Good evening, everyone.

Welcome to the Tuesday, December 9th, 2025, regular City Council meeting minutes, our meeting for the City of Mesquite.

It's 5 p.m.

We're gonna get started.

Um, we are gonna start with an invocation by Father Jochi of the La Virgin de Guadalupe Catholic Church.

Let us pray.

We thank you for your blessings of this beautiful city we call home.

We are grateful for the spirit of unity, harmony, and cooperation that allows our community to grow and care for one another.

Today we ask your special blessing upon our mayor, all the city council members, and all those who serve leadership, grant them clarity of mind, fairness in judgment, and spirit of humility as they work for the common good.

We pray for all our first responders and that all the law enforcement officers for their courage, dedication, and daily sacrifice, protect them as they protect us and strengthen their families with peace and support.

We lift up all the businesses, organizations, and the workers of our city.

May they continue to prosper, innovate, and enrich the lives of all the residents, and we pray for every household and our neighborhood for safety, understanding, compassion, and hope to flourish among us.

As this meeting begins today, we ask for your guidance and light.

Help every discussion and decisions made today to be marked by respect, wisdom, and a sincere desire to serve the people of this community.

May our actions reflect our shared commitment to justice, peace, and the well-being of all.

Bless our city with harmony, bless our leaders with wisdom, and bless our people with unity and peace.

In Jesus' name we pray.

Amen.

Thank you, Father.

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

Pledge.

One nation, with liberty and justice for all.

Now I'd like to uh turn the time over to Councilwoman Gella.

So if I can have um Mayor Whipple join me, um, and Jody Thornley up front, that would be great.

She has a cheese.

What's going on, Jordan?

Well, I don't know what's going on.

Hi.

So so this uh for everyone, sorry, excuse my back.

So Jodi is stepping down after 10 years of her busy schedule from our CAB board, um, which is our community education advisory board.

So I want to thank everyone who helped make this happen.

This recognition happen tonight.

Um, Martin and Julie.

Julie did a whole lot.

She really stepped up to make this recognition come together.

Um, I'd also like to thank her wonderful husband who worked behind the scenes to make this happen.

Besides the C board, she's like, um Chair Jodi was instrumental in um and took the lead in building the new gym at the high school.

So besides the CAP board chair, she worked in the community advisory committee uh for the CCSD, vice chair on SEAC for two years, which is the sex education advisory committee, um, NGCD, which is a Nevada Governor's Council on developing developmental disabilities, and a multitude of other other committees.

So this is just an idea of some of the things that Jody's been on and done for the city.

Okay.

So I think the mayor may want to say a couple things, and then I don't Jody's done so much for education here in the valley.

She's, I don't want to say the one person that's stepped up above all others, but she's the one person that stepped up above all others.

So I'm just gonna say it.

And she's just so instrumental in so many, many things and and so much progress that's happened in the school these last decade plus a lot more.

And I just thank you for all your your service and everything.

And you know, you go look at that beautiful gym and you know the count the county had 400 million dollars, or school district did, and they didn't want to give us a dime and Jody got about 10 million dollars out of them.

So we really appreciate you.

Really appreciate you and all and all you've done.

Thank you.

Thank you, Sarah.

And then I think Lydia.

I would love to say something about Jody.

Jody, thank you so much for oh, I'm sorry.

Um, my name's Lydia Dominguez.

I am the Clark County School Board Trustee for this district.

Thank you so much for welcoming me in here.

Um say about you, Jody.

Um, thank you so much for your service to public education, to education here in Nevada, and also um just for fighting, just being a mom, fighting for her kids, fighting for special education, just fighting for a community.

I know it takes a lot of work, and man, do the women know how to get it done.

So thank you so much for your work and and um your commitment to to education here in Nevada.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Before Jody gets a chance to speak, I also want to let everybody know that Dan Martinson is going to be taking over the CAP board.

Do you want to stand up so everybody knows who you are?

Thank you, Dan.

Do you want to say anything, Jody?

I didn't want to say anything, but thank you so much.

Um's in good hands with Ben.

I feel really good about taking just a little break.

I'm not going anywhere.

Well, I hope I'm not going anywhere.

Um, but I'm I'll I'll be here just to still help, but I feel like at this time I didn't have enough time to dedicate to it that it deserves.

So and um just thank you so much.

I wasn't appreciate this, and Cody's in big trouble.

And no, thank you very much.

I appreciate it a lot.

Wow.

Oh, okay.

Thank you.

I know it's beautiful so much.

Oh, maybe I'll put it in the box.

Okay.

Yeah.

Oh, we have to cover two.

I don't know where it's ammo, but whatever you put on there.

He did all the work.

Jody did it all.

Thank you.

Um, and now Nancy, would you come forward?

Tough act to follow there.

Well, good evening, Mayor and Council.

Um, my name is Nancy Hewitt.

I work for the City Mesquite.

And I am here tonight, like I have been for the past three years, to give appreciation and recognition to the Virgin Valley School's teacher, Tyler Roylance.

He's the art teacher there, and his art students for coming to City Hall for the last four years and doing a beautiful job of painting our amazing holiday greeting for everyone to see as they pass by our city hall.

Thank you.

Um on Saturday, November 22nd, seven of Tyler's students and his sons, and along with a few of my friends came to City Hall on a beautiful day and worked very hard to paint the wonderful happy holidays with fun colorful scenes and characters on the front windows of City Hall for all the citizens of Mesquite to enjoy.

If you haven't seen them, please pass by and take a look.

And we hope to get we hope to get it painted the weekend prior.

Unfortunately, Mother Nature had other plans.

So unfortunately, several of the students that had planned to come and paint the window had uh prior engagements on the weekend that we did go out and paint them.

So again, thank you, Mr.

O'Reillance, for his wonderful creative students and helpers for bringing a smile and a happier holiday to the city of Mesquite.

So I would like to present.

Um, each one of the students also gets a certificate with a photo of their picture and in front of City Hall.

And um Mr.

Oilance will be presenting those to the kids, but I would like to present this one to Tyler for his class.

Thank you.

I was gonna come down and take the picture.

No, I was gonna not get in the picture.

I was gonna come take it.

Oh, come on down and get in your picture.

You're good.

I didn't get them.

I'll go right between.

Thank you.

No, I I didn't know Nancy had already got somebody to take a picture, so I was like, I'll run down there and take the picture real quick.

Thank you.

Got it covered.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

And Nancy, thank you too.

All right.

Um now we're gonna start with our opening public comment.

You have oh any other we have any other Debbie?

Oh, yes.

Don't mess with Mrs.

Close.

I wouldn't dare.

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

Thank you.

I think that the parade was a huge success.

I've got nothing but compliments on what the creativity in this town was.

It was amazing.

We had 39 entries, the largest parade that we've had for the parade of lights.

The community food drive is gonna continue until after Christmas.

The drop boxes will be around town.

I'm still getting calls from people asking me if it's too late to donate, and I say it's never too late.

As of today, okay, last back up.

Last year, the grand total was 21, 788 pounds.

As of today, we have 22, 202.8 pounds.

I still, I still have money to spend to go shopping.

I still have people doing food drives for me to include Deep Roots Harvest, who, by the way, as of today, they've given me almost 2300 pounds of food.

So we are gonna make the goal that he set for me of 25,000, no problem.

So thank you, and we'll do it again.

Can you do this one, please?

There you go.

I don't know if you can zoom in a bit.

So I was the other end of the uh parade of lights deal.

I want to thank Councilman Parish, Councilwoman Gallo.

And our new city manager and her son.

Her son stepped in for you, Mayor.

He did a real good job.

We had not one complaint.

Wait, way better.

I can't imagine.

And of course, Councilman Ellis was all grand marshal.

We always have a veteran.

Well done.

And thank every one of you.

It was a great parade, wasn't it?

It was a really good parade.

Okay.

Now, I gotta tell you two stories.

Um can I have Randy Lobb up here, please?

Randy.

Randy.

Oh no.

This is a funny story.

Well, I think it's funny anyway.

So unfortunately, Debbie was in the building and somebody locked the door and she couldn't get out.

I'm supposed to tell this story, by the way.

You're not I am.

Yeah, okay.

And so Debbie in her wisdom put a little sign like this in between the door.

And the lady walked past, and she called the fire department.

The fire plan called Randy, Randy said he's going over to get her out.

And uh I wouldn't have known.

Until it got dark.

And I would have said, I think Mike's would have locked the door.

No, no, no, no.

No.

Actually, I paid Randy to do it.

So there you go.

Okay.

That's the point we're not supposed to talk about.

Yeah, it's not that supposed, but thank you for your guys for helping her out.

Mayor, would you come up here?

I have something for you.

I hope it's a shirt.

It certainly is.

Excellent.

Um, there's your shirt, as it was your your saying that made this shirt famous.

And there is no royalties.

That is the royalties of the show.

Hi, Daddy.

You gotta get up and the middle.

I didn't make it do it.

That looks great.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thanks, May.

Yeah, very nice.

Thank you.

And and Debbie, Mike, thank you guys for all you for all you do.

We appreciate it.

Yeah.

Well, you're doing a lot, so um okay, with that, we're gonna start on our opening public comment.

You have three minutes, please come forward.

And this is for items that are not on the agenda.

So John Rosen, citizen of Mesquite.

Uh Mayor Whipple, City Council members.

Uh, I'm going to make a few comments quickly about our master plan committee for the city.

Uh I've been working on the Master Plan Committee for several years now, and it is my opinion that the Master Plan Committee had its most productive year by far this last year.

And in that productivity, they gave to the city, or very close to finally presenting to the city, a very, very precious gift.

That precious gift is the future vision of Mesquite document that we have been working very hard on.

And I believe that Simon will probably make a final presentation to the city council sometime early this spring.

That document is a gift because it not only presents to the city a future vision in very great detail and very comprehensive, but more importantly, it presents the roadmap for how we are going to get from our current place to that future vision.

The future vision is not something that is going to happen to us.

It is something that we are going to make happen, and it will involve all of the community in that effort to make it happen.

The thing I would like to offer to you today, you as the governing board for the city, is that the document is not something simply to be read, but something to be used as a roadmap and a guideline in every single decision and vote you take, because you will have to ask yourself two questions.

This particular vote, this particular issue we're dealing with, and this vote that we're going to take.

Does it does my vote move me closer to that future vision or further away?

And I hope that that document will be your primary criteria by which you make your decisions.

Thank you, John.

Dominic Olivetto, Citizen of Mesquite, and no mayor.

I didn't get dressed up for you.

I just got off the golf course.

I see how it is.

I have done all the research.

I hey, you know, I'm getting recorded, Bill knocking off.

Uh I've done all the research I can find anywhere in definitions, and there's nowhere I can find from Webster to Google to whatever that describes a single family zoning as having multi-families in part-time.

Nowhere.

It actually says it shouldn't happen.

I think that I've already lost this debate, so I'm not trying to debate.

What I'm saying is the city needs to go back and revisit that.

That should have been a zoning change, not a special deal, unless there's something in the law that I have not read and I spent a whole bunch of time researching it.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Dominic.

Good evening.

My name is Erica, and I'm a mesquite resident since 2014.

At this time, I would like to propose that Alcoholics Anonymous in the Mesquite Jail be added to the agenda.

Alcoholics Anonymous was founded by Will Lilson, Bill Wilson in the year 1935, when he discovered without parallel that one alcoholic working with another brings positive results that were unobtainable before.

In 1939, the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous was published.

AA members began attempting to carry their message inside the walls of prisons as early as September of 1940, with the first group forming at Washington State Prison in 1940.

The general goal of AA in correctional facilities is to provide support for individuals with alcohol use disorders to achieve sobriety and to avoid future legal trouble.

60 to 70 percent of criminals will reoffend within three years.

At nine years, it becomes 80% will reoffend within nine years.

Alcoholics Anonymous used to meet once a week on Tuesdays at the jail for one hour.

And with the men when we're with the women.

Participants that wish to chair the AA meeting in the jail were obligated to fill out a background check and be pre-approved by the police department here in Mesquite.

In 2003, our town made a huge stride in working with habitual offenders by starting the breaking the cycle program here with Judge Ryan Toon.

This program has benefited many individuals, including some now that own businesses in this town, and others that work at the Salvation Army.

These individuals are now contributing members of society as opposed to addicted criminals, which they once were.

Now that our current jail is being redone, I feel like this is the perfect opportunity for our community to find the space for this program.

And the past, Chief Chesley and I spoke about AA restarting in the jails, and I was met with issues that I believe are now resolved.

Not enough staff or no room in the facility for AA to take place for the issues that were to my knowledge.

I don't know any other ones, obviously.

Um both these issues are no longer a problem since they're rebuilding the jail, so they'll make a space.

And because it is now fully staffed, according to my thoughts.

So we'll see if you guys agree with that.

Um I've spoken with the current mayor, current administration at the jail.

Uh I asked the town, the council, and police to think about what is truly best for our community.

Please reconsider opening the AA jail, the AA in the jail here in Mesquite.

Thank you.

Thank you, Erica.

Good evening, Mayor and City Council.

I was here a month ago, and I was mentioning the sign.

It's your name.

Oh, I'm sorry, Dave Northam, Sun City.

Um, I was here a month ago, and this was the sign that was at the dog park.

I mentioned that.

Randy Lobb, I believe, took care of it.

This is now the new sign.

This large dog park and the small dog park.

The problem is people still don't use it, but they don't read.

People, especially from out of town are the ones who need to see this because they bring their large large dogs in and they put them in the small dog park.

That means the small people show up, have to go to the log large dog park if there's nobody there.

Otherwise, they have to wait until somebody clears out.

So that was my main thing.

One other thing is the entrances to Smith's office sandhill and big old tires.

There is a strip of concrete missing or asphalt, whatever.

The center part is fine, but there's sections on either end of that entryway that are missing.

There's like a gap in the road.

So I wanted to be taking a look at and taken care of.

Thank you, Rim.

Appreciate it.

Thank you, Dave.

Gotta get my glasses.

Okay, Mr.

Mayor and Council.

We talked about the good side of Mesquite.

This is the ugly side of Mesquite.

I made a comment many months ago that we went from the safest to the racist city in Nevada.

The council did the right thing.

They got rid of a member of the board for making racist comments about African American women.

You did the right thing.

Thank you.

I don't tolerate that type of behavior.

And the next thing I want to go on to, unfortunately, everybody doesn't love Debbie.

I'm going back a few years now because I'm pretty angry.

And I don't usually get this angry and upset, but I am.

Debbie used to cook dinner every Christmas day for the fire and the on-duty police officers.

One of the firemen made a very inappropriate, nasty comment.

I won't even tell you what it is because I got so upset.

When I filed a complaint, after that, we were no longer Santa and Mrs.

Claws for the fire department.

If any of you would like to know what that firefighter said, I will be more than happy to tell you.

But I'm not going to tell people out here.

And then we move on.

So then came 9-11.

And I was retaliated again because I spoke up here.

Thank every one of you for letting me do my 9-11 presentation.

And I mean that from the bottom of my heart, because I knew one of the guys who died.

You did the right thing.

And I will never forget that.

Thank you.

And now I have found out the previous chief, fire chief, made me an honorary member of the fire company.

I was invited to Christmas parties, picnics, whatever.

Now I'm not.

But I've been told that another honorary member is.

So is it discrimination?

I think it is.

Okay, thank you.

We did Sandra and Mrs.

Claws for two police chiefs.

Had a great time.

This year they ditched us.

Okay.

We've done nothing to them except speak up here at council.

I have never lied to any one of you up here.

I've always told the truth.

Okay.

Before I close, I'll tell you this.

I'm going to be around for a long time.

I was surprised myself.

I just had uh a full bill of health.

All my lab work came back perfect because it was done in a certified laboratory by a certified technician.

Okay.

And last but not least, I had another talk with the attorney general.

He was up here two weeks ago.

And I said, Mr.

Ford, I gave you some information.

He said, Yes, you did, and it will take us time, but we are working on it.

So and apart from that, I wish every one of you a merry Christmas.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mike.

A tough act to follow.

Gary Elgort, in case anyone's wondering, I'm also healthy.

Um comment and then a rather important issue.

I I don't know where we hired the people who were working on Falcon Ridge Parkway.

For some reason, they need two lanes shut off, and they've been digging a trench for like a hundred and forty years, and the guys on the skite boulevard are flying along like putting them to shame terribly.

So that's just uh an observation.

Uh the issue that I'd like to talk about is important to everybody in this room.

The issue that I'd like to talk about is important to everybody in this room, everybody in this valley, everybody in Overton, Logendale, Malapa.

