Okay.

I'd like to call to order the July twenty-seventh, twenty twenty-seven commission for the Las Vegas Centennial Board meeting to order.

Are we in compliance with the open meeting law?

Yes, we are.

Commissioner Stoddall.

Commissioner Hilton.

Commissioner Sinop.

Commissioner Mowbray.

Present.

Commissioner Truesdale.

Commissioner Brandenburg.

Commissioner Creer.

Commissioner Mills.

Present.

Yes.

Okay, thank you so much.

Item number three, public comment.

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

If you wish to be heard, give your name for the record.

The amount of discussion as well as the amount of time in any single speaker is allowed.

So moved.

Second.

All those in favor?

Motion passes.

Agenda item five.

Report by City of Las Vegas Finance Department staff regarding the commission for the Las Vegas Centennial Budget for fiscal year 2026.

Thank you so much.

You know, to state your name for the record.

Yes, Paul Bresnahan, uh financial analyst for uh the finance department.

So uh the year ended June 30th, and we have uh final numbers for for the complete year.

Well, not maybe totally final because there might be some adjustments like accounts payable doesn't close until August 15th.

August 15th.

So there could be some expenditures that come in after the fact, but these should be pretty close to your final numbers.

So for license plate revenues, we have uh one million six hundred and eighty thousand dollars, interest income a hundred and ninety-seven thousand dollars.

Total revenues uh one million eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars, and then you have your program expenditures, these are the uh uh amounts you've awarded.

You've awarded out um five million fifty-four thousand in total projects in the current year ended June 30th, uh one million six hundred and fifty thousand dollars was expensed, leaving a balance of uh three point four million that's gonna roll forward into this next year.

Uh GNA expenditures two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.

Uh so the net change in assets was about fifteen thousand dollars.

You begin the year with uh six million two hundred and fourteen thousand dollars, and you end the year with six million two hundred and about thirty thousand dollars.

So you actually increased your net assets by about fifteen thousand dollars.

But if you go to this program expense line item, you have three point four million dollars in amounts that you have already awarded that are expected to be expensed uh in the current year.

So let's look at that.

Uh pretty much all of these projects are expected to be expensed in the current year.

The only two that would roll into multiple years are uh the El Dorado Days parade is for 405,000.

Half of that would be this year, half of that would be next year, and the Eldorado days rodeo 27, 28, and 29.

So 250,000 a year for three years.

So if you go to this next slide, uh if you look at the third line, no, the fourth line, grant awards, you can see 2.7 million expected to be spent in 27, 452,000 in 28, and 250,000 dollars in 29.

Uh, we adjusted the slide slightly.

We had uh we were projecting a two percent decrease in DMV revenues.

We adjusted that to 2.25 percent.

So this first column 2026 is the actuals.

So you started with 6.2 million, you ended with 6.2, basically again, no change.

But next year, with all the amounts that we have awarded, we're expected to uh net assets is expected to go down about a million dollars.

But then it will you know continue to replenish in in future years.

But can you still for the record?

If if the money that we've already granted that we're responsible for, we said uh these funding can occur.

And if and if we receive no additional funds, it seems to me we would have less than three million dollars on our bank account.

We've already committed uh uh and if our funding were to end today for whatever reason, uh we've already committed an additional three million dollars.

If I'm not mistaken, that's true.

So six million two hundred thirty thousand dollars.

You've committed three point four, so you would be about three million if your funding ended like right the second, but you know, I don't think that's gonna happen.

You're still gonna continue to get your checks from the DMV.

Yeah, the my concern is we we we get too far ahead of our skis uh uh out the three, four, five years, and things uh uh change.

Uh but that I just want to make sure that the my mouth wasn't too far off.

No, you you're you're correct, but I I got a slide for that too.

If you just give me a second.

So here is your total revenues since the beginning of time since 2004.

Uh you can see it broken down by license plate revenue, interest income, the miscellaneous income.

It's since the beginning of time, 43.5 million dollars.

The current year was 1,880,000.

The year before that was two million dollars.

So you can kind of see the flow.

Um here it is in a in a bar graph.

And then I think this is the slide you would like to see.

This is your year-in cash balances by year since the very beginning.

So if you kind of look at this one, uh, you know, you never really had more than four million dollars in your bank account until FY20, till COVID-19 hit, and then you're there wasn't anybody like doing anything, and your cash balance shot up to like six and a half million dollars, and for the last five years, it's been slowly decreasing.

But if you look at the history of your cash balances since the beginning, uh, you know, you're still way better off than you have if you were in the first uh 16, 17 years.

So, you know, you're dropping below below five million dollars, but it's really not that dire.

Or below six million dollars.

And then here are here's the graph of the license plates compared to uh other license plates, so you can kind of see like the raiders are increasing, Lake Tahoe's doing well, uh the Sfriends of Metro is doing well, obviously the VGK and the centennials kind of like remaining flat above 80,000, but not you know increasing too much.

And that's it.

There are any questions, I'll try to answer them.

Okay, does anybody have any questions or comments, Louise?

This is Louise Helton for the record.

I was just reviewing the um that chart that you had about the centennial avenue revenues by category.

Uh-huh.

And uh early on 2004, 2005, we had a significant amount of revenue that was not supposedly from the license plates.

I think that was like fundraising revenue when you were just trying to get off the ground, so it wasn't wasn't classified as DMV revenue.

I believe it was like fundraising.

I don't think we've raised that.

Um what I'm wondering is if that was before the incorporation of the centennial, and that was license plate proceeds when it first came out before the party, because we did that in 2001.

Okay.

And so that that's I can go look into it.

It's I just like grouped these out by the account they were placed in.

So they weren't using the DMV account at that point, or they were, but it was only like a million dollars in that account.

So I we didn't the only actual we didn't do that much actual fundraising.

I mean, we did when the license plates came out, we did an auction, but that didn't raise that much.

Um, but we did get the license plate out early because my plan had been when we rolled out the license plate idea and the party.

This was to have money to pay for it by the time we got to 2005.

And that's what I'm thinking that that's what we're looking at.

Okay.

Because there were two organizations.

We had the forming committee.

Um that several of us were on when you know Bob did the um the legislation.

Bob uh Stowdal came out with a brilliant idea to do the design with the lot with the sign, but we were that was before the city got involved.

We were just asking them to be the fiscal agent at that point.

And so that happened several years before the actual centennial event.

Okay.

Yeah, these numbers were just pulled off of the financial statements.

So I can go back to 2005 and see like what the details for, yeah.

Yep, I can find out what the detail is behind that revenue.

Okay.

On this point from uh Commissioner Helton.

Um there was something because we were looking up various questions similar to yours uh in past months.

There was an agreement, and it might be the one that Paul was referencing with Live Nation in the mid-2000s, the old uh attorney for the commission, Terry Ponticello mentioned that one to me.

That's what that's I was at curious about why we set the commission up the way we did, and part of it was because of the fundraising done by Live Nation.

So that might be the agreement to which Paul speaks.

I don't I don't recall that.

That was the I but that was an expense that we had.

That was during the 2005 year, and we did that at Cashman Field, right?

Where was it?

Silver Bowl, okay.

Would you find out?

Oh, did you want to say something?

No, no, I was just saying he's right.

I just I just remembered that.

Uh will you affirm uh our questions uh next time that we get together?

Yeah, I will look into it and I will send the info to Diane and she can afford it.

Appreciate it.

Yep.

Okay, Bob.

Uh short off for the record.

Uh, what's the status of our uh uh 990 for fiscal 25?

So the 990 was completed by Reuben Brown is the new firm doing the city's audit.

Uh it should be out on the website.

I think it just got out there in the last couple of days.

So 2025.

The year ended June 30th, 2025.

Oh, okay.

That's great.

It should be on the website though.

I didn't see it.

Yeah, if you if you just do a Google search centennial tax return 2025, it should pop right up.

Uh I did have a question as it's not to you.

Why didn't that come to the to the centennial commission?

It's our 990.

We should see it before it's filed.

It's uh I don't know, like with our our uh audit firm does the audit.

They uh the numbers on the tax return match the numbers on the audits uh no we have to there's a the place where you sign.

I think Diane's is the signer.

Um for the record, correct?

Uh that's uh I sign those, and because those are part of administrative tasks that um we work with uh finance and the outside um consultants and complete the returns, send them to the IRS and post them on the website.

I don't understand the process, but what we're saying is that the Centennial Commission, the board of directors has no knowledge of what's in the 990s before they're filed.

It's all the information that we see exact same information over the years.

Like so, I'm really familiar with the 990s.

I've read all of them for the centennial commission, and there's a lot of information that's in there that we don't get.

For example, who's getting paid?

Uh who's not getting paid, the amount of work uh each one of these.

There's a lot of information in there that this director, the this board should have before it.

So I would appreciate that it's put on the agenda.

Um in the future, um, why don't you present put it on the agenda um uh uh meeting prior to submitting it to the IRS?

Is that possible?

I'll have to check with Paul as far as that'll have to be part of the financial report um to find out, you know, um, because there are deadlines we have to meet so well.

Yeah, and let uh make sure that we know the deadline so we're not overstepping.

So when uh if you can provide this uh to the commission members without uh interrupting the flow to the IRS, that would be great.

Um appreciate it.

Okay, any other questions before we move on to the next agenda item.

Uh this is a report only.

Oh, yeah, I'm so sorry.

Go ahead.

Uh Centok for the record.

Paul, I was just curious.

Uh if you could tell us what the numerical lead is over the golden nights.

Are they within three thousand plates of us?

Or we want to stay number one.

Hold on, let's see.

I have the exact numbers somewhere, but it's it's probably within like two thousand dollars, two thousand plates.

Yeah.

Okay.

In other words, we have to step up our game.

All right, all right, everybody.

You do have a Las Vegas plate.

If not, as a member of this commission, you simply must.

Okay.

Any other qu any other probing questions?

