Good afternoon, everyone.

We're gonna say it's afternoon because we're not gonna get dark for a while now, so we'll skip the evening talk.

Um to the Tuesday, March 24th, 2026, regular city council meeting for the city of Mesquite.

Um, is Pastor Dennis Lee here?

I don't see him, so we will just, unless somebody wants to volunteer, we will go ahead and forego the invocation.

Okay, so could you all stand for the Pledge of Allegiance?

Pledge.

I put allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic or which stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

At this time, we're gonna have a presentation of a certificate of appreciation to the Inter at Local Kids Group by Randy Lobb.

Uh, mayor council.

Uh, if I can have the Interact group come up with the kids, the leaders.

This group uh over the past year, year and a half or so has been voluntary to help us clean some of our park systems.

They go uh about once a month, they go out and clean our picnic tables, help kind of keep the trash picked up and a few things.

Uh but this is the group from Beaver Dam and uh Virgin Valley High School.

You guys line up, vote, bow, straighten up a little bit.

You're the tall one.

Uh Melissa, she is uh president of the rotary with Darlene that has been helping and the other helpers.

Let's tell and Deb, and I can't see the other two faces here.

There you go.

They're the representatives from the high school.

Perfect, perfect.

Uh, do you have that?

Do you have that little thing you want to read out?

She's gonna read us just a little thing of interact real quick, and then we have a little presentation for the kids.

Um Interact is a rotary sponsored service club for students at Virgin Valley and Beaver Dam High School, grades nine to twelve.

Members, I feel weird reading this because I feel like I'm I this was written for while you're reading it.

Can you state your name?

My name is Melissa Elligal, and the president of the Mesquite Rotary Club.

E L I G U Lake.

Um so the Interact students take an active role in running the club by leading weekly meetings and organizing service activities with guidance and support from school advisors and rotary club members.

Members also have the opportunity to attend Ryla, our Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, and engaging and engaging leadership three-day retreat designed to inspire, challenge, and develop future leaders.

Uh, this is a wonderful opportunity for our local youth, and we're incredibly proud of their decision to support the mesquite city of Mesquite through their efforts in local park cleanup.

I want to say personally, especially this last year, you guys have they have stepped it up, and they've done a fabulous job.

Um, every single time we have one, there's more and more kids that show up.

They're enthusiastic, they're wonderful, they absolutely appreciate we we appreciate them, and they deserve all the kudos that they're getting today.

I'm really, really proud of them.

So we went ahead and printed off some certificate of appreciation uh for each of the kids, and we have a water bottle for each each kid that participates, has a city mesquite uh logo on it.

We want to give those certificates out now with a water bottle for each kid.

And Darlene's gonna read those off.

Several of the kids aren't here.

They have a ball game tonight, so um, we will go ahead and give it to the Beaver Dam representative advisor out there.

Alexis Lozano, Michael Palomo, Delia Gagara.

Are these other kids?

Madison Garcia, Brianna Yazi.

Thank you.

Oh, we can open these water bottles.

Bo Garrett.

Tara Lopez.

Isaias Lopez.

Leah Palomar.

Alison Aguilera.

Dulce Blasencia.

Jonathan Lopez.

Cole Garrett.

Oh.

Jonathan.

And Hayden Bowman.

Just on behalf of City Mesquite and the Athletic Leisure Services Department, we want to just tell them thank you very much.

Sometimes I think we look among our youth and we're like, what's going on?

And then these guys step up, they volunteer their time, they come and clean our facilities, and they do they just do a really great job.

Anyway, I just want to extend my appreciation to them and Darley and the staff that helps them.

But I really appreciate their time, so thank you very much.

Okay, one, two, three, go.

Oh, here we go.

All right.

Thank you.

Thank you, Randy.

Thank you, Darlene.

Thank you, rest of you two.

Um now we will move on to our opening public comment period.

This is for things that are not on the agenda.

So you have three minutes, anything that's not on the agenda.

This is Jean Watkins.

Hello to the mayor and city council.

I can't think of a better time to get up and talk about appreciation for the women in our community than to follow what the youth in our community has done.

I want to give you a fill in on how we are doing on the nominations that are coming in for the Woma Awards.

That is for inspirational women of Mesquite, Moapa Valley, and Arizona Strip.

We have received so far approximately 40 nominations.

Certainly not all of them that we're expecting to receive, but it's still early.

These nominations are due by April the 30th.

And what I wanted to do is make a comments on some of the people I think should be nominated that people haven't done just to get everybody thinking about it.

First off, I want to start with the women that you saw who are working with the youth for Interact.

That's really great.

Now I want to talk about some organizations we all love.

We care for animals.

And cancer recipients, cancer help, Yoli Bell, and the other organizations involved in that.

If you look at people who have passed away, they should be nominated.

And here I'm thinking of our wonderful philanthropist Ann Rice.

You all know what she's done.

Someone should nominate her.

And the same for Susan Bennett from the Mosquitops Council.

We have many women who own businesses here.

They should be nominated too.

We've had a few come in.

We haven't had one yet for Susan Russ Rosland, who's passed away.

Our art gallery, which brings so much to our community.

I'm thinking Kathleen Burkholz, Dottie Golden, Mary Mathis, all the others, MPAC, where would we be with our first Friday without the work that Judy Cole has done making that work?

Daughters of the American Revolution, which is so big in our community now.

You look at Lee Rossner, Susan Lyon, Amy Bradshaw, another deceased person, Vicky Ackman, who started the Mosquitoes.

And look at our drug court, the work that Lindy Hollett does, Friends of Gold Butte, Michelle Burkett.

These are all people who should be nominated.

Please nominate them.

And we cannot forget the women in healthcare who are helping take care and keep our community healthy, active, our women veterans, our symphony, teachers.

As example to Wendy Killinger, who's who's bringing the arts to us, and the women who are right in front of us here, uh the women in City Hall, who see that the wheels of our government run well, and of course, we all went to see Geys and Dahls.

And of course, we all went to see Geys and Dahls.

We cannot leave off.

And what I have here, I'm just gonna show you.

It's really easy to do.

We've got forms all over the place, but if you don't have a form, you can simply go in and what's it called?

Google Walmart Flyer.

It'll give you a picture of this.

That's that's how you nominate.

It's really easy to do, and we're looking forward to a flood of nominations before April 30th.

And thank you so much.

Thanks, Jean.

And thanks for calling me out.

Dominic Olivetto Citizen and Mesquite.

I'll be nice to you tonight, Mayor, after that.

I appreciate that.

First of all, I'd like to thank the city council for showing up for the uh grand opening of the new medical clinic for the seniors and the vets.

Mayor, I can't address him technically, so would you settle him down?

All right.

I'd also like to announce that this Sunday is Vietnam Veterans Day.

On Saturday, they will be Vietnam veterans around the city with a table.

Stop by and talk to them.

That's where we get our money to do things for other veterans is from donations.

And this year, if you throw in a donation of 10 bucks or more, there's a really good thing we're gonna hand out.

Thank you.

Thanks, Tom.

Art Kulibert, 812 Los Padres Circle.

Um, I've uh lived there for uh five years.

I still have a house up north because it's old, it's big, and it's full of stuff.

But uh I love it here, and I want to first explain how I selected Medic of Mesquite as uh my retirement community.

And uh I'm a long-term council member up north.

Uh since 1980, I have five separate uh events on the council up there, small town, but uh just outside of Spokane, Washington.

And so I I I see the big stuff and the little stuff.

But uh Medical Lake up there was uh started in 1888.

Old infrastructure.

Mesquite, it's nice and young.

Uh outside of our public works office uh up there.

There's uh uh a wooden water line that they have on display from uh the 1880s.

But uh my years on the council uh I always emphasize safety and public works and infrastructure.

I love uh how fast uh uh mesquite here can uh get their roads repaired, and and I'm impressed.

It takes forever up north.

Um I was originally trained as uh clinical psychologist, went in the Air Force after uh six years.

Uh I switched over, finished out 22 years in the National Guard.

Uh my uh time on the council up there, I had to resign one time uh to go do a military deployment, and then I was voted out one time when everybody on the council up for election was voted out when we uh uh put in a new waste treatment plant.

Uh there's been a moratorium on uh growth, and like every town, there's a group of people who says we do not want to grow.

Uh I appreciate uh uh the growth here in Mesquite.

Uh my second master's was public administration with an emphasis in housing.

And uh in the old classes, they would say uh ideally you want a lot of senior people because they don't have kids, so your school uh debt load isn't as high, and they don't commit crimes.

And I think that's uh contributing to Miss Mesquite being uh so safe.

Um up in Spokane, uh it's actually uh a twin city in that there's Spokane Valley and uh Spokane.

Unfortunately, Spokane has gotten into uh the homeless uh Spokane Valley uh isn't.

In fact, they uh have not had to raise their property tax in 15 years, and uh they contribute a million dollars a year to the Spokane budget, uh, which does have the homeless issue.

Um I would have uh shown up tomorrow to speak, but uh I'm I've got a tea time.

Uh I don't want to miss that.

Uh the problem Spokane has run into is oh, I see uh my time is up.

I'll finish it off at the end of the meeting.

Thanks, Art.

Good afternoon, Mr.

Mayor and City Council members.

I'm Mary Mathis.

I'm the president of the Mesquite Art Gallery.

I would like to update you on a few things that we have going on right now.

Uh, we're in our last week of our moment in time exhibition, which showcases our talented artists in the community.

If you haven't been in there yet, please stop in this week.

We'll be doing the change over on Saturday.

Monday begins our spring Grand Bazaar.

It will begin Monday, March 30th, and go through April 24th.

A fun opportunity to purchase fun crafts and beautiful gifts.

There will not be a reception in April.

We also continue to push participate in the Mesquite First Friday Family Art Walk being held the first Friday of each month through May.

The next one will be Friday, April 3rd from 4 to 7.

It will be located at the Mesquite Fine Arts Center.

Come have dinner, do some shopping, and uh with our local artists and listen to the music of Flat Top Junction.

They're a bluegrass band, so we change it out every month.

Um, they're becoming bigger and more popular each month.

So if you haven't been there, please join us.

And it's getting worse, or the weather's getting a little better and lighter now.

So uh we'll shut down for the summer and then we'll start up again in October.

October, we're gonna start having it on the second Saturday in the afternoon.

So it'll be hopefully more desirable for families to come and bring your kids and that kind of thing.

So uh we have a special event coming up on April 27th.

We'll be holding an art and collectibles appraisal event from 12 to 7 in the classroom at the art gallery.

You can register for a time slot to bring a fine piece of art, antiques, and other interesting items for a five-minute verbal evaluation by celebrity auctioneer Grant Sotko.

I don't know how to pronounce his name.

Um, he's been on television.

Um, there will be a limit of two items per person and a charge of $10 for members and $20 for non-members uh per five minute session.

You can also just come and watch for free, so it should be a fun afternoon.

Uh registration is online and will be open March 19th for members and April 1st for non-members.

We have also announced our April Pal and Poor events.

It's a fun instructor-led uh acrylic evening.

Um come and bring your friends or just meet some new friends.

Um it's my favorite thing to do, and you can purchase tickets online.

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

Our new framing, matting, and print shop has become an excellent resource for artists and is now going to be providing large photos.

Also, our pottery and fused glass studios are a popular resource, and it's amazing how busy they've become.

Um, also, if you haven't seen the new piano that we had donated at the gallery, it's down in the pavilion.

Um the Tyler, our art um instructor and his students painted it, and we did a ribbon cutting on the first Friday last this month.

And anyway, anybody's welcome to come play, so please come and play.

Um, we have an excellent website at Mesquitefine Arts Center.com where you can see everything going on.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Mary.

Ronald Shackleford.

I'm going to take my three minutes tonight and talk about something that's going to happen tomorrow.

I want to start by saying clearly, if the Friends of Switch Point project is truly about affordable housing, I support it.