If nobody noticed, OPD five just raised rates.

Okay.

I'm a proponent of raising utility rates when it's needed because the utility is the most important thing we have.

We have to have electric, we have to have water, the same way we have to have police, right?

Fire.

All those things are very important.

They need to be funded properly.

But what's interesting is a couple of years ago, OPD 5 raised rates on the base rate 8% across the board.

They had a study that showed that homeowners, all of us here, people that live in houses, the people who pay most of the bill and elect all our representatives there, were very close to paying the proper base rate, but that corporations or big businesses, high drawing energy users were paying way below the recommended base rate.

They had that study done, they paid for it, and it came back and said we were like 70% close to what we should be, and other places were 3% close to what they should be.

And they did an 8% across the board rate increase where they should have raised different people differently.

And we had that discussion in the meeting.

In other words, there's a delta, okay?

You should be paying 2,000, you're paying 80.

You went up 8%, I should be paying 50, I'm paying 30, I went up 8%.

But that 8% is very tiny compared to the Delta.

So this time they did something different.

They did a $4 base rate increase across the board.

Well, guess what?

For all of us homeowners, all of us residents here, that's a 12% increase, higher than just about anything has raised recently in a one year.

And yet they did a $4 increase on the guy paying $80, so it's a 5% increase.

And he's hundreds and even close to thousands below what he's supposed to be paying.

So it's a slap in the face to all of us here, all of us ratepayers, that the staff there made a decision to present this to the board, and that the board there made the decision to say, yes, we're gonna put this on the backs of the residents, the people who live on the local streets, the people who've lived here for 30 years on fixed incomes, that's who we're gonna hit up the hardest.

When the time's time to elect your representative, the OPD5 next time, look around and see who's paying attention.

Thank you, Gary.

Last meeting I brought up the OPD rate increases.

And I want to give a perspective from a business owner on rate increases.

We pay a demand charge.

So if you want to talk about a base rate, we get hit really hard.

Plus, when you do your, we we get hit with a fee for substations for distribution that residential users don't get.

And plus the demand rate that OPD charges us is twice what NV Energy charges.

So we pay $9 a kilowatt peak for demand, where you go to NV Energy is $4.75.

And that makes a huge difference.

So everybody has their perspective on what who pays for what, but you can do the income studies on who who pays actually contributes.

You can look at base rates, you can look at everything else.

But if you look at actual revenues collected per kilowatt used, kilowatt hour use, uh commercial pace way higher.

We're supporting a reduction, basically the reset residential in this town are paying 75% less than what an NV energy customer does.

I'm not advocating increases, but I want a perspective that the commercial people in this town are carrying a big burden of what the cost for OPD is.

So thank you very much for listening.

Thank you, Dave.

Well, thanks.

Good evening, City Council, city uh government.

Turn up to the mic there and then give us your name.

Oh good evening, city um government and ladies and gentlemen.

My name is Sherry Brooks, and I've lived here in the cute little town of Mesquite since July.

And I'm gonna stay the course.

I think it's an adorable town.

I haven't met any of you or not many people in in Nevada.

I came from uh Reno.

Um I must say that uh in three minutes, it's almost like a Texas draw to really say what you want to say in three minutes.

Um I have a tendency to lecture, give big old blown-out speeches, but uh I do want to say um Mesquite's a pretty little town, like I said, upon exploration, and I intend to stay here and uh make it my hometown.

I'm from Reno.

And I'm at the falls.

This is now an acknowledgement of what I had observed in my neighborhood uh uh at the falls, and notice their budget seems extremely off uh with performance actually uh than uh what is uh being presented or performed.

Um I read two budgets, uh Musquite Vista and uh the Falls, and uh not many people are around, only about 280 homes in the falls, and uh uh I would uh also say that uh many snowbirds have not returned.

I don't have many neighbors to the right of me, and only a few homeowners uh attend the last homeowner association board meeting.

Um or are they held over?

Or what do you think?

There's a lot of second homes, so retirement homes, yeah.

The budget was my concern because of the thousands of dollars in the year, and uh I just uh question that.

So I read the budgets and I uh pointed it out to the homeowner association, so I just let it go.

But it I'm here more for an acknowledgement.

Thank you, and I hope you all have a merry Christmas.

I'd like to meet you all sometime.

Um, thank you.

Have a good evening, thank you, Sherry.

Thanks for having me.

Thank you.

Mayor, council, Nickelphinsetti, welcome aboard.

Thank you very much for stepping up to the plate.

Best going.

I hear you did a great job in the parade, and especially the new mayor.

Uh mayor, we must buy clothes at the same place.

All right, okay.

Uh I put a paper here.

Um I guess it goes the other way.

So everybody can see it.

Uh last November I was served with a subpoena for a deposition.

And if you look on it, it concerns a Joseph McQuay Chesley and uh Sheila Chesley.

And uh in that, if you look below it as a defendants, virtually, I know none of those people, but they felt that I had a lot of information to give them, which I didn't.

Actually, a few days before the deposition was supposed to be given, and I didn't get a notice on it until I called in to find out.

So what it turns out is when I got it, I want you to know four months before I was informed I would be getting one, and it was about retaliation of coming up here and divulging things that are going on within the mesquite police department.

So that's where this thing is coming from, and the information that they got, I think was a little bit more than what they wanted and wanted to open up.

Well, who's the retaliation from uh Mr.

Fales, Everett, and Bundy, and that's what it points to.

My lawyer says any time that I care to go after them, we will do that.

But right now, I think we've got enough going on within the city, and I'm gonna hold back on it.

But if I get another subpoena, I will be going after it, just to let you know.

So thank you very much for your time.

Merry Christmas and uh happy new year.

Thank you.

Thank you, Nick.

One of those two.

Thank you.

You think after going to how many council meetings, you'd get a free t-shirt, right?

Mayor Whipple and Council, um, Rayline Chapano with Nordic Beach uh properties for the record.

Um, I know you're tired of hearing from us about this issue, but I do appreciate the council that has been um listening to us because I think it's really important.

Um we don't want to have neighbors at war, which is what we're the council is putting us at war with this parking issue at the thing.

And if litigation, again, for the public, if litigation prevents um the city from uh enforcing parking, you know.

If if we can't keep our parking and they won't enforce it, then the city is um they can't do both sides.

You know, it's it's just really unfair to give away our parking rights.

So the city um has parking is mandatory in your mesquite municipal code.

It is not an option, it is not an accessory, it is mandatory.

So if you don't have parking, you can't have a business.

So Red Hills is not an NRS 116 common interest community.

We've all clarified that.

The associations clarified that by you know, pointing out that 4C2 and 3D two are not in our C C N Rs.

The C C and Rs aren't valid.

Um, we're getting all these these things that we're learning along the way, and I'm trying to teach the city along the way so the city doesn't keep approving things and then have to go back and take things away.

So we're asking that there are nothing approved for parking.

Um, we are going to block off our parking.

We are going to reserve it for Nordic Beach Holdings and the Red Hill Cinema.

Um parking has to be any easement affecting these things has to be recorded under the NRS 111 codes.

If you have an easement, it has to be recorded.

It has to be recorded on the map, and you'll see with our map, there are no easements recorded.

Um, the C C and Rs don't matter.

The CC and Rs were created before the land was even done.

There's a lot of things wrong with those C C and R.

So I beg you not to keep basing anything off of those C C and Rs.

The public record, the easements have to be on the map.

There's nothing on the map that has any easements.

So we don't want to have any more problems with our neighbors.

I know we have new neighbors coming in.

I told you you were selling to the next victim.

That next victim is here already.

So that person doesn't have parking.

They don't and they're not gonna understand why they don't have parking, they're not gonna understand why we're fighting against the city for this parking, but they will not be able to use our parking anymore.

And it's the city that's causing these problems by approving things they shouldn't be approving, by not understanding the NRS 111 and the NRS 278 codes.

Um easements have to have purpose, dimensions, recording numbers, and this 2007 map, nor the CCNRs have those recording numbers, they don't have the meets and bounds, and they don't have the things required to have that parking.

So we are gonna block it off, and just to let you know.

So thank you.

Thank you, Rayleigh.

I wanted to welcome Becca to the jungle here, but it's it's really it does it's it gets it's pretty good, it is.

And how about those who's right?

You watched that, didn't you?

Who's yours?

There you go.

I um wanted to take a minute to uh, you know, I only showed up here for Jody Thornley.

I know I'm not supposed to mention other audience members, but I just broke one of these rules.

Thank you for your help, Wes with the pulling that together.

I wanted to thank Patty for taking taking the bull by the horns and making that award happen and that recognition happen.

This city is full of people that volunteer their time, volunteer their resources and donate with their resources and volunteer their expertise.

John Rosen's another one, Dabby Bennham and Mike.

I'm really breaking a lot of rules tonight, but um Jodi is right at the top of that too.

She's done so much for not just her kids, her kids are out of high school, out of school for every kid in this valley.

And um an award like that is just a small token.

It could never express what she's done and what her work means to the people here.

And finally, I wanted to thank Lydia Dominguez, our trustee for driving three hours to be here.

She's in the back.

So yeah, I want to thank her too.

So Merry Christmas, you guys.

Thank you, Wes.

Okay, seeing no one else step forward.

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

2.1 consideration of approval of the Tuesday, February 18th, 2025 technical review meeting minutes.

The Tuesday, November 4th, 2025 technical review meeting minutes, and the Tuesday, February 11th, 2025 regular city council meeting minutes.

The Tuesday, October 14th, 2025 regular city council meeting minutes, and the Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 regular city council agenda.

2.2 consideration or approval of A, notification of budget transfers, B notification of budget amendments, C notification of bills paid and D purchase orders.

2.3 consideration of approval of resolution R25-052 regarding the interlocal agreement for the OAG grant for the Musquite Senior Center fiscal year 2025-2026.

Consideration for approval of resolution R25-053 regarding the interlocal agreement with Southern Nevada Water Authority, SNWA for the infrastructure sales tax program between the City of Musquite, SNWA, and the Virgin Valley Water District to establish terms under which SNWA will distribute the proceeds of one quarter of 1%, 25% sales tax adopted by Clark County to fund water and wastewater infrastructure projects, the infrastructure sales tax.

2.5 consideration approval of the Musquite Public Arts Commission MPAC to advance the proposed sculpture for the love of the game.

Approval is requested for the artwork concept and its placement near the existing sports statues at Old Mill Park MPAC intends to fund the project using future grant funds from Nevada Main Street grant for which the Mesquite Opportunities Regional Fund has applied.

Any questions on the consent agenda?

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

I just wanted to mention that on item 2.3, and the 45,000 that the senior center gets this year from the OAG grant is a great benefit for a senior center that helps our community feed the 16 over in our community.

So I just wanted to give them a shout out and say thank you again for giving us that 45,000.

And with that being said, I'll make a motion to have public comment.

Okay.

Do we have any public comment on the consent agenda?

Okay, seeing and I'll turn it back over to you, Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you.

Um I will make a motion to approve the consent agenda.

Do I have a second?

A second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Galloway.

Motion passes.

Item three, 3.1 quarterly presentation from CCSD.

Good evening, Lindsay Tomlinson, Region One Superintendent.

Along with me tonight, you obviously know Maurice Perkins.

He's the Region One School Associate Superintendent that supports our here.

And also Dr.

Jesse Welch, our deputy superintendent from the Clark County School District came as well today.

So good evening.

So good evening, Mayor Whipple and Council members.

On behalf of the Clark County School District, it's truly an honor to be with you tonight.

We are incredibly grateful for your partnership with the city of Mesquite and our impact or the impact you make on our schools.

This evening, I'll be sharing the disaggregated data that was presented to our board of school trustees during the third quarter of 2025.

Topics include student achievement and the Nevada School Performance Framework.

To begin, I would like to share an update on the compliance status.

On October 30th, 2025, the compliance monitor reported that the district has completed the process improvement plan shared with the board of school trustees related to the district's ability to provide accurate, complete, and timely information necessary for the development and implementation of the school plan of operations.

Let's begin tonight by celebrating our most important kind of progress, the academic progress of our Virgin Valley students.

We are seeing success because we have committed to the non-negotiables, consistently utilizing tier one instructional materials, having a licensed teacher in every classroom, establishing solid structures for student support, and maintaining a dedicated focus on getting students to school and keeping them engaged.

Before diving into the numbers, I must acknowledge that in some of our smaller learning communities, small student populations make analyzing data from year over year.

Um the changes are a little more volatile.

We are going to be focusing on long-term trends rather than just single year fluctuations.

So let's begin with English language arts.

Virgin Valley High School ELA proficiency is up 2%.

They are now at 59%.

More dramatically, the proficiency of our students eligible for special education increased by a full 10.2 percentage point.

This demonstrates that our targeted intervention structures are effective at our secondary level.

Middle school ELA proficiency increased by a strong 3.1%, and they are now at 42.5%.

In elementary ELA, we saw a 1.5 percentage point decrease to 49.8%.

This is an area of targeted growth for us.

We will be focusing on tier one coaching and professional development moving forward.

Moving on to math, elementary math shows positive movement with a 1.5 percentage increase, reaching 48% proficiency.

We have work ahead in secondary math at Hughes Middle School, as their proficiency decrease this year by 4.7%.

Virgin Valley High School's math proficiency also saw a slight decrease in 0.2 percentage points to 22.4%.

Currently, we are focusing heavily on ensuring fidelity in our secondary math tier one curriculum and providing strategic interventions.

Finally, our most impressive gain is in elementary science, which surged by 10.6 percentage points.

This growth is a tremendous win for our Virgin Valley schools.

Our middle school science program saw a little bit of a decrease.

They moved from 47.9% to 26.9%.

The school principal and Mr.

Perkins have conducted a review of instructional practices and assessments in this area to understand and address this trend.

And please know that's only eighth graders taking that assessment in middle school.

Finally, I would like to share our school star rankings.

Our commitment to strategic instructional alignment is clearly reflected in the Nevada School Performance Framework.

The percentage of schools rated three stars or higher remains unchanged in the in the Virgin Valley area of 66.7%.

The star rankings for this year are J.

Bowler Elementary, which is now a two-star school.

It increased one star.

Virgin Valley Elementary School is a three-star school, it increased one star.

Hughes Middle School is a two-star school, and Virgin Valley High School is a four-star school, which also increased a star.

And at this time, I would like to hand over the microphone to Mr.

Maurice Perkins, who will share our celebrations.

Good evening, uh Maurice Perkins, School Associate Superintendent for Region One.

As always, I get the fun part, all the celebrations.

So at the JL Bowler Elementary School, they're delighted to share their heartfelt appreciation for the tremendous attendance and remarkable community support at this year's elementary school fall festival.

The event was an incredible success thanks to the enthusiastic participation of the students, families, staff, and neighbors.

It was truly inspiring to see the school grounds filled with smiling faces, festive activities, and the shared spirit of togetherness, from families enjoying games and crafts to volunteers lending their time and energy.

Every moment reflected the strong partnerships that make the school community so special.

At Virgin Valley Elementary School, they have a lot to celebrate on uh Friday, November 14th.

The students and faculty of Virgin Valley Elementary School proudly participated in the annual Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day.

The day provided a powerful opportunity for elementary students to honor the courage and the historic impact of Ruby Bridges.

The PTO at Virgin Valley Elementary hosted an inspiring and motivational assembly for students on Monday, December 1st.

Students heard from Tia B.

Stokes.

She's a mother of five, a wife, a business owner, a cancer thriver, social media influencer, motivational speaker, and passionate lover of life.

Ms.

Stokes shared powerful messages about embracing life's opportunity to grow.

At Hughes Middle School, and uh they I believe were here last uh last city council uh but we celebrated uh the girls' flag football championship, the captured division one championship with a decisive victory over FEST Middle School, and they compete in the Division One, the highest classification in middle school athletics.

So this achievement reflects the team's exceptional skill teamwork and dedication throughout the season.

The cross-country teams at Hughes Middle School had an outstanding season also to celebrate.

The girls' team captured the division championship while the boys' team earned an impressive second place finish, coming up just a few points short.

Both teams advanced to compete in the CCSD championships the following week, where they finished 10th overall, showcasing their perseverance teamwork and competitive spirit throughout the season.

During Halloween week, a spirited uh canned food drive competition was held school-wide to support the community.

Uh, we congratulate the eighth graders for collecting the most cans of food as a reward for their generosity and teamwork.

They were treated to donuts and chocolate milk, a well-deserved celebration for making a positive impact and helping those in need.

120 120 uh Hughes Middle School students were recognized and celebrated with donuts for having zero tardies and zero absences during the month of October.

