Good afternoon, everyone.

And welcome to the Tuesday, July 14th, 2026 regular city council meeting for the city of Mesquite.

It is five o'clock.

We're gonna get going.

We're gonna start off with an invocation by Pastor Bergaman of the Mesquite Lutheran Church.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.

Let us pray.

Almighty God, we thank you for our city council and the very gifts of its members.

Cause them to recognize and act upon every opportunity, the benefit of our wonderful community.

Give them wisdom and perseverance to address the various challenges facing this community and bring forth the proper action to resolve it in a manner that good is maximized and harm is avoided or minimized.

May every thought, word and deed of all who participate here manifest love for you and one another.

Restrain and repulse all evil from inflicting itself on these proceedings.

Bless those you have put in authority and those who enjoy the good and gracious rewards of their good stewardship of their office in our city at the conclusion of this meeting.

May the spirit of peace, respect, and Christian affection fill all as they return home, rest and prepare for the work you have prepared for us tomorrow through Jesus Christ, your son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God now and forever.

Amen.

Thank you.

Could you all please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance?

Pledge.

And to the Republic for which it stands.

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

Randy.

You're up.

We'll have Randy Lobb come forward for a presentation.

If I could have Jerry Chasco, Tom with Southwest, our infamous Bill Ennist to come forward, and Christy from Reliance.

If you guys come up real quick, front and center.

How's that, Paul?

Oh, is that all right?

Thank you, Ryan.

No, you bet.

See you.

I just thought it was appropriate when our community has events and when they have different functions that go on without the within the community.

You know, these companies always tend to step up and donate.

Uh and these four companies, Eureka, Southwest, the Veterans Center, and Reliance Connects, stepped up in a big way at the Fourth of July celebration this year.

Uh I just want to tell them thank you very much on behalf of the city, uh, the mayor and the council to everything they do for our community.

Uh just not monetarily, but just to support.

Uh, I think it goes a long way to show that uh our community effort that goes a long ways within the city with our small businesses, with just the residents that live here.

So I just want to appreciate appreciate you guys for everything you do.

I just have a little token of appreciation.

I want to hand you guys real quick.

I hesitated on bills, but I got him one too.

I'll just be over the next player.

Just pass it down.

Don't share with Kevin.

I can talk, but I would like to make it home.

Anyway, once again, I just want to tell these guys thank you very much.

I think it just shows the great support of the community, the things that we're trying to accomplish.

Uh the businesses here always support us.

Uh, I just want to say thank you to them so far.

Yeah.

All right.

I think it's good to show you.

Okay, thanks.

Smile guys.

Thank you.

You got it.

Thank you.

Now I'd like to invite Judy Cole White up for a presentation from MPAC.

I'm Judy Cole Feet from Mesquite, Nevada, and I am here.

I am the director for the first Friday that is morphing into second Saturday.

And it's going to be held starting in October, the second Saturday of every month, uh, from October through May, and it'll be from 11 in the morning until two in the afternoon.

And we've done that because we had some interesting issues with First Friday with lighting, that type of thing.

And it's just the daytime seems to be a better choice for us, especially in the mesquite community that goes to bed at 8 o'clock.

So it will still be at the Fine Arts Gallery, and hopefully we will expand over to the Virgin Valley Heritage Museum Museum Park, Virgin Valley Park, into their uh gazebo area, uh their pavilion area, and the theater is planning to do some entertaining over there with the um uh high school bands, different venues they have, and everything that we've developed over this past year, I think this event has evolved into more than just an art walk.

It has the potential to become one of Mesquite's um signature community festivals, and one that the residents and the visitors will all enjoy coming to every Saturday.

Well, once a month, so and that's all I have.

And there are more flyers out there that have this information on them if anybody wants to take one.

So they're out on the table as you leave.

Okay.

Thank you, Judy.

Okay, thanks.

And now we'll have our opening public comment.

This is for items that are not on the agenda.

Oh, Debbie, do you have a presentation?

Please come forward.

Welcome, Debbie Benham for that way.

Good evening, Mayor, members of City Council, residents of Mesquite.

My name is Debbie Benham, and I'm here to talk about the Pareto Lights Community Food Drive.

On June 12th, we took over to the Salvation Army 3,729.8 pounds of personal care items, household items, food items.

As of today, I have another 4,801.1 pounds.

And I still have $375 I've got to go shopping with.

So I'm on my way to Walmart.

At this time last year, we only had 5,308.5 pounds.

That's an increase of 37.8%.

I think we're doing a tremendous job.

I would like to thank Sun City for hosting the second annual nonprofit expo uh that they had on June the 18th.

I met a lot of people who have volunteered to help me with this community food drive.

I want to thank all the businesses, organizations, and individuals who have donated to the community food drive.

If anyone can donate to this cause, I would love to hear from you.

I can be reached via email at Deborah underscore Benham at Yahoo.com.

My phone number, it's 702-324-2038.

Remember, we are a 501c3 organization, and all donations are tax deductible.

You can also donate through Zell, just reference the parade of lights.

Thank you, Debbie.

Okay, now we'll go ahead and uh start our opening public comment.

Um you have three minutes, and this is for items that are not on the agenda.

So if you have comments on something that is on agenda, you'll want to wait until that item comes up.

Good evening, Mayor Council.

Do you like my show at looks good?

Christmas in July came in the mail.

Um as you know, I'm not afraid to speak up.

In fact, I have now got a new name on one of the hateful eight.

Imagine that.

So I have a question for the mayor.

I understand there is applications out for Simon's job.

Is that correct?

Correct.

How come there is no applications out for a full-time city attorney?

Would you like to answer that question?

Or would you rather not?

It's under consideration.

We've been talking about what we're gonna do with that position.

I've got nothing against Adam.

He's a good attorney.

If he wasn't, we'd have replaced him already.

Well, excellent.

No, I'm just saying.

We do need a full-time attorney.

So anyway, um as you know it's Christmas in July.

And I have a little gift for Councilman Wandless.

I have a calendar for you.

July.

I watched uh it was better than the Benny Hill show.

It really was at the end.

As far as picklebull go, um, just want to let you know that increase by 45% in one year of pickable players.

That's tremendous.

Over 500 play in mesquite.

Um I want to close by saying I don't know if any of you saw the opening ceremonies of the Special Olympics this year.

It was awesome.

Every state was escorted in by police officers.

I take my hats off to them.

Because I remember certain officer in this town who made fun of them.

Nobody makes fun of handicapped people.

I'm sorry.

That's outrageous.

So anyway.

You won't all have a good night.

And there's the calendar, so you don't get mexed up anymore.

Have a good night.

Thank you, Mike.

Good evening, Ron Shackleford.

Um, just not prepared or near all anything at all.

I didn't even think about it, but uh I thought about it last week.

And uh I want to say Randy Lobb, great job.

And not just Randy, but all the people in the background that made the Fourth of July so special in this community, and all the volunteers.

I mean, I've seen all the pictures of the kids and everything doing all the the fun activities, the volunteers that were up and down and and what have you.

And I couldn't be more proud of this community.

We did such a great job.

The community came out and supported the event, but there's a lot of people in the background we don't recognize or realize who's done everything and such.

But just for those people, thank you.

Good afternoon, Mayor and Council.

Um, my name is Tess Boudreau.

I am um I'm here on behalf of the Mesquite Heritage Garden.

For those of you who don't know, we are located smack dab in the middle of the new upgrade of Hafen Lane, Levitt, and Pulsifer Gulch, right in the middle.

And um, if you've driven by there since it's gotten finished, you would probably have come to the same conclusion that we did a few months ago.

The land our community garden sits on will undoubtedly be sold out from under us in the very near future.

Uh chat GPT says that there are about 2,000 plus vacant, undeveloped lots in the city of Mesquite.

I checked.

Um, I absolutely believe that one of them has our name on it and will be the new Mesquite Heritage Garden.

The city planning office provided me with a zoning map, and Simon answered a lot of questions and was very helpful.

And Ben has has been helpful also, but time may be running out for us.

Now we are in dire straits, and uh in need of the city's help in this daunting project.

Um we need one and a half to two acres of land, access to a water line, and probably the most important is a benevolent landlord.

We've been we've been paying lease on this property of a dollar a year to Merlin Haven for nearly 15 years, and that's pretty awesome.

The new mesquite community garden could and should be a source of great pride for our city.

I promise it would not look like a dilapid dilapidated tent city.

I promise.

We are uh 501c nonprofit, and I will be applying for grants and asking for substantial donations and doing it the right way.

And um I'm recruiting the help of experts in this field in Nevada and beyond.

Mesquite is home to five certified master gardeners, one percent of all the master gardeners in the state of Nevada.

We are mandated to teach the public about gardening.

The new mesquite heritage garden will be dedicated to providing our city residents a place to grow their own food, connecting with others, and strengthening our community.

To all of you here, those watching, watching and listening, help us find a new location.

Feel free to reach out to me.

Umber is on the bottom, right there.

And um with any suggestions or ideas, and thank you.

Thank you, Tess.

Hey, pickleball two, mayor, council, uhmazon sent it to me.

I don't know why.

Showed up at the door.

There it was.

So, but there was a note attached said we're at tonight.

So here I am.

Uh everybody enjoys pickleball, right?

Good.

Okay.

Uh going back on something.

Uh, when Simon was present, uh, he always had me take a look at what's going on with this 906 next door.

Nick, will you say your name just for the record?

Oh, I'm sorry, Nick Elfinsetti.

I thought everybody knew me.

Uh, we we do.

Anybody know?

Everybody knows me.

From Mesquite.

Anyways, 906, uh Airbnb.

And uh, so I told him, I said, you know, there's more than so many people there.

Uh so I told him, I said there's beds in the garage, da-da-da-da-da-da one thing and another.

15, 18 kids there.

So next thing you know, Nate shows up at the door, the new guy, part-timer, correct.

Uh, should be a full timer, definitely.

I keep him busy.

Anyways, um, he asked if I was Nick Alphonsetti.

I said, yes.

He said uh, you know, he started talking about next door.

Next thing you know, he says, your weeds are more than four inches high.

I'm okay, I'll take care of that.

He said, Your truck is parked on dirt.

