The Mesquite City Council held a regular meeting on Tuesday, August 26, 2025, at 5:00 PM in City Hall. The meeting included an invocation, Pledge of Allegiance, and a Women's Equality Day proclamation. The council addressed numerous items, including resolutions for infrastructure projects, a new RDA fund, updates to the master transportation plan, a gaming license, an escrow extension, and ratification of a collective bargaining agreement. Key actions included approval of several interlocal agreements, denial of participation in the proposed Southern Nevada Council of Governments, and approval of a 30-day escrow extension.
Adjourned: 6:43 PM.
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?