So good afternoon.

We will call this session of the historic preservation commission to order.

Our first item is roll call.

Thank you.

Chair Laramie here.

Vice Chair LeVine.

Commissioner Stoddle.

Present.

Order.

Our first item is roll call.

Commissioner Hotchkiss, excused.

Commissioner Serfaz.

Commissioner Cosgrove.

Commissioner Palacios.

Commissioner Moody.

Here.

Commissioner Purdue?

Yes.

Here.

Commissioner Grimmer.

Commissioner Harper.

Present on the phone.

Commissioner Siebrant.

Here.

Commissioner Gillespie.

Present.

Commissioner Perdue.

Here.

Commissioner Grimmer.

Yeah, I think Commissioner Stodal, could you mute yourself?

I think your audio is coming through the phone.

Commissioner Sebrett.

Commissioner Gillespie.

Sure.

Jeff.

Can you come out here?

I think Commissioner Stodal.

Could you mute yourself?

I think your audio is coming through the phone.

I am now I'm unmuted now.

I'm going to hit mute again.

Can you hear me?

We can hear you, yes.

Can you come out here?

Somebody else on the phone.

I am now I'm unmuted now.

I'm going to hit mute again.

Can you hear me?

We can hear you, yeah.

For the record, um, Commissioner Stodal and Commissioner Harper, will you please make sure that your phones are muted?

We get we're getting feedback.

Okay, let's try to move on and see what happens.

Um, item number two is our announcement regarding compliance with open meeting law.

Are we in compliance?

Yes, we are.

Okay, great.

Item number three is public comment.

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

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

The amount of discussion as well as the amount of time any single speaker is allowed, may be limited.

Do we have anyone from the public wishing to come forward?

Seeing no one, we will move on to item number four.

This is for possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the regular meeting of May 27th, 2026.

Do we have a motion to approve or any comments on our meeting minutes from May?

This Commissioner Cosgrove, I move that we approve.

Is your mic on?

This is Commissioner Cosgrove.

Um I move that we approve the meeting minutes from our last regular meeting, which was May 27, 2026.

We have a motion on the floor.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed.

That item passes with the chair voting in favor as well.

Item number five two six zero two eight two dash HPC one.

A report by Jay Dapper, principal of Dapper Companies regarding the status of the Hundredge Theater located at 1208 East Charleston Boulevard.

Uh seatman for the record.

Uh Chair Larmie, um, Mr.

Dapper sends his apologies.

He is not able to attend uh this meeting and has asked and staff is asking for an abeyance to our July 22nd meeting.

Okay.

Um it looks like we will need to take a motion to obey the item.

Um I'd also just like to um I guess recommend.

I know that we all have some questions on this board related to this item, some of which were expressed um as a future agenda item.

So if we do have any specific questions that we might have for staff or Mr.

Dapper at the upcoming presentation.

Um during our agenda item topic number 11.

Um, let's go ahead and put those questions on the record so that way staff um can be prepared with answers for our next meeting.

And and Chair Jim Lewis, if you would.

I would just remind the commissioners that item 11 is uh solely for the purposes of uh agenda items for next meeting, so please ask the questions you like us to take down.

But I would advise you that we can't have a bunch of discussion deliberation on the questions that we would like to talk about the next time.

Great.

Um other comments otherwise would look for a motion to obey this item.

What happens if we don't obey it?

And they're not here.

Well, I suppose there's a staff response and a legal response, so I'll start with the legal response.

Um it's a report.

There is no real action to be taken on the report at some point uh based upon the settlement agreement.

This board is gonna have to determine whether or not substantial progress is being made, and you will take the fact that he was not here into consideration.

Is that the both is that and illegal yeah?

Seth Floyd for the record.

I I don't have a whole lot to add to that.

I as Jim mentioned, it it is a report, and so it becomes I think it's becomes most important at the end of the year when you make that determination under the settlement agreement, and you wouldn't have any information from this meeting to consider if you heard it today and he wasn't here to provide a response.

Well, then I move to approve the uh abeyance.

Uh Jack Levine for the record.

Sorry.

We have a motion to obey the item before we take a vote.

Do we have any other comments?

Hearing none, all those in favor to obey, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed.

That motion carries with the chair also voting in favor.

Um for item number six.

I am actually going to need to excuse myself.

Um, I do have a conflict of interest with this item.

It is the home that I own.

Um, that the application is being um put forward for the commission.

