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Good morning.

The July 15th, 2026 meeting of the city council will be called to order.

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Before we proceed with the meeting, would everyone please rise for the invocation given by Reverend Wonder Floyd?

And I ask you to remain standing as she leads us in the pledge as well.

Welcome.

Let us pray.

We recognize that this council has been entrusted with a sacred responsibility to serve the people of this great city.

As they gather today, grant wisdom for every decision, courage for every difficult conversation, and compassion for every person whose life will be touched by the work done here today.

Help them to remember that behind every agenda item, every policy and every vote are real people with real hopes, real struggles, and real dreams.

May they use whatever influence they have to lift others up, to seek justice, to protect the vulnerable, and to ensure that every person is treated with dignity and respect.

May the work accomplished here today help build a Las Vegas where people have the opportunity not only to survive but to flourish.

We offer this prayer in the name of love and all that is holy and in the name of Jesus Christ.

Amen.

Please join me now in a pledge of allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the United States of America.

Thank you so much.

We will now proceed with the ceremonials.

Thank you very much.

Okay.

We won't start without you, don't worry.

Good morning, everybody.

Uh, this is the ceremonial portion of our agenda, our council agenda.

And for the first item, I want to invite our director of youth development and social initiatives, Dr.

Tammy Malish to join us.

Our employees strive to meet our values of being kind, committed, and smart, and they work to build our community to make life better.

I am proud to announce that the employee of the month is Candace Camarello.

Uh, Candace, please join us.

Congratulations.

All right, now you got over there.

In addition to being a hugger, Candace.

Candace is a uh management analyst and has been with the city since 2016.

She is always willing to provide support and assistance.

Most recently, Candace helped our safe key committee members create a more efficient, effective, and organized planning process for their annual mid-year training.

This training supports more than 300 part-time staff members.

Candace also recently helped a community partner, UNLV, when the school was having challenges with getting their practical practicum students approved to begin providing mental health services at five elementary schools.

Thanks to Candace's knowledge, understanding, and contacts at the school district, she was able to ensure that all the agencies involved were working together.

Candace goes out of her way to provide additional help to anyone in need.

Candace, thank you for everything you do.

You are an incredible representative of the city.

And now I'd uh like to invite Tammy up and have a chance to say a few words, then we'll hear from Candace, and then we'll take a couple of photos.

Dr.

Malic.

There you are.

Yes, thank you, Mayor.

So, Candace, as the mayor said, is the definition of team player.

Candace always steps up to help no matter which department in the city, no matter which partner outside of the city, or which team member within YDSI.

When I arrived at the city, Candace supported our reInvent Schools Las Vegas program and supported all of that work.

And she was an American supervisor, and her I was taken aback by her ability to mentor, coach, and guide our young AmeriCorps members.

She poured into them and invested in them, and many of them have gone on to full-time careers in the city and outside of the city.

She built our Strong Future Technology Training Center.

She literally built the computers within the facility that allows us to do, I think most of our council members have seen the work that goes on, and every council member has constituents that attend.

And then she helped Parks and Recreation and Cultural Affairs build their Pecker Tech Park because she's that person.

We quickly were able to promote Candace, and now she leads our AmeriCorps and AmeriCorps Vista programs.

She has exceeded standards in every area for AmeriCorps and through Nevada volunteers.

She has exceeded all of our metrics.

She has fully recruited, and she's done it with clean audits every single time.

And if you don't know about federal money, um, it's not easy to get clean audits.

And so Candace, and then as the mayor mentioned, she supported UNLV with our exhale program, getting our undergrad mental health students into CCSDs.

So Candace is just such a great human being.

I'm honored and privileged to work with her.

And shout out to Candace's family and extended family for being here to support her.

Thank you.

Oh, I tested it on somebody yesterday and it made her cry.

So I think I did okay.

Thank you very much to my family who's all here.

Um, sorry my dad couldn't make it, but he'll watch this later.

And someone laughs.

Um, and to our YDSI family, Dr.

Malic, we have such an awesome team, don't we?

So, right over here to our YDSI family.

Thank you.

I'm so grateful to be recognized with the city's employee of the month.

I've been with the city almost 10 years, and without a doubt, this has been the hardest year, but also the most rewarding.

For those of you who don't know, I serve as the AmeriCorps program director out of the Department of Youth Development and Social Initiatives.

Just over, yeah, that's Charles.

Just over a year ago, our AmeriCorps program was abruptly terminated with a single 8 a.m.

email.

More than 40 of our service members lost their positions and our community law services we promised to provide.

This was undeniably the hardest day I've ever experienced during my time with the city.

But that experience changed me.

I grew.

It challenged me to become smarter, to work harder, and be relentless in finding solutions.

What never changed was why I do this work.

I continue to care deeply about our members and the community that we serve, and I fought for every one of them.

Because of that effort and a whole lot of teamwork, we were able to reinstate our program, and every member ultimately got what they deserved and earned.

Receiving this recognition is incredibly meaningful to me because it reminds me that perseverance matters, that service matters, and that leading with compassion matters.

It affirms that I'm walking in my purpose, and it reminds me that even during the hardest time, the work hardest times, the work is worth it.

Thank you to my leadership, my teammates, and everyone who believes in our program and supported us through one of our toughest moments.

This recognition may have my name on it, but it reflects the resilience, teamwork, and heart of so many people.

I wanted to accept it, and I'm excited to keep serving the city of Las Vegas alongside all of you.

Thank you.

For our final item, I have the pleasure of recognizing a true superstar in our community, Judy Perez Siegel.

Uh Judy, would you please join us at the podium?

Oh, we need.

Okay.

All right.

Um Judy is a very longtime friend to me, uh, not only to me, but to our entire community.

She moved to Las Vegas in two thousand and four.

I remember that very, very well, uh, where she managed the day-to-day operations of a fast growing multi-residential real estate portfolio.

Now she runs a diverse collection of properties, such as the multifamily units, hotels, reach I was uh I was hoping uh uh land developments across multiple states.

She currently oversees all the philanthropic and governmental affairs for the company and serves as a liaison between local the local government community and nonprofit organizations.

She also serves on the Nevada Commission for Tourism and is an advocate, a strong advocate for Las Vegas.

In addition to that, she loves creating smiles with her fun and whimsical pink bog donuts brand.

Um, one of my personal favorites on Sundays you could find her at Siegel's Bagel Mania, greeting customers and serving them bagels and deli scoops at their tables.

Uh Judy, before I s uh uh before I go on, I just want to say in a very personal way how much I love and admire you.

What an extraordinary impact you have made on this community and what a role wonderful role model, not only to the rest of your fellow citizens, but to your children as well.

And so I'm just delighted to see him.

I usually see him at Bagelania on Sundays.

Um I want to thank you for everything you do, and I also understand that you're now in charge of the library reach out in Ward Two.

Very cool.

So we appreciate that as well.

And so I thank you um for everything you do to make our city a better place.

And uh lo I'd love to give you a chance to say a few words.

Uh then I'm going to present a proclamation to you, and then we'll take pictures and perhaps you'll invite the rest of your family to come down and join us for pictures.

Is that okay, rest of your family?

Okay.

Judy, would you say a few words?

I I know you don't love doing that, but I appreciate it if you did.

Mayor, thank you so much.

City council, thank you so much.

Um, my two boys that are here, Jackson and Nixon.

Thank you for coming, letting me wake you up so early in the morning.

Uh, you're in summer and uh you were you were on board to come and see mommy.

Thank you guys.

I truly wouldn't be standing up here if it wasn't for every single one of you guys and the partnership that you have created with us with the city of Las Vegas.

So thank you for your commitment, your dedication.

It truly doesn't go unnoticed.

Um I know this award probably says my name on it, but really it's it should say all of our names on it because we could do that.

Yeah.

Because I wouldn't be able to do anything without you guys.

You guys are always answering your phones.

Uh at all hours of the night and day and your text messages, the millions I send out all the time asking questions.

And I can probably stand here and say a great story about every single one of you and how you impact the community.

I have a really quick story to share though about that guy over there, uh, Peter Lowenstein.

Um we were new to Las Vegas, and he was a baby planner, and uh Peter would help me with uh banners and permits, and he would give me such a hard time.

But you made me learn a lot, Peter.

Thank you so much for all of the uh everything that you taught me, and every every note that you told me that just made me get stronger to come back again and again.

So thank you.

Thank you again.

So quiero solo quiero dar las gracias in Espanol Pamian.

Muchas gracias for todo lo que usen, porque seen el apoyo de ustedes, no pose possible que yo stoy aquí.

So gracias, gracias a mis niños.

Okay.

All right.

Come on down.

All right.

Now you're talking.

Hi.

Um, Judy, uh, one of the things I love most about my job is being able to present proclamations to truly worthy people in this community.

I'm not gonna read the whole thing, uh, but I will say this.

I Shelley Berkeley, mayor of the city of Las Vegas, do hereby proclaim uh July 15th, 2026 is Judy Perez Siegel Day in the city of Las Vegas.

There's gonna be wild celebrations throughout the day in your honor.

But we love you.

We I know it's Judy Siegel Day.

Uh what do you think about that?

Great.

I think so too.

Uh so we're gonna take let me present that to you.

There's a little note from uh councilwoman Kelly.

Okay.

Maybe the kids can hold it.

Yeah, to the back.

There you go.

Oh, good, but not but put it down so you could we could see your beautiful face, okay?

All right.

Oh, is that?

Oh, Jordan, come on back.

Ah, come on.

Jackson and Nixon want you down here.

All right, I give up.

Yeah, it's okay.

Okay, yeah, I can hear you.

How are you?

Okay.

Is that a star here?

I love it.

Very good.

Yes, we want to grow up.

Yeah, they need a little bit.

All right, well, okay, let us uh go to work.

Right.

I gave I put gave her the note.

Okay.

Oh god.

Okay.

Agenda item number seven.

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

The amount of time any single speaker is allowed may be limited.

Please say which agenda item you will be speaking about.

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

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

This is your opportunity to address the council, but the council is not able to respond or engage in dialogue.

Does anyone wish to come forward?

Good morning, powerful people.

How are you all doing this morning?

Very well, thank you.

That's fantastic.

My name is Eric Melchizedek Nimrod.

You can find Christ in the Bible conquering death, especially in an uh the new testament.

I'm speaking concerning agenda nineteen, and it's a yes on acceptance for the uh for the fitness equipment, agenda twenty-three.

Oh the volunteers for the city of Las Vegas American program.

Yes, on that.

Agenda twenty-five.

Actually, and also God is good.

And the tribe of Judah, from which the word Jew comes from, the tribe of Judah was born from a hermitic woman or so-called black woman, Canaanite woman, and Genesis the thirty-eighth chapter.

So actually, the tribe of Judah is a Canaanite tribe.

When you dig into the Bible without a racist mentality.

Agenda item number nine for possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the June 17th, 2026 regular city council meeting and the June 18th, 2026 special city council meeting.

Mayor Pro Tem, I believe we need a motion for this.

Yes, Madam Mayor.

I move to approve the minutes from the June 17th council meeting.

Okay.

And said and June 18th for the special city council meeting we held to canvas the vote.

Thank you.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

Agenda item number 10.

Items number 10 through 25 are on the consent agenda, are considered to be routine, are recommended for approval by the departments and may be enacted in one motion.

Are there any other items the council wishes to bring forward?

Mayor pro 10, may I have a motion for the consent agenda for items 10 through 25?

Seeing that there are no agenda items to be pulled, and I may I move to approve agenda items 10 through 25.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

We're going to take an item out of order, agenda item 46, reports and presentations, report by Dean Nababski, Director of Economic and Urban Development, and Danielle Casey, president and CEO of the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance regarding the organization's activities and outcomes in the past year and an overview of their new strategic plan.

This impacts all of our wards.

Good morning, everybody.

Miss Babski.

Thank you, Mayor.

City Council members, Dina Babski for the record.

And I'd like to welcome our guests, Danielle Casey, CEO and president of the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance.

Molly Hamric, uh Chair Policy Committee Chair, and also a board director, and Mr.

Brian Thornton, he is director at large, so welcome.

Welcome.

A little bit of background.

We have partnered with LVGEA since 2012 when the organization was established.

And I must say that the partnership has been really fruitful in many different ways, but in the last year, it really has become, I want to say even stronger with uh Danielle's arrival.

There's been a lot more engagement.

Uh, you know, we've we have done uh conferences together, fam tours, uh, participated in engagements for their new strategic plan.

So I'm really excited uh to see uh this partnership grow even stronger.

And uh with that, um, I'm gonna let Danielle uh provide a report on the activities.

Uh they elected LVGA elected to exercise the first renewal option in our five-year MOU, and we couldn't be more grateful.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Batsuki.

Uh Mayor, uh, Mayor Pro Tem, Council members.

I can't tell you how honored and grateful I am to be here.

And if they do want to sit, uh I'll give them the break, but hopefully uh you see that as having board members present.

This is a conversation we've had within LVGEA.

Uh, I've invited all of them.

We're giving presentations with all of our municipalities to simply underscore the absolute importance the entire board feels that all of our municipal partners have and their commitment to our strategic plan and the work that we're doing.

So I want to thank them very much for carving out their time.

So we're going to go through a presentational work to be very respectful of your time this morning, but I also look forward to any questions.

It is uh I I've been reflecting, it's been very exciting about this time last year.

I was packing my house in my previous location to get relocated out here, and it's been a wild ride.

I officially started the role at the end of August, and my uh my economic development career was largely in local municipal economic development.

So I have a lot of fondness and love, and it's fun being back in front of a dais every once in a while.

Not all the time, but every once in a while.

Um, for anyone, this is really for the good of the community at large that may for any reason not be aware of LVGEA.

We are a 501c6.

Today we have 51 active board members, and we were established back in 2012 in our current form, but we go all the way back to 1956 as SNF, the Southern Nevada Industrial Foundation.

I keep joking that I'm gonna get throwback t-shirts because I just think it's really funny and enjoyable.

But we'll talk a little bit about our future branding as we go along.

And I always like to recognize and let the community members watching get a sense of who our board of directors are, who is driving this organization and leading it for the good of the regional community.

So just a little shout out to our many wonderful board members, and we also have additional partners, of course, above and beyond that.

So when you look at LVGE and the services that we provide, I think it's very important, and these are some deep conversations I've had with the board since arrival, and they've they've definitely taken this to heart.

They've certainly been aware of it, but a reminder is always important.

A large part of our funding is also from the governor's office of economic development through Goed, a little bit under 40% of our services.

And we do have requirements to the public good through that agreement and contract.

And these are just some very high-level highlights on what we deliver as part of that GoED service agreement.

Regional alignment and open communication with Goed itself.

So some of the things you'll see on these slides.

Tom Burns sits on that as well.

It is also part of that agreement that we support key federal and state initiatives, that we work on site selection and broker engagement essentially.

We respond to and manage all the requests for information that come through Goed to the Southern Nevada region, aka Clark County, as well as the city of Las Vegas.

And then also inventory and asset mapping.

We're required through Goed to maintain databases of information that we have for development zones and infrastructure projects.

But some of the things that you see in these little colored highlights are above and beyond an added value that we've done in the last year that I'll talk more about in a second.

And of course, representing at the board meeting for Goed and reporting and managing information on a quarterly basis to be accountable to the state.

But what do our municipal partners get above and beyond that?

Why is the city of Las Vegas engaged with us and why have you been for so long?

Well, we provide additional support in our local community above and beyond what Goed requires us to do for that level of public good.

So we also offer, and this is also tied with our agreement with the city of Las Vegas, economic developers direct engagement and support.

So one of the things I'm really proud of, we've always engaged with our local economic developers.

I think Dina can attest to over the past year.

We have had a monthly gathering and we've invited all members of the economic development staffs for all communities in the region, as well as our utilities and goed to have a monthly meeting and discuss deal flow activity, priorities at LVGEA, how we're spending our time and what our outcomes are.

We've also started a new quarterly report of the organization.

I have a hyperlink at the very end for everybody, anyone that wants to read that.

But we also are providing a new monthly deal pipeline report, which is a new publication and a new level of accountability.

We've hosted uh two site selector fam tours in the last year.

This is something that's not required by Goed, but really critical to change perception of decision makers about our community.

11 consultants in the last year, and yeah, I have three requirements, but now I was sitting there thinking about it.

I think we have probably four or five that we've received just from their experiences in our community, and then sending us opportunities to respond to.

And I'm very excited.

We are going to be the we are the location of choice for the site selectors guild spring conference next spring.

They've never been willing to come out here.

Um they are going to be coming out and in our region, so you're gonna have about 40 to 50 of the top site selection consultants all at once, chased by a couple hundred economic developers, and we get to show off to all of those folks.

So that's pretty exciting.

Our engagement with regional business leadership.

We've just launched a new growth council of LVGEA that's going to engage everyone in the built environment space.

So a lot more about that if you're interested to learn.

And also, of course, the city does participate with two seats on our board of directors.

And uh one of the things that we've been spending a lot of time on this year, I have more details at the end, coordinating the regional comprehensive economic development strategy process.

And this is different and fully unique from LVGEA's own strategic plan.

And we've also been adding on a lot more tools and resources and data and research in the community.

So all kinds of things that the team here at the City of Las Vegas has access to through our organization.

So these are some of those ROI numbers.

Uh, you know, these these come out of our regional project assessment system and in-planned data.

Essentially, you plug it into a database and you look at what a company is bringing to the market and helps you estimate and calculate likely the direct induced and indirect benefit to a community of that company's presence in the market.

It's also the same tool that's used at the state level for accountability for investment.

So, this is a little bit of a sampling of regional announcements that LVGEA has worked on over the past year, those specific to the city of Las Vegas that we've supported, and what does that mean for the city of Las Vegas in terms of your investment in our organization?

So, using these models, um, that means new economic activity, about 482 dollars in return overall for every dollar that was invested in LVGEA.

So we're really proud of that.

Happy to unpack those numbers offline with you all to walk through what that means at at any time you like.

And this is a little bit about the pipeline we have going on today.

Active active activity right now, and some of the value that you've seen for that investment.

This is the deal activity, the CYTD is calendar year to date and then fiscal year to date.