This achievement reflects their commitment to responsibility and attendance.

Great job, Hawks.

Finally, at Virgin Valley High School, uh they proudly hosted its annual college and career fair, welcoming more than 50 colleges, universities, and local businesses.

I actually had the opportunity to attend that fair.

It was a wonderful event.

A lot of people there, a lot of local businesses uh participating as well.

The event included invited guests from Wapa Valley and Beaver Dam, expanding opportunities for students across the entire region.

One of the highlights of the day was welcoming two Virgin Valley graduates back to campus as representatives from Southern Utah University.

Uh they inspired current students as they shared their own journeys and recruited future Thunderbirds.

Uh, since I have three sons that attended SUU go T word, right?

Uh, or currently attend, not past.

Virgin Valley High School recently had a truly unforgettable moment when a student had the opportunity to speak uh directly with the Pope.

It was an incredible and meaningful experience that left a lasting impact on the student and on the whole school community.

Virgin Valley High School has officially received its cognizac creditation, recognizing the school's dedication to high quality education and ongoing growth.

This is a significant accomplishment for the students, staff, and community.

And finally, the Virgin Valley Boys Tennis, Cheer, and Girls Golf are all academic state champions.

Congratulations on this exceptional accomplishment.

And uh one last thing, Mr.

Waite, the principal at Virgin Valley High School wanted me to just announce this Friday.

Uh they're doing their uh they're gonna be doing a uh cancer awareness uh night at their basket girls' basketball game.

The team will be wearing pink and also uh the flag football girls when they compete against Moapa.

That's to recognize and show support for any uh cancer survivors, anyone uh battling breast cancer at this time.

So I will turn it over to uh Dr.

Welsh at this time.

No, I have no comments, just here to answer any questions you guys might have.

Just a pleasure to be here with you guys and uh be up here in the community.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um any questions from council?

Next week.

All right, I think we're good.

Thank you guys.

Mayor Mayor, can I just make one quick comment?

Yes.

So I wouldn't be surprised if I was only the only one in the room who can say that they have kids in all levels of education here in town.

I've got kids in elementary and in middle and in the high school.

And it's yeah, and um, we've only been so happy with the experience of what's going on.

Like this last Saturday, I spent most of the day at a robotics tournament down to Las Vegas where the middle school they go an hour early and they're they're coding, they're building Rob robots and they're competing together.

I mean, it's just wonderful the opportunities that they have here, and thank you for all and and for the uh member of the board that's here as well.

Thank you.

You can hear that from other members of the community.

Thank you.

Do we have any public comment on that presentation?

Seeing none, um, do we have a motion to accept that presentation?

Councilwoman Fielding?

I will make a motion to accept that presentation.

Uh do I have a second?

I'll second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Gallow I thank you again.

Um, item 3.2 presentation by Hinton Burke PLLC.

Did we pull that?

Okay.

I know you told me that, and then I didn't remember.

So I'm sorry.

Um, do we have any public comment on that pulled presentation 3.2?

Okay, no.

Um item 4.1.

Mayor's comments and reports.

Um, I don't have any specifically, but um once again to Jody and to Debbie, just thanks for both of you and all you all you do, and we appreciate you and everyone else in this community that does volunteers our time and and and so much uh volunteer work and and good works that are happening.

Um, with that, um I think councilwoman fielding and then we'll go councilman Gallo and then Councilman Ennis was okay.

We'll go councilwoman Gallo first and then Fielding, then Ennis.

Okay, mine will be real quick.

Just um did want to reiterate that it was a great parade this year.

I don't know if you had a chance to go, but the fact that we had a camel, a donkey, some goats, was really exciting for me.

So I thought it was really a fun parade.

It was and everyone did a really beautiful job of decorating and showing up.

It was a great parade.

Um, I do want to just remind everybody this is the time year, I think sometimes when people do do some adoptions that over at the animal shelter, we certainly have cats, kittens, and dogs, but we also have a bunny and we have some guinea pigs.

So please um look into that because they do need homes for the holidays.

And uh We Care for Animals is also an organization here in town that does the same thing.

And I wanted to thank Lydia, but I think she's already left.

Thanked her for driving all the way out here tonight to uh to help present for uh Jody.

And that's it for me.

Okay, and then Councilman Ennis.

All right, mine's gonna be a quick old, so I just want to uh also uh there they've already left, but uh Debbie and Mike Benham for the opportunity for me to be grand marshaled at the parade.

That was awesome.

Appreciated that.

Um for those who are veterans in the in the room, and for those who know veterans, please let them know that starting in January, in fact, on January 10th from 10 o'clock until noon, we will now have a veterans uh uh mobile medical clinic coming to the veteran center at Mesquite, and that will be from 10 to noon, and there will be a doctor on board along with an LPN and an RN, and they'll be able to do all vaccinations and referrals.

So if you know a veteran that needs, let me know if they need rides.

I will arrange for rides and get them down there to the uh mobile uh medical clinic at uh mesquite veteran center on the 15th of January.

Thank you.

Um could we give Councilman Ennis a round of applause?

Such an amazing accomplishment.

He's done so much work for our veterans and getting this clinic going, and we really appreciate him.

Uh councilwoman Fielding Thank you, Mayor.

Um, I just wanted to give a shout out to the senior center.

This was my 12th year volunteering in the kitchen for the community Thanksgiving dinner on November 26th.

And I I believe from 11 to 3, we served 1200 Martin.

12 approximately 1,200 um community members, and that did include the inbound deliveries as well.

Um the senior center, if you've never been there for Thanksgiving, it is a fine-tuned oiled day.

And um Mr.

or Councilman Parrish was there to serve, um, councilwoman Gallo was there, the mayor, his wife was there um to serve and and help out that day.

But again, every year the community or the Miskite City puts that on with the senior center, it is a great event.

So um, I just can't give Leora, Chrissy, Laura, and um Giselda um Griseda enough um kudos for making that happen every year.

Thank you.

I I really quickly want to say um it was a great event, and I never sort of Karen run around so much carrying these B trays of food.

Can you open?

Can you open the door?

Can you open the door?

I mean, you worked really hard that day, so thank you, Karen.

I still feel it.

Any uh staff, Mr.

Anderson.

Yes, thank you, Mayor Council.

Um, with our weekly update, there was a couple questions that brought up during public comment that I did want to address.

So with our mill and fill project, which um they are going very well.

Um, that is the reconstruction of mesquite boulevard and sandhill boulevard.

They have been milling and repaving the section in front of the Casablanca, as we all remember that project will extend all the way down Mesquite Boulevard and Sandhill, which includes the area that the gentleman I don't know if he's still here, um, but it was talking about the where it seemed like there was the rough area in between the Smiths and the big old.

It also extends down Mesquite Boulevard.

That was from the first part of that with Overton Power putting in the conduit for their lowering all of the power and putting that in the roadway.

So this is all in conjunction with our mill and fill project.

Um, and so that will be taken care of with that.

Um, and so that will be taken care of with that, um, with that portion.

Uh, the second comment on the Falcon Ridge traffic signal at Hardy Way and Falcon Ridge Parkway.

That one is progressing quite well.

Um, one of the things that it was by design that um we allowed the two lanes to be taken for cost savings.

I'm able to save cost on traffic control being taken down every single day.

The reason for I wanted to keep those two lanes is I'm not repaving that for also a cost savings um if they had to repave it in small sections.

They can repave that um whole section, but I keep the two lanes other than on the weekends um for their work and uh just the driving, so they're not close to that trench in that section.

So there was a little method to the madness on that.

Um all in all, the projects are going quite well.

Hafen and Levitt Lane is progressing quite well.

I was out there inspecting that today.

The justice facility is progressing really well, like we said, the evidence building is complete.

Um, the judges chambers and that court section um are complete, other than getting the desks and the things in there, and now we're working finishing up the justice area and the new offices for where the old evidence was.

Animal shelter is coming along superb.

Um I looked at that.

Um we have a meeting next week to take our new city manager around to some of these, and I'm very excited about that one.

Um, they put up the decorations and the wall hangings in the inside.

It looks really well.

I can't wait till we have a ribbon cutting on that.

I think our public's gonna be so excited about that.

Uh the fire station number two is also going very well.

They've got the framing inside, the mechanical, all of that um going very well and very fast.

We did also have a pre-construction meeting for the Canyon Crest and Horizon project.

They're looking to start doing the survey work, putting out the construction stakes in that next week.

So we will see activity on that next week.

And um, once again, we're so very thankful for all of the um our citizens and the patience.

I know that it looks like orange is my favorite color, all the cones around, you know, and I do apologize.

There is a lot going on, but I'm very thankful and and appreciate all of your patience during that time.

So thank you very much.

Thank you, Travis.

Any other staff reports, comments?

Okay, seeing none, we are gonna move on to item 5.1 Consideration approval of resolution R25-054 establishing a temporary moratorium on the acceptance processing and approval of applications for short-term rentals, uh residential rentals, vacation rentals.

Simon?

Thank you, Mayor and City Council.

Um, this item has been initiated and sponsored by council member parrish.

Um, and uh uh I'm gonna uh point to just uh little and then uh finish it up.

Um this moratorium on vacation rental is for 180 days until Sunday, June 7th, 2026.

And uh there would be no new applications and suspend any uh pending applications and no right licenses, permits or approvals will be issued, and uh this is it will be effective immediately.

And there are exceptions.

So uh properties uh we don't approve the conditional use permit is an exception.

Legally established the short-term residential rentals and renewer or value to licenses, uh short-term uh lodging uh uses like a hotels, motels or licensed resorts uh exceptions, and communities uh that permits the short-term uh residential rentals are also exception.

And the license transfer to a new owner is an exempt exception, but in this case, a new owner needs to apply uh from the start because uh uh we need to get their information and uh update the information uh for our management for purposes.

So uh the decision to implement the temporary moratorium is significant political choice and policy choice that rests solely with the city council.

Uh step that commands that the city council weigh the commit community concerns regarding housing and neighborhood character against potential economic impacts and property rights and make a determination on whether temporary moratorium serves the current public health safety and general welfare of the community.

Thank you.

Thank you, Simon.

Questions from council.

Councilman Ennis.

Just a couple of comments on this.

And I'm with uh Councilman Parrish on this.

I I think this is something that we need to implement to get our so we can get our hands wrapped around what's currently going on in our city.

I took into consideration heavily the ramifications against economic impacts and stuff like that.

But uh we have 244, I think it is, rentals out there already that I'm gonna tell you right now, ladies and gentlemen, I don't have a clue if they're within their rights, if they're if they're following the ordinances and the charter or whatever they're doing, I don't even know where they're all at.

And so uh I think right now I think it's the best interest of the city and us uh to stop these.

No, I'm not saying we're gonna deny future applications by no means.

I don't want to do that.

I understand the tourism impact and everything else.

However, uh, because we have 244 out there already that me personally I don't have a clue about.

I think we need to stop, put a moratorium on this so we can get our hands wrapped around this so we can figure out what's going on in the city and then move forward with that.

Thank you.

Councilman Wallace so I have a question first.

You answered one of my questions.

So the communities that are in an HOA where their CCNRs state that they can have short-term rentals, this doesn't affect them at all.

That's correct.

So if we say that those people are fine, and to answer that 244, a lot of them are in those communities, and there are other developments that were built just for short-term rentals.

That's another big chunk.

But if we just take a portion of the city and say our codes and and everything we have say you can do this, but we're putting a moratorium just on you, not the people who live in HOAs.

What kind of a how does that look legally for the city?

I think the city's well within its rights right now to put a more moratorium in place based on the existing ordinances and just the how the law works in these situations as well.

I mean, I raised concerns during the last meeting about you know how what could be what could be some potential constitutional issues if the the those items weren't passed, but that that doesn't apply now if a more moratorium is issued.

Um the the city needs to have a rational basis for what it does, and there has to be uh good reasons that can be linked together that aren't arbitrary in nature.

And so to answer your question more directly, in those communities where the HOA they govern there themselves, and if they decide that they're gonna allow, then that's allowed.

You know, but what we're looking at is outside of those areas where there isn't that HOA in place, and so there's a difference there, and it's and it's uh it's an important distinction that would allow for that.

Okay, I I can't ever remember taking an oath that says we were going to change private property ownership rights, and and and in effect, we're doing this for six months.

I would rather look closer at ways to enforce the governing codes that say they can't do certain things, and as they do, make the penalties harder than limiting just arbitrarily six months of of any C UP.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilman.

Uh Councilwoman Gallagher.

I think that wasn't very nice.

Um anyway, I totally agree with Councilman Parish and Ennis.

I think we got to get a handle on what we have.

It's not that we don't want to have them, but we got to get a handle.

We don't know where they are, we don't know if they're following the rules that they're supposed to be following.

Um we're hearing a lot of horror stories from residents within the neighborhoods, and I think it's time that we as a council, in the past, from what I understand, all people had to do was show up at the city clerk's office, get a license, and it was done.

So it never came before council.

So I think that this is very important that the council gets a handle on what's going on in this town.

Um, as Mr.

Rosen was discussing, uh, working on plans for the city.

I think this is an important part of that as well, is to know where these vacation rentals are.

The other thing is we have hotels and and we're building hotels in this town, and we need to make sure that they're being supported too, our businesses.

So I think um this by far is um a great thing that that the council needs to do.

Thank you.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

So I I don't understand this at all, and I'll be honest with you.

Um, what is the purpose for 180 days and just FYI?

Every month we get the short-term rentals.

There's 246, and I know every single address, I know every single development and where they are, and a lot of them are in communities that already require short-term rentals.

Um, I also have a problem with this right here, where it says, and make determination on whether a temporary moratorium serves the current public health, safety, and general welfare of the community.

Why would a moratorium serve current public health?

I mean safety, general welfare of the community.

So I don't get this at all.

Looking at that um resolution that they have here, resolution number R25054, looking at that and the three pages that is on here, there are so many things in here that probably need to be re-worded, restated, and looked at by somebody who knows a little bit about real estate, short-term rentals and everything, but I'm looking at this, and I can't agree with this at all.

Um I I have a problem with this, and I would actually be happy after we have public comment to table this until we can go over this again and have our input on this resolution instead of having somebody draw it up and having us approve it.

And that would be that's where I'm at with that.

Councilman Ennis.

I don't feel that this is uh an intrusion or whatever you want to call it down there on property on individual property rights.

Okay, we've already given out 244 of these licenses.

I challenge you, Councilwoman Fielding, that if you know where all these addresses are, that you go around there and you make sure that each one of these properties are within code and within charter, and then come back and report that, then maybe I will go forward with this.

But in the meantime, we don't have a clue if each one of these properties or following the charter or their code as far as contact persons, how many people are allowed, or anything else like that.

We've already heard from several residents out here, and I know that this is a tensuous subject, but I've already heard from several residents out here where they have eight, nine, ten cars sometimes parked at their individual these STRs, and so be it.

And so, and to say that turn this over to somebody who knows how to do short-term rentals.

I've been in I've been in real estate since this early 70s, both commercial and residential.

I know short-term rentals.

Thank you.

Councilman Parish.

I want to thank uh all the council members for their comments, but one thing that we have to remember is is this is a lot, this goes back a lot further than just the last six or eight months.

Um I myself personally bought in a non-HOA neighborhood, so I didn't have to deal with an HOA.

Well, guess what?

People can come in there and buy homes and turn them into short-term rentals, and I have no recourse.

Um that's not right.

Um, we bought I bought people out there bought and non-HOA communities, thinking that yes, I don't have to put up with HOA.

Now all of a sudden they got to put up with short-term rentals, and that's just not right.

Um maybe what we need to do is to get all these non-HOA areas to come up with a simple HOA, stating that we won't allow short-term rentals.

That's why we need this six-month moratorium to get our act together so that we protect the majority of the citizens' rights.

Any other uh questions or comments from council?

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

You have three minutes.

I think you need this moratorium for a couple of reasons.

One, there is no way you can enforce what you have now.

Number two is part of your new document to protect this, says that they have to be zoned for short-term rentals.

Another part of it, which is a fallacy, and I know this is a fallacy because I have a son that breaks every rule in the book.

It says in here, oh don't repeat that, uh it says in here how many adults you can have.

You can have all the 12-year-olds you want.

Now, this is a true story.

My youngest boy comes down here for little league baseball here several years ago.

I go to the uh short-term rental he's in.

There's six adults there and 10 12-year-olds getting ready to play baseball.

Now, according to our recommendations here, I can bring in 25, 30 12-year-olds, and there's no way of enforcing it.

There's nobody that knows what goes on.

