Good evening, everyone.

Welcome to the Tuesday, March 10th, 2026 regular city council meeting for the city of Mesquite.

It's five o'clock.

We're gonna get going.

We're gonna start off with an invitation by Pastor Greg Janssen of the River Valley Bible Church.

Let's pray.

Lord, we do, I come to you this evening in gratitude, Lord.

Um I'm grateful for uh the fact that you are a caring God and that you care even about the affairs of Mesquite, Nevada.

I'm grateful too for a mayor and counsel that sees fit to call on you for a meeting such as this.

And Lord, in that we do ask you tonight just for your wisdom and decisions that need to be made.

And uh Lord, uh our prayer, my prayer is Lord God, that uh any decisions that are made are are first and foremost pointed toward you and honoring to you.

So, Lord, we do ask your blessing upon this meeting here tonight, and uh we thank you for it in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Amen.

Pastor, you please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Pledge.

Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

One nation.

Indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

And now I'm gonna turn the time over to Councilwoman Fielding for a uh presentation.

Thank you, Mayor.

So this is a great honor to announce that the Virgin Valley High School Theater Group has won over the weekend, the Nevada State Champions Theater Group.

Um it has been, well, it's never happened, I believe, before, so 39 years in the making.

Um, Susan Bennett would be super proud of the theater group at this time, and the theater at Virgin Valley High School is named after her.

The theater coach, drama coach, Willie K Wendy Killinger has done amazing things with the theater since she's been here previously before that.

She was over at Beaverdam High School, started their theater group.

She brought all of her experience from Colorado to Mesquite, and now she is um an award-winning coach, stay coach.

Okay, I might have made that up.

I think she's you know, self-proclaimed, but that's only because I've known her for several years.

So with that, I would like to have her come up and tell you more about the theater group, their achievements, and what they're doing in the future.

Come on up, Wendy.

So as they're coming up, I will say that yes, I'm an award-winning coach, but my award.

Wendy, will you talk in the mic right there?

My my reward or award is working with these kids.

And so um, I would like to introduce you to our um state championship.

What that means is they competed at regionals, one and then they competed at state, and also one.

So they beat out some of the biggest dogs in Vegas and across the state, and each state gets to select one uh show to go represent them at nationals, and this is who gets to represent um the state of Nevada.

I will say that they they work hard, they go the distance.

Um, we even have uh one member who said if we win state, I will shave off my eyebrows.

And he did.

I think his father is so proud.

Um besides winning, we had um a short film that um these three and where's your other one?

Bentley and Brielle.

Um that they entered a short film, qualified for nationals.

They get to compete with that.

Avan Annaviska is our ninth grader.

She competed with a monologue.

She will now compete at the state with that, and we get to take our show.

We also have um three students who went through the rigorous process of applying to be a student fesbian officer.

And um it, I mean, it was it was very rigorous, and they were all three accepted.

So that's exciting.

And then um, as a theater director, I get to nominate one student, which is really hard every year, that just goes the extra mile, um, always shows up to rehearsal, shows up on time, memorizes lines, is easy directable, and never complains and serves as a leader.

And that award this year went to McKenna Whipple.

So that's the good news.

The bad news is it costs eighteen hundred dollars per student to take them to Indianapolis the last week of June.

So we are going to do our best.

Um, we have a ton of dedicated parents.

Um, I have my drama mamas, our parents that came and watched every performance, and um, we are determined to raise 44,000 in about two months.

So if anybody has anything they need done, any interesting fundraisers for us, or would like to sponsor a student, um, let me know.

I'm at the high school, and we will gladly accept your support.

Uh, the last thing I would like to say is I would love to thank the community of Mesquite, um, our fire chief and firefighters and our police uh people that came out and escorted us home.

You guys created a memory these kids will never forget, and I'm so thankful for that.

So thank you so much.

So I did get to see the the play.

It was hilarious.

So Grady here, the eyebrow list wonder is one of the daughters.

If you've if you saw the uh the show Heidi, they interrupted Monday Night Football, he wears a dress like Heidi, and it is like the most hilarious thing.

I mean you've ever seen.

And the show as a whole was hilarious, they did an amazing job with it.

And Wendy.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And now I'd like to turn the time over to Gina, correct?

For the employee of the year.

Good evening, mayor counsel.

Good evening.

Um, no, it's not me.

I did nominate myself, but I did not win.

You'll accept it in.

Yes, I will.

Um first of all, let me thank the departments for their nominations uh and participation in recognizing their employees um and volunteers.

So this is gonna be for both employee of the year and volunteer of the year for 2025.

Uh, this is our first time.

I've been here for a few years, and this is the first time that I actually have two departments that nominate the same employee for employee of the year and the same volunteer for volunteer of the year.

So that's just you know, goes to show show you that the achievements that this employees and how awesome they are, employees and volunteers.

So, as part of the employee of the year for 2025 recognition, two department heads um have nominated Sach Robison uh for the from the public works department.

Um, Mr.

Travis Anderson um will be the one to present this award.

And for volunteer of the year, both fire and police department nominated Larry Wade, and I will have both FIRE and uh PD.

Uh they will jointly uh make this presentation.

So if we could start with um Mr.

Travis Anderson so it is my extreme pleasure to present this year's employee of the year to Zach Robison.

Before I do, I wanted to say just a few words about Zach.

To give you a little background on Zach.

Zach started with the City of Musquite in March of 2009.

At the end of this month, Zach will have been with the city for 17 years.

Zach originally started his career with the City of Musquite and the streets and drainage division.

He then moved over to the recreation department where he spent many years.

And then about three years ago, I was very fortunate and able to bring back Zach into the good side, the public works division.

Little plug there.

One of the things that really stand out to me about Zach is his work ethic.

Last this last year, I tasked Zach with project management of two very large projects.

I told him that this would probably be working on the justice facility is very intense.

And I told him that this is probably be one of the most fulfilling projects you ever do, and one of the most aggravating projects that you do.

Whenever you renovate something, there's always things that come up.

And he did an awesome job.

The coordination that he was able to do, not only with the contractors and the city of Mesquite to make sure everything, but he had coordination with the subcontractors.

That's going above and beyond what I had asked him to do.

On occasion, I would get a call on the weekend that we had had a problem at one of the projects, and I would call Zach and he would tell me he's already on his way.

That tells you the manner of work ethic that Zach has.

This is what others have said about Zach.

Zach and I have worked hard hand in hand on this justice facility remodel project, along with the Animal Shelter Remodel Project.

There have been many twists and turns along the way, yet he still keeps his kind and professional demeanor about him.

Without hesitation or delay, Zach has been there to address any issue that has come up.

He is a critical thinker and an excellent problem solver, always finding the solution.

I cannot over overstate the value that Zach Robinson has brought to the city of Musquite.

I am extremely pleased that I have the opportunity to work with Zach.

Again, it's my pleasure to present the employee of the year to Zach Robinson.

Zach, I would like to personally thank you because no matter how many times it was over at the shelter, you were already there.

So thank you for everything you did.

You made a big difference over there.

So well deserved.

And uh if I can have um Captain Rolly and Deputy Fire Chief Thornton come over and present for Larry Waite, please.

An incredible testament to his selflessness and dedication to supporting various city initiatives and events.

His voluntary efforts have been far-reaching, directly benefiting some of the most impactful community programs within Mesquite.

Larry has consistently played a vital role in the success of key mesquite police department events such as Shop with the Cop, Grad Night, and Mesquite Police and Fire Night.

Larry embodies the spirit of volunteerism.

His dedication, reliability, and enthusiastic participation across a wide array of city events has significantly enhanced the quality of life for the mesquite residents.

His remarkable seven years of service with the police department and extraordinary 600 plus hours in 2025 set a benchmark for community engagement.

He is truly an outstanding individual whose tireless efforts have made our city a better place to live, work, and play.

And I'd like to say congratulations to Larry Waite.

Can't say enough.

I do apologize that Chief has tried to be here, he got stuck in traffic coming back from Vegas.

But it's an honor to be able to stand up here.

There he is.

It's an honor to be able to stand up here with Larry today.

As Lieutenant Rowley mentioned, the hours that Larry has put in, not just for the city, not just for police for fire, for all the barbecues he showed up to and volunteered his time for all the events he showed up to give his moral support, emotional support.

There's been a lot of times when he was the one in the shadows standing in the background and holding up a lot of people up there.

And we really appreciate him.

He deserves this award.

We appreciate his citizenship, not only to our department, but especially to this city.

Mary, thank you very much.

Congratulations, thank you, Gina, and thank you, Zach and Larry.

You guys are amazing.

We appreciate all you do.

With that, we are gonna go ahead and get into our opening public comment period.

You have three minutes.

Good evening.

Evening, Mayor Council, Mike Benham.

I'm here tonight.

I did a little bit of research on the e-bikes.

Amazing.

Well, shocking, actually.

I don't think it was me.

So what it actually says is in 2005, nearly 18,000 children under the age of 15 suffered head trauma by not wearing a helmet.

Next, I would like to read something from Penn State Health about the kids on bicycles.

So common injuries include life-threatening head trauma, such as brain bleeds, skull fractures, along with broken ribs, fractured legs, and bruised organs.

Kids can get hurt when they collide with cars by having headphones on, talking on the cell phone, they must pay attention.

What high visible clothing is for those who don't know.

Fire police show it.

And he had one of these on, which one would you see first?

Correct.

Absolutely correct.

And I'm not saying that the parents can afford one of those, but you certainly can avoid a high visible vest, right?

Now when we talk about head injuries, if you remember, I know he laughed because he thought it was funny.

Can you just bring these up for me, please?

Okay.

Can you zoom that in?

That's that's my head injury from falling from here to there against a wall.

As you can see, I'm missing a lot of eyebrows.

Well, here they are in the stucco.

That's how hard I hit that.

Can you imagine a kid on an e scooter doing 10 miles an hour, coming off and hitting a pole, or the sidewalk or a car without a helmet?

That's why we have to get these kids wearing helmets.

It's so important.

I know Kevin Paris has been working on.

I have some information for you to read as well.

Um, I've done some research, and like I said, I'm all about safety.

And like I said, I'm all about safety.

And I just like to mention one thing.

I know I'm out of time.

Has the city ever in the police department or in the fire department ever done a child seat check?

I can tell you, I was with the state police task force when we did it back east.

You would be amazed at how many of those child seats are not safe.

We found cereal in it.

The straps were covered in fruit juices.

People just don't know.

