All right, good evening, everyone.

Um, welcome to the Tuesday, April 14th uh City Council meeting for the uh City Mesquite 2026.

Um, we're gonna start off with an invocation by Father I do it wrong, Joe G of the La Virgin de Guadalupe is Guadalupe or Guadalupe Guadalupe Catholic Church.

Thanks, Father.

Let us pray.

Faithful and loving God, we come before you today with grateful of the opportunity to gather as a community dedicated to service.

We thank you for our city for the work that sustain our city, and for the shared vision that guides its future.

We ask your blessings upon our mayor, all the city council members, as they lead, grant them wisdom to make thoughtful decisions, hearts that attend to every voice, and the courage to choose what is right and just we remember all those who work for the good of our city, our first responders, officers, city employees, and all those who quietly serve behind the scenes, keep them safe and strengthen them in their duties.

We lift up every resident of our community that our home may be filled with peace, our streets with safety, and our relationships with kindness and respect.

As this meeting begins, guide every discussions and understanding, every decisions with fairness, and every action with a desire to build our city and remain united in our care for the common good.

May our city continues to grow in hope, to stand strength in challenges, and share us a place of opportunity and compassion for all.

In your holy name, amen.

Thank you, Father.

Pledge.

And to the Republic for which it stands.

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

Thank you.

Um we are gonna start off with opening public comment.

Um, this comment period is for things that are not on the agenda.

I realize a lot of you are probably here for a certain item or two.

So if that's what you're gonna comment on, you'll just need to wait until that comes up on the agenda.

But this will be just general things, anything that's not on the agenda.

So please come forward.

You have three minutes.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

My name is Judy Harman, and I wanted to speak on a little known program.

It's the respite program through the Mesquite Senior Center.

I've mentioned this program to people, and I'm very surprised just how many are not aware of the program and not familiar exactly what it is.

But this should be an important program in our community.

The respite program gives caregivers some much needed time and relief to refuel and attend to their own personal needs.

Caregiving can be very, very isolating and exhausting.

The respite program is available three days a week for approximately three hours each day.

This also gives the participants some very valuable time in a new environment.

They participate in many activities like drumming, chair exercises, crafts, and most important, much needed socialization, which helps keep their minds and bodies stimulated.

Also, the program serves a very nutritious lunch to the participants and caregivers are always invited.

As our city continues to grow, so does the respite program.

Much needed larger space and facilities will also become an issue, something that is already being felt at this time.

The respite program is a form of city responsibility.

It reflects on our community choosing to support one another, not only when it becomes a personal need.

Please, this program needs the support of our council and our city.

Thank you for your attention, and please stop by some time for lunch or to see how what the program's like.

Thank you.

Thank you, Judy.

Mayor and City Council, I'm Kathy Chatlin, and I'm going to give a more personal talk about the senior center.

First of all, I want to thank the city for having the respite senior day program in Mesquite.

I have personal experience with the program because my husband participated for three years before he passed away last year.

The respite senior day program gave me peace of mind knowing he was in a safe environment.

It gave me relief from the stress of being a caregiver and the opportunity to keep myself healthy both physically and mentally.

The activities the program provides gave him the opportunity to socialize with others, stay active with exercise, and use his cognitive skills with games and memory activities.

He looked forward to going to the senior center and made new friends there.

His favorite activity was the drumming class.

He loved the music, and he'd often sing along with Chrissy.

The projects and crafts he completed with the group were very important to me, and I saved every one of them.

I showed shared them with my children and my great grandchildren, especially they looked uh looked, enjoyed looking at them.

He always came home with a smile on his face.

We have a large and growing senior population, and many of them will or are struggling to care for their loved one.

There's a growing need for this very important program in our community.

We would like to invite you to come to the senior center, see the respite senior day program, and see what a wonderful program it is that we have it in this community.

You should all be proud and know, and who knows, someday you may need the help.

Thank you.

Thank you, Kathy.

Karen Miskimmons, Mesquite Public Arts Commission.

I'm not here to ask for anything tonight.

Just here to give you an update on some of the stuff going on.

Um we talked about the Poet Laureate program that is off the ground now, and the nomination forms are available at City Hall reception here and at the STEAM Center.

So if you know of anybody poets, and you can think that you would like to nominate them for this award.

Um, I do believe that we are going to be making we're gonna review them in August, and we will probably have a decision by September as far as um who that public laureate and junior public laureate will be, and we'll present that in October to City Council.

Um, also um, I want to thank everybody who came out for the iron cactus unveiling.

Um, it was pretty awesome to have that many people, especially from the city, um, involved in that.

And we really really appreciated everybody's presence.

Um, that one's off the ground now, they're working on the rest of them.

Um and finally, uh a few months ago you approved a project.

There was a HOA group out by Wingate.

They wanted to do their own little roundabout, and I drive by every so often to check on it.

The ground got graded, and after the grading, now rock is laid down.

It looks awesome out there, it's all cleaned up, the weeds are gone, and so I'm sure that the um wind sculptures will be coming soon.

So thank you.

Thank you, Karen.

John Swanson 1008 Hapsway.

Just a clarification on six four.

Will we be able to have public comment then?

Oh, yeah.

Okay, it said public hearing and didn't have comment.

That's what thank you.

Comment Ronald Shackleford.

Um, I just wanted to touch base with the city and have them maybe possibly have somebody come out and look at the roundabouts on Oasis Boulevard.

The arrows seem to go, the lanes are all, you know, one goes this way, and then you know, and then people still go past it, and there's also been some real close clause in there, um, close calls of accidents and that roundabout one almost my wife got sideswiped.

Um, so maybe look at those roundabouts, OASIS Boulevard, those two of them on there, and uh see if maybe it needs to be restriped in some way or um fixed or maybe some signs or something, because people are not obeying the arrows.

And I know it's hard for people to do roundabouts, some people are confused by them.

So, and the other thing was I just want to remind maybe we should put that sign back on the before it gets painted down here uh where the cars stop for the fire department instead of that sign being right there at the crosswalk, bring that back like I discussed earlier in meetings, so and put the stop you know further away from the crosswalk.

So just want to bring that up one more time.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ron.

Good evening, Mayor.

This I'm Donna Vanita.

I'm a mosquite resident and also president of MRW.

I just want to remind everybody we have our fifth annual spring festival in the park uh by the rec center in the soccer field this Saturday from 10 to 4.

We have approximately 60 vendors, and so we hope that all you people will come on out and join us.

Thank you, Donna.

Mayor, council, Nick Elfonsetti.

Uh I know you all miss me, so I was told I had to be here tonight and uh get everybody uh together here.

Um we haven't heard any report on what happened with the ethics commission compared with your situation.

I I did report on it last meeting.

So I wasn't here, right?

So when will it be going to bid the ethics commission didn't say that they needed to go to bed?

So the commission didn't didn't say that it well said that you could collect and also be mayor.

Yes, right?

Okay, we'll look into that.

Um have we I appreciate it?

Thank you.

Uh have we decided uh as a group here to uh see if we could find a full-time attorney for the city?

Or we still part-time.

Oh, still interim.

Okay, all right.

Uh I appreciate that.

Uh since I've been missing, uh, I understand some things are coming up tonight, so I have to divide this into two public comments.

I can't comment yet.

So I will be back.

Thank you very much for the warm welcome.

Uh thank you very much.

Have a good time.

Thank you, Nick.

You can come back.

Yeah, this is how to say you're done.

You're good.

All right.

Um seeing no one else come forward, we're gonna go ahead and open our end up opening public comment.

Um item 2.1, the consent agenda.

And as Nick just referred to, I do do business with the city.

So, in the unlikely event that I would need to vote on the consent agenda, I would refuse myself.

Um, that being said, we will move on to 2.1 consideration of approval of the Tuesday, February 24th, 2026, regular city council meeting minutes.

The Tuesday, March 17th, 2026, technical review meeting minutes in the April 14th, 2026 regular city council meeting agenda.

2.2 consideration of a notification of bills paid, deep purchase orders.

2.3 consideration approval of resolution number R26-009, adopting supplemental number five to the interlocal contract 1320 between the regional transportation commission of southern Nevada and Clark County, City of Las Vegas, City of North Las Vegas, City of Henderson, City of Boulder City, and the City of Musquite for ITS master plan.

Um questions from council on the consent agenda.

Okay, that being said, any public comment on the consent agenda.

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

Councilwoman Fielding.

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

Do I have a second?

No, I'll talk it.

Okay, call for the vote.

Fielding I Parish Aye, MSI, Callaway.

Okay, item 3.1.

The Southern Nevada Transit Coalition Quarterly Report.

Good evening, Mike Jackson, executive director, Southern Nevada Transit Coalition.

Start out with our general update.

Um, the workforce, it has improved.

Uh hiring has been a bit easier.

Um, it's it's definitely coming back.

As you know, that we've been working real hard on our benefit package.

We've been given increases of about 8% for the last four years, and we're now getting much more competitive with our wages.

We're also seeking uh additional funding from NDOT to start sending new hires to Las Vegas to go after their CDL license.

That's quite an expense for them to do.

So we're trying to help out and get that funded by NDOT.

We also recently did a restructure in our management team, and we hired three new operations supervisors at all three sites.

If some of you don't know, we're in Laughlin, Boulder City, and Mesquite.

And we hired three new supervisors, which includes a new supervisor here in Mesquite, which is Gabriela Flores.

Gabby's here.

We call her Gabby.

She's doing a fantastic job.

Um she comes to us with some management experience, and she's definitely doing very well.

Ridership ridership is decreased a bit on fixed route, approximately 14.6%, which is quite a drop.

But we have some plans, and I'll get to that soon.

Mesquite paratransit is increased, and Mskite Vegas Express has increased.

As I mentioned in my last report, we were working on a project and had to do with sponsorships and advertisement and taking the money collected from the sponsorship and giving it back to the public.

So we're working with NDOT and working with FTA, and they have approved our free fare sponsorship program, which will start May 1st, and our public transit here in Mesquite will be free to ride for three months.

So with the money that we've collected, uh that'll allow us three months of free fares, and that'll be for fixed route and paratransit only.

The Vegas Express will continue to have fares.

So basically any of the transportation that's within the city limits will be free.

One thing that's important, you know, my main thing is to try to get more rides on fixed route.

I want those buses full.

I had a goal at one time to get the ridership up to 10,000, and we did achieve that.

Then the economy kind of tanked, and the riderships dropped.

Some of the other changes we had with the fare box back in those in that time, we didn't have transfers set up in our fare box, so we were forced to give a 24-hour pass to the riders so they can board the other bus.

The riders loved that because they were able to continue to ride free for that 24 hours.

That tells me that the fares is a problem.

The fares are difficult for some.

So that's why we're going after free fares.

So I think it's important to announce the sponsorships for this period.

The current sponsors are three bears air conditioning, desert pain specialist, Eureka Casinos, Juniper Outpost, and Reliance Connect.

As well as the fact that they have advertisement on the buses too.

So really excited.

It took a lot of legwork to get this approved from FTA, but we got her done.

So in your packet, you have the flyers on this program, and there's additional flyers on the table outside.

Any questions?

All right, thank you.

Thanks, Mike.

I I just had one comment, Mike.

I just wanted to say um congratulations on getting that sponsorship because I know you guys worked really hard to get that to happen.

Um, and thank you to those organizations that are participating.

Can the general public work with that as well?

Can donations be made to help?

Sponsor, yeah.

Okay, and they just we just contact the local.

Yes, contact the local and and they want to sponsor the free ride program.

Umce the pilot program is done and it proves to be effective, which I'm sure it will be.

Um, then I will go back to the FTA and let them know that it worked.

We want to continue on, and then we'll start solicit more.

Uh we actually have buses that are that I'm not gonna paint, and I'm gonna keep them available for a full wrap.

Of course, the sponsorship will be quite a bit for that advertisement, but it'll be well worth it.

So one last question.

Um last meeting or so um looking for funding.

There was some issues with funding.

Did that all get straightened out?

Because I haven't really talked to anybody.

The funding the funding that uh for the yearly funding, and if you remember, it was kind of a mess for a while there.

Yes, it's all straightened out, and uh the finance department and new software because there was you know the hack that happened with everything.

That was some difficult times, but we made it through it, and everything's rolling well.

Great job.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you, Mike.

Do we have any public comment on that presentation?

Or report?

Okay, seeing none.

Um do I have a motion from Councilwoman Gallow to accept that?

I'll make a motion to accept the presentation.

Councilwoman Fielding.

I'll second that.

And thanks again, Mike, for coming up and giving us that.

Okay, call for the vote.

Gala I thank you.

Um item 3.2, consideration of a presentation by Dave Anderson and possible direction to staff regarding future uses of the Rock House and the Relief Society House.

Mayor, as the presenter's coming up, I think most of you are aware, but the presenter is my father, and so you know I know big surprise, right?

So if there's any burning legal questions during this item, I will have a conflict.

And so you raised a good getting that out there.

That's awesome.

I'll try and I'll put him on the spot.

Uh my name is David Anderson.

I live at 895 Valley View Drive.

Grateful to be here tonight.

So much appreciate uh the city council's asking uh this the historical committee's opinion on what to do about this building.

The white building that you see on the slide back behind is called the Old Relief Society House.

It was uh built, oh let me look here, starts in 1880 by a group of women who got together and decided that they wanted to fulfill the their motto of their women's auxiliary organization, which is charity never faileth, and they put it together as a resource for care and charity in the community.

