Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025, regular city council meeting for the city of Mosquite.

It is five o'clock.

We are going to start off by an invocation by Pastor Dennis Lee of the Living Waters Fellowship.

You bow your heads, please.

Heavenly Father, we just come tonight, Lord.

And Lord, just realizing that it's been such a tumultuous time.

As our country has been going through such atrocities.

And we forgot what it means to be united.

You said, Blessed are those who dwell together in unity.

Because Lord God, it's when we are in unity that we can get things accomplished and done.

And realizing that is what this country was built upon is us coming together.

And when I see one tragedy after another in the history, Lord God, how it brings people together, Lord, I ask that you would start bringing us together as a country, where we're no longer black or white or any ethnicity, Lord God, but we come together as a country as Americans.

Lord, I also ask that here in Mosquite, Lord God, that we would learn how to come together as well, that we would unify and work together for the good of the whole.

That we would no longer work for one goal or for another goal or for this or for that, but we would work for everyone, especially for those who are hurting, for those who are finding themselves just lost in it all.

Because you are the healer of broken hearts.

So Lord, I ask that you would do this work in our midst here in Mesquite, bring us together as one, that we can do the work that you have called us to do.

And I just remember one thing, Lord, and that is back in the Tower of Babel, and what you said.

They are building that tower up into heaven to reach you, and you had said nothing can be withheld for them, for they speak the same language.

Lord, I believe it's time we start speaking the same language and start coming together.

So, Lord, I ask for your blessings upon this meeting, blessings upon the council, and blessings upon this community, that we look to you first and foremost in everything.

Where you say, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and the promises is that all these things shall then be added to us.

So I thank you, Lord God, for bringing us together this evening.

I ask for your blessings in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Amen.

Thank you, Pastor.

Pledge.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States, and to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation, under God, individual with liberty and justice for all.

Next, uh, we're gonna welcome Mary Mathis forward, and she's gonna give us a proclamation of the National Arts and Humanities Month.

Hi.

Okay, proclamation, National Arts and Humanities Month, October 2025.

Whereas October is celebrated across the nation as National Arts and Humanities Month, a time recognized by communities and states, the White House, Congress, and countless arts and cultural organizations, and whereas the arts and humanities enrich our lives in countless ways, sharing the wisdom, imagination, and creativity of humankind, sparking new ideas and connecting us to one another.

And whereas here in Mesquite, our arts community is the shining example of that spirit, offering free classes and events in the visual and performing arts for citizens of all ages and backgrounds, encouraging everyone to explore, create, and discover new passions.

And whereas the city of Mesquite has proudly established an official art district, enhancing the beauty of our city, strengthening our local economy, and earning recognition as a vibrant destination for the arts.

And whereas, with the generous support of the city and our community, three new buildings have been added to our arts district in the past years.

Spaces where creativity thrives and where residents and visitors alike can experience an ever growing variety of artistic expression.

And whereas throughout throughout October, the Mesquite Arts Community will host a full month of events, performances, and exhibits that celebrate the arts, cultures, and stories that make our city unique.

Now, therefore, be it resolved that I, Jesse Whipple, Mayor of the City of Mesquite, Nevada, along with the City Council to hereby proclaim October 2025 as Arts Month in Mesquite, and call upon all citizens to join in celebrating and supporting the artistic treasures that enrich our community every day.

In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and cause the seal of the city of Musquite to be affixed this 23rd day of September 2025.

Jesse Whipple, Mayor.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mary.

Let's see.

Do we have any other things that are falling underneath the presentation?

Jean?

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Mayor Whipple and members of Mesquite City Council.

I am Jean Watkins, resident of Mesquite with Nancy Rosen, one of the members of our board of directors.

We are here.

Don't hold on to the microphone there.

Sorry, Gene.

I better put my glasses on.

Okay.

All right.

We are here to acknowledge and thank members of the community who were instrumental.

Don't hold on to it, it's going to do that again.

Oh, thank you.

Okay.

All righty.

Okay.

We are here to acknowledge and thank members of the community who were instrumental in bringing two important editions to the Mesquite Arts and Historic District.

The first edition is the Ann Martin Memorial plaque that was unveiled on August the 22nd, 7th.

The second edition is the women's history museum that had its ribbon cutting on September 16th.

Neither of these editions could have been possible without significant support from the City of Musquite and the businesses of Musquite.

We want to thank the Musquite Public Arts Commission and the City Council of Musquite for giving the go-ahead in 2023 to build a memorial for Ann Martin.

Major funding for the Ann Martin plaque was provided by the Eureka Casino through the Eureka Community Initiatives Jerry Chasco.

The plaque was built by Rainbow Signs through selection and coordination by Nick Montoya.

Funding for the rock was provided by the Mesquite Opportunity Regional Fund's George Galt through the Nevada Mainstream Program.

Ordering a rock large enough to accommodate this plaque was done by Coco Pelli's Misty Homes.

Bringing the rock from the Coco Pelle Rockyard to the Women's Suffrage Plaza and setting it in place was done by Mesquite Parks Department's Randy Lopp, Lonic Dalton, Shalis Barnum, and Miguel Mieja.

Grinding the Rock and Installing the plaque on the rock was done by Mesquite's facilities maintenance departments Wes Carter, Jesse Humphrey, and Jaime Hellizar.

Leading off the unveiling ceremony was the Mesquite Veterans Honor Guard, directed by Paul Levann.

The unveiling of the Ann Martin plaque and the museum ribbon cottoning was done by Mesquite's Mayor Jesse Whipple and Park and Leisure Department's Randy Lobb, accompanied by the Mesquite Showgirls.

And at the Women's History Museum, Do It Best provided the funding that enabled us to acquire authentic suffrage memorabilia for the museum's 1916 suffrage exhibit.

We want to thank everyone who had a role in these projects, and we want them to know how much we appreciate their help and support.

It took a village.

Now, speaking for our board of directors and all the volunteers at the Women's History and Culture Center, it is our honor to be part of Mesquite's Growing Arts and History District, providing cultural experiences that contribute to the health and the growth of our community.

And thank you.

Thank you, Jean.

All right, with that, we are gonna go ahead and start our opening public comment.

This opening public comment period is for meetings that are not on the agenda.

So if you're here for an agenda item, you will be need to wait for that agenda item.

Um you have three minutes, please come forward.

Thank you, Nickel Fansetti, Mayor Whipple, Council, staff.

Uh I understand you had a meeting this past week, last week, and that meeting was with the MPOA.

And I take offense to what happened.

I take offense to the meeting, but also a good friend of mine was brought up in the conversation.

Tracy Fail, and you threw him under the bus.

You said it's better to know the devil that we know than the devil we don't.

That means you called him a devil.

That man is not a devil.

I agree.

And you are no one, just like myself, to call anyone a devil.

And if you're willing, if you're willing to do that, okay, everybody else that is in this city could be have the same termination, if yet not caught on tape.

Now the person that did the tape.

Now they're looking for hit person.

They're trying to find him where he is and reprimand them for taping a public event.

That's wrong.

That's wrong.

Second off, you took and you said Martine Green will do anything that I want her to do with the council.

It's in the transcripts.

Okay, that she would take and convince the council to bring Tracy in.

Now, Tracy, yeah, he doesn't have a great reputation, but you know what?

He's still been here for 30 years, and he's dedicated to the city.

Just because the fact that he doesn't have all the credentials, he had a few run-ins, he's got a few things going on with some kids with a child, some other things going on, but he still didn't deserve any of that coming out.

None of it.

You brought it out.

I'm repeating what you brought out.

But to take and throw her under the bus along with it, and then throw everybody else on the council under the bus that they would go with it and that you could get what you wanted.

That is not true at all.

Okay, you can say it's not true, but that's what it is.

I would say this if I walked into a meeting and you were there, I would take and get three friends to bring them in and make sure that they all had recorded phones on them.

Just because if one went down, at least I got a copy of what was said.

What I'm asking for is during the mayor's comments that you hand Patty Gallow a piece of paper with your signature on it saying, I resign.

Thank you.

Thanks, Nate.

Hi, Karen Muskimmons with Musquete Public Arts Commission.

And this is Judy Cole White coming up to join me.

Um, we're here um, first of all, because it is Arts Proclamation Month, our October is Arts Month.

Um, Judy has worked a little bit off putting together our first First Friday Family Art Walk in Mesquite.

And um anyway, this will help help kick off the Arts Month.

Um, and we just want to give you a little bit of heads up on what's going to be going on with it.

So first I want to thank Judy for all of her hard work.

She put together a committee, which included Chris Pichor from the Musquite Fine Arts Center.

Mitsi Bender, who's also on the Mesquite Public Arts Commission, but she's also the community theater.

Um, and represented the Jimmy Hughes Center and everybody over there.

Um also um everybody else who worked on it, including Randy Lobb with Parks and Racku really helped them out tremendously.

Um it's going to be October 3rd from 4 to 7 p.m.

Um, there's going to be a ton of activities going on for families for children, um, for kids.

Um, they're gonna be exposed to the arts.

Um, we're gonna have music, Musquete Cafe Blues Band will be at the Pavilion at the Arts Center, Delta Strait Band will be at the Jimmy Hughes Center.

There'll be food trucks.

Um basically it'll all be up and down Yuca.

And we've been talking about the Arts and Historic District that the City Council um established for us a couple years ago.

Um, there were going to be maps so that people can look and see and walk around and find all of the different art places and all the historical buildings that are within our walking area.

Oops, sorry.

Um, also they'll be able to see the statues that we have um recently purchased and um put up.

Um, and a lot of this is all due to working with the city and with Morph, the Mesquite Opportunities Regional Fund to get the grant funds to do that, including for the mural that's at the theater.

So, Judy, you have anything else?

No, I think you've covered it.

It's gonna be October 3rd.

October, yeah, October 3rd.

And it will be every every first Friday from October through next May.

So we'll be continuing so hopefully we can build this up.

This will be the first one.

So if we can get people to come out and support us on the first one, um, it's all free.

Everybody is just opening their doors.

The galleries opening the doors, everything over there is open.

Jimmy Hughes, a lot of the um businesses there will have um things going on.

I know Jean's gonna have the women's historical cultural center open.

So there'll be a lot of things to do.

I have a question.

So, how would vendors can who would vendors contact to have a booth?

Judy.

Judy and Musquite at Hotmail.com.

Okay, thank you.

That's an old one.

Okay.

Great.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor and City Council members.

I'm Mary Mathis, a board member at the art at the Mesquite Fine Arts Gallery.

I'd like to update you on a few things that we have going on.

With summer coming to an end, we're now open again on Mondays.

So our hours now are Monday through Saturdays from 10 to 4.

We're in the last week of our invitational exhibit, which showcases our talented artists in the community as well as artists from galleries in the area and St.

George.

If you haven't been there, please hurry in and see it by Saturday.

I'd like to invite you to our monthly exhibit reception that will be on Saturday, September 27th from 11 to 1.

We'll have the Mesquite Blues band playing.

We're apparently keeping them busy, and as well as food and drinks.

The theme for our October exhibit is Roads Not Taken.

It will run from September 29th through October 31st.

The reception for that exhibit will be Thursday, October 16th from 4 to 6.

We'll also be participating the upcoming Mesquite First Friday that they were just speaking about.

Again, uh it'll be held October through December on the first Friday from 4 to 7, and the art gallery we will be participating.

Of course, we continue to add additional classes to the art gallery and other opportunities that there's something for everybody.

So we also have an excellent website at Mesquite Fine Arts Center.com where you can see everything going on.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Mary.

Good evening, Mayor Council.

This is directed at Councilman Fielding.

Her behavior was deplorable at the last meeting.

Call in and on the phone.

I don't know what the problem was.

You never ever interrupt someone who's given a prayer.

I don't care if you're L VS, C of E, Catholic.

That was absolutely deplorable.

She should resign immediately.

She's representing this whole city, everybody out here.

And to do that, what's her excuse?

Would you like the comment in your uh when you when it's your turn?

How can you condone this?

This is not the first time.

I can't tell you what some of the council members have told me because I weren't there.

That would be here say.

But we all got a pretty good idea, don't we?

Your comment to me, Mayor, was up at the valley.

That's up to you to say, not me, okay?

So we'll you can make that in your public comment.

The other thing is I'm still upset over the 9-11 fire chief.

I've also found out, you know that nice photograph I gave him of the first fire station.

He didn't do what he said he would do in front of everybody here.

It's not hanging in the foyer.

I don't know what he did with it.

I want a back.

Not for me.

Either hang it up here in City Hall or donate it to the museum.

That's what I want because he didn't tell the truth.

And two things I don't like is people who don't tell the truth.

And people who drink and drive, that's my two biggest peeps, as you all know.

Now we'll get on to some positive stuff.

First of all, I want to thank Councilwoman Gallo and the mayor for showing up at Mesa Valley for the little service I put on for the veterans up there.

Thank you for coming.

They really appreciated that.

They did.

And uh Zuki, he did a nice prayer, nice presentation.

And Bill Annis talked about veterans.

That was great.

And I really thank you from the bottom of my heart.

So I said the 9-11 thing with the chief, I'll never get over that, never.

When you lose somebody you know in the towers who were doing their job, and I'm still really upset, but that will be dealt with, I can guarantee you, and none of you are involved, none of you here, but my attorney will find out.

Thank you.

Thanks, Mike.

I'll do it.

Hi, I'm Patty Erns.

I live um behind 574 Condor Street.

We didn't request it to be put on here.

We didn't, I didn't realize we needed to.

Um we moved here to retire and enjoy ourselves.

I everything in the backyard behind me has started started with pigeons.

They're flying all they were flying all over, made a mess of my yard all the time.

Now it has gone to the rats.

And the back corner with artificial trees.

I want to show you a picture of where they're at.

Is just a nest for the rats to live in.

The smell that comes from there is landish.

She has cleaned up some of the yard, but a lot of it is still all piled up.

She still has a camper with the windows wide open.

Um they have to be in there.

They have to be.

Nothing has been done in two weeks.

She cleaned up a little bit, but there her dumpster has been empty for days.

She's not continuing on.

That rat's nest of trees is still there.

It's ridiculous.

So I think something needs to be done because that's almost 800 rats in one neighborhood.

Thank you.

Dominic Olivetto, Mosquite resident.

I was gonna try to beat everybody up here and say a couple of positive things and ask some questions, but apparently I'm too old and slow.

First of all, Mayor Whipple, Patty, I'd like to thank you.

Every veterans thing or DAR thing I've been to this year, you've both been there.

And as a veteran, we do appreciate it.

That's the end of me being nice.

We are don't appreciate me being nice.

We need instead of more houses, we need some infrastructure.

Now these numbers are accurate as of 2024.

The county of Carbon in Utah has a population of 20,613 people.

That's the whole county.

They have Smith's, Lynn's, Walmart, Do It Best Lumberyard, Sutherland's Yumber Lumber Yard.

Halper, six miles away, has pick and rail, a full-size grocery store, RA Market, Central Commission, another full-size lumber yard.

And they got all the other little things, you know, Ace Hardware, Harbor Freight, so the tractor supply and all that kind of stuff.

And they're all making money.

Now the thing that got me going on this, I was driving back from Halper to Mesquite, going through Severe County.

And I passed a Home Depot.

Would anybody like to guess what the population of the whole county of Severe is?

It's 22,520.

Now, according to the census in 2024, Mosquite City has 23,599 people.

That don't count Bunkerville, Scenic, or any of those other places.

I think our economic development, instead of giving 90% to an out of state contractor for a piece of land that's worth a bunch of money, we should be looking at getting us another grocery store, a lumber yard.

The people in Utah love us.

They ought to, you know, we have to run up there every time we turn around.

Thank you for your time.

We're working on it, Nick.

I promise you.

Mayor, City Council, good evening.

My name is Gail Pfeiffer.

I live across the street from Dennis and Patty.

Their house backs up to the rat infested property.

I am a widow on a fixed income.

These rat traps are costly.

I should not have to put rat traps on my grocery list.

The pest control sprain is also included in a tight budget.

I like to sit on my back patio in the evening as the temperatures drop.

I cannot do that anymore because along the wall I see rats running.

Please do something about it, and I'd like to know what your timeline is.

Mr.

Kim, would you give us an update?

Yes.

Um currently past control uh supposedly started today of work.