I said, reminds me of the story you told me about yours.

I said, I can move that.

I said, What about the yard next to me?

There's weeds this high.

Oh, we're working on that.

It's 856 chaparral.

So I says, All right, so he's take some pictures, whatever you see.

So send them to me, don't send them to Simon.

I said, All right.

So I took some pictures, sent them to him, no response.

It's been three weeks, and I've got new ones and the same thing.

So I think if anything, we need to get a full timer if he can't work full time, get a full timer and him because they're gonna be busy with all that, and uh keep up the good work, people and pickle ball is in.

Thank you.

Thank you, Nick.

Anyone else wish to come forward?

Okay, seeing no one, we're gonna move on to item two, the consent agenda.

2.1 consideration of approval of the Tuesday, May 26, 2026 regular city council meeting minutes, the Tuesday, June 9th, 2026, regular city council meeting minutes.

The Tuesday, June 16th, 2026 technical review meeting minutes, the Tuesday, June 16, 2026, special canvas meeting minutes, the Thursday, June 18th, 2026 emergency canvas meeting minutes, and the Tuesday, July 14th, 2026 regular city council meeting agenda.

2.2 consideration of approval of a notification of bills paid and b purchase orders.

2.3 consideration of approval of resolution number R26-019, adopting interlocal contract number 3273 between the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada and Clark County, City of Las Vegas, City of North Las Vegas, City of Henderson's City of Boulder City, and City of Musquite for pedestrian access and bus shelter pad improvements.

2.4 consideration of approval of resolution number R26-018.

Adopting supplemental number six to the interlocal contract number 1299 between 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 City of Mesquite for the trail maintenance volunteer coordination for the fiscal year.

I think that's 2627.

Any public comment on the consent agenda.

Mine's not on there, so I'm gonna do it next time.

And then any questions from the council on consent agenda.

If not, I'll ask for a motion.

Councilman Ennis.

I'll go ahead and make a motion to prove the consent agenda is written.

Councilwoman Galloway.

I'll second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Parish high.

Yeah, that's right.

Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 3.1 presentation from the Virgin Valley Water District, I believe.

Aaron Bunker, is that Europe.

Thank you, Mayor and City Council.

Appreciate the opportunity as the water district to present today to all of you and the uh the public.

Um with that, uh I actually have a lot of advancements in this slide, so bear with me as we advance through it.

Um but I I hope everyone gets a bit out of this presentation.

Um at least one thing I hope to get out of it is uh advanced, please is that we do have safe, reliable water today and well in the future.

Uh, through this presentation, we'll we'll highlight those steps that uh how we got to where we're at today.

And at any time, if anyone has any questions, feel free to ask me.

I do better at uh answering as we go instead of just uh monologuing.

So with that, next slide.

Uh advance.

We'll we'll go over brief history of the uh the water in the valley and our uh the distribution system, how we get water out of the ground to get it to the faucets at your home.

Advance, please.

And also our water resources, our water rights.

Uh we have groundwater and surface water, and then our the planning that we put in to stay ahead of growth and ensure that we have water.

Um advance one more, please.

And then we'll finalize on what we call our perennial yield study.

And this is a study that we've been working on for the last five years.

Um we completed it back in October of last year.

And it's a technical report, and some of the slides that I'll be presenting are technical, so please bear with me as we we go over there, those little slides.

Advance, please.

Um, one more, please, yeah.

Uh again, the the valley, it was settled back in 1877.

Uh, we're gonna be celebrating 150 years of settlement uh of the valley here in January.

Umriginally, the the early residents drank water right out of the river.

Um, it was not very good water quality.

And so they were always searching for uh additional better sources of water, and they were able to find them up in the mountain springs up in the Virgin Mountains.

Little by little, they popped it uh piped it down to the community.

Uh advance, please.

Uh one more.

In the early 40s, uh, private water companies were created in both Bunker and Mesquite.

Um, they they supplied the water for many years, and in the 1950s, they kind of transitioned from those spring water rights coming down off the mountain uh to groundwater.

It's a lot easier to maintain uh the wells, and there's a lot less piping.

Um piping coming off the mountain, it was pretty rugged, and there's a lot of failures, and so the transition to that.

And bringing us to today, uh, in the late 80s, early 90s, this the growth really took off here in the valley.

And it was challenging for those small water uh companies, private water companies to maintain that.

And so the uh community petitioned the state legislature to create a water district.

And the Virgin Valley Water District was formed in 1993, advanced please.

Um it merged the assets of the Bunker Water User Association and the Mesquite Farmstead.

And uh that's where we get our assets up today, uh, our water rights and things of that nature.

Advance, please.

Um today's system, it uh it includes 11 deep set water wells, and there's seven arsenic state-of-the-art arsenic treatment plants.

Um there is naturally occurring arsenic in the in the soil here, and when we pump it out of the water out of the ground, it has dissolved some of that arsenic, and we do rely on those treatment plants to remove that.

There's five booster stations, and we can move water throughout our system.

There's over 200 miles of piping throughout the valley, and we have uh nine water storage tanks then our our system's set up as a drabby feed, and so these tanks are at high points of the valley, and it pressurizes uh seven different pressure zones that we have.

And the reason we have so many pressure zones is just because of the topography here.

There's a lot of high and lows, and it creates beautiful vistas for homes, but it is challenging for a water district.

There's a lot of high pressures and low pressures depending on where you're at.

Advance, please.

Um, we do have a good water quality, but we do have very hard water.

We have a lot of dissolved minerals, and that's kind of in the West for groundwater, that's kind of the norm.

But you can treat that out with water softeners and those dissolved minerals, they also add flavor to the water.

Some like it, uh some don't.

Again, reverse osmosis, you can remove some of those minerals and make the water taste how you'd like it.

But uh again, that naturally occurring arsenic is something that we have to treat out.

And those treatment plants do remove uh the arsenic level to near non-detext before it ever reaches anyone's home.

Advanced fleas.

Another challenge that we have is hot water.

Um during the summer when it's hot.

Uh well, our wells, when we pump the water out of the ground, the the temperature actually is 80 to 90 degrees coming out of the ground, and that's year-round.

Um we send it through treatment, it really doesn't cool up much, and then advanced fleas, and then it goes and sits in above ground, well-distilled water storage tanks.

And in the summer, this heats up some more, and you would think advanced fleas, that once it goes underground in pipes that it would cool down.

That's not the case, it's not what we see.

When the ambient temperature of the air is 100, 110, 115, uh the soil temperature, what we find where our pipes are, which is about three, three and a half feet down uh below, it's still 90 degrees.

And so that water sitting in pipes surrounded by 90 degree soil, the water's gonna be 90 degrees when it comes to the ground.

I guess the silver lining you look at is uh advanced fleas is you don't have to pay to heat the water here in the summer months.

But advanced fleas.

Um, our water rights uh portfolio.

We do have uh groundwater rights, advanced fleas, and that that comes from the water wells, and then we have surface water rights on the Virgin River and those historic spring water rights off the mountain.

We still hold those.

You can see um you know, 50% of our our water, over 50%, is groundwater.

But that is 100% of our water supply for drinking.

This comes from the ground.

Um advance one more, please.

This number that I'm highlighting that 12,271 acre feet.

We're gonna talk about that a couple times throughout my presentation.

That is the allocation of water that's been um permitted to to this valley for for municipal use, uh, advanced fleas.

Well, uh let me highlight an acre foot, it's a unit uh that can supply about two to three homes uh in mesquite and then for our water use.

Kind of visualize it, it's enough water to cover a football field in one foot of water.

Um again, with that groundwater, that's how we supply all the all the use for drinking, for residential commercial, and otherwise, but there are more than one water supplier here in the valley.

I want to highlight that.

The city of Mesquite with a reuse program.

It it is it is a supplier of water for some of the parks and golf courses.

I had the opportunity uh just recently to go tour the wastewater treatment plant.

That's a state-of-the-art plant and with very highly qualified staff, and that is a great benefit for this community.

Um that that reuse water that's provided, it it alleviates some of the demand on other sources, um, advanced fleas.

And one other source of our supplier of water is two private irrigation companies that are on one is in Bunkerville and one's in Mesquite.

Um, historically, they supplied agriculture for for water.

Uh more recently, in the last couple decades, on the mesquite side, it's been supplying some of the local golf courses.

In between the uh reuse water and the irrigation uh from the Virgin River, that's how all the golf courses receive uh their water for irrigation of their courses.

Um, these private irrigation companies, they are a private company that have shares, shareholders, kind of like IBM, Microsoft, things of that nature.

Um, the water district, we are a shareholder in both those companies, but again, we do not manage it.

We do not get a dictate how they operate.

They are a private company, advanced fleas.

Um again, I want to highlight again the groundwater since that is the sole source for our drinking water.

Um, this is a depiction of an aquifer.

Um it's kind of similar to the aquifer that we have here.

Um, you can see there's actually two different uh levels to it, and here we have that as well.

There's an upper aquifer that's that's shallow, and the water quality is pretty poor.

It's uh it has a lot of dissolved minerals, and it's not a good source for for use.

Um we have to go a bit deeper, at least 500 feet, if not uh even down to 2,000 feet, we drill for some of our wells.

And um, it's into the muddy creek formation, which is what the aquifers call that we get our water from, advanced fleas.

And it is an artesian aquifer, this means that that it's under pressure.

When we when we tap it, it actually wants to come up our borehole.

Um advanced fleas.

Excuse me.

This slide is this uh showing the amount of water we pumped over the years for the last 30 years, and again sitting in acre foot uh values.

Um you can see again when the growth started happening, um 2006-2007, it really shot up.

Um but I want to highlight this as that that upper number that circled the 12,271 acre feet.

That is our water budget.

That amount of water is renewed every year.

You can almost look at it like a financial budget.

With your different departments, you have financial budget form, and it's renewed each year.

That's how this is.

You can see over the last 20 years, it's kind of flat-lined, the water uses has a little wave action to it, and it kind of goes seasonally depending on a hot year or wet year.

But uh over those last 20 years, our community has grown well over 25%.

Yet our water usage is more or less flatlined.

And that is really down to conservation.

A lot of the new growth coming in is zero escape desert.

