The June 26th recommending meeting is now called to order.

City Clerk, are we in compliance with the open meeting law?

You are, and you do have quorum.

Oh, thank you.

So uh knowing this, we'll move on to item number three.

And these are announcements regarding um no, actually, it's our first public comment period.

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

If you wish to be heard, come forward.

Give your name for the record and the amount of discussion as well as the amount of time any speaking single speaker is allowed, may be limited.

Is there anyone wishing to be heard at this time?

Seeing so many people rush to the podium for public comment.

We're gonna close this portion and move on to item four.

Agenda item number four for possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the May 18th, 2026 recommending committee meeting.

Is there a motion for approval?

I'll make a motion to approve.

Okay, so let's go ahead and um vote on that motion.

Motion carries unanimously.

Let's move on to agenda item five.

Agenda item five, bill number 2026-22 for possible action.

Grants to light source communications LLC, a non-exclusive franchise for the purpose of installing, operating, and maintaining within the city communications services, including broadband internet service, broadband infrastructure access, and or telecommunications services, subject to and in accordance with the terms and conditions of the franchise agreement incorporated by reference into this ordinance.

Proposed by Mike Jansen, city manager.

Good morning, madam chairman and members of the recommending committee.

As you stated, madam chairman, bill number 2026-22 will allow uh light source communications to be granted a franchise to perform all of those things that you mentioned related to a communications franchise.

Um just to recap, the franchise is for a term of one year with a possible additional one-year extension, and it provides that light source communications will pay to the city two percent of its broadband gross revenues and five percent of its telecommunications gross revenues, if any, as a franchise fee to the city.

Um as you know, the city's charter requires that communication services franchises be granted by ordinance as required by our charter through a multi-step process.

The resolution setting a public hearing and including a copy of the franchise agreement was adopted at the May 20th City Council meeting.

The resolution was published twice by the city clerk on May 22nd and May 28th, and the required public hearing was held during the June 3rd City Council meeting.

There were no comments from the public at that time, and therefore everything is in order.

The ordinance is eligible for adoption at the July 1st City Council meeting, and staff recommends adoption of the ordinance.

With that, I'm happy to take any questions.

We do have a representative of light source here.

Should uh you wish to speak with him.

Thank you, Ms.

Uh, this is a public hearing, which I now declare open.

Is there anyone wishing to be heard?

There's no one.

Are there any questions from the recommending committee for Ms.

Bishop or for Light Source since they have a representative here?

I'm not seeing any.

Um seeing none, I will close the public hearing.

Is there a motion?

I'll move to um approve the item for uh yes, move to approve the item.

All right, we have a motion to approve agenda item five.

Please vote.

And it the motion carries unanimously.

Congratulations to Light Source, and again, just to reiterate, it will be eligible for adoption at City Council meeting July 1st.

There's gonna be a hap a lot of happenings on that meeting.

All right, we're gonna move on to agenda item number six, bill number 2026-23 for possible action, revises the current income levels required to be eligible for a public utility refund pursuant to LVMC 6.67.120, ties the eligibility requirements to the U.S.

Department of Health and Human Services Federal Poverty Guidelines and allows the Department of Finance to extend the filing date for applications for such refunds.

This is being proposed by Gail Lloyd Likos, Director of Finance.

Miss Lloyd Likos is not here.

So we have Miss Heltsley and Hi, I'm Tiva Partisukal.

Um right, ladies.

Good morning, recommend members of the recommended committee.

Susan Heltsley, Chief Financial Officer, along with TAPA for the record.

And we are here in support of this bill.

Basically, what we are doing is updating the federal uh poverty guidelines.

So this bill would be completely in sync with that as they as they go up every year, they would automatically go up, so we would not have to keep coming back to this committee to revise the bill.

Just as an FYI, these were last adjusted in 1996.

So the current federal the current guidelines in our bill is what 18,000 dollars?

18,900 for a part for a family of two, and they would be going up to 31,000.

31,000 for a family of two.

So it's it's long awaited and very well needed.

So this would give permission for us to go ahead and raise those rates, and it also would allow finance to extend the deadline to apply.

The deadline, I believe, was expired, I think in March, and and this would extend it for a few more months so people could have outreach and be able to go go ahead and apply for those utility refunds, and those are for uh electrical, sewer, and gas, I believe.

Anything else?

Um, we also do telephone landlines.