I think it would be a good idea for the city to do a child suit check.

Please.

Thank you, Michael.

Oh, and thank you, Mayor, for putting the pitch your up.

You're a man of your word.

Sorry, go ahead.

Let's see if I can figure this out.

Oh, okay.

How's that?

Mayor City Council.

My name is Joe Markland, and this lovely lady is Cheryl Kilker, and we are proud residents of Mesquite.

And we are here to uh as you can notice, we are dressed uh in the 50s, and uh we are here to tell the community some exciting news that guys and dolls senior opens next week at the mesquite community theater.

Yeah, yeah, and you know, Joe, when when I'm dressed like this, I kind of can't help talking like my character, Miss Adelaide.

Well, you know, when I'm dressed up like this, too.

I kind of like I talk like uh Nate in Detroit.

You know, he's that sh uh crapshooting gambler, you know, from New York.

I know you're a gambler, I know.

So we got this information to share with the community.

So it's a special shorter adaptation of the classic Broadway musical, Guys and Dolls, designed specifically for performers aged 55 and older.

And we have a lot of performers, I think almost 30.

Yeah, and we are all, we have a couple in their 50s, but most of us are pushing 70 or more, I think.

But anyway, you're welcome.

Uh, I'm one of them.

Musical Theater International is the official licensor for guys and dolls, and only a limited number of guys and dolls seniors can be shown throughout the country at any given time.

And this show is part of the MTI's Broadway Senior Collection, which features 60-minute adaptations.

Yeah, so with a short intermission, the total show time is just over an hour, maybe an hour 20 with intermissions, and all ages will enjoy the show.

And tickets are just $15.

15 bucks.

15 bucks, and they're available through the community theater box office.

The performance dates are the last two weekends in March, Friday and Saturday with a special matinee on Saturday.

So Friday at seven and Saturday at 2 and 7.

We're gonna be busy.

These guys better be here.

They better be there.

We ain't gonna vote for them next time.

Well, I'm not gonna say that, but okay, read more about it.

Now, Nathan, he's the gambler, and he won't marry me.

Okay.

Wonder why?

Well, it's a fast top.

This is a fast talking, toe-tapping Broadway classic filled with colorful gamblers and big-hearted showgirls.

Romance, unforgettable songs.

It's set in New York in the 1950s.

It features the iconic song like luck be a lady tonight.

Yeah, and it's got lots of great costumes, too.

Those crapshooters, they look real sharp and their fedoras and vests and bow ties, the cats' pajamas.

We got dancers, lots of beautiful dancers, talented singers, actors, all 55 and older.

This is going to bring the community a lively night of comedy music from a classic Broadway musical.

So everyone come and enjoy.

Now, Cheryl here, she plays Miss Adelaide, the headline star of the hard box, my longtime fiancee, and Mike could get my character Nate in Detroit.

Yeah, your character is a gambler, but because Adelaide is getting frustrated with you because Joel plays Nate in Detroit, the flubbable fast talking crapshooter who spends most of his time trying to organize the city's biggest floating crap game and avoid the cops.

Lucky we don't have that problem here in Mesquite.

So he's full of excuses why he won't marry Adelaide.

So remember the last two weekends in March is when you can come and enjoy the show for all ages.

And where should they go to get tickets?

Thank you so much.

Yeah, we got to get back to rehearsal.

Yeah, okay.

Thank you.

Good job.

Good job.

Mayor Whipple, I'm not quite that good.

Anyway, no, there's no way.

I'm Donna Vanita, Mesquite residents, and I just want to challenge everyone in this room.

I'm gonna sponsor one of those students, and I'm challenging everybody in this room to do the same.

And now I gotta hurry up and leave and go to the barbecue.

Thank you, Donna.

Dominic Olivetto, Mesquite resident.

I'm glad Donna came up because I didn't want to follow that act.

Uh for the past three years.

I've been pushing people to bring off-road tourism into Mesquite, Nevada.

We had secured a deal with DP performance out of Cedar City to bring what they call rally in the valley down here.

It was signed up and 90% ready to go.

They had 250 rigs signed up.

And each rig would hold from two to four people.

This is a five-day event.

Bryce Canyon, when they do the rally up there, they claim they take in approximately four million dollars in tourist money in four days.

I wish the city, because I brought this up three years ago and was told that the city had no skin in what goes on in the Arizona Strip.

The BLM turned down the permits at the last minute.

This function was canceled.

These people are moving back to Bryce.

Probably never to come back here.

I mean, we got some of the best writing around, and a lot of people have worked really hard towards this, and it's extremely terrible that the city can't put some kind of pressure on the BLM, or at least let them know you don't like them.

And by the way, I have to be a lot nicer because now your clerk knows how to spell my name.

I'm in trouble.

Thank you.

Thanks, Dominic.

Good evening, Mayor and Council people.

And everyone.

My name is Clinton Brooks.

And last time I was here, we had an issue with the tennis court screens and uh at Hafen Park.

Uh I just want to say thank you for approving the screens, but as of right now, we still don't know where the screens are.

Nor can we get an answer.

So I just want to bring it to your attention that we're still waiting on those screens.

We had a little bit of um uh vandalism a couple of weeks ago, and I reported it and it was taken care of.

So I want to thank uh Randy and his people for jumping on that.

Um, but again, I just wanted to bring this up because I can't get seen to get in touch with Randy or his people.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Clinton.

Randy, maybe during staff comments, if you can if you have an update anyway.

Okay, seeing no one else step forward, we're gonna go ahead and move on to the consent agenda.

Um, I have a recusal on the consent agenda.

I do have a contract with the city, so in the unlikely event that I would be called upon to vote, that I will need to recuse myself on that.

Uh 2.1 consideration of approval of the Tuesday, January 27th, 2026, regular city council meeting meetings.

The Tuesday, February 17th, 2026, and March 10th, 2026, regular city council meeting agenda.

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

2.3 consideration or approval of resolution R26-008, adopting interlocal contract number 3252 between Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada and Clark County, City of Las Vegas, City of Henderson, City of Boulder City, and the City of Mesquite for the Intelligent Transportation System, ITS Data Analytics Arterial Performance Dashboard.

2.4 consideration of approval for placement of a power box wrapped art funded by the Nevada Main Street grant.

This wrap will be dedicated to the women's suffrage and has been approved by the Mesquite Public Arts Commission.

2.5 consideration or approval of the Musquite Public Arts Commission to create two honorary literacy positions, the Musquite Poet Laureate and the Junior Poet Laureate.

The Eureka Foundation will sponsor this Poet Laureate program.

Any questions on the consent agenda from Council?

Councilman Wallace.

I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda.

Oh, we need to have public comment real quick.

Any public comment on the consent agenda?

Okay, Councilman Wennis.

No, I'll make it.

Now I'll make that same motion to approve the consent agenda.

Okay, Councilwoman Filling.

I'll second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

Yeah, sorry.

Galloway.

Okay, now we're gonna move on to item 3.1, the quarterly presentation from the Clark County School District.

Good evening.

Lindsay Tomlinson, Region One Superintendent.

Thank you so much for inviting us here this evening.

I want to begin by definitely thanking you for all your support for our Virgin Valley schools and that amazing theater club tonight.

I was so glad to be able to be here and see that.

That was amazing.

This evening, I'll be sharing data on two critical pillars of student success, student attendance, and student behavior.

These metrics are essential indicators of our school climate and directly impact the overall instructional goals.

We are currently navigating some challenges with chronic absenteism.

We had a 3.1% increase in students designated as chronically absent.

It's important to note that in our Virgin Valley schools, our smaller student population means that we have a larger swing in proportionality, and that often occurs more often year to year.

Even smaller changes in student numbers can significantly impact our percentages.

To address these small increases in chronic absenteeism, our schools have implemented a multi-tiered system of approach by increasing family outreach and communication for our at-risk students, conducting collaborative home visits with our social workers and school resource officers, and providing weekly and monthly celebrations to celebrate our consistent attendance.

When looking at our suspension data, we saw a slight increase of eight additional suspensions, resulting in removals from instruction this year.

Specifically, we noted that those increases were in our students for special education in our English language learners.

This highlights a clear area that we're going to be focusing on for our resources.

On a positive note, there was not enough discretionary expulsions to even meet the threshold for me to report tonight, showing that our most severe disciplinary actions remain extremely rare in our schools.

To better serve our diverse needs, our staff are participating in professional learning, focus on trauma, equity, and effective support for our most vulnerable populations.

While our smaller student populations make our percentages more volatile, our mission in our Virgin Valley schools is to remain steady using personalized outreach and trauma informed care to turn these trends around.

And with that, I'm going to introduce Maurice Perkins, who will be sharing our amazing celebrations tonight.

Good evening, Maurice Perkins, School Associate Superintendent from Region One.

I support and supervise the schools here in Virgin Valley.

We have uh quite a few celebrations tonight.

Joseph Bowler Elementary School recently performed the Dare to Dream for Dare to Dream Music Hall for the student body and the community in seven performances during the week of February 23rd through the 27th.

The production was the culmination of 16 weeks of dedicated practice and preparation by the students.

Their hard work and the commitment created and engaging performance that showcased their talents and teamwork for the entire school community.

Students at Jail Bowler welcomed the community on March 5th for their 10th annual leadership day.

The event provided visitors with the opportunity to see students actively demonstrating the principles of the seven habits of highly effective people through leadership activities and uh and several presentations.

Leadership day highlighted how students apply these habits in their learning and their daily interactions at school.

And finally at Jail Bowler, the students and staff celebrated Nevada Reading Week from March 2nd through March 6th with a variety of literacy-focused activities.

This week included a visiting author, walking field trips to the local community library, leadership day, and a picnic readathon with families.

These events help foster a love of reading while strengthening connections between the school and the community.

I actually get to see the walls, their uh country themed walls uh throughout the school.

It was wonderful.

Um at Virgin Valley Elementary School, they also celebrated uh Nevada Reading Week, and they started the you can see the picture there, Mr.

Bennett Shrek.

Uh they started the the week with a surprise Shrek themed skit uh during the school assembly.

Teachers and administrators dressed as Shrek, Donkey, and Princess Fiona to bring energy and excitement to the celebration.

The performance highlighted this year's theme, Book and Adventure, reminding students that every book opens a door to a new world.

Virgin Valley Elementary School hosted its fam annual family math and science night on January 15th, transforming the school into an icy laboratory with the theme escape the abominable snow abominable snowman.