Um and the older uh parts of town have replaced some more decorative uh rock or more drought resistant um shrubbery and things of that nature.

And all that's gonna allow is it really allows our water resources to go further over the years.

Advance please.

Um again, the water district, we continue to plan for for the future.

Um we have uh a master plan that we update every three years, and that encompasses everything for our infrastructure, resources, water resources, um, everything that's needed to ensure that we have water available.

Um part of that is also uh again, we we estimate how how far out our our water is available, uh the allocation that we have that 12,271 acre feet.

Um that figure 4-2 um it's just showing with the current growth growth rate and water usage, we're projecting about the year 2062 is when we will maximize that annual renewal allotment.

Again, that's we're not running out, we're not uh running out of water, we're just running out of the ability to have additional um connections without finding additional sources, and that could be additional groundwater, and I'll get into that later in my slide.

Um advance, please.

Uh one more.

You can see this figure three-eight, that is this depicting the amount of water used per residential home.

And you can see that graph, it's just going down.

It is, we are the conservation is happening.

And again, that is allowed our resources go further out.

If you would advance a couple uh for me one more, um, these numbers that I'm showing here, just the the amount of for our planning purposes, we we allocate 286 gallons per day per connection, and that's part of our planning process to show how far out uh before we need to find additional water and with additional growth rate.

And you can see that's where that 2062 number comes from.

But in 2023, we had a much higher usage amount that we projected to be more uh I guess conservative in that number.

But it shortened the lifespan of when we needed to find additional water.

We actually was 2040 at the time, and one more please, in 2020, we were even more conservative.

Um advanced one more.

That it was uh a much higher usage we were showing per connection, and it was showing about 2034 we were gonna maximize that water.

But again, through conservation measures and again being more realistic in our our planning and not being so conservative.

Uh it is that 2062 is a very solid number where we will maximize that water.

Advance, please.

Um the person who, or the the annuity who allocates this water for the valley is the state engineer of Nevada.

And the way he he designates the waters by basin.

Um there are 256 separate basins in Nevada, and that's just the kind of the area between the different mountain ranges, the basin and range.

And that's not where the recharge happened fills those basins up.

Um basin, it's uh it's called the Lower Virgin River Valley, and it's been designated basin 222, advanced fleas.

And each basin has had a study, a water study done for it.

And these were done in the 40s, 50s, and 60s, and really high-level reconnaissance uh level.

They did the best they could with with the information they had at the time.

Um advanced fleas.

And and what these studies did is they they looked at the amount of water available that could be used beneficially for for public use.

Um they call those estimates the perennial yield or system yield.

And uh we'll go into more detail at a later slide on that.

We advance, please.

Our report was completed in 1969 for our basin.

It was report 51, advanced please.

And so the the city of Nevada, the division of water resources, the definition they use for perennial yield, this this renewal amount of water every year, as they call it, um it's the maximum amount of water that can be salvaged or withdrawn from the aquifer without depleting it, without lowering the water table.

Um, one more advancement, please.

And one other uh definition I'd like to highlight is what they call conjunctive management.

And all that it recognizes that groundwater and surface water may be interconnected, and when you use one, it might affect the other.

Advanced fleas.

Um, one more advance.

So the report 51, it estimated the amount of perennial yield for our basin at 3,600 acre feet.

And for the system yield, which is uh advanced fleece, um, is the conjunctive manage of using all the available water resources was at 100,000 acre feet, advanced fleas.

And from that, the state engineer has allocated that 12,002 acre feet of of available water for us to use in this valley.

Um so the state engineer has come out, and even the state is they talked about these these reconnaissance reports.

They're they're getting fairly old, and there's a lot more better science and data available.

And so they have allocated money, the state has to go and update each one of these reports.

But it takes a lot of time and money to do that.

And he's gonna the state engineer has acknowledged they're gonna do it by priority, which basins are the most over-allocated or has the most conflict.

We've asked them, and they said ours is a very low priority.

There's he doesn't feel it's overallocated, and there's not a lot of conflict.

Um, some of the shortcomings of these reports, at least especially the report 51, is that it relied on one year's worth of water data, like precipitation data and flows from the Virgin River.

Um that that data was from 1936.

So by the time it was released in the 1969 report, it was already dated, and even then it really wasn't representative of what um is available.

One year is at a low year or high year, you want to have a much more broad uh data set to be able to do that.

But again, this was a high-level report trying to get a good base to start from.

Um advanced, please.

Again, if if there really was only 3600 acre feet of water, you can see that we've been pumping well over that number for for years.

Um, but again, advanced please.

Again, that allocation is based on the 100,000 acre feet.

Um advanced please.

This slide is the lower left um picture is of a hydrograph.

And what a hydrograph is it is uh showing the water level uh in our monitoring wells.

And so the water district has over 15 uh monitoring wells throughout the basin.

This is in Utah, Nevada, and Arizona.

The majority of them are here in Nevada where most of the pumping's happening.

But uh will you advance it one for me?

And all that is doing, it's measuring from the land surface down to the water surface in the ground.

And so over the years, you can see all there's very flat, stable lines, and all that is showing that it's the water table is very stable, it's not dropping.

If we were over pumping it by two fold, would you advance it?

You would see this.

You'd see the water table this dropping, but you don't.

Uh would you advance it one more?

Actually, two more.

Uh what you are seeing is a very stable uh flat line, just showing that the the water table is very stable and um secure.

Uh advanced please.

Uh in addition to our monitoring well program, uh the water district has high elevation precipitation gauges that we monitor yearly yearly.

Um again, we've been in a drought, yet, even in this drought years, we are still getting uh precipitation at those high elevations, and that is where a lot of the recharge is happening for our muddy creek formation, where we are removing and pumping the water from for our wells, advanced please.

Uh, this is this is the picture of that recharge process.

You can see high elevation where the water's uh coming and then it percolates in and recharges those aquifers.

Um you can kind of visualize it.

We advance it once.

Um it's kind of like filling a bucket of water, um, advance it once.

Uh the recharge, you know, it's it's filling it, and once you fill that bucket up, if there's not enough room in it, it's just gonna spill over.

Um advance one more time, and that's kind of the discharge outflow that can be through the river or even subsurface flows can be happening.

Um, and what the state engineer is trying to do, when we advance it, he is trying to maximize that um discharge that is that's being wasted that's just flowing out, and that's that conjunctive management between the surface and groundwater.

Um, it's really like a math equation.

We advance it.

Your discharge is this, or you're recharging because you're discharge, and that amount of water that is truly this this wasted being overflowed or overflowing your bucket, per se, is is what the printing yield number is trying to find.

And so you never want to go over that and start lowering the level in your bucket.

Um, advanced please.

So again, you're trying to capture that that that loss.

Advance one more, please.

Um again, there's a there's a disconnect though from what that number is in that old report to what the science is showing.

And so there's there's always been questions asked, and uh the water district has reached out in the past to the state engineer to come to ask about that.

And he's come presented before at our board meeting in 2015 in June.

And at the time his name was Jason King.

Um, there's a different state engineer today, but he said at that time that the uh the virtual river basin was in very good shape.

He went on to talk about the allocation that's been been given to the water district, and so that was a very good number.

Um later on, even the city council or uh uh the city reached out to the state engineer's office back in September 2021, and they came and presented.

Um Michelin Fairbanks, who at the time was a deputy administrator, she came and presented and said that based on the the data and the information available at that time that the conditions and water usage was sustainable.

Um there wasn't concern.

It was again the water table is stable, and that's that's what you want to see.

But at the end of the day, again, the state engineer wants to update those those old reports.

And we we asked the state engineer um again when we're just gonna do that, and it's again it's it's out.

Uh we don't know exactly when.

And so the water district wants to be able to be a good steward and be able to plan and have a uh a reliable um understanding of the science behind that.

And so we reached out, we talked to State Engineer, and what were the requirements uh that how he wanted a a printing yield study completed.

And with that, would you advance?

Uh the water district with that information.

We reached out and contracted with GZA Gloriata Geoscience.

Um they are one of the premier um groundwater and hydrogeologic consultants in the nation, even that internationally.

Um again, they they were formed back in 64, they've been around for a long time.

They have performed a lot of studies and projects, and they have a lot of staff, very highly quality, highly qualified staff.

The um the staff members that assisted us in our program in our uh study were Paul Dracos, um uh geez, I can't remember her name right now.

Sworner, Holly, Swarner, yeah, and Jim Riester and Josh Simpson.

If you want to see some very highly qualified resumes, go look these individuals up.

They truly are some of the premier hydrogeologists, and in Holly's and Josh's case, they are some of the premier water modelers as well in the nation.

Advanced, please.

Um, our study, we did it in a uh two-phase approach.

Uh the first phase, advanced please, uh, is we reviewed all the existing data, studies, information that was available at the time.

And that took two years to compile all that information.

Um, the second phase was we performed a new basin characterization model.

And what what a model is, this specific the they call it BCM, it is created by the US Geological Survey, which is again they are the premier service in creating these models.

Um we use their model and input data into that.

And then after that was all inputted, uh, the output we we put into a groundwater model.

And that whole process took about three years to create.

And then again, we we completed that in October of last year.

We advance.

Uh advance again.

Um again, this is just showing the the two different steps.

Um we go one more.

Um again with the the basic hydration model, it you input a lot of data, climate data, soil properties, vegetation, geology, all those things are layered on top of each other to create the output of what what your estimation is gonna be.

When you advance, one more.

And so you can see the different inputs, and and just in the precipitation data alone, there was 41 years worth of data compared to this one year with the old model.

It's much more robust and gonna be much more representative of the available water events, please.

And ultimately, uh, this is depicting the output of those models.

Um it's kind of interesting, even with a supercomputer, the these models can take up to a week to run one year's worth of data.

It is so data heavy.

Um, but ultimately you want you gotta have it calibrated.

You want your output, which is the blue lines on these uh graphs from the model, you want it to coincide with real world data.

And that data source is the USGS survey.

You can see they overlap each other and they can cite very well each other.

It's well calibrated, advanced, please.

Umce we were done with that BCM, we inputted that data into our groundwater model and then overlaid it with all the well data information, the water levels, including stream information from the from the river.