Mayor uh John Mowbray here.

Just to follow up on that.

A couple meetings ago, there was a special committee appointed to uh look at ways to enhance the uh enroll uh renewal, and and I suggested that uh perhaps we have some uh presence at the DMB office while people wait, maybe showing our documentaries or something with a real easy, you know, please support our commission.

But I don't know what happened to that commission.

Um Mayor, if just C B for the record, we cannot do any type of advertisement at the DMV.

No, no plate can.

It's because if they let us advertise anything that shows we want you to buy this plate, they would have to do that for everybody.

So we did check into this.

We just cannot advertise at the DMV.

I wonder though, if there's something yeah, what what about showing one of our movie or documentaries?

But it still has our logo on there and it explains that the revenue comes from the sale of the license plates.

I think we need to just maybe talk to somebody, you know.

Well, how about this?

Um if it's prohibited by the DMV, there's certainly, I mean, we have a whole communications department at the city, but and and our director just happens to be present here.

Um perhaps you can come up with some ideas of how we can promote this uh within the limits of the law.

Uh but I think that would be a good idea to uh continue get getting this revenue and uh reminding people that this license plate exists.

And mayor solo for the record, I would I would suggest there's gonna be more competition out there.

We saw uh the the Raiders uh the night, and we're gonna have an NBA team uh here, and they're gonna have their own plate.

So there's gonna be uh Vegas Agency.

So we're gonna have our numbers we'll see.

Okay.

Um Megan, I'm tasking you with that, okay.

And perhaps uh if you'll work with Diane, maybe our next uh meeting, you could uh present to us some viable options.

Okay, fantastic.

Your Honor.

Yes.

I'm sorry, on that subject.

Just that we have in the past asked and received from the state the ability to put in a flyer uh in the re renewal of license plates.

That I I cannot remember how long ago, but we have the DMV has put that in the renewal uh before you came.

Oh, and so it was just a little flyer or some sort of a little sheet, honestly.

I I can't remember, but I'm sure staff can find that.

We did, and they didn't object to that.

And so DMV, that would still be DMV advertising for specific plate, which they cannot do.

That's a good point, and I don't know if they switched from two.

Yeah, anyway.

Perhaps Megan's gonna look into all uh advertising options that the city would have at his disposal and come back and report to us.

I thank you so much for your presentation.

Thank you, Mayor.

This is a report only, so I do not believe it needs a vote.

Agenda item number six.

Report by Megan Delaney, director of the Office of Communications regarding her new role as director.

Welcome.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, commissioners.

It seems I do already have my first task from you all.

Um so thank you for having me today.

I joined the city as the director of communications, replacing David Riggelman in March.

So I'm sure many of you were familiar with him, long-time um communications director.

So I have a little bit about me for you all today, and a little bit about our team.

And I think the conversation you all just had will go uh very well with what I'm gonna share with you today.

The question of does the oh wow, you guys are great at tech here.

So a little bit about myself.

I am not um born and raised in Nevada, but I have definitely made Nevada my home in the last decade.

Um, like uh Mr.

Stodal, I am a former reporter, so I moved here in 2016 to cover the Clark County School District for the Las Vegas Review Journal.

Um I was there for a few years and then I left journalism to start working in communications.

Um I think I have met many of the folks on this commission, probably uh with my work under former governor Steve Siselak.

I was his communications director during COVID and the end of his term in uh his time as governor.

Um, as is usual with the position at that level when he lost his job, I lost my job.

And so most recently I was working at NB Energy before coming over to the city.

Um my undergrad degree is from Syracuse University in upstate New York.

I'm very happy to be in a place where we do not have that type of snow anymore.

Um I during COVID made a decision to get a master's degree at the same time while I was working for a governor, which is not something I would recommend for folks.

Um but I have a master's in public administration from UNLV.

Um, and in 2024, I earned an accreditation in public relations from the Public Relations Society of America.

Um the Office of Communications is uh fluctuates between 22 and 25 employees at the city, full-time employees.

Uh we do a little bit of everything.

Uh as you can see here, I am only in one of those pictures on the slides.

So we do have a camera person in the room with us today.

Uh, they're trying to get more photos of me now as the new communications director.

So we will all politely ignore Rachel while she does her job.

Uh we are a full service agency on behalf of the city.

We do media relations, public relations, we do Spanish language, um, marketing, advertising.

So again, the conversation about those plates uh fits very well in with what we do with the city.

Uh social media team, digital engagement, um, emergency communications, crisis communications.

One of my favorite things to tell folks who uh don't know what I do is that I also run channel two as part of the communications.

Um, in addition to that, I have the print shop in the mailroom fall under my purview as well in the office of communications.

So this is um this is my plug.

I'm not allowed to do presentations without plugging the city's social media.

So um if you are on any of those social media platforms, please follow us.

Uh we have really great engaging content that we put out there, and we thank you for the content that you all provide for us that we can share on social as well, particularly those decades documentaries, those always get great engagement on social.

And I was really fast.

That's the end of my presentation for you.

I just wanted to take a few minutes of your time.

I know you do have a full agenda.

Um, I was able to meet with um Mr.

And I know Mayor Pro Tem Diaz is joining us from the phone as well.

But I really just wanted to come before you and give you all my commitment.

I'm I'm really interested personally in the history of Las Vegas.

Um so I think the work that you all do is very important and engaging, and I want to make sure that my team is available to work with you to promote some of the work that you all are doing on behalf of our residents, including license plates and documentaries and all of that work.

Um and so at this time I'll stop talking and I'll take any questions you may have for me.

Does anybody have any questions or comments?

Yeah, got it.

Welcome on board.

Uh we all got to know David Rigleman over the years, and he did a great job for us.

No, you're gonna do the same.

I guess my question would be you're the new sheriff in town.

You've taken a look of what we've done in the past, and there may be some things that you think we ought to do in the future differently.

Can you give us just a cliff note version of what you think uh you might want to change or amplify?

And I know we don't have a lot of time, but maybe there's a couple three things that you can call to our attention so we can follow them.

Sure, certainly thank you for the question.

Again, it's Megan Delini for the record.

Um, so again, I've been here since March.

I wanted to spend um a lot of time getting to know the city, getting to know the departments and and learning sort of what we already do, right?

It was a very high functioning department under David.

Um, it's it's very nice to come in and not feel like we're in crisis with the team.

Um, but one of the things I was able to do um immediately upon joining was take two part-time positions on my team and two full-time positions, and they are specifically on the social media team.

Um, we've really seen social media is is here to stay.

And so having folks on staff who are basically full-time content creators, um, are really helping our council members, our mayor, and our departments help tell their story in that social media medium.

And so while that's something that we're very jazzed about, that social media team has really been building and growing under David over the last few years.

I'm also cognizant that um not everyone is actually on social media, so we still need to challenge ourselves to look at different ways to reach different populations who um who need city services.

I'm afraid I'm the only one in the room that's not on social media.

So I appreciate you taking care of us older folks.

We will always take care of you.

Um I I, you know, I I joke that I make the plug that you have to follow the city on all those platforms.

I'm not actually on all of them either.

Um, I just I have too many social medias.

I can't add one more.

Um, so that's sort of one of the things that I've identified right away.

Uh when I came in as well, the city just um finalized and the city council adopted a new strategic plan.

It's a new five-year strategic plan.

So I've asked my team to really look at where we are spending our marketing dollars in the office of communications to make sure that those align with the city's uh four areas of of focus and four priority areas, which of course um housing and homelessness, economic development, public safety.

Oh man, I knew I was gonna forget and health care.

I knew I always was don't don't tell councilman Knutson I forgot healthcare.

Um so making sure that our marketing dollars in the Office of Communications align with those priorities that have been adopted by um by the team.

And so now that we have that five-year strategic plan to drive us, we'll be focusing our efforts and and realigning our resources behind those.

I hope that answered your question.

Thank you very much.

It's a two-way street.

We need you, and we want to do what we can to be helpful to you.

So please feel free to call upon any one of us who might have some enlightened view to share with you.

Thank you so much, Megan.

Thank you.

Quick question is uh quick question.

Uh one of the things that the Centennial Commission has been involved with for the last year uh is the historic timeline in the city of Las Vegas.

Um and as we were doing the documentaries, those documentaries would be added to the let's say 1920, the census that would be the rut and you could go to YouTube.

Now, when I go on there, they're separate.

And then not only that is this thing comes up, which says error 153.

Uh can you help me with that?

Yes, and thank you for flagging that for our team this morning.

We are aware that IT is having an issue on the backhand with YouTube videos embedded on the page right now.

So our team's working on a workaround for that.

Um, we still want to ensure that folks get to those documentaries.

And so while IT works through the back end issue, we're working on some quick fixes to make sure that folks can still view those documentaries.

So if you pull it up after this meeting, you should see a photo as a placeholder to replace that error message.

Um, and then we're working on the way to solve that so you can still click and get to those documentaries straight from the timeline there.

You're welcome.

Where it's uh it is not just a centennial web page item, I should say, it's across the city webpage.

So as folks flag those videos for us, we're uh finding them and making those swaps.

Thank you so much, Ms.

Jacoffin.

Uh thanks, Your Honor.

Well, I asked to have a couple, but help us find uh essentially a way to view the city uh the city channel.

Well, I'm on direct TV and I can't find it.

I don't know where it would be.

And so maybe there are other carriers stream streaming that uh that don't have our channel, and I think that's it's a wonderful channel, and um I just think we should we should be able to broadcast that.

I agree, channel two has uh really great engaging content.

I will take that back to my team.

Um again, I I always joke I come from the newspaper side of the house, um, so I rely on the expertise on my team to make sure that we are able to stream.

One of the things I learned right when I got here, if you are a YouTube person, um we do have live cameras up, so you can always be watching um the city hall camera, and then I believe they put a camera on top of this building too that now comes straight down into that um pavilion and plaza outside there.