Telephone landlines.

So it's it's very very well needed.

People still have telephone landlines.

People do.

That's a great question.

Okay, there's a couple lands.

Provider of last resort.

Okay, there we go.

All right.

This is a public um any other information.

Sorry, I don't know.

All right.

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

Is there anyone wishing to be heard on this matter?

Okay, no one seeing none.

I will close the public hearing.

Are there any questions from recommending?

I do see one here from councilwoman Bruni, and then after her questions, we'll go to councilwoman Kelly.

Thank you.

This question might be more for Taba.

Do you know how many people have uh participated in the program thus far?

And then do you have a flyer that we could put in our newsletter?

And it sounds like you said the program would be open a couple more months, but if you have a specific deadline that would be helpful, and we can help push it out.

Yeah, thank you so much.

Those are great questions.

So when we initially started this program, the the for this weekend date back, we used to do over 400 refunds a year.

This past year we only had 60 because we didn't have enough room for people to apply.

So we're excited to reopen this.

We haven't set up a new window yet, but we're hoping to do another time frame later this fall for people to qualify for last year.

So it's always in arrears, so it's for the calendar year.

Um, so once we get a flyer made for that, I'll happily send it to you.

I do have uh the flyer from this past period, though.

If you want to just get some general information about where to go and how to apply.

Thank you.

Councilwoman Kelly.

Thank you, madam chair.

Good morning.

Pardon me.

I'd like to follow up on the councilwoman's point.

Um, is there a plan by communications to really be you know roll this out in a big way so that we are maximizing the number of people who can uh who can know and qualify?

I mean, the fact that it's 60, you know, is I mean going up to 36,000 is terrific, except it's also terribly sad.

Um, so and and one of my concerns would be uh, and I'm not trying to I know that you're not in charge necessarily of the rule out, but to nitpick your timing when you said sometimes this sometime this fall, which I know is technically four months away, but um in this bracket, uh every dollar someone can get back now helps pay for food, bills, rent, so so very important if they didn't qualify before.

So I would encourage us to move as swiftly as possible.

Do we know if if communications has a roll out plan?

I don't know of a specific roll out plan yet, but we did speak to them at the last um meeting.

So they are aware and want to get some things rolling for that, and then I know that a lot of the communications are posted at the um community centers.

That's usually where people apply and register, especially where um most of the seniors attend.

They have a lot of flyers there.

Uh um I know that we did it for two months earlier on this year, but I think we do plan to get it rolling as soon as possible for as long as possible to get qualified qualified applicants for last year.

Okay, well, perhaps um we could talk.

We, whoever that general we is talk to communications and and um have them um share with us or some of their thoughts or at least do a plan.

And then the other thing I just want to make sure is um that we're doing also train if if at the community centers is a place where a lot of people uh file for these this refund, that we're doing the right training of everybody.

So there's not only and and again, this I know is less about directly to what you're gonna be doing, but I want to just say that we we want to make sure if it hasn't been changed since 1990, and so people aren't gonna even know they're qualified, that we're proactive in saying, hey, there's a there's there's a new benefit that you might be qualified for, and doing that as much as we can to try to reach as many people as possible.

And I know that councilwoman Diaz, I'm sure, as well as council woman, all the council women and men um or in man um have their own ways too, which we'll also be doing, but I think that this is uh this deserves an extra push by us.

Thank you very much.

Thank you so much.

Councilwoman Bruni.

Sorry, one additional question.

Is there a set um a specific amount set aside for this program so that if we open it up again and we have you know a thousand people apply?

Like, is there a cap or a limit to how much money's been set aside for this program?

So, as far as being set aside that I'm not aware of, but we do have a limit to what we rebate.

So it's depending on what they qualify for, for example, uh for sewer, we do a 20% rebate for what they paid last year.

As far as um gas, electric, and telecom, we actually only rebate the local taxes for that.

So it's just a small amount of their bill, but it is a little bit anything that helps.

All right, thank you, ladies.

Um, seeing uh that we've asked all of our questions and um we're excited to finally update these numbers from 1996.

That's 30 years.

Holy holy.

Um, is there a motion?

I'll make the motion to approve.

All right, let's vote on the motion post.

And that motion carries, and for those of us following this agenda item, it will be eligible for adoption at the July 1st, 2026 City Council meeting.

Thank you, ladies.

Thank you very much.