Families work together to complete STEM challenges in each pod using critical thinking and teamwork to solve the problems in escape.

I got stuck, I could not escape.

I tried.

They transformed the campus into a glowing gallery of student creativity under the direction of art teacher Jennifer Hughes.

Hundreds of student artwork was displayed under black lights while families explored interactive literacy stations connected to Nevada Reading Week.

The event blended art and reading to engage families, support literacy goals, and celebrate the creativity of the school community.

At Hughes Middle School, uh over the past four weeks, seventh grade history students shifted their focus from the past to planning for their financial future.

The uh to culminate the financial literacy unit, Mrs.

Rosson's class welcomed a guest speaker from America First Credit Union who presented on the common money beliefs.

This session encouraged students to reflect on their personal relationship with money and develop a more informed mindset about financial decision making.

Safe routes to schools from Clark County School District visited campus to promote bike and rider safety.

They provided helmets to students who ride bikes, scooters, and e-bikes to school each day.

During the presentation, students learned the importance of wearing a helmet.

We don't want to lose their eyebrows, right?

The importance of wearing a helmet correctly every time they ride and how it protects them from a serious injury.

A total of 85 helmets were distributed to Hughes Middle School students, and they extend their gratitude to the safe routes to schools, and the school resource officer Justin Goodsell for organizing this event.

A spirited high-energy special Olympics basketball game brought together students from Hughes Middle School and MacLion Middle School in Mawapa Valley, where they showcased incredible determination, teamwork, and inclusion.

The closely contested matchup ended in a tie and highlighted outstanding sportsmanship, dedicated dedication and community pride from both schools.

Students also enjoyed games and dancing with friends from both valleys, making it a truly memorable and joyful day for everyone involved.

And finally, at Virgin Valley High School, the RoboDogs, Virgin Valley's high school robotics team made significant strides this year.

The team advanced to the state competition, and although they just finished outside the top three, they demonstrated steady improvement each week throughout the season.

They also hosted their first robotics tournament showcasing the growing strength of the program and highlighting a bright future for this adventurous group of students.

The theater department, who we got to see earlier tonight, uh brought magic to the stage this spring with its production of Cinderella.

As always, the talented cast of students spent countless hours memorizing lines and rehearsing choreography to bring the story to life.

It's always a pleasure to watch these students perform and showcase their dedication and creativity.

Virgin Valley High School added a new sport to its winter lineup this year with the introduction of bowling.

The program had a great first season and created an opportunity for students who might not have otherwise participated in athletics to get involved.

Being part of the team helped motivate students to maintain their grades, attend school consistently, and build stronger connections with their peers.

With that, thank you, and uh we'll answer any questions that you may have.

Thank you, Lindsay and Mori.

Do we have any questions from council?

Um I have a comment.

So when you were talking about kids getting suspended from school, I was at a basketball game with uh Morrie.

Mr.

Perkins one time, and he got kicked out of that basketball game.

So you you're standing next to a troublemaker there.

So in fairness, we did appeal and they looked at the video and found that he'd done nothing wrong.

It was kind of a mistake that he got kicked out because he was he was a good kid.

But it was it was funny.

So a little troublemaker.

Me and Maury go way back.

So I love it.

Don't tell any stories on me though, right?

That's a fun story.

Yeah.

I kind of want to hear about that.

She still have the mic.

So if you want to tell us something about Mayor.

No, he he he was a phenomenal basketball player, probably still is.

Uh but uh it was fun to just be on the same court with them.

Uh yeah, we had fun.

It was fun.

Maury was a great basketball player as well.

So it was actually the last game going before the division.

And so we worked really hard to make sure he got reinstated and that he didn't lose the game.

So we needed him.

I'm gonna ask him to share that story to read the meeting this week.

It was fun.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

We'll see you at graduation.

So I I have a question.

Oh, sorry.

So this is your quarterly report.

So we won't see you again until next August.

June.

June.

Oh, you will be here in June.

Okay, graduation end of the year.

Yep.

Okay, perfect.

All right, thank you.

You're welcome.

Thank you.

Thanks, Maury.

Um, so 3.2, we've already done.

We did that at the beginning.

Um, so we're gonna go on to four department reports.

Uh mayor's common report, comments and reports.

Um, okay.

So councilwoman Fieldon.

I just wanted to make a motion to accept that presentation.

Okay, councilwoman Gallo.

I'll say it.

Okay, call for the vote.

Para shy.

Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

So mayor's comments, reports.

Um, I got invited to be part of reading week.

So I got a read to four third grade classes.

It was a great time.

I read a short little story, and then they asked me uh a bunch of hard-hitting questions.

And surprisingly, they were actually hard-hitting questions.

It was it was not easy.

Um, and then as I was walking out, Miss Trimming's class gave Miss Trimming.

I don't know how many of you know Miss Trimming, she's a fourth grade teacher.

She gave me a stack of letters that the fourth grader, her fourth grade class had written to me.

And basically they were pros and cons of helium balloons and some very well thought out, convincing arguments of why we should or shouldn't have helium balloons to the fact that I got on Google and did some research on helium, because I hadn't no idea about anything about helium.

And so they inspired me to go do a little research and find things out.

So it was a really fun day and a learning experience for me.

Um with that said, uh we've got three.

I'm gonna start here and we'll work our way down.

Councilman Ennis.

Thank you, Mayor.

Just a couple of things from the veteran side of the house.

Again, our little mobile veteran clinic will be here on March 19th from 10 o'clock until noon at the Veterans Center.

Again, uh, like I said last time, uh that so far the showings have been really well.

Our veterans have been coming out and getting the care that they need.

Uh they bring down a doctor and a nurse and all that.

So please get the word out that they will be back on March 19th at the Veterans Center.

Uh the VA Motor Mobile Medical Clinic will be here.

And then finally, glad to announce this this Saturday, the 19th from 10 o'clock until noon, we will be doing our open house for our veterans clinic here in Mesquite.

Finally got that going up and running and uh passed the inspections uh the other day from the fire and from the city.

What did I say the 19th?

I meant the 14th.

I'm sorry.

Thank you, Dominic.

Um, he's back there.

I thought he was doing something else with these fingers to me.

But anyway, um so it will be on the 14th this Saturday at the address is 550 West Pioneer Boulevard, suite 102.

It's down at the east end of that plaza where the DMB is, and the new that gym it's in there, and again, it's from 10 to 2.

The food will be served.

So come in if nothing else, come and eat and come and meet the staff that's gonna be coming in from Vegas to provide the medical uh the medical uh facilities for our veterans and senior citizens here in Musquite.

That's all I have.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilman Innis.

Councilwoman Gallo.

Um I first I would just want to thank everyone that came out for the ribbon cutting for the animal shelter.

It was a super super successful event.

Um and special, I want to call out Travis and Zach for everything you did to make this happen over in the last couple years.

It was amazing.

Nancy, thank you so much.

I don't know where Nancy is, but thank you for all the work that you put in um to make it happen with treats and things for for everybody at the animal shelter.

It was really a great day.

Just real quick, I was asked to mention that Friday is Denim and Diamonds event at the Holiday Inn.

Um the Donkey Museum has an event on March 23rd from 11 to 3.

And then we also have Taste of Mesquite on March 22nd at the Holiday Inn.

So I was just asked to bring up a couple of things that were happening in town.

That's it.

Thank you.

Councilwoman Phillian.

You're good.

Okay.

Staff reports.

Randy, do you have an update on that for us or that he was put on the spot?

Correct.

I like to put Randy on the spot.

He would do it to me.

Well, I've got a story about Mayor Whipple.

Just kidding.

Just kidding.

I haven't decided to be a little bit more.

I really remember, but I'm not, I'm not gonna expose it in public.

So uh update on the tennis court screens.

So back in January 13th, uh we got approved, uh, submitted the PO takes about a week or 10 days to get that approved uh for submittal to the contractor, submitted that end of January, first of February.

Uh it's in the process of being sewn together.

Uh we're just at the mercy of the contractor.

I have talked to Mr.

Brooks a couple of times about the updates on that.

I just don't have anything further.

We're just waiting for installation date from the contractor still.

So that's where we're at.

Any questions?

Cool, thank you.

Thanks, Randy.

Travis.

Yes, thank you.

Uh, just wanted to give a quick update um on our projects again.

So the justice facility um work is complete.

We're finishing the closeout documents on that.

The animal shelter, it was an awesome event, the ribbon cutting.

Um, a little windy, but it was a great event.

Um, that is complete, just doing the same thing, um, finishing the close out documents on that with our fire station two is coming along really well.

Um, they were paving um, and I think that was complete today.

They're paving on Canyon Crest and Horizon, the bottom lift, and they'll be working on the top lift of that uh, I believe the end of this week or the first of next week.

Um, so that project will they are coming together and looking like everything will be good.

Um, I believe that completion date is middle of May, and we're right on track with that.

Our project on the boulevard, um we are milling right out in front of City Hall this week.

They will be paving that what they milled out um today will be paved tomorrow.

Um, the big news that I wanted to put out to everyone is next week, because of spring break, you saw that we kind of skipped over the area between Thistle and Arrowhead because we wanted to have as least disruption to people taking their children to school.

So they're gonna be working on that segment next week during spring break so that we don't have a big disruption on that.

Um again, just a little reminder.

Um the area is not complete.

Um, as we talked about, we're taking five inches out.

They put back three, and then they do a two-inch overlay.

So a lot of people have said this is the worst road I've ever drove on, and it is right now.

It it's crazy.

But when they do that top lift, it smooths everything out, and the bumps when you're going into the business will be taken away.

So as you um and again, just like every single week.

I am so grateful.

The the public has been great.

Uh I know their patience is probably wearing thin, but I really do appreciate all of the patience that our community, we've got a great community.

Um, the other project, the Hafen Lane project in front behind the Casablanca.

That was one of the areas that has been neck down for years.

That has been paved and widened out.

That was part of this project.

The box culverts that we were waiting on due to the strike will be delivered on March 23rd, and they will be setting them on the 24th.

So that's good news.

Um, once they get all that, they have some work that for the water line to go over the top and going on.

They once they get that, they will pave Levitt, and then we can close down Hafen and finish the asphalt on Hafen.

So that project's due its anticipation completion is the end of June.

Um, and I believe that's everything that we've got going on uh right now.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Anderson.

Councilman Parrish.

I have a question for Travis.

Uh heard some rumblings of the the new light at Falcon Ridge and Hardy went intermittent for a little bit.

Is that been all corrected and taken care of?

