know what's gonna happen to you.

My ex-husband Donald Summers and I had a long marriage, almost 10 years, two beautiful kids, four years in Germany, and then we were stationed here.

When we married, uh, he was the um epitome of health, six feet tall, 165 pounds, handsome, strong military member.

He did Desert Storm, he was deployed when we were living in Germany several times, deployed here at least once in Desert Storm at the beginning, and then some other duty stations and worked up range, and then he got sick, and he started to have strokes.

Less than 50 years old, he was having strokes and got super sick.

And my oldest son Brandon was responsible for taking his dad to the VA clinic on rancho for service.

He got so sick that he couldn't live alone anymore, and there was no place for him to go to have supportive housing.

He was able, but he was disabled, and ended up having to move to Indiana to have support there and be with his family.

We had been divorced for many years, but we were very close.

We had the two dad uh one mom and it's crazy, but we were tight.

But what that meant was because there were no services for him to have here, his boys and my youngest son, Kieran, who called him Uncle Donald, didn't have him nearby, like we had for the years before he got sick.

This project represents an opportunity for other extended families to have their loved ones who are going through it, who need just some place they can afford that has wraparound services near them.

Um I he died in 2020 at a care home in Indiana.

My kids didn't have a chance to say goodbye.

And um we miss him, his laughter, and he was hilarious.

And I I honor what he brought to my life and the children and the experience.

And you all are doing something that's amazing in our community, and it's in Ward 5.

And I am so grateful to Steve for finding that piece of land.

Um, thank you for going on a call with us.

We talked about bus transportation.

Yeah, I don't know how I feel about buses and multimodal.

They're dialed in, they're gonna have um bicycles, and and they're gonna be conscious about high visibility crosswalks and activated crosswalks because even when people are able, they still might have minor disabilities that they just need a little bit of help.

So I'm glad you all are coming to Ward 5.

Too bad North Las Vegas, you missed it.

We're glad to have it in our neighborhood.

Um, and we honor veterans in the city of Las Vegas.

We know why we're here, we know what they bring, and we want to diminish those numbers of 9% of our vets who are homeless.

We want to get people from couch surfing and in and out.

We want stability, and you all are helping us bring the thing that I believe is most important to every single community, which is community.

So, with that, pardon the tears.

I move uh for approval.

Shall we vote?

Madam Mayor, that's with all the added deleted and amended conditions on 49 D.

Yes, they've already been they've been um agreed to by our applicant.

Post motion carries.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much, Mayor.

Thank you so much, City Council.

We appreciate you taking the time to listen.

This is going to be an incredible project for the City of Las Vegas.

We guarantee we're going to be phenomenal neighbors and take care of our nation's heroes.

Thank you so much.

You're very welcome.

Thank you.

Agenda item 50.

26-0039 on the following land use and titum and project requests on 0.16 acres at the southeast corner of Wilson Avenue and 10th Street.

Our three medium density residential zone.

50A, 26-0039-VAC1.

Petition to vacate a portion of the right of way on Wilson Avenue.

50B, 26-0039, SDR 1 for a proposed one-story, four-unit multifamily residential development with waivers of appendix F, interim downtown Las Vegas Development Standards, Area 2.

The applicant is A4 A4 Builders LLC, and the owner is AG Construction Inc., 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 5, Ms.

Summers Armstrong, and our public hearings, which I now declare open.

Is the applicant present?

Yes, Madam Mayor.

Would you like to tell us about your project?

Yes.

And would you state your name again?

Yes.

For the record, my name is Susan Florian from Tanney Engineering, 6030 South Jones Boulevard here on behalf of the applicant.

What we have here is a project located on 10th Street and East Wilson Avenue.

We are proposing a development that consists of four units.

We're asking for 4.9 feet where 10 is required along this side of the parcel.

We're also asking to reduce a landscape buffer to 4.94 where 7.8 is required.

We're also asking for four parking spots where eight is required and to allow bushes on the west side in lieu of trees.

However, we are still vacating 10 feet of our portion.

With that, I conclude my presentation here to answer any questions that you may have.

Thank you so much.

May I have a staff report, please?

Yes, Madam Mayor.

Peter Lowenstein for the record.

Staff does not support a non-uniform vacation of Wilson Street, as this will create varying street widths.

In addition, staff does not support the exception for trees.

Waivers and exceptions are requested as the development does not provide adequate pruner landscape buffers, parking lot landscaping, plant materials, and garbage storage screening.

Additionally, a waiver request that has been made to follow to allow four on-site parking where a total of eight are requested.

These exception waivers are evidence that deficiency in design of such development staff is recommended denial of the project.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Is there anyone else wishing to be heard on this item?

Seeing none, I'll close the public hearing.

Does the applicant agree to the conditions that were stated?

Yes, madam mayor.

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

Okay.

Ms.

Summers Armstrong, may I have a motion?

I just want to get clarity.

Um my understanding is uh that the trees or the landscape will be put in.

Could you please just clarify that for me?

Could you point it out on the map for me?

Yes, um, there will be uh landscaping along Wilson.

Um and then this one we uh we were just uh asking for bushes in lieu of trees.

Well through you, Madam Mayor.

So there is landscaping proposed, but it is located within the right-of-way.

Uh there is a condition from planning commission to address the landscaping along Wilson.

Uh they would need uh achieve a license agreement on it.

Also calls for uh larger trees to be uh planted on 20 feet on center with with shrubs, Madam Mayor Thank you, Madam Mayor.

I would be willing to support this with the conditions that we've that um city uh staff is suggesting.

Would you be willing to comply?

Yes.

All right, in that case, I'd like to make a motion for approval.

Thank you so much.

Please vote.

Post.

Okay.

Motion carries.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

City Council members, have a good day.

Agenda item 51.

26-0075 on the following land use and title and project requests on 10.37 acres at the northwest corner of Trails End Avenue and Alpine Ridge Wayne.

51A, 26-0075-GPA1 from Planned Community Development to Medium Low Attached Density Residential.

51B, 26-0075-ZON1 from undeveloped uh planned community development, general plan designation to R-TH single family attached.

51C, uh 26-0075 VAR one to allow private gated streets that do not conform to Title 19.04, complete street standards for street terminae and connectivity ratio.

To allow no half street improvements on Alpine Ridgeway between the northern end of the usable area to Moccasin Road.

51E, 26 dash 0075-VAC1.

Petition to vacate U.S.

government patent easements.

51 F 26-0075, TMP 1, Alpine Ridge and Trails End for a proposed 77 lot single family attached residential subdivision.

The applicant owner is Contour Homes, and the owner is Kyle, Kyle Partners LLC.