When the language in R26010 includes phrases like to serve populations with limited access to safe and stable housing, it raises real concerns in this community and whether this could include or eventually become a facility serving a homeless population as switchpoint is very much involved in.

So I'm asking for clear direct answers.

Does this project guarantee that it will not include a homeless shelter or similar facility now or in the future?

What protections will be put in place to ensure that five to ten years from now this project cannot be changed into something different than what is being presented tomorrow?

And will this council commit to fully defining and qualifying the terms of the agreement before approving it?

It's also important to ground this conversation into facts.

According to the Mesquite Mesquite Salvation Army's 2025 records, 102 individuals were identified as homeless, but the breakdown tells it a different story.

Fifteen people living with others, 52 living with relatives, four staying with friends or couch surfing, and three who stayed at a shelter and one transient.

That means only a very small number of individuals are truly without any form of shelter.

Conversations with the Virgin Valley Food Bank reflect the same pattern.

Only four to six individuals regularly seek assistance.

So while there are needs in this community, this does not reflect a large-scale homelessness crisis.

That is why these questions matter.

Thank you for your time.

Thanks, Ron.

Gary Hillgord, I guess I'm talking on the same topic.

First, I think shame on everybody for having a 2 30 in the afternoon special meeting to address something that could be addressed at a normal city council meeting.

Great time to have it when anybody who'd like to comment and has a job isn't going to be here.

Not a very fair and open idea or thought.

Second, I went and I wish wow, that was so good.

And uh the first thing that came up was complaints upon complaints upon complaints, both from the public, but interestingly enough, from the people that work for them.

They said the working conditions were horrible, management was mean and very hard to work with.

I couldn't believe the number of complaints I saw.

I was I didn't expect that.

That was a quite a surprise.

And then to go to their web page and find out here we are.

We specialize in homeless.

I know the paperwork tomorrow says 30 to 80 percent uh employment or income to to afford being there, but and the question that you nicely brought up about Hafen Village is this going to be an import system.

Are we going to import people to our city or are we going to serve the people of our city?

The paperwork being released tomorrow is just a piece of paper saying we think you should go for financing, but nothing to do with what this project is or anything about it.

It's very disturbing that it's so invisible to everybody who looks at it, or confusing.

I go to the website and I see everything about homelessness, soup kitchens, things like that.

But I don't know what's being proposed for here.

Maybe that's exactly what's being proposed for here, in which case I agree with Ron, or you know, we have very few physically homeless here that we would serve.

So they're gonna ship men from Vegas.

So I don't know.

I'm just really disappointed in how under the table this seems to be going.

And for it to be one of the first things you bring to us, uh oh, sorry.

I brought it to Bree.

Oh I brought it.

Well, her name is on the uh well, she set the meeting because I asked her to set the meeting.

Okay.

Well, so if you're gonna blame somebody, I apologize.

You can blame me.

Well, again, it would be nice if you gave us all a lot more information about it in the paperwork on the website so we could understand and and be here not complaining about something that might be wonderful or be complaining about something that might be horrible because I can't tell.

Thanks, Gary.

Honorable Mayor, Council, City, Clark Strong at 970 Santa Fe.

I'm just here to remind everyone, the residents of Santa Fe Vistas is not ignoring what's going on with the short-term rental committee and the short-term rental progress or vacation rental, whatever you want to call it.

I'm a little bit surprised.

Well, I I'm a little bit unhappy with how the committee was formed, even though not no recommendations have been given out.

Six of the members either sell or own, either sell real estate that can go into short-term rental or own short-term rental properties.

So, how you think we're gonna get even representations for the citizens that have lived here for over 20 years?

So, how you think we're gonna get even representations for the citizens that have lived here for over 20 years, I don't think it's represented in the committee, but I'm going with good faith that they'll come out with some good recommendations.

However, I have heard comments and I've tried to attend most of those meetings.

One comment on a prior meeting was from a young lady who was on the committee that said a solution for this.

If you or I'm paraphrasing, but a solution for if you do not want to be next to a short-term rental or vacation rental, move to an HOA where they don't allow them.

I find that highly offensive that that mentality, and thank you for agreeing some of you.

I find that highly offensive that someone on the committee would say something like this, where I've been here 20 years and I bought into a resident area, knowing what I bought into 20 years ago, and they're trying to change it today.

So I'm just here to voice my frustration, and hopefully, people are watching this live stream, and those people or residents that live in a neighborhood they love, and they do not want to live next to a short-term rental.

I hope they're offended by comments like that.

Well, maybe you should move to an HOA.

So I'm just bringing this back up to the top of the whiskey glass to bring the attention that we in Santa Fe Vistas are not ignoring this issue, and I'm really confused on how this is all gonna roll out in what two months when the moratorium is supposedly going off.

Are we going to notify all the community residents that don't live in HOAs that there's recommendations from the council given to them by the committee?

It's just unclear what our next process or next procedure is going to be to resolve this issue.

Thank you.

Thank you, Clark.

Oh I just I for neglected to announce the councilwoman Fielding is on the phone.

So she's present but on the phone.

So my apologies, sir.

Go ahead.

I was gonna just go, but my neighbor came up, so I'm gonna get on top of this too.

I've had the opportunity to sit in on four of these committees to redraw the short-term vacation rental stuff.

And I am just thoroughly discouraged with what they've accomplished.

In the second meeting I attended, they argued for close to 40 minutes on which census number to base it off of.

Uh approval.

My neighbor on the 18th of November, you folks issued a letter saying they could have their permit based on removing the beds from the bunkhouse.

I have submitted two written requests to have that code enforced.

I got an email yesterday saying it met code, but yet I know they're still advertising the bunk beds in the bunkhouse.

So either you folks don't have the authority to back up your letter, or the code people don't have the ability to see what's going on out there.

Okay, I'm I really don't have any problem with my neighbor.

Many of you know we've been through a couple of disputes here.

He's been really good, but he's not following the code.

And all I asked all of you and all of you people is to enforce the codes that you folks have written in your November 18th letter signed by Mr.

Kim.

Thank you.

Thank you, Doug.

Oh, hello.

Hi, my name is Diana McKenney, and I'm with the Southern Nevada Symphony Orchestra.

And I'm here to invite you to our April 25th concert.

It's all medleys from your favorite movie themes.

Well, Peter was supposed to be here tonight too, but he was off with emergency with the lost boys, and and and well, Forrest was supposed to come too, but he had to run some errands, you know.

Run for his run.

And the Phantom, well, he just never leaves the opera, not ever.

The Avengers try to get a hold of those guys.

I mean, they're out there in the universe.

I did talk to Yoda this morning and asked him some advice for tonight, and he said to me something like do or do not, there is no try.

And and Marty McFly, well, he spends all his time working on that Dolorian.

So you get me.

I'm a wood nymph.

Here's our poster.

Can you see that?

Okay.

Um, yeah, yeah, it's perfect.

Our program begins at seven o'clock at the Virgin Valley High School Theater.

The doors open at six, so you can buy your tickets at the door.

Or you can go to our website, which is snsymphony.com, and you can purchase your tickets there.

Or you can go to Facebook.

We have a site on Facebook, and it'll tell you Southern Nevada Symphony Orchestra, and it'll tell you how to buy your tickets too.

Oh, and really special.

My friend Mary told you about First Friday.

Well, we're gonna be there at first Friday.

And if you buy four or more tickets, you get 20% off Tinkerville.

Anyway, I'll be looking for all of you.

And if you see me, I'll be sure to wave, and I'll wave back.

Thank you so much.

Good night.

Thank you, Diana.

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

Um, and once again, my company does do business with the city, so in the unlikely event that I would be need to vote on the consent agenda, I would recuse myself.

Um, item 2.1 consideration of approval of the Tuesday February 10th, 2026 regular city council meeting minutes, the Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026 technical review meeting minutes, and the March 24th, 2026 regular city council meeting agenda 2.2 consideration of approval of a notification of bills paid and d purchase orders.

Do I have any questions from council on the consent agenda?

Any public comment on the consent agenda?

Okay, seeing none, councilman parish.

I'll make a motion to accept the consent agenda as printed.

Do I have a second?

All second.

Call for the vote.

Parish Aye.

Councilwoman Fielding, are you there?

I think she's taking the map.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 3.1 is going to be pulled.

Um, they want to move that into the first meeting in April, I believe.

Um, do we have any public comment on item 3.1?

The Southern Nevada Transit Coalition Quarterly Report.

Okay, seeing none.

Mayor's comments and reports.

Um my comments, um, back to what I just commented on with recusing myself.

Um, my ethics complaint was finalized on the 18th.

Um I received an admonition, and I'm gonna need to do some online training, and then that'll be done.

So, but the board approved it, and that'll be the resolution of that.

Um, guys and dolls is really good if you haven't seen it because we went to see it and it was sold out, so we're gonna have to try and catch it this weekend.

So if you want to see it, you better beat me to the ticket office.

Um the Virgin Valley Theater Group that was here at our last city council meeting, they're raising money to go to nationals to Indiana, and I believe they've already raised probably over 20,000 thanks to the uh generous donation of a few people in this room and a few of the businesses in town.

Um they're doing an interesting fundraiser.

Some of you up clearly know about it.

Um they have a toilet that has a bunch of flowers in it, and they dropped it off at councilwoman Fielding's house, and you have to pay to get rid of it.

And so she paid, and of course, she sent it to my house.

And so I paid, and I sent it to Councilman Parrish, and then I think he sent it off to Rick, and I'm not sure who Rick sent it to.

Oh, John.

So have you sent it on already, John?

Not yet.

Okay.

So he really likes it.

Yeah, it is pretty cool looking.

Um, it's all painted green, and it's you know, it's a nice little yard ornament.

So they're gonna be doing numerous fundraisers, they've done a bake sale at the Ace Hardware.

So if you can and want to, please please support them.

They are uh well on their way to getting there.

Um other than that, we will go to council and then we will go to Chief Andres after we do council.

So, Councilman Ennis.

Thank you.

I just want to piggyback off of what Dom, what the gentleman in the back said about the uh about the uh clinic that opened up, uh grand opening last Saturday.

Fantastic showing.

I appreciate everybody coming out.

I especially appreciate the mayor and city council who all showed up, and um, they actually went into business that day, so it was really good.

And so um I just want to thank everybody that did turn out, it was great.

Um, they're open Monday and Tuesday from three to nine, spread the word, veterans and they're even working with seniors.

Uh they do blood draws and everything there, the whole nine yards.

They have a dock on board, and so please come and visit it.

Thank you.

Councilman Parrish.

Um, along with the citizens that have some questions about tomorrow's meeting.

I have some also.

And so any staff or mayor, if you want to speak up when I ask these questions, uh please do.

Um the first thing I was totally shocked to get the uh agenda for this special meeting.

I got it Thursday at 3 14 p.m., which falls within the timeline that it could have been added to tonight's meeting.

That is very upsetting to me and to the public.

Um, it should have been on tonight's agenda.

Um so I would like to hear an explanation from either the mayor or the city manager as to why that did not happen.

Thank you.

So I think we thought no, I I it I think we thought that the soonest we could do it was tomorrow.

So it if I we must have been mistaken if we got the timing wrong, as far as I would have preferred to have it on to today, too, to be honest with you.

Per Nevada revised statutes, and I've consulted with the city attorney about this.

It is three business days.

So if you back up from 5 p.m.

on Tuesday to 5 p.m.

on Monday, 5 p.m.

on Friday, 5 p.m.

on Thursday.

We got the agenda at 3 14.

So we are well within the three days.

It should have been on today's agenda.

That's what I'm trying to say.

And maybe Councilman Parrish, maybe let me clarify as well.

So the to get it on tonight's agenda, it would have had to come before tech review at last week, so it could have been added during tech review, but it could have been added as a special meeting that would take place after the meeting tonight, you know, as long as we have the the requisite day.

So it'd been Monday, Friday, Thursday.

Yeah, it could have been added as a special meeting tonight.