LVGEA runs on a January through December, which drives me absolutely baddied because it's always confusing trying to align with our municipal partners.

But this shows you some of the trends and the potential jobs and investment that we are seeing in the pipeline of activity that we're managing every day.

And for those out there in the community, like what is a pipeline of activity?

Are you pumping something through the community?

Is it water?

We love water.

It's not.

It means business opportunities that are looking at the community for possible location, relocation into the community and expansion.

There's also a lot of workforce development programs that have been facilitated through our embedded partner with workforce connections.

And then general activities.

I think some of the things I like to show also just the cost of those familiarization tours, that costs about $60,000 annually, if not more, to host those.

So we're looking at economies of scale for our communities and partners in the region.

That's the goal.

And then, of course, attending trade shows.

And I like to say that the convenings of the economic developers advisory council for deal communications is priceless, right?

And this is a snapshot just of the regional deal overview publication that we now have out there for everybody to see.

And you have a copy in your packets, Mayor and Council.

So what I really want to talk about for the bulk of the for the balance of my time is our strategic plan.

When I was interviewed for the role, I've told this story a lot in the community.

When I was interviewed for the role, and so excited to come here, by the way, my family's been coming out here forever.

I was just sharing with Molly that uh my mother's buying a house, so yay.

I know I have a free dog sitter, so any dog sitters out there.

No, and no employment with me anymore.

Um, but we're uh we're we're really thrilled about this.

And when I started and was interviewing for the job, it was very clear that all the right people are in the room.

Everyone cares about diversifying our economy and working together, but we really needed a North Star and a guiding path for our board to understand what LVGEA needed to execute in the community.

So we embarked upon that very soon after I got here, uh uh late November last year, and we approved it at the board level in early June, June 4 this year.

And so now we're already launching into implementation.

And this is a three-year strategic plan.

Everything in here will not be done, but it will be launched and it and there will be measurable outcomes.

And the whole goal is to create a more diversified economy by increasing higher wage traded sector industries in the community.

We have updated our mission and vision statement.

You see those on the slide in front of you.

And uh, and there's a lot of a lot of things, and by the way, this is a two-slide piece of information in a 32-page public document that you all can look at at your leisure as the and the community can as well.

But it matters because we know our economy remains heavily concentrated in leisure and hospitality, which I vastly enjoy and love and celebrate, by the way.

We have no intent to not pay to not be focused on what has made us great.

We want to be greater, and we would continue to diversify.

So this creates a shared roadmap for those diversified higher wage and long-term resilience.

This is a lot of information on one slide.

I believe uh Mayor and Council, you have a copy of the little card in your packet.

Um, but I overall, if you really sum it up, when you look at a hackman index, a hackman index is a measure of the level of diversification in your community.

A one or a hundred percent means you have you're very diversified in your community and market.

We're at about a 74 right now.

Hey, it's a C, you know, that's good.

Um, but that also means that that 26% of our entire uh economic makeup is highly concentrated, which we know, even if you were in a Rust Belt community, heavily concentrated in the auto sector, anything can be very challenging.

To get us just to a 76 or 77, that's gonna require up to about 34,000 direct, indirect, and induced additional jobs in the market.

So this is important to show everyone that moving that needle takes a lot.

We're not looking at reducing tourism jobs.

We want to be additive to the environment in the community.

The way we make an impact is by focusing our work on those jobs in diverse sectors that create higher wages and that are called out on this slide in these diverse industries.

So these are the ones we're gonna be putting our outward energy and influence on to try to bring into the market.

Um, everything you see in our goals and key tactics, every bullet point there has a full breakout of the why and the steps we are gonna take to execute on those, and we're thrilled to do this in partnership with all the communities.

Just to remember a reminder about the why, which I've just already touched on, um, for LVGEA, this has been a really critical exercise in understanding our role in meaningfully changing this trajectory.

And I think one example right here was from a site selector that we talked to just just probably about a month ago now, where they said you still don't have sites for me to put the employment that I want to put in your community.

So we have to remember a lot of the work that we're doing in this strategy.

While we can call on companies and go to trade shows and bring site selectors out, if we can't deliver a competitive value proposition for them, then we're not gonna locate them in the community.

And that can mean workforce-related issues, it can mean infrastructure-related issues, and it can mean you know, time and speed to market, it can mean many things.

And so we're gonna be working on all of that in tandem.

And this is just a little more uh color for you on our primary measurement indicator on that Hackman Index.

I think what you'll see here that's interesting is when you look at our number in terms of diversification.

You look at an Orlando and Nashville, a Phoenix, they are actually more diversified than we are.

So those are it's great to have aspirational benchmarks and maybe look at what they're doing well and what they're not doing well.

This is way too much information to dig into, but I I wanted to share with you all that our board is serious.

Board Chair Purdue, uh, when we brought the strategic plan forward, she said, Great, and I want the board to see what you're gonna do in the next six months, and we're gonna lay it out and we want to know what's happening right away.

So, do know that my board and leadership has asked me and the team to be highly accountable, and they're also clearly being accountable themselves for the organization.

I mentioned the comprehensive economic development strategy, very important for the region.

For anybody in the community unaware, this is actually a required strategy by the economic development administration for the pursuit of additional funding and grants at a federal level in through the EDA.

So we uh even before I got here, I can't take credit.

L VGEA applied for the SEDS grant and and became the fiduciary.

So we are actually putting about $80,000 cash plus a significant amount of staff in kind from LG LVGEA to make this happen to match the 150,000 from the EDA, but this serves every community in our region for the pursuit of future funding.

So we are hard and fast at work on that.

In fact, there's a steering committee meeting going on as I speak this morning while I'm here with you all today.

And one of the things I did want to celebrate because we just got out of it, and uh their team was just so incredible.

Your economic development team was definitely um front and center on this.

We just came back from the bio international convention in June to spread the word and create brand.

I gotta tell you that sign is a lot bigger in person, even than it looks in the videos.

Uh it was really great.

Uh, Dina's team was was very intentional of wanting to have a lot fabulous Las Vegas sign, drew tons of traffic, and we are starting to build a brand and um and recognition about us working to become a future biosciences center of excellence in the community.

And with that, to wrap us up, just wanted to share these are in your slides.

Anybody that wants to see our quarterly report or our annual report is welcome to do so publicly on our website.

I'm sure I've already gone too long, but I'm very grateful for your time.

Happy to take any questions or move out of your face so you can have a thank you, Danielle.

Thank you.

Wonderful presentation.

We appreciate it.

Are there any questions or comments from yes, Miss Summers Armstrong?

Thank you so much for this presentation.

Uh, this is super super good information.

I don't think I've seen this kind of detail from uh because economic development is not exactly sexy.

So uh it's wonderful to see you make it look pretty and understandable in these buy sizes for those of us who represent um, I'll speak for myself as a person who represents an urban core community.

Um, it's really important that this information be dissected a little bit more.

Um, I think we're often overlooked um in in the urban core uh for opportunity and potential.

I don't know if you know, but we have the Westside Education and Training Center available, which is a which is a partnership with the city and city and CSN, and we have the ability to train people for these great jobs, and so we would love to have that kind of I would love to have that kind of personal discussion with you about that.

Um, historic West Las Vegas, which we were talking about earlier in development with the um faith-based leaders has some of the lowest incomes in the valley, and so the only way to improve that is training people to do these kinds of jobs that are going to uh ensure that they can lift themselves up, right?

Um, and so that's the kind of data I would like you to sort of break down to see currently how uh these zip codes that are in in my district are are benefiting or not from the work that you are doing, and then trying to find ways that we can partner so that we can be uh partakers of of the diversification.

I've been here 36 years.

I worked in government for 20, well, 30 years, and all I ever heard was the need to diversify our economy, and we're finally getting there.

Um, but I think I'll just tell you one of the things I said when I was in the legislature.

As a state of Nevada, we also have a responsibility to know what our worth is.

And people come here and they want to take advantage of all the fabulousness of our weather and everything, but are they really bringing to our community their best?

And I hope that as you all are out there doing this work that you are really holding these folks accountable to reach to the depths, not what's convenient, but what is the real work in lifting up communities.

And I just want to say thank you.

I'm proud of you.

I was at your first presentation, did a great job, and I'm excited to see what you're doing.

Mayor Councilwoman, thank you so much.

I I look forward to grabbing some time to unpack that with you.

And I'll just add, it was very intentional.

It's a start if you look back at our mission and vision statement.

It's extremely intentional that it talks about creating opportunity for all.

I'm a huge believer in that.

We've actually done a lot of work even through the International Economic Development Council on Equitable Economic Development.

So we'll discuss that more.

Thank you.

Um Councilwoman Fluenski.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Um, Miss Casey, haven't had the opportunity to meet you.

I'm glad you're here today.

Uh I didn't work with your predecessor.

I think we all did with the previous mayor.

Uh last time I think LVGEA came through, uh, was right at uh the football, excuse me, the Super Bowl time.

And y'all came and asked us to invest, and uh we had a return of I think about six businesses that relocated here uh after that investment.

And I just want to remind you that we have the college football championships coming, and then another Super Bowl coming as a representative on uh the LVC VA.

We have a lot of these uh very uh nationwide prominent events happening, and I hope that you use them to do our best to hungry hungry hippo our fair share of uh of um of diversification and investment.

Mayor councilwoman, I love that analogy.

Yes, thank you.

Thank you.

Mayor Pro Tib.

So good to see you, Miss Casey.

Um it's hard to believe it's almost almost been a year since you've arrived in Las Vegas.

I hope that you like my hometown.

I'm born and raised here, so um, I hope that you find it uh fresh of breath air and um so lovely.

The people here really are amazing.

Uh I wanted to basically recognize LVGA's um just work with other agency partners that is important and moves the needle faster for all of the local municipalities in southern Nevada.

So I know you were Ken and Glove with Workforce Connections.

I know you're a great ally and partner of the Vegas Chamber, and I think that all of that cohesiveness and synergy, and we were wishing you were gonna be across the way um someday maybe so that you guys could be co-located and have um these just organic conversations about how do we meet move the needle faster for our region to diversify.

I mean, 34,000 jobs in five years is not a small feat, um, but I think it's very needed.

And when I saw the numbers pop up on the screen, that 41, the average hourly wage is 41 dollars an hour.

That that is amazing, and we definitely I'll echo the sentiments of um my colleague um Councilwoman Summers Armstrong.

We want those jobs to go to our Las Vegans, we want it to be for our residents.

I hate hearing, oh, we had to bring our workforce from outside of our city.

I I think we do need to work more intentionally on ensuring that um those opportunities we're we're making sure there's people in the queue to then feed um that that job to that is local.

So um just posting that.

I'm I'm a big fan of all the work you guys are doing and um appreciate all the help and assistance you're providing our economic and urban development team and landing more and more investment in our city because we truly all need it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Miss Kelly.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

And welcome, Danielle.

It's lovely to see you and your team.

I'm very impressed.

Um, not only that your board members decided to stand during this time, but honestly, it really shows a level of commitment that is refreshing.

Um I've I too am a native uh like my colleague, and have been in the public arena uh since it was the NDA, and I'm really you know, I remember talking to um our former city mayor, I mean city count uh city manager Betsy Fretwell about well, she was helping with the selection and about the opportunity, and she, you know, certainly she said, I don't know what the board's gonna end up wanting to do, but I really feel that we need someone who has a significant level of expertise in economic development, something that the agency or the organization hadn't had for a very long time.

And I met with Danielle very early.

Um, and I was I was you know new to this job as well.

And what I loved about that meeting and what I think I'm sure she did with everybody because I heard about it, was she she came to listen, and she really wanted to understand the community, she wanted to understand what the board wanted, um, and that it and then I I was excited to see how the board um and the leadership it it it was so invested in the success, you know, we want Danielle to be phenomenally successful, uh, and we need LVGEA to be phenomenally successful for the people who work here and for all the reasons you understand.

Um and but you acted quickly too.

I mean, you were you were, and so I want to compliment that from afar because it was evident, it was it is it is wonderful to see that there it's about strategy, uh, really focus that the board seems, I think, um, and again from the outside, far more engaged and cohesive than they've ever been.

Um, and uh I'm sure that's that's in part also to your selection of Danielle and her leadership.

So I really appreciate this information.

It's very thorough.

I look forward to uh you know, understanding as as the as councilwoman Summers Ongstron said some more of the unpacking.

So, how does this relate to what we're doing at the city and how can we make sure that that the education we're providing or whatever we're doing, pardon me, is um uh through our technical and and and partnerships with the community college or UNLV or whatever we're doing, supports uh what we need and supports how you're going to be able to continue to collaborate with us.

So thank you.

That I do have a specific question about uh the quote that you included on the page that says defining the challenge.

Yes, and and and uh um I don't have a page number.

Well, maybe it has a um slide number, page 11 on the slide, if they'll bring that back um right before.

And that what was interesting about the quote, Danielle, which came from the one there on the right hand side.

If you could help me understand this uh potential site selection consultant who articulates uh the frustration of not being able to find suitable land.

Can you help me?

What would it what are we talking about?

Particularly at the end or it says you user for for an end user versus developer.

Uh Mayor Councilwoman, great question.

Glad that you honed in on that.

It's it's it's a continual challenge.

This specific site selection consultant has actually looked at our market over the years many times.

A lot of our local economic developers are familiar with the individual, and they came to us with an opportunity for 1,100 new jobs, family owned company out of California, um, good starting wages internally training everyone up, so very positive.

But what they can't find anywhere is 200 acres with infrastructure that could then be conveyed straight from a property owner or otherwise that was ready to go.

And when they say developer, they mean that it might already be in the hands of developer who's planning on carving that up and not able to then convey that to one significant user.

So very challenging and not something we've been able to find in the region that that's suitable for them at this point.

So uh they had reached out to me and and it was kind of a direct conversation.

They said, Great, we've known you for 20 years, let's see what you can do.

Is anything different?

Do you have a site for me?

And we we really tried to turn over all the rocks, you know, some some maybe vaguely potential sites, but nothing that's sticking just yet.

So to me, this is a call to action if those are the types of employment that we want, if they're the types of employment we want.

We first have to decide that when we get a requirement.

And and if so, we need to think about as I mentioned before, how are we working today?

Best time to plant a tree, right?

20 years ago or today.

Um, how are we working to figure out um whether it's um you know, revitalization or property improvement and and assembly or identifying sites that need infrastructure?

And these can be conversations that go all the way up, of course, to the state level on how we're making investments.

I I hate the word incentive.

Actually, as an economic developer, I like to think about everything that we do, make sure we're doing it as an investment in the community, so they're assets we have for the community going forward.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And if I may just follow up on that, Mayor, I really appreciate your indulgence.

Uh I'm the newest member of the council, and I'm here for a short time.

So I hope you'll pardon my ignorance, but specifically to this point, do you is there what is there a um a strategy about interacting with the BLM or when we're looking at federally owned land, and then I would imagine you're in communication when you're looking for those things with either Dina or her counterparts and other and other of the municipalities about what uh we may be doing that you may not be fully aware of or what have you.

And then I would imagine you're in communication when you're looking for those things with either Dina or her counterparts and other and other of the municipalities about what uh we may be doing that you may not be fully aware of or what have you.

And that'll be the end of my question.

Thank you.

That's correct.

That's why there's representation of the city on the their board so that they we coordinate and know what each other is doing.

Councilwoman, absolutely correct.

And those are those monthly meetings with all the economic developers that we're sharing the opportunities that are coming in.

We touch base with them on that.

We'll we'll have individual meetings with different municipalities as needed.

And I can tell you we have a project uh not looking within the city of Las Vegas.

I have to be careful about non-disclosure, but we have a call at 11 30 today about a project that would require some BLM land, and I've spent about two hours already this week on a phone with BLM and with that community.

Okay, thank you very much, Mayor.

Appreciate it.

Welcome.

Miss Rooney.

Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Danielle, for coming this morning to speak with us.

Um I happen to meet with a couple of tech startups this week.

And so as you're going through your presentation, I was just wondering what role do you see LVGEA playing in supporting that ecosystem, either for folks that are already here or are thinking about coming here.

Mayor, Councilwoman Brittany, also another excellent question.

LVGEA's scope does not, well, you know, with any with enough time and money and resources, anything is possible in our current scope of work and areas of responsibility.

We don't see ourselves as, say, being the organization that is teaching people how to be entrepreneurs in startups, but long term in our strategy, you will see things in there about working to attract more VC investment and investment capital, telling a more critical and important story about the market as a place to do business, especially to startups outside of the market, and and really also digging into things like the built environment.

So are there ways that we can encourage public-private partnerships and development, thinking about our university systems and their assets?

So we have a lot of examples that we are working on right now that we've seen in other communities that have specifically helped with that.

And a lot of times that does plug into the university system.

That's great to hear because I do think that we have a gap.

So I'm excited that you guys will be taking the lead on that.

Thank you.

Ms.

Casey, thank you so much.

And it's been a privilege for me being on the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance board in different phases of my life.

And uh it just keeps getting better, and you are a remarkable addition to uh to everything that is being proposed and planned by the Global Alliance.

Thank you so much for being here.

Thank you, Mayor.

Mayor Pro Tem and Council.

Have a great day.

Thank you.

Um, this was a report only, so no action is required.

We will now hear related items 26 and 41 through 41 B together.

Uh 26 public hearing, uh discussion for possible action to receive testimony for and against the proposed redevelopment plan for redevelopment area three, and to provide any direction deemed necessary or appropriate.

Item 41, 26-0176 on the following land use entitlement project requests on the 1,350.23 acres, generally bounded by Owens Avenue to the north, Nellis Boulevard to the east, Charleston Boulevard to the south, and the 21st and 21st Street to the west, 41A, 26-0176-DIR 1 for a review of the plan for the redevelopment of Area 3 as a redevelopment area.

41B, 26-0176-GPA1 to establish redevelopment area three.

The applicant owner is City of Las Vegas Redevelopment Agency, the Planning Commission and staff recommend approval on the entire land use entitlement project.

These are in Ward 3, Miss Diaz, and these are public hearings, which I now declare open.

Ms.

Babski.

Thank you, Mayor.