The Planning Commission recommends approval on 26-0075, GPA 1, ZON 1, VAR 1, VAC 1, and TMP 1.

The Planning Commission recommends denial on 26-0075-VAR3.

Staff recommends approval on 26-0075, GPA 1 and ZON 1.

Staff recommends denial on 26-0075, VAR1, VAR3, VAC1, and TMP 1.

These are in Ward 6, Ms.

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

Is the applicant present?

Yes, Madam Mayor, Council, Mark Mulhall, 1980 Festival Plaza Drive, here on behalf of the applicant, Contour Homes.

And Contour Homes is a small private local developer.

They're focused on quality residential development and on that missing middle.

And that's what we're presenting here today.

And so this is just under 10 and a half acres, located up in the Kyle Canyon Gateway area.

It's west of Alpine Ridge Road, south of Moccasin.

To the west of us is NV Energy and the NV Energy Expansion site.

To the south of us is already approved.

So this site is unique.

Also, the location is important and kind of following up on two presentations ago.

They talked about housing up close by Creech Air Force Base.

This is up in that area, and that's something that we plan to do is to market directly to Creech and to work with the commander there to spread marketing materials and to hopefully have provide housing for some of those service members.

So as mentioned, we're providing 77 townhouses.

Um we have an added condition relating to landscaping from the planning commission.

We have updated our landscape plan already in advance of that to comply with that condition.

We now have the three inch caliper trees throughout the community through this process, too, as we've been uh studying the hydrology and the hydraulics up in the area.

There's sheet flows coming across the property from west to east, so we are having to accept flows here.

At first, we're potentially gonna have to make the whole entire western boundary uh drainage easement, which would have to be concrete lined per code.

We're creating a high point in this area so that we can push flows down to those areas at the north and the south so that we can maintain that landscaping on the property.

We also have a central open space area with volleyball, barbecue, um, shade areas and landscaping there as well, and then there's some off site parking for guests.

Um we're excited about this project.

We think that it's going to be a benefit to the area, provide a much needed housing product in that area and provide some variation at more of an attainable housing point.

Um, and then just to touch on the variants as well relating to Alpine Ridge to the half street improvements.

Bring this map back just to explain what we're seeking.

So uh deferral was granted for moccasin as it's been determined that moccasin is undetermined at this point.

Um we are doing half street improvements on Alpine Ridge up until the NV Energy Easement.

We're requesting the variants on that northern portion because of the fact that Moccasin is undetermined.

It seems a bit speculative right now.

This land up here is owned by the BLM.

The portion that is across from the NV Energy easement is also owned by the BLM.

This land's private, but that roadway will be improved.

Our concern from our side that we think is worth at least just a discussion, is the fact that if we improve this half street improvements, it's going to be a road to nowhere that can commonly invite vagrants or unsavory behavior.

People commonly take off-road vehicles up there, people drink, play loud music.

Ultimately, can it's really the residents that end up kind of suffering the cost of that when people go up there, do unsavory activities.

Ultimately, too, you know, they'll have to call code enforcement or call law enforcement, and the city will be responsible for maintaining those half street improvements.

So, with that, we were requesting a variance.

We would still be bonding 100% of the amount, but we do understand the city's concern as well.

Um, but that is our request, and we're happy to answer any questions.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

May I have a staff report, please?

Yes, Madam Mayor.

Peter Lowenstein for the record.

Uh, please note you have an updated plan uh being the landscape plan and staff report and your backup materials, those are handed out at the beginning of the meeting.

The proposed general plan amendment and rezoning are compatible with the adjacent densities in the area, and staff is recommending approval of both.

Conversely, staff is not able to support the proposed variants, has no you can unique or extraordinary evidence has been presented to warrant the deviations to allow private gated streets that do not conform to Title 1904 complete street standards for street termini and connectivity ratio and to allow no half street improvements for a portion of Alpine Ridge Way.

As such, staff has determined the hardship is self-imposed, and therefore staff recommends denial of the requested applications that the requested remaining applications.

If approved, staff will need to update condition number four of 26-0075-TMP one to reflect the landscape plan uh date stamp of 520 26.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Um, is there anyone else wishing to be heard on the this item?

Seeing no one, I will close the public hearings.

Um you heard the staff report.

Do you agree to the conditions?

Yes, we agree to the conditions.

All right, thank you so much.

Um, there are any questions and comments from members of the council.

Oh no, we're good.

Okay, go right ahead.

Okay.

Um you say half street improvements.

Um you're talking about this the street that is adjacent to the NV Energy portion of that street.

Yes, that's correct.

That's the portion that we're requesting the variants on.

Okay.

Um is there a school or anything nearby that would that people in the community, because we can't assume that everybody is driving.

What would happen if someone is trying to get from the street?

I don't know what direction this is.

That's near the uh at the top of the NV Energy.

So the the one that's at the top of the NV Energy Easement, that's the future proposed moccasin.

So that's the one that public works has granted a deferral on for us to not build half sheet improvements already out there because it is undetermined at this time.

So there's not an existing road up in that area.

So that's why we're requesting to not do this portion as well, because it's not connecting to a road up there.

That area isn't usable currently.

Okay, so if someone was walking on the street moccasin that actually is existing and wanted to come down the street and go into your site, for a portion of it, they'd be work walking on the dirt, and then they would walk on to uh some type of a sidewalk.

I'm not quite understanding.

Yeah, so if someone was walking from up in this area, it would all be dirt right now.

It's it's not improved up there, so they would be walking on dirt in this green portion until you got down to the yellow portion because we're gonna improve it in front of the developed portion of the site, but we can't develop the NV energy portion up here, so there'll be half street improvements up until here to the last lot, and then it's all NV energy easement land where there can't be any sort of developed area.

So after this, you'd just have half of a street up to then open BLM land, and then it would be all empty kind of desert land for the NV energy easement just north of the site as well.

So just to clarify, this is a deferment for that.

So later on, they would have to put it in.

Is that correct?

Uh through Madam America.

Uh Councilman Summer Armstrong, yes, they're gonna pay 100% of the our current cost today of the pasture improvements, and then at some point the city could use that money to build it.

The reason the city or the staff is recommending a denial is because we'd rather have them build it first and not have us build it.

Um but that is why our recommendations for denial.

And it'll be more expensive to build in the future.

Okay, okay, very good.

Um, is uh Miss Rooney.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, thank you to the applicant for uh this project.

It is a complicated piece of land because you know, essentially, as you shared, half of it is undevelopable.

