Good evening, everyone.

Good evening and welcome to the Tuesday, January 27th, 2026 regular city council meeting for the City of Mesquite.

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

Pastor.

Heavenly Father, we just come here tonight just seeking your face, Lord God, we're seeking you above everything else.

And Lord, realizing that we are just ending this first month of January.

We got 11 more months left to go.

So Lord, I ask and I'm asking for your wisdom for the mayor, Lord God, and for the council, for all the staff, and every head of every department that is here in this city.

And Lord, I'm asking for that wisdom, the wisdom that they will have from above.

That's above our own wisdom.

And Lord, you know me, you know, I'm asking because there's a there's a personal stake in this, and that is because you say that we are to pray for those that are in authority over us so that we can live lives of peace, peaceful lives.

And so, Lord, that is what I'm asking for now for that wisdom, along with grace and mercy that they can extend that grace and mercy that you extend to them, that they can extend it into the city and to the residents of this city.

But Lord, realizing that peace is not something that is just automatic.

And so, Lord, I ask that you would likewise bring unity, bring unity amongst them, bring unity within our own community.

Because, Lord, with all the different political agendas, personal philosophies and all the rest of it, it brings division and division is the death of unity.

And realizing, Lord, what is in front of us, Lord, we need unity.

And I just remember where in your scripture you talk about Babylon and the Tower of Babel, how the Lord saw that they were all building, they were building something phenomenal.

And the Lord said, That is because they have one language.

That's what we need.

We need unity and the one language of unity.

So, Lord God, I ask for your blessings now upon this meeting.

May you be with each and every person who does a presentation, and may you be with everyone that is here.

Bless us now, Lord Jesus.

So, Father, I ask this now in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Amen.

Thank you, Pastor.

I'd ask that you please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Pledge.

Thank you.

And we are going to start with a presentation from the daughters of the American Revolution.

Lee.

Thank you, May.

Thank you, Mayor, City Council members.

Um, I'd like to read a proclamation from the daughters of the American Revolution.

Hi, Amy.

Um, there's a lot of America 250 commissions and councils, so I just wanted to clarify that this is from the national DAR.

Okay.

Whereas on July 4th, 2026, our nation will commemorate the semi-quincentennial anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

And whereas the journey towards this historic milestone is an opportunity to reflect on our nation's past, honor the contributions of all Americans, and look ahead to future generations who will carry forward the ideals of democracy and individual liberty that make the United States a unique nation and community.

Whereas the great state of Nevada was founded by revolutionary war descendants, and they're pressing west into the territory organized by the Northwest Ordinance into the Northwest Territory, which was land ceded by Britain to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

Through the DAR President General's leadership, all daughters are spending the next three years illuminating our legacy by celebrating our nation's rich history and diverse diversity, promoting belonging through membership and dedicated service, and by completing projects in a unique local and impactful way.

Whereas, from the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party in 2023 until the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 2033, daughters are celebrating our nation's rich history and diversity of experience by honoring all men and women who achieved American independence.

These patriots, believing in the noble cause of liberty, fought valently to establish a new nation.

In testimony whereof I have hereon set my hand an official seal.

Mayor Whipple.

Thank you.

Would you come down for a picture?

For sure.

Thank you.

We got a card today, too.

I know.

Thank you, Mayor.

Right.

Thank you.

And now we're going to invite Amy back up to do a presentation for Morph.

George.

And George.

Amy Bradshaw and George Gulp.

The screen on the good evening, Mayor, Councilmembers, and citizens of Mesquite.

My name is Amy Bradshaw, and joining me this evening is my sidekick who needs a little introduction, Mr.

George Gulp, former city council member and founder of Morph, which is the Mesquite Opportunities Regional Fund.

Now, back in October, I shared with you that Morph had been awarded an exciting grant from the state's tourism agency, Travel Nevada, designed to help rural communities jumpstart long-term tourism planning efforts.

Now only two communities statewide were selected to share in this one million dollar award, and Mesquite was one of them.

Now the award is based on our concepts of number one, positioning Mesquite as a top year-round family sports destination.

Number two, revitalizing our downtown as a vibrant visitor hub, and number three, growing tourism through strong collaboration.

Now, as I mentioned when I was here last, this is a very, very unique grant opportunity.

And the real work began after we were selected.

Here's what's been happening since then.

We've been meeting regularly with our steering committee, which includes our mayor, Jesse Whipple, includes Simon, who wrote a great grant for us, Martine Grant, Becca has joined us, John Rosen, not on city staff, but stand up and give a wave.

A lot of great folks.

Also representatives from our local casinos and resorts, nonprofits, and other community organizations.

Now, Travel Nevada also came to town with their professional tourism consultants to tour Mesquite's many tourism assets, met with our committee, and most importantly, engaged directly with our residents during our first community listening session.

Now that event welcomed approximately 150 residents who enjoyed a meal catered by Los Lopez courtesy of Travel Nevada while sharing very thoughtful ideas and feedback about Mesquite's tourism future.

Now that community input is now helping to shape the tourism proposal that Travel Nevada will present to us at the conclusion of this process.

And now it's time again to hear from the community.

We are inviting residents to participate in the second and final Travel Nevada Community Listening Session, be taking place on Wednesday, February 25th at 6 p.m.

at the Virgin River Event Tent.

Rita's and fajitas will will be providing dinner and dessert again, courtesy of Travel Nevada.

Now this is the final opportunity for residents to share ideas that will directly influence Mesquite's long-term tourism strategy under this grant.

So we strongly encourage anyone with any interest to attend.

The event is free, but space is limited, and registration is absolutely required.

Registration will close on February 15th.

Now we've already had more than 80 people registered in just a few days.

The registration link is displayed on the screen along with the QR code.

Right now would be a great time to take out your cell phones and scan that code.

It'll take you directly to the registration form.

Our email address is also provided if you have any questions.

And be sure to check out the progress newspaper, which hit the stands today for additional details.

Thank you very much for your time this evening.

And George and I hope to see you all on February 25th.

Okay.

What she said.

Thank you, Amy.

Thank you, George.

Um yeah, I would encourage you if you can to make that.

Um, the first one was really really great.

They're packed house, and it's an amazing grand opportunity for us.

So that being said, we are going to open our first public comment period.

This period is for items that are not on the agenda.

Please direct your comments towards myself, and you have three minutes.

There you go.

Thank you.

Uh, good evening, Mayor Whipple, and members of City Council.

I am Jean Watkins, resident of Musquite here with Terry Fitzsimmons, Julie Julie Pershing.

Oh, excuse me.

I couldn't see her.

Okay.

And members of the WOMA committee to tell you about an exciting new program we're introducing to the city of Mesquite tonight.

It is called the Woma Awards.

Woma is an abbreviation for women of Mesquite, Moapa Valley, and Arizona Strip.

The Woma Award program is long overdue.

It is a formal way for each of us to express how much we appreciate the women who work day in and day out to create a brighter tomorrow for our community.

And that is exactly who the Woma Awards program targets women in our region, living, dead, young, old, with one thing in common.

They are role models who inspire us whose story should be told.

We are now accepting nominations for this award with a cutoff date of April the 30th.

The judging will be done later in the year with awards given out in January 2027.

We have nomination forms here tonight, and Terry will share with you where you can pick up forms if you want to nominate more than one woman.

And Julie will share how to make a nomination electronically if you don't want to do it manually.

And with that, here's Terry.

Thank you, Jean.

So our preliminary list I have right here, but it is growing fast.

We have at this time the Women's History and Culture Center.

We have our wonderful Steam Center, Gentle Hands of Faith, the Donkey Museum, the wonderful fringe salon, and today we just acquired the View Salon.

We have the Recreation Center, the Senior Center, and our very first one we got was the Dollar Tree.

And we're working on getting more in Moapa and Beaver Lodge, Beaverdam Lodge.

Thank you so much.

These are the places where you can pick up the nomination form if you want to do it manually.

Julie's going to tell you about doing it electronically.

So I'm trying to get these ladies into the next century.

And we also have a QR code.

And so we have a Facebook page, a QR code.

And so if you want to submit your nomination electronically, we would love for you to do that.

And you can submit more than one person.

We're already getting nominations in, so we're super excited.

And the nominations we've got in are from my QR code.

I'm just saying.

Good work.

Okay.

That completes our presentation.

Please contact us if you would like to hear more.

We would love to hear from everyone.

Thank you.

Thank you all.

Pictures.

Oh.

Should we get the mayor in?

Yes, we want the mayor.

Get over here.

We need you here.

Thank you.

You don't need to jog, Mayor.

I'll be patient.

Dominic Olivetto, Mesquite resident.

I come up to throw a little positive out before all the negative comes up later.

The Vietnam Veterans of America, chapter 993 had our annual dinner for our members, and we had some pretty dignified and grateful guests show up.

Nothing to take away from Lee and the DAR or the rabbi Zuki for showing up, but we were really impressed that uh Becca showed up.

And uh you guys could learn from her.

She put on a good show there, and people were happy to talk to her, and they left with a positive attitude, thinking that you guys finally did something right and hired a good person.

But other than that, have a nice day, everybody.

Thanks, Dominic.

I'm another positive one.

Hi, good evening, Mr.

Mayor and City Council members.

I'm Mary Mathis.

I'm the president of the Mesquite Art Gallery, and I would like to update you on a few things that we have going on right now.

We're very busy right now.

Uh we're in the last week of our A Touch of Solitude exhibit, which showcases our talented artists and uh in the community.

And if you haven't been in yet, please come in, it's going to end Friday.

We'll be changing it over on Saturday.

Our new exhibit is owed to animals.

It will begin Monday, February 2nd and go through February 27th.

The reception will be held Thursday, February 29th from 4 to 7.

Please plan on joining us.

We're also participating in the Mesquite First Friday Family Art Walk, which is being held the first Fridays of each month through April.

Um our next one is February 6th from 4 to 7, and it's at the Mesquite Art Gallery.

We have the art gallery open, we have vendors out in the pavilion.

We have a band, we have mesquite blues band playing this for February, and we've got food and uh Terry's doing a taste of mesquite for us, getting some of the restaurants to bring samples in and stuff.

So it's a really nice evening.

So please plan on joining us at that.

Uh we've also announced our February Pallet and Poor uh classes.

Uh, this is an instructor led, and all supplies are provided.

I also get some wine and cheese and snacks and stuff, so they're very nice, a lot of fun.

Bring your friends, family, whoever just come and have fun with us.

Uh, you can see them on the website as well as purchase tickets online.

Uh, they're one of my favorite events of the art gallery.

Uh also we have a special project going on right now.

We've had someone uh donate a piano to us, and it's out in our pavilion right now, and so our project is going to be to find volunteers to come and we're trying to put a group together and to paint it.

We want to be fun and creative and uh uh part of the community.

So um if you have any talent that you'd like to come and help with that, of course, we continue to hold a lot of classes in the gallery.

Uh we invite everybody to come and participate in.

Our new framing and matting shop has become an excellent resource for our artists in the community, as well as we're getting a new big printer that will be able to print very large pictures, and nobody in the area, not even in St.

George, can do what we're gonna be able to do.

So should be a good resource.

Um, also our pottery studio and our fused glass studio are very popular, and and we have a lot of things going on.

So we have an excellent website at mesquitefinearchcenter.com where you can see everything going on.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor Whipper and City Council.

My name is Nikki Metter, and I have been using the recenter for about four times a week for the last two years.

I have to state that I'm very disappointed at the new hours for the pool.

It now opens at 7 a.m.

instead of 5 a.m., leaving no time for lap swimmers to use the pool.

So right now we have been sharing the area, the same area that the water aerobics ladies use, and they start at 7 a.m.

I also don't get off work until 5 p.m.

And the pool closes at 6.

So please reconsider changing the pool hours back to five.

Thank you.

Thank you, Nikki.

Evening, Mayor, Council, Mike Benham.

I just want to go over the subpoena that I got.

They sent me 28 dollars for 10 hours of work with Debbie and 10 hours for me.

Ridiculous.

The thing that bothers me the most about the subpoena is the police officer's name is on the subpoena.

He had nothing to do with this case.

Is it retaliation?

Well, let me tell you this.

I'm not gonna commit perjury for anybody or get myself in trouble.

Everything they wanted on that police officer, I turned over because it was sent to me, and I'm not going to hide anything.

Because I took an oath when I became fire police captain.

The Constitution of the United States and State of New Jersey.

And I think Mosquite is in the United States.

Am I right?

So I am seeking 1,000 in compensation for all our time.

The ink, the 300 pages that we had to send in.

I don't know who's going to pay for it.

Is the city going to pay for it?

Was your attorneys that you hired?

Correct.

Mr.

Attorney.

You're not on this super, you know.

So it's a you guys hired these outside attorneys.

It's outside counsel for the city.

That's correct.

Correct.

So if you hired them, then you're responsible for them, correct?

If you hired them.

Are you willing to pay me the thousand dollars?

I think it's well worth it.

That time I spend in my life, I will never get back.

I could spent that doing a lot better things.

And staying up to 11 o'clock at night with my wife getting everything done.

So what do you guys want to do?

You don't want to do anything.

Okay.

And I'll have my attorneys.

I guess supreme or whatever you've got to do.

But I'm gonna get my money one way or the other.

Of course, the other option is as to go down to Vegas and file a small claims court.

That's the other option, right?

And as I've got my attorneys, I know I only have 30 seconds left.

I've told him all about the 911 and the nasty comment about my wife, and they're working on that right now.

So you guys have a good night.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mike.

Thank you for making that uh hello, city council.

My name is Davis Swadell.

I'm the owner of 564 Desert Tortoise Way.

I'd submitted an application for a vacation rental back in November.

We've had a few email exchanges since my uh my path here started on a golf trip.

Um, I'm sure about the first.

And last year, after my wife and I had our first kid, um, we had this crazy idea to see if we could buy a house here um to live leave her for parts of the year.

We live in LA in an apartment, uh, rented out the rest and maybe move here full time after kid number two.

But before we got too excited, I wanted to make sure it was possible and legal.

So the very first thing I did was to go to the mesquite city website and look for a policy on vacation rentals.

And it was super easy to find right on the city website.

There's this detailed 18-section ordinance, um, clearly laying out how to apply, what the requirements were, how to operate responsibly, and I actually brought a copy, um, printed out, and it's still live on the city's website if you want to check it out on a laptop or something.

And the rules are super clear, you know.

But obviously, I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything.

So I ended up speaking with three um real estate agents in in Mosquite, all super experienced, and all three confirmed that yes, this was the correct process, and that moreover, they had actually personally handled transactions recently where um the permits were issued under these exact rules.

And so off we went, found a great house, um, set up my Nevada LLC, and about 30 minutes after closing on November 3rd, walked into city council, um, talked to Jesselin, super excited to see my application, and walked out of there with a pit in my stomach that hasn't gone away since.

Um, because as I've come now to know there were some things that had happened that don't appear here and that weren't known to any of the local real estate agents I talked to.

Um, the reason I'm here tonight is because I've watched probably 10 hours of these meetings on video over the last two and a half months, and it's obvious that you guys are super reasonable and have been trying really hard to be responsive to the community concerns that have been raised.

And I think after doing a lot of research um by any objective metric, like with this moratorium, you've acted faster and more decisively for for the your constituents than literally any other city I could find.

They all do a six-month you know period before they before they do that.

And I just feel like in that effort to be super responsive, I've kind of been caught in the crosshairs a bit.

Um, my property's over an acre, it's not in the denser neighborhood that was an issue previously with the other um locations, and it's gonna be probably the most expensive high-end rental in town.