City Council members Dina Babski for the record.

And with me is a member of our team, Alex Strasser.

He actually uh was leading what we're about to present today, so I would like for him to join me in this presentation.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Um so this has been quite a road for us.

Uh last September, you all voted uh to uh pass a resolution that would enable us to start the uh exploration of establishing a new redevelopment area.

Uh the East Las Vegas area plan that was adopted back in 2023.

One of the key elements called out in that plan was specifically exploring whether a new redevelopment area could be uh established as part of that plan in order to uh you know help with the revitalization of the neighborhood, um, establish some, you know, or or I guess promote economic development and things that redevelopment uh agency can enable communities to do.

So with that, a little background on where we have been as far as the redevelopment agency in our areas.

Back in 1986, redevelopment agency was established, and that's when the area one was established, primarily covering the downtown core.

Then in 2012, we established a second redevelopment area that covers the west of Charleston West and a lot of the medical district.

So now we're 14 years later down the road, and that's what that was a good time for us to explore what can we do on the east side.

So the team with your resolution approved resolution, uh moved forward on uh establishing the area of study for the blight study that is required by NRS 279 in order to determine if the area qualifies to be deemed a redevelopment area.

The yellow boundary that you see on the map, uh that was the study area boundary.

All of the parcels that you see in the blue were specifically evaluated, whether they mapped the requirements called out by the statute to be eligible as part of the redevelopment area.

And by the way, the study was started in uh November, early November.

It took four months for our team to go out and uh evaluate every single property, document conditions, take photos, and since February, the team was literally doing a deep dive and analysis into every single property to determine its eligibility.

So this is a uh a snapshot of all the redevelopment areas if the area three is established.

Uh, as you see on the map, uh our agency will essentially cover the uh most of the downtown core.

And I I I mean, I'm so excited for this project or for this initiative because uh everything that we've done in area one and area two is just is a great example of what we will now be able to do in on the east side of the city.

Why a new redevelopment area?

I basically already spoke to it every two weeks.

You all vote on different grants and investments that the redevelopment agency does uh within its boundary.

And you know, the the most important thing is with the redevelopment agencies, the way they are funded is by the property tax increment that is generated with new development, as well as the property value increases within that area.

So, this is a quick slide that shows how does that work.

Uh once the redevelopment area is established, we will send the parcel numbers to the assessor's office.

Uh that will set the tax baseline.

From that point on, every year, any new development that happens there that creates new property tax, as well as uh the increase in the property values would be set aside for the redevelopment area three to continue its reinvestment in the community.

With that, uh, I would like Alex to talk about the Blight Study because they were out there every day.

Good morning, Mayor Berkeley and members of the city council.

Alex Strasser, City of Las Vegas Department of Economic and Urban Development for the record.

Um, between, as Dina mentioned, between November and February, we were out in the field every every day, it seemed like assessing nearly uh 1,300 properties to see if they met the physical characteristics of blight.

Uh this blight study also looked at the socioeconomic uh data as well to get that full comprehensive uh view as to if this area met the state requirements for a blighted area.

Overall, we found that of the 12 blight conditions, nine were prevalent in this community, and two affected, at least two affected uh nearly every property.

Some of our findings included aging buildings, so over 80% of the uh building inventory was built before 1999.

This requires more reinvestment for the property owners as well as maintenance to manage uh deterioration and upgrade building systems.

We also found shifting uh uses for new users in buildings that were uh different than what were previously designed for.

One in one instance was a dentist office that is now occupying a uh bank with the drive-throughs.

Uh, this creates operational efficiency inefficiencies as well as additional deterioration and building costs for the property owner.

Crowded spaces, so our modern building codes have requirements that allow for safety, accessibility, and overall function on the site.

Uh, for instance, some of these sites were located off of major thoroughfares, and some of which required backing on to high speed uh right-aways.

Some were located adjacent to the property line, which can create a fire hazard and spread to neighboring properties for commercial and multifamily properties.

The size spacing and overall traffic circulation is a major component.

And when these standards are met, this can rely on off off on street parking and loading requirements.

Economic strain, the visible signs of blight, empty businesses, and vacant lots.

Heat and no shade was a major component, a major challenge facing facing this community, as identified in the City of Las Vegas 2050 Master Plan, as well as the Westro Futuro East Las Vegas Special Area Plan.

This can discourage pedestrian activity as well as further deteriorate building materials.

Traffic dangers for higher frequency visitors than previously designed for.

This is very problematic for residents in this community as more pedestrians take public transit, walk, or bike as their commute than in than compared to the city, state, and national trends.

Unsafe right-away.

So this alleyway had multiple uh trap trash receptacles lined up the alley, which can make it difficult for uh emergency vehicle access as well as motorists.

This photo also shows a lack of lighting infrastructure, can which can create the perception of an unsafe environment as well as uh the visible grime and uh the lack of property maintenance loss of value, so having uh making it more difficult to retain tenants can make it difficult for property owners to continue to make the investments into their property to make these um enhancements.

And so when we have a vacant lot uh which lost East Las Vegas has 81 acres available, this can create an opportunity for uh illegal dumping and homeless individuals.

Uh and unfortunately, when these uh challenges pile up and become visible, this can impact neighboring businesses.

For this project to uh come forward to you, public outreach was a major component that we really heavily relied on since April.

This project has been featured in the Ward 3 Council uh e newsletter, which has over uh 13,000 recipients.

For the last four weeks, we've had um this project featured in the Las Vegas Review Journal.

We've had three different neighborhood meetings where all the property owners within 500 feet were notified, uh providing translation services to have the meeting in English and Spanish.

Uh this meet these meetings were at a variety of locations within East Las Vegas, and overall we had approximately 130 individuals show up.

Lastly, uh we had to send a mailed uh notice to all the property owners directly impacted by this uh project and the public hearing process moving forward.

I want to give a big thank you to the communications team for helping us coordinate our bilingual translations as well as to uh execute the mailing notices.

Last month this project went before the planning commission, and they determined that the this area met the state requirement for uh blight under state statute, and also recommended a unanimous approval of the redevelopment plan.

With that, I will turn it back over to uh Dina who will give an overview of the redevelopment plan goals and objectives.

Thank you, Alex.

Thank you.

Thank you, Alex.

Uh I I also want to join Alex in thanking a few folks.

Alex and Sierra Webinar team were out there taking photos and documenting communications department and of course city's attorney's office.

There's been a quite a rigorous uh I guess legal process for us to make sure we hit every single requirement in the haras.

So I'm very grateful for that.

But to summarize, really our presentation, as part of today's action is going to be uh introduction of a new ordinance uh later in the council meeting to adopt the new redevelopment plan for area three.

And just like with other uh redevelopment plans that we have for area one and two, the focus is still the same to eliminate blight or reduce its spread, to keep our businesses in there, but most importantly, it's to uh have you know to I guess invest in the community so that private investment can be unlocked because it's so important for us to be able to de-risk uh projects in these communities with infrastructure upgrades, with uh you know public works things that could be potentially part of the uh work that redevelopment agency will partner on because once that's in place, private investment will come.

And we've seen that in you know in downtown Las Vegas, ours district, Symphony Park Medical District.

So we're very excited to introduce this.

Uh, very grateful for the work that the team has done.

And if this is established, it will live for 30 years.

And so that is a good amount of years to really bring the community to where it's supposed to be.

So thank you.

This completes our presentation, and we're happy to answer any questions.

Thank you so much.

Do any of the city council members have any questions or comments?

Yeah, Ms.

Rooney.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh, quick question.

I appreciate the community outreach.

It feels like a win-win from where I'm sitting, but was anybody opposed or did you receive any, I guess, concern feedback.

Um, through you, Mayor, thank you, uh, Councilman Bruni.

Uh, there were definitely great questions that were brought up during the meetings, and a lot of them we were expecting because once you mentioned any kind of tax, you know, we need to clarify that there's no new tax assessments.

Uh, of course, when you talk about you know properties, then the questions come about you know, eminent domain.

So that was addressed.

And then, you know, as we were documenting some of the conditions out there, um, a few folks were concerned about you know, potentially having code enforcement cases open uh on their behalf.

And so we're we answered all the questions.

Um, I was in one of the uh meetings on the very first meeting, and from that particular meeting, I can say that once the conversation was done that people felt comfortable.

Um, Alex, if you want to add any other feedback from the other two meetings.

I would uh through you, madam mayor, I would echo uh Dina's uh comments.

Uh overall, the residents were generally uh curious about the process.

Obviously, the word redevelopment can be pretty intimidating, especially if you're not uh familiar with the project.

So overall, the residents were very curious and trying to ask us the right questions to learn more about the project.

But uh personally, I think uh the residents left um feeling pretty um good about the project.

Okay, all right.

In that case, no action is required on item 26.

Is there a motion on related items 41A and 41B?

Councilwoman Diaz.

Yeah, mayor, for the record, Jeff Dorkek, City Attorney.

Uh, I don't think we have a line in the uh book, but go ahead and mention that it is a public hearing, and if anyone would like to uh comment, this would be the time, and then you can go back to the motion.

All right, thank you so much.

Um, this is a public uh meeting.

Does anyone wish to comment?

Seeing no one, I'll entertain a motion.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Just give me a few minutes of privilege because this has been a long project in the making, and so many hours um that have been poured and months um in the east side.

So, first and foremost, Alex and Sierra, thank you for your diligence and ensuring that we are um doing things per statute, state statute.

Um, I want to thank all of the fabulous EUD team because I know it takes all of you, you're a small but mighty team, and um I think that without you all, we wouldn't be at this point.

Uh, I want to also thank Ramiro Reyes who stepped in on the very first meeting, seeing the need for interpretation and without a doubt, just not knowing all the terms, but he was doing the best he could to explain it in layman's terms to the community that turned out, and then we got then we remembered let's have more things ready for our communities because and on the east side, we are 70 percent or more Hispanic Latinos, so we should be expecting the turnout that need language assistance.

Um, I want to thank our comms team who didn't miss a beat, made sure that we were in sync and we were doing everything collectively, and also my Ward 3 team.

They've been heavily involved in having conversations with EUD, ensuring that the meetings were structured and set up in a way that we're gonna be successful.

I'm just so so excited for this moment because ever since I was elected, I remember going door to door on the east side and hearing overarching the same concern over and over and over.

You guys have forgotten about us.

Our areas are going downward in a spiral, and why aren't we like Summerlin?

Why aren't we like other pretty areas of the city?

And that broke my heart.

Um, just thinking about them, thinking that we had as a city abandoned that area of our city, and that now that I've been in this role, it's just so incredibly difficult to have all the financial resources to steer the help and to be able to lead change in the area and be that spark that is going to then ignite people's interest in wanting to invest on that side of town because uh increasingly people are having to drive, they don't feel comfortable going to their neighborhood this or their neighborhood that, or there really aren't very many options, and so they have to drive distances, and we're losing that opportunity for those dollars to stay within the city and our community.

So I'm so so ecstatic that this will help us change and move the needle, meet the need, heed the call of our neighbors that are saying we want better for East Las Vegas, and now this is setting up the ability to have the means to then execute the vision that is in nuestro futuro, our future East Las Vegas plan that we've adopted as a council in 23.

We can't really move the needle if we don't have the resources behind it.

And I'm also ecstatic about the education set aside funding that we can also tap into because we know that my schools on that side need all the love that we can provide them.

So with that, I know the mayor's saying, okay, wrap it up, councilwoman, make the motion.

So I'm gonna move to approve agenda items 41A and B.

Please vote.

Okay.

There we go.

That's here.

Post motion carries thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Very exciting.

Agenda item 27.

Report by Mike Jansen, city manager, and discussion for possible action to approve a new two-year collective bargaining agreement between the city of Las Vegas and the International Association of Firefighters, local 1285, not to exceed 16,387, eight eight hundred and seven various funds.

All wards, uh, Mr.

Janssen.

Good morning, Mayor Berkeley, members of City Council, Mike Jansen, City Manager.

This is a tag team presentation today, so I'm gonna have my colleagues on my right introduce themselves.

Uh, for the record, Sue Brown, Human Resources.

Morgan Davis, City Attorney's Office.

Mayor and Council, uh, you know, uh, outside of the negotiations related to this contract and the uh official NRS statement that I need to enter into the record.

I just want to take a moment to thank a few people and also talk a little bit about uh the luck that I had over the last couple of months to sit down with the uh union leadership associated with local 1285, uh beginning with Captain Ruben Sanchez, who's in the audience today.

I know I had a chance to talk to him earlier.

Um, those are just conversations not related to this contract negotiations, just getting to new getting to know that leadership team.

And I think it's fair to say we've come away with mutual respect for one another and a uh common goal of wanting to see the city be as good as it can be.

So again, I want to I want to thank Ruben and uh his team.

Uh I want to thank uh Chief Gray uh for his leadership in LVFR and uh really just the entire LVFR team.

Uh it's what makes our city a safe city, it's what makes our city a city that people want to uh live, work, and play in.

I'll also uh be remiss if I didn't talk about just the hours and hours and hours of work that a contract negotiation involves amongst so many different uh city employees, and uh that includes uh certainly our uh HR team led by Sue Brown, our city attorney's office from Jeff and from Morgan and his team, our entire city manager's office, and uh certainly our finance department running all the numbers and trying to figure out how do we uh make all this work.

So, with all those uh thanks and admiration to so many uh people involved in this.

Uh, what I'd like to do is just enter into the record the official NRS statement, which is pursuant to NRS 288-153.

As city manager, I am reporting on a new two-year collective bargaining agreement with IAFF local 1285.

The estimated fiscal impact of the two-year agreement is not to exceed 16,387,807.

And with that, I'm gonna turn over the rest of this presentation to Ms.

Sue Brown and uh Morgan.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Good morning, Mayor and Council.

Um, before I get started, thank you, Mike, for the introduction.

Um, I want to echo Mike's comments and thank the city's negotiating team, our partners in City Attorney's Office, Human Resources, Rick Hunt, Dana Graham, and Tasia Curtis, as well as um Chief Larry Stoney and Chief Randall Wilbanks were on the negotiating team.

So the item before you today is a two-year tentative agreement with the IAFF local 1285 bargaining unit.

This bargaining unit represents approximately 766 employees in the fire department.

We started negotiations back in February of 2026, and we had a total of 11 meetings ending on June 15th, 2026, where we did reach a tentative agreement.

Um, the bargaining unit took the contra uh the TAs to the membership for vote, and they did vote to approve the two-year agreement, which covers July 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2028.

I'm gonna go over some of the changes in the contract in order of the articles.

Um, first is Article 15 under holidays.

We are adding a new holiday work to premium pay for four protected holidays.

What this means is the four protected holidays that we have listed are 4th of July, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.

And basically, we've agreed to give additional compensation for employees who work on these four holidays.

In exchange, we are reducing the number of um vacation slots available for these days.

So currently it's 12% slots for number of employees who who can be on vacation, and we're reducing that to six percent.

So the intent is you know, for these four busy holidays, we're encouraging and incentivizing employees to come to work on those days.

Under Article 17 wages, um, in year one of the contract, effective July 1, 2026, we've agreed to a 2.7% cost of living adjustment based on the annual CPI from 2025.

In addition, we're adding a 2% increase to the top step of all the salary schedules.

In year two of the contract, effective July 1, 2027, we are doing a CPI-based cost of living adjustment.

Um, the range of the CPI is 2% to 3.5%.

We won't know that CPI until the end of the current calendar year.

And also in year two, we're doing the 2% increase to the top step of all the salary schedules once again.

Under Article 19, Acting Pay, we're adding a new cash incentive for preceptor certification of a thousand dollars.

Preceptors are those individuals who are more experienced, and they are the individuals who train and mentor new and incoming paramedics.

So this incentive will encourage more employees to become preceptors.

In Article 22 under medical, we are increasing the biweekly employer contribution by $15 in each of the two years.

Article 28 Uniform 23, uniform allowance.

We are increasing the annual uniform allowance from $1,800 to $2,000.

Article 28, EMS compensation.

So this is the article that has the most change.

And in line with our goal of encouraging more firefighters to become paramedics, we've agreed to a new compensation model for employees who become paramedics.

So currently, firefighters who become paramedics move into a separate unique classification called firefighter paramedic.

Engineers and captains who are paramedics receive additional pay for maintaining their paramedic license and for working as a paramedic when they're assigned.

Moving forward, we're eliminating this separate firefighter paramedic rank or title, and instead, we're providing a premium pay to employees who achieve and maintain their paramedic license.

So what this does is this gives the fire department um greater flexibility to assign paramedics where they are needed the most, and it'll help reduce the unit downgrades or brownouts.

In Article 29, under hazmat and TRT, similar to the preceptor, we're also doing a $1,000 cash incentive for employees who has hazmat and TRT certification.

Those are the major articles with fiscal impact.

We also did some minor language updates to clean up multiple articles.

As Mike mentioned, the two-year agreement fiscal impact is not to exceed 16,387,807.

The reason why there is a range here is because again, year two's COLA is still to be determined.

Throughout this entire process, over 11 meetings, they have been very professional, very collaborative, willing to you know explore unique and creative options for this fire contract.

And so thank you to the IAFF negotiating team.

And with that, I will take any questions.

Thank you so much.

Seeing none.

I move to approve.

Please vote.

Post.

Motion carries.

Congratulations for this.

This is very well done.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you.

We will now hear related items 28 and 29 together, but act on them separately.

Discussion for possible action regarding the denial of a permanent massage establishment license for time massage, golden beauty, LLC, doing business as time massage golden beauty at 5013 Alta Drive.

Managing member agenda item 29, discussion for possible action regarding the denial of a permanent massage establishment license for Golden TIE SPA LLC doing business as Golden TIE SPA at 2251 South Rainbow Boulevard.

Mr.

Floyd.

Oh everybody.

Mr.

Floyd, are you Darcy Adal by Heard for the record will be presenting?

Would you please repeat that?

Yes.

I'm Darcy Advil by Her, the business licensing manager.

I'll be presenting.

Welcome and please proceed.

Good morning, Mayor and Council.

Thank you very much.

So before you today are the two related agenda items.

