Good evening, everyone.

Welcome to the Tuesday, August 26th, 2025 regular City Council meeting minutes, our meeting for the City Mesquite.

It is 5 p.m.

We are going to uh have an invocation by Pastor Craig Jansen of the River Valley Bible Church.

Thank you.

Let's pray.

Father in Heaven, we are very grateful that you've made yourself known to us through your creation.

Lord, your care for us through your provision, your love for us through the gift of your son, Jesus Christ for our sins, and your wisdom for us through your inerrant word.

Father, I'm I'm grateful, grateful for a mayor and council that sees the wisdom of invoking you as a guide in this meeting.

And so I do ask you for your guidance for your wisdom and any decisions that need to be made here tonight.

May you be honored through it and bless the meeting.

It is in Jesus' name I pray.

Amen.

Thank you, and ask you, please, to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Pledge allegiance.

Goodbye.

One nation, under God, an indivisible liberty and justice for all.

And now I'd like to uh welcome Gene Watkins for a proclamation of Women's Equality Day, which is it today, August 26th or excellent.

Good morning or good evening.

Um I want to thank everyone for this proclamation, the opportunity to read it in council.

I am here with uh members of the Women's History and Culture Center in our signature blue uh shirts, as well as the Mosquito Girls.

And this is the proclamation.

August 26th is Women's Equality Day, the day we celebrate a groundbreaking advancement in human rights in the United States when the 19th Amendment to our Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote.

The 19th Amendment reads the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.

With only one sentence, this amendment changed our constitution and our nation's history.

Our founding fathers had drafted the Constitution based on hundreds of years of English common law, English common law that said when a woman married, she lost her status as a free person and became property that was owned by her husband.

Once a woman married, she no longer had control over her body, her children, any money she made, or any credit for things that were the result of her labor.

This is why many writings passed down through the ages show the author as anonymous.

Married women were not allowed to take credit for what they wrote.

Women of all ages and backgrounds banded together to break down this barrier to equality.

And they did that with the support of men who believed in their cause.

We see it in women serving with honor and distinction in our armed forces.

While many inroads have been made in the struggle for women's rights in the 125 years since the passage of the 19th Amendment, more institutional, societal, and cultural changes are needed to achieve the gender equality envisioned by the 19th Amendment.

We still need to pass the ERA amendment that guarantees equal legal rights to all American citizens, regardless of sex.

Women's Equality Day is a time to remember the sacrifices made by men and women in the struggle for equal rights to preserve their legacy and to build on it for future generations.

Now, therefore, I and the Mesquite City Council proclaim August 26, 2025 as Women's Equality Day in Musquite, Nevada, and that is signed by Jesse Whipple, the mayor of Misquite.

Thank you.

Thank you, Jean, and thanks for every everything you do.

You're amazing.

Thank you.

Could we have the honor of your photographs?

Of course.

Official photograph.

Yes, he is at that.

That's okay.

Oh, okay.

Who else is you?

Okay.

Thank you.

No, should we do it now?

No, do it now.

Okay, we'll do it then.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Okay.

Jesse said it's okay to make one announcement now that we've done that.

We just talked about today being a celebration of women all across the United States having the right to vote.

But tomorrow, we are going to have a memorial, an unveiling of a memorial, and it is about Ann Martin, who saw that the women of Nevada got the right to vote six years earlier, six years before the rest of the country had a right to vote.

The women had a right to vote.

That's going to be tomorrow at five o'clock at the Women's History and Culture Center.

And our speaker is a professor from the University of Southern California who specializes in women's studies.

She has been working for the whole last year on writing a book on Ann Martin.

So we're really fortunate.

She's going to come out and speak.

She is a vegetarian.

So what we have for people to eat is not just going to be, you know, the ham, the turkey, and the roast beef.

We we will be having cauliflower, broccoli, melons, and something else for vegetarians.

Oh, I know.

Plus, we went to Smith's, and we're going to have some of the things from the sushi bar there too.

So we have something for everybody tomorrow.

Five o'clock, two twenty-five, North Willow, and we would love to see everyone there.

Thank you, Jean.

And now we're going to move into our opening public comment.

This uh public comment comment is for items not on the agenda.

And you have three minutes, please come forward.

Boy, that was a tough act to follow.

Mayor Whipple.

Tell us your name for the Mayor Whipple, City Council members.

My name is John Rosen.

And I am a 12-year resident of Mesquite.

My wife and I love living in this city.

When we first arrived, we very rarely attended city council meetings, only doing so when there was an item on the agenda of particular interest to us.

However, over the past several months, I have started to attend much more regularly as very troubling and disturbing news accounts started to surface regarding various actions and problems within our city.

I am particularly concerned about the reputational damage to our city and its citizens that has occurred due to statewide and national news coverage of some of these problems.

I have great respect for public servants, and I admire and am grateful for anyone who willingly steps up to assume your respective roles.

But as I have attended these meetings lately, I've become increasingly concerned by what I have observed.

On several occasions, I have seen members of the city council be confused and unclear about what a topic of discussion meant or what they were actually voting on, or what the procedural steps of city government required.

This was shocking to me as I watched our city attorney and our interim city manager attempting to provide education to the council members in response to their confusion.

It causes me to wonder what orientation or onboarding exists for people who ascend to these roles and what performance standards have been established for our elected officials.

If there are deficits in this regard, they should be addressed with some urgency.

I recently reviewed the city charter myself and found clear answers to almost all of the questions that the city council members have struggled with in recent meetings.

While I admire the willingness of people to assume these positions, I think it is a reasonable expectation on the part of the Mesquite citizens that within a short time after assuming their roles, all of the people in the front of this room should be able to certify.

One, that they have read and understood the city charter.

Two, that they have read and understood the city code.

That's a long document.

It's 1120 pages.

Three, that they have studied and understood the meaning and proper use of the criteria matrix published by the RDA, which governs discounted property sales.

Four, that they will review and understand topics on the agenda and educate themselves to the issues they will be asked to deliberate prior to the meeting.

And five, and most importantly, that they are fully knowledgeable of their legal and moral obligations in serving the citizens of Musquite in a competent and professional manner.

Thank you.

Thank you, John.

Hello, City Council and Mayor Whipple.

Great day for the women's rights since we are a women-owned business that is trying to do business in the city of Musquite and are having issues with that.

So I just wanted to talk today about the annexations that are happening in our city, specifically Mesquite Vistas annexations.

Oh, I'm sorry, Rayline Schiffano.

You think I would know by now.

So I just want to kind of go over some things because we've ourselves have been required to do a final map for our 4D property that is not annexed into the Master Association of Mesquite Vistas.

And when we did these subdivisions, we actually worked with Travis Anderson to do these subdivisions.

So just so you have it that I'm not making stories up.

Our engineer met with Steve, talked to him about what we had to do to subdivide our property.

They had to be 6,000 square feet.

And that the map and all that wouldn't have to be done if we followed this process.

So our engineer did the subdivisions, did it legally and lawfully, but the city won't give us a letter say stating that we did it according to what the city required.

So we're just asking for a letter from the city that will show that our subdivisions were done correctly.

If possible, if we could get that from you guys, I can give you that.

There's been a lot of you know amendments and certificates and records of surveys and everything.

Travis has got a couple signatures on a couple of deeds that he was amending in our properties.

That's probably why that we have some of the confusion.

There's been a lot of amendments of deeds and titles.

And so I know Travis is very familiar with some of those, so I think he could probably answer a lot of our questions later on about the annexation of 4D.

The only parcels that were annexed into the Master Association were parcels one and two.

Everything else was done by record of surveys or amendments.

So he bought this little lot out of 4C to create a parcel for the NDOT property that they were going to annex in later on.

So 6,000 square feet is the minimum for a square foot for a lot.

That's in Travis's notes.

This clearly didn't meet that um requirement for the 265 square foot parcel that they created.