So I will leave the room and vice chair Jack will um take over.

Thank you.

Should I wait until she's gone or should I just read it?

I can read it.

I can read it.

Okay.

Um item number six, uh 26-0283-HPC1 discussion for possible action regarding approval of a certificate of appropriateness application for the replacement of exterior walls and hardscape improvements on the property located at 556 Ellen Way.

That's in Ward 3.

Right.

Michael.

Hello.

I'm Michael Yunkin, representing the applicant at 556 Ellen Way.

Can I just continue?

Okay, very good.

I've uh lived with the applicant at the house since she purchased it in 2013, and we successfully participated in the efforts with Nevada Preservation Foundation to designate Beverly Green as a historic district.

Our home is listed as a contributing resource in the district, and we're working hard to keep it, keep and improve upon the historic integrity of it.

I'm here today to present the application for approval of a certificate of appropriateness for the replacement of exterior walls and hardscape improvements.

I believe you have uh more extensive photographs of that in supplemental materials.

Um that's basically caused by tree growth over the decades.

Removal and replacement of a concrete block trash enclosure, removal of existing wood and metal fences that are not historic, replacement and adding exterior access gates and replacing the concrete driveway and walkway.

This slide provides some examples of what's being replaced.

Both the east and west walls have extensive damage.

Significant portions of the concrete masonry unit walls need to be demolished and rebuilt.

The trash enclosure shown kind of in the center, is set back from the driveway and is not easily accessible.

We're proposing to demolish and rebuild just north of its historic location for improved functionality.

This will also allow us to open up the exterior courtyard space that's behind that wall on the other side of the trash cans with the breeze blocks above it.

That will create uh more yard space on the east side of the house.

The existing gate, that's the right hand picture, will be removed and replaced to better match the historic character of the house.

Uh, we don't know when that gate was added, but it is not historically appropriate, and it is um I don't believe up to code.

More examples of wall damage and the trash enclosure, as I said, are provided in your backup packet.

The proposed property line walls, some sections of the walls may be retained, but significant portions will need to be rebuilt.

Um the photograph here shows the largest section that doesn't need to be rebuilt, but uh every other part of that wall is in batch shape.

The walls will be rebuilt using six by four by sixteen block to match the existing historic construction, and we'll be using gray colored blocks as well as uh oh as well to color match as close as possible to what's existing.

You can see there that the wall was um made higher in the past with a different colored wall or different colored brick.

We'll be using the lower portions color, the gray.

We've worked.

We've worked with age.

I know you're not doing red meat, but I got you an in and out hamburger.

Excuse me, Commissioner Stodle, can you mute your phone?

We've worked with a contractor to create a design that matches other extended block walls in the Beverly Green district, and are proposing a tiered concrete block wall that gets lower in height as it approaches the street.

We'll also integrate salvage decorative breeze block from the trash enclosure into the wall, uh, which echoes the historic character of other block walls found in the neighborhood.

And the photograph there is of one of the many tiered block walls in the neighborhood that extend to the street.

And the drawing there is sort of a rendering of what we would like to do with the um historically accurate bricks and the uh reused breeze block.

As mentioned, we'd like to demolish the old trash enclosure and move it 15 feet to the north.

That's towards the street to open up the courtyard space on the east side of the house.

This would move the north wall of the enclosure in line with the front of the garage wall of the property.

So basically where those ugly landscaping bricks currently are on the left-hand side picture.

The star shape, the star-shaped concrete breeze blocks will be incorporated into the property line walls that extend out to the street, and new metal access gates will be added to both the east and west side of the property that mimic the design of the historic north facing trash enclosure wall.

And the center picture is there.

The picture on the right is the trash enclosure that exists now that we don't actually use because it has no door to move the trash cans out to the street.

But in demolishing it, we would be taking those breeze blocks and reusing.

Drive and walkways will also be replacing the concrete in the courtyard driveway and front walkway.

We'll remove the circular driveway that was added around 1978 to the front of the house.

And if you've seen other pictures, I believe there's one in the supplemental materials of that driveway.

So it was never actually completed, sadly.

We'll replace the concrete with a modern pattern that will match the soldier brick pattern found on the front of the house.

The picture there on the right of the green soldier bricks would be reflected in the driveway.

That photograph of a driveway is another driveway in the neighborhood that we would like to emulate, including the walkway up to the front porch.

And that house actually has the same floor plan as ours.