There's lots of gauges where you have losing and gaining streams, and ran the model from there.

And ultimately, this is where it's gonna have the output of how much water is the printing yield, that renewable amount every year.

Would you advance, please?

Um, but again, you you need to ensure that it's calibrated.

Uh that plot on the on the right side, that match line, that is where the the data from USGS resides, and you want all your outputs to mirror that.

Um again, if it's off then it's not calibrated correctly, and you're not gonna have the right output.

Um, you advance it.

A well-calibrated model, it's usually under 10% of error.

Um, you advance it, please.

Uh ours is under 4%.

It is a very well-calibrated model.

Um, even with that, uh, will you advance it, please?

Even with that, the industry standard is to reduce the output by 20 to 30 percent.

So you're still very conservative in your number that you get out of it.

Um we advance it.

Uh the water district, we actually, or the model when it was completed by our consultant, they reduced it by 43%.

So even more conservative.

Um again, ultimately, you're trying to get the output of of what that printing yield amount is.

We advanced, and that's that output ended up being it was 20,421 acre feet of water available.

That's annually being renewed.

Again, our allocation is uh a little over 12,000 acre feet, still well below that that allotment.

Um again, it's that's the amount of overflow coming from our bucket from our basin.

Um this has to be very defensible.

Um this information we'll we ultimately wouldn't present it.

Will you advance it one more?

One more.

We uh took this information, our the results and went and presented it.

The district staff and our consultant staff uh flew out to Carson City last month and presented to state engineer and the division water resource staff.

And ultimately the staffs noted that that the way we did our model and study, it mirrored their approach, and that's that was purposeful.

We ensured that's how we did it.

We wanted to mirror theirs, so ultimately the outcome it was gonna be acceptable to them.

Um the state engineer uh afterwards advised us to write a written petition requesting that he uh review the printer yield amount and uh that process uh it will we advance it.

It it'll have um public hearings and it can take up to five years, but ultimately the our printer yield amount will be reviewed and updated, and that ultimately will we with a study complete, it's the most robust that's that's been done.

We have a lot of confidence in the available water, and and ultimately the state engineers gonna go through that and pick it apart and decide for for where that water's at.

And we'll have confidence now and into the future that that we have available water.

Um will you advance?

With that, that is my my presentation, but I would love to read this quote that's from Vincent Levitt.

This says perhaps it's a small town bias I hold, but the history of our home is very important, not only to those of us who grew up in these small communities, but also those who are coming to this valley and making it their home.

One cannot appreciate the present without following the trails of history from past through the present into the future.

And our valley has a bright future.

Um advance one more.

Uh, before I take any questions you may have, uh, this this is the pictures uh on the left is the cover page of that old reconnaissance report.

I was handed that uh my first day on the job, which is about 19 years ago, and told become very familiar with that report.

Um, I stared at that cover page, and I'm like, I'm I'm very familiar with that that cover page.

That is a picture of the family farm I grew up on.

Uh the picture on the right is uh more present day.

Uh I'm sitting on the back patio of my parents' house.

That was built in 1970.

And again, that report was clean in 1969.

And so that's the view I had, and and that was very neat for me on that first day.

This I enjoyed that, and I love this valley, and I love ensuring that that we have a future for water and ensuring that it's there.

But with that, I'll take any questions you may have.

Thank you, Erin.

Uh Councilman Wallace.

First of all, I'd like to applaud you for your water conservation.

Very few places in the country right now are showing the decline that you're showing on water usage per day per capita.

So that's awesome.

And second, I want to applaud you for finally reaching out to the state engineer and starting this four years ago when I talked to you in your office, and I went through your well records.

I told you you need to start talking to them right now because it was obvious the yield you were taking out of the aquifer wasn't doing anything to it.

And I know we have service sources, but these people don't know that would be incredibly difficult to use.

Because it would have to be done through reverse osmosis with all of your dissolved solids, and you have nowhere to send the sludge.

So what you're doing right now is perfect.

I commend you.

It's a great job.

Keep going, and this valley will have water for the foreseeable future, and thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilman.

Councilwoman Gallo.

I just want to say thank you for the research.

Um, it's a lot, and we really appreciate all that you did.

And I just want to say thank you for easing our concerns because it's it's a big concern, and this really does help a lot.

So thank you for all the all the work you did.

Thank you.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, thank you, Mr.

Vancker, for that presentation.

Um, and I hope that you're gonna have it online on your website.

I mean, so other people who have all these questions can um have those answered because with reading the presentation, or hopefully they'll go to our website and watch this so they can hear you read it.

Um so um and thank you for the water conservation that you and Mrs.

Anderson, you know, that you do around the city of Miski.

It's amazing, and the whole water district.

So, my question is basin 222.

You had one of the slides here that says that it's shared between Utah, Nevada, and Arizona.

Does that jeopardize our water?

That's a good question.

Um, I should have pointed out on uh one of my second last slides where we had the it showed the 20,421 acre feet below that.

It also had the allocations that's available.

Yeah, that'd be great.

Yeah, right there for each of the the Arizona and Utah portions, they have recharge happening in their portion of the basin as well, and they have available water.

Right, and that's and that's just what I noticed was it just said shared, and that makes me nervous because people think that they're gonna get our water because it rolls down from the north to the south.

So thank you for clarifying that.

And I didn't catch that on there, I just had already made a note.

And I need to point it out, so I apologize.

I should have no worries.

That amount is just for the Nevada portion.

So there is other apportionment that's available for Utah and Arizona to expand to.

Perfect.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So the the 12,000 portions takes us out to 2062.

Do you have a projected year date for the 20,000?

Uh I don't.

Um, that's something hopefully we'll get into.

And again, for that 20, the that's a little over 20,000 acre feet.

We'll see how the state engineer ultimately state engineer will have to review that and we'll see where where he lies.

We do have additional applications in.

That's uh a request to the state engineer for additional water.

And so how the Vada water lies, it's first in time first and right.

So the person who requests it first gets it when it's if it's available.

And the state is your does.

He wants to maximize available water for the benefit of the state and for the community.

And so if if he deems that there is additional water, whatever additional water there is, because we have so many applications in that it surpasses that 20,000 acre feet amount.

This value will get it for the municipal use.

I mean, I'm gonna be long gone by that time, so it doesn't matter.

But um, seeing no other questions from council, thank you very much, Aaron.

Thank you.

And with that, we'll go ahead and open it up for public comment.

Please come forward.

Good evening.

I'm James Middle.

I'm a relatively short-term resident of uh Mesquite.

I've only been here about 10 years, however, I have been uh a lifelong resident of Nevada.

Uh I have a strong lifelong interest in water and water resources.

Uh I served for 30 years on the board of the steamboat waters company in Washoe County and operated a uh Alfalfa ranch in Elco County for many years.

So I've been immersed in water.

No no pun intended, but I've been very involved in it.

Uh so I've always been aware of how much water was needed for whatever I was working on and how much was there and the problems associated with it.

I studied the water resources report uh that was submitted to the council and the attached report uh 51.

The reports are excellent, comprehensive, and optimistic.

And I'll get to optimistic optimism in a moment.

The water district should be commended, and as you've all recognized, they do an excellent job.

It's one of the best managed organizations I've ever run into, and they've got a tough job to do.

They're managing uh the groundwater, which is primarily supplied by the Virgin River.

No matter how you cut it, no matter which study you look at, everything goes back to the river.

Uh and I'll get to your question in just a moment.

Uh table six on report 51 indicates that the Virgin River flows are variable over time, very variable.

It's a 37-year study period that's mentioned in report 51.

The uh variability in June of 1934, the Virgin River as married at uh measured at uh Littlefield was 46.8 acre feet.

Now the water experts will tell you that that's not a lot of water.

However, in May of 1941, the same river measured at the same place, was 2,120 acre feet.

So you've got over a 37-year period, you've got a minimum minimum of 46 acre feet and the river, and a few years later, it's up to 2,000.

And I I didn't pursue the variations beyond that.

That's just what was mentioned in the report.

Uh on optimism.

Mesquite has been allocated by the state engineering groundwater permit for uh 12,271 acre feet.

This has served us well and is likely to do so in the future.

As long as the actual water is available.

Permits aren't water.

You've heard that.

James, you're you're out of time.

I'm I'm sorry to say.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Thank you though.

Thank you.

Okay.

Uh well, I did have a couple more.

If you want to get up at the end of the meeting and finish, you'll have three more minutes at the end of the meeting if you'd like to get up for sure.

Because I'm not quite finished yet.

Okay, perfect.

My name is David Zeleniac, and I've been in Mesquite since 2011.

And I was elected to the water board in 2024.

And I want to echo a lot of the comments and sentiments about how thorough this uh report was.

It's really a generational study.

Since 1969, there's been a lot of misinformation out about water.

Uh I started uh with the presentation by Dr.

McGreer October uh August 24th, 19, or actually August 24th, 2021, to the city council that had a very stark outlook on water.

So I'm imploring Dr.

McGrear to update his uh website, Mesquite Water Alliance with this report.

As Karen indicated, this should be posted on other websites as well.

This is really uh an exceptional report.

More importantly, though, I wanted to acknowledge uh the staff behind what supports this document.

You have our frontline customer support at the water district.

You have Adelina, Caroline, and Christine, and Val Martinez, their manager, who most people have had some interaction with at certain at some point in time.

Wonderful people, always cheerful, happy, and they take care of the water uh customers as they need.

Secondly, conservation was mentioned.

Natalie Anderson, you've knocked out of the park.

Most people know Natalie.

She's a former teacher, and she's uh done a lot of work with the schools here, the elementary schools, high schools, and educating people at the lowest levels to start conserving water.

It's a great message.

Uh the water district was in a little bit of financial trouble many years ago.

We had brought on the CFO Wes Smith, who's now retiring, and he did a yeoman's job in getting the water district's financials in order.

His replacement, Dalen Perkins, has stepped up in the last year to do just a fantastic job, supported by Kyle Hughes.

Um then lastly, most importantly, I want everybody here to acknowledge our ground crews at the water district.

These folks, when there's a water mainline water break, they're on call 24-7.

They're out there repairing it, they get it done.

For example, we had a break in Sun City within one hour.