It also was not annexed in.

4D was not annexed in in 2007 on the final map.

Just so that's clear with the city.

And then the 4D property, the Andob property, is not listed as an annexable area for the master or the subdivision.

So we're just asking for some research to be done into the Red Hills Commercial and the Mesquite Vistas Associations before any annexations are done any further.

Thank you.

Thank you, Relene.

I had a nice little write-up for tonight.

Simon Kim, code enforcer, approached me and just said if you wouldn't, that would be great.

He's got his uh solution.

So Mr.

Kim, I I wait, no, you're not shaking, you're shaking your head, you don't.

That's what you said to me over there.

Okay.

So for those uh I'm Arcus Spender, by the way.

I'll just for those just tuning in or just becoming aware.

My wife and I went uh want to start renovation of our Red Hills Cinema, which we own, and turn it into an event and family fund center.

You know, that's really that's what you told me over there, Simon.

Okay, this is how you lie.

I've seen Mr.

Kim during these council on votes.

Let's I'm supposed to stop telling the truth.

Okay.

Keep telling, but don't you don't need to call any names or liars or anything like that.

But go on with you.

He just lied to me back there.

Anyway, this nightclub next to us is preventing us from opening up.

Because we're not gonna stick seven figures into an event and family fund center when we don't even have our own parking lot.

You allow a nightclub that has three deeded parking spaces, Mr.

Kim.

He's required 53.

I don't care how you want to spin it.

That's what he's required.

There is no reciprocal parking agreements in the Red Hill Center.

It is all deeded property.

All deeded property.

No reciprocal parking agreements.

If you can find one at recorded at the colony, pull it up.

But it does not exist.

You know it doesn't.

So anyway, we're somehow supposed to pay for this property, monthly HOAs.

This mesquite vistas that we're not even in, but they're forcing us to pay for it.

And he gets he skates by with three parking spaces.

He pays three percent.

We pay half the bill there.

Hardly fair.

But it's unconstitutional.

The City of Mosquito's done a takings on our property.

They have decided that you know what, we're not gonna enforce the code on him.

He's a uh nice white man that uh wants to drive this black businesswoman out of the center, so we'll just uh let him do business, won't say a thing.

Talking about women's rights.

Thank you, Marcus.

Thank you.

Hello.

So I oh give us your name real quick.

Sorry, I'm Daniela.

Um Daniela Cortez.

So I'm I'm a resident of Osprey Street.

Um, sure, you guys have heard of the infestation of the rats that's going on.

Um so I just want to bring it to everybody's attention that it's a serious issue, you know, with the whole neighbors.

It's not the rats are not just staying on her property, they're now leaving her house and going into others, you know.

So I don't know if there's something that we can possibly do, like to further go on with that.

I know that I got a hold of the animal control, they told me that nothing could be done.

So I'm not sure how we further go on with this.

What is the process on that?

Yeah, that that uh specific house and location is actually um we just uh um the cleaned uh early this year.

Uh so may it that has it has not been maintained well, I believe.

And so that's that's the same one that we cleaned up.

Okay.

Yeah, uh, with the green pools and all those.

So we just cleaned it.

Um now when owner's not actually maintaining the lot.

It is really hard to hard for us to go there and to remove those uh rats, even if we do, then it'll infestate again uh because there is no maintenance issues.

So um, and uh I I don't believe the health district uh would like to handle this case too, so it's all on us.

Uh but uh uh we are currently working with the owner uh to catch those uh rats and clean it up.

Uh but the worst case, um we may gonna have to go through the same process, but that doesn't guarantee the final clean uh the reserves.

Okay.

Okay, so yeah, I'm just it's just concerning because you know we have families, there's kids around the neighborhood, and it's it's it was reported since last week, and it's there's we haven't seen any changes, honestly.

And every night it's an infestation after 9 p.m., the rats are everywhere, literally everywhere.

Yeah, and it's it's kind of like you know, you don't even want to go out at night.

Like it's it's kind of ridiculous to have to like live around that.

It's it's not something that and I and I understand where you're getting like where you're coming from, but ladies' pool is still super green.

Like I feel like maintenance everything-wise with the resident, it's not it's not getting any better.

So I'm not sure maybe if we can follow up with it.

I'm not sure what we could proceed with this, but definitely is something we do need to look into and take into consideration because they might or might not do anything about it, but we we are working on it, and uh uh we have brainstorming at the same time.

That's all we hear is we are working on it, but we don't see a difference.

Does that make sense?

Like we go out at night and it's the same amount of rats.

Probably even doubling, tripling.

Um I would suggest as a stop gap that you encourage that you and all your neighbors.

Um you can get on Amazon, get tamper proof rat bait boxes.

Um you can go out to uh tractor supply or ace, or maybe I don't know if Walmart would have it, but they have rat bait there.

Um a somewhat affordable solution.

Uh uh, but the but the more neighbors, because they are gonna travel from house to house.

And so the more neighbors you can get to participate in kind of like a neighborhood deratification.

Um the more it's gonna help because those rats, even though they're kind of centered at their house, they will travel.

And so if if the neighbors all have rat traps and rat baits.

And we and they have been traveling, like I said, we've been like every night we go out and there's rats everywhere, they go from house to house.

Like two houses down from where the infestation is at, they had rats, like five, six rats on there.

Yeah, on the rats in in town in general.

Five years ago, we didn't have any rats, and now they're all over all the way from Sun City to Sunset Greens.

And so the more people that participate that you can you can talk to your neighbors.

And we'll come in next week.

And like I say, you can get on Amazon, they have the things, and Simon has a process, a legal process he has to go through to be able to force them to do anything sadly.

And so while we're working on that and while they're trapping, the more people that the trap will join it.

One second, one second, one second.

Okay, one second.

Simon, can we get the um county board of health on this?

Like we can get in touch with Marilyn Crookpatrick.

Can are they able to help us?

I'll try to talk to them and catch it.

You tried.

Yeah, no, no, I haven't tried.

Okay, but I'll try.

Okay, we can get in touch with Marilyn.

Marilyn can put us in the right direction because that's not that's not acceptable.

Okay, thanks.

I am Patty Ahrens.

I live behind her.

Patty Ahrens.

This has been an ongoing issue since 2021.

With Mayor Littman got involved.

I sent you emails.

It's terrible.

I can't go in my yard without a stench.

Without a stench.

I'm sorry, it's terrible.

You try to talk to her, she starts yelling at you.

It's frustrating.

Yeah, it is.

Very frustrating.

So I just had to add that because I've been working on this since 2021.

And that's why I came up and said something too, because I spoke to her and she did tell me 2021 she's had an issue with this specific neighbor, and there nothing has been done about it.

Like they fix the issue, and then we start back from square one.

They cleaned up the the refrigerators, the freezers, all that out of the yard, but nothing else.

That's it.

They have an RV also to the side.

I'm not sure.

With the windows wide open, the rats are probably in there too.

It's it's ridiculous.

And the smell.

I wish you guys could I can't.

We can't.

I'm sorry.

The smell is awful too.

Awful.

So thank you.

Thank you, Danielle and Patty.

Have you seen the video?

It's bad.

Yeah.

Hello, Mayer and Council.

My name is Erica Nicholas.

Don't grab the mic.

My name is Erica Nicholas, and I'm just gonna continue saying with what my husband was saying.

We worked very hard all my life.

My parents came here to this country to give us an opportunity.

And um, they have three daughters and three successful daughters, but the city does not understand what they have put us through.

By putting a nightclub on our property, if anything happens any day now, I can lose everything because it's my insurance.

No one is responsible if something happens but me.

There's a hundred percent on my property, my lot.

And why should I have to forfeit my livelihood, everything I work for, because someone doesn't want to enforce a city code.

Three parking spots for a nightclub that has two, three hundred people in there sometimes is absolutely ridiculous.