Requesting the denial of a permanent massage establishment license for Golden Tie SPA, located at 2251 South Rainbow Boulevard and Thai Massage Golden Beauty, located at 5013 Alta Drive.

Both businesses are owned and operated by Miss Yu Ming Wang.

Although these are separate businesses, they share the same owner and many of the concerns before you involve Miss Wang's overall management and suitability.

On March 18th, 2025, staff conducted a pre-licensing inspection of Golden TI SPA.

During the inspection, staff observed bedding in the employee break room, a hallway door equipped with an interior lock and window coverings that obstructed the visibility into portions of the business.

Staff returned on March 26th and found that the bedding remained despite having previously discussed the concern with the owner.

She did move the items into her car during that inspection.

On March 2nd, 2025, the department issued a temporary license with specific operating conditions.

Those conditions prohibited the interior monitoring monitoring devices, prohibited hallway doors from being locked, and required an unobstructed view from the lobby into the establishment.

On June 17, 2025, staff conducted another inspection.

During that inspection, the owner and the key employee were absent.

Staff again found the interior locking mechanisms, audio and video recording devices inside the business, and personal bedding that suggested employees may have been residing or sleeping on the premises.

A follow-up inspection on June 18th confirmed that those items have been removed.

Just a week later, on June 25th, 2025, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department conducted an undercover vice operation.

During that operation, an employee Yu Feng Chin solicited an undercover officer for prostitution services.

And she was arrested.

As a result of that incident, the department issued a notice of violation and assessed a 250 dollar civil fine on June 26, 2025.

Ms.

Wang appealed the violation, but it was upheld by our hearing officer on September 11th, 2025.

Also on September 11th, 2025, Metro completed their suitability review report identifying the business as an area of concern due to the operation, the prostitution related activities and the deficiencies and the management controls.

On January 13th, 2026, the Nevada State Board of Massage Therapy placed Ms.

Wing's massage therapy license on a two-year probation based on its own disciplinary proceedings.

On June 12th, 2026, the department participated in a joint undercover operation with Metro.

During that operation, an employee solicited an undercover detective for prostitution services.

Neither Miss Wing nor the key employee were present.

The department issued another notice of violation with fines equaling up to $1,500, and LBMPD ordered an emergency closure on the business.

On June 16th, 2026, the department received an updated background investigative report from Metro, and that incorporated the prostitution related rest into the licensing review.

While staff recognizes that many of this inspection deficiencies were corrected after the notice, the department's concerns extend beyond the isolated code violations.

This recommendation is based on the totality of this record, including repeated management deficiencies, failure to maintain required operating conditions, prostitution related criminal activities occurring within the establishment, the subsequent metro suitability report, and disciplinary action taken by the Nevada State Massage Board Therapy Against the Owner.

Because Ms.

Wang is also the owner and managing member of TIEM Massage Golden Beauty, those same suitability concerns apply to that application as well.

Although the majority of the violations occurred at Golden Spa, the department must evaluate the suitability of the applicant, not simply the location.

The temporary business license is currently suspended.

Based on the documented history and the overall suitability of the applicant, staff staff recommends denial of both the permanent licenses for both establishments.

Representatives of Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department are here and present if you have any questions.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Do either one of you care to make a comment.

Hello, Mayor.

My name is Michelle Gunn.

I'm an investigative specialist with Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

I'm the one that drafted the area of concerns report.

And Darcy pretty much outlined everything accurately.

So if you have any questions, I can answer them.

Thank you so much.

Now I'd like to hear from the applicant.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Kirk Kennedy, 815 South Casino Center on counsel for Miss Yu Ming Wong.

She's present today with the assistance of Miss Yan He, who's a court certified Mandarin translator for her benefit, to make sure she understands everything today.

She does speak English, but I think it would be a it's a benefit that she has the translator.

You know, reviewing this matter, you have two agenda items.

Uh the one regarding Thai Massage Golden Beauty, that's item number 28, has sort of been lumped into this.

Uh you don't see any history of violations, no arrests, things of that type at that location, which I believe is on Alta Drive.

Golden Tie Spa is the one obviously you're hearing about today.

It's clear that they were there was an arrest uh activity in 2025 and a recent one back here in June.

And certainly I've talked with Ms.

Wang about what's going on here.

She has prior experience in owning and operating massage businesses uh in Nevada and in other states.

So she knows how to do this right.

What's going on here?

The question is one of oversight, supervision, that's the issue.

She's uh a minority owner of uh of two businesses in town within the city, she has another, I believe, within the county, and in other locations as well.

She knows how to run these things correctly, and they can be done in the correct way.

There are many massage establishments here in Las Vegas and in Clark County, and you hear about it in the news sometimes about uh very negative image.

Well, there are those that are run correctly and can do well and provide a valuable service of physical therapy services to citizens here in our community.

Uh, she is trying to do that.

What she what happened here with Golden Tie, which is agenda item number 29, was one of a complete lack of oversight.

I think she'd have to admit, and she has admitted to me that you was not giving it the care and attention she needs to give to it.

But I think she can do that.

The concern is one of oversight and supervision.

She can do that.

She can provide that.

She can also do better about uh making sure that her managers and key employees are not only approved by the city, but basically know what they're doing, so they comply with the city code and Nevada law on the operation of a massage establishment.

You know, I I reviewed the Metro investigative report, and it's kind of interesting on page five of that report where they make the recommendation, of course, they do recommend the denial, but in making that denial, they they give a statement that's entirely contradictory.

I'm just quoting part of it.

Uh, from page five, Metro states until the owner can demonstrate meaningful corrective action, effective oversight, and sustainable measures to prevent future violations.

Uh, end of the quote, they would uh basically deny approval.

But what they're saying there is, you know, if she can demonstrate this, if she can demonstrate the corrective action, the oversight, the supervision, then perhaps denial is not appropriate.

Uh the Metro report, so to speaks out of both sides there because it's saying you know she could possibly do this and make this run well and be an effective small business person here in our community with these two establishments within the city, if given the opportunity.

Uh, the Metro report says, yeah, maybe she does better and provides more oversight, she can do better.

But then they say that, but not this time.

How is she supposed to be more effective?

How is she supposed to demonstrate this corrective action and this ability to provide better supervision and to comply with Nevada law when she's not being given the opportunity?

Uh she's being uh what we're looking at here is is the city is requesting the denial of her establishment applications, which effectively guts what the Metro report is saying.

They're saying essentially if she's given the opportunity, she could do better, and she could show better.

She can be a better manager, she can be a better operator if she can, you know, focus herself on doing what is right.

And the Metro report is kind of acknowledging that while at the same time, then saying, well, too bad denied.

We're asking for an opportunity here to allow her to prove to you to this city council that she can do this, and she can do it well.

Mind you, uh the city has lumped in two different businesses, only one is having the the problems.

But they say, Oh, well, let's just get rid of all of them.

Apparently, it's something wrong with Ms.

Wong.

Well, that's not that's the easy answer, but that's not the answer.

That's the correct answer, the right answer.

You have a female minority owner who's trying to operate these businesses in a way that's effective and in compliance with city code and Nevada law, and she's asking for that opportunity.

And what I'm asking, and and this has been a wake-up call for her, uh, as to okay, well, here she is standing in front of the city council.

She never believed something like this would happen.

Uh, and she can't believe that it had these events happened at her spa.

And she knows she has to do better about management, about oversight, about staffing, uh, about making sure that the people who work there truly understand what it means to provide legal lawful massage and to not engage in criminal activity.

She had there are two therapists, and it can't happen again, and it won't happen again.

What we're asking for is an opportunity here today with the city council to allow her temporary licenses to be reinstated for a period of six months to a year, sort of a probationary type grant.

Uh, don't uh take action on the permanent license, allow her this period of time to prove to you to prove to the city, to prove to business licensing and metro that uh there will be no other violations that she can comply with Nevada law and the requirements of the Nevada Massage Ward as well, which has oversight of these establishments.

So we're asking for that opportunity.

Give her this window of time uh to prove to you that she can do well, and then we can come back in six months or a year, or on administrative review and address whether a more permanent structure to the licensing should be granted.

And that's what we're asking for here today.

Thank you very much.

Thank you so much.

Are there any questions or comments from council members?

Uh yes, Ms.

Palensky.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

I can't help myself.

Uh this case seems very cut and dry to me.

Uh we've seen others, Mr.

Kennedy.

Thank you for coming.

You always do a very good job for your uh clients.

Uh, but this one is not like others in the past.

This one is very clear.

Government resources that have been spent on this case already, I would imagine 10,000, 100,000 plus on monitoring these businesses and fully documenting the illegal acts that are taking place here.

Uh I don't have uh any patients for businesses that conduct prostitution and and probably human trafficking.

And uh I hope that this body really takes this specific case very seriously, and that we do everything we can to prevent this business from coming back.

Sometimes these businesses are like whack-a-mole.

We close one and it pops up in a different version or uh uh with a different ownership somewhere else.

Uh if we can use this case as fuel for us to ensure that this ecosystem is truly um stopped.

I'm I'm all ears on how we can make it better, but uh very little sympathy.

When you get to this part, this case, the time to uh change the way you do business is a year ago, is two years ago.

We are well beyond that, where the government has got a substantial case against you, all documented.

There is no reason for us to do anything else other than to revoke this license.

Thank you so much.

Ms.

Summers Armstrong, did you wish to speak?

Thank you, madam mayor I think my uh colleague has um said it very well.

I would love to hear from my colleague from um ward two where this business is housed.

One, I'm sorry, where this business is housed.

Um I'll just say from my own perspective that um we have a real issue in our community um with uh human trafficking, and we have a real issue in our community with illegal prostitution, and I don't have a lot of patience for it because I see what the result is.

We have um organizations that are housed within ward five that are trying to provide supportive services for women and young women and young people who fall prey to this kind of behavior, and undoing the damage costs us so much money and time when people have been harmed in these types of activities, and um we we don't have the we don't have the time or resources to continue to try and pull people along when we already are very clear that these activities are not allowed, and um I would like to hear what my colleague in ward one has to say, but I'm really concerned and don't have a lot of patience for it.

Thank you so much.

Before we hear from Councilman Knutson, uh Miss Kelly.

Thank you, madam mayor.

Um, I've got a question that may be more appropriately answered by staff.

The um representative for the business has said that uh um Miss Twang.

Is that correct?

Twain is a minority investor, but I thought I read that she would owned a hundred percent of the documents, uh hundred percent of the business in our she's a minority investor.

I meant as a as her status as a as an Asian American minority owners.

Okay, I thought I thought she was a minority holder in the business.

Okay.

Um, you know, uh, I would like to address the comments of um, sir of your comments as someone who spent a good portion of my early career representing the business community.

Um I took I I took this um very seriously.

And your point about um, I disagree with your point about her deserving to have a chance because she had that chance.

Uh she had it with the pre-inspection uh in March 18th before the license was issued uh when there were uh pillows and blankets in a break room and a hallway door with an interior lock.

She had that option a week later for a reinspection, and the pillows and the blankets were still present.

Uh beginning of April, uh her temporary business license was issued with the following conditions uh about the use of video monitoring devices, uh about mess massage rooms being fitted with locks and and not covering or blocking or otherwise disruption to the facility, and then uh the 17th, she was found in violation due to a key employee or owner not being on the premises, and then on the 25th of June, uh the vice operation was conducted while she and she was present there.

I could go on and on, but the point which and I agree certainly with my colleagues on the tragedy of human human trafficking, but I would be uh I I am aghast at how many options she was given uh and the the continuing failure to live up during a time where she could have proved herself to be adept at managing the business.

Uh and I think it would be a mistake for the city to extend that opportunity again.

Thank you.

Thank you, Miss Kelly.

Uh Mr.

Knutson, thank you, Madam Mayor, and I appreciate the comments up here and I appreciate the presentations uh at the dais.

Uh just for some I guess colorful background, I've I have probably a whole bunch of massage establishments in Ward One, like maybe the most.

It's not something that I'm most proud of, but it is probably true.

And I generally I meet with every single person that comes in for a license, they sit in my office, and because of the challenges we have in our community, I do ask them if they are going to engage in any illegal activity.

Uh it's a very useful or it's a very useful conversation I have, and I have it every single time uh with the commitment in my couch saying nope, I'm not gonna do that.

And I say, if you do do that, this is what's going to happen.

We had that conversation.

Uh and so Miss Adaby Hert, could we just go over some of the things you said because I think they're most relevant in this case?

Um kind of highlight the massage licensing board.

They've they have actions against the applicant as well.

Can you highlight what that is?

Um yeah, so we were just notified um a couple weeks ago that they did take action against um her license uh in January of this year, and so she is on probationary status with that.

I don't have further details exactly what those actions are, um, but we do have that information.

So we have one board that's uh initiated an action against the applicant.

Uh the hearing officer has also heard the uh claims against the applicant and the hearing officer upheld those claims.

Yeah, so she um there was the prostitution uh solicitation last year.

Um she was uh before the our hearing officer to dispute the fines that were associated with that because there was no closure.

Um those were upheld.

Uh she did come and explain to us exactly the same thing that she was it wasn't her, it was her employee, she'll manage it better, and we give her another chance, and here we are again a year later.

And then just could you highlight what a this is a privilege license?

It is a you highlight what a privileged license means.

So a privilege license is going to have um more um more to it that they have to go through a background check and um investigation through Metro because it's um uh it's higher, it's like a higher what's the word uh for the welfare of the city, it's uh yeah, um so they have to be able to pass that suitability.

There's a financial review, um, there are extra conditions that are added to the license uh because we found you know these ones to be um at that that privileged state, and so this one is one of those licenses.

Thank you, and then one last question.

You made a point that these licenses aren't based on the location or the business type.

This is based on the suitability of the applicant.

Is that accurate?

That is correct, yes.

It is a suitability report.

And it is on the person, um, the fact that she has two businesses in the city um at the same time in the same status.

We felt this makes the most sense.

Thank you.

And I know we have Metro representatives here.

I I've been on one of the sting operations.

I'm really grateful for the fact that we're partnered with law enforcement in these types of activities.

Uh for my colleagues and for anybody's watching.

If you walk into one of these establishments and you see sleeping quarters in the back of a closet, it uh implies something detrimental to not only the individuals there, but to the community around it.

So uh given all that information.

If you're ready for a motion, Madam Mayor, I'm ready to make it.

I will entertain a motion on item 28.

Madam Mayor, I move to approve staff's recommendation and deny the license for item 28.

Okay, please vote.

Um before you vote, I'm sorry, really quick.

Um yeah, um, I think uh councilwoman wanted to have a time frame normally.

There is a one year cooling off period, um, but I'm not sure if we wanted to extend that beyond that.

Jeff Dorcak City Attorney for the record.

There's a with a okay.

Let me hear what our city attorney has to say.

With a privilege privileged business license, as uh Darcy just explained what it was.

Uh there's a default one year uh cooling off period if there's a denial of the application.

So by default within the code, uh Ms.

Wong would not be able to come back for a year with a mistake uh massage establishment application.

All right.

Uh do you have a recommendation?

So um our recommendation would be for at least three years.

Oh, I'm gonna look around and see if I see any issues.

I'm gonna move uh to staff uh excuse me, except staff's recommendation for that time frame of three years with the denial of item 28.

Okay, please vote post motion carries and a motion for item 29.

Follow staff's recommendation for at least three years and support the denial for item number 29.

Please vote.

Post motion carries.

Thank you.

Thank you all very much.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Kennedy.

Agenda item 30.

Recommending committee bills eligible for adoption at this meeting.

Bill number 2026-26.

Councilwoman Polenski, would you like to have the bill read?

Yes, please, ma'am, mayor.

Uh Mayor, with your indulgence, I'd like to have uh the city attorney's office undergraduate intern Haley Berger read the bills today.

Haley is going to be a junior at Washington University in St.

Louis uh when she returns to school.

She's a dual major there in political science and organization and strategic management.

Um she spends some hours each week during the summer at our office, and she's also interning with the UNLV women's basketball team.

So I think we're gonna have trouble competing with them, but we'll do our best.

Um maybe give her a Jimmy John sandwich.

That might help.

So uh yeah.

But Haley, go ahead and read the first bill, please.

Okay, um, thank you all for having me.

Thank you, Mayor, Council, and especially the city attorney for giving me this opportunity.

So the bill up for adoption today is bill number 2026-26.

It's an ordinance to amend LVMC 19.12 to allow for the rental store use within the professional office starting district by means of a special use permit and to provide for other related matters.

Thank you so much.

Mayor Pro Tem may have a motion.

Move to approve.

Please vote.

Post motion carries.

Nicely done.

New bills.

Item 31, Bill 2026-27 will be heard at the recommended committee meeting on Monday, August 3, 2026.

City attorney, would you read the new bills?

Bill number 2026-27, an ordinance to adopt a redevelopment plan for the redevelopment area, commonly known as redevelopment area three, consisting of non-contiguous parcels, generally bounded by Owens Avenue to the north, Nellish Boulevard to the east, Charleston Boulevard to the south, and 21st Street to the west, and to provide for the other related matters.

New bill 2026-27 is assigned to the August 3rd, 2026 recommending committee members, Councilman Knutson and Councilwoman Palenski and Ms.

Diaz.

If any so designated are unable to attend, the clerk's office will coordinate finding substitutes as necessary at my direction.

Thank you.

Okay.

Items 32 through 32C are on the consent agenda, are considered to be routine and are recommended for approval by the Department of Q community development.

But I understand Councilman Knutson would like to pull it for discussion.

Yes, okay.

Um item 32.

26-0249 on the following land use entitlement project request of 1.57 acres on the north side of Alta Drive, approximately 280 feet west of Decatur Boulevard, C2 General Commercial Zone.

32A 26 0249-EOT1.

Second extension of time variance 21-072-VAR1 to allow 13 parking spaces where 19 are required.

32B 26 0249-EOT2, second extension of time, special use permanent 20 permit 21-072-SUP1 for a proposed mini storage facility use with a waiver to allow a stucco facade where a decorative block is required adjacent to a residential use and 32 C 26-0249-EOT 3, second extension of time site development plan review 21-072-SDR1 for a proposed 685 unit 101,311 square feet mini storage facility.

