Everyone and welcome to the Tuesday, July 7th, 2026 for the City of Musquite.

We're gonna start off with opening public comment mesquite resident.

Uh, the way you guys have the tech review formatted now, or is this the time to talk about things on the agenda?

Because it sounds like um, I think the way that either or I I would just go for it because you know the mayor can allow it and yeah, it's yeah, because there's gonna be motions later to move and change things.

If yeah, well, maybe there will be, I don't know.

Okay, well, my question or suggestion on item 6.1 about the uh driving on sidewalks, looks like is it if this has to do with the e-scooters and e-bikes, that whatever differences between what the proposed municipal code is and the county regulations that have been in place for seven months, whatever those differences are should be um put on the agenda also, at least as an attachment.

Um, so people can see what the differences are.

I mean, if your kid drives on a scooter from Bunkerville to Mesquite, they should know are mine illegal here in Mesquite for doing something that I'm all right to do anywhere else in Clark County and vice versa.

So I highly suggest putting that on the agenda as well, the redlining it or whatever.

Thanks.

Thanks, Wes Doug Honschel.

I'm gonna go over some stuff I brought up the last city council meeting about expenses.

On May 19th, you received a communication from finance about expenditures and salaries.

And at that point, I asked, I sent each of you an email.

A couple of you actually responded that you received it, but none of them addressed the question within the email.

Um as you can tell.

Turn it on.

On the 23rd, I submitted a request for information.

Mr.

Mayor, you emailed me three sentences saying you were gonna have Julie?

Julie.

And I I apologize.

I have reached out to her a couple of times.

Is Julie on vacation or she is, and that's uh public info request is still being processed.

Okay, yeah.

I'm I'm sorry, I was trying to get a hold of her before I responded to you, but I haven't been able to get a hold of her, so I wasn't aware that she was my comment would be this city has to have a decent computer system, I'm guessing.

You know what you're paying your employees, you know what benefits they're getting.

That's all I asked.

You know, I I don't understand how the city council can be paid salaries of 120,000, but you have in benefits of 155,000.

Is anybody up there want to try and tell me why your benefits are $30,000 more than your salaries?

Um, I could probably explain that a little bit.

So that's the total salaries of the city council.

So the city council members each make 14,000 a year.

I make eighteen thousand dollars a year, and then we also get health insurance.

So the health insurance actually can't cost more than what we get paid.

But it says your salaries are 120.

But that's combined with everybody.

Okay, so it still doesn't reach 120,000.

So different departments are taken on to the city council.

Yeah, so 14 times five plus eighteen.

70 plus 88,000.

So yeah.

So why is it his report show 120,000?

I don't know if that includes our vehicle allowance.

That probably includes some other things.

Your benefits, I don't know.

Yeah, but no one in over a month, 37 days.

I've been trying to secretary, part of the secretary probably gets paid for that.

Okay, that's why I asked to break it out to let the public know who's getting paid what and the benefits.

I mean, we have three according to last report, uh 2024, it's the last one available on computer.

City had 347 employees.

We had three animal control receptionists, each making over 50,000 a year.

We don't we don't have three animal control receptionists, we have animal control officers according to the is that how they're listed on there.

Yeah, that listed as animal control receptionists.

So they're not receptionists, they're animal control officers.

So my point being, why can't the city break this down so the public can understand it?

A lot of people think I have more numbers to bring up next next time.

I I never got a response from anyone with the city, except to say you were gonna have somebody get a hold of me, and they never did.

But I still how do we have an a non-department non-department with no wages but a million dollars in expenses?

Okay, your time's up, but if you want to come back at the next and continue on.

Good afternoon, Ron Shackleford.

It's been a while since you saw this face.

Um, yeah, we had a little death in our family this last month.

They're here, and so we took a little time off there and uh and then also took a little time to recoup from the uh primary election and enjoy a little time off and just relax, recoup, and uh get back at it again now.

So um, but uh I'm here and I've been watching the meetings, and so I always make sure that you know I'm in stay informed.

Um 7.8.

Is there any way that we can get the contract on that uh paper I am actually I'm gonna pull that so yeah, I'm gonna pull it.

All right, if it gets back on, maybe we can put the contract.

I will put the contract on when once it gets back on that.

So it is actually the contract states that it has to be considered once a year.

So it will be considered before December, but for now we're gonna pull it.

So okay, thank you so much.

And the uh city charter committee meeting is this Friday.

I just want to let anybody know if they want to come and join us.

They're more than welcome, and uh I'm looking forward to getting back into that and starting that back up again.

So we had a couple months that we just couldn't get it going, so but uh yeah, anyways, that's uh something I'm definitely looking forward to on Friday again.

So thank you so much.

Thanks, Ron.

Okay, seeing no one else come forward.

I'm going to move on to the work session.

And like I just barely stated, I'm gonna pull item 7.8.

Um I mistakenly.

I guess thought that it was an appropriate time to do that, but it seems like public sentiment is against me, and so I apologize to Becca that I kind of put her in the the crosshairs before that was necessary, and so I'm just gonna go go ahead and pull that.

Um other retractions or additions.

Okay, if not, we'll go ahead and have uh public comment on the work session.

Seeing none, we'll go on to our final public comment.

You want to come back up and finish your thought, Doug?

I thought there was gonna be a presentation from the bus people on that'd be on the regular city council meeting next Tuesday.

Okay, we have animal Jose somebody 1209,000 animal control manager.

Uh we have someone who's an youth enrichment manager, but I'm not sure what that is.

We have animal control receptionists astiban on 57,502 animal uh animal control office receptionist.

Uh Salviono Melichor.

I'm sorry for these names.

52,000.

We have a sanitation billing clerk making 45,000.

Aren't those bills all automatically generated by the computer?

No.

I'm sorry, I did expect an answer, but I know you don't answer any questions.

So I will see you at 2 30, where you will have to answer questions.

Thanks, Doug.

I thank you very well.

Do you have any other public comment?

Okay, seeing none, this meeting is adjourned, and then we'll pick back up in five minutes.