There are no reciprocal parking easements, and I have his deed over here.

He has no reciprocal lots on his deed.

In fact, out of 11 deeds at Mesquite at Red Hills, six of them have no reciprocal parking easements.

The other five had them inserted in 2016 and in 2021 illegally.

You can you guys can watch the deeds.

Somebody's been inserting reciprocal parking into the deeds with no amendments, with no history, a chain of history on only some deeds.

And I should know, I also have a friend who used to own um where Wooster Cottage is.

He sold his place in 2021, and in 2021, he said he had no idea they added that to the deed of the new owners.

Reciprocal parking.

So someone wants to pretend that there's reciprocal parking at the Red Hills.

I don't know what's going on, but these Ds need to be looked into.

The research there is no reciprocal parking easements, the 2007 amended final amended map, the the second amended map, sorry, and the final map do not say it.

The owner's dedication do not add reciprocal parking.

They're all private deeded lots, and they were done.

Unfortunately, they somebody here, um, I don't know who when they put in the application for the nightclub, said that Red Hills was a shopping center with integrated parking, meaning there was one parking, unified parking rather than 11 owners.

They said there was one owner.

Therefore, they didn't really have to do a parking study.

Therefore, he just snuck in with three parking spots, but this has to be looked into because it's illegal, and I am not willing to risk everything I've worked for for something to happen on my lot for people that I've never seen before, and I'm not responsible for.

Yeah, he they're right.

I am so if anything happens, I'm responsible for it, but he gets a free ride on my dime.

So please do something.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Mayor Whipple, City Council members.

My name is Sandy Romberg.

I'm a Mesquite resident and proud mesquite police and all crimes victim advocate volunteer.

My husband and I moved here from Minnesota after visiting Musquite in 2017.

We didn't have any plans of moving, and I never thought I would live anywhere other than Minnesota, but here we are.

We were very impressed with Musquite and thought it had much to offer for a city of its size.

Everyone we came across was so polite and welcoming.

We felt mesquite was a safe and well kept city, and we were impressed that there was such a great police department here.

It wasn't long after we moved here that the terrible George Floyd incident happened back in our home state.

Well, I did not live in that area of Minneapolis.

I was well acquainted with it.

It was devastating to watch it burn and be destroyed.

I by no means condone what happened to Mr.

Floyd and do not agree with racism, but I was also not in agreement with the call for defunding the police either.

That is what spurred my husband and I into the action of volunteering for the Mesquite Police Department.

We are very fortunate to have such a diligent force of officers who worked to keep us safe and to rid Musquite of the drugs that unfortunately get trafficked through here.

I'm sure you're all aware of the rest, the arrest that took 68 pounds of meth off our streets the night of our last city council meeting.

I'm proud of our Mesquite police, their accomplishments, and often share their Facebook posts with my family back at Minnesota.

It makes them feel good to believe that I'm in a safe place.

Thank you, Sandy.

Seeing no one else step forward, we will move on to uh number two, our consent agenda.

And we are going to pool 2.3, the monthly financials.

They're gonna be moved to the next meeting.

Um so 2.1 consideration and approval of the Tuesday, August 5th, 2025 technical review meeting minutes, the Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025 regular city council meeting minutes, and the Tuesday, August 26th, 2025 regular city council meeting agenda.

2.2 consideration of approval of a notification of budget transfers, b notification of budget amendments, c notification of bills paid, and D purchase orders.

Any questions from council on the consent agenda?

Any comment from the public on the consent agenda.

Seeing none, I will call for a motion.

Councilwoman Gallo.

I'll make a motion to accept the uh agenda.

Councilman Ennis, I'll second that motion.

Call for the vote.

NSI.

Galloway.

Motion passes.

Adopting the interlocal contract number MES 03B 25 between the City of Mesquite and the Clark County Regional Flood Control District for the construction of the Pulsper Wash Levitt Lane Crossing.

Travis.

Yes, thank you.

Mayor, Council.

Uh, the item before you is a resolution between the City of Mesquite and the Regional Flood Control District for the construction of the box culvert, uh, which is associated with the Levitt Lane and Hafen Lane project.

This uh just to give you a little background.

This project, there will be three funding sources for this.

One for the box culvert from regional flood control, RTC, which will be later on in the agenda, we'll be paying for the roadway, street lights, those, and then there's an element with the water line, which is being paid and reimbursed by the Virgin Valley Water District.

So the item before you tonight is for an interlocal agreement for the construction um funding from regional flood control for the box culvert for this project.

One other item to keep in mind.

Right now, um, and we are going to bid that project on September 9th to where on our September 23rd meeting.

I um will be bringing that for your notice of award.

So it is our my recommendation to approve resolution number R25-031.

Thank you, Travis.

Any questions from council?

Seeing none, do we have any public comment on item 3.1 seeing none?

I'll ask for a motion.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Oh, thank you.

And thank you, Travis.

And it's nice to see that this is the very first step of the new road going in.

So thank you.

Um, I will make a motion to approve resolution R25-031.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Councilman Gallows, second, call for the vote.

Sorry, Patty.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 3.2 consideration of approval of resolution number R25-028, adopting interlocal contract number 327 between the City of Musquite and the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada for Musquite Boulevard and the Sand Hill Boulevard Dash Americans with Disabilities Act ADA.

Thank you, Mayor Council.

As you recall, our last meeting, um, we actually had the notice of award for this project.

Um, this is an interlocal agreement.

The resolution before you tonight is for the interlocal agreement for the construction of that project between the city of Mesquite and the Regional Transportation Commission.

Um this allows this project will be fully funded through this RTC funding, and it is our recommendation to approve resolution number R25-028.

Happy to answer any questions.

Thank you.

Any questions from council?

Any public comment on item 3.2.

Seeing none, I'll ask for a motion.

Councilman Ennis.

I'll make a motion to approve resolution R25028.

Councilman Wandless, do you want to second that?

I'll second it.

Call for the vote.

Sorry.

Galloway.

Motion passes.

Item 3.3 consideration of approval of resolution R25-032 for the city of Musquite creating a special revenue fund to be used for redevelopment RDA 2.0 funds and relating to relating to community redevelopment.

Ms.

Green?

Yeah.

Ms.

Thorne, Mrs.

Thor.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

Sorry, my voice is not very good.

Um, but the the purpose of this resolution um is so that we can do the accounting for the new RDA dollars that will be coming in from the property taxes at the county level.

Um, so the RDA 1.0 is in fund 25.

Um, this is creating fund 26.

So it's basically a procedural um accounting move so that we can record the expenses and the revenues outs as they come in.

So my apologies for all good.

Thank you.

Any questions from council?

Any questions if you have questions?

Do we have any public comment?

I don't I'm on item 3.

Seeing none, I'll ask for a motion.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

I will make a motion to approve resolution R25-032.

Do I have a second?

I'll second.

Call for the vote.

Parachive.

NSI.

Motion passes.

Item 3.2, consideration of approval of resolution resolution number R25-029 adopting supplemental number two interlocal contract number one three one two between the city of Musquite and the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada for roadway improvement dash Levit Lane and Hafen Lane.

That's 3.4.

Did I say 3.4?

I'm not gonna read the rest.

Um, any oh Travis.

So uh this item before you tonight is to request additional funding from our regional transportation commission um to help with the bidding services.

Uh the final um just to finalize the plans for this.

This uh funding has been approved by RTC, and it is before you tonight to ratify for this supplemental number two.

Um, like I said, this project is out for bid.

RTC is um going to re uh reimburse us for all of this amount.

And so it is our recommendation to approve resolution number R25-029.

Are you bidding it all as one or is the covert and the road separate?

They are all as one, but when we were working on this, uh there was some additional design we needed to do based off of uh engineering comments when we did the uh conditional letter of map revision through FEMA.

