Good afternoon, everyone.

Welcome to the Tuesday, October 28th, 2025 regular city council meeting at five o'clock.

We're gonna get started.

We're gonna start off with an invocation by Pastor Sue Tabor of the Mesquite Worship Center.

Good evening.

Father, we thank you for your presence here.

We thank you, Lord, that your heart is that all things be done well and in decency and in order.

And so, Lord, we release this meeting to you and to your direction.

Father, we ask for your grace and your mercy, your kindness and your strength, your truth and your wisdom to be embraced here and practiced here by all that are here.

And we thank you for it.

Amen.

Thank you, Pastor.

We'd ask you all, please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Pledge.

Our pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

One nation for God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

And now I would ask uh Amy Bradshaw to come on up and she has a presentation by Morph.

I guess it would be.

Okay.

Thank you, Mayor.

How does this work?

Ta.

Good evening, Mayor, Council members, and most importantly, citizens of Mesquite.

My name is Amy Bradshaw.

I'm a resident of Mesquite.

I was expecting George Galt here, but he's not here.

But I've been working with George Gauld, who is a former city council member and founder of Morph, which is Mesquite Opportunities Regional Fund for about the past year or so working on some grant matters.

In the early summer, George and I learned about a grant offering from Travel Nevada.

Now, Travel Nevada is a state's tourism agency, and they were offering an incredible grant opportunity that is intended to jumpstart tourism plan for two very lucky Nevada communities.

We formed a committee to brainstorm this opportunity, and we've been meeting regularly.

On the committee is Mayor Whipple, Simon Kim, and other city staff.

Besides these city folks, we brought in representatives from area casinos, resorts, and other organizations and nonprofits.

After much discussion and planning, Morph made application for a grant that centers on three goals.

Number one, to position Mesquite as a top year-round family sports destination.

Number two, to vitalize our downtown area into a vibrant visitors' hub.

And number three, and most importantly, I believe, is to grow Mesquite's tourism through collaboration.

I am very pleased to report that our grant application was accepted as one of the two communities to put to split proceeds in the amount of one million dollars.

Now, this is a very unique grant, and this is where we need the community's help.

Usually on a grant, you ask for XYZ.

And if you get your grant, you give the money to buy XYZ.

Not in this grant.

It's different.

Travel Nevada is sending us professional travel consultants who will tour our community's tourism asset inventory.

They're going to meet with our grant steering committee.

And here's where the community comes in.

They're going to host two community listening sessions.

They want to know what the community wants and how they see tourism developing in our city.

Based on this information, a tourism plan is made, and Travel Nevada then makes a decision on how that one million dollars is split between two communities.

Exciting, right?

The first community listening session is scheduled for next Thursday, November 6th at 6 p.m.

at the Steam Center.

Now, the Steam Center is located in the Mesquite Plaza, which is right across from Las Lopez.

In fact, Las Lopez will be catering the event with some great Mexican food.

Now, if you want to attend this meeting, we need you to RSVP so we make sure we have enough tacos and enchiladas, okay.

You can find more information about this on Facebook, the city website, and next door.

There are QR codes you can RSVP on, or you can email us at Mesquite NV Tourism at gmail.com.

Emails on the screen.

Flyers about this event are also on the table outside the council room.

Thank you very much.

And I hope to see you all at our community listening session next week.

Thank you, Amy.

Yeah, a big thank you to Amy and George and Simon, especially, because they worked really hard on getting the this grant done.

And it's going to be a great asset to our community.

That's a lot of money.

So next, I'd like to welcome up uh Chief Andrus and Mayor Littman.

Okay.

Thank you.

Good evening.

For those that do not know me, I'm L.

Littman, the former mayor, but I'm also a member of the board of the Mesquite Cancer Help Society, which was founded in 2001 by Yoli Bell and Ann Medlin.

And our motto is helping cancer patients today when support is most needed.

Currently, we have over 30 clients that we assist in establishing payment schedules with doctors and hospitals as well as pharmaceutical companies to try and reduce costs on cancer medication for our clients.

We help directly with cancer related medical bills, chemotherapy, radiation, special testing, as well as transportation to and from out of state hospitals for specialized treatments.

Counseling, we pay for gasoline if needed, and numerous other cancer related needs.

Each cancer patient has his her own special requests.

And we make sure that each one is addressed with care and quick results.

In addition, we supply wigs, hats, medical equipment, virtually anything a cancer patient might need.

Cancer is scary, to say the least, I know as a survivor myself.

We're here today to make the journey easier for anyone in need of our services.

The Mesquite Cancer Help Society is forever grateful for all this community does to support these badly needed services.

And today I'm here, as you know, to accept something on behalf of our Cancer Society from an outstanding fire department that goes so far out of their way to help us.

And we really thank them.

We sell t-shirts at Smith's and Walmart.

We want to recognize them, uh the businesses that they that they are, and they're so welcome to us and our firefighters standing at the front door.

But to our community members, um, thank you.

Um pleased to uh provide a check to the mesquite cancer society tonight for 11,372.

Thank you.

Okay, excellent.

Excellent.

Real quick, we'll hang this at our fire station, but I do want to recognize this gentleman to my right, firefighter paramedic Norm Nielsen uh oversees this project.

So we couldn't do this without him and again uh all of you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And next uh and next, uh, could I have Randy Lobb come forward?

Mayor Council, uh Randy Lobb uh with Athletic Leisure Services.

Tonight we have some awards uh for our local youth for what we call the gridiron games.

Uh we invited them and some parents to come up.

Uh Nicole Burden, Justin Johnson to kind of head up our youth programs.

I want to just tell them how much I appreciate them and the work that they do.

A lot of hours go into this.

Uh, I'm gonna turn this over to Nicole and then she can kind of present these.

And uh at the end, if we give our uh youth a round of applause, that would be that'd be really great.

So on October 6th, we did our uh annual gridiron games event.

That's like punt passing kick.

Um we had about a hundred participants come out, ages four to fifteen, and um we had a dozen overall winners that we'd like to present certificates to.

So if you guys are here tonight to accept that, come on up, we'll hand these out and we'll do it.

Get a picture.

So they get a little plaque and a t-shirt for the for the top in their in their grades.

So let's find you guys up here.

Let's have a stand in the back.

So these guys uh had a competition, they did the best of the best that night.

Uh, we just want to extend uh our appreciation for them to come out, have a competition amongst their peers, and uh they did a great job.

Let's fight everybody over there.

I'm about as tall as they are, so I'm gonna stand at the back.

Thank you very much.

Can I say something?

Sure.

Uh Council in the Fielding.

Randy.

Thank you so much for putting this on.

Um it's great for the kids to get involved.

And my son Tanner, several years ago, he won the pent passing kick and he went to Levi Stadium before a San Francisco 49er game.

Um, so kids keep it up because that's where you can go.

So thanks again, Randy.

And now I'm gonna go ahead and turn the time over to uh Councilman Ennis.

Yeah.

All right.

I'll let the room clear out.

Good evening, Mr.

Mayor, City Council.

Um, I'm Bill Lennis, so I'm here tonight as not well.

I'm here tonight for this too, but uh as president of the uh Mesquite Veterans Center.

And uh every year we as you all know, we hold a veterans parade.

This year it's gonna be on the 8th of November, and we select a grand marshal every year for this.

This year, our committee, we sit down and we talked about uh several people discussed, went over okay, this person, that person, no, and then we all came up with one that stood out above them all.

And this gentleman has um been instrumental in the veterans getting getting it established here in Mesquite.

And so this year, our uh grand marshal for the the uh mesquite veterans parade is gonna be Mayor Al Lippman.

So, really quick, as we all know, we all know Mayor Littman, and um he was in he was in the army and uh served a tour in Vietnam, and him and his wife Phyllis.

After he got out, he got into teaching and education, and he was a he was a uh adjunct professor at Pepperdine.

And then um they moved to Hawaii and he stayed there for a while.

Then they moved to uh mesquite in 2004, 2004, and they've been here ever since.

And as you all know, he was mayor here forever.

And so, which was great.

Uh but what a lot of people don't know is Al co-founded the Mesquite Veterans Center, and he was one of the founding members in getting our veteran centers uh stood up, and he is also a member of the Vietnam Veterans of America, and he assisted the Exchange Club on Veteran Issues.

He directed our parade for 14 years and continues to conduct both the annual Veterans Morning and Memorial Day programs.

Also, what a lot of people probably don't know, and this is why I'm having him stick around, is under when Al was mayor and under his tutelage, uh he he submitted an application.

Mayor, if you want to come on down here also, please.

He submitted an application to the uh military order of the Purple Heart.

And lo and behold, in 2016, the city mesquite was awarded the to be a um city of the Purple Heart by the Military Order of the Purple Heart.

So Al, I'd like you to come back up here since you were instrumental in this.

And this is the plaque that was awarded by Chapter 7 Eleven out of Vegas.

And so thank you very much for this.

And uh we can pass it on to many agriculture.

Thank you.

Appreciate you so much.

And with this Purple Heart Award, uh, there's signage and all that, and I will be talking to Travis about this, getting signs up to recognize a city when people come into the city.

There will be signs on the entrance that mesquite is a city, uh, Purple Heart City.

Let me just say that there's one individual here today that should be mentioned also because I got my inspiration about helping out with the Veterans Day Parade from the young lady and her husband and some other people in the city.

Uh, a lot of them have passed on now or moved away, whatever the case may be.

But I want to give credit to Sue Bar as one of the founders of the Veterans Day Parade.

Way back when anybody else have any presentations that I'm not aware of.

Okay, with that, we are going to go ahead and go into our first public comment period, and you have three minutes.

Me again.

Still good evening to Mayor, Council folks, City of Mesquite.

Hi, my name is Amy Bradshaw.

I'm still a resident of Mesquite, but I'm also a member of the Virgin Valley Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR.

And this year, for the first time, we are partnering with the Exchange Club of Mesquite in putting on the 1,000 flags over mesquite.

I doubt there's a person in this room or the whole city that doesn't know what a thousand flags are, but it is an awe-inspiring annual week.

Long tribute, honoring our Americans, um military and veterans.

The three pillars of the DAR are education, patriotism, and historic preservation, and thousand flags pretty much nails all three of those.

We have 1,000 full-size American flags standing with military precision in silent splendor, while members of the Exchange Club and the DAR together with our community volunteers will stand vigilant 24 hours a day.

So this year, Thousand Flags runs from November 9th through the 16th.

So it's a Sunday to a Sunday.

Um the 9th, which is a Sunday at 9 a.m.

We will be putting the flags up, and we always welcome anybody in the community that would like to come and help us because a thousand flags is a lot of flags to put up.

Keep in mind also that we have our um very wonderful Veterans Day ceremony on Veterans Day, which is the 11th, and that'll be at 6 p.m.

We will have our closing ceremony on the 16th at 2 p.m.

So I hope you will all come and join us.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Amy.

Gotta be quick around here.

Uh good evening, Mr.

Mayor and City Council members.

I'm Mary Mathis.

I'm the president-elect at the Mesquite Fine Arts Center, and I'd like to update you on a few things that we have going on right now.

Uh, we're on our last week of the Road to Not Taken exhibit, and it will go on uh through this Friday.

It showcases our uh talented artists, and we'd like you to come and see it.

My favorite event of the year is getting ready to come up.

Uh, it'll be starting on November 3rd.

It's our annual Christmas boutique.

It showcases unique, one-of-a-kind gifts uh created by our local artists.

It will run November 3rd through January 2nd.

It's a fun place to get Christmas gifts or something for yourself.

Um, our hours are 10 to 4 on Monday through Saturday.

We're also participating in the Mesquite First Friday Family Art Walk being held on the first Friday of each month through May.

The next one will be Friday, November 7th from 4 to 7.

It's located at the Mesquite Fine Arts Center as well as the Jimmy Hughes campus.

Uh, we have now announced our November Paladin Poor events, and if you haven't been to those, they're a lot of fun.

Uh this month for November, there are a variety of holiday uh themed pictures.

You can see them on our website as well as purchase tickets to attend.

Of course, we continue to hold a lot of fun classes at the gallery, and we invite everyone to come to participate.

Our new framing and matting shops become an excellent resource for our artists.

Also, our pottery and fused glass studios are a great resource for our local artists.

We have an excellent website at mesquitefinearts center.com where you can see everything going on.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Mary.

Mayor Council evening, John Shippard, uh president of FC Mesquite Soccer Club.

Just wanted to invite everybody out.

Uh next week we'll be having our annual uh Heroes Cup soccer tournament.

Always happens at time of uh during our veterans uh day period and and uh all the fun activities there, but we're excited.

We're gonna be welping welcoming 160 teams uh traveling anywhere from Montana, Colorado, Idaho, Vegas, California.

Um so that equates to about 2,000 young athletes.

Um the soccer tournament helps support our uh recreational program and our competition club program uh and our local youth here uh in mesquite.

So if you want to come out, catch some soccer games, it starts on Thursday evening and goes through Saturday evening and uh a lot of fun.

So if you're planning on going out to eat, you might want to spend a little extra time because you might be standing in line.

So uh thank you.

Thank you, John.

My name is Sherry Hollenbach, and um I will keep this short, no matter how long it takes.

I'm just getting anyway.

Um, so I want to say just thank you guys so much for your time because I know everybody always comes to you wanting all these different things, and but I want to start out with saying that you and I were on the same page on this topic, and what that is is all of us want mesquite to continue to have neighborhoods that are peaceful and calm and collaborative, but we also want to have um increase the tourism here in Mesquite.