I know that sometimes Julie with the postings and where they go and to get it out at the timing that we typically do it.

We usually add an extra day than technically required by statute.

But yes, technically, we could have maybe had we could have had a special meeting tonight after this meeting to address that.

And I agree with the citizen that spoke earlier that we need to have as many townspeople involved with this as possible.

And 2:30 in the afternoon is not cutting it in my book.

So that's as blunt as I can be.

I'm really upset about how this all transpired.

So we'll deal with it tomorrow at 2:30.

But uh I can tell you right now, I'm not real happy about it.

Thank you.

Councilman Wanless.

On a happier note, if you're a golfer, I don't know if you noticed coming into the city today, but we actually have a cactus that's made out of golf clubs in front of City Hall.

This was a philanthropic endeavor by a citizen of Mesquite.

It actually looks pretty good.

So I hope all of you take the time to look at it and to know hopefully there will be a few more of these throughout the city, maybe at golf courses and things.

But something that the city has that no one else in to my knowledge in the world does, so good for them.

Chief Andrus.

This is our community emergency preparedness guide.

Our objective of this project is to help our community prepare for major disasters.

All of the information in this book is very basic, but when technology, if technology fails us, there's a lot of vital information.

I want to thank uh Mary Ann Manero and her work for putting this uh project together.

Um there's there's uh again a lot of information um on our utility companies on how to contact them.

Uh I don't know if everyone is aware that the city of Mesquite has a radio station designated for emergency broadcast 105.3 FM.

Uh, there's a variety of ways the city will communicate to our citizens in an emergency, and uh depending on the emergency, is uh it gives us some tools.

And so again, I just wanted to bring this to the to the public uh that we're working on this project.

It is on the city's website.

We are happy to come and visit with uh homeowners association meetings and roll this out.

The stronger our citizens are, the more prepared our citizens are, the better off we're gonna be as a community if and when we have a major disaster.

And uh again, so much information and uh not to go over uh how to take care of our animals uh during these emergency how to contact uh the utilities, the first responders, and there's a section of what not to do.

And uh, and so again, um just want to bring this to light.

I want to thank everyone who uh reviewed it prior to publication.

This is our first rollout.

There will be more that we'll add on to this.

Uh, but again, just wanted to make an announcement and talk about this to bring this to everyone's attention.

Uh, most of this, if not all of it, you can find on your smartphone.

If the smartphone doesn't work, you're gonna want this book.

And uh again, just uh thank you, be happy to answer any questions and and more importantly, be happy to come and visit with any organization uh to to talk about this and what we can do to prepare our our residents, our businesses uh for major emergencies because uh as we can see, no one's immune, and they are happening uh across our nation, and and we are working to help our community be ready for them.

So thank you.

Thank you, Chief.

Councilman Wallace, Chief.

You already know this, but I don't know if anyone else does.

When when CERT was originally started in Los Angeles after the North Ridge earthquake in 1993, and it became a national thing, the only place you could go and get training for it was in Emmett's Burg, Maryland, because it was brand new.

My brother was a fireman, I was an emergency management for a water district up in Salt Lake, and we got the south end of Salt Lake County, and we went and actually took the train the trainer course up there, and we taught the course up in the south end of Salt Lake County for many years.

We trained over 300 people.

What an amazing program, CERT actually is 99% of the time you can call 911, but what happens when you can't?

What happens when all of the resources are gone, and you have to take care of yourself and your neighbors and your community, and without this training and without the things they tell you to put together in your jump kit, so when it's time to go, you go and you go prepared to save lives.

Nobody is ready.

And you don't know how.

Anything you'd need for two or three minutes, but it also has things you'd need for two or three days.

Please get involved in this.

This is a great great thing that the city offers for free, and they have a strong CERT program already.

Make it stronger.

Make Mesquite the safest community in the Nevada because everyone's prepared to help in the event of a disaster.

And thank you for doing this.

Thank you for supporting it 100% and pushing it forward.

You're doing a great job.

And thank you.

Thank you, Councilman.

Thank you, Chief.

Thank you.

Good question.

The question was asked where do we get the books?

Thank you.

We will have I've got a stack of them.

We ordered 750.

I've got a stack of them here at City Hall.

You can pick them up at uh Fire Station One.

Uh again, the information is online, but uh again, you'll want a hard copy.

Uh so I would say City Hall and Fire Station One for right now.

Uh we'd be happy to bring them to your HOA and do a presentation as well.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Mr.

Anderson.

Yes.

Thank you, Mayor Council.

Just wanted to give a quick update.

Um, there's a lot of things happening on the boulevard uh just to help recap.

So on Sand Hill, uh, we've been working at night, smilling that this week.

Um, part of the reason is we've got a crew working in the day.

You may have noticed we removed three palm trees that were in front of the um Peggy Seuss.

Um the reason that we're doing that is many of you may have known and we're shrinking that median island, making that turn pocket larger.

We've seen a lot of backup on Hillside right there as they turn on to Hillside, and so this will help to allow those people to get over and then keep those lanes open.

So I wanted to just kind of explain what was going on with that island, and then also the one at Old Mill.

Um, we've had a lot of people, if you're on Old Mill and you want to turn onto Sand Hill, say you're coming from Smith's.

A lot of people that nose was too far forward, and a lot of people would clip that and hit it with their car.

And so we're pulling that back.

So we've been doing the milling and paving at night while they're working on that median stuff just to try to keep this um going.

The project is going quite well.

Um, tonight they should have all of the um everything milled out and paved for that first course, and then we'll be um just doing the top lift on the rest of the project.

We're on schedule for the middle of May to have this completely done, striped and and all of that again.

Uh big shout out to our community and the patients.

Uh, I can't say enough about the patience of our community, and I do appreciate that.

Some quick notes on the other the fire station number two and the roadway for Canyon Crest and Horizon.

Both of those projects, the fire station is approximately 75% complete.

They're doing interior wiring.

Um, they've got all the paving and concrete for that.

They've installed the cabinets.

We're putting in the owner finished equipment in there.

The portion of horizon is almost a hundred percent complete.

They need to finish raising the manholes and doing that.

Um, again, that project, both of those were estimating uh the middle of May for completion.

Um for that.

The also on Levitt and Hafen, that project, the box culverts did come in, and they're going to be setting those tomorrow.

So that's a good thing uh that we can continue on that work.

We'll be able to pave Levitt and then finish the stuff on Hafen Lane.

Um that's a quick recap of those, but I did want to emphasize uh kind of if people were wondering what was going on with Sand Hill and that island, it is going to help us dramatically in the future.

Thank you.

Thank you, Travis.

Any other comments from staff?

Okay, moving on.

5.3 consideration of adoption of Bill B26 001, amending the Title Six of the Mesquite Municipal Code to add chapter nine.

Did I not 5.1?

What did I say?

My bad.

Um the Musquite Municipal Code to add chapter 9 to establish regulations for bicycle, electric bicycle, and electric scooter operation, amending section section 6-2-10A regarding the operation on sidewalks, amending section six-1-2 regarding the definition of motorcycle, providing for penalties and other matters properly relating there too.

Mr.

Anderson, all right.

So during the last time we were addressing this, the general direction from the council was for me to listen to what everybody had kind of said and try to piece together what would be a workable solution and present that back to the council.

So you'll see in the proposed bill here that I did some of that and I didn't do some of that.

And the reasons for that, and I'll explain a little bit more as we get into the details is that on some of the things that there seemed to be a consensus about or that would be workable, there was a conflicting NRS, or there was another issue that would be brought up.

But to kind of walk through the specifics of this version, there's a few areas where we had discussions about it during the last time we discussed this in a meeting, where now I've got what I kind of deciphered to be at least some of the um some of the desires of the council.

And um, so but going into the specifics, the first one is that 6 9 3 equipment where we talk about helmets.

In this version that's in front of you tonight, I've put that helmets are required for all riders.

In the prior version, it was required only for minors.

And going back and listening to the discussion again, there were two council members who explicitly stated they thought that helmets should be required for everyone, and the other three were silent on the issue.

So there were two positive and three silent.

So I'm putting it in as a go, and now you can discuss it and decide if that's a bad idea or not.

Um, so that's a specific item that I think the council needs to take a look at and decide and discuss.

The next um kind of major portion of this is uh the next section six-nine-four B, where it talks about where bicycles and the e-bikes should be operated.

And during the last discussion, there was a lot of good ideas and thoughts about well, do we allow bikes on the sidewalk?

Well, yes, we want kids to be able to ride their bikes on the sidewalk.

But we have the ordinances right now technically say that bikes can't be ridden on the sidewalk.

And then there was discussion.

Well, what about the e-bikes?

Should we allow them on the sidewalk?

And maybe yes, maybe no, maybe if they're slow or they have to yield to pedestrians.

Okay.

So working through some of those issues, there is a state statutes NRS 484A4695 that says, and this is what kind of complicates it for the drafting purposes, is that anywhere a bicycle is allowed, an e-bike is allowed.

And so in our discussion last time, we we could we were talking about differentiating between the two and maybe creating different areas where they could be operated.

But upon further research and seeing if that was possible, we have an NRS that says that's contrary to that.

It says wherever bike's allowed, an e-bike is allowed.

And so what you see here in this section B is what I didn't come up with this language on my own.

This is what's in it what's in the NRS uh already that talks about where bicycles should be um operated and e-bikes, where it talks about um they uh need to ride as near to the right side of the roadway as practicable, exercising due care when passing a standing vehicle or one proceeding in the same direction, and it talks about other situations where it's okay to veer out of that, you know, if there's objects or there's things in the way.

And so this was the best.

I I don't know if it was a compromise, but upon further discussion and review, this is what our state statute already has.

And I found it incompatible with current language to differentiate between where the e-bikes went, like and um where the bicycles went.

So that's the reason for that, where I didn't have specific language parsing that out, which was discussed more or less last time.

Um the other sections to kind of point out that next section C, it talks about um riding in the same direction as the travel of the traffic.

That's something that wasn't in the last version, but now it's here, and there weren't any conflicts as to that issue.

So that's something that's put in there.

Um, section D, it talks about um the speed of operating an e-bike or a scooter on a sidewalk.

And because there was this conflict with the state statute that says wherever uh bike is allowed, an e-bike is allowed, as try to as you know, in an attempt to kind of find a compromise to that.

I reduce the speed limit of the e-bikes as they're written on the sidewalk to 10 miles per hour, which is pretty slow, um, compared to I think we had 15 miles an hour in the the last version, which is also fairly slow.

But those those are the sections where we kind of actively discussed, and so now I'm handing it back over to the council.

You can continue the discussion.

The the options really have is to pass this as amended uh or or pass this as presented, or if we want to make any change to what we've discussed with the helmets or the direction of the travel or or other things, or you could say, well, we're not comfortable with this, we need to go back to the drawing board.

Let's you know, wait again and give me more direction.

But with that, I'll hand it back over to the mayor.

Thank you, Adam.

Thank you, Adam.

Uh Councilwoman Gallo.

How different?

I I understand Vegas is Las Vegas has already done this.

How different is this than what Las Vegas has already come up with?

Um, this is very similar to what Clark County has done.

I don't know specifically what Las Vegas has done.

I didn't I didn't look at that as an exact guide when we were looking at, but but the the origination of this was Clark County, and then I've modified it based on our discussions previously.

Okay, because I know Las Vegas just recently has um put something together and a lot a lot of them in the Lower Valley have, and part part of my view is we can do what everybody else is doing, but I kind of want to do what works for us, and based on our discussion last time and what we presented.

So I just want to be clear, according to this, electric bikes and scooters are allowed on the sidewalk.

As written right now, because we have that state statute that says anywhere a bike is allowed, an e-bike is also allowed there, and so that's the conflict.

So you could you could go the other way and say, okay, well, we're just not gonna allow bikes on the sidewalk, and we could keep our ordinance as written right now, where it technically says a bike shall not be operated on a sidewalk, and then we could we could say, All right, the bikes are need to be off the sidewalks too, because we don't allow bikes there either.