Um, and so it did we needed to do a little additional uh engineering work and also to finalize the specifications and get the bid ready.

So that's what this interlocal this supplemental number two to the interlocal covers.

Thank you.

Any other questions from council?

Seeing none, uh any comment from the public on item 3.4.

Seeing none, I'll ask for a motion.

Councilman Innis.

I'll make a motion to approve resolution number R25029.

Councilman Wandless.

A second.

Call for the vote.

Parish I.

Gallow I have.

Motion passes.

Item 3.5.

Consideration of approval of resolution number R25-030.

Adopting supplemental number one to interlocal contract number 3205 between the city of Musquite and the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada for Mesquite Boulevard and Sandhill Boulevard Mill and Overlaid.

Mr.

Anderson.

Thank you.

Mayor Council, this uh we've got a lot going on, and which is an awesome deal.

But this resolution before you tonight is the supplemental number one for the mill and overlay project.

Uh this will is the project that will uh remove and replace all of the existing asphalt for mesquite boulevard and sandhill boulevard once we get all of the uh all the improvements that we're planning on that.

This project is actually out for bid right now as well.

Um it is to be bid on September 16th and will be placed before you on September 23rd.

Um it is our recommend once again.

This funding is 100% reimbursed to us by Regional Transportation Commission, which I can't give them enough kudos.

It helps us to with all of our roadways, and we're so very blessed to be able to use that funding.

Um again, it is my recommendation to approve resolution number R25-030.

Councilman Parrish, you have a question?

Uh Travis, can you for my benefit and uh audience benefit a start and a stop point on both Musquete Boulevard and Sand Hills?

Absolutely.

So um when you're on in front of the Casablanca, right before you get to the roundabout, you'll notice that there's a distinct line on the asphalt, and you can tell that line because NDOT, Nevada Department of Transportation, they use what is called an open grade mix, which is a little bit uh well, it's just like it says it's open, it allows water to penetrate a little bit more.

That line right there is the distinct line between the city of Mesquite and what N Doc covers.

When you come around and you go right in front of the new uh holiday inn, you see that same distinct line, and it's close by where the crossing is.

Um just not quite up to the crossing.

So this project will go from both ends 122 all the way around to exit 120 and cover all of our area that we maintain with Mesquite Boulevard and Sand Hill Boulevard.

Councilman Wandless.

Mr.

Anderson, I have two questions.

One, will there be a moratorium on the street streets?

We're not working with construction again.

And number two, what's the time frame to do all the milling and overlaying?

Yeah, great question.

So the city of Mesquite, well, all of Clark County, they have what is called a no-cut policy.

So what you have is a five-year no-cut policy.

Now, realistically, if a water line breaks, they were going to fix that.

So, what that means with the no cut policy is we try to enforce, and that's why we've been working with all of the utilities to try to get all of this work done before we anybody has to go back in there again.

But if somebody does have to go back in there, their limit of repair is dramatically increased so that it's not just these little tiny patches.

Now that does happen where people have to come in after this, but that's our plan that that's the reason we're doing letting all of this additional work happen, and then we're coming up to put that cap on it to where it is a five-year no-cut, but again, sometimes that happens where there's breaks or whatever that people do need to get in there, but we won't be allowing this same, you know, all of the construction that's happening now.

And then your second question on the timing.

So like I said, this will be brought bid on September 16th and brought before council approval on September 23rd.

That uh will if it is awarded that night.

Um, it's usually two weeks for the contractor to get all of their bid or I'm sorry, their labor and performance bonds in place, and then I'll issue the notice to proceed.

This project is a hundred and uh I can't remember if it's a hundred and fifty or a hundred and eighty days.

I want to say a hundred and fifty.

And so they would have that time to do that.

One thing to keep in mind, because of the I'm very aware of uh the disruption that this will take.

We have written into the specifications that this shall be a night work project.

So the majority of all of this milling of the asphalt, the removal of the concrete collars around the all of the manholes, that will be done at night.

Now, the only drawback with this is as we get farther into the winter, um, I'll lose the temperature that I can repave those back.

And so the I will have to do some of the pavement um reinstallation in the daytime, but we'll be looking at those traffic control plans and minimizing the areas that they're paving so they won't be paving from one side all the way to the other.

We're trying to make this into manageable sections and doing that, but great questions.

Okay, seeing no other questions.

Do we have any public comment on item 3.5?

Seeing none, I will call for a motion.

Councilman Ennis.

I'll go ahead and make I'll go ahead and make a motion to approve resolution rev resolution number R25030.

Councilwoman Gallo.

I'll second.

Call for the vote.

Yeah, okay.

Okay.

Number four, 4.1 mayor's comments reports.

I don't have any comments and reports tonight.

Uh councilwoman Gellow.

Okay, so I have a couple things.

Uh apologize.

Uh, number one, um, I spoke last time, but we uh again, thank you so much, Mr.

Anderson, for the fantastic job they're doing over at the shelter.

It's really coming along.

But with that being said, we have uh I think we have 19 kittens, and that's not counting what's at my house, and we also have um I think like 11 or 12 dogs there right now.

So if you are interested in adopting, we're looking for some help.

Um please please call the shelter because you really can't get in, but they can meet you and help you into the building.

Um also we care for animals is also uh another uh rescue in town, and they have an adoption on September 6th at the Jimmy Hughes building.

Um something very important.

Uh we have a wall, an Alzheimer's walk coming up.

It's a fundraiser.

It's going to be on November 1st at 10 a.m.

It's gonna be over at our hospital, Mace View Hospital, and they're looking for walkers and support.

So um, I do have some flyers here, but you're also gonna be able to um see this, I'm sure, in our local media.

But it's for the Alzheimer's walk, and I do have some flyers.

I'll put those out there.

Um and last but not least, uh, I want to follow up on the situation that you're dealing with the rat because um you said they were mentioning green water.

I know the city will get involved.

I mean the county, because they're doing mosquito count, mosquito counts um with the green water and stuff.

So we can probably get them to come out here and help us.

So thanks for bringing that to our attention, and we'll try to get the county and um Mayor Jesse and I were just talking about that.

We'll talk to we'll get Marilyn Crookpatrick to help us with that.

So and that's it.

Thank you.

Thank you, councilwoman.

Councilman Ennis.

You just can turn your life back light back on.

Any other reports or announcements from council staff?

Sort of a significant event for us.

This guy over here, this is his last council meeting.

Oh yeah.

Mike's had uh full 20 years with us.

Oh, yeah.

Full 20 years.

He remembers every day of it.

Me and Mike have been working together for 26 years almost.

Um he uh was security when I first started here, and we uh we ran amok for a long time, didn't we, Mike?

Yep.

But I wanted to tell Mike how much appreciate him, and this is his last one, so he's a great guy.

Um follow-up with I did meet with uh Joe this morning, animal control supervisor, and we um discussed what we could do.

Um, because it's private property, we can't just go in and do whatever we want, right?

So um we've discussed what kind of options we have to approach this homeowner and see if we can help them.

Um don't want to get into doing that too often because you know it creates a problem for us, but we did have a discussion on that, and we're gonna do the best we can.

So we'll work on it.

Thank you.

Mike, you're gonna be missed.

You're gonna be very missed.

We didn't bring a cake.

You can you can still keep coming to the meetings though.

Mr.

Kim.

Yeah, uh, thank you, Mayor and City Council.

Um, I'm gonna make a presentation about Red Hills Commercial Center.

Um we actually I sent uh this documents to the uh Nordic Beach LLC and uh their members and also uh their attorneys.

I asked numerous times.

Uh we need uh attorney's interpretation on this and uh tell us uh their positions, but we haven't heard anything uh related to these documents that I'm gonna show you today.

Um this is a prenured uh private issues, uh, and usually when it is related to this kind of uh cases, I requested uh associations later, simply.