So our team is gonna be tasked with making sure we make the most of those resources and really making sure we do reach viewers who may have um cut the cord and might be on streaming now.

So if you don't mind, I will take that back and I will get a list of all the ways that you can access channel two.

Um, and so hopefully one of those options will work for you.

Well, I appreciate that very much.

I didn't expect really an answer as good as that, so I'll truly do.

I try really hard.

I missed David.

We've known him way before he even came to the city.

What uh what's he doing?

Where is he at?

I mean, I you know, you're here when somebody's leaving, but you don't know where they're going.

I think you're awesome.

So, you know, I don't know Mr.

Wrigleman personally, but uh a couple months into my tenure here, our team did get a very lovely photo of a grandchild um that was born after his retirement.

So I would I would hope, I would imagine that Mr.

Wriggleman is spending a lot of time with that grandchild.

I think he's earned that time.

Well, thank you.

And I I saw him recently at Faith Lutheran uh school, they had uh an event there, and I just happened to be there and noticed that he was in the audience and acknowledged him.

So he's around town enjoying his retirement, has the grandbaby, which is one of the reasons he decided to retire so he could actually have a personal life, and he's enjoying that personal life right now.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Does anyone have another question of Megan before we excuse her?

I this was an information only item.

Thank you so much, Megan.

We look forward to working with you and uh uh for many years to come.

And thank you very much, Mayor.

And I am gonna excuse myself.

There's a city manager's meeting that I am going to go rejoin.

Um, obviously, the mayor knows how to get a hold of me.

Dr.

Siebrant knows how to get us in touch with me as well, and I'll leave some business cards if any of you all are interested in and chatting further on any of these items.

So thank you again for your time today.

Thank you so much.

Agenda item number seven.

Final report by staff from Nevada Preservation Foundation regarding the 2026 home plus history event funded by the commission for the Las Vegas Centennial.

This impacts all awards.

Welcome, ladies, and would you please identify yourself for the record?

Hi there.

I'm Amy Raymer.

I'm the uh board president of a Nevada Preservation Foundation.

Uh April Mentch, programming manager of Nevada Preservation Foundation.

Thank you.

All right, well, we're here to tell you a little bit about the 2026 Home and History uh festival that was conducted in April of this past year.

Um, we had a lot of great events, and uh, we're here to tell you a little bit about that.

Just um a little update on the funding that we have received.

This is year two of a three three-year grant where we received funding.

Um, and we did um we were able to carry over some of the funding that we had from this previous year to next year.

So we have a little bit to work with um there.

So we we thank you so much for your um gratitude.

We're in gratitude for uh for all of everything you've given us.

So I guess I'm advancing the slide.

All right.

Okay, um if there's video embedded, there we go.

Home and history has been one of the best things for our historic preservation in Las Vegas in my time here, which is 25 years because it kind of pulls people in with the idea that you're gonna get a behind the scenes look at some cool historic properties, but gives people an opportunity to be educated beyond just looking at neat old architecture.

Historic preservation has a great infrastructure in our city and in our state, but the community is essential.

And if the community is not involved and the community's not engaged, the community's not interested.

It just it's a system that can't work top-down only.

It needs to be a grassroots movement, and events like the rest of this weekend are essential.

There has been historic preservation efforts in the past, and they've done wonderful work, but Nevada Preservation Foundation has been sort of a leader in making fun and making it appealing to a wider group of people.

Yes, people are coming to this because it's a party and there's food and drink, but every event that Nevada Preservation Foundation holds has like an educational element to it.

So not everybody is gonna go to a city council meeting or a county commission meeting to learn about historic preservation or go to a lecture at UNLV.

So having these kind of events exposes a broader range of people, I think, to become interested in the work of historic preservation.

You know, the whole trope is we don't preserve anything here, we blow it up.

And I think you know what we all recognize is we're a young city still.

Like even with our neighbors, Los Angeles, Phoenix has so much more history and preservation, but they're older cities than us, you know.

We're just from 1905.

And even uh like I was sharing on my tour this morning in 1968.

There was not even half a million people here.

So we're really kind of I think in the prime of our preservation journey.

For us, historic preservation, because of our fast growth.

If you don't stop and take a look back, you don't know who you are.

And if you stop and take a look back and you don't see anything, you really are kind of lost.

How Vegas became the wedding capital of the world, and see great examples of it after reuse.

You know, no other city has a history quite like Vegas.

So saving our historic architecture is really important to telling the story of what Las Vegas is, who it is, why it's here, and who are the important people that have made this city.

So it's really important to continue to have physical representations of Las Vegas and how it was built.

From working with Nevada Preservation Foundation, I have really discovered so much of the history of Las Vegas.

I think historic preservation is really important to Las Vegas because it helps drive tourism, it preserves our cultural identity.

So many times we've seen the destruction of some of our beautiful gems, and so it's really nice to be part of a group that's preserving our history.

I love that.

Especially to learn in the spaces that contributed to this history.

So being able to tour a house like the Morelli House is incredibly important to see what a 1959 house would look like and what took place in those spaces is really important to be able to see firsthand and to interact with.

I love history, um, and I especially love Nevada history.

So being able to have front row tickets is just a thrill.

And um, it's been my greater story that I keep bringing people with me and getting more and more people involved, and they're loving it as well.

When we bought this house, and you know, we would kind of, if we said, Oh yeah, we moved into this house over here, and because the house has been here for so long, um, it's happened many times that people say, I've been in there.

You have the chandeliers, you have the rock, you know.

And and so some of these people are people who like, you know, now they might be 60 years old, and they grew up in the neighborhood, and they were in this house, you know, as visitors long before we were.

I think it's valuable when people realize you don't have to live in a new home where you're like people, oh, you bought a used home.

Like there's like some of these cultural shifts.

So I think there's like little lessons in like community living.

Hopefully, they take away and think about hey, it's possible to live downtown and enjoy it.

IHeart to Centennial Commission.

Um, thank you so much for what you're doing.

It's really, I I don't have grandchildren.

I have daughters who are in their 20s.

They get to hear the same stories that my grandpa used to tell me back when I was at his knees.

So thank you, Centennial Commission, for preserving these stories and spreading them on for future generations.

It's so important that we know our history.

Okay, some of our highlights from this past year.

So we had 1,151 guests that attended our uh many events that we had.

50 volunteers were very, very proud of our volunteers.

Um, a lot of carryover.

We've kept a lot of our volunteers over the years, so we're very proud of them.

Um, 28 events over five days.

Uh 85% average event occupancy.

So we filled up pretty much everything.

Um, our walking tours were always completely packed.

Um, so people are coming to the educational stuff and not just the parties as well.

Um $60 average ticket spend.

$60 average ticket spend, 37 first-time attendees, and we had a lot of influencers who came out this year, a lot of folks who go into preservation and restore things and look at old hotels and motels and things like that.

And so we got a big push this year from some a lot of those folks.

And so I have to thank April, who is our program manager because she kind of made sure that that happened this year.

So that was an exciting thing this year.

10% were visitors outside of southern Nevada.

And 98% of our guests said that they would return.

So this was our 11th year, and so this was again it's it's a good thing every year that people want to come back for our programming.

Some of our events.

So we had again those about 28 events, but eight walking tours of various neighborhoods within Clark County, mostly within the city.

We do try to focus our programming to make sure that we're focused specifically on the city.

Seven educational programs, which were well attended.

We talked a lot about how to make a preservation historic district, and so Dr.

Seabrant sent on sat in on that.

So we had a lot of you know great information that was shared there.

Three evening events, and again, I have to give a shout out to April Mench, who is our program manager, because she was instrumental on those happening and really made the buzz about that.

Two bike tours that we did.

We have a great partnership with RTC, and so they give us the bikes, we're able to take folks through neighborhoods that you know maybe we want to spread out a little bit more and see a little bit more, so it gives us that opportunity.

Two bus tours.

I did lead one of the bus tours, which was we focused on the like mid-century modern churches here in Las Vegas.

So we started off at the we started off at oh my gosh, Paul Revere Williams.

Um the Guardian Angel, thank you, the Guardian Angel Church, and then we made the trip down St.

Louis to all the chapels that are on St.

Louis.

So we were able to really highlight the city and the chapels that we have here.

On top of the fact that we also did a wedding chapels tour that was new this year, which was in collaboration with the um with uh Lynn Goya and the um and that group.

So we were able to do that as well too.

Uh, six historic home tours, and again, shout out to April Mench who made those happen, and um a certain person who's to my left who allowed us to take a look at our the inside of those homes.

Um, and again, there's really a diverse mix of opportunities, um, people who are just really into the history.

We had an oral history happy hour, which we were able to offer for free, so people were able to come in and hear about the history of Las Vegas just from a lot of different different folks, um, which was fantastic.

So, again, um focus on our history, on architecture, and our neighborhoods.

Um, featured neighborhoods, um, Scotch 80s, our Scotch 80s tour is always sold out quickly.

Um it's just a crowd pleaser every year.

Um, we did Paradise Crest, which was a new tour this year, it was a bike tour.

I know that's in the county, but um Chapel Row, so we saw all the churches on Fremont Street.

We saw downtown here, we have a couple chapels down here.

Um East Fremont, we did a bike tour of the East Fremont area, and unfortunately losing some of those motels, so we were able to kind of bring that to the highlight for our folks there.

Fremont Street, we did a Fremont Street tour this year, the Green House, um, which I know that there's been a big focus on that.

We're trying to help the Clark County Museum, which we have a partnership with in their efforts to move the greenhouse to the Clark County Museum.

Um we did a tour, April did a tour of the Boulevard Mall.

So going back in the day and really thinking about what that space was, um, and Paradise Palms, which is always another popular tour, as well as Beverly Green.

So we did try to cover as many of our neighborhoods as possible.

We did develop a lot of partnerships this year that were new.