Yes.

Hi, good morning, uh Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, and Council.

My name is Andrea Carroll, 1980, Festival Plaza Drive.

Would you care to tell us about the project?

Yes, yes.

It is a three-story mini storage near the intersection of Decatur and Alta.

Um we I spoke with Councilman Knutson on Monday.

Um and I think we have a few things to talk about.

Um but it is it is its second extension of time.

Uh it was originally entitled with another owner, and then it was sold.

And now um the this owner's applying for his second extension.

So I I'm here to answer any questions.

Thank you so much.

May I have a staff report, please?

Yes, madam mayor.

Peter Lonesley for the record.

Commercial zoning and land use in the vicinity of the site have remained stable since the original approval, and the adjacent mixed use and commercial properties have been built out.

The project as approved remains appropriate for the site, and staff therefore recommends approval of the request.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Uh, there are any additional conditions.

Uh through Madam Mayor, once the councilman addresses uh the application, I may have some uh amendments to make.

Thank you.

All right, in that case, um, Mr.

Knudsen.

And then we'll ask for comment from, but I think we want to hear what you have to say.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

And we had this conversation on Monday, so I'm just gonna highlight the most important parts.

Uh so this part of the parcel, which is that larger old Flincher Jones parcel was uh part of the agreement that allowed for Nevada Hand and George Kakeis to build out the multifamily and uh senior uh income or senior lower income properties on that site.

They're highly successful.

Part of our negotiations in those in those projects was allowing for a self-storage site to go on that property, which was in question right now.

I never thought it was a great idea to put a self-storage site there, but it allowed for uh 460 affordable units to go in, and I think is a betterment for the community.

That being said, um, because the the property has been sold, and while this is uh two years for the current owner, this is now seven years for me.

And so I suggest that we do one year extension of time with the condition that if there are no activity with the city at all in one year, that this would be the last extension of time.

That being said, also uh I know things take time, and so in six months, if you're going through the plan review for the not plan review, but the building inspection process and the water district and the the gas company and all those things are happening, then I'd be happy to extend it longer if needed.

But if there's zero activity, which now in my in my time frame, there's been five years of zero activity, then the next time you come by four here, I would say there's no more extensions of time.

So the condition that Peter will hopefully help me with is a one-year extension of time with the with the trust that you're gonna start working on this project as quickly as possible, and within that one year have something going through the system.

Right.

Yeah, we we spoke with the owner about it, and he's ready to go.

Um and it would be from one year from today to have some sort of building permit or some permit in play.

Ideally, it's under construction.

But we would try.

We'll try.

Okay, Peter, can you make me sound smarter?

Sure.

So just for clarification, it's from the date of the entitlement.

Um was approved.

It's not from today's action, it's from uh the the original approvals date, which will be May 18th.

Um, but I will read the amended condition.

So it would be amended condition or approval number one of 26-0249 EOT1, EOT2, and EOT3 to read as follows.

This approval shall expire on May 18th, 2027, unless an extension of time is approved by the city of Las Vegas.

And that's how we would read it with the understanding that if there is zero activity at that point, that will be made known as part of any extension of time request.

Um that would be made, and you'd take your action at that time yeah.

I I know we can definitely submit for building permit by then.

I don't know if we'll have our permit in hand, because sometimes with the silver road use, it'll take, it can take up to a year, but as long as you're okay with us getting at least the building permit submitted.

Um, we're okay with that.

So you agree to all of the conditions that have just been stated.

Yes.

All right, and I think the idea is to get this project moving.

Moving.

Okay.

Cool.

All right.

Uh, does any are there any questions or comments from council members?

Seeing none, is there a motion, Councilman Knutson?

Madam Mayor, with the with the condition read into the record and agreed upon.

Um, I would move to approve items 32, A, B, and C.

Please vote.

Post motion carries.

Great.

Thank you all so much.

Thank you.

Best of luck.

Best of luck.

Items number 33 through 37 appear on the one motion, one vote agenda, and may be considered in one motion, one vote, as they are routine items with no condition changes.

Any person representing an application or a member of the public or member of the council not in grievance with the conditions and all standard conditions for the applications recommended by staff.

She requests to have that item removed from this portion of the agenda.

Item 33, 26-0116-SDR1.

Applicant owners, Zil Zilberberg Towers 1 LLC on a land use entitlement project request for a proposed seven-story 71 unit mixed use development with 1,800 square feet of commercial space with waivers of title 19.09 form based code development standards on 0.36 acres at 1801 Fremont Street, T4-C, T4 Corridor Zone Ward 3, Miss Diaz, uh agenda item 34, 26-0226-VAC1.

Applicant owner, GSI Osoblanca, Las Vegas owner LLC on a land use entitlement project request for a petition to vacate a portion of the right of way, Dough Brook Trail, generally located on the west side of Osa Blanca Road, approximately 1,106 feet south of Elkhorn Road, Ward 4, Miss Alan Pelenski, agenda item 35, 26-027-DIR1.

Applicant owner New Vegas D4 LLC on a 24-month development report is required by Section 9.01 of the first amended and restated development agreement for Vegas Rising, generally located at the southeast corner of Wilmington Avenue and Ridgefield Boulevard, Ward 3, Miss Diaz, agenda item 36.

26-0263-RQR1.

Applicant Jones Media LLC owner, Jonathan Park, LLC on a land use entitlement project request for a ret required review of an approved special use permit SUP-4811 for an existing 40-foot tall 12-foot by 24-foot off-premise sign at 3319 Mead Avenue, M industrial Zone Ward 1, Mr.

Knutson.

Agenda item 37, 26-0265-RQR1.

Applicant Jones Media LLC owner Jonathan Park LLC on a land use entitlement project request of an approved special use permit SUP-4812 for an existing 40-foot tall 12-foot by 24-foot off-premise signed at 3542 Cirrus Avenue M industrial Zone Ward 1, Mr.

Knutson.

The Planning Commission recommends approval of items 33 and 34, and the staff recommends approval of all items.

Item 33, 34, 36, and 37 are public hearings that I now declare open.

Is there anyone wishing to be heard on items 33, 34, 36, or 37?

Hearing and seeing none, I will now close the public hearing.

Move to approve.

Please vote.

Motion carries.

The planning commission and staff recommend denial on the entire land use project.

These are in Ward 5, Ms.

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

Is the applicant present?

Yes.

Would you like to tell first tell us your name and then would you like to tell us about your project?

Yes, we'll do.

Good morning, Mayor Berkeley and Council.

My name is Tony Gillerson with Silver State Contracting.

Um as you can see, we're uh proposed to renovate a current um it's a uh abandoned auto mechanic shop into a uh convenience store.

Uh the convenience store will have a um ice cream uh bar in it, and also uh we're looking to uh include four uh fuel pumps and then also um looking to add two EV chargers stations for cars.

Um I'm sorry.

No, it's at is that your um entire presentation?

Uh yes.

All righty.

May I have a staff report, please?

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

Uh staff finds that the lack of sufficient on-site parking may lead to on-site vehicular circulation conflicts and the lack of landscape materials will only will only contribute to the heat island effect, which is in direct conflict with the 2050 master plan, and therefore staff is recommending denial of both the variants and the site development review.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Is there anyone else wishing to be heard on these items?

Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing.

Um, are there any questions or comments from the council?

Miss Summers Armstrong.

Thank you, madam mayor, and uh thank you so much, sir, for coming down today.

Uh, this is a tough one for me, as you well know.

Um, we are doing our best to get in fill.

Um, and my understanding from staff is that this was a county um uh in the county previously, and they had different rules for um uh use under their terms, and now we at the city have these rules where we're trying to address heat island and circulation and just be thoughtful.

But then I have to weigh this against leaving this an empty space.

Um, it is tough, but I um I just want to mention a couple things.

First of all, you were very uh attentive and came in a couple of times to talk to us about adding trees and do you have any other pictures that you can share with us?

Did you bring anything in the I didn't?

I just have the actual elevations that I didn't know if you guys had it, but I we have the same.

Do you have anything to lay on the yes so that we can see there you go?

Right here.

Here we go.

Slide it over just a little bit to your yep.

There you go.

There you go, right there.

Okay.

All right.

So just give us a little quick walk through so that we have a better idea of what you have addressed and the concerns, please.

Okay.

All right.

So uh what we did is we add added these um plant islands here with with trees, and wherever we could, we added around the perimeter behind the st behind the store right now as a residential area.

So we added these trees here for sound buffers around the perimeter of the store, and then also each island in front on the Decatur Boulevard.

We added trees here also.

Well, uh trees and plants per um what is requested by the city.

I question is there any way to add?

I see um on your display.

I'm gonna guess at the larger circles are our trees.

That's correct.

And I only see one in the rear at the very top, which I believe is north.

Right here.

Is there any is there enough room to add any more trees in the back for the buffer?

So we do have actually these right here are actually trees here.

Okay, yeah, these are all trees right here.

Okay, those are smaller dots.

Correct.

Okay.

Right here.

Okay.

So how many trees do you have in the rear?

In the rear, we have we have seven.

And and what size are those?

These are 24 foot boxes.

Okay, all right, very good.

All right, um, and the gas station area does have a canopy.

That is correct.

Okay, and then the circulation issue comes into play because there's no way for a delivery truck to go to the rear.

It has to sit in front, idle, right?

Offload.

Okay.

So one of the things we talked about was I know I can't mandate it, but I would really appreciate it if the owner would try to schedule deliveries in the early morning uh or at the end of the day, so that we don't have a pile up on this very limited space.

Okay.

Uh I am going to be dogged about ensuring that the um landscape is kept up.

I live right nearby.

Okay, baby.

And I will be driving by.

Okay.

And so please let your owner know that he is going to be well attended and and watched.

And I I got code enforcement on speed down, so don't play.

Okay.

Um the next thing would be you have an ice cream shop.

Yes, it will be an ice cream shop inside.

Please work, have your owner begin to get engaged in the community.

We have youth development and social initiatives.

They are always helping young people try to find work.

Um that would be a great opportunity for a young person to be able to learn how to stock, um, how to um assist customers and give one of the young people in our community an opportunity, um, or several, especially in the summer, to have a job.

Okay.

I would also encourage your owner to become engaged in the activities that are in our community.

We have at Fountain Park, right down the street.

We have Bolden Little League that needs support.

Becker Tech, which is just to the uh west um of this location.

Um we want people who are coming into our community to extract income from our community because people will use it, but also to give back and be part of the uplifting of the community.

I can't mandate those things, but I can encourage those things, be a good partner in the community.

Okay, and with that said, Madam Mayor, I'd like to make a motion unless someone else has anything to add.

I just want to make sure that the applicant agrees to all the conditions that have been stated.

Yes.

Are there any questions or comments?

Um, Seth and Peter, did I miss anything?

Madam Mayor, uh, no, all the existing conditions addressed the what is shown on the plan right now.

Okay.

Thank you.

Um, and with that being said, I'd like to make a motion for approval.

Yes, please vote.

Post motion carries.

All right.

We're looking forward to seeing the convenience store, the ice cream parlor, everything else.

But if I were you, I would be very careful about what the councilwoman suggested.

Okay.

All right.

Thank you.

You're very welcome.

And I just want to add something too uh just to add with you as a as a general contractor.

Um that is something that I wanted to reach out to the community too as we're doing construction to to get different programs involved as we're in the process.

All right, thank you.

You're very welcome.

Agenda item 39.

26 stairs 0165 on the following land use and title and project request on 0.45 acres at 1712 Santa Paula Drive, 39A, 26 stairs 0165-VAR1 to allow a 16 foot rear yard setback where 20 feet is required for an existing building.

39B, 26 dash 0165 dash C O N1 from PR professional office and parking to R4 high density residential.

The applicant owner is Santa Gold Realty, LLC.

The Planning Commission recommends approval on the entire land use entitlement project.

Staff recommends denial on the entire land use entitlement project.

These are in Ward 3, Miss Diaz, they are public hearings, which I now declare open.

Is the applicant present?

Yes.

Would you state your name and tell us about your project?

Good morning, everybody.

My name's Amy Pan.

I'm the primary uh managing member of this uh project.

Um I'm the owner also.

Um so this pro uh gave a little historical information of this uh land.

It was combined from two parcels when I um purchased it.

Um the the 1708 Santa Paula uh was uh uh residential residential when I purchased.

So when we combined both parcels into one parcel, now it became PR a professional uh uh uh office.

Um however, since the way uh my last renter moved out last year, so this uh property hasn't been uh been vacant since uh last year uh October.

The problem with that area is uh it's a little bit rough area, and uh we have lots uh since if you can't check the system, we have lots of opening um citations on that property.

Uh I've been um sending lots of uh people there to clean, uh you know, just try to keep people off the property.

However, you know, um the full traffic is just never stopped.

And uh the only um observation, because the um next door the nest property, once we have tenants living there, the full traffic stopped.

So the only solution to this problem is to have somebody move in ASAP.

So um that's why we're planning to uh rezone this property into residential since I was not able to get uh tenant in there as a uh PR uh uh usage.

So that's I'm here to um propose this uh project to be able to rezone to residential uh back to residential uh community and then have tenants move in ASAP.

Thank you so much.

May I have a staff report, please?

Yes, Madam Mayor Peter Lone Stein for the record.

The existing building was previously converted from a multifamily use to an office use in 2015 where it conformed to the rear yard setback requirement.

Staff does not does not now support creation of a non-conforming setback, and there is no physical characteristics of the lock that warrants approval of the variants, therefore staff has recommended denial of the variance and the rezoning should be noting noted that if approved, uh pursuant to the code, a site development plan review would be required for the conversion of the existing commercial building to a multi-family residential use in the future.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

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

Seeing no one, I will uh close the public hearings.

Um there any questions or comments from the council.

Is there a motion, Councilwoman Diaz?

Thank you, Madam Mayor, and just to confirm your Miss Amy Penn.

Yes, okay.

Just making sure.

Uh Ms.

Pan, um, since I haven't spoken to you about um the future of the site, uh I want to reiterate what our planning staff just articulated.

So right now we're tackling the zoning change back to residential, but obviously from the renderings and the pictures, it is not inhabitable as is, right?

And so um you do have to come back to us as a city council to show us what you're how you're going to transform this defunct.

Um I'm calling it defunct and boarded office and professional use um to then what you're pivoting to offer in residential.

So are you understanding that you even if I bless this, you can't necessarily move someone in right away.

No, no.

Actually, uh right now we brought it up, it's just protect the windows from uh breaking, you know, by people.

And uh I did call uh building safety ask about the uh permit.

Um I talked to I think Lorenzo and he said as long as while we're planning to do, of course, some cosmetic upgrades to make sure the building, you know, is up to the standard code, everything.

And that's uh um I talked to Lorenzo and I was told I if we just do costumatic could uh upgrade, we don't really need to submit uh permit or anything.

Is that accurate planning team?

Because I don't think that is accurate.

So you met a mayor.

I'm not gonna speak for the building department or the building official, but uh the building is a commercial building, it's not suitable for uh a residential use.

It would have to be converted in pursuant to the zoning ordinance, they would need to do a site development plan review to convert the home or convert the commercial building to a residential use, and then subsequent to that, any building permits that would be needed for if it's fire safety or anything else would need to be accomplished after the entitlement.

Okay.

I understand.

Okay, maybe I'll just keep us is uh just put a permit to make have you guys to come in to inspect.

So that probably would be the outcome.

So once again, just to be clear.

So these are our land use applications, which the council is deciding on right now.

There would be one more, which was called the site development plan review, which shows how the site would be designed and work and function for it to go from commercial, the professional office, what it is now, to a excuse me, residential use.

So it's not simply a building permit, it is a land use entitlement similar to this.

Okay.

Then into the building permit.

So basically, you would have to go through this process once more.

You would have to have a pre-application sit down with our planning staff.

You would probably have to have hired folks to do renderings of what does it look like now.

How are you pivoting from what the current structure looks like to what you want to offer your future tenants and residents?

So it does, it is it does, it's not just you paint the building, you do some modifications and you're done.

I I think there could be more things involved.

Am I missing something?

Uh you're you're absolutely right.

There is there are more steps, it's not just one building permit.

What department should I work with on that?

Uh community, community development will cover it.

So community development, and if you reach out, they'll channel you with a planner, and then you can have all your questions answered about what's needed for the site development review.

But I did want you to, I want before we take a vote on the change of zone.

I want you to be full aware that there are multiple next steps that you still have to follow through before you can, you know, we want to make sure that we vet the living conditions that you're gonna offer future residents.

Okay.

Are you comfortable still moving forward?

Oh, yeah, I'm definitely move moving forward.

Okay, I I feel that the use is um is started residential, and I think it's even better for it to go back to residential, and so I don't have any heartburn about granting you the zone change.

So with that, I'm gonna move to approve agenda items 39A and B.

Okay, thank you.

May I ask the applicant, you understand that you need to get in touch with community development and start developing a plan that uh before you can move forward.

Oh, yeah.

Okay, I understand.

In that case, are you comfortable with that?

All right, and you agree to all the conditions uh on the letter I receive.

Right.

Okay, yes.

Okay.

Okay, very good.

All right.

Um, but definitely get in touch with community development so they could walk you through the next steps.

And with that, um, please vote.

Post motion carries.

Good luck.

Thank you.

Thank you for everything.

Agenda item 40.

26 0172-GPA1 general plan amendment, a public hearing, applicant owner, city of Las Vegas for possible action on a land use entitlement project request to amend and incorporate a supplemental heat mitigation, drinking water, cooling spaces, building practices plan as part of the conservation element to the city of Las Vegas 2050 master plan consistent with section 11 of ordinance 6788 affects all wards.

The Planning Commission and staff recommend approval.

This is a public hearing that I now declare uh open.

Mr.

Floyd.

Uh thank you, Mayor Seth Floyd for the record.

Uh, mayor, this item is before you today because in the last legislative session, Bill AB 96 was passed, which requires us to add some things to our existing master plan.

And Mark Ovalada on our team was instrumental in getting that passed.

He provided a lot of testimony during a couple of hearings there, but he is not here today, so I'm gonna hand it over to Rachel Lewison on his team to do the presentation, and then we'll be available to answer any questions afterwards.