There was seven or eight trucks out there, a backhoe, and we had water restored in about 90 minutes.

That's just phenomenal support.

So whether it's you know 115 degrees out or whether it's 40 degrees in the winter and the water's freezing.

Uh, these folks do a phenomenal job.

Uh and lastly, when the budget was prepared for the water district this past budget, we had the ground crew and every staff member in on this budget and giving inputs.

Everybody is fully vested.

So the people that note how great of a water district this is, it truly is.

And I believe we have the best water district in the state of Nevada.

Hands down, the state engineer uh echoed that sentiment when Aaron and Ben Martinez went down there.

Martinson, sorry, and Kevin Brown, who's retired now, is also to thank for that.

So thank you all for letting me speak.

Thank you, David.

Okay, wait.

Okay, see anyone else come forward?

I just want to echo what David just said.

My grandfather started the water district in Moapa Valley, and when I was a kid, me and his birthday is two days apart.

Half of the time we'd always have a shared birthday party.

Half the time he would have to go out and fix a water break.

Or during the Christmas party, he'd have to go out and fix a water break.

And so these guys, and you know, I echo the same sentiments for our a lot of our city employees.

Just be willing to go 24 hours a day when when needed to keep us in water, in power, and all the things we take for granted, but think I know there's a few people from the water district here, and uh thank you all.

And I'm gonna echo that for our our city employees that do the same.

But thank you.

Um Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

I would just like to make a motion to accept our presentation from Virgil Valley Water District.

Do I have a second?

Councilwoman Gallo?

I'll second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Galois.

Okay, item 4.1 consideration of approval of resolution R26-016, an interlocal agreement with Regional Flood Control District, C CR FCD for the maintenance of maintenance of mesquite flood control facilities for fiscal year fiscal year 2026-2027.

Thank you, Mayor Council.

The item before you is each year we do an interlocal agreement for maintenance funding of our wash system.

This includes all of the detention basins, uh the cleaning of the washes, and this is all from Clark County Regional Flood Control Funding.

So each year we create a budget, um, send that down for their concurrence, and then have that memorialized in an interlocal agreement.

Um so what you will see before you tonight, the amount that we have requested from regional flood control, and they've agreed is 623,000.

Um that is again 100% um funded through regional flood control.

This money is so valuable to our valley um with the storm events that we get.

Um, this allows us to keep the washes clean, the detention basins um silt-free as best we can.

You will notice that this amount is quite high, and you'll look and see that there is quite a spike in the uh we call both townwash detention basin and the Jim Wilson detention um basin.

We've got a couple projects with that.

Um we are doing a spillway maintenance repair on that, and you will see an item later on in the agenda, but also that basin itself is four times larger than any of the other watershed basins that we have here in town.

So that area we get sediment, and when we have to remove it out of the detention basin to make sure we have enough capacity, we actually have to truck it out, and it becomes quite expensive.

But this money again has been approved by regional flood control as our maintenance budget, and it is our my recommendation to approve resolution R26016.

Any questions from council?

Okay, seeing none.

Do we have any public comment?

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

Councilman Innis.

I'll go ahead and make a motion to approve the resolution R26-016.

Councilwoman Fielding.

I'll second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

LOI Okay, motion passes.

Mayor's comments and reports.

Um I just want to echo what Ron said earlier, and big thank yous to all those who participated in the 4th of July.

Um things, the Parks Department, Public Works, Police Fire, and all those uh police volunteers that are out there directing traffic.

Um everybody said how bad traffic was.

I got there at seven and parked right at the front, and I kind of meandered out and went right out.

So it timings everything.

But uh it would it was great, and it took dozens and does dozens of people, and also I don't know if our donors are still here, at least one of them is still here.

But and you know, made it extra special.

It was a great evening, and uh thank you.

And with that, I'm gonna turn it over to the council.

Um councilman Ennis.

Thank you.

Just a really quick, just wanted to put out that our little uh veterans' affairs mobile medical clinic will be here on the 23rd of this month.

Uh please get the word out.

This is gonna be they're gonna take a break and probably not come back until September or so.

So if you know of veterans that need this stuff, please get them out here to the veteran center on the 23rd.

They're here for from 10 o'clock until noon o'clock.

And they bring down a doctor, they do blood pressure checks.

One thing that's become really famous down there is they do acupuncture, and she is really really good.

And so a lot of people are really enjoying that acupuncture thing.

And so come on down, please get the word out.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilman.

Councilwoman Gallo.

Okay, couple things.

Um, I just wanted to let everybody know um that I spoke with Dr.

Dr.

Brown from Virgin Valley Vet, and um, I just want to personally thank and have the city note to thank them for all that they did uh for all those dogs.

What was it, 140 dogs that you if you all remember the situation with the mobile home?

So I want to thank Dr.

Brown, Dr.

Stei, Dr.

Schaefer, Dr.

Santi, and Dr.

Figueroa.

So the great thing is there were five doctors there that were able to take care of them because it wasn't just evaluating them, it was bathing them.

Um they it was a lot that they did a lot.

So Dr.

Brown asked me to please thank the public for being patient because during that time when they were taking care of those animals, the dogs, it was a little difficult to get in.

And uh, but they were kind of a priority, there was an issue, so she she wanted to say thank you.

And just so that you all know, um, the doctors really donated um, they were they donated the time.

They didn't charge our our animal shelter for a lot of their time, which really saved us a lot.

So I wanted to thank them again for those 140 dogs.

The great thing is the last couple dogs we have, because we did have rescues that came out and um adopted, but the last couple we have a mama with five babies and they all have homes, so um the last of them are all being taken care of.

So and I also want to thank the animal shelter for all um the work, our ACOs.

Um it was a lot bathing and cleaning, and you know, the the the area is not that big, and for them to get all those animals taken care of and in and back and forth to the vet from the vet, etc.

I want to thank them.

So um, last thing there are some really great cats over there right now.

If you're looking for like a one-year-old or a two-year-old, please please stop by.

Um the next thing is, and I don't know if this is the time.

Is this the time that I can ask about that, or should I wait?

Um, yeah.

Okay.

So um, this is I guess for Becca.

Um, I know we no longer have our financial director.

What is happening with the financials?

Because we're now a year behind.

And quite honestly, the financials are how we as a council can see where the money's being spent, and we haven't seen anything for a year.

So up until April, we'll be on the next council meeting.

Um, when Bryce came on in the end of January, we were behind till from August.

Um, so he was not only playing catch up, he had to do the audit, he had to do the budget and the financials.

So um he did catch up until April, so that'll be on the next council agenda.

Because they're not posted, so typically they would be posted, or they would and they were always sent to the council.

The council would get them every month.

He sent all of them before he left last Thursday.

Did anybody else receive them?

I did not get them, you didn't get them.

I did not get them, and I was the one that I mean I got your email saying that you caught that, but I didn't get the email with because we actually would get the report so we could go over the report.

I haven't seen it.

I I thought you included it on there and said thank you to him.

So I will resend it.

Thanks.

Thanks because that's to you important.

Because it'll go on the next, yeah, it'll go on the next council agenda.

Okay.

Because my other concern is um uh we have an audit coming up.

Are we ready for that?

That'll be they'll the auditors will come in October.

Okay, okay.

So we're getting pretty ready.

Yep.

Okay, good.

Because I know it's gonna be a little bit of a challenge with not having somebody here, that's why I'm asking.

Yeah, um, so I I'll just look forward to get the email and go over that.

Thank you so much.

Appreciate it.

Yeah, thank you.

You're welcome.

And just to note, um, the first round of uh applications will be looked at.

Um, I think it closed last week, so we started looking at them this week.

And while we have you, Becca, you want to you have something?

Yeah, um, so just for um you guys and then the public to know next Tuesday, we'll be holding an all-day uh workshop retreat for council.

Um, it'll be from 9 a.m.

till 4 30 at the Veterans Center.

Um, this is to discuss all different items within the city.

Um, starting with the strategic plan, the tenure CIP going over finances, economic development, um, and the RDA.

So um, yeah, next Tuesday at the Veteran Center.

Oh, yes, and the tech review will be there that day at 2 30 when tech review is on, but it'll yeah, coincide with the agenda.

And the public is invited, correct?

Correct.

Thank you.

Um, any other uh presentations from council or staff?

My apologies.

All right, okay, let's move on.

6.1 consideration of introduction of bill B26-006, amending the Title VI of the Mesquite Municipal Code to add chapter 9 to establish regulations for bicycle and electric micro mobility device use and operation.

Amending sections 6-2-10A regarding driving on sidewalks, amending section 6-1-2 regarding the definition of motorcycle, providing penalties and other matters properly relating there too.

Adam?

Mr.

Anderson.

All right.

Thank you.

I thought I'd come down here and present, and if we can get the projector up and go, and then more for the benefit of the public, just so they can see the proposed ordinance as I'm talking about it.

I know you already have it and you got in front of you.

But this has been in front of the council a number of times.

It's back.

And this new and updated version is my intent or my attempt to balance and manage all of the different comments that have come during public comment, comments from the council, and then looking also at uh different examples that have been passed recently in other jurisdictions as well.

But my overall intent and hope with this new version of the ordinance is that it's something that is more tailored fit for mesquite, something that works here and again incorporates a lot of the comments that have been part of this process as we've looked at it.

But just as a general overview, there's been a number of key changes.

Um where's Frank?

It's part of the packet.

I guess just start or I don't know.

I know we've got a lot to do today, so but I'll just kind of work through it and we'll we'll go as it is.

Um but during the tech review last meeting, there was a comment made that hey, we should see how this compares with um the Clark County ordinance and maybe do a red line.

And um, good idea.

The the in looking at that doing a red line, this new version is so different because it's more tailored to us that I thought it'd be there we go, a little bit more efficient than because the red line would be just a complete red line of almost the whole thing.

Um so I as I walk through this, I'm gonna go over how it's similar, how it's different to the Clark County ordinance.

And it and it's a valid issue because people are you know, you're you're riding your bike down a bunkerville or something else, and you cross over in Mesquite, it's good to know what's gonna be different, uh depending on what the council does.

But um starting off, you'll see that there are these uh definition sections.

Um, in the prior version that the council reviewed, these definitions were tied to definitions within the NRS.