Uh so uh private matters uh handled by the private entities and we handle ours.

But the reason why I'm asking letter it will be explained later uh later at the presentation.

CCNR's for the Red Hills Commercial Center was adopted, uh recorded in 2003.

Uh and that that is the uh document and uh uh 1.29 says it is local easement areas uh that shall mean and refer to refer to certain portions of lot outside of footprint of buildings, and as shown on exhibit B.

I'm gonna show you exhibit B later.

Uh but uh uh the anasement uh that easement has been reserved for the uh benefit of all owners for the purpose of parking and pedestrian and bicular access, ingress and egress.

1.30 received local easement, uh that shall mean easy months for peculiar and pedestrian access, ingress, egress, and parking along and over the rest of the local easement area depicted on exhibit B.

Again, please remember the XP B.

And that is uh for all owners, their agents, resees, uh, uh customers, licenses, invites, and the like.

And uh they will use these areas for ingress and egress.

This XP B uh was actually submitted at the last meeting uh by uh Rayleigh and Shafino.

Uh this is exactly that map, and uh the title is uh recipe local easement areas in the CCNR.

As you can see, there is a gray areas, those are the areas uh subject to the local easements.

Um so uh at that time uh they their comment was lot D down south in the triangular shape area, was neither included in the easy month area nor a part of the uh Red Hills Commercial Center.

That is true at that point, uh, but I'm gonna further uh show you what I found.

However, the discussion primarily concerned shared parking with the NV Night Club.

So ironically, uh this map uh actually supports the existence of the shared parking.

Site plan was uh applied and reviewed and approved in 2005, and also December that includes the lot D.

Um I'm gonna continue the discussions again.

And second amendment, final map of Red Hills Commercial Center subdivision was uh produced in 2007.

On that, the first page, there is easement languages, drainage, utility and right-of-way easements for ingress and egress cover the entirety of all of the lots and parcels as shown here in, with the exception of existing buildings and the locations are not specifically designated here in the owners.

This is a poor, the owners, it means association reserve the right to uh require said easements to be specifically described and recorded in the public record.

So this is the second amendment that includes uh uh southern lot uh 4D2.

So then they found hey, uh we didn't annex the lot 4D.

Uh so uh they uh the filed and they annexed uh the lot 4D in 2009, and uh uh recitals uh talks about exhibit A that I'll show you uh next page.

Then uh it says uh such lot for D shall be subject to the CCNRs and any other association governing documents except there are some exceptions I can uh uh send it to you, but those are more uh restrictive.

Um exhibit A says lot 40 of second amended final map.

So they are all pointing each other, and the lot 4D was annexed, and they have a lip local easement.

Uh NV Night Club acquired the conditional use permit in 2011.

Um the application clearly identified the location of uh physical uh address at 792 as pioneer Boulevard, and the specific location was marked on the map.

Uh so and then uh as a matter of land use law, conditional use permit run uh with the land, not with the owner.

So uh you know around October 2011, and we purchased one of the newly created parcels that is uh just uh the building itself, and then uh their APN number was changed.

Uh it was uh administrative changes of the uh property operator's office.

Uh so they actually did not alter the physical physical location, so that doesn't actually go against the MMC 95-3, bracket B bracket 3 that says no use authorized by conditional use permit shall be enlarged, extended, increased in intensity or relocated unless an application is made for a new conditional use permit.

Relocation is supposed to be physical, it's not about the administrative changes of the number.

The upper the Nordic Beach Holdings LLC purchased their property in 2019 after all that done.

Uh it was six years ago, and it if you look at the deed that is subject to number two, covenants conditions, restrictions, reservations right away, and easement now of record.

The um Mr.

Bender and his family members and groups and uh has been telling that uh I am reinforcing covenant private governance.

Uh this is the uh MMC9-8, they are quoting private restrictions shall not be enforced by the city.

The law has context, not just one line.

It is there, and I admit it, but uh there's more to it.

So according to the previous presentation I made, if that is true, unless otherwise their attorney uh shows me it is not true and they have a new evidence.

If that is true, then I cannot enforce uh the MV Night Club because that says where the provisions of any private restrictions are more restrictive or impose higher standards, then the provision of the UDO, such private restrictions shall control.

So if receive local easement is controlling it, then I cannot do anything about it.

It is fact in fact, if everything is right.

And if I'm enforcing the private covenants, I'm gonna actually have to issue the citation to the Mr.

Bender for not complying with the CCNR, right?

So I'm not doing it because I'm not uh reinforcing the CCNRs.

File lane issues.

Uh they sued the city uh May uh 2024, last year.

And uh as you can see, uh the district court actually ordered denying petitions uh the for their video amendments because there is no fire lane.

Fire lane has never been designated.

So this is a back alley.

We uh they have been talking and they've been showing this, uh, and then they've been telling vehicles moving uh on top of the private uh pedestrian way.

So I went there and looked looked around and I found this.

So when there is uh uh the early blocked, where would that be could go?

So I would recommend uh Mr.

Bender and their families to find whoever installed that one.

Um tell them that it's not right.

Um because that is just the blocking.

If it is uh fire lane, they are blocking fire lane.

If it is not fire lane, they are blocking that back alley for the traffic circulation.

So this is what I'm saying.

So I would expect any we have been uh honestly talking to them over email and also uh to their attorney uh over email too.

So this entire information is available and they have have it.

I don't know why they are not talking about it.

I don't know why they are not challenging any of these evidences and clean their title and show me the evidences and tell me that it is DD lots, and so they have rights, but instead they've been coming to the city and talking um those stuff that I cannot answer to.

So uh this is uh my uh presentation, and I'm gonna end my presentation today here.

Thank you.

Thank you, Simon.

Any other presentations from council or staff?

Okay, seeing none, we're gonna head into item 5.1.

Consider there's not public comment on this.

Sorry, at the end.

5.1 consideration of architectural and site plan reviews, case number ASI-25-010, River Stone Lots 6 and we have a misprint on that or six and seven.

Okay.

Proposing the construction of two commercial buildings, 12,000 square foot at 1624 and 1634, Riverstone Bend, APNs number 002-23-514-001 and 002-23-514-002 in the light industrial district IR-1 zone.

Any questions from council?

Ms.

Green, do you have anything on that or no?

Any questions from council on item 5.1.

Okay, any comments or do you have some?

I have a short place presentation.

By the way, this uh this item and the next one is connected.

So I'm gonna uh run it really quickly.

Uh, because um uh next one is about the condominium uh plat uh plat, uh tentative map plat.

So to do that, they're gonna have to have a final location of the building through the site plan approval.

So that's why it is here.

Uh the property is 1.14 acre uh south of the intersection between Riverstone Bend and uh uh Cyrus Mac Court.

And this is the uh the site plan, and it is within the MTCC areas.

Uh architecture review committee reviewed, and uh it requires a uh 14 parking spaces, they provide 14 parking and one ADA, and uh storm drain would be moving toward the east in this case.

This is the architectural renderings, as you can see, it is consistent through our neighboring uh buildings and uh materials uh displayed on the upside.

Um at the August 4th architectural review committee meeting, the committee members recommended the city council approve the application subject to a separate review of landscape plan, lighting plan, and signage.

Landscape plan and lighting plan will be reviewed through the civil engineering plan, and the signage plan will be reviewed through the signage application.

So uh step recommend the same with the architectural review committee.

Thank you.

Thank you, Simon.

Uh any questions from council.

Councilwoman Fielding or Councilman Parrish, then Councilwoman Filling.

Time you got a total of 15 parking spots for these two big buildings.

That seems awfully low.

How do we get around that?

Uh because this is uh industrial area, and that purpose is uh actually uh parking structure, basically.

Yeah, it is not a house.

Uh so yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay.

They call it is uh Man Cape.

Okay, now I'm gonna go ahead and open that up for a public comment.