So the primary goals of our project are to improve site functionality without compromising the historic integrity of the property.

And thank you for considering the application today.

Are there any questions?

Anybody with anything?

Well, I I certainly haven't been to your house several times.

Jack Levine for the record.

And we know that once somebody does something in the front yard, somebody across the street or down the road, and you know, does something else, and it just helps to improve the neighborhood.

So I applaud that you're going to finally do this.

Oh, I remember uh Michelle mentioning this to me like years ago.

It was on the agenda.

Yes, it has finally got to the top of the list.

All right.

Um other comments.

Uh can I hear a motion for to approve?

Commissioner Surface, I'll make a motion to approve the request for a certificate of appropriateness based on the presentation we received this morning.

We need a second.

All in favor, say aye.

Aye.

All right.

The motion passes.

Thank you.

Okay, number seven, two six zero two eight four HPC one.

Okay, number seven, two six zero two eight four HPC one uh report by the community development department regarding the historic preservation commission's budget.

Thank you, CBREMT for the record.

So in the past we've done these by calendar years, but um SHIPO grants and um the city go by the fiscal years, so we from this uh time forward will be giving the budget report following the fiscal year.

So in summary, um in fiscal year 26, we began with a bounce of 244,584 and some odd sense.

Um of that we only spent 30 about almost 32,000 dollars.

Uh the number of projects and expenses for the 26 was eight, and the remaining bounce from uh remaining bounces are I'm sorry, that's for the grants that are still coming in.

Yeah, so we still have out not grants, but projects um there's still about 26,000 dollars outstanding that we still need to pay off.

Um, and then our remember we do get the uh money from the Centennial Commission.

So right now our beginning bounces 212,656 in some odd sense.

So certainly uh money for us to spend on on projects.

Uh these are the projects that were paid in 26.

As you could see, we have a lot of concentration on our conferences and memberships, which are of course very important for for this commission, and uh a couple of our surveys as well and Teresa did these wonderful graphs that show what the highest cost is of what we're spending on, and it is those conferences and training.

The next is the historic surveys reports and nominations, uh memberships are um third, and the lowest is our operational expenses.

So we have uh paid in 26 for the uh the awards um and remaining grant balances of what we still need to pay out of that original money, uh the 212,000 is this 26,000.

Um and with that we also have the upcoming forum, the the Johnny Toko's nomination, and the old Moran Ford update.

So the most important thing to keep in mind is that we have 212,656 dollars and seventy-six cents in order to do projects uh for the remainder of this fiscal year.

Um the active projects we have moving forward are um in 27 R3.

So any questions or do I need to go back to any of those slides?

Any questions from commissioners?

Um Jack Levine for the record, couple questions.

Is this money sitting in a bank account in our name, or is it just part of the city's budget that we draw in when we need it?

So the the uh C Brent for the record.

The way it works is it goes to it's in the city's budget, but we have a specific code that designates it as uh basically saved for HPC expenses.

So when we spend money, um Teresa and I work with uh the finance office to let them know this much amount of money needs to come out of this coding.

Okay, but it's not a separate account of ours.

Okay, it's an account within the city's.

Yeah, it's an account within the city, but it's designated for HPC.

So nobody can take our money, so okay, and this is not a use it or lose it type situation.

It's carries over from year to year.

Well, I mean, it's not use it or lose it, but I mean we do have the money, so we should be spending it for preservation projects.

So um we do have some that are coming up in the um coming meetings as we move forward in the year.

All right, thank you.

Commissioner Grimer for the record, yeah.

I just had a couple of questions similar to what what Jack just asked.

So the money doesn't at some point revert back.

No, it does not.

Um so my second question was with respect to the the Johnny Tokos.

There was a dollar amount there.

Since I'm relatively new to the commission, what is that gonna that's money that we're going to spend and what do we spend it on?

What okay?

So kind of how does that break down?

All right, so uh that's a great question, uh, CBREM for the record.

So for the Johnny Toko's um nomination, the National Register nomination, um we applied for a grant with SHIPO um through their uh the CLG program, and we were awarded 12,200 with um that SHIPO grant, but this commission also did approve an extra five thousand dollars for that project because these we do have to match those grants that we receive.

But this commission also did approve an extra five thousand dollars for that project because these we do have to match those grants that we receive.

So of that 17,200, we will be getting back the 12,200 from SHIPO after the project is completed.