It was all uh they did the uh fundraising to be able to build it and to put it up.

It's a beautiful building, potentially magnificent building.

It is very unique among the Church of Jesus Christ, the Latter-day Saints Relief Society buildings that were being built at the time.

This building has a font in it that no other building has that we're aware of, and the church history department indicates that that they've not been able to find any relief society buildings with a font.

So it's very unique and very wonderful.

Um we have, of course, um three things that are are in our historical preservation want list, and we know that uh Mr.

Kim and other members of staff have done a lot to try to find sourcing revenue that we don't have to worry about uh using general funds uh to restore these buildings.

So we're very grateful for that.

Um I um have asked myself this question about every June or July, and I'm sure that you have too.

It goes something like this.

Who in the right mind would ever move here in the middle of the summer in 1880?

And it it I think it's a valid question.

Who in the world would do that?

What kind of people would do that?

I want to just uh tell a little story for you here.

This it deals with the Relief Society House.

The relief society house was on a uh parcel of land that's directly across the street, directly cuts Willow from where it is now.

It uh had to be moved in order to provide egress for uh the the new apartment complex and the heritage park that's there.

And so at that time there was quite a bit of uh wringing of the hands.

What should we do with this building?

Should it be tore down or should it be preserved or should it be restored?

And thanks once again to the city and the city council for electing to preserve these buildings.

Um that piece of land that it was put on was given to the the Relief Society ladies by way of donation.

The person that gave that was an individual by the name of James E.

Hughes.

Uh James E.

Hughes is an interesting fellow.

He was born in Wales.

He uh he has a father and a mother and six sisters that are all in Wales, and they decided that they wanted to travel to America to immigrate America and find the dream.

Uh they made it as far as St.

Louis, and the father and one of his sisters died of cholera.

And so James uh at the age of 14 was the provider protector and the muscle to push a hand cart from St.

Louis to Salt Lake City, Utah.

Uh and as soon as he got there, he records in his journal that he built a uh shelter for his mother and sisters.

Kind of gives you an idea of the kind of people that would move here in the middle of June with no air conditioning.

Family, faith, values, things of that nature were very, very important to them.

James E.

Hughes was also kind of beneficial to this community because he had a scraper that you could pull behind some horses.

He and a fellow by the name of William E.

Abbott, William E.

Abbott had a surveying equipment.

So William E.

Abbott surveyed what we now call Musquete Boulevard.

James E.

Hughes had the scraper, and so he scraped it out.

They decided that uh after hearing a church leader that he said that someday Mesquite will have a boulevard that is so long and so wide it runs east to west.

And they decided that they wanted to make that happen.

So they got up early Monday morning and did it.

Kind of, I don't know what kind of permits they pulled or I don't know what uh environmental impact study they made.

But they just did it.

That's uh another personality that you would find maybe in the city of Mosquete.

Um so but just by way of uh, so you see not only the uh relief society house, you see an old rock house, and you see a side view of the rock house, the tan and brown, that's been added on to the old rock house.

We believe that that should be removed and that the original rock house should be uh tuned up and brought into some kind of preservation.

We're the city council, I believe, is gonna have to decide if they want to restore it to a uh both of these buildings to its former glory or just preserve it to the best of our abilities.

Obviously, a restoration, a complete restoration would be quite expensive, and it would take several years over phases of time to do that.

Yeah, yeah, and it'll become a great uh uh tourist and and other marker for us.

Uh so that's those the recommendations for the uh the exterior of the relief society house is to go back and stucco.

You see kind of the English tutoring of the the wood there up in the eaves and things of that nature.

The building needs to be restockled, the glass needs to be replaced, doors and windows need to be uh repaired and replaced.

Inside uh you can see some of the way that it looks inside.

Um those floors need to be redone, all the walls need to be plastic repainted and brought into some kind of thing.

The picture down here covers what was the font.

And as uh for us, that's the highest priority with uh the relief society house is to get the house so that it can be used, but also to restore that font so that it can be used in uh historical uh explanations and things of that nature.

So we need to re secure the foundation, we need to stucco it around, we need to repair the exterior walls and replace all the glass.

Also you can see from the previous slide that getting into it is going to be difficult without a ramp, and so we've got to figure out any ingress and egress for those buildings.

Um we want to showcase those women that were instrumental in making this happen.

I saw as I came up today a distinguished citizen, placard to a uh pulsifer.

He has a direct connection to Bodell Johnson, who uh was the I didn't want to call her a ringleader.

What should I call her?

Leader.

She's the one that she was the influence and the the muscle behind getting this done.

It's it's absolutely amazing.

Um Mr.

Galt George Gall has graciously come somewhere.

He has just a couple of observations to make concerning the uh tourist attraction of one George Galton for the record.

Um this is the brochure the brochure from St.

George, same sort of thing, Pioneer Corner.

I'm sorry.

Here, set it down on the little thing.

I'll flip it over.

It's upside down.

Which way?

Oh, turn it over.

And then flip it over to the other side.

There we go.

Okay.

I I just wanted to add that the a bit of the tourist dimension to this, because uh David is has told me that across the street, Cat Cornered is the town square park, which was the site of the original encampment when the LDS folks came.

And uh I believe that you know there's lots of tourists who travel to look at historic sites, and I think this is going to be a nice historic site.

And if we are successful in our tourism grant, we'll have electronic kiosks that would guide people, we'll have maps that say start here.

Here you're close to the museum, you're walking distance.

Here's the original settler's square, town square, whatever we decide to name it.

But the I think the tourism aspect of it is is a real natural fit.

Thanks, George.

Thanks, Dave.

Thank you, George.

Um obviously this will take phases and it'll take some time, and we're uh we're glad to uh sign up if you need somebody to help.

Um do you have any questions that I can do?

Council McGulli?

I just want to say I come from back east and preserving history is so important.

Yes, and I think um there's not a lot of options when you think about what we have in this area.

This would be something very I think very important to families when they come in.

Um because it's going to be so expensive.

Is there a way that many of us as citizens can come and do some of the work to help?

This is where I would ask my son, the lawyer.

We have in the past come and tried to do things, and the city's a little nervous because of the liability that sometimes exists when you put electric tools in unexperienced hands, and some of the challenges that go along with that.

It could be a matter of we have a lot of really good contractors in town, and maybe they would be willing to donate some of the things.

Yeah, I I'm sure we I'm sure we've not and we're just starting to get a little bit of that.

Mr.

Kim can talk to us a little bit about some of the funding avenues that he's found so far and and some dollar amounts that go along with that.

I wasn't gonna talk uh today about this one, but uh um yes, I as far as I know of um beyond the city's budget, current budget issues, um the 150,000 has been reserved for uh restoring this uh uh two beautiful buildings.

And at the same time, I uh when I had a discussion with uh um the the state uh CCCHP program.

Um don't ask me about what that stands for.

But uh when I asked about them, and then I wrote uh in uh phase, uh first is a structure integrity, second one is the exterior uh the modification and restoration, and then third one was interior, and fourth one was uh uh utility connection and fifth was a landscaping.

They said that it is uh reasonable uh to uh to face this large project, and uh that and then they also said that uh they cannot, however, support the landscaping.

Uh so fifth phase they they will not support, which he again meant.

I interpret it this way that uh if he apply four times that they will accept four times in phases.

And then uh uh when I asked about the budget, uh, how much they can uh provide.

Uh and I asked about how about uh uh 75,000 uh sounds, and they said uh it it sounds like a good project.

So uh one phase is 75,000.

Uh and then if we uh match I don't know how much money will be available from the city's side, and we if we go for full phases, I think we will see some good improvement there.

It's exciting.

Uh apparently there's a lot of people that uh want to see that happen, and so those funding avenues are being made available more and more.

You've got some awfully good people finding it.

Councilman Wallace.

Mr.

Anderson, I'm with you.

I don't know where this money will come from.

But I believe keeping the heritage of who we are is extremely important.

And this is one way to do that.

These buildings are 146 years old.

They were built when there weren't codes, there was nothing, and to restore them is going to be expensive.

And it may take a decade.

It may take longer.

I don't know how long it will take, but I think it's something that to remind people who started this city where everyone comes and retires and loves and golfs and gambles and does all the things people do here.

It's important for them to know our heritage and why we're here, because of these few people that came here and tough this out and and started this whole city.

So I'm a hundred percent on board.

Again, I it's not gonna be done tomorrow, but it's something worth taking time to do, right?

Yeah, as long as we can get started.

Um, my dad had a saying that he'd always use around me.

He said, after all is said and done, more is said than done.

And uh I've all it's always been in my head.

So if we can just move a little bit a little bit, a little bit, I think we'll be we'll be fantastic, and it'll be wonderful thing.

Uh, to go along with your not build the code kind of statement, where the new firehouse station is when I was growing up, there was a church there.

And as I got older, uh it became more and more apparent that that church built by this people in this area, they build it the best they could.

Uh I wanted to see it restored, and so I was on that bandwagon, and uh the church came to me and said, Do you have any idea how much it's gonna cost to bring all those stairs and all those things up to ADA code and all this kind of stuff?

And they were talking about how much money it would take.

And I said, I it's just precious to all of us, and I'd like to see it preserved.

And uh they said, Well, we'll bring some engineers down and see what they think.

And so they brought a bunch of engineers down, and I was I'll never forget it.

I was standing outside on the road looking at the building, and the engineer came to me, said, Mr.

Anderson, the only thing that's holding that roof on is gravity.

And uh I said, Oh, and he says to bring that up to any kind of code would cost more than a new building.

Um so I understand the realities of that.

We're not gonna, I don't think we'll see a uh a tremendous amount of worry about the kind of flow and traffic and that safety.

It's it's it's a well-built building to put up those, but we'll obviously have to have some other input from architects and things of that nature to make it make it right.

So we'll do that.

Thank you very much.

Any other uh councilwoman filling?

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Mr.

Anderson.

Um, I do remember that church across the street.

My kids graduated preschool on that stage.

So that was so many years ago.

Um so I just really appreciate that the vision that you've had these years to get both of these buildings next to each other to make that a heritage area over there, you know, to preserve the history.

Um I would like to see all of this done.

They've been sitting there for a few years.

I know we've helped out, you know, several projects you have, you know, the ladies come over and help.

So whatever we can do, it depends on finances donations.

I do like the fact that you are getting this grant for 150,000.

Um and I know we've talked about it before, that's not even a drop in the bucket of what you're gonna need.

Right.

And he's like, Yeah, yeah.

So whatever.

We understand the realities, but at the same time, it likes if we can just get a phase here and a phase there and get it going.

I think we'll be right.

And just take down the fencing around there.

It just looks like it's been under construction for a long time.

So whatever we can do, and thank you, Mr.

Galt, for you know, helping you with that as well.

I mean, he's a great guy to work with.

So thank you, Mr.

Anderson.

Thank you.

Anderson um Simon back to your CCC ABCD you they'll cover everything but landscaping or what do they match do you know do you know yet or just kind of get started they don't don't require matching um however uh they said that the 75000 sounds good for this project for one phase uh and the day pays for uh architecture design and uh or the construction uh phase so uh right now uh I have been working with uh local contractor uh for the estimation uh so I I I'll probably get it uh tomorrow or what the day after tomorrow as soon as I get it I'm gonna apply for the grant uh for the 75 thousand dollars and then uh see and we will see how that uh goes so we might have 75 plus the hundred and fifty yes what I what I foresee is if it'll be available uh I would split it in half uh state doesn't require matching but uh uh they want to see our building needs to uh participate so if we split uh 150 into uh 7500 then it'll be helpful for the budget too and then uh we can have 15000 for first first year and second year uh again second phase we can have uh same amount and third and fourth year if you don't uh match anything then still we're gonna have the one uh seven seventy five thousand and then seventy five thousand so we are looking at about um the 45 uh uh 45000 issues oh very nice thank you Simon any other questions for Mr.

Anderson I find it weird to call you Mr.

Anderson um Travis yes thank you mayor one of the the reasons we wanted Mr.

Anderson to come here today and to present this is one to also help to give staff some direction if we want to as Simon was saying we've identified that there are key things that we need to do first the foundations the outside um but also do we want to devote the money towards the release society house only or try to do things on both of them um and then as we're looking at that if there's a vision that the council has for also future years when we're going that way we can as we're planning these future projects and and phasing is this look like it would be used for events or simply just museum and I think that you said more of just for tourism coming through and but those are some of the ideas that as we're uh staff would love to receive that direction on and then as everybody's pointing we can get the ball rolling on some of these but then we have a clear vision of how we can go about those in future years and what future grants would be specifically asking for because there's many items in those buildings if we want to just have it as a museum where you're walking through um we wouldn't need plumbing the water but if you know some electrical but if it's meant for other items then that also increases um what we'd be looking at and so that's more of as we're looking at this um providing some direction on what as the council would love to see that and what the end result may be that we'd have that vision okay well let's devote this money and both for the rock house and the relief society and so if there's and I I don't think we need to necessarily dive into all of that tonight but it would be something that as we continue to discuss this um to have that in mind to be able to give staff that direction.

Councilman Parish after hearing that it sounds to me like that we and I'll speak to junior anderson over here we probably should create a agenda item if we're gonna talk specific monies um would you say that would be true because this is just supposed to be a presentation I don't think we no there's uh we have um can we can uh possible direction to staff and so I mean I think my direction and and you guys can agree or disagree would be we were concentrate on the release society house first the rock house kind of looks like I mean it's it's rock it's not really going anywhere right um so if we get the release side house which looks like it's gonna dig degrade faster if we don't get on it than the rock house would I mean the roof on the rock house looks pretty pretty good and yeah so my thought would be knock out the release society house first and then you know foundation outside anybody councilman one list Travis I was just

Um so if we get the release side house, which looks like it's gonna dig degrade faster if we don't get on it than the rock house would.