Yeah, so that one I got a call Thursday night that all of a sudden it went completely black, which is very unusual.

So I called the Overton Power, and usually what we see is power outage with that.

But these has new technology of battery backup system.

So even if the power goes out, that light's supposed to stay on.

But just like with any technology, sometimes as you get smarter, things get a little go a little awry.

So I got a we thought we had it fixed Thursday night.

I got a call Friday about the same issue.

So what we've determined is that that particular it's a brand new um piece of equipment, but the battery backup system that's supposed to keep that lit the whole time was causing it to short out.

And so that was causing us problems.

So we've bypassed the um system right now.

We contacted the contractor, they're researching and gonna get us a brand new um battery backup so that this doesn't happen.

But yes, thank you for allowing me to bring that up.

Thank you.

Thank you, Travis.

Um the other Nope.

Okay.

We're gonna go ahead and move on to 5.1.

Considerational consideration of approval of allowing liquor to be sold at the I-15 country and rock music festival at the Mesquite Sports and Events Complex.

Thank you, Mayor and City Council.

This is about a special event permit.

Uh normally it is approved by the city manager or her destiny.

Um, but uh this is related to the sales of our core uh on the city ground.

So um it the title is I-15 Country and Rock Music Festival.

Uh Rock always goes with our core.

Um, and the day two would be Saturday, October 17, 2026.

And uh it starts at 1 p.m.

uh through the midnight midnight.

And uh it the location proposed was a must get uh sports and events uh complex.

And uh applicante is came from the St.

George and uh anticipate uh uh 3,000 attendees uh approximately.

Uh every attend attendance fee is 89, uh, they said, but when I uh looked up to the online, it was 109.

So there were a little bit of differences.

And the number of private security would be 20, and they will serve our uh food and alcohol.

So uh our code says uh within the limits of any park or recreation use area, uh you cannot bring in liquors or you cannot uh keep the recourse or or you cannot drink liquors in that area without the exper express permission of the city council.

Uh after uh disapprover, the applicant must uh use an approved liquor license holder for safety, and then that uh also uh they have another option uh to uh choose uh uh uh the license holder, uh, which is a daily liquor catering license.

Uh so anyway, they need to have a license in this case.

So step um, I'm not a drinker, but uh uh step up uh recommend the city council approve the serving of our core at uh I-15 country and rock music festival at the Muskid Sports and Event Complex, which will be held in uh October.

Thank you.

Councilman Parrish.

Oh, hold on one sec, sir.

Um are you the are you dairy?

Oh, okay.

Well, come on up and have a seat, and if they have questions for you, then we'll we'll snag you.

Councilman Parish.

Okay.

Um I don't have a problem with the liquor license.

I have a problem with the timing.

Um we've got it from 1 p.m.

to 11 59 p.m.

We require all short-term rental inhabitants to be quiet at 10 o'clock.

Um this uh venue is right above a few hundred houses in Sun City, and I believe that the festival should be shut down at 10 p.m.

as our short-term rentals.

So therefore, I request the applicant to either start at 11 or shorten his time by two hours.

Um I don't have any problem with the liquor license, I just have problem with the timing.

So I'm gonna hold your liquor license hostage until you change the timing.

Thank you.

Councilwoman Gallagher.

Okay, um, great point.

So, first of all, I do have a problem with a liquor license.

This is a kids' ballpark.

Um we have strict rules about no alcohol at children where children are playing.

My big concern is we've got 3,000 people that are going to be at this event drinking.

How are they getting home?

They're leaving there intoxicated.

Um, I don't, I mean, it's not like they're at a casino where they can go to a hotel room or go somewhere else to eat.

I have a real concern with this, especially based on some of the situations we've had with other events up here over the last couple of years.

I too agree 10 p.m.

is our noise ordinance.

Um, there's no way that we can allow this to go till midnight.

Um, I'm all for a country um concert, but it it's going against everything that we've done in the past.

Um, and then I started figuring out if we have 3,000 people, if we have two people in a car, that's 1500 cars.

If we have four people in a car, that's 750 cars.

That means that many people are driving, possibly intoxicated.

How do the police feel about this?

I'd like to hear from the police department too, because I know in the past, this has really been an issue for them because they're the ones that have the police.

So um, and then uh what covers the insurance?

So I do have um quite a few issues with what's taken place, especially based on what's happened in the past.

Thank you.

Councilman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, yeah, that's kind of what hit me first.

Um, one to midnight.

So I am I'm uh I'm also with the noise ordinance, but let me ask Simon and anybody else who's been up there during sporting events.

How long do they last with their loud music when we have like the pylon?

Do they stop at 10?

I mean, is that what we do?

I mean, I'm just I'm just asking.

So if this event goes to midnight, is that when the last band is gonna end at midnight, or is that when they're gonna vacate the premises?

We I uh go ahead.

Yeah, we haven't actually reviewed the application yet.

So uh this is about uh approval of the alcoholic beverages sales, but they that we need to review the entire step, uh including the police who will need to review the uh special event permit application, and uh we need to actually address our concerns and then approve it.

Uh so on on your right on the screen, there is uh event uh the the side plan.

Uh they uh planning to sell uh liquors and food uh on the left hand side of the entrance.

So that that is that is what we have right now.

Uh but uh we will have to review and address those issues actually.

Right.

We we need to uh have opinion from the police, uh how they're gonna oh they expressed that they're gonna have what 20 uh private uh the guard uh on site.

Um and the police uh probably will be there and uh uh need to assist them.

So we all those need to be collaborated or together.

Right.

So this is just regarding the liquor.

So I go to a lot of events and I don't drink.

So to say that 3,000 people are gonna drink, some people don't drink.

And you know, it is a music festival, and I think we need to look at it more.

But if Mesquite wants to be a place where we can attract more of these places, we probably need to find out more about the venue.

I mean, we know about the venue, but the organization, have you done this before?

Where have you done these other events?

I mean, I'd like a little bit of history where you've done these events, and did you were was there alcohol served?

So that would be a question.

And then we've got them here.

You have to I know that's well.

I just want to make sure we have all the questions so we can come up all at once.

But that would be my question is have you served alcohol?

Have you been given you know permits before?

Um at other venues.

Thank you.

Councilman Wallace.

I'm not gonna be as nice as Patty, but um Captain Rowley, you seem to be the highest ranking police officer here.

But you can actually come up here with Chief Andress if you'd like.

So I'd like both of your opinions on this.

They can have as many security people at the site as they want, but as people leave, you will be the ones that have to deal with that.

And I want to know your concerns or your thoughts, please.

You're still standing.

Jason's right down, isn't it?

Um, this is I saw this earlier today, so I did research it a little bit.

Um, I know they had one um a year ago at the I believe Istanbul and St.

George.

Um, there are a lot of questions that we would like answered.

Um it on its base.

We do see some issues with that venue and that amount of people, but once again, we haven't seen um uh application.

We don't know exactly what is gonna be brought security wise.

Um there is one way in and one way out for so intoxicated individuals could possibly be a problem, intoxicated drivers.

Like I said, there's there's a whole lot of questions that we would need answers before I would feel comfortable with this.

Mayor, council.

I have not seen this before.

This is the first time.

Uh events like this happen all over the country, right?

Uh, but for concerns as part of reviewing the application, uh, initially uh ingress egress.

Uh we we know about the right Route 91 shooting down the road from us, October one, and what that entails.

And so I don't mean to go there, but that's what's in my head of if this happens, are we ready to respond?

And I I don't anticipate going there.

And so I uh but I ingress and egress are a concern.

Uh parking, as long as we can get in, if there's a medical event, uh heaven forbid, uh, we can get our rescues into the and so I'm sure none of this is uh we can overcome it uh working with the applicant, but those are the initial concerns that I have looking at this for the first time uh from my perspective.

Any anything else?

Councilman Parrish.

After uh listening to staff and all the comments and the applicant, I think the staff and the applicant need to sit down with all of these entities, get all these bugs worked out before you bring them to city council, because I think there's there's too many questions for us to make a legitimate decision right now.

So my thought right now is to just table this for a month or so.

We got plenty of time, it's not until October.

We want them to be here, we just want it to be safe and a well-run organization.

So let's let's take a little time, get all our questions answered, and then we can go from there.

Thank you.

Councilman Ennis.

Uh Councilman Parrish just took it from me, so that's my comments also.

Just I have nothing against this.

I think it'd be great for the city, but with the staff saying this is the first time I've seen it, or that I just looked at it earlier today.

I think it would be beneficial for you, sir, to sit down with all of them, us or whoever, then bring it back to us, and then with a presentation in hand, and then we can go from there since it is not until October.

Councilman Wanus.

I'd just like to make it a trifecta.

I I think this is way too soon.

And the the people that are going to be responsible for the safety of this city are just now hearing about it.

And the deep they don't have any details.

So for us to say absolutely go ahead until they're comfortable.

I know I'm not.

As far as something like this happening, I think it would be awesome.

I would love to see it, but I would also like to see it done right.

And right now, I think we're putting the cart ahead of the horse.

And maybe we need to slow down just a little bit and let the horse catch up.

Councilwoman Geller.

You know, one of the things that we could look at as far as um the alcohol, because that really is a concern, is um, I know a lot of times a lot of venues will cut it off at a certain time.

So that might be a way to get around that to have to be able to serve if it goes maybe from you know one to 10 and you cut off at nine.

Um, you won't have as many issues as you might have had if it just continues.

So it's something that uh maybe the staff can take a look at as well when we're looking.

It would be great to have the concert there.

It just we want to make sure everybody's safe, and that's a lot of people for that little spot.

So Derry, did you want to come on up and answer some of those questions?

And and my question is is if we do table this for two weeks to a month, is that gonna throw your timeline off?

Yeah, it will.

But um, I'm already set in St.

George also.

Darry Alton, uh St.

George, Utah.

Gary, yeah, Derry.

I actually reserve here and in St.

George.

So I just was actually just trying to make sure I knew where I'll actually be in October.

So we reserved a Sun Bowl again and we reserved down here.

Um since 2014, I have done a tournament up in your complex that we've had 6,000 people for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

That and not once have you guys seen or heard from me.

I don't think any PD here have seen me.

So I'm thinking what I'm saying since 2014, I have done an excellent job in Mesquite Nevada.

With this concert, there is no hard rock.

There's just country.

We call it a country and rock music festival.

Only rock we have is a group called Another Journey.

So I'm talking Steve Perry journey.

