Okay, we're gonna go ahead and call the Southern Nevada Enterprise Community Board to order.

Uh Mr.

Secretary, please call the roll.

Vice Chair Neil.

Here.

Member Member Horsford, excused.

Member Monroe Moreno, excused.

Member Garcia Anderson.

Excused, Member McCurdy.

Present.

Okay.

Uh Member Garcia Anderson is present.

Member McCurdy?

Member Steele?

President.

Member Summers Armstrong.

Thank you, Chair.

You have a quorum.

Thank you for that.

And so we are in compliance with the open meeting law, correct?

Yes, we are.

All right.

Thank you for that.

So we will move to agenda item number three, which is public comment.

Is there anyone here for public comment?

Okay.

Seeing no one here for public comment, we will go ahead and close public comment.

We will now move to agenda item number four, which is for possible action to approve the final minutes that are referenced from the regular meeting of January eighth, twenty twenty-six.

Uh members, do you have those minutes or do you have any edits or any move approval of the minutes?

All right.

So I take a first from uh Commissioner McCurdy, a second from Councilwoman Armstrong.

All in favor, say aye.

Aye.

On the phone, member members.

Member Steele.

Aye.

Aye.

All right, seeing no opposition.

Uh the minutes from January eighth, twenty twenty-six passes.

We will now move to agenda item number five for possible action regarding the election of the chair and the vice chair.

So as you guys know, uh Dante Scott was the chair, he no longer is a part of the committee.

He stepped down.

We were trying to figure out uh to do the election on chair and vice chair.

I think we would say September.

Is that September?

Or August is when the church is a good thing.

Does there any comments on moving the election for the chair vice chair to August?

That's what's up for DMM.

So members do not want to obey that item to August.

They want to do an election today, which me would be I would be chair.

So we need to do a nomination for me to be chair and then assembly councilwoman Armstrong to be vice chair.

I move for uh Senator New to be chair of the board and Councilwoman Summers Armstrong to be vice chair.

So the nomination process works.

We've got a motion second.

I know.

So but we do them separately, right?

Or can we do them together?

Deputy City Attorney Chris Hubby Allocate for the record.

Yes, you'll want to take both of those as separate motions.

Yeah.

Okay.

So the first motion up is chair.

Um so let's redo that.

I move for Senator Nero become to become chair of SNEC.

Second.

I second.

Okay, so we have a uh motion by Commissioner McCurdy.

We have a second by council.

So we have a second by member Steele.

Uh all in favor of that motion online.

Member Steele.

Aye.

Okay.

All right.

So closing that motion for chair.

Um, we will now open a motion for uh Councilwoman Armstrong to be vice chair.

So I need a motion.

I move for Councilman Armstrong Summers Armstrong to be vice chair of Snake.

Is there a second?

Second.

All right, we have a motion and second.

So I have a um motion from Commissioner McCurdy and second from Member Steele.

Um I didn't even ask for comments on the motion.

Is there are there any comments on the motion?

Seeing none, all in favor for the motion for member councilwoman Armstrong to be vice chair.

All in favor?

Aye.

Any opposition?

Aye.

Member Garcia, would you like to vote?

Oh, aye.

Oh.

So seeing that it's unanimous.

Um, is there any opposition?

Seeing none, then the motion passes for uh councilwoman Armstrong to be vice chair.

And that will close agenda item number five.

We will now move to agenda item number six, which is for the possible action regarding the acceptance of applications of interest uh to appoint two representatives of the community uh Southern Nevada Enterprise Community Board.

The appointments uh for the following um nominees Nicole Brooks and Dr.

Gail Anderson Holeness.

Uh members are then discussions.

We want to call how do we want to do that?

We call the members, look at their application, call Nicole Brooks up.

Yeah, we can call her up to speak about her background, connection to the community, and then I believe do a motion to approve.

Because Miss Holeness is not here.

Correct.

All right.

So we're gonna call Miss Nicole Brooks up, and if you could give us just a little snippet of your background.

Um Nicole Brooks.

I am a longtime native of Las Vegas, been here over 30 years.

I am rooted in the 89106.

That's where my family has been for over 60 years.