And I've been owning and operating, I'm just a small guy, uh, but I've operated two vacation home rentals for the past several years.

Sherry?

Yes.

Is this on the uh it's not on the I think this is on the agenda, and so the opening public comment period is for items that aren't on the agenda.

Okay, and so I get a restart.

Yeah, well, if you have something else to talk about, you can talk about that now.

But if you want to talk about the Airbnbs, then when that's it wasn't in regards to the bill, but I can't then go ahead.

Yeah.

Maybe it was, and you can stop me, but um uh oh, I only have two minutes left.

So um anyway, I wanted to set the standard for the mesquite vacation properties here in town, and haven't just wanted to, but I have we have 24-hour um noise decimal.

We have 24-hour response team here.

Uh we have a five-star rating.

We have um and also we've never had any official complaints in mesquite year after year after year.

And um I went ahead and I I purchased another property, and I wanted to do a short-term rental with that property as well.

But because the choice to vote down the other two houses, it prevents any of the future houses, including mine to get um a chance to be approved.

And what I went ahead and I did with this new house was before, because I want to set the standard to make sure the neighborhood is is welcoming this.

I went ahead and I got all the signatures from um the surrounding houses that were home, um, as well as 20 plus signed personal letters from um each one of the houses that are to the left and right in front around supporting it.

And um, so that was my question was if we could have that decision recalled from last week and revisit it for the 18th.

Um that's my question because I I want the same thing as you guys as far as for to set the standard on vacation home rentals and for every for the neighborhoods to enjoy it and and be collaborative, and it should be a really good place for mesquite to people to come to mesquite.

But I also want there to be a standard to where there's not the negative ones, and if there's the negative ones, I do feel like those should be voted down.

But because the last week there wasn't necessarily specificity, it makes it really hard for any future homes to be approved because we don't there's nothing to judge it by.

So either the house to be the decision to be recalled and then brought back up, and that have a chance to be either approved or disapproved, but at least there'd be more criteria.

Um that was easier than I thought.

So thank you very much.

Thank you, Sherry.

Um, have a good night.

Thank you.

I'll be there.

Thank you for the applause.

Good evening, council, mayor, David Baldwig.

I think everybody knows my resume, so I'm not going to start that down.

Uh one of the things I want to bring up tonight uh is and I'm talking about this now because I don't know how much how longer we're gonna have an open meeting content uh comment period here, but I brought up to the city council back in July 20th a very big program offered by the federal government on opportunity zones.

I sent every one of the council members and the mayor information multiple times, and I've got less than a reasonable response.

The only person that's really responded to me is Councilwoman Fielding, who set up a meeting with the mayor, which I thought was very disappointing, mayor, the way you handled that meeting.

I wrote up for that meeting, it took me two months to get that meeting, and I wrote up a three-page fully detailed document here that gives you an overview, the actual benefits of the program and the actual process to get it done.

And I actually have found a law firm that has already done 10 of these, and I can't get a positive response out of anybody out of this city, period.

You're not gonna be able to uh establish tourism in this town unless somebody is gonna make capital investment to put in the infrastructure.

You don't have enough infrastructure here for a lot of tourism, like a lot of places do.

So this is this is goes hand in hand with that.

We could set up opportunity zones.

Well, I've heard for I've been here for 18 years.

I have heard since I've come here, we want to develop Mesquite Boulevard.

Besquite Boulevard could be named an opportunity zone and get all these massive tax credits for the investors.

And if anybody drives to Las Vegas, and I put this all on my in my overview.

If anybody drives to Las Vegas and goes to North Las Vegas in the previous round, that was in 2017, that the city had no interest in then either.

If you look at North Las Vegas, they had seven opportunity zones named.

If if you go through North Las, how much industrial building is going on down there?

Why?

Because of these opportunity zones.

Southern Utah, St.

George had two.

Actually, their downtown area got an opportunity zone.

So I would hope everybody would read this.

Look at in detail I've written about what the tax credits are, what the investments are, the the the forgiveness on capital gains.

It's a massive advantage to people that want to invest.

We've got areas to invest.

I I would really ask you to really look at this.

I don't understand why.

I started in July, and now we're at the end of October, and I still don't have anything.

I've been stood up, I've been everything else, no answers, no nothing on this stuff.

And I think it's just completely inappropriate.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Dave.

City Council members and mayor.

My name's Dave Northam.

I'm from Sun City.

Some people call it the Ritz side of town.

Um I don't know if you can see this image here on my phone.

This is a sign at the Jensen Trailside Park.

Says small dog area.

Can you read that?

When you look at that sign when you walk in, that's what you're seeing.

That sign is probably 30 years old.

It needs to be replaced.

I was there a couple days ago when a lady from the apartments across the way came in at the same time I did, going into the small dog area.

There was a people from out of town, Montana or something like that.

They were on the small dog side with large dogs.

They have no idea which side to go to.

They can't tell.

That's the only sign that points you in any direction.

So if somebody could replace the signs, put up a large dog area and a small dog area, that'd be perfect.

Thank you.

Thank you, Dave.

Travis, would that be your area, or is that would be Randy's area?

Randy.

Okay.

City Council, Mr.

Mayor, for the record, I'm Marcus Bender.

Um City Attorney, or should I say interim attorney?

Is it still interim attorney?

Okay, Mr.

Adam Anderson.

As you're aware, we submitted a request under the Freedom of Information Act, and we had it subpoenaed uh for city officials' emails and relative information.

It's been four months since that request was placed.

We have received but a fraction of that information.

Uh, just as a reminder, the city is required to provide that with in five days.

And we know there's a lot, so we've been very patient, but four months.

Not sure what's up.

But an old saying does come to mind.

He who has nothing to hide, hides nothing.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Marcus.

Going to church.

Hi, I'm Raylane Schiffano with Nordic Beach Properties for the record.

Um, I also did a FOIA request, um, which did give me a lot of your emails.

Um, and I am very disappointed.

I work with senators.

I don't know, most of you don't know my background.

I actually have two nonprofits that work around the United States protecting homeowners and HOAs and condominiums.

Um, and I volunteer for free with these people because they need protections because a lot of us are uneducated in these communities.

But I've come to the city and I've asked for documents and I've gone through public records, and I've only produced public records that have been given us by you or the county or the city attorney or the city itself.

I didn't make any of this up.

And so when I see an email that says that Marcus and I should probably be prosecuted for criminal charges for interrupting Mr.

Kim's duties, um, if not due to our ignorance, but to intentional damage that we're causing the city because we're asking questions.

I have a problem with that, and I think we the people know that this is where we come to speak to you, and we have protections under the anti-slap laws and the devata laws of the constitution that protects our free speech.

So when I see Mr.

Kim and your emails on here, and not one of you said anything to tell Mr.

Kim, hey, she has the right to free speech, and we're gonna make sure that she has that right.

Instead, you guys were silent.

There's no emails coming back.

Now, the city attorney's office, I've sent him another email saying that there's a conflict of interest with his office and the public records request, and I have not heard back from that.

There's re-recorded documents that the city's not relying on that has been done by an office, a city or an attorney that is not, I would say it's not legal.

Um, but there's re-recordings and there's documents that are we're still finding because we're having to search for them because the city won't give them to us.

So I haven't done anything wrong.

I haven't violated the NRS codes by freely speaking to you, asking, begging for you to enforce the code.

There's a parking code.

You don't need to see our CC and Rs.

You don't need to understand our C C and Rs.

In fact, you don't even have a right to our C C and Rs.

All you have a right to is to enforce the parking code, and that's all we've asked you to do.

And if you do that, people would stop coming in and griping to the city about code enforcement.

So I ask you again kindly, please enforce the parking code because there's somebody trying to buy that building, and they're just gonna get sold into the next victim.

Thank you.

Thank you, Rayleigh.

Hi, Patty Aaron.

Um, I want to thank you all for the work you're doing with the House on Condor.

Um there's been a lot done, there's a lot more to go, but it is it is progressing.

I have some pictures of what it used to be like and what it has changed to.

There we go.

Um, this is what it these two are what it used to be like.

And she's even setting up her chairs and stuff.

It's been it's it's getting there, and we really appreciate it as a neighborhood.

Um, the big concern we have after all this is what kind of accountability is she gonna have?

How are we gonna make sure?

You know, uh I call every year she refills her pool, it turns green.

We get mosquitoes, we get all sorts of and that's not how it should be.

So I just want that to be heard, and I wanted to thank you all for all that you are doing there because it's a lot.

And Alicia um love it.

She has been so good with her and talking with her and getting her to do things.

I don't know how she has done it because she's very hard to talk to.

And I know she's stretched every which way, Alicia.

And I don't know why she's part-time now, and the last guy was full-time.

That's just another question.

Is that an you know something that should be addressed because they're talking codes?

This is all code enforcement.

So that was all food for thought.

So thank you for everything you are doing.

Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor Whipple, members of City Council, and the residents of Mesquite.

My name is Debbie Benham, and I'm here to talk about the parade of lights.

The parade is on Thursday, December the 4th at 5 30 p.m.

The parade begins at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints on Arrowhead Lane and proceeds down Mesquite Boulevard.

The parade ends at City Hall.

This is the 11th annual parade of lights.

The theme this year is Christmas in the desert.

As of today, I have 15 confirmed entries.

There is still time to be in the parade.

Applications are available in the lobby at City Hall, or you can contact me at 7024 2038.

Or email me at Deborah underscore Benham at Yahoo.com.

The entry fee to be in the parade is a minimum of 25 pounds of non-perishable food.

As of today, over 10,000 pounds of non-perishable food items and personal care items have been donated.

However, more is needed.

Last year we collected 21,788 pounds.

My husband said the goal this year is 25,000 pounds.

I guess I have my work cut out.

As you know, due to the government shutdown SNAP, the supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits will be paused on Friday, October the 31st.

Many people in our community rely heavily on these benefits.

This is a 501c3 domestic nonprofit corporation.

All donations are tax deductible.

There are several drop boxes around town to facilitate donating food.

They're located at the lobby at City Hall, the Rec Center, Nevada Bank and Trust, Waffed Bank, Mesa Valley Estates, Sun City in the Pioneer Center.

If you need me to come and pick up food, call me.

I will come to you and get it.

If you want to give me money, I will go shop for you.

I will do whatever we need to do.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Debbie.

Thank you for all that you do.

That's going to be a hard account.

The proud husband right there.

Mayor Council, I have a concern.

As we've all seen on the news, kids getting hit in crosswalks down in Vegas.

We have a crosswalk across in the middle school.

There's not manned.

Why?

There used to be a police car sitting the other side of my fence every day.

I used to go out and talk to the officers.

Brad, Steve, Justin.

No more.

I've only seen one police car in the last two weeks sitting further up, and that's a school resource officer.

Why are these police officers not sitting there catching these people speeding and doing U-turns?

One of these days, one of our kids is going to get hit.

And I don't want to see that.

We did away with the volunteers.

Why do we do that?

We're not even paying them.

Now we pay somebody to do them.

They can't even fulfill all the crosswalks.

It's ridiculous.

I say go back to the old program.

And protect our kids.

All kids need protection.

You got two crosswalks.

Why is one manned and not the other?

Are they more important up this end than that?

I don't think so.

All kids are important.

And one last thing.

I was on Facebook on the London Fire Brigade today.

The amount of electric scooters and bikes causing house fires and garage fires is alarming.

It's gone up 20% this year alone.

They had three last week houses destroyed because of electric bikes.

So people, please be careful what you do with the bikes.

And one more thing on that.

So people can see them.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mike.

Mayor, Council, Nick Alfonsetti.

I'm in a good mood today.

I'm not after anybody.

In fact, I'll even agree with David Baldwick.

That's stretching it, but I will agree with them.

The development zones that are out there are just absolutely incredible.

Like I say, I don't know how many trips you make to Las Vegas, but I'm down there quite a bit lately for some reason.

And uh also St.

George, just behind the Wayscale house.

That area in there is developing so fast.

It's incredible.

We've lost mesquite has lost many things because of what's going on up there.

They're putting in all these parks, all these places for these athletes to come in and play.

They even went out and got the national senior uh what would I call it?

Uh headquarters that was in Phoenix to move up on Dixie Road into a uh shopping mall that's up, shopping center that's up there.

They are going leaps and bounds to bring those businesses in and to get them to work.

That's money that's we are losing, it's tax dollars we are losing.

And now what can we do to make that happen here in Mesquite?

If I can offer a suggestion would be this.

If you look in any entrepreneur magazine, you're gonna see people that know nothing about business, take and find a business that they want.

They tell the people, look, I'll give you $10,000.

Let me let me follow you and follow what you're doing and ask you a few questions for one month for 10,000.

They promise they won't interfere with anything, any of the leads that they get from it, but that's what they do within six months.

Those businesses are prospering better than the person that they were trained from.

So I say that's the same thing I think we should do because we're missing the boat.

All this property that we have, we have no promise of development, no big companies coming in, and that's what we're gonna need to get through these rough times that are coming, and they're coming.

Obviously, we got people that are starving, people that don't have food, and that's gonna get worse as we see what's going on here in the country.

So I say, let's do something, let's make it happen.

Let's take and go out and get somebody there to find out how they're getting those companies to come in and do what they're doing.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Nick.

Dominic Olivetto, Mesquite Residents.

Sorry for the dress, but I'm a lousy mechanic.

It took me longer to fix stuff today.

Uh, I'd just like to remind everybody that this Saturday from 11 to 3, the VVA, Vietnam Veterans of America is having a chili cook-off contest.

We have a live band, a bunch of things to donate.