Um, you can see up there that one of the first ones is Melaski, the Malaski family and the UNLV Public History group came together and we had an event at the Morelli House where the Mulaski family basically just kind of told us about what it was like to live in those houses back in the day.

They told some great stories and shared those with us.

The Unico system is a new one for us this year because we are in preservation.

That is a group that does you know, non-invasive at HVAC for folks who want to update their historic homes.

We do have a great partnership now with the Henderson Historical Society, so we were able to take folks into the BLM plant thanks to the work that we did with Henderson Historical RTC and then the Clark County Museum Guild and the work that they're doing there as well, too.

And then of course the read public history, and then again a gigantic shout out to the Centennial Commission.

One of the things that we do, and I just want to make a uh a push for this because I I know at the beginning of the meeting we talked you talked about this.

Um we do a push every time we come through, we have flyers about getting one of the license plates.

So we really encourage the folks who attend our events to make sure that they that they get one of those license plates because that's what helps funds what we do.

All right.

So some guest testimonials you can see here that you know people really love the variety of homes and then paid trist uh history to their you know, giving some focus to the downtown neighborhoods.

Um the greenhouse cocktails and true tales, that's what the one that we did um at the Balkan restaurant, and so we had a great that was a great panel discussion that we had.

Um the Fremont Street uh walking tour.

Um we've had in the past the um native garden tour, um, and then of course the home tour, which is still our big event that we do.

Um again, a great opportunity to learn and think and see the things I didn't know about where I live, so we kind of scratched more than scratch the surface of what's here in Las Vegas.

Um love the homes and the guides were fantastic.

Um strolling through the unfamiliar neighborhoods and hearing stories about the houses and the people who lived in them.

So again, we continue to get wonderful feedback, and again, we cannot do that without your support.

And so again, we are very, very thankful for that support.

So again, um we the we are in year this was year two of the funding, and so uh year three.

We were happy to be able to roll over a little bit of funding for that.

We are really focused on making sure that we have some great partnerships that we're continuing to get sponsorships for our events because we do understand that you know you you have been very very generous to us, but we do need to step up and make sure that we're hitting um as much as we can to help the fund help the funding on this.

Is that is that the that's my presentation?

I loved every minute of it.

Don't misunderstand my question.

This is a report only.

Does anybody have any questions or comments?

Yes, Louise.

Hi, the Lise Hilton for the record.

I I caught that you had an 87 ticket spend.

Was that money that you received from any of the participants?

Or was that the money going out to cover the expenses?

Yeah, I think it was a $60 spend that we had on there.

Um, and that was um average over the um what we took in for ticket sales, so the average um so you did take in money for the ticket sales.

Yes.

And how is that set up to offset your future expenses?

Is it yeah, we we do we we do make a profit.

Um it's it's not much, I'll be honest.

It's it's not you know, in terms of what we're able to provide.

Um, I will say there's a better ROI on our like our walking tours.

Um, but yes, we we do see a little bit of profit from from what we get from the what was the 87 dollar spend then that's 87 percent.

Oh, okay, let me see.

Of returning.

Because there were 1151 guests over 21 28 events averaging ticket spend of 87 dollars.

I thought it was $60.

Okay, uh, yeah, eight yeah, $60.

Yeah, $60 average ticket spend, and then the 80 uh 85% is the um event occupancy.

So it's 87 somewhere.

That's all right.

So anyway, it at 87 that came up to 100,137.

So what it is that close then to your expenses, or is that it it does help with that?

It does help with the um the ongoing management.

Um we do have a couple of positions that we're able to fund to lead up to the the event.

So um that is okay.

Thank you.

Any other questions?

Mr.

Stodal.

Just real quick.

Um I'm gonna shrink myself down with this question.

Uh I noticed with your the sponsorships, all the logos were the same size.

We need to make it bigger.

The amount of money each is contributing because I thought we were one of the big ones.

You are one of the you are the biggest one, so that is uh that is something that we will fix on on further from future things.

Yeah, yes.

The other question is uh the the video that you played.

I thought that was fantastic.

Really a nice uh nice job.

Um I assume it was done locally, but you hired somebody.

Yeah, and we had um we had a group that we've been working with the last couple of years, and that's something that the centennial funding does allow us to do.

So there's drone work that comes in, they attend our events, they take pictures of everything, they get the interviews and things like that.

So, yes.

And they edit the yes.

Can you off the top of your head how much the video costs?

Roughly oh my goodness.

Uh down I'm I'm not certain.

Would you mind providing it?

It's a diet legal distributed.

Just really it was great.

Yeah, thank you.

Anyone else?

Your Honor, just a question.

I take it that some of these that you showed to us are not in the city but in the county.

Am I correct on that?

Yes.

Yeah, we can't.

I would just say Paradise Crest.

I moved in there 56 years ago.

And if if unless the city's in quote for the that used to be the county, that may be on the mayor's agenda, so I don't want to comment.

I'd much rather annex the strip, but uh that was pride here.

Don't tell Michael Naft.

All right.

I well, thank you so much.

That was very informative, very interesting, and very good.

Thank you so much.

Agenda item eight.

Final report by staff from the City of Las Vegas Park Recreation and Cultural Affairs Department regarding the completion of the 2026 Heldorado Days Parade, funded by the Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial.

Uh, this is in Ward 3, Miss Diaz.

Hello, welcome, and please state your name for the record.

Hello, Jasmine Freeman, Cultural Affairs Manager.

Hi, Marja Vegas, special events administrator and parade organizer.

So our parade was held on May 9th this year on the downtown parade route, which is our traditional parade route.

Um the staging area extends to Las Vegas Boulevard on 4th Street.

And this route is well equipped to hold up to 150 entries.

Um historic school remained the main prep location alongside the parade route to highlight its historic value.

Um this year we partnered with the Geary Company to get the word out everywhere.

Uh, they pushed out TV and radio spots in both English and Spanish, which boosted our presidents on our presence on social media and filled the city with billboards.

The campaign really helped us reach people across every platform and our on our end, communications recorded the parade and posted it on the city's YouTube channel.

Um, so the community could enjoy it any time of the year.

Um here is an example of one of our uh media banners, which was used on the radio websites, TV uh news stations, and along uh with billboard images.

Um then Jeff, if you want to play this clip.

Ready to get you some fun?

Don't miss the Hel Dorado Days Parade.

Saturday, May 9th, 10 a.m.

downtown.

Get into the heritage of this great city and get you some Yahoo!

Yeeha!

Varum and cha-cha-cha!

We're talking hot rods, dancers, cow pokes, mariachis, and colorful floats.

A whole lot of family fun.

Come and get you some free swag and a woo-hoo of a good time.

Get the Hel Dorado Days Parade on your calendar.

Saturday, May 9th.

So those are just one example of the different media images and radio spots that we used.

And as you can see, this year marks the highest number of parade entries since reviving Heldorado in 2005.

Our entries um just over the last two years grew by nearly 30.

And we're holding steady at 5,000 in our attendee numbers.

Um, so with that, it with the expanded outreach, we're also seeing increased curiosity from both our participants and our attendees who are taking time to learn about Heldorado and its rich history.

So, one of the most rewarding aspects is the contributions that we're able to give to the school clubs um because of the Centennial Commission.

We're able to provide each marching band a thousand dollars and each um float entry $1,500, and that allowed us to give a total of 42,000 to the schools, which goes towards their travel cost, equipment, and different school activities.

Um beyond the financial benefit, participant students are participants.

Um it gives them a meaningful opportunity to learn about Las Vegas' history and understand the cultural additions, cultural traditions behind Heldorado.

Yeah, it's really important to have the next generation carrying this legacy forward.

So additionally, we have public safety.

It's a big component of the parade, and to ensure the safety of all of our participants and our spectators, we partner with the less Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, and they provide a comprehensive public safety presence during the parade.

This includes both their command staff operations and coverage along the entire parade route so you can see a snapshot of what staffing looks like for the day of an event like this.

To make the parade more exciting and enjoyable, we include roving entertainers along the parade route.

These performers interact with spectators, bringing energy fun, and a festive vibe to the entire event.

This interactive element keeps the crowd engaged between entries and creates a memorable experience for attendees of all ages.

And then here's a video slideshow of this year's parade.

Well, with 142 entries, we had a lot of photos to slip in there.

Yes, yeah, slow them down next time.

That concludes our report, and thank you guys for funding this year's parade.

Thank you so much.

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

Just a quick question.

I love the video.

My question is as Las Vegas, I'm using it in the Metropolitan Center.

There are tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people who live have never been downtown.

Have no idea.

That's not the fault used, certainly, or them.

Is there any effort to bring those folks downtown for this event?

The history is there, and I'm sure a lot of people might be interested to learn more about the history, but it just shocks my run to people every day.

Oh, I've never been downtown.

Yeah, okay.

All right.

Your thoughts on that.

Thank you.

Uh thank you.

Jasmine Freeman for the record.

And yes, we do partner with the Geary Company to work on our marketing efforts every year.

So you'll see 41 billboards around the valley in all of the you know the key areas that we're driving past every day.

So not just in the city of Las Vegas, but you'll see them all along the 15, the 215, um, throughout town.

We also have the radio advertising that's going across the valley, um, television, we're doing a lot with them the um interviews for the different programs, news programs.

So we are making that effort.

Um, we're, you know, I think it's a it's a multi-prong approach and making sure that everybody feels safe coming downtown and everybody sees things that they can do with their family when they come downtown.

So working with our downtown businesses as well to embrace all of that and encourage and um just encourage our community to come down here and enjoy the family-friendly event as well as what we have to offer in this area.

Thank you.

Yes, Louise.

This is Louise Helton for the record.

I am curious about, you know, to me, it's the the parade is wonderful to try to get 5,000 people to come.

How many of those people were in the parade and how many were per were just spectators?

I would say it was probably about half and half.

Okay.