It's gonna be managed by Jay and Amy, who've had a you know, 10-15-year track record of responsible management.

And so to finish, I just I wanted to ask appeal to come here and fly here and appeal to you guys as somebody who I really think after two and a half months to be myself up at it.

I just I really think I did what any reasonable person um would have could have been asked to do.

And I just want to see if there's a way we could find a reasonable solution pragmatically here before we go down a path that I really don't want to go down.

Um if we can, you know, uh if there's any way to, I promise I'll make sure my property will be the most compliant vacation rental in all mesquite, and it'll be a really positive contribution of the community.

Um thank you, Davis.

Hello, Marwell Whip and Council, excuse me.

I'm Amy Gardner and part owner of Jane Amy's Mesquite Getaways.

Um, first of all, I want to tell you that I'm in support of your six-month moratorium.

I think it's a good idea.

I think there's a lot of things that we need to get the city needs to get figured out so that community and homeowners who do the rentals are um are happier, you know, just just happier.

Um, so I think it's a it's a great thing.

Um, the timing of it, as Davis was saying, is um for me it's hard to swallow, and I don't feel like it was done according to um uh I don't know what you call it, regular your regular ML maintenance and operation of things.

But anyway, we have two owners that are in the same position as Davis.

One was a previous home homeowner, so they did not go out and purchase a home, but they did spend thousands of dollars trying to get it ready to rent.

Um, and they were just maybe a week after Davis wasn't putting their application in.

Um, and then we have another owner on and 460 Choi away that went out and spent a lot of money with the understanding that it would be from his realtor and from everyone that you would be operating as normal.

So I guess my concern is is that there wasn't enough um notice uh to where um uh real estate agents and everybody in that game would know to caution the potential buyer about this maybe coming down the pike.

I'd wait, or I'd really consider that this is a 50-50 possibility that you're not gonna be able to do this.

So for those two rentals, and also in support of Davis, I would ask for you to reconsider on those three properties because I just I just don't feel that we treated them right as a as a city as a governing body.

Thank you.

Thank you, Amy.

Okay, seeing no one else step forward, we're gonna move on to item two, the consent agenda.

Nope, come on up on a lighter note.

Um good evening, uh Mr.

Mayor and Council and ladies and gentlemen and dignitaries.

Um my name is Sherry Brooks, and uh, you know, I've been living here in the little town of Mesquite, uh, the quaint little town, uh, and I noticed many things that would enhance the city.

Now, this is more on a positive note, not business, uh, and many things would enhance the city, such as a Trader Joe's or Costco, and maybe a few more specialists in the medical field.

Uh a lot of seniors like me.

Uh, and then um in medicine.

And I was thinking too uh how can this cute little city uh be filled with such marvelous people and to be encouraged more in entrepreneurship?

That's what we need in town.

And uh hopefully, hopefully, more good people can land and stay in this town.

Um, did you ever think of future Disneyland site here?

It may be too futuristic to think about in the desert, but it could be possible to attract the whole entire wild west.

Uh that would take some developed thinking and planning to find somebody to build a fun town.

Uh possibly in the future, one step at a one step at a time.

New major stores would attract labor employment from the tri-cities.

And new or old labor from Las Vegas may create Disneyland Wild West.

One never knows.

And thank you very much for having me here this evening.

Thank you, Sherry.

Thank you.

Okay, with that, we will move on to consent agenda.

2.1 consideration approval of the Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 technical review meeting minutes, the Tuesday of January 6th, 2026 technical review meeting minutes.

And the Tuesday, October 28th, regular city council meeting minutes.

The Tuesday, November 18th, 2025 regular city council meeting minutes.

And the Tuesday, January 27th, 2026 regular city council meeting agenda.

2.2 consideration of A notification of budget transfers.

D, notification of budget amendments, C notification of bills paid.

2.3 consideration approval of Dell VX Rail server maintenance renewal.

2.4 consideration or approval of the street lane index and road mileage report for public roads within the City of Mesquite maintenance jurisdiction.

2.5 consideration approval for Mesquite Public Arts Commission to use $36 to purchase three name tags for their three new commissioners.

Any questions from council on the consent agenda?

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

I would like to make a motion to accept.

We're going to need to have public comment.

Sorry.

Do we have any public comment on the consent agenda?

Okay, seeing none, Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

I will make a motion to accept the consent agenda.

Do I have a second?

I'll have second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Yes.

Parish high.

Galilei.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 3.1 presentation of the annual report for the Anthem at Musquete Planned Unit Development PUD.

John.

John, I know he's here.

You're up.

Good evening, Councilman Mayor, John Shippert with Dell Webb Pulti Group.

I'm here tonight as a portion of our annual report for our uh the state of our community, uh Sun City Mesquite and Anthem Mesquite Master.

Um I don't know if you've all had a chance to read the report.

I don't know if you want me to read the report or you just have questions.

No.

Whatever you want.

So I'll just uh kind of give you a quick overview.

Um 2025 was a good year for us.

Um I should have had this printed out.

I tried to do it on my phone.

Apologize.

All right, for our active adult, which is our Sun City product.

We have uh two communities that were completed, uh Wisdom Peak Unit 23, which was 117 lots, and Amber Sky Unit 24, which was 94 lots.

Um transportation improvements included 1800 lineal feet of improvements on Conestoga Parkway.

Uh they were completed.

Um we're planning for additional Canyon Crest and Horizon improvements to coincide with the work that uh Travis and his groups doing with the uh um fire station project and the RTC um development fund projects.

Um we currently have two communities under development, uh Dancing Boot, um, which is what we call Unit 12.

Um that's a 121 lots, and Dashing Waters uh Unit 28, which is 230 lots.

Um those projects uh are have engineering um grading, masonry walls, utility work, and service improvements underway.

Um we have also uh started development of additional lifestyle amenity.

Um we're building an event center, which is 12,500 square feet um event center where uh the community will be able to have uh larger events.

Uh it's gonna have a stage where we can have dancing groups, plays, presentations, music groups, uh that kind of thing uh utilized for clubs and the residents of Sun City.

Um for the non-active adult, uh we completed Suntero phase three with 66 lots, and uh we've been planning and we just recently had approval of a tennis map uh for additional 81 lots for the Suntero uh community.

Um so that's just a really quick overview.

Everything's looking good.

It's gonna be a great 2026.

So I'm here to answer any questions.

Any questions from council councilman parish?

What is the uh current status on the lot across from the fire station that you guys were working on with it for the church lot?

Um that has I didn't mention that, and thanks for bringing that up.

Um that has uh changed hands and is now uh the latter-day LDS church site.

So they'll be completing the improvements of the roadways, and then they'll be able to start their uh improvements there.

So John.

All right.

Do we have any public comment on the presentation from the Mesquite Anthem?

Okay, seeing none, I will turn it back over to council.

Oh sorry, sir.

Yeah, my name's Jim Hockett.

Um I don't know if this is the right time to ask this, but uh Poulti, I think, is wanting to build some new homes uh on the south side of Musquete Height and wanting to know where the entrance is gonna be, and if can they can put up the wall when they first start along Musquete Height to keep some of that dust and the trash from blowing over into our other neighborhood?

Because I live in Stonehaven, and uh when they built in Sun Taro, we got a lot of dust that blew out of there even after they supposedly watered, uh, and a lot of people had to go in and rake up their back the gravel in their backyard to get rid of all the dirt.

Um so can anybody tell me what what is gonna happen with this what used to be was Golden Valley when Beezer, I think was gonna build, but now I guess Polte is gonna build Travis.

Is that something you could answer if he emailed you about it or Simon?

Yeah, um we don't have an application yet, uh, but uh it is belong to the party, so party will prepare for the Golden Valley uh previously known as uh Golden Valley subdipicen.

But you don't know where the entrance is gonna be yet.

We have no idea because there is no application yet.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you, Jim.

Hello everybody, my name is Amy Baukin.

I'm a resident in Sun City and Wishing Well, and I don't know if this is the appropriate place or not, but since the gentleman who is uh got the plans is here.

Um I'm curious, and there are many other residents in Sun City that are curious, and we all know how the rumor mill happens in Mesquite, it just happens.

But with all the building that's going on, I'd be interested in knowing how many houses are actually occupied by humans versus spec homes.

And the reason I'm asking that question is there's a lot of building going on and a lot of empty hump homes.

So I'm not a builder, but I would think that uh that you would rather have somebody occupying those homes than just building them just to build, uh, especially when we're tearing down the land and we're doing all kinds of work and creating dust and other problems.

So I don't know whether or not our friend from Poulty can give us a figure on the new development, how many are actually residences, and how many are spec homes waiting for a buyer.

Thank you for your thank you for this.

Thank you.

We at various times of the year um have what we call inventory homes, and those homes we start without buyers.

Um very, very few.

Um we like to have homes that are move in ready because uh all people's uh situations are different.

Some people need something right away, some people like to buy from dirt.

We like to sell from dirt because it gives people the opportunity to pick everything they want from their house.

So I think right now we have an inventory of all of Sun City, like 10 spec homes.

So the particular community that she's talking about, I can't answer how many spec homes we have over there.

Um but I think we have 10 in total at various places throughout the community.

That would include Sunterous So I hope that that answers the question.

We don't have a huge amount, but uh I'm gonna say 90 nine percent are built from dirt.

So we don't we can't control whether people move in right away.

So maybe it appears that there's a house and somebody's spinning the summer somewhere else.

I we we I I can't answer that either.

Thanks, John.

Okay, seeing no one else step forward.

I'm gonna turn it back over to council for a motion to accept the presentation.

Councilman Ennis, I'll make a motion to accept the presentation.

Councilwoman Fielding.

I'll second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

Very shy.

And I sign Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

Mayor's comments and reports.

Um have a couple of things.

First of all, um, back in July, um, I had a complaint put in against me on the ethics commission that finally we had a settlement conference on January 15th.

Um they found that I was cited for a failure to disclose.

I should have at the beginning of my term, disclosed the fact that I did pest control operations for the city.

As a result of that, they have given me an admonishment, and I am going to be taking some training.

And I would like to say that I would like to thank the ethics commission.

They were very great to work with.

They educated me, they helped me through this process.

Um I was a little ignorant of the things I was supposed to do.

So there was a couple things that I didn't do, or one thing I didn't do that I I should have done.

So I apologize to the citizens of the city for that oversight, and I will try and do better in the future.

Um other than that, we had the gala for the murder on the Orient Express last week.

For those of you that were there, it was an amazing turnout.

It was great.

Everybody was dressed up in their 1930s attire, and it was really successful event.

It was a good time.

Um, and that play is gonna be going at the community theater on the 6th and 7th of February and the 13th and 14th in February.

And other than that, councilwoman Gallo.

Or councilman Ennis, we'll go you first.

Okay, it don't matter to me.

Uh good evening, everyone.

Just a couple of updates on the veteran side of the house.

We had the VA mobile medical clinic come down last week to the veteran center, and it was there for two hours.

However, the turnout was so great that they didn't leave until almost two o'clock, which was fantastic.

They had almost 22 veterans come in and sign up.

About nine of them weren't in the system, so they signed them up right there.

The doctor saw them and got them in the system.

So, because of that turnout, they're gonna be coming back down on the 15th of the uh February.

There's flyers out there on the table.

Please spread the word.

If you're in this in the VA system, great.

If you're not great, come down, they'll sign you up and get you in the system.

The second thing is we um I do have the telehealth uh for the veterans.

Um that's been signed off.

We're good to go there.

Just waiting for an MOU from Big VA HQ.

And this should be up and running around the May time frame.

Basically, what this is is where you can come down to the veteran center and you can talk to your provider right there from the veteran center.

You don't have to go to St.

George or to Vegas to see the VA hospital.

And the last item is uh I've said this a couple of times, we're getting a VA clinic here that has now happened, and so they will be coming down and we'll have be having the official opening sometime mid-March.

It's gonna be located up on Pioneer Boulevard where CJ Blinds used to be at 550 Pioneer Boulevard and suite 102.

Right now we're just waiting for the painting and all that to get going, and then they will be down here weekly to see veterans and they'll be able to refer out to local doctors and et cetera.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilman.

It's amazing you got that.

Bill hasn't been with us even a year yet.

Getting a lot of good things accomplished.

So thank you.

Councilwoman Gallo.

Just two quick um announcements.

Um, for those of you that are interested, um, there will be a mammogram mobile unit um over at the Cancer Society um building.

Uh I don't know if it's the Cancer Society, but it's 150 Yucca.

Um, the appointments, you can call 877-581-6266, or just show up.

Um they're gonna be there on January 29th and January 30th uh from 7 40 in the morning to 3 20 with lunch from 12 to 1.

And then the other thing that I have is just a reminder that the pause of hope.

Um, they have tickets for fundraiser.

This um they're gonna be holding it March 3rd at the Holiday Inn.

And this is gonna help folks, whether it's seniors or um down on their luck, so to speak, that need to keep the want to keep their pets.

Uh, this fundraiser will help have money to help them get some medical needs and food, etc.

that are needed for their pets.

So once again, that's called the pods of hope.

And that's it.

Thank you.

Thank you, councilwoman.

Any other comments from council?

Okay, and uh Mr.

Anderson.

Thank you, Mayor Council.

Wanted to give just a couple quick updates on some of the projects that are relevant.

Um the first one, the traffic signal at Hardy Way and Falcon Ridge Parkway.

Uh, the pavement operations will begin tomorrow.

So they'll be working on Falcon Ridge Parkway and right around the signals that'll start tomorrow and go um Wednesday and Thursday.

We also um have the tentative date to start that signal full operation on February 9th or 10th.

So we've been doing the testing and we're bringing everybody in on the 9th and 10th to just check all the bugs and make sure, but that's when we feel that that will be in full operation.

You'll see our message board truck out there, letting everybody know there'll be a new um traffic pattern with that signal.

But February 9th or 10th, that'll be in full operation.

Also, just as a reminder, those are bagged right now and not in service.

So please do not treat them as a four-way stop.

Treat them as uh your only stop is on Hardy Way, just like it used to be.

Um, once they're in full operation, then it'll be like a normal traffic signal.

The other um one I wanted to bring up is next week, starting next Monday, the paving crew will be back in on Mesquite Boulevard starting at Riverside Road, working its way towards Grapevine.

Um, I have some plans from them that I will be putting or having Nancy help me to put those on to the website showing what sections they'll be paving on what days and and working through that.

But they will be working the pavement operations through that section starting next week, and then they continue to do the waterline installations.

Uh they've been doing the saw cutting in this section, right in front of um City Hall and down a little bit.

So um, all in all, it's going well.

But next week we'll be um starting those, and just like always, we're working it to the weekends or open.

All the traffic control is off of the road, but during Monday through Thursday, we do appreciate everybody's patience with this project, and I'd like to personally thank all of those.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And Councilman Oneless, Mr.

Anderson.

Can you give us an update on the time frame for Horizon and Canyon Crest that actually being done?

So that particular project, um, they have been working on the grading uh Hardy Way, or I'm sorry, Horizon is closed as they're cutting out um the sides.

They've been installing the cut that to subgrade down to the natural grade.

They bring in the base and they put in the curb and gutter, and I believe they're working on sidewalk.

That particular project, it is a six-month project, seven months, I believe.

And so that is not slated to be fully complete with Horizon and Canyon Crest until June, I believe.

We will, depending on when they're able to get that.

We don't anticipate Horizon being closed that long, but that's the total completion of that project.

So it should be done before the fire station opens.

We're wanting that to coincide together, yes.

Okay.

Um, we're gonna move on to 5.1 consideration of approval of a new attorney case management software.

Is Michelle Rebber here?