Uh, one of the councilman's gonna dance on a table a little while in there.

Uh he promised uh he's bought a speedo, so anyway.

I'd invite everybody to come.

Hi, Bill.

Thanks, Dominic.

Yeah.

Uh West Boger Mesquite resident.

I I thought Dom was trying to get people to go, not to not go, Bill, but uh, I hadn't planned on speaking here at public comment, um, opening public comment here, but another speaker did bring something, had made some good points regarding the uh proliferation of these e-scooters and the crosswalk safety, and there's been over a hundred kids.

This was a stat from like a week and a half, two weeks ago.

Over a hundred kids in Las Vegas Valley, that's Clark County, have been hit uh in crosswalks and around the schools this year.

And it's disheartening that the police department found money to hire one to replace three volunteer crossing guards, and they put it at a place where I have the least amount of traffic.

Where Mr.

Well, I can't comment on a previous commenter's name, but when uh the other gentleman talked about Hafen Lane and Hughes Middle School.

Please go over there.

See how many kids cross over there.

See how many of them are on their phones, how talented they are, that they could be on their phones and their scooter at the same time.

Uh they are very talented.

Um that's something that can be changed and can't be fixed.

We actually have the resources here if the PD volunteers, which there's plenty of them still.

Um, if they were just to assign them to man these crosswalks, uh this mesquite would be a lot safer.

The last thing you want is another one of our kids hit, which does happen.

It happened a couple years ago, even last year, in a crosswalk.

Uh no, nobody got seriously injured, but it happens.

And you guys have the power to make sure that you've done everything you can to make it not happen.

So just wanted to put that on there.

I actually I have been in contact with elected officials outside of Mesquite, because they email me back and call me back.

And uh, we are trying to work on a volunteer crossing guard uh program, but it's one of those things with this entity that takes longer than it takes the city of Mesquite to do things because in Mesquite, we could do things rather quickly.

Other entities, counting entities, they take a long time.

But at some point we could have volunteer crossing guards um through another entity.

But in the meantime, I would hope that PD volunteers could handle that crosswalk.

Thank you.

Thanks, Wes.

Seeing no one else come forward, I'm gonna go ahead and move on to item two, the consent agenda.

2.1 consideration and approval of the Tuesday, October 7th, 2025 technical review meeting minutes, the Tuesday, September 9th, 2025 regular city council meeting minutes, the Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025 regular city council meeting minutes, and the Tuesday, October 28th, 2025 regular city council agenda.

2.2 consideration of approval of a notification of budget transfers, b notification of budget amendments, C notification of bills paid, D purchase orders, 2.3 monthly financials, 2.4 consideration for approval of resolution R25-047 regarding the interlocal agreement with Clark County for the OAG grant for the Mesquite Recreation Center fiscal year 2025-2026.

Do we have any public comment on the consent agenda?

Okay, seeing none, I will ask for a motion.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

I will go ahead and make a motion to accept the consent agenda.

We we need to make sure there's public comment on the consent agenda as well.

My apologies.

I said you did.

Yeah, yeah.

Sorry, it was so quick.

I didn't remember it.

Um do I have a second?

Councilwoman Gallo.

I'll second.

Sorry.

Okay, call for the vote.

Yes, I gallowy.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 3.1, Mayor's comments and reports.

Um just Veterans Day.

Thanking Bill uh for all he he does um for the Veterans Day.

They had a very nice round table on Friday.

Yeah, um a bunch of veterans uh affairs organizations.

I can't remember them all.

Bill could definitely listen for you, but came out to that.

It was a really nice event, and thanks to him for all he does.

Um, if you have kids, grandkids, uh the uh trunk retreat at the rec center on Friday night.

Um other than that, I will turn it over to council.

Any reports from council, councilwoman Gallow.

That's it.

Oh, meeting change.

So for November, the November 11th meeting, which is a second Tuesday, falls on Veterans Day, and so we are going to move the November meeting to November 16th, 18th.

My apologies.

Um, and we will just have one meeting in November on November 18th.

Uh technical review will be on November 4th, and then the regular city council meeting of November 18th.

City Hall is closed on Thursday for Nevada.

Okay, and then City Hall is closed this Thursday for Nevada Day, and then we'll be closed on Veterans Day as well, too.

So uh Councilwoman Gelling.

Okay, so uh a couple things.

Um, I want to thank Deb Benham.

Um I don't which I don't know where she went, but I want to thank her for all she's doing.

Um, we do have some issues uh with food banks and with food, so uh please.

This is a really good time to reach out and make sure that we're getting some food over um to her and also um the salvation army because SNAP will be gone, and we're gonna really have some people that are gonna be hurting, and we really want to make sure that we can reach out and help them.

Um also a quick reminder that this Saturday is the Alzheimer's walk over at the Mesa View Regional Park.

It's gonna be a um I'm sorry, hospital.

Um it's just gonna be a little walk around the the parking lot, but it's to bring um attention to uh what the struggle with Alzheimer's so that's at 10 a.m.

on set Saturday.

Um real quick, just want to thank the We Care for Animals for the fantastic dog costume that was over the over the weekend.

It was absolutely hysterical.

And then um the women warriors for their duck derby.

And just last but not least, I just want to point out I've had people contact me about the um from the southern Nevada Health District with the uh septic issues.

Um for those of you that none of no one here is gonna be affected.

I know at one point we thought that we were nothing on this part of Clark County will be affected with those fees.

So uh as of right now, and there is money um with the water authority.

So I just want to make sure that everybody knows that they are not going to be affected.

And if you need if you have any questions, you certainly feel free to contact me.

And that's it.

Thank you, Councilwoman.

Councilman Parrish.

Thank you, Mayor.

I have a couple items.

Um this is the uh second time I've heard about e-bikes, e-scooters, um, all this and that.

I gotta uh I think we all probably got a email from uh Mr.

Shackelford concerning that.

And I think it is time that we as a council looking look to adopt a municipal code concerning that.

I saw a kid today doing 35 miles an hour out in the passing lane going up Musquite Boulevard.

That's totally unheard of.

And they're using a phone.

You can't use your phone and drive.

So it's time for us to come up with a municipal code concerning these e-bikes and e-scooters.

Um so I don't know who I need to direct that to.

The uh city manager, mayor, Travis, Simon.

Um Chief uh Fell Fells and Chief Andrus for working on that.

Do you have any update for us yet?

Or you're still working on your opinion on that.

I have a second item also mayor.

I don't want to misspeak for uh Chief Fells, but I I do know he is in contact with the county uh on this code that either falls in line with the county or maybe more strict.

But he is having those conversations.

Uh he and I had that discussion last week.

Uh, but that's the best update I have right now.

And what you are hearing and what you are saying about fire safety, lithium ion batteries and these accidents is uh it is going in a negative direction.

So I appreciate uh the response.

Thank you.

Thank you, Chief.

Okay, second thing is is uh I like former council member uh boger's idea of a City of Mesquite volunteer program.

Um I don't know how we go about formulating something like that.

I don't know who would be over it.

Um in terms of city manager, maybe you could give that some thought over the next week or two and give us a report on how you might implement something like that.

But a city of Musquite volunteer program would be ideal for all these various issues that pop up.

If we need a crossing guard at the guy's sick, we need a crossing guard, we can send them over there.

This or that.

So if we could get something going on that by the next uh the PD does have many volunteers, and so I'm I'm talking outside of the police department.

Okay, um, there's some conflict there.

Let's do away with the conflict.

Let's just get down to business and have some city volunteers.

If we get if it's gonna be under public works, then so be it.

But we need to do something where we have Travis is shaking his head.

I'm sorry, Travis.

But anyway, I think we need to have some city volunteers, not under the police department.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilman.

Councilman Annis, did you thank you?

I'm still on my veterans kick here.

So um, first of all, I want to thank Sun City for putting on or for hosting this uh veterans round table last Friday.

It was in there and it was it was a success.

And uh some of the talks that came out of that.

I was able to secure uh from the veterans administration.

We will now have a veterans mobile health clinic uh truck come down here every single month.

They will have a doctor on board, nurses, vaccinations, and everything else.

And so that will be starting in January at the Veterans Center down on 840 Hafen Lane every month.

We will have a veterans VA mobile clinic coming down here, and I have also uh going to be able to have what's called telehealth for all of our veterans, and I don't know how many veterans are here tonight, but all of our veterans will be able to come down to Veteran Center and talk to the provider from the veteran center and so I have to go on all the way into Vegas and St.

George.

And thank you.

And then one last thing is we were uh we'll be having our blood drive on November 19th at the Veteran Center from 9 a.m.

to 3 p.m.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilman.

Um Chief Andrest, could you good evening, Mayor, Council, members of the public.

Really quick, wanted to provide a brief update on fire station two.

Appreciate public works.

Brandon Bentley is the superintendent project manager for public works and working with Travis and their team.

They've done a phenomenal job.

Really quick, low bid came in Shaw Lundquist uh construction at 7,792,196.

Uh billing to date, 2,460, 159.

Approximately 32% of the project has been billed.

Uh contract days uh was 390 uh per the contract.

We are 177 days into this with 230 remaining.

We're approximately 40% through the project.

Real quick, I've got a few pictures.

We'll go through these pictures were taken today.

Um this is your fire new fire station number two up in Sun City off Canning Crest and Horizon.

Uh three bays.

Uh next picture, please.

So we do not have a roof over the bays.

Uh next picture.

Uh in the living quarters.

Uh, we do have uh corrugated steel being welded on uh as we speak, and we anticipate enclosing the structure in the coming days.

Next picture, and that is the back of the station.

And Frank is any more.

And this is the last picture.

These are the retaining walls around the project uh as they stand as of this afternoon.

Again, brief, but wanted to provide an update on this wonderful project.

We are excited for it.

I can tell you we are in Sun City in that neck of the woods and uh on a daily basis, and we look forward to this project being completed.

So be happy to answer any questions if you have any or any from the public.

So thank you, Chief.

Any questions from thank you, Travis?

Thank you, uh, Mayor Council.

Just wanted to give a quick update again on our uh roadway projects.

One thing associated with the fire station, the next Tuesday, we will be bidding the Canyon Crest and Horizon project, which will finish that roadway in front of the fire station, um, which will be in conjunction with that.

The second item, the ADA ramp project that's happening on Mesquite Boulevard.

Uh, first of all, I wanted to thank all of the citizens um for their patience.

Um, I know that the cones aren't awesome, but they're being very patient and and we do appreciate that.

That project is going very well.

Um, they are cruising um on that construction, and it's going very smoothly.

The second part of the uh mesquite boulevard project will be the actual waterline installation and the mill and fill part of that.

The waterline portion of that will start on November 10th, and they're getting in front of the paving.

The paving will probably start uh the first of December.

And so um I'm having weekly meetings on these.

Um, but they uh just so that we try to keep the impact as low as possible.

Um, and again, just like we I plan to give updates at each council, and then every Monday, once we get going into that, the schedule updates so that all the citizens know where those operations are happening during that time.

So thank you very much.

Thank you, Travis.

Councilwoman Gallow.

Travis, um, are you able to give us an update on the shelter?

Because it looks like it's coming along really well.

Um, Zach has been there quite a bit.

I've seen him over there um checking things out.

It's just been that's the ADA project.

Um, yes, thank you very much.

The uh animal shelter is also going very well.

Um Zach gave me a report on that project uh today.

I went up last week and looked at it.

Um we're very excited with the action that's happening at the animal shelter.

Um it is going great.

Uh we've got a great contractor.

If all goes well, we're gonna be ahead of schedule with that project.

Um, and so we're very excited about that.

Um the all of the evidence building, I believe the only things that we're working on finishing.

Uh, we need to do a little bit of electrical, um, some HVAC tune-ups, the flooring, and we'll have the landscaping on the outside and the paving.

And then we'll be moving into the existing um shelter portion on a couple room renovations in that.

But yes, that project, the paint, the the whole structure looks awesome.

The outside with that stonework, I don't know.

I would encourage anybody if you want to go and just uh drive by and look at it.

Um, it looks great.

Um, and we're very excited about it.

Very excited to have that.

And and I'll be even more excited when we do the ribbon cutting on that thing.

So it's great.

I just want to thank you and Zach for all you're doing on that, because it does look beautiful.

So thank you.

Zach's doing a great job on that.

Thank you.

Thank you, Travis.

Uh Simon.

Yes, I'd like to join the quick report uh this time.

So uh I'm gonna uh uh comment about the rat infestation uh story, and then also I would like to appreciate the step uh time and efforts on this.

So we have we have had about four weeks of uh outside cleanup time, and uh we gave uh uh the owner uh to have uh uh four weeks of interior cleanup as requested.

Uh so far, I believe we cleaned up, we cut about uh 700 rats from the property.

Uh and uh and then uh last Thursday, October 23rd, um Utah disaster cleanup company, which a Has Met Company, along with uh building officer Ben Lusu and Cody Enforcement Officer Alicia Levitt, uh went there and they did the inside and outside inspection.

Uh that when they did the inside inspection, they found the rats uh all over the place, a lot of red tours, and the rats are living in the uh the matrices, and uh they they were on the hell brush and everywhere.

It's not just uh common situation.

So uh the knowing that uh finding that the uh situations also the half of the uh the lighting wouldn't actually turn on, so probably rats chew them up.

So um knowing that seeing those on Friday next day, October 24th, uh Ben and Alicia returned to the property.

And at the time, Public Works Step joined us, uh, which it was uh Armando Marcias and Irving Wilson and Isaac Gregg.

