All right, everyone, welcome to the Tuesday, May 5th, 2026 technical review meeting for the city of Musquite.

It's 4 32.

We're gonna get started.

Um, any opening public comment, mayor, council, thank you.

Great breakfast.

I want the recipe for the pancakes for the batter.

I cooked them, but I didn't batter them.

Now the truth comes out.

All right.

Okay.

If they were good, they were probably somebody else's if they're questionable.

Yeah, they might have been mine.

Excellent.

Excellent.

Great time.

Great turnout.

Uh on a serious note.

Uh I've been watching some of the things going on with water and water issues regarding to Nevada, Arizona, and what's going on.

Uh I don't know how up to date y'all are on it.

I spoke about this a couple years ago, brought it up, nothing happened.

Uh the county of Maricopa, Arizona, uh, tried to get a law into effect, which they're not done yet, but it did get turned down.

And what it is is this their water is going to be shutting off pretty soon.

Uh they won't be able to draw water off of Lake Mead.

And since that happens, they are stepping up the pace to have builders or developers in their contracts now, right up to where they want the count the state, the county does to have a 100-year guarantee of water before they hand out the permits to build, and it's something to consider.

Well, it turns out June and July is gonna be the date that the Department of Interior is gonna decide what they're gonna do with Lake Powell for water now.

Lake Powell's been draining a lot of water from a lot of reservoirs, and a lot of the tribes and other people that use them won't have any water.

Okay, in the process, they estimate right now they're gonna be dropping over a hundred feet, uh, which puts them in a dead pool.

Well, if uh Lake Mead doesn't get it, it's gonna be the same thing.

Now, again, we've been through the thing about the wells and all the stuff, and everything's okay, but the problem is is hydraulics.

Hydraulics mean the water in Lake Mead affects the water in the wells.

Well, my question is we better start looking at money for tankers to put out fires.

And what is the city gonna do for water if we don't have it in those wells?

And I think it's just something to look at, consider because again, by June and July, this is gonna hit us right at the hot season.

And uh again, putting out fires might need tankers, fire truck tankers, and where are they gonna get the water from?

Thank you for your time.

Thanks, Nick.

Yeah, during public moment.

Okay.

Well, we won't have council comments, so if you want to make a public comment.

I would like to say something about that.

I worked in water for over 30 years.

You're wrong about hydraulics, it's not Lake Mead pushing water up to us.

The water that's here matriculates to Lake Mead.

All of our water comes from the north.

None of it comes from Lake Mead.

Well, not for detective.

It it does not.

You won't convince me, you won't convince anyone with Virgin Valley water.

Our wells have nothing to do with the Colorado River.

Our wells have nothing to do with the Virgin River.

Our wells have to do with water that comes north of here, percolates through the ground, gets into an aquifer, and moves slowly towards a low spot, which is Lake Mead, and fills our aquifers, and that's where our water comes from.

So as long as we don't stop anything coming from the north, Lake Mead won't affect this city.

I'm not saying other things couldn't, but the Colorado River will not be a comment.

Yeah, just just real quick.

Okay, real quick.

Uh, with the development that's going on up in Washington and St.

George, they have the same problem.

They they did construct a huge reservoir, and it is dry.

So again, they're gonna be looking for that water that we get.

Thank you.

Thanks, Nick.

And it's different aquifers.

Any other public comment?

Okay.

With that, we will start our work.

Oh, Adam, let me, I'm gonna come down.

Okay.

I I did I want to come down here not to confuse roles, but as many of you know in my other service that I'm on the board of the water district, and just to comment real briefly on that, and um we received a really incredible, wonderful study on the perennial yield of our aquifer not long ago.

Um, Gloriet of Geosciences is the group that that did that that did the full and complete um analysis, it's been going for years, and so like for Nick's benefit and and others of the public.

I'd really encourage you to go talk with Aaron Bunker, talk with um Ben Martinson over there at the water district.

As soon as I received and read and was able to get the report on that perennial yield, my concerns over water in this area really were lessened just based on the science and what's what they're saying based on that perennial yield study.

But it's something the public should be aware of.

It's been presented to the Nevada State Engine.

Well, um, so there's there's some really good information out there, so just encourage people to go take a look at it.

Adam, do you think uh Banner would be willing to come give us a presentation at City Council at some point?

I think he absolutely would.

Okay, so we'll we'll arrange that.

It'd be good to get the information out there and people can have an understanding.

Yeah, thank you, Adam.

All right, okay.

Let's move on to our work session.

Does anybody have anything to add?

Okay, no.

Does any have anything they would like to subtract?

Oh, come on.

No.

All right.

Do we have any public comment on the work section?

Session.

Okay.

Do we have a motion?

Do we need a motion?

No.

No.

Okay.

With that, we are come to our final public comment.

Thank you.

Uh just a quick question.

So the the perennial yield report you just mentioned.

I assume that is available and we can find it somewhere.

Yep, for sure.

Yeah, because I I'm very interested in learning or reading it.

It's a very, very detailed technical report, but I mean it had some very good findings.

Okay.

For the strength of our aquifer.

I'm actually okay with detailed technical stuff.

I'm I'm just fine with that.

But uh, yeah, I I get lots of questions about that, and I'd like to make sure that any information I give out is accurate and and yeah, quality information.

So Van Martinson, Aaron Bunker, yeah, you know, that anybody over there at the water district can get you a copy and explain it.

They love going over that kind of stuff.

Thank you.

Thanks, John.

I spoke to the mayor on Saturday.

I have a major concern about the speed going through the school zone when the flashing lights are 15 miles an hour.

Debbie and I were going for breakfast, three cars zoomed by us.

One had to be doing at least 30.

Not a police officer in sight.

Two days later we went out for breakfast, and guess what?

There was a highway patrol there.

Why is the highway patrol patrol doing our job?

I see officer goods out there quite a bit.

But in the afternoon, the other morning again.

Lady came all the way down uh the road, didn't even stop.

Cut me right off.

I don't know if any everybody in the town don't like me or what, but that's okay with me.

Right, Kevin?

We got to do something.

One of these kids is gonna get hit.

Look down in Vegas where that young girl died last year.

They just did a big memorial for war.

I don't want to see any of our kids get hit.

It's time to start hitting people with tickets, and the kids on the bikes again.

You said you were gonna hold the feet to the fire.

They're still riding the wrong way.

They're still not wearing helmets.

My solution is, and I know they don't want to do this, and they're gonna upset some parents, but like the mayor said, he didn't wear a seatbelt until he got a ticket, right?

No, you don't that that's a fact.

You only have to hit one parent with a ticket, and it will spread while far through the school that'll be wearing helmets.

So that's all I have to say.

Thank you.

Thanks, Mike.

Yeah.

Wasn't the breakfast on a Saturday?

Traps, anyway, we can make those lights not flash when school's not in session.

They don't.

Yeah, they're we time those to where they shouldn't be flashing.

If you notice that they were, then if they're going on a Saturday.

They shouldn't be flashing on a Saturday.

I think he was saying that he talked to me on Saturday.

I don't think that's yeah.

Yeah.

All right.

This meeting is adjourned.