I am a graduate and undergraduate and graduate from UNLV here.

Um I have done many mentor um work with the city of Las Vegas and the youth department.

I am connected to Democracy Prep as well and the Doolittle Community Center.

I am a proud member of Alva Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated, who also gives back and does a lot of community work here, and I am just a community advocate that is ambitious and wanting to be a part of the growing change that is happening in our community.

Thank you for that.

Members, do you have any questions to Miss Brooks?

Thank you, Miss Brooks.

It's good to see you.

Um I've seen you many times in the community.

Um, my only question would be um, do you have this time and capacity to serve on this board?

Thank you for that question.

I absolutely do.

I was very mindful um of that before I even filled out the application.

Um I've been attending meetings kind of faithfully, um, just being a part of what is going on already, and so I wanted to make sure that I did have the capacity before I even um filled out the application.

So yes, ma'am.

Thank you for that response.

Thank you for that.

Members, any other questions?

Um just comment.

Uh really glad you applied to be served as board.

Um, as you can see, uh many of us are um stretched pretty thin in our official capacities.

Uh but one thing that I found since being on this board is uh getting a quorum.

So I just want to make sure that you are committed to attending um meetings uh when we hold them and that you're gonna be here uh because uh what's very important that we're able to have everyone here when we're trying to have discussions around a community that we serve.

Thank you for that comment, and yes, I plan to be here um god willing at all the meetings.

All right, uh member still, member Garcia.

Do you have any questions?

I don't have any questions.

No questions.

Okay, thank you for that.

Madam Chair Singh, uh no further questions.

I move for approval of Nicole Brooks to fill the vacant seat uh representing the community for the matter prize community uh board.

I second all right.

So I have a motion on the table to approve Nicole Brooks as a community member to SNIC.

Um I have a second from council uh vice chair um Armstrong.

Is there any comments on the motion?

Seeing none, all in favor to accept uh Miss Brooks.

I online I um seeing no opposition thank you for that.

Seeing no opposition, uh we now approve Miss Nicole Brooks onto the board, and we will um move for Miss Holness.

Um she is not in town, she's actually in Atlanta.

So for the second uh community representative, we will uh actually look for another person and an additional application.

Um so if members can be thinking about maybe some college student um or someone that's a very much young professional that we can add to the board, I think that would have value.

Um so with that uh we are close agenda item number six.

So quick question Does Brooks join now or does she join later?

Next next meeting.

I mean, were you prepared to stick around or were you yeah?

Oh, okay.

Well then we can go ahead and just have you come on around then for real.

I mean, have we ever I mean we could do onboarding, but have you ever onboarded a person for SNCC?

No, not for real.

No.

Do you have a little bit of a background, but yeah.

You you can always reach out to Brian after and get some additional information.

Um, but welcome to the board.

All right, so that allows us to move to agenda item number seven, which is the discussion regarding board alignment and support of existing west side projects and potential uh revenue ask related to the 2027 legislative session.

So members online, I don't know, members steele and uh councilwoman Garcia.

If you do you guys have this chart that Brian sent to you, which kind of shows um just a high level chart of historically what the SNCC board has done.

Do you guys have that in your email?

So you know what we're referencing?

I'll resend right now of need.

Okay.

I am taking it out right now.

Okay.

Well, let us know.

But members, you have a double-sided uh chart that's in front of you.

Um part of our goal and our plan um to do this abstract chart was to try to help members understand uh it's not exhaustive list, but globally, where did we where did SNCC start?

What are some of the issues that we took on as a board?

And that will help guide where we need to go.

So if you look at um well, let me stop.

Member Steele and Garcia, have you been able to get it?

I don't see it.

Is that in the email that Brian sent along with that?

Yeah, it should be an attachment.

Brian the Cruz for the record.

I just resended, so it should just take about 30 seconds or so to get through the firewall and over to you guys.

Thanks, Brian.

Member Steele member Garcia did it come through.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna have it.

Okay.

I'm gonna uh member Garcia, so I'm just gonna start.

Um, I'm gonna get into 2008 and then you know, kind of just some early high-level, and then you just kind of follow along.

Um when you when you when you're able to find okay.

All right, so basically um just to give some background.