Uh they came and they helped removing some of some of the uh the contaminated furniture, about two truck root load from the property, and that was a trauma traumatic.

I that that's what I heard.

When they opened the uh piano, there was a 20 rats just jumped out from it.

And uh uh word Cartoon and uh Travis Anderson later joined and uh they encouraged everyone.

So I really appreciate this uh STEM members who did the who spent their time.

Of course, we we're gonna uh the charge those uh uh the truck uh and step time uh and put it on that owner's uh lien.

But uh it is not some but something normal people can go and injure and do the work while you are moving those uh furniture.

Rats are actually coming out and moving around.

Uh even I don't like one lead, but uh several lads is it's just uh so uh on Monday yesterday, October 27th, UDK, which is a Utah disaster cleaner company, in uh initially estimated uh that cost of the demolition of the wars and then got it out and the cleanup would take 17,613 and 15 cents.

That is not including the reconstruction and uh uh temporary lodging for the owners, they need to move out.

And uh there should be the uh mechanical work.

Uh they need to uh fix the ACC system and uh um and then wiring, electrical work too.

So there are more work to be done, but so far uh our step is uh I see everybody's existed and traumatized.

So uh I would like to appreciate staff uh the at this time.

Thank you.

Thank you, Simon.

Any other comments from council or staff?

Okay, seeing none, we're gonna move on to 4.1.

Consideration of the introduction of bill B25-016, amending the Title II, Chapter 13 of the Mesquite Municipal Code to update and implement regulations for vacation home rental, consistent consistent with the requirements of Nevada Assembly Bill 363 2021, providing for authorization, standard of operation, enforcement, and other matters properly relating there too.

Mr.

Kim.

Thank you, Mayor.

This is an introduction uh item.

So we're not gonna adopt anything.

We will uh make a presentation and eventually I'm gonna make a recommendation to uh put it back on adoption for January 13th meeting so we can have more time to have a discussion with the uh customers and uh uh if there can be anything we can uh the uh change or make it easier than you to do.

But this one is basically about uh uh the assembly bill 363 that was uh passed in 2021.

So it is the uh state law uh basically we are talking about.

So what it says is if uh the uh city municipality has a more more than 25,000 residents, then uh we need to adopt uh there uh the AB363.

Uh so this is a part of the uh requirements in AB 363 section 14.5.

So I did uh population uh analysis and estimated.

This is my estimate by by all means, this is not uh uh state or US census estimates.

Uh they usually estimate lower than what I estimate.

So I analyzed with the existing unit numbers and then uh multiplied with the average household number, and then uh I got the total uh vacancy rate calculated and deducted it from the total capacity.

I got 25,000 33 uh residents uh within the city.

We just uh it is October 1st data, so uh we just over the 25,000 according to my uh analysis.

So uh sooner or later we're gonna have to adopt the state regulations, and uh this is uh what they say.

Uh this is the um state uh I I learned that uh a lot of vacation rental owners doesn't have uh valid Nevada state business license, so whereas they have a city license.

But uh now uh Nevada state requires uh for them to have a valid Nevada state visionist license.

Also uh they put the minimum state requirements, so owner occupied units uh minimum uh of one night is uh what is uh required, but the non-owner occupied units uh that uh is a minimum of two nights.

Uh the justification is I I had to look for their intent, uh and then I found the lower news nuisance risk when the owner is present and uh make it less less attractive and limit uh commercialization when non-owner occupied uh occupied uh the units.

So that was uh kind of uh difficult to understand, but I got the intent at least.

So uh that is uh what is there and AB 363 S3, Section 20.2 bracket F also requires minimum 660 feet between two authorized short-term rental units and minimum 2500 feet from any resort hotel with more than 20 rooms and then restaurants and bars as defined in NRS.

So if you apply uh the 660 feet from the vacation uh currently existing vacation rental units, we will see uh this from the map.

And if you apply 25 uh hundred feet from the resort hotel, we'll see this.

And this is the combination of it.

So uh if we approve this one and adopt this one, then uh what uh the location we can allow for the vacation rental would be outside of those bubble area.

Again, uh there are standard uh uh uh the maximum number of res uh the visitors that can stay in one unit.

Uh state mandates that that's gotta be the maximum 16 persons.

We have had the chart, which is mostly the left two columns, and I added another column so that we can make up to 16.

So uh left two columns is basic basically uh the overnight guest guest excluding children under 12, and then uh right uh column is telling about the children, including the child children uh under 12.

Uh so this is another uh changes.

Also AB 363 uh says parties, weddings or other larger gatherings are prohibited.

Uh party means a gathering exceeding exceeding the approved uh occupancy limit.

And then uh no more than five authorized authorizations may be held under a single state to business license, and in multiple multifamily buildings, no more than 10% of units may be authorized for transient lodging.

Authorizations are uh non-transferable upon uh change of ownership.

All those are state uh regulations, and then also I added uh those uh uh violations and penalty sections, and those are also from the AB 363.

Uh enforcement chapter, that is basically development services will uh do the enforcement and management issues and uh uh grandfathering process uh provisions, any person uh lawfully issued a permit or license for transition loading before such dates.

Actually, it was dated uh uh uh June 1st, uh July 1st, 2022.

But we if we adopt this one, it'll be the adoption date of this ordinance, may continue to operate under that authorization, provided they remain in compliance with all other applicable provisions.

This allowance applies only to the original holder and is not transferable.

So step recommendation here is as I might as I mentioned uh introduce bill number B25-016 by short title and set the public hearing date for January 13, 2026.

We're gonna have to visit there uh sooner or later.

This is a state mandated ordinance.

Uh however, we also need to handle uh what are existing, and it's probably uh good to have uh transition period too.

Thank you.

Thank you, Simon.

Any questions from council?

Councilwoman Phil?

Thank you, Mayor.

So I was just curious.

So this is kind of like an oxymoron.

So these properties will be grandfathered in, but not transferable.

So if their grandfathered, doesn't that stay with the property?

No, the owner uh is still owns that property, that'll be that can they can keep maintaining it, maintain it as a vacation rental property, they will have the license, but they sell it to another people person and uh move out, then another new person, new owner, will not have the license.

That's right.

So the new owner, if the property does sell, the new owner would have to come and get a uh permit.

Yes, but uh okay, so the new owner would still have to come and get their conditional.

That's right.

If they are meeting those requirements, okay.

So I I have a problem with this all the way around anyhow.

Um you know this.

I've talked to you, I've talked to a few people that I have a problem with um introducing this bill because I think it needs to be fine-tuned a little bit.

Um so if we can do that before the January 13th, I also feel like um council members and the mayor um maybe need to get a little bit more information on this bill and and the whole dynamics of it and who's it can affect.

Because if we are still representing our residents, this is gonna affect a whole bunch of them.

So that's that's where I'm at.

If if we're not gonna set the uh meeting until January 13th, is there still time to come and meet with people to talk about this and fine-tune the amending amending this?

Yeah, that that is the intent of having January uh 13th, 2026.

Okay, thank you.

Sure.

Councilman Ennis.

Thank you.

Um I have dug deeply.

I mean, I mean deeply in the AB 363, and I and I'm I forwarded this to Simon.

We that 25,000 population mark, we don't have much of a choice.

We don't have much of a choice.

And so we have to abide by what the state law says.

We also have to abide by what Clark County uh code of ordinances, 7.100.170 states, and which is also the conditions for this ABE 363.

So we can make it stricter, uh uh Councilwoman Fielding.

However, we don't have any choice on um once we hit that population threshold.

We as a city, we don't have a choice.

We go to we have to abide by that.

Councilman Parrish.

This bill reeks of Las Vegas.

Um a casino, that is protect all the casino owners down in Las Vegas.

The casino owners up here in Mesquite could care less.

They use the vacation homes for their overflow.

What how do we how do we know for sure that we're over the 25,000 population, number one?

So we have to adopt this.

Can't we be 24,000 nine nine-nine for the next 10 years and then we don't have to worry about it?

I mean, come on, let's be uh reasonable.

Um this thing is this will be catastrophic for musquite.

We just we've got and if I need to get our attorney involved to fight this cannot be adopted.

It just cannot be adopted.

Thank you.

Councilman Wanless.

The two properties that were denied in the last meeting.

Did both of those fall within that 2500 feet?

Yes, they are within the not 25 funded, but they're within the 660 feet from other properties.

When we have problems with those properties, does code enforcement go out, or did does the city pull their conditional use permits?

We supposed to did it, but we have not done so.

So I am actually right now setting up the system with the police department so that we get the information if there was a complaint, and then our code enforcement can go out and enforce it.

I agree with councilman parrish and councilwoman fielding.

I don't know that we hit that 25,000 threshold yet.

And until the next census, which will be in 2030.

We won't know for sure.

Last time we thought we were really close and we were 3,000 shy of what we thought.

So before we before we decide how we're going to make people that have private property that aren't part of HOAs with C C and R the control what can happen there.

Councilman Parrish, did you have anything else?

No, you're good.

Okay.

Any other questions from council?

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

I think this is my correct time.

Thank you for your patience with me.

Um I realize there's a computer there now, so you can see my signatures, but um just to keep it really short, is I just again want to say thank you so much for because I know the complexity you guys have to deal with with all the thank you with all the different personalities um and situations.

It doesn't go and know this by me, so thank you for that.

And um to recap, my name is Sherry, and I've had two vacation properties for the last couple of years.

And my goal in the very beginning when I was gonna start those was to set the standard, and that included the noise decimal um machines on site that included a 24-hour response team.

That included um uh referrals before somebody could actually get to the property, and we've held that standard, and that's why we've had zero complaints um year after year after year.

And so I wanted to make it a win for the city as far as her bringing in more tax dollars and and more and tourism here.

I wanted to make it a win for the neighborhood, and that's why it was most important for me whenever I did go around to the neighbors to make sure everybody was on board.

I knew they were on board because we're all really good friends, but I just want to make sure they're on board, and that's why I went through and we got all the signatures.

So many we couldn't even fit on the page, and then we have personal letters from the neighbors that are um directly beside the properties, and there's a lot of them there.

And um, so my only question is is I strongly believe that there should be a measuring system in place, and if something is not being held up to the standard, then I do believe their license should be pulled.

Um, like we just finished referencing.

However, I would love you guys to give me a chance uh to let me meet and exceed the expectations again on this third property of mine by recalling the decision on those last two houses, at least to be revisited again on the 18th to see whether you guys want to approve those or deny them again, but this time with a denial, have um measurable specific reasons to deny.

That way my property could be presented, and you guys could measure whether you approve or not.

And um that is it.

I just want to say thank you and thank you for listening to me two times.

Thank you, Sherry.

Jeff Reynolds.

We're gonna get the vacation rentals here.

It's just gonna happen.

Um I think that the council should look very seriously about adopting or forming some sort of different law that would handle these.

You don't want to send uh you know a guy that weighs 135 pounds out to these places where when they're having problems, they're probably they're they're gonna be they're they're gonna be drinking, okay?

If you if they're not drinking, they're probably not having problems.

If they're if they're drinking, you send you gotta send the police officers out there, but they gotta have ordinances to enforce it.

As a police officer, in my previous, it was hard to do anything about that because the owners aren't there.

Uh the people, they don't care.

And you need to have some kind of do they have to wait until 10 o'clock for a noise ordinance when they're having a party next door, and it happens every weekend.

You know, I think the city could come up with a catch-all for those things that would handle that when they get out of hand and handle it quickly.

Um you're talking about people.

Have you driven any of the streets lately in Mesquite the last two weeks?

We're probably about 75,000 people in this town.

You can't get a parking stall down at Walmart.

Anyway, so all the snowbirds are in, and it's getting crazy.

Anyway, you guys need to think of that.

How you're gonna handle the problems.

That's the main thing you're gonna have is is problems.

If you don't, then that's great.

Thank you.

Thanks, Jeff.

Dominic Olivetto, and this time I'll be serious.

I keep hearing about, and I apologize, these people, but I keep hearing about the rights of people to have vacation homes.

What right do I have where I bought a single family residence subdivision?

Do I have to keep that according to what you want to do here?

And by the way, the census, we're nowhere near 25,000 yet.

We might have a hundred thousand, but the snowbirds don't count.

I think I got rights.

She has a petition there signed.

If you'd like one for one of the places to turn down, I can get you everybody in six blocks of that place with a piece of cake because they asked me to come and speak because they're more polite than I am, and they didn't want to yell at you guys.

Uh, I think I should have rights because I bought where I bought because I didn't want an HOA.

I didn't want anything else.

I wanted a single family residence subdivision, and that's what I bought.

Now I guess my options are if you're gonna let everybody have vacation homes.

I move.

Thank you.

Thanks, Dominic.

Everybody uh West Bulgar, Mesquite resident for 20 something years, 20 years, something.

Um yeah, this is a tough one.

You you had these people apply two weeks, three months ago, whatever it was, a couple weeks ago, and it was like a buzz saw.

They did everything, they followed every recommendation and every checked all the boxes.

Clearly, it needs to be changed because those boxes that they're checking aren't viable anymore.

And so I I appreciate what Simon's trying to do.

Um I do feel very strongly that he should be.

You guys actually should have a committee put together, put this off a little while, have a committee put together.

Let this young lady show you what she's talking about doing.

She hears the complaints, she watched the videos of of the last council meeting.

She hears complaints about uh from the neighbors of these other places that have them.

There's one by my house next to another audience member's house, and it is over the weekend.

I mean, there's 10 cars there, it's horrible.

She doesn't do that, at least that's what she's telling us.

And I think you should give her the opportunity to have it to sit in some sort of committee with Simon with some of the neighbors.