We'll move on to agenda item seven, bill number 2026-24 for possible action, amends LVMC 19.06, 19.12, and 19.18 related to accessory dwelling units within residential zoning districts, including changes to development standards, permitted land uses, and conditional use regulations to conform with assembly bill 396 of the 83rd session of the Nevada Legislature 2025, proposed by Seth T.

Floyd, executive director of community development.

Mr.

Floyd.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Uh Peter is gonna take this one.

Mr.

Lowenstein.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Thank you, Madam Chair Peter Lowenstein for the record.

So as you mentioned, the bill before you is in response to assembly bill 396 of the 2025 legislative cycle.

The bill will bring the city's Las Vegas zoning ordinance into conformance with the state statutes by except uh allowing accessory dwelling units are now allowed in all residential zoning districts.

There is no minimum lot size required previously, the required minimum size was 6500 square feet for accessory dwelling unit with a kitchen.

Second kitchens are now allowed without a special use permit.

Uh accessory dwelling units are now allowed to be attached to the primary residence but no interior access.

Previously, interior access or six foot separation was required.

Um and only one ADU is allowed per lot.

So you have your primary residence and one accessory dwelling unit.

Well that being said, staff request the committee's recommendation of approval of the bill.

Thank you.

All right, this is a public hearing, which I now declare open.

Is there anyone wishing to be heard?

Seeing none, I will close a public hearing.

Are there any questions from the committee?

Councilwoman Bruni.

Thank you.

I was just wondering, are we the first jurisdiction to come in to alignment or compliance with the state law or have other jurisdictions acted more quickly?

And if they have, have we already seen that the number of ADU units has ADUs have increased in those areas?

Okay, Madam Chair.

So other jurisdictions have taken action on their zoning codes to address the assembly bill.

The amount of time that it's been since they've addressed it is not adequate enough to get a feeling for is there a windfall of accessory dwelling units coming into the city.

Uh historically, our numbers have been fairly low for ones that had a kitchen, because those would require a use permit.

So now that may be a limited, but um we've still had historically a lower numbers on ADUs.

This just uh reduces some of the previous barriers that may have stopped somebody from looking for an accessory dwelling unit with a kitchen, but we had provisions for accessory dwelling units on the books already.

So thank you.

Any other questions?

Mr.

Loinstein, I do have one.

What does what happens?

I guess with the accessory dwelling units that we still have that went the unpermitted route.

Um how does this change to our ordinances potentially like either facilitate, hinder, or complicate or or make it easier for them to then now get their ADU basically uh in check and blessed by us?

So unpermitted work still requires building permits.

So in this particular case, because a special use permit for a particular kitchen, if they had a secondary kitchen, um, they wouldn't need to get the use permit, so it lowers the barrier there.

However, if they're failing to meet the setbacks and things like that, that are those are still considerations that would be done as a zoning review through the permit process.

And if they fail to meet those requirements, there's still a variance may still be needed at that point.

Um so in totality, I think it would make it easier for some of the unpermitted work to be permitted and then uh moved on.

Because I know a lot of my folks in my district basically just set one up and then come back and be like, oh, we needed building permits.

So we're like, yes, you did.

Um the other question is if you have an accessory dwelling unit that is like this casita.

Um, am I able to have another one that's my shed?

Uh as an accessory dwelling unit, it's for habitable space.

So you could have an accessory structure on your lot.

You can have a number of them in addition to an accessory dwelling unit.

All right, those are all my questions.

Seeing no further questions, is there a motion?

I'll make a motion to approve bill number two zero two six-24.

There is a motion.

Let's vote on the motion.

Post.

And motion carries.

That one will be also on our July 1st um 2026 city council meeting for adoption.

We're moving on to agenda item eight.

Bill number 2026-25 for possible action, adopts that certain document entitled Second Amendment to Development Agreement for the Summerlin West Area between the City of Las Vegas and the Howard Hughes Corporation regarding the development of the Summerlin West area, sponsored by Councilwoman Kara Kelly, who's on the recommended committee today.

Is this Mr.

Floyd or Mr.

Loinstein?

Uh thank you, Madam Chair.

So Seth Floyd, for the record, you have seen this one before.

Um it's been to see it's been to City Council in the development agreement form.

And I'm not sure if Peter has a staff report, but I know Miss Groenauer is also here to answer any questions that you have.

Well, we'll take the staff report from Mr.