Item 5.1 case seeing no public comment.

I'm gonna call for a motion.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

I will make a motion to consider the architectural and site plan review of case number ASR 25-010.

Do I have a second?

I'll second.

We have a second call for the vote.

Parish I, NSI.

Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 5.2, consideration of tentative map case number TM-25-006.

Riverstone lots 6 and 7 to create condominium lots after combining two large lots located APN number 002-23-514 and 001 and 002-23-514-002 in the light industrial IR-1 zone.

Any questions from council?

Okay, seeing none, I'm gonna open up the public hearing.

Wait, I think oh, sorry.

Okay.

Thank you very much.

Sorry, Simon.

We'll close public hearing.

That'll be really short.

All right, yeah.

The location has not been changed, it is the same.

And uh this is uh IR uh one light industrial zone and within the MTCC area.

This is the proposed tentative map.

They are proposing uh seven condominium lots, but again, it's not the uh living quarter, it's uh just uh garage structure.

Um details, uh building will occupy 24%, uh paved area 49%, and open space about 27%.

So it is over what uh required.

The open space is required 15%.

They are providing more than uh what is what is required.

Traffic impact analysis, they're gonna uh approve produce about 12 PMP uh trip uh trips from the uh development.

So it's a really minimal uh that impact on uh any uh location.

So uh recommendation step recommends that the city council hold the public hearing and approve tentative case number TM-25-006.

Uh the subject to standard conditions.

We went through everything and we corrected everything, so we only have standard conditions.

So thank you.

Thank you, Simon.

Um questions from council?

Seeing none, I'm gonna open back up the public hearing.

Seeing no public comment, I'm gonna close the public hearing and call for a motion.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

I will make a motion um to consider tentative map number TM25-006.

Do I have a second?

I'll second.

Second by Councilman Wandless, call for the vote.

Building I.

Parish I, NSI.

Galloway.

Okay, the motion passes.

Item 5.3 consideration of participation in the cooperative agreement to establish the Southern Nevada Council of Governments.

Thank you, Mayor.

There we go.

Uh so uh the two years ago, no, yeah, two years ago, November 20, 2023, uh, we uh had uh um the regional uh the planning coalition, and the coalition was actually disbanded at the time.

Um at the time they had uh a couple of projects, and those all projects were transferred to the regional transportation commission.

And now today they are actually uh reorganizing it and uh renaming it as uh Southern Nevada Council of Governments.

Uh and they uh saying that they want to uh the identify and consider discuss significant regional issues and they will act as a regional clearing house by providing uh planning documents initial.

Can you go?

You want to go back one?

Okay, okay.

So initially I had a discussion with them about uh a few months ago, and uh they said that it'll be the optional non-boarding members for us because we we are too far and uh we have a uh smaller population.

Uh so I I told them, okay, if it is optional and non-voting membership, then uh whatever you propose, we're gonna just go with it.

I mean we have an options, right?

Uh however, uh they proposed uh finalized agreement which is attached here, and they were uh telling that the if population is over 200,000, then they will have two votes, and they will become executive board members.

And then if it is less than 200,000, then like us, we will have only one vote and we will become a full members.

Um now the the caveat is right here.

Participating jurisdiction will share in the COG's budget responsibilities.

So we it'll be the with the contributions based on the population proportions, so we may not actually pay much in the end.

However, and then also it as however no jurisdiction share is uh to exceed 0.15% of its general fund revenue.

So uh if initial uh COG budget would be 1.2 million dollars, we probably pay one percent, which is uh 12,000.

Uh if it is a 0.15% of uh maximum, then we may end up paying $50,000.

Uh and they have no uh the estimates uh to provide to us.

Uh and they said no grants available, no programs available, they have no zero dollar, but if you read the agreement, we'll find that uh uh they uh uh they need the executive director, so they need to hire uh team members.

So um we may need to pay uh funds that is not within our budget right now.

So step is recommending uh like this.

I I have two recommendations, just uh let you decide.

Uh, due to several outstanding uncertainties, Step recommends the city council defer participation in the cooperative agreement establishing the Southern Nevada Council of Governments and revisit the matter in a year time.

Alternatively, the city council may want to approve participation in establishing the uh SNCOG without committing to a budget share for one year and revisit the matter at the next budget session.

That's it, thank you.

Thank you, Simon.

Councilman Wallace.

Simon, I've I've I found in the last several years that a lot of times we have these commissions or these, especially when we're we're dealing with all of Clark County, and you have Vegas and North Las Vegas and Henderson, they're all kind of right there together, and they seem to focus primarily on that area, and we're kind of an outlier.

And with the exception of RTC, RTC and some others, we we just don't get the support that we need.

So in your opinion, is that gonna be the same thing that happens here?

Because if so, I don't know that it's worth our money.

That uh may not be the case, but uh probably because uh we have one vote uh among many others, they are collectively located, but we are far alone, and we have one vote according to this.

So uh we probably will not have uh much voice in it.

However, we should we will be able to find what's going on out there, and uh we can participate the planning too.

So there is a plus and minuses, but if we expect uh any uh support, I I would say that probably would be minimal.

Thank you.

Council Woman Geller I don't see any benefit in this at all, other than laying out money.

Um and I appreciate the fact that you recommended that we don't.

We defer.

Um I think this we get hit by so many different agencies coming out of the uh Vegas and areas that want money, and we get nothing out of it.

And I don't think that this is money well spent from the city.

So I thank you for all the information and do and saying a defer, but this is a waste of our our funds.

Any other questions from council?

Okay, seeing none, I'm gonna open it up for public comment.

Seeing no public comment, I'm gonna turn it back over to council for a motion.

Councilwoman Gallow.

I'll make a motion to deny.

Can I do that?

Make a motion to deny this.

I'll second that.

Okay, Councilman Ennis.

I'll second a motion.

Okay, call for the vote.

So we've yes or not.

We're voting now.

No.

Yeah.

To not to deny the parish eye.

NSI.

Galloway.

Yes.

Would you guys just say your votes again, real quick?

Para shy.

NSRI.

Gallow I the motion passes for T 2D9.

Um 5.3.

Oh no.

My apologies.

5.4.

Consideration of approval of a Class A gaming license for century gaming technologies to operate seven slot machines at U.S.

gas station.

Yes, U.S.

gas.

Located at 798 West Musquite Boulevard.

Mayor, I'll make it really short.

Currently, uh the motion, seven uh motions are provided by Eclipse Gaming.

And the century gaming technology is taking over from them.

So step recommended the city council approved the gaming license.

By the way, they just acquired the state license uh state permission, so uh there shouldn't be any problem.

So um approval is recommended.

Thank you.

Thank you, Simon.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you.

So they already had gaming in there before.

Yes.

And this is just somebody else taking it over.

That's correct.

Okay, that's why the different names.

Okay, thank you.

Any other questions from council?

Seeing none, I'm gonna open it up for public comment.

Seeing none, I'm gonna close public comment and call for a motion.

Councilwoman Fielding.

I will make a motion to consider approval of the Class A gaming license for a century gaming technologies.

Councilman Ennis.

I second that motion.

Okay, call for the vote.

Parish I, yeah, sorry.

Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

5.5 presentation and introduction.

5.4.

Sorry.

Last time with all that.

How do we put Paul's vote in if he's not in?

Oh good.

Okay.

Five point honest.

Five.

Presentation and introduction of the City Mosquite Master Transportation and Capital Improvement Plan by Kim Lee Horn.

Mayor, I'm I'm gonna uh quickly summarize um the what has been done by Kim Ni Horn right now.

Uh the interlocal agreement between the city and uh the RTC and Kimni Horn.

Yeah, yeah.

Do you want me to go now?

Yeah, you can come, but uh I'm gonna just talk shortly.

Um so it was uh agreement was signed on November 9, 2024.