Um, so when this started, Congress.

Well, at the time it was uh Senator Hortzford, uh wanted to create the Southern Nevada Enterprise Community, it was built off of the Clinton legislation that created enterprise communities.

The idea was at the time, which and there's still similar circumstances, he was looking to try to push uh local governments to do economic development, um, which also included workforce inside of the SNCC boundaries, which happened to be North Las Vegas, West Las Vegas, and parts of the county.

At the time when the bill was passed, uh, you know, Kerry didn't have sidewalks, and he was trying to merge political power by using a legislative act to put all of the representatives that crossed borders over the SNCC area in order to produce action of in historic areas where there had been underdevelopment and lack of political cohesion.

So we wanted to kind of put together where do we start?

So one of the first fights that SNCC took on uh after the recession was F Street.

Uh they called uh which councilwoman Armstrong at that time was a very active participant in the F-Street movement along with other people.

SNCC at the time brought legislation to try to force NDOT uh to have a process around redesigning and reopening the street.

At the time, it was pretty significant because they had closed the street, the African American community at the time was in up in arms and uh felt that they were doing a level of um basically disrespect to the community.

So that became a conversation that was taken on by SNCC as you see from 08 all the way through uh 2013.

Um where that became continued to be an issue, and so on top of that though, um, after that legislation was put forth by SNCC, which was supported in the legislature and then passed, we then also looked at uh Nevada Partners, and we looked at in 2012 creating the promised neighborhood.

So out of the promised neighborhood initiative, which is still an ongoing initiative, um, or a portion of it is still with the city, was my brother's keeper.

If anybody's familiar with my brother's keeper, which I believe Sean Torrey was running that program, and it still resides in the city of Las Vegas.

That was one of the major pieces that came out of uh the promised neighborhood.

There were also cities that got promised neighborhood dollars in order to go in and do some kind of uh redevelopment using those dollars and some projects specific.

Um next uh C we SNCC took on in 2013, we took on CCSD enrollment trends um within the SNCC boundaries, which was super important, and as you see, enrollment trends are now a silical topic that is also popping up in 2026.

Um we also looked at workforce diversity.

So we brought in groups to talk about how are you actually changing the game, how are you um what are you doing in order to serve the people in this community and help them uh take advantage of workforce opportunities?

You can see now how far we've gone.

We have an existing workforce entity that is within the city of Las Vegas.

You also have the workforce center, which is right in the west side, which is a combination of the College of Southern Nevada, City of Las Vegas, and I believe County, are you guys involved in that one?

And so you can kind of see we did start some things, and they ultimately got finished under someone's leadership.

Uh and items were moved along.

Uh if you move to 2015, we started the process of trying to get our EDA, which is under the Department of Commerce.

We were trying to become get our federal designation under the EDA to then be looked at as part of the economic development plan of the state.

We were approved in 2015.

We also had community members come in and present to us, uh, talking about what could be the economic development opportunities.

And when you change uh go to 2016, we just had nonprofit entities that came in and presented to us.

We didn't have necessarily have consistent meetings that year.

Uh, but we did try to at least talk to nonprofits.

What are they doing?

How what kind of work are they doing in the space?

How can we participate?

Are you doing well?

Are you not performing, etc., etc.?

And then if you see in 2017, choice neighborhoods came on board, and I believe Nevada Partners became the lead agency on choice and also the cities.

And SNCC pretty much convened those groups and had them come in and talk to us.

What are you doing?

What's the plan?

Um, how are you getting ready to change the economic and socioeconomic landscape within the SNCC boundaries?

We continue to have nonprofits come in.

Uh, you see 2018, 2019.

We then had another bill, which was, I believe this is your bill, uh, Assemblyman McCurdy.

Yeah.

We had AB 385, which was a bill done by Commissioner McCurdy.

Would you like to talk to folks about what that bill is about?

That was your grocer bill.

Oh, yeah, so that pretty much laid the the groundwork for anyone who invested in a low-income census tract that also happened to be a food desert, a federally designated food desert, uh, they would receive a tax credit for doing that type of development.

Uh fast forward during the time of former councilman career.