That is definitely not hard rock.

All right.

The age group is 18 to 50, is what we're looking at.

And our groups are incredible.

The money that we're putting in this show is incredible.

The people we're having, they have all had number one hits in the last three to four years.

And that's our main act.

It's a guy named Ernest.

He's been on tour in Morgan Wallin.

They have number one songs together.

Alexandra Kay is like the she's special.

So what we're doing here is something Mesquite has never seen.

But like I said, we also have St.

George in case this doesn't work quite right for Mesquite.

So we understand.

So I can't prepare either way.

To do it with die alcohol is cutting the arm off of what we know what concert should be.

But at the same time, I have never tasted alcohol in my life.

So I can give a darn, to be honest with you.

But I know it's a part of what people do when they have good times.

And like I said, I've been doing this here for a long time.

I actually worked at the Oasis all through the 90s with Bob Potter and those guys there.

So I'm not new to the area.

So based on what I'm hearing, if I got to wait a month or two months, then I can't do Mesquite because my job is also to get the money back that I'm putting into this show.

So we got to start earlier than later.

So I understand.

But um, so I guess we got to come back and I'll figure out then over the next couple of weeks what's best interest for my event and where I need to be at, you know.

So and 11 to 10 isn't bad for me because I don't want to be in the midnight.

Actually, the show was going to end at 11 and then just clean up start, you know, because my last act was going 945.

I can move that last act up to 845, and we'll be done around 10.

Now, I can't not have the alcohol.

And I thought about okay, what's okay?

If we didn't alcohol, didn't have any alcohol, I wouldn't have to be here.

Because, you know, because like I said, I haven't seen you guys.

I've been here since 2014 doing my events.

So without the alcohol, I didn't even have to come, so to speak.

So uh, but this event I believe is necessary because it takes away from the atmosphere of what we're looking for.

And to be honest, when it was in this up in St.

George last year, I felt like I feel like, well, we did more of a Lori Morgan Starship, Ty Herndon kind of show up there.

So we was looking at more 60 plus.

So now we're looking at, like I say, 50 and under, and they are gonna have a good time.

We want them to have a great time, but we want to do this, like say once, twice a year, and just build something very special because now I'm thinking about my April show that we were supposed to get done, you know, because right now I got to sign on my contracts or I lose my artists.

You know, so those are very important, and because everybody's money got to come in before we can start advertising what we do.

I got billboards that need to be purchased.

I'm supposed to start them up in April.

Um I want to start marketing in the middle of March 23rd and start announcing our groups because we got to get them out early enough.

Like festivals, they do they don't go a month in advance.

You go five, six months in advance because you want people to have a plan to come here, and that's why they are gonna stay at hotels.

And a lot of these people are gonna come from the southern Utah market, and to be honest, I don't think 3,000 people are gonna be drinking.

If you might have 500 to a thousand out there drinking, hopefully they're smart enough to say, okay, let's get a hotel room that Friday night or that Saturday night, or designate somebody not to drive.

So, and concerned as far as the shooting happening, wherever the officers said that scares the hell up me since he just said that.

So that was not on my mind, but now it's on my mind.

So I understand that when you look at things like that, and you think, okay, what am I getting myself into?

You know, because um, I just want to like I've been doing football here for years with my youth programs and everything.

Um, and matter of fact, most of your grandkids are in my league at Sun YFL.

So half you guys love me every week, and the other half hate me.

So I'm used to not getting where I want all the time.

So I'm okay with that.

So if we can't make this work, I understand.

But it can't be a two-month wait because I had to do my job.

Yeah.

Councilman Ennis.

I me personally, I love the idea.

I really do.

So my question to you, sir, is this if we if we table this for two weeks, so you'll have time to get with the staff, get with PD, give a fire and everybody else, bring it back to us with somewhat of a an understanding from them what's going on.

Um, because I'm one of those guys that's over 60, and I still love that country, then you trust you may.

Um, but uh not much over 60.

But anyway, um me personally, I like it.

I I love the idea we need this kind of stuff here in Mesquite, and this is what I've been advocating for a while.

But I would also like to have staff be aware of sit down with 100% behind that.

So if we so for my so I'm asking if we can do this and you know, bring it on the next city council agenda in two weeks.

Would that be feasible?

That's very feasible.

You know, I just again councilman one.

Great minds think a lot.

I was gonna say the same thing.

Could you hold off until the 24th?

Okay, yeah, because I was supposed to start my time on the 23rd, I'll just move it to early April, you know.

But if but if in that two weeks you had a chance to talk to the police and to the fire.

So they feel confident.

Their confidence is gonna help us feel more confident, also.

Understood.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

And thank you, Derry, for being here.

I think that a festival, uh country festival, although I know who Ernest is, I know who Alexander Key is.

I and I'm just a little few days over 61.

So I still would be there.

One more.

We have uh Drew Baldridge.

He did uh he tough people.

He has done uh some incredible songs.

We got some incredible mesquite has never seen this before.

It's just that simple.

But this is what we've been people have been asking for in the city of Mesquite.

We need more activities.

We need more things for our residents to do.

And if it could bring in more people from other places to showcase what Mesquite offers, I love the idea.

But like everybody else has said, and I want to reiterate what they've all said.

We have so many questions we need to ask.

Understood.

The police, the fire, you know, the alcohol, the ingress, the egress, you know, security, those are so many questions that we want to answer before we go this far.

I I totally wholeheartedly believe that 3,000 might be there.

Maybe 500, 700 will be drinking.

Um maybe.

I mean, so I mean, there is that chance.

Yes.

But I understand what you say.

You know, I go down to the Laughlin Event Center to concert.

I go down there and I don't drink, and I love it.

And I walk back to my hotel.

But with this, even if we had, you know, something set up later for like buses, you know, to drop off people.

Yeah, something like that.

Okay, thank you.

Okay.

Thank you, Derry.

You're welcome.

Appreciate it.

Thank you guys.

So if you're good with that, we'll just plan on putting that on the next agenda.

Well, we need to have uh public comment, and we need to have a motion to do that.

Okay.

I'm good, thank you.

Yep, you're good.

Thank you.

Okay, we're gonna go ahead and open up public comment on item 5.1.

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

I'm gonna go ahead and make a motion to table this for two weeks and have him come get with staff and uh get everything settled with them, they'll bring it back to us and put it on our agenda in two weeks.

Okay, councilwoman Fielding.

I'll second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

NSI.

Okay, item 5.2 consideration of the desert falls, 500 acre city-owned property, plan and authorization to issue a request for proposals.

Simon?

Yeah, thank you.

Mayor and City Council.

Um, hopefully this is not that controversial.

Uh so uh did this one has been uh initiated actually last year.

I had the discussion with the city council at the present meeting that uh I would uh start working on it.

Uh and uh there has been a couple of um the other uh private entities who was uh expressed their interested in this area.

Um I have initiated the work and I brought it into the master plan committee, committee deviewed it, uh committee uh unanimously recommended to uh putting it to the city council and make a presentation.

Uh that's why I'm here tonight.

Um the location is the western part of the city, as you can see from the map.

And this is the subject area.

And this is the current zoning.

So most of the eastern part is CR2, and then there is a parks and recreation area, and then those brown areas is actually multifamily designation.

And then the parks and recreation down south too.

So I did some analysis and developed the concept.

So there is a Musky Regional Sports and Event Complex we just discussed.

So there was a talk by the applicant that if they are intoxicated, they need to find the hotel.

So I designated the hotel location right there.

So hotel is right there.

And then there are single family residential to make a buffer.

I put the multifamily designation there.

And then we've got some the CR2 commercial area.

So first floor commercial or office, and then second floor office or residential would actually help sales operations there.

Because there is a hospital, and I added about 13-acre hospital property area there, and then added the education portions of the land uses so that we can have some medical education or just the educational areas.

We need more schools, so that could be reserved for the school areas too.

And then of course there will be the parks and resorts areas.

So location of the workforce housing there would be beneficial.

And then innovation and research land uses probably would be best fit for that location to support MTCC2.

So initially I proposed that designations, and this is the acreages for each area.

Mixed use about 81 acre, hospital expansion area, 13 acre, education 26 acre, multifamily 71 acre, hotel about 20 acres, and parks and resorts 150 acres, workforce housing, 780 acres, and then innovation and research 49 acres, 47 acres issues.

So in detail, hotel uh cluster uh near views, and then add the event spaces, uh at the small recreation orientation, uh oriented uh uh commercial node, sports clinic, uh cafe, proof shop, child care, and if it is feasible, uh conference facilities would be uh good, and uh consider also sheltered parking because if we have a special events there, uh parking will be needed.

So, and then parking parks and resorts, uh we want to uh accommodate nature uh uh the man-made uh parks and resorts area there.

Uh we can contain parks, amphitheater, water pitch features or trails in there.

And workforce housing, uh I I thought about the uh flex uh leave work units and mid-density apartments oriented to employees and strong pedestrian and bike connections into the uh employment area, which is uh MTCC area, uh and uh also recommend the small uh grocery gym or uh casual dining areas in it too.

Um innovation research, uh public private innovation hub is recommended, and then to the east, uh multifamily uh should be low-rise, uh, medium density housing, including town homes, uh courtyard apartments, and or duplex triplex clusters, uh, landscape purpose are also need to be adopted and mixed use again.

Uh it is medical adjacent uses, so medical office or short-term stay housing for visiting uh the families or ground floor retail services and offices or uh residential above education components, schools, et cetera, uh training center, medical uh tech education facility, and the street network should be uh connected, uh not rather than dispersed.

Uh training center, medical uh tech education facility, and the street network should be uh connected, uh not rather than dispersed.

Uh and uh additional consideration we need to think about is a civic anchor, uh community center, branch library, uh fine arts center, uh, cultural facilities, or the emergency services, um and police uh department uh et cetera.

So did uh this is the proposed zoning.

And uh by the way, uh today I'm not uh proposing any rezoning.

This is just the concept idea.

Uh after your approval of this concept, uh step would uh uh the send out uh request for proposal, uh, which will include uh um the developmental agreement provisions and proposal requirements and then uh transaction structures in it.

So phasing minimum development threshold, performance security, divisionary rights, um, because we have been having having a lot of cases that uh we sold the property out and then they didn't actually improve and eventually just selling it out.

So uh we uh have those issues, and even when we found uh that the applicant was not illicit.

So uh we want to be really careful in this case.

So uh we want to have check the developer qualification, financial capacity, and development plan, economic impact, and transaction structures too.