Okay, and what we what we do or rather staff does at this point is now you engage in the all of the research in the background in order to determine its uh eligibility for designation.

Um no, I'm sorry, I omitted that part.

My apologies.

Uh we hire um a culture resource management firm to do the work for us.

So um it's it will be CATS Environmental that will be doing this project.

Um right now the the grant is with SHIPO, they need to sign it and send it back to me, and we can't start the work until we get that back.

Thank you.

Anything else?

Um Commissioner Laramie, I did have a question.

So just as we think about the budget moving forward, um, knowing that we do have quite a bit that we could spend to support other projects.

What um is kind of a realistic number of projects that we could support both financially and through staff capacity over the next you know fiscal year or so.

Thank you for adding staff capacity because I mean we can try and handle as many um jobs as we as you want to give us, um, but they do require time, obviously.

Um and to give you a rough estimate, uh most of the um nominations we do or the survey reports we do, they're anywhere between like that 15,000 to sometimes up to 40,000 dollars.

So depending on what project we're looking at.

We do have the Floyd Lamb Park signs coming up, all that'll be at our next meeting, so that will be some a little bit of money.

Um, but if we can probably take on maybe three more projects as we move forward, okay, great.

Um, any other questions from commissioners?

Anyone anything from our commissioners on the phone?

Okay, do we need is this a this is just a report, correct?

Okay, great.

Um we will move on then to item number eight, I believe, which is a report by the community development department regarding directors' updates.

Thank you, Madam Chair Seth Floyd for the record.

Um I do not have any specific updates for you today.

Thank you, but I'm happy to answer any questions if you have them.

Okay, do we have any questions or comments from commissioners that would be appropriate under this item for Seth Commissioners on the phone?

Okay, we will move on then to item number nine, a report by the community development department regarding the project update list.

Okay, thank you.

Seabrant for the record.

Um so as I mentioned, some of these um the the projects.

Um the old Mormon Ford, as you recall the National Park Service required some um further edits specifically for the archaeological criteria.

Um those were completed by CATS Environmental.

They sent them back to me and they sent them to SHIPO.

Uh SHIPO's reading them over now.

Um I did share those with Nathan uh Harper, who is our HPC archaeologist, and he said that it looked good and that they covered everything they should should have covered.

So soon as SHIPO gives their handoff, they'll give it to the National Park Service, and then we should have the update uh official officially approved.

Uh the Johnny Toko's gym, as I said, the the grant is with SHIPO soon as they um sign that CATS will start the the the project of doing the the research and the documentation for the gym.

Floyd Land Park at Thule Springs, the information signs.

I've been working with Cultural Affairs, um, Parks and Rec and Public Works, and we will have the proposal in front of you for the amount of those signs at our July meeting, but this is going to be several of all those departments will be working together.

So the HPC will not have to pay for all the expenses associated with installing those signs.

We're going to be paying for the research to do the narratives and the photographs and make sure that they're accurate.

For the camp training, we do, I know we have the final numbers for the state camp and the local camp.

And Commissioner Harper, on the if you're still on the phone, I did just want to point out that the Springs Preserve did receive a $90 million grant from Conserve Nevada program for an immersive exhibit focused on the Colorado River.

And we think that's absolutely wonderful that they received this funding and are able to make it so that it does help preserve the history of Las Vegas.

Commissioner Harper, did you have anything to add on that?

Commissioner Harper for the record.

No, there's been a dedicated team working on the planning for these uh improvements there at the Springs Preserve, and uh it's going really well, and I think they're looking forward to moving that project forward.

Okay, thank you.

So I'm happy to answer your questions if there are any uh Jack LeBine for the record.

Uh was there a date established yet for the uh the local or the state camp?

So the C bring for the record, the state camp is September 25th, nope, 24 and 25, and so we have to go back and look at dates for the the local camp.

So we'll have to poll you again of of a availability.

Okay, so we do have one more item on our agenda on uh for our updates.

I'm not sure if everybody is aware, but uh Commissioner Hollis Gillespie is uh retiring, and she's not only retiring from the museum, she's retiring from our board, and just wanted to say that uh she joined us in 2021.

Um I don't recall you ever missing a meeting.

You have been uh a solid presence at our meetings, but also at our conferences.

Um we've appreciated all your insight and your guidance on museum uh projects, um helping us understand some things that are not our specialty.

Um you've been very dedicated to to this um board.

Uh we will miss you, but we also do um wish you well in your retirement and what happens after that.