Uh, he and I worked on through the American Rescue Plan Act dollars for the expansion of Mario's, who was able to, you know, benefit from some of those cred tax credits, which is now how we got to the expanded Mario's now today.

But it also wasn't just exclusive to uh, you know, the historic West Side, but it's anywhere across the state that is a federally designated food desert.

So that's a good example of you know the fact that we can do legislation.

The legislative members that sit on here uh can take forward an idea that will help uh mitigate an issue that we feel uh matters and needs some traction.

Um, you see in 2021, uh we have the city of Las Vegas uh come back in, talk about the choice neighborhood.

We also continued the promise neighborhood because that was like a long a long-standing um grant that was still moving.

Um we then once again we went back and completed another SEDs in 2022.

Can we stop?

Yeah, there's one that's missing here.

Go ahead.

Uh thank you, uh Chair um Neil.

Uh 2021, we were able to get a bill uh passed uh in the legislature that required um the city of Las Vegas to report to SNEC.

Uh any time um a developer or someone received uh financial support from the city uh for redevelopment that they were to report to SNEC.

So I'm trying to find the bill number now.

It's been I slept since 2021, so I've forgotten it.

But basically, as a project came, they were supposed to report to SNEC three times.

The beginning of the project with their um with their uh employment plan and small business participation plan at the middle of the project, so that SNEC could see um their progress to ensure that um progress was being made with employment and small business, and then the final report at the end of the um the project, and that's one of the reasons why um Sam Cherry and and others have come to present to you because that is part of their requirement if they get City of Las Vegas redevelopment dollars.

Well that's phenomenal.

I think that we should um talk with our friends at the housing authority who have partnered with Metcalf who's developing Marble Manor.

I do not believe.

And correct me if I'm wrong with a baby for this board to talk about, you know, their their plans and where they are right now.

It's a good thing they just broke ground uh less than a month ago.

Uh so now would be a good time to get them before this board to just talk about where they are, the process, how we can be supportive and understand um, you know, what their you know their philosophies are around you know, section three and so forth.

Uh thank you for that.

I agree.

Um we haven't had the housing authority come in and only when they were trying to get the federal money, but not post.

And I know that group is trying to um add diverse subcontractors um to the to the pot.

So all right, so we'll definitely bring them on, um, have them come in and then we'll activate uh assembly woman uh I don't know why I keep calling it uh councilwoman.

You don't want to let go of that.

I know I just like a councilwoman Armstrong's uh legislation that she passed and try to make that active, and I should remember that because I specifically was like, yeah, let's try to do that.

But okay.

So this is resetting the deck, thank goodness that we're having this conversation.

Um 2022 said that we were trying to uh uh they came and presented on James Gay Park.

Um we had had some meetings with uh LBGEA, or maybe that was 24.

But I know we were we the second we've had a second approval of a SEDs, right?

That's my understanding, Brian.

We did in 2015 and then we did a renewal in 2022.

Yes, that's correct.

But we still have an active SEDs.

Yes, I believe the last thing I heard from LVGA was that they filed for an extension through the rest of this calendar year for the last one done.

So that might also be because so when it expires, we also need to do an action.

Correct.

Okay.

Or they need to have it complete by that point.

Is LVGA actually having a conversation?

Because we were like having that conversation in 23 and 24, and then it fell away.

Yes, I've talked to them and kind of there's a lot of new staff over there, and I gave the background of what we were doing in terms of being involved and having uh weighted votes on that RFP process for who was gonna handle the SUS.

Um, but I haven't gotten an update really since then of how they were proceeding and what their plan is right now.

Okay, yeah, because I still have all of that, like I get I think the files on that one, um, because they were like um so I think you have them too under Karen, so I don't need to reshare anything with you.

Okay.

All right, and so in 2023, um we were talking about RBDAC, uh, the promised neighborhoods, the SEDs, trying to figure out uh, as you can see, the recompete pilot.

Uh we brought in the Nevada Grow program, and then in 2024, we continue to talk about Project 354 because we brought in welfare, which is still focusing on because of Project 354, the welfare division created a workforce arm that focuses on um families that are on the uh benefits cliff and how they can help them find work and then also help them find meaningful work if they're now on SNAP, and now that's really a relevant conversation now with a 20-hour minimum that you have to have in order to keep SNAP benefits.