Uh so it was uh yesterday or today.

Uh they started their work, uh, is for the outside yard.

And then in two weeks, there'll be landscaping company come out and trim the trees, and hopefully we should be able to remove those uh Christmas trees uh from it.

Uh and then uh I have to cleaning those trees in, and then after two more uh weeks after, then uh we're gonna have a second assessment, and then we're gonna have uh inside a house and outside house cleaned.

Could I ask you to follow up on that?

Because I go by there every day, and there has not been anybody working there yesterday nor today.

There has been animal control, and also the new uh the pest control has been starting work there.

So there weren't any trucks outside or people to indicate any activity, all due respect.

Um please follow up.

Yeah, sure, sure.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

And city council and mayor, thank you for your time.

Thank you, Gail.

I'm Donna Vanita.

I'm this is one title.

I'm first VP and project uh director for the Musquite Republican women.

I want to thank Mayor Whipple and Pro Tem Mayor Gallo and Captain Chris Raleigh from the police department for attending the meet and greet today with Joe Lombardo.

Um it was a wonderful time, and everybody had a good time.

Now I'm gonna go take that title away, and I'm Donna Vanita, a Mosquite resident.

After attending several meetings and seeing the chief of police position put on hold, I have a statement to make.

I do my own fact checking.

You have a candidate who's served the city for over 25 years since 2000.

He's been the acting chief since December 17, 2024.

Today is September 23rd, 2025.

In my book, that's nine months.

He's been acting as the interim, and I'm doing the job of the chief.

So, how long does it take for somebody to prove themselves?

So, that being said, I'm going to use the President Trump's words, common sense.

And as my grandmother always told me, when you look for something in greener pastures, look in your own backyard first, because the answer is usually there.

Thank you.

Thank you, Donna.

Mary Alan Maglish, I live next door to Patty.

Kitty Corner to the Rat House.

I have two questions.

Are we going to get a regular update to your work?

Or do we have to come up here every Tuesday to find out what's going on?

Do you have a spokesperson that will tell the neighborhood what is going on?

Because it's really important.

And also, if these rats cause damage to our house or make our dogs sick, who's liable?

Them, us, who?

These questions really need to be answered because they're common sense questions.

I want a timetable of what is going on.

Everybody would like one.

Simon, you just gave us the latest, but is there a way we could is there somebody they can contact or somehow we can get that information?

Can we just why not do flyers and have them deliberate every house informing us?

Yeah, we can we put it on the web page.

Yeah, we can put it on the web page, or um, if you provide us your email, we can uh blast that information to what about all the other neighbors that don't have the time to come up here?

So that's what I'm saying.

If uh they can uh send me their email addresses or contact information, I can send it out.

You can't send out something.

Uh the thing is if I have those email information, I can send out and get you the updates uh as soon as possible.

But if I send you mailing, then that'll take um no, you can have don't you have somebody who can come by and hand them?

Yeah, we have a code enforcement officer working on several issues alone.

So uh distributing that is another thing.

Somebody needs to prepare for the notification, and then somebody needs to go out there and dispute it on foot.

So that I will try if I can have a time.

Okay, because there's a lot of neighbors that are not aware.

And what is your email?

Yeah, for first uh I will uh my email is a skimskim at musquite nv.gov.

Uh but uh we will update uh those information on the city website first so that you can find it out easy.

Okay, back to the other question.

If these rats destroy something, who's liable?

If they make our dogs sick, because my husband is nearly blind and can't hear.

He depends on the dog.

Um who is liable?

Adam.

The people who have the rats.

It's best to consult with your own attorney.

And they can they can address that, they can go over that, but generally it's anybody who's negligent could potentially be liable.

Or do we turn the bills into y'all and y'all reimburse us?

I don't know how this works.

I have no clue.

So I sit and I wait.

And say, hey Blondie, don't go behind that bush.

There might be a rat.

Yeah, it's incredibly frustrating, but they are making significant progress, even though it doesn't seem like no one's told us.

So um email Simon and give him your email, and he will he will send out and you know if you talk into the neighbors, encourage them to do do the same or on the city website, and we can get you those updates out.

And we can get you those updates out.

Oh it does take quite a bit of manpower to go house to house and deliver flyers.

And so I think that's kind of what they're trying to avoid and trying to make it the simplest way possible.

Okay.

If I can be of any help, um, if I can get because I've been in touch with Patty.

Um as things happen, um, Simon, maybe you can keep me as well updated, and I can keep Patty and Patty, who's in your neighborhood, can let you all know what's going on as well.

Um, it every day it changes.

So every day it's um, and I'll just give you a little note of information that this is the frustration is that the rats have now gotten pretty smart.

So they actually, the animal control has actually caught them with one of the rats actually sits on top of the cage, the door don't open, and the other ones go in and get the food.

So they're not getting caught.

So they're pretty smart.

So it's a it's a constantly changing um battle for animal control and for the city.

So, but if I can be of any help, uh Simon and I talk on a regular basis, I'll keep Patty um in touch as well.

Okay, good.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That might say every job.

Oh no.

Good evening, Mayor and City Council.

I just wanted my name is Lee Rosener, and I'm here with uh representing the daughters of the American Revolution.

And I just wanted to remind everybody we're having our traveling exhibit tomorrow at the Steam Center.

Actually, it's been at the Steam Center all week so far.

I'll be here till Friday.

But we're doing a reception tomorrow from four to six.

And after listening to um Pastor Dennis Lee, I just I wanted to, I'm not sure if I've ever said this up in front in front of you guys, but the DAR is a nonpartisan, non-political organization.

I just wanted to make that clear because a lot of people ask, you know, if we belong to one party or the other.

But I just wanted to let everyone know we're nonprofit, non-political organization.

So that's it.

Thank you.

Thank you, Lee.

Mayor, counsel.

Can you hear me?

My name is Rosio Delgadillo, and I am a neighbor and laborer of Mesquite.

I want to make note that I haven't been very active on social media, but somehow when I come to town, I've heard of the rat house, the quote unquote rat house.

I've heard of this case.

I feel like we have to stop bullying this woman.

We're better than that.

We have to see if this case and if this house is salvageable for lack of a better term.

If it is, I think we can help her as a community.

Even if the pest problem is treated, the items in that building and apparently in that yard are contaminated.

I don't know where we can get the funds or the hands from.

But maybe like community members, if the if a website um notices put up, we can maybe get citizen volunteers.

I have time.

We can get like the three-yard dumpster, hazmat suits, masks, goggles, gloves, huge bags, dollies, ramps.

Because I get it.

Like we have families, we want to take care of them, we have dogs, we we don't want to get sick.

It's a health hazard.

But she lives in that health hazard.

And she needs help.

Let's take let's take care of each other when we can.

It breaks my heart to see the reputation my beloved town has gained as the rat town.

And it not only would be of service to the homeowner, but to the residents of the neighborhood, because apparently it's been causing quite some havoc to more than one.

Thank you and good evening.

Thank you, Rosia.

Uh Ron Shackleford.

Um I got an email from the Nevada State Contractors Board uh warning homeowners and material suppliers of new payment scam.

And I'd like to just read part of this, but uh in an effort to protect the public, the Nevada State Contractors Board is cautioning consumers against paying significant down payments up front for materials or other project costs prior to work being performed.

Recent complaints filed against unlicensed contractors indicate the payments are being made to contractors via Zell and other bank draft methods to purchase materials for their project.

The unlicensed contractors purchase the supplies using a check as has the materials delivered to the consumer's property and quickly cancels or stops payment on the check without performing any work on the project.

Make no mistake, the unlicensed individuals engaging this scheme are performing fraudulent acts and will be pursued criminally by the Nevada State Contractors Board.

Um citizens of Mesquite, be careful who you hire.

You want to make sure that they are licensed with the Nevada State Contractors Board, or at least with the city.

And so I encourage you to if somebody's asking you for a big down payment or 50% down, that is against the law, unless they do have a special bond.

And you can ask them to show you that special bond for that that they have to purchase.

That is a bond of above and beyond their normal bond.

So it's still happening in this community.

Um I've had a lot of people that I've worked on in their homes and stuff like that, and they're, you know, these are new homes.

The contractors are coming in, um, subcontractors doing the landscaping and stuff like that, and they're taking 50% down still.

And I've talked to those companies, and I told them the Nevada State Contractors Board is cracking down.

So I just give heed and warning to our community members that they need to be real careful when they start handing out money to contractors, subcontractors.

Never anymore.

It can't be 50%, it's a thousand dollars or 10% of the project, whichever's less, so it can't be more than a thousand dollars down payment or deposit.

So um, and I'd like to thank our pastor tonight.

If you listened to his prayer, and I hope you did, that prayer was awesome.

I just want to say it was an awesome prayer.

Go back tomorrow when this is recording, this meeting's recorded, and just listen to that prayer again.

We are not Democrats here, we're not Republicans.

This is a nonpartisan position here.

We are here for this community.

And if we're not here for this community and doing what is best and right for this community, then you shouldn't have a seat up there.

So my prayer is that we listen to his prayer.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ron.

Is there if somebody is running to unlicensed contractors?

Who would they go to?

They come to your department, Simon, or they're not going to be able to do that.

Yes, they can come and uh they can ask Jesseline.

Jesseline Levit.

Uh, she's in charge of business licenses.

She can run and she can identify who is what.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

You you can also report them directly to the contractors board.

And I've seen some very aggressive and direct action that the board will take.

Mr.

Mayor.

City Council, Marcus Bender for the record.

Uh I recently reviewed a memorandum dated.

You can zero in on that in a moment here.

Uh recently reviewed a memorandum dated August 15th, 2025 from Code Enforcement Officer Simon Kim.

That letter sent to Mr.

Mayor, interim city attorney Adam Anderson, interim city manager Martin Green, and Travis Anderson.

In that memorandum, Mr.

Kim has introduced unnecessary confusion into what is in fact a very simple, straightforward parking code requirement.

Mr.

Kim appears to be attempting to mislead city officials and the public on this issue.

So let me be very clear.

Under section 985 G of the city code, a nightclub of approximately 4,700 square feet is required to provide at least 53 parking spaces.

The nightclub in question has only three.

Kim prefers to present significant material under staff comments, which conveniently avoids any opportunity for public response.

Staff comments are not intended for full presentations.

They're intended for brief updates.

So on behalf of Nordic Beach Holdings, I would like to formally challenge Mr.

Kim to a public debate.

If his interpretation of the code is correct, he should have no issue defending it openly.

We will be following up with a written request for such a debate.

Actually, I have already sent that uh while I was out there, so you'll have that in your inbox.

So in closing, my wife and I continue to lose money every day because this code isn't enforced.

If the city's code enforcer is unwilling to enforce the code as written and instead continues to obscure, obscure and misapply it, the city should seriously consider replacing him.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Marcus.

Hello, City Council members.

Hello, Mayor Whipple.

I'm Railine Schiffano with Nordic Beach Properties.

Um I just want to go over the fact that Mr.

Kim has required us to do a final map.

We applied for a final map in 2024 for R4D property.

R4D property is not in the PUD.

So we are a CR2 in this 40 lot area.

So when we applied for this, um, before we even did the subdivisions, we had worked with Travis Anderson, um, Brown Civil did our our subdivisions for us.

Um they were um guided by him and Mr.

Seacrest, your the previous planner, on how to do our our subdivision.

So we did follow the rules and we did our record of surveys.

Um, but we were required to do a final map for the entire property.

Well, that's Red Hill's responsibility, not ours as private owners.

Um so what we want to show is that the nightclub is not on the final map.

So the nightclub has been an MMT.

This is the nightclub.

They're not on our final map.

This is our final map, and that's not there.

And MMT building is not on the final map.

So if the city is going to require us to have a final map to do business and to do all the things that we need to do to do our family center, um, they need to put Red Hills on notice, not us on notice.

We are gonna do business, we want to do business, but if the nightclub isn't on the final map, they don't have the right to the easements, they don't have the right to the reciprocal parking that the city keeps saying, they are not subdivided correctly.

Or we all are subdivided correctly, and the Red Hill Center needs to come up with the final map, and they're responsible because right now they're trying to come up with a new final map that I'm sure they're going to submit to Mr.

Kim, and that final map cannot exclude us, and if it does exclude us, which is fine, then we're not part of the PUD.

So the Master Association doesn't have governance over us.

Only Red Hills would if we're not a part of that PUD.

So we're asking for our final map that we submitted to the city for our 4D property by Brown consulting at a professional engineer under Travis Anderson's guidance, is how he did it to be accepted, and that we can get our final map accepted and get that finished so that that property is legal.

Um we did it with a record of survey, uh Brown civil.

So if Travis, if you could just help us through that guiding how that went, um you don't understand how you did it.

No, I understand how I did it, but there were requirements that we did set on there.

So when you keep saying that I approve those, that's not true.

There were requirements that they had to get for that final map that never happened.

Oh, okay.

So Mr.

Sykes's NV Nightclub, that's not on the final map either.

No, the final map that's recorded with the county definitely shows the NB Nightclub on there.

No, yeah, I've showed that to um Mr.

Bender numerous times.

This is our final map.

This is the final map, and it's not on the I can show you.

So we we just want it to be come in and talk to me, and I can show you exactly.

I would love to the final map because I've met, showed the all of the easements, the final map, and yeah, what you're saying is not actually.

All these record of surveys when you were working there.

So I know you do have history of knowledge of all that.

So that would be really helpful, and we've been asking for those documents.

We've got to be able to do that.

They're online through the county.

Right.

But that's where I got this from.

And it's not on there.

No, it definitely is.

Okay.

So as you see, it's very selective.

All right, thank you.

Hello, Mr.

Mayor, Council.

My name is Eric, sorry, Erica Nicholas Bender.

And um, I'm here to um just say, first of all, easements must be clearly defined.

Um, this is for the planning board.

A Nevada property law, NRS 111.170 and NRS 112 point um 210.

Easements must be expressively described in recorded documents, including their purpose, location, and scope.

A vague reference to a common area or right of use is not legally enforceable unless tied to a legal description in a deed plat or recorded reciprocal easement agreement.

And well, my deed, like I said, the deed had uh reciprocal parking added to it in 2016 with no claim chain of title or anything else.

So um the CCNRs are very vague.

The Cities Cup record record and the CCNRs for Red Hills are vague boilerplate language like common parking and reciprocal parking without attaching any legal description.

This vagueness creates no enforceable reciprocal rights.

If easements are not precisely located and recorded, they cannot be um used to justify shared parking.

Governor Siselect precedence, governance is electric sign legislation clarifying that HOAs, CCNRs, and development agreements cannot impose unclear, open-ended restrictions that sites then use as substitute for code enforcement.

The principle applies here.

Vague CCNR language does not replace municipal obligations like proper easement descriptions or parking studies or parking agreements.

Again, easements must be expressively described in recorded documents under Nevada law.

Neither the city nor Red Hill C CNRs provide legally sufficient descriptions of reciprocal parking or access easements.

Instead, they rely on vague boilerplate that creates no enforceable rights.

Also, I want to say when um a cup was given, there was a misclassification of the center.

I've read the cup.

It in reality, they said it was a shopping center, it's a mixed use center, but that was done to make basically um skew the analysis for the nightclub.

False square footage.

The cup records 78,000 square feet of office is actually 119,000.

So they were 140,000 square feet off, and this is the city planner.

Can't do math.

I can it also said that there were 584 stalls.

Actually, there are 529.

Again, almost 60 stalls overestimated.

So they tried to say there was more parking and less all less square footage, which now we are stuck with a hell of a lot of um parking that we need because we're very, very under parking at this point.

So um a conditional use permit shall become void if the use is enlarged, intensify, relocated, or fails to comply with the conditions or approval.

Approved or approved on false material fact.

That is what happened.

Square footage was false, parking counts for false, thank you.

See no one else step forward.

We're gonna move on to number two, the consent agenda.

Item 2.1 consideration and approval of the Tuesday, August 12th, 2025 regular city council meeting minutes.

And the Tuesday, September 22nd, 2025 technical review meeting minutes, and the Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025 regular city council meeting agenda.

And uh I would want to acknowledge that uh Councilman Ennis is on the phone.

I'm sorry, I didn't councilman.

Are you there?

I am here.

Okay, sorry I didn't announce that at the beginning.

Um item 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.