I've changed that, simplified it, and put the definitions right in here.

That way, if NRS changes, we still have ours, and it wouldn't come conflict with um potential changes to the NRS over time.

Um one key and different uh change is this definition in item C about electric microability micro mobility devices.

And that term, that micro mobility uh term is something that I borrowed from North Las Vegas.

And the intent of this is we've got we've got bikes, we've got e-bikes, but there's also a number of other electric devices that are people starting to use now.

And you know, e-skateboards, um, these one-wheel devices, it's something that we spoke with uh Chief Fails about that, you know.

There's an we've seen an individual driving around in this one-wheel where you know, and so there's different ways that people are gonna use to get around.

I anticipate we'll see even more as as time goes on and technology develops.

Um, but this definition now includes all of that.

So those type of devices will also be within the scope of the ordinance.

Um, it's noted, or you should note as well that it does not include um devices that are used to help and increase uh mobility for people who might have a disability.

No, that's not that's not what we're talking about here, and that's specifically designated in the ordinance.

Um moving on.

Another new definition of this version is I've more um cleanly and more in a more detailed manner described what the public right of way means.

During the last meetings and other times we're talking about are we talking about the sidewalk or the shoulders or the travel lanes?

And so now there's just a general definition that the public right of way is all of that, anywhere where in the city where the public is intended to go.

And it comes up later in the ordinance as I talk about where people should be operating bikes or e-bikes and other things.

Um the new proposed 6.9.3.

Um, a lot of this is almost exactly the same as what the county has, except for the provision regarding helmets.

And this has come up a number of times right now in this version, and this is something that the council will have to discuss and decide or leave as is.

But I have here that helmets would be required for everyone.

Um in the county's version, it's only gonna be required for minors.

Okay.

Um, and so adults, it's suggested, but only required for minors.

And um, just so you're wearing other jurisdictions, you see them doing different things with this as well.

I think you you could say a majority, it would only require for minors.

Um there's other jurisdictions that put the age at um under 21, you still need to have a helmet.

So there's there's variation in this in different places, but um, in this version, I have the helmets would be needed for everyone.

Um the other equipment requirements, B C and D, it's the same as Clark County.

And so moving on to 6.9.4.

This item A is new.

This is different from the prior versions that we have seen.

And I think it's pretty important.

Um, during quite a bit of some of the comments during prior meetings, we had members of the public especially coming in saying, hey, I walk on the sidewalk.

How am I gonna be protected?

What are we gonna do about these e-bikes zooming down on the sidewalk?

And so this is uh creates an affirmative duty to yield, and but it gives more.

And so it says anybody operating a bike or an electric micro building device needs to yield the right of way to produce to pedestrians at all times, regardless of the location, and it's an absolute duty and it applies anywhere.

And so, and I've specified that the operator must take all actions necessary to ensure the pedestrian safety and unimpeded passage, which includes reducing speed, coming to a complete stop, um, dismounting the bike or device, or walking the bicycle or device until the pedestrian is safely passed.

And so I tried to really beef up our pedestrian provisions, um, just given the nature of our town and the pedestrians, and to make sure that that's a very clear and important duty to anybody operating a bike or e-bike.

And so that's very different from the county's version.

Um, it's it's a stronger and robust, is what I would say.

Um, the next section uh talking about location of operation.

This is very similar to what the county has, but there's a little bit of nuance that I've added in.

And so what this generally talks about is where things should be operated.

And if you recall, I mentioned that I define the public right of way, like this whole the whole, you know, from sidewalk to sidewalk.

And in general, we want people to be riding to the right, the furthest right possible, because that's generally the safest place.

Um that's also what's included within the the county ordinance.

But sometimes riding all the way to the right might not actually be the safest, depending on what type of rider you are and um different factors.

And so this item C is something that's new and specific to us to Mesquite.

It says when the rightmost person of portion of the public right away is a sidewalk or pedestrian path, but operating upon the adjacent roadway or paved shoulder is safer or more efficient due to the device's speed of travel, the volume of pedestrian traffic or presence of intersecting driveways, and then that is uh a permissible pathway to use.

And part of this is just trying to balance as well the different uses within the city.

There's some real serious cyclists, and there's other more recreational, and we've had comments from some of those different groups of we've gone away.

Um, so moving on, item number C.

Talking about direction of travel, this is something that was brought up earlier, it wasn't a prior version, but just to note the difference between us and Clark County.

Clark County does not have this, so this is something new that you know would be specified for mesquite.

Um, item D, this is a new provision.

It talks about obedience to traffic control signs and devices.

So this just clarifies that hey, if you're on a bike, you still need to follow the traffic control signs.

Like if you're coming to a four-way stop and nobody's there, you know, sometimes a bike might just fly right through, right?

Oh, I'm a bike, I'm not a car, I don't necessarily have to, you know.

This says no, we have to follow all of those rules as well, unless you're getting off of it, and then you're treated as a pedestrian.

So this is to increase safety and to clarify that those um traffic control signals are important and need to be followed by people riding something.

Um, item number E.

The this is new and unique to us and very different from Clark County.

And this talks about operator control and distraction.

And um the Clark County ordinance says that you know you can use something, you can't carry something as long, or sorry, you can carry something as long as you can have one hand on the handlebar, right?

And this new version is very different.

This is brought up by uh councilwoman Fielding, and uh so it specifies that when you're using one of these devices or riding a bike, you have to maintain continuous control.

And I specify in here what that means in a little bit more detailed manner.

So, item number one it says carrying or using a mobile phone, electronic device, object package, or other item in the hands or arms that requires the operator to ride with only one hand on the handlebars is prohibited.

So you you shouldn't be using your phone and trying to juggle another hand.

And then it says the use of mobile phones, uh, navigational devices or other electronic devices is permitted only if the device is securely mounted to the bicycle or electric microability micro mobility device, or is safely stowed on the operator's person and the device is operated in a hands-free manner.

So that's trying to echo mobile phone use for a vehicle as well, like a car.

It can be used, but it's got to be hands-free.

You can be using your Bluetooth.

Um, but we don't want it in your hand doing things.

It needs to be mounted to the bike.

So that tries to balance some of that as well.

And then this item number three, this one's for like uh people who are more experienced in cycling to clarify that there are certain devices that can be used and that are appropriate.

For example, um, people riding bikes will use uh a bike computer or a wearable device that'll track their heart rate, their speed, elevation, you know, different things like that.

And so that item three clarifies that no, those are permissible.

You can use those.

But item four says, but under no circumstances should anybody be texting, reviewing texts or drafting text while they're using it, which can be done on some of those devices or of course on a mobile phone.

So this is the intent to try to keep people safe, keep people off phones, but allow for common uses for what I would call like a more serious writer.

Um a lot of the remaining portion of the ordinance is similar to before, and it's very similar or almost identical to Clark County.

And so um, you know, these additional safety requirements and item G that's down at the bottom where it talks about, you know, you can only ride on a permanent and regularly attached seat, and um, you know, you shouldn't have more than you know, one person on there, and you shouldn't be doing stunts or wheelies and you know, uh just generally operating things in a safe manner.

And so coming down to the end of the ordinance, um, again, this is very similar to Clark County.

One difference is that 6-9-5 where it talks about we're not, you know, not gonna be allowing the bikes or the electro uh electric micromobility devices.

It's a line, it's kind of a mouthful sometimes, um, to be used within the city parks.

That's different.

Clark County has a much different, bigger, varied park system than the city has, but in general, this is something that we had on there before.

We have a penalty section that addresses what the potential penalties are, and that a parent can be responsible for issues that come up if there's a minor involved.

And so if there's questions, I can address those.

Um, but my hope is that we can uh uh introduce this bill as an ordinance, and then uh for the next meeting, we would have the public hearing so they could be passed during the next meeting.

So thank you.

Thank you, Adam.

Um, before you leave, any questions from council, Councilman Parish?

Okay, I can take it up here too.

Thanks, Adam.

Councilman Parrish.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, this has been in the works for seven, eight, nine, ten months, whatever it's been.

Um Mike Benham's kind of keeping track of that.

So I'm sure I'm sure he's got a calendar for me on that one too.

So um this is probably like our attorney says, probably more comprehensive than Clark County's.

Um I would highly recommend that we pass this, get it on the books.

Um, I'm not sure that we might not have to add some more things to it down the road.

Um, but that's a heck of a great start.

Um, I think Adam is listened to all public comments and added and subtracted as necessary.

And I think we're on the right track.

We just gotta get this thing going.

It's not gonna take the place of a parent.

And I'm gonna say that again.

This is not gonna take the place of a parent.

A parent has got to get their hands on these kids that are running around one-handed with a telephone in their hand.

I see that every day.

It's unbelievable.

So let's get this on the books, uh, get it passed tonight.

So as uh the attorney said that we can have a public hearing at their next meeting, get it on the books, and then we'll then we'll get after the police department to maybe uh write up a few tickets and the word will spread and that we're not gonna mess around with this and we're gonna get it taken care of.

So thank you.

Thank you, councilman, councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, um, Mr.

Anderson and Chief Fails, who's not here for working on this diligently and bringing this back to us.

I know we've all been working on this for a long time, but I feel like this is really important for our residents for our bicyclists and safety comes first when it comes to bikes.

And if anybody has seen the efforts that St.

George and Hurricane are doing with their bike safety, they are cracking down hard on it.

So I just hope that we can follow through with these penalties and um before somebody gets hurt again.

Um that's all I have to say.

I know that this is gonna be a big step for the police department to um follow through with these penalties and recognize these because I know that there are so many big things that happen in the city of Mesquite that take their awareness away from this.

Um but I hope that we can be diligent and get this out there for the residents to know that you know this is this is what we need to do.

So thanks again, Adam.

Thank you, Councilman.

Councilwoman Gallow.

Thank you.

Um couple things.

Um I I hope that once this is out there, people understand that this is this is serious because there are other cities that are requiring them be a 17 years old to use one, have a license and have insurance.

So right now we're kind of giving people a little bit of leeway and hoping that they're gonna follow the rules.

Um, but there have been cities that have actually confiscated them and destroyed their their bikes and their motorcycles, et cetera.