Did she okay?

Here she comes.

Maybe Michelle's like and Wayne's gonna help out.

Yes, uh good evening, mayor, staff, council.

Um my name's Wayne, I'm the IT director for the city.

Uh Michelle Reber, uh, office administrator, attorney's office.

Um, so this sorry, I'm short.

Um, the software, uh, we need to just change our software because over the last what few years there's been a new modernization program where the state's gone in and they've updated policy and the software and just different things um as far with the criminal justice information that we have and that we deal with on the criminal side.

Um, so we are wanting to move to this software to make sure we're in compliance with all the the new standards that they have.

Any questions from council?

Councilman Perrish.

Um excuse my in ignorance, but this is probably the most confusing proposal I've ever seen in my life.

Um I have no idea how much you want to, how much money you need, how much um I I see 6,000 one place, I see 22,000 another place.

What is the bottom line cost of this gonna be?

Yeah, they've they've broken it up um in different sections.

So the total for the first year is going to be the 22,000 uh 340.

Part of that is because they're gonna need to help us set it up, they'll get with us, do training, um, just kind of put it all together for us.

So that first year is gonna be a little bit more expensive.

So it's gonna be the 22340.

And then the second year, um, these are the bottom numbers.

Um the second year is gonna be 6,540, and then the third year will be 6,736.

Pretty much everybody always increases every year with um when you have a an agreement with them.

It seems like that's kind of their standard, is to every year increase it.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you.

Um, so my question is how often are we gonna have to do this?

Are we gonna have to do it if this is our first year at 22,340?

And then the next year is what was 6500, and then the next year.

It'll be it'll be roughly that moving forward each year as an annual annual renewal, the the 6,000.

Okay, because this was never budgeted.

So did we not know last year during the budget season that this was gonna that we weren't compliant?

Correct.

Okay, it's more about becoming compliant before audits go into effect, which is April.

Perfect.

And so that's awesome.

So then you're gonna put this on the budget for the next few cycles.

Awesome.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any other questions from council?

Councilman Perrsch.

So with that being said, where do you expect us to pull the money for this from?

Um we'll put the hot seat under our new finance director and see if he's got 22 grand tucked away somewhere in the first week he's been on board and see if we can get this done.

Thank you, finance director.

Yeah, I don't have the answer for that right now, but we'll we'll look for it.

So uh I did have some previous conversations with Ms.

Thorne, and between some surpluses and the IT budget and the general fund, we should be able to find the funding to cover this.

Councilman Wallace.

Considering how much legal this city's been in lately, I think it would be a good idea to go ahead and find that money for him.

Okay, thank you guys.

Thank you.

Do we have any public comment on item 5.1?

Okay, seeing none, I'm gonna ask for a motion.

Councilwoman Fielding.

I will make a motion to approve um the software.

Okay, do I have a second?

I'll second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Parish I.

NSI.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 5.2 consideration approval of the placement of wind sculptures at roundabout of Oasis Boulevard and Wingate Drive.

This project will be funded by the Mskite Estates Master Association.

Uh good evening, Mayor and Council.

Karen Skimmons, Muscade Public Arts Commission.

Um this project was brought to us by the um HOA people from the Mosquita States Master Association.

I guess at one time, this circle, and this is just a mock-up right now, what you're saying.

Um the circle was not completed or landscaped.

It was vacant, and they would like to um purchase some wind sculptures on their own and install them.

They brought it.

The good thing was it was a grassroots movement, and they came to the public arts commission and asked them if they could if we would help approach um for the sculptures for the city.

And this kind of fits within what we would like to see out there.

This is at the end of the Oasis Boulevard as it stands right now by Wingate.

Um, so um any questions from city council on this.

Yeah, I think you're good.

Okay, yes, thank you.

Any public comment on item 5.2.

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

Councilwoman Gallo.

I'll make a motion to approve the uh wind sculptures at the roundabout at Oasis Boulevard in Wingate Drive.

Okay, do I have a second?

Oh second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 5.3, consideration or approval of resolution R26-001, finding that the sale of approximately 491.63 acres of city-owned property located at APN number 002-123-01-011 for economic development is in the best interest of the city of Mesquite.

Ms.

Green Thank you, Mayor and Council.

Um, in the 1980s, as you're well aware, the City Mesquite took down thousands of acres from the BLM for the purpose of economic development.

Um, and it seems like it would be a given that we want to sell all our thousands of acres.

We have about almost 3,000 left.

But the city charter compels us to or requires us to do several different things.

The first resolution that you would vote on is to sell the land.

Do you want to sell the land?

Which, like I said, it seems obvious.

And then the second item is to do a second resolution to sell to a specific buyer, and then the third item is to do a contract.

So right now, this is not naming any party.

This is just looking at that one almost 500-acre parcel, and it's just before you to say, do you want to sell this parcel?

Yes or no.

Thank you, Martin.

Any questions from council?

Okay.

Oh, Councilman Wallace.

We just learned about this project less than two weeks ago.

And there's a lot more that has to go into this before it's a done deal.

There's a lot of questions.

That's right.

I think we're rushing this way too fast.

And until we know all the particulars.

I don't know this quick.

I'm ready to just say yes, let's give that much property at a discounted rate to somebody coming in and doing something.

I'm I figured we'd be having a vote like this maybe five months from now.

Right now, I don't feel confident.

I don't have enough information.

I don't know where their funding's coming from.

I don't know the order they're doing things or why they need everything all at once.

And so I'm I'm at odds with this right now, unless somebody can actually convince me that this is a good thing to do tonight.

Paul, maybe I can answer that a little bit.

So the the way I view at least this specific agenda item is more of a technical item where if we ever want to sell this piece of property, we're not selling saying to who.

That's more the next couple items are gonna start that process where people can make presentations.

This just opens the door for this particular part property.

It doesn't force the city to sell, it doesn't force us to give it to a certain party, but it just it's the technical requirement that our charter has to pass a resolution saying, okay, here's another piece that we're gonna look at selling, and then just like you say, we could be months negotiating, you know, working on agreements, uh, 10 you know, it exploring offers from different parties, but at least this agenda item is just the first step to open the door.

It's pure as he said, it's purely a technical, you could sell it through five years from now.

It just at some point, actually, councilman Ennis had a good idea.

He said, since we need to sell all of them, we could do one resolution and just do a blanket one for all of them.

That was brilliant.

Councilwoman Gallo.

That was kind of my question that um I think has been answered.

So the only thing that we're voting on right this time is strictly do we ever want to sell the land for the case?

Correct.

That's it.

Okay.

It's just what the charter requires.

Even though it sounds like a given.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you.

And that that is good clarification for me.

So that we're gonna if we pass this resolution, 491.63 acres doesn't have to be to one person.

We can break it up.

Correct?

Correct.

I mean, this just opens the door.

Hey, this is another pride, you know, piece of property we're gonna be looking at.

It's gonna be an option to sell under the the charter that provides for economic development.

So all the economic development rules that go along with those type of transactions would apply to this property.

Okay, but we're not pinned down in any other way.

And that this is what how we've been doing it the last five years for every single parcel that we've sold.

Okay, thank you, Martin.

Thank you.

Um with that, I'm gonna open it up for public comment for 5.3.

Okay, seeing none, I'm gonna turn it back over to council.

Councilman Parrish.

I'll make a motion to make a motion to uh accept uh 5.3 resolution R26-001 for economic development is in the best interest of the city of the Mesquite.

Okay, do we have a second?

All second.

Yeah, we have a second, call for the boat.

Very shy.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 5.4.

Presentation from H2O Entertainment LLC for the purchase of 491.63 acres of city owned property located at APN number 002-123-01-011 to develop a master plan destination results resort called Snow River Resort.

I'm uh Brad LeBaron with H2O Entertainment.

But I actually came here to see what it feels like to be on the city council.

So I pretty well know I'd wear a suit, but after what happened to you, I think I just made a mistake.

Okay, um, I'm just gonna clarify.

This presentation's the first time anybody's seen it.

But just to clarify it, it is not Disneyland, it's not Babylon, it's none of that stuff.

Yeah, well, all these things people are saying.

Don't have a clue.

And you're you're gonna get the whole thing.

You're gonna learn everything about the whole thing tonight.

And part of like your questions, our problem is it costs money to put these together.

How much time and money do you want to spend when you don't even know you can get the land?

So, and then you've got to get appraisals, you've got to get all that stuff.

So that's why they're going through this process.

And you've got to understand from developer side, you can only spend so much money to do that.

Like you're gonna see some drawings today.

You're you're looking at a hundred thousand bucks just just to get this ready.

G'day.

Now it's coming to my attention.

Some Americans die.

G'day.

Now it's coming to my attention, and some Americans still don't know where Australia is.

Well, I'll tell you exactly where it is.

Australia is where the sun shines on thousands of miles of the world's great beaches.

It's where you can go push and get away from it all.

We'll just die in town.

Get amongst it all.

That's where wild native animals rhyme free in the untimed Australia Nath Bank.

Could I kill it?

It's where the fish are friendly, and even the birds have a sense of human.

It's just 37,000 miles of pristine, beautiful beach, mate.

No, I didn't know that.

Very much.

You want to show you the world.

Don't miss the best part.

Australia.

Bundai Beach, where Aussie Adventure meets water park fund.

Kangaroo Park is the ultimate splash zone for children 12 and Undock.

With pint-sized slides, fountains, tipping buckets, and water cannons.

It's a safe and exciting space just for them.

Our way pool brings the set to you.

No beach needed.

Take on O'Crikey, the biggest, fastest slide in the park.

One ride, and you'll know exactly how it got its name.

Grab a mate and take on the walk about.

The only jewel rocket slide in the world.

Side by side, you'll launch twist and race your way down at lightning speed.

Turn the fun into a full getaway at Snowy River Resort.

Kick back by the pool, soak up the views, and stay right in the heart of the action.

Try your luck on the casino floor.

All that action whack up an appetite from juicy steaks to buffet favorites.

There's something for every hunger.

Ready to put the pedal down, jump in, gun it, and race your mates for bragging rights.

Want a different kind of rush?

Strap in and soar above it all on our zip line adventure.

Chase the thrill from above, zip, glide, and take in the views.

And when night falls, live entertainment keeps the good times going.

And when it's time to slow things down, grab the clubs and tee off on our scenic golf course.

Snow Reaver Resort.

Home of Bundai Beach Will Apac.

Splash, stay, play.

The Aussie Way.

And we're going to be bringing people out of accessory from Australia.

Oh, isn't yeah, we're gonna bring people chefs from Australia, gonna have some really good food, stuff like that.

But basically, I'll start from the beginning.

Um to do something like this.

People that think that you uh build it and they would come, no financial institution thinks that's too funny.

Uh they go through a lot of stuff.

So this information you're gonna see today came out of a 60 68,000 feasibility study that I did that Hotel Leisures out of Ohio does it.

They do some of the biggest hotel water parks, resorts, and stuff in the world.

And they in that, and I've even shared this with some of the council members.

They they tell you, like it they'll even tell you should you charge three dollars for a tube rental to everybody or not.

And I got I got the feasibility on both of them, and we're not gonna charge for two burnals, but it tells you what kind of food you can have, who you can bring in, it tells everything.

And the reason everyone says, oh, this is pretty massive, but when you really break it down, it's really not that massive.

But the reason we have so many different things is in there in the feasibility study, even pointed out that for every hour that we kept people in the resort, we we took in another ten dollars.

So they either bought a souvenir, they bought a drink, or they bought something.

So the whole idea is to have enough activities to do that.

Uh, we also have added a lot of things because we want to have every age demographic, and you'll see that we'll have something for everybody.

Um, I realize Sun City is probably not gonna come here, but I'll just live with that and stuff.

So that but the first thing is this is actually a light.

Okay, you guys can see it up there, and I know you guys have already seen it, but how they do the demographics on something like this is they don't even look at the population of Mesquite.

They don't even care how many people here.

Um, what they do is they go, they go and they take a 300-mile radius.

This is a hotel with a water park, people are gonna stay at the hotel.

I make our money off the hotel, not the water park.

So they come and they spend the night and they do that.

And so what we did is we went from I-15 from San Diego all the way to Salt Lake, and we took this 300 mile radius, and we took that, and we got the demographic numbers.

So, this is how many people live in there.

So, eight eighteen million eight hundred and seventy thousand two hundred and ninety-eight people live in that 300 mile radius.

Now, you guys are part of that 300 mile radius.

When you really break it down, you guys are probably a speck of dust in the Mojave Desert on there.

But that's so that's the people we market.

Then they say that we're gonna have six percent market share.

So we look at that, but if you look at this thing, if I if I was to go to Las Vegas, the 300 mile radius goes out in the Pacific Ocean.

When we looked at the um census, nobody lived in the Pacific Ocean.

And then we ended up losing everything up northern Utah.

So that number dropped down to just 16, 16 and a half million people.

St.

George, which is where I wanted to go in the first place, goes up there, I lose San Diego.

That number dropped down to 14.

And that's why we selected musquite.

Not because there's a lot of people here, whatever.

We understand what the issue is.

I know better than anybody, because I did work for Casablanca.

I know the struggles for people working here.

And that.

And you're gonna see us.

I'm really gonna be more interested in the young people and to people having families.

And you're gonna see we're gonna add a lot of stuff for to make it affordable for people to live here, we're gonna create jobs.

On our feasibility, we're expected to create 992 jobs.

Um, and you'll know on that list, you'll see a lot of people.

I'm bringing it from Florida, uh, San Diego Zoo, um, marine land, things like that.

These these are not, you know, your pe homeless people, whatever, you're not, we're not getting that.

These all have college degrees.

They're marine biologists, they're um veterinaries.

You'll see veterinarians I'm gonna bring in here.

I've got chefs coming in here.

You you've got professional people that are gonna come and work here and stuff like that, and we'll bring them in.

Um, we are gonna hire a lot of people here from a ski.

We'll get quite a few people from St.

George, we're gonna get some people from Las Vegas.

We'll go wherever we can to fire people or find people to work here.

I was thinking about him.

No, and and I could tell you, and there's some of them here, you're gonna be surprised of how many retired people have come to me and said they're interested in coming back to work, stuff like that.

So on the video, you'll see quite a few things.

I'll go through it.

Okay, this is what the um hotel and the feet in the book.

Microphone.

Can I carry that?

Okay.

Okay, this one, this one here.

Just talk to the mayor.

All right.

Talk to the mayor.

All right.

Okay, the first building is the Snowy River Lodge.

The reason why it's that high is because I got water slides in the middle of that.

So that's the hotel rooms are on the outside, and those windows are facing out where the gold is.

The very top of that is a glass roof.

It's a roof that opens and closes depending on the weather.

And so the hotel rooms will be like that, and then the center part of center part of it will be the water park.

This building is gonna be where the casinos at on the bottom.

There's gonna be um three floors of offices, these very top floors, they're gonna be high-rise condominiums that we're gonna sell for people to live in.

Now, the water park is actually that that's my pride and joy.

You you're gonna see things that you don't see anywhere else.

It's gonna be one of the world-class best water parks.

It's 200,000 square feet indoors.

Um, it has a dual wave pool.

What that means is one side of the pool makes waves, and it's where kids can float in tubes and plays.

The other side does 10 foot waves that people can surf on.

So you have to be on a surfboard or boogie board to be in that one.

Um, and then overlooking the wave pool, there's gonna be a replica of the Sydney Opera House.

It's gonna be a stage where we put live bands, we do performances.

We're gonna have a thing where we can bring put a drive-in movie screen down and show movies while people are floating in the wave pool, stuff like that.