2.3 monthly financials, 2.4 consideration of designating vehicles as city surplus items and direct public works to donate items to Iron County and Lincoln County.

Any questions on the consent agenda?

Councilwoman Gallo.

I I did have a question about the uh vehicles.

So um I don't I guess I'm not the only one.

Um have we done this before?

And do we normally just donate our vehicles?

Aren't there is there's nothing in town that would need the help?

Yeah, uh Mayor Council, uh great question.

So we have donated vehicles that have been surplused.

Uh it's happened once um before with Silver Rider when we've donated trucks to them that they can use here.

The vehicles in question are for they were used for training purposes for doing pit maneuvers, um, and there was also a roll cage car.

And so one of the things talking with um Chief Fails is that by being able, they don't have the area to really can conduct these training measures, and so they're they're basically just sitting there being unused because we don't have the facility do it, but they do, and one of the things that they have agreed to is allowing as they're doing their training and inner local um or working together so that our officers can go up and use that training facility.

So this will still help the city of Musquete by being able to donate these vehicles to Iron County and to Lincoln County, and then they can use those facilities for training measures where right now they're not being used at all.

Thank you so much.

That makes a lot of sense.

Thank you.

Any other questions from council?

Any uh public comment on the consent agenda.

Okay, councilwoman fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

I will make a motion to approve the consent agenda.

Do I have a second?

I'll check it.

Call for the vote.

Yeah, sorry.

See, I still have to go behind it.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 3.1, our quarterly presentation from Mike Jackson with a silver rider.

Mike.

Hi, Michael Jackson, executive director, Southern Nevada Transit Coalition Silver Rider.

So I have a report for you on our public transit for Mesquite.

Uh start with workforce.

Um still struggling.

We're still short-handed.

Uh, but we keep pushing forward.

We just recently gave increases again.

Uh it's that time of year where we are falling into a new grant, and we budgeted for an increase for all employees.

So we're able to give an 8% increase.

Um with that, that hits the starting wage as well.

So now our new starting wage for our CDL driver is 1866.

So that's becoming more and more attractive as we continue to push forward and uh make Silver Rider uh a good place to work, and we really do have a good team.

Um we've we've done a lot with the whole package.

We now have a retirement plan, we have great health benefits, everything.

So once we get them in, we normally keep them.

Ridership, ridership's kind of just floating along, you know, it goes up and fixed drought goes down in para, then the next quarter will I'll report where it's up in paratransit and down and fixed route, but it's averaging out.

Uh, you know, as you see in my report, you know, we're somewhere between five and six thousand on fixed route, you know, mid-500s on paratransit express floating around average of 75.

Not bad, um, but I definitely would like to see more.

When we originally did our route change and added the 444, my goal was to have that fixed route ridership around 10,000.

We did meet that once initially.

Um, but when we did the fair structure change, um the numbers became more accurate, and uh it's dropped down to about six.

But we're gonna continue to push forward.

We have some other ideas that I will be talking about on our 5311 grant, which is our operating grant.

We applied for our next two years.

We were which we have received our award letter.

Um we put in 2 million 713,842.

That covers both 2025, 26, 26, 27.

So we are in good shape for the next two years.

Um I did not put in for any 5339 grants.

That's the capital.

That's where I purchased the new buses.

And so I need to plan out with them the capital expenses.

And right now RTC is going through some misuse.

But we're we're planning some meetings and see what we can do to plan forward.

The current capital grant, we we got the three new buses.

You see those out in service, they're white.

They're doing well.

That was a struggle.

That was fun.

You know, we originally got that grant, it was before COVID.

And the prices of the buses went just crazy.

And we were able to still get the same amount of buses as we had planned on with the higher price, but I had to take all the accessories off.

So we just got a bone stock bus.

And then I took another grant that we had and purchased all that, and then our maintenance team is installing all this.

We're doing it all in-house, including the paint.

So we we quickly got the necessity items on them and got them into service because I'm paying insurance on them, so they got to be out there being used.

And we have a plan to cycle them through.

We got a couple of the the R box there as well.

Um as I pull a bus from Mesquite to do a paint job or to do the suspension work.

I will bring another bus up here to make sure that we have plenty of spares on the events and community partnership.

Big item I want to bring up.

We are going after advertisement on and in the buses.

All right.

First, to understand we are a nonprofit.

We're not in this to make money.

So to do this advertisement is not to make money, it's to put back into the system.

It will be program income.

This program income, what my goal is, our goal is to reduce fares and quite possibly eliminate fares, which means our goal is free rides.

But that will take the approval from the RTC, take the approval from NDOT.

Uh maybe needed to do it with a pilot program to see what it does with ridership.

This is something that's happening throughout the nation.

Um, it started with COVID, and free rides are happening in different other public transits.

Uh my thought is the public is already paying their taxes, their taxes is paying for public transit.

So if we can go ahead and do something with these fares, we're gonna do it.

So to start with, because when we do our grants, we have to budget how much fare box revenues that we expect to bring in this next two year.

We have a budgeted amount.

So if we can sell the advertisement to offset that amount that we budgeted, we're good to go.

So we are on, we're moving, it's it's happening.

We already got some advertisements sold, and we're gonna keep moving forward on that and see what we can do.

We will keep you posted on our progress.

I am going to we already got some checks.

We are gonna be taught reporting it as um what I call it, program income.

So with that, I will start the talks with NDOT and RTC and let them know what our goal is.

If it there's anybody that's interested in the advertisement, uh call our Mosquite office at 702-346-7006.

I think with announcing what our ultimate goal is.

I think maybe there might be some more people that will be interested.

Along with that, our community partnership uh SNTC provided transportation for Mesquite on April 24th.

Take a kid to work day.

It was a great event, great outcome.

Um, I sent up a 40-foot bus to help from Laughlin to help with that, and uh everybody really enjoyed that.

We got some good things planned with the holidays coming up again.

We'll be providing free rides on the holidays, and uh hopefully next quarter.

I have some good news for you guys.

More good news.

Any questions?

Okay, thank you.

Thank you, Mike.

Any uh public comment on uh the silver rider presentation.

Okay, seeing that I'm gonna turn it back over to the council for a motion.

Councilwoman Geller.

So I'll make a motion to accept the presentation from Mike Jackson and Silver Rider.

Councilwoman Fielding.

I'll second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

Very sorry.

Galloway.

Okay, next up we have the Clark County School District quarterly update.

Good evening, Lindsay Tomlinson, Region 1 superintendent for the record, and along with me is Maurice Perkins, our school associate superintendent from Region One.

It's wonderful to be here again tonight.

I'm especially excited to celebrate the great start to our school year over our past few weeks.

This has been a vibrant time for our community, signaling new beginnings and bright futures.

This evening, I will be reviewing disaggregate data that was presented to the Board of School Trustees during the second calendar year of 2025, covering April through June.

I'll be diving into key areas, including perceptions to student safety, chronic absenteeism, and student behavior.

To begin, like always, I need to provide you our update on our compliance status.

On November 25th, 2024, the district received a notice of noncompliance related to the district's ability to provide accurate, complete, and timely information necessary for the development and implementation of the school plan of operation.

The district has worked with a compliance monitor appointed by the Nevada Department of Ed to further progress on process improvement plan, and that was report.

The final report was provided to the School Board of Trustees in August of 2025.

Focusing on student safety, while the rates can show significant swings due to small numbers of respondents here in the Virgin Valley area, we've observed a slight upward trend over three years for our elementary schools, with positive responses rising from 94.9% to an impressively high 95.6%.

Conversely, middle and high schools show a three-year downward trend in positive responses, though they still remain well above the district average.

Notably, the sharpest declines over these three years are evident among our students eligible for special education and our ELL learners.

We are actively implementing several strategies to continuously enhance safety perceptions across our schools.

We are exploring additional ways to include in student voice and safety enhancements, ensuring their perspectives are heard and valued and creating secure environments.

Furthermore, we continue to emphasize student safety through our MTSS systems with a dedicated focus on student behavior and crucial social emotional needs through ongoing professional learning.

And lastly, we are reinforcing the consistent use of established protocols for student re-engagement following defined incidents, aiming for a supportive and structured return to learning after a challenging event.

Transitioning to chronic absenteeism.

Our data indicates an increase over the previous year rising from 23.7 to 24.9%.

While this is a concerning overall trend, we have seen some positive movement for specific student populations with decreases in chronic absenteeism rates for students eligible for special education and English language learners.

However, a significant area of focus for us is our black African American students who are experiencing the largest increase in chronic absenteeism, showing a three-year escalating trend from 22.7% to 37.9% of students being chronically absent.

Please note that we understand it is a very small population of data, but it's also a really good area to target needed support.

In the Virgin Valley community, JL Bowler saw a significant decrease in chronic absenteism from 25.3% in 2023-2024 to 16.5% in 2425.

Similarly, similarly, sorry, Virgin Valley High School had a decrease from 29.4 to 26.5.

Virgin Valley Elementary and Hughes Middle School both saw increases in chronic absenteism rates.

As this helped cultivate a supportive school environment that directly prevent promotes regular attendance.

And finally, recognizing that attendance challenges often begin in the early grades.

We are prioritizing early interventions to prevent long-term absenteeism.

And moving on to student discipline, it's important to note that these rates can be affected very by very small numbers of respondents, leading to more significant swings in the data.

We are observing an upward trend in suspensions, which is particularly concerning for our students eligible for special education and our ELL learners.

Regarding expulsions, we continue to have fewer than 10 discretionary expulsions, which is a number too small to report without potentially compromising student privacy.

Specifically here in Virgin Valley, the school associate superintendent Maurice and all four principals have worked collaboratively to ensure that these structures are consistent from school to school and are in place to support all students.

They have also provided training and their respective administrative teams and staff members, and we set school-wide expectations in order to support student success.

Now, as we conclude our review of the data and strategies, I'm thrilled to transition to, I believe, is truly the best part of our evening, celebrating the incredible achievements and positive developments emerging from our Virgin Valley schools.

Please welcome Maurice to share those with you.

Good evening, Mayor and City Council members.

I appreciate Lindsay letting me, or Miss Tomlinson letting me do the fun stuff, yes.

Virgin Valley Elementary School, they reported uh the following Virgin Valley Elementary School kicked off the year with a fantastic start.

On August 11th, we welcomed 579 students back to campus with vibrant decorations from our amazing PTO, making the day extra special.

Our community is growing quickly, and now we have over 615 students, and we're excited for a year full of learning and success.

This September Virgin Valley Elementary, fifth graders enjoyed, and he's talking about this as it's in the past, but I know they're on their third week of this event, so uh right now as we speak.

So the fifth graders enjoyed the annual concrete to canyons field trip at Zion National Park.

This all-expense paid three-day adventure gave students a chance to camp, explore, and engage in hands-on science learning in one of the world's most breathtaking settings.

We are deeply grateful to Zion National Park Forever Project and the National Park Foundation for making this unforgettable experience possible.

At uh Joseph L.

Bowler Elementary School, Jail Bowler, uh, they welcomed about 80 students during the months of May and June for a summer program focused on academics and social emotional learning, including the seven habits of happy kids, math, literacy, and science.

A highlight was Spaghetti Day, made possible by our partner, the Eureka Casino, which generously funded parts of the program and provided spaghetti, watermelon, and a weekly treat.

In preparation for the 2025-252026 school year, teaching and support staff welcomed incoming kindergarten students and their families for a special week of activities.

That was July 28th through August 1st.

Parents joined on the first day to experience part of the school day while students spent the remaining days engaging in activities that introduced them to the school and showcased what they already knew.

In honor of Grandparents' Day, JL Bowler hosted its fourth annual special persons day on September 8th.

Students were joined by their special person for a morning of reading, free books to take home, and shared time together.

Guests also enjoyed the book fair, light breakfast snacks and fun activities that made the day more memorable for all.

And they did it.

Our school proudly demonstrated double-digit growth, a true reflection of dedication and teamwork.

At uh Charles Hughes Middle School, uh, they are thrilled to celebrate the outstanding achievement of students who earned a perfect score of four on both the ELA and math portions of the SBAC State Test.

Their hard work and dedication truly shine, and we are so proud of their incredible achievement.

Additionally, we were able to recognize 477 students who showed growth on their spring S BAC test to celebrate their hard work in progress.

Every student enjoyed raising canes as a special reward.

We are so proud of their achievement and continued success.

Also at Hughes Middle School, each grade level proudly selects two outstanding students who exemplify Hawks that soared to success to be celebrated as students of the month.

We would also like to thank our amazing teachers in the first four weeks of school, teachers at Hughes Middle School reached out to 350 parents to share a positive message about their students.

The goal of this initiative is to involve parents in celebrating the wonderful achievements occurring at the school.

And finally, at Virgin Valley High School, the band gave a phenomenal performance at Mosquite's 9-11 ceremony.

Their moving tribute impressed the community so much that the band has already been invited to perform at two additional public events.

Virgin Valley High School administrators had an exciting morning with the CNCSN president and staff exploring ways to expand programs on our campus and strengthen college credit opportunities.

These partnerships mean even more opportunities for our students to get a head start on their future.

We are incredibly proud of Kara Morris for being named a National Merit Semifinalist.

Kara's dedication to academic excellence, leadership, and positive influence on her peers makes her an outstanding representative of Virgin Valley High School.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Do we have any questions from council?

Councilman Phil?

I just had a question.

Do you know what the student count is for Bowler?

And because we got the count for Virgin Valley Elementary, but I didn't get the count for the other schools.

I can look it up real quick before I leave and share with you.

You've just emailed to me.

I'm just curious.

Thank you.

No problem.

Any other questions from council?

Thank you, guys.

Any public comment on the Clark County School District quarterly presentation.

Okay, none.

I'm going to turn it back over to council.

Councilwoman Fielding.

I will make a motion to accept that presentation.

From the Clark County School District.

Councilwoman Gallo.

I'll second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Very shy.

Galloway.

Okay, item 3.3, presentation of Mosquite Vision 2045.

Mr.

Kim.

Thank you, Mayor and City Council.

Finally, it's been like a nine months.

I've been telling that I'll make a presentation and it was stopped, and then I'm doing it again now.

I started in January 27.

Uh, the master plan committee began working on this one.

And then there uh there was a February mental mapping uh sessions, and then there was a two visioning survey period and through throughout the March, April, and May.

And then uh the Massa Plan Committee further discussed about goals and objectives in June and policies and strategies in July, and then we uh Master Plan Committee selected the areas of focus uh in August.

Uh, right yesterday, uh, we had a discussion about the urban design concept for the downtown area.

Uh-oh.

Here we go.

So this is a mental mapping that was done by the master plan committee, and uh this one, and uh they uh subsequently developed their drafted uh visioning.

This is the language they produced.

And on the basis of this information, um, I have developed a public visioning survey with the four simple questions.

Throughout the survey sessions, uh, we collected about 444 responses uh from the community.

And this is the uh vision statement we collected.

In 20 years, the city of Mosquite will be a safe, clean, and welcoming city with a small town charm that offers a high quality of life through well-planned growth, outdoor recreation, vibrant local businesses, and a strong sense of community.

Aware people of all ages and backgrounds can live, work, retire, and thrive.

So also uh people thought that the city uh should be known for safe and clinic cleanings, uh, small town field and charm, recreation and sports, retirement and measure uh living and smart growth and development, uh, diverse diversity and inclusion, uh, arts, culture, and entertainment, economic and business vitality, and natural beauty and embodiment.

So this fusion uh vision has been subdivided into several regions on uh under community, residential, commercial industry, business, parts and recreation, casino gaming, public facilities, transportation, education, and economic development.

Under each vision, we produce the goals, objectives, policies, and adaptive strategies.

So this is one of the examples, commercial vision.

And then under the commercial vision, there were there are several goals.

This is one goals, and objectives and then policies.

Under there, there are adaptive strategies.

Also identified was a frequent uh frequently visiting uh locations, uh, which uh 62% people identified Walmart is the best, and then a Musk Boulevard, uh West Pioneer Boulevard, the Sand Hill Boulevard, Muskie Recreation Center, and so on.

On the other hand, uh significant landmark identified was a slightly different uh Massa View Regional Hospital came up top, and Muskie Boulevard Musky Recreation Center, Walmart and West Pioneer Boulevard.