Yeah, I know even 10 miles an hour getting if I was in the sidewalk got hit by a bike at 10 miles an hour, it still would do that.

It's not gonna be serious damage.

So that's not good.

Okay, thank you.

Councilman Parrish.

So is this uh uh ordinance adapt uh can we pass and put this into effect tonight, or is this just like a first reading?

Or yeah, this is the introduction of the bill, and so we'd uh there's other procedures that will have to take place.

So it can't be passed tonight, it can be introduced, and then it'd be on a subsequent agenda where we'd have a public hearing and it's got to be published, and there's other things, but no, we can't pass this tonight.

Yes, the public needs to know that so that yeah, I mean it gives them time to digest it and gives me time to digest it.

And uh so with that being said, um, just so council knows I'm all in favor of getting this going and uh getting it on the books.

Um, and it's amendable as we go along, I'm I'm assuming.

Is that correct?

I if I'd prefer to if we're gonna amend it, let's let's have that discussion now.

We've already had discussions previously, but I'd like to amend it today to what we think is going to be the final and then okay, send it along.

Fair enough.

Councilman Wallace.

I appreciate you and Chief Fell's work on this.

Um it's gonna be what the law allows.

I I just can't believe the state of Nevada doesn't realize there's a difference between a seven-year-old on a pedal bike and a 13-year-old on an e-bike.

That that is a huge difference, and and the seven-year-olds, what I'm worried about in most, and as far as helmets on everyone, I think that's a great idea.

And and I hope once we get this done that for the next seven meetings we have, someone comes in and say they saw someone without a helmet on a bike, and no one pulled them over.

We don't have the police to enforce that all the time.

Sometimes they'll never be seen by an officer.

So the police need help too.

They need they need some understanding, and they need everyone to know that they're they're short staffed too, and they're doing the best they can, and they do a great job.

But thank you for all you're doing.

I just wish that one difference wasn't in NRS that ties our hands.

And just as I've worked on this, you're kind of become hyper-aware.

And so even driving to council meeting today, you know, there's two girls riding opposite the direction of traffic, and I'm like, oh, okay, there we go.

There's two violations.

No helmets riding the wrong direction, but yeah, there are there are some practical considerations that have to be kept in mind.

Councilwoman Gallo.

So when do we um make an amendment?

For example, we're talking about the sidewalk.

I really don't, I'm not for anything with a wheel on a sidewalk.

So I would be appropriate to have public comment and then listen to the public, and then it could come back to council for a motion or whatever the council decides to do.

Thanks.

Um excuse me.

Yeah, go ahead, councilwoman.

Thank you.

So you know today as or yesterday as well.

I saw somebody riding the opposite direction of me on a little scooter bike with no helmet on the sidewalk, going like faster than I was going in my car.

And so I think helmets are like perfect.

I think everybody needs to wear a helmet.

But how is the police department and back to councilman Walnut is like how are they gonna get the word out that now we have these new rules?

Um so we can make up this resolution and put this in order.

But how is everybody gonna hear this?

How are they gonna know that?

Are we gonna disseminate this and to the classrooms and social media and the newspapers?

But that we have this new rule before they get pulled over and say, hey, there's a new rule for people that don't even know this.

Thank you, councilman.

Uh Mr.

Anderson.

No, those are good ideas.

It's something that the council could discuss, and you know, or that's more in the lane of like the manager or the police chief on you know how they want to distribute and get get the word out, and but no, those are those are valid points that need to be considered.

Um is there a way we can designate certain sidewalks?

Bike pass versus my real concern is like going up to Sun City, right?

They got a 10 foot wide sidewalk, but then they have three lanes with really no shoulder at all.

Um that seems like a really dangerous situation where we have a nice really wide sidewalk going all the way up there.

Is there a way we could designate between the two or no?

We could get as crazy, we could get as crazy detailed as we'd want, right?

Um, as I've worked on this and thought about this, all these issues come up, right?

This morning I'm taking one of my kids to school, a ride on Hafen Lane.

As you um uh you know, traveling from my house in Bunkerville, coming past the um shopping center there, um, off of uh Riverside.

There's no sidewalk, right?

And there's kids that are traveling that way to get to middle school, and then the road goes and it tightens a little bit, and then it widens back out, and then there's not a big wide sidewalk, but there's a normal size sidewalk, but a nice big shoulder.

And and so in my mind, I'm like, we could almost map the whole city out and make little rules for every but my impression is I've looked at this more and kind of looked at the statutes and how the state has dealt with it.

This is why they have this language in 9- or 6-9-4B, where it kind of creates this general rule to ride to the far as the right is possible with certain guidelines associated with that, because that guidance kind of at least in my my view of this, it tries to address all these different situations all over Nevada where there's sometimes there's sidewalks, sometimes there's not, sometimes there's a shoulder, sometimes there's not.

Um, sometimes the sidewalks are really wide, you know, sometimes not.

So, in theory, yes, we could go and it could be a very complex ordinance that goes through and designates each road and where bikes are allowed or not.

But um as I've seen this again, others other jurisdictions and what the state does, they've seem to want to veer away from that and create more general rules.

Could we just basically make it as simple as saying you're required to ride on the shoulder unless an adequate shoulder is not available?

Yes, but that's kind of what this says already in a roundabout way.

Okay, because it says, you know, they're required to ride as near to the right side of the roadway as practical, and the roadway includes the travel lanes and the shoulder, and so by default, the language that we have would require, you know, you're as far as right as possible because that's in theory the safest place for someone.

Councilman Wallace.

Mr.

Anderson's going to probably tell me I'm wrong.

But I would tell you the roadway as part of the right of way, and includes the sidewalk.

In fact, it includes one foot behind the sidewalk.

That is that is your roadway.

That is your right of way for travel.

You can have gutters and curbs, you can have a park strip and a sidewalk, and they all lie within the roadway.

Are you going to dismiss that or no?

That's correct.

It's considered the right of way.

Those are your access um locations used by pedestrians, bicycles, and motors.

Correct.

Any other questions from it seems like a pretty good bill.

I I mean it's up to you guys, but I I could see passing it the way it is, and I I think we can do the best we can.

I don't think we're gonna come up with a perfect solution, but I think Mr.

Anderson has done a very good job.

Um if we have no other questions, I'm gonna go go ahead.

I have a question.

Councilwoman Fielding, go ahead.

Thank you.

So Adam, where is it in that resolution that they say that operating um e-bike e-scooter says that you can't use a mobile device while you're driving, like a cell phone?

Is that in there as well?

That's that's not something that's specifically in this bill.

So I was I was driving next to a lady going 35 miles an hour, and she had a cell phone in her hound in her hand with one hand on the steering wheel of an e-scooter.

So is that something we could put in there?

And I was just wondering is does that fall into the note that hand free for driving a vehicle?

Yeah, let me double check the language real quick again.

Because I think that needs to be cleared too because I see so many kids doing that.

So it does it does have language that that does kind of address it, says no person shall operate a bicycle, e-bike, e-scooter while carrying any object, preventing them from keeping at least one hand on the handlebars.

And so we don't specifically say mobile devices, but you know, if they're holding anything that might prevent them from having two hands on the handlebars, that's prevented.

Right.

I mean, so that I mean that could be a soda, that could be uh Jimmy John something, but somebody who's actually driving or writing an e-scooter e-bike with a cell phone and being obscured from driving is a problem.

So can we add that in there?

I I think it's covered really because it says basically any object, and as long as it's preventing you from keeping two hands on the handlebars, then you're good to go, even though we don't specifically say cell phone, you know, it's it's broader and it could cover that.

So I think we're good that way.

Okay, all right.

Thank you.

Thank you, councilwoman.

Um, with that, I'm gonna go ahead and open it up for public comment.

Please come forward.

Hi, my name is Del Brown.

I live here in uh Musquite and uh uh Fountain View Lane.

And anyway, we have a lot of one thing you need to take in consideration because I know you have the comment between sidewalks and streets.

But one thing in this town, we've got a lot of retired people, and one thing I see every morning on my window is older people walking all the time, and they're walking all over the sidewalks, and I see groups I do see people in mechanized wheelchairs, which is fine.

You know, it's great.

I'm probably gonna have one one day.

So anyway, um, mixing them together like that is is gonna be difficult.

And I don't see how you could possibly have an e-bike when I've seen these kids flying down there, and I've seen them going on the sidewalk, go through the crosswalk on about right through traffic and didn't stop or anything else.

And the easiest way to train them is in school.

You can have open pit and do the training in school because it's kids.

You're not gonna find somebody like me, 80 years old out there on an e-bike, you know.

So I don't need the training.

Okay, but I do need the kids.

I mean, we got training like that all the time in uh school when I was a kid.

It only takes you know half hour.

They do have training in the schools, pardon.

They have been having trainings in the schools, yeah.

I don't I'm in the school for a while, so I don't know.

But um, I also know.

I mean, I'm the sort of attorney knows too very well.

Is it went to law school for a while?

I mean, the simpler you keep the laws, the easier it is for people to know them, and the more complicated you make them, they'll never learn them.

You have you have all different kinds of laws with all different things, oh, you can't do this here, and you can't do that there, and you gotta do this, you gotta do that.

Who's gonna remember it?

They're only gonna remember it.

And then for the kids and teach them, that's impossible.

So it's gotta be simple, quick, very much makes sense.

We've had a lot of the dilly dally, and just make it very simple and straightforward.

Now, when I was a scout master, I was a uh bike uh merit badge counselor, and we took our Boy Scout troop on a large bike road, and so we had to teach them all kinds of bike stuff.

And what now nevadam it could be different in California?

Uh the laws on a bike was a bike was considered a non-motorized vehicle and had to follow all the rules just like uh a car.

Stop at stop signs, stay on the stay in your lane all this, period.

And it made it very simple.

Um mixing e-bikes in with uh motorized wheelchairs, just ain't gonna work.

You're gonna hurt somebody, you know.

And so a lot of this needs to be taken into consideration when you're looking at it is to get down to the basic simple facts is what's really needed and what's safe and what makes sense, you know, and the simpler and the clearer, the easier it is to train it.

Thank you.

Thank you, Dale.

Good evening, counsel.

Bob Bradbury, mesquite resident.

A couple of uh meetings ago when this was first discussed.

Um of the things mentioned were that e-bikes are unsafe on the roadway.

Moving them to the sidewalk doesn't make them any safer.

Same drivers, same riders, same decision-making ability.

I'd like to address the couple things I've heard tonight.

One is that the sidewalk is part of the roadway or the right-of-way of the roadway.

Um, NRS was very clear about where cars can and can't go.

The only time they can really be on a sidewalk, with some special exceptions, is when you're entering or exiting parking lots, residences, things of that nature.

We also discussed a couple meetings ago, um, requiring the e-bikes to be on the sidewalk.

And I'm curious, are we still requiring that in this amendment that you've drawn up, or is it optional?

Um, as it was mentioned earlier, there are some areas of mesquite that have no sidewalks, and in some of the sidewalks we do have, specifically along Mesquite Boulevard, they look to be about three to three and a half feet wide.

There are utility poles that actually protrude into the sidewalk, which narrows that roadway or that pathway for uh anybody on the sidewalk.

And I also uh heard mentioned tonight that NRS is anywhere a bicycle goes, an e-bike can go.

After the last meeting I attended, I did some research myself.

I did not see that wording.

I did see the wording that e-bikes can be ridden on designated bike trails.

I don't think a sidewalk, even though you may or may not allow a bicycle to be up there, is a bike trail.

The bike trail to me is what goes along the river.

Uh the uh uh diagonal walkway, pathway, running path, whatever you want to call that along um the drainage control channel, that would be a bike trail.

Sidewalks to me really aren't.

And speed is relative.

We drive 35 miles an hour on some of our roadways here, and it seems like forever coming down the hill to get to the freeway.