There was a walk by uh bike audit uh February 28, 2025, and then there was a mid mid-term presentation by Kim Nihon on March 11th, 2025.

And then uh today, uh August 26th, uh it is the introduction of the final report.

Uh after this, uh they're gonna have an open house on September 17th, 2025, and then they will bring back to you for adoption uh on October 28, 2025.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh good evening.

My name is Max Barnes.

Um, I'm here just kind of to give you an update on where we're at with this uh master transportation and capital improvement plan.

And this is a really important planning opportunity for the city of Mesquite to plan transportation in the future.

Um it helps program projects and unlock funding.

Um the next slide.

Um a quick review of kind of what we've done as part of this.

Um we reviewed existing conditions, looked at a lot of the current lane configurations, traffic signals, um, and have looked at trying to find tailored solutions to provide a balanced transportation network in the future.

And part of that is identifying short-term projects, things that are needed now based on what we've seen and observed through data collection, and things that you know are needed five, 10 years from now or even longer than that.

And a big part of this is providing a mechanism to update traffic impact fees, which is a development fee associated with traffic for developments as those come through.

Next slide.

Please attend.

And then as Simon said, we'll have a final presentation in October at the city council meeting then.

Next slide.

Some things that we've completed very recently are the evaluation of existing conditions, identifying future projects that are needed to support transportation growth here in Mesquite.

That involved a land use analysis, looking at kind of this current plan for the city and identifying gaps based on our data analysis, kind of thinking on the lines of does the signal need to have additional lanes, adjusting the signal timing to allow you to have to wait less time, or does a particular intersection that currently has a stop sign will it need to have a traffic signal in the future?

Next slide.

Part of the process for this is to develop a kind of a more zoomed-in community vision.

And this was developed with input from city staff as well as public engagement.

Some of the goals, and again, this is all developed with input from city staff and public engagement.

Some of the goals for this plan are to increase safety of transportation for all users.

That means pedestrians, bicycles, scooter riders, and people who uh drive in cars or on buses, reduce congestion, increase multimodal connectivity and accessibility, so increasing opportunities for people to recreate as well as drive safely, promote equity and sustainability, education and awareness, helping teach individuals in the public about how to properly use facilities, as well as recommending physical facility improvements and maintenance.

Next slide.

One of the key recommendations that comes out of this plan is uh an increase in the impact fee that's collected by the city of Mesquite.

And this process has been used in the past here, a similar methodology to what's used in St.

George to develop this number, and it's based on nationally accepted trip generation rates for land uses in the city.

And this was developed using historical growth over the last five or so years and projected onto the future.

If we see similar growth in traffic based on development, what are we going to need to be able to fund as far as future transportation projects go?

And that's where this number comes from.

And there's a more in-depth summary of all of this and contained in the report.

And we use that to target transportation needs, which are shown here in this map.

Um, a few short-term projects, there are roadway improvements, um, as well as some mid-term and long-term projects to help complete the transportation network here and make improvements such as additional lanes, additional ways to cross I-15 in the future.

Uh, this one involves multimodal and active transportation enhancements to help complete the bicycle program or the bike lane program here, um, as well as recommending additional crosswalks, and then some intersection improvements that typically involve signal modifications, signalizing an intersection, as well as um possibly redeveloping an intersection to be able to handle more capacity based on the analysis that we've completed.

This is the same slide with different information.

So, are there any questions or comments?

Councilwoman Gellow.

Um, I heard a fancy uh presentation, but I mostly heard that there's an impact fee that's going to affect our people, our city people, $672.

It will impact new homes?

Yeah, new new construction only.

Something to think about.

Okay, thank you.

Um could you go back one or two slides, one more?

So oh back one.

There you go.

What what's just tell me what's happening right there?

Yeah.

Um so a big goal of this of this whole project is to increase multimodal accessibility.

Um, and a big part of the way we do that is through bicycle lane improvements, and and oftentimes that just means building a bicycle lane um as well as you know, multi-use paths are separated from a roadway, and then looking at uh gaps in that the existing network.

Um, and so one of the goals from the previous plan was to that was done in 2015, I believe, was to um increase the connectivity between kind of the northern end of mesquite and the southern end, with I-15 being that divisor.

And so this the projects proposed here are to improve bicycle facilities on um Grapevine across I-15 to give bicyclists a facility to cross the freeway safely.

Um, right now the main crossings are there on Grapevine as well as um down on Falcon Ridge and Sand Hill Boulevard, where there are no striped bike lanes currently.

So you're not gonna make a connection between Old Mill and Grapevine there for a bicycle lane, or no, yeah, good question.

So the it uses the existing alignment on the roadway, um, and it's just kind of improving it in both areas.

Um this happens specific connection.

Yeah, councilwoman gallow.

Travis, would you explain what you kind of just explaining to me that it's new homes and it's less than yeah, so on the impact fee, one of the things that it is would be this impact fee would be geared to or tar not targeted, but that's it is for new home construction.

And it would be this is similar to uh any impact fees that they're paying right now.

Now, what I want to clarify is as they were researching this and they did a very thorough job, they were showing I believe our current impact fee is 195.

I think how much was it?

195.

Yeah, 195 right now.

And that hasn't changed.

It's kind of the same with with everything.

That hasn't gone up since 2004, five, something like that.

Been the similar for a very long time.

So and so the when he's generating that number, all of these projects that we're going to and look at that are being able to apply that money to these new projects um in association with the money that we get from RTC, because we we only get a certain amount each year, and as we continue to grow, that money is going to do less and less with all of our maintenance and that.

But your question is a good one because it's asking, okay, how did we establish that number?

As he's looked at the surrounding regions, that number is way less than what they're charging.

Uh I think St.

George, when you analyze that, was $2,000 a home.

Uh, I think it was about $2,700.

$2700.

So this is dramatically lowered from the surrounding area, but it is an increase to what they have seen right now.

But it's one of those, and this is a recommendation, and that's why we wanted to bring that before council so that as we continue to work on this, it won't go for adoption until October.

That that is one of the things that you, as a council can say, okay, I agree with that, or I don't agree with that.

And that's where that conversation starts to develop of okay.

Do we feel that that's a fair number?

Do we keep it?

Do we say we're gonna shoot in the middle of those?

This is really just we wanted to make sure that you were aware of that in this document of what we're we do believe that it's warranted for that for the future.

We're looking at the future needs and for the maintenance and and just for these uh functions of being able to provide for our growing city.

But uh I love the question because that's really the meat of what we wanted to talk about or bring to the council today is you know, will we want to incorporate that into the adoption of this document, or do you feel you want to go lower or keep it or so?

Great question.

Um, I guess on a positive note, new people coming in would be paying this, but the rest of our city would be benefiting.

That's correct.

So our our citizens that are here now just benefit by okay.

So there is two ways of looking at that.

Yeah, and that this the whole number was generated looking at the historical growth and saying if mesquite sees the same growth over the next five to ten years, here are the transportation projects projected to benefit the city, and how do we pay for part of that?

And that's that's where this number comes from.

And if you look at when he was going through those slides, you can see some of the it's listed out more in detail on the short term and the midterm and the long term, but as they were going through, you can see some of the signals that we'd have at uh Hardy Way and Horizon.

The new one we know that we're probably going to need one at the new fire station that we're building.

So those are as we're looking at that, we were identifying these um projects that that money would go to because we know that as we continue to grow, we're gonna continue to need those elements to provide those safe.

And it's not just for the vehicles, it would be on the rapid the flashers, like the one we put just on first north on uh Sand Hill Boulevard.

We're seeing probably more of a need of those because a lot of people don't see the crosswalks, they really need something to really flash out, but they're somewhat expensive.

And so when we're trying to prioritize all these, that's a lot of what this document and when we're looking at the cost of those establishing an impact fee.

And unfortunately, none of us like that.