I mean, the roof on the rock house looks pretty pretty good, and yeah.

So my thought would be knock out the release society house first, and then you know, foundation outside anybody councilman one list.

Travis, I was just curious.

Is anyone reached out to the LDS church?

They have restored COFOR, they all over Southern Utah.

They have places that they've helped restore, and wondering if they maybe they do have some grant opportunities available, and I'm exploring those at this time.

Just uh yes.

Um just to remind all of you, there is a redevelopment agency fund, and this is exactly the type of thing that should come out of that fund.

Exactly.

So we could have an RDA board meeting at some point to discuss that.

Thank you.

Sounds good.

Thank you.

Um just one as we look at that settler square, that old gymnasium's there, and that would be a good meeting room, good uh community center, wedding receptions, family gatherings, and things of that nature as it gets restored and worked on too.

It would be a nice place to do.

Me and uh Mr.

Lob have thought about that a little bit too.

So I think that's I don't know.

You may have we yeah, we've we've bandied it back and forth a little bit.

So it would be a good opportunity to do a few projects.

Um any other questions.

Thank you.

Any public comment, Ronald Shackleford may shock you a little bit, but I was raised in the church since I was five years old, and I got the opportunity many times because we lived in Illinois to go visit Nauvoo, Illinois.

And we actually had the chance to go through all the old houses, the blacksmith shop, and we got little tiny shoe horseshoes that he pounded out for us and such like that.

Um, in Nauvoo.

And um it's a powerful part of our history in Nauvoo.

And I feel that these two buildings, I have to totally support this.

Um I'd be happy to do a little bit of the electrical work if they need it too.

So um preserving and restoring these structures isn't just about maintenance, it's about honoring the people, the sacrifices, and the stories that shape this country.

Creating guided tours and sharing their history would be an incredible way to educate future generations and to keep that legacy alive.

Support this project 100%.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ron.

Nick Alphonsetti.

Great project, great to work on.

I'd really look forward to seeing it happen.

The one thing I would make a suggestion in the properties that I've worked with in New York, they were huge projects, one of them being an armory with about 300,000 square foot that was built back in 1826.

Okay, and to become on a national registry, if that's where you're headed, uh you have to contact them first, and they will put you on to what needs to be done, what you can do, you can't do to stay within the registry and keep it as much authentic as possible.

Because again, you can do something, you can say, well, let's change the roof.

Well, at that time, it's not authentic, it's not original, and that's the thing that really takes up the time.

But to get it done, once everything has been approved, and you run into something, you call them on the phone, this is what's up, you show them what you're doing, and that's it, it's done with.

You either get approved or you have to they'll they'll advise you which way to go.

And especially, like I said, to get in a national registry is just opening the door for mosquite to get tourism here to see those buildings.

You can do it through your through your church, but there again, to get on a national, which people will travel here to see those buildings, and with the other square area that's around it, adding to it is just unbelievable.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Nick.

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

Have a motion.

Councilwoman Fielding.

If we're gonna need to do direction today, is that what you that what is that what you're asking for?

Yeah, I think we can.

No.

We can.

Oh, okay.

So because I would like to actually look at RDA funds to move forward so we don't have to wait.

And I had those on my notes, and thank you, Martin, for bringing that up.

But this is exactly what those funds are.

Economic development.

Mr.

Galt said it, you know what?

With that picture that he did in St.

George, it's history.

We gotta move forward with our history.

And so I think what we need to do is set an RDA meeting after we can get some bids so we know what we're looking at, how much they're gonna need, and then go forward from there.

So how specific do you want to get with your motion?

Do you want to tell them which building work on first?

Do you want to just correct them to get the bids?

I I actually like your point.

I mean, to work on the relief society first and the rock building later, but to get bids so we can start working on one so we can at least start showing that we're working on it instead of letting it sit there a little bit longer.

So I would like to start working on building one, but get some bids and then go to the RDA with some numbers, how much we're gonna need from there.

Okay.

State it.

I I I do I do have a motion.

I but before you do that, I have a question on the RDA funds.

How much do we have in the RDA funds?

Three million.

12 million and couple million in economic development ish.

Okay, good.

Several million.

So that is my motion to move forward with getting bids on the relief society building first.

After the bids, bring it to an RDA meeting.

Just one more thing.

Um the uh grant application deadline is by the end of this month or so.

Uh it'll all happen.

Application will happen before the RDA meeting, probably.

Um so if you just make a motion to go with uh uh the ellipse society uh house first, uh then that'll uh suffice.

But uh uh I I would like to know if um you wanna go for the relief society uh building uh structure sustainability and then outside and inside and utility connection first out of everything, and then you wanna move on to Rock House or just for the uh the structure or sustainability for both, but really society first.

I that there is some options there.

Uh so we have a limited money in the end, uh even if we have uh LDA money.

So the I need to know uh what's gonna be your preferences so I I can uh fill in the application form right.

Um let's go to Bryce here first, and then we'll bring back to you, councilwoman.

Yeah, I just wanted to we're projecting this year around seven and a half, a little over seven and a half million to be left at the end of this current year.

But the projections that we've gotten from Department of Taxation is that we're gonna get a little over four million more dollars next year.

Travis, your lights still on, did you?

Yeah, just to uh help clarify that I think what we're looking for um honestly is just to get bids.

I would need to know are we looking at the structure, the outside, and the inside if we're talking about looking at the RDA, or are we just looking at doing this in phases, like we're saying, get the outside, let's do that first, and then you know, continue after that.

So I'm not that's one thing that I would like to clear if you want to try to hammer this whole thing and and do that or phases and then bring it back to you after we get some of those phases done on that.

So councilwoman filter.

Thank you.

And I I do want to clarify, thank you for those comments.

I do want to clarify, I would like the relief society inside outside to be completely finalized.

Those are the bids I would like because I think it's gonna look halfway and it's gonna take longer to do phases.

I would like to get bids for everything.

So we have a great big picture of what that's gonna look like.

So that's the bids I want.

If in the event the bids exceed what we have, then we can come back and we can say we'll do this, we'll do this, but we need an end goal instead of letting it sit there.

So that's what I would like.

That would be my motion to say inside and outside.

Okay, councilman Parrish, did you okay?

So councilwoman Galloway.

I'll second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Second.

NSI.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 4.1, Mayor's comments and reports.

So I just wanted to remind everyone that mesquite days is coming up.

Um the parade, which will be Saturday, May 2nd at 10 a.m.

If you're interested in participating, um, contact Paige Holmes at PHolmes at MusquiteNV.gov.

Um they've got quite a few uh register registrations, but more's better for sure.

Um staging begins at 8 o'clock, and then you must be in place by 9 30, and that's the usual spot at the uh LDS church there on Arrow Side.

Arrow side, arrowhead, sorry.

Um yeah, the family fun night, um Wednesday, April 29th.

So that'll be the Wednesday leading up to that from 5 30 to 8.

Activities, games, food, music, and uh bounce houses, the the mechanical bull.

Um, I think we're doing uh free food this year.

Um hamburgers and hot dogs, just hot dogs, just hot dogs.

Okay, sounds good.

We know somebody up here doesn't like hot dogs, but I'll I'll I'll have to talk about the voting.

Oh, yes, and we also have a rodeo coming up next weekend, the battle on the border.

So if you're into rodeo, mesquite used to be a big rodeo town and hasn't been as much in the last few years, so it's exciting to get get that coming back around.

Um that's what I have, Councilman Innis.

Thank you.

Just really quick that our uh VA Mobile Medical Clinic will be here again on this Thursday again from uh 10 to noon and get there early because they usually are pretty full by 11, 11:30.

Thank you, Councilman.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um right.

So unbeknownst to me on February 2nd, there was a Nevada Commission of Ethics complaint filed against me.

Um the complaint, ethic complaint alleges that you participated in several city council votes involving the sale of development or city property for residential housing.

The complaint further alleged that because you are employed in your private capacity as a real estate agent in the city of Musquite area, you're indirectly benefit from residential development within the city.

Although the commission determined that the allegations did not establish a sufficient nexus between your official action interest or private commitment under the ethics law, the circumstances provide an opportunity to alert you to your disclosure obligations under NRS 281A-4201.

Um I received this, and it was dated March 23rd.

Um, I did receive it in my box the other day.

However, I do have an order of dismissal.

The Nevada Commission of Ethics received an ethics complaint on February 2nd regarding Karen Fielding on March 16th, pursuant to the requirement of the Nevada Ethics and Government Law set forth in our S chapter 28A ethics law, the NAC 28A405, the commission conducted its jurisdictional evidentiary review of the record of their record, including the ethics complaints supported evidence and the recommendations of the executive director.

So it is clear that I can vote on land deals in the city of Mesquite.

And and to be honest, I I really do cherish my job on city council.

I take it very seriously.

I take my real estate business very seriously, and nor would I ever do anything that I don't feel comfortable or a conflict of interest for either parties.

So with that being said, um, for future for those people who have brought it up that I can vote on land deals.

And if the event I was ever gonna make a penny, half a penny, I would absolutely abstain.

And it does give me instructions in here how to abstain, and I have before, and I I will do the right thing.

I always will, and I always have.

So thank you very much.

Thank you, Councilwoman.

Um, any other comments from council?

Comments from staff.

Okay, seeing none, we will move on.

Item 5.1, introduction of bill number B26-002, development code amendment case number DCA-261 deep roots harvest, amending MMC sections 2-14-5 to expand hours of operation.

Thank you, Mayor and City Council.

So this is about deep roots.

Uh that is the established business in the city of Musquite right now.

Um MMC 2-14-5 limits their hours of operation uh to between 8 a.m.

to 9 uh p.m.

daily.

Um it is only applicable to their operation in in this town.

Now uh the applicant actually asked me over phone on February 10th, and they uh he asked me if they can extend operating hours to 11 p.m.

I advised him that uh it requires a code amendment because it has been codified into our code.

So uh and then I uh worked with uh uh the police chip and the police chip uh indicated it at the time.

I'm not sure if he remembers it, but uh uh that there are no immediate uh public safety concerns at the time.

So uh we with that advice.

Uh I uh that let them apply for the uh amendment, and then I checked the uh regional uh the uh status of their uh operation time.

So Las Vegas, Calac County, North Las Vegas, all uh permits 24 hour operations, and Henderson allows uh until midnight and Border City allows between uh 10 a.m.

to 9 p.m.

Uh which is the narrowest.

So uh step recommendation is based on the lack of uh identified public safety concerns, uh regional consistency, and uh um uh modest nature of the request that the proposed amendment to extend hours of operation to 11 p.m.

is reasonable and supportable.

So step recommend the city council introduce bill number B26-002 by show title today, uh, and the set the public hearing date for April 28th, 2026.

Thank you.

Thank you, Simon.

Any questions from council?

Councilwoman Gell.

I don't have a question, but I did look up the same information that um Vegas is 24 hours, so we can only enhance the monies that we're getting into our into our coffers right now.

So I think it's a uh a plus.

But thanks for all that research, because it's and thanks to the police department for letting us know that it's okay.

Councilwoman Filling.

Thank you, Mayor.

I agree.

Vegas is 24 hours, and sometimes if somebody needs cannabis, they can go an hour and a half past us and and get it and then drive back.

And so I I don't have a problem with this, and again, we need to support this business and two hours, and if it does help us, the city of Musquite, like Councilwoman Miguel said, you know, if it's money for the city of Musquite for two hours a night, I'm I'm okay with that.

Okay, see no weather lights light up.

I'm gonna turn it over for public comment.

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

Councilwoman Gallo.

I'll make a motion to go ahead and extend the hours to from uh nine o'clock to 11 o'clock.

Councilwoman Fillden Okay, call for the vote.

Parish I know I okay, item 6.1 consideration of approval of an interlocal agreement between Clark County and the Musquite Police Department for the purchase of a breaching system to enhance response capabilities and improve the safety of schools and the hospital within the city of Musquite.

Chief Fells, do you share this?

Oh what this is is a um training um door, it's a big steel door that we train on so that so that we can do forcible entries during so it for um for emergencies and that kind of thing where we have to go like force through a door, so it's a training thing, and it's off of a grant, a JAG grant for a club.

That's a and I'm they required this little process as part of the grant.

Sounds good.

This is pretty simple.

Councilwoman Philly.

No, I wasn't gonna say anything, but you had me at schools and hospital.

So if this if this helps the safety of schools and hospitals and anything else it could be used for, I'm all over this.

Yeah, it's about breaching equipment.

So for instance, this room.

If we were all locked in here and then my guys were outside and had to get in, it's it what it is is the skills and abilities and tools and training to breach those doors so that they can make entry and and do what they need to do.

So that's what it's about safety.

Thanks, Chief.

Um, any uh public comment on this item.

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

Councilwoman Fielding.

I will make a motion to consider or to approve the interlocal agreement.

Councilwoman Gallagher?

I'll second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Well, Ms.

Parish, yeah, so Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 6.2 consideration for approval and submittal by staff, the city of Mesquite State tentative budget for fiscal year 2026 through 2027 to the department of taxation by April 15th, 2026, as required by NRS 354.596 for fiscal year 2026 and 2027.

Bryce.