Uh and then uh we have uh Casablanca and Eureka and those follows.

Through those sessions, we also identify the economic development goals.

Uh there's uh nine goals, and uh goal one would be promote sustainable and diversify the economic growth, support a thriving local business ecosystem, expand the retail dining and entertainment options, strengthen musket as a primer, uh premier retirement and family destination, enhance health care and social services infrastructure, improve infrastructure to support economic development, position mosquitoes as a destination for tourism, sports, and outdoor recreation.

Maintain uh musket's small town charm and community identity, and uh enhance affordable and workforce housing options.

Also uh worked on was a location quotient analysis uh for the economic development.

Uh on the chart, red indicates less than one, which means we we have comparatively lower number of uh occupational groups.

Uh so office and administrative support uh less than uh outside.

So we can actually have more of those uh jobs.

But on the other hand, at the same time, the black font does not mean that we cannot have those uh uh the occupational groups because if we are aiming for the uh tourism, then those sales and related and food uh preparation and serving related uh can we can get more.

So we need to exercise on the basis of this information given, and that'll follow later.

Simple takeaway uh from this one would be healthcare and community wellness are rising priorities, uh, shopping areas still matter, but the recreation and culture again, more uh long-term significance, and casinos and natural landmarks see a relatively uh relative drop in perceived future importance.

Then we went to the urban design.

This is a zoning map, and we identified nine areas uh to focus focus, and then currently we uh actually selected three areas, which would be the downtown area and musket entertainment and service areas and uh West Pioneer Boulevard.

We also worked on branding ideas and branding position statement for the entire city has been that Muskete is where natural beauty, community pride, and opportunity meet.

That's between breathtaking mountain views and open desert skies.

Our city offers a safe, vibrant and inclusive lifestyle.

Whether you come to retire, raise a family, explore the outdoors, or launch your business, mosque provides the quality of life and warm community spirit you deserve.

So we need to use this branding uh for the future.

And then there is a downtown branding, uh slightly different, more focused on the downtown, downtown Musket is where HG meets momentum with its walkable streets, charming local shops, public arts, dining, and cultural events, the downtown district celebrates the city's roots while embracing its future.

It's a gathering place for residents and a memorable stop for visitors.

So how does it uh this how can we make this work?

Downtown branding is a pillar for uh the citywide branding.

So we need to start from the downtown.

Uh there is for sure.

Just for fun, um the I generated three additional logos.

It doesn't mean I'm I'm gonna I'm recommending to change it, but uh there are some potentials.

So uh there are three additional uh city logos uh we may take a look at and then uh we got the information from Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority about the visitor profile study.

So according to this study, most of the people heard from their friends or relatives, and they are uh the visiting repetitively, they are not the first visit, most of them are repeat visits, and uh um they are also uh the what is this uh 74 percent is uh um oh yeah.

So uh uh 74 uh 4% currently come to the city as a destination, not a part of the longer trip.

So when you see when you see the entire uh the uh the chart, and you may uh think that uh hey, people are satisfied all those, and uh they keep coming back, and uh and they hear the the people are talking about it.

It looks like really good situation, but unfortunately, when you look at the total visitors' numbers, it actually is dropping.

So there is no first visit, there's a repeated visit, and uh the visitors are actually decreasing in trends.

And what they are doing in the city is primarily primarily uh the relax and get away or vacation stuff.

Um and by the way, there is another trend that shows that uh families visiting more.

Uh so uh the numbers are growing in the chart as a family, but actually total visitors uh dropping.

So that is a problem because they are looking for the relax uh and they are spending more on the food and beverages, not any other places.

So tourism is not actually making money yet to the city, so we need to actually uh provide uh uh package tours.

This is a marketing strategies we found.

So boost first-time visitors, so we need to have more uh first-time visitors, so we need to have digital marketing and new visitor incentives and we need to provide and leverage it, repeat visitors too.

And capitalized relaxed getaway uh or vacation trends.

Uh, we need to make a package like a wellness and relaxation package so that they come here and uh enjoy spas, resort and natural retreat options or together, not just the stay uh and then uh have a nap in front of the pool.

Uh so uh family family-friendly marketing needs to be done, uh, create seasonal getaway campaigns uh need to be done too.

Uh the we need to strengthen world uh world of mouth uh the advantages we have been utilizing it, so we need to encourage that uh too and increase awareness beyond word of mouth.

Uh so we need to do the more marketing through online or uh billboards or uh radio and podcasts.

Uh we need to do some efforts to it.

And revisit gaming interest, so uh we need to assist the casino developing their own packages so uh they can have uh uh play credits, dining vouchers, and hotel stays, and all those can be uh pack uh packet and host DMD events and the target lapsed gamers is another uh way to work with this one.

Uh promote activities uh driving higher spendings.

Uh we found that the food beverages is the most thing, so we can have a foodie focus or event marketing activity packages, group plus spa plus meal packages, something like that.

So we can promote uh uh some of the uh the uh tourism better.

And definitely we need to reverse uh visitor uh decline.

So uh we need to partnership with uh travel platforms, so your loyalty programs and regional campaigns.

And by the way, some people uh thought uh they are uh the smart or they want to criticize the city.

So they put the negative responses on the city survey.

Uh when the city is looking for brighter future, I don't think this was a good idea.

So when you read it through, there are a lot of uh strange uh responses.

And uh also they said the city is known for uh too much population hatred um and all those stuff.

I if they are uh think about some kind of improvement through this, that'll never be done because it is the purpose of this survey is different from this one.

So just for fun, I I developed a negative vision statement.

Please do not use it anywhere.

In 20 years, the city will be a place where traffic cross, water runs dry, and every inch use of land is buried under houses, and streamers, the small town feels uh is uh distant memory replaced by overcrowding, controversy, and too many uh stores.

And uh led by a cult local government, will be known for lawsuits, uh, political drama and community spirit.

Uh best described as a hate field.

So uh so I I think I I actually approud the people answered the founder 44, respond to this and make this happen, and the other community members.

I sincerely appreciate it.

But those who probably oneself knows when they read it, there is no name, but that they knew who what they answered.

Please do not do that ever again.

It'll never have you or have anyone.

Um you guys are leading the city into that, and uh um this is my end of my uh presentation.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you, Simon.

Any questions from council?

Councilwoman Gala?

I was just gonna make one comment.

I had made a note here.

I said, so did I read the correctly that satisfaction is down, and now I see why.

So thank you for all that information.

Any other questions or comments from council?

Seeing none, I'm gonna go ahead and open that up to public comment.

Mayor, council members, Rosio Delgadio.

Hi.

I I only have one comment.

I thought your presentation, I have two comments.

Rosio.

Address me, please.

You can talk about people, but you you should address me.

Okay, thank you.

I have two comments.

That was a great presentation.

And I do beg to differ about the natural landmarks.

I do think they will remain important and of high value here.

I do have some examples.

I work with I work in an active um environment.

I noticed that myself and coworkers do use our like natural trail trails for hiking a lot.

We would appreciate more natural landmarks.

I do think I like our parks.

I like, I saw that there was a sign up a couple years ago about a park that was never built between MV and the holiday in, I think it is the hotel up at the hill between Walmart and Envy.

There was supposed to be a park there built.

I was very excited about that park and very upset right now that that park has not been built.

But we do have some natural um features here in Mesquite that I think would be attractive for tourism, especially that hidden gem marketing is I think it will be a value.

I think that's a good idea.

Aravada Springs is a landmark here in this area that not only brings tourism to Bunkerville where it's located, but Mesquite, because there's no other, there's no convenience stores in Bunkerville.

But that's a long-term destination, like a weekend type of destination that would bring more consumers to Mesquite and maybe bring sustainable income to the area, not just that place, which with the Silver Rider advertisement um project going on.

I believe that just advertising the things we have in town that could bring a big income to our town is a good idea.

Also, the Casablanca now has a day pass, and I noticed I think that's a great idea.

I noticed myself going to our neighbors in Utah for the day pass at like the there's a pool in Santa Clara, and they have like a restaurant.

It's a nice place to go have a day on a weekend or a day that you're off, and having something like that in town, other than the Casablanca, which is great.

The Casablanca is great, but having more options similar to those would be amazing.

Thank you.

Have a good evening.

Thank you.

Hello, Mayor Whipple and Council members.

I want to be positive on this one.

I'm not going to be negative at all.

We want to do business in the city of Musquite.

We think it's an amazing city.

There's so much to offer here.

And we do want to bring in tourism and the family fund center and convention center that we have to offer.

If you haven't been there, we have huge theaters that we're going to use for conventions and to bring people in and to have places for your kids to go that are safe and in air conditioning, um, so it's not so hot.

So we are just I I agree with the safety part of it.

I think that we need to worry about what safety, and that's one thing that we're asking for the municipal codes to be for safety, not just for us, but to have our customers be safe as they're in our parking lots and that.

So we look forward to it.

And I do want to talk about Marcus and Erica, who only want to do good things for the city.

They want to have things for your kids.

They want to have a safe place for them to go after school and on the weekends and that, and that is again why we're worried about the safety of the nightclub and the way the activities are going there.

Um, again, we had buses and people peeing in the parking lot again, and it's just it's a lot, you know.

We want to feel safe on our property.

And I think that if you had it in your home and your businesses and you had people doing that, you'd feel the same way as Marcus and Erica.

They're wonderful people.

I would not work for anybody else.

Um, you know, and and I saw the Mormon thing up there, which is crazy.

Um, but um, my parents are LDS, so I have a lot of support for the LDS church anyways.

Um, but I think that we need to be positive, and I think that everything gets real negative sometimes with the city council.

Um, we do want to be positive, and we want to offer a positive um relationship with the city.

Um, we're just hoping that the city will help us so that we can pay our taxes and bring income in for the city because we are 46% pass through you know, pioneer commercial.

46% that come here come through our thing.

And there isn't any shopping.

I mean, we all have to go to St.

George to go to the, you know, get some clothes or shoes or anything.

So having those places to go shopping and spend time with our kids would be really important.

And I think the community wants something not just for tourists, but for us and our children.

So I appreciate that, and thank you.

Thank you, really.

Hi, excuse me.

I'm Mary Gleason, and first of all, I just want to thank the committee because that is a huge job.

I have sat on these kinds of committees.

I have led and facilitated these kinds of discussions.

It's huge, and I think they did a brilliant job.

So I just want to say thank you.

Um, I had the opportunity to attend one of the meetings, talk to some of the members, um, and I feel like it was really a thorough process.

So kudos.

One tiny suggestion, just in the first two words that says in 20 years.

I would say in 2024 or 45 or whatever the year is, because it depends on when somebody picks up the document to know when the clock starts running.

So it would also help you build a timeline backwards for implementing some of these things.

So that's my comment.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Mr.

Mayor John Rosen, citizen of Mesquite, and in full disclosure, I have been working on the Master Plan Committee.

Um, I can tell you that as a person who's worked on that committee, this vision document is the most uh positive, inspiring goal, a project.

I've never been more excited about something going on in our city.

It is said that if you have no idea where you're going, any path will take you there.

But in this case, we're defining very in very great detail exactly what this city should look like, will look like, can look like in 2045.

To make that happen, it requires much more than the master plan committee.

It inquiry requires much more than this city council.

It requires active participation by all of our citizenry, all pulling together in the same direction.

Uh, like a previous speaker, I was very moved also by the invocation and by the calls for unity and the lack of division in our efforts.

We are all citizens of this city, and we can make 2045 happen if we work together.

Thank you.

Thank you, John.

Council, Mr.

Mayor, Marcus Bender for the record.

My wife and I love the city of Musquite.

We see we believe in it.

We wholeheartedly believe in it.

We're here to stay.

We believe the vast majority of the citizens of Musquite are loving, warm, kind people.

They have embraced my wife and I.

But from city officials, uh Mr.

Kim and other city officials, we're still waiting for the part that really jumped out at me, and that's the diversity and inclusion.

We're still waiting for that diversity and inclusion because as an interracial couple, my wife being black, and they're doing everything possible to drive us out of town.

They can't even enforce a simple code.

So again, we're waiting for that diversity and inclusion.

Thank you.

Thank you, Marcus.

Dominic Olivetto again.

In April of 26, there is a uh side-by-side rally in the valley coming down here, and they'll be in town for three days of rides.

That means people will probably be here for five days.

It's a boat we're missing here.

You need to monitor what kind of income comes in from those people during that time.

Right now, groups have come down here every year.

Uh amount to 20 to 40 people that return because they have figured out this is one of the best riding areas around, and everywhere else is closing down trails.

I believe the city is missing a boat by not monitoring that and trying to get more of that involved.

Thank you.

Thanks, Dominic.

Okay, seeing no one else come forward.

I'm gonna go ahead and ask the council for a motion.

Councilwoman Fielding.

I will make a motion to accept that presentation.

Councilwoman Gallaud.

I'll second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Parishai.

Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 4.1, consideration of approval of resolution number R25-040.

Approving a report by the finance director and the city treasurer of the November 19th, 2025 sale of properties subject to lien of delinquent assessment and national special improvement district in Anthem special improvement district.

Mayor, we have our finance director Nikki on the line, but she did contact me and tell me that all the properties are up to date, and we need we could just pull the item.

Okay.

Because it was an agendized item, we'd still need to provide for public comment, but otherwise the item can be pulled.

Okay.

Um so we will go ahead and open up 4.1 to public comment.

If anybody has public comment on item 4.1.

Okay, seeing none, we will go ahead and close that and move on to 4.2.

Consideration of approval of resolution resolution number R25-037, adopting interlocal contract number 3232 between the City of Musquite and the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada for Canyon Crest Boulevard and Horizon Boulevard Roadway Improvements.

Thank you.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Go ahead.

No.

Uh Mayor Council.

The resolution before you tonight is between for an interlocation contract between the City of Musquite and the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada.

This interlocal agreement is for construction funding for the roadway of Canyon Crest Boulevard and Horizon Boulevard.

So this is in conjunction with the well, not necessarily with the fire station, but to aid in the travel for that new fire station.

So this will be finishing out improvements on horizon and then adding another lane on the um canyon crest.

So this is for uh it is our recommendation to approve resolution number R25-037.

Thank you, Travis.

Any questions from council?

Okay, seeing none.

Do we have any public comment on 4.2?

Okay, seeing none.

Uh Councilman Wanless.

I'd like to make a motion to re to approve R25-037.

Councilwoman Fielding.

I'll second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

Parish eye.

Galloway.

Okay, item 4.3, consideration or approval of resolution number R25-038, adopting interlocal interlocal contract number 3233 between the City of Musquite and the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada for Hardy Way and Falcon Ridge Parkway traffic signal.

Mr.

Anderson.

Thank you, Mayor.

Council.

Again, this is a the resolution before you is to adopt the interlocal agreement between the City of Musquite and the RTC.

Again, this is for the traffic for construction funding for the traffic signal at Falcon Ridge and Hardy Way.

Um later on in the agenda, you'll see the bid amount for this.

So we're very excited about this location, and it's our recommendation to approve resolution number R25-038.

Any questions from council?

See Councilwoman Fielding.

Okay.

Seeing no questions from council, I'm gonna go ahead and open public comment.

Seeing no public comment, I will take her back to council and ask for a motion.

Councilwoman Fielding.

I will make a motion to approve resolution number R25-038.

Do I have a second?

I'll say Councilwoman Galloway.

Second?

I'll second.

Call for the vote.

And that's I'm not sure.

Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 4.4, consideration of approval of resolution number R25-039, adopting interlocal contract number 3231 between the City of Musquite and the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada for Musquite Boulevard and Sandhill Boulevard Mill Overlay Project.

Mr.

Anderson.

Thank you.

Mayor Council.

Again, we have another uh resolution before you for the interlocal contract between the City of Musquite and the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada.

Uh this interlocal contract is for construction funding to uh do a five-inch removal of the asphalt on Musquite Boulevard and Sandhill Boulevard and a repave so that we can clean up a lot of the um deteriorated deteriorated uh asphalt along there.

Again, the bid award is later on in the agenda, but it is our recommendation to approve resolution number R25-039.

Thank you.

Any questions from council?

Seeing none, I'm gonna go ahead and open up for public comment.

Seeing none, I will ask for a motion.

Councilwoman Gallow.

I'll make I'll make a motion to accept resolution N number R25-039.