Um, there's gonna be an area, and that was in the video, it's called um uh uh Kangaroo Island.

That's for kids, 12 and under.

There's gonna be their own little water park inside a water park.

It'll have 12 sides, they'll have over 300 uh water elements, like shooting cannons and different things like that.

It's gonna have two of the tip buckets that dump water on you, and they can do that.

Um, on one side of the water park, there's gonna be a thing called Outback Adventure, and it'll be like a forest that you walk through.

It's gonna have live koala bears, it's gonna have live cockatoos, exotic birds.

Um, there's gonna be an area where kids can get bird seed and feed parakeets out of their hand, um, things like that, and you just kind of walk through there.

Um people say, well, why do you want that?

But you know what?

We want to be able to do things for school kids.

We're gonna give a lot of field trips and stuff, and there's we're gonna have shark aquariums, we're gonna have things like that.

And if you know anything about sharks, they drop their teeth all the time.

And so every every month we go in and we'll vacuum the bottom of the aquarium.

It sucks the shark teeth out.

Every time we give a field trip, we're gonna give kids shark teeth to take home with them.

That stuff.

And so we're gonna do it, do a lot of a lot of things with them.

The other thing, I know I I talked to somebody that had something to do with the college here.

We're gonna offer marine biology courses, we're gonna have ammo husbandry pre-vet classes.

We're gonna work with kids and get them educations.

Um I I was in FFA when I was a kid.

I'm gonna do things with the future farmers here.

Um we we want to do quite a bit for kids, and and obviously, I think any kid in Mesquite that wanted a job, we would probably have a job for them.

Hold on.

Okay, I'm just gonna jump.

Oh, let's see.

The other thing, too, the thing that a lot of you guys will be interested in.

There's gonna be a uh one part of the water park that's called Club Med.

That's for 55 and older.

It's gonna be in indoors as well.

They're gonna have their own wave pole, Lazy River.

It's gonna have uh a thing that overlooks the stage thing.

It's called Martini Beach.

And they can get their drinks, there'll be a swim up bar, stuff like that, and then we're gonna have 24 pickleball courts, all indoors.

There'll be a walking track and exercise thing, they'll have their own locker rooms, everything like that.

So you could be in your own water park and not have to mess with the kids.

There be there, stuff like that.

Um, in the water park, though, too.

We are gonna have non-alcoholic special drink.

We got my thai, but I don't know if you guys have ever been to Disneyland or Hawaii.

Uh Dough Pineapple has a drink called the Whip.

We're actually gonna have have that.

We're gonna have it's gonna be called the Bondi Whip, and it's gonna be served in actually a pineapple shell.

So we carve out the pineapple, we make the drink in there, and we'll sell those in the water park.

And by the way, the water park's name is Bondai Beach.

If you know Australia, you'll know about Bondai Beach.

Um, that we we are gonna have some of the uh best water parks in or best water slides in the world.

Um we have the we're doing it, I'm designing them now.

We're gonna have the largest water slide in the world in there.

It's called the called Great White.

And what it is, it's gonna be a water slide.

I mean, and this is this is not for the faint of heart.

It's gonna be one of those tubes that you fit six people in.

You you start out, you're going down one thing, and all of a sudden it splits off.

You don't know which side you're gonna go on, it splits off one side, it goes up and down and some through loops.

The other side, you're taking bank turns and going down a hole and stuff like that, and you end up and you come through the shark aquarium.

So you'll float through there and you'll see the sharks floating on you.

That's the only one in the world that's like that.

Um then we have another one, it's called the walkabout.

It's two sides together, it's called a dual uh water coaster, but it it actually takes you up and down and around and all that stuff.

It's just like riding the roller coaster, but you're in a tube and doing it.

And then for some of you that want to really see how tough you are.

We got a slide called the death roll.

If you guys know anything about saltwater crocodiles, that's something you don't want to experience.

And what you do is you you stand in a cylinder, the floor drops out, and you shoot down.

You go through a loop, and then you come in.

There's there's four of them that go at a time, they twist around each other.

So you're going like this.

As you're going around this, you're going through a pond with live crocodiles in it.

And they'll swim above you, and you just get through there.

Then the other thing I'm inventing, I haven't got it perfected yet.

I'm trying to invent a thing that's called the crocodunk.

And it's like a dunk tank with a glass thing, and you have a fishing pole, you put a piece of chicken on it, you put that over the crocodile pond, and the crocodile jumps up, grabs the chicken, and dumps you down.

And then you're there's glass between you and the crocodile, but you're looking face to face to the crocodile stuff.

And that's for those people that complain.

So, okay, in between the two buildings, in between the two buildings, is there gonna be four restaurants.

We have um we have a buffet restaurant, it's called Great Great Reef Buffet, after the Great Berry Reef.

We specialize in seafood, things like that.

Uh, we're gonna be able to do dinner shows there.

Um, we're gonna have a cafe restaurant, it's typically your normal cafe thing, you know, breakfast, lunch, dinner thing.

We um then we have uh cabrera, and that's an Australian barbecue restaurant.

It's gonna serve wood wood fire pizza and Australian bargain things, and then we're gonna have a steakhouse.

And then in the water park, this nobody knew this is the first time you've heard this.

We are looking at getting a franchise for water burger and have that in our water park.

And there'll be a restaurant, they have to be open 24 hours, so they'll be in there in that.

Um, and then we're gonna have a casino.

You guys know casinos, I'm not a casino person, but they want us to add that, so we we added that, and then um the offices and stuff.

Okay, then screwed up.

That's right, go to go to this one now.

Okay, now you might be wondering how this all gets paid for.

What if I told you the day we open?

Mayor.

I know.

Yeah, I've told you the day we open, this thing will be paid for.

So what we're gonna do is we're gonna take an area, we're gonna build 200 uh vacation rental townhomes, and then these are not RBMBs, they're gonna be put back into a rental pool, managed by the hotel.

We're gonna sell them to private people, and I think some of these people will be surprised how many local people in mesquite are already on a reservation list to purchase town homes, and then we share in the revenue whoever owns that.

So these are not um timeshares, nothing like that.

You there's four town homes to a building.

You own one of the townhomes, you own title to that.

That's in your name.

You pay property taxes on it, do that.

We manage and do that.

So, in that in there.

So, in the complex, there's a lagoon that we have.

That lagoon, you can paddle board, you can swim, you can um kayak in, and then there's a beach area with a fire pit that you can enjoy the beach theme.

There's beach volleyball, then we've got pickleball courts, basketball courts, got a playground, and then we've got a clubhouse with a swimming pool.

This is a gated community.

This is only people that stay in the townhomes use this stuff.

Nobody else uses it, just the ones in the town home use that.

Now, for people that stay in the town townhomes, they get passes to the water park.

So if you have a one-bedroom town home, you get two passes every day.

If you have a two-bedroom thing, you get four, and so on.

So you always have that.

We have to block those out and reserve them.

Um, our water park is designed to hold 3,500 people a day.

And so these we block out that many for how many people are staying in the townhomes.

And then the other thing we're doing is for local people, they do not have to stay in the hotel to use the water park.

So we're gonna sell daily passes and yearly passes to people around here so that you can go there anytime you want or whatever you want to do.

Okay, and then okay.

This one, this one is the floor plan.

Oh, this one is the floor plans for the townhomes, and so I'll just have this here, and people can look at it.

But you've got you've got one, you got one, two, three, and four bedroom units on that.

Okay, I'm not gonna go grab it.

See, where did the apartment on what's go?

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

Now, quick people have questioned about where are all our employees gonna stay and stuff like that.

Okay, Canterbury apartments.

We're gonna build an apartment complex with 400 apartments in it.

What one, two, and three bedroom apartments.

We're not gonna be exclusive to our employees, but it's gonna be affordable for people to live.

So we are actually starting our rent at 400 and then going to 800, and and that.

And so in the complex, there's gonna be a playground, there's gonna be picnic area, there's gonna be a swimming pool, and and that, and they're gonna be pretty nice apartments in there and stuff, and then we'll have employees that stay there, but then other people can stay there too.

And then I won't get it, but on the end over there, we're gonna have a subdivision, and I I kind of mess this up.

I kept calling it workforce housing, low-income housing, stuff like that.

And everybody has different terms for that.

So this is this is my plan.

Okay, it's called wall be filled.

This is what the houses are gonna look like that we do.

The lots are gonna be 6,500 square feet to 7,500 square feet.

Now, obviously, I'm gonna be able to build these lands or these houses for less than most places.

Um, as I got going with contractors and stuff like that, I'm actually contracting and buying my lumber directly from the lumber mills, so I save quite a bit of money.

I get pricing almost like Home Depot does.

All my materials, my electrical, my appliances, all that stuff, because I'm gonna you buy so much, I'm getting them less expensive.

So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna build these houses.

Now these do have to be owner occupied, and there will be a condition that they they can't sell it within three years.

They have to keep it for three years because I'm not gonna give them a discount and then go out and sell it a month later for twice what they paid for.

So on that.

Okay, any questions?

Any questions from council?

Councilman Parrish.

I got three water, water, oh water.

Uh thank you.

You cannot afford to buy water from Virgin Valley Water District, and the general manager happens to be here because I requested his presence.

So I want to I want to hear what you got to say, and then we'll go from there.

Thank you.

Oh, okay.

I I actually left out one of the big important things.

Okay, so the water, um, we already know we're gonna have salt water aquariums.

It is cheaper for me to buy water from SeaWorld and truck it up here than to make my own salt water.

And so, what we're gonna do is I'm gonna purchase 12 trucks.

They're the same kind of trucks that haul milk, so that because they got bevels in them that they don't slosh and stuff like that and shift around.

And so we're gonna have trucks running every day.

I'm gonna I'm gonna be bringing in 600,000 gallons of water water every week, and those aquariums are just like your soft water.

They recycle, they flush out, and then they discharge water.

So, what happens is every everything, every slide has its own water filter system.

Every way pool has its own filtration system, everything.

So that water will cycle through the aquariums, go out, it'll go through, and then I'm gonna run it through the water park where it it'll fill up the slides and whatever.

So I'm changing my water in the slides and the wave pool and stuff constantly.

And and that the other key thing is this water park is indoors, so I don't have the evaporation.

And the other thing is we're operating all year, we never shut down.

So I never drain the wave pool, I never drain the wave lazy river, never drain all that stuff, then come back in March and fill it all back up.

So once I fill it up, we're recycling that water, just kind of using what we are.

And then what'll happen is it'll leave the water park and go over to the lagoon at the townhomes.

Then from the townhomes, it's gonna go down through the golf course and it's gonna go into different ponds in the river, and then we're gonna build a 50-acre park that's a community park.

You don't have to pay to go to it, whatever.

In there, I'm gonna build a lake that this water discharges into, and it it's gonna we're gonna stock it with fish.

So kids can come fishing there.

Um, also in the park, we're gonna have the disc golf course, we're gonna have horseshoe pits, uh, we'll have picnic areas, we'll have a playground, we'll have walking trails and biking trails, and anybody can go there anytime they want to.

Now, the other thing too, since I've talked to you, um, we're in the process of buying three wells up north, not in Nevada, but up north, and we're gonna chuck that water in and use that to fill that lake up and stuff like that.

The other thing too is I've been told that there's farmers that don't use the water shares in the winter.

We're gonna lease as many water shares in the winter as we can get.

And when I factor everything in, we're we're up pretty close to 250 to 300 million gallons of water a year that we can bring in and cycle through.

And the other thing I did talk to my plumbing contractors since I talked to you guys.

The other thing we want to do is we wanna plumb all our toilets in our hotel and stuff like that to the gray water, so we won't use the culinary water to flush our toilets, and that that'll save some money.

And they and they did tell me there's a way to do it.

So, as a follow-up question, you're bringing salt water up from the Pacific Ocean.

Yeah.

So at some point it changes from salt water to fresh water.

Do you have a desalination capabilities?

Is that what you're saying?

Yeah, right here.

It goes through and it filters out.

This is the same system they use in Dubai.

The water parks in Dubai, they actually take their water from the ocean, and then they understand take it to Paul.

So this will take all that stuff out, and by the time it gets into the lake, it's been filtered enough times, all the alkaline, all that stuff is out of it.

So I can water the golf course with that.

That was what I was getting to is at some point you got to get the salt out so you can use it on the golf course.

Yeah, so by um actually the salt will be out of it by the time it goes to the water part.

Uh Councilman Wandless.

I have two questions, only one of them concerned water.

So the water question is you said you'd have 250 to 300 million gallons a year.

But the golf courses around here are using a million gallons a day.

So you're still short by several million gallons.

That's question one.

Question two is you're talking about a thousand employees or close to that.

And 400 apartments for your workers.

And we're already about a thousand plus units short for workforce housing.

Where are all these people gonna stay?

And we got time.

I mean, this thing's not gonna build be built overnight.

So we got time to figure that out.

We do plan on doing other things and more things, but whether we do this or not, you've got that problem no matter what.

You know, if you want to get young people here, get workers here, you gotta do address something.

So all I'm offering you is a solution to at least get started.

We may have a problem already.

That's what I mean.

But given a thousand jobs when we're already a thousand workers short and only offering 400 places places for them to stay, it's just exacerbating that the problem we already have.

I'll I'll fix it.

I I mean I've got I've I've got you know what all these people aren't gonna come all at once.

And the the other thing too is like I told you, some of these guys are professional people.

They're they're gonna be looking at houses more out in the subdivision.

So they don't have to live where I got it.

I'm just trying to make affordable ones.

Those guys are gonna be buying five, six hundred thousand dollar houses when they come up here.

So they'll there'll be some houses, and you have to do that.

But yeah, I mean, mesquite, if mesquite wants to grow, and I have no doubt we're gonna help things grow, but let's just take it at the time and figure it out and and get it to grow.

I mean, I I'll look at building more apartments, I'll look at building more housing, whatever, but it's just like the townhomes.

I'm not gonna build 200 town homes and think I'm gonna sell them all.

I'm gonna build them as I sell them.

And as I get employees in, and I I don't know the exact situation with what's there now, but if you say there's a thousand people looking for homes, then we'll have to figure something out because that um and and I I have no problem being part of that.

We like I said, we are part of this community.

We live here, we bank here, we work here, we play here, and we want to reinvest back into the community and stuff like that.

And and our our hope is that a lot of these kids can end up staying the living here.

Councilwoman Gallow.

So we talked about a lot of really fun, exciting big things happening, but funding is a biggie.

So when last we spoke, you said you had um a few million.

Um, and and quite honestly, I think you need a B in front of that M.

Um, really to make this happen.

I mean, we're talking lots of money even.

If if you know who did Black Desert Resort, they're the same ones doing this.

And I think they were gonna be here tonight.

I I can't see back there.

Is anybody here?

Anyone?

And then I've got a company called uh Western Capital.

They called me Vora game here.

I talked to them on Thursday, they're gonna fund all the townhomes.

Okay, okay, thank you.

Councilman Ennis?

Just a couple of questions.

Um, you talked about workforce.

What's the time frame of getting this all built?

Probably two years.

How many?

Two years.

Okay.

And so you're talking about 940 jobs.

Where are we gonna get the workforce?

You're gonna bring them in from Vegas, St.

George, we're gonna see where we can get it.

Yeah, we're gonna advertise everywhere, we'll get them.

Um now 940 is when we get everything done.

So I don't like the experience sports part.

I don't plan on doing that until after we get open.

The same thing with the event center.

So it's not gonna, I'm not gonna need all those people right up.

But um, you know what, we'll we'll put it out there.

And there's a lot of people looking for jobs right now everywhere.