Yeah, just as we ended our work session last week.

That's I'm just looking for approval by council to submit the budget as is.

Again, that I want to reiterate this was our tentative budget, so there are changes that can be made between now and the final.

Um we've just visited with department heads to ask them to make uh further budget cuts.

A big priority that we had from the meeting was uh really making sure that we get those two firefighters in next year's budget.

Thank you, Rice.

Any questions from council?

Councilwoman Gallo.

Um just a couple things on the budget.

Umward as we go into from whatever we do tonight, and we go into our budget in the end of June.

I'd like to know by department, the needs and the wants, and the people and the things.

We need to have a little bit more clarity on this budget.

Um, as we've all met two by two.

I don't think I'm speaking alone.

We need a lot more clarity on this.

Um, I always remember using the method the kiss method, keep it simple, stupid, or stupid simple.

Um, because coming from outside of government, it's pretty usually pretty easy.

This goes in and this goes out.

But government's very difficult because you have grants and you have these monies, and we need a little bit more clarity on how to understand how to understand um what this is.

So, for example, what do we have in the reserves?

What do we have in a general fund?

Where is the other funding come from coming from?

So I'd like to see a summary report like we've gotten in the past as to what's the starting, what's the ending, where are we at?

Because does I don't know if anybody else on council knows, but I don't know what we have.

And I and that's I know you both knew.

I understand this.

This is something that was thrown in your lap.

So that's why I said as we go forward and we get to the end of June, if we can get a little more clarity with the council, because we're the ones that are gonna have to carry the burden if we vote on something incorrectly.

Thank you, councilwoman.

Any other questions from council?

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

Um item 6.2.

Oh forward, yeah.

Uh Mesquite resident.

Um, I watch the I watch a lot online.

So I try not to uh get too involved as far as that goes because uh sometimes I get frustrated with things and and uh that way I can yell at my phone or the TV, whichever I'm watching.

So makes it a little easier to sit back and stay home.

So anyway, uh my point tonight is is uh at the meeting uh on Tuesday, uh last Tuesday, the budget was uh presented to you as council members.

I appreciate your comments and concerns as a citizen.

Um you guys were very diligent in trying to understand where the shortfall was, the 200,000 dollar shortfall that was presented to you.

Um as a citizen the December 9th, 2025 uh meeting, there was a 25 million dollar surplus presented to you by your independent auditor at the end of the 2025 2024-2025 uh budget.

There's a 25 million dollar surplus in funds to the city.

Um I question why there's a shortfall this year.

I think that's uh concerning.

There's already budget in place.

Where did 25 million dollars go since June of last year?

That's my question.

We're the fastest growing city in the state of Nevada.

Followed by North Las Vegas, Fernley, Henderson, and our sister city, if you will, Boulder City, number 11.

Or 10 above them.

How is it that we're have a shortfall in this city of 200,000 currently?

Without doing anything that council Councilwoman Galloway has asked for, or that uh anybody has asked it to be done, where there's there's issues that need to be addressed.

Uh that councilman one talked about.

You guys all took it very seriously, and I I appreciate that as a citizen.

But I think there's some serious consideration and understanding as a citizen and use council need to understand or know where 25 million dollars win.

Thank you.

Thank you, Dell.

Okay, seeing no one else step step forward.

I'm gonna go ahead and turn it back over to council.

Councilman Ennis.

I'll go ahead and make a motion uh consideration approval of the um tentative budget for fiscal year 2627.

Councilman Fielding.

I'll second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

Okay.

Uh Gallo I because it's tentative.

Okay, motion passes.

Um item 6.3 consideration of a zone change, master plan amendment case number Z CM-26-001 quick trip number 7230 to change the zoning and land use designation for the subject properties APN number 001-18-302-007, 008 and 009, more or less 1.41 acre from the rural residential RE3 to Holt Hotel Tourism HT.

Thank you, Mayor and City Council.

Um, in this case, this is only about the rezoning of the smaller three properties.

Um, we're gonna uh go through the uh the kick trip uh in detail uh for the site plan at the conditional use permit at the next item.

Uh so uh this property is located uh on the northeast quadrant of the intersection between South Falcon Parkway and Levit Lane.

And uh the purpose of the proposed zone change is to merge with uh northern uh larger properties and build a combination store with the fewer uh sales.

Uh so you can see the property is currently zoned IE3 residential, uh, and the surrounding areas are HT and RV and East and Southeast uh vacant uh the single family uh locations.

So first lot is uh 0.64 acre, and then middle lot is 0.3 uh 37 acre, and uh eastern lot is 0.4 acre to total 1.41 acre.

So there was a neighborhood meeting.

We sent out uh notification uh within the ranges of 750 uh feet uh from the location, and uh we uh had a meeting that was held at 530 p.m.

on Wednesday, March 25th.

Uh, and we had a discussion about it.

Um there was a five residents attended, and the meeting lasted for an hour, and at that time, over feedback was positive.

So there is a review criteria.

Uh first one is a consistency with the master plan.

Uh HT designation is to provide for the development of high quality resort hotels and also associated uses providing a wide range of activities for the residents and guests to must keep.

Um, and this proposed development provides a destinate uh destination to I-15 travelers and uh diversify retail and service offerings in this case.

So the combined uh whole property uh will be developed into a new commercial area, and this will support the character of the I-15 exit area.

And uh this is the location leading into I-15 exit exit.

Uh this is uh hotel uh and the tourist zone uh surrounded by the some of the residential uh and commercial, and uh uh this area has been uh transforming into travel center or gateway.

So uh we have seen Dynomart and Panda Express and McDonald's and Ciporo uh around that area.

Uh again, this location is leading into I-15 exit.

Uh is a uh city's uh the exit area.

The requested amendment represents a more desirable utilization of land rather than uh current sporadic developments that that is uh gathering uh around the exit area.

So um uh environmental uh impact uh this property is not environmentally sensitive area, it has been around the urban uh development uh for years.

So um the there is no environmental impact issues.

A lot of people probably interested in about uh traffic impact.

This one was provided by the Kim Nihon uh consultant uh engineering company.

They worked for the uh applicant and uh they uh showed the this chart and then charts that comes next.

So for the PMP uh hour trips, total trip will be expected 172, and when it is split in and out, uh the as you can see from the figure, uh that there will be the 82 traveling to the north.

That is the uh the uh maximum travel uh from the property.

So how much is the 82?

Uh one lane capacity uh allows about 1000 um the or it is around the 900 ishes to the 1200 issues, so uh we are generally telling 1000.

So in that case, we are talking about uh 82 trips, which is about 8% of the capacity.

So uh there is a level of service analysis done by the Kim Nihon.

So as you can see from the table four, uh there is a 2025 existing level of service, which is a CAPA, like that, and then that never changes throughout the 2027, which include the project uh in the end.

And then uh table five, roundabout volume uh to capacity ratio, uh it goes one, it'll be uh filled in, but uh it does not go near to that one.

So uh still have a capacity uh allowed after 2027.

That project is built up.

And then table six project access drive level of service analysis shows no changes.

Um the drive B on the uh level lane shows a uh the level of service.

So uh there shouldn't be any uh traffic issues there.

And uh uh I believe a lot of people questions about uh how that uh uh roundabout works.

Uh so uh to accommodate semi-truck uh generally uh inscribed circle uh diameter is uh uh recommended 120 through the 180 feet.

So we have a 150 feet, which is uh well within the ranges, and then uh the circulatory uh roadway width recommended uh 14 through 18 feet.

We have 14 feet and 15 feet and 18 feet all within the ranges, and entry lane width is recommended 12 through 15 feet, and we have a 13.5 feet.

So uh this roundabout is designed to accommodate uh semi-truck.

Umysis.

Uh so uh when you look at the road, there are uh road turn lane storages.

So if you look at the chart, um there are uh more storages available uh than what they are proposing here.

So for example, in this graphic, when you drive down uh South Falcon Niche uh the parkway, then there is uh from the north to the south, there is a turn left lane that is uh long enough to accommodate uh several um the truck uh traffic there.

Uh so there will be no uh uh the uh backing and uh uh truck will uh get into the site uh safely.

So um desired uh desired pattern of growth, the proposed development location creates an outlying business district.

Uh it it is consistent with uh our uh development pattern in the in the past.

So uh in this case, step recommends that the city council hold the public hearing and approve zone zone change and master plan amendment case number just CM2601 quick trip number 7230 from rural residential i.e.

three to hotel motel, uh hotel tourist H Tone.

Thank you.

Thank you, Simon.

Councilman Wallace.

You were in a meeting with five people, and it took one hour.

I'm trying to do the math here, but this looks like it's gonna take an awful lot longer.

I I don't have a problem with truck stops at all.

I for years, me and my wife had a fifth wheel, or we had motorhomes.

Motorhomes are fun because if you're torn something, a lot of times you can't back up.

So you have to be real cautious of where you pull into.

And if fifth wheel, ours was 39 feet long, you really had to be cautious of where you pulled into also.

So we used we used truck stops all the time.

I appreciated they had restaurants, you had choices inside of them and everything else.

I found some similarities though, and all of them we've been to from the Dakotas to California and Montana to Arizona, and those common, those common things were those truck stops were either located in a light industrial or a manufacturing area, or they were in a standalone area.

I believe there's several reasons for this.

And the first one is that they're extremely well lit.

And at night, if you live anywhere around it, or there was housing anywhere around it, that would be cumbersome to those households trying to get that light out of their house.

And then the second reason is because they're open 24 hours a day.

And a lot of times, especially like in Mesquite, if they're going north and they're going through a way station in St.

George and they're four or five hours ahead of schedule, and they know they can't go through there until a certain time because they haven't slept long enough.

They're gonna find a place just to take a nap for three or four hours before they continue on.

When they do that, depending on the time of year or the location across the nation where they're at, those trucks are gonna be running because while they're taking a nap or they're sleeping, they're gonna have to have air conditioning or they're gonna have to have eat most of the time.

And if they have a refrigerated unit or a freezer on the in the trailer behind them, they can't shut the truck down or they lose their refrigeration and they lose their cargo.

So these diesel engines are running 24 hours a day.

Trucks are pulling in there, they're still running, they're fueling with gas after they feel they're starting those diesel mortars, and they're close enough to homes in this particular spot that I think it would make a difference to their quality of life.

I know I voted yes for a lot of things that everyone out there wanted me to vote no on, but in this case, I I actually do not believe this is a proper location, and I I do believe that truck stops are needed.

Everyone, if you look at the ones in the Virgin Valley, there's two in Arizona, and there's one in Mesquite.

They're in light industrial or manufacturing, or they're in standalone areas.

Again, there's a reason for that.

I think that's being missed here.

I don't know how long we're gonna be here listening to all these people, but I do know that at the end of all this on all of these items, my vote will be no.

Okay, councilwoman fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, all right.

So I did a little fact checking, background check.

Um, got some reports from Mesquite Fire and Rescue and Mesquite PD for the last five years on those roundabouts.

Um the calls were 39 calls northbound and southbound on the roundabouts alone in the last five years.

Mesquite police department has responded southbound, 27 incidents on the southbound.

Um southbound.

Where are we?

Southbound um roundabout, 42 calls northbound on that roundabout.

So one call is way too many.

So then you add semis, more trucks, more trailers to that.

That gives me huge heartburn right there.

Also a little bit more background.

December 11th of 2012, Fly and J wanted to buy the holiday in, and they wanted to level it, and they wanted to put a truck stop there.

People came out in Groves, and that wasn't a best place for a truck stop either.

I mean, that's a major street right there coming from underneath the overpass and on rap off ramps.

So that wasn't the best.

In September of 2015, Fly and J came back with corporate and wanted to use the area directly across from where this area is as the Fly and J, where now the Sinclair, the McDonald's, Chipotle, and Pan Express was.

After hearing what people had said for the last few years, not want a truck stop there either, they did not bring the proposal any further in the city of Mesquite.

So I think we need to set precedence, and we need to not have a truck stop at either one of those exits in the city of Mesquite.

I do vote, I do, however, wholeheartedly agree with Paul with the noise, and they're gonna be running with the new Levitt Lane coming in and coming down there.

It's just it's just gonna be a traffic nightmare for that side of town.

So I also with these facts that I've been checking, and thank you for meeting with me yesterday, sir.

Um, and I know I reiterated some of this to him as well, that I had heartburn, and these were my reasons.

Um so I just want to let you know we don't need any more accidents than we already have on those roundabouts.

So I my vote would also be no.

Councilman Innis.

Thank you.

Just really quick, I'm not gonna take a lot of time here.

That roundabout that you just showed, that was just a northbound roundabout, correct?

Or was that the southbound?

Yeah, sound sound spot.

Uh sounds uh south one.

There is a north one, that is a little bit smaller, but still it is within the uh design standards.

South one, northbound lane.

South one northbound lane.

I want the southbound uh lane.

So my thing on this is uh little just real quick story the other day, and I know that the gentleman y'all are saying you're gonna you're gonna make sure that there's nothing over 51 foot pulling into that truck stop, and not gonna be any overnight or anything like that.

Um for now.

First of all, I don't know how you're gonna police that.

Secondly, um I've about two and a half weeks ago.

I was going around on the roundabout on the Falcon Ridge side on the north side up there by Walmart, and there was a 51 foot trailer going around that round about getting up on the southbound lane.

There was a vehicle that was going to pass that truck on the inside lane, because he was on the outside lane.

Well, he could.

He had to make that sharp turn when he turned on going to southbound, and he went into the outside lane.