So this transaction structure have three options uh and we need to think uh we will think about option A is a performance release with the conditional conveyance.

So we can list the property to the individual with the lower fees, uh, and then if they improve it, then uh the there'll be the option to purchase the land, which should be the pre-uh the development uh price uh to the uh the applicant.

And then option B would be market sale with the performance rebate.

So we sell it to the uh the applicant for market value, and then if the uh the applicant builds and improves on that property, then we pay the difference uh between the market value and then uh the pre-development value, that difference we just gonna refund to them.

And option C would be pre-construction price sale with the mandatory public improvements.

If the applicant promises and they build a public improvements for us, then uh we would sell uh that uh land uh portions uh to them at a pre-construction price.

So those are the ideas.

So upon your approval, uh we step would work on uh issuing the uh request book proposal and work with the applicant and bring it back to you uh what uh their concepts are and what they are proposing, and then after uh if everything is uh checked, then uh we will move forward to the rezoning and additional work.

Thank you.

Councilman Ennis.

Simon, I just want to, I know you're saying that um on the uh proposal requirements for developer qualifications.

Um since I've been up here on the city council, I've seen a couple of times when we've had the developers come before us and they've basically promised us that they're gonna have financial stability, financial for this and that, and that has fallen through.

Um I just want to make sure that we're gonna hold to this on these on this RFP because I don't want to have a developer come up here to me again and say we got finance backing and then not have finance backing and have to come back for and request another extension.

Um to be honest with you, I'm tired of extensions.

And so if they don't have the finance backing, then we just say no to them.

But and I think that we need to make sure that that's in writing.

And uh as far as the um market price, uh also um when we go to our um uh appraisals, the three appraisals that we get, and then we discount at 90 percent.

I'm not on board with that no more.

And so um I think before we do that, maybe we re-look at or look at our matrix and go that route also.

That's just those are just my inputs and comments.

Councilman Parish.

Is there room in this plan to subdivide um these different sections?

Okay, I'm I'm just gonna use the mixed use area that you have here.

You get a total of 61 acres along Falcon Ridge Parkway.

I've I believe that's all commercial all the way up through there.

Um 61 acres is a big chunk.

So a grocery store needs 25, 30 acres.

So can we split it in half?

Are we going to be able to split it in half?

Um say the senior housing project that's coming down the road that hasn't been able to get going yet.

Say we want to move them off that 15 acres that's next to the hospital and put them up in there someplace.

Is there some way we can subdivide a chunk of land and give that to them instead of the 15 acres next week?

Is all that stuff available to us as city council members to do?

Right.

So RFP would be uh we are not asking one company just to come and build everything.

If that is possible, that is good, but I don't think that'll happen.

So uh we can have a phase to development, we will take a look at the IRP applications.

Usually when they uh legitimate uh companies they apply for the RPP, they would submit all those uh books, which it was filed with uh all those evidences and uh that the documents in it uh with the signatures.

So when we look at the uh the documents and we can actually flip around and then we can actually match with each other.

Uh this this one we can work with this one, and we can actually mix it up.

If we have uh uh more and in up uh the IRP uh applicants, um the worst thing is that there is none actually apply, so we we have nothing to review, uh but hopefully uh we have some applications and uh we don't actually uh reserve it for uh one big company.

Uh I hope we can have uh smaller, but uh healthy developers comes in and combine with each other and build a uh build the entire area uh the as we uh prepare for.

So that's why we are bringing in and uh have a discussion about the concept.

So as long as they come in and meets the similar concept, the boundary can change, uh, but the if they meet the uh similar concepts and consistent with our ideas, and that will be the point that we will we would accommodate them.

Thank you.

Councilwoman Philly.

Thank you, Mayor.

So looking at this um this graph over here.

So the one thing that came to my mind um when I went to this meeting a few weeks ago was, and I'm all for multifamily workforce housing, was the location of the multi-family right across the street from Sun City and the location.

And I just worry that who is not gonna want you know the multi-family right across the street on Hardy Way from their single family retirement community.

So that was the only thing that stuck out to me.

And I know that if these can be changed a little, you know, that would be something I would consider.

And I wholeheartedly we need multifamily, we need work first housing here like nothing other.

But I think the location for that is in the wrong place.

Yeah, I the recommended uh density is a mid-density, low rise.

So uh I I felt that they should work, and then the uh the slope is actually higher in the northern side and lower in the southern side.

So um I I uh figured that uh it would work, but again, uh this is not the finer uh zoning.

Uh and uh we would like to see what's gonna be the application, and uh I'm not gonna be the uh decision maker, so I will bring it to the city council and city council will review and uh make a decision uh for everyone.

Thank you.

Thank you, Simon.

Um for my two cents.

I agree with councilwoman fielding.

I think there's a natural progression to that land, and it should be single family down to multi-family.

If there's gonna be hotel, it should be more should be farther down.

Um from listening to the citizens, I'm not sure if the citizens want to resort area right where you've got it.

It doesn't seem like they do.

Um so just my two cents.

I I think a good portion of that should be single family, especially the portion at the top that is very valuable and has great views, and we as a city can get more money out of.

I I think a good portion of that should be single family, especially the portion at the top that is very valuable and has great views, and we as a city can get more money out of so it's worth more to us to sell it for single family.

I mean, a hotel doesn't necessarily need to have great views.

Um so my two cents.

Councilman Ennis.

Simon, just confirming.

I I'm you're you said just a minute ago that we can move these boundaries around, correct?

So I mean, we don't have to have multi-family single family up there by Sun City.

We can move that around to where it's beneficial for us or the RFP.

Then we would constarted.

But it can be moved, it doesn't have to be up there.

It can be we can move those boundaries around.

Am I correct or not?

Okay, sure.

Thank you.

Any other questions from council?

Thank you, Simon.

Thank you.

Uh, we'll go ahead and open it up for public comment.

Mr.

May.

Mr.

Mayor, thank you.

Uh, I'm John Rosen.

Um, I'm speaking right now.

My comments right now are in the role as a member of the Master Plan Committee.

So I want everyone to be aware of that.

Um also it is public knowledge that I am currently one of two candidates that are going to be running for city council, and both of us, these two candidates, uh, we're part of that master plan committee, which reviewed this concept, and I'll call it the concept.

Reviewed this concept unanimously.

Uh, I am very pleased at the discussions that just occurred here amongst the city council.

I think it's exactly the way that should work.

The thing I am most pleased about is that this is an example of what we've been building for, which is to say the council acting and can considering and acting proactively rather than reactively to various opportunities that may come before us.

What Simon has presented is a concept.

It is a well thought out concept, but obviously one that can be changed, or let me just say refined to address concerns that people have that are very legitimate.

It is the process that I'm really most pleased with, where we have developed a plan that we would like to have, and then we've also developed a mechanism through this RFP process to actually seek people to build our plan rather than having someone come in and present a plan out of the blue, and then we all consider whether this makes sense or not.

This is an example of what I've called planned purposeful growth.

And so I really would uh uh encourage the approval of the concept and moving the step forwards uh actively and proactively on the part of this council.

Thank you.

Thank you, John Mayor, City Council staff.

My name is Rich Buller, 1648 El Sueno Court.

Um, I'm surprised there's not a 500 people here from Sun City.

Did you not let them all know about this plan?

Councilwoman Gallo.

Because I mean, I'm all for planning, I get it, but uh also we need to plan about around what people are looking for.

Not we can put any kind of color on a map, and if somebody's not looking for it, it's gonna sit there forever.

I mean, we got we got zero single family zoning here, and I would imagine that's probably what Sun City is gonna want across the road from them.

Not a hotel, not multifamily, and and the parks and resort, what is that 160 acres?

Am I reading that right?

So I mean, and I mean no offense by this.

We have 27 parks now, we can't maintain them right now.

So 160 acres, is that a resort?

Is that a park?

Is there any resort actually looking other than uh Waterworld meets field of dreams?

Is there anybody really looking to do a resort?

Um mixed use zoning.

Travis, you want to pine in about your opinion about mixed use?

It's a pain in the ass, right?

Yeah, I and again, this is the concept.

Uh, like one of the other individuals stated that what we're more trying to look at is this concept of getting the ideas.

And so I do believe that there's as all of the council has stated that these are fluid in the sense of this concept, getting that RFP.

That will generate help to generate is the single family more attractive.

And so I agree.

This is a great start in this concept and looking at that.

The RFP process as the developers come in will help us to divine and say this is what we believe this is going to be the best use.

But uh, I Simon did an awesome job of at least getting us to this point, and I think that's what we're looking at is this concept plan so that we can be proactive rather than reactive.

And I trust me, I'm not trying to disrespect anybody's plan, but I think also the market needs to be helped dictate what we zone and what we have available, and I'm pretty close to the market.

That's what I do for a living.

And I know right now we have several single family um developers looking.

We have a ton of multi-family, all of CR2 down, every CR2 zone in here can be multi-family, and it's the developers aren't tripping over themselves to do multi-family.

So anyway, that's just my input.

Appreciate your time.

Thanks, Richard.

Dominic Olivetto again.

I tried very hard to sit back there and be quiet again, but here I go again.

Without infrastructure, all of this is pipe dreams.

We're gonna end up being another St.

George, excuse me, where you can't drive down the street.

We don't have any place to shop.

Smith's is a disaster area if you're not there rail early or real late, because it's only one grocery store.

Everybody's talking about another motel.

We got motels that can't fill their rooms.

I'd even vote for you guys if you gave them the property for free.

I'd chip in 10 bucks for that.

I mean Guy at Sutherlands told me he'd be interested if somebody would approach him up bringing a lumber yard here.

I know nobody here believes.

Next weekend, all of you come with me, and I'll take you to a Po Dunk County and show you a place with five grocery stores, three lumber yards with less people in the whole county than you got here, and we'll drive by little old Richfield with a home depot there.

We need infrastructure, then we need development.

I mean, thank you.

Thanks, Dominic.

Okay, seeing no one else come forward.

Uh Councilman Wennis.

Simon, first of all, I'd like to thank you and the master plan committee for coming up with this concept.

We can have as been called Wally World meets Sesame Street or what whatever he said, but in fact, we have a large chunk of property that nobody knows what's going to go there.

If we have a concept, even if it changes a little bit over time, but we know the needs of the city, and yes, infrastructure's part of that.

And and I kind of agree with Councilman Parish that along Falcon Ridge, that would be a nice place to have some commercial and get some infrastructure in there.