Um and so, or the 20 hours that you have to have in some kind of training program.

So I think we need to follow that as well because we don't know how people are performing with this 20-hour work week in order to keep food on the table.

Um, and that affected seniors as well because they lowered the age.

Um, and now it believe if you're 54, you still have to work the 20 hours a week and it didn't matter.

Um, and so that might be something we actually want to bring back to the table for 26 and 27 and monitor while this can turn current administration is at play doing whatever they're doing.

Um, and then in 25, we had the Harlem Knights folks come in, which you know that project is dead.

Um not a euphemism, and so uh, but now we have the new projects that are in Ward 5 that clearly tie into uh councilwoman uh Armstrong's bill that they should be reporting to us on their workforce.

Um what are the name of those projects?

There's like two.

Share downtown.

Here downtown.

Um thank you, uh Chair Neal.

So share downtown, share Westside has been before you.

Um, and they have they gave a presentation at the top of the year, the end of uh of 2025.

Um they most of their uh involvement, if my remembering properly was on finish fit and finish of the project.

Um, but we also have uh the good word, which will be going up, and so that's another project that would need to have participation as well.

There's going to be tenant improvements there that could fall under what we're looking at.

Um, and we have some other uh we've got a you know the the West Side Flats and some others, but they have stalled a bit, so we don't know if they're gonna come through.

Um so that's that's the big one, right?

That that's the big one.

Uh I don't I don't believe that the library fell into that category because that's a um a library district, and I'm not certain that they received re any redevelopment funds, but I think we need to I need it's been many years, so it's time to look at the bill language uh that was approved to make sure that it's not just City of Las Vegas, that it's anybody that's in the redevelopment uh district and make sure that we have um authority to ask them to come and present what about NHSN on Jefferson?

So they would more than likely be fall under that.

Um it is a um eight unit row house.

Um I believe they got home funds and some other funds through the city of Las Vegas, and so they would definitely my understanding is they would be subject to this, and we probably need to have them.

If you all haven't seen their plans, they're amazing.

And uh it is a very very interesting concept uh that might be duplicate duplicable, able to be duplicated and uh and can be done on uh three to four point six one six lots to get eight uh each one point one six is generally one residential unit.

Um they can double that with these row houses, and so it is um a very interesting concept.

So um we'll have to take another look at the SNEC boundaries, but uh we have a project on Lake Mead on the north side of Lake Mead between Inglestad and Revere that we're working on.

Uh it is 78 units of um affordable housing, workforce housing at 80% AMI, uh, which is great because it's going to give the annual income in the area a bump.

Uh that's good for prospective investors, uh, but also uh on the frontage of the property, uh, and we're actually should be done by October uh with the commercial part.

Um is going to have 20,000 square feet of retail and commercial space.

Um, it's a two-story uh facility in partnership with UNLV, and uh we can get them to come in.

We're probably about 85% done with the apartment complex.

Uh that should be coming online here in late June, early July to open up to the community and anyone who would like to live there, but for sure the commercial site, uh, they initially anticipated it being uh topped out and done, ready to open up in the first quarter of 27.

But it looks like based upon where we are, we're ahead of schedule, and it should be done by October.

November.

Uh member steel, member Garcia.

I don't know if you guys are still online.

Do you guys have any um uh comments?

This agenda item was to review and then look at our alignment and our support.

Uh member steel member Garcia I don't know if you guys are still online do you guys have any um uh comments this agenda item was to review and then look at our alignment and our support um there may be um I don't know if any of this information is making you think about um current projects that are in the SNCC that we missed that were discussed um and we should have added or any other commentary chair seeing none uh we should probably uh try to get an update from uh North Las Vegas on although it's outside of the SNEC boundaries uh we do have a new university uh Sism of Higher Education coming into uh the borders of the SNEC boundary and it could be potentially a great way to build relationship there with a majority of the students that are going to Nevada State University now currently coming from historic Westside North Las Vegas Eastside so being able to just develop that relationship early will be great.