His trailer came on to the inside lane, and not only did it come out of the inside lane, he went up on the median right there.

Because and he took up all three of that.

This poor vehicle had to go up on the median to avoid a collision.

Now, whether they were flushered or whatever, when they came down off that median, most people would think that you'd go around and come around again.

They didn't.

They came down off the medium and went against traffic to go up on Falcon Ridge Parkway.

I don't care what the loss of Dallas says.

I've seen it every single time I went through that roundabout where especially with with B and T pulling dual trailers, they go up on that median, and there is absolutely no way that they're gonna anybody can sit there and tell me that these truck drivers and half of my family drives OTR.

So that they're gonna make sure that they stay in that one lane so they don't cut off cars and stuff like that.

That roundabout cannot handle um a 51 foot, let alone a dual truck, and I don't know how they're gonna police that.

So with all that being said, um, yeah, I'm gonna have to side with uh everybody else, and that's gonna be in my no boat.

Councilwoman Gallow.

Ditto ditto did all.

Uh, but what I did want to say is I don't understand why this is even coming up.

That was the purpose of a putting on that exit just before this and heading north, that we already have a truck stop with enough road to be for trucks to get in and out.

I don't understand why we need one within a couple hundred feet, basically, uh a mile or so.

Um, and I will say that I came from Vegas.

I took a busload of people to Las Vegas uh uh for shopping.

Just the bus itself, which is one unit as opposed to a trailer and a camp and a and a cab, has a hard time make making that circle.

I can't even imagine having a tractor trailer.

Not to mention the fact that there are residents that live in that area.

We are here to represent the residents, and they don't want it.

So along with everyone else up here, it's it's just not a good idea.

Councilman Parrish.

I'm the low man on the totem pole.

I can see that.

Um I'm with the other four folks, and so everybody you I believe you have a five-zero vote not to allow this.

So if you want to come up and talk for a couple hours, so be it.

Um, but it looks to me like this is going to get defeated, and uh so thumbs up to everybody.

Thank you for all your input.

I know I've talked with a lot of you folks, and uh so thank you for all your input.

Um I believe we everybody made up their minds here, so probably you it won't work any any further, but uh I need to uh tell you that uh you've been calling truck stop, but that it is not.

Uh so when you look at the 76 uh right across from the uh neighbor casino, they have about 96 uh truck parking spaces, but that this one has only uh seven parking spaces for semi-truck.

So that there are a lot of differences in between truck stop and this one is uh kind of seven parking spaces for the truck and then gas station.

Uh so that there are some differences.

Okay, councilman parrish.

Yes, Simon, I I understand that, but on their plans that were submitted by them, there is a set of truck scales.

If there's a set of truck scales, what the hell is it called?

It's a truck stop.

I'm sorry.

So gentlemen, you're gonna get defeated on this today.

You understand that.

If you want to come back with a proposal similar to the Dino Mart, I think you'd have a lot better chance.

So you might want to take that under advisement and go from there.

Thanks.

So before before you make your vote, are we allowed to if we uh sign?

Yeah, go ahead.

Are we allowed to make public comment at least or address the application?

Um, Councilman Ennis, you want to say something before they're really really quick.

Um you might not be calling it a truck stop, but you're gonna have a huge amount of trucks coming there and gassing up.

You're also gonna have car car pumps, I mean uh gas pumps are also.

And so you're gonna have diesel pumps and gas pumps there, and you're gonna have a huge amount of trucks coming through those roundabouts to gas up.

They don't have to stay overnight.

They can only be seven parking lots.

I don't care, but you still got scales, and there's gonna be a huge amount of trucks coming into that into that spot because I can remember that some of the presentations you said the gas is gonna be cheaper, and they're gonna want cheap gas.

And I don't mean cheap and bad, but cheap gas.

And so you're gonna have a lot of you're gonna have a lot of trucks coming off this freeway, both north and southbound, to get that gas, to get that diesel.

And so it doesn't have to be an overnight truck stop.

There's gonna be a hell of a lot of trucks coming off that that freeway.

Thank you, councilman.

So, gentlemen, you the time is yours.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor, Council members.

My name is Tony Celeste address 1980 Festival Plaza Drive here in Los or in Las Vegas.

I represent Quick Trips along with me as Braxton Key with Quick Trips.

Uh, just a couple of things I wanted to explain about this project and then turn over to Braxton as to why we think quick trips is a good investment in this community.

First, uh the site is a little over six hours cumulative.

As uh the director of planning mentioned, about one and a half, a little less than one and a half of the acres is uh still planned residential.

The rest of the property is already planned, the hotel tourists.

Uh immediately to the east of us is uh Casablanca.

There was comments about you know 24 hour uh seven days a week operations.

Well, it is on this corridor right here.

It is directly to the east of us, it is across the street from existing residential.

Um, so it is a 24-hour corridor through here.

You have it on the other side of Falcon Ridge as well.

And that is really one of the analysis that your planning department did a good thorough job on on reviewing how this is a compatible zoning request, and that basically it is essentially an out parcel of everything else that is already zoned uh more intense use, and this is really just a remnant parcel left over.

Um, one of the other things that um you know, so right here you can see, or I don't know if we could get the aerial up or can see uh can see right here.

Um again, this is what I'm uh talking about right here.

Um one of the other things that um you know so right here you can see or I don't know if we could get the aerial up or can see can see right here um again this is what I'm uh talking about right here you can see that the portion that fronts along uh towards uh Mesquite Boulevard in the 15 and even does go down to Levitt Lane is already zoned H2 HT along with all of uh Casablanca here so really is just in closing including this portion right here um also directly across the street is R V zoning and as you go further uh down you have commercial with respect to the existing traffic we have um already you know submitted a a thorough trafficked uh report and as it indicated we're not bringing in truck traffic truck traffic is already there um this analysis shows on average that there's 25 uh 18 wheel vehicles traversing through this area already so we're simply capturing what is existing there um another thing is this is and I appreciate the clarification because I think it's a very important clarification we had the neighborhood meeting and last week at the technical review meeting we um asked to meet with the neighbors afterwards and they were very grateful to meet with us and that was a very important distinction that we needed to make that this is not a truck stop it is not have a a uh a shower rest area or anything like that associated with it we only have seven overflow parking spaces for semi trucks um we only have five bays uh for fueling with the ability to stack five behind them so it's no more than 10 which would be a a crazy amount at any time we don't would would never think there'd be 10 18 wheelers on the site at the same time so the site can fully accommodate all stacking of of uh the trucks that are gonna be fueling on site and then leaving um there is already existing RV and trailers that are gonna go past this site as they go down to the uh existing RV parks that are across from the Casablanca golf course so there is already heavy commercial traffic in this area we are simply just capturing what exists there I'll let Braxton explain a little bit more about Quick Trip as well as discuss the scale the scale that's on the site and the operations thank you hi guys I'm Braxton Key uh I'm with Quick Trip Corporation I just want to give you guys a brief presentation about QuickTrip maybe hopefully change your guys' minds I know you've all already said that you're no but hopefully we can get those to a yes or maybe to a continuance and we can work on this deal together because I think Miskite's a great community I've spent several weeks here I've been going back and forth from Denver uh last seven weeks now so I I have really gotten to know your community really enjoy your community and I think we would be a great addition to that community.

So like I said I'm Braxton Key I'm with QuickTrip I've been with QuickTrip since 2011 started at 16 years old in the stores sweeping mopping doing everything that a 16 year old doesn't think I would stay with the company for as long as I have but now I'm reaching 15 years.

So it clearly they're doing something right.

Our team on this project is me Braxton Key I'm the real estate project manager.

The person who's acquiring our land force is Ryan Harding he's my real estate manager.

Taylor Erdman from Kimley Horn she's over there and then Max Barnes also from Kinley Horn are our traffic engineer and our civil engineer on this project.

And then Camp for Crow, Tony Sales you guys met him he's our attorney and then we have Jennifer Lazovich as a backup attorney so the purpose of QuickTrip is to provide opportunities to grow and succeed for our employees.

I'm an example of that like I said I started 16 years old and now I'm here standing in front of you guys today trying to build the future of QuickTrip so that I can give future employees more opportunities to grow and succeed.

Our founder Chester Casho his leaving remarks as he left the stores to go to the corporate office and lead us in a different capacity was that if you're not taking care of your customers you better be taking care of the people who are and I I feel like this value has been held true to this day.

Few fast facts about QuickTrip we've spent 15 years on Fortune's list of 100 best companies to work for we are frequently on Fortune's top 100 privately held companies we create an average of 20 new jobs per location this is an initial job creation throughout the course of a store we're looking at 300 to 400 jobs created within each community that we are in we have several stores that are operating north of 35 years to date we have never laid a single employee off in our entire 70 year history.

If we close a location we provide a generous moving package to move those employees to a new location or we provide them severance if they're unwilling to move out of their communities and we completely understand that no harm no foul and they're always welcome back.

Average store manager's salary starts at 110,000 per year.

This fluctuates between locations, business.

I mean, obviously it's it's based on profit, so they get a share of their profit.

This is a you know nine to five job.

It's it's actually four to three, but you know, it's Monday through Friday.

They come in every day, they have full benefits, they have employee stock options, they have every every benefit that a corporate employee would have.

Um, and they are a part of they're what helps grow us as a community and as a as a company.

Um average assistant manager's salary obviously starts about half that because they are the foot in the door.

These are the people that we have off the streets, or we promote from within.

Um, and then we also contribute five percent of our total profits back into each community that we're in every year.

Um, this is selected via committee every year, and we love to partner with local communities with you guys.

I mean, Mesquite Day sounds like an awesome opportunity for us to donate back into.

Um, and then we're also a national safe place organization for any endangered youth that come into our uh stores and asking for help.

We feed them, we put them in the back room in a secure location, and we wait for authorities to show up so that they can get the help that they need.

Moving on.

So here's a little bit of our community involvement.

As you can see, we do a wide range of community involvement across multiple markets.

And then now I'm gonna move on to fresh food.

Uh we bring in donuts every week.

We have a robust coffee selection.

Um, we have a great drink selection.

Here's one of our employees cleaning our drink selection.

We have free zonies on the left, fountain drinks on the right.

Breakfast pizza, which I've eaten one or too many of.

Uh put on a few pounds while I was in the stores.

It's excellent.

Then we have several different sandwich options that again are made in house.

Um we run our own kitchen.

We do not hire a third party, we're not bringing in Burger King or Sonic, or we're not bringing in a restaurant like you had mentioned earlier.

We we're bringing in our own people, we run it, we operate it, we supply it.

And then here's our newest items that we're very excited about, which is our crispy snacks.

Um, we have mozzarella sticks that are similar to Sonic's, we have waffle fries that are similar to Chick-fil-A, and then the prized apple pie, um, which is McDonald's fried apple pie from the 90s.

And then, as you guys have seen earlier, here's our site plan.

Um, as Tony mentioned earlier, we only have seven parking locations.

These are temporary or short-term parking locations for uh WB56 um diesel trucks, so or RVs or large long campers.

Um there's several options for people to park there, but these are all short-term parking that we police and manage internally.

They are only meant for two to four hour parking at a time, uh, not to exceed that.

There is no over overnight parking.

We do not offer that.

We do not offer amenities such as laundry, showers, uh, we do not have a rest area, we do not have a location for people to sit and dine.

We are a get-in-get-out location.

That's what sets us apart from a flying J from a TA from Maverick from any of our competitors because we are we do things quite differently.

We do have a truck sale because that is an amenity that truckers like to use when fueling, but it is it is not an amenity that is going to encourage overnight parking because we have 24-7 security that monitors our lots.

If we see any anybody that's violating that 24-hour um ordinance, like if they're staying over that four-hour mark, we we've tracked them.

Uh, we alert our store team.

Store team goes out and engages with the trucker.

If they refuse to leave, then we engage law enforcement.

Moving on, here's our landscaping plan.

Um, we did a lot of landscaping along the perimeter, as you can see on Levitt Lane to mitigate any light pollution or noise pollution leaving our lot.

We have also uh had a condition from your staff saying that we need to put up an eight-foot masonary wall along Levitt Lane and along our property line uh with Casablanca.

So we are we're willing to do that as well to help mitigate as much noise and as much neighbor disturbance as possible.

Moving on to our store design.

Here's what the elevations look like for the store.

Here is a canopy elevation and then a diesel canopy elevation.

Um, and there is actually only four bays, so one, two, three, four, uh, fueling on either side, but only four trucks can enter at one time.

Then you have stacking behind them for an additional four, which, as Tony alluded to, we don't anticipate ever having eight semi-trucks there at one time.

And then moving on to uh comments that we got at our meeting last week.

Um, folks wanted to see our elevations for a pole sign, which is 65 feet, which matches the pole signs that are in the area and is also conditional use um that we have on the docket today.

So again, thank you guys for your time.

I really appreciate you.

I hope to answer any questions that you have.

I hope to sway you in a in a direction that is positive, but I understand if we need to have a continuance or if you deny us.

Thank you, guys.

Oh, stick around here, councilman Ennis.

This is for the attorney.

Um you basically said that on your analysis, you captured 25 trucks always going, always being here, something like that.

And so you're you're sitting you're gonna try to tell me.

Let me back up a second.

I think I'd love quick stop.

I've been to all your quick stops down south.

I love them, I love the donuts.

And uh that's why our that's that's why that's that's why I run so much because I love the donuts.