And I wanted to give uh director Floyd the moment to also um say something.

Yeah, thanks, Diane.

And I so I've I've been on and off with this board since about 2017 or maybe early 2018.

So you've been a part of this board for almost my entire time uh with it.

And I think one of the there's a lot of different ways to participate in a board.

You can be like me and I talk a lot.

Um, but I think what makes a true expert is that even when you don't talk a lot when you do, everybody listens, and I can remember all of the input that you've given over the years has been valuable.

Your colleagues have listened, and it's all helped us move this board forward.

So I appreciate your service.

Your shoes are gonna be really tough to fill, but I appreciate all you've done over the last few years.

And we do have one last surprise for you if you want to turn around.

We have a certificate of appreciation, some flowers, and a thank you card.

Um, and would you please join me in giving Hollis a hand for her contributions?

Here, here much.

This has been a highlight of my time here, and it does say certificate of appropriateness, just so you know.

Thank you very much.

I've enjoyed it.

Is she serious?

No.

Okay, and that's all we had, unless you had something else.

Oh, actually, I should give Teresa a Mike a chance.

Did you have anything to say for um to Hollis?

Um, thank you for all of your hard work.

Um, it's been a pleasure um to travel with you to the conferences, everything that we've learned and gonna miss you.

And just to echo nice things.

Um, it's always it's a pleasure when we have a great board, but having esteemed historians helps.

Um I'd also like to just offer the chance for anybody on the commission to say a few words if they'd like.

Um, as chair, I'd also just like to express similar feelings that have already been shared.

Um, I've especially enjoyed getting to know you over the conferences.

You will be very missed on this board, and who knows, maybe an opportunity will come up in the future for you to rejoin in some other capacity.

Just putting that out there.

Thank you very much.

I would have to leave Henderson, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Do any other commissioners wish to share anything about our fellow Commissioner Gillespie or have questions about the report that we received from Diane?

Commissioners on the phone.

I just want to thank Hollis for being a great neighbor at the Springs Preserve.

And when that museum is working well, the whole property is working well.

So thank you for all your efforts.

Great, thank you.

Um six-0285-HPC1, a report by the community development department regarding historic and archaeological resources in local media.

As always, this has just been provided to us for our information, a collection of different article links and media sources that have come out over the past month.

Anyone have any comments or questions as they reviewed this material?

Okay then.

Moving on to item number 11.

This is discussion regarding topics for future agenda items.

Comments made during this portion of the agenda by individual members shall refer solely to proposals for future agenda items, and any discussion shall be limited to whether or not such proposed items are within the purview of the commission and or whether such proposed items shall be placed on a future agenda.

No discussion regarding the substance of any such proposed topic shall occur, and no action shall be taken.

If there's any specific kind of questions or concerns you have that you would like staff to be able to help answer at our next presentation for the Hunter, let's go ahead and put those on to put those on the record now, please.

Commissioner Purdue, I would like to know how much money the city has given to the project total.

It was two meetings ago, actually, when we were so blindsided by the uh the DAPR's announcement of the desire to put this in a nonprofit situation.

Um what was discussed with the city before it was presented to us as a board?

That's what I want to know.

Um Commissioner Laramie, I'd also like to better understand the role of the cultural resources report in this um, I guess proposal that Dapper's providing and how that is potentially influencing both, you know, I guess the proposal overall and potentially the city's decision-making process in that.

Um, and it would be helpful to also just have a better understanding of the process the city will be going through when they're making a decision on whether or not to accept this proposal.

Do either commissioners on the phone have questions?

Commissioner Harper, I would have a question about the use of the parking lot for staging for construction in that area and how long that's going to be ongoing and if there are any impacts to the structure from those activities.

Okay, if there's no other questions for that, um, we will continue on with this agenda item and just open it up to other um topics that you're interested in seeing on future agenda items.

Are there any other suggestions for staff today?

Commissioner Laramie, I do have one suggestion, and that's to as following up on the budget conversation to have a discussion regarding potential projects for the next fiscal year that we're interested in.

Um and if possible, allowing that to be a action item so that we can vote on moving some stuff forward coming out of that discussion.

Do our commissioners on the phone have anything to add.

Okay, looks like we are moving on then to item number 12, citizens' participation.

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

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

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

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

Do we have anybody from the public?

Seeing that no one is here, we will go ahead and adjourn our meeting today.

Thank you.

Thank you.