That poor lady that was up here last city council meeting, 89 years old, blocked in front of her house.

Now, if that was in front of my house, that wouldn't happen because I'd go out and kick ass.

But besides that, uh Dominic, do we need to have a heart to heart about your language tonight?

Oh, I'm sorry.

I apologize, Mayor.

My wife gave me a lecture on that before I left.

She she she had uh part of that upbringing.

But we need to get away.

I'm not against short-term rentals, but we have no way of policing them.

I mean, the city doesn't have the manpower to go around and even check.

I mean, you know, Simon can work 48 hours in one day if he can figure out how to do it to run around and check them.

Well, wasn't supposed to do that either, was I?

But anyway, there's not enough manpower to go around and check this stuff.

I mean, there's not a clue.

I mean, there's not enough manpower to go around and get the abandoned vehicles and rusted out decaying boats out of my neighborhood.

And these they talk about HOAs.

My uh ex-sister-in-law and her family moved into one in uh Shadow Mountain, or not Shadow, Stonehaven, 14 adults in a three-bedroom house, and two grandkids of theirs.

That's all I got.

Thank you, Dominic.

Honorable mayor and counsel, my name is Doris Christelier.

Pardon me.

Um, I agree to the six-month trial, uh, because like you said, Karen, I think a lot of this needs to be reworded.

It's a very sticky wicket.

And I've a firm believer in like live and let live, as long as you're not you know jumping over my fence and burning down my house, kind of thing, because it doesn't matter if you have a five-bedroom house with 14 family members living there, or 27 family members coming for a vacation, that's your home.

But when you start infringing and rippling that pond where I live in a very small development called Scenic Vista, which are two-bedroom, two-bath, one car garages, and you have renter and time or short-term renters come in with dune buggies, as I call them in the driveway that are backed out in the street, and then a giant diesel truck that's carrying a trailer that holds three more, and I literally have you know four feet to get into my driveway, and I get home and it's 10 o'clock at night, and they've shown up at seven.

There needs to be some kind of regulation for that.

And my experience with that personally is up in Big Bear, California.

If you have a short term short-term rental, if it's a three-bedroom, you get two parking spaces.

A lot of them are little one-bedroom cabins.

It was developed as a little campground.

It's called sugar loaf.

So you have to set those parameters, and I think that's where you were saying in the wording.

Pardon me, have that redone.

Also, with trash, um, it that pulls over into it, water pulls over into it because you have people up there, 20 people that are taking 80 showers using every towel in the place.

So there's a lot of things I think that really need to be looked at, and it can be done because once again, I'm a firm believer in live and let live.

I mean, I've had neighbors that have 14 people in their family in a three-bedroom house.

I mean, we grew up five in a house with one bathroom.

So, once again, and the thing about that as well, is the renters need to be considered of where they are.

So it's gonna take a lot of thought and a lot of um aggravation and headaches, I guess, but I hope it does get resolved because I am for it.

Thank you.

Thank you, Doris.

Jeff Reynolds, I'd like to welcome the new city manager.

It was, I guess it was kind of tough getting you here, but you're here, and we hope that uh you got some iron in your blood that stands up to uh people.

And don't believe any of these guys up here because they're all full.

I think that we don't want our city overtaken by uh vacation rentals.

But I I think that the 180 days is a minimum that we should do.

I think that you should sit with your city attorney and maybe your police chief and whoever else is here, and um write an ordinance or a law that outlines all of the violations, all of the requirements.

Um how that the people report it, what they can report and and do those things.

It's so ambiguous now that nobody really knows how to do those kind of things.

If you get the law written down in a document that's clear and concise, and present it to the people that rent these out, I think you'll have a lot less problems.

There should be uh first warning, second, maybe a ticket and third, massive fine when something happens on these.

Because if you just slap their hands all the way down the line, they're gonna continue doing it.

I don't know if Miss Fielding is is in the business of vacation rentals, uh not at all.

Okay, but they uh you know you're gonna you need to get things solid.

You need to solid things up, and I think a lot of make a lot of people more happy if they know that there's certain restrictions that's gonna go on.

This is who's gonna enforce it, and this is what the consequences are.

And you know, it may take a little bit of time in writing and stuff, but um you're gonna have a rebellion on your hands from a lot of people because this is gonna end up being like another Palm Springs, you know, it's just gonna be all the people that live here are gonna move.

So that's all I got.

Thank you.

Thank you, Jeff.

Mayor and Council, my name is Becky Peterson.

My husband and I, Mike, we've been here for three years now, and love our community.

We came from Salt Lake City, Harriman was our big house.

We had a 46, well, 4600 square foot home with neighbors that had a pool.

They decided that they were gonna let a company go ahead and take care of their properties.

Well, we had the same problems that you're hearing from everybody else down here, trailers that were blocking our driveway, people leaving the pool uncovered, no fencing.

We've been there, we've done that, we know what it's like.

I don't have, I wish I did, had the money to invest.

Has anybody been up to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and at Cowboy Village?

That's what we need here.

It's a community of little log cabins.

I know there's one in Tennessee as well.

Miniature cabins that'll house two to bedrooms, some some of them are three.

They have a central area that has barbecues, hot tub area, volleyball, whatever, some kind of an amusement spot for the kids.

I know a lot of people complain that they don't want to have their kids down here in the hotels because they're running up and down the halls.

If we could in have somebody invest in something like that on our properties that the count the city owns, that would be income for the city.

Have somebody that wants to invest instead of building new homes, invest in our tourism, which we're all looking at right now.

If you went to the meeting, that's a part of the tourism.

Having those individual cabins, let the kids have a place to play, enjoy themselves, but still have the privacy that's necessary.

Just a suggestion.

Thank you, Becky.

I'm Loretta Corp.

I'm that 89-year-old, I'm almost 89 and a half now.

Still enjoying our beautiful city, and I want to thank each of you for taking time to think about and and address this issue.

Thank you.

It's really appreciated.

And I hope that you'll come up with a decision that will meet my needs.

I as I said last time, I live at 170 Quill Run, and on one side and the other are vacation homes.

So please, in your when you look at things, don't put one across the street from me and behind me, because that would, you know, our homes are not not like the home I moved in.

I lived in as a child.

These are close.

We're very close to each other.

And I love my neighbors.

I love this community.

I love the whole street.

In fact, I really like the people who bought the two homes on both sides of me.

I didn't know what they were doing at the time, and that's their business, and they aren't breaking the law.

And I I would love to have them as neighbors, but that's not my choice.

They come to visit, and they're very nice people.

The others, I don't know who they are.

I don't know who's going to be coming.

I feel like I have commercial property next door to me.

My husband and I bought that home in 2003.

We did not want a homeowners association.

And we don't now either.

I don't.

And I love, I just love my little neighborhood.

Please leave it alone.

There's other places they can go.

I don't understand that concept.

I'm too old to understand why they I love to go to motels and hotels, but but I don't know.

I know people want to get back into their own home that they just left.

So that's the way it is.

Thank you again, and please put time into it.

If it takes six months, take it.

It's worth it.

Thank you.

Thank you, Loretta.

Council Nick Elfensetti, Mayor.

Uh going along with the same thing with the licensing.

Okay, if the license was given on an annual basis and given to the property owner on an annual basis, they might take and look at who they're running to and what the options were as far as conduct goes.

And when they hand them the conduct sheet, they know that they're liable for the conduct.

So meaning if the police are called three times in the same week, they know there's a possibility of their license may not be renewed in the following year.

That might be the standing point to be able to govern what's going on with this thing.

Again, last week we had three uh teenagers, 20-year-olds.

Uh they came in at two o'clock in the afternoon screaming, yelling.

They made enough noise to get me in the house.

I turned the TV on.

I still couldn't hear the TV, sitting in front of it.

So just to let you know what it's like, it's there.

And the thing is, I would like to see something done about it that again is lawful, something that can take and uh put that to bed that I can enjoy my yard just like everybody else can.

Thank you.

Thank you, Nick.

Honorable mayor, council, staff, uh, thank you for your time.

And Clark Strong 970 Santa Fe Drive.

You've seen me a couple of sessions or city councils in the past where we were trying to stop a short-term rental.

Our situation is the one that was just put in from the last meeting, that puts five within a thousand feet of my house.

And I'm like the people behind me.

I love where I live.

When I bought this property 20 years ago or 19 years ago, there wasn't this problem with short-term rentals.

We lived in a quiet neighborhood, and that's what we're trying to keep.

And we're in a charter city, and I think charter city means that you're supposed to listen to all of us and put the rules and regulations out there from the people.

We have came to you.

This is my third meeting where I've had most of the neighborhood opposing the last one that was approved.

It still went in.

Please listen to the people.

We love the property we have, we don't want to move.

We have a huge investment, and it does not do good for resale resale value.

If someone comes in looking at your house and there's parking in the streets and parties, five houses within a thousand feet of you.

So please consider this.

And honestly, I was so excited because this is a new program.

I didn't know there were short-term rentals going in behind me three years ago.

This was I was so excited that the city was gonna finally do something about it.

So please do something, get the rules, regulations, make it fair for everyone.

I don't want to stop short-term rentals or take money from real estate agents or their clients, but I want to protect my investment and my neighborhood and keep it the calm neighborhood we've had.

Thank you for your time and merry Christmas.

Thank you, Clark.

A repeat.

Last three meetings.

Can we get your name?

Pardon?

Can we get your name?

Doug Honshell.

You um a lot of people in our neighborhood are very confused.

This was brought up, voted down, then rewrought up, and everybody yelled and screamed, and it still got passed.

So apparently majority of you people didn't listen to what the public wanted.

I believe we need this moratorium.

I want to thank the council member who responded to me and met with me and heard my grievances.

And I would also caution the city.

If you're going to give out these permits, make sure they're legal.

Make sure the forms are filled out.

Make sure all the required information is in the forms.

Okay.

Contacts.

Pool walls.

Minimum space for propane tanks from my wall.

Your department approved two hundred and twenty-five gallon propane tanks three inches from my property wall.

That's not what the state code, which the city of Mesquite accepted for pool equipment.

It's not in there.

It says 10 feet.

So make sure your wonderful building department, whatever these people over here are called, make sure they follow up, make sure the applications are appropriate, correct, filled out, followed up on, and not just hand them out willy-nilly.

We have a great neighborhood.

The 951 that we've been talking about for three city council meetings is my neighbor.

I guess I'm stuck with a vacation rental because some of you have voted for it.

And I will be unhappy with some of you people for as long as I'm in this city.

Thank you.

Thank you, Doug.

I'm Jay Gardner, uh owner of Jay and Amy's uh mesquite getaways.

And I guess I'm gonna be the one that everybody's gonna pounce on.

But uh what I do notice here is that there doesn't seem to be consideration to the fact that uh a lot of these neighborhoods that allow the short-term rentals, uh, specifically state to any buyer that's coming in there that uh it is available for short-term rental rental, and I know that some of the uh complaints come from that.

Um our company is very proactive about making sure that not only the city rules are followed, but our rules are followed, and uh our rules are more strict than the city rules.

So the thing I worry about with this recommendation is the simple fact that uh many of these neighborhoods a lot are specifically allow short-term rentals, even the non-weight HOA uh neighborhoods in many cases, and and that's the problem that you have is that uh the real estate agents know that these non-HOA neighborhoods will allow it, and they'll tell potential buyers that therefore you have uh investors coming in looking at okay, we can go in here and put a short-term rental in.

Well, they have the right to do that, even though you don't want them to do that, and the problem is you're take if you take away those rights for investors or any homeowner to do what you're you're talking about here, you're gonna have a problem, and I think you're gonna have a whole lot more problems uh just in the antitrust field anyway.

So, as far as our our company goes, we have strict rules.

We don't allow what a lot of these people are having problems with.

We don't have many of these short-term rentals uh that uh you guys are talking about here.

We have 26 homes, and we're we act as consultants, we're not real estate agents or anything like that.

But if somebody calls at one o'clock in the morning saying, hey, you got people over here at this rental because we hand out our cards and information to everybody, every neighbor around any rental that we are consulting with, letting them know who to call if you're having an issue.

So if they call at one o'clock in the morning and say, hey, these guys are over here being loud, we're out there, and we call the cops if we have to.

And then somebody was saying that you need to go ahead and make sure that any permit that's having these problems on a regular basis gets their permit full.

I'm all for that.

But you're gonna have a problem with what you're doing here.

I just want to let you know that because you're not considering the rights of the uh owners and the buyers of those properties.

Thank you.

Thank you, Jay.

Okay, let's hi, I'm Amy Gardner.

I'm Jay's wife.

Um, my daughter, uh, Chris Awalua, she works through out of Seattle, and Jesse and I are here with uh an assistant we that have hired, and she is here um whenever we are not.

If we go out, she's here.

Um we get responses uh from neighbors all the time calling us.

And uh, like Jesse said, we react immediately.

We're five minutes away from most of the NRC properties.

Um so anyhow, I just wanted to reiterate that.

The other thing I wanted to talk about is um I think I've mentioned before that I work on a committee with uh within some of our NRC HOAs for the short-term rentals, making sure that um what we are doing keeps the neighborhood um just in a better uh to where everybody can join the neighborhood.

The problem that I have, so I so I know your your codes within your city um guidelines pretty well, and I condense them all the time, so I'm reading them.

And one of the things that frustrates me is that I as I'm seeing everything out there that's going on, I know that the people who say they're representing that property, they say, Oh, yes, we have this person in town that will respond.

I can guarantee you that there are so many of them that they have a friend in town, they write their name down.

Okay, we have a very large, maybe one or two of them, property management systems or excuse me, property managers in town that do not respond after five o'clock or on the weekends.

So I do understand what I'm hearing out here, but what I'm frustrated with is you have good policies in the city council.

You say in a three-bedroom home, you cannot sleep more than eight.

I totally agree.

I won't let a ninth person come in for a four-bedroom house, you limit it to ten.

I totally agree.

You say there can't be any more parking than what's offered on the property.

I totally agree.

You have a good foundation, but I'm not sure there's follow-through.

I'm not sure there's anyone checking those people that the applicants say are representing the property in town.

So I'm not sure that things need to be overhauled.

I think that people that own these homes, there has to be a process where people are held accountable for the systems you already have in place.

Thank you.

Thank you, Amy.

Hi, my name is Julie Romano.

Um, I just thought of something.

She when she mentioned they're getting complaints on properties all the time.

I'm not sure.

I think they're property management maybe people.

Are those same complaints then getting to the police?

Because you guys told us last time you got, excuse me, you have to go to the police.

You know, those complaints have to go in.

Because if they don't, we don't know.

And they don't, there's no repercussions then for the homeowners.

So I'm hoping somehow these complaints that these neighbors are making, if they have the card of the property management company and they're calling them at one in the morning saying, hey, you told us to call you if there's a problem, they're over there loud.

Are those complaints making it to where they need to be?

The other thing is um, I don't know if they've done the short-term rental ratios to houses in Mesquite that are just available for short-term rentals.

So I there maybe you have, and I just don't know that.

But if you're taking all I don't know how many thousand houses there are a mesquite with a ratio of 246, obviously that may be I don't know, 2%, whatever it is under that.

But if you're taking just the available homes, you know, for short-term rental, what is it then?

Let's take out all the HOAs that don't allow it.

That's you know, it's this group that's going to end up maybe in a 20, 25, 30% ratio at some point if this isn't controlled.

Um the other thing is uh, you know, I just feel like there needs to be comprehensive analysis done on the STRs, their effect.

One of them I think is also I somebody brought it up up here.

I was I wrote on my notes occupancy rates of the casinos, uh, the hotels, hotels, because you know, they they are a lot of our bread and butter here.

We want to take care of them.

There are partners in this, and I think that really needs to be looked at.

So that's that's you're working in conjection with that.

Um so that's one of somebody mentioned economic impact.

To me, that is a huge economic impact that has to be looked at.

Um, the other thing is um uh, you know, I and I don't know what the rules are, so I want to make sure you're clear.

I don't know what they are.

But you know, if there's I I assume if there's ever like a conflict of interest in the voting on if somebody is a STR owner, a real estate agent, a property manager, those kind of things, it is also voting.

I I mean I just hope that's looked at.

I'm sure legally it is, so that's that that's just I don't know, by the way.

I don't know, honestly, any of you except Jess that he comes and does our stuff or else.

But anyway, um thing I wanted to say is I don't ever remember my mom being talked to about her property rights when they moved in next to her with these STRs.

She didn't move into a commercial area, she moved into a residential area.

Okay.

And I know they can be renters.

She was, she was, you know, she's been around, she knows there's renters that come and go.