So I sure hope that people um because Adam, thank you very much for doing that.

Um something we didn't address, which I think is kind of weird.

I got a call today or I got a message today, that there's somebody on Mesquite Boulevard wearing a fluffy outfit with a hood up and down mesquite boulevard, and their vision is obviously impaired.

So if anybody's out there, let's um let them know that they can't be doing that.

Um what's that?

It's a polar.

I just heard a fluffy outfit in the helmet and a oh, is that the one at the end of the house?

Oh, it's a helmet so they can see.

Yeah, it's a regular helmet.

Okay, so I was told that they might be.

Yeah, it's awful warm to be wearing helmet, but thank you um for all your work on this, Adam.

I really appreciate it.

And um, looks like we addressed everything, and again, it can get tougher.

So I I hope that people will heed the the require the recommendation.

The recommendations that you made.

Thank you.

Thank you, councilwoman.

Um I'm gonna be unpopular, but you just ruined my childhood.

Um somebody's handlebars or on the buddy pegs.

Um I in my opinion, some of those things, at least for bicycles.

E-bikes, I think is a different matter because they go a lot faster.

But I think some of the things, in my opinion, because I spent my youth on a bicycle.

I used to ride from Bunkerville to the Jimmy Hughes campus every day during the summer.

And uh somehow I survived.

But there's just a couple things too far, and in my opinion, the penalty structure is too much.

I think 150 to 300 to 600 is is too much.

I think it should be a fraction of that.

My personal opinion.

But I was just gonna not to say any anything.

I mean, I I think you put together a great ordinance, but just a couple things that that I personally disagree with.

I was gonna say just because you did, it didn't make it safe.

Oh no, it wasn't safe, but it was a dang good time.

Let me tell you, we had a great childhood.

Um with that, I'm gonna turn over it up for public comment.

Jeff Reynolds, if you'd have been safe back then, you could probably get rid of the state champion or something, you know.

Might have been that anyway.

Um the things that Adam said, I agreed with almost all of them.

I brought this up and talked about it several times in front of the council before.

One of the things that he didn't mention, and I I hope that it will be added, is for mobility scooters that are on the public right-of-way, either in sidewalks or on the street, that on the back of their mobility scooter, they have a flag up.

We already had one fatality, I don't know, a year or two years ago down here on Mesquite.

Because the guy folds up on the corner, a big truck didn't see him, and he turned.

If he'd had a flag, he would be alive today.

I don't know how many accidents that we've had with those mobility scooters.

I'm sure there's a million that are a lot that are uh almost there.

You know, we see these all the time going up and down.

I see a lot on on Pioneer and different places.

But that I'm saying with those with those kind of units, they need to have a flag when they're out in public because it will save lives.

It's not about that they may save life, they will save lives because we're gonna have the number that we have in this city.

We're gonna have another fatal accident before too long.

It's just odd.

And we've had them before.

Um helmets.

Helmets, I think if you're on an electric scooter or on electric, something will do 25 or 30 miles an hour, you should all wear helmets.

I don't care if you're 65 years old, you should wear a helmet.

That's a good reason for a police officer to stop somebody and talk to them.

One, they don't have to write a ticket, two, they can write a warning, and three, if they put down the minimum fine in their code book, the judge usually throws it out anyway.

And he could the judge can say, okay, it's it's $15, or it's 12 hours of community service for somebody that's 13 years old.

Just because it's in the book doesn't mean that people get charged that.

So those are the only two things that I would like to see change.

One is the mobility scooter flag if they're on public right away.

And uh I think that helmets should be for everybody.

And then the police department needs to go out and work it.

They um, you know, the chief once said that he didn't want to have a bad reputation among the kids with the officers.

It doesn't have to be a bad reputation.

The officers can stop, be friendly with them, talk to them.

I did it for 37 years, and you know, I made a lot of good contacts like that.

So uh, and they don't have to cite these kids.

Maybe they call their parents, maybe they just give them a warning.

But anyway, thank you.

Thank you, Jeff.

You're lucky I came as a project.

Mr.

Mayor, City Council, John Rosen.

Uh, first of all, I I think this is a great, great advancement over what we started with.

And I I applaud everyone who's been involved in the creation in the listening and the suggestions being offered.

This really is a great uh great improvement.

And and it probably will change over time is as our our need, our recognition of needs changes.

Um this is one of those initiatives that I think absolutely cries out for a strong public communication program to go along with the changes.

We should not wait for people to read the ordinance, which most people won't, and then discover that somehow they had done something wrong.

And in particular, I would encourage this city council to work with our public schools to create some specialized uh contents specifically around the safety enhancement requirements that are being implemented in the city.

Reaching the kids directly first will definitely cut down on the number of violations afterwards.

In terms of the size of the penalty, uh Mr.

Mayor, I I understand your feeling, but my feeling is that the penalty has to be large enough to catch the attention of the parent, not the child.

Because I also agree with uh Councilman Parrish that much of this is parent-driven, and for some parents, no problem.

They're they're happy to make sure they keep their kids safe.

For others, someone needs a real slap alongside the head to catch their attention.

So last thing, uh, Chief Fails when he made his presentation at Sun City, made a statement that was disturbing to me, shocking actually, and that he has no police officers allocated for traffic enforcement.

That traffic enforcement, when it happens, is almost an accidental byproduct of them being out on the streets.

And that is a concern for me, especially as this particular issue that's being discussed does represent a significant hazard if it continues to grow uncontrolled.

And so I would ask the the city to just evaluate the staff's chief, uh the I'm sorry, the chief's staffing and decide whether or not there needs to be some modification in that area.

Thank you.

Thank you, John.

Good evening, Mayor Council Mike Benham again.

I've been watching a lot of the programs on TV and news clips, and yes, Councilwoman Gallup.

In New York City, they had two front-end loaders and filled up two big containers that they confiscated.

Today, or yesterday, maybe the Clark County School District got a new police chief.

He was from Metro.

He was the captain.

First thing he said was, my job as chief of police is to make sure the children are safe.

That's my job.

That's what I get paid for.

If we see parents doing U-turns, they're getting a ticket.

If they're parking where they're not supposed to, they're getting a ticket.

No exceptions.

My concern is with the chief, he made a statement here that he doesn't want kids to hate him.

Well, let me tell you, growing up, we had the Balbies on bicycles.

And if they saw us doing something stupid, they'd say, you know what?

We see you doing that again.

Me and you were going to take a trip to your mother and father's house.

That's the last thing you want to do in a neighborhood is have the cop take you to your mom and dad's everybody in the neighborhood going, look at that Benham boy's in trouble again.

You know what I mean?

But if you hit them with the fine, remember your seatbelt?

I bet you wear your seatbelt now, man.

Don't you?

I wear it because I don't want to get a fine.

I don't wear it because I believe in their law.

That's right.

Right?

Cop says, Oh, you know, wearing a seatbelt here, buddy.

There's your 250 dollar ticket.

You ain't gonna do it again.

And I and I and I I you've made that point a couple times.

I do not agree with seatbelt laws.

Just I'm gonna throw that out there.

I know it's the law, and I follow it, but I don't agree with it.

But the lore is the law.

Agreed.

And here's my statement.

If the chief says, Well, I'm not gonna do it, how does he expect these officers to do it?

It starts at the top.

Don't you agree?

It does.

I mean, when I was fired, please, Captain, I wouldn't do anything I wouldn't ask my guys to do, but I did it because it was the law.

And the law, you take an oath and you follow that.

That's all I have to say.

Thanks for listening.

Thanks, Mike.

Thanks, Kevin.

Ron Shekelford.

Um, a lot of great comments tonight.

Um, I'm not gonna harp on them anymore.

One thing I I I briefly looked over that.

Is there anything in there that says about people riding or using their bicycles or anything with headphones or earbuds on, so that um you know it it's a distraction.

They cannot hear anything around them or see anything around, you know, hear anything around them, car horn, something like that.

Um, so I don't think I saw anything in there.

That might be something that we could probably address later.

We didn't get to that in detail, you know.

I uh they do have now these open ear air earphones that can bone conduction, so there's all kinds of different things, but it is something that maybe we can look at and see if it be keeps becoming an issue.

Right, and and councilman woman fielding said well, it says hands free, and it does talk about devices that can be operated hands-free.

That is in there, but you know, most of that is hands-free.

You could be listening to really loud music and can't hear the car coming up behind you.

So, but yeah.

I just uh looked up as far as for the helmet law.

I mean, I think there's a point.

I agree with you, Jesse.

There's a point where as adults we have to make our own decisions.

But I just looked up, and according to AI, there are no federal or statewide mandatory bicycle helmet laws for adults in the U.S.

So I know we want to be progressive, but we'd be the first basically city to put a helmet law on for adults.

Uh, they do there are 20 states that have mandatory helmets for minors, 16 to 18.

So that's one thing.

The other thing that I know I personally have problems with with a lot of these e-bikes and all that.

When I come up to a lot of turns, when these bikes are on the sidewalk, not on the street.

A lot of times I'm not looking at the sidewalk for somebody, and when they're doing 30 miles an hour and they aren't stopping at the stop signs, and they come right over, you're already committed to turn, and all of a sudden there's a bicycle or a whatever they are, right in front of you.

So that's where I think we do have to get some knowledge out there that you know where these things are going, if we're gonna allow it, we have to somehow put on that they do need to stop instead of just going out into the street.

Yeah, and and that is in the ordinance.

Yeah, yeah, we've got it right there.

But I mean they have to obey those traffic control devices.

I'm saying we have to get the knowledge out of it.

Because you see it all the time.

And the other thing is, as I said a while back here, we're gonna need to do something about the signs down on the Hafen bike trail that says no motorized vehicles, if we're gonna allow these motorized scooters on it for the kids leaving the school.

So thank you.

Okay, thank you, Ken.

And I just want to reiterate, I do agree with Ken.

I don't think we should have helmet mandates for adults.

Just throwing that out there as well.

Nick Elf and Suddy Musquete, uh, mayor, counsel.

Uh Nevada DMV, uh, when I first moved here, I checked into it.

If you have a motorized vehicle, okay, that does over 30 miles an hour, has to be licensed.