So I appreciate you being innovative, and I do think it will be very convenient and attractive option for our Creech military family.

So thank you for that.

I am going to make a motion to approve item 51 items A, B, C, E, and F, and I want to follow the planning commission's uh decision to not approve or to deny item D.

So I don't know if it's two separate motions or if I can just make a motion to approve ABC E and F uh through you, Madam Mayor.

I I believe it would be uh two separate motions, and then on your approval motion, you would have the amended condition on the tentative map, which is um F.

So I would like to make a motion to approve item 5126-0075, A, B, C, E, and F with the amended condition on F.

Is that uh acceptable to the applicant?

Yes.

Shall we vote?

Please post.

And then I make it motion carries.

Congratulations.

Well, so now I think Mayor, I have to make a second meeting.

Yes, it is.

So now I would like to make a motion to deny item 512-00751D.

A motion is on the table.

Please vote.

Host motion carries.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Agenda item 52.

26-0090 on the following land use entitlement project requests on 0.16 acres on the west side of Casino Center Boulevard, approximately 215 feet north of Utah Avenue.

52A, 26 stairs 0090 dash V A R 1 to allow a 50-foot lot width where 100 feet are required, is required.

52B, 26 stairs 0090-ZON1 from R4, high density residential to C1 limited commercial, 52C, 26-0090-SDR1 for a proposed one-story 6,324 square foot commercial development with waivers of appendix F, interim downtown Las Vegas Development Standards, Area 1 and Title 19.08 screening standards for collection areas and dumpsters.

The applicant is KLA Construction and Development Inc.

and the Owner Preview Series LLC Series 38.

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 3, Ms.

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

Is the applicant present?

I am good morning, Madam Mayor and City Council members.

My name is Adam Floodbach.

I'm the owner of Kaley Construction and Development to tell you a little bit about the project.

I'm doing the exact same structure up the street at 1127, South Casino Center Boulevard.

We recently broke ground.

This project again is going to be a single story CMU structure that'll be for food and beverage.

I do understand it's zoned for residential given the size of the land and also the proximity to the parking structure the city is building.

We think it would be better fit for a retail building that would add to the community.

Currently we have over a thousand apartments that are being built, which we hope will continue to expand.

We have thousands that are in Symphony Park.

We want to continue to build the arts district as somewhere where people can park their cars and then walk from site to site.

If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them.

Thank you very much.

May I have a staff report, please?

Yes, thank you, Mayor Seth Floyd for the record.

Although the proposed infield development would redevelop a segment of Casino Center Boulevard, staff finds the waiver request to track from the intent of the Vision 2045 downtown Las Vegas Master Plan and Appendix F, Interim Downtown Las Vegas Development Standards and creating a vibrant urban environment for the 18B Las Vegas Arts District and will negatively impact parking in the immediate area.

As such, staff is not able to support the project as proposed and recommends denial.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Is there anyone uh that wishes to be heard on this item?

Seeing none, I am closing the public hearing.

Um there any questions or comments from the council.

Okay, is there a motion?

Councilwoman Diaz.

Yes, thank you, Mayor.

Um I'm gonna go ahead and follow our planning commission's recommendation for approval.

We know um Fulats and KLA are always bringing really great additions to our community, and I don't have any fear because you guys have just proven time after time that uh you leave the spaces that you own once you develop them a lot nicer than they were before.

So um I think adding another amenity to for folks to visit given the um apartments that are coming in close proximity um and hopefully new residents to the city will only uh allow a win-win for everyone, a win for you to lease the space and then another place for MPT to hang out because he's always in the arts district.

So with that, I'm gonna go ahead and move to approve agenda item 52 AMB.

And C.

Is there are there any no?

Okay.

There's no that's my motion.

All right.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

Congratulations.

Thank you so much.

You're so welcome.

Agenda item 53, 26-0129-sDR1, site development plan review, applicant owner Diamond Zing LLC for possible action on a land use entitlement project request for a proposed addition of four units to an existing one-story three-unit multifamily residential development with waivers of appendix F, interim downtown Las Vegas Development Standards, Area 2 on 0.22 acres at 401 South 11th Street, R4, high density residential, uh zone ward three, Miss Diaz, Planning Commission recommends approval, staff recommends denial.

Uh this is a public hearing that I now declare open.

Is the applicant present?

Good morning, Madam Mayor.

Yes.

Marissa Furman, 1980, Festival Plaza Drive here this morning on behalf of the applicant owner.

We are on the corner of 11th Street and Lewis.

On site currently is a one-story building consisting of three multifamily units.

So to back up a little bit, this application was previously approved in 2023.

The applicant was ready to pull their building permits until they learned that their entitlements had expired in the fall.

So we're back before you with the same site plan and waivers as we had before.

But I just wanted to point out that we do have a landscape waiver for the street frontage along 11th Street and Lewis.

However, we have uh 12 of these large evergreen trees.

Um there's 14 totals you can see in uh pink, but 12 of those trees are uh encroaching into the right-of-way, and they do not count for the landscape buffer.

So we are providing those trees that will uh give uh shade and uh will beautify the area.

I just wanted to point that out to the council.

Um this project here, it's adding to the existing revitalization efforts in the area.

Um, KLA that was just before you, they have uh rehabs a few of the um properties in that area.

Just to show you uh here, here, here, and I believe here.

Um, this project is sort of the last eyesore on this intersection.

Um it would be great to uh close out uh that revitalization effort uh in that immediate intersection, uh beautify the area, uh make it look really nice, put additional rental units on uh onto the market for our residents.

Um the applicant is fully financed and ready to go.

We just are back before you to get this approved.

So I will conclude my presentation and I'm happy to answer any questions.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

May I have a staff report, please?

Yes, madam mayor, Peter Lone Stein for the record.

Although the proposal represents much needed multifamily housing in the downtown Las Vegas Founders District area, staff finds that the request waivers of the report, setbacks, parking spaces, landscape buffers, mechanical equipment screening, and exceptions of the required plant materials reinforce the unsuitability of the proposed development to the surrounding area.

For these reasons, staff's recommended dial of the proposed site development plan review.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Is there anyone wishing to be heard on this item?

Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing.

Um there are any questions or comments from members of the council.

No, Miss Diaz.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

It's a little bit of deja vu on this one because it already had come before us, and I think I had already worked it to where I felt comfortable blessing it.

So if everything is ready to go, hopefully the green light and gas is you know applied really quickly to get it looking its best because it's not currently in that state.

So with that, I'm gonna move to approve agenda item 53.