But nobody said, Oh, by the way, you're gonna have a commercial property here, here, here, here, and here.

You know, it's just an unfair thing to do, and there needs to be something done.

So I appreciate you guys taking the time on this and really looking into it.

Thanks.

Thank you, Julie.

Maybe keep it in the family.

I'm David Giebink.

Uh, thank you, mayor, council, staff, for your time tonight.

Simon, thank you for responding.

Uh, it's been really nice to get to know you and see you now in person.

Uh, I'm gonna keep it short.

So I appreciate all the work you guys have been doing.

This is a big deal.

It's a big deal to me because my mom's in the middle of it.

I'm next to these guys.

We have five STRs where I'm building my new house.

It's kind of right next door have one.

Anyways, we're not gonna go down there.

So my mom, she's 89, who you all know, just getting to know her better.

Uh, she lives sandwiched between two.

And a lot of times she'll call me at night and I she says she's not scared.

I know she's scared.

She said, Oh, they're just really loud over there, but I'll just keep my door shut.

And on this side, that's an issue for me when your mom is scared and she's 89.

It makes me want to go down and do what the one guy said, you know, take care of business.

But of course, we don't, and I tell her it's fine, and she shuts her door.

So that to me is the biggest thing is her her safety.

And she had a friend come over, she told me this a couple days ago, and she said, uh, oh, Elaine came to visit.

Now she's probably 80, so I know she's 80 something.

And she said she came in when she came out, there was a big truck there with the uh with the ATVs, like people have always talked about.

And it was about an inch away from her driveway.

So my mom decides to help her.

So my mom's out on the road to back her up, you know, and and it's just I can't imagine this being okay.

It just doesn't seem right.

I don't think any family in mesquite or anywhere should have to go through what we're going through.

I really don't.

And I really appreciate you guys taking the time to hear me and know that I it's coming from my heart.

It really is.

It does matter a lot to me.

Please take this time and and and make the decision for all of us.

We count on you.

Thank you.

Thank you, David.

John Rosen again and still.

Um when I talked earlier about the vision document, uh, one of the things I didn't mention explicitly that I'm particularly pleased with is the whole concept of planned purposeful growth.

Intentional growth.

Growth that confirms to a vision and a roadmap that we all share.

Uh the problems that we're encountering here that we're hearing about here, all are the result of not having planned purposeful growth.

And I applaud those of you who are calling for a moratorium.

I admire the fact that you are willing to admit that you didn't know, or you lost control, or you weren't perhaps paying enough attention, but acknowledging that the problem exists and that the way to solve it is to take a timeout and develop a plan, a remediation plan for the situation before you go forward.

That doesn't prohibit short-term rentals.

It simply means that short-term rentals going forward will conform to planned purposeful growth.

I heard an admission here from one of our council people that said she doesn't understand why there should be this period, this moratorium period.

And she doesn't understand why some of the comments are in here in the terms of the staff recommendations for proceeding.

I would suggest to you, I would recommend to you that it is important for uh community communication that you go one step further now and give a detailed series of steps you plan to take during this moratorium.

What is going to happen?

Who is going to do it?

Uh, Mayor, I do believe that it is within your rights to actually form a committee to help you with this work.

I would recommend to you that you do that and that you hand select people with the expertise and the character to give guidance to this city council.

Uh one city or this city council member made the statement that she didn't understand.

I would have to admit to you that I agree with her.

She doesn't understand.

And that is the saddest admission I think I've ever heard.

Thank you.

Thank you, John.

Hi, Major.

Rayleigh and Chippano, just Rayleigh and Shavano.

Um just so you know, the HOA part of it too.

Um, I know Mesquite Vistas has a six-month short term, they have to at least rent for six months, and mesquite vistas doesn't have a clue who they've rented to, who it has short-term rentals.

The property manager colonial has no idea how many Airbnbs they have.

Um, I'm all for Airbnbs.

I've lived in one for the last up till March of this year.

I've lived in them for three years straight across the world.

Um, I was traveling the world, um, 20 different countries in about three years.

So, in doing that, I've seen the enforcement policies.

And the one thing that we're lacking here is enforcement.

It's it's in Thailand, if you get in trouble in an HOA, the police show up at your door.

So that is what I would suggest is putting those, you know, penalties in the law, enforcement in the law, and you won't have any problems, um, or you'll get rid of the problems you do have.

Thank you.

Thank you, Aileen.

Hi, hi, Council Vanessa Gibink.

First, I just want to say I'm missing, I miss nine minutes of my kids' basketball game after a full eight-hour day of work.

And I don't want to miss my kids' games.

But this is important enough to me that I wanted to be here and make sure that you guys understand how I feel about this, and that I agree with the people that have come up and talked before me.

I mentioned the last meeting how concerned I am about the house prices for families.

And that's a huge concern.

And it's a concern for people all over the place because houses are unaffordable.

And when you have a 90% increase in a home value in three years after the COVID pandemic, that's a huge red flag.

This is a microeconomics issue in the city of Mesquite.

And every single person up here has is going to look back and say, like, what did you do?

What did you do for the city of Mesquite to make sure that you're protecting families and these neighborhoods?

The non-HOA neighborhoods and the neighborhoods that allow the short-term rentals, those are the ones that we need to look at.

The City of Mesquite was designed to have HOAs.

We're a 70 to 80% HOA community.

That was strategic.

That was done on purpose.

We don't have a lot of options.

So there's two things that I think are critical when it comes to this moratorium.

I don't necessarily agree that the C C and R should get an exception.

I think that they should be held to the same status that everybody else is.

And the other thing that I don't um let's see, love about it is that there's a transfer.

Until it's under control and we have a percentage that makes sense.

Why should the next owner when they go to sell that home, why should it transfer?

Now, those five homes that we were just talking about in that neighborhood, that's never gonna change.

You just solidified that and you can't go back on that.

So why make that commitment yet?

Take the time to evaluate this and really think about it.

And like the gentleman before me, why is it a problem to take a break and evaluate?

Isn't that the point?

Isn't that the point of being fiscally responsible?

Listening to your constituents that voted for you.

That's exactly what you should be doing.

If you're not, then you're not doing your job.

And when we're concerned, more concerned about investors, we have a problem.

Okay.

Investors already have enough money that they're buying politicians.

They're they're buying their way into their and they're destroying it for everybody.

The only thing we have is our voice and our power, and we're gonna continue to use it.

And as you can see, the majority of the people are up here that are up here are in agreement with you making this pause and keeping the city safe.

Public health to address that real quick.

My grandma's mental health is down the drain.

She talked about moving.

That is mental health.

It took me three seconds to look that up and find out how this applies to mental health.

So why are you not doing your research?

It's not that hard.

I want to be on that committee.

I hope I can be on that committee.

Thank you.

Thank you, Vanessa.

Seeing no one else step step forward, we're gonna go ahead and move it back to council.

Is there any more questions or can I get a motion, please?

Councilman Ennis.

I'm gonna go ahead and make a motion that we approve the temporary moratorium on the acceptance processing and approval of applications for short-term rentals R25054.

Okay, councilwoman Gallo.

I'm gonna second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

NSI.

Gallo I motion passes.

Um I have to step out.

And I'm gonna turn it over to uh Mayor Pro Tem Gallo.

Thank you, sir.

Until I get back.

Okay.

Going to the concert.

Yeah, she said to be there too.

She promised me she was at the first.

So hopefully I'll be right back.

Say hi for me, would you?

I've got okay.

So where are we at?

Uh may I approach them?

Yes.

Uh we have uh item 5.2 and 5.3 um that uh we need to actually pull out.

However, it's uh a public hearing item, so we need to open public hearing.

Okay.

Okay, so at this time, does anybody would anybody like to step up and speak on the uh consideration of conditional use permits?

And I would address them individually.

So 5.2 first and allow public comment for that, but in light of the resolution that just would pass it suspended as Simon.

Not a big deal.

So do we still I guess everybody's leaving?

Seeing no one go to quite a bit.

Seeing and no one coming up, I will move on to 5.4.

5.35.3, yeah.

Oh, we have to do separate.

Yeah, sorry, that's it.

So 5.3, once again, it's a consideration of the conditional per permit um use case uh CUP-25-008.

Are there any public comments?

Okay.

I feel that point.

Hi, Dorse Crystal here again.

Um, I just I left this out on my other comment.

Um, vacation properties are normally very well kept, very clean, the photos are great.

And from personal experience and from what I've heard here at being previous council uh meetings, I'd rather live next to a vacation rental than a house that's infested with rats or has a washer machine in the front yard with flowers growing out of it and a toilet laying on its side and a motorcycle with no wheels on it.

So that's my opinion.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I guess I was a little confused.

I thought oh, I'm sorry, Amy Gardner, Jane Amy's mesquite getaways.

I thought that there the moratorium meant no new applications.

And the uh 80 Sageway and Choya, they have already had their applications in.

You haven't discussed and voted on them, but they have already plied.

So I'm I'm confused as to why can you help me with?

I I just we have an attorney.

But the attorney answer that.

And I saw Simon up there reaching for his mic as well.

But the language of the resolution provided that if the moratorium was passed, that all current applications would be suspended.

Okay.

And so by virtue of the moratorium being put in place, these two next items are automatically suspended.

They're not denied, but it's suspended.

Okay, six months.

And then that allows the council to bring it back once the moratorium has been lifted.

Okay, and if I could just add, I have a lot of information on data of occupancy, the amount of houses, the amount of hotel rooms.

We have a pretty sophisticated um system that we use.

So if this council creates a committee and you need information, I would be more than happy to supply that.

Thank you.

Is there something I'm missing that is that's a commercial business.

You're renting it out weekly or monthly or you know, short term.

That's like having a putting a hotel in the middle of a residential area.

That you can't do that.

So it's not supposed to be that busy, and it's not supposed to be uh kind of professional business.

The scale is supposed to be the same with the single family home.

So we allow only looks like single family.

There'll be the same vehicle amount and same amount of people will come in and they just quietly enjoy and leave out like a normal family.

But uh while it was uh uh being managed the kind of area Airbnb and BRBO, and uh it it became the larger than what it's supposed to be, and uh there has been more people.

That's the problem.

Well, maybe maybe it's not it's not acting because you see all the people out behind that have uh problems with it.

It's like like I said a couple weeks ago that maybe you're living next to a frat house, you know, and it's not the people that run a good business, and you don't get complaints.

Nobody has problems with them.

They could move next door to me if it's if it's like that.

But it's all the the 80% of the other ones that cause the problems.

So they can't allow 80% to run wild just because there's one good company that that takes care of it.

If everybody took care of it like them, I don't think anybody'd have a problem.

Um, you know, maybe maybe the the zoning thing, you guys made a mistake when you allowed it not to be a commercial area in a residential area.

Maybe you should designate a commercial area someplace in the city of Mesquite where they can have our uh B and Bs and that kind of stuff, and then nobody'd have a problem.

And they could build their own houses, probably cheaper than you can buy them right now, but I think you've made a mistake when you allow commercial business in a residential area and just let people sign up and do it because it is a commercial business, just like selling tile, just like uh anything, just like selling real estate, but they allow you to have a big commercial office in a residential area where people come and go all the time.

No, you know, you could do it out of your house, but you but but not uh so anyway, that's all I got to say.

Thank you.

Anyone else?

Any more public comment?

Okay, seeing and hearing none, I guess we can just move on.

We don't we're not voting on anything.

Okay, so we're gonna move right on to 5.4.

And 5.4 is the consideration of approval of a tavern liquor license for the zone located at 792 West Pioneer Boulevard.

So I guess we'll start with public comment.

Uh thank you.

Oh, you wanted to you have a sorry Simon?

Okay.

Sure.

Um do I say it's a 792 West Pioneer Boulevard.

Uh location is on the map.

And uh I've got to explain.

Uh there was a question at the last technical meeting, uh, how those has been managing running business without a license.

So uh the zone, which is a future business owner, is the property owner.

We need to differentiate property owner from the business owner at this point.

So the zone has allowed the NB Night Club, the original owner or previous owner, uh, to continue operating at the location under the existing tavern license.

Uh they have a business agreement.

Uh so uh I have a copy of it here.

And uh meanwhile, the the zone has submitted the application for its own tavern license at the same location.

And once uh the zone tavern license is issued, the zone will be take over the business operations, and at the time MV Night Club will vacate the premises.

So until the new license is issued, the NV Night Club continue to operate and fulfill its payment obligations.

Land use, and there was a question about conditional use permit, and it runs with the land and uh uh the it remains valid right now.

So I've got to explain more.

Um this uh the neighbor, uh the Nordic Beach uh LLC uh questioned about this uh some month ago, and then there was uh there was a uh recent question.

So I'm gonna make clear what's what.

So they they said the information the conditional use permit application is not correct and misleading uh because the application used the final map, not the recorded survey.

Uh so it was uh uh identified on the map.

So uh I'm gonna show you next uh slide, but uh uh the location was clearly marked, so there was no problem and the address was correct.

And the second point was the uh gross acres recorded in the application has been 0.13 acre uh building uh area in the final map, but the actual acreage recorded in the county uh county for the property which is uh on the record of survey is 0.36 acre.

I'm gonna make it clear at the next um uh the slide.

And the the coup uh conditional use permit map show the building floor as a retail space rather than assembly.

Uh when they applied it's a retail space, not the assembly until they got conditional use permit approved.

So this is application form, they show the 0.13 acres, and then this is the property.

Uh the uh it's actually uh site plan map uh on top of the final map.

Uh so retail space says 4800 square feet, but uh if you add canopied area, that becomes a 0.13 acre.

So they pointed the right location uh for the conditional use permit.

They haven't used the um the uh record of survey data.

I'm gonna explain it to you later again.

So uh in uh 2011, conditional use permit for NB Night Club was issued, and uh uh it went through the due process.

Uh there was some lack of information, but long ago I uh we cannot find any information about transportation issues, traffic calculation, and parking calculation issues, but it doesn't mean we have to make it up right now and provide that information because it was done long long ago.

We don't actually recreate them.

Um conditional use permit runs with the land and it is currently effective.

Then uh recently um the neighbor is claimed that the property boundary has not been recorded into the final map, and the conditional use permit is not valid.

So again, the same thing.

The application used the final map, not the record of survey, so there shouldn't be any problem.

And then we need to understand the difference between the final map and record up survey.

This is the uh second amended final map for the area, and when you look at the bottom right, it clearly says final map.

Right?

What is this property?

I'm gonna explain it to you.

Here an RS 278.3 uh 325 allows mapping for industrial or commercial development.

And it authorizes the creation of a new boundaries in industrial commercial subdivision uh through a record of survey.

This record of survey doesn't go through the city's tentative map and final map process.

This is a pre-standing process, and the intent behind uh this NRS is to streamline streamline uh land division for non-residential purposes that cannot be used for residential purposes.

And uh, for example, is a strict mall area out there.

They use dividers for the building, and they sometimes remove the divider and add divider, they sell uh specific locations to specific people, and uh the uh state recognize that they need the streamline the process, so they don't need to go through the uh city and they can just do the survey and record it at the county.

So that was happened.

So this was recorded in 2009.

This is a certain uh the record of survey.

And when you look at the right bottom down, it says record up survey.

It does not say final map.

Okay, it's a different tool uh for the community.

And uh the Nordic Beach also went through the same process in 2023, and they subdivide the uh lot uh down south uh 4D.

And uh you can see there is a surveyor certificate.

It says this plat presents the results of a survey conducted under surveyor's supervision at the instance of Nordic Beach LLC.

Okay.

Now then uh they have the parcel map descriptions and every parcel map, each parcel map has that information uh written down there that says together with and subject to a non-exclusive local easement for access, ingress and egress and parking over upon and across the receipt local easement areas as set forth in the decoration of covenants conditions restrictions for Heady Hills Commercial Center recorded September 1920 uh 2003.

So their own instrument admitted there is uh receipt local easement.

Okay.

So when you go down uh bottom right, it says record up survey.

This is not the final map, this is a record of survey that didn't go through the city.

City has nothing to do with uh this process, and uh including the uh that process that uh NB Night Club uh went through in uh 2009.

So uh we need to just go process as we need uh as we supposed to do, and this is a private matter, and uh although they they have recorded here, they're in their own instrument.

I don't know how they're gonna counter uh but uh it is what it is.

They need to go through the private uh litigation they are going through.

And the judge, if judge orders us to change something, uh we are glad to change it, but until that was coming.

I mean, this private uh the attack at the city council meeting is not accepted, I think it shouldn't be accepted.

Again, CCNR for the uh the uh Red Hills Commercial Center uh was uh recorded in 2003.