Get get Nick.

Get him in this thing and convince him because he has one uh right next to him.

And if he can get convinced that what the new ordinances with her help and other property owners help would be a good thing, I think you should give them an opportunity.

Thank you.

Thank you, Wes.

David Baldwin.

One of the things about the census, I believe the state uses the state demographers sets up a census every year.

And then we've always had problems with that.

It's always been a low count because they take it in the summer when all the snowbirds are away.

And we've always complained about that and kind of given up trying to get that change.

My suggestion is we've got a mechanism.

Don't forget, we're a charter city.

We have a charter.

Now I don't know how much flexibility we have, but we haven't had a charter committee put together for the last two legislative cycles.

I've been trying to get this put together, and it's been ignored.

This is the exact place to address this in the charter committee.

Okay.

Now we may not get it all passed.

Mr.

Anderson, we were on the charter committee together, and we can put things in there.

The legislative council bureau may kick them back.

They may want different modifications to it, but we can make an attempt to plead our case because we're a small town.

The proximity to the casinos, whatever the issues are, we have this mechanism that a lot of people put a lot of effort into.

We need to use it.

And actually, we're in violation of our charter by not uh consummating a charter committee every two years after the council's elected.

We haven't had one for two legislative cycles.

So I think if you we we take care of that, put the charter committee back together.

We're not up to 25,000.

So I don't think we've got a trigger point yet.

We have to do this because they're gonna use the state's uh state census numbers.

So let's get a charter committee get it.

Let's start making an agenda.

Let's start working through it with the with the attorney and figure out what we can do.

Yes, we're gonna we're going to try to deviate from NRS, but that's what a charter city can do.

They don't go by NRS, they go by their charter.

So let's use the mechanisms we have in place to get this done.

Thank you.

Thanks, Ted.

Hello, mayor and council men and women.

Um my name is Michelle West, and I am a 22-year resident of Mesquite, homeowner and business professional in the area.

Specifically, I do property management, as most of you know, the best properties in town.

Um so I have a lot of experience in the area of managing, specifically mine are long-term rentals.

And I can tell you this gentleman back here that spoke about what he wants in his neighborhood.

Um, when you have somebody who signed a year lease or a homeowner next to you and you have a problem, how do you deal with that?

I can tell you with a short-term rent rental, how we deal with the problem is immediately.

Immediately.

We could have your problem gone in a day, we can have it gone less than a day.

However, I do echo the fact that we do need some sort of standards.

Is it going to be taken care of in a day?

Is there somebody there who cares?

Is the person who is doing that short-term rental going to listen?

And so that's why I'd like you to not only hold off this agenda item, but also to recall those other ones and let those people who are trying to have it come and present their case.

The people who you are trying to protect, the neighbors, the citizen of Mesquite, let them have a chance to come and talk about what their concerns are.

Because Sherry just presented letters and a list of those people that you're trying to protect.

I also want to echo what um councilman Parrish said.

You talked about we are not Las Vegas.

The problem I have with the agenda item isn't that we're putting standards.

I love standards.

I love rules.

I truly do.

If any of you have seen my properties, you know that.

Um, the ones with the radius that are allowed, we're not as big as Las Vegas.

You just cut a huge portion of the town out.

And as a woman with a large family, I do not fit in two hotel rooms.

I do not even fit in three hotel rooms.

This is what I look for when I go on vacation.

And what is mesquite if we are not a destination?

Sherry's clients are high end golf professionals.

She brings people to mesquite.

That is her clientele.

She hasn't had any problems.

She's had little things that people have come before her, very small, and she has taken care of them.

And she will have somebody in mesquite all the time to take care of these.

And so I ask again that you will give each presenter of these properties a chance to state their case.

And going forward, I would just like to mention the kind of gold star standard that Sherry is asking to set.

The reason she has 20 letters from neighbors and countless signatures is because she is somebody who lives in that neighborhood and wants the same standard that everybody else in the neighborhood wants.

Not only has she shown them that she is going to bring the best to Mesquite, but also she is one of the best in Mesquite.

Many of the people in her neighborhood have been blessed with her generosity for funerals or other things.

She has given away free people to stay in her home while they are dealing with a large number of their family in town for these events.

So again, I would ask you to wait on this agenda item so some of the things can be addressed, like the standard radius, and also to recall the two that have already been denied.

Thank you.

Thank you, Michelle.

Hi, my name's Amy Gardner, and my husband and I and our daughter, Chris Awalua.

Um, we own J and Amy's mesquite getaways, and we are a consulting business that operate through a the co-hosting businesses.

Um, and we help owners.

We have 25 homes.

Um, a large majority of those are in um the NRC communities that owners have purchased those homes, knowing that they were going to be short-term rental friendly, and I live in one of those neighborhoods.

And I think I think the biggest problem with neighbors and short-term rental guests is number one.

Oftentimes I have found that many of the um people who are supposed to be available 24-7, seven days a week, are actually not responding.

Um, we we have felt that um not within our business, but I have called other property managers about a rental above or below or whatever, and not been able to reach somebody on the weekend.

It was you know Friday at eight o'clock at night.

So I guess I feel like I appreciate the standard because we also have that standard.

Um, I do also appreciate the time that people are requesting to push this off a little bit to do some studies.

What are the police responding to?

What are the fire department responding to?

Are they legitimate claims or are they disgruntled, you know, neighbors?

And we've had both complaints.

We usually arrive to a property within 10 minutes.

Um, if we are out of town, we have our assistant and she is there and ready to spawn, respond.

One of the things we do is um we take a condensed, we are you already have a lot of the rules already in place that short-term rentals are supposed to follow.

We condense that, we uh make a welcome letter, we have our card on it, we give it to all the we give it to everybody that we can that is in hearing distance of that backyard or or front yard, and we introduce ourselves, they have our number, they have actually two or three numbers that they can call if there's an issue, and I just think there's a lot can be done before we just blanket say no, and I think it's not the the responsibility is on you and me to make sure that we are responding quickly, and not only that, but we're educating the neighbors who to call, what to call about, you know, if there's an emergency, 911, and then let us know.

But other than that, I should be handling my husband, should be handling that problem before it ever, you know, reaches the police.

So appreciate your time.

Thank you.

Thank you, Amy.

Nick Elfinsetti, Mayor, Counsel.

I'm one of the homeowners next to one of the short-term rentals.

Uh I was referred to by Mr.

Oger regarding the party house, and that's what it's referred to.

In the summertime, I saw anywhere between 15 to 20 kids in the pool.

No lifeguards, interesting.

No adults in the area to even see that if something was happening.

Kind of a violation of safety.

Gates left open.

Anybody could walk in there, hop in a pool, have a problem, nobody knows they're in there.

The list goes on and on.

This past weekend, there were 14 over there.

Blackened driveways had both sides of the streets tied up.

They were over the sidewalk, one of them on the sidewalk, and the party went on.

The only thing that they're observing is the 10 o'clock curfew.

But other than that, all day long, yelling, screaming, partying, drinking, whatever.

And the amazing part was Sunday afternoon, I was outside and I heard bottles upon bottles being discarded.

And I couldn't believe how long that went on.

I crushed cans, but nowhere near the amount of bottles in the course of a month that I could do.

So I just say, okay, when you consider this, try living next door to one.

Again, everything's surrounded by concrete.

We know that sound bounces, and it continues to bounce to the point where you can't even hear your TV on in the house.

Your lights are going on, your auto lights are going on.

And along with that, I do have a hobby, and it's very loud.

I don't start till eight o'clock in the morning, and I'm usually done by four o'clock in the afternoon.

I can make a lot more noise than them, and I could drive them out with the equipment that I use.

I just say consider it.

Try living next door to one, try to take and deal with the problems that come up constantly with these type places.

And as far as Miss Sherry, I was told that there was a truck and a trailer to one of the neighbors that's next door to the house that she has that was black in a driveway, and person refused to call the police.

So it's not all that clean.

Thank you.

Thank you, Nick.

I am Jay Gardner, Jesse Gardner, uh Amy's husband.

And I just wanted to make sure one of the things that Amy didn't mention was the fact that she has uh been involved with building uh a committee that decides uh and and comes up with uh the rules that not only follow what the city has but extends out beyond that and then would take care of situations like that.

Now, as we as Amy said, we do respond to these any situation that that's a problem within 10 minutes because we're very close to very uh most of our rentals.

We live very close, and uh one of the things I wanted to point out though is that that committee uh it involves other uh short-term rental owners, uh, and it would be great if we could expand that with somebody like Jerry and those who really care about the community because we're not here to destroy the community, and we're doing our best to make sure that all of these people that are in there are following the rules and making sure that what they do is an enhancement, not a detriment to that community.

So I just wanted to make sure that uh you knew where we were coming from.

You knew that the work that we were doing, trying to make sure that the communities are doing just fine, and everybody is a uh operable citizen within the communities.

Thank you.

Thank you, Jay.

I guess you guys missed me terribly for the last couple of months.

Um maybe not.

Uh thanks.

Um, just quickly on this.

It's a it's a very difficult topic, um, not just from the the fact that there's clearly a state regulation that we may have to follow unless we do something with the charter.

But also we have a desire here in Mesquite to have affordable housing for our residents, and when you compete that with someone buying a property for profit purposes, they may have deeper pockets and may be able to drive prices up that a resident would have a real hard time matching, you know, looking for a home.

And and I think that that's a tough part of what we have to look at here, too.

You know, if you allow them within certain distances, like throw away the 660 foot number, then maybe an investor is gonna buy up every house on a street just for short-term rentals because they have the deep pockets to do it, whereas then it would cut out our residents from being able to buy homes.

So I think following some kind of very clear standard is important.

You you really don't want block after block of short-term rentals with nobody living there.

And and I think we wanna have homes for our residents.

We want our kids to be able to grow up and live here and not have to go to places where they can afford that aren't mesquite, because we want them to be here.

We want us to be mesquite, not outsiders only.

And yes, we want tourism, but it's a balancing act, and I hope you find a way to do it.

Thank you, Gary.

Seeing no one else step forward, I'm gonna go ahead and turn it back over to council.

Any uh final questions or comments?

If not, I will call for a motion.

Okay, um Bill Councilman Parish?

No.

Okay.

Okay, the bill dies for lack of motion.

Okay, item 4.2.

Um Adam, would you kind of give us an overview of these next two?

Yes, so uh these next two items address uh public comment during these meetings.

Um there's uh the open meeting law that addresses public comment, and it um it kind of has different options of how uh public bodies can go about um entertaining and having public comment during meetings.

So these next two address um different ways how the city could look at that.

Uh the first item uh would eliminate public comment from the beginning of the meeting, but there would continue to be public comment during each agenda item, and then at the end, just general public comment.

The second agenda item would do it a little differently, where it would we would still have opening public comment, and um anybody could address an agenda item during that public comment during the opening, then there would be no public comment during um specific agenda items, and then there would be uh one last public comment session at the end for any uh general public comment.

And um the the applicable NRS would allow one or the other, it's not both ways where you could eliminate the beginning and the middle and only have it at the end.

So really these next two items is kind of an either or it's either the one way or the other.

The the third option in the statute says that a municipality or anybody that's subject to the open meeting law can have more public comment sessions than what's specifically required by the statute, which is currently how our ordinance is set, where we have beginning, middle, and end, which is more than what the open meeting law technically requires.

And so um these items that are before you right now is just an introduction of the bills, and so it's not actually changing our ordinances as they are yet, but it would be to introduce the bills and set a later um public hearing date where the bills could be further accepted or adopted.

So tonight, in theory, both both items could pass and they could um be placed on a subsequent agenda item.

Um but and a subsequent meeting, both couldn't pass.

We'd want to have one or the other, and then of course the other option is the council decides to do nothing, and we just keep keep public comment how it currently is.

So does that bring up questions?

Any questions for Adam for Council?

Councilwoman Fielding or Councilman Wandless.

I don't agree with the first one.

I said on I represent the city of Mosquite on two different committees, regional transportation, regional flood control in Las Vegas.

Both those committees run the same way as the second one.

There is an opening public comment.

If there's anything on the agenda you want to comment on, you can comment on it.

We go through the agenda at the end, you can comment on anything you want.

And it works really well for them.

I know you've told me Virgin Valley Water does it the same way.

A lot of a lot of municipalities do too.

This is this isn't not normal.

This is very normal for the way things are done.

And and I would support the second one.

I would not support the first one.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

Well, I'll be totally honest with you.

I don't like either one of them.

Um that comment, I think is really important.

And as we found out tonight, under every different item, having public comment before a presentation on the agenda item, I think is backwards.

Um having a presentation during the item and then having somebody come up before, they can't really speak on the item.

And it's been very, it's been proven tonight.

We've had a lot of people speak on an item.

So if in the event we um have an agenda item that people want to talk to or about, then they can't talk about it later during that agenda item, and they are gonna hear things that man, you know, I would have spoke differently had I known that.

Um, and so I wholeheartedly disagree with both of these.

So as we go through these agenda items, um we'll see how council um wants to do that.

But in my opinion, I am not for either one of these items.

So thank you.

Councilman Parrish.

I don't have a lot of oh, sorry, it's on, so turn it back off.

It's oh councilwoman Gallow.

I am in complete agreement with councilwoman um Karen Fielding.

I think that we need to people need to be able to speak.

That's why we're here.

That's why we were elected, and I really believe that people need to have the opportunity to get up.

I know sometimes it's tedious, and I know sometimes it's long, but it's only twice a month.