Councilwoman Fielding.

I'll second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

NSI.

Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

Um mayor's comments and reports.

Um couple of things.

I want to thank the uh the community theater.

Um they got done with their run of uh bye-bye, Bertie.

Um they I was privileged to be a little bit part of it, and they did an amazing job on that.

Um the DAR and the women's heritage museum.

Um those ladies do an amazing job.

Um and appreciate everything they do and allow me to be a small part of it.

They do so much work, and and I want to thank them as well as Nick also with the Veterans Center and Bill with the Veteran Center, and thank them for inviting us to their their things and I appreciate it.

Um any uh comments from staff or council.

Councilwoman Gallow.

Just real quickly, um, I the young lady has left.

That was um very emotional.

I just want everybody to know that um what Simon and what his team and um animal control is doing to get this rat infestation under control is not easy.

Um and I don't want anybody to think that they're being heartless.

Um sometimes people don't want help.

So sometimes you have to we have to do things a different way.

So please keep in mind that um the city is not bulldozing um or going after these people.

So I don't want you anyone to think that the city is done doing anything um to hurt anybody.

So that's it.

Thank you, Councilman.

Any other comments from council?

Okay, Mr.

Anderson.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh just a real quick announcement.

Um I've received a few phone calls.

Uh Southwest Gas is working on installing a new gas line across Pioneer for the new hotel that's going on that piece of property at the intersection of Falcon Ridge and Pioneer.

Um we have contacted Southwest Gas about that trench and and that it is not acceptable to the City of Mosquite Standards.

Um they will be finishing the full pavement on that Friday, but I have contacted them and let them know they needed to put in what we call cold mix in there until Friday to make that smoother.

So um I just wanted to let everyone know that we have um seen that and we do acknowledge that's unacceptable and reached out to Southwest Gas to make that fix.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Any other Mr.

James?

Um I'll make a short uh presentation about the Red Hills Commercial Center.

And it's right there.

Okay.

So we have a freedom of speech.

Everybody have a free freedom of speech.

They can come front and they can talk about normally it's a politics.

And uh you're not bounded by uh nothing much about it.

However, there is uh uh accuracy of technical information.

When you're talking about technical information, there is a black and white, right or wrong.

That is a little slightly different because you're recording everything in public, and there is a video recorded here.

Transparency.

Um public come up front and they talk about it.

And uh sometimes uh it may be better.

I I can make a presentation here as at the public comment sessions rather than behind the door and try to be courteous uh against some people who is not making sense.

So now I'm gonna start uh about my presentation.

Most of the documents used in my presentation were provided to Nordic Beach LSC in advance about a year ago, especially on March 19th, 2024, and again May 28th, 2025 over emails.

I recommended them to work with their attorney, knowing that they had autonomy, and then provide the attorney's opinion on those uh documents.

So far, I haven't received anything.

The information is available for the public.

And uh first start is again the uh Red Hills Commercial Center, CCNR was recorded in 2003.

The graphic right up front, that that is the copy of the uh the uh cover uh pages.

And 1.29 says uh receive local easy month area shall mean and refer to certain portions of the lots outside the footprint of the buildings.

This is the important point.

Certain portions of the lots outside the footprint of the buildings, as shown on exhibit B attached here to, over which an easement has been reserved for the benefits of all owners for the purpose of parking and pedestrian and vehicle access, ingress and egress.

1.30.

Depicted on exhibit B attached here too, in which all owners, they are agents, less customers, licenses, invitees, and the light will have received local rights of egress and ingress.

So this is the exhibit B I have uh that that is attached to the document.

This the same map was submitted by uh the uh the Nordic Beach LIC at the August 12th City Council meeting at the time.

The purpose was to talk about Lot 4D on the south, and that was not included in the uh the Red Hills Commercial Center, but uh this one is actually uh the proving uh supporting the existence of the shared parking.

This is the evidence uh August 12th, uh Lin Schifano came and uh she said here's the map of the original CCNR, and she showed us and submitted that map.

And then after my presentation, she came back on September 9th, and there is a time frame too, and she said, No, this is non-recorded map, we have no control of.

And then she showed the same map, and then she said at the same day, actual recorded map is this.

So there is no the gray indications of the area.

So look at this.

When you see the gray indications, you see that uh some of the landscape area is outside of the uh the RSV local area.

Now it's uh white.

Then what does this mean?

We need to actually go to the CCNR languages.

So it means that the certain portions of the lots outside the footprint of the building.

So actually the white map is worse.

That doesn't include the landscape area.

It's outside of the footprint of the buildings.

Or if the Ms.

Riley Shifano wanted to say that there is no designation, there is no receiving local easement.

If it is so, the property is privately landlocked.

There is no access ingress egress.

If it is uh tentative map provided to the city, we need to provide ingress and egress.

However, if it is privately personally landlocked, we don't need to provide any ingress and egress.

So please provide whatever is actually the right document uh so that I can take a look at it.

And this is another map.

Uh she mentioned that the site plan review and approval.

This one has never been approved, but uh there is a approval letter attached there.

Uh it was issued on December 15th, 2005, and it said the city council uh held a meeting and approved this site plan uh on December 13th, 2005.

This is a second amendment final map of the uh Red Hills Commercial Center that was recorded in 2007.

There is an easement on the first page.

There's just three pages.

First page is this one, second page will be followed, and third page is the signature page, so I didn't include the third page, but it is in the public uh the information.

Uh easy month says trainage utility uh and the 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 building, and the locations are not specifically designated here in the owners, which is association members, reserve the right to require the instruments to be specifically described and recorded in the public record.

So this is the second page of the second amended final map.

And then uh association found that the southern lot 4D was not actually included uh within the association area.

So they issued a notice of annexation and they annexed the land in 2009.

Uh, the document cover is shown on the right.

Uh it actually points to the exhibit A.

If you go to the exhibit A, you'll find it actually directs to the second amended final map, just I showed you.

And in text it says, now therefore the declared land consent to lot 4D being annexed into the association, and such lot 4D shall be subject to the CCNRs and any other association governing documents, except to the extent modified by the annexation notice, which is more stringent.

Conditional use permit was issued for NB Nightclub in 2011.

And that runs with the land, and currently it is uh effective.

Conditional use permit was the when that conditional use permit was issued.

There was an appeal period after that.

It's normally two weeks or so, and there was no appeal, so that is effective.

And I have I have no obligation or uh I shouldn't actually re-analyze any parking that was calculated back then, and the public information act does not allow me to recalculate and change the uh conditional use permit, which was issued for now.

Now the Nordic Beach Holdings LFC purchased the property after all that in 2019, about six years ago, and that deed says subject to covenants conditions, restrictions, reservations, rights of way, and easement now record.

There is a code section that says private restrictions shall not be enforced by the city, but uh, in the context you need to see more, not just one line that says where the provisions of any private restrictions are more restrictive or impose higher standards than the provisions of the unified development order, such private restriction restrictions shall control.

So that's why I cannot do anything about it.

And since you guys love to interpret the city code, there is a code section that says development services director.

I'm not a code enforcement officer.

I did some of some of the work for the city, but uh my code enforcement officer will be upset about it.

So my title is development services director, and or his her designee shall have a final code interpretation authority to maintain administrative consistency throughout the practice.

I don't need to argue with anyone, I don't need to make a show in front of the public to interpret any code sections.

I have been asking their attorney to provide their his or her interpretation so that I can reference to for two years.

I haven't got anything.

And uh this uh Nordic Beach holdings people just to come and make the city look bad and myself look bad.

That's why I'm making this presentation.

This is private matter, and I don't need to actually work on this one.

At this time, I formally request that the Nordic Beach LSC provide any credible evidence, and through the attorney, hopefully, that substantively rebutts my presentation.

If I'm wrong, I'll admit it and I correct it.

Such evidence must be presented without resorting to willfully untrue, misleading, or exaggerated statements and without conduct that willfully hinders delays or obstructs me in the performance of my official duties.

The city has never received an application for the family entertainment business by the Nordic BGLIC so far.

So there was neither approval or no denial for the idea that was not something that wasn't reviewed.

So and then fire lane issues again.

Uh Nordic Beach LSC through the city last year, uh the district uh judge ordered the denying petition.

So there is no fire lane.

This is back early.

They claim that uh vehicles are driving over the sidewalk, and uh that turned out to be they have fences blocked it.

Um I have no plan to uh do anything code in enforcing codes right now, but I'm just letting them know COTISH that probably they do not know it is uh uh it is not complying to the uh code sections.

Uh city code prohibits open storage that open storage include the piggyback containers.

And they do have 10 or 11 containers in the bag.

And in the CR2 district, that is not allowed.

Now they also mentioned that annexation to the masculine pistas.

Uh as and then that is uh how entail to the tentative map case about a lev subdivision.

I'm having a hard time of pronouncing that one again.

Um but thing is if the site has been annexed to the masculine pistas, we need the HOA approval letter, which I acquired.

If the site has not been annexed to the Musky Pisters, we don't need an HOA approval letter.

So we just need to try it.

So there is nothing wrong done by the city.

Uh everything is private matters, and uh I recommend them working with the privately and uh bring me the solutions through the attorney or title, clean title at least, so that I can work with.

But uh, I've got this document.

I can actually do anything about it.

Thank you.

Thank you, Sam.

Um I'm gonna vary from our normal thing, and I am gonna allow public comment on this, but I am gonna insist that it's directed towards me.

So if you would like to make comment comment, please direct it towards me.

Mayor Whipple and Council members.

I think he's got a lot of it that's misconstrued because we are trying to do it in a three-minute section.

Um, we wouldn't do this in this section if we would sit down.

Our attorney has given him approval or a letter.

Um, it was ignored.

I have the thing, I can resend it.

Um Mr.

Anderson wasn't the attorney at the time.

Um we chatted today.

I'm gonna give him the information so that he can give it to the city council.

Um, I would love to sit down with Travis and go over some things because like I said, if you could bring up that final map again, you'll see that NV9 Club is not on that final map, and either is MMT.

Um, so they are not subdivided, and we're just trying to get everything done correctly.

We are not asking the city to do anything to enforce governing documents.

We know what the governing documents say.

The city shouldn't even be looking at the governing documents, they should be looking specifically at the municipal codes for parking.

Everybody in their appropriate or when they did their buildings of their buildings, they had to get individual building permits for parking.

Everyone says you have to have your own parking.

So for this subdivision that was done by a record of survey that only has a building and no parking, that's where the confusion is coming in.

We would love to sit down with Mr.

Kim.

He's not let us sit down with them and giving them the stuff.

Um, so I will do with Mr.

Anderson.

I think it'll be a much better conversation.

And hopefully the other Mr.

Anderson, who can kind of go over things because he has the history, so because Bullock Brothers is where he worked at the time, so I'm sure he understands a lot more.

Um, but I appreciate the time to talk.

We are trying to work this through the city.

Again, it's the pissing, the throwing up, the stabbings, the shootings.

Uh you know, we just want control so that we can do business, and we're not asking for the city to do anything but make sure that the parking's enforced fairly and equally, we shouldn't have to pay for everybody else's parking, um, especially when it's not being used.

And again, 4D, that's a whole nother issue because it wasn't we're not talking about not being annexed into Red Hills, we're talking about not being annexed into the master.

So there's clearly a miscommunication with Mr.

Kim on what we're trying to say in our three-minute sessions.

We would love to sit down with the city and go over this, so it doesn't have to be we I don't want to come here every Tuesday.

I really don't.

So I love you guys, but it gets old after a while.

We just want to do business.

Um, of course, we haven't applied because we're not going to apply while we have this in our parking lot.

I mean, you wouldn't want to do business.

I'm sure all of you who are professionals that you know you wouldn't want this in your your business area either.

So um, as he advertises for the safety of the community, that's all we're asking for too.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Whipple, for just letting us um give us slightly bottle.

Thank you.

I just wanted to mention that first of all, Erica.

Oh, Erica Nicholas.

Oh, sorry, maybe uh I will look at you.

Please address me.

Sure.

Um, the the lost my train of thought.

Well, uh, easements are supposed to be defined.

You can't just have the word reciprocal easement in a 2003 CCNR, and then we absolutely eliminate the 2007 plat map that was signed by every single owner, along with the um owner's dedication that says nothing about reciprocal parking.

Nothing the reciprocal parking was also put in my deed in 2016.

It was some put on somebody else's deed in 2016.

So half the deeds have the reciprocal parking because they're trying to help someone along because the person who needs reciprocal parking is um just trying to be helped, and I don't want to be the property that helps them.

I'm getting harassed by the same people that I have to pay property taxes for.

I'm paying for insurance, and think about it.

A nightclub is the one of the highest insured businesses there.

They're on my lot.

Anything happens, that's on me.

And that's why he sends everybody out to throw up to fight.

No one's there, even with the stabbing, no one was there.

The police had to see him in the middle of the he was halfway down the block.

None of the where are the where's the security?

So I don't want a it shouldn't be on me.

And everyone has to have minimum parking.

Because what they uh what they forget to tell you is each business while it's being built has parking.

They're supposed to, whatever use they have, they're supposed to have parking per use.

What they've done is when they gave them the cup, they pretended, and I'm going to repeat the word, pretended that it was a unified center with one parking lot while they were 11 separate owners of DITA parking of DD properties, and each person had their own parking.

So it was not a unified center, it was not shared parking.

There is no parking study, and there's also no reciprocal parking uh agreements, none.

It doesn't exist.

And if this Simon or Mr.

Anderson can show me a reciprocal parking plan, I mean agreement or a parking study, which would have to be in order, you just can't come up with parking out of thin air and say it's shared parking.

There's a there is a ways to do it, and I'd like to see it.

We haven't seen it yet.

And again, when he says that no one has no one's given him anything, yes, we have, and we've never accused the city of stopping us from um doing business.

We've said that because they continue to allow someone to take over our property, and that's a takings.

None of you would like for me to come to your house and use your pool and use your driveway because hey, I don't have one, and they say I don't need one.

You still don't want to take the risk.

Why should you have to pay taxes and your you know for anything or take the risk for insurance risk just because I want to use your stuff?

Shouldn't be done, and it's not and this is unfair.

Thank you.

Thank you, Erica.

I'll keep mine really short.

Marcus Bender, high counsel, Mr.

Mayor.

Um keep this really short because Mr.

Kim once again, and I told you he would be uh spewing his uh lies, his lies.

Um that's what he does best, and that's why he does it in comment, because then he doesn't get these rebuttals.

But thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Um I would love to take your documents that you presented.

We'll prepare and we'll we'll have a debate publicly.

I'd like to get that set up.

I did send you an email, Mr.

Mayor.

Um I think the appropriate point we're at is it's in being discussed by the lawyers.

Correct.

And just because this is not an agendized item, it's just a presentation.

I'd encourage the to finish the comment and then there shouldn't be discussion from the council, it's not an agendized item.

So, but we're happy to continue discussions with Ms.

Shifano.

Okay, go ahead, Marcus.

Yeah, sorry.

Let's uh set up that meeting.

Doesn't have to be here.

I would love a public because uh we can show how Mr.

Kim is wrong on he misleads people.

That's what Mr.

Kim does best.

And also, Mr.

Uh Travis Anderson, you never showed me a document with the NV building separated and the MMT building uh separated.

It it would have to be a recorded, and I'm sorry, you show me a recorded doc.

I'm sorry, I'll talk to you.

You show me a recorded document that MMT building and NB nightclub building is separated on a recorded document, Mr.

Anderson on that note.

Uh again, I would like a public debate, minimum a debate, a discussion, a meeting as soon as possible, because and also we didn't apply for the Cinema Family Fund Center because I've told you countless times when I've been up here that until we don't want to invest seven figures into a family fund center when you're not enforcing your parking code.

The first thing in the development, the parking, everybody has to have their own parking.

And then if you have a reciprocal parking agreement, which there is not, show me the parking agreement.

You can't have a picture, a map, and it's all white and black without anything designated, described.

That's not the way the laws work, Mr.

Kim.

You know that.

So that being said, um, there's no reciprocal parking agreement at all.

And uh we want our parking.

Thank you very much for your time.

Thank you, Marcus.

Is there any other public uh public comment?

Okay, thank you.