There is a receipt local easy month areas.

Uh what is the definition of it?

All those are there.

And there is the exhibit B, it is local easy month areas.

So uh again, conditional use permit runs with the land uh that is valid.

And uh the business will continue to operate as a nightclub tavern consistent with this approval and the existing conditional use permit.

And uh MMC 98-8-2 provided uh actually requires 1,000 feet separation of license between taverns or full off-sale licenses, and there is 1,673 feet spacing between the subject location and lease uh discount liquor, so there is no problem.

Background check for the new business owner has been completed and is it is clear.

Muskie police department is currently completing the findings of suitability.

So uh step recommends the city council approve city uh approved step issuing the tavern license contingent upon findings of suitability issued by Muskete Police Department.

Thank you.

Thank you, Simon.

Questions from council, Councilman Ennis?

Simon, I'm I'm totally confused here.

Uh sorry.

Um the zone, the zone is gonna be the new owner and business.

They currently owns the land, but they're not the business owner, they're not the business owner, and they are still the business owner.

That's correct.

So I guess my question is why are we gonna issue a tavern license to the zoner if they're not the business owners yet?

In the past, we've always waited until the business has been established before we have a they they become a business owner when they have a tavern license.

So when we when we've done the gas stations, the terribles and all that on Riverside and Mesquite Boulevard, they were already in business and the ownership was I mean the business was established before we issued that license.

But they couldn't sell the uh liquor at the time until they got the license.

That's fine.

I don't care if they want to sell liquor, but they got a big business.

So look this way.

They uh there is a new owner.

Okay.

But that they the new owner doesn't have a license, so they they cannot run the business on the property.

However, through the private uh agreement, they are letting leasing that building to uh old owner to run the business until they got the license.

So that is the again, that is a private agreement, not the city's uh agreement.

Okay, Councilwoman Gallow?

So I'm a little confused on that too.

Um, especially when we're talking liquor.

So we can someone can have a business and just give it to their friend to run.

And even though they're not no, uh, someone can have a land or building without a license, and they can lease it out to some people who has the business license and run the business, and at the same time, they can apply for the business license to run the business in their own buildings.

So when they got the new business license, they will come in and the NV Night Club will move out at that point, and they will the owner, landowner will run the business.

Okay, I I guess it is confusing.

I I my other question was um they don't have the findings of suitability yet because the police department has not approved it.

Not yet, but that this is uh like my recommendation, this is the city council approved step issuing the tavern license can be contingent upon appointing subsuitability.

So city council is allowing staff to issue the license, but the city council is not issuing the license.

I I guess that's a little dangerous to for the city council to approve it when the police haven't approved it.

I that's my concern, I think.

If if it has not been approved by the police department, I don't know that I'm comfortable.

We have done that before, ma'am.

Okay, councilman Wallace.

So try to bring this full circle and back to something that makes sense, maybe, maybe not.

We just went through this at the Oasis Golf Club.

Right.

We all remember um wardens left, they didn't have a liquor license.

The course still had one, but the restaurant did not, and they had to get a new owner, that owner had to come in.

They opened up and they had to wait till they had it.

If wardens would have stayed there while the new owner was going through all of that and said, We'll stay here until you have your liquor license.

It would have never never mattered.

They would have been selling liquor right up until the time the other company got their liquor license, gurus, and then Warden would have walked away with their liquor license, and nothing would have been lost.

And it sounds to me like that's exactly what Envy Night Club is doing with the zone, and they're staying there with their liquor license until the liquor license for the zone is approved, and then they'll leave and the zone will take it over.

Is that correct?

That's correct.

Any other questions from council?

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

Okay, Freelane Chipano with Nordic Beach properties.

Um let's talk about property rights.

We we mentioned property rights, but we didn't, these people have no parking.

This there's no shared parking.

They just admitted we're not under NRS 116 themselves.

It everything's changed, the CC and Rs aren't valid.

Mr.

Serb is David or Toby and uh Rob Sites are not doing business there.

I have pictures of who's doing business here, who's running it.

There envy nightclub isn't here.

We have video, we have video of kids playing and liquor being served, and you know, the they they never they just use the name, they're not using the people.

Like I said, Rob and Toby are not coming down here from Salt Lake every weekend now to run this business.

These people have no parking.

They if you pull up Mr.

Simon Kim's map again, he'll show you that that first map that he showed has no parking.

It shows our parking, but if you look at the pictures here, you'll see our parking lot has all of their people in it.

So, where are our customers supposed to park when this is the MV Night Club and this is all our parking?

So our parking is being used.

We have people drinking in the parking lot, everybody's having a good time.

But where are our kids gonna go?

Where are your kids gonna go when they go to the in our event center to see a movie or to do something?

And this started at six o'clock in the evening.

So they have no parking.

I'm all for the nightclub if they get their own parking, but they're not using ours.

And I'm sure once we block ours off, Wedges is gonna feel the same way that they can't use theirs because now they're gonna be parking in Wedggies.

Notice Wedgie's parking lot here.

Nobody's parking in Wedgie's parking lot yet, but it's gonna happen because these people have a building with no parking.

You have a code, MMC code, that you have to follow for parking.

You can't grant conditional use permits and and parking and liquor licenses without having a proper parcel that has your own parking.

So I don't know where you guys think that these people are gonna park when they do this, but it's not fair to the business, it's not fair to us, and you're talking about property rights and safe and fair and equal, and and yet we're not being safe this way.

We're just letting anybody have a liquor license in the town so they can get drunk and drive back to Salt Lake or drive back to St.

George.

Strongest drinks in town.

Is that what mesquite is for?

The people that are gonna drive through the gorge drunk at night after leaving that parking lot.

I just they have no parking, they won't be using ours.

Thank you.

Thank you, really.

As far as the drinking in the parking lot and underage drinking, that's uh the man back there that needs to take care of that.

Parking in a private property is a civil problem, as far as I was ever told that uh if you park in somebody's driveway, it's up to them to have the car towed.

Uh if you park on the street and you park illegal, the police can tow it.

They can cite the the owner of the car.

But if they're on private property, I don't see where the city has authority to come in and regulate that.

Now, I don't know, maybe I'm wrong.

But if that's private property, how can this how is the city responsible for for doing that?

They should they should sue the people that own that.

Okay, that's where civil things are handled or in a civil court, not in the city to enforce it because the city can't enforce that.

They can force building codes, and with the rat problem, maybe they can uh condemn the house.

I don't know how the rat problem is going, but uh maybe the cold weather's kept them indoors.

So anyway, I to me it's a civil problem.

I'm not an attorney and I don't know the whole thing, but it sounds like private property is not the city's concern.

Thank you, Jeff.

Evening, mayor and council.

I'd like to tell you how they got the conditional use permit, and it should be revoked.

The conditional use permit was given in 2011 because we get your name.

Erica Nicholas, I'm sorry, Bender, Erica Nicholas Bender.

The conditional use permit was given because NV Nightclub rented were renters of the theater.

So when they applied for the conditional use permit, they applied for it with under two point, almost 2.6 acres.

They applied as tenants.

Well, a few months later, they bought a little sliver of it, but didn't reapply for the cup because the cup said they didn't need to have the applicable parking because they had 150 parkings or plus at the theater.

So they didn't need to reapply.

But when they bought that little sliver, they had three parking spots.

And we took the burden of through of the every every 100 parking sometimes, they take.

They would all on our lot, almost like a magnet because they're closest to us.

So my liability, they're like they have no liability.

It's my liability.

They have no parking, and that conditional use permit should be revoked because it was under, they gave a fake um, they said there were 78,000 square feet of building space, 119,000 square feet.

They said there were 589 parking spots.

There were 524 parking spots, and uh they also said it was a shopping center as an integrated parking lot, and it's not.

And Simon didn't uh forgot to tell you that.

The CCNRs may say uh in language that it has uh reciprocal parking, but in the CCNRs written nine times, there's a plat map that's book 1135, and that gives the RHCC zero easements, no parking, no landscaping, nothing.

And it only does dedicates the rest of the easements, the ingress, egress, and um the uh drainage to the city of Mesquite.

RACC has no easements per book 1135, the plat map and the other plat map 2007, 1387, no easements whatsoever.

He's referring to the record of survey that's not signed.

The easements look in those books.

They're signed by every owner.

No parking.

The plant map is not signed by anybody.

Just I think Victor Campbell may have a stamp on it, but that's about it.

I'm just letting you know, pay very close attention.

And again, the cup was obtained through false key facts.

All the key facts were false, and they signed that under penalty of perjury, and the city allowed it.

And this is why he says, oh, it runs with the land.

Well, if it's illegal, it shouldn't be running with the land.

You get you should take a very good look at that cup application and see all the numbers and see if they match up to the size of the um center to the parking amount of the center, and the fact that the center does not have shared parking.

They're making it up.

Thank you.

Thank you, Erica.

Wow, Simon Kim.

Misrepresenting, once again.

He does that very well, by the way, but you misrepresent.

Marcus.

Please address me.

I will address you.

Hank will get your name for the Marcus Bender for the record.

The conditional use permit may run with the LAN, but the word conditional, it's conditional for four years.

I've been communicating with the city, showing them videos of what's going on.

Probably a hundred, I think it's over a hundred police calls.

Not one word, not one nothing.

Noise levels.

They go over there with a a meter before the crowd before the noise really even begins.

Looks good here.

I I've been through it all.

And the NRS 116, we're not in it.

The CCNRs are out the window.

And when he shows you reciprocal parking, it's a definition.

That's how they inserted it.

It's like a definition.

They just means nothing.

The second amended final plat map is what they go by.

That's everything.

If if easements are on there for parking, it will state it.

It does not.

He just kind of goes right over that.

It says utility and drainage and ingress, egress.

No parking, Mr.

Kim.

No parking.

And even let's pretend for a moment there was a reciprocal parking agreement.

You should all know this.

You still need your own parking.

It's in your codes.

I don't make this up.

It's in your codes.

Reciprocate, reciprocal.

It's based on some of your customers may park on my property.

Well, some of mine may park on yours, but you have some.

He has three parking spaces.

Did you hear him once say how many parking spaces he had?

Not one time.

Did he say, oh, NV Night Club, they have three parking spaces.

That's all they have, and they're all handicapped, by the way.

I don't know how many handicapped people he gets, but three.

He needs 53.

I've been at this research four years with the city.

This last six months, I've been telling everybody, informing them, he's feeding you a line of you know what.

Thank you, Marcus.

Gary Elgord.

Um amazing number of comments that have pretty much nothing to do with approval of a tavern license, liquor license.

Um as for the conditional approval based on the findings by the police department.

It's no different than when you sell land based on the condition that you do what you said you were going to do when you buy it.

So there's no reason to reject it for that.

It doesn't make sense.

Uh, you approve many, many things with conditions on them and wait for those conditions to happen so that the approval is final, but it starts the process.

I don't know what this business is going to do.

Maybe they're going to be a great tenant there.

We only have the past to rely on, and the past is different people.

So I don't see where we're going with this.

I think you should just make a decision and move on.

Thank you, Gary.

Okay, seeing no one else come forward, I'm gonna turn it back over to council.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

I will make a motion to approve the tavern license with the suitable findings by the police department.

Do I have a second?

Okay, we have a second call for the vote.

NSI.

I'm gonna say no based on the fact that the police have not approved it.

I'm gonna be a no.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 5.5 consideration of approval of a restaurant with service bar liquor license for Casa Plaza LLC DBA Fresh Brothers Pizza located at 950 West Mesquite Boulevard Boulevard inside the Casablanca.

Thank you, Mayor and City Council.

Uh I'll be quick.

Um this one is uh Barrico license uh to food the fresh uh the brother's pizza.

The site is located at Casablanca.

Um and uh Casa Pizza LLC is owned by William Spur and Mr.

Spore will be open to new restaurants inside the Casablanca at the uh food court, and the food court has shared the sitting and will accommodate at least 100 people uh meeting the seating requirements for the liquor license.

Muskie Police Department has issued in this case a findings of suitability for Mr.

Spore step uh recommend city council approved the step issuing the legal license for Casa Pizza LSC, DPA uh flesh uh fresh uh brothers pizza.

Thank you.

Thank you, Simon.

Any questions from council?

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

Okay, seeing none, I'm gonna turn it back to council.

Councilman Innis.

I'm gonna go ahead and uh recommend approval of the uh liquor license for cost of what is it?

Oh, the Fresh Brothers Pizza, I'm sorry.

Yeah, 950 West Busquite Boulevard.

Councilwoman Fielding.

I will second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

Parish.

Yeah, sorry.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 5.6 consideration approval of a restaurant with bar license for Casa Buns LLC, DBA craft burger bar and tap located at 950 West Musquite Boulevard inside the Casablanca Casino.

Thank you, Mayor and Stanish Council.

This will be really kicked because uh the owner is the same, it location is the same.

Uh just the it'll be the different shop, uh right across from the from it.

Crafted uh burger bar and tap.

So information is the same.

Step uh recommend city council approved the step issuing the liquid license for Casa Bon Sale C DBA crafted debogers uh bower bar and tap.

Thank you.

Thank you, Simon.

Any questions from council?

Okay, we're gonna open it up for public comment.

Seeing none, we'll turn it back over.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

I will make a motion to approve the restaurant with our license for Casa Benz LLC.

Do I have a second?

I'll second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Yellow I.

I mean NSA.

NSI.

You better go home and get your dress on, Mr.

Very good.

Can you take the caps out of his pocket?

All right.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 5.7.

Consideration of approval of resolution R25-044, approving the portion month of surplus amounts remaining of the special fund created for the City of Musquite Nevada Special Improvement District number 7901, Canyon Crest in the amount of 500,000, 80 436 dollars, 80,436 and 69 cents.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

Thank you.

Um so this item is bringing forward um the fact that um Canyon Crest special improvement district bonds were paid off in August.

So the next step is to refund any excess funds back to the parcel holders as of record of November 15th, 2025.

There are several we're following NRS 271, and there are several specific exemptions that are allowed under this NRS as you were distributing the funds.

The first of which is the first $50,000 by statute goes to the surplus and deficiency fund, which in essence is the stabilization fund at the city, like the rainy day fund.

And then there's two additional exception, but it's it ends up in two different funds.

And by virtue of late fees that are collected from the throughout the process from fiscal year 2010 and 11 through current, it comes to about 160,000.

So the first 100,000 will be put to a fund at the direction of the city council.

And then the remaining $60,000 is required to go to the Capital Projects Fund, which is fund 45.

There is also a about an exemption for distributing the funds, which includes staff time, and the city has uh hired assessment management group who handles the day-to-day operations of the SIDs to help with this project.

So when you take the the specific exemptions that are allowed under uh under NRS, that brings the total down to $580,000.

And from there, um AMG will be sent will be mailing out mailings starting um on the 11th this week, provided that city council approves this.

Um then there are statutory timelines that apply.

Um parcel holders have a hundred and twenty days to submit their um request for refund.

Um and then the process will begin.

Um all the all the information collected will be um looked at by assessment management group um in the event that more refunds are requested than than funds exist, then the refunds will be done pro rata.

But um, as part of the exhibit of the resolution, um each parcel holder as of record um that's included in exhibit A of the resolution.

So we are we are just closing the SID, um the bonds have been paid, and we are refunding any access back to the parcel holders as of November 15th of 2025.

This is a normal um process.

Um the city has two or had two SIDs, one is Anthem, which is still open, and then this is the Canyon Crest one.

So with that, I'll take any questions.

Um Director Thorne.

Uh Councilwoman Gallow.

So I sent you an email because I was really confused on this.

So the city gets some of this money.

I I I don't know if you got it, but I sent a couple emails questioning like well, I got a uh they they can't they were like text numbers.

They didn't have they didn't have oh I and so let last week I got a an email.

We should have gone to Nikki Thorn, but anyway, my question is um does some of this money go back to the residents?

Yes, and that's because I'm trying to and that's what I was trying to get some information.

How much is going back?

Because that's I've been getting emails from residents wanting to know why they're not getting their money back.

So um $580,000 will go back to the um the parcel holders.

Um where does the $50,000 and $160,000 come from?

Those are statutory statutory limitations.

So does that come out of the $580?

No, that's already been taken out.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

So that clarifies it.

So I guess specifically to answer your question, we started with $826,800 and some dollars.

So we backed off the statutory um items that we were allowed, and the $580,000 will go to the parcel holders.

And let me pull up um the exhibit real quick.

And exhibit A, which is attached to the resolution, lists all the parcels.

Yeah, and um what their assessment amount was, and then based on the amount that we are um that's available, the $580,000, um, the estimated refund um is about $781,000.