Thank you.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Good morning, Madam Mayor, City Council.

My name is Rachel Lewison, City of Las Vegas, Department of Community Development for the Record.

And as Seth said, I am here to talk about the heat mitigation plan.

I first want to talk about how it came about.

And it was our last uh Nevada legislation session in 2025 where Assembly Bill 96 was passed, requiring counties with a population of more than 100,000 people, which is Washoe and Clark County and the jurisdictions within those counties to amend the conservation element within the master plan to now include a heat mitigation plan.

Assembly Bill 96 has language explaining exactly what needs to go within the heat mitigation plan.

And those items are access to public cooling spaces, public drinking water, cool building practices, and shade over paved surfaces.

Now, the city of Las Vegas, we have been addressing heat mitigation here, and it's been documented within our master plan.

We have a section within the master plan that talks about our hazards, one of those hazards being extreme heat.

Another section talks about our urban forestry and our urban forestry goals of planting 60,000 trees by 2050.

Another example that we've already been doing heat mitigation is uh this past November and December of 2025, we recently passed our urban forestry management plan.

This is a framework, a big book that tells us exactly what we need to do to ensure we maintain our tree canopy as well as what we exactly need to do to ensure we hit our tree planting goals.

Um, and so we're here today to we're here today to approve um uh amending our master plan to include a heat mitigation plan.

I next want to talk about our urban heat island and what that is exactly.

Uh heat and extreme temperatures is a jurisdictional problem.

It affects everyone here in southern Nevada.

And what is occurring exactly is as our city continues to grow, um, continues to expand outwards, we're inadvertently covering up our natural soils, our natural plants, um, and we're covering it up with asphalt and concrete and building.

And as we're living our urban lives, we drive to work, we turn on our air conditioning, um, we're inadvertently creating a lot of heat that's being absorbed by our built environment.

Um, so what we're finding here is this urban heat island where it's hotter in the concentrated areas of our city, so we're in our downtown region.

Um, and what this picture shows, this is an entire um map of our uh Las Vegas Valley.

The city of Las Vegas is outlined in that blue color there.

Um, like I said, it's a jurisdictional issue or it's a regional issue, so it affects everyone.

Um, and on the outside of the city, we can see um a blue color, which represents cooler temperatures, and as we um move in closer from the orange to yellow and red, that highlights that it's getting hotter.

So that's that urban heat island.

Um, I do want to call out um East Las Vegas is the hottest area here.

Um, so we have people that are living and working within East Las Vegas, uh, where this really um this heat mitigation plan will hopefully improve the lives of people that are working there.

And if I can just jump in for one second, Seth Floyd for the record.

Um, you had an item earlier to approve RDA3.

You'll notice that RDA3 is squarely within the bolded area that's highlighted here.

So as those areas redevelop, we can incorporate these practices that are gonna be outlined in the heat mitigation plan to get more trees, use different building techniques to start addressing the urban heat island there.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, so moving along with assembly bill 96.

Um, again, there it says exactly what needs to be in the heat mitigation plan.

So the first thing is public cooling spaces.

The city of Las Vegas has already been doing this.

We have the Courtyard Homeless Resource Center.

In addition to the homeless resource center, we have a partnership or a collaboration with our libraries.

So if there's a library located within the city of Las Vegas, it also acts as a cooling center.

Um, after cooling centers, we have to have access to public drinking water.

Um, and so what we did is we actually GPS'd our drinking fountains.

It would make sense that when we go out to our parks and within our community centers, that you're going to find a drinking fountain there.

And so that's what you see here.

Every red dot is a drinking fountain, and it corresponds with the community center that it's located in.

We GPS'd it because a recommendation within our heat plan is to expand locations for drinking fountains, and so it'll be easily accessible.

We can map where our drinking fountains are located.

Next is cool building practices.

It's important to think about as we grow and as we expand that we're not adding to the urban heat island, and that we're doing what we can to help mitigate that.

So that includes a great example is solar panels on top of our roofs.

So instead of the sun beating down on our roofs and heating up our buildings, we have solar panels that provide shade.

Also produce renewable energy in the process.

Other examples, the color of our buildings.

Instead of having dark colored buildings, we're having lighter colored buildings to help uh reflect the heat.

Even the orientation of the building, how it's um how it's built and the orientation to the sun, where we place our windows within our buildings as well.

Um we have a really great example here at City Hall.

Um we have what's called a green roof, which means that we have vegetation on top of our roofs.

So just outside um chambers and right outside of our now cafe, we have um our second floor patio where there's trees and there's an employee garden.

Similar to Civic Center, there's a similar trees and a garden outside of the Venn Cafe.

Next is shade over paved surfaces.

Again, great examples here in the city of Las Vegas, right downtown.

We have the Las Vegas North Premium Outlets where they have a shade structure that help people as they're shopping, that they can enjoy the shade.

Uh, a similar example of the shade structure in downtown Summerlin.

And so shade over paved surfaces includes both shade structures as well as our urban canopy with a preference for drought tolerant and native species.

Um and back to our uh 2050 master plan with our urban forestry goal of planting 60,000 trees.

That includes both public and private property.

This is a public uh project where we did a tree planting event at one of our local parks, um, educating the community about the importance of our urban canopy.

And then we also um want to plant 60,000 trees on private property.

We know that funding can sometimes be a challenge to work on private property.

Fortunately, uh, the city of Las Vegas, we received uh federal funding from the US Department of Agriculture for a service to plant trees in the front yards of family homes, and so that's what we see here.

This was a house located, or it's located in downtown, um, and our partner is par three, so they're doing the planting of the trees.

This was our very first tree from the grant, so this is really exciting.

Um, and so what comes with the funding to plant on private property is we have five options for drought tolerant trees.

Um, the trees are planted and then irrigation is included, and then a one-year follow-up on the tree just to ensure that it's on its way to grow big and strong and provide lots of shade for the years to come.

This is the flyer.

Um, and so the tree program doesn't apply for all of City of Las Vegas, it's only in select zip codes back to the map about the urban heat island.

So, this program is really to plant trees in areas that need them the most.

So, this is going to be that downtown core East Las Vegas, and I just want to thank council um for um helping me spread the word and sending this flyer to your constituents when your your uh your uh ward is located within our eligible areas.

And with that, um I'll answer any questions.

We ask that you pass um our heat mitigation plan and amending it within our master plan required by net Nevada legislation assembly bill 96.

Darcy.

Um I I've never been so enthusiastic about a heat uh mitigation proposal, but thank you so much for bringing this to life for us.

Uh, did are there any uh uh well uh I guess this is um uh is there anybody on the council that wishes to speak on this issue may approach him.

Thank you, Madam Mayor being the council member that represents a lot of that red zone that's on the map.

Um, I just want to say how invaluable these efforts are.

I literally can tell the difference when I travel from where I mostly am in that east side, and I I can feel how hot it is throughout the day, and then if I travel westward, the further west I am, I can feel it drop five to six degrees.

Um, and it really does, and in the time that we're living right now in July, where we're reaching upwards of 10.

Um, you really feel when it's above a hundred degrees every single degree that inches up.

So really excited.

Just an ask I have is keep us in the loop when you're doing the tree plantings.

We want to go out there and we want to celebrate and we want to congratulate every homeowner that's taking this big step to help us add to the tree canopy.

And I feel like I haven't been in the no and in the loop as much as I I really want to say as my calendar permits, and I don't have other duties assigned.

I do want to come and celebrate as often as we can, or at least award three temp team member can be there on my stuff in my stead.

So thank you so much.

Appreciate all the efforts.

Thank you.

Anybody else?

Thank you.

Thanks, Rachel, for the presentation.

I just had a clarifying question.

I know that you've mapped where we have water fountains, but did you see that we're also thinking about adding some?

And if we are, do we know what the anticipated cost of adding a water fountain is?

We have not reached out to public workset to ask about that.

Um, but the idea is uh recommending to include water fountains along uh public right of way, whereas people are walking or bicycling to work that they also have access uh to drinking water, but we're not sure in terms of like the cost that it would be and how we would get access to the the water to those areas.

And Councilman, I would just add to that what came out of AB96 was a requirement that we put in our master plan how we are going to both map existing and also plan for the future of adding new.

So this goes in our aspirational document of the 2050 master plan.

The next step would be implementation, which would be looking at locations where we could add those.

Yes, Ms.

Kelly.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Um there was probably more of a comment, Seth, to you and to the city manager.

I just want to make sure that when everything we do needs to be through this lens.

So whether it's new projects coming in to community development or we have, you know, we have this terrific new RDA, and and we're gonna be able to update local, you know, help help our community update the areas.

Where can we make sure there's another tree?

And I think a perfect example is uh what we had in the the gentleman who was talking about the item in Ward 5.

And I really appreciated the councilwoman's attention to the number of your call has exceeded the maximum permitted duration.

You will be disconnected now.

Goodbye.

Goodbye.

And so I I really hope that um, you know, through public works, you know, whatever we're doing, if we're if we're tearing something up and we can add a tree, or if we're taking things out, it should be part of every filter of what we do.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Ms.

Summers Armstrong.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

It is so amazing that we have such collaboration and unity on this board for this issue.

I'm also uh representing one of the hot areas on the Heat Island map.

When I saw that map in 2021, my first session in the legislature, when I tell you it get made me gasp.

I knew it, but to see it was overwhelming.

And to see that the city is Las Vegas is being intentional about making a difference.

I signed up for my tree.

Okay, because I want two trees and um in the front, so that I can be an example.

We took this flyer to a community meeting on Monday, and to see the excitement on people's faces, and then they were mad some of them.

Well, we live in another municipality.

And I said, That's not my problem.

The city of Las Vegas is doing their part.

And so I think what you are doing and your intentionality is catching on.

People still don't know, so we have to continue to talk about it.

Um, I'm gonna be an example and make sure that I'm talking about every opportunity I get.

And my question for Seth and Mr.

and uh Mr.

Solis uh is are we allowed to add some of these things as actual demands in um in our planning process?

Because um I just saw that we have a new fountain at um Ever Pearson, thank you, Parks and Rec.

I've seen people use it all the time.

How do we get this stuff in as mandatory?

Like we said, the ice cream shop, that's on a hot street.

That would be great to have a little water fountain out there.

So, how do we integrate these things, solar panels, um more trees and water, so that where we can, we take every opportunity.

Yeah, thanks, Councilwoman Seth Floyd for the recording.

Yes, thank you for mentioning Fred.

I forgot to introduce Fred who's been standing up here the whole time.

Uh Fred Solis is our planning manager.

Uh, he does a lot of work on planning commission.

So when these items come uh up, he shepherds them through that process.

Uh so this is step one, and actually, you already took a step.

Rachel had a slide up here about the urban forestry management plan, which we actually adopted back at the end of last year.

But this is really step one in setting the goal of where we want to go, and the next steps are implementation.

We have in draft form.

Uh we've had a couple over the years, but we've got one that we're moving forward.

Peter and I actually just talked about it this morning.

Uh another a tree ordinance that would actually add those specific requirements you're talking about.

Uh so those things are moving along.

We do them, you know, not everything moves as quickly as we'd like, but this is step one, so that it sets that priority for us to then go and develop those rules and guidelines to get those things implemented.

So I think this is, and you're already seeing even without this plan.

Uh, if you look on Jackson, we've done it on Main Street, Stewart, all of those roadway projects are including a lot more street trees.

In fact, my team did a management huddle where we went out and did a little walk around on Jackson, and we were it was kind of hot, so we were standing under one of those excellent shade trees that's gonna provide even more shade.

So uh we're already doing those things regardless of the plan, but we can we're this is certainly the step in the right direction to get those implemented.

Okay.

This we good.

Uh this is an open hearing.

Is there anybody that wishes to be heard on this item before I entertain a motion?

Please come forward.

My name is Eric Melkeze de Christ Nimrod.

This heat mitigation situation is fantastic.

It must be understood that trees ought to be planted around bus stops, also, and it should be understood that a bus is a cooling system.

It's air conditioned.

It's a moving air conditioning uh vehicle for the people.

Some are parked, especially in BTC at the BTC, and they're running, and they won't let anybody get on them into the cool to get out of the heat.

So it must be understood that part of this heat mitigation situation should be that all those those buses, they'll be running, and nobody's allowed on them.

So that should be thought of in this heat mitigation thing.

The RTC should be more.

Thank you very much.

Anyone else?

Then I will close the public hearing.

I have to say the uh moment of personal privilege.

My family moved to Las Vegas in 1964 in the middle of the summer, right around this time of year.

I honestly thought my family took me to hell.

And I am now I'm mayor of hell.

And so I I'm just so um so proud that to be mayor of a city that understands the importance of this and is not only working on heat mitigation, but we're beautifying the city as we go along.

So thank you so much for your extraordinary efforts on all of our behalfs.

We appreciate it, we recognize it, and it's making a huge difference.

And with that, I will entertain the motion.

Uh, mayor pro tem.

I move to approve, madam mayor.

Please vote.

Post motion carries.

Thank you so much.

Agenda item 42.

26-0206-EOT one extension of time, special use permit, SUP-78660.

Applicant owner, Pacific Classic LLC for possible action on a land use entitlement project request for the third extension of time of the approval for a proposed car wash, full service and auto-detailing use at the northwest corner of Iron Mountain Road and Sky Village Road.

Uh C One, limited commercial zone, ward six, Miss Bruni Planning Commission recommends approval.

Staff recommends denial.

Is the applicant present?

Good morning, your honor members of the council.

My name's Bob Gronauer, 1980 Festival of Plaza Drive.

I'm here representing the property owner and applicant on this matter.

Um, we're asking for an extension of time here.

There was a condition that the planning commission put on that states that this application would be good until December 4th of 2026.

And the reason for that is we're getting ready to come in with a subsequent application in here for a large end user on this piece of property.

So we're excited of what's going to be coming here in the very near future.

So we ask you to approve the planning commission's recommendation, which also lines up with what you approved for convenience store in this property last month.

Thank you so much.

May I have a staff report, please?

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

This is the third extension of time for this special use permit approval, which has remained active for six years, even though the site development plan review for the site that includes the car wash expired three years ago.

Staff recommends denial and recommends that a new special use permit be sought when the developer is ready to obtain a new site development review and site development plan review entitlement.

But as Mr.

Groinauer stated, the planning commission did amend condition number one to have this approval expire on December 4th, 2026, unless another extension of time is approved.

Okay.

Are there any questions or comments from the council?

Okay.

So staff uh explain to me what we are requesting.

Uh you're asking for a complete denial.

Yes, staff tip typically when we get to this uh a third extension of time, staff will ordinarily recommend denial and have the applicant come back with a new application when they're ready to develop.

What would your preference be?

Oh, we would like to follow Planning Commission's recommendation.

And the reason with their recommendation is this was previously approved for part of a Costco site.

Uh this Costco is going to originally go here.

Unfortunately, uh that fell out of the deal.

They're gonna the Costco's looking for another place to go.

We have another big end user that's here that um hopefully I'm told Friday, Monday that we'll know that we'll officially be able to say who the end user is.

We've been working very closely with the councilwoman in this um in this area, Councilwoman Bruni.

So the way we look at this, there's no harm here by approving this application because what we're telling you is if we don't have this end user in and submit our application before December 4th, that application's gone.

We're not coming back here, and you're not gonna see us for the convenience store or the car wash.

So we just need this in here so we can finalize the deal with our end user, and then you'll like the end user that's gonna be coming in here if this all comes to fruition.

And if not, you're not gonna see us here in December asking for an extension of time.

Thank you so much.

Councilwoman Bruni.

Thank you, Mayor.

I'd like to make a motion to approve item number 42, 26 0206-EOT1.

Please vote on the motion.

Post motion carries.

Thank you.

Have a good day.

Thank you so much.

Agenda item 43, 26-0216-DIR1, director's business, applicant, College of Southern Nevada, owner, Nevada System of Higher Education for possible action on a request for the first amendment of the cooperative campus development agreement between the city of Las Vegas and the Board of Regents of the Nevada system of higher education on behalf of the College of Southern Nevada.

This is in ward four, Miss Alan Polenski.

This is a public hearing that I now declare open.

Hello.

Good morning, Carissa Nath.

I'm associate general counsel at the College of Southern Nevada.

Would you care to tell us about your project?

Uh yes, this is regarding uh the construction of CSN's campus in the Northwest.

And the purpose of the action item before you is relatively simple.

Uh basically the Nevada system of higher education and the city of on behalf of uh CSN and the City of Las Vegas had entered into a cooperative agreement on July 20th, 2017.

Um, subsequent to that, the BLM issued basically an amended land patent.

And each agreement contains differing terms regarding the construction date for for a building to be completed on that Northwest campus.

Under the initial cooperative agreement, CSN had eight years from the transfer of the land from the United States government to the Nevada system of higher education to construct at least one educational building.

However, when we got the amended land patent uh from the United States, that provided different language and said that CHSN shall complete the first building or show progress towards the development of the College of Southern Nevada campus within 12 years of when the land was conveyed to NC.

And so the action item before you is basically to um approve the first amendment to the cooperative agreement.

So the language in the subsequent land patent is in alignment and gives CSN the 12 years.

Thank you so much.

May I have a staff report, please?

Yes, Madam Mayor.

The proposed amendment complies with all NRS 278 and Title 19 requirements.

The amended updates the development agreement with more accurate information pertaining to the date in which the land was conveyed from the U.S.

government to the College of Southern Nevada, as well as provides a review mechanism for the city council to monitor progress of the development of the Northwest campus.

No other portions of the agreement have been modified and staff recommends approval of the request.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

This is a public hearing that I now declare open.

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

Seeing none, I will close the public hearing.

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

Okay, very good.

Is there a motion?

Councilwoman Polenski.

Uh yes, thank you, Madam Mayor.

I enthusiastically move to approve item number 43.

And I would like to ask if it is uh if the entire council agrees to invite uh CSN to come sometime in the fall, maybe November or December, and uh fully explain in our presentation portion of the council to the people of the Northwest exactly what's planned.

I think CSN would be happy to do that.

Thank you.

There's a motion on the table.

Please vote.