But um, I I don't I don't accept the fact that you're only gonna catch capture the 25 trucks that are currently going through our roundabouts and all that, because as soon as word gets out, and you all know that it does, um, you're gonna get a lot more trucks than 25 coming off the roads and off the freeway.

That's 25 in an hour, though.

Yeah, you're you're gonna get we we have we have close to nine million vehicles going up and down our freeway right here every year.

And so you're gonna get more than 25.

And so that's just that's just the way that's gonna be.

I sell yeah, no, I I I appreciate that uh councilman.

We this was purely to show that there is the truck traffic exists.

It's not it's not a new element that's gonna be introduced.

Certainly, we're choosing this location because of the you know heavy traffic that is going down I-15 there and to capture that and bring it to the site.

So uh, but also as mentioned in in the traffic study and in the director's presentation, these streets are operating at potentially eight or nine percent of their full capacity.

So even if we bring in this is highly successful, we're not gonna be nearly approaching the volume of traffic that the streets can accommodate as well.

So, but thank you.

Councilman Wallace.

Thank you for putting your presentation.

It doesn't change the fact of where this is and the problems that will exist, not me, but will exist, and as things grow around you, it will be even worse.

The concept is fine, the location sucks.

So keep the concept and find a new location.

Um councilwoman Gallow.

I I agree.

Um, and this is uh you look like you have a wonderful um product and a great location.

You put a lot of thought into it.

It's just not the place.

It's just um there's no everything everything is against this.

So with us saying no, it's not because we think that you're horrible or that you don't you're doing.

Um I you have a wonderful layout and the what you pay, etc.

But this is just not not the place, and our people, they're the ones that speak, so is going without the trucks and non-starter, is that unfortunately, yes.

That that that would kill this site.

Um, I mean, we we can we can reevaluate it, but it we wouldn't need to buy you know 6.8 acres, which we are under contract for.

Um, we wouldn't, I mean, we wouldn't do near the volumes that we're thinking merchandise-wise.

Um we we've put a lot of man hours into this, um, as we do with every site, and that's that's why we selected this location, and that's that's what we're proposing to you today.

Okay, thank you.

Yeah, councilwoman Phillips.

Well, I would I was just gonna say, I don't know if you're familiar with Bloomington, Utah.

There's uh track step up there, and there's a roundabout, and on the other side is a roundabout, and it's coming out of Walmart and a Chevron gas station and three arteries coming into it, and it's a nightmare.

It's horrible.

And I would want you to come into a community that you don't have a roundabout, that you don't have all those heartaches, you know, trying to maneuver a semi.

And my family had a trekking company years ago.

I mean, I give semi-drivers so much credit on the road, but in our city on our roundabouts, you know it, and with the statistics that I just read with the accidents we already have.

I I still, and thank you for that presentation.

And I saw those yummy pictures yesterday, and so I I still am I still have to pass on this.

Thank you.

Thank you, Tony.

Thank you, Braxton.

Appreciate you.

Um that being said, how many can I we're gonna do a brief survey?

How many people here are against the roundabout?

Okay.

And and how many people here are for the roundabout?

Okay.

So as we enter public comment, I think we kind of know where everybody stands.

Of course, if you still want to get up and comment, you're welcome to.

But uh if you don't, I I think it's pretty clear where everybody stands.

So I'm gonna go ahead and open public comment that being said.

And then we could skip the next two items.

Yeah.

Yeah, Steve Bailey.

Uh Musquite, Nevada, and uh Sunset Greens.

I want to thank all of you for your comments, and you hit it right on the head.

That is not the place.

I don't understand why it isn't down at 118.

Why didn't they look down there or is all that sold already?

But there's other places, but that is not the place.

That would end up within five years, it'd be the biggest nightmare.

So thank you all very much.

Thank you, Steve.

Hello, everybody.

My name is Amy Bauken.

I live in Sun City, and I want to thank the council and the mayor.

I sent a letter to all of you, and I heard back from Patty and Jesse and Karen.

Thank you for getting back to me.

I agree with all of your opinion, and I have to just add a couple quick things.

Even if they took the truck stops away and just had it be a quick trip, we have the most expensive gas station right up the road.

We have the second most expensive gas station right next to there, next to a Starbucks, who I would argue has better copy than Quick Trip.

We have the Sinclair next to the Chipotle and everything else, and right up the road from Casablanca is yet another gas station, all with convenience stores.

So Quick Trip with the truck stop or without the truck stops offers nothing new, just another truck stop.

And I want to go to your presentation, which I thought was great, and I thought your study was really good.

When you were talking about changing the zoning and why we want to do this, there was something in there about diversity of services and of something else in the city.

If you count the number of gas stations that we have in the city, it's ridiculous.

It's ridiculous how many auto repair stores we have.

I can't how many people are repairing their cars?

So when we are talking about diversity, I think we need to be looking at really different services that serve the community.

So I have no problem with that getting rezoned to hospitality and tourism.

I think that part of that's great.

But let's look at something for kids, let's look at something for the city, let's do something to increase tourism.

Let's really focus in on some planned purposeful growth for our city and move forward.

Thank you very much for your time.

Thank you, Amy.

I'm John Swanson.

Last week I stood here and I was against the whole thing.

But you know, sometimes condemnation without investigation hurts.

And I did a lot of investigation, and I did meet with the people from Quick Trips and spent quite a bit of time listening to them.

And then I went and did a lot of research on my own, and I'm for it for the simple reason that I think it's gonna be it would be a nice addition.

And I live in the area, I live in Coyote Willows, and with the brick wall and only having so many trucks in there, not a lot of trucks at a time, they're gonna stop for fuel and maybe grab a bite to eat and leave because there are no showers and there aren't all these things, and I don't think their noise is gonna be any different than when the Casa Blanc has their outdoor pool parties that you can hear all over, but I'm for it because I think it I don't know what else would go in there, but I'm they've got a great product, and they it's you know, it looks to me like it'd be better than what's around there right now.

But the other thing about truck drivers and companies, they have places where they're told to fuel and this and that, and the ones going northbound aren't gonna fuel there because they can go right down the road and get into Arizona where it's gonna be a heck of a lot cheaper coming this way, unless they're running out of gas, they're gonna fuel before they get here because you can go to Beaver Dam and your fuel is gonna be a lot cheaper.

And to somebody fueling a semi, that makes a lot of difference.

Simply because of the price of fuel.

And other than that, we've got semis coming in to service Walmart, service the cost blonde.

There's a lot of traffic coming in anyway.

And I don't see that the fuel traffic is going to be semi-traffic is going to be that great.

And the other thing I appreciated when I talked to them, they're going to have their own security on site.

So people are the trucks aren't going to be there running all night long.

They're going to stop and go on because they're not going to allow them to stay there that long.

But I know you guys have all made up your mind.

But I had made up my mind last week, too, until I talked to them and then I did my research, and I would be for it.

But I don't think that's going to matter.

Thanks.

Thanks, John.

My name's Bill Coles.

I'm from Musquete.

I was sitting here looking at this 6.3, and it says consideration of zone change, master plan amendment to change the zoning and land use designation.

You got the perfect opportunity to clear up this land tonight, so we don't have to sit through this again the next time somebody wants to build there.

So this is a good opportunity to pass this for the land use and the land use only.

You don't have to give it to quick stop.

Oh, go ducks.

Thank you.

Hi, my name is Ray Harkey.

I live in Sun City.

And thank you for considering this truck stop.

It is not a good place to have it.

It's too crowded there.

We've seen we have trouble with that ramp because ramp coming off of northbound and southbound.

Don't even have a stop sign, they have a yield sign, and we're having our problems with that.

Should be stale sign, uh stop sign where there's we don't have to put a lot of money in a solar panel on top of it with uh a stop sign and red lights around it.

Okay.

Um the other thing is is that we have um four gas stations on that side of I-9.

I 15.

And um they're all pretty close to each other, you know.

Uh and I don't think that we need any more gas stations on that side of the road at all.

I think that's sufficient.

And the other thing, somebody brought up the fact that it is cheaper gas down the road.

So uh we got to consider using that property somewhere else or some way else.

Um, you know, maybe mini golfe golf thing or something left for kids.

Something simple like that.

And that's what we should concentrate on.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you, Ray.

Bob Peterson, I live in Sunset Greens.

I just a couple things to say.

Hindsight is 2020.

Councilman Fielding said, go to Brigham, the Brigham exit and see what exists there.

We could use that as hindsight.

That's exactly what would happen here.

Talked about this not being a truck stop.

I've driven over the road.

I've driven trucks, I've gone to truck stops, and believe me, what I wish they would have shown in the pictures is pictures of the semis coming off the freeway and the backup of the freeway and the number of semis that have almost run cars off the road at the roundabouts.

I want to see pictures of the actuality.

Show the semis, not cars coming around the roundabout, show the semis, and then double that because the pot the number of semis coming through.

I was an independent trucker.

I'm not committed, I wouldn't be committed to what a union or another company told me where to go to fuel up.

And there are more independent drivers than there are union drivers on the road, and they will stop wherever they can, whenever they can.

Thanks, Bob.

Winter Delamar 550 Del Lago, Sunset Greens.

And it I noticed in uh the item 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.4 doesn't even address the fact that it is a truck stop.

And that should have been put very clearly in 6.4.

And I just wanted to make sure everybody understood.

I think Paul Wanless Council member there said it the best.

It is a decent project, but it's the wrong location totally.

It uh if you build it, they will come.

Unfortunately, the gentleman who spoke before Bob said that they will go down the road, but that's not true.

Truck stops when they spring up, if you build it, they will come.

And I just quoting an old movie, so just wanted to let you know that uh that it shouldn't be in that location, period.

Thank you very much for your time.

Thank you, Winter.

Uh Jeff Hoyt, I live in Mesquite, and I really don't care a whole lot about whether the truck stop goes on there, but I kind of have a pet peeve with everybody in the city that's got this attitude is we don't need this, we don't need that.

This is what we should be doing.

And it seems like I never see those people are the ones that are getting out their checkbook writing the checks to make something happen here.

So it's just a pet peeve of mine.

Thanks, Jeff.

Apologize for coming back up, but I there was a comment about actual footage and part of our if we can don't mind going back to the overhead.

We as part of our traffic study, uh, which was thorough, we did provide photographic evidence.

We took in account, we were out there uh several days analyzing this and did take uh pictures and notes of what was the real really going on out there.

So we have all the pictures we have done the study very thoroughly that has been submitted as part of our backup and justification for this uh development and why this roundabout, as the director said, does does fit and comply with the ability to have trucks on there and take on additional capacity.

So we're not just it's not just theoretical, this is an actual study with the evidence presented before you.

So we think there's plenty of basis to to support this.

So thank you again for letting me speak again.

Thank you, Tony.

Dominic Olivetto, and I really, mayor, I really wanted to keep my mouth shut.

But everybody's talking about pictures and all of this stuff.

Does anybody remember when we had the big crash on the freeway and they run all the semis through Besquete Boulevard and back on the freeway?

Anybody that was in the voluntary police department and guided those trucks back on, I'll tell you there wasn't one truck that was in one lane, they were in two lanes covering everything because they can't make the turn.

His picture right there shows the trailer in two lanes.

Thank you.

Thank you, Dominic.

Nick Elfassetti, thank you very much for doing what you did.

I have to agree with Patty.

I own a 45-foot bus, and to try to take it around those roundabouts would be challenging.

Okay, but in the case of an emergency, think about this.

You got a tractor trailer, it's got a permit load, which means it's either oversized, overweight, or over length.

And you got an emergency.

Where is he gonna do?

He's gonna see up truck stop next exit.

He's gonna get off, and he's gonna find himself in a real mess, and it's gonna create a nightmare out there.

So I say, you know, you did the right thing.

Thank you very much.

Appreciate it.

Do I do we need business?

Yeah, we need business, but in the right places.

Thank you.

Thank you, Nick.

Jaron Pay from Sunset Greens.

We've talked a lot about the uh vehicular traffic and what we haven't brought up or mentioned that no name road is going away, and the new roads are gonna go in, and we don't have any idea how the traffic flow and pattern is going to exist once they start.

Uh how's the people gonna get into Coyote Willows?

I know how I'm gonna get into Sunset Greens, but the traffic flow has not been addressed in the future, how it's gonna evolve, and that's really concerns me that we don't have a clue.

We think we do, but watching the traffic come off that freeway and them roundabouts and the excess, it's gonna be awfully interesting.

But anyway, I want to thank the council for their diligence and their looking into it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh hi, my name is Max Barnes.

I am the traffic engineer for the project.

Um, there's a lot of concern about the roundabout.

From a technical standpoint, I want to explain just a little bit about how this roundabout was designed.

And with all the traffic growth projections that we studied as part of that project, the roundabout functions with increased traffic in the next 20 years.

So that part shouldn't be a concern.

And then here with the way this was designed, we didn't.

And we can put onto existing line work.

That's something that would have been done when they designed this roundabout initially to be built.

And we felt pretty confident that N DOT as you know, this is adjacent to their facility would have required something like that, which is why we decided just to look at the camera footage that we had collected to show us what traffic is existing right now.

And so we have we collected a couple of examples from that, where you can see right here with this truck, it's on this this apron is what it's called, and it's designed for that specific use to keep the truck from damaging the interior of the circle of the roundabout.

Um, as far as trucks using multiple lanes within the roundabouts, that's there the hope is that they don't, but it is an allowed use.

Um, and as someone who's driven a Great Hound West before, roundabouts are terrifying.