So the second question that I had was if we go to the trouble to get 5,000 people to come downtown, and they see a parade and then they go home, it's like what should it wouldn't there be?

It just seems like a stroke of genius marketing to have that be the lead up to something that's happening.

Like one of the fabulous festivals, a concert, uh food, you know, whatever, so that when people are here, they have a reason to stay and enjoy it.

I think that's why we combine the rodeo with the Hel Dorado Parade.

But we don't usually stay for the road.

Well, because it didn't exist at that time.

They were uh two separate dates.

That's true.

I'm hoping that helps, but I share your concern.

Some kind of a medium thing that would be uh just a family-friendly thing.

Um I also and I also want to echo, and you know, I'm at the parade every year.

Um it's I'm not quite sure we what we could do, but uh there aren't enough people watching that parade.

It is uh it could be a lot of fun.

It's a little warm in May, as I recall, but uh certainly there's some and uh I've done a million videos and and television interviews and radio interviews, encouraging people to come to downtown Las Vegas to enjoy the Eldorado um parade.

But uh I I also am scratching my head trying to figure out how we can get more people to come down and enjoy all of the amenities downtown.

And if you have any suggestions, we'd be you don't have to share them at this moment, but I I share uh Louise's um thoughts that certainly with all the time and effort we put into this, we should have more uh more people cheering the floats on when they go by.

That that truly is our goal every year, and something that we really want to focus on for 2027, and you know, I don't know if it's the time of year with the heat, but we're you know, that's something we really try.

Well, it kind of gets to my point though, and I noticed there was uh there was a drop off of 5200, and now we're down to 500 or 5,000.

One of the challenges, and and maybe counterproductive, but I don't think it is, is what why is this parade not being carried live on Channel 2?

There are I can guarantee the all kinds of people that would like to see it, and I think once they saw it, and once they saw the uh now, a lot of people are just gonna watch it.

Uh uh, including those people that were in the parade, they want to see it uh uh, but I also think we'll encourage people to come downtown.

They'll see the energy and and the life next year they may put it on their calendar to come down to the parade.

So I would encourage some sort of a process uh and as the mayor have you had any conversations yet with uh the rodeo folks?

Yes, we have.

We're gonna work closely with them to market and promote both events for 2027.

Um we did start meeting with communications already too to talk about potentially having it live.

Great.

My last uh uh comment is um this is about the history of the city of Las Vegas.

It looks like it's becoming a wonderful cultural event uh with the various entries in the parade and the history of the city is being a bit overshadowed by a cultural event, which is not I don't mean that is I think they both can live together, but the idea this is to promote our history and and uh so I would hope that as you're pushing entries forward, there'd be some extra effort to push maybe the centennial commissioners could have a float, or the historic preservation commission could have a float.

Yeah, that would be great.

Absolutely.

You you could come in my car if you like we'll make it the we'll make it the Centennial Commission um car instead of the mayor's car.

I love that.

I uh anybody else?

Yes, Your Honor.

Oh, yes.

If I could I scolded a little bit on this last time, and I don't want to be a common scold, but try to be, you know, revelatory.

It is this that it is the historical talk that uh both the mayor and uh Bob Stol have to say about this, which is using Fremont Street as part of it, if not all of it.

Uh that's really part of the history, you know, and it would be a great attraction for the parade to return to Fremont.

I understand there's definitely some barriers, permanent barriers to using all of Fremont Street, but I think that to have it on Fremont and perhaps be in conjunction with the rodeo.

The the kind of things that I'm thinking about include a few blocks of Fremont Street where it's possible, and that kind of thing is something to bring life into it and remind people where it was and how it is now.

I mean, there is a good transition you can make from old El Dorado to new downtown with rodeo.

So I I just say that I continue to hope that uh somebody thinks that way.

I think it can be done.

Other than you, other people think that way.

Well, you know what, it little things start this way.

That's true.

Anyone else?

In that case, uh ladies, thank you so much.

We enjoyed it very much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Agenda item number nine.

Final report by the community development department regarding the completion of the documentary film premiere, the city of Las Vegas, the 1980s, funded by the Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial.

Welcome and state your name for the record.

This is just a really quick, just a quick update.

For of course, our 1980s film premiere.

We had it over at the Beverly.

Everybody loves that theater.

It's a great venue.

Mayor Berkeley did uh give opening remarks.

We had a really nice reception.

I wish more of you had been there.

Um, so hopefully you can make it to the 1980s uh 1990s, which will be next year.

Um we had really good feedback.

Everybody loved the movie.

We did um send out 121 RSVPs and of that 85 did attend.

Um, of course, our uh biggest impact is on the YouTube channel when people watch it at home or at their leisure.

And right now I just looked at it this morning, and it's um the views on this one is uh over 140,000.

So yeah, they still continue to generate um quite a bit of interest, and we hope that it keeps going that way.

So happy to answer questions if there are any.

Anyone have any questions?

Uh Diane, you and I have spoken about this.

I'd like to make the um premier uh a bigger deal.

So when we get a little closer, if you uh care to work with my me and my office, uh, we could uh maybe have a larger invitation list because I thought having uh the premiere at the Beverly with the opening cocktail reception.

I thought it was terrific, and I was just sorry that there was even one single empty seat because it's it's worth going to and worth enjoying.

Thank you, Mayor.

Yes, we that is on my list.

It's an ever increasing list, but thank you so very much.

I appreciate it.

No more questions.

In that case, we will move to agenda item number 10.

Discussion for possible action regarding funding and the amount of $95,856.45 cents to the city of Las Vegas, acting by and through its Department of Public Works for the purchase and installation of rooftop safety guards on the historic Fifth Street School located at 401 South 4th Street.

This is in Ward 3, Miss Diaz, who is with us uh through the phone.

Um, and uh welcome.

And um you may proceed.

Uh Diane Siebran for the record, and my uh colleague here is James Wolfe, City of Las Vegas Facilities.

So I have been working with James over, well, I would say a couple years now of trying to do some work over at the historic Fifth Street School.

Um hopefully everybody remembers that the school is on all three registers: the National Register of Historic Places, the State Register, and of course, our local register.

It is a very important um property, historic property.

And we have come to the commission for funding and the amount that the mayor stated, 95,856 and 45 cents, in order to install uh purchase and install these rooftop safety guards.

So, in court in accordance with NRS 8, I'm sorry, 482.37905, 903.

Sorry, let me do that again for you, Gabby.

NRS 482.37903.

Item five.

Uh the fees collected from the commemorative uh vehicle license plates are to be used to pay for the projects relating to the commemoration of the history of the city of Las Vegas, including without limitation, historical markers, tours of historic sites, and improvements to or restoration of historic buildings or structures.

So we would like to um have the funding from the commission in order to help protect this very historic important school.

So the funding will be used to install the purchase and install the rooftop safety guards.

I'm sorry, I'm reading off my paper and I'm not looking at the slides.

So this is the existing building.

This is obviously taken in the winter, so um, it's not very green, but um, this is the school where we have what you're looking at here is um on uh fourth street, and that is the old gymnasium, and then uh different views of the school.

The um all the there's a huge uh 39-page uh packet in the backup that has the explanation of all of these, the views from the school, as well as a more in-depth history of why the school is important.

So these uh the rooftop safety guards on historic buildings, such as non-printed penetrating guardrails, directly contribute to a building's short and long-term preservation.

Routine upkeep is required to maintain the roof, which serves as the most critical line of defense for a facility's overall structural integrity.

Maintaining existing material significantly reduces or prevents deterioration or damage to the workmanship of the building.

Reliable fall protection systems ensure that maintenance workers can safely access the roof, preventing uh deterred maintenance that often leads to major irreversible uh decay.

And per the National Park Service, preservation is defined as the act or process of applying measures necessary to sustain the existing forum integrity and materials of a historic property.

Work, including preliminary measures to protect and stabilize the property, generally focuses upon the ongoing maintenance and repair of historic materials and features rather than extensive replacement and new construction.

So having these safety rails on the roof will allow, and I'll let um Mr.

Wolf speak after me as far as what that entails, being able to have workers up there do the necessary repairs, doing the necessary maintenance in order to ensure that the whole building is preserved as per what our um mission is in uh the Nevada's revised statute.

So go ahead.

Yes, James Wolf.

Um the rails are just gonna be along the north of the gym, the north side of the gymnasium, and then around the courtyard where the fountain is.

Um our crews have to get up there to maintain the HVAC equipment, and the ladders that get you to the roof are very close to the parapet wall, and that parapet wall is very short.

So our safety committee has requested us to put some type of safety railing up there.

So this is just something we need to do to keep our guys safe.

And this here slide that you're looking at.

I'm sorry, it's a little bit um hard to see on this slide.

I I notice is circled in red are the areas where the rails are necessary, and this is uh image of the rails.

But again, in the in the backup packet, you have the full information that that shows this.

This has already gone through um HPC and SHIPO, it's been several years, but the design has not changed, and those approvals were given in 2023.

Yes, it's been a while.

So happy to answer your questions.

Thank you so much.

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

Mr.

Soto.

The uh the the guardrails, the safety rails, clearly not a uh a question uh of their importance.

Uh is the city using these on uh do we have experience with these?

Yes.

If you look at City Hall uh from one of the higher floors, you can look down over council chambers.

We have them around the two roof hatches there.

And we have them on a couple other buildings too, but that's a very notable one.

I'm not sure for the next question, whether it's Diane or or or you why is the Centennial Commission being asked to do this?

I understand the building's a historic building, but there are a lot of historic buildings on the National Register, the State Register and the City Register of Historic Places.

Are you suggesting that the Centennial Commission is now going to be paying for the funding of all those buildings as well?

Um I can answer that.

See, but for the record.

Um, Commissioner Stodal, this board is charged with helping preserve our historic properties.

Um the money generated by the license plates come to the city.

It is city money.

This board, of course, is um was formed in order to provide the approval or denial of requested funding.