But we lose perspective as adults because we drive 35 miles an hour, we drive 75 miles an hour on the highways or more.

I'm not admitting any guilt there.

Um, and I think we need to understand that when a bicycle is ridden at 20 miles an hour, it is traveling approximately 30 feet a second.

That's a very short period of time for an irresponsible bike rider that may not be anticipating any uh dangers or hazards.

Thank you.

Thank you, Bob.

My name is uh can you hear me or my name is Martin Brown, and we live in Mesquite.

In fact, you just heard my husband.

I had three things written down here maps, flat tires, and wheelchairs.

And that was my concern and what everything was talking about.

Nobody emphasized someone that has to use a wheelchair.

Most of the ones I see are on a sidewalk.

So if you have even bikes or the ones with motors in them, the whole point is what if they go around the corner?

What's gonna happen?

I think you need to use maps if you're gonna study on how to change this, because then you can designate this is where this type is allowed, this is where this is allowed, and this is where that is allowed, and that's it.

And people can learn that.

Kids can learn it.

I mean, I learned how to drive a car in driver's ed.

I was 16 years old.

And kids need to know again how to ride a bike, where to ride a bike, and they need to know the rules.

And the guy in the fast bike, he needs to know the driving rules too.

Those are tests really easy to get and pick out the ones you know could easily apply to a bike or a fast bike or someone who is crippled because it's really difficult to ride down a sidewalk that's in the city that you could have a mailbox sitting out here, you could have the wires, you know, poles sticking out there, and it does leave you to two feet.

So I'm just saying that maybe if you guys would look at maps and see what the inner stuff is for mesquite.

Because that's in the city, most kids do.

Uh sometimes you find one riding out, you know, down the side of the freeway or do that.

That's their choice.

But I don't think I'd want to go down that way with cars going that fast on the freeway.

So that's my thought.

And the other one is uh because of that the bikes and the wheelchairs, flat tires.

Does anybody know who's responsible for hiring the people doing the road that goes in front of Mad Mike's?

I don't remember what that street is right there.

You're talking about the boulevard, the main street?

Yeah, Mesquite Boulevard.

Yeah, has anybody kept count of how many people have had flat tires?

Because they just not have a cover of one of the holes.

I want you to know we had to buy four new tires for our car.

And it was really aggravating that within three days of buying one tire, we went and had this big boom.

We got into the parking lot, and we had to go there by Mad Lake, because that was the first driveway we could drive in.

We had slash our brand new tire on the right in the back, all the way in half.

Do you think we were happy about it?

And then people at Mod Mike's are telling me they've had all kinds of people coming in there with flat tires because the people who did the streets.

Now, personally, I think the people who did the streets should be paying for those cars.

The other part is, and if they don't guess who else you think may be responsible for everybody, and that's called insurance, right?

Thank you, Miss Brown.

Okay.

Once again, Ron Shackleford.

Um I think if I remember right, um, we have one bike shop in town, all in cycles.

Um, they give free helmets out.

Now, whenever I ride my bike, I always wear a helmet.

Um, like I say, and I've said before, you know, I used to ride my bicycle.

Um, I've rode it thousands of miles.

I've gone from Seattle to Portland on that bicycle in two days.

Um, I would always recommend a helmet.

There was times on the rides that I became the uh first aid person, and you cannot imagine how many times I've seen that helmet save people's lives that crashed, and they may have broken bones and you know, clavicles are you know, bandaging those up and fingers that are broken, but at least their head was intact, so which helps a lot.

And on kids, I think it's definitely a definite need.

So that's one of the issues.

Um another issue.

Um, once again, the bike shop all and cycles, I think they're doing safety classes now, and I would encourage our city to actually work with them, possibly, uh, and their safety classes and getting those, you know, that information to people that can come in, find out you know what equipment they need on their bike so that they could ride it responsibly and properly.

Um it's it's uh it's a great avenue for you know we we can all get on a bike right now and probably ride it, no problem.

But remembering some of the rules of the road and everything else, as bicyclists, we're responsible to make sure we do what we can do as well to protect ourselves, and that's some of the things that they learn in the safety class.

Um I would like to see our city actually start incorporating and maybe start uh looking into doing bicycle paths.

I could ride all the way from Seattle all the way down to Tacoma and never get on a public road ever.

It was a bicycle path.

So I'd really like to see us maybe start thinking about that for our future.

I mean, we are growing, we have a lot of people with bicycles, and uh especially the e-bikes, and I see them driving down the roads.

But if there was a way that we can get bicycle paths some way around our city or through the city so that we don't have to worry about riding on the roads and making it a lot safer for everybody, that might be a good solution to this problem as well.

So things to look for and think about in the future, and my opinion, thank you so much.

Thanks, Ron.

Art Coolabert uh uh from the city here.

Um up north, uh, we have a lot of uh walking paths and hiking paths.

My uh small town's a lot of triathlons, and uh there aren't a lot of uh sidewalks around.

Uh but uh we still have a lot of bike riders.

I like to ride my bike.

I have a bell, and uh one of the things I notice is when I'm on uh the bike paths, well, or walking hiking trails, whatever, uh there's somebody ahead of me.

I always ring the bell well in advance, but sometimes the people are startled and they dodge left or right, and I've had a couple close calls, even using the bell because it surprises people.

And uh most of these uh bikes uh aren't going to be using a bell, and uh it's really hazardous to the pedestrian on the sidewalks.

But the other thing we do up north uh was uh our uh um we have we call them uh scope, but uh they're uh kind of like retired volunteer police force, and they uh uh help with traffic control, especially for triathlons and around uh the schools uh helping with things, and they give out ice cream coupons to people who uh have their helmets on.

So that there's a little incentive.

Sometimes the kids actually uh try to follow the uh scope car to see if we get an extra coupon.

Thanks, Armagh Gary Hillgort.

Um I heard some good comments tonight from council.

I think Miss Uh or Councilwoman Fielding's comment is actually very important.

If we aren't allowed to drive a car distracted by a cell phone, we probably should not be allowed to ride a bicycle or an e-bike distracted by a cell phone.

And your writing right now says I can keep one hand on the handlebar and the other hand on my cell phone right here, videoing or whatever I'm doing, or right?

Said you have to have one hand on, correct?

That's right, yeah.

Right.

So I can have my cell phone and I can be trying to play a game while I'm riding my bicycle or my e-bike at 25 miles an hour, and it's not against the law.

So maybe we need to add that in there.

I think that was a brilliant uh observation, and something we just didn't think about before, but it got brought up, and I think it's uh very important.

Second, um I I agree with councilwoman Gallo that uh things with wheels on the sidewalk are very dangerous to pedestrians.

I know we want to protect kids, and I thought because we're a charter city, we can do things beyond NRS.

We can say, okay, NRS says uh an e-bike can go where a bike can go, but we're a charter city, and we say no.

Your e-bike cannot go on the street.

And I believe that's legal.

Yes, that's correct, but it would have to go into the charter.

So and the change to the charter requires a legislative amendment.

So that that and I was gonna bring that up.

Hey, some of these things they could in theory be changed, but that's would be a subject for the charter committee.

I see some members here in the charter committee.

Um, but you got to get that past the legislature.

And the legislature would say, well, how come you guys well?

I don't know what the legislature would say, but they might say that.

That is just a practical hurdle that you have to think about.

But yes, you're correct.

They might say you got a 50% of your population over 50.

Maybe you should protect them.

Um conversely, if we can't say, okay, no e-bikes on the sidewalk, how about we limit them to five miles an hour?

Because when you said 10 miles an hour is pretty slow, I ride a regular bike.

10 miles an hour is not slow on a bike.

I got to work hard to get the 10.

If I want to get to 15, I'm busting my butt.

And they can go 25 without even pedaling these things.

They can just sit there on the throttle and fly.

So limiting a 150-pound vehicle with 150 or 200 pound person on it to 10 miles an hour is not much of a limit when I'm walking.

I'm gonna lose that battle big time.

So if we if you're passionate about keeping the pedestrians safe, limit the speed of powered vehicles on the sidewalk to five miles an hour or under.

Basically walk it or get on the street.

At least that sends a different message than says, you know, who's gonna watch and go, oh, that was 11 miles an hour.

You know, five is pretty obvious.

Thanks, Gary.

Uh my name is Boyd Whitwer.

I'm one of about looked around.

I think there's five of us that are lifelong residents of Virgin Valley.

We grew up here, including the mayor who I taught in high school.

If you want to know what type of teenager is, I only need an extra 30 minutes.

I am a fairly serious cyclist.

I do not ride an e-bike.

I ride uh what's actually a triathlon bike or time trial bike.

It's a modification of a road bike.

And when I ride, most of the 90% of the time I'm riding pretty serious.

I compete in races uh five or six times a year.

And uh one of those races is 62 miles long, and I have to cover a lot of ground in mesquite to get prepared for that race.

I think you're missing the real problem here.

I think you're missing the real problem.

Here, let me explain what I think the real problems are from a cyclist point of view, and not what that what you're trying to do is bad.

But I know Adam's a cyclist because I sold him his bike, and he'll back me up on this, I believe.

Okay.

I don't like to ride on sidewalks because when I go from point A to point wherever, I'm trying to get there fast because I'm training.

There is one sidewalk I will ride on every single time, no matter what laws you make, and that is on the far east end of Hafen Lane, before you as you're going toward Maverick.

And the reason is because if I ride on that asphalt, there is a single lane going each way, and right against that there is a curb and a gutter.

If a car, and 95% of the cars out there are very considerable of us bicyclists, but there's a small percent that are not, and they won't slow down to allow another car coming the opposite direction at the same time to pass safely.

They will not move over.

They just they don't like us or whatever it is.

And I got so sick and tired, a car's brushing me, nearly hitting me on that, that now every time I get to that spot, I'm going on the sidewalk every time.

Now, last time I did it yesterday, two people were coming, and I had to stop, slow down and get by them.

It's not safe until you make that road safe for cyclists.

I'm gonna do what I have to do to be safe.

There are some other roads.

Uh the city in recent years or decades has built some roads in Mesquite.

One goes by the Ford dealership, and that has an island in the center with a single lane going each way and virtually zero shoulder on that asphalt.

That means if I'm riding that a car and I'm in the way of a car, they either have to slow down, and some of them don't act like they're going to.

They have to slow down, or if I move over, I hired a truck pulling a boat come by me.

I I can't ride that road.

I can't ride that road.

If you want me to be able to ride, you gotta make it safe.

Okay, there are some roads in this town.

The vast majority of Mesquite's roads are safe for bicyclists.

It is actually a pretty good city for the most part.

There's a lot of them I ride, and I feel very safe.

The ones that are safe are the ones that have multiple lanes and especially have a big parking lane that nobody parks in.

And there are some of those across the street from the DMV.

Two lanes and a big parking lane, nobody parks in.

That's a good road.

There's a lot of good roads, but there's a handful of roads that need to be changed in Mesquite.

If you want to solve this problem, you need to solve once some.

There's some that start wide, narrow down by the middle school, narrow down.

I want to ride that road.

All of a sudden I got to narrow down, I look behind it.

Here comes three cars behind me.

There's some problems that need to be fixed that would make the ski much safer and make it so that we could ride more safely.

Stay out of the way of pedestrians on the sidewalks and stay out of the way the cars, which ones that really scare us because they're the ones that kill us.

Thank you.

Thank you, Boyd.

Hi, City Council.

My name's Ken Harter.

Uh I've been an avid bike rider for 71 years.

Uh you know, I've only got two things.

I travel every time we travel, our bikes are on the back of our cars.

I have a form of an e-bike.

What I haven't heard anybody say up here yet is I have a pedal assist e-bike.

Those I can take in a lot of towns, I can ride on all these bike trails.

Most bike trails, including ours, has a sign right there that says no motorized vehicle.

When you have a throttle on a bike and you push it forward, it's a motorized vehicle, period.

So that's a motorized vehicle.