Okay, please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Have a nice day.

Thank you.

You two agenda item 54.

Set date on any appeals filed or required public hearings.

I would instruct the city clerk to set the public hearing dates and appeal from the city planning commission meetings and dangerous buildings and nuisance litter abatements.

We'll do, thank you.

Thank you so much.

Agenda item 55.

Citizens 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 for any single speaker is limited to two minutes.

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?

Hello, my name is Shoshana.

I'm a resident, and I would like to reiterate my um encouragement for the city to separate church and state by separating invocations from these meetings, since 70% of cities and counties in Nevada do not invoke prayer or religion at all in their public meetings.

Secondly, I want to address the uh Nevada revised statute 241.021 subsection two that I was that was handed to me a printout, which I already had about the public is allowed to comment on any matter that is not specifically included on the agenda as an action item at some time before the adjournment of the meeting.

That's exactly what I was doing.

It said at some time, and that was the time that I wanted to give public comment, although you refused me to have that opportunity.

Um, and as I can restate, I was reprimanded.

However, the person after me spoke unrelated to the agenda item, and you gratefully allowed him to do that.

Open arms, he could speak on what he wanted, but I was reprimanded for doing so.

Also, because um you are still using this Bible as the source of your invocation.

I want to remind the women on this panel.

This is a terrible book for women.

It talks about raping them.

It talks about cutting up a woman's body into twelve pieces and dispersing her mutilated parts throughout the land of Israel.

It talks about a brother raping his sister.

It talks about eating children, boiling them and eating them.

It talks about dashing children against rocks to kill them.

It talks about burning a woman.

And also talks about slavery and how women aren't worth and girls aren't worth the same as slaves as the male counterparts are.

Talks about murdering the firstborn children.

How in the world do you support this?

This is gruesome.

It is horrific.

And as a woman myself, and who've read this, and I'll keep reading it, it just it's disgusting that we use this as a source of this invocation.

Thank you very much, and please consider getting rid of the invocations altogether.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Is there anybody else wishing to come forward?

Well, this is amazing.

I'm following the same girl.

Uh Kim Blandino, I'm here on a totally unrelated matter to what he spoke to earlier.

Um, I uh was accused and charged with battery in the city of Las Vegas, went to Muni court.

I defended that vigorously.

The city attorney uh dismissed it without prejudice, but I'm still under the gun.

I tried to get it dismissed with prejudice.

Uh Judge Giordani uh is a horrible judge, but you can't address that.

I've got commission uh complaint to the commission on judicial discipline, and I'm asking her to be suspended with or without pay.

Uh your uh court administrator Hans Jessup petitioned but find me a vexatious litigant.

This is a 13-page order issued by Judge Giordani with 750 some odd exhibits.

They sent two of these out to me.

Now, how's Jessup represented the city of Las Vegas in Department 6 of the court, and he's not a licensed attorney.

My understanding is that you uh uh approved him as court administrator in 2025.

That would be January.

That is the unauthorized practice of law.

Mayor Berkeley, from what I understand, you're a licensed attorney.

I think you're still currently a member of the bar.

Yes, sir.

They can enjoy what he did, and that's a criminal act.

Judge Giordani assisted in.

She was an accessory to that.

I objected timely right at that hearing on May 6th.

You'll find it on our Nevada judges at May 6th hearing, where she just went right on with it.

And now this order says that I cannot even go into that municipal court building, even though I'm respectful, as I am here, and I engage people, talk with them, and they're they're saying, she's saying I can't appear even in that courthouse, and that if I do have a hearing, I have to have it by Zoom, which is onerous.

And this, I know you can't address the judge, but you can address the court administrator.

Now, I'd like to bring this up if I could as somebody a motion for this to be an agenda item because he's way out of bounds.

Way out of bounds.

Thank you so much.

Is there anybody else that wishes to address the city council at this time?

Welcome and state your name for the record.

My name is Aaron Rowe, and I'm with the Satanic Temple.

And I'm here today because you denied me the opportunity to deliver the prayer, also known as the invocation before this council.

Not only was that wrong, it was discriminatory.

You cannot selectively decide which religions are acceptable and which are not, based on bias, public pressure, or personal religious preference.

You are not the gatekeepers of religion at these meetings.

You opened that door, and now it's open to everyone.

But since this council has refused to allow Satanists to give the opening prayer, then the real issue is why are you having government-sponsored prayer at all?

If invocations continue at these public meetings, then all religions, including the Satanic Temple, must be treated equally and given the same opportunities as your religion.

The Bible endorses atrocious acts of genocide, rape, slavery, and rape slavery, sexual slavery, drowning and mutilation.

The Satanic Temple's values are superior.

We value compassion and empathy toward all, pursuit of justice for all, bodily autonomy, respect for the freedom of others, understanding the world through science, rectifying mistakes, and resolving them without harm, and inspiring nobility along with compassion, wisdom, and justice.

I want to point out that the Satanic Temple strongly supports the separation of church and state.

Thank you.

Is there a case?

Thank you so much.

Is there anyone else that wishes to speak with the city council?

Please state your name again for the record, Mr.

King.

Once again, Mayor, City Council, thank you.

Eric King, uh long time resident here.

I wanted to speak uh again on behalf of efforts to not only champion um mitigation of the urban heat island effect, but uh to kind of echo something that one of our uh leaders in a different jurisdiction uh said just yesterday, um, which kind of echoed some of the conversations I've had with your fine staff, uh uh about advocating for trees.

And just to point uh one item out about trees that um is a continuing developing one.

Vegas PBS was interviewing some folks not too long ago, and um a number came up of more than a hundred thousand trees that are casualties of our very well-intended grass mitigation efforts, and fortunately, when grass in certain locations with certain trees, including pines and ash, some other species have their roots exposed within a couple of years, a great many of those trees die.

So nobody wants to see mature trees die unless they're clear-cutting uh for some other development, I suppose.

Um, but I've even seen the wind properties harvest hundreds of trees from where the sphere is now, and keep them in boxes that are ten feet for more than three years.

That happened when they were developing their wind property behind the sand.

So I just want to point out some of those things that could happen to trees that may be considered part of unused or non-utility areas uh where grass is.

So that was uh advocacy I wanted to make for making advocacies here, so I'm advocating for trees.

They all help us thrive better here in the desert.

And um frankly, they will bring a lot more high-paying jobs by people that like it greener here and healthier and cooler.

So hopefully that will help our economic diversification as well.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you so much.

We will now move on to agenda item 56.

Oh, oh, that's so sorry.

Please join us.