I mean, it's something I think it's really, really important that we don't try to change things at this point, especially with everything going on in the city.

I really think that people need to have the opportunity to come up and speak, speak their piece, whether we agree or we don't agree, it doesn't matter.

People should be able to be heard.

And I really agree wholeheartedly that we do not change anything on this agenda.

Any other comments from council questions?

Bill Thank you, Mr.

Councilman Ennis uh Adam, really quick.

So on the one where we have opening comment to to address any agenda item, would it still be opening comment to address anything or just agenda items?

No, it would just be agenda items at the start, and then the the statute requires at least one general comment section.

That would be at the end, the way that these bills are proposed.

Okay, thank you.

I I I can't remember what I said 20 minutes ago, so I can yeah, I I'm gonna jump on board with the other two councilwomen, and this is I also feel that our responsibility as council persons.

Uh this is your forum.

We need to listen to you.

And so this is your chance to tell that to us.

Any other questions or comments from council?

Okay, seeing none, we'll go ahead and open up public comment.

David Ball would I get my time in when I when I do attend.

Uh I wrote this ordinance.

I spent three or four months writing this ordinance.

I had a group of people in this city that helped me write this ordinance, but both sides, people I agree with, people I disagree with, and we passed this ordinance in 2017.

And I said up there in the St.

Law on the Dais, and I took the abuse from these, but it's very important you have the opening comment so people can address things generally.

When we saw that tonight, different things that I brought up tonight something about the economic development issues, okay.

How do I address that otherwise?

Now, if you go if you don't have it on the agenda item, and that was one of the biggest things that was so positive from the from the group I had put together, because if you everybody's up here in different successions, and it's completely disjointed comments about each agenda item.

You can't correlate anything.

You can't remember what anybody says.

So if you're consolidated around each agenda item, that's what we have to do.

And I urge you, this is something that's been in place for eight years now.

Eight years.

Like I said, there's a lot of people here that I disagree with, but I will fight every day for them to allow them to stand up here and tell you that.

And in that ordinance that I wrote that I authored and I passed in a past unanimously when I introduced it.

Okay, it it has mechanisms in there.

So if somebody is abusive, you can sit them down.

You need to review that.

And mayor, I have sent you emails on that.

And if somebody is abusive, you need to enforce the rules.

And that will control a lot of the times.

We're not enforcing the rules.

Okay.

Calling people names.

I don't care who it is, whether it's about a lawsuit or threatening, you know.

I mean, I I was completely against the threats I heard about with the lawsuit.

Well, you're gonna get this, and you're gonna get this.

That's improper.

Sit them down.

Stop it.

That will stop all of this circus or whatever's calling it.

Stop the circus by using the mechanisms within that ordinance to control the comments.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Dave.

Council.

Thank for the three members.

Karen, Patty, Bill.

Well tonight.

I never ever thought I would agree a hundred percent with Councilwoman Fielding.

I did.

It might snow tomorrow because the Jets actually won a game.

Can you believe that?

Thanks, Mike.

Good evening, Ron Shackleford.

Um, I had a big old list of stuff to say, and some of it just got changed by listening to what I heard from a other couple council members.

Um thank you for your comments.

There we go.

Um I understand the last city council meeting went, you know, lasted almost five hours.

Um, and um and you wish to try to prevent that.

Maybe that maybe that's why we're you're we're listening to this stuff tonight.

Um by taking away public comment is not one of the ways to shorten our meetings.

The fact the list you see here is the council meetings with the times from January 2024 till present.

Last year, only five times did the meetings exceed two hours, with the longest meeting at two hours and 33 minutes.

I also have next to that list the number of agenda of items.

Um, and those do items do not uh include the serial ceremonial matters or the department reports, it includes special items, resolution and proclamations, introduction of bills and administrative items only.

One thing I'd like to know is who started this action, who brought it up and had it put on the agenda.

Whomever it is, if it's anybody on this council, they should resign tonight because they are not committed to the citizens of this community and the responsibility that they took on when they ran for office.

Let me read a few quotes of respected leaders and scholars.

For the purpose of time, I've shortened us a couple of the words.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent, we may be led like sheep to the slaughter.

That was George Washington.

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.

It is the one un-American act that could easily most defeat us.

Justice William Most Douglas on the Supreme Court.

Here's one for you guys, and you know which guys I'm talking about.

I desire that this land be a land of liberty, and every man may enjoy his rights and privileges alike.

Mosiah 29, Book of Mormon.

Preventing sendings of citizens of this community to speak out on items that we have feeling, concerns, and issues towards, whether they are of your opinion or against your opinion, is nothing less of suppression of the community's voice.

When you put your name in the hat for election, you made a commitment to this community, to the citizens of Mesquite to represent them.

Suppressing our rights to public comment is not what we voted you into office for.

Thank you, Ron.

Jeff Reynolds.

I know a perfect way to shorten these meetings.

Lenin, Mr.

Kim down to five minutes on his presentations.

Okay.

I know he's on over an hour on a couple of times.

Or close.

You guys are work for us.

You run or you applied for, and were elected to do this.

My understanding of the job is that you listen to our concerns and our views.

That you take those views back, consider them, and then vote to pass something that represents the people, not your own individual views of whether you want something or not, and the whole it's bad for the city, you do it for the best of the city.

And the only way you can do that is to listen to the people.

Okay.

Anyway, I'll quit because I take a lot of your time and most of us stuff anyway.

So thank you.

Thanks, Jeff.

Hello, Ray Lane Schiffano for the record.

Um I am new to this community, but I do fight for the people.

I I my slogan for my nonprofit is speaking up matters.

So when I fight for, which I come from Washington State, I actually met with the senators today to fight for foreclosure prevention.

I'm trying to keep people housed.

I try to do things, and that's why I come to the council to speak to you with the protections that I can say what's necessary.

I don't agree with Mr.

Kim.

He knows I don't agree with him.

We don't agree on a lot of things, but we do agree that what's best is free speech.

And I have a huge advocate, and when I see the emails that I see going back and forth between you all and what you've been saying about your community and things in your community, you have to remember that we do have the power of getting what you say, um, but we have the right to also disagree with what you say.

So speaking up does matter.

And I was gonna read this whole speech, and I don't need to because thank goodness you guys also believe in free speech and the protections that come with those speeches, and after being threatened by the council by a city council member for criminal charges, I do really feel it's important that we are protected.

Thank you.

Thank you, Eileen.

Dominic Olivetto, and I'm gonna ask everybody else who wants to speak to go sit down because you've already voted the way we're all complaining.

So let's end it.

Thanks, Dominic.

Yeah.

Now you see what it's about to get up here.

Nick Elfansetti.

Uh been here for a few years.

Mayor, council, employees, staff.

You know, I found out something that was kind of interesting.

The way that the meeting is set up, there's only two cities in the entire state of Nevada that have open comment at the beginning, comment on every item, and comment at the end.

Anyone have any ideas who they are?

One of them.

Okay, this one of them.

Where's the other one?

Yearrington up near Carson.

Farming community, kind of built on the same grounds as this ranchers, rural, hardworking people that love their community and like to voice their opinion on what is going on within the city.

And I thank those that have seen through this, that we're gonna try to keep it that way for a while.

Again, I understand five hours a long time.

I think, Mayor, you should get a hold of Grubhub.

If it goes past eight, bring them in, put it on a city bill.

Uh Nancy can take care of it, whatever, you know, we'll be all set.

Uh going along with that.

Sometimes, you know, the city business gets so big and not considering what the time is.

And like one of the speakers said, Simon, maybe he needs his own council meeting.

Right?

Yeah, very busy.

And uh, you know, minimize the amount of things that have to come up.

Cut them back.

You want to get out of here at eight o'clock, I better get down.

Seven o'clock now.

You got one hour, you got a bunch more to do.

Anyways, thank you for your vote, and uh, we support you.

We love what you do, but we want to make sure it's right what you do.

Thank you.

Thank you, Nick.

Um, Sue Tabor Meske.

Um I don't have anything to disagree on, but sometimes we I agree.

We need the we need it the way it is.

Because I've seen if if things that get said in the beginning in public comment, a lot of times gets answered later on in the meeting.

So I'm wondering if there's some way there can be more of an explanation than this, this, and this numbers and concerning this, but there's nothing um handed to the people when they come in that explains what you're going to be talking about.

And so maybe there is, and I'm not aware of it because I'm still learning how this process works.

But it seems to me like a lot of what gets addressed in public comment is the rumor mill that's taken going on in Mesquite.

And unfortunately, you ain't never getting rid of that.

People just like to yak.

And a lot of them like to yak at something negative rather than something positive.

But I don't is there some way, like the gentleman that's talking about different committees and different times there's been committees talked about where there's more of an explanation before people have comments that they they know what they're talking about rather than just still throwing stuff out there, and so that's kind of where I'm at.

But I agree, we shouldn't change it.

Thank you, Sue.

And on all of that can be found online on the agenda, all the background materials and all that is on online.

I think we're saving the best for last there, because I know he's got better, he's more eloquent than I am.

West Boger, Mesquite resident.

Um first of all, I really like this council, these council members.

I really do.

I I I know I'm not supposed to address them.

Kevin's great, Bill's great, Patty's great.

I even agree with former councilman Baldwick and Councilwoman Fielding on this.

I mean, this isn't I mean, you you really were elected, and of course, Patty, I always a lot of times agree with Patty.

This is why you're here.

It really is.

And I know it's frustrating sometimes.

You've you've you've been there when it's been frustrating.

One time I found out that I had a police officer living in my basement.

So when I got home, I mean that's because that's but they came up in public comment.

So I got home and I asked my mom, like, are you sneaking police officers down here?

So she wasn't, so I knew that was one of those rumors she talked about.

But if you want to make the meeting shorter or change the time you get home, there's ways of doing that.

In Vegas, they're their meetings are like at 10 in the morning or something.

Um you could also put an ordinance in that as soon as like the three-hour mark passes, it automatically comes up to a vote to suspend it until the next Tuesday if you wanted to.

You there's you can do that.

It's not most, it's not favorable, but it's something you can do.

Five-hour meetings suck.

I haven't had one.

I don't think we have four and a half months.

I don't think we had five.

But the best way is to hold the fact that it says it right here, public comment.

It's not public QA.

So when people are asking questions, you can refer them, talk to so-and-so at the end of the meeting.

Contact me.

You don't have to go back and forth.

I'm not being critical, I'm just saying these are just ways to improve uh the time.

And having me step down is another way to improve the time.

So thank you.

Thanks, Wes.

Darryl Gordon, I was gonna get up here and rant and rave, and then uh I noticed that we actually didn't start the meeting proper till about 6.05, uh, due to ceremonial items.

Now that was 19 minutes of ceremonial items.

You want to shorten the meeting, get rid of all them.

Um I'm I'm I don't think we should, but that's a way to shorten a meeting.

Um then the during initial public comment, you had a variety of comments.

Some where I was like, oh, maybe I want to support eliminating the first public comment.

But then others, I was like, wait, uh, we couldn't heard about the VA, we couldn't heard about the parade lights.

That would have had to wait for the end of the meeting, and maybe those people aren't gonna hang around for that, or maybe no one will be listening by then.

So I I think the both sessions are important.

Um, just to correct one of the council members, the Virgin Valley Water District has public comment at the beginning on every single agenda item and at the end.

And you said we didn't.

Oh, I think you misspoke at the time, but I can kind of talk about that as president of the board right now, and I'm in charge of those comments.

Officially, it's not during each agenda item.

But in practice, like Mr.

Baldwick came to a meeting last week and and stood up for comment, and of course, I allowed the comment as part of the meeting.

So just in practice, yes, we've always allowed it, but it's not part of the formal agenda.

There's there's comment at the beginning and there's comment at the end.

On every agenda, I read public comment on almost every item.

But anyway, yeah.

Um, and and I've been to OPD5 meetings where they only allow comment at the beginning and at the end.

And they suffer for it, and I believe the city would suffer for it.

First off, if you're only going to allow comment at the beginning, which I'm glad you're not talking about, but just as a thought, would you allow three minutes for each agenda item the person wanted to address, or only three minutes?

Because then how could you cover multiple items that are very important to you?

Sometimes there's six items on the agenda that you see me get up and talk about.

And I wouldn't be able to do that in a three minute only session.

And OPD five, I gave comment one time, and at the end of the meeting, after they made a weird vote in the middle, the two of the council members or board members came up to me and said, Wow, you know what?

We really missed your point, and we voted wrong on this, but it's too late.

So I I see you all listened to the comment during the I each item, and it does affect what you do, and I think that's a valuable part of our ability to be citizens here and have an impact on you.

So thank you for listening to us.

I know it hurts sometimes.

Uh it hurts when I'm listening.

So I know it hurts more for you, but thank you for doing that.

Thank you, Gary.

Um, John Rosen, uh citizen of Mesquite.

I am in complete and total agreement with 90% of what was been said here about these comment sessions.

I think there should be no restrictions whatsoever on people's ability to express their opinions.

Those that I agree with, those that I don't agree with, those that I even find offensive.

But there's only been one presenter up here who came up or commenter who came up and I thought addressed one of the actual real problems with public comment sessions, and that is the lack of civility.

I think that, and it there are mechanisms in place that control that.

But I think there should be no tolerance whatsoever for threats against any of the people who are sitting in the chairs that you occupy.

Uh slander against the people who are sitting in the chairs that you occupy, um insults, offensive insults against the people who are sitting in the chairs that you set uh occupy, or comments addressed to anyone other than the mayor as identified by the public comment sections.

Thank you.

Thanks, John.

I'll be very quick.