Now, in the event that more people than you know, this requested, and it's determined that they're legitimate goes over funds, then it would be pro-RADA.

Okay, so instead of what what's on there, they'll get it'll be a little bit less for each resident.

It could be okay.

Great, thank you.

I appreciate that.

You're very welcome.

Councilman Parish.

Um Nikki, I have before me a letter from uh Patrick or me for a law firm out of Vegas representing Kenya Crest Masters Association.

Did you receive a copy of it?

I did not.

Okay.

In this letter, he states that this money was charged to the each individual homeowners of a thousand dollars each, it was put into a fund to complete the town wash project and the oasis boulevard park, which have not been completed.

So he goes on to state that in sum, please do not pass this resolution at this time.

This money should be held by the city and not refunded to the unit owners at this time, nor reallocate the funds.

In principle, there's no harm in the city holding this money.

When the unit owners owners purchased their units, they knew the thousand dollars of their purchase money would be deposited into a fund to pay for the completion of town wash project, including the oasis park.

Given the uncertainty of this completion of the project, the city should hold these funds and for until a future time.

I believe this is all true.

I did a little bit of homework, and I believe this is all true.

So I just think we either need to table this or we need to give it to our attorney to research.

But at this time, I don't feel the council is prepared to make a decision on this.

Thank you.

Uh Mr.

Anderson.

Uh good point.

I don't think there'd be uh whole lot in tabling.

I don't know, but I do not believe that that is 100% accurate.

I don't believe when they set up the SID that they identified the park and the wash for that.

I know that they established the roadways and that system, but I don't believe that the park and the storm drain was part of the SID.

When you set those up, you're identifying what this money's going to be paying for.

And that my understanding is that was not it.

But I think it would merit double checking that and making sure, but it is my understanding that those items are not part of that SID.

Councilwoman Villing?

Got the same.

Thank you, Mayor.

So my understanding, the thousand dollars was to go in for canyon crest for a park.

Um and thank you for bringing up the letter.

I was also gonna bring that up.

Um, who's representing Canyon Crest.

I also feel like if that's the money for Canyon Crest, that it should stay there and figure out what they're gonna do with it.

Are they gonna build a park?

Because it's a park fund because it is in the master plan over there for them to build a park.

Have they come up and said, hey, now we want to build a park?

No.

And I know that we've crossed this bridge um when I was on the master plan committee a few years ago, reaching out to all the HOAs.

Um, hey, what is your intent?

Are you gonna build a park?

What do we do?

Because we had so many, I mean, millions of dollars in that fund for different subdivisions.

So I I agree, I think we should um hold off on this until we get some concrete information, and I'd like to see a park over there.

So one thing to keep in mind, you have a parks fund and you also have the SID fund, which are two separate funds.

So when you have anybody that buys a home in Mesquite, a new home that they've constructed, um, you have money going to the park fund.

In areas where you have an SID, which would be Canyon Crest, uh Sun City in that phase, you had an SID assessment with that, which are two different things.

So I think that's where the confusion is that people are saying we put a thousand dollars toward a park fund, and they're getting that confused with the SID assessment.

Now I do agree that we should double check this and and look at it, but I think that's where everybody's getting confused that you have a park fund, which you're putting money towards, and in these cases, you also have an SID fund, which you're putting funds towards, and people are trying to marry those together, and they're completely separate identity.

So thank you.

But I agree that we should double check that and and look at it.

But that's my understanding as I looked into this that people are get trying to merge those together, and they're not, they're two separate, and like what Nikki is Ms.

Thorian's doing is you know, accurate in that aspect of the SAD is completely separate from the parks.

That is correct.

Now now that you're mentioning the thousand dollars, that is a park impact fee that goes to fund 20.

Um, and that is the purpose of that is for for parks.

Um totally totally different fund.

This is coming from the debt service fund, and now that the debt service has been paid off, um the next the next process on the step is to refund it.

I I'm not opposed to if you um feel more comfortable to table it, but I I do believe that there are two very separate issues here.

Um that you know Travis beat me to the to the punch, but yeah, the thousand dollars is uh is a park impact fee that goes into a different fund and has absolutely nothing to do with this.

Councilman Wanus.

Mr.

Anderson, I also saw the email that Mr.

Parrish just read.

And it's my understanding that completion of the town wash, which is part of what that says, is going to be funded by regional flood control.

No, so it can if you as a council so choose to do that, but it's the developers with that master plan with their development agreement, the wash and the park were all to be part of that under the developers.

Um it's shown in the master plan update as an developer driven um entity.

If the council, just like any of these projects, if the council so choose that they wanted to relieve the developer of that and use the money that we get from regional flood control, you do have that ability.

But per the development agreement and everything with that, it was originally the developer and it still is.

That's what we keep pushing.

Now there's many complex that I'm not going to get into because I'm uh stray off of the agenda item, but um, that we can go to with the parks funds and stuff like that.

But just for tonight's staking with the agenda item.

Realize that you got an SID fund and you have a parks fund, and what we're talking about is the SID fund.

Well, I'm as confused as everyone else up here right now.

So I I would agree.

Why can't can we table this and and maybe you look into it and give us some information, please?

Yeah, it'd be good for me to see a copy of the letter as well.

Okay, any other questions?

Okay, we're gonna open it up for public comment.

David David Bollig sat here all night waiting for this.

Um I live in Canyon Crest.

I've been there for 18 years now.

I was on the board of uh directors of the HOA for probably upwards of 12, 13, 14 years.

Fought with the uh developer every step of the way.

It's still a declarant board, you can't get anything done.

I offered the development it's and Travis is exactly right.

There's a development agreement in the SID, they're two two separate the items.

The developers, the development agreement, Canyon Crest LLC subdivision of uh River West and California.

They response we'll put the park in and get the wash done.

And Travis knows when I was on the HOA board, we offered several solutions to the to the developer, and he just wouldn't even respond.

Absolutely just quit responding.

Nothing.

Uh they won't do anything.

I'm gonna talk about the SID.

I want to I hope you table it.

Uh that $826,000 is money that the residents of H of uh Kanye Crest put in there, not nobody else that that's from the fund.

So you're basically going to give $580,420 to back to the homeowners, but you're gonna take your the city's gonna take keep $246, $247,000.

It's city's gonna keep it for different reasons.

I try to understand.

I read this thing a dozen times what the $160,000 was.

It just looks like I read that sentence over and over and over again.

But the bottom line is you're taking that money and putting it $100,000 into a general ready fund and $60,000 for maintenance of parks, which everybody that got a permit to build a house in there has already put a thousand dollars into that fund initially.

So there's no reason to take the sixty thousand dollars, if I might um respond to your question, is not going to the parks fund in the case.

Well, it says here maintenance of parks.

No, it's it's going to fund 45 capital projects.

Okay, it's part it's a parks fund.

It is not a parks fund.

All right, excuse me.

It's time to her.

It's for parks.

I don't care what you call it, a park fund or whatever, it's going to parks.

And and the sit and candy crisp people already did it.

We're already been deprived of the wash.

We Travis and I, when I was on there did extensive try to get the park, get the track wash done.

The park, we couldn't do anything with the park until the wash was done.

We don't know where the boundaries of the park, what with the engineering was going to be on the wash.

So this is a mess.

But I I but right now, um I'm telling you right now, it is not fair.

Okay, $50,000 surplus NRS, well, let's keep that.

$36,000 for administration.

Okay, fine.

For years and years, the city's has charged this SID tens of thousands of dollars for maintenance every all the time.

But the skim off uh uh uh another 160,000 dollars, I call it Skim It All, and put it into general funds for non-Canyon Crest specific uses is not fair to the residents, and uh we we should get we should get that 160 at a minimum.

Thank you.

Thank you, Dave.

Mayor, council, staff, uh, especially Travis.

I mean, I've talked to him a lot about it.

Can we get your name and have you speaking?

All right, yeah, have it written down here too.

Uh my name is John Young, I'm a homeowner within Canyon Crest.

And uh, as I was saying, I've talked with Travis about this quite a bit as well, uh, because it's been out there and it's been lingering.

Uh the first time I noticed this item was on the agenda for the 12.2 uh technical review meeting.

Uh I wasn't at the meeting, but I did watch the video, and this subject wasn't talked about at that time, at least that I could find on the video.

Uh I reached out to uh several of the council members individually with uh emails, trying to get a little bit of the background because it wasn't clear to me how we got there.

And uh for the two of you who responded to me, I appreciate it.

Uh, but at the same time, you were also lacking that information as well.

Um so without that, I kind of got to the point of how did we get to this point so quickly?

Uh Canyon Crest Board of Directors has not been advised of any of this.

The individual homeowners hadn't been advised of it.

Uh colonial community management, which is our uh go-between for a lot of the financials.

They were unaware of this, so it definitely caught everyone by surprise when it appeared on the uh the agenda.

Uh so as you're kind of leaning towards now, I believe, is I would suggest tabling this and and get all the right parties engaged so that we understand where the funds are, where the funds should be directed.

And uh again, I appreciate everybody's time tonight because I know it's been a long one.

Thank you.

Thank you, John.

Okay, seeing it, no one else come forward.

I'm gonna turn it back over to council.

Councilwoman Gellan.

I moved to count to um to table this this topic, which is the I don't have it in front of me.

Oh, you got it right there, 5.7 right there.

Consideration of the approval resolution R25-044.

Um about the appointment of surplus amounts.

I'd like to table that um to we get more information so we know exactly what we're doing.

Okay, councilman Innis.

I'll second time.

Okay, call for the vote.

One assignment.

Para shy, you know.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 5.8 discussion and consideration of financial support agreement for the US 250 tour event in Mesquite.

And I think I will you want to come take it or you want me to take it?

How about if we do it together?

Sounds good.

Thank you, Mayor and Council.

Um, so we were approached a couple of months ago by a group that that came came to Mesquite, um, talking about uh US 250 tour.

So the US 250 tour event is a coast to coast tour celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States of America.

The tour kicks off in California and travels across all 50 states with 50 star-studded events, patriotic shows, and an immersive experience in Freedom Village.

The tourists submitted the support agreement to the city of Mesquite for signature, as well as a desire for grant funding from the city.

Um, I just wanted to give my opinion about it, and it is just my opinion.

But um they in our very first meeting, they were saying that to get anywhere to get off the ground, and they needed about at least 200,000.

So at this point, we have not received an accounting.

Um Nancy, our executive assistant did reach out and say, you know, who have you gotten money from?

What is the spreadsheet?

How much have you gotten?

How much do you do you have left, you know, that you need.

Um they did find a location, you know.

We helped them find the the empty parking lot at the custom that is next to the Casablanca, but I have yet to know exactly where they stand financially.

And I personally would feel much more comfortable that if they came here, they had the event, you know, and they gave us some kind of invoice at the end to pay for the band, you know, that some kind of reimbursement instead of us just giving them money up front.

So that's just my opinion.

Okay, so I'll give my two cents.

Um, so they've been working with the Casablanca and their sponsors.

I'm not sure how much money they've raised so far.

Um, they'd asked for $20,000 from us.

Um they have Shannon Doa.

I don't know if you're a country fan, you know Shannandoa.

So that's the band booked for the main event show.

Um it's it's a three-day event with the Patriot Village, which is kind of people in period dress teaching the kids and stuff, and and there's some educational opportunities and different things, and they do have a website, the US uh Tor250 um.com, I think it is.

Um they also, you know, one of the options we could do is we could pay for the fireworks.

This is a free event for anybody that wants to come.

So if we want to just say we'll pay for the fireworks, $20,000 for the fireworks.

Um if we want to do like Martin says and say when it's all over, we can decide decide at that point.

Um or we can do less, more whatever.

I'm I'm happy to answer.

I mean, some of the council members went to the presentation.

Um we can we can the events gonna happen regardless of whatever we do.

It's already in motion.

Um, but it would it will be a good event for the city of Mesquite, and it's a nonpartisan event, and uh they've welcomed.

I talked to them, you know, we have the Democratic Party or the Republican Party wants to have a booth, and you know, and they're also gonna have military presence there and those kind of things.

And so um, it is not a part of an event, it's free to the citizens of the city, and so it's up to you guys how much or how little or how we want to go about uh participating.

So, Councilwoman Gallo.

So I was at the event and I really um really enjoyed it, and I thought it was a great thing, uh, but I have come to find out that they didn't pay for anything for that event.

Um the the city paid for the food and the room was donated.

Um I've had a few people trying to reach them to find out about booths and stuff, and they're having a hard time getting answers.

My other concern, I mean, again, I thought it was a great event, and it looked like they were gonna do great things, it'd be great for the city.

But my other concern is um who they haven't come and done a presentation for the rest of the city or come to council to kind of get people excited, and this is supposed to happen within a month.

How is that gonna happen?

I I guess I'm really concerned about how legit um this all is.

And when I'm looking at what the city is agreeing to and what the tour organizer agrees to, um I think I'd like a little bit more information because I just I'm a little nervous ever since the mushroom people were here and we went into that whole thing.

Um so um I'm a little concerned, and again, it was a great event, but I don't see um this organization, the US 254.

What have they done going forward?

Um they again, it's supposed to happen in a month, and we that we as a city really haven't heard anything.

So if we can get more information, I I'm for it if, but they're gonna be selling booths, but people don't know about the booths, and that has to happen here pretty quick.

So that's a concern.

Thank you.

Councilwoman Phil.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, I I have a little reservation about this as well.

Um, to give them any thousands of any amount, um without them performing anything yet.

I'm I'm uh hesitant about that.

Um, and like councilwoman Gellow said, I mean, it's it's on the 11th, it starts um of January.

Oh no, the ninth, the ninth or the 11th.

So that's a month from today.

So I'm hesitant about that.

And then looking at this agreement where city agrees to um issue official endorsements, okay, promote city website, social media, visitors channels, and provide in-kime support, permits, public safety, traffic control, volunteer coordination.

Now that sounds like we would have to talk to the police department about that because that's that's a huge venture for this great big event that's supposed to be here in a month.

And um, as councilwoman gallows said, you know, you're having a hard time get a hold of them.

How do they know they're gonna perform?

Does it sound like a great event?

Yes.

Was I there at the presentation?

Um, and I know the mayor said it's nonpartisan, but it looked like it leaned one side to me at that event.

Um so and I there were some other people there that were kind of left a little bit discouraged because it kind of left towards towards the right.

Um but we are up here in a nonpartisan position, and so that's kind of my concern is that this does not reflect back on the city that it looks like it could be leaning one side or the other.

So that is my um two cents.

Councilman Parish.

First off, this is scheduled for the 9th to the 11th of January.

What are we gonna do on July 4th on the 250th birthday?

Um I know there's a few of you out there that were around in 1976, like I was.

And uh we had a we celebrated on July 4th, not January 9th through 11th.

Um for $20,000, we can have a hell of a party on July 4th.

Um I say let's put our money in our pocket and we'll just do something on July 4th here for the town and for the residents, and we'll be done with it.

Thank you.

Okay, any other questions or comments from council.

Okay, with that, we'll open it up for public comment.

Well, uh, my name's Rick McIntyre, resident of uh Mesquite, and I've I saw a few red flags with this.

You're all so per se you're you're right on here.

I um there's quite a few red flags actually, but they're asking for unspecified, unbudgeted uh money.

Let's use $20,000 just for the sake of discussion here.

Um and this agreement they've provided you is hokey at best.

Ask your city attorney what he thinks of it.

I mean, give me a break.

Um so here's four hours of research in two minutes.

It's basically a roadshow.

It's gonna come into town, it's gonna set up in a parking lot, it's gonna run for three days, got some concerts.

It's not free.

They're selling tickets for 250 dollars of a pop.

Not entirely free, I should say.

A lot of it is free, but I think they're gonna make it available.

But 250 dollars a pop gets you uh VIP tickets to whatever, okay.

Um, a couple of concerts, then they're gonna tear down, they're gonna move on.

So it's like a roadshow.

The organization behind this roadshow is what's important.

Uh, it's a 501c3 organization, which has the exact same board as a companion 501c4 organization, which is highly political.

Highly political.

The 501c or three organization, if you go dig into it, I've I've looked at all their tax returns.

They raise money to pay themselves, and they pay themselves six-figure salaries.

These are the board members to raise money to pay themselves, to raise money to pay themselves.

You understand these types of organizations.

The 501c4 organization exists, and they spend their time having raised money in the 501c3 to run around the country and help candidates get elected, help uh vote turnout, on and on.

It is an it's a very conservative leaning organization.

I would tend to agree with them, but that's irrelevant.