Would you state your name for the record?

Hey, I'm Philip.

I am uh Las Vegas citizen.

Uh what do I put oh to highlight stuff right here?

You now have two minutes.

Is anyone I can get a highlighter on this?

Right, you go right into the center.

Oh, I there you go.

First hand.

It's hard to recruit people.

Speeze is now one of the marshals training the new recruits.

It's interesting watching them succeed.

Uh say nothing is illegal about that.

You say yes, it is.

Is that you telling me recording is illegal?

No.

Um beats.

You know, can be added she'll pass to the tiny sheep and beats.

And I'm concerned about it being denied the ability to make an opening statement.

Okay, but why would they deny that?

That would be the dumbest thing in the world to deny.

I'm not crazy.

I'm not for exactly Julie wants to get very elected overstairs.

My concern is your contention that you were denied the ability to that you asked for an opening statement and I guess the judge told you no.

Absolutely.

That's exactly what I'm talking about.

And when I ran this piece report, I see some allegations as the future tour.

You still don't have it done?

Harass police officers.

Failed out right away so that a judge couldn't remand you on the new case.

Your time is up.

Thank you so much.

Is there anybody else that wishes to address the city council?

Seeing none, we will move to agenda item 56.

Council emerging issues.

Discussion regarding potential items for future city council agendas.

This impacts all wards.

Any discussion must be limited to whether or not such proposed items shall be placed on a future agenda.

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?

We'll now go to agenda item 57.

Council members' 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.

Okay.

Who would like to speak first?

How about Miss Summers Armstrong?

We'll start with you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

We'll start with uh May 20th.

Uh, we were at the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority's Regional Affordable Housing Forum at the AC Marriott in Ward 5.

Uh, it was a wonderful occasion.

I was on a panel with my predecessors, Council members Career Barlow and Weekly talking about uh the subject of the transformation of the historic West Side.

It was a very well-attended conference, and I'm really thankful for the housing authority for putting this on so that we can find ways to build finance and uh provide affordable housing in our community.

On May the 9th, uh I wrote on Big Red with my colleague, uh Councilwoman Diaz.

Uh it was hot.

The mayor was there in the in a cool um uh uh drop top.

We had a great time.

It was wonderful to see the community out, and uh it's always fun uh to participate in our activities.

Thank you to all the public folks who came out and supported the Hel Dorado parade.

On May 12th, uh the mayor and I and several other uh community leaders happen to uh go to the ribbon cutting for comprehensive cancer centers, grand opening also in ward five uh at the Mulaski Building there on uh uh gosh, no, I can't think of them the street.

Anyway, we had a wonderful time.

Um, this uh facility is offering um cancer treatment downtown, and it's adjacent to historic West Las Vegas, um, which has a dearth of opportunities for treatment in the in the surrounding area.

They're bringing world-class on collagen care as well as um some innovative uh treatments, and I'm really excited that they're here, and thank you to them for choosing ward five.

On the 13th, we had a room, a area full of our youngsters from Mabel Hogarth elementary school, Math and Science Magnet School, by the way.

All three of my sons are graduates uh of Mabel Hogarth Math and Science Magnet.

The babies were out in force.

You can see them in their hand-tie-dyed shirts.

They sat and listened to the grown-ups talk about leadership, about being kind to one another, about their place in the future of our city.

So hats off to Mabel Hogard for doing a great job preparing our young people to lead in this community.

Also on the 13th, I ran from here over to the Culinary Academy for their ribbon cutting of their expanded academy.

There was the grand reopening.

They showcased newly expanded and renovated training spaces.

CALV provides training and high demand fields in the hospitality area, and uh we are just excited to have them as neighbors to uh historic West Las Vegas.

They provide a wonderful service, and we are just glad to partner with them.

Uh we have some upcoming events uh on May 21st in honor of uh Older Americans Appreciation Month.

The Doolittle Active Adult Center will have a retreat at Charleston Peak.

Uh they will be uh hiking.

So if you are able and want to hang out with some of the coolest older and active adults in the city of Las Vegas, please call and see how you can sign up for this exciting event.

They're gonna have to do it without me because I'll be here tomorrow.

On the 23rd and the 24th, higher ground spring dance concert will take place at the West Las Vegas Arts Theater.

Uh, this is a wonderful uh spring concert series uh of dance for the live arts institute, the the Ailey School, and the Ailey Student Performance Group and the Nevada School of Ballet Theater.

This is amazing to have all of these organizations coming together to showcase their various uh interpretive dance, uh, the cost of $10.

We would love to have you in the community.

Please go early because parking is going to be a little tight.

And then finally, on June 21st, 2020, we will be co-hosting with the Rainbow Dreams Educational Foundation with support from Clark County Commissioner William McCurdy and Mayor Pamela Goins.

The City of Las Vegas is teaming up with Rainbow Dreams Educational Foundation for this amazing annual Juneteenth celebration.

We will be at Symphony Park this year.

Please join us for a free outdoor festival and enjoy the marketplace, local vendors, food trucks, DJ Kelly J and talented local artists will be there.

And parallel to this will be some intimate uh uh performances by uh 90s RB Heart Throb, Christopher Williams will be in Myron's at the Smith Center.

Um, as I said last meeting, a gagal of girlfriends and I will be there.

Um, if you don't want to hear a bunch of screaming, don't sit near us because it's going to be uh an event.

Uh thank you so much to my team uh for all your hard work.

Folks, if you need to reach out to Ward 5, the number is 702-229-5443, or email us at ward five at Las Vegas, Nevada.gov.

We are here to serve our community.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Ms.

Alan Polenski.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

During Teacher Appreciation Week, I was proud to present Excellence and Teaching Awards to three incredible educators in Ward 4.

Each go above and beyond every day for their students at the elementary school, middle school, and high school level.

Congratulations to this year's winner, Mrs.

Juarez Ramirez from Ruthie Deskin Elementary, Miss Locke from Imagine Schools at Mountain View, and Mrs.

Torres from Centennial High School.

I also have to extend sincerest gratitude to Republic Services, Southwest Gas Corporation, and Western Elite for their generous support and donations.

Because of their participation, we are able to award each teacher with a thousand dollar cash prize and recognition of their outstanding work.

To all the hardworking teachers out there, thank you.

We are so grateful for you, and there is no better, no greater legacy than positively impacting the next generation.

Next up on Wednesday, May 6th, I had the opportunity to partner with Republic Services and Safe House to support local women and families ahead of Mother's Day.

Thank you to Steve Orico and the entire Republic Service team for their generosity and heart for our community.