And uh, you know, I I realize it's a challenge, but we'll we'll we'll find them.

Last question is and this is the uh marine engineering me coming out.

All the salt that's gonna be taken out of the water.

What are you gonna do with it?

That's something we we have talked with Travis and those guys.

Um, and that's something we're gonna have to figure out with them.

Um me personally, I don't want it in my landfill and I'll want it in my ecosystem here in Mesquite.

Yeah, and that's what they said.

So we'll we'll figure something out.

And I I understand that stuff, but it is it would be going through the golf course, and so I don't know how much we'll get it, you know, down through the drainage thing through the golf course.

You're talking about salt water on the golf course?

No, no, in it the the kind of the river going down through the golf course, there's gonna be a drainage ditch through there.

So I don't know, but if we have to wait, maybe we haul we haul it back to SeaWorld Sea World, Sea World Hell back to Sea World Well we when the trucks go back.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

So I have a few questions.

Um, and after I'd met with you two a few weeks ago, some of the questions that kind of um concerned me was one of them is that you're gonna build this in phases, um, starting with the townhomes.

The other thing that is really concerning me is that again, finances, and then what you said was that you were going to build the townhomes, sell the townhomes to fund the other phases.

So that's concerning to me because what if in the event the townhomes don't sell, then we're sitting there with this land halfway developed and they're not selling, therefore the funding that you say you're gonna get from the sale of the townhomes goes to the water park.

It's gonna go to other things with the casino being the last um, and or maybe the event center was gonna be the last um one that you would be built.

So we're looking at we're looking at several years.

I mean, if we're talking two years just for the townhomes, we're we're looking town homes aren't gonna be two years.

Actually, we we plan on um as soon as we get approved, we're gonna start pre-selling them.

Now, something that happened after I talked to you was that I got connected with the guys from Black Desert, and they came down and looked at the land with me and stuff like that.

That's kind of changed everything because they're gonna fund like I was thinking I was gonna have to take money from the townhomes to build the water park.

They're gonna fund those two buildings and start building on those.

Um we actually are starting with the architects designing those buildings now.

So those buildings will get started as soon as we get through.

Now, the the only thing is is those buildings are gonna take a while to go through the city because there's a lot to them and stuff like that.

So we want to start the townhomes while we get that thing through and do that.

But they just so you know they've offered me long-term financing if I want it because I told them the same thing.

I wanted to have them paid off when we opened up from the townhomes, and they came back to me to see it said, we've got the money to give you long-term financing.

So they told me that that's why they like the golf course, they want the golf course, things like that.

And so they're gonna pay for getting the golf course done, the hotel, the casino building, both those buildings and stuff like that.

So now I don't have to take money from townhomes to do that.

Oops, do that.

So um, so that just brings up another concern of mine.

If you say that Black Desert is gonna back you, I'm gonna need proof.

I'm gonna need a letter from you.

I I mean, them I'm gonna have to see financials, and we're gonna have to make sure that that actually will work because what I've heard you say was a few things that you're the rent is gonna be 400 to 800.

I which is totally affordable.

I mean, I might sell my house and move over there.

Um, and then water from SeaWorld, and I I know you need water for a water park, and then the other homes for sale, 150 to 300,000, and we have so many developers in town that can probably tell you I don't know what kind of product you're gonna build for 150,000 and make any money.

Um, those are just a few of my um questions, but I think the biggest one, and Paul said this earlier was this is something that we met two weeks ago, three weeks ago, and it's on an agenda item that this to me feels like we need to look at this a little bit closer and a little bit more detail and before we move forward with any of that.

And those are just my opinion.

Councilman Parrish.

This question is probably more in line for our city attorney, unfortunately, Adam.

I'm gonna put you on the spot.

Um I've been here a long time, and solstice comes to my mind.

Um the city sold a lot of land to or gave to a lot of land to solstice, and all we ended up with was an RV park.

We're supposed to get a casino and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

I don't want to see the same thing happening here.

Is there some mechanisms in place or available to us to make sure that if heaven forbid if this falls through the cracks and then and just some townhomes get built, that we get the land back?

I guess that's what I'm asking.

So the short answer is yes, and there's there's issues that I'm that on my desk right now dealing with this sort of a thing.

And um, in contracts that we've done previously, we we put stipulations in there on what needs to happen in order to receive a discount on the sale of the property.

And so there's been like capital improvement discounts, job creation discounts, other things, and then there's stipulations within the agreements that say if those aren't met or if a certain threshold isn't met, then the city has the rights to take the land back and get a deed back on the property.

Um in the past, um we've also filed a deed of trust on the property to secure the interest so that you know we could foreclose on the property as well.

Um I've thought moving forward, I might actually have people sign the deed conveying it back, and it's held in escrow is another idea where you know there's there's quite a bit of legal issues that are involved, like because there'll be intervening liens and there's other things, but again, the short answer is yes, through the contracts, we can create um those protections for the city to get the land back.

Councilman Wallace.

Are you also is there any way we could put this into some kind of a lease rather than outright sell where we lease this property for a certain amount of years and then they have options to renew the lease going forward?

The life expectancy of a property is not over a hundred years.

So is there some way that we can protect the city and and know that that property is safe?

We haven't done that type of an arrangement, um, at least when I've been around or in the recent past.

And so I was just flipping up the the charter to make sure, but it would be something that we could look at in more detail to see if like a long-term lease would be an option.

The difference here sometimes is like a regular property owner, yeah, you can do a long-term lease, or yeah, you can sell your property, but we're a municipality.

We have different interests, we have different rules, we have our charter, we have stipulations that property can be sold, but it has to be for economic development.

And so those sorts of things all need to be worked in and considered when we're looking at something.

But it's definitely something that I could we could look at and see if a long-term lease would be possible under the statutes in the charter.

One of my biggest fears is that if we say yes to this and and we say yes to you and your group, and 10 years from now, we all are aging, we decide we want to get out of the game, and you sell to someone else, and they go in and change all the rules of how the city can use that property, or will they get discounts, or will they have to pay premiums and make it unaffordable?

Because if this isn't okay for the city, if this doesn't help the city, it's it's not in my mind, it makes no sense to put a huge resort here and just have the city looking at it and not able to use it, except for the casino.

Right.

And uh to address like subsequent purchasers and would the rules still apply, yes.

That can be done contractually.

You can record uh stipulations on the property that run with the land, and so they if there was a sale, they'd still be bound by the same terms.

Okay, councilman Parish.

Okay, last time I'm gonna talk on this.

Um this agenda item actually reads that we are just going to consider the presentation.

We are not going to make any decisions one way or the other.

Uh you you understand that, correct?

Um, so I would encourage the council members to uh we know that there's tons and tons and millions and millions of questions, and um that's all gonna have to be worked out.

But as of right now, this is just a presentation, and in my mind, they've made a great presentation, and uh I'm okay with it.

So thank you.

Just so you guys know in the future, like every time we do a plan like the townhomes, we have to come through here and get approved for the townhomes.

So you'll see the site plans, you'll see the buildings, you'll have to approve those.

You probably won't see plans for the whole thing.

You might see a master plan kind of generic, but you'll see all the plans until each thing comes through.

And we don't got we won't have the time to try to do the whole thing.

So we'll bring it in in in phases.

So you see that, then you'll see the water park building, see all that stuff.

And you still have to vote and approve them.

It's not like just because you vote for this now, you approved what you saw today.

We we still got to figure out roads, we gotta do utilities, all this stuff.

And the other thing I might add is you have a road that ends right there at Bertha Howe.

We are I'm actually meeting meeting with guys on Thursday that we're gonna take that road and go all the way over to Hardy Way to connect it to the sports park, and we're paying for that to bring all that in with sidewalks and stuff.

And then the other thing we want to do is on Flat Top Road, we want to keep four lanes going all the way.

So where you got gravel, we're gonna asphalt it and put sidewalks there.

We're gonna have a bike lane and stuff like that for people to use.

So there's gonna be a lot of things that you guys are gonna own after this that we don't own anymore.

And and the pretty seat, even the park, the fishing lake and stuff like that, that can easily be dedicated back to the city.

So that's Councilman Wanus.

This is Action Mayor, last question.

I would consider approving the presentation.

I think it was a good presentation.

But right after that, it says for the purchase of 491 acres.

Are we saying we're selling it?

Or are we just no, you're not bound, it's just uh it's just a presentation.

You know, and our typical practices to a motion to accept the presentation.

And so for the purchase.

Right.

But I that we're not bound, there's no agreement, there's no there's no commitment here, it's just an acceptance of the presentation.

It was a protection, it's a presentation about the sale of this property in time.

So and then I I was able to look quickly at the charter, and it does have those same provisions for a lease as well as sale.

We just we've never done a lease before, but it would be a similar transaction.

Thank you, Brad.

Thank you.

Um, with that, we're gonna go ahead and open up public comment.

Uh item 5.4.

Hi, Mayor, City Council, Dominic Olivetto again.

Uh I'm gonna try to be not hilarious and down to business.

We already have one place that's trying to put in a resort, the holiday inn.

Right now, they can't even fill out a 50 percent.

Tonight to come down here, it took me 10 minutes to get out of my subdivision on Mesquite Boulevard.

Are we crazy?

I mean, we can't fill the rooms we got now.

So we bring in more business to put people out of business that didn't ask for any special concessions or anything.

That that's just not right.

The business people here need to be protected that came in and build a business.

The contractors that are building right now have been here a long time, they need some protection.

I'd be willing to bet my next 10 years' wages, that thing never gets built in my lifetime.

But if you approve the proposal, you're wasting your time.

Thank you.

Thank you, Dominic.

Hi.

I'm Mary Gleason.

I'm a citizen here in Misket resident.

I have three comments.

I'm gonna call them the three eyes.

Information, insult, and integration.

And the information side, the presenter said something about won't be attracting homeless people, we'll be attracting people with college educations.

And I just want to, after my years of working in the unhoused nonprofit industry, many, many, many people who are currently unhoused have college educations.

So that's just a little information.

I'm insulted that a presentation would say, we know none of you would be interested in this.

We just want to jump it in your backyard.

I'm one of those rare people who, even as a kid, never wanted to go to Disneyland.

I sure as hell don't want to live with it.

And that's the insult part.

The last one is integration, and how does any of this fit into the master plan and the tourism council?

I just think we are in trouble if we keep piecemealing our city, we're gonna end up as St.

George.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mary.

Mr.

Mayor, City Council, my name is John Rosen.

Um, I I noticed that several of you said that you learned about this project two weeks ago.

I learned about this project 24 hours ago.

Um, so I don't I don't have anything in depth to talk about in terms of my my feelings about this.

I would like to talk more about the process than I would the actual proposal that was made.

I was very impressed with the presentation.

I thought it was quite detailed.

It's obviously an extremely ambitious project.

But I I've made comments in the past city council meetings that are our master plan committee, a master plan, and in particular, the the future vision of mesquite document that that master plan committee's been working on, should be an overriding guiding principle by which decisions such as this are made.

Now I heard several of you expressed your concerns about the fact that this project might not be built.

I I share that concern, but I'm not sure it's matched with my concern that it might actually be built.

Um our work with the community itself and all of the input that went into the future vision document.

A couple of things were extreme or always first priority and extremely strong, and that is that the city of Mesquite not lose its character.

That I used a phrase in one of the meetings, planned purposeful growth.

And that is exactly what we need to have is planned purposeful growth that takes us to the destination we want to have.

Now, I honestly say I cannot say for sure that this project does not align with that.

Um I have right now I'm struggling to figure out how it does, but I I don't want to prejudge that.

I just want to make sure that we take an extremely measured conscious, considerate consideration to every aspect of this before we make any any firm decisions.

Thank you.

Thank you, John.

Cliff Romberg, um resident here in Mesquite.

I agree with Kevin's point of protection from a standpoint of something doesn't get built.

Uh, that there's some kind of way that things can revert.

Uh Councilman Wonless, if you would want the lease to me, I would never put that much money onto a piece of property that I was just leasing.

So I would be in favor of Kevin's position from that.

The main reason though I'm up here is that you have maybe only met with, and I'm gonna call him Brad, because that's how I know Brad, not Mr.

LeBaron, but Brad is a good person.

And he's talked with me about this, and he's been working on this, and he's planned on this for over two years.

And what he first said to me was what I want to do is put something here in town so that people who are born here and raised here have a place that they can get a good job and live for the rest of their life.

That's what he started this project on.

The people that worked under him at Casablanca, ask them how kind of a person he is.

They would jump through hoops for him.

The city has not just learned about this in two weeks.

Martin has been talking with him for a long time, and I know that other people have talked about it.

There's a lot of other things I could say.

I and there are a lot of questions.

Get those questions answered.

You have to do that.

However, I was at that last tourism meeting.

Brad was there with plans already.

As people, as the council asked, what does mesquite need?

Almost every single thing that came up that was said they needed, are in his ultimate plans.

And he had those plans before that meeting.

At that meeting, it was said the kids here in town, the the teenagers where they hang out, Walmart.

They go to Walmart to hang out.

There are things in this where they can have a place to go.

He is not looking at this as a way to just make a lot of money and pull it out of mesquite.

He's looking at a thing to put money into mesquite.

And there are some great casinos here right now that do a lot of good things, but they are sucking a lot of money out of mesquite.

And they've cut back a lot on the locals.

You're the council for the locals.

You should look at that.

There's a lot of locals that don't have the same benefits anymore.

Thank you.

Thank you, Cliff.

I'm Vicky Samuelson.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, City Council.

I don't want to rain on the parade of this fabulous thing that they're proposing to do for mesquite.

I think it's great.

It does have possibilities for jobs, for housing, all that kind of stuff.

However, I came from Utah.

I know what happened to Park City, Utah when this kind of thing happened.

They made that big, beautiful ski resort up there.

Property taxes went sky high.

People lost their homes because they can't pay the uh the property taxes.

It was crazy, and it was because it built so big and so fast, so much money came in, and it just was a nightmare.

So that settled down, but Park City is not the Park City that it once upon a time used to be.

And I don't want that to happen to Mesquite.

I came here because Utah's gone crazy with all this building and all of this stuff that they do up there.

I came here for a slower pace, as I'm sure a lot of people have done, and the night skies and all that stuff.

We bring stuff in like this, this massive.

I don't think we're gonna maintain all that.

So I want you to think twice about doing it.

Worried about the water.

I'm worried about the housing units for people to be able to move into.

I'm worried about what it's gonna do to this town.

And so I'm hoping that you will demand, I hope for required impact studies, environmental impact studies done, and they're disseminated to the public so we can all see what's going on and what that impact is really going to be.

Because I think this is huge, it's pretty, it's great, but I don't think it's for mesquite.

Thank you, Vicki Ronald Shackleford.

Um a lot of words that were being used was maybe.

Uh, we'll figure it out.

We'll take care of it when it comes along.

Um something just popped in my head while I was back there.

It's caviar dreams and champagne wishes, you know.

Um, I agree.

The uh water, we're still building more homes, condos, the townhomes and stuff like that.

I I think we need to have our water district people come up and talk about this.

Um, what is that gonna do to our water table?

We had last study that I was talking to the water district about was 50,000 homes in this community.

Um and you're gonna get evaporation, you're gonna lose water, so they get their own wells that they're not gonna use, you know, these homes have to have water, they're gonna be taking showers and doing all that other stuff.

So that is a really big concern for me.

Umployees, they're gonna find them.

We'll find them.

All right, we can't find enough employees to come into this town right now and take care of the restaurants, the shops, the stores and such that we have right now.

Go look at the chamber of congress, all the job offers, they're looking for employees, and we can't even find them for a simple little wendy's or whatever else.