The point is it's a highly political organization.

The 501c3 uh even not only pays themselves six-figure salaries, but they pay their relatives.

It's listed on the tax returns, which is required.

All of the all of their employees are relatives of theirs, and they pay them 40, 50,000.

The money is going to themselves, it's being raised and and funding their own uh efforts.

Uh the group's from Ohio originally, uh, and that's where they operate out of.

It's a it's I mean, there's no bad people here.

I I'd like to say there's no nobody's a bad person here.

But the way they operate their 501c3 is not what you would individually give your money to.

It's rated by the national rating.

I'm gonna run out of time, sorry.

Just I'm gonna wrap up as quick as I can here.

It's rated by the national uh rating associations for nonprofits with two stars, not good, not good at all.

Um the road show should be self-sustaining.

It ought to be, it ought to operate on its own, it ought to work on its own.

By all means, come on to Mesquite, have your have the road show, but it's gotta work it's gotta fund itself somehow.

Uh if you've got 20,000 laying around with nothing to do with it, give it to Travis Anderson and let him do some small public works projects because there's a significant return on investment there.

I see no return on investment in this particular case.

Uh I would encourage you to do just this.

Fact check everything I've said here.

Ask one of the staff to fact check what I've just said here, and uh do not give one penny to these people.

Thank you.

Thank you, Rick.

Jeff Reynolds.

Kind of sounds like the Democrat Party to me.

I don't know.

Um I know that we turned down Karen's request for $7,500 for a band, I think in July 4th, I think what it was.

Now we're gonna pay these guys $20,000.

I don't think it's our business to put on these type of programs.

I think they're like you said, self-sustaining or commercial sponsors, like uh CASA or somebody that wants to come in and bring these people in, but I don't think it's the city's business to be doing that.

So thank you.

Thank you, Jeff.

Okay, seeing no one else come forward, I'll turn it back over to council for a motion.

No, all right, okay.

Item dies for lack of motion.

Item 5.9 consideration approval of the purchase and sale agreement between the city of Mesquite and TEG Manzara LLC, a Nevada limited liability company, and or uh the assignee for a total of 15.26 acres of city owned property located at 800 Horizon Boulevard, APN number 001-07-601-007, 12.06 acres, and APN number 001-08-201-036, 3.2 acres for $800,000 for economic development purposes.

Thank you, Mayor and Council.

Um, the fifth this 15.26 acre parcel is located on the north side of the freeway at the intersection of Hardy and Horizon, next to the City of Mesquite Shop and Animal Shelter, which is to the right of that drawing there.

On July 1st of this year, TEG Holdings LLC made a presentation during the council meeting, expressing their intent to purchase the acreage for approximately up to 50 single family home sites.

The site map is on the screen showing very generous lot sizes.

On July 22nd of this year, the city council voted yes on resolution R25026, finding that it was in the best interest of the city to sell the parcel for economic development purposes.

So that's the first resolution to sell land.

The second resolution was our 25027, finding that it was in the best interest of the city of Mesquite to move forward with the purchase and sale agreement with TEG Holdings Inc.

After several meetings between our city attorney, their attorney, I have before you the contract to purchase the parcel for your approval.

The asking price is 800,000, which is a reduction from the two appraisals.

One is for one was for 900,000 and the other one was for 1,065,000.

That said, there is a caveat in the contract or a threshold that the buyer needs to meet in order to purchase the property at a discount.

There will be a recorded deed restriction, and even though we sell land at our dis at a discount, our resolutions say it is specifically for economic development to spur growth.

And if you have any questions, Tony Benell is here in the back.

He's been waiting patiently for three hours.

So did you have any questions?

Councilman Wallace.

Every subdivision we put in is for economic development.

But it's for profit for them.

There's there's no affordable housing.

One of the appraisals is just over a million dollars, one's 900,000.

Why in this one case would we say we'll sell it for 800,000?

When it's a it's a really good piece of property and a really good location.

There are gonna be big lots, they're they're gonna make a lot of money off of it.

I don't understand why the city should eat 100,000 on this project.

It's up to you, whatever you'd like to decide.

Councilman Parish.

Well, Paul, I'm I'm I'm not the engineer here, but I can see four or five, six, seven, eight, nine lots that's gonna have floodplain in the back of them.

That diminishes the lot price right there.

How was the appraisal for the property?

I understand that, Paul, but still a hundred thousand dollars is a minor, minor uh discount to you got 10 lots in a floodplain.

So I'm I'm okay with the 800,000.

I I don't have a bit of problem with it.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Um, I look at that property all the day, all the time.

And there's a lot of dirt work they need to do.

I'm okay with the 800,000 as well.

I'm happy that if we move forward, that we're finally moving forward with this property.

Which we have I have brought how many things to you guys on this particular one?

Eight, nine, you know.

Um the even the Nevada Rural Housing Authority, and it is gonna require a lot of dirt work.

It's uh it might have to even be terraced in two in two levels because I've walked all over it, right, Travis.

That is true.

Also, keep in mind that the city is finishing Horizon Boulevard, so that improvement that they would have had to do is now we're doing that.

That's the project that I talked about, Kenny Chris and the horizon.

That was a three million dollar project.

That area right there, you're looking about 500,000.

So we are gifting them that amount already.

So just something to think about.

And and and let me just say, I do like this agreement.

Um, where if they do an extension on the development agreement that they're gonna pay the city five thousand?

Is that what it says in here?

Which I like that too, because I know we've given extensions before, and I don't think it's ever been in the agreement that we charge them per extension.

So you can extend all you want.

No, just no, but I like that in here as well.

Uh-huh.

And it helps them to perform.

Councilwoman Gellow.

I agree as well.

I it's a that's a pretty rough piece of land.

Um, I go by it all the time because of the animal shelter, and there's gonna they're gonna land is gonna be brought in, land is gonna have to be taken out.

You are near the wash.

And I'll be honest with you, it gets a little loud over there with the dogs.

Is when those dogs are barking, you can hear them for quite a while, it's gonna be a little tough piece of land.

So I'm totally for um given it, and we need to do something.

We need the housing.

It's an need to do something with this piece of land.

Let's let's it's a really unique location, as you were saying to your point.

Right next to the shop, you know.

So it's the it's surrounded by the great view, so it but it's the the lots are beautiful, so I think that that's gonna be a good sale sale point.

So I'm for it.

Okay, any other questions or comments from council?

All right, thank you, Martin.

Um, with that, we'll turn it over and open up for public comment.

Well no, I'm just that might be better viewing that they have Jeff Reynolds.

Jeff Reynolds, I live just above this in Shadow Crest up there, and I drive by it all the time.

I'm just glad you're not putting uh section eight housing like uh it was proposed at one time.

Uh if somebody will do something and put some decent houses on here, it'll be a benefit to the institute's watch.

I mean, they're steep, we've all seen it.

You know what it's like, but to let them do something and and make an improvement there and not be section eight.

I'm happy.

Thank you.

Thanks, Jeff.

Okay, seeing no one else come forward, I will turn it back.

Oh I think we could maybe zone this for uh B and B uh residents there, or maybe maybe not zone it for BNB.

Okay, councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

I'd like to make a motion um to approve the purchase and sell agreement between the city of Mesquite and TEG Manzara LLC.

Councilwoman Gallow.

I'll second.

Take off for the vote.

Parish eye.

NSI.

Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 5.10 consideration approval of amend addendum three regarding an increase of affordable housing units to be built from 10% to 25% and the purchase price to be adjusted from 632,105 to 175,000.

Um, and I think there's some stuff left up.

That's her NRC on the property, the 34 acres.

I think my step is thank you, Mayor and Council.

I would really like to thank NRC for their patience.

Thank you.

So after going back and forth, you know, after the last council meeting where this was brought up, we think that we've come to an agreement for both parties.

So this is addendum three.

And what they're what they are requesting to do was increase the percentage of the affordable housing from 10% to 25%.

Bringing the price down.

Any questions from council?

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, Martin, thank you so much.

We're working with um Mr.

Jensen and NRC to bring this back to us.

Uh-huh.

I appreciate all your hard work.

Thank you.

Councilman Wanless.

If you want to see somewhere you can have problems with drainage and earth movement, this would probably be the property you want to go look at.

I appreciate that you up the percentage you're gonna do in affordable housing.

I think it's a good project.

I think you've got your hands full, getting it ready to actually use and the parcel across the street.

And that's exactly what that area needs to start to bring more commerce in there.

We need to get utilities in there, and everything you're doing is just what the city needs.

So thank you.

Councilwoman Gellow.

I agree.

Um, I appreciate that you're filling the needs of the city um with some of the affordable housing and also some um wonderful housing.

We do know you make a beautiful project.

You make a beautiful um homes for people, and um I've seen one or two of them in town that are just absolutely stunning.

Um, but I do know you make a beautiful project.

So um anything that we can do to help make this happen, especially for the affordable housing, which is a great area too, because you're not on you're on near the freeway, you've got the firehouse right there.

There's a lot of good um, a lot of good reasons to build this.

So I'm I think it's great.

Thank you.

Okay, any other questions or comments from council?

Okay, thank you, Martin.

Thank you.

Uh, any public comment, David Baldwick.

Uh, generally in favor of this, we need to workforce housing, it's very important.

I suffer my business trying to find people.

Well, people come in from St.

George or Vegas because of the cost of homes here.

So I think it's a good deal.

But and NRC is a great company, they've got a great track record in town.

The predecessor to NRC built my home 18 years ago, and so they've they did they do good work.

So, and that's kind of one thing I wanted to mention is one of the reasons I I do I I'm up here to support this generally, is because I know the project will get done by their reputation.

Uh we've had too many other development projects that we've signed that don't go anywhere.

And if I own commercial property out there, uh and uh you know, about six acres, seven acres on commercial property, and go to get an appraisal on a commercial property site out there, and all they do, all the appraisers do a site of all the development agreements that the city's given out that don't come to fruition.

All these negative commentaries, and it's just an arbitrary reduction in the value of the property, and it hurt and it hurts to me.

It hurts the value of almost three million dollars, and it's causing, and I imagine I'm not a sous sayer, but I imagine NRC is asking for some of this because some of the initial monies anymore when you go to try to build something or do something, the land is out there is basically not collateral, it's basically I'm I'm not saying worthless, but it's they don't consider it like they they used to, and uh in uh traditional times, let's call it that way.

So, whatever we can get done would be great, and I think they'll do the good job to get this thing done.

And uh, but like I said, I just take this time to have the council remember when you do this, make sure we do it to reputable situations, just like uh councilwoman Gallo brought up the mushroom people on the one that pop that out.

So we don't need any uh we don't need any more of that kind of stuff.

And we've got the uh now we've got sitting there, we've got the uh Hawaiian food cart people that we've got the land too, and it's not going anywhere.

We've there's been a history of this, so please think of that in the future.

Thank you.

Thank you, Dave.

Okay, seeing no one else come forward.

I will ask.

Oh, I just want to say something real quick.

Everybody keeps mentioning NRC.

NRC will be the contractor, but the purchaser is one of our development companies, mesquite land partners.

So that's exciting.

We're excited to get it going.

Um, we've already topoed both properties.

We're gonna hopefully get a grading permit submitted, you know, sometime soon.

So thank you.

Thanks, Dylan.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you.

Um can I just say is it fair to make sure the due diligence, if it gets approved tonight, starts today because we have so many purchase contracts, addendums and everything that we want it to start effective today.

Is it well it both the diligence start once over the case?

But it said the council meeting, but it didn't have the date of the council meeting.

It said effective the council meeting, but this was a July addendum that I'm looking at.

So I just wanted to confirm that it will start effective if it gets approved today.

Martin Adam I'm looking at it right now.

So yes, I mean it it starts today.

Okay, I just wanted to confirm because I'm still looking at addendum two.

Well, and then three of July 22nd.

So just wanted to make sure.

I'm saying hopefully we approve.

Okay.

Okay, so I will make a motion to approve addendum number three.

Okay, councilwoman Gallup.

I'll second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Parish I.

NSI.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 5.11, consideration approval of updated purchase and sell agreement and addendum number one between the city of Musquite and Musquite Land Partners LLC, a Nevada limited liability company for 12.43 acre city owned property located at 200 John Deere Drive, APN number two zero zero two-13-212-002.

Thank you, Mayor and Council.

Um Adam, did you wanna describe this one a little bit?

So we the the contract was redone with a new First Amendment.

But and and I again I would like to say thank you to your group because they were very, very patient, and I think it's gonna work out for the best.

And if you remember way back when one of them, you know, I can't remember which time it came forward, but I had a concern that there weren't any restrictions to ensure that it meets the statutory requirements.

That's in there now.

There's a capital improvement requirement of the 500,000 that needs to be made within two years.

And so that's been added to the contract.

So as far as my concerns, compliance with the statute of complies with the statute.

The rest of that, the rest of it is your decision.

Councilman Parish.

So if my math is correct, we're requiring Mosquite land partners.

Am I saying that correct?

We're requiring them to spend uh almost three quarters of a million dollars on this piece of property.

Is that correct?

Well, five 500,000.

They need to sell.

Correct.

So a total of about 750,000.

Right.

And the statute allows us to sell on a discount as long as there's economic development.

So in other ways that we've done that is to require a capital expenditure that's gonna spread money in the town, hire people here, you know.

And so it's kind of getting that math out for Paul, because I knew he was gonna ask about the about the appraisal and make sure it was up to speed.

So yes, we we're getting 750,000 worth of work on this piece of property.

Thank you.

Councilman Wandless.

Actually, I wasn't gonna say a word because I figured they're gonna spend a couple of million getting that property ready.

So I was fine with the whole thing.

It'll be more than that, won't it?

It's gonna be more than that.

Okay, thanks, Martin.

Thank you.

Um with that, we will open it up for public comment.

Oh, here we go.

All right, Becky Peterson again.

Thanks, guys.

Why don't we have you guys work on a tiny town village to stop all this SRT?

Thank you, Becky.

Rick McIntyre again, uh Musquete, Mayor Whipple and members of the council.

This is such a fair deal.

It's fair.

Uh I've been watching this thing for quite a while now, and I think it's uh you've arrived at a win-win-win-win thing here, and I appreciate so much everybody's participation and working together to get it done.

I I think we're gonna all benefit when this thing is finished up.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Rick.

Okay, seeing no one that step forward, I'm gonna turn it back over to council for a motion.

Councilwoman Gallup.

I'll make the I'll make the motion to accept um the consideration approval of um the updated purchase and sale agreement.

Um addendum number one for 12.43 acre city owned property at 200 deer.

John Deere.

Councilwoman Fielding.

I will second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

Parish eye.

NSI.

Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

And with that, we've come to our final public comment.

You have three minutes.

Again, Mayor.

I see you changed.

Oh, okay.

It got a little warm.

Okay.

Counsel.

Uh I want to save you some money.

Something happened today that everybody should pay attention.

Okay.

It came to me that the city has a company out of Chicago that's on retainer for $30 some thousand dollars.

Am I correct with that?

Okay.

And what are they actually doing?

They're negotiating with the union for a police contract.

Am I correct?

Yes.

And an increase in pay.

Well, I think that's already been done for you.

And we can take that person and tell them, have a good day.

Get our retainer back, $30,000.

We can either hire a band or do whatever you want to do or throw a party for our new city mayor to congratulate her on being here.

Our uh manager, sorry about that.

Uh her son, though, might be the future.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

So what I'm suggesting is is this.

Okay.

United States government just approved a 2.8% increase to active military.

Take lead.

Take their lead.

2.8% increase in pay to our active military.

Something to think about.

All the rest of the numbers mean nothing.

These people are out there fighting for the rights of the people of America.

They're fighting for our safety.

They're fighting to keep America safe.

The people safe as we see every day.

We watch on TV.

They're putting their lives in these cities and getting shot at for 2.8% active duty.

I say it's something to really take a grip on and send that follow pack and get your money back and say, look, we got a little spare change left over.

Thank you.

Thank you, Nick.

Dominic Olivetto.

I came up to apologize for my language earlier.

I got a little carried away.

And by the way, you look really good in red.

And I like to welcome the new city manager.

I met earlier today before I got a little carried away.

I just finished a deal with a Rocky Mountain ATV out of Oram.

They're a large off-road company.

The weekend before Easter, they will be putting a rally on that they'll stage in Arizona down at the old shooting range at the track down there.

But that should bring a ton of business dust because there's no place else to stay.

So and other than that, you guys have a merry Christmas, and I'll try to get better language next time, May.

Thank you, Dominic.

Okay, seeing no one else come forward, we will see you in January.

And this meeting is adjourned.