Together, we were able to collect hundreds of essential items for those women in need.

On Thursday, May 7th, I attended an AANHPI appreciation day here at the city.

I was also honored to present the Lot Lotus Leadership Award to David Balberdi of City Hall in recognition of his outstanding leadership, dedication to volunteerism, and commitment to organizing meaningful events through throughout AA NHPI Heritage Month.

On Tuesday, April 12th, I had the opportunity to give the opening remarks to the AANHPI panel discussion that took place in these chambers.

The panel sparked thoughtful conversation and provided an important opportunity to celebrate and reflect the experiences and cultures and contributions of the NAHPI community.

Later that week on the Friday, we proudly recognized Mark Carey Elementary Day here in the city of Las Vegas as we honored the life and legacy of Officer Mark Carey.

Officer Carey made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our community.

It was wonderful to join students, Officer Carey's family, and our public safety partners with such a meaningful day of remembrance and gratitude.

Next up from Thursday, May 21st through May 20th, Ward 4 will be hosting a freedom field in honor of Memorial Day weekend at Police Memorial Park.

Visit at your leisure and experience breathtaking display of more than 6,000 American flags and stroll between the flags on a walking path.

On Thursday, join us at the same park for Southern Nevada Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony at 7 p.m.

We will uh we are inviting the public to come join us in honoring and paying tribute to local law enforcement officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty since 1866.

It's an important one, and Mayor Berkeley will also be there.

On Saturday, May 23rd, please join us for a special outdoor showing of Jurassic World Rebirth at Tragono Hills Park.

Enjoy free popcorn, Jurassic Park themed activities while supplies last, of course.

The movie will begin at dusk, and we look forward to seeing everyone there to all the parents.

Make sure you notice that it's a PG 13 one.

Unlike the easier first one, this is a spin-off and pretty graphic.

Next up, there are 14 missing teens from our community.

If you have any information that could help, please contact LV MPD Missing Person Detail at 702-828-3111.

If you are uh at risk runaway youth or you know someone who might be at risk, please call the National Runaway Hotline.

They offer free confidential support 24-7 at 1-800-786-2929.

Uh these are the winning entries from the Nevada Child Seekers local fifth grade Bring Our Missing Children Home poster campaign.

It's inspiring to see students use their creative uh juices to raise awareness for missing children and remind us that even our youngest community members are committed to making a difference.

Lastly, you can stay up to date with community news and upcoming events and all the happenings in Ward 4 by following me on Facebook, Instagram, X, all the things.

If you ever need any assistance, don't hesitate to call us the old-fashioned way at 702-229-2524.

We are always here to provide any assistance that we can.

Thanks.

Thank you so much.

Mayor Pro Tim Knudsen.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Uh, this is Mental Health Awareness Month.

This month is a celebration of progress, awareness, and the growing commitment to creating supportive spaces for every member of our community.

By lifting up mental health, we help build the culture where care, understanding, and connection truly thrive.

And we have an event coming up on the 27th from noon to 2 p.m.

This is the ward one summer splash.

Come out and enjoy a day of sun, fun, and water at our ward one summer splash at Garside Pool.

There'll be water slides, splash zones, plenty of delicious ice cream, a DJ and raffle baskets is the perfect way to cool off and connect with your community.

Thanks a lot, Mayor.

Oh, thank you so much.

Miss Diaz.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

We're gonna try to do a quick uh whip through.

Um May has kept us very busy.

It's uh brought a lot of excitement and activities to all of our wards citywide.

So I just want to first start off by congratulating the proud small business owners Jose and Olga on the ground opening of their fourth Peru Chicken restaurant.

Growing a restaurant to now four locations across the Las Vegas Valley reflects hard work, dedication, and the success of local family owned businesses in our community.

And I was proud to present them with a proclamation to recognize their significant Peruvian culinary contributions to our region.

Um I know Olga from the time that she was cutting hair um right across from the Boulevard Mall, and then now she's the owner of four amazing restaurants, one of which is in Ward 1 on Sahara and Valley View, and the other one is uh another city location is on Eastern and Sahara, very adjacent to JC Park.

If you are craving Ceviche, now that it's getting warmer, totally try Petal Chicken.

Um on May 7th, the mayor and I were able to celebrate the official illumination of Harmonic Ascension, a new public sculpture by artist Cliff Garden that adorns our civic plaza across the way.

According to Garden, the sculpture draws from familiar cultural forms of music and entertainment and transforms them into something open to interpretation.

It serves as both an anchor and a register of changing light and time, inviting people to experience the plaza and one other and one another differently.

So, quick tip when you come and you admire this um new sculpture, look at the base of it and then look at the top of it and try to figure out what those instruments I'm giving you a clue are.

All right, let's move on to the next one.

Um, this is just a quick hit because uh my colleague from Ward 5 already mentioned it, but the mayor, Councilmember Summers Armstrong, and I had a very hot Eldorado parade uh participation, but it was awesome.

The energy was electric and um wouldn't give up always hearing our marching bands, seeing the colorful floats, classic cars, motorcycles dancers.

I don't know how they danced, and sometimes all of the costume, but kudos to them.

And I just want to give special thank you to our city centennial commission for making uh this a reality.

This is a long-standing Vegas tradition that without their support we couldn't make happen.

So thank you to them.

On May 13th, we had our first annual fifth grade career day.

Can you imagine this is our first fifth grade class at our strong start academy, and it was their first career day.

And I just want to thank our uh outstanding board member Maria Tamayo Soto, who some of you know through her engagements with parking uh citywide.

But um, I was so honored to be one of the many who spoke about our careers.

And boy, did they have tough questions for me about what it takes to be a council member for the city of Las Vegas.

Um, as you can see, also uh Rosa Cortez was there and um some awesome uh representation from our marshals.

And so I just want to say thank you to everyone who made this happen.

Um, the kids definitely enjoyed us sharing what it takes to be uh in our positions and our roles, and I hope that one day they strive to be working for the city because they got their strong start with us.

Um on May 13th, we went to a strong start go mobile uh mobile pre-K Academy graduation.

I was elated to celebrate the graduation of our youngest graduates for the class of 2026 at the historic Fitz Street School.

Congratulations to them all, our pre-K students and their families, and a special shout out, of course, to Dr.

Malic and her YDSI team, but especially to the pre-K teachers who help ensure that our kiddos grow so much over this school year.

I'm happy to report that one of the keynote speakers was Ali Sandra Badgley, who graduated last year and is our very own Stefanocci's daughter, and she did really well.

I was glad I did not follow her.