There is no employees in this community, so we're gonna build this stuff and hope that they can find employees, and we're gonna house them for a cheaper rate.

I love that idea, you know, nice cheaper, you know, houses or rentals or whatever.

I do like that idea.

Um with that, um, I just don't think we have the infrastructure for it, you know.

So, what's that gonna do?

Impact us on our sewer system.

What's that gonna do to pact us on once again the water table and stuff like that?

So I think we need to step back.

We need to look and get more studies and and figure out is this really feasible?

Because it would really put mesquite on the map, but at the same time, is it gonna destroy us as a city and a community as well?

So I moved here and got away from the big city um for that reason, and uh, and it was just too much.

You know, Seattle, um, Tacoma, they're just it wasn't livable anymore.

So um, something to think about.

Um, I'm not a hundred percent against it, but I think we need a lot more information.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ron.

Mayor Whipple and uh City Council.

My name is Karen Dukowski, I'm a resident of Mesquite since 2012.

We might have some shortfalls here in our city, some things that we need to do, but we live in a beautiful, beautiful town.

And the sites, the skies, the mesas, everything.

Please do not accept this proposal without a legitimate USGS study, impact study on what it's gonna do to our environment.

Thank you.

Thank you, Karen.

Uh my name is Tony Shaley, and I moved here just in July.

Uh I'll say I escaped from Henderson.

My wife and I, eight years ago moved to Henderson out by Lake Mead.

It was beautiful, it was an oasis, it was Lake Las Vegas, and just Tuscany Village.

And within eight years, we thought we were done.

We were retired there within eight years.

I don't know if you've been to Henderson Lady, it was 10 miles of desert until you got to Costco.

That is now an asphalt jungle.

And I haven't heard that you know, traffic come up here.

We had nothing but a stop sign.

Now we were in Nirvana.

We had nothing but a stop sign outside of our neighborhood.

We could get to Costco in 10 minutes.

Now it's one circle to get out of the neighborhood.

It takes 10 minutes sometimes to get out of our neighborhood there.

They built four more, they put an industrial park in.

I mean, it's if if you if you Google over development, a picture of Henderson will come up.

And I just think poor planning there, and the traffic's so unbearable.

That's why we came here.

And I can tell you if God bless you, your place looks great.

I'd I'd be the first one to visit it, but I don't want to live next to it.

We won't be able to get out of our neighborhoods.

The traffic will be so bad.

And how many more law enforcement are we gonna need to watch over us?

Fire.

And then you're gonna build another plan.

Address the chair.

Sorry, but no problem.

But you know, what about the sewage system, too?

So anyway, I'm just telling you what I've experienced and why I came here.

I mean, we love it here.

I just think it won't be mesquite anymore.

It'll be Wally World West, really.

So thank you, Tony.

Nick Elfinsetti, Mayor, Council.

Um, I enjoyed the presentation.

Has a lot of challenges, both to protect the city, protect the environment, protect the people, the citizens, but I also see a lot of advantages to it, a lot of problem solving, making a problem with salt.

Right now, there's not enough salt being mined.

There's places to get rid of it, there's places that'll pay for it, and I commend them.

All he's got to do is find that place.

I know with the weather being what it is right now, there's a lot of places that have no salt, and they're trying to deal with it.

Challenges, yeah, a lot of them.

But you know what?

If we don't do something, we will have nothing.

Example, when I first came here, I found out Walmart wanted to put a distribution center in here.

If the distribution was put in back then, and it didn't fit the so-called master plan, okay, they rejected it.

Well, at the same time, they didn't know that behind it would have been what a Sam's Club to go along with the Walmart that's here.

People go, well, geez, you know, it'd be nice to have a Costco, nice to have you turn down something and you don't know what it's gonna turn into.

And I say this for employees.

You know, I don't know what he plans on working into the whole big picture of what it's gonna be per hour for people to work.

But I see every day somebody comes to Mesquite and goes, Who's hiring?

I need a job.

People don't answer it because they don't know.

There are no jobs, there's nothing happening here.

And the thing is we need to make those things happen, and it may be a gamble, but in the long run, it's gonna make mesquite great.

Now, does he have to build here?

No, he can build between here and Overton, and there'll be a spot down there that boy, they'd welcome this thing.

There's other places, other places in Mwapa that they'd love to have this thing.

Like I said, we've got the ideal weather, we've got the conditions, we got the traffic, we got free weight, we got a lot of things that we could sell with it.

And I just say it's got to be put into the master plan to figure out if it's the right thing.

I say, you know, don't turn your eyes to it, turn your back to it, because man put a lot of time into it, but I say the challenge is we'll pay off for mesquite in the long run.

Thank you.

Thank you, Nick.

Hi, council and mayor.

Nice to see you.

Uh and uh the council members here.

My name is Warren Ferber.

I'm a member, uh not a member, I am a resident in Sun City.

One of the things that uh I was really worried about, and it didn't get answered was what other forms of this kind of development has this man done before.

It's uh you know, when you've got other people backing you and other people helping to fund it, it's one thing, but if he doesn't have the experience of doing this kind of work, he's not the person that we need.

He we need other people that have the ability to get things done as opposed to just kind of talking about them and showing nice pictures of what it could be.

And I just uh frankly don't know that it'd be it'd be great in my mind.

I'd like to know what his what his experience is in doing a project at this size because it is an enormous project that he's talking about, and it's all rainbows and sunshine.

So I think it uh it needs to have that kind of scrutiny put into it.

Thank you.

Thank you, Warren.

Okay, seeing no one else step step forward.

I'm gonna turn it back over to council.

Councilman Parrish.

I'll make a motion to accept the presentation only of H2O entertainment for the purchase of 491.63 acres of city owned property.

Okay, councilwoman fielding.

I'll second it.

Okay, call for the vote.

Yielding I Parish Eye, NSI.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 5.5 consideration of presentation from Navass Nevada Residential Construction slash mesquite land partners LC for the purchase of approximately 96 acres of city owned property located at a on a portion of APN number zero zero two-123-01-011 to develop housing.

Your guys are up.

Uh we appreciate the uh time we have tonight to uh present a uh much simpler proposal.

Um the reason we're here is because part of this 96 acres uh is in the same area that the uh previous proposal uh addresses.

Um in the most simplest terms, we are proposing that uh we get a uh two-part appraisal and uh to determine market value on this 96 acres.

And with that, we'll take an average of the two appraisals.

Uh, we are in a position where we would pay uh in cash for half of that, and in the other half or the balance of the uh funds would come in the form of a trade.

Now, both Dylan and I have been here a long, long time, and uh we're aware of projects that the city would like to have, uh, but maybe are handcuffed because of uh budget constraints or uh maybe just manpower to to do those.

And so uh our proposal would allow for approximately two million dollars in form of a uh trade or construction trade toward a project based on your uh desires.

Um as you know, if you look at the map here, we're our project is uh directly next to I guess I can see my finger up there, but uh next to the city of Mesquite Cemetery, we're just west of that.

And uh in terms of the amount of dirt work that'll happen out here, uh it would make sense for us to easily uh mobilize earthwork equipment for uh areas around this, or it would not have to be constrained to uh that area if there's things within the city's uh budget that they are non-budget that they would like to have done, things like uh park renovation or it really doesn't matter.

Um the trade would be there, and of course, one of the advantages if you're uh in the private sector, we aren't dealing with a prevailing wage issue, and so we feel like we can offer a little more bang for your buck.

Uh the only might have something to add to that.

Uh yeah, true.

One thing Trent didn't mention is what our use is of the property, and so uh like other stuff we've done in Mskete.

I think we're into this for single family housing.

Um, there's good views.

Uh we would you know consider low density single family, nice size lots, uh you know, medium to high high uh level cost.

Um this is not a uh workforce housing project.

We've addressed that with the other um parcels that we've done previously with the city, but this is not a uh concept that's new.

If some of you have been around a long time, we did this with a joint partnership with uh pride contractors back in maybe oh six or seven, where we were able to trade for city property, the uh fire station probably number three, maybe uh yeah.

We built fire station number three and extended West Pioneer about 1800 feet.

So it it ended around just past Star Nursery.

That was completed through uh joint venture project and a trade with the city.

So again, it's nothing new.

Um we have the previous track record to do in something like this, and feel like we can offer the city something that you need and want, maybe don't have the budget for it.

Um we're not looking for a discount on the property.

We're willing to pay the market rate.

Um approximately two million dollars would go into your coffers immediately with the sale, and then the other whatever project you'd like us to do.

And obviously, there are things we would work out the city uh attorney in terms of time constraints and and bidding.

Um we're not looking to just say, hey, we're gonna do this.

We'll provide competitive bids to make sure that you're comfortable with um whatever you want done, and we'd be willing to do that.

Thank you.

Any questions from council?

Okay, thanks, guys.

Thank you.

Um public comment.

Well, Dave Baldwig, uh, I want to speak in support of what they want to do.

I've been here in town since 2000.

Actually, I came to town in 2007 and work with Trent and Pride and all those people to get my commercial, my 50,000 square foot commercial building put up, and it were great to work with.

They also built my house, and they've been here a long time, and they do what they say they're gonna do.

And they industrial park out there would not be what it is without uh without Trent and Pride and uh and uh Rick Anderson and all those people.

So I I can't urge you enough to go ahead and uh and you know support this project because they're not looking for a discount, which is one of the things I've been complaining about, is we the city keeps discounting property, and when I go for appraisals, the appraisal comes back and says your land's worthless because the city's giving it away.

So I think this is uh I think this is a win-win that the bad Kishlay Kish.

But anyhow, so it's it's good for every all parties.

I I would strongly uh ask you to support this and help them get this done.

Thank you.

Thank you, Dave.

Hello, Mayor and Council.

I am Becky Peterson, resident of Sun City.

I have a question.

Excuse my naivety, please, but uh APN 002 12301011.

That's the same as the previous two items.

One big huge parcel on the west side of Falcon Ridge Parkway between Hardy and that is that where that other designation was supposed to be the 491 acres.

Yes, correct.

So this 96 acres is a portion of that 490.

So this 96 will also be a portion of that 90 or in uh additional two.

It would come out of that 490.

Okay.

So all right, yeah.

Yeah, looking at the signs, we can't see the designation areas and streets because the plot numbers mean anything.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Dominic Olivetto again, and I'm gonna give you my speech again.

We got more houses being built, we got more dirt for sale, and you can't get in the grocery store because we only have one little one.

And if you go to Walmart, you get run over by little old ladies in grocery carts.

You can't drive around town.

Get us some infrastructure and slow down the building.

Now, these guys, they put a good presentation.

They're the first people I've heard come up here that hasn't begged you for a discount.

So I hate to say anything bad about them, but at some point in time we got to stop building and put some infrastructure here.

It once again, price you to our carbon county, 22,000 people, five grocery stores, three lumber yards, and a dozen cafes.

I don't know how they can afford it, and we can't.

We have more people in the city than they do in the county.

Every time I go back to helper and I drive by Ridgefield, I see that darn Home Depot sitting there in Severe County, and they don't have enough people to form a football team, let alone play basketball, and they got a Home Depot.

Thank you.

Thank you, Dom.

Okay, seeing no one else step forward.

I'm gonna go ahead and turn it back over to council.

Councilman Parrish.

Question for attorney again.

What ramifications do we get into if we accept both proposals?

It is just an acceptance of the presentations.

So I don't see any issues.

And I just like you could do a motion just like you did, it's just acceptance of the presentation only.

It's just they've come.

It's a it's an ability for the public to you know give their piece and you to discuss it, but there's no other obligation.

Okay, Mayor, I would like to make a motion that we accept the proposal or presentation of Nevada residential construction for approximately 96 acres.

Uh presentation only.

Thank you.

Okay, councilman Wandless.

Seems like a great day for presentation.

So I'm gonna approve that or second that motion.

Okay, call for the vote.

And NSI, Parish I Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 5.6 consideration of resolution number R26-003 003 to establish an ad hoc committee to review and revise the vacation rental code, title two business license regulations, chapter 13.

Um I guess that's my item.

So I would like to put it together a committee to uh work on this uh vacation rental issue we've been having and get it resolved by the hopefully no later than the uh moratorium and maybe a little earlier if lucky.

Um so questions from council councilman Wandless.

I think it's a great idea, and I hope the council approves it.

Thank you.

Um public comment on item 5.6 Amy Gardner again, uh Council Mayor.

Um I talked to uh Simon uh for about 15-20 minutes at a at a real estate um employee gathering, and we had a lot of good conversation, and as I stated before, I'm I'm in favor of this moratorium.

What I'm concerned about, and I'm really would like to see a committee um gathered.

What I'm concerned about are two things.

Time uh the moratorium is for six months.

We're already six and a half weeks into that moratorium, and I guess I had it in my mind that during the six weeks we were gonna aggressively not only address whether you know the multi-use permits should happen, but also deal with people's concerns, and you can't do that without getting a group of people together who are knowledgeable about short-term rentals, uh, police who know what's been going on, um, fire department, whatever the things that are involved with the problems that the community is facing.

And so I would like to see it happen way before the end of the moratorium.

Um, I would be more than happy to be on that, but I know there's a lot of people that know a lot about short-term rentals, but I would I would really encourage you to have a multifaceted um committee, people that are for it, people that are against it, people that know about it, people know what the problems are from the city, just a very diverse group of people who could really talk about what the problems are with having them here, and um, so that we can get that worked out.

It's not gonna be enough to decide yes, we can add more uh that aren't in you know uh NRC or aren't in the condos or whatever.

It to me, the six months, it's important for us to figure out what we're doing poorly so that we can turn it around so that our decision when the much moratorium is over, that that is that we're ready to go once you make your decision.

So I just encourage you to do it sooner than later.

Thank you.

Thank you, Amy.

Mr.

Mayor, City Council, thank you again.

This John Rosen.

Short John Rosen.

Um I uh I I also very much approve the the idea of a uh committee being formed for this, but I would ask you to consider expanding the scope of responsibility for the committee right now.

It simply says you're going to review and perhaps revise the code requirements for short-term rental.

I think uh kind of in line with what Becky just said that what we really want the committee to do is study the problem.

Let's make sure we understand is it a code content problem?

Is it a lack of enforcement problem?

Is it a difficulty in reporting problems problem?

You know, let's just solve the problem.

I'm not sure that uh at this point in time code revision is even the right answer.

But I but I do know that we have a problem.

We should get a group of citizens together to roll up their sleeves, figure it out, and then come back to this board, this council, with a series of recommendations.

Thank you.

Thank you, John Mayor, Council, Nick Elfansetti.

I agree 100% with all the previous speakers that this type of thing needs to be put together and a lot of people involved with it to come up with the right plan.

Uh myself, uh you know my story.

I've got a problem next door to me, and it's constant.

So I would like to put my name and a hat for that uh committee.

Thank you.

Thank you, Nick.

Okay, seeing no one else come forward, I'm gonna go ahead and turn it back to council, Councilman Persh.

Uh this is a question for you, Mayor.

I do like that.

Um, you gonna be the chair of this committee?

Uh you're gonna appoint somebody and uh I know you talked at one time the having council nominate one person.

Is it only gonna be a five-person committee?

You're gonna make it bigger than that.

I was I was planning on a six-person committee at least.

Um I plan to run along with the help of Simon, which I haven't asked him this yet, but I know he'll say yes.

And we all appoint.

Yeah, so so everybody on the council and myself would each appoint someone.

Clearly says uh number three membership.

The committee shall consist of six community representatives and or stakeholders appointed by uh each the mayor and the city council.

