The Mesquite Redevelopment Agency (RDA) Board met on July 7, 2026, at 2:45 PM at Mesquite City Hall. The meeting focused on approving a consent agenda and discussing a funding request for architectural and design services related to the renovation of the Relief Society House and the Rock House. Councilman Parrish was excused, and the city manager was absent due to traffic. Public comments raised concerns about RDA rules, cost overruns, and historical preservation, while the board ultimately approved $50,000 for the services.
Note: The meeting’s agenda and transcript date conflict (agenda says July 7, 2026; transcript incorrectly says “June 7th, 2026”). The correct date is July 7, 2026, as used in the agenda and minutes. Public commenter Bill Mitchell claimed the RDA rules cap architectural funding at $30,000, but the board did not address this discrepancy during the vote.
Councilwoman Fielding as soon as you're ready. And I would like to before I get going, announce that uh Councilman Parrish is excused, and he did let me know he was gonna be big on. So let's please excuse him. And I'm sorry I forgot to do that at tech. Um, but yeah, he he let us know ahead of time. Um also the city manager is stuck in traffic, and so she wasn't able to get called in. So um opening public comment for our the Tuesday, June 7th, 2026. Mosquite really redevelopment agency meeting. Okay, seeing none, I'm gonna move on to 2.1s. It's consideration or approval of the Tuesday, July 7th, 2026 redevelopment agency agenda. Do we have a public comment on that? Any questions from the board? If not, can I get a motion? Council uh board member Fielding. Thank you, Chair. Um, I will make a motion to accept the consent agenda. Do I have a second? I'll suck it. Okay, call for the vote. One, yes. And I'm sorry. Galloway. Okay, motion passes. Item 3.1 discussion and possible approval of redevelopment agency funding of approximately 50,000 for architectural and design services associated with the renovation and remodeling of the relief society house. Mr. Anderson. Thank you, Chair, board members. Um, the item before you today is as you remember, I was tasked with the renovation of the relief society house and the rock house. Um as we looked at that, not only so we originally were looking at that being in phases, but it was uh with the city council's purview um to do that as one face. And so to be able to bid that to where I have an apples to apples bid, I need to have um an architect come in and help me to generate plans that contractors can come and to bid this. So this is simply a ballpark number that I was requesting the RDA board to approve, and then I can go and procure uh an architectural service for this. So this is in no means the actual cost. I'll bring the actual cost. I mostly wanted to bring this to your attention to make sure I'm going down the right path of what is desired to bring on an architect to help because I need structural elements, the inside, the exterior, all of those um, so I can get those apples to apples bid. So just to clarify, this 50,000 is in no means a contract that has already been worked out with an architect. This is simply a ballpark number. Once that um contract is received, I will bring that back to the RDA board for approval of that. But this is more to get the ball rolling so that I can get them working on plans to redo the um relief society and the rock house. And I'm happy to answer any questions. Okay, board member wonless. So this just says the release society house, but you're gonna be doing the rock house at the same time. Well, so that's the kind of as we worked on this. I think if I had an architect working on both of these elements, I don't know when the the council action was strictly with the relief society. So that's also um I may ask for that uh we can do the plans together and then bring that or ask for a price separately, and then uh or combination with the architect, and then I could break those plans into two separate um projects, one for the relief society house, one for the rock house, because they they really are separate. Um when you're looking at the elements that will go into the rock house, are a little bit different than what you're gonna be doing on the relief society house. So this is kind of I'm asking for a little bit of direction in some ways, but just letting you know this is the path that I'm going down to get this taken care of. So do you think it would be less expensive, the same more expensive if you had one architect come in, visit both at the same time, they're right next to each other, and do the plans for both at the same time rather than just do one and then have to come back and start all over and do it a second. It would obviously whenever you're looking at these, even on small projects, because you still have upfront things that are all always included. And so if I was able to do both of these, since we're gonna be doing these, you know, at least the relief society all at one time, it makes sense to have them look at the rock house as well, make that an entire one project, and then you know, we can do that. It will save us money on having an architect do plans for both of these together rather than two plan sets separately.