All right, um, last but uh, well, I just want to touch on this.

Um, we always have Cristo Rey St.

Viader interns assigned to us during the school year, and as this school year comes to a close, I wanted to share that two of them spent their respective days at City Hall, shadowing different professional colleagues here at the city.

Sophomore Layla Gratischer, shadowed deputy city attorney Nicole Garcia to learn about her work in the civil division.

She toured the criminal division and met Judges Peter Bellin and Judge Cara Campbell.

Our freshman, Maya Solano, shadowed Chief Judge Kelly Giordani at our Muni Court and assistant city attorney Carly Helbert in the criminal division.

Maya had the opportunity to watch a win court and sit with Chief Giordani on the bench.

Thank you so much, Chief Jordan Chief Giordani, City Attorneys Garcia and Helbert for taking our Cristo Rey interns under their wings for the day and definitely inspiring them to consider a career in legal world.

After our mayor.

On May 15th, we were honored to be with Hung Up on Wine.

Um that's a new uh offering in our wonderful downtown on the corner of Third and Bonneville in the Jewel Building.

Want to congratulate Hung the Win and Anthony DeFalco for opening this beautiful wine bar in the heart of downtown.

And I think we're gonna have to check in and make sure our city manager isn't there all the time.

Um, but I want to thank them for choosing to invest.

Uh, you know, coming down to the city, they worked on the strip, like I think part of the ownership worked on the strip for many, many years, and now they're coming down to downtown to offer the best of the best.

And so I'm so excited for them in this new chapter.

So uh quick fact they are open for lunch as well.

So um check out their lunch and dinner offerings.

You will not be disappointed.

All right, now moving on.

Um, wanted to put this on folks' radars.

There's free child swim lessons.

So please, please, please check these free offerings out.

As a child that didn't grow up near very many pools and still I still struggle with my swim swimming skills.

I highly encourage all parents to make sure that their kids know how to swim.

So, pool safety is critical, and our temperatures are starting to rise.

The city's offering free child swimming lessons for qualifying families.

Registration is now open and classes begin on June 9th.

What better way to tucker your kids out than to take them to swimming lessons?

All right.

Um, wanted to continue to put the plug that we still have our survey open for Justice Myron 11 and JC Community Park.

We're getting uh we want you to share your thoughts on a future child children's playground for the area.

We want your thoughts, your innovation, your imagination, your creativity so we can bring the best playground there.

Survey ends May 30th.

So please scan or take a picture of that QR code so you can help us promote it and have other families with little ones tell us what how they want to see that come together.

Next slide.

Um, we have a free mobile medical clinic.

I know that uh definitely Mayor Berkeley will endorse Turo University coming to partner with us, the city, to help bridge medical service gaps in our community.

Um they're gonna be at East Las Vegas Community Center on June 4th and July 2nd to receive uh for people to receive free medical care.

So sometimes we don't have a doctor, we don't have access, um, but we need to be monitoring um our health and even get scripts.

So this is the perfect opportunity for people who are in that gap without care.

Please, please, please spread it far and wide so that um there's a win-win for those that need the medical care, and then it gives definitely the folks at Truro the opportunity to work with our community.

And last but not least, I want you to save the date for our public safety town hall on June 10th at 6 p.m.

I'm partnering with Assemblywoman Cynthia Moore, Commissioner Tick Sagerbloom, and representatives from both Metro and our fabulous Marshalls Public Safety.

And um, this you know, public safety is at the top of mind for so many of our residents that uh we're gonna go ahead and have this meeting at East Las Vegas Community Center.

We're gonna have a Spanish and an English one.

So as you can see, the English session is Wednesday, June 10th at 6 p.m.

The Spanish session is Wednesday, June 17th at 6 p.m., hosted out of our East Las Vegas Community Center.

And um we're we're inviting everyone to submit their questions ahead of uh the town hall so that we can be better prepared to answer them.

So, as always, my fabulous Ward 3 team and I stand here um willing and and ready to heed your help, your calls for help and uh help you navigate in any ways that you need us to help you.

So thank you so much and start staying cool out there because it's been nice, but the temperatures keep creeping up.

Absolutely.

Thank you so much.

Uh, Councilwoman Bruni.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Earlier this month, I joined my colleague and also participated in the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority's fourth annual affordable housing forum.

It was the biggest forum yet with over 400 private nonprofit and public partners who are all interested in addressing one of our region's most challenging issues, namely the lack of affordable housing.

Earlier this month, I was thrilled to welcome the fifth grade students who participated in the Great American Awards program and their families to City Hall.

Nine Ward six schools participated, emphasizing the importance of civic knowledge, patriotism, and determination.

In early May, I spoke at the annual Ernest May Day event at Ernest May Jarnest J.

May Elementary School.

The annual event honors Officer Ernest James May, the first Las Vegas police officer to lose his life in the line of duty on June 8th, 1933.

His legacy is a reminder of the sacrifices our law enforcement officers make to keep our community safe.

We are happy to share that the Jazz Under the Stars event at study at Centennial Hills Amphitheater, which began last year, reached new heights.

This year, more than 2,500 neighbors enjoyed smooth jazz from the Jazz Vegas Orchestra and Naomi Morro.

It was great to see so many youth without their parents attending the event.

Thank you to the city's parks and cultural affairs department for bringing them back again this year.

Last week we logged another great small business breakfast.

Thank you to our small business owners for sharing your time with us.

And a huge thank you to our speakers, Brian Gordon from Applied Analytics, sorry, Applied Analysis, who talked about the region's construction outlook in Las Vegas Valley Water District Deputy General Manager Doah Ross.

We have a few upcoming events that we want to make sure you know about.

First, we'll be hosting the next event in our annual Connector Series on Saturday, May 23rd.

We'll be hosting Sunset Yoga at Gilcrease Brothers Park.

We'll start at 7 p.m.

So come out for some healthy exercise, mocktails, and followship with your Gal pals.

Join us for our monthly bocaditos with Bruni on Thursday, June 11th from 9 to 10 a.m.

in the morning at our YMCA satellite office in the Centennial Hills YMCA.

Finally, we're looking forward to celebrating our wonderful fathers at our Take Me Out to the Pool event.

Saturday, June 20th from 11 a.m.

to 1 p.m.

at the Centennial Hills YMCA.

We'll be having a hot dog bar and sweet homemade treats.

Thanks to the Y and the Centennial Hills Active Adult Center for your partnership on this event.

Please, RSVP as Space is Limited.

The event is free.

As always, we want to hear from you.