Uh so you guys are gonna uh pick one each, and then um there is uh administrative uh support section number six city steps shall provide the administrative support to the committee, include including scheduling meetings, uh recording minutes uh minutes and coordinating public outreach as necessary.

So step will not technically embark in any of this uh the work.

Uh I'm gonna make uh actually at first, I'm gonna make uh introduction uh presentation, what it has to do with uh uh state requirements and uh what it needs to be and kind of uh stop.

But uh I will let the committee determine whatever is the requirements after everything is formed forming up, then I will uh review and make a recommendation to the city council.

Thank you, Simon.

Thank you.

Councilman Emma.

Yes, Mr.

Mayor.

Um, really quick.

I know that I've I've already overstepped my thing by asking four people to come on the board, but I would like to have Amy on board and her husband for this committee, and I and I agree with everything that she said, and John said this needs to be something that gets going quick.

Uh the whole purpose of the moratorium was for six months out.

I don't want to wait until uh last minute uh to get it done quicker, sooner than later is my thought processes, but then that's the military might come out.

Sorry.

Councilman Wallace.

You can have Amy or her husband, one or the other, I get the other one.

Would that work?

I did the paper.

Councilwoman Gellow.

So um I know we've all been given names and going over this.

Have we looked at it as keeping it somewhat even where those that are for and those that are not for can come together to make this decision, or are we is it all kind of one-sided?

We are we're okay.

I just want to make sure that it's balanced.

Make sure we had yeah, fabulous.

Thank you.

Councilwoman Philly.

Well, I I just had a question.

So um, is this in the charter short-term rentals?

No, it is not in the charter.

It's not okay.

So if the committee changes something, then we don't have to go to the charter committee and go there.

Okay, thank you.

We could possibly have to go to the code, correct?

Right.

There'd be some code amendments.

And then the the resolution states each of you would appoint who you want.

And so that's what would determine the mix of the committee.

Okay, do I have a motion to councilman parish?

I will make a motion, but um, should we put a suspense time on when we have to get these nominations to you, Mayor?

Tomorrow?

That'd be fine.

I I know we got two of them already, but uh um by the end of the month.

Yeah, definitely.

Definitely by the end of the month.

Okay, yeah.

I'll make a motion that we uh let me get back to my right screen here.

Um yeah, 5.6 resolution number 26-003.

Um with the suspense time of the end of the month for uh council members to nominate people for the ad hoc committee.

Okay, councilwoman Gallow.

I'll second.

Okay, call for the vote.

NSI.

Parish I.

Galloway.

Okay, so item 5.7, consideration of appointment and ratification of Tracy Fells for the position of police of chief.

I am going to recuse myself on this item as my wife works for the police department, and I'm going to turn it over to Mayor Pro Tem Gallo.

Yay.

Okay, so five 5.7 is the appointment and ratification of Tracy Fails for the position of police chief of the city of Mesquite.

So I guess what we'll start with is our public comment.

Council comment.

Well, it says public comment first.

So do you want me to remark it?

Do you want to hear from the public or do you want to speak first?

What would you guys?

I think we always do council first.

All right, we'll do council.

Who would anybody's lights?

I have to look over here.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, so I have known Tracy Fells for 28 years.

Um his family, his kids.

Um never have I ever went out to dinner with them, went to a movie, vacationed with them or anything.

Um we have been friends, and um I know his wife, and I've known Tracy, and they're stand-up people.

Just so you know, a year ago when he was interim, and I have to be honest with you, and Tracy knows this.

I really wanted to look outside of the city of Mesquite to hire a chief.

And and that was just my opinion back then.

Um it's a you know, a big job, and I thought we should open it up to anybody.

And that was my thinking.

I even told the mayor that um after watching Tracy Fells in the last year, my thoughts have changed.

Um I've seen him bring the department together, morale.

I've seen him, you know, um initiate some new policies.

Um, the police department and the within the police department.

Um with that being said, I wholeheartedly support Tracy Fells as our next police chief, but I wanted to let you know I didn't take this lightly.

Um, and and Tracy, even though it was a year ago, I was like, I think we should hire outside.

So I commend him for what he's done in the last year.

I have talked to several um of the captains.

We've met for lunch.

Um I've talked to other people, and I just see that the police department has come together, and they do support him.

So with that being said, I will also support him.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilwoman uh Fielding.

Uh, Councilman Wonless.

Fifteen months ago, I sat right here and I saw a completely divided police department.

The union was standing up against the people that were in leadership roles.

And it was a troubling time for this city.

The city was split so bad that when Chief Els became the interim chief.

I also was wholeheartedly looking to look outside because I didn't think there was any way they could mend the fractures that this police department had.

I sat down with the the four admins, and they assured me that although they were split at one time, they were together, and they assured me that they could bring this department back together as a unit.

I see them doing training with the fire department.

That didn't happen the first two years I sat up here.

I see them getting along with all the other departments.

I see the solidarity of all these people here tonight in support of Chief Fells.

And there's no way I could think of anyone that could do this better.

He's already shown he could bring this department back together and make them go forward.

In the last year, I can't tell you how many pounds of narcotics they've taken off the streets.

How many, how that how well they've done their jobs, and they're working together.

They get along.

And the first two years up, I was up here, they never got along.

So, Chief, kudos to you for actually pulling off what I didn't think was possible, but I also support you 100%.

I've seen what you've done, and and I will be a strong supporter of yours in the future.

Thank you, Councilman Juanless, Councilman Ennis.

I have only been on this city council since what April last year or something like that.

Uh I've as soon as I got on here, I started looking back at uh the way the police department was back then, had several friends on the police department that have retired and moved on to other things.

And we had some good conversations.

One of the first things that happened when I got up here is Chief Fales got with me, and we had some great discussions.

Uh, not as me being a retired law enforcement officer, but as councilman the chief.

And he flat out told me, he says, I will do whatever you guys want me to do.

If you want me to, if you want to go outside to hire somebody from outside, then do it.

I made that known to city staff that maybe we should go outside.

And I talked to Chief Fails about that, and he was on board with that.

And he says, We're doing this in the best interest of the city.

Like Councilman Wandless and Councilwoman uh Fielding said, I have seen this department grow together over the past 14 months, uh, more so than I have in the past.

And the cohesiveness of them working together is um is commendable to you, Chief.

And again, they have worked with the fire department really well, which didn't happen in the past.

And I know there's a lot of people out here that don't see it that way.

Um coming into this as an outsider looking in as I have and being retired LE.

Um I I can sense that and feel that uh he has done a fantastic job in the last 15 months.

I don't I have never seen anybody in all the departments I worked for that has had interim chiefs or interim sheriffs um be in a position this long without a decision being made, and I think that's a failure on the city, and I will take that myself also.

I think this is something should have been long done a long time ago, and so I will also throw on my support uh to ratify Chief Felds.

Anyone else from counsel?

Okay.

With that, I'm gonna open it up to public comment.

Rick McIntyre.

Um Becca's new, and she's putting her team together.

It's pretty exciting to see, I think.

There's a lot of people that are new, and uh I I'm really excited to see that this is kind of the last piece of that puzzle to get your team in place and give you an opportunity to start uh making things happen here that are really good.

I I spent a good hour or more with Tracy Fails in his office, got to know him very well, and there's something that's um I wanted to talk specifically about, and I'll use most of my time for that.

Uh, it's this issue of education that seems to be floating around.

I I did a career in law enforcement, and then after that, I started a company, and I hired a woman uh who dropped out of school in the eighth grade.

She she lived in Alaska and she made a life for herself, and she had unbelievable experiences.

She waited tables, she did, she hunted, she figured out how to make a life for herself.

And I hired her as a financial clerk.

And after promotion after promotion after promotion, she became uh the chief executive officer of our whole company.

Now we operated in 50 states and seven foreign countries, and she ran it.

She took the place of a man that had a master's degree and a it was a miserable failure.

Uh he could certainly could certainly tell you the uh slope of an Isazley's triangle and whatever other things are necessary, but he had no common sense and he didn't know how to manage people.

And I would accept that type of a person like Judy, I shouldn't say her name probably, but the lady that I hired uh any day of the week because she knew how to run uh a crew, how to manage people and how to deal with people.

She was amazing.

She became an enormous success.

And uh I see that this issue of education is you know, I have got a bunch of degrees, and they're all in a file somewhere.

They didn't do me a bit of good except they opened doors.

You had to have them sometimes just to get in the door to compete.

And there were always people that were probably better than me to get certain promotional positions and things, but they never had a chance because they didn't have those degrees.

I find that insane these days.

Uh I understand some of that, and I learned some stuff in my education, but I really do feel that that's a moot issue here.

Tracy Fales has got the life experiences that you need to be a police officer and a law enforcement executive.

He's done some things and had some things happen to him and his family that none of us would want to happen.

That builds emphasis empathy in people who then know how to manage things.

Uh you cannot enroll in a course in college uh in empathy.

I am strongly endorse Tracy in this position, and I appreciate I can count and I appreciate very much that you all do as well.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

It's me again, Dominic Olivetto.

Uh, this time instead of nominating Travis for uh chief of police, I'll get Tracy's name right, which I owe Tracy an apology for that last time, but that was he understands the story.

I've had several conversations with him things to do with uh side by sides on the street, off road, and things he'd like us to promote to the members of the club not to do.

Very, very reasonable man.

And my thought always was if you go to work for anybody, and you see you can never get to that top position because they're always gonna go outside.

Why should you spend the time?

If we go outside for every job, especially something like the police department, where we have a lot of qualified officers.

Why should those qualified officers stay if they never have the hope of becoming the chief?

So we need to support him, and you guys need to approve him because he's getting grouchy in his old age.

Donna Benita, Mesquite resident, Mayor Whipple, City Council, and our new city manager.

I'm very pleased to finally see agenda item 5.7 on here.

The current interim chief has been the interim for 15 months.

I think I've been up here every month telling you that you need to do something.

The report given at the last city council meeting shows he's as more than capable of doing the job of the chief of police.

An interim could just sit back, do nothing, do the menial scask of pushing paper across the table.

But he didn't.

He moved forward with working with his officers and the department to make it better for his 70 employees and the betterment of the city of Mesquite.

He has proven he is capable of doing the job.

So make the right move, vote to place interim chief hails into the permanent position of chief.

Don't look back because you aren't going that way.

Hi, it's Mary Gleason again.

About wanting to speak out against this appointment.

And I have been afraid.

And I decided that that's just why I need to speak up.

I'm afraid of retribution by an officer who has a documented history of bullying and intimidation.

I'm concerned about a leader of a police force that cheats on their training locks.

I'm afraid of a leader on the police force who participated in a false smear campaign against his previous captain.

Their chief, excuse me.

I am not for somebody who, in a fit of spite, fired volunteers who gave up their time to support youth in the schools.

It's for these reasons that I felt I had to speak up, no matter how afraid I was, and ask that you continue the search.

However, if you don't, I look forward to finding out that all of my fears have been unfounded.

Thank you.

David Baldwin, I don't think there's any surprise what I'm gonna say up here.

I've been gone the last three months trying to get the council to please move ahead with this because it's been too long.

I've known Tracy and his wife in passing and professionally for since I've been in a town in 2008.

Uh the CM, he's out in the community, him, his wife, and his community is part of the community.

And when we talk about education, Rick brought it up uh very nicely.

Uh, you don't have to have all the schooling to be educated.

I went through a lot of basic uh science training, but I trained my ear and learned myself.

I practice high-level power engineering, uh, mechanical engineering now and acoustical engineering.

I taught myself.

I started the days of engineering almost like the level of Tracy did.

I I walked around with a slide rule, not a calculator one of such things when I did it.

You can't find a better man for this job.

Uh I I, you know, we can say about what happened.

There was so much turmoil in the past that I don't know how you tributed it to one person.

I I think uh Tracy pulled us together, pulled this town together, and kept this police force.

And I and I spoke up here before about how I needed assistance, nothing serious, but needed some assistance, and they always responded.

They were always there, they were always professional, and and they needed a leader.

And I'm gonna close by saying I still want to say uh making him chief of police now, making him permanent, take away the interim.

You now give everybody that works under him, the 60 people that work at the police department.

Now they're not interim anymore.

They know who their leader is, they know what's gonna happen.

They don't have the uncertainty of who you might bring in from the outside world and what they're gonna do, what what their vision may be and how they'll turn it upside down.

Now these all these employees have security, and that's just gonna make it a lot easier for them to work for this town and put their effort in and actually our sworn officers put their life on the line for us a lot of times.

Thank you very much.

I've known Tracy for quite a few years, as you all know.

I've talked about it.

Been out bike riding with him, his wife.

Uh I know some things that Tracy's gone through in his life that has changed him as a person.

Uh things that, as it was spoken, that nobody would want to go through.

When you lose a family member, it's devastating, and especially as close as he was to the one that he lost.

And I understand that.

But looking at what's going on here in the past 15 months, there's been a lot of things that have gone on that have been been public, made public, demoting people and then putting them right back in again, poor judgment, doing things that shouldn't be done.

Uh mad at me because I wouldn't support them, and I still don't.

I say this there's a lot of police officers out of the 60 some police officers that are great men, great people.

I've worked with them, I worked security at the hospital, and it was always great to see those men come in there and do what had to be done to get the job done.

And I felt very safe.

Very safe that I found a lot of things that had happened that being there, okay, uh a woman being assaulted, it would have gone on, and somebody would have wound up not good out of it.

Okay, but when the police showed up, everything was fine.

Find three people stealing copper off the top of the resort.

Okay, they showed up, they did the perfect thing, they found them, they took them to jail.

It's great.

Yes, a lot of drugs being picked up here, yes.

A lot of things that have happened, but I say this how many times are we gonna change chiefs, chiefs, police chiefs?

How many fire chiefs are gonna go?

How many attorneys are gonna go?

How many city managers gonna go?

These things are happening over and over and over again.

Okay, and I say this.

The only thing that I'm gonna say out of all of this is this.

Me working at the hospital, okay, as a security guard in the ER, it paid off because I got a medical education, but it didn't make me chief.

It didn't make me qualify to be chief.

I could have been there 30 years and I still would not be qualified to be a doctor to perform doctor duties at that hospital.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Thank you, Nick.

Mayor Whipple, City Council.

My name is Sandy Romberg.

I'm a mesquite resident.

I moved here six years ago.

I became a mesquite police volunteer because I wanted to give to the community.

I remain a mesquite police volunteer because of the respect that I have for Chief Fails and our entire police department.

I spend a lot of time in the office helping, and that and the camaraderie, and the togetherness that I feel and see is very important, and I support Chief Fails.

Thank you.

Sandy.

Good evening, Mayor Pro Tem, City Council.

I have a different opinion.

Training is very important.

Went to two fire academies, air crash on downtown.

Went to the fire police academy in Burlington County.

You can't do a job unless you're trained to do it.

Is he the most qualified chief in the country?

Why didn't we go outside?

We went out, sorry, for the city manager.

My main concern is the comment he made.

I'm not gonna tell my officers to go after those kids because they'll grow up to hate cops.

What a statement.

So you're gonna let the kids do whatever they want.

No, no, no, no.

You tell the kids, hey, come here.

You can't do that, son.

You're gonna get hurt.

There's nothing wrong with telling the kid that they won't hate you, they'll probably respect you.

I remember in England, our old bobbies come around on the bike, they see you doing something, they come out and go, hey, next time I'm taking you home to your parents, and that's the last thing you want to do is see a police officer take you to you see your parents because the whole neighborhood.

Hey, look at that Benham boy, the cult just took him home.

The other thing is this is very disappointing to me.