So either we have to change our signs, it says e-bikes are allowed, or we need to take off motorized vehicles not allowed.

So that's one thing.

My bike, I cannot go.

It's an e-bike, but it won't go by pushing a throttle.

I have to pedal to make it go.

And then it assists my pedaling with power.

So that's just one thing I haven't heard anybody kind of bring up yet, that there are two different types of e-bikes allowed.

The other thing, and I totally agree with the helmets, but you know what?

To have to put a law that says we must wear a helmet.

Uh, I used to ride motorcycles.

I used to love going out in the evening, just letting the wind blow through my hair, not having to put on a helmet to go a half mile down to Walmart.

I stopped riding motorcycles when that came in.

I understand it's a safety thing, but we're putting this on the police that oh, you're gonna have to start stopping people for not wearing a helmet.

Uh where does it, you know, as adults, I get it with the kids, and I think we should have 18 and below must wear a helmet.

But as adults, we should have the choice to make that.

If I want to go out during an evening ride just through the neighborhoods, that should be my choice to let the wind go through my hair, not have a law that says, oh no, you have to wear a helmet.

Uh that's just kind of my feeling.

I mean, one thing that was brought I realized today, I received something in the mail today that was wrapped in plastic.

Do we really need to have laws that say, oh, we have to put a sign on here now says, don't let your kids play with this plastic?

They could suffocate.

I'm an adult.

I know I'm not gonna let my kids play with plastic, but we always seem like we have to oh, we have to make all these laws to make everybody safe.

You know, after 18, we're adults.

We have to start learning to make decisions for ourselves.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ken.

Dominic Olivetto Mesquite.

Well, since everybody else was bragging about their motor or pedal bike days, I challenge any of these pedal bikers.

Do any of them have a ticket from the law enforcement for doing 34 and a 25?

I got one.

That was to bring a little epathy to all this.

My only complaint is you guys are working really, really hard here, and I appreciate that.

But again, we're figuring seven, eight, nine, and ten-year-old kids that understand what a car is doing or what the traffic laws are by letting them have a motorized bike going up and down the street.

If they got a pedal bike, they're not going to be tempted to go as fast.

And I think the slowest e-bike when I looked it up is 20 miles an hour, and the fastest is 38.

And somebody told me, well, no kid's gonna have a 38 mile an hour bike.

Well, there's kids driving around town here in mesquite that are driving pretty nice Corvettes that are 120,000, and they're sophomores in high school, so I think their parents would afford a higher bike.

I think if it's motorized, you need a driver's license.

If it's not, it's a pedal bike.

And please stay off the sidewalk because I don't run too well anymore.

Thank you.

Thanks, Dominic.

Um Adam, could you answer that question?

What is the law defined between a motorized vehicle and a non-motorized?

So in the statute that we reference in our bill as well, it defines what an electric bicycle is.

And that's NRS 484 B.017.

And it says a device upon which a person may ride having two or three wheels, or every such device generally recognizes a bicycle that has operable pedals, a seat and a saddle, an electric motor, which produces not more than 750 watts and meets the requirement of the following three classes.

So I'll try to explain that a little bit.

Class two, it has a motor that could propel, right?

But not pedal assist.

And it says providing assistance.

It's not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle reaches 20 miles an hour.

So it sh it stops at 20 miles an hour.

And then there's a class three that does provide pedal assists, but it cuts out at 28 miles an hour.

And so, like the like the gentleman who discussed, if his can go faster than 20 miles an hour, it would be and it's only pedal assist, that's a class three e-bike.

So but our our ordinance, I we don't differentiate about the different classes and try to say which ones can go where and when kind of there's been other comments about simplicity in the law.

Again, we could make it more complex, we could differentiate these things or you know, or as presented, but this is a good thing.

So basically almost anything with pedals on it would as long as it doesn't go over a certain speed, would kind of work into that.

Uh Chief, did you I just I I uh I was just reading through this again, and I I think there are some things that we should address.

Um, I don't know if you guys have noticed, you know what a one-wheel is.

You guys know what a one-wheel is, it's just a single wheel, sort of like a unicycle, but they're electric.

Some of them will do 30, 40, 50 miles an hour.

There's you know, someone with the bigger miles, whatever.

We didn't address that here.

That is something that I and I've seen it.

The reason I bring that up is because there's there's a young man riding one around town pretty regular right now, and I didn't didn't ever notice it.

I was recently in Hawaii, as you all know, and um I watched a young lady on one eating going between traffic, right?

You know, on a one-wheel.

So it's probably something we want to address.

Um now that you mentioned that, I think I've seen the same person.

And it got I'm they maneuver pretty quick, and there's a couple of things in here.

I I I would like to get a chance to run back through with Adam on uh like every one of them supposed to have a bell or a horn or whatever.

I uh out.

Do you do you have a bell?

Yeah, I don't think a lot of there's gonna be a lot of that.

Um I think there's gonna be a lot of that, right?

And then there's another of the a state law that requires a flashing red light that we probably didn't address.

But there's a lot of state law that's already affect.

A lot of this is just I'll be honest, a lot of this is feel good legislation, whether you know that we're doing here, but I want everybody to feel good about it.

Um, and then we do have to realize that we're we have to protect the bicyclist too.

So we're talking about not letting them ride on the sidewalk.

Now you're shoving what we're saying is like I can't let my my uh five-year-old on her with her uh baby carrier and her pink tassels and her basket on the front ride down the sidewalk.

She has to ride out the street.

We got to be practical here so that everyone is safe.

Let's let's make sure that we're taking care of the bicycle riders and along with all this other stuff.

So I think there are things here to revisit, but I don't want to hit too much in the weeds, but I think you should look at it.

Are you asking us to table this?

Do you want to get with Adam?

Is that what you're saying?

I would personally appreciate it, yes.

I would love to speak each toward you know to get some more input from each of you of YouTube.

Um, and I don't know, maybe we can do a two by two that way or something like that.

I don't know.

Yeah, we can figure that out.

But I would love to address a couple more things.

This is uh I didn't, I had some epiphany sitting in the back listening to everybody talk.

So I would just I'd love a chance at it again.

So it's part of the process.

Councilman Wandless.

I haven't had an epiphany for years.

First of all, I appreciate a lot of a lot of your comments.

Some of you I think took things out of comment or out of context.

No, stay right there.

Right.

I don't believe anyone on this council ever wanted to not delineate the difference between a pedal bike and a young child versus an electric bike, an electric scooter, an electric motorcycle, a unicycle or anything else, anything that can go fast.

We're trying to protect kids.

As far as helmets, and there were some comments on if you're older, all of the deaths and accidents that have happened in this city have been our elderly, and a lot of times because they don't have helmets.

Funny thing about kids, they're resilient.

They're made out of rubber, they bounce pretty good most of the time.

But but most importantly, they have reflex.

If I get in trouble and I need to make a quick decision, sometimes it's a little too late.

And I think the community needs to realize that.

And if you don't disagree with anything I just said there, I do still think we need to protect the young kids that are on just pedal bikes or push scooters and let them be on the sidewalks out of traffic.

And get everyone back together, and let's do this right the next time.

Um we'll go ahead and close public comment.

Um, do we have any other questions from any council?

Mayor.

Okay.

Oh, sorry, councilwoman.

Do we have anybody else who would like to come make a public comment?

Chief, you can go ahead.

Well, nobody was coming when he came, so okay.

Sheila Steves and Resident of Mesquite for 26 years.

There's one group of people that's only been mentioned once by one of your council people.

The walkers, we have rights too.

And if you have all this traffic, I guess what I need to do is go to the bicycles bicycle shop and see if I can get a helmet, because I'm going to need one walking on the sidewalks.

Thank you.

Thank you, Sheila.

Does anybody else wish to come forward?

Okay, we're gonna go ahead and close public comment.

Um other comments or questions from council before we let Councilman Wandless make a motion.

Oh, Councilwoman Fielding, my apologies.

No worries, sir.

Um, I was just gonna say that I wholeheartedly um support the children and the adults who run who ride bikes, and we need to support them.

So go ahead, um, councilman wandless and make your motion.

Okay, councilman wandless.

It's gonna be the same motion.

I'm gonna move to table this and have Adam get back with Chief Ellis.

And if you want to get with the rest of us, even if it takes four weeks, maybe that would be the thing to do and and get as much detail into it.

And for the Charter Committee, the the things that are wrong, and I know there's members of the Charter Committee that are here today.

Think about what you've heard too, because if we don't change the charter, NRS is gonna tie our hands, and that's a shame.

Okay, councilwoman Gallo.

I'll second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Very shy, yeah, no.

Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 6.1 consideration and discussion of non-standard spacing of street lights within the proposed L of E subdivision.

Thank you, Mayor Council.

Um, this item to be for you tonight was um a request from the developer, which is NRC with the LV subdivision.

Um Mr.

Jensen is here tonight, but I wanted to give just a quick background um of why this is being brought to you today.

Um, and then Mr.

Jensen will have opportunity to speak.

So the City of Mesquite follows the standards set forth by the Clark County Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada.

So this includes the roadway design both for private and public roadways, and this includes street light spacing, and this is the item that is in question today.

The standard for the City of Musquite on a following this on a roadway, a residential roadway for a public roadway is 51 feet, and private roadways are 46 feet.

So with that in mind, following the standard, with that roadway less than 51 feet, the typical spacing for that is 170 feet max.

So Frank, next slide, please.

So this what you see here is on the left side.

Keep in mind that again the spacing for a standard is 170 feet maximum distance between lights.

On the contractor's side, that spacing going um is 475 feet from light to light.

So I get the the point of that is you know, when you don't have to um put in as many, you can widen out your spacing, and it does help out the developer, but it does add some challenges with lighting.

Um you may have seen there's locations that follow this non-standard spacing, and they're located in planned unit developments, where in the development agreement, um it actually, when that development agreement was brought before the city council, the council agreed upon a different spacing than what is a standard spacing.

L of E subdivision is located within the mesquite vistas planned unit development.

In that planned unit development, it does not allow for or give me the authority to say this is an approved method to go farther than that.

Um I asked Mr.

Jensen to get with the homeowners association, and he did that.

Um, and this was the letter.

I just wanted to read this into the record.

This is the letter that's part of the agenda item tonight, but um to get their feedback on this too.

It says, Dear Mr.

Jensen, following our phone conversation on January 10th regarding the proposed reduction in street lighting for the L of E development, the Mesquite Vistas Board of Directors has reviewed the matter and finds no provisions within our governing documents that establish minimum street lighting requirements.

Although we believe the reduced lighting levels may expose both our organization and the future L of V HOA to potential liability concerns, we do not have a regulatory basis to approve or deny your proposal.

Accordingly, we will rely on the City of Mesquite site plan review process to determine and enforce appropriate street lighting standards.

So basically, this is being brought to you because I do not have the authority to approve this if there is a change to the standard spacing.

And so Mr.

Jensen has asked that this item be brought to you to plead his case to allow the council to approve this non-standard spacing.

Um it is, however, my recommendation with that we keep with the standard spacing as this may set a precedence, and you may receive more and more and more of these, but again, uh I do not have the authority to approve a non-standard spacing in this situation, and that is why this is brought to you today.

And I know that Mr.

Jensen is here and and wishes to speak, and I don't know if you would like him to get up now or after some of your questions.

Let's have Mr.

Jensen come on up and uh say his thing, and then the council can ask questions of either of you.

Uh thanks, Council Dylan Jensen.

Um here representing Mesquite land partners tonight.

Uh, thanks, Travis, for the introduction.

Yeah, this isn't the first time Travis and I have discussed street lights.

Um there's multiple reasons we like to limit the amount of street lights in our subdivisions.

Um this particular subdivision, uh, you can't really tell from the the site plan I'm showing here.

They're massive lots, it's a big custom development.

Um, like many of our developments are similar.

People hate street lights.

They complained about lights in their front yards.

You know, they don't like that light shining in their um their house all night, right?