Okay I'll put that on agenda item number eight for new topic so for 2027 um clearly um members want to do an appropriation bill the question is what is that appropriation um is there any other particular legislation that members want to bring in addition to the SNCC bill that was did not pass in 2025 Madam Chair uh particular as it relates to appropriation I think that there should be a direct infusion into the SNEC board for the purposes of helping um aspiring entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs who are ready uh being that right now you have um share west side and the good word coming online you're gonna have uh maker spaces for entrepreneurs within those retail spaces uh of share west side uh being able to you know go in and I think that those dollars could help with FFE and uh you know if it's a you know a restaurant it can help with you know the all of the back of the house things that are gonna be needed to actually run a restaurant and with the micro business park being that we already have partnerships uh in line uh with you and UNLV and Nevada Grow and Nevada partners who already have a collective database of businesses that they've been growing and supporting uh it could be beneficial to help uh those small business continue to scale with some seed money as they go into those spaces which they would be able to stay for three to five years and help them scale uh secondarily I think uh on the uh infusion for SNEC we could utilize this as a potential partnership with one of our nonprofit partners and come up with a work program uh potentially through workforce connections uh being that you know to maintain your benefits uh and your snap benefits you have to work 20 hours or so a week uh it opens up an opportunity to discuss possibly the creation of a program uh with workforce connections that will allow for those skills to be developed you mean flexible dollars that they could have flexible dollars with those we OAG dollars because we all as you know we all only focus on underemployed uh and unemployed uh andor dropped out of school but if we could use some of the dollars that SNEC has to uh expand the scope uh of potential opportunities for students it could you know it it it could go much further and develop skills yeah go ahead um I really like that idea um but I also think that we um might want to consider support of some existing relationships that are already happening so uh at WETSI which is right there on the campus of Historic Westide um we've got training there through CSN but in addition to that the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority under their Flex program with the um C and C and I grant they are actually just inked a MOU with WETSI to do some pre-apprentip training um under the Flex program and so if there was an opportunity to expand some of that it's to people who not are just in housing but that are from the community I I think that we will see that being a direct link for people to be able to work from the community on these projects that are coming the next thing I think that we should also consider is different for and I'm gonna talk City about this too this is one of my wild ideas we look I I I be dreaming stuff.

The next thing I think that we should also consider is the from and I'm gonna talk to City about this too.

This is one of my wild ideas.

We look, I I'd be dreaming stuff.

Um I don't believe in us just using our Litech and other dollars just to build rental.

I think we build community by providing opportunities for housing for purchase.

And the products that are available through the governor's program and and our standard homeownership are not necessarily as helpful as they could be.

So a couple things, uh just educational points.

So housing is so the housing tax credits were expiring, so they are presenting at the I believe it's either at my July or August revenue meeting, and the housing coalition, which I believe Maurice Page is coming in front.

Um the AB 540, which was uh I I'm gonna call it the legislative and lombardo bill, because there were heavy amendments and added language into that bill from vetoed language that went into that bill from members.

Um there was buy down, but because it only focuses on essential workers, so it focuses on union police, fire, health care workers, other regular people fall out of it.

Um so it doesn't touch all folks that need assistance in terms of I believe it was 19 million that no, it was six million that went towards down payment assistance.

Um clearly the county has its land trust, which people may feel particular way about that.

Okay, I'm gonna keep my comments to myself.

Because I'm still wondering how people like on this 99 land lease, uh, although that is how you made it pencil, the county owns the land and it's and um if they own it for 99 years, uh I wasn't clear on how the land valuation works when your assessed value also includes the value of the land, which is then the property taxes being paid by the person who owns the house that's on the lease county land.

So it's my understanding that you guys are doing a proportional reduction.

Um, but I'm like, if I don't own the land, it shouldn't be a part of my property tax assessment, and it should be reduced significantly.

Actually, it should be zero.

Yeah, that was brought up in the uh one of the meetings that we had, but what we can do is um we're planning to host another community session, and um I'll make sure to let the members of this board know so she can be in attendance, especially as the city of Las Vegas looks to you know start their land trust.

Um, but Dagney is also I can also have her come before the board if need be, or we could just have a meeting so that she can explain all of those things.