Uh Marcus Bender.

Public comment is let's call it what it is, freedom of speech, and it is vital to mesquite.

It's vital to America.

Ms.

Fielding, Miss Gallo, Mr.

Anis.

You clearly recognize that, and I thank you.

Thank you, Marcus.

Seeing no one else step forward, I will ask for a motion.

Okay, seeing none, it dies for lack of motion.

Um 4.3 consideration of the introduction of bill B25-018.

Mayor, if I can interject, that was technically item 4.1.

Oh.

Oh, wait, sorry, no, 4.2.

Sorry, I'm I'm messing up all over the place today.

4.3, that's correct.

We just need to make sure we address the other one, even though we've kind of already addressed it okay.

So item 4.3, consideration of the bill B25 018, amending the Mesquite Municipal Code, Title 1 Administration, Chapter 6, City Council Section 165 Rules and Procedures to remove the public comment after each agenda item of the city council meetings.

Any questions or comments from council?

Okay, seeing none, we'll open it back up for public comment.

Very quick, David Baldwig.

Uh I want to address uh uh Mr.

Wannless's comments about the RTC regional flood.

I sat on those boards too.

And I fought to try to get those on there because we had so many people up there that had the same problem.

There was a number of agenda items and did not have the opportunity to address the individual agenda items, especially when when there was some other comments made.

So I don't really care, honestly, what anybody in Las Vegas or any committee in Las Vegas is.

This is mesquite.

We do it better, and we listen to our citizens.

I sat on that board and I was disgusted by the way the other members on that board acted toward people that brought absolutely valid problems with it, especially the paratransit stuff.

They ignored the paratransit stuff, which was absolutely disgusting.

So they were self-serving and wanted they didn't want to put in the time, they wanted to get out of there.

So I think I appreciate everybody here.

I just wanted to add that comment.

Thank you.

Thank you, Dave.

I'm gonna ask I'll like to say speaking up matters, and we hope you don't motion for this one either.

So speaking up matters.

Thank you, really West Volger.

Last time tonight, I promise.

I'll leave right after this.

You're staying, but I'm leaving.

But uh anyway, I think.

Uh I don't know that this item is dead on for your guys' support or not.

I don't know if you guys are supporting this or not, because there weren't any comments.

So this is probably more dangerous than the other one because if you as was pointed out in another comment, if you only have the beginning public comment to talk on seven items, and you get three minutes to talk about seven items, you get way less time to to speak about it.

And again, it's at the beginning of the meeting, so you wouldn't hear, you wouldn't see the presentations uh like earlier.

No, we I'm not picking on you, Simon, but earlier uh Mr.

Kim had a presentation.

It's not on the it's not attached to the agenda.

I was hoping to see that because that's really good info.

Um you would never see that before you commented.

It would have answered lots of lots of questions had it been on there, and it's not his fault.

I'm just I'm just saying, so definitely you don't want to do this.

This is worse than the other one.

So thank you.

Thank you, Wes.

Okay, see no one else step forward.

I will ask for a motion.

Okay, dies to lack of motion.

Item 5.1 of adoption of bill as ordinance B25-015, amending title nine, unified development, chapter seven, area and bulk regulations, article Y, accessory uses and structures by adding subsection 9-7 Y-8, exceptions to building height limitations to accommodate ornamental landmarks.

Thank you, Mayor and City Council.

Uh I'll be quick.

So this bill number B 25-015 was introduced at the October 14th City Council meeting.

And uh City Council set the public hearing date for the today.

And uh this is a clock tower item.

So uh the master plan committee had a discussion at the September 22nd, and uh uh we found that uh we may need the uh landmark on the uh to define downtown area uh area.

So something like this.

And also we recently had a staple uh church staple uh issues, and so maximum uh height of the church staple in Muskete currently is 70 feet.

Uh so there was a miscon uh misinterpretation of the uh church height on the uh drone uh church elevation uh because the architect uh assumed that the for uh the ground floor elevation is actually 100 and then went to 131, which is a 31 feet six inches, and then uh it's actually 70 feet, not 170.

So proposed amendment is uh to have exceptions to the building height limitations.

Uh so uh building high height limitations would be the 70 feet maximum.

It does, but uh the structure uh should not be intended for the human occupancy, and the structure is not intended for private use, including uses in connection with the single family residence, and uh finally the structure should emit the building code.

Uh so some examples uh church uh spires and cupolas, ornamental towers, clock towers, and other similar architecture features.

So step leckham and city council, adopt the ordinance number B25 dash 015 by show title and author life the mayor to sign.

Thank you.

Thank you, Simon.

Uh any questions from council?

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

Seeing no one step forward, I'm gonna close the public hearing.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

I will make a motion to consider the adoption of bill as ordinance.

B25-015.

Councilman Wanless.

I'll second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 6.1 consideration of resolution R25-046 adopting the updated master transportation plan and transportation capital improvement plan for the city of Mesquite.

Good evening, Council members, mayor, Mayor Pro Tem as well.

My name is Devin Moore with Kimley Horn.

Excited to come present the final master transportation plan and capital improvements program.

So I know some of my partners have been up here and shared a lot about this project and process with you over the past year.

And we're excited to have the final plan ready for adoption here tonight.

So we have a quick presentation that I'll run through here today.

I don't have a little clicker, I don't think, so we'll just point at you and we'll make it move.

There we go.

So just a quick reminder of the study purpose.

Um two different elements as part of this project.

And one is uh the actual creation of a master plan and update from what was previously done in 2009 and adopted at that point and the previous before that in 1994.

So excited to take a look at how the city of Mesquite is doing as far as trans transportation infrastructure, which infrastructure was brought up by one of our citizens earlier tonight.

And this is one element of that.

Um transportation is only one of those portions.

As a transportation planner, I think it's one of the most important.

Um, but I recognize there are other infrastructure that we need to take a look at as well.

But that's what this is focused at creating tailored solutions to provide a balanced transportation network, and then from the study and the plan uh and those recommendations come the capital improvement plan as well.

So the actual individual recommendations and projects that are as part of this project process.

And the last bullet on there I know was uh was a topic at our last council meeting in August was about those traffic impact fees, and we'll talk a little bit about that as well.

So um here's the schedule.

As you can see, we're towards the end over there at the end of October, and we had scheduled to complete this project by November.

So we're just a little bit ahead of schedule, so appreciate all your help and appreciate um Simon and leading this project from the city's perspective, as well as recognizing the RTC and their funding for the project, uh, and Grant Schurz, who couldn't be with us here tonight.

Unfortunately, he had some uh family emergencies that he's dealing with, but um appreciative of the RTC and their support as well as Travis and his work on from public works on this process.

Next slide, please.

So um, I know we've talked a lot about public comment today.

That was a big part of the process uh for the for the transportation master plan as well, uh, or this long range, yeah, the master transportation plan.

And uh most of those comments were received as we walked around the community with with your residents, um, including some of the council members here.

And so we did that on foot as well as on on bicycles and out in the public as well at the Monster MASH last year in October.

Um, and then some public meetings that we held at the rec center as well.

So getting some good um information from the public.

We also had a website that we received comments on, but uh improvements to I-15 and access there, um, traffic signal improvements in the city, roadway lighting improvements for safety, multimodal improvements, um, connectivity across our community.

This is where we ended up focusing, and then road safety improvements as well.

So the goals um that were established through this process were safety.

Um that was number one, um, congestion mitigation and multimodal connectivity, like we talked about, equity and sustainability is a big part of this process, education and awareness through that public outreach was really important as part of this process, and then the public uh the physical facilities and maintenance of those facilities as far as the transportation goes was part of the part of the plan as well.

Um yeah, there we go.

And we'll have some some exhibits that show some of these projects, but they're all in the documents in front of you as well.

These are all your individual copies.

Feel free to take them home, put them on your bookshelf, um, your nightstand at night.

Um, thrilling reading.

Um, but intersection improvements to to make those those intersections more safe.

Um, those include crossing improvements as well as um signalization, new traffic signals mentioned, road widening, new roadways to make some connections from the older part of town to the newer part of town, um, and future development opportunities as well associated with that, and then multimodal projects to really make the the fantastic recreational experience that we have here in the city of Musquite more accessible to everybody that doesn't just drive a car.

So we're gonna run through these um a couple of figures that are in the plan themselves.

So you can see the multicolors.

The intent is not to go through all these here today, but this is what this is what was presented to the public.

And what you saw is part of the background material for this meeting as well, and then the plan in front of you.

But we do have short-term, mid-term, and long-term improvements.

So some of those that can be funded immediately through the capital improvement program, and others that are now ripe and ready to apply for grant funding.

So there's good opportunities there.

Multimodal and active transportation enhancements.

Some of those again are at specific crosswalks or specific mid-block crossings, specific intersections, or more trail or connective improvements, as you can see here.

Next slide.

And I think we had two slides on this, but traffic signal and intersection improvements.

So when we look at some of the roundabouts, so there's some of the improvements there that aren't signalized, but still in important intersections in town, but some intersections that are not yet signalized that could be signalized in the future.

Once those volumes are met, we're seeing enough traffic there, and some road widenings as well.

So you can see that they're kind of dispersed throughout town to be able to serve the variety of populations that we have throughout the city.

Next slide.

There we go.

And so what you saw in that first slide was some of the long terms, and we have some of the short term and midterms on this slide as well.

Next slide.

So I want to highlight just a couple of projects here.

So in front of the high school, Hillside Drive, Bulldog Drive was a location where we saw some significant issues, particularly as schools getting out.

So we took an extra look at that.

We collected some extra data with school with the school release time to get an understanding of the impact of that intersection.

Would signalization make sense there and when that could happen, and some safety improvements there as well.

So the level of service we're expecting would become worse.

So more delay at that intersection, for example.

And this is just one example.

But all the intersections went through a similar process.

And then we took a look at some of the mitigation measures.

So what could we do there?

We could signalize that intersection.

As you know, there's a hill on the north side of that roadway.

And so we're not gonna have a fourth leg of that road at any time, any time in the future that we anticipate.

But some recommended improvements you can see on this next slide here, some pictures.

And this is a picture down off of highway 50 in Fernley, but it's just the right orientation, kind of gives you the idea of what we could do at this intersection.

This is called a signalized high T here in the state of Nevada.

That's what we call those, which allows for the full access and egress out of uh Bulldog Drive, but not onto Bulldog Drive.

And so improves the safety, reduces some of the significant conflicts there, but then allows uh additional capacity without constructing a lot more uh within the right-of-way.

So that was one of our recommendations at the specific location.

But this is kind of the idea.

And when we went through this process looking at each intersection across each segment across the whole transportation network in the city, coming up with recommendations when we saw significant issue.

Next slide, please.

I want to just focus on some of our multimodal recommendations.

So if we're gonna go to the next slide, just some examples on old mill.

Um, as we know, next to the rec center and throughout town, we have some fantastic multimodal experiences and opportunities that are off of the roadway.

Um, what we have an old mill are some some large ride-of-way areas, and this is from our bike audit, so you can see us all there in our nice high viz vests, which we recommended earlier, um, where we were out there, where there are some very wide locations and even some sidewalks that could be used for pedestrians or bicycles, and then it kind of just disappears.

And so creating that connectivity is one of the recommendations that we have.

There's there's enough space out there within the right-of-way to be able to accommodate either on-street uh bicycle boulevard or an off-street multimodal facility to be able to connect to the existing facilities that we have in town.

So, this is kind of the process again.

These are just a couple of highlights we wanted to share with you today that are recommended as part of the plan.

Adoption of the plan doesn't say yes, this is what I want.

That's what you're raising your hand and voting upon.

Um, but it's it's the plan and and some recommended improvements.

Each individual project will have to be vetted and costed out and funded, etc.

And that'll come before council at that point.

Uh so the traffic impact fee, which again has got a little bit of uh airtime already here in the in this meeting in past months, but this is a fee imposed on new development to cover the cost for infrastructure improvements.

So that was mentioned a little earlier with the cost of future infrastructure.

This is a way to be able to offset that, um, putting that on the you know, a portion of that on the new development.

So this fee already exists in the city.

Um, it's calculated based on the the type and the size of the development.

So exactly what we just discussed.

So the roadway extension and enhancements, multimodal and active transportation and signal and infrastructure as it relates to the transportation uh network here in town.

Next slide, please.

So um we talked about the specific dollar amount that was our recommendation.

And again, just to be clear, the the vote to adopt the plan is not the vote to say yes, I want to raise raise the that fee from 198 to 672 dollars with your vote today.

Vote today is is um that process would still have to go through a formal adoption process and public hearing, et cetera, um, to move that dollar amount up.

But as part of our study, what we wanted to show you is um based on the capital improvement programs uh program and those projects included in the long-range transportation plan that we have here, or master transportation plan, um, to be able to fund those uh it would make sense.

And um, this is one L or act uh excuse me, one opportunity to be able to accrue some funds for those improvements uh to be able to actually fund those.

So currently, again, the traffic impact fee in the city of Mesquite is 1929, which hasn't been raised um for almost 20 years, and um the proposed is $672, and just a couple of comparisons up there.

St.

George is currently at $2,000 or $2,000 per single family unit equivalent.

Um, and and just to be clear again, the the single family unit equivalent applies to everything.

So if it's a restaurant, we convert that into a single family unit equivalent.

We basically create a common denominator, so everything kind of pays based off of that similar unit.

Um, and then in Clark County, it's $750, so that's you know significantly higher than even what uh exists today, but then they also add the number of trips per development on top of that.