Call us at 702-229-5463 or email us at Ward 6 at Las Vegas, Nevada.gov.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you so much.

Councilwoman Kelly.

Good morning or good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

We've been busy in Ward 2, and we started off on May 5th with the tour of the LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada and their medical center.

Bob Forbis, who many people know and I know many of us know here or new, was the impetus for the center.

And he was an early mentor of mine and a former chamber chairman of the chamber, and it gave me such joy to see how remarkable what they're offering at both the center and at their medical center.

Uh was just to support members of our community.

So I really want to thank their team, John Waldron and their team, for the meaningful work that they do every day to support Southern Nevada.

On May 7th, uh Ward 2 staff attended the Great American Challenge Awards recognition event, and you'll see Dr.

Malt there along with Christina Dugan.

It was an honor to for us to be able to welcome them.

And what I learned, and I didn't know this, it was founded by Claire Tobler, who was from Boulder City in 1983.

And you know, one of the fascinating things about this job is all the stuff I keep learning, and this just made me so proud.

So I wanted to congratulate Ward 2 School's Clarence Piggott Academy of International Studies in the Middle School for the hard work on their academic achievement to be recognized as a recipient of that award.

The following week I had I love my constituents, and so I had the opportunity to attend the Buffalo Coalition Community Meeting, and these gals that day were, you know, they're just so they meet every Thursday.

It stones me.

They're not even a homeowners association, but they work really hard as a neighborhood association.

They're very active.

I know our staff knows them well because of their activity.

I appreciate how the staff works with them.

They always have great ideas.

Um I admire their commitment to their neighborhood.

Uh they're really a model of engagement, and it makes me proud to have them in Ward 2.

Um, I went out to the West Side, the historic West Side, and got to visit the uh historic West Side Urban Farm.

I went out with Dr.

Mailich and uh it was for a tour of a few things.

I know you all know about this urban farm, but it was my first time visiting.

Makes me very proud, the things that we're doing in the city of Las Vegas.

And um I love, I'm I'm I'm hoping to be able to uh see some of the other great things we're doing in other wards because it makes me a great ambassador for all we do in the city and their ability to increase food access where there's food deserts and an affordable uh and the the fresh produce that they give to the community and particularly ward five residents is very inspiring.

Then it was on to the historic West Side School, a beautifully restored landmark that now serves as a cultural and community hub.

I got a chance to uh really appreciate the historic preservation we're doing there.

It is beautiful.

Um the um there was a community room that has it has a timeline, it has a mural, it has photographs.

Uh I if I'm in, I get I'm involved in several organizations.

That's a great place to have a meeting.

And uh it made me again uh so appreciative of what we offer as access for our community groups and things.

And then we ended our tour with a visit to the Jewel of Ward 5, the West Side Educational Training Center.

Um inspiring tournament about the hands-on training programs and partnerships that are helping connect people to meaningful careers and long-term success.

Um there's the uh modeling I'm doing with Dr.

Mugrich there, but uh really enjoyed that.

And um I hope that if uh you know we can that I can, like I said, visit some of the other wards.

As a fan of education and reading, I was able to support the Apple Corps Reading Program by attending the 2025 and 26 contest award winners, Clarence Piggott, and the um very eager and wonderful Principal Principal Hudsick with his staff and the students of Clarent Piggett, who won the first prize of a thousand dollars, but we are also able to recognize another ward school, Loomis Elementary, for achieving in the top five, and um celebrate the hard work, dedication, and enthusiasm by these students, which is a true reflection of our great educators in our schools, and always proud to see students embracing reading.

Um Mayor Pro Tem, I I'm I'm with you on that, and it's just such a lovely, a lovely thing.

It was an honor to present a proclamation representing uh I mean recognizing May 14th, 2026 as LGA Architecture Day.

I was there with my friend and great Las Vegas citizen Craig Galati and his partners.

Uh it's a wonderful ward five business.

I mean ward, I'm sorry, three business, pardon me.

Yes, I appreciate that.

And um, and I we we we were for the we were former, I was a former client of LGA, happy to celebrate their strong 40 years.

And there, as Craig said, it's just the beginning.

So creating great well-paying jobs and all the stuff that they do.

I also yesterday was um I had the chance to participate in a groundbreaking for Angel Park, maybe my only groundbreaking.

It was fun.

Huge crowds, huge crowds of of just us.

But um, you know, everybody loves it, it gets excited about new parks.

But what's great about the maintenance we do and the expansion of offerings is that the city is and under the leadership of Maggie Plaster, uh, is very, very much in tune with always trying to develop and expand what we're doing in our existing parks.

And so this park is getting a splash pad.

Um, and uh we're relocating bathrooms and doing a bunch of things, and it was exciting to be there for me.

It's a loved park, and uh uh we hope that uh it's finished by early next year.

I'd also like to um highlight one of our small business spotlights, the Salty Moss.

I had the opportunity to speak with them at Bruce Trent Farmers Market the Spring, and this environmentally friendly business makes product from CMoss.

Uh always love the innovation that comes with small business entrepreneurs.

We have some exciting changes in our ward.

We we uh are welcomed our newest employee, Kayla McNeil.

She is ready to help constituents.

She's on the next slide, and I am happy to have her with us.

She's really learning a lot and is receiving great support, not only from my staff, but all of your staffs as well, so I appreciate that.

And then some upcoming events, they're all on, I think, one page.

Um I want to make sure everybody was remembering there's a memorial day ceremony on Memorial Day Monday in Ward 2 at the Lakes.

Uh very I'm excited to be part of this historic event uh in that ward, and then we have neighborhood office hours.

Um we're excited to have uh the uh the Vegas for Athletes Summer Games coming, most of which are in ward ward two, and then we have an event for um our active 55 plus adults that will highlight information on fraud and how it can happen to you and what to do about it from the FBI FBI Las Vegas special agent in charge, Christopher Gelzato, as well as some other key speakers.

And finally, no, that's it.

That's it.

That's all I have.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Before I adjourn this meeting, and we move into our next meeting, which will take place in five minutes.

One, of course, civil rights advocate and legend in this community, Ruby Duncan.

Her funeral is this Saturday at Second Baptist at 10 o'clock in the morning.

And attorney Marty Ashcraft, who was one of the early attorney pioneers in a generation where there were very few women practicing law in the state of Nevada.

And she was also instrumental in helping to create the Southern Nevada Association of Women Attorneys.

Started with 14 of us, and now there are several hundred.

And she was instrumental in making that happen.

And with that, I will adjourn this meeting, and we will reconvene in five minutes for our budget meeting.