Yeah, I think you can have best Brianna, while she's still in office to explain that part on how you guys are doing the proportional reduction and how and and speak to equity and how does that work?

Um I I I know that is this is a new concept for Las Vegas, but this has been done all over the country for many years.

So it is not a new concept, it's just new to us.

Um, but with the cost of housing rising much faster than people's income, um, I think we're gonna have to sort of open ourselves up to alternative uh possibilities that are not um that don't take advantage of people, but also give people an opportunity for for home ownership, and I think that uh the more we talk about it and the more we flush out these issues that people have concerns about, the more people will become more comfortable with the concept.

I support lower housing, I just don't support um if we're gonna do generational wealth, generational wealth should actually occur from that product, and so if you can if you know everything is fine-tuning, right?

Maybe the first run is X, maybe the second run is Y, right?

Meaning making sure that they're truly getting the equity that they deserve from the property.

Um, so there's generational wealth, and then also making sure that um that if you're going to do a property tax assessment on someone's property that they do not own the land, you have structurally and effectively dealt with that in statute, so that makes sense, um, and you're not ultimately creating a red line community in the future where they have no capacity to transfer property to someone else, right?

And that and that could be the outcome that these community land trusts are are are doing, and because you know, kudos on the creativity, um, because you guys county was the first to do it, county was the first to try to run that out, but ultimately those are some of the subsets that I think we need to be mindful of because our people are gonna move into those houses, and ultimately they should at least get the benefit of the generational wealth that we're trying to accumulate in the community because it's the single most powerful asset that a family can have in order to leverage their position economically.

So it's just it's just something to consider, and I and I can share, you know, because I I've already asked these questions to Brianna, uh, but I because I was just like, who pays it?

Um so just something to think about.

I mean, go forward, be creative, but just always think about the the back end of you know, yeah, transfer, redlining, what does that look like 99 years later when you're no longer at office?

And trying to have them safeguards in place because you won't be in office when they hit.

Sure won't.

So, and if Vegas is what Vegas does, uh it won't matter, right?

So don't don't pass on a fight to somebody else that they may need to mitigate now, right?

And you have the power to mitigate now.

So that's the only that's only just my two cents.

Um, but I think that's a the housing meeting is one to watch because talk about that there, we're also you know, if there's tweaks to expanding the housing language, I think that's the group.

I believe I'm carrying, so in that committee, they're gonna do a bill that I'm the revenue committee is gonna carry the credits, and then they're gonna use their their only BDR to do some other kind of expansion program and kind of deal with some other aspects of housing.

Um, so it might be of interest to tune into that meeting just because I'm focused on that, and I'm focused on making sure that the down payment assistance, the second that's on the house for 15, I believe in AB 540, it is on there forever.

It's not on there, they have to pay it back, so it's not in perpetuity, but they have to pay it back.

So if they do anything, pool uh landscaping and have to get a loan, they're the whoever there that's a third lien on the property, which typically most people will not take a third position, so that means that that also prevents them from doing any kind of um improvements to the property, right?

And that is what we learned with the neighborhood stabilization program in 07, 08, 09, which was don't lock people in to this kind of deal, and they cannot do any improvement on their house.

And then you gave them all that financial assistance, and now they're locked in and can't do a single thing to the property because they can't afford it.

And if I may, one of the things that I learned through this process was the second on the proc on the property has a higher interest rate than than the uh first.

I think it was like seven percent um or more, and and so that these are the kinds of programs that may be well intended, but are long term are detrimental to our communities, and if we're going to be serious about home ownership, these need to be grants, and they don't need to be a second loan.

It just it doesn't help because now we're putting people, I it's already an expensive undertaking, and now you're placing people in the position where they're at home ownership at 40 45 and 50% of their income, and and that is not helpful.

Sounds like housing is on our agenda.

Um Miss Brooks, do you have anything to add in this space?

No, I don't, but thank you.

Member Steele, Member Garcia, okay.

So we will move to new topics, which is well, so we'll close agenda item number seven, we'll move to uh discussion number eight, which is new topics for the future.

So you mentioned bringing in what was it, NHSSN on Jefferson?

Yes, Jefferson.

Okay.