Um, you know, but the good thing is if the people are coming here, you know, in my opinion, they need to help pay for those things to really as they're driving the growth.

But one auditional thing is that uh when they showed me that information, the number, I asked them if it is uh it includes the inflation rate or interest rate because it is a time and it goes by, it goes it should be increase, but that they haven't applied, so the number is minimum actually.

It doesn't actually uh keep us uh entire capacity that we need.

Any other questions from council?

Okay, seeing none.

Thank you very much.

Do we have any uh comments from the public mesquite resident?

Um I know most of you have lived in more than one house in Mesquite.

You were had a house and you built another.

These kind of fees would affect you too.

It's not just screw the new guy, it's screw you guys too, and all of us who build new homes.

It's not on new residents, it's disingenuous to say that.

I know when I was on council, we always voted and a minority I voted against raising fees on building.

You want to attract housing here.

You guys talk about the housing, the need for more housing, raising prices on doing that is just counterproductive.

Thank you.

Thank you, Wes.

Seeing no other public comment, I'm gonna ask for a motion.

Councilman Wandless.

I'd like to make a motion to uh approve the presentation of the um mesquite master transportation.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Okay, call for the vote.

So we're just moving the correct.

That's correct.

It's just uh it was just a presentation introduction.

Okay, gala.

Okay, item 5.6 consideration of approval of a 30-day extension of escrow to September 15th, 2025 between the city of Mesquite and Paragon properties LLC for the property located at 700 Hardy Way.

Ms.

Green.

Thank you, Mayor and Council.

We currently have um an as an open escrow for the building that we own at 700 700 Hardy Way, and um the buyer is here in the room this evening, and he's requesting a 30-day extension on the escrow.

Since you approve the contract with a certain closing date, then we are here requesting an extension.

Okay, any questions from council?

Councilwoman Fielding?

Thank you.

So looking at this agreement, there's a few things that come to mind.

You want a 30-day extension.

Today's already the 26th.

That's correct.

So the 30 days should it start today?

Because right here, what you're saying is um extension to September 15th, but we're already the 26th, so we're only giving them two weeks now.

Correct?

Right.

And then when I by the time he asked for the extension, I had to put it on a council meeting, and there was no other way to do it.

Okay, and then second thing is I understand um talking to Mr.

Burt because he is getting a loan.

That's correct.

And looking at this purchase agreement, it says purchase price for the property shall be paid as follows cash.

So should you do an addendum saying that now he has the lender?

Because it's not a cash.

It it would be cash at closing.

So the lend the lender provides the cash and then it's still cash closing.

It wouldn't be a transaction where the city would be accepting payments or becoming the lender.

Okay, but they're still getting a loan.

Because so that's kind of different than doing a commercial property than something else, because you do they're getting a loan, and then this one says cash.

So of course, the lender, there's gonna be a lien on the property when they close.

Okay, we'll we'll get back to that.

But my question is should we allow them 30 days from today?

Because it's already the 26th.

So in the agreement, it says August 15th or such other date as mutually agreed upon the parties.

Okay.

And so the agenda item today says it's 30 days extension.

So I think it'd be appropriate under the language of the agreement and under the agenda item.

It could be 30 days from today.

Okay, because I would feel more comfortable than that.

So it's not, you know, the thank you.

And that's only well, less than 30 days.

Right.

Okay, thank you.

I appreciate that.

Thank you.

Any other questions from council?

Okay, seeing none, I'm gonna open it up for a public comment.

Seeing no public comment, I'm gonna turn it back, ask for a motion, Councilwoman Fillden.

Thank you.

I will make a motion to approve a 30-day extension and to the escrow starting effective today, the 26th of August.

Whatever we're picking up.

Hey, do I have a second?

I'll say Councilman Innis?

Oh, so I'll second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Galloway.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Item 5.7 consideration of approval of resolution R25-033 and the updated loan agreement between the City of Mesquite Redevelopment District and the general fund to pay for projects utilizing the remaining redevelopment funds.

Director Thorne.

Um thank you, Mayor.

Um, this is just an update of what we did back in February.

Um, the overall projects are still the same, um, but how they look is a little bit different as time has passed and bids have come in, and so this is really just an update.

Um we have rolled the purchase order, or we will be rolling the purchase orders from last fiscal year for the capital projects.

Um that was on the um consent item 2.3 under um encumbrances, but there are still a number of of one large project that was initially set out for the ball fields for 2.7 million dollars that's not encumbered, it's not a problem.

I I had a lengthy discussion with um Fred Steinman.

This is just really to update you guys as to where we are currently.

Thank you.

Any questions from council seeing none, I will open it up for public comment.

Seeing no public comment, I will call for a motion.

Councilman Wandless I'd like to make a motion, but do I have to talk like her?

Yes.

I'd like to make a like to make a motion to approve resolution R25033.

Councilwoman Fielding.

I'll second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

No, sorry.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 5.8.

Oh, yep.

5.8 consideration of ratification of collective bargain agreement from Teamsters Local 14 for 7125 to 630 28.

Ms.

Green.

Thank you, Mayor and Council.

Um yeah.

I would like to first of all take the opportunity to thank Grant Davis.

He is in the room, he's the president of Teamsters Local 14.

He was unbelievably professional with us and extremely patient.

We had a huge changing of the guard midstream.

This got dropped into our lap, and he was just amazing, and I can't thank him enough.

And as far on our end, we came together as a group and we really did work together as a team with our city attorney, our finance director, and a huge thank you to HR to our HR director Gina and um our HR manager Amy, and they put in just countless hours, countless hours to get this done.

So thank you so much.

I really appreciate it.

Mayor, council staff.

To this speaker back on what Martine said, um, we are very pleased um to present tonight.

It is night already.

The final collective bargaining agreement for Teamsers Local 14 regular M1s and M2s.

Like Martin said, um, the negotiation process has not been without its challenges.

Um during the course of this discussions, we experienced um changes in leadership.

Um despite this changes, this transitions, Martin, Amy, and I, we had the opportunity and the honor to work uh very closely with uh Grant Davis, president um with Teamsers Local 14 and um the union stewards, and together we were able to reach a fair and balanced agreement that supports both the employees and the city.

Uh therefore we recommend the ratification of this agreement, and happy to answer any questions.

Thank you, Councilwoman Gallo.

So I understand this is everybody except police.

Is that correct?

Uh no, this is only regular employees, M1s and M2s fire.

Uh we'll bring back in two weeks.

Okay, and then with police is completely separate.

So this is strictly employees.

This is strictly just regular employees, yes.

Any other questions from council?

Okay.

Thank you, Gina.

Thank you.

Thank you, Martin.

Um, any uh public comments.

My name is Grant Davis with Teams Res Local 14 under President, and Martine already beat me to it.

We had some challenges during this negotiations, but I think with Martine and uh Gina and Amy, we were able to work through those and come to what I believe is a fair deal.

So we encourage you to vote yes tonight.

Thank you.

Thank you, Grant.

Thanks for that.

Seeing no further public comment, did you have something?

Just one more thing to add.

We need to uh indicate the fiscal impact under the NRS in order to approve it, and so Nikki and can address that and on how that's going to be handled.

Thanks, Adam.

Umor and council.

Um, the the three-year contract has a value of 2.4 million dollars over the three years of the the life of the contract.

So um, as as required by NRS 288, we're required to report that to you guys so that you understand um the cost of the contract.

Thank you.

Um 2.4 million dollars is the cost of the contract over the three years.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, any other questions from council?

If not, I'll ask for a motion.

Councilman Ennis.

I'll make a motion to uh approve the ratification of collective bargaining agreement for Teamsers Local uh 14 for that three year period.

Councilwoman Gallo.

I'll say I'll second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

With that, we come to our final public comment.

You have three minutes, please come forward.

Seeing no one coming forward, this meeting is adjourned at 6 43.