So that's one of the reasons.

Um Pioneer Boulevard is lit up like a Christmas tree.

There's lights just light after light after light.

We're we're right off of Pioneer Boulevard on this uh subdivision.

Um, you know, I I don't think private streets need the amount of lighting as a as a large you know corridor public street needs.

Um my map here shows like I guess a uh a different a different light layout.

Um I'd forgotten Travis even had that first layout uh that he presented as our um what we'd like to do.

But you know, we're we're open to different spacing.

I think what I have here is I've just highlighted a couple a couple lights here.

I think the spacing on it is probably around 350 or 400 feet.

Uh Travis mentioned this isn't the first time we've done this in a in a you know private subdivision or a PUD.

Um between the house lights and the street lights that we do put in, I I don't think there's any matter of any uh public safety here.

Um, like I say, uh uh sconce lighting on houses, the uh the street lights themselves with you know not the required spacing.

We believe it's adequate.

Um you know, and and on the other hand, there's there's municipalities or subdivisions all over the country that are uh dark sky compliant.

You know, this means there's no street lights, there's no um upward lighting allowed on homes, you know.

So I don't I don't know that there's any public safety records or instances where that was a risk to the public because of inadequate lighting, you know, in a subdivision.

But in this case, I think there is adequate lighting.

Um so yeah, our request is to you know approve a uh amount of street lights that does not meet the you know end dot or municipal requirements.

Um we would intend to limit the amount of lights when we go into the phase two of this project as well.

So thank you, Dylan.

Um, Councilman Wandless.

I live up in Royal Vista, and when I first moved up here, I was actually on the HOA, and we had a lot of problems with street lights in Royal Vista because there were too many and they were too bright.

And and everyone is complaining about a light right in front of their house.

And they took a couple of lights out and they changed the illumination of the other lights.

But every garage has two lights that come off of a sensor.

So you have every house is lit up on every street, all the way around the subdivision, and the only places that there are lights are where traffic would meet at a a T or an intersection or something like that.

And and it has worked out really well, and it's gated community, so I don't know if that helps or hurts, but sometimes in a private community, especially if the lighting on the homes is set to come on and must come on per the PUD.

Maybe you don't need quite as many street lights.

Adding to that.

So if I can the one of the areas that I was indeed talking about, the planned unit development was the mesquite estates where Royal Vistas.

So that actually in that development agreement provided that authority to that they can go to that.

So that was a council action when that development agreement.

So again, the the item before you tonight is I had no ability to approve this without being a standard.

Um again, I'm kind of the opposite.

I do believe I get calls about street lights, and and I do see that there are deliveries, you know, people trying to find uh police, you know, trying to find that address.

I do believe there are some things that could be added with that.

You know, if you have lights and you have the street, your number of your home illuminated, so it's very easy to do that.

Councilwoman Gallagher hold on councilwoman we'll get to you in just a second.

I agree the lighting is an issue um up in Sun City uh because there's so many lights and it's so bright the residents themselves are having to pay for covers to protect themselves from the lights because it's brutal um in what as it's shining into the houses people's backyards we get a lot of complaints having being up there at Sun City so I'm in agreement I think that um the lighting does not not need to be so close because that's how it is up there and literally it's six hundred dollars or something the residents in between two homes are actually having to pay to put a cover to kind of mute the lights so I'm in agreement I don't think the lighting should be an issue.

Councilman Parrish you good or Dylan um would you be receptive to the thought of illuminated street numbers or numbered homes it you bet yeah we already do that then automatic minimum of two lights on the garage I'm assuming the garages face the street it's it's they're huge lots at the custom process yeah I I know I know I know they are but yeah but if we have if we was to make a motion to allow this if you would uh agree to illuminated numbers and two lights minimum that come on with a photo cell after dark and stay on all night I would be in total agreement with this yeah and and I'd be happy to agree with that because it doesn't matter what subdivision we're building in we do that our lights are on I just want to make sure that if we put this in a motion you're okay with it yeah you bet yeah our our address lights are always illuminated we have multiple sconce lighting on all of our you know garages and things like that so our subdivisions are well lit for sure and addresses are able to seen at night as well so the important thing is so the garage lights cannot be shut off by the homeowner they have to stay on all they are on the photo cell perfect thank you councilwoman fielding thank you mayor so here's my question so as Dylan said or Mrs.

Jensen said they're suits a lot so it's they're gonna be expensive homes don't you think the homeowner would want three light in front of their house to deter any kind of violence to the subdivision or house um and the neighborhood because it's not gated I mean that's just my thought um I love councilman Paris said can we have the lights on on the house but does that deter somebody coming up and breaking in I don't necessarily agree um I think if somebody's gonna come off the street through a light they're gonna come through your doorway with a light on because we have a we have a door or I mean we have lights on all night via the photo cell um like I said I I really don't feel this is a public safety matter at all um if you drive through any one of our subdivisions it regardless of street lights the the illumination from the homes themselves and the lights on the homes is very adequate sometimes too much still you know we we've we've had complaints about people's lights are too bright you know it's not the street lights it's the lights on the home so um I don't I don't feel it's a public safety issue so here's my other question do you have you asked anybody who's gonna build up there like hey do you want this I mean do you feel safe with a street light or not um we have not started sales yet uh we're we're early on in the process so we we haven't you know gotten to that point um but I can tell you the feedback from all the subdivisions we built is street lights suck you know they they hate to have them shining in their front back side whatever it is they don't like councilman parish your lights still on did you okay um okay thank you thanks Dylan uh we're gonna go ahead and open it up for public comment Ron Shackleford um is there any ordinance on the city right now that requires so many foot candles at three feet above the ground or anything like that um that's I think if you look at that type of a scenario then you know how many foot candles are required in an area um I like the idea of the lights on the house on the front all the time uh there is a lot of houses being built I've worked on them tons of them where even my house I can turn off those lights on my front of my garage at night so I don't have to pay for a power bill uh but I have automatic lights that come on uh if somebody walks up um that was uh couple of the issues and I guess

I like the idea of the lights on the house on the front all the time.

Uh there's a lot of houses being built.

I've worked on them, tons of them, where even my house, I can turn off those lights on my front of my garage at night, so I don't have to pay for a power bill.

Uh, but I have automatic lights that come on uh if somebody walks up.

Um that was uh a couple of the issues, and I guess um, you know, I personally like a street light.

I like to be able to see out and look at my van, you know, out at night, make sure nobody's messed with my tools or anything like that in my van.

So um, yeah, I think um I think more than just two, it might be only two is under and but four, I think, maybe overkill.

So maybe the uh foot candles may address that.

Thanks, Ron.

Coolbert.

Uh uh my council up north uh ran across this problem a number of years ago.

Um most of the old cities are on a grid pattern, so the block is about 300 feet corner to corner.

And in the residential areas, we had a uh street light on every corner.

And so that means that uh uh 150 feet, and uh you got a street light in each direction.

Uh the power company came back, and that was great for the city because the electric bill was cut tremendously, thousands of dollars a month uh when they went to LEDs.

The problem was the power company put in too bright of LEDs, and all the entire town complained that uh they couldn't go to sleep with the light coming through their curtains.

And so the power company came back and reduced the lumens.

And but uh in my experience, 150 feet is sufficient light, and and people do have uh yard lights.

I've I've got uh a dust of dawn light on all four corners of my house.

Thank you, Art.

Mayor and Council, I'm Becky Peterson.

Thank you, Patty.

I live in Sun City.

I live on Stargazer Court.

I can't stargaze because of the lights.

There are five street lights being in that circle that go around us across from the opening at the back of it.

It's uh when we first moved in and we started checking on having those little canopies put over them so that it were down, it was over 200 each.

We have neighbors that we sit in our backyards.

We were watching Starlink one night.

There's five families out in the backyard with five couples enjoying it, but complaining the entire time.

So kudos to him for allowing the you know, I mean, there's there's the lights on the house.

We have our license, uh our address lit up.

We have the front lights, we have the light by the front door.

We can turn those on, turn them off.

We have motion detectors, we have low voltage lighting, everything that we need security cameras.

If you're buying a big house like that, you're gonna put security cameras in anyway.

So let them have the night skies.

Thank you.

Okay, seeing no one else come forward, I'm gonna turn it back over to council.

Councilman Wanless.

I'd like to make a motion.

And that motion is going to be to consider non-standard lighting for this subdivision.

Leave subdivision.

I think it's a good area as long as you do everything that was said, make sure that you have sconces that come on all night long and make sure that the dress is illuminated.

And you have lights at all corners, intersections, and everything else to illuminate those.

I think it it's just fine.

Councilwoman Galloway.

So we have a I'll second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Fail being aye.

Galloway.

Okay, the motion passes.

Item 6.2 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.

Mr.

Kim.

Thank you, Mayor.

City Council.

Um, since the last meeting, uh staff has uh interacted with uh event organizer or applicant and had the discussion about this one.

And the event organizer uh kindly adjusted uh his plan.

So um the date would be the Saturday, October 17th, 2026.

We got some time uh tomorrow just it.

Uh gate to open will be at noon, and then uh starting time will be 1 p.m.

and it'll go until 10 p.m.

Um it is not required by the code for the special event, but uh uh the applicant uh or event organizer uh accommodated this and change it from midnight to 10 p.m.

And location of the musket uh sports and event complex and uh estimated number of attendees would be about 3,000 uh people and uh uh number of private security.

Uh there will be 20.

And uh Musket police department requested that the police being uh there, about six uh police officers and they accommodated it.

And EMT will be there, uh it's a private EMT, and there will be two uh personnel.

And uh um they want to serve food and alcohol.

If this is approved, then uh they want to serve the alcohol uh here too.

This is in front of you again uh because of the MMC 3-5-1.

Uh if alcohol will be served any park or recreation recreational use area, uh then it needs to become in front of you, and city council will issue the permission.

Uh the applicant must use an approved approved liquor license holder or a daily liquor uh catering license order uh for this one.

And uh we haven't actually issued and approved the permit.

Uh the event must must also be approved by the city manager uh or and uh uh her destiny.

And uh this is other details of that event organizers.

Uh uh parking will be only deserved parking, and no parking will be allowed at the gates area or file lanes, and uh there will be no hard liquor sales.

It'll be about uh uh bod butt light, leather, truly lemonade, hard searchers, and twisted tees, and uh the they will not allow any glass butters and aluminum butters or plastic cups will be only allowed uh in there, and security will be posted uh each entrance, and ID will be verified and wristbands uh will be issued at entrance, and uh uh number of rest restrooms uh will be increased to 45 um due to our core sales.

So this is the site plan they provided.

Uh vendors will be on the site, uh they're near the entrance and uh restrooms and all those will be uh the focused in entrance areas and then uh stage will be further down.

So uh given that uh step recommend uh city council approved the serving of our core at the I-15 country and rock music festival at the Musquete Sports and Event Complex.

Thank you.

Thank you, Simon.

Um Councilwoman Gell.

Okay, so a couple of my questions, of course, originally was about the alcohol.

So we're looking basically beer and wine.

That's correct.

So it's no more hard liquor.

Thank you for doing that.

And is the police department okay with that?

Because you all had a meeting.

Can I ask?

Or not this right here.

Oh, I can't see because you are you're the one that's gonna be dealing with me.

We have a offer special use for it.

We have a standard um uh billing rate, right?

And I contacted Darrell, right?

Daryl.

Gary.

And I I uh we we just we talked it out.

Um and so I've I he's gonna he's gonna fund six police officers for there for the for the event.

So and we should be able to we should be able to maintain things with six.

So um that I mean he's very accommodating.

Um I know that's it's sort of expensive, right?

You know, because they're not they don't come free.

Um but yeah, with if we stick with that and we stay away from the glass, I think we'll be okay.

One one last question.

Um, like a lot of uh events, football games, etc.

A lot of times, or even hockey games, they stopped selling alcohol an hour before the end of the event.

Has that been looked at?