Um we would never ask for maintenance as such as painting or fixing something in the interior, but being able to use this money for what it was intended for, um, preserving these historic buildings, um, would be a very important addition to the list of programs and projects that we have done to show what we as a city are tasked with.

Also, because these are on the National Register, we owe reports for monitoring monitoring.

Well, I owe reports.

This is not as my wearing the hat of Centennial Commission.

My hat is the historic preservation officer, giving reports to the state historic preservation office to show how we are protecting our buildings.

So we feel that it's important that this commission also takes part in helping us protect those buildings for their future.

Why is the city not paying for it?

It's not a matter of not.

It's a discussion that I have had with uh deputy.

I'm sorry, what is Rosa's uh position?

Deputy manager.

Deputy City Manager Cortez uh with um also with Seth, who unfortunately he's not here today.

Um essentially it would be the city paying for it.

Well, Diane, I've read the I've read the NRS probably uh uh 15, 20,000 times.

So I'm very familiar with the responsibilities of of what we have, what we're charged with.

But the question is whether or not there are other historic buildings in the city that public works is going to be coming and asking this commission.

We have a limited amount of money.

Uh and so therefore each project, while it may fall under the NRS uh category, still has to be evaluated by this commission on how it spends the money, whether it's for rodeos or parades or Juneteenth or restoring buildings, there's a lot of stretch to uh uh to the statutes that it says and not limited to.

I understand what's in the statute, but we could drain this uh centennial commission money, and yes, it is the city money.

I also understand that, Dr.

C.

Brand.

But my question is how many other projects may be laying in the weight in the background on historic buildings that you would need money for.

I mean, do we have a list that's currently been being developed?

No, we do not have a list, but there are aren't too many city historic buildings that would require said railings.

This building has equipment on the roof, versus the other historic buildings, Floyd Lamb, West Side School, they do not have any equipment on the roof that require our kind of thing.

Or at least the over person that was overseeing that, not Maggie, made a presentation, and he wanted uh the centennial commission to fund all the projects at Floydland Park, which was going to run two to four million dollars.

Well, I would have drained the uh the proposal that we came forward.

I just looking at what door are we opening?

Uh I understand it's a door that we uh are are allowed to open, which is whether or not what's the evaluation process at your side with Dr.

C.

Brent to make this sort of thing.

So I appreciate I understand the value and the importance for the staff safety and and what this does.

Thank you.

Um uh Mr.

Coffin.

Um thank you, ma'am.

Uh Mayor, thank you.

Mike, has anybody fallen uh off the roof?

No.

I was wondering if uh well not waiting for one of the proof that we need this, no.

But uh, you know, I'm thinking, I think I saw in the backup material uh the all four uh geometrical angles, in other words, the east wall isn't that part of it too that faces Las Vegas Boulevard.

No, no, it's only on the north of the gymnasium, and then in the courtyard there, as you can see, it's those three sides around the courtyard.

Is any other agency outside the city suggested this or asked for it?

It's now an OSHA requirement.

We have to provide fall protection around all roof hatches, and we've already done this at most city facilities.

Um, and we're in the process of doing it at all of the other buildings, but this one has not gone done yet.

I believe I have seen either Secret Service or uh federal protection service on the roof of the building before when VIPs may come to town.

Have they asked for this?

They didn't ask for this specifically, but our safety committee, the city of Las Vegas Safety Committee asked us to do something.

When you say they didn't ask specifically, do you mean to say they might like to have it?

Yes, they would like to have it, but it's also an OSHA requirement now.

Okay, but but the first part of your answer is what I'm driving at.

I I can see that because I've seen snipers on the building to protect everybody that's around there and should be there.

And so I can see having hatches there.

I can see having places uh spots where uh a defender can be anchored there, so to speak, in safety, and at the same time protect the crowds.

And I I kind of thought that might be what it was for because I echo Mr.

Stoldal's concern in that you know it may not seem like a lot of money, and it isn't to the city, except this is tough time for the city.

It has to got a lot of money those.

So uh you know, I can't figure out why we wouldn't want to do it here and then not a bunch of other places.

The top of the mob museum, maybe, and other places like that, which are considerably higher.

No question the different difference in injuries suffered by people falling uh would be would be great.

So anyway, that that I'm a little concerned about the precedent setting.

Maybe we need time to think about it.

Your Honor Yes, sir.

Uh I I associate myself with the concerns of uh of uh member Stodal.

Let me ask this.

I mean the safety of the people are working on that, no question.

That's that's it would be immoral not to do something that you know could cause the risk, but providing for safety is not necessarily preserving or restoration, it's an additional requirement.

I don't quarrel with that at all.

I mean, I think we've got to.

But I mean, somehow that doesn't fit in with my maybe narrow perspective with restoration and preservation, it's the enhanced safety for individuals that work on that building and should be done.

But somehow I'm having difficulty at putting that within the rubric of restoration.

That's that's a concern.

Senator Brian, I can answer that for you, sir.

Um for the record.

The safety rails are there so that the people working on the roof obviously won't fall off, but they need to work on the roof to preserve the integrity of the building.

So we don't want a historic building that we have to say, oh my gosh, you know, the roof's falling in, now we have to do something about that.

We're getting ahead of it so that when we have people up there that need to do the regular maintenance that helps this historic building, that we're getting ahead of anything that could cause deterioration down the line.

So that is the connection between preserving historic buildings and providing these railings.

Um and I I'll have a comment in a minute, but go ahead.

Mills for the record, perhaps we should approach this from a different perspective.

Uh you say this is an OSHA requirement.

Probably mandatory because of insurance for the city.

Who has paid for all of the other buildings that have had to have these devices placed on their roofs?

And and why aren't you approaching them about that?

So the requirement is like new construction and stuff like that.

You have to provide fall protection.

You you don't have to necessarily bring your buildings up to those standards.

Um we as the city facilities has funded a lot of the safety rails throughout the other properties.

Um but they're not historic buildings, if I'm not mistaken.

Yeah.

Correct.

The reason that the city is funding that uh those um uh the improvements is because they are have no historic significance, so it's incumbent upon the city to pay for the improvements.

Um with this, uh, the Fifth Street School, of course, is a very historic building, and I understand, and let me see if I if I may.

Does anybody else have any other questions?

Oh, uh go ahead, Ryan.

No, I'll I'll defer to you.

Well, I wasn't quite prepared.

Um I I guess I'm torn on this one because the way it was presented in the material was that this is for historical preservation, and yet when we're talking, it's more of a mandate that came through the you know uh safety um procedure, if you will.

And it's being done at other city facilities.

So I guess there's a number of members on this board that are like, well, look, we're here for historic value and preservation, but the connections aren't being made for us.

Diane, I don't need the reaction.

I'm just stating my feelings.

I'm sorry, I was gonna say something, but I'll let you finish.

Go ahead.

That'd be great.

So I I don't know that you're gonna get a majority vote at this point.

Maybe there is more that can be gleaned from this conversation, and we can have a broader discussion, come back.

I don't know, maybe delay this if that's a possibility instead of just saying no.

Um, but that's kind of what I'm feeling at the moment.

So I'm just throwing it out there.

If we delayed it, maybe we can have some internal conversations and better understand.

Um but I just I'm not seeing the connection at the moment.

Um let me maybe maybe because Diane and I have spoken about this, um, but uh aside from the fact that it's an OSHA requirement and that we want to keep our workers safe.

I think what you said, uh which resonates with me is uh that um uh you have uh uh an older building.

Uh older buildings just uh by virtue of the fact that they're old are uh need maintenance.

They need help, they need things to be repaired, the roof needs to be repaired, we don't want anything leaking when we have rains, things like that that will um further deteriorate the building.

So we want to preserve this.

That is part of what the Centennial Commission's mission is.

But the reason that we need to put these guardrails up is not only for the protection of our workers, who of course we don't want anybody falling down and saying, oh my gosh, we should have done this.

Um, but uh in order to maintain the building, uh our workers have to get up to the roof, and since they're up on the roof, they want to have the and understandably so wanna have these protections in order to carry out their mission, which is to keep the building in good repair.

So there's more than just an OSHA requirement.

It's uh in order to repair the building and keep it in pristine condition, we need to put the guardrails up so that our workers will feel uh comfortable going up to the roof.

I wouldn't want our workers to say that the you know that we're putting them uh in uh exposing them to any danger just because they have to get up on the roof to do their job.

Am I am I tracking what you're saying?

Is that the connection that um Mr.

Arnold is looking for?

Uh thank you, Mayor.

Crent for the record.

Um yes, Mayor, that that is correct.

Apologies if that did not come across that way in the proposal.

Yes, it is an ocean requirement, but we're not doing this because it's an OSHA requirement.

We're doing it to protect the building, and it also happens to be an OSHA requirement.

And a historic building.

On a historic building, yes.

So my question is if this uh stole up of the record, if the Centennial Commission decides in all its wisdom not to approve uh this funding, then the building, the city is not going to install these and protect the workers.

I could say it's not in this year's budget for the city.

So it the likelihood of finding $95,000 somewhere would be rather remote.

And the OSHA requirement can be put off for a year.

It's always it's been put off for three years at this point.

We started this back in 2023.

I never like to vote on something when I feel guilty about uh a part of it.

And uh guilt is not a good way to make a decision.

Well, let me ask you something.

Will anything change between now and the next meeting that we should defer this vote?

It seems to me that we will uh can make an up and down vote um uh in order to protect uh uh a building that is a cherished in the community.

I attend a lot of extraordinary events at the Fifth Street School.

Um it's uh has uh not only when I'm there, I could feel the historical significance of the building.

It's worth preserving and it needs to be preserved.

And if we're gonna get workers on the roof in order to do the repairs, we better do something to protect them, like put in these safety rails.

That's my opinion, but uh I I'll entertain a motion if anyone cares to make one.

Could I make just one comment?

Yes.

I think the concern for me is the precedent.