So what else for new topic?

Who else do oh you said Southern Nevada Housing Authority?

I think we just keep it and we just theme it.

Okay.

So the Southern Nevada Housing Authority, but coming in talking about the workforce piece?

Yes.

And then you want presentations on your legislation on workforce, where it overlaps in a housing project.

I just think that it it it a review would be okay so that we know what they're doing.

Who is uh who is is like I said, it's been years.

Who's affected by this so that we can start to talk to folks about coming in and letting us know what they're working on so that we can connect them?

The whole purpose is that people know that what their requirement is, that they're that we see that they're meeting their requirement, and if they're not, we can offer help and assistance so that they can meet their goals, and so the goals become more than just you know a thought and and that they actually are reality.

So are you do you want them to come with data?

Because your bill's been in in effect for a minute.

Um so they should be able to, if they're following it, they should be able to have some data to present to this.

Okay.

So it's well, it's multiple.

So I'm not I I've got to look at the bill language to see if the folks in your project would fall under this.

I saw redevelopment area, but I gotta see if if that actually I need help from legal counsel so that we're clear on who's affected by this because I thought I was mostly targeting City of Las Vegas.

Um, but uh for City of Las Vegas Marble Manor falls under that, but they also have federal guidelines, so it would really just be um their modernization people sort of giving us an update on what they're seeing, and maybe we get an uh update on their flex program to see what kind of participation they're getting and learn about their um pre-apprentip and the other efforts they're making.

Okay, do you guys want the how housing coalition, Maurice Page, them to come in and talk about what they're pushing?

I mean, they're really just pushing for revenue, but they have things that they're working on that may intersect when is the next schedule meeting?

That's September, September.

Uh currently July 9th, same time, 3 30.

But we were gonna move the July 9th, or we were keeping it.

We could, we just haven't done anything with it yet.

Yeah, it's just because I just yeah, I just it's just because I don't know what I think we need a break.

So are we willing to obey the July 9th and then have our next or next was in August?

Uh September 10th.

September 10th, and have the September 10th meeting, and then we have a chance to get it all organized, and then we'll know what the landscape is, and then um but do we want the housing coalition or no?

Madam Chair, I defer to you to come up with a nice tight agenda that is going to uh stick to all the points that are around housing and workforce good for flex.

So if you want to you know work offline to come up with an agenda, um I certainly trust you.

Okay, well, for now we'll just keep the NH SSN, the Southern Nevada Housing Authority and their subcontractor on what they're doing, and then um I'll see if the housing coalition makes sense or if it doesn't.

Okay.

Because they're pushing a legislative and agenda.

Madam Chair, if I may, September might feel more comfortable, but the reality is that is when bill drafts for some of these folks need to be in.

So we probably, if we're gonna do any advocating for language for the things that we want, we probably want to meet in August.

So we have a July 9th meeting.

We don't have an August meeting.

So we would meet at July 9th, and then we would have that meeting.

So I can always do a placeholder for whatever the topic is.

Um, because I only have 10 in, I have 20.

Um, so there's room.

But what I can do is just do like, I mean, clearly the SNCC is one of the other bills, and then potentially two others.

Okay.

I can always I can put the placeholder in now.

It doesn't, and then the details can come later.

But if we want to meet July 9th and then September, and then we have August off, that's fine.

No.

All right.

So September.

So okay, so we're agreeing.

I'll put in the placeholders for you can just tell Brian or tell me what those placeholders are, and I'll just say, like, you know, SNCC agenda items.

Um, but I can at least hold on housing because I believe it's housing.

The SNCC bill will have the appropriation language in it.

I'll bring in the September meeting, I'll bring the 2025 version so you can see in September what was in it.

Um, we still will have plenty of time to like amend it and like add some additional language because they're not going to draft a single thing until November elections are over.

Now my stuff is getting done because I don't, but like we still have room.

Okay.

Yeah, okay.

So those so okay, so that's closing agenda item number eight with those two items for new topics, and now we move to agenda item number nine, which is citizen participation.

Do we have anybody here for public comment?

Seeing no one here for public comment, that uh is the end of our meeting, and we will adjourn the SNCC advisory committee board.