And Cedar City, just a little farther up I 15 is uh 636, so very comparable to what we would what we would what we're recommending.

Next slide, please.

Um so just a reminder without impact fees.

I mean, there are other ways to be able to find um dollars to make improvements, but ultimately, as they're targeted as part of the master transportation plan um without traffic impact fees to make these improvements, we end up with increased congestion delay, higher property taxes to be able to offset that, increase financial burden on the residents, and then potentially even stalled economic growth.

So there's a lot of benefit to be uh to consider these fee increases as well.

Next slide, please.

Um, and that's what I got for you tonight.

Happy to answer any questions.

Um so back to you, Mayor.

Thank you.

Um I'm gonna ask the first question.

So the Bulldog drive.

You've had success with the one in Friendly that you did that way.

Yes.

Let's do that like yesterday.

Because for that 15 minutes, that is by far the worst place and most dangerous place.

I mean, we talk about kids getting hit in crosswalks in this.

There have been multiple accidents right there.

And understood.

I think Kevin's my daughter drives now, so I don't have to experience that every afternoon.

But I wanted to pull what's left of my hair that's starting to go out because of it.

So that's yeah.

I'm all for that.

Uh Councilman Wandless.

I wanted to thank you for all your hard work.

So I all your recommendations I would agree with wholeheartedly.

I'm support this.

We we certainly need to look as we have future growth.

We need to look at ways to pay for the things we need.

And this is a great way to start.

So thank you for all you've done.

Welcome.

Any other questions from council?

Okay, seeing none.

Thank you very much.

Now we'll go ahead and open the public hearing.

Gary Elgort, uh great presentation.

Really well put together, delivered in a very short time.

Thank you.

I'm sure the council thanks you.

Um I don't know if the public will have the ability to see any of these books.

It would be nice if uh somehow they can be made available.

Um I I'll just relate what is there an online?

Yes.

Okay.

Oh, okay.

Maybe we can put that somewhere on the website.

Um I'll just relate what we've dealt with at the water district, is uh talking about the traffic impact fee.

Is we've had to deal with our our uh quote impact fee, I guess you'll call it.

It's not really the right name, but um system development charge where we look at new new development coming into the city, saying, Oh, guess what?

We're gonna have to drill a new well.

We're gonna have to drill a new well, and should all the existing residents pay for that new well when they don't need it because they already have enough water, or should it be shared among the the new new development, new growth coming in?

And that's the same thing I think you need to do here.

Um, and I think you need to act on it fairly quickly.

We made the mistake one year of talking about it, and somebody slipped in the back door and paid for 200 or so uh system development charges and saved themselves about 2 million dollars and cost our ratepayers two million dollars.

So don't make that mistake, please uh act on it fairly quickly.

And and it's a justified number.

You see the other numbers around the state and out of the state.

So don't wait.

Thank you, Gary.

Ron Shackleford, I'll be quick.

Um, the traffic impact fee.

Do I understand it correctly as being a fee on new builders that are coming in?

It's to the builders, it's not to individual homes.

Well, it'd be tacked on, I imagine.

Be checked on.

So it's the builders, it's not it's not you're not gonna raise my, you know, it wouldn't come on like resold houses homes.

This is just a yeah, for builders.

Okay, that's what I thought I understood.

Thank you.

Yeah, so if you bought a home, it wouldn't be that, and that was pointed out last time as far as I misspoke.

It is if you live here and you build a new home, you would pay that.

So it's if your new construction.

So thank you, Ron.

I just wanted to make a comment so that Simon wouldn't have to, and we could cut down on the time, uh, and speak on behalf of the master plan committee, which for which this plan was presented this week, and the master plan committee uh strongly recommended that the board consider approval of this.

Thank you, John Shippard.

I get to wear the other hat.

Um, I've served on this committee before and appreciate everybody that's put their time and and uh and bringing these projects forward.

Is it still the um opportunity for RTC money as long as it's identified in the TCIP plan for RTC funds to fund those projects?

And to my knowledge, Cedar City and St.

George doesn't have the gas tax funding mechanisms, therefore their uh their costs will obviously be higher.

It's a different taxing structure, just so you know that.

So um, we have that opportunity here.

Every time you fill up your gas, we complain that the gas is cheaper in St.

George, and there's a reason for that.

So we get those money back to town to fund some of these projects.

So just keep that in mind.

That's probably not the time to talk about the dollars and cents of this, but just wanted to bring that uh forward.

So thank you.

Thank you, John.

Okay, seeing no one else step forward, I'll go ahead and close the public hearing.

Or yeah, um councilwoman Fielding.

Okay, thank you.

Oh, Travis, did you have something?

I did.

I just wanted to uh quickly address, and it was brought up one thing to keep in mind, and he stated uh this that in this the amount that you're seeing there is strictly a recommendation.

It is not you keep in mind you're not approving any impact fee increase tonight.

This is just the adoption of the presentation, it's the and the um report.

So when we talk about these uh any increase would have to be brought back to you, and that's when we'd get into the the what projects would go towards these.

These are great, it helps us to forecast though, and council member wonless has brought this up with uh RTC funding, they pay and we're very blessed to have that there.

But just as we've heard, if the fuel revenue indexing doesn't, they're gonna be in a shortfall.

So we can't just rely on that.

We need to at least look forward and see what happens if we do.

And that's what this plan helps us to look at is that recommendation.

But any increase would, and I just wanted to make that was clear that any increase will be brought to you.

This is not approving an increase, it's just the recommendation of what that would go towards and those.

So thank you.

Thank you, Travis.

Councilwoman Phillips.

Oh, sorry.

No, go ahead.

Yeah.

Um, I'd like to chime in a little bit.

So uh this study is actually updating uh transportation aliment of the measure plan.

So by adopting this one, uh, the city council is actually replacing old transportation element into a new one with the abundance of the study in here.

By the way, if the city council later wants to have the impact fee increased, then there would be the another ordinance that changes the fee schedule.

So unless otherwise we actually change the fee schedule, there'll be no changes at all.

So what is actually helping for us is by adopting this, we know what needs to be improved, and uh what is the actually the burden to us, how much we need to pay to improve those uh those uh projects, then we can actually open the book and find the numbers and you we can apply for the good uh grants application.

We can do something else and to get the money.

So this is a totally reference policies.

This is not by all means increase any in fact fees or nothing.

Thank you.

Thank you, Simon.

All right, councilwoman Phil.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, I also want to say I also have sat on the TIC P committee several years ago, and we were instrumental with this report um to get Hardy Way, the lights at Hardyway and the Grapevine Villa or Grapevine Overpass Lights on Pioneer.

Um so this report is really important um for future and to get many to benefit our residents.

So with that being said, I will um make a motion to consider resolution R25-046.

Okay, do I have a second?

I'll second.

Okay, call for the vote.

One I para shy, NSI.

Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

Um, before we get on to the next one, um Chief Fells text to me.

Um says, I basically have the code done.

He met with the CCSD chief today, and so hopefully soon they'll have a bicycle code.

That's what he's referring to, a bicycle code for us to look over.

So um 6.2 consideration of approval of the full-time contract for Kyle Waite as deputy city attorney.

Ms.

Green Thank you.

Um, even though we have an interim city attorney, the duties of prosecution have been shared by two attorneys.

And uh so Cliff Gravette, Kyle Waite.

Cliff has decided that he is unable to continue doing this.

So um we've been considering, you know, what what do we do?

In the past, the city attorney shared the duties with a part-time person, you know, like a deputy city attorney, but a lot has changed for first of all, like I said, we have an interim city attorney right now, and also um, because of new laws that went into place, uh defendants have to be seen within 48 hours.

So they were adding Thursday, Saturday morning.

So the duties of prosecution have increased, and I roughly estimated that the prosecutors have to be our prosecutor has to be in court, maybe up to 20 hours a week.

So that's not talking to witnesses, that's not talking to opposing counsel, that's not preparing the files.

So I've heard from the judge from the court clerk that he's been doing a great job.

He shows up early, he's prepared, and um so the idea is to make him a full-time prosecutor as a deputy city attorney.

Any questions from council councilwoman Philly?

Thank you.

So is that still with the same compens compensation?

The 100,000 a year, it's for 100,000 a year.

And then full benefits, yes.

Okay, thank you for full time, yes.

But if you but if you think of a licensed attorney and you divide that, it's okay, because I had a I had a little hiccup when I saw, you know, 20 hours a week, 100,000.

That's like less than part-time.

But if he's gonna be full-time with everything else, then that is reasonable.

Yes, I believe.

All right, thank you.

It's still very low for an attorney.

Right.

No, that's perfect.

And if you've talked to the judge and he's doing a great job and he's got resources available, then I'm okay with that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, councilwoman Gallow.

That was along the lines of my question.

Thank you.

Um my question is we had two people.

What is the difference in dollars when we had two people versus the one versus the hundred thousand now?

So, how much more is it gonna cost the city when we're paying, we were paying two people part-time to one person full-time.

What is the difference?

40,000, 50,000, 10,000.

Nikki, are you on the line?

Um, yes, I'm on the line.

Um, I'm gonna have to look through my notes for what I sent to you.

It's a little over 60,000, and I know don't faint.

Unfortunately, we had two part-time people, and so with a full-time person, now we have to take in into consideration the benefits as well.

And like I said, before when Cliff was doing it for us years ago, it was about 60,000 a year, and he was doing it part-time.

But the the laws have changed, you know.

Now they have to they have to call in Saturday morning for hearings, and sometimes there are no cases, but they still have to be available on Saturday and Thursday afternoon.

So the time that the prosecutor has to put in has increased over the years.

And don't hold me to this, but Cliff and Kyle, if you combine them together, it was around 78,000.

So this is an increase.

Thank you.

To have a full-time completely dedicated, you know, that answers the question.

On the hook attorney, don't hold me to those numbers, but that's kind of what when we were in discussion.

And it makes sense, because we have a one person doing public defender, and then one person doing the prosecution.

And I was told um by interim chief fails that it's better because he knows who all he knows all the cases.

So they don't have to go, okay.

Who's handling this case?

Who's handling that case?

It just makes sense.

No, that's great.

I just want to know what the dollars are at the bottom line.

Okay, thank you.

Any other questions from counsel?

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

David Ball will be very quickly.

Um we're hiring a deputy city attorney, but we still don't have our primary attorney picked.

And I think that's uh kind of what they call a cart before the horse.

Uh I think that needs to be addressed.

I brought I spoke before about this.

That I I think we should have a contract with a law firm with a dedicated one of the members uh dedicated to us as an attorney, and then they would have uh a staff of people that could support us, and so the contract would be with one law firm would get better coordination.

So I mean, I think we really I'm not I'm not a g against the person you're you're pointing anyway.

I just think the structure is wrong.

I think we're we're going about it backwards.

We have to have a regular attorney, then let's do the deputy attorney.

If we do a law firm, then they can potentially provide any backup prosecution, whatever it may be.

So uh Bob actually had a little conversation with Mr.

Anderson and urged him to do it, but uh that's up to his decision.

But I think you really need to tie down a uh uh a regular city attorney, and I strongly suggest we use a law firm because that's that's kind of the model that everybody uses.

They always have a uh uh an independent law firm because you get better coverage.

Thank you.

Thank you, Did okay.

Seeing no one else up no one else step forward, I'm gonna go ahead and close public comment and ask for a motion.

Councilman Wallace.

I'll make a motion to adopt the approval of a full-time contract for deputy city attorney.

Councilwoman Philly.

I will second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

NSI.

Galloway.

Motion passes, and with that, we come into our final public comment period.

Yeah, three minutes on whatever subject you so choose.

David Ball again.

I want to close on a positive note.

I want to thank the police department for their uh great response.

I've had a couple incidents out of my commercial building.

This last one was last Sunday morning.

Wasn't very serious, but I've got terrible amount of trespassers out there lately.

And they they responded on Sunday morning, and they've been, I mean, I called them on Sunday morning, said you have a squad car around, please.

I don't know what this person's doing back in the back.

Uh I'm next to the pioneer uh storage.

They try to jump that fence to get into the storage, and so there's a lot.

I just want to commend the police department about how fast they've been responding to calls.

And I and I just thought with all the the bad press, the the our our city police department.

I think uh uh I know it's interim chief fails, but I think you really consider uh putting him on, make him chief.

He's doing a great job, he's very responsive.

I've had some contact with him on other issues, and uh he's always responsive, and I think you make a great easy.

So I'm gonna kind of combine both of them.

Get get uh um make uh chief fails permanent, and thank you, police department, for your good work.

Thank you.

Thank you, Dave.

Amy Gardner again with Jane Amy's mesquite getaways.

Um I ran out of time and I forgot a couple of things.

Um I'm hoping we had two clients that were well, one was turned down um at the last meeting for their um for their business license, and then we had another owner that bought a home.

I think they invested probably about 600 grand, got it all ready, and they pulled it because they were anticipating a no at the next meeting.

And so um, like the request earlier, if we could bring those back up for reconsideration, I'd really appreciate it.

And the second thing was is just to consider that 12.5 tax.

I'm not sure where that money goes for Clark County taxes, but I do know that the short-term rentals do bring in quite a bit of of revenue, and um just hope that continues.

Thanks.

Thank you, Amy Quickly.

Um, Ron Shackleford, uh, mayor, could you give us an update on our the proposal for the new city manager?

Did she take the position or what have you?

And can you just brief tell us when she's gonna start?

Because I know somebody wants to get out of that seat real quick.

Yeah, December 1st, correct?

Yes, December 1st.

She started signed the contract today.

So, seeing no one else come forward, this meeting is adjourned.