We have another commercial area that goes out pioneer where there's a lot of room where commercial can come in.

But if we don't start somewhere, we'll we'll never move forward.

So thank you for the time and the commitment you've all put in.

I try I appreciate it.

I think the city will appreciate it when we get through this, and we'll have naysayers probably till the very end, but keep pushing forward.

And if no one else has anything to say, I'd like to make a motion to approve this concept.

Okay, do we have any other comments from council before we do that?

Councilman Ennis.

No, he already made the motion, so I'll second that motion.

Okay, call for the vote.

Hi, yeah, sorry, Parish Eye.

Galilei.

Okay, item 5.3 consideration of amending the municipal code regarding the selection of process of mayor pro tem.

Councilman Parrish.

Okay, I'll jump right in here.

Um the city charter, according to our attorney, states that the city council should nominate and elect the mayor pro tem, which I agree wholeheartedly with.

I would like to see a resolution, city code, what however you want to term it, that anybody interested in being the mayor pro tem needs to approach the mayor in December after the new council is sworn in.

And we will either vote yes or no on that person, and we'll go from there.

But I think the mayor needs to be involved because it is going to be his second in command when he is absent.

And I think he needs to have he needs to be able to put forth the person that he feels that we should elect per the city uh charter.

So we're we're gonna abide by the city charter, but we're going to leave it up to the mayor to put forth a name.

Thank you.

Councilman Parrish, can I ask you a question?

Do you want to do that on each election cycle or annually?

I'm I'm good either way, either once a year or once every two years.

I it whatever the uh other council members might uh I I know Councilman Wanless at the last meeting suggested that maybe once a year might be the best thing, but I mean, but I I just want to get the mayor involved with picking his uh second in command, basically.

That's all I'm trying to do, whether it's once a year or twice once every year or every two years, it doesn't matter.

Thank you, councilman.

Councilman Wallace.

I find irony in the way in that for the last several years, things have been done wrong in the city, and nobody's ever said a word.

And we get this staff and this council and this mayor, attorney, city manager, and everything, and they say, Whoa, we we we need to do it the right way.

And the pushback from the public has been it's almost laughable to sit up here and hear it.

How many people are up in arms about doing things that our charter says, doing them correctly in 2021?

There was a vote by a council, and guess what?

Not one of us were here at in 2021, where they said it should be done every year.

But at that time, the mayor just appointed the next person, never came to a vote.

Short-term rentals never came to the council, they were just approved.

But we have a staff now that's saying we we need to follow the law, we need to follow our charter.

I agree with you, Mr.

Parish.

I agree with you wholeheartedly.

I think the mayor has to be involved, but that's going to take the charter committee.

So any of you here who are on it, I would like to see every January the first, the first council meeting in January.

The mayor nominates one of the people who are up here and will be for the next year to be the mayor pro tem, and then the council can vote yes or no.

And if they get a two third or a three votes, yes, that person will serve as mayor pro tem for the next year.

And to be honest, I'm not even against the fact that the mayor wants the same person there the next year, and he nominates the same person again.

The council can still vote yes or no.

Our charter needs a lot of work.

I appointed my representative to the charter in 2022.

And to my knowledge, the first time they've met was last week.

A few weeks.

Oh, okay.

I'm sorry, I'm off by a week.

The point is this all needs to be done, but it could have been done in 2023.

It could have been done in 2025.

Now we know it won't be done at least till 2027, and that's only if this committee comes to an agreement on something and brings it back to us, and we tell him to take it to the legislator to get or the legislature to get it ratified, and it it does.

I'm so frustrated with the pushback we get from doing things right when it's been done wrong for so long.

So charter committee, master plan committee, every committee out there that's being asked to now step up.

Please do, and and and when you do, thank you for your hard work.

I've been on one of those committees, and I know it is time consuming, and you and you do have it takes away from your life.

And you do have it takes away from your life.

So and it's nobody even knows you're there.

So thank you to all you guys do.

And let's get this all done right.

So next time we don't have everybody going crazy because we follow what the charter and what our ordinances say we have to do.

Instead of doing it wrong, like it's been done for I don't know how many years.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilman.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, good comments, um, Councilman Wanless.

And I will be the first to say, and I don't know if anybody else sitting up here when we voted for Mayor Pro Tem felt like this was a really awkward situation.

We were all put in this situation, and it wasn't until last year we started looking at it, going, well, it has been done incorrect for the last few years.

Um I do, I do agree that the mayor needs to be involved with it.

Um, I think, you know, in January, you know, or in December, like Councilman Parrish said, if they, you know, come to the mayor and would like to be, then they should be.

I think it should be um one year terms and every December, every January.

Um, I do, however, feel like you need a little bit of experience sitting up here before you take on the role at mayor pro tem.

So I think it would be a little um too soon for somebody who was elected in December to take over as mayor pro tem in January, not sitting but only at one meeting to see how we actually work up here, how it runs.

You know, I know I before I got in council, I came to every meeting for 12 years, so I kind of knew the process of what was happening, but some people might not know sitting up here.

So I would I would say that um if they are first-time council person, council member, it would probably be um on their second year would be a great time after a one year of experience sitting up here.

Um so that is my comments.

Thank you.

Thank you, councilwoman.

Councilman Parrish.

Thank you, Councilman Wanless, for your uh backup on that.

Now I understand that you might want to go to the charter, but I think this can be done with under mesquite municipal code, if I'm not mistaken.

So the charter just says that the council elects, right?

And so the way I view that, the you could pass an ordinance saying here's how we decide we're gonna do this election.

And we can put that under the mesquite code.

Put it in the code, and then then the council's bound to that because they voted and decided how they're gonna perform that.

Then if the charter committee wants to add it to the charter at a later date, that could be done.

Yeah, and the main difference between those two, it's a lot harder to chart to change the charter than it is to change the city code.

So my recommendation to council is is that we have our attorney draw up.

I think he's probably got an idea of what we want.

Um, draw up a mosquite municipal code and we put it on an agenda down the road.

Is it is that an acceptable?

Well, I'm I can't make a motion yet, but I'm thinking that's from what I'm hearing from council, that's kind of what we want to do.

Yeah, and and there's a there's a mix of some ideas that have been thrown out, so just whoever makes the motion be pretty clear on uh what's wanted um because there's different ideas that everybody's been throwing out.

So it's it's it's helpful to me if we got a motion that's gonna get passed that says some of these more specific things.

I can do it.

Councilman Ennis.

First of all, thank you, Councilman Wanless.

I agree with you a thousand percent on your comments and the pushback that we get on some of these items.

I also agree with Councilman Parrish on the fact of uh putting it in, making it a city code and going back and revamping the charter if need be, because we make the city code more restrictive than we can the charter.

We're gonna leave that as broad as it is, if that's what we need to do.

And yes, when the motion is made, make it state that I don't agree with uh the the um knowledge part of it because some of us have done this for a long time.

Just because I'm brand new on the council doesn't mean I haven't done this.

And so um, but anyway, so I just think that we need to make uh again saying what councilman parrish said, put it on the municipal code being more restrictive than the charter.

Any other comments or questions from council?

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

Dominic Olivetto, and I like to give all you guys a round of applause.

Thank you.

That is the best set of comments I've heard out of this council so far.

Thank you.

Thanks, Dominic.

Okay, seeing no one else come forward, I will turn it back over to Councilman Parrish for motion.

I'm gonna try to make a motion, Adam.

Do we need to get ready?

Do we need to get Courtney down here to take notes for it?

I know it would be helpful.

I will make a motion that we change or add, excuse me, we add to the Mesquite municipal code ordinances that the mayor pro tem candidates will submit their names to the mayor in December after being sworn in to this council for election in the first available meeting in January specific enough.

And then and then in from your earlier comment, it sounded like them you wanted the mayor to be the one that vets that and then that is correct.

After the mayor, after the mayor receives um people's names in December, he will submit one name to council for election.

And it'll be placed on the agenda.

The name will be placed on the it's very it's very important we put the name on the agenda so that the citizens can well know who that person is up for election.

Okay.

Sorry it's so convoluted.

I'm do you want to say annually or biannually?

Councilman.

Um I think the consensus of the city council was annually, so I I'm I'm okay with that.

You good with that, duly noted.

I've got it.

And uh Julie can I can watch the video over and over.

Councilman Wanless.

Councilman Wandless.

And perhaps if nobody gets with the mayor because they don't want to be pro-tem, he still appoints somebody and the council votes on it anyway.

And sorry if it's you.

And I second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

Parish I.

Galloway.

Okay, item 5.4.

Consideration of approval of extension of time for the anthem at Mesquite PUD development agreement.

Mr.

Mayor, uh Dan Catron planning staff.

This is a request by Poulty to extend the development agreement for another 20 years.

It's been in place for 20 years.

Um, they're about halfway done with the number of units that was ultimately allowed in in uh Anthem.

Um, and they are not proposing any changes to the development agreement at this time, other than to extend the the duration of the agreement for another 20 years.

Thank you.

Any questions?

Councilman Wandless.

That's a lot of homes to build that fast.

So I they're doing a great job.

They've they've stuck to their plan.

I I think this is a good thing, and I think we should keep them going.

Councilwoman Philly.

Thank you.

Thank you, Dan, for that.

So here's my question.

This will be the sixth amendment, which is fine.

It's an extension of time on the development agreement.

I get that.

So looking at the first agreement, second agreement, third agreement, fourth agreement, fifth agreement, they were always only a few years.

And now we're now we're jumping for 20 years.

I'm thinking that the that the that the term of the original development agreement was 20 years, and that all those amendments, I'm thinking were working within that 20-year period.

Because I don't remember any of the others saying a term, any of those amendments specifying.

So Adam, can you I was just doing the math?

Okay, I mean, the the agreements 126 pages.

I mean, this is a big with all the exhibits and everything, but I believe the first term was 10 years under the agreement.

Um let me just double check.

Yeah, and there was a supplemental at the and I I haven't reviewed every single amendment along the way, but the initial agreement was 10.

It will well, it was part of that initial agreement.

If you look down to exhibit B, uh section 10 of the uh exhibit B, it extends it for to 20 years.

Okay, so just back to that.

So now they just I mean, so it was 10, and then now it's expiring, and then we're gonna give them 20 more years just at one okay, another 20.

And I don't have a problem with them.

They have totally proved that they are an awesome builder and they're selling homes.

So I don't have I just was wondering if you knew why there's been so many amendments, and now this one's 20 instead of they were for various and sundry things.