In other words, is this a precedent at any time the city needs to put guardrails or some other safety provision on a building that's listed on the historic?

Are we gonna get a request to do that?

That's dangerous for us in terms of protecting you know the budget that we have and to provide all the requests that come to us.

You've sat through it all, James and and Diane.

That would be my concern.

I don't quarrel with the historic nature of the business.

I went there from 1942 to 1944.

That alone should make this a historic building.

Well, I'm not asked to be designated.

I'm just a fossil.

Can I can I uh let me ask you a question?

Um my god, I lost my trade of thought.

Uh what did you just say?

Because I wanted to comment on it.

Um you're uncomfortable.

Oh, wait.

How many historic buildings does the city of Las Vegas have?

Are there hundreds, 10, 5?

No, uh see if I further record.

So we have obviously the Fifth Street School, the West Side School, uh, we have the buildings at Lorenzi Park, we have the buildings at Floyd Lamb Park.

Uh those are um all well, the mob museum that we own the kind of that joint member um relationship with uh 300.

Any other buildings that are in need of repair or come to um 50, by the way, there are 50 that are either on the national, the state, or the or the or our own the city's register, there's lots of buildings that are out there.

Is there a way of protecting the Centennial Commission so that uh so much of the money that is raised by uh the sale of license plates is not only uh uh ending up going to um repairing buildings so we could use it for the other things that we enjoy funding?

Um is there a way of protecting the city from that?

And what I mean, right now we're being asked to do this, and I understand it, and I think we should, but in the future, just what uh Senator Bryan said, if uh uh uh any of these 50 buildings are gonna come to us and ask us for additional funding for various um uh improvements, what would our answer be?

Uh Crent for the record, so this would go back to our discussions um and Commissioner Helton's um request, and we're still working on it for this strategic um for a strategic um plan, thank you.

I don't know why that word just left my brain.

So it it and I did present this um to God, I think it's been quite a while, I can't remember a couple years ago, of the amount that and you can see it with our grants of the amount of money this commission spends on events like the parades or home in history, uh what uh the commission spends on documentaries.

So part of that, and I know everybody knows what the NRS is, but part of this commission's responsibilities is to protect our historic properties.

So if there's a we can do a plan that says X amount of money should be designated towards documentaries, X amount of money should be designated towards historic properties, and X amount of money should be designated to towards events.

That could possibly also give uh the commission um more guidelines of which grants you want to approve and which that you don't think meet the the threshold.

Obviously, that's a little bit off topic.

I know that.

Um, but that would be something that we could look at as far as that we say, okay, let's give a million dollars to, and that's just a number that's not written in stoneywhere, million dollars for our historic properties, city-owned historic properties.

That's that's the budget we have, and we would work within that.

Um, and the budget for whatever other projects that the commission wants to do.

If uh if a year from now, um the West Side School comes to us and asks for money for some repairs, what and we may decide that that's an appropriate expenditure of centennial funds, but what would make this this ask unique enough that we should fund this one and not others?

And I think that's the question that obviously a number of our uh commission members have is why this one and not any other ones.

Well, because I think this is the first one that's come to us.

Um I know that uh director um for did you know talk about the project over at Floyd Lamb Park?

Um so but that one was never put forth as a grant request.

It was just a discussion.

So this is the first one that's been put forth as a grant request as far or uh as far as funding in order to make this possible.

So this would I and even if we do this one and we have another one that comes through, that doesn't mean you're obliged to fund it, of course.

But again, our job partially, and my full-time job is preserving these properties, and this is one that we saw something that we could do jointly with um maintenance, historic preservation, and uh showing that we do take care of the city, does take care of it historic properties.

Mayor, just real quick.

I I I don't think we should I I use the word guilt.

If you look back at the record of the funding of the the centennial commission and its restoration and repair of historic buildings in this community, four, five, six, eight, ten millions of dollars we've we've approved.

That's not that's not the issue.

The issue here is is this something that really should be paid for, paid for by the city?

Uh uh, we're all part of the city.

I also get that, Dr.

C.

Brent, that we're all part of the city, and this is city money.

Uh, and I also understand the NRS.

It's it seems that this is still in the gray area, and I will say to the other commissioners on the uh at this juncture.

I've switched from uh a hundred percent no to 55 percent yes.

Uh I just leaned.

I call for the questions in that case.

Okay, Mr.

Mills.

Mills for the record.

Mr.

Mills.

Mills for the record.

I've been on this commission for more than three years, and this gentleman said that this has already been the can has been kicked down the road for three years now.

Are we the last resort?

Have you gone to other places looking for funding for this?

And now you're coming to us because you had no joy doing it anywhere else.

No, not necessarily.

We were asked to do this at one point, and then they said the funding wasn't there, so then I have been asked again by the safety committee to try and get this going again, so I got updated quotes, and then this was one of the possibilities for funding this project.

Yes, Louise, I'm sorry.

This is Louise Helton for the record.

And I've been a contractor working, having my guys work on a lot of roofs, and usually the type of safety bars that we're using are temporary that are rented, and so it's not something that you always have structurally attached to the building.

Is that what you've been doing in this ensuing period of time or no?

They don't put up temporary railings, they go up there and they're tie off, is how they're having to get up there.

Mr.

Brandon, did you have a question, Mr.

Brandenburg?

Yes.

I can't hear you.

Uh Brandon Byrne for the record.

Um I I share some of the concerns about precedent that have been expressed, and I would feel more comfortable if we had a better understanding of what other avenues you didn't explore and could explore before we are the sort of last source for this project.

Mayor, Jeff Dorkek, City Attorney.

Yes.

The only other note for you, maybe to add to the discussion whether you want to call the question or possibly hold it for two months, is uh with our upcoming item on the officer elections.

I know uh you and Dr.

Siebrand had discussed expanding our briefing that you get to the additional officers.

So for our uh September meeting, if we hold this item in abeyance that might give that larger group of you and the officers a chance to get a better briefing, although we've gone pretty deep into the item here here, but uh you know you'll get that briefing that maybe uh some of the members would want to get, and then you come back in September.

Let me ask you something.

Uh, can uh I'm uh optimistic that ultimately uh the Centennial Commission will um fund this, but I couldn't say this uh for uh with certainty.

Uh can you wait two more months before this comes back and we can obey it for two months, have a more in-depth conversation and uh see if they're um if we will come back and uh and explore this agenda item again.

Can you go another two months?

Yes.

Okay, yes.

I'd like to make a motion.

We hold this until our next meeting and uh with uh attorney Dorkak's uh suggestion maybe there is a smaller group than get a briefing and we can kind of work through this because I'm still the vote is asked today in favor.

I'm a no.

I just I I'm not there yet.

So my motion is to hold.

All right.

I'll second that motion.

Uh thank you so much.

All those in favor of obeying this item till the next meeting, please say aye.

All right.

Any opposed motion passes.

Excuse me.

And that would be the September 28th meeting.

All right, thank you so much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We're now going to go to agenda item 11.

Agenda item 11 is discussion for possible action regarding the election of officers for the commission of for the Las Vegas Centennial.

Is there anybody?

Um do you care to comment on this?

Uh Diane.

Uh Crent for the record.

I am going to let um City Attorney Dirk Hack take it.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Diane.

Uh, hopefully, this item can be rather painless if we have some people willing to step up into these officer positions.

So, as you all remember, uh about two months ago, we adopted the updated bylaws, yep.

With the uh help of commissioners Brian and Stodal along with staff.

Uh one of the significant changes in the bylaw change was that the uh five four of the five officer positions would be people on the board.

So the president already is one of your board members, that's Mayor Berkeley, and uh effectively her four-year officer term runs with her four years in her first term first of three terms as mayor.

The uh I'll be 90 years old if I do three terms.

We do need we do need members from the commission to uh volunteer or be nominated to be the vice president.

Say that again.

I'm sorry.

We need we need members of the commission to volunteer or be nominated to be the vice president.

The vice president uh effectively serves as the fill-in if the president cannot run the meeting.

Uh we need someone to serve as the treasurer and someone to serve as a secretary.

The positions are outlined in terms of the official portfolio in the bylaws, but in general, the positions are what we all traditionally know of the secretary and treasurer, and I think Mr.

Stolel and Brian can correct me, but what we saw from the change would be that the four the president, vice president, treasurer, and secretary, these would be amongst you, and you would know that hey, if I have a finance question and the treasurer, uh let's say it were Mayor Berkeley, but it can't be, but it say it were Mayor Berkeley.

I'm gonna run the question by her and if I want to, or I could possibly go to Diane, but I might just now go to the treasurer, and the treasurer will reach out to Diane.

Diane continues to do the day-to-day operations, takes care of the staff work, but you basically have additional contacts, points of contacts within the uh commission in terms of the very series.

Um uh Senator Bryan.

As always, I like to follow the legal advice that we get.

Let me run this up the flagpole.

I would move that we is this in the form of a motion.

It is if you view it in order, yes, absolutely.

Thank you so much.

I appreciate that.

Just want to be clear.

I don't get this kind of consideration at all.

Okay, okay.

That uh Bob Stolval be vice president, that Ryan Arnold be the treasurer, and you uh the secretary.

I think that does what we need to do.

There may be discussion, objection, but uh I so move.

Okay, so this is um okay, so there is a motion on the floor uh that the president uh by virtue of the fact uh that I mayor will be the um president, vice president, Mr.

Stodal, Treasurer, Mr.

Arnold, and uh Secretary will be you.

Is that not Y O U, but exactly what I'm saying?

Yeah, yes, you yeah, just you so I'd like to uh amend that motion.

Um and uh to amend it to say that uh Senator Bryan uh according to our bylaws, we can have one or more vice presidents, one or more assistant vice presidents, one or more assistant secretary, one or more assistant treasurers.

I don't think we need those, but I think that I would rec no, I don't think I would like to recommend amend the motion of Senator Bryan and nominate him as a an additional vice president.