Motion carries.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Agenda item 44.

Rescind 26 0127 SDR1, site development plan review, public hearing.

Applicant Trout Electric Owner, Novak Holdings LLC for possible action on a land use entitlement project request for a proposed parking facility with waivers of perimeter landscape requirements on 0.35 acres at the northeast corner of Lake Mead Boulevard and San Simeon Street, C One Limited Commercial Zone Ward 5, Ms.

Summers Armstrong.

Um at the June 17th City Council meeting, this item was held in abeyance to the August 19th, 2026 council meeting.

This item is to consider uh rescinding that council action so the item could be heard today.

This is a public hearing that I now declare open.

Is there anybody wishing to be heard uh regarding rescinding the previous council action on this item?

Seeing none, I'll close the public hearing.

Mayor, Jeff Dorkak, City Attorney for the record.

On this item, we would just need any of the council members because everyone voted unanimously back in July to hold it in abeyance or June to hold it in abeyance.

So I would uh assume councilwoman Summers Armstrong can make the motion or would want to make the motion.

We on this item, let's go ahead and move to rescind the abeyance from August 17th.

Was that the date?

Uh 19th.

Yeah, August 19th.

August 19th.

Uh so we'll move to rescind the the abeyance uh to uh for for August 19th and set the hearing for today.

And once that motion's made and if it's approved, we can then proceed to item 45.

All right, thank you so much.

Um, Miss Summers Armstrong, do I have a motion?

Yes, madam mayor.

I move that we rescind the abeyance uh to August 19th and allow this item to be heard today.

All right, please vote.

Post motion carries.

Now we're at agenda for item 45.

Reconsider 26 0127-SDR1 abeyance item, site development plan review, applicant trout electric owner Novak Holdings LLC for possible action on a land use entitlement project request for a proposed parking facility with waivers of the perimeter landscape requirements on 0.35 acres at the northeast corner of Lake Mead Boulevard and San Simeon.

Um C1 Limited Commercial Zone Ward 5, Miss Summers Armstrong.

Uh Planning Commission recommends approval, staff recommends denial.

Uh this is a public hearing that I now declare open.

Is the applicant present?

Yes, we are.

Would you care to tell us about your project?

Yes, absolutely.

Thank you, Mayor, Mayor Pro TAM, Council for rescinding the motion and allowing us to be heard today.

It's greatly appreciated.

Um in 2021, when Clean Cal Queen Cars Nevada was adopted, there were 17,000 EVs on the road.

Nevada now ranks third nationally with 65,000 EVs on the road.

There is a lacking infrastructure.

For example, we did a surrounding search of 60 square miles, and we only found 27 DC fast dust chargers.

To put that into comparison, there are 3300 gas pumps in the same square mile area.

We're proposing 16 chargers on a parking facility.

Benefits to the communities include building the local community, offering the fastest charging speeds available on the market, and increasing public safety by reducing risk for battery battery efficiency loss caused by the heat locally.

We will also be eliminating an empty lot, which we just heard the problems that that can create.

We have added landscaping to that buffer.

We have also added canopies.

We are proposing to uh add the 16 charges across two phases.

Uh with that, I will ask if there's any questions.

I thank you so much.

May I have a staff report, please?

Yes, madam mayor.

Uh the parking facility is proposed on a vacant property zone uh limited commercial.

The site is directly adjacent to single family residential subdivision to the north and a shopping center and development to the east.

Vehicle charging operation tends to serve general public 24 hours per day, seven days per week.

And the facilities are proposing, as mentioned, 16 electric vehicle charging posts, specifically serving Tesla Vehicles and Ford Tesla power cabinets.

Although it will be screened from view, the location of the proposed mechanical equipment near residential property is a concern.

Pad Mountain Transformers and proposed Tesla power cabinets are typically low noise generators under normal operation and generally meet the noise requirements of TEL19.

However, this equipment should be sited away from residential property to minimize nuisance.

In addition, the proposed development requires waivers of perimeter landscape buffer requirements and exceptions of parking lot landscaping and trash enclosure location, which staff does not support and therefore recommends denial of the request.

And at the time of the motion, if the councilwoman has any additional requests, I'll take care of those at that time.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

I'll close the public hearing.

Does the applicant well let me hear first from are there any questions or comments from members of the council?

I'd like to hear from Miss Summers Armstrong.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Can you please uh lay out your um your plan so that uh my colleagues can see what you have in mind?

Okay, so just for some points of clarification, these charging stations, as you are proposing, would be open to any type of vehicle.

They have adapters where they're not just one brand but can be used by all.

That's correct, they're equipped with magic ducks, so drivers will not need to provide their own adapters.

Okay, and then we had an issue about landscaping to give some shielding to the uh residential property that is immediately adjacent to the north.

Could you please lay out what it is that we are looking at?

That is this area right there on here.

Talk to us about what you're planning.

We have added four of the paleo verde, and then for every four of those, we've added shrubs.

So further's one for four to keep the ratio.

There's a total of 19 24-inch trees on the on the property total, and there are I believe there's 28 of the days lean days old and wheelery, um, 48 of the ephoriba tarukali, and we added some um some cacti, just as optional.

Okay, thank you.

Um you thought about limited the hours of operation so that it is not disturbing at uh or at least controlling the pumps that are nearest to the residential after a certain number of hours.

Um, so anything right near the the um the garbage enclosure because that's pretty close to residents as well.

Sure.

Um, that I would have to come back for.

Um the primary purpose of this parcel is to get drivers access 24-7 to charging, so to limit the business hours would be a significant problem.

Okay, um, when we're talking about the um the shade structures, um, I would I would like um to propose that they are fixed structures that are not made out of fabric, so that they don't um I know that you're you're from California, as I'm I uh the heat here is a shock.

Um, and it also does damage significant damage to any fabric, um, anything made out of a plastic material, it is going to go away.

It will not last.

So um I've talked to Peter in the uh um community development and ask him to uh create something which would be um uh a need, which would that whatever those shade structures are would be made of something like steel, architectural grade aluminum or a luma wood, but something that is going to last.

And if you all can have those um work with uh someone where we can get some energy produced out of that, it would make a lot of sense to have uh that so that it can you know run the lights underneath, which should be controlled.

So I think that there's some still a few things that need to be clarified.

If your covers have lights, making sure there's not a lot of uh noise from the lights onto the property.

Uh I am concerned about 24 hour.

Um we'll give it a minute and and can we revisit this and see if we have any uh uh have an administrative review in a year to see if we've had any complaints from neighbors about noise, people playing their music while they're charging their and it's disturbing the neighbors.

Um those folks have been here way longer.

So we want to make sure that we're respecting that regard the canopy we have.

I've provided conceptuals.

These are conceptuals.

The height of the canopy will be about uh 13 to 15 feet.

They will be made of aluminum steel, they will be fixed.

There will be solar panels on top.

And there will be lights.

Wonderful.

Pete do you Peter?

Do you need to read the um that um piece in the uh through you, Madam Mayor?

Yes.

Uh I was just working on the uh administration I'm assuming an administrative required review.

Um so to the first part about the materials, um planning commission did add a condition, and it's condition B within the staff report on on the site development review.

It currently reads provide car ports or shade structures over each of the electrical charging stations along the East property line.

We would amend and add to that condition the car ports or shade structures are to be made of either steel architectural grade aluminum and or aluminum wood.

And then I would be adding an additional condition of approval to that site development review, which would read an administrative required review shall be conducted one year from the date of um business license issuance.

Does the applicant agree to the conditions?

Yes, we do.

All right, I'll entertain a motion.

Madam Mayor, I have a question about ma'am.

I have a question about the condition.

Um regarding what councilwoman Chandra Armstrong, Chandra Summers Armstrong, pardon me, requested.

Is it a simple thing and is it appropriate to have to ask the applicant to put in signs at the charging station that asked to be respectful of the neighbors and to keep the music or activity low and to a minimum?

I mean, I'm I'm really I don't know if that's an appropriate question to ask.

I'm sure it's an appropriate question.

Um Ms.

Summers Armstrong, is that something you would like to incorporate into your motion?

Uh Mr.

Attorney, what kind of uh room do we have on something like that?

Well, as the mayor said, yeah, it's a perfectly appropriate and fine question.

Um if you if if you'd like to lay it out, I I don't have an issue with it.

I think the applicant might be amenable, it looks like so.

I'll defer to the councilwoman.

It was just an idea I thought of.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um, Miss Kelly, and um, I don't always get everything in when I'm thinking then afterwards it'll be like, oh my goodness, I should ask for this.

Thank you for suggesting it.

I think it would be appropriate, especially at those stalls that are nearest to the um the residents.

Just ask people, you know, after 9 p.m.

Between nine and you know, seven, you know, please don't play your music, and we'll see.

And hopefully that'll mean that when we come back for the the review in a year, we won't have anyone complaining.

Absolutely, we can do that.

All right, you're comfortable with that condition.

Absolutely.

All right.

In that case, Miss Summers Armstrong, I will entertain a motion.

So moved.

Please vote.

Through you, Madam Mayor I'm just trying to put that condition in planar reads.

Do you want to uh why don't you reiterate the uh the condition?

What is the motion we are voting on?

So uh well the motion would be I think approval with the amended condition be an added two conditions, and the second condition that I'm don't know if I have ordered correctly or not is on-site signage shall be provided requiring general courtesy for the neighboring properties by not playing loud music, or was it just should I just cut it off a general courtesy noise and disturbances?

I'm just trying to think of what we might do for a park.

It's it's just I'm not trying to overregulate it.

I do I was just I like what I like about it is it shows that the councilwoman in the city thought about it, and so it it's we're being proactive, and I think that's appropriate.

Whatever you would ever this may be a question for uh Jeff, but we could reference if we want it to be something that would be enforceable by code enforcement, for example, we could reference uh a nuisance, like who is not to create a nuisance or something in that regard, so then it at least triggers uh back to a section of code.

But Jeff, I don't know if that's specific.

Jeff Dorgick City Attorney, that sounds fine to me, so does Peter's original language.

I mean, the intent there is clear.

There's gonna be some signage saying don't be loud with various noise types, the way the the wording is on your end, just make sure that's covered.

When they go to look.

We can do that.

All right.

Well, actually, there is a motion on the table.

Please vote.

All right, should I give it one more read through so it's clear other?

Yeah, I I think we'd all appreciate it.

All right, thank you.

So that that other added conditions on site signage shall be provided requiring general courtesy for the neighboring properties by eliminating noise and disturbances.

Please vote.

Post motion carries.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

We'll see you next year.

Agenda item 46.

This item was heard earlier in the meeting.

Agenda item 47.

Set date on any appeals filed or required public hearings.

I would instruct the city clerk to set the public hearing dates and appeals from the city planning commission meetings and dangerous buildings or new nuisance litter abatements.

We'll do.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

And I before we um continue, I just wanted to acknowledge our uh legal intern again, Haley Berger.

Uh thank you so much for being a part of our summer here in the city.

I think Jeff told me he wanted to offer you a job when you graduate.

I'm waiting on uh the city manager to give me that job.

So uh apparently, Healy, your entire future depends on the city manager.

So agenda item 48.

Citizens' participation, public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters within the jurisdiction of the city council.

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

If you wish to be heard, come to the podium, 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, will be limited to two minutes.

Uh, this is your opportunity to address the council, but the council is not able to respond or engage in dialogue.

Are there any members of the public who wish to speak under this portion of the agenda?

Please state your name for the record.

Hi, I'm Shoshana.

I'm a resident, and I'm here again to urge the council to end the invocations, the praying at these government meetings because this is not a church.

The source of your invocations, however, is the Bible, which you support.

The Bible invokes rape, incest slavery, torture, bodily mutilation, mass drownings, the murder of firstborn kids, the killing of men for their foreskins, anti-gay rhetoric, throwing babies against rocks, boiling and eating children, and so on.

I also want to get into the irony of this book.

Um, let's not forget the Jewish people wrote the Bible, including all the commandments, which were written for no one else but themselves.

Then the Jewish Bible was plagiarized, and a part two was created, also known as the New Testament, that depicts a Jewish baby raised by his Jewish mom and his two Jewish dads.

Yes, your God is 100% Jewish, um, and is described as having white hair, fire in his eyes, floating around in the sky, wearing a robe and sitting on a throne.

And by the way, the old testament God is the same as the new testament.

People argue with me all the time.

It's the same guy.

And then part two claims that the Jewish Jesus character dies and is magically raised from the dead like a zombie and is involuntarily converted to a Christian.

I don't know if you know this, but you cannot convert a dead Jewish man unless the story is fiction.

But at least people knew at the time this started that the enormous profitability there would be in religion.

And so they made up an image of Jesus.

Nobody knew what he looked like.

It was all made up.

They made an image of his dead body and took his carcass and hung it up on the wall, made art out of it, made jewelry out of his carcass, and various other merchandise, and then got tax-free status with their religious um formation to change.

Brilliant, wasn't it?

Again, I urge the council to stop bringing religion into these chambers.

Please do your job and not keep using this building as a house of worship because this is not a church.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Is there anyone else that wishes to address the council?

Madam Mirror, I just want to make sure we have two citizens that have been sitting here quite patiently for the meeting, and we have some cart speaker cards for them.

So I have a Rihanna Apodaca and Jack Trujillo.

This would be the time that you want to come up and speak.

Welcome, and would you state your name for the record?

There we go.

Hi, my name is Rihanna Apadaka.

Um, mayor and members of the city council.

Um, Las Vegas has internationally synonymous with opulence, just a few miles down the road in a facility that is funded and overseen by this municipality.

Residents are struggling for fundamental survival.

To the representatives of Ward 5 and this council, the systemic failure is occurring directly within your jurisdiction.

Looking at me tonight, I likely deviate from the demographic preconceptions of an unhoused individual.

But I arrived here following the devastating loss of my father while navigating severe health issues and endeavoring to actively maintain my employment.

My presence demonstrates that catastrophic life events can dismantle anyone's socioeconomic security.

Yet instead of encountering a rehabilitative sanctuary, disabled residents, including those like myself who battle things like brain tumors or advanced cirrhosis of the liver, are subjected to six systemic neglect.

I stand before you as a solitary voice because a majority of my peers suffer from paralysis and are terrified of administrative reprisal.

While a select few compassionate staff members attempt to mitigate these issues, their efforts are neutralized by structural impediments.

Meanwhile, the dominant culture among other personal personnel and security is overtly adversarial.

Crucially, this mistreatment is not isolated to those with physical vulnerabilities.

It is pervasive.

It is a pervasive daily pattern of degradation and psychological abuse directed at every single individual housed at the courtyard.

When an advocate for legally mandated ADA accommodations are brought up, we are met with retaliation and verbal abuse.

We do not solicit preferential treatment or demand uh structural compliance.

I simply urge you guys to mandate an immediate independent investigation into the compliance failures and staff misconduct at the courtyard.

Please don't let these people slip through the cracks.

Thank you so much.

Yes, Sabra.

Um would you mind waiting a minute?

There's somebody that would like to uh uh from the city that would like to speak with you.

Thank you so much.

Welcome, and would you state your name for the record?

Good morning, Mrs.

Mayor.

My name's Jack Trujillo.

I'm calling in regards to my neighbors uh hoarding dogs, and uh instead of picking up the dog poop and putting it in a trash bag and putting in the trash can.

They're digging holes under my wall and placing it there and putting water in there, saturating it.

The stench is terrible, and now we have screw worm flies.

And unfortunately, the city of Las Vegas has no protocol for screwworm flies.

Arizona, Texas, this is a foreign disease coming from Brazil.

Well, due to these people doing what they're doing, our area is now infested.

And I've called everybody in the city of Las Vegas, and the answer is not my job.

Not my job.

This is a critical situation.

People should not pile dog poop on the sides of the house.

It goes in the trash and it goes to the dump.

When it collects flies, fleas, ticks, this is a disgrace.

And it's terrible that nobody in the city will take care of it.

Now my neighbors are Joey and Joey Joey Mullins and Karen Mullins.

They're fostering dogs.

They don't have the area to have dogs.

They have 200 square feet.

These dogs have been locked up in the house for over a year.

She only brings them out late at night.

And then with the poop, they push it in these holes and put it in the saturated with water.

Now we're infested with all these flies.

What's the city gonna do about the flies and all this stench and all this poop?

If you are running a business, whether it's fostering dogs, regardless what the business is, there's appropriate ways to dispose of dog feces and other trash.

This is not the way.

Thank you.

Would you mind giving your address so that we can go and investigate it?

My address is 3724 Dorrington Drive.

The neighbors is 3720 Dorrington Drive.

Okay, we will zip code 89129.

Now, Mrs.

Polanski said I cannot do nothing for one year.

But I think your time is up, but I thank you very much.

We'll look into it for sure.

Last thing I also did ask your secretaries for an appointment, and a month went by, and I still haven't heard from him.

And I called again today.

I would still like to have that appointment in person with you personally.

Let's see what we could do to take care of this problem.

And thank you for coming down.

I appreciate it.

Is there anybody else?

Um sir, would you mind speaking with Mr.

Hacker?

Thank you so much.

Please state your name for the record.

My name is Eric Melkeside Christ Nimrod.

You can find uh Christ in the Bible, conquering death.

Don't worship as death, worship is conquering death.

That's why people are dying so much.

They're worshiping this death.

Their savior died.

No, the savior conquered death.

That's the fighting.

Please keep your comments to uh within the jurisdiction of the city.

Well, you're the one that okay.

All right.

LVA is needed, and heat mitigation situation is needed because Lake Mead, whether you know it or not, is drying up.

It's at a dangerous point right now.

The RTC is building a lot of um at a lot of intersections, destroying the uh flow of traffic.

The Malin Parkway had a sign saying, if you want to know about it, call this number.

I called the number months ago, and they said, well, the it will end in June 226.

I said, Wow, that's a long ways off, but it's still being constructed, it's still being constructed, and lake now Lake Mead and MOK Jr.

Intersection is being constructed.

You seem to be following me everywhere I go.

The um the RTC is really causing a lot of problems, and the bus drivers should be taught better as to how to use those buses because the people need to be protected from the bus drivers.