The last one we they moved the uh uh limited commercial from one area to another, and I think they're gonna move on build developing that in the next year.

So yeah.

All right, thank you.

Thanks, Dan.

Thank that.

Councilwoman Gallagher.

Um, I think this is kind of important that we do this as well, because um, to your point, the email that you've sent out prior is houses aren't we're not selling as many houses right now.

Um, and I know it's been an issue up in Sun up at Sun City, um, because in some cases they're buying the new houses and selling what they're already in, and it's leaving a lot of real estate open.

So I think this is a necessary um extension uh for Sun City.

So I'm all for it.

Yes, I and the one thing uh I might add here is uh um currently the NRS requires uh design standards to be adopted uh by ordinance and the make it a zoning.

But in this case, it was done 20 years ago, and they actually didn't adopt it.

We didn't adopt it, and then uh they uh the city and party got into the development agreement, and design guide line was attached to it.

So if this expires, then zoning maybe says it is, so there is no problem.

But uh the for example front uh front uh setback allows them to have a 10 feet uh if it is the living quarter.

Um, but uh it'll just disappear, and everything shall be 20 feet, which is this uh uh the city requirements.

So there'll be some some complexity in the zoning wise.

So uh Steb recommends to approve this.

This is just nothing changes, just a time extension.

Thank you.

Thank you, Simon.

Thanks, Dan.

Do you have any public comment on item 5.4?

Okay, seeing none.

Oh, I didn't see you had their light on first.

Uh, Councilman Ennis.

I'm gonna make a motion to approve the uh extension of time for the anthem uh PUD development agreement.

Okay, councilwoman Gallow.

And I'll second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Very sorry, and it's all I uh okay.

Item 5.5 presentation from Travel Nevada Steering Committee regarding a rural marketing grant with discussion and possible action for a match to the grant from the city of Mosquite.

Amy, is that John?

Oh, and George.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Um, in this presentation, I will be changing hats and roles, and I will be talking to you as the vice chairman of the Mesquite Opportunities and Regional Fund.

And a member of the Travel Nevada Steering Committee.

Joining me in this are Amy Bradshaw, who is the administrator for Morph, and Mr.

George Gall, who all of you know is the chairman for the minute for Morph.

Um you've all received background information in terms of uh a short report that was developed, but this request involves a grant, which I first want to distinguish clearly from the Travel Nevada 3D grant that has been the subject of so many discussions uh up to this point in time.

This is an ancillary grant called the rural marketing grant, uh tourism rural marketing grant for FY27.

That grant is a more traditional grant than the earlier one, earlier one, the Travel Nevada 3D grant.

This grant is a grant which requires a financial match on the part of the applicant.

The match percentage is 50 percent.

Um the ru the uh Morph has been working on this grant application, which by the way is due for submission on March 13th.

Um this grant will cover the development of a tourism-based website for the city of Mesquite.

It will include a uh visual identity package, visual identity package means the adoption of a logo and type fonts and color palettes and anything that helps us to develop a consistent brand for the messages we're trying to deliver about what Musquite wants to be.

It also includes the development of marketing assets in terms of photographs and videography, which will be incorporated into the website that will be developed, as well as print materials, some social media, just everything that again that will make our appeal to people and our marketing messages all be completely consistent in look and feel.

The grant application, bear with me a moment while I pull out the correct figures.

At their board meeting today, uh approved a vendor and a uh for the website development that we've selected from the many that we had proposed to us, and the visual identity package, again from proposals that we had received.

Our website development cost, this is the cost that we will be submitting the grant for, is 23,850.

There will be a first-year license for accompanying software to that website, which will be a CRM package, customer relations management package, and a content management system.

That uh is 21,675.

Photography and videography are estimated to be about approximately $5,000 for a total of $55,025.

I'm sorry.

Did you leave this out on purpose?

Oh, I apologize.

Uh I skipped over the visual identity package development, which was 4,500.

So that total was correct, just the components were missing.

For someone who's quickly doing the arithmetic.

Um, what Morph is requesting there for EDA commitment for EDA funds for a figure not to exceed $27,500.

I say not to exceed because there are various things that our committee can do to reduce the match obligation, and we are actively pursuing those.

We can get credit for value-in-kind donations.

We already have some of those that would have been commitment committed, and we will be pursuing more.

And we can get credit for volunteer services in lieu of some of these developments.

So that's why I say that this request is a not to exceed request, but we do need to make sure that if they turn down all of our efforts for reduction of the uh grant uh match, that we would still be covered in terms of our original match that we submit to them.

So again, the actual request before you is that the council city council approve a commitment to provide as much as $27,500 in support of this grant from EDA funds.

And the three of us are happy to answer any questions you might have.

Okay, thank you, John.

Councilman Ennis.

Bryce, just confirming that's the email you sent out to us earlier.

We have 1.2 million in that fund available.

In the marketing fund, that's correct.

Okay, thank you.

Hey, Councilman Wandless.

Thank you for your hard work on this.

This is something the city needs.

Um driving tourism here is important.

Thank you for the work you did.

Thank you for getting us that detail early.

Anytime you can get something that's positive for the city at 50 cents on the dollar, maybe even less than that.

It's kind of hard to look away away from when you have that money there to help out.

So I think this is a great opportunity for the city, but your hard work shouldn't be overlooked.

It's what you've done that's given us the opportunity to do that.

So thank you to all of you.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you.

Um, yeah, this is great.

And talking to Martin earlier today, and thank you, Bryce, again for getting us that number, how much is in there?

That is a missed opportunity for us to market the city of Mesquite.

And Martina and I had that conversation earlier, you know, economic development where this falls under is huge.

Um, I do have one question though.

The first year software, 21,675.

Who will pay that annually after the first year?

So in the second year, we expect to pay that out of the Travel Nevada 3D grant funds, which is an option for us.

And the third year, we will basically be paying it out of tourism.

What do I mean by that?

I mean that at the end of two years, we do expect our efforts to have a dramatic increase in tourism.

Tourists will be driving our economy.

We will therefore be asking that the city provide us with that money each and every year through some combination of sources of funds that make sense.

I will tell you that we are working on it, what that looks like.

We have not finalized it yet, but at a minimum, it will come from a combination of EDA funds and other sources that are directly related to our tourism economy.

Okay, and that's good to know for the first year, because I don't have a problem with this, but I'm from another rural marketing grant.

I'm sorry.

Um I don't I like I said, I I it's just the 21,000 that threw me off when it said the first year.

Want to know that what's going to happen the next few years because if this is something we need to put in a budget if we have funds and because we don't want to not have funds and then lose it altogether in year three or four.

So we're you're putting in a lot of efforts for the first year.

So we need to make sure we maintain that.

So thank you.

I appreciate that.

Uh Amy was also reminding me that I mentioned a combination of different techniques, including things like the ADA fund.

Yeah, there is a very real possibility that we can also continue to receive rural marketing grants from the state of Nevada to support this type of activity, because those are specifically targeted at marketing tourism.

Plus, we're gonna tell them what we want at it.

We're gonna decide.

I wanted to say something, John.

Can I say something?

I'm on the committee as well, but I wanted them to speak.

Um, so when we met, we were looking at different cities and their websites, and I mean we have a website, and we've tried very hard to, you know, through working with Wayne, our IT director, he's given me free reign to say to you know, tweak that website.

Like I I put a uh a drop down on the menu saying, you know, things to do.

I changed the the name of the the drop down, you know, the the little box things to do in mesquite.

But really, if you Google the city of mesquite or things to do, it really doesn't come up.

The search engine optimization.

So, like for instance, Boulder City, they have a whole different website that's purely tourism.

So you go to the website and you see restaurants, theaters, you know.

It's like, and it and it goes right around, and it does.

Oh, but go look at it.

It goes, restaurants, theaters, and our website is like, how do you how do you get a permit?

What do you do about your trash?

What you know, it's so to actually dig and find what what is there to do is just that's just not what our website is designed for.

So, like I said, Boulder City has a really good one.

There are really good examples.

So I just wanted to same developer, by the way.

Huh?

And it's the same developer of the website.

So I just wanted to give that.

And between the two economic development funds, we have two million dollars there.

Just saying.

I know.

Bryce, did you?

Yeah, I was just wondering if we did have an estimated cost on what those yearly maintenance costs would be after the first year.

The the yearly maintenance costs would be approximately the same as as the first year license.

Okay, yes.

Okay.

Potentially, yeah.

Um, Amy's reminding me it could potentially go up three percent annually.

Okay, thank you.

Um, I do want to mention, just to make you feel a little bit better about this, that the vendor that we did finally select as our website vendor is the world's largest representative uh manufacturer of tourism specific websites.

They have 400 plus employees all working on this, and that license agreement that we pay each year gives us access to all of the future capabilities of that without any incremental rebuying a new website or new new uh solution.

Councilwoman Gellow.

I agree, Martin, our website is pretty boring.

Um I really think that this is is needed desperately.

So I think this is a great idea.

And are you kind of alluding to the fact that once this gets going, it's gonna start paying for itself because we'll have more tourism, so more money will be in the kitty, and we won't have to be concerned.

And if it doesn't, then we've all failed our jobs.

Well, if it doesn't, we'll just we'll just cook the books as they say.

I um for my part, the the biggest complaint I got when I was running for mayor, and one of the reasons I ran is because you didn't really know what was going on in Mesquite.

And thankfully, since I'm inept website or anything like that, we have you guys.

And uh I think it's especially with the grant, we don't have to come up with all that money on our own.

That's a great opportunity.

So I do want to answer one question that was not asked, which is why is the vice chairman of Morph actually making this presentation?

The answer is simple.

At the board meeting today, our vote to go ahead with this presentation was unanimous, 100%.

And then I was the slowest person to put my hand down to the next question.

Thank you, John.

Thanks, George.

Thanks, Amy.

Thank you.

Um, do we have any public comment on this item?

Okay, seeing none, I'm gonna turn it over to Councilwoman Fielding for a motion.

I will make a motion to do a match grant at to 27,500.

Um for the travel nevada steering committee regarding the rural marketing grant.

Okay, councilwoman Gallow.

I'll second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Yeah, no, sorry.

Galilee.

Okay, motion passes, and we are on to our final public comment period.

Okay, seeing no one set up, this meeting is a jerk.

Oh, turn.

I do have one comment.

Can someone please fix the clocks?

Because I thought we were an hour, I thought we were like way ahead of schedule.

So thanks, Patty.