Item 6.1 of adoption of bill as ordinance ordinance B25-014 to amend title nine unified development, chapter 7, area and bulk regulations, article 0, professional business office PB, subsection 9-70-2, the use table for PB professional business off zone by adding all uses permitted in the multifamily low density MF2 district and mixed use to permitted uses in order to comply with assembly bill number 241.

Any questions from council or thank Mayor?

Uh this is a simple one.

Uh AB 241 uh was passed uh by the state uh state, and it'll take effect on October 1st, 2025.

Uh the bill requires each county or city governing body to adopt an ordinance allowing by right the development of multifamily housing or mixed to use projects that include residential uses on property currently zone for commercial use.

And uh at the last meeting, the city council reviewed the B uh Bill 25 014, and uh it was introduced at the meeting.

So our zoning is a cumulative.

So uh if PB is allows, and then CR CR1 allows that one, uh also CR2 allows, then CR3 allows orbit.

So uh due to the structure, uh I'm actually only amending the uh PB areas uh that as all uses permitted in the MF2 districts.

Uh is a multifamily zone, and uh mix the uses uh both uh permitted in the table.

Uh by doing so, we will be in compliance with uh uh state requirements now.

Uh so step recommend the city council adopt a wilderness number B25-014.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Kim.

Any questions from council?

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

Seeing no public come forth, I'm gonna close the public hearing and ask for a motion.

Councilwoman Philly.

Councilwoman Philly.

Oh I will make a motion to adopt um Bill 25-014.

That's an ordinance.

Ordinance.

Let's bill ask an ordinance.

Yeah, okay.

Um do I have a second?

Mayor, I just want to make sure that we needed to have a public hearing.

I know you indicated public comment, but I just want to make sure that the decision is.

Did I not say public hearing?

I don't think you said public hearing, but you did.

Okay, I'm dreaming, sorry, kind of.

Okay, we have a second call for the vote.

Parish eye.

And that's I think so.

Gallow I motion passes.

Item 7.1, consideration of resolution 25-036 adopting a conservation element to the mesquite master plan.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Uh Dan Catron, planning staff.

Uh this is we're asking that you adopt a conservation element for the comprehensive or for the master plan that is a requirement uh by state law.

That big paragraph up there is all the things that you're supposed to include in the document.

Um next slide.

And uh so my goal when I first started this was to make to organize the thing better than that paragraph was organized.

So this is what we did.

Uh we have a lot of discussion of environmental setting.

Uh we have a listing of the environmental hazards and and um impacts from the natural environment to the city, and then a discussion of all the existing plans out there, and there are many that that technically address all the topics that we bring up in the in this plan.

And uh finally uh a section on 10 goals um policies and actions to implement that plan.

So basically, this is it's not a regulatory document.

It provides information and insight for readers and for the council to uh familiar familiarize yourself in general terms with issues regarding the environment and the interaction between the the city and the environment.

Um so I'll just kind of go through real briefly what's in there.

Um environmental setting, we talk about the geology, um, describes the geological context of the Virgin Valley.

There's not a whole lot of chronic geological hazards noticed uh noted.

The the biggest one is probably erosion and slope stability on the north slope of the city.

Uh there's a section on hydrology that describes the sub the surface and subsurface water systems.

Um potable water comes from deep wells within the city and aquifer levels appear to be steady despite the withdrawals over the years.

Um we recently adopted a source water protection.

I'll go back source water protection program, which lets us look at the potential for groundwater contamination on any particular site, and we do that as part of the development review process.

And then just note that the Virgin Valley Water District's ultimate goal is to reduce usage from 120 gallons per day to 85 gallons per person per day by 2035.

Um we just do a discussion about the basic pattern of hot summers and wild winters and the peak of residents that come in during during the uh the winter.

Um we talked about climate change and our the primary response to climate change is something being done by the county, which is called the all-in Clark County, and it's uh one of its main goals for the city is widespread conversion to electric vehicles and electric building systems.

And the idea is that if we can get the the generation of electricity to be cleaner than you won't have individual um vehicles and buildings adding to the greenhouse gas load.

There was a recent requirement uh for a heat uh heat sub-element to be added to the conservation element.

Um and and Clark County actually did a study that that focused on heat in Mesquite.

And really the the main vulnerability was was persons with lower incomes that do not have a personal vehicle or lack internet access.

Um so the the mitigation proposed is to develop phone trees and contact these uh vulnerable people during specific heat events.

Um we note that there's extreme wind events uh and say, yeah, you know, you can't really do anything about the wind itself, but we could build uh uh windbreaks and wind screens and include windbreaks into structural designs where possible.

Um as I noted earlier, uh climate change.

There's the consensus that increasing levels of greenhouse gases are causing a general warming of the atmosphere.

I won't really get into that, but to say that that our response to that is participation in the all-in-clark county program, um, which is working to uh bring energy efficiencies to buildings and systems.

Um specific requirements of the state is that you provide a discussion of air pollution, and so in the document there is a chart with the maximum constant concentration levels of various pollutants that are set by the state.

With regard to flooding, that is one of the most significant issues in the city.

And the county regional flood control district maintains a comprehensive flood control master plan and mesquite also has its own flood control master plan.

I guess we've been working on a uh flood control levy for 10 years and it's still about a year or so out, is my understanding.

The down there on the on the Virgin River corridor, there are a number of endangered species.

Um Clark County is working on an effort right now to update the multi-species habitat conservation plan um, which will address the whole county and and uh including the city of mesquite.

Uh for your information, it's likely to raise um mitigation fees about a thousand about a thousand dollars per acre um when it's finally adopted is what's being proposed right now.

Um then the um recognizing the Virgin River as one of the most important resources of the city, and uh right now the Virgin the Virgin River Coalition is a nonprofit group that's in the process of uh developing a watershed plan which is consistent with federal uh regulations and that will uh allow us to apply for certain grants that are only available if you have one of those approved uh watershed plans.

Thanks.

Um we we just noticed note the agricultural heritage of the Virgin Valley and say that we support the continuation of farming activities in the valley.

Um we note the potential for both paleontological fossils and uh uh cultural artifacts, uh, Native American artifacts to be in the city, uh and it's good to uh protect those when we become aware of them.

Um again uh we just describe the flood hazards in the in the city and note that that we followed the U.S.

Army Corps of Engineers floodplain management strategy.

Uh wildfire is noted as probably the second most critical uh environmental hazard out there, and uh we have a number of policies in the document.

There's more than just what's there um to uh to reduce fuel for fire and reduce uh fire potential, and then again with wind, um we notice that note that that is a hazard and uh provide windbreaks where possible.

Next and then finally we note with uh recreation activities in the town that can bring noise and light um and traffic uh to the city.

So we include the policies about uh designing lighting and sound systems to avoid impacts on sensitive receptors, um include natural habitat elements into design of like golf courses and other recreational facilities, incorporate windbreaks into design of sports facilities, and then acknowledge and mitigate traffic congestion around sporting and outdoor events.

Uh and then in a whole section of the plan notes what all the existing plans which go into all these subjects in greater detail and usually have specific uh mitigation measures attached to them.

Um and finally, there's just 10 goals.

Uh protect the farm attributes of the Virgin River as an invaluable resource for the city, protect and maintain the city's water supply and provide sufficient water supplies for future development, uh protect endangered and special status species in the Virgin in the Virgin Valley, um, especially focusing on the riparian habitats along the Virgin River.

Um goal four, increase energy efficiency and reduce consumption of and reliance on carbon-based fuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from all sources.

Goal five, protect uh infrastructure systems from the effects of temperature and wind, and be prepared for emergency loss of utility systems.

I think uh OPD five is recently extended a second a second uh uh uh transmission cable from uh mop valley to the city, and that's one of one of our goals, and it will be very important very uh important and making sure that we're always have power.

Um goal six reduce the risk of wildfire by clearing potential fuels.

Goal seven, um eliminate invasive and noxious plant species.

Um I don't know that we we don't really encounter that on a on an agricultural level.

We just you know, we're talking about keeping the weeds down on vacant lots and in people's yards and things like that here.

Um goal eight reduce and mitigate impacts from disperse camping and other recreational activities in the areas around mesquite.

Uh talk has been put maybe some uh uh trash receptacles at areas where people come out from the you know from uh the mountains here, and so they can put their trash in those receptacles instead of just leaving it out uh in the desert.

Um support and develop sports tourism and hospitality facilities within the city while mitigating potential impacts on users and residents, and finally monitor the status of the Badlands area on the north side of the city, including flat top Mesa, and uh control any impacts from new developments on that erosion.

So finally, our recommendation is that you hold a public hearing and approve resolution 25036 adopting a conservation element for the master plan.

Thank you, Dan.

Any questions?

Any questions from council?

No.

Thank you.

Um, with that, we will open the public hearing.

If anybody has any public comment in the public hearing seeing none, we'll go ahead and close the public hearing and we'll ask for a motion.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you for that presentation, Dan.

Um, I'll go ahead and make a motion to um consider resolution 25-036.

Councilwoman Gallo.

Thank you.

And uh I um second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 7.2, consideration of architectural and site plan review, case number ASR-25-001, LDS church, building two, 24,000 and 43 square foot, church buildings at 670 Canyon Crest Boulevard, APN number 001-05-401-004, 18.39 acres in the multi-family medium density MF3 zone.

Mayor, can I make a comment?

Yep.

Our city attorney Adam Anderson has a complex with this item, so he has stepped away.

And we have Cliff Gravett stepping in his place.

Thank you.

Thank you, Cliff.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Oh, you have Councilman Wanless.

Mayor.

Oh, can I have a presentation?

Okay.

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

Um the site is located uh at the southeast corner of the horizon boulevard and the canyon crest boulevard.

And uh uh Diapur County is proposing uh two chapel uh buildings and one storage building and two pavilions.

Uh one chapel building is about 24,000 square feet, so both would be about 48,000 square feet.

Uh one small uh storages, and there will be uh two pavilions, which is as large as uh 1800 square feet.

And uh they uh the entire acreage is 18.39 acre.

Land the landscape area will occupy about 56.4 percent.

So uh they are preserving a lot of lands in the back.

This is the architecture design uh that they uh provided.

And this is the plow plan.

Uh it is kind of blurry, but uh uh sitting areas actually uh on the left side of the graphic.

So uh according to the code of sections, the traffic impact study is not required for the such uh church.

It's smaller than 89,286 uh feet.

So uh they don't need to provide uh uh the traffic impact study in this case because it is smaller.

Uh each building provides 1,129 sittings.

That it that provides a total in the two buildings, 2,258 seatings, one parking story is required for three seats, uh and therefore they uh 753 parking stores is required, and uh they have providing 754 parking stores, including ADA parkings.

Stop like commend the city council approved architecture and site plan reviews, case number ASR dash 25-0 on one LDS church.

Thank you.

Thank you, Simon.

Councilman Wanus.

I'm pretty sure I'm one of those corrupt politicians that supports the Mormons, but I'd truly like you to know I've never actually been in an LDS church in the city of Mesquite.

I would, however, never vote no on any religious set, bringing a chapel or a church into our city.

Seems like one of the greatest places people can go spend time.

So I don't know how much pushback there will be from this, but I promise you it won't come from me, and I will support this 100% any time and for any religion that comes to this city.

Thank you, Councilman.

Any other comments from or questions from the council?

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

Mayor John Rosen.

I just wanted to commend our interim city attorney for exemplifying exactly the correct way to manage a conflict situation.

It's it's something that probably we need to work more on for our city, but but certainly I'm gonna applaud his his actions in doing that.

Thank you.

Thank you, John.

Mayor, councilman, councilwomen.

I'm Bill Cole, I'm a resident uh Mesquite.

Um I agree with what uh Councilman Wanless says.

Anytime a religious organization wants to come here, I'm for it.

I don't care if I disagree with their doctrine.

In the end, that doesn't matter.

God's gonna tell you who was right.

But I disagree with the size of these buildings.

Uh the picture that was up there is not what they're building.

Uh we got uh an email or HOA from Poulty, and it states that the concepts showing exterior finishes of typical church buildings, and that picture was a typical church building, maybe about 100 feet tall.

What they're proposing, the top of the roof of these buildings where it comes together, is 131 feet six inches tall, and the top of the steeple would be 170 feet tall.

That's a big building.

Now, I got this off the internet, so I'm sure it's true that the current city code on most buildings in Mosquito is uh 35 feet, but you can get an exception up to 100 feet tall.

And there's an example of the Casablanca Hotel is a nine-story hotel, 100 feet tall.

What they're asking is for these church buildings to have the front of their building 31 and a half feet taller than the Casablanca, and then add another 38 and a half feet for the top of the steeple to get to that 170 feet.

That's a big building.

The Statue of Liberty without its base is 151 feet tall.

These would be taller than that.

The Fremont Hotel in Las Vegas is 177 feet tall, maybe seven feet taller than what they're asking, but that's a 15-story building.

That's what they want to put in in uh Mesquite.

I don't have a problem usually, but for our our town, that's not what it is.

A church layer, a built church building like this becomes a focal point.

I don't think a church building should be a focal point of our town.

They have two of these in St.

George if you've gone there.

If you take a look at the St.

George, Utah Temple, it's 175 feet tall.

If you go to the Red Cliffs Temple, it's 230 feet.

These things are massive.

They take over the town, they become part of the focal point.

I'm gonna run out of time, but I would like you guys to look at Fairview, Texas.

They've been kind of fighting with the LDS group for two years because they want to do something similar there.

A small town of 11,000 people.

LDS threatened them with lawsuits, and they've come up with a compromise for a smaller but still really high thing.

And I just don't know that buildings those big because there's two of them belong in our town.

And uh LDS is an international organization with uh investment portfolios and real estate totaling about 393 billion dollars.

So they have some money for lawsuits.

Okay.

If they if they come to that, if and if you guys agree to if you uh say you're not going to do this and they want to sue us, I hope we can hold our own.

Nine words.

We are mosquite, we are small, we are strong.

Thank you.

Thanks, Bill.

Marion Council, uh, my name is Becky Peterson.

I'm a resident here for about almost three years now here in Mesquite.

I came from Salt Lake City, born and raised in the church.

I have never seen two church buildings on one lot.

That's excessive, especially for our small community.

That is a small corner.

I don't, I have no problem having a church building here, but two on one lot.

I don't I don't think that's a good idea.

I think that's excessive.

The traffic, you got so many different meeting times.

That's a very congested area.

It's going to be even more so with the um fire department going in there, all of the new communities that they're trying to build up there, the 361 homes just around by Santero.

That's yeah, I have no problem with the church, just not two on one lot.

Thank you.

Thank you, Becky.

Hello, Mirror Whipple.

My name is Valerie Morgan.

Um, I am kind of on the other side.

I have been a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for my whole life, and I have spent most of my life here in Mesquite.

I moved here when I was 14 years old, way back in 1974.

So I've been here since we had one LDS chapel on the boulevard with one ward.

And I've watched the church grow.

Um, I just want to address a couple of comments that were made previously, just to maybe clarify.

Um, the one gentleman that spoke about the height of these chapels.

I know that he is taught, he probably got, he said he got his information off the internet, and I do believe he was looking at the architecture of an LDS temple and not a regular chapel.

If you want to see an example of the type of chapels that they want to build, drive down Arrowhead and see the two chapels in one parking lot that will help clarify and give you an understanding.

If you drive through St.

George, there are just St.

George and Hurricane.

There are many, many um parking lots with two chapels in.

That's common now because it saves the church money by putting two chapels in one place.

Um, and as far as the traffic, I go to church every Sunday, and I see the traffic that happens over on Arrowhead, and I have to tell you that it's very, very minimal.

Even with a funeral, it's very minimal.

I see more traffic when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens up their parking lot for every single parade that we that we have in this valley.

That's where they all congregate.

I'm sorry, that's where they all congregate, and that is where they start, and they and people have always been welcome to use that.

Those chapels might be paid by the members of the church, paid for by the members of the church, but they are open for use for anyone.

I have seen weddings from other denominations that couldn't be contained in a regular in their regular churches.

I've seen the buildings open for those weddings.

I've seen funerals.

This is not just for the Latter-day Saints.

This would be a blessing for the community.

And I usually notice that property values go up when there is a church or a temple in your neighborhood.

Thank you.

Thank you, Valerie.

Quincy Edwards, 7255, South Tanaway.

I am the representative from Poulty who sent out the uh the um information to the Sun City HOA.