Heat mitigation, the buses are cooling stations.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Nimrod.

And we the people need to be protected.

Then that is what we're doing.

Thank you so much.

You're doing a great job as pro chance.

Council emerging issues, discussion regarding potential items for future city council agendas or wards.

Any discussion must be limited to whether or not such proposed items shall be placed on a future agenda.

No discussion regarding the substance of any proposed topic shall occur.

No action shall be taken.

Do any members of the council have any topics that they would like to bring forward under this item?

Seeing none, we will move to agenda item number 50.

Council members' recognition.

Comments made by individual city council members during this portion of the agenda will not be acted upon by the city council unless that subject is on the agenda and scheduled for action.

Let us start with our new mayor pro Tim.

Wow, I'm still getting used to the title, Mayor.

I apologize in RDA.

I was like, you say MPT and it still hasn't registered for me, but thank you so much.

I also want to give kudos to Haley Berger for doing a really good job on reading our bills today.

So thank you so much for being with us.

I know that uh getting through our business can be exciting at times, but not so exciting sometimes.

Um I just want to go through a few things because I I do know that I'm standing between you all and the World Cup match between England and Argentina.

So um let me go ahead and get started.

On July 1st, I had the honor of welcoming a wonderful group of Girl Scouts to our city hall.

And it happened during our last city council meeting, and I just want to thank everyone in City Hall for making them feel so welcome.

They took tours within our main building, but they also went to our municipal court and they learned so much about democracy and action, and they earned their democracy badge that day.

So special kudos goes out to parks, recreation, and cultural affairs, department of public safety, municipal court, chief judge Giordani, and our city clerk's office, assistant, and our very own assistant city manager Rosa Cortes.

Um and the girls also met with representatives from the office of the Nevada Secretary of State across the way and Congresswoman Dina Titus.

So thank you so much to everyone for making this an awesome day for them.

On July 6th, I popped into ward five to visit the Just One Project.

Um they used to be Ward 3 though, uh, when they had a tiny little closet of a space, but I'm so elated to see that they've grown so much and they continue to do an amazing job for everyone in our city.

And um, we just uh were there to partake with Brooke and uh share a little bit about my journey and who I am and why I'm in this work.

So I just want to thank them for being invited to their podcast on July 9th.

I was over at the Concept Auto Body Repair Grand Opening, and it's not your everyday um I guess body shop.

I was uh amongst the mist of a Bugatti, which I had never seen uh close and personal, and uh I also heard a tidbit that just in cars that were there showing off.

We there was about an inventory of seven million dollars.

I was like, oh my gosh.

Um but this is a new repair shop in Ward 3, owned by the proud owners of Lou and um Wendell Rangel, who had impeccable attention to detail for bringing this to our community.

Um he was approached by Mercedes Benz to open a shop, and I'm glad he chose our city to do it in.

On July 9th, we also had the Museum of Ice Cream ribbon cutting, and the mayor and I had a blast from cutting the ribbon to going through the immersive exhibits at the new Museum of Ice Cream at Area 15 in the second phase of it.

This is a colorful new attraction, and it's also another exciting addition for residents and families to enjoy.

Um Mayor Berkeley and I um got, as you can see, our own little removable tattoos, and I got to go down the slide, which was the best part of the day.

Everyone was laughing at me, but it's okay with you with you.

Um I just want to bring up this very important road closure casino center at Charleston Boulevard.

If you guys have been in that area of town, it's reduced down to one lane, and it takes quite a bit, so you either have to add additional minutes to your commute or just use alternate routes to get to and from um through to the arts district.

So just note casino center will be closed on the south side of Charleston Boulevard through July 31st.

And um, just call our office if you need anything else from us on that point, and that's it for me, Mayor.

As usual, people can reach out via phone, email, and sign up for monthly newsletters.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Miss Kelly.

Thank you, Mayor.

I was thrilled on July 1st to be in my first parade.

And I joined the mayor and councilwoman Francis Polensky as well as councilwoman uh Nancy Brune and many of our colleagues.

I'll tell you it was really special to ride and uh see not only that I mean that the best part of the children's faces, but I also loved how Councilwoman Alan Polinski.

She must have said hi to at least a dozen people.

That woman knows everybody.

So I was particularly impressed with that, and what a lovely time to be with all of you.

The Summerlin uh council does a terrific job on that parade.

I then was earlier in the month, had the opportunity to tour Shina Light Foundation.

I did not go into the tunnels, but I did learn a lot about their program and was very impressed to meet with Robert Binghart and learn about the incredible work that they're doing to serve individuals experiencing homelessness and other vulnerable members of our community.

He gave a statistic, and I didn't ask the origin, but that said 60% of our of our population was uh one paycheck away from a from a crisis, and that uh you know I grew up in uh you know with with the very uh modest and um and that was my mom's situation certainly and I was sharing with the councilwoman uh with councilwoman Summers Armstrong that had my grandmother not had a house where we were we lived uh multiple times through times in our life that uh I would likely have been homeless at some point.

So it is and it never occurred to me until um you know until actually recently that that was that was a uh what a gift that was.

I just thought that was what you did with your grandma as you moved in and out of where she lived, uh, which is probably a lot of people.

Uh one of the things the Shine of Light that does is does have a community closet, um, and they're always uh stalking it with with new stuff, and so um we have so many of our nonprofits that have community closets.

Here's another place where it goes directly to people, and we like to know that.

And just a couple things that are upcoming.

Um we've got our breakfast buzz on Saturday the 22nd.

I'm really excited about this one because we had an event focusing on seniors and fraud, and we had so many constituents come up afterwards and say how important that topic was and their desire to learn more, and so we're going to be having some different experts uh, but also talking about this important subject.

And one of the things that um the special agent in charge, Chris Delzato said to our attendees on that day that we had the event was that uh they don't even recommend that you unsubscribe to emails that that there's some fraud that's taking place.

So you think you're trying to unsubscribe to the Macy's emails or whatever spam you're getting, and uh that could actually be embedded fraud.

So it uh that was new to me.

And I'm looking forward to the city of the world uh being at Bruce Trent Park as well as some of our other parks uh for the fall.

And uh we have movie night coming up, uh, which back to school movie night on August 7th.

It is the day after my birthday.

We've I know we have quite a few, I see on our list quite a few Leos, but it'll be my Mimi Me Day.

And you can always reach the ward to at Ward 2 at Los Vegas Nevada.gov or at our office 702-229-2420.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Uh Councilwoman Bruni.

Thank you, Mayor.

So I too joined the Las Vegas uh 4th of July parade, the Summerlin Patriotic Parade with my colleagues, and was thrilled to be on Big Red.

Later that day, we I joined Mayor Berkeley and my colleague, Councilman Frances Alan Polenski, and we uh kicked off the fun with our blast off in the basin event.

It gets bigger and bigger every year, so it looks like we had over 13,000 people come this year.

And special shout out again to DPS and uh for keeping us all safe.

Everyone had lots of fun.

No incidents.

Uh next.

Last week, it should say July 8th.

I stopped by the Centennial Hills Active Adult Center to help them celebrate with their let's let freedom ring luncheon.

Thank you again to Jennifer Blanchard, who does such a great job taking care of our active adults at the Centennial Hills Active Adult Center.

Last week I also met with our neighbors for our monthly bocaditos.

We had about 20 people, believe it or not, we're actually outgrowing our little satellite office.

So we'll have to look into that.

Um great time talking to neighbors about their concerns.

Also, last week we hurried over to the West facility, West Side Facilities Yard or West Yard, where we thanked a lot of the teams that really do work hard, especially in this heap keeping ward six safe.

So thank you to our code enforcement teams, our public works, our parks and rec and our traffic teams who get a lot of emails from us.

And we just wanted to say again, we're really grateful and appreciative for all the hard work that you do on behalf of our residents.

So thank you.

And stay tuned because we'll be offering uh a shaved ice event in August, also at the West Side Yard.

Um this summer we're trying something new to try to keep our youth engaged and some fun constructive activities.

So we're partnering with the Y and the Northwest Area Command to offer pickleball sessions with some of our officers and folks Mondays, every Monday night from 8 to 10 over the rest of the summer.

So we had about half a dozen young people come out last week or earlier this week for some fun.

We had some new people and some old folks or uh experienced players, but it was a lot of fun.

It was great to see the young people come out.

So again, next um turning to events, we're gonna be doing that both July 20th and July 27th.

Please, RSVP through the Y.

Uh later this month, we'll be hosting our monthly uh connector series with an unwinding event.

We're gonna be hosting it uh pretty low-key at our satellite office Wednesday, July 29th from 6 to 7.30, please, RSVP.

And then on August 1st, we're gonna be going to be getting uh ready to go back to school with our splash back to school event Saturday, August 1st from 7 30 to 10 30 p.m.

Uh residents voted, and so we'll be showing Finding Nemo.

Please RS3P for that as well.

And then lastly, we'll be doing our um monthly bocaditos on August 13th at our Centennial Hills Y satellite office.

We'll be going back from 9 to 11 a.m.

As always, we want to hear from you.

Please call us at 702-229-5463, or email us at ward six at Los Vegas Nevada.gov.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Uh Councilman Knutson.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

This is National Pet Fire Safety Day.

It starts on July 15th, and it was began.

It started in 2009 by the American Kennel Club and ADT Home Security, and pets can accidentally start fires, pause, and tails, knockover candles, bump stove knobs, and roughly a thousand home fires a year are pet caused.

And uh I'm gonna promote the route to health.

The route to health is a mobile clinic uh providing eye exams, basic consultations for adults, blood pressure measurements, basic checkups with pediatricians, glucose testing, and HIV screening tests, among other services.

This is all at no cost.

It's July 15th and 16th, 2026, and it's between the hours of 10 and 2 p.m.

at Lumina Las Vegas, which is at 2710 West Charleston Burg West Charleston Boulevard.

That's all I have.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you so much, Miss Alan Polenski.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

On the morning of Saturday, July 4th, we had the opportunity to ride Big Red in the Summerlin Patriotic Parade.

Uh, there were many families in attendance and was a great way to start the celebration of America's 250th anniversary.

After that, in the evening, we continue to celebrate at Blast Off in the Basin with almost 11,000 in attendance in the basin and around 7,000 in total at the three satellite parks.

It was surely a big party.

We had food trucks, special 250th celebration trivia challenge, uh performance from a great group of kids from Musicology Academy, and a special shout out to Dilco Crane Company for helping us proudly display that ginormous American flag because our fire department was too busy on the 4th of July responding to calls.

So we were great to have them substitute.

We could have our flag, and the uh company was great to offer us the that support.

Uh at the end of the night, we had a fantastic firework show and drone show that made the night truly something to remember.

The following morning, very early Saturday morning on the 5th, we hosted an after-party park cleanup.

Staff members and volunteers went around the park picking up trash and restoring it to its normal glorious state.

Volunteers were offered breakfast and a free t shirt for their hard work.

If you'd like to volunteer next year, we'll be happy to take your name and put you on the list to come uh contribute.

Next up, on Thursday, July 9th, I had the opportunity to be a guest on the Just One podcast, hosted by my friend Brooke Newbauer.

This podcast exists to inspire and show citizens of Southern Nevada how they can make an impact.

We talked about the ways the city serves our community and how it strengthens Southern Nevada.

Next up, if you are a high school student with interest in city government, or you'd like to make an impact in your city, well then join our City of Las Vegas Youth Advisory Council.

By contributing, you'll be able to add your voice on your voice and perspective on key issues to matters and collaborate with your peers and make an impact while gaining more insight on how civic engagement works.

Please scan the slide for the QR code and uh apply today.

We're taking applications.

I know in Ward 4, we have two spots open.

So please, please get your apps in soon.

Next up, take a moment to look at these faces on the slide.

There are 13 teens still missing from our community.

If you recognize any of them or have any information that could please bring them home, contact LVMPD missing person detail at 702 828 311.

On the end of other end of that phone line is a free bus ride home.

Next up, you can stay uh up to date with community news and other updates, all the things happening in Ward 4 by following us on all the social media handles or calling the old fashioned way at 702-229-2524.

We are always here to provide any assistance that we can.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Uh Ms.

Summers Armstrong, take us home.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

I'm going to turn this over to my summer intern, Roger Randolph, and he's gonna do the honors.

Hello.

On Tuesday, June 30th, Councilwoman had the pleasure of touring a new development in Ward 5, Olivecrest, a Southern Nevada organization working hard to end child abuse and neglect.

We'll be bringing a new campus for children and families.

They offer service focused on families facing challenges, including economic instability, housing insecurity, mental health strain, and more.

Foster youth are often overlooked in our society.

Those youth who age out of foster care are sometimes forgotten completely.

Because of this sad reality, they are exposed to some of the worst that the world has has to offer and aren't able to learn some of the skills that we take for granted every day.

Our friends at Olivecrest understood this reality and have made it their mission to fight and advocate for these youths.

And I might say this is a proposed development.

July 4th, Saturday evening, July 4th, the blast off in the basin, 4th of July celebration brought the community together a buckskin basin park.

The War of our team and residents gathered at Children's Memorial Park to enjoy the fireworks and drone show.

The evening was filled with music, dancing, connection, and celebration.

Moments like these are what makes Ward 5 a vibe and a place to thrive.

It was more than a holiday, it was an opportunity to create lasting memories with neighbors, friends, and family.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our evening filled with the booms and sparkles and community spirit.

We look forward to celebrating with you again next year.

Congressman Horse represented a developer Sam Cherry with a certificate of congressional recognition for this project that brings more homes into the area.

These studios and one bedroom apartments offer more than just modern live modern living.

They provide workforce housing that allows many residents to live within walking distance from where they work.

For some of the newest tenants, that means an easy commute on foot and more time to enjoy everything downtown has to offer.

To learn more about these apartments and to check availability, please visit their website at WW.shered downtown.com.

This past Saturday, the community came together to celebrate photojournalist Clinton Wright's 90th birthday and the incredible legacy he built documenting Black Life in the historic West Side.

Councilwoman presented a proclamation provided by the mayor to Clinton Wright for his years of dedication.

Staff from Senator Rosens and Congressman Horseford office also joined us and presented Clinton with a certificate of special congressional recognition.

The day began with a guided tour of rhythm and rhythm and resilience.

Black Vegas led by curator Carmen Bills, and the celebration continue upstairs in the in the then cafe with a heartfelt conversation between historian Clay T.

White and Clinton Wright.

Filmmaker Emmett Gates shared an early look at his new documentary about Clinton, giving everyone a glimpse into the ongoing work to preserve his history.

We ended the afternoon with his favorite red velvet cake, plenty of smiles, and lots of people stopping by the gallery afterwards for a closer look at Clinton's photographs.

Six decades of history is taking its next step in this life.

The original campus of Matt Kelly Elementary School has been torn down, and what is to come is a modern facility that will live with the community and be a solid foundation for students to learn and be inspired.

Though the new building won't be finished and ready to open till 2028 school year, the magnitude of this ground bacon is a promise to the community that they matter.

Thank you to CTSD Core Construction, KME Architects, and some SUMU marketing and everyone who's making this journey possible.

The relaunch of the groceries on the Go Bus was a great success.

On Tuesday, July 14th at the Westside Education Training Center, community members came out to shop for fresh, affordable groceries and connect with local leaders, elected officials, including Councilwoman Chandra Summers Armstrong, Commission Commissioner William McCurdy II, and several community partners.

Thanks to the Just One Project, residents had access to a wide variety of quality food options, along with information about upcoming bus stops and services.

The event highlighted ongoing efforts to address urban food deserts and strengthen access to healthy food and across the city.

Upcoming events we have Splash with the badge, get ready with Ward 5, Splash with the Badge is almost here.

Friday, July 17th, from 3 to 7 p.m.

The Bill and Lily Heinrich YMCA is transferring transferring, transforming into the Ultimate Summer Hangout Spot and your body.

Bring your family, friends, and neighbors for an afternoon filled with free food, fun games, and awesome giveaways, and plenty of chances to cool off.

Get ready.

The Tuck and Run Foundation is hosting the Las Vegas Raiders Play Football Skills Combine July 18th at the Pearson Community Center.

This free and exciting camp gives youth athletes the chance to develop and showcase their football skills through advanced drills and official combine activities, including the 40 40 yard dash, ridical jump, and pro agility shuffle.

Registration opens at 6 p.m.

and the event will run from 7 to 8 30 p.m.

Space is limited, so be sure to secure your spot today at www.tuck and run.org slash events.

Check out the Bolton Area Command Youth Safe Night Out on Friday, July 24th, my birthday from 6 to 8 p.m.

for a Viber Family Friendly Event at Nucleus Plaza, Bolton Area Command and Hot Meat Community Service are teaming up to host a fun event filled with games, food, and community resources that are all free for youth and family.

This event brings together local partners and organizations to provide kids with a positive, safe, and welcoming space to enjoy the evening.

Connect with others and access helpful support services.

For more information, please call 702-412-0060.

The Las Vegas City Council and Ward 5 invites you to a fun and family-friendly back to school celebration Saturday, July 25th, from 11 a.m.

to 2 p.m.

at the Doolittle Community Center.

This annual event is packed with music, games, raffles, and plenty of excitement for students of all ages.

School-aged children who attend will have the opportunity to receive free backpacks and school supplies while supplies live, while supplies last.

Children must be present to receive these items.

We invite all school-aged children and families to join us, enjoy the festivities and get ready for a great school year ahead.

For more information, please call 702-229-6374.

It's been a meaningful and eventful week as we celebrated the many initiatives making a positive impact in Ward 5.

We're proud to highlight the great work happening in our community and hope it inspires more residents to get involved in the many activities and events organized by the city.

Stay informed and engaged by signing up for our Ward 5 newsletter, your go-to resource for news, updates, and opportunities to connect with your neighborhood.

You can also stay engaged with us on Instagram, Facebook, X, and TikTok at Chandra for Vegas.

For more information, please reach out to our office at Ward5 at Las Vegas Nevada.gov or call us at 702-229-5443.

We look forward to hearing from you.

You're done?

Yes, thank you.

Yes, thank you very much.

Well, let me say nicely done.

And happy birthday in advance.

This meeting of the city council is now adjourned.