Lowenstein and then we'll hear from Ms.

Grownauer.

Good morning and welcome.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Uh, the bill before you is the next step in the ministerial process in which adopts the amendment to a development agreement pursuant to Nevada revised statutes 278.

The this bill seeks to ratify the approved second amendment of the Summerlin West Development Agreement that was approved at City Council on June 3rd of this year as an ordinance.

Staff therefore request the committee's recommendation of approval of the bill.

I was happy to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Loinstein.

Ms.

Grohnauer.

Good morning, Madam Chair, members of the committee.

Stephanie Gronauer 1980 Festival Plaza Drive here on behalf of the applicant, Howard Hughes.

Happy to answer any questions.

I know you've already seen this and approved it, which we very much appreciate at City Council.

So we're here in support of this bill and happy to answer any questions.

I know that most of us got briefed one on one by you on this, so really appreciate your diligence in educating us.

But any other questions from the recommending committee?

A comment from Councilman Kell Kara Kelly.

Thank you, madam chair.

I want to uh this is really a terrific example of what happens with public private partnerships that I'm a big believer in, and I want to, in particular, herald the work of Peter Wowenstein, uh, who uh not only he's a man, I mean I think that when he gets out of a car, there's like 12 of him that get out of a car because I I'm always astounded at the amount of work that he does.

But in this particular um, and the reason I want to say this on the record is you know, Summerwin and the Howard Hust Corporation don't just get what they want.

And it's and I don't mean to say that to suggest that they wanted something that they shouldn't have.

They're an important part of our community.

Summerwinds become more of a destination as a name than a description of a master plan community, and um, so there's been lots of um, there has been a ton of conversation that has happened, many, many work hours, both on the Howard Hughes Corporation's part.

I know um Mrs.

Grownauer, your part as well, and your Howard Hughes team, and also our team uh under CES leadership, but certainly driven by Peter.

Uh, I I really appreciate everyone's cooperation and diligence is at arriving at an agreement that really works for both sides, and I appreciate that uh perspective.

I think I want to say when we look at other opportunities when we can when we can work with the private sector in a way it doesn't always have to be a mutually exclusive win, it can always be a win-win, and we just have to find a way to make that work.

And I'm very, very proud uh of this agreement.

Thank you.

And with that, I'll make a motion to approve.

Before you make the motion, though, I don't think I went to the public hearing component, did I?

I don't think so.

So I'm just gonna make sure that I follow the formalities and um this is a public hearing which I now declare open.

Is there anyone wishing to be heard?

And seeing none, now I close that public hearing component, and now I will take a motion.

Thank you, madam chairwoman.

I apologize for moving uh and before the process.

Uh, thank you.

I uh move to approve bill number 2026-25.

All right, let's vote on the motion.

Post and the motion carries unanimously.

Thank you for being here, Miss Grownauer.

Thanks.

Have a great day.

And that will also be um on not on the July 1st, but on no, it was already, it's in reverse.

We're doing things a little bit different.

We already did it, we already blessed it through city council.

And is this the final hurdle?

Mr.

Floyd, because I don't remember a lot of like coming to council before recommending.

Yeah, madam chair, Seth Floyd for the record.

So this is the ordinance that will then get approved by city council, and then that is the last step.

But did we already approve it on the June 17th meeting?

You approve the development agreement itself.

So it's got it's got two parts, and sometimes they track together, and then sometimes they get uh separated when we're moving it along quickly.

So the DA you did approve, and this is the the follow-along ordinance.

All right.

Okay, a little confused because it just says eligible for adoption and it's already on a date passed, but it doesn't give me a future date.

So just want to make sure I was understanding.

I think it's it's scheduled for June 17th, yes.

I was gonna say it should be the next city council.

Okay, yeah.

So it's coming up this week.

This week, yeah.

I'm confused.

I'm thinking I'm in July.

Thank you.

All right, we want to be at the July 4th fireworks display already.

All right, thank you for hanging with me.

My brain's just a little fried.

Um, let's go on to agenda item number nine.

Um, it's citizen participation.

Public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters within the jurisdiction of the recommending committee.

No subject may be acted upon by the recommending committee unless that subject is on the agenda and is scheduled for action.

If you wish to be heard, come to the podium, give your name and uh the amount of the discussion.

Any single subject is given.

Um may be limited.

Are there any folks?

Seeing none, um this recommending committee meeting is adjourned.