This is the drawing that I received from the church.

The gentleman who spoke earlier is correct on the uh on the dimensions.

This does not have the um, I'm not sure if this is the heritage plan that uh Simon Kim presented in his his presentation, but I'm glad to go back to the church and confirm uh these dimensions.

I don't know which which plan this is.

This is a document that I received from them that I just included in a package with a lot of other information to the HOA.

Thank you.

Thank you, Quincy.

Dominic Olivetto, and I am a good Catholic boy.

Just to clarify that.

I have no problem with the church, but the dimensions there, that's not a church, that's an LDS temple.

And I'm fairly familiar with that being raised in Utah.

I think they need another church here.

That's great.

Well, let's condense it, make it a church and not a temple.

Thank you.

Thank you, Dominic.

Mr.

Mayor, Council members Jared Halling said, I am the state president of the Mesquite Nevada West stake.

And so what we are proposing is similar to what is on Arrowhead Lane.

Um the initial building would be one building with, you know, if we continue to grow, we would expand to two buildings on that lot.

But initially, we would just build the one building.

Right now, there are two stakes in the mesquite area.

Both stakes are at capacity, which means our buildings are full.

With people moving in, we need more space for our members.

And so that's why we are proposing to build right now.

There's two stakes in the area with just one stake center, which is on Arrowhead.

And so we are proposing to build something similar to what's on Arrowhead.

It's not a temple, it will be a stake center, uh, similar to what's there.

We want to be good neighbors.

We reach out to the community, we offer our building, you know, like it's been said for parades, veterans parade, the high school parade, homecoming parade.

Uh Councilmember Wannless, you are welcome in our building anytime.

It says that right on our building.

That all are welcome.

And then we would we do believe that we will enhance and create a feeling of community as we add that stake center up in that area.

Thank you.

Thank you, Jared.

Daryl Garlic, thank you for uh all of the work that you put in uh for this topic.

We appreciate your uh willingness to help improve the Mosquita Valley.

Uh we're grateful again to invite you uh to the open houses to the break the the groundbreakings and all those events that'll that'll occur.

Um we really think that it would be a good thing to have a center to to meet and to gather uh in order to have the uh meeting capacity that we have as a church.

Uh one of our articles of faith states that we claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our hearts and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may, and so we appreciate the uh the zoning.

Uh we think that's correct.

We think that we'll uh improve uh the mesquite valley by building something that'll be benefit to all those who are who are available to attend again.

We'll have those those events uh as you go forward.

We'll invite all the community to come uh to join with us in in celebrating this Great Little Valley.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Garlic.

Mayor and City Council before you make a decision.

Um I I my uh step recommendation is still approval.

Uh however, I'm gonna have to revisit uh uh height issues uh because I haven't I missed that one.

So I'm gonna have to look into the definition of the height, and uh if uh there is uh things that need to be done for the height excuse me, and uh I'll put in conditional use permit in front of you in addition to the site plan approval today.

Thank you.

Thank you, Simon.

Any more public comment?

Okay, seeing none, I'm gonna turn it over to the council.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, sir.

I have been in um the chapel several times in my life.

Um, and they're amazing to go and to visit all of them.

So on that odd note, I would like to um approve site plan review case number ASR-25-011.

Do I have a second?

I'll second.

Councilman Galloway with a second, call for the vote.

Gallow I didn't hear this.

Councilman Annas, are you still there?

Okay, get off mute.

Councilman Annis, I think you're on mute.

Can you unmute yourself?

A minute ago.

Well okay, so motion passes.

Um item item 7.3 consideration of approval of a restaurant with service bar liquor license for llama proven cuisine located at 340 Falcon Ridge Parkway, unit 402.

Thank you, Mr.

City Council.

This will be short.

Uh it is located the southeast of the uh corner that uh the uh Falcon Nich Parkway, Mr.

Bertahawi and just the the ownership has been changed.

Uh and the new owner we should obtain the same legal licensing the previous owner held and must get police department issue the findings of uh suitability.

Okay, I was gonna keep doing it because I almost finished it.

Um police department did the background search and then issue the findings of suitable suitability.

So uh there is no issues.

Uh step recommends city council approved the uh service by liquor license.

Thank you.

Thank you, Simon.

Any questions from council?

Seeing none, um, I'm gonna go ahead and open it up for a public comment.

Seeing none, I'm gonna close public comment and councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

I will make a motion to approve the service bar liquor license for LAMA perversion.

Okay, do I have a second?

Councilwoman Gallow?

Second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Parish eye.

Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 7.4 consideration of bid award for 11th lane and Hafen Lane Roadway approvements.

Mr.

Anderson.

Thank you, Mayor Council.

Public Works received seven bids and publicly opened these bids on September 9th.

And after further review, three of the bids were deemed non-responsive as they didn't follow all of the RRS in RS uh sections.

The remaining four bids range from 4 million to 5.3 million.

Trade West construction was identified as the lowest responsive and responsible bidder.

Uh it is their bid was 4 million 19,992 and 23 cents.

And it is our recommendation to award the contract of the Levitt and Hafen Lane improvements to the lowest uh responsible bidder, which is Trade West construction for that amount that I just stated.

Thank you.

Uh Councilwoman Fielding, did you have a question?

You have your light on.

Nope.

Any other questions from council?

Councilwoman Gallow?

Um, I uh we've worked with Trade West before as well.

Aren't haven't they been very responsible?

Yeah, they uh they are the general contractor on the storm drain project that goes from uh in front of the Virgin River Casino up there.

So yes, and they constructed the skate park.

Uh they also uh constructed the pickleball court.

So they've done a lot of work.

They're a local firm, they've done a lot of work here in town.

Okay, any other questions from council?

Okay, seeing none, I'm gonna go ahead and open up for a public comment.

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

Councilwoman you went for your light and he put on his lights.

So lip bulb.

You want to go ahead, Councilman Wanless?

Oh, okay.

So I know where am I?

Um, I um going to make a motion for the consideration of the bid award for uh the Levitt and Hafen Lane Roadway to Trade West Agreement.

Councilman Wandless, would you like to back up?

I'm going to second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

Parachive.

Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 7.5, consideration of bid award for Mesquite and Sand Hill Boulevards Boulevards Mill and Overlay project.

Mr.

Anderson.

Thank you, Mayor and Council.

Um, as previously, you approved the interlocal contract with RTC.

This is for the um bid award.

So Public Works received four bids and publicly opened those sealed bids on September 16th.

These bids range from 6.6 million to 10.4 million.

This is for the Mesquite Boulevard and Sand Hill Boulevard project.

Um staker and parson companies was identified as the lowest responsive and responsible bidder, and it is public works recommendation to award that bid to staker and parsons.

They also have done business known as Western Rock for the amount of six million six hundred and forty-nine thousand five hundred and fifty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents.

Now, also I wanted to just clarify that in this project uh that is we're working with the water district.

There's improvements that they're going to do at the same time.

Um, so funding will come both the city will be reimbursed for the work that's done for the water district and the uh RTC will cover the rest.

So there's no impact to the city of Musquete and the general fund.

These are all program funds through RTC and the agreement we have with the water district.

Thank you.

Any questions from council?

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

Ben Martinson, um, I'll keep my water district hat on.

I don't have my hat on, but I've got my water district shirt on.

Um I don't know what Travis is talking about that we're gonna reimburse that's never I'm joking.

I just want to thank Travis for working with us on that.

Um it is a pretty it's a major undertaking on both parts.

And so just appreciate Travis and staff and the engineers for working with us on that so that we could make the improvements that are needed to get everything up to current policy.

So thank you.

Thank you, Ben.

Any other public comment?

Okay, seeing none, I'm gonna turn it back over to council.

Councilwoman Fielding.

I will make a motion to bid that award to staker and parsons companies.

Okay, do I have a second?

Councilwoman.

I guess I'll second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 7.6, consideration of bid award for Hardyway and Falcon Ridge Parkway traffic signals.

Thank you, Mayor Council.

Um, just before Ben almost gave me a heart attack right there when uh so please don't do that again.

Anyways, for our item uh 7.6.

So Public Works received five bids and publicly opened these bids on September 16th.

The bids ranged this is for the traffic signal at Falcon Ridge and Hardyway.

We're all excited about this traffic signal because it'll alleviate a lot of congestion when we have the major events up at the SEC.

But the rate the bids range from 1.2 million to 1.7 million.

The low bid came from the company LLO Inc., which is doing business as ACME Electric was identified as the lowest responsible bidder.

So it is the public works recommendation to award that bid to LLO Inc.

DBA Acme Electric for 1,289,125.

This project as we um also includes we had just recently finished uh I think it's been two years now, the traffic signal at flat top and Falcon Ridge and the fiber optic.

This project also takes the fiber optic from that project and brings it down to this signal.

The reason that that's important is that way we are able to communicate with all of the signals, and we're able to coordinate timing and signal with that.

So it's not just the signals pole locations at this um for that 1.2 million, it's also installing the fiber optic from that signal down to this one as well.

Just wanted to make that clear.

Thank you.

Councilwoman Gallow.

So is that is that going to be uh smart?

There's not any smart uh here in Mosquite.

It is um when we talk about smart, uh they are video detection.

And so that's what the I think the idea of the smart technologies are the ones that will be able to communicate with your car and tell you that you're going to be able to go in 30 seconds or 40 seconds, whatever that is.

That's my understanding of those.

These are um smart in the aspect that they're not with the old loops anymore.

They're all video detection, and that's how all of our signals are in town.

They'll have audible pedestrian buttons, um, like the new ones that we have that tell you when to cross and and which direction.

So they are smarter than the old generation, but they're not that smart technology that will actually communicate with some cars in that aspect.

Any other questions from council?

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

I'm gonna go ahead and open it up for public comment.

Seeing none, I'll close public comment.

Councilwoman Fielding.

I will make that motion to uh word the bid to LLO Inc.

doing business as acme electric.

Do I have a second?

I'll second that.

We have a second call for the vote.

He's back.

Go on yellow on quicker than me.

Okay, item 7.7.

Consideration of architectural and site plan review case number ASR-25-009, Falcon Ridge driving range.

Proposing construction of a golf driving range, 13.52 acres at 875 West Pioneer Boulevard, APN number 001-18-501-004 in low density multifamily MF2 zone in the Falcon Ridge PUD.

Um the site is located northwest of the horizon blue bar and pioneer boulevard.

And the site is large.

Uh it is a uh the excluding the T-box area, the length is a 500 uh 85 uh 55 feet, and the width is uh average like a 370, 50 uh feet issues.

This is a pictures of the site.

This is the bombs that is located on the south.

The Epicante is proposing 550 feet long 12 foot high fence.

And uh uh this is uh another uh analysis I've done.

Uh this is a section uh particular section slope uh pictures.

So the site goes up uh from the T-box area uh with a grade of 5.65%, and then uh they are adding 12-foot high fence on top.

Fence height is uh uh the illustrated as a blue line and green is the uh ground.

So before I go to the details of the analysis, I need to explain launch angle.

Uh the I use the launch angle average 12 degree uh that is the average launch angle launching angle.

Uh, if it is greater, we can consider that uh uh professional and it is uh uh lower than just amateur.

And uh there's that there's a month, which is a horizontal area uh error, and uh if it's skewes like a 20 feet one side, a 20 degree one side, uh that is the probably we can say the maximum uh skew, but uh uh there are uh a lot of other uh skew that goes uh outside of the 20 uh degree.

So this is the software I used.

Uh first uh I used the board speed 133 mile per hour and uh uh launch angle 12 feet, and the second scenario I used was 160 feet, uh 160 mile per hour board speed and launch angle 12.

With that, uh the scenario that that says about uh uh 12 degree launch angle uh with the one 133 mile per hour vacuum model shows that uh uh every ball hits uh with uh with if it is uh skewed well uh the south, which is the left of the uh hitter, uh the player, about more than 20.4 uh the degree gas hits the ground, and the 22 degree hits the ground, and then 25 degrees hits the fence, and the 30 degree hits the fence.

But if it is over 33 uh degrees to the uh the left, that goes over the fence.

And if it is uh 12 degree launch angle uh with the 160 mile for our vacuum model, if it is uh over 20 degrees, every board player hits will go over the fence.

So the question goes so what what's the right fence height?

So I'm gonna talk about it at the uh step comment sections later.

Um the traffic circulation part, group carts should be separate from the pedestrian sidewalk and pedestrian ways, and uh the applicant uh actually proposed that they would do so by connecting and extending the trail system they they have up in north.

And in the future, if they have a lighting, uh lighting sources shall be shielded from the neighboring uh residential properties.

So this is a step recommendation.

I I thought a lot.

Um step recommended the city council review architecture and site plan case number ASR-25-009 and approve the site plan with the following conditions.

Uh first, protective fencing.

The protective fence shall be constructed at a uh height greater than or equal to 12 feet, as determined and implemented by vacuum nature growth range in order to ensure public safety.

So step is not a player, and uh STEP doesn't recommend giving them any specific numbers, even if we give them specifically tell them that the 50 feet or 80 feet, there is still possibilities that the boards going over the fence and hit the people.

And if that happens, because the city is actually telling them what to do, city city will be liable.

So what I'm saying here is uh okay, group range will be liable.

It will be propos uh the fences that is the 12 foot, which is recommended by them or taller uh as they uh the review and ensure the public safety.

So the responsibility for determining constructing and maintaining an adequate fence height rests solely with the operator.

And the second condition I would say would be waiver of liability.

If it is uh safe, then there is no reason not to sign on an agreement and issue the waiver to the city.

So prior to commencement of operations, the owner shall execute and submit to the city a waiver of liability and indemnity indemnification agreement in favor of the city of Musquite, holding the city harness from any and all claims or damages arising from stray group walls or other related activities.

By doing so, the the owner or uh operator probably need to think again uh what would be the appropriate height.

If they think still 12 is appropriate, they're gonna build it so but liability will be solely on them.

And then uh separation of the group carts and pedestrians.

Gold cart travelways shall not overlap or coincide with the public pedestrian ways or sidewalks, or cart uh path and pedestrian path must be clearly separated to eliminate conflicts and ensure public safety.

That's just third conditions and the fourth lighting standard.

Any future on site lighting shall be fully shielded and directed downward to prevent glare or light spill over onto adjacent residential areas and public right away.

Thank you.

Thank you, Simon.

Councilwoman Gellow.

First of all, I feel very disrespected, and I think the whole council should feel very disrespected.

We had this conversation at the last meeting.

I don't want to be hit with 130 mile an hour ball coming across.

They also went ahead and put up the 12-foot fence.

We had a discussion about this last meeting.

I understand that basically we're being held hostage because if we don't approve the 12-foot fence, we are then responsible if anybody gets hit, if they have to put up a different fence.

I don't I I'm really not happy with this, and I don't think that that's the way business should be done.

I also saw that they're non-negotiable.

They don't want to talk about it.

Uh I don't like being held hostage.

And I I don't know how the rest of the council feels, but we had this conversation at the last meeting that 12-foot was not sufficient, and they went ahead and put up a 12-foot fence.

I understand.

And uh I need uh I need to make you sure that uh you are approving or denying the site plan today.

So it's up to you.

And uh but if we don't, then we're being held responsible for every wild ball.

Is that I mean that's what you were saying earlier, correct?

Right.

So we don't have a we we kind of don't have a choice.

We're either responsible or we're not responsible, and then go ahead and do whatever they want.

Number two doesn't satisfy you.

What's number two?

Number number two on the staff recommendation.

That doesn't satisfy your concerns.

No, because that means people are still gonna get hit with balls.

We're already finding out that the average ball is going way over a 12-foot fence.

Well, number I've got to say that I respect Simon and all that, but there's not a golfer and mosquite that can hit the ball 160 miles an hour.

I'm sorry.

I don't care if it's 40 miles an hour.

Somebody gets hit.

Uh being in Long Beach, we were people were constantly being hit with golf balls, and good luck trying to figure out who it was that hit that ball.

You're on your own.

Um, I'm I I'm not happy with with um the way that we are being treated on this subject.

So I think either way, uh we lose.

And I I just feel I feel very disrespected after we had a conversation, and they just went ahead and put it up.

And and I I understand that the gentleman, Mr.

Wurston, was going to go back and get some uh idea as to a different fence, and it was just ignored.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you.