Tracy once was the coordinator for the parade of lights.

He made a comment, and I'll never forget this, and I don't lie.

He said, if you think I'm gonna kiss somebody you know what to get a trophy, you're sadly mistaken.

That was very inappropriate to say things like that.

I hope he learns from that mistake.

Because that food drive helps a lot of people who need it in the squite.

How about if everybody thought like he did?

We wouldn't have a parade, we won't have any food drive.

I hope he learned his lesson.

We'll see.

I I don't support this uh position.

I hope he does a good job.

I mean, I know I've still got a target on my back from the MPOA.

Not all of them, just the minority few.

That's why when I drive, I make sure I stop at every stop sign.

Don't run a red light, I don't drink and drive, make sure my belt was on.

I'm not gonna give them the opportunity to go after me.

They've already did it once, they won't be doing it again.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mike.

I don't know, Steve, right?

Mayor Pro Tam, City Council, you all know me, Steve Clutterham.

Don't live here anymore, but I've still got two houses.

I think we've been gone six or seven months.

And my hope that things would get better here.

We could move back here and enjoy living here like we did for 18 years.

Because not only not getting better, it's gotten worse.

You went outside to hire a finance advisor.

You went outside to hire a city manager.

When that happened, I had a lot of friends here in town tell me how great it was because this city manager wasn't gonna take anybody's bull, and that she would get this police department in shape and do the right thing.

We have a great police department, but unfortunately, it's spoiled by a bunch of bullies that went to high school together and now think they run the town.

That's just plain fact.

That's the way it is.

Of course, it doesn't matter if a hundred Steve Clutterhams come up here and tell you anything because we already know the decisions made.

So I'm really wasting my breath.

But you got a man that came in as interim police chief and fired volunteers to hire new ones and put him on payroll.

Somebody tell me in what city that makes sense.

It doesn't, it just plain doesn't.

You have a man on his payroll that said on his city phone.

I may have not, I may have doctored my dog training records.

The same man that they keep bragging about him making so many arrests.

What they don't say is that every one of those quite arrests is now in question because of what he said.

This doesn't make sense.

My wife sat right there for 10 years.

I know what really goes on.

Y'all can joke and laugh and think that it's a big game.

It's not.

These are people's lives you're playing with.

Okay, but I know none of you're listening.

It doesn't matter.

The decisions are even made.

You never should have done this without going outside, ever.

And let's not forget the fact that the ex-police chief that y'all fired, that lawsuit is still ongoing.

And hiring a new police chief during that time will only add more zeros to that lawsuit.

Now, all that being said, I'd like to be the first to congratulate Mr.

Fails on his retirement.

Thank you.

Anyone else?

Yes.

Good evening, counsel, pro Tim, you too, Jesse.

My name is Mike Otero.

I'm a volunteer.

I've worked down there for several years with the chief and the other volunteers, and I would like to highly recommend him as well as many of my friend volunteers feel the same way I do.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mike.

Evening, Mayor, Pro Tem, John Felix and Bunkerville.

I've been here for 25 years.

I've known Tracy for that all the all that time.

And the time I've known him, he's been a great man.

He's a great father, great husband.

And it's not just that, he's a great person.

He's always there to help protect and support people.

Um I want you to know that I've been I've spent time with him on the job and off the job, and I've seen him in the school.

I know how he is with the kids.

I know how he is in the community, and I've heard people complain about him, and I want people to know nobody's perfect.

And while there's things that he might not have done that are 100% perfect, there's a lot of good that outweighs everything that he's ever done that's bad.

He's the guy for the job, he's the guy that's gonna take us uh into a safe community, and I say that.

Thank you, John.

Mayor Pratam, City Council, staff.

My name is Rich Bowler.

I'm citizen of Mesquite.

I was Tracy's neighbors for 20 years, so I echo what John just said.

He's a good man.

He made the he made our neighborhood safer.

Uh if I was away on a trip, I felt safe that Tracy was there, and he's a good cop.

You know he can do the job because he just did the job while he was mayor while he was interim police chief.

So I I think gonna do the right thing and hire him as a chief.

Thank you.

Thank you, Rich.

Anyone else?

Anyone else want to step up.

Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, Councilman Quinn Averett, Captain Ski PD.

I think it's important that I do get up tonight.

I had never done it before, um, because there's been a lot of mud thrown last year, and I'm involved in that.

And a lot of the very good men and women behind me, volunteers, the sworn officers, the civilians, um, have been involved in that.

We've all endured it with quiet dignity and professionalism.

I think that's how we should endure it.

Um Pastor Bill Ennis, when he got up here today and he gave a prayer, and he used the word unity a lot.

Bill Innis, no, no, no.

Bill Innis, sorry, I didn't mean to ask.

Dennis Dennis Lee.

Dennis, yeah.

Did you know you're a pastor?

A new career for you.

I was looking at you when I said it.

I guess that's my excuse, but yeah.

Dennis Lee, sorry about that.

He used the word unity a lot in his prayer, praying that we as a city can find unity.

I'm here to witness to you that I have worked under two directly under two previous police chiefs, and I have never seen the unity that we've had this past year under the leadership of Tracy Fells.

You guys are gonna see some amazing things from your police department in the coming years.

I hope he's here a very long time.

Your police department is in good hands.

Your city is gonna see some good things come.

And your police department is being something you should be proud of, and the public should be proud of.

So, with that, I respectfully ask that you ratify Tracy Fells as the police chief.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Oh, anyone else stepping up?

I have some are stepping out.

Somebody else is stepping in, yeah.

Mayor Pro Tem, Jennifer Fiso, and I am a resident of Mesquite, and I have been over 20 years.

And I am here to, I wanted to uh there was I was inspired.

I had a little story that came to my mind really quickly.

Um, Jesus, he went to the pool of Siloam, and there was a blind man that had been sitting there for uh years, and he couldn't go to the pool because he was blind, and so Christ came and told him to get some dirt and some water, some clay and water, and he said, rub it and put it in your eyes.

And when he did, he was able to see.

And so the Pharisees came to Jesus and said, or to the blind man, well, did Jesus really do that?

Like Jesus did all these like really weird things, and he said, and that's what I my point is.

And he said, and that's what I my point is.

He says, I don't know any of those things what you're talking about.

All I know is I was blind, but now I see.

And we love him.

He has been in my home.

He doesn't look like me.

I'm brown and he's white.

But he is has been a part of our family for two, three years, and we love him.

I we all have a past.

We all make mistakes.

Well, we gotta give people a chance.

People can improve.

And he Tracy is an honorable person.

We love him.

He is a grandpa to my two nieces.

He is a great man.

Give him a chance.

He's had so much experience.

He will make Mesquite an even better place to live.

I love this town.

I have four kids, and who I have raised, and this whole city have helped me raise.

And I love living in this valley.

I'm from Samoa.

People are like, what are you doing here?

It's from the desert from the tropics to the desert.

I love mesquite.

It's my town.

It's my city.

It's become my home.

And I testify today that I know Tracy fails.

He is a great person.

Father and grandfather.

And he will make a pretty awesome police chief.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any other comments?

Anyone else definitely?

Looks like someone is.

Are you coming up?

Okay.

Come on up.

Hello.

My name is Lisa Moya, and I've lived in Mesquite for 30 years.

And so I know Tracy.

I don't know if Tracy remembers that, but I can't tell.

Um, since 97.

I don't know if you remember that, Tracy, but he was a cop then, and I was a security at the OASIS casino back in the days, good old days.

Um Tracy is a good father, a good friend, a good grandfather.

Um he's an awesome friend too.

So there's a saying at my work, um, good, better, best, never let it rest.

Until you're good, it's better, and you're better at the best.

So Tracy's been in this job for like what over 30 years.

So, with that experience, he's good at it, he's better, and now he's at his best.

So we love Tracy.

He's a one, he'll be he'll make a wonderful chief of police.

We love you, Tracy.

Welcome to your new job.

Thank you, Lisa.

Hello, I am Janela Moyai, and like Lisa, I've been here 30 years, and I believe this is my first time in a council meeting.

So it is very important that I stand before you to allow, hopefully that you allow Tracy to be the chief police.

He is a good man.

I've known him for a long time, but I've gotten to know him, know him really good because our children they crossed paths.

So, anyways, and I know he's been uh in the police force for over 20 years, and with 20 years comes a lot of experience, a lot of experience makes you wiser, and that's the person he is.

He has all this experience, he is wise, and he's been through a lot, and he can connect with people, and that's what it is connection.

He can connect with older people, younger people, or youngest people.

Not just kidding, but I have to say that he is a good man, he is a good father, he's a really good grandpa, he has a really soft side, and he is a really down to earth kind of guy, and I stand before you, and I hope that you make that choice to allow him to be the chief of police.

I love you, Tracy, and thank you for all that you do.

Thank you, Janelle.

Hi, Chris Hobson, uh, police officer, obviously.

Um, I wanted to address one thing that I heard this week.

Um, there was a rumor floating around.

I don't know where originated, but um I heard that Chief Hail has ordered the police officers to attend tonight.

Um, I don't know if that's widespread or not.

I heard this rumor though.

We had an agency-wide meeting last week, took a photograph.

You guys have probably seen it, and during that meeting, he said he would love for us to attend.

It's not mandatory, we were not required to be here.

The police officers that you see in attendance have chose to be here of our own free will, and we are in support of him.

I uh I don't want to speak for everybody, but I believe that everybody in attendance is in support of this appointment.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Anyone else?

Okay.

So who do we have here?

So um bring it back to council.

Okay, so I'm gonna bring it back to council to make a motion.

I like it.

Yes, did you and yours and Bill's?

That's why I was asking.

So uh councilman fielding, okay.

Okay.

Um, I would like to make a motion to ratify and appoint Tracy Thales for the position of police chief um for the city of Miskete.

I'll second that call for the call for the vote.

I uh uh I have some of my my reservations.

I'm just gonna say that uh my experience with Tracy Fails has been that he's kind, he's respectful, and he's sometimes charming.

Um I do have some concerns uh based on the city and emails that I'm getting and lawsuits and things that I'm hearing, and I'm I'm really concerned, and it my vote is doesn't matter.

So at this point, I think I would like to just abstain.

Um again, my experience with Tracy personally has been good.

So I'm just gonna abstain.

I think I think that's perfect because we know, and I believe that that motion passes.

So congratulations, and I wish you all the luck and all the support you can get.

Oh, yes, please.

Please come up.

I had to do it.

Three minutes.

Um it's not gonna take me three minutes.

I just want to tell everybody here that has come to support me how grateful I am.

I'm very happy to move past the center room spot and and uh let our department um heal more and move forward.

And um, we have great people working for us.

Um, we're very fortunate to have all of them, and so I'm just excited to be their leader and go forward.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Tracy.

Thank you.

Oh, Tracy, it's actually thank you, Chief Fails.

It's back to you.

Yeah, you're back.

Um if you're shuffling out, I would ask that you do so quietly, and we're gonna get our final public comment here and uh get out of here tonight.

Uh Dave Always good.

I've sat this whole meeting, and I want to stay, I will say it for Tracy, but also want to say it.

I'm really concerned that we're not constituting a charter committee.

We've been violated, we've been in violation of the charter for several years now.

I've been up here for three or four months now to get this charter committee going, and it should be going.

We're running out of time, we don't have a legislative uh session this year, but we will have one in February next year.

We've already wasted three months of that time, but we got nine months left or so to constitute and get the committee working and find out all the changes we need to make, get them in front of the legislative council bureau and get them in front of the legislature.

It's not a short process, so please let's get it on the agenda and and and get the committee appointed.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Dave.

Good evening, Mayor Council.

It's positive.

I just want to give a huge thank you to Captain Rowley and all these volunteer police who are gonna move 9,000 pounds of food on February the 6th.

What a great birthday present for me, right?

They do such a wonderful job.

They come in on their own time, use their own vehicles.

Debbie loves them to death.

So everybody loves Debbie.

Thanks, Mike.

Last final comment on Shackle Ford.

Um, I'm gonna follow up a little bit on what we were talking about with this proposal tonight.

One thing that um we really haven't talked about, and that's something that needs to be considered is the power consumption.

Do we have enough power for this in Mesquite?

Another thing to think about.

Just something, yeah.

We need to get them involved.

Um, a reminder that I talked to Travis one evening in a city council meeting about moving that line back at the fire station away from the crosswalk and the sign.

I want to just remind them about that.

I as we're the paving project is continuing.

Um, and then go ahead and throw that up on the camera right there, if you wouldn't mind.

Um, like we we're gonna get a committee together for the um for the chart.

No, we're gonna get a committee together for the um short-term thank you.

Little little lapse in memory there, short-term housing.

Um, but like our last speaker just said, Mesquite city charter.

I mean, I'm ready, I'm here, I'm waiting.

I've got lots of things to talk about, and so we really need to get that going.

I'm still waiting for that call.

I'm excited to do it, and um, you know, we thought we were gonna do it this month, but um, I know you're working on it.

Yeah, Julie just emailed me a couple days ago with we've got everybody, we we have all the appointments now, and so the next step is just scheduling the meeting, get it agendized, and then get together.

I'm excited, so thank you very much, and that's all I have to say.

Have a great evening and congratulations, Tracy Fales.

Thank you, Ron.

Thank you.

I hate coming up here after Ron.

Steve Coderham again.

I just want to let you know, Cindy and I now live in New Mexico.

We live less than a mile away from a place called F L E T C, which they pronounce it Fletch, which is federal law offers in uh training space facility.

Um we have six forms of police in the city where we live, even though it's half the population of this because we live so close to Mexico, and we are surrounded every every two weeks.

1,800 new men and women come into this training facility to learn how to be police, police officers, national guardsmen, police chiefs, whatever it takes.

I can't tell you how nice that city is, how nice everyone is.

You would think being that close to the border, there'd be a lot of trouble.

There's not, they don't have any trouble.

There's no infighting in the police department ever.

Everybody there has been there a long time for a good reason.

They do a good job and they deserve to be.

Um they don't you guys have gone through a few problems lately with city managers.

They just considered for the first time this year hiring a city manager, and what they all came to the conclusion of let the department has run the departments and just hire a city controller.

And the only reason was it's cheaper and easier to get rid of a city controller.

You can fire them overnight.

City manager is a different story.

I'm just saying, after watching this for 12 years, maybe some of you need to look outside, look at other city councils.

We have half the people you do, yet there's seven members on the city council.

The police chief and the fire chief must attend every city council meeting, period.

You guys have to look at things a little different outside of your little focus.

Again, tonight you're trying to give away or give it a greatly discounted price property.

500 acres to people that are so rich we can't even imagine it.

But the cheapest part of their build, you're gonna give it to them.

Give it to them price.

I know it's because you think it's gonna have more income.

Here's what is gonna happen.

First off, if you sell it to them, it's never gonna get built.

They're just trying to buy the property.

But if it did get built, if it really did happen, which would be wonderful, you would change this mesquite retirement city because all the elders will start moving out when all those kids move in and are all gets generated in one place.

Okay, you're gonna change the whole focus of the city if you do it.

And I'm a kid that grew up five miles away from Disneyland.

The Disneyland I grew up near, and what's there now?

Different.

Used to be all families or all older families.

Now, if you're over 40, you're not welcome.

Think about it.

Thank you, Steve.

Kim Otero, I'm standing here as a city employee, and I want to thank you for not only Chief Fells, but also for Becca and Bryce, and then Adam, you're helping.

I feel like we're finally settling down and we could just continue on in the business that we do, but now we can just do it with a little more confidence.

So thank you so much.

Thank you, Kim.

Okay, with that, this meeting is adjourned.