And I know that roundabouts are scary to drive through as a regular person sometimes because you don't know what the person lay next to you is gonna do.

Um and that's that's one of the facts about roundabouts is they're sometimes unknown to people who aren't familiar with them.

Um, but the study of this roundabout and the the one north of the freeway showed that they're being used as designed.

There's nothing unusual, nothing, there's no defect that we determined from the roundabout design.

So thank you.

Thanks, Max.

My name is Lance Parker.

Uh thanks, Mayor, and council people for uh allowing us to be here tonight and talk about this stuff.

I too am totally against this thing.

I live in Sunset Greens down there, and coming up no name and trying to get on this roundabout sometimes is amazing.

There's just too damn much traffic, and there's a lot of trucks that come off that freeway, the Barney trucks that are running out this way, and some of the other ones out there.

This is just gonna bring more and more of that traffic in there.

That is totally not a very good place to put that.

I don't want to see that thing redeveloped.

And you know, I you had a good idea, put a minute your golf course on that corner.

You know, I think that's a great that's the best idea I've heard tonight.

You know, and keep the trucks out of there.

You know, we don't need them over there.

They got plenty of truck stops anywhere they can go here.

We just don't need another one down there.

Those roundabouts are marginal at best, even for just regular car traffic.

I get there.

I mean, yeah, I drive it every day.

I mean, I'm sure you do.

You know, you see some of the stuff that goes on in those roundabouts, it's crazy.

So, anyway, I appreciate your position on this whole thing about putting a hold to it.

So, thank you.

Thank you, Lance.

All right, I'm gonna go ahead and close the public hearing.

Um, just to remind the council, this is not the whole project in its total.

This is just the zone change on those three properties.

So that being said, do we have a motion?

Councilman Parish.

You know, at this point, um I wish the landowner was actually here or one of the landowners, um, to see if they would like to see the zone change so that is one big chunk of property, and then what we can go ahead and do is uh deny the conditional use permit on item 6.4.

So without having any guidance, I don't really know which way we need to go.

Um, I don't know how the rest of the council feels, but this is something we could approve, the change of use, and then it's gonna be one big lot of land, commercial land that could be used for something in the future, and then we can deny the conditional use permit on uh item 6.4.

So whatever the council decides, I will go along with, but that's an option that we have.

What if we just vote no now?

And if the the landowners want to change that, they can come in and ask for that change.

I concur.

And and I and I agree.

I think every case needs to be looked at individually.

So if somebody else wants to come and buy that property, then we can look at that separately because it might be something different, it might be a hospital, it might be something else.

We don't know.

It could be a convenience store, it could be a Smiths, it could be a miniature golf.

Okay, so if we lack a motion, then this is a good one.

I'm gonna make a I'm gonna make a motion then now that I've got some guidance.

No, it with a lack of motion.

Oh, a lack of motion.

Okay, very good.

Okay.

That being said, I will ask for a motion.

Okay, seeing none.

Dies for lack of motion.

Okay.

Item 6.4 consideration of conditional use permit case number CUP 2601 quick trip number 7230 to approve a convenience store with fuel cell gas station at 1091, 1093, 1095, Levett Lane, APN's number 001-18-302, 007-008, 009, yeah 023-024 in the Hell Hotel Tourist HT zone.

Um I don't think we need, I think we got the uh presentation all ready.

So I think we're good.

We'll get ahead and open up the public hearing.

Okay, seeing no public comment, I'm gonna turn it back over to council.

Do I have a motion?

Okay.

No motion.

Guys, for lack of motion.

6.5 consideration of a variance case number V-26-001 and conditional use permit case number C UP 26-004 quick trip sign to allow a 65-foot high poll sign where the maximum permitted height is 25 feet, and to permit two freestanding signs exceeding 25 feet in height within approximately 200 feet where 250 feet is required at 1091, 1093, and 1095 Levitt Lane, APN's number 001-18-302-007, uh 008, 009, 023, and 024 in the hotel tourist HT zone.

Um, any questions from council?

No, I'm gonna go ahead and open up the public hearing on item 6.5.

Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and close the public hearing.

Um, do I have a motion?

Okay, item dies for lack of motion.

Okay.

Now we're moving on to item 6.6.

Consideration of amendment to the purchase and sell agreement executed by the city of Musquite and Commonwealth Development Corporation of America to extend the closing of the cell of property located at 401 Falcon Ridge Parkway.

Martin, is that you?

Thank you, Mayor and Council.

Um on October 8th, 2024, the City of Musquite Council approved resolution R2404, finding that it was in the best interest of the city to sell the parcel.

On November 11th, 2024, the City of Musquite Council approved resolution 24066, finding that it was in the best interest of the city to sell the parcel to Commonwealth Development Corporation.

A purchase and sale agreement was um executed.

Escrow was opened, and the buyer commonwealth um sought the financing and it was not able to happen.

And so he is here today requesting an extension to go ahead and seek um the funding again.

And it was encouraged in the letter and the denial letter that he go ahead and and request the funding again.

So he's here.

Thank you, Martin.

Good evening, uh, mayor and council members, Dan D Francesco with Commonwealth Development.

Um, and so yeah, as Martin mentioned, uh, we currently have a purchase and sale agreement with the city um for proposing 50 units of senior affordable housing.

And so what we're here today is to seek an extension as we did not receive the tax credits from the state agency, Nevada Housing Division.

Um, and so we uh reached out to them when we did not receive the tax credits, and we did submit um to the city a support letter from NHD strongly encouraging us to resubmit um as there's more available tax credits this year, and they do like the project um and the location um for the 50 units of senior affordable housing here in Musquite since there hasn't been a senior affordable housing development in Mesquite in over 20 years.

Um with that, um, we are just keeping the same site plan that was approved that we compromise with the city on with the one-story single story cottages.

Um, again, all being 55 and over for seniors.

Um 50 units is going to have 45 one bedrooms with five two bedrooms.

Um, and so what we're simply here seeking today is just uh an extension from that purchase agreement, and really what we're looking for is is the purchase agreement has through May with a 30-day extension through end of June of this year.

We would look to seek a year extension for that to secure the tax credits and then go through the building permitting process um once awarded credits.

Councilman Nennis.

So really quick on this, Dan, we've talked.

So if the tax credits don't come through this year, what's the plan of attack?

We would have a long hard conversation internally, along with going to NHD about we received this letter from you earlier in 20 or in 2025, and we didn't get the credits.

So we would probably talk internally about just moving on, if not awarded, um, or there'd have to be some type of encouragement from NHD on why we should go again if we didn't get them this time around.

Okay, and also um in conversation and just so the public knows we're still in agreement with him with approximately 10% of these houses being for veterans, 55 and older.

Yes, sir.

Yep.

Um we've been um speaking with the mesquite veteran service, um, have an MOU with them as well as working with the Mesquite Senior Center and working with folks.

So when we do go out to market um, you know, three, four months before opening, that we're reaching out to the local organizations to notify residents in the area to get ready to apply so folks from from mesquite can live in mesquite.

Thank you.

Councilman Parrish got his trigger finger a little faster on this one.

So not at the bottom of the total pole this time.

Um evening, Dan.

Um we had a conversation a couple of weeks ago.

I talked with you then about some concerns I've had, and I've got more concerns now.

You say you got 50 units here on 15 acres.

That works out to 0.3 acres per unit.

That is not a very dense development.

This is this piece of property is the gem of mesquite.

Um I I just need to see something better than 50 units on here.

Um if we're giving you a 90% discount, um we need to be up between 90 and 100 units.

So I mean, we need to be at 0.15 to 0.18 uh units per acre.

And you know, we've got other property here in the city of Mesquite that uh would serve this development very well.

So uh, you know, I think we need we as a council need to take a good hard look at this because I still think this is not the best use for this property, but you know, I went I went along with it the first time, um, but I am struggling a little bit more with it this time, Dan.

As you well know, and I was pretty frank with you about that before.

Yes, sir.

And so if I may add, um, this would be the first phase of the 50 units, and we'd be looking to get um additional phase two and three with it being single story cottages, senior.

So we would be getting close to again, we don't want to get the car before the horse, but potentially getting up to 120, 150 units of senior affordable housing.

That's more like it, but um all I saw was 50 here, and that's uh for this piece of property that's nowhere near enough.

Yes, sir.

Just that's just the first phase.

So what guarantees do we have that we're gonna get to that number?

120 to 130 or whatever your number is.

Um, in experience with it's really the first phase that has to get the ball rolling.

Um, and so when we get the first phase done, we're able to then kind of continue to chew off and not rely on more soft funding sources.

We can kind of reduce that and kind of chip away at doing 25 units and another 25 units and not have to request significant dollars from outside agencies.

Um the project has received recommendation from Clark County um for a million dollars, and so as we continue to move on, we would seek those outside sources less and less.

Um, and you know, we have spoken with the commissioner that represents this district, um, and they think you know, with the market study that we have that there's over 400 units needed for senior affordable housing in this area.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, May.

Um Mayor.

May um welcome back, Dan to Mesquite.

Um, a few things that come to my mind.

Um just to confirm, uh, Miss Green said they weren't able to get their funding.

And I think she should have said your um low-income housing tax credit that you applied for.

Correct.

So you do have your funding.

Yes, it's correct.

It's okay.

I just wanted to confirm that for everybody else that you know, when she said you didn't get your funding.

Well, I think we all know you got your funding.

It's just the tax credit.

Um, also I I don't mind giving you a one-year extension.

I know it says 30 days, and I've asked Ms.

Screen this a few times.

I've asked you um and a few other people.

I'm not sure why you didn't get a two-year development agreement instead of a one-year.

Um, and then again, we have had development agreements with other businesses in the city of Misquite that have come to the city of Misquite multiple times for amendments in the time frame that we have um allowed them to have an extension.

So I think we need to set precedence when we're extending some of these development agreements, you know.

So that's um I think that's all my notes.

Can I answer that question?

Um the development agreement is for th three years, 36 months.

It was a long escrow.

So really it's just to extend the escrow.

So the contract, correct?

Thank you.

Councilman Wanda.

I think we'll everyone that was here at the time voted yes for this the first time.

And I think it was pretty much all of us.

The need the city had then is still a need the city has now.

This location has been questioned from the beginning.

You've made concessions to to make it.

So neighbors across the street.

It was acceptable.

You've done everything you've been asked to, with the exception of getting your financing.

I'm fine, extending this a little bit longer to give you that opportunity because it is still something the city needs as far as 90% discount.

Burn the dam matrix that the city has.

I've asked where it came from, and I was told a group of really smart people put it together.

Well, I don't know when they that was or who they were, but I don't think we're all chopped liver up here.

We can make a decision if we want to discount a property for something that's needed by the city.

I do not like the fact that this matrix gives a developer a leg up over the city where they can come and ask for something if the council actually agrees that it's beneficial to the city, then we can make concessions.

In this case, this is something that's needed by the city.

Greatly needed, it's right next to the hospital.

It's actually a perfect location for it.

And I will continue to support it.

Thank you, Councilman.

Um, any other questions from council?

Okay.

Thank you.

Thanks, Dan.

Um, we're gonna go ahead and open it up for public comment.

Dominic Olivetto again, Mayor, Council.

If they're going for tax credits, what guarantees do we have that this is going to be for Mesquite people, or is this gonna be like next to the veteran center where over 90% of the people get moved in because well, they're on Social Security in New York, but they can qualify here for cheap housing and they get it, and it doesn't do us any good.

I'm for low-income housing or workforce housing, whatever you want to call it, but let's make some stipulations where if you get this and you get this extension, you guarantee at least 60 or 70 percent of this will be for mesquite people or people coming here to work.

Thank you.

Thanks, Dominic Rick McIntyre uh from Squite.

Uh, can you bring that up?

This parcel has a little bit of history.

You you'll remember uh that there was a large number of people were opposed to this, and I thought the council did a beautiful job of coming to a compromise.

I think Councilman Parrish led that charge and and arrived at a compromise with Dan and others here who we all found uh acceptable and to this day believe it is acceptable to us.

It's a good project.

Um my comments to you have more to do with the economics of this whole thing.

Um when the when the developer or when the developer uh didn't couldn't uh uh get the tax credits they were looking for.

Uh it it it felt unnecessary to do this, but they're back and asking for an extension, and I now I'm putting it uh in front of you.

The parcel directly across the street and just a little bit uh south is uh currently an escrow for in the neighborhood of three million eight hundred and sixty-five thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.

That's five dollars the square foot for uh 17 acres, a little over 17 acres.

This parcel that the city owns is 15 acres, not too far off from that, and we are selling it to them for 172,500.

We uh all struggled very recently with some budget numbers that are pretty scary, and we we need money.

We need some money, we need some funding.

And to me, if we sell this parcel for 172,500, we are leaving more than three million dollars on the table.

I you can see the development of this corridor being a very good currently developing commercial corridor, it's gonna bring really good tax uh benefit to the city, and I believe that this parcel really needs to be a commercial uh parcel that will add additional benefit to the city.

It is perfect for that as well.

It seems to me that we're leaving three million dollars on the table right here, and I really would ask you to consider uh not extending this so that this can fall through, and the city can take this back and get an additional three million dollars to fill some of those asks that were on that sheet of paper that was a page and a half that we were unable to do any of this would certainly help.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Rick.

Okay, seeing no one else come forward, I'm gonna go ahead and close the public comment.

Um Councilwoman Gella.

Um thank you for your comments, uh Rick.