We did not we did not discuss that no.

Um, I know it's gonna close it off at 10, was supposed to be the last um uh the last act, I guess, the sound or whatever.

But normally normally these things people linger, right?

You know, so even after 10 o'clock, it's gonna be they'll be there for I would imagine at least an hour, getting out of there and whatever.

And so I'm just talking about the sales, yeah.

I um that wasn't discussed, and I don't know of a ordinance or anything that would fit that.

So most of your entertainment and your sports events, they cut off an hour before.

We didn't we didn't discuss it.

So that I guess it'd be up to the the canton.

Um what's that?

Yeah.

Yeah, come on up, Derry.

But not with beer.

So it's a hard liquor thing that you go to a Philadelphia Eagles game, they're gonna stop selling about halfway through the third quarter because they know the boys get a little rowdier as the day goes on.

But usually beer and that kind of stuff, they really don't push that nearly as hard.

So actually, we we won't do the heart liquor because it's just that much more problem, which we don't want neither, you know.

So I'll put out there.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Appreciate that.

Uh Councilman Parrish.

Thank you, Mr.

Alton.

You uh took care of all my questions from the previous meeting.

I I sure appreciate it.

The only other question I got, and this is for staff.

Um, do you feel it's necessary to maybe get a performance bond to make sure that everything is taken care of after this is all done, if any damage is done or how are we gonna address that issue?

Yeah, good point.

Our uh especially event ordinance requires that their insurance.

Yes.

Yeah, yes.

I gotta turn my mic on.

He's gonna provide you with an insurance carrier, is that correct?

Right.

Okay, I just want to make sure.

Thank you.

And that covers cleanup.

How do we handling cleanup?

Cleanup is part of the money we pay to be out there to rent the venue.

You got it covered, thank you.

Councilman Wallace.

I'm glad you talked to Chief Fells.

That was my big worry last time.

Fire actually snuck out.

I know she have two AMT stars, so I assume you did talk to them too.

And yes, and they're good too.

Yes, that's why you see all the no double parking, all the entrances are wide open.

We have attendees out there who can be doing all the you know, leading them to park once the spaces are full, they'll be parking alongside the roads down the right way.

Um is there actually a transit bus here?

We have the silver rider.

You could maybe talk to them and make arrangements with them.

That might be a possibility.

It's you know, I'm not quite sure.

We might have golf carts that would bring people further up, you know, just to get them around.

That's something we could consider also.

But it's just Randy, what do you or Chief?

Chief Andrés and I discussed that, and it was mostly it's gator, right?

Yeah, yeah, that's I remember.

We at Chief Anderson and I discussed that, and it was with the fire, and theirs was he was only concerned about ingress and grass, being able to get an ambulance in and out of there, and the way they're doing the parking where he knows uh signing the parking basically, not just like a free-for-all.

And it it it was good with him.

He was good.

See there in the future next time, just talk to the people that mean the most before you talk to us.

Yeah, well, we actually put this in two months ago, so we thought that this would have been handled before we got to you guys, but it we got kind of Randy.

Um, how many people excuse me?

How many people do you normally get to like a you know, the flag football or the soccer up there?

Well, it can it kind of varies, but like pylon, for example, we're in the neighborhood of 7,000, you know, and that's over two or three.

Well, about a two to three day period, but but you're talking easily three to four thousand at one time on a high volume.

You're probably talking closer to six thousand at a time.

So the parking situation does concern us a little bit.

They do park down around the cemetery area coming up that road, which happens all the time.

Uh we just don't have enough parking up there for not even.

But but we do do it on a regular basis.

That's quite quite frequently, yeah.

And it's um it it's not that out of the ordinary for us.

Uh Gator's been here a long time.

We've worked with him for many years, always does a great job.

Uh and so as far as we're concerned, I've talked to him a little bit.

Um pretty simple, I think.

It's just some of the particulars with you guys.

So yeah.

Thanks, Randy.

Ourselves bring about 6,000 people on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights for our tournaments up there.

So that's each night, each day.

There's 6,000 people coming and going.

So if we hit 3,000 30, I'm not expecting to do if it's a it's a great concert.

We have a great lineup.

We really do, and hopefully that influence Southern Utah to come in, and maybe some of Vegas might come up, but we really concentrating on St.

George and Mesquite and Malapa, because that's the that's the little circle we have that we feel pretty that can draw pretty easily and can go home if they want to or stay down here for the night.

But if you come from Cedar or Beaver, you might make it okay.

Let's come in Friday night or then stay until Sunday morning.

So I I think uh I hope this is not uh city's uh own pest festival.

So I I don't believe that 3,000 or 6,000 people will be the entirely the city's population.

In that case, we should be able to um they accommodate all those people from the town, but uh I think they they will stay in the hotel and the hotel has a shuttle system, so we can actually assume that a lot of people will actually get there through the uh public system.

So I think uh uh that'll actually help our economy.

Thank you.

Thank you, Simon.

Any other questions for Gary?

Oh councilwoman filter.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, I think this is a great idea.

And to be honest with the I've said this so many times.

We need more activities, more events for the city of Mesquite.

Yes, are there parking issues?

Yes, is there alcohol?

I would actually kind of like go piggyback on councilwomen and gallows that if they play top 10, just cut off the beer or wine an hour ahead.

Um, I've been to Morgan Wallen, I've been to the T Mobile, I've been to several concerts before where that's what they do.

It's like at halftime or whatever, they cut off alcohol.

So if we could do that, that would be awesome.

But yes, is this something that we need for the city of Mesdeep?

I'm all for it.

So thank you, Derry, for bringing this to the city of Mosquitoes.

But I'm thinking also those who when they're cutting off at nine or hour earlier, the main reason is because they do have hard liquor.

It's not because they are do have the beer.

The beer is just a secondary, it's our first, it's our first and only.

So if it's something that you know, push comes to shove.

I'm not gonna, you know, they can shut it down.

This is get me out of there faster, to be honest with you.

So it'd be one less thing you had to worry about as we're getting closer to the close of the night.

So, but yeah.

Okay, thank you, Derry.

All right, appreciate it.

Do we have any public comment?

When mayor up north, yeah, I was complained because I always have a comment.

Um, obviously, I'm a bluegrass fan, and our town up there, I think this is the 24th year that they've had a concert uh every August.

And uh transportation can be a problem, uh, especially where our location is, there's a state highway going through, no parking along the road.

So we make sure that uh uh there's plenty of golf carts shuttling people because a lot of people are elderly and don't uh aren't able to walk the distance.

So you know, it was a regular uh shuttle back and forth from the expanded parking area, but it's great.

That's another one of the things that I see uh that's becoming improving to Mesquite.

Thanks.

Thanks, Ar.

Hello, Bob Bradbury.

Um just as a note, Ms.

Galo, I live in Sun City, I love the lights.

I love to be able to see down the street.

That's another story.

Um a couple um things that I hope have been discussed or will be.

Uh, in my former life, I worked law enforcement in a city that had an entertainment uh amphitheater, and the problem wasn't with alcohol consumption once they were inside the gates, the problem was the alcohol consumption in the parking lot with tailgating and the hard liquor and those kind of things that are there, and that was where the majority of problems occurred were in the parking lot.

So I don't know if there's been discussion with the police department or security to somehow police that area prior, because that is where the problems begin.

I will disagree with one statement made prior by another speaker.

Uh MLB, which we'll have in Las Vegas in a couple of years, do cut off beer sales in the seventh inning.

So that that does occur.

The other um question I think the city needs to clarify uh with the um company bringing this in, who is responsible for any additional emergency services that may occur?

Big fight that breaks out, everybody's there, uh some sort of major incident that requires more than two EMTs, who's responsible for those costs?

And that should be something uh discussed.

Um, I think ahead of time and agreed to.

Otherwise, I love this, even I'm just gonna open my door and listen to it up the hill.

So uh, but but those those are two two very serious things you need to consider.

Um, what happens in the parking lot prior and um cutting the beer time off and who covers additional um uh emergency services.

And just by the way, if you're drinking a beer at the last minute, your blood alcohol level is still on the rise, and I'm sure your law enforcement people here can speak to that.

So just a couple things to consider.

Thank you.

Thank you, Bob.

Okay, seeing no one else come forward.

Um, I'm gonna turn it back over to council.

Councilman Ennis.

I'm gonna go ahead and approve the consideration for allowing a liquor license to be sold at I-15 country and rock music.

Okay, do I have a second?

I'll second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

Okay, motion passes.

And with that, we come to our final public comment period.

You do come up all the time.

Yes, yes, I do.

Uh Art Kulibert, uh, 812 Los Padres Circle.

And uh where I ran out of time on the first three minutes.

Uh, the um my uh career after the military was social services up in Washington State.

Initially, uh I was hired, I did the A-Bauds, the adults, no kids able to work.

Then uh that project uh was phased out.

I went to uh did the welfare program for as short a time as I could uh do, and then I uh did child care, and then also the GIU, uh general population, adults not able to work.

And uh one of the problems that's uh up in Spokane is that uh half uh and I looked up some numbers before coming tonight.

Half of the homeless people are not from Spokane, they're from somewhere else, and uh 44 percent of uh that population uh has mental issues.

Um the um uh social services or I should say the nonprofits that are uh funding housing, uh they are good about getting initial money, but uh not for follow-on.

Uh for instance, uh three groups got together and spent many millions of dollars revamping the RIDPAT Hotel in Spokane, and uh it was designed to be uh affordable for workers in the downtown area, and after two years, um basically uh those people moved out because it was also allowed for um the the housing first population where people had drug issues, they had uh mental issues, and the the good population who should be living there left, and uh uh the police uh agency now considers that the drug capital of uh Spokane, you know, the Ridbath Hotel.

So the problem is not that uh the funding isn't a good idea, the F problem is it's not maintained ongoing after a couple years.

Uh it just makes the problem worse.

So I'm that's why I'm bringing it up tonight.

Thanks, Art Beat you Dominic, gotta get faster.

Ron Shackleford again.

Um, you know, I've I you haven't seen me here for a couple few meetings, but uh I've been watching, and um Kevin, I want to say thank you.

I think you ran with an idea I talked about and uh your last meeting and about the uh city interim mayor.

I think you uh did a good job.

I appreciate that.

Appreciate all of our council people.

Um I know we're gonna have that meeting tomorrow, but here's another three minutes I can take.

I'm not gonna take it all.

I believe we need to approach this issue with both compassion and common sense.

Homeless homelessness is real and people deserve help.

But Mesquite is a small community, and we don't currently have the full services needed to support a large facility.

Right now, those in need are connected to resources in places like Las Vegas and St.

George, where that support already exists.

I'm open to solutions, but they have to be the right fit for both the people we're trying to help and our community.

Thank you very much.

Have a great night.

Thanks, Ron.

Dominic Olivetto again.

I have one question for the meeting tomorrow to save me from coming down here and shooting my mouth off.

This piece of property was approved for a certain number of dwellings and uh excuse me under zoning for single family units.

I think it was for 33 a year ago.

Is that still July?

Yes.

Is that still what this is?

This property, the property is zoned MF3, multifamily, which would allow them to do anything from multifamily down to single family.

So the presenter on that one apparently did not own the property, only had the property under escrow.

And so that presenter fell out of escrow.

And so he doesn't have anything to do with this current project.

Okay.

See you tomorrow.

Okay.

So looking forward to El Gordon.

I won't talk about the topic anymore, except to say that if you on the council believe that the citizens of your city should have their voices heard, I urge you to table this item tomorrow and put it off until a regular city council meeting at 5 p.m.

when your citizens can show up and make their voices heard.

I've seen tons of comments on next door and other places.

Oddly enough, I'm one of the only people in those comments that I saw show up here today.

But I still believe you should be holding this at an hour that the public can have their say.

And 2 30 in the afternoon is not it.

Thank you.

Thank you, Gary.

Okay, seeing no one else come forward.

This meeting is adjourned.