So I have I have a few questions.

Simon, for you.

So I was driving down Haven Lane the other day, and there's this driving range over there.

Um the Casablanca has there's no fence there, didn't no or berm.

So do they have to sign a waiver, a liability waiver?

I I this is a two-part question.

Yeah, that this is has been done long ago before me.

Uh, so I don't know how that happened and how they manage it right now.

Uh, this is a new application, so new review material.

Okay, because there's not even a fence.

So I don't know if they signed a waiver and didn't even build a net.

That's my first question.

The other one is hole 17 on the Palmer course is closer to the road than this is gonna be.

And I have some seen some going over there, but they just have a little pony well there.

So is that I'm sure that's prior before you that was built when I was here in 95.

So, but what do we do for those golf balls?

And how do we set precedence here that they can't, or that we are requiring Falcon Ridge driving range, but the other ones don't have a net or a fence.

So that that's what that's what my point is.

And then I was over there the other day, and in the middle of the grass there, going uphill, there is a berm.

So those 12-foot fences, it's actually, and maybe if Mr.

Worcester could come and tell us exactly the barrier with the berm there, how high that is.

So it's not actually well, it's a 12-foot fence, yes, but in the middle there is actually lower.

So, I mean, it's gonna be higher.

So those were those were my questions.

Did you want to?

Well, no, uh honestly, I know that I'm not liable on that.

So that matters.

Okay, councilman Wallace.

I actually met with Rob over there yesterday.

And we had a conversation, and after looking at it, I do play golf, and I'm not good, not terrible, but I'm not good.

And I think I could probably set there with a hundred golf balls and never leave the driving range, the width and the length the driving range is.

If it was, if I so wanted to, I could tee a ball up and I could hit it over that fence, but I'd have to be trying to do it.

There are people that come down here that are from out of town, you don't know what you're gonna get.

And I think that's what we need to be afraid of right here.

And I told him yesterday if there was if they agreed to sign a waiver of liability that was presented to uh Falcon Ridge from our attorney, and that was signed.

They're gonna be doing waivers with the golfers going to the range anyway.

So the the golf course is going to have a waiver with the golfers, but if the city has a waiver with the course, and if the attorney says that would probably help us not be liable, I would be willing to sign off on this.

Mayor, if I may, um just address the waiver liability.

I want to make sure the council has an accurate view of like how this would work.

So let's say a ball goes over the fence, there's some kind of harm, there's some kind of liability.

The the person injured could hire, you know, get a personal injury attorney, the city is sued, they'd try to sue the golfer, they'd sue the property owner, they'd sue the operating entity of the golf course.

You know, that's the typical to and so the way the waiver of liability would work is that the city would say, hey, we've been sued now.

Now it's uh because you sign this, that passes the liability to them to pay for the defense.

And if there's an eventually a judgment against the city that the city was negligent, that they would have to pay for that.

Okay.

And so in any situation where you're addressing liability, there's different, there's different ways that you can address it.

One is to do nothing, right?

Hope that nothing bad ever happens and you know, hope hope for the best.

That's not what we're that's being proposed here.

The waiver is kind of a step up from that that says, well, if there is a problem, then it shifts it over to somebody else.

Okay, so that's kind of one step up.

The the higher way to avoid liability is to act in a way to prevent the harm in the first place.

Because, you know, you still don't want to have to deal with a lawsuit, you still don't want to have to deal with fighting about the waiver if possible.

It's better than not having anything in place.

Okay, but it still doesn't prevent anything negative from happening.

Okay, that you still have some forced waiver, you've got a um, you know, lawyers often say you can't squeeze blood out of a turnip, which means if if there was some liability and there's this agreement to cover it, if the if the golf course was in a financial situation where there's just no no money to cover it, then the city's still left with a judgment.

And so it's a it's a good protective measure, but there, you know, again, the the best way to deal with it is to prevent harm in the first place, which is providing us uh you know a safe uh a safe environment.

The answer to that is not in my specialty, that's other people's specialties, right?

The the golfers, the the planning directors or others, and but just you know, so you have an accurate view of what that waiver does and how it works.

So thank you, Adam.

Any other questions from council?

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

Mayor.

Oh I uh regarding public comment, um a resident from Besquete has sent an email to our city attorney, and he's asked me to read it.

Okay.

So this is a public comment.

You can start the clock.

Dear mayor, council members and staff, I see that it is this is from Gary Olgar Elgard.

I see that it is being considered to allow Falcon Ridge golf course to not put up a safety net along Pioneer Boulevard, a major street in our city.

I don't know if I've ever seen a driving range with that one.

The one off I-15 in St.

George is very evident.

I'm disturbed that the council is being asked to approve a waiver that in part says the city has no responsibility to require this section five of the waiver.

I don't understand this.

Isn't it the job of the city staff and council to protect its citizens?

Why else would we pay a police force?

But here the council is being asked to abdicate its care of its citizens that drive or bike or walk on that section of Pioneer, and instead let someone that becomes injured fend for themselves and try to recover damages in a lengthy and costly legal action, or worse, try to recover from a life-changing injury.

Yes, it's nice for the city that the waiver holds its and its staff harmless and will pay any legal costs or judgments incurred by the city.

But where does this leave a person whose car or body gets hit by a golf ball?

I mean, the waivers start sounding good that the operator acknowledges that bad things might happen and even agrees to be responsible, but no amount of money can fix a loss felt by someone injured by a golf ball or in a car accident caused by a windshield strike.

Interestingly, nowhere in the package presented, do I see any study or evidence that this suggests this will be a safe or extremely low probability event that would allow the council to feel good about this?

Just the statement that this could happen.

Again, I believe the council is supposed to protect its citizens by preventing hazardous conditions from being created by commercial entities whose primary profit motivation is profit.

Also, while this waiver might release you from being legally responsible, you will certainly be morally responsible for any injuries that arise from this.

Please think about our citizens when you vote on this, Gary Elgort, end of comment.

Thank you, Gary.

Ron Ron Shackleford.

Um Kevin, I know you're a great golfer.

What do you think your club head speed is?

No, 160 is the ball speed.

I think is that not right?

It's talking ball speed.

Average golfers' club head speed average is 94 miles per hour.

Mine would be I've had it tested.

105.

Let me tell you how far your ball club, your ball speed is gonna be between 150 and 162.

You hit the ball about the same as me, 105.

So the ball speed is at 150 to 162.

So that means your, if you have a bad hit, right?

That when he said 160 ball heads, ball speed, that's going over.

That's going over.

Every single he did a great job, so it's going over.

So I'm I know we I've golfed with you, I haven't golfed with you.

Um, you know, I have I have a you know about the same club head speed, but club head speed and ball speed are two different things.

And I think he did the ball speed, which is the correct thing.

Um I was gone for a month.

I watched all the city council meetings when I was gone, though.

So just so you know.

So I know what this issue was all about.

Um, I think I agree with Patty.

You guys are in a tough spot right on this one.

Um, but I would recommend that they they build that up a little higher.

Um, but then once again, then now let's and build it higher and do the waiver, but is it still protecting our community and city members?

Um, I don't know why this wasn't thought of and before planning ever started on this project.

Um, and why it was allowed to even get started.

And like you say, they're already building that 12-foot fence.

I mean, it's this is ridiculous.

So community first, that's what it should be about.

And I want you to consider that when you vote tonight.

It's about the community, it's about the members that voted you into office that put you up there.

We want to protect those members of this community.

And I don't want to see anybody get hurt.

I want to see them have their driving range too.

But I think 12 is definitely way too low.

And whether they're gonna work with you our guys or not, um, you know, I hope they do.

I hope they do.

Because our ball head speed is, you know, and you mentioned uh another golf course with just a wall there.

I've hit a few out in the street, and I cringe every single time I have a bad shot on that hole.

Uh oh, it's going towards the wall, oh shoot, shoot, shoop, shoop, and then I'm just waiting for a crash and then bang, you know.

So, yeah, it scares me to death.

So, as a golfer.

So, consider what you're thinking.

Um, what we're gonna make them do, but yeah, thank you, Patty, for your comments.

Thank you, Ron.

Mayor City Council.

Um I want to express my uh opinion that Mr.

Karen, can you state your name for the record?

Oh, Karen Dukowski, sorry.

Um, I want to uh express my uh opinion of Mr.

El Gort's letter, I think he's correct, and I also agree with Patty, but one thing that uh you know if I may say Patty because we are friends, but um one of the things that she said that was very key to all of this is that if you're driving down the road, who do you know and that ball comes and hits your windshield and you have an accident, you can sign.

I don't have waivers all over the place for the golf course for the city.

But how is the employee?

How is that person gonna know who whose ball hit their car?

How do you deal with that?

You can't unless it's set up so that one person hits a ball and then they wait till it ends up on the ground, and then another person hits the ball.

But still, how are you gonna do that?

You're gonna drive right over and and talk to them and say, you know, hey, somebody hit hit, you know, hit my car.

Who was it?

I don't think it's a good idea to leave it at 12 feet.

I think it should be there should be more uh safety measures put in place.

Thank you.

Thank you, Karen.

Dominic Olivetto again, 12-foot fence.

Ms.

Gallo, you're right, that's an insult.

Uh they're talking about you can't go over that, and I don't know how you two golfers are, but when I go out and I pull my driver out, I practice it, cutting it to the right, cutting it to the left, and there is times that I mess up and hit a nice duck hook, and you don't need much more than about a 80 clubhead speed to knock somebody's brains out with a golf ball.

I honestly believe that 75 feet, excuse me, is an absolute minimum considering that's about a 10-foot berm there.

Uh most places I've been with a fence, I like what the attorney said there, they build a fence up high, you hit it over the fence, you're liable.

You know, you can't make everything 100% proof, but 12 feet.

If if you agree to this, even with a waiver, and you may ask the attorney, but a good attorney is gonna take that waiver and boy, I cleaned that up quick, didn't I?

Anyway, I think that 75 feet, if that berm is 10 feet high.

Now I do believe that the farther you go up that hill, it may not need to be the same height because of the distance going out in the uphill version of that.

But if they're not willing to do 75 feet, and I hope they're not watching because I'm golfing there, the six, I might not get this local rate, but anyway, a minimum of 75 feet, because I can promise you one-handed 12-foot fence 150 yards out with my driver just with one hand, I can get it over that fence any day you want.

And I'm not a great golfer, thank you.

Thanks, Dominic.

Mayor, Council, my name is Ronald Gera.

I'm a resident of the Falcon uh Glenn Homeowners Association.

I also happen to be the president of the association.

I have watched the construction of that driving range.

Um I am aware that generally speaking, um driving ranges have netting that extends anywhere from 45 to 65 feet in height, and in sensitive areas where you may have homes, roadways, or others, you may have um netting that extends much higher than that.

An example that may be the golf course on I-15 as you go into St.

George, where you have a higher net netting uh in place.

Um I agree with Adam.

I happen to be a licensed attorney in the state of Oregon.

Uh I practice there for 32 years.

I continue to practice there out of my office in the Portland area.

Um glad that the city is considering a waiver.

Um glad that the city is considering a waiver, but I can tell you that I agree with Adam and his analysis that a waiver only protects you somewhat from the potential liability.

Um I agree with Adam again.

If you are sued, if a person is injured, let me say it that way.

If a person is injured, a good and qualified personal injury attorney will in fact name every person who has touched that golf course driving range.

The city, the golfer, if they can locate them, which they won't be able to, as well as the owner and operator of that facility.

They will in fact all be sued.

And just because you have a waiver in force or in place doesn't mean that you don't have to hire your own attorney to represent the city.

Unfortunately, the city has had too many lawsuits, and it doesn't need any more.

And as I would advise a client, I do not want you to buy a lawsuit, and so I would recommend that the council denied this application as it's presently presented, and require the Falcon Ridge golf course to put in a higher uh fence.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Ronald.

Mayor, members of the council, I'm Dr.

Ken Cox.

I also am an HOA president and a member of the Mosquito States Master Association, which is totally irrelevant to this situation.

Uh I am a very amateur golfer, only hit uh 100 balls at big shots last month for the first time in two years.

But in looking at the statistics, uh I was able to hit 10 or 20 of those uh really good shots, and four or five of them really bad.

And they would have jumped to 20 15 foot fence with no problem at all.

Uh the other thing I see on this recommendation is uh as I understand it, the council has the authority to change that 12 feet to 25, period.

The other thing is that the slope goes up, so that fence doesn't need to be 12 feet.

As I looked at Mr.

Kim's drawing at the top, it was 12 feet plus 30 feet of ground.

So you had a 45-foot fence when you're out 300 yards or whatever the distance of the fence is.

So keeping those in mind, there are options as I see it, but it's your job to change that to whatever you felt uh so that it would uh adjust to the slope.

Thank you for the work you do, and uh I appreciate your being here uh every week, so I don't have to take care of it thanks, Ken.

Just one correction uh to make.

Um by numbers, I actually considered the slope.

So when that uh uh the chart shows that it goes over, that means it goes over as it is on top of the slope on top of the fence any other public comment.

Okay, mayor, city council, I'm Rob Worst, and I'm the general manager of the Falcombus Golf Course.

Um we've gone to great lengths to make sure that this is safe.

And the numbers that you hear and the numbers that are being thrown out, they're not considering that these balls are limited flight balls, they're lower launch, they don't go as far.

So the numbers won't actually pan out to what they're saying that they are.

Um I don't want to hurt anybody.

I have loved ones and people I care about drive up down the city, drive up and down that road all the time.

We originally wanted to have it go from west to east, would have put us way up on top because it was more logistically safe for us to watch.

Um, but that would have put Pioneer Road in danger.

So we changed it.

We we were coming from east to west now.

The ground level is not ground level, and if you think of it as a building, we're hitting from the basement.

If you look at big shots uh up in St.

George, there's three some of them are there's three stories.

They're hitting from up starting at that height.

We're not the actual height is not 12 feet at its point between 170 and 100 and 200 yards is over 64 feet high.

When you consider the five percent grade, the berm and the fence, it's 64 feet.

Um, as far as liability goes, um, I've been doing this for 20 years at a golf course.

Golfers always are responsible for their ball.

Um, I've had many people come in that have their homes hit.

Um never had a lawsuit because most attorneys will tell them that you know it's a you know the golfers' responsibility.

In that vein, we have put up uh we will have a a cart attendant down there.

It would be watching all the golfers, anybody that decides that they want to aim in a different direction will be 86 from the golf course.

We will not put up with any of that.

We can identify the golfers by golf cart.

We know who which golfers are in carts by name and the cart numbers assigned.

We do know that.

We will have a camera on a building down there that is an AI camera that will uh identify license plate numbers.

We can we can identify the golfers, but um as far as um liability goes, um it's the liability of the golfer, they're the ones that are liable for hitting the golf ball.

Um you're not, we're not, but we're taking every precaution that we can.

And um, I don't see very many balls going over that fence, if any.

And if you take the others into consideration, um we're taking way more precautions than anybody else.

Thank you.

Thank you, Rob.

See no one else step forward and close public comment.

Do we have any more questions from council?

Okay, seeing none, I'll ask for a motion.

Councilwoman Fielding.

I will make a motion to approve ASR ASR 25009 with the following four conditions.

Okay, do I have a second?

I'll second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Gallo, s I nokay.

Motion passes item 7.8 and approval for annualized cost of living adjustments to match corresponding collective bargaining agreements for general management, M3 to M6, police and fire management, M3 to M6, municipal judge, and any other non-represented city employee except the city manager, city attorney, and elected.

Um Ms.

Screen.

You so far you've approved the the regular Teamsters uh collective bargaining agreement, the fire bargaining agreements, and so this is for management since they're not included in any of those or the police.

So I I am coming before you to request that the management raises, which would equal 7.6 percent are mirroring the other union agreements that you've already approved.

Any questions from council?

Okay, uh public comment.

Seeing no one come forward, I'm gonna go ahead and close public comment and I'll ask for a motion.

Councilwoman Fielding.

I will make a motion um to approve the cult cost of living adjustments to match the corresponding collective bargaining agreements.

Okay, do I have a second?

I'll second.

Okay, call for the vote.

NSI.

Galloway.

Okay, and with that, we've reached our final public comment.

You have three minutes, please come forward.

See no one come forward.

This meeting is adjourned.