A commissioner vice?

Is that what I'm saying?

No, congratulations.

Is there any uh discussion on the motion that is uh before us now?

Did you want to say something?

Okay, you're seconding the emotion.

Okay, very good.

In that case, um we will um excuse me.

Now let me ask you something.

Do we vote on the amendment first or do can we take this in blank?

You're you're gonna vote on the motion from Senator Bryan, which he adopted the friendly amendment from Mr.

Stodal.

So it's ready to go.

Okay, all those in favor of the motion um set out by Senator Bryan, please say aye.

Any opposed in that case, yes, somebody is opposing you on there, but I I'm ignoring them.

So let's be the record.

I've never had one either.

All right, motion passes.

Okay, agenda item number 12.

Report by the executive director of the commission for Las Vegas Centennial regarding completed projects and announcements relative to the Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial.

Thank you, Mayor C Brent, for the record.

So these are our current projects.

We do have the uh two remaining decade films.

Uh 1990s comes out uh next year, and then the final film, which will be a wrap-up of the 100 year history, it will be in 2028.

Uh this year's rodeo is November 6th and 7th.

Again, um they did the plaza did agree to move to May, but not for this year, that would be starting in 2027.

The home in history, you did hear their report, the their uh 2027 dates are April 16th and 19th, and then they will come back with the uh full um end of re end of uh project report.

We do have the sports oral history project still in progress, should be due by the really the end of summer.

Uh the new West Deal exhibit over at the State Museum um over at Springs Preserve.

Hopefully, everybody's been able to go over there and take a look at that.

That is on display until October, and we do have the Star Sign Motel Restoration should be done by the end of this year.

Uh continuing with our documentaries, we do have the two what we're calling the topic specific documentaries, the 1911 and Fremont Street documentaries.

Uh Fremont Street should be done.

Um, Bob, what did they say?

They August, maybe September.

Oh so, and then the 1911 after that, but they do have until December 2027 to finish both of those.

And I know that Bob's been looking at scripts and um uh outlines.

Uh the parade uh next year, and this will be the last year funding for the parade for the current um grant is on May 8th.

Uh we have the Marble Manor Oral History and Documentary, they are moving forward and will be wrapped up at the end of this year.

We have their other documentary about the um 1905 land auction that will be in October, and the MLK Day Parade that again was funded through next year, and that will be on in January of next year, and the Atomic City project over at the uh Atomic uh Museum, the end of this year, and then the Juneteenth, Nevada, again that was a two or that's funded two year funding uh for next year is uh May.

Those are all of our projects, and the only thing that we did want to let you know, uh Teresa and myself have been working with the um state museum, uh Springs Preserve, uh Clark County Museum on an exhibit that will be on display in the City Hall um Main Gallery.

It will be open on August 10th, and this is in relation to the um initiatives of on America 250 as the United States celebrates its um birthday.

But because at the uh time of the founding of the United States, uh Nevada was not part of the colonies, and therefore we um decided it would be best that we would not put something up about uh the colonization of the this the North America.

So we are concentrating on our indigenous population, uh including the Southern Paiute and the Mojave, and we are of course working with the tribes on this project as well, and hopefully everybody uh will be able to stop by City Hall at some point between August 13th and November 19th.

We will have a reception and we will be working on invites for everybody for that and hope everybody can make it.

But this is actually none of your funding.

Um this is none of HPC funding.

This is what we have done on uh our own um elbow grease, as it were.

So we just wanted to remind everybody about that and happy to answer questions.

Thank you so much.

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

Real quick the the documentary by Marble Manor and the one that's listed as 110 acres, are are those aren't ones that the city oversees the correct um right, they're not the Boyd Productions because and again I know this gets confusing, but Boyd are the contracts and these are the grants.

So we correct, we do not have the um same oversight as we do with the boy productions.

Okay, so we don't know who's doing the documentary on Marble Manors or Yes, it is um I I yeah it was in their proposal, I just don't remember off the top of my head.

But it is um I'll have to look it up, but it is a film documentary company.

And the one 10 uh uh acres 1905, that's not a work for hire.

No, that's not.

That's Ted Faye.

Gotcha.

Okay.

Thank you.

Yoracle.

Any other questions or comments?

Yes, Mr.

Coffins.

Thank you, Mayor.

I thank you very much for doing something for the Native Americans.

I it's been overdue, and so I'm very happy to see this presentation that we are participating in.

But I want to say that uh none of this would be here if it wasn't for the fact that this valley has been settled for thousands of years.

Yet we never really spend any time or resources educating people about it.

Now, these sorts of things are a great start, but they can be incorporated into a film.

And I believe we should really get into the idea that this valley is thousands and thousands of years old as populated.

And uh when the LDS through came through in 1851 or 50, something like that.

That that was um they had something here.

I mean they were here, and uh I just feel like uh we should start to talk about the people who really settled this area.

Some came, some went, but they never really totally left.

Any other questions?

In that case, Diane, thank you so much for the report.

Uh agenda item number 12.

Oh no, no, that was it.

Agenda item number 13, discussion regarding topics for future agenda items, comments made during this portion of the agenda by individual members, shall refer solely to proposals for future agenda items and any discussion shall be limited to whether or not such proposed items are within the purview of the commission, and or whether such proposed items shall be placed on a future agenda.

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

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

Yes, Louise.

This is Louise Helton for the record.

I just wanted to again humbly ask for a strategic planning session.

Thank you.

Yes, you're sorry.

I think most of us are aware that the uh for the record, Hugh Sinnoch.

Um I think most of you are aware that the Nevada State Memorial, Veterans Memorial, has been relocated.

Uh it was in front of Grant Sawyer.

It's now out at uh the Thunderbird Family Sports Complex on North Durango.

Uh the statues are standing there now.

If you haven't seen it where it was here before, it's 18 seven and a half foot bronze statues commemorating every conflict this country's been in from the revolutionary war to the global war on terrorism.

It's an awesome display, and they're doing a beautiful job out there.

But uh the city has been spearheading this effort uh along with the mayor's fund and uh councilwoman Polinski, I think it's her name.

Um they need some money, they're short.

Uh I can't think of a more uh a greater way to honor our veterans, and I'm a Vietnam vet.

There are others here that are similar, but uh not only are the vets, but also to help a lot of our younger people have no idea what people have sacrificed to give us the life that we have.

So I hope it's something we consider.

Uh we've done statues, we've done commemorative things, so I think this would certainly fall under the uh realm of what our Bible laws call for.

So it's something considered I'm hoping somebody steps forward in September with a request.

Thank you very much.

We we need about seven million dollars to uh it's not an insignificant sum of money.

Um not only uh obviously the statues have been relocated, but um uh we would like to see an entire um uh it's in the park, but it would be a memorial pavilion for all the um uh people in Las Vegas that have served um our country and have made such extraordinary sacrifices on behalf of all of us.

Um the potential for this um uh memorial pavilion is extraordinary, and I am hoping that we will be able to raise the funds in order to make this a reality.

And I do agree that it will be a wonderful place for people to come, bring their kids and learn more about uh not only this nation's um uh sacrifices over the many many uh decades and centuries, but how uh Nevada and Southern Nevada, the people of southern Nevada were impacted by these wars.

And Mr.

Arnold, did you wish to speak?

Uh thank you, Mayor.

Um Diane, I I don't recall where we're at if we're done with is it Jeff that was doing all our compiling of all the grants and whatnot with the website?

Uh for the record, yes, Jeff Carlson.

He yeah, that work has been completed.

Okay.

Um so it it occurred to me when we had two great videos today, one from Heldorado and one from Battle Preservation Foundation.

Um, and and maybe this is beyond our task and with uh is it Miss Delaney?

Um she's left us, but maybe this is something that we can revisit at a meeting.

Um is there a way that we can connect some of these links, like those two videos, those should be on our site and prominent of you know the latest and greatest and see what we funded and you know you want to learn more about the city, you want to get more involved, um, and maybe something similar.

We had talked at one point, and I'm probably getting a little too far into the weeds again with this website stuff.

Um, but now that we have a new director um in that position, maybe we can have this discussion once again.

But when you go there, it's way better than it was.

But can we have some additional information under those links?

And I just wondering if it makes sense to have another item on the agenda disclore to uh um you know review those those thoughts again, or maybe this is a separate agenda item that's on this new you know, subcommittee or uh executive uh committee meeting, and we decide if it makes sense to elevate to this board.

Anyways, just want to throw that out there.

I feel like it's an opportunity for us to revisit the whole website thing.

Definitely can talk to community.

I mean, that would obviously be through communications, but we um I'll definitely talk to them about that.

And and um uh my experience with Megan since she got here is that she um is very anxious to do what the city needs, and she is making changes and understands the importance of social media and how uh how people depend on that for their news and information.

So that might be as easy as just a conversation with Megan.

Okay, and uh, I think that might be the first step, and then see what she uh presents to us when she comes back and and tells us what she's gonna do to help elevate our stature in the community.

Is that on you?

Diane or me?

Um not you uh you are absolved of any uh any I'm happy to take the ring.

No, I see I see Megan Daly, so I'll make sure that I mention it to her next time.

And um I also before we um uh finish our agenda with item 14, which is uh citizens' participation, I did want to um punctuate what Diane said.

Um I get a briefing from uh Diane and Seth uh about a week before our meeting.

I think it would be very important, and we did discuss it when we met last week.

Is now that we have um uh our office is elected, they should be invited up to um uh hear the same briefing that I'm hearing, and I think that'll uh not only inform everybody but keep people better informed.

And so um I I will make sure uh definitely the next time we have a briefing in my office, all the officers will be included, and I think that's an important thing for us to do.

So is everybody good with that?

Okay, wonderful.

Agenda item 14, citizen participation.

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Is there anybody wishing to speak under this agenda item?

Seeing no one, I will adjourn this meeting of our centennial commission.