Um, quite honestly, if you remember back when this first came out, that was my biggest concern that I felt this was the last piece of commercial property that really would be on a main thoroughway through the through the city.

Um and we do have other locations that we might be able to put this that would be more beneficial to um the city while still get taking in money, especially now since we're hearing what's what the issues have been with the budget.

Um I'm in agreement.

I mean, I think it's a great project, and I and I really like that you're reaching out to seniors and and those that need housing.

But to your point, three million dollars.

I mean, we're struggling right now with contracts and with things happening in the city.

Um, that is a concern.

So I it's kind I'm kind of torn uh because it is a good project, but it may not be the right location.

So that's my comment.

Councilman Wallace.

Dan, I'd like to ask you one question, and I believe I know the answer if my memory serves me correctly, but the older I get, that doesn't happen quite as often as it used to.

At one point, I asked you would it be possible to move this location?

And you made a comment that the tax idea ID that was on your application had to be this property.

Is that still the case?

Yes, sir.

And now with the recommended funding that we receive from Clark County, you can't just pick up a site and move it over.

You'll you'll we'll lose what we've already have been recommended and gained with the momentum.

Okay, I thought I remembered that Mr.

McIntyre, I agree with you 100%.

Unfortunately, with the matrix we have right now, if we change this all to commercial and somebody went in there and said we're gonna build a grocery store, and we're going to create all of these jobs, and it's gonna be great for Mesquite.

That matrix still gives them the same 90% off.

So it really doesn't do us until we figure the matrix out and a way not to worry about it anymore, and to be able to make decisions as a council rather than this sheet of paper telling us, wow, this sounded really good 20 years ago when this was written, because this mesquite needed growth.

Now all of a sudden we're at a point where it might make more sense to burn it and give this council and and and it doesn't even work.

If you get a big business come in here like Crown Cork and Sill, they sold that for a dollar an acre.

None of us were here, but it was going to bring money to the city.

It made sense to do it.

And I I would have voted yes on that too.

This council has always had the ability to discount land or to sell it for what it's worth, it's market value.

I just wish that's who it came down to, and they weren't talking.

This is what the matrix says, and so you guys make a decision.

And the funny thing is, I'm not running for city council, so in eight months it won't matter to me.

But it's gonna matter to a lot of people that come after this.

This project is important to the city of Mesquite.

The location is tied by the funding that's being sought.

And just changing it to commercial, I'm not sure it's going to make the city any more money at this point.

So my thought is still, let's give him the 30 or 60 days, however long he needs to find out if he gets it.

If it doesn't go through this time, I'm sorry, but you might have to pick a new location and start all over if you guys decide you still want to be here.

But for right now, I think this is something this city could really use.

Councilwoman Philly.

I'm just gonna make a motion if there's a lot of things.

Go ahead.

Um Councilman Parrish.

What is the actual instead of me going through all the documents?

How many days at extension are we giving them?

There's not a motion yet.

Is there a recommendation from staff?

Martin, is there a recommendation from staff?

The 36 months would still apply from the date the contract was executed, which was May of last year.

So but um he would like for the escrow, it's an escrow to extend it through March of next year to give them the chance to apply for the tax credits.

If not, like he said, it'll probably just walk away.

Kevin, I can clarify too.

Under the existing agreement, they need to close by May 31st of this year, and they have an option to extend it for 30 days.

And so that's under the terms of the agreement that it's already been made.

But what they're asking for is we want to extend that that closing another year from now.

So within the agreement, they can they can push this out and still try to close until uh June, June 30 around there.

Um, but they're asking for an additional year beyond that.

Does that make sense?

So this could go to June 30 of 2027.

Is that right now under the existing agreement?

It could go to June 30, 2026 without you doing anything, right?

But they'd have to scramble.

It looks like they're not able to do that.

They're they can't get their the financing within that time frame.

So they're trying to extend it out in addition, and obviously the the proponent can talk about it more.

Dan, how long would it take?

So with NHD, we would apply.

The applications are due June 15th.

We would find about a reservation uh end of August of this year.

So that would be the thumbs up for us of then releasing our civil and design team to then get completed plans, submit them to the building department to start to review.

So that March 2027 date of closing kind of works backwards because you know there's a couple rounds of comments and months to get the plans into the city review and get those approved um to close.

I mean, however, we have close, you know, prior um, you know, of receiving building permits.

Um so yeah, that's the rough timeline.

All right, councilwoman fielding.

Any other questions?

I have one.

Oh, okay.

I just one comment.

I think, in all fairness, since you've come forward, you've done all this.

I think we have to really honestly take a look at this because this is an ongoing project, and in all fairness, if it's just a little bit more time.

Um my thoughts are that you've put a lot of time and effort into this.

This the city council it's gone forward, so an extension, a little bit of an extension, probably should not be a problem.

But again, it's up to the council.

Thank you.

All right, councilwoman filling.

Any other questions?

I would like to make a motion to extend the closing of escrow until the end of March 2027.

But and and if the event you get that tax credit, you can start everything maybe as soon as this August.

So you don't even need till next March, correct?

Correct.

Okay.

We'll start the design and the civil, and hopefully you can shoot for the end of the year, but okay.

So that's my motion to extend it until um the end of March 2027.

Okay, Councilman Wilness.

I'll second it.

I know this isn't Section 8 housing like the other one was.

Make this for the city of Mesquite.

I could if I can add to that, um, what we are looking with, uh, the management company is in the it's called the tenant selection plan.

And so, as I mentioned, we already have an executed MOU with memorandum of understanding with the veterans, mesquite veterans organization, already setting aside 10% at minimum.

You know, we'll gladly take more veterans for mesquite organization to live here.

Um, but also working with the mesquite senior center of when applications are going live for that they're knowing when to apply, and we can have folks work with them to make sure that their applications ready to go, and we're also looking in that tenant selection plan to list those organizations and see if we're able to give preference because there is fair housing laws that we obviously have to abide by, but where we can give preference, we will okay.

Call for the vote.

Dallow Idem 6.7 consideration of the settlement of Chesley v City of Musquite et al.

case number A-23-877-B, case number A25-91-7767-W and EEOC charge number 847-2025-01055 in the amount of 1,425,000 with the settlement contingent upon a fully executed settlement agreement upon order from the 8th District Judicial Court and with all settlement amounts being paid by travelers insurance.

Mr.

Anderson.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, as you know, the litigation with the former chief has been ongoing for some time.

Um we had reached agreement with uh in the parties had reached an agreement with our insurance and company agreeing to settle at least the state cases, not this doesn't include the federal cases for one point two or 1.425 million.

After um that occurred, there's a dispute that arose between the parties.

Um the former chief terminated his prior attorney and who had been handling those cases.

That attorney's now filed a motion with the court to enforce the settlement agreement, and um, you know, his his payment terms from that is part of what's been alleged.

Um, and so there's a there's a hearing tomorrow where the the judge Williams, who's the judge handling all these cases is going to be considering these motions on whether or not to enforce the settlement.

And so we're asking the council to to pass this item with the language that I've provided, and just noting a couple things that the settlement would be contingent upon a final settlement agreement between the parties, which we don't have yet, at least as of this afternoon and evening, still something they were working on, but not able to have.

But the chance that the judge may order that the case and the material terms were agreed upon tomorrow.

We're asking again that uh this item be passed so that if that occurs tomorrow that we'll be in compliance with that court order.

So thank you, Mr.

Anderson.

Any questions from council?

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

Oh scratch, councilwoman gallow.

So um I I want to make sure that we're clear on this.

What exactly this is settling?

This is strictly settling the um municipal, I mean the state court, not the federal, nothing to do with the federal case.

That's correct.

It's the cases that are listed in the agenda item and the and then EEOC claim as well.

Do we know how much this has been costing us, like to defend this case?

What the cost of being all of all of these expenses are covered by our insurance company.

Yep.

And the settlement amounts as stated in the agenda item is paid by the insurance company.

So, what impact do we think that this is gonna have on our insurance and on our premiums?

I don't know the answer to that.

Yeah, okay.

Because that's a concern.

Um, I guess I you know uh it's kind of frustrating.

I know it's a lot of money, but um back in the day, uh we were ready.

I was ready, I voted to settle this for 345,000, and I was voted down, and he wasn't gonna get a penny, and now he's getting 1.4 something million.

Um, that's on us.

Thank goodness the insurance company is covering it.

But um, you know, the thing that's frustrating about this, this we defamed a city employee, and we are now paying the price for that.

Um and I just feel that that it's our job to protect our our city employees.

So anyway, I guess if anybody else has any questions, but I just think that we need to get this taken care of.

We need to get this done.

Uh, because again, this has been how many years in the in the where I've been on this for three over I've been on it for over three years.

I think it's been six years.

That's what I heard that it's been six years.

So, you know, the problem is we went from 345,000 to 1.4 million.

Let's get this done.

I think at one point the I don't know, I guess it's not privileged information, but I think they'd send they'd spend over a million dollars in legal fees fighting this case.

When it could have been settled, okay.

Well, I think that's over the you know over the that's long before even that time.

But and we still have a federal case, correct?

Councilwoman Philly.

Thank you.

So and thank you for clarifying that.

And this does say that, but I also do want to clarify that this settles three cases.

Three state cases, correct?

It's the it's the pending state cases and then an EEOC claim, but it doesn't address the federal cases.

Right.

And and this is something, as the mayor said, something's been going on since 2019, 2002.

Correct.

Correct.

And so we all inherited these cases.

Um, and without knowing the exact what happened way back then, because we've only been on counsel some of us three years without knowing it and just hearsay and reading step.

I mean, we weren't here back then, and now we are here to you know to finalize hopefully three of these cases and and keep moving forward.

Okay, councilman parrish.

Uh the only comment I got is I would caution counsel on what we say here tonight because there's probably some ears listening to what we say that could change something in this settlement.

So just be careful, folks.

Um let's just we either approve this or deny it, but uh just be careful of what we say.

That's I think I think maybe our legal landlords would probably agree with that.

Yeah, I mean, there's still litigation pending again.

There's a hearing tomorrow, so you know it would be great if we got this passed and that we can move forward and work towards uh finalizing all these pending actions.

Okay, with that we're gonna open it up to public comment.

Okay, seeing none, I'm gonna close public comment and ask for a motion, councilman parrish.

I'll make a motion to uh approve this settlement as written in uh 6.7 councilman gallow?

I'll second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Yielding aye.

One parish I'm sorry, Gallo I motion passes, and we're at our final public comment.

You have three minutes can be on any subject.

Nick Alphonsetti, Mayor, Council, glad to see you pass that.

Hope it all works out.

Uh first off, I want to left off, go back to where I left off in the first comment.

Thank you to the uh folks at from the police that came up and dealt with the problems at 906 last Thursday.

Uh chief, uh you and the men working for you.

Uh good a great job.

Things quieted down real quick.

Arose at one o'clock in the morning again, but it was only a five-minute thing.

I could live through that.

So thank them.

Uh the last item.

Uh back in October of 2024, as it was stated, it was only 349,000 that would have been done with that's at the point where it could have happened, but there were negative votes that said no, we're not gonna do that.

We're not gonna do that.

Well, those two people are sitting here, one of them not running, one of them running.

Uh, we're a part of that.

Um the attorney fees 168,000.

That would have been out the window.

That wouldn't have happened.

Uh the fact that yes, the attorney is right.

Travelers can take care of this one, and they've got one more that they're mentioned in after that.

They probably are gonna fly the coupe.

Next thing is what's the city gonna do to make insurance?

And it doesn't look good right now.

Now, all the things that I'm saying were said way before all this, and nobody wanted to hear it.

In fact, at that time, the attorney said, Well, I don't have a crystal ball.

I said, Well, neither do I, but I'm gonna make some predictions, and everything that I predicted happened, happened.

I'm not saying I got all the answers, but what I am saying is look, got to get this thing solved, gotta move on, gotta clean things up again.

We go back to 25 million dollars.

Where did it go in the city budget?

Because that money is gonna be a premium that you're probably gonna have to give her to an insurance company because you're gonna be put in a risk pool for insurance after the next case is working, and that's what I'm saying.

Be prepared.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Nick.

Yeah, Ron Shekelford.

Um it's been said, you know, we could have settled this for 350,000 in October 2024.

Um, the insurance is gonna cover it.

We have a $25,000 deductible.

If I got my information correct, so that means $25,000 from our city tax money.

That's my tax money.

And we got two more cases, I believe.

And if the insurance company settles those, um, one more.

So that's another $25,000 of our tax money.

That's our money.

Um you choose not to act, when you ignore reasonable options, when you allow anything, personal differences, pride, or poor judgment to get in the way, the cost doesn't stay the same.

It grows and it grows fast.

And who pays for it?

This community does.

The people who wake up every day, go to work and trust that their city leaders are making responsible decisions with their money.

That is exactly what a lack of leadership looks like.

This is leadership means making tough calls when they need to be made, not when it's convenient, not when it's too late, and not after the damage has already been done.

What happened here should have never happened tonight.

Let's be clear.

This is not about attacking individuals.

This is about a pattern of decisions that have real financial consequences for the people of this city.

Honesty, transparency, accountability, no more silence, no more delayed decisions, no more passing the cost down to the public.

Because this is not your money.

This is the people's money.

And when we lose that insurance company over this, what are we gonna do then?

We're gonna have to pay more taxes to get higher insurance for this city.

Moving forward, this has to change because we're because what we're seeing tonight is the price of not leading when it mattered most.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ron.

Okay, seeing no one else step forward.

This meeting is adjourned.