Okay, whether it's a moped, whether it's a motorized bike, as long as it goes over 30 miles an hour, that considers to be licensed and also insured and with a driver's license.

And I think that should be considered in there.

Because a lot of these bikes, like you say, the add-on e-bikes or electric bikes or whatever you want to call them, they're doing well over 30.

In fact, you can go down here mesquite boulevard and get passed by one on the inside.

So I say that that should be a consideration.

But I thank you very much for all the work you've done.

It's it's a good start.

It's a place that we can get started.

The one recommendation I would say is this should be a warning letter or a warning citation that's given and kept on record that when a police officer pulls one over for whatever reason, it's on record.

Next stop, it's on record, they've already been warned.

Then do what you got to do as far as fines and stuff.

I think you know, put some put some common sense with it.

It's not like handing you a thousand dollar fine because you were riding on a sidewalk when you shouldn't have been.

But I think by doing that, it sets up a precedent where people go, well, see what you got.

Next one is bigger, you know.

So, but like I said, the other thing is uh Mr.

Kevin, I'm gonna go with you again.

Uh put the feet to the fire on this thing.

Don't let it stop.

You guys have put a lot of hours and time and manpower into this thing, and I think it should be carried through to the fullest extent of what we need here.

Safety is first, whether it's somebody riding at night with a black jacket on and black pants, you're not gonna see them.

You know, there's no lighting thing in there, is there about night driving either.

There's some equipment requirements that model the county's regulations about they have to have a front lamp and they have to have a red reflector in the back.

So there is some of that in there.

Yeah.

Well, like I say, I haven't seen it yet, but thank you very much for the work.

Thank you.

Thank you, Nick.

Okay, seeing no one else come forward.

I'm gonna go ahead and oh, come on.

Mayor Counsel Bob Bradbury, resident.

I recall when we first started talking about e-bikes.

One of the concerns was an e-bike on a roadway is unsafe.

I voiced before taking an unsafe rider out of the roadway, putting them on a sidewalk, not solving the problem, just making it worse.

I think we've all have heard, read, saw stories of more and more e-vehicles versus pedestrian accidents, some fatal, not to the bicyclist, to the pedestrian.

I like the fact that there are affirmative duty to yield rules.

These are kids that can't ride their bike safely in the street.

Really?

They're gonna oh wait, I have a duty to yield to this person.

Not gonna happen.

Um I firmly believe you need to ride on the right side of the the street.

Uh point was made.

This doesn't replace parental responsibility.

I agree, it doesn't, but if you can't get your kid to do it properly in a roadway, it's not gonna change when you get them up on the sidewalk.

They need to follow traffic control devices.

I'll put that in the same one as an affirmative duty to you.

Not gonna happen.

I'm kind of concerned because it was brought up that there's no insurance required.

The insurance, though it does protect the parents in this case for um liability, should be in place for the person they hit.

It's it's not so much for the bicyclist, it's for who they run into, the the victim, if you will.

Any version of this that allows mandates, approves, gives the okay to any of these vehicles on the sidewalk, I believe is totally unacceptable.

And to echo one of the uh statements from a pro uh previous speaker.

I too think that the fines need to be substantial enough that the parent feels it.

Um maybe even higher than what's there.

So mayor and I'll be it at odds with the other.

We will definitely disagree on that one.

But but like you, I did a lot of stupid stuff as a kid, too.

Lucky to be here, you know.

So, anyways, uh again, I I urge that we though we need to get this going, that we revise it, we get them off the sidewalk and um increase the fines.

Thank you.

Thank you, Bob.

Okay, seeing no one else come forward.

Um I'm gonna reiterate.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

And in my opinion, sorry, John, sorry, Bob.

I think these punishments are way in excess of the crime because the crime is that big.

And some point this country we had personal responsibility, and we didn't have to force everybody to do anything, and that's how I feel about it.

I think we have our personal responsibility to take our own safety.

If a bike and a car meet, the bike's gonna lose.

And if it's me on the bike, tough crap for me.

I should have been safer, but at some point we have to examine our own anyway.

Okay, councilman parish.

Ready for a motion, yeah.

Yep.

I'll make a motion to accept bill b 26-006 as written for a public hearing at a later date.

Um at that point, we can address some of the mayor's concerns and the public's concerns.

Councilman Innis.

I will second that motion.

Okay, call for the vote.

Parish I.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 7.1.

Consider consideration of approval of liquor and catering license for Luntus LLC doing business as elevated bartending services.

Justin.

Hi guys, I'm finally here.

Okay.

So this is gonna be the liquor license for the liquor caterer for the um I-15 music festival at the sports complex in October.

We have her findings of suitability, everything was clean on this one.

So we're just asking for you to approve it.

Thank you, Justin.

Any questions from Councilwoman Gallagher?

Um, when we originally talked about this, it was when you say liquor license, it's beer and wine.

That is their intention, yes.

That's it.

Well, that's their intention, or is that that's what they have on their application.

This is just beer and wine.

Okay, for the event does.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um, seeing no other questions, we'll go ahead and open up for public comment.

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

Councilwoman Gellow.

I'll make a motion.

I'll make a motion to it uh for the approval of the liquor catering license for is it's L C doing business as elevated bartending services.

Do I have a second?

All second time.

Okay, call for the vote.

Parish I.

O I motion passes.

Item 7.2, consideration of approval of a restaurant with bar liquor license for Matthew John of MV John Corp DBA grill room at Oasis, located at 100 Palmer Lane.

Justin.

Okay, when I first put this on the agenda, I did not have Mr.

John's findings of suitability back, but I do now here, signed by the police chief.

We put it on um prior to getting that because he does have other liquor licenses here in the city, and they are all in good standing.

Um, but Mr.

John is taking over the OASIS Clubhouse restaurant where Guruth was previously occupying.

So we are just recommending approval on that one.

Take a look at the questions from council.

Okay, seeing none, any public comment.

Um Jeff Reynolds again.

Is that ordinance that you drafted?

Is that available to find on the internet?

Are you talking about the bike ordinance?

Yes.

Yeah, it's attached as uh part of the supporting material for like to read it.

Second of all, is there any members that are uh are are you talking about the liquor license for now?

Yeah, I tried to ask a question.

All right.

Are there any members on this council that are members of the OASIS golf club?

Should they should they accuse the recuser?

Are you a non-member?

I have a non-drinker, I haven't drank for 35 minutes.

Well, if you're a member of that club, then I I think that you shouldn't uh vote on it.

Well, you're a member of the club.

Anyway, that's just my thought.

Thank you.

Thank you, Jeff.

Run checkle for it.

The uh restaurant is not, it's leased by Matthew John.

So it's if I remember right, it's not actually part of the club.

It's a separate entity altogether, and just that space is leased by Matthew John.

So we had this question once before, and I called you out on it, and I did the research, and then so no, it's it's it's leased by him, it's at least by Matthew John.

It's not least, you know, it's not owned by Oasis Golf Club, which we are all members of.

So I looked in and researched that one.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ron.

Okay, any other public comment?

Okay, if not, I'll turn it back to council for a motion.

Councilman Ennis.

I'll go ahead and make a motion to approve the restaurant and bar liquor license for Matthew John local.

Okay, sorry.

Councilman Fielding.

I'll second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

One.

Galaway.

Okay, item 7.3 consideration of tentative map TM26-002.

Hillside crossing formally the retreat at Musquite to approve the creation of seven single family residential parcel parcels as part of a hundred and twenty seven unit mixed residential development on 8.63 acres at 951 Oasis Boulevard.

The property is Clark County Assessors Parcel number 001-09-101-024.

Located on the northwest corner of the intersection of Oasis Boulevard and Palmer Lane.

The parcel is on medium density multifamily residential MF3 and is subject to a development agreement executed in December 2023.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor, members of the council.

Dan Catron planning staff.

Yeah, the council has seen this before in 2023 and entered into a development agreement with the developer.

With the bulk of the uh project or the property to remain uh as as a remainder lot, and that will be developed with multifamily housing in the future.

That still needs to come back to council.

Um staff has received uh several letters in opposition to this project.

Those were transmitted to the council and delivered to to you uh this evening.

Um access to the this site will be from the uh street that's shown coming off of Oasis Boulevard.

That will be a right in, right out street because of the median in the middle of Oasis Boulevard.

Um but that's it's facilitated by a traffic circle just farther up beyond um the next street up.

So you can when you're traveling north on Oasis, you can go around that traffic circle and come back to this property.

Um so staff is recommending that the council hold a public hearing and approve tenant of map 26-002, hillside crossing, creating several seven single family parcels plus the remainder lot for future development.

Thank you, Dan.

Any questions?

Uh Travis I was just going to add and point out there has been a traffic study for this development for the entire 127 units.

Um, as Dan pointed out.

This area will be accessed off of the existing road or the proposed roadway on that north side of that map, and then it will also have another access from Oasis Boulevard to the into the middle of that large area.

So it and they are all considered right in, right out.

This is consistent with the area just above it, the Portabello subdivision.

So as you're picturing how that would work, there will be not there will not be a median cut in this section, and so traffic would not be able to exit and go left.

That helps to add the traffic flow and allow that to flow smoothly.

The traffic study also analyzed all of the intersections from Oasis at uh Pioneer all the way up to the roundabout.

And all of these were showing to be a little background.

The City of Mesquite requires all intersections to operate at a level of service C, A being the best, C being the middle, and F being the worst.

These are operating now at A, and will not go past a B rating with this development.

So it is well within the traffic demands, Oasis Boulevard being able to handle this project here.

And just wanted to point that out.

Thank you, Travis.

Councilman Parrish.

Thank you, Mayor.

I've had a number of uh email correspondence from citizens from uh Porto Velo uh subdivision, which is just north of this one.

And after doing some study, um these seven units were approved in 2023.

Is that correct?

Uh or it was decided in 2023, that's what they had to do.

Um at this point, um there's really no real issue with those seven units.

I think what we're gonna need to examine down the road is the 120 units.

Um, and that's really not up for discussion at this point.

Is that correct?

Correct.

Okay.

So all we're doing is looking at the seven single family units, which is going to be a carbon copy of the Portobello uh subdivision, and uh traffic's not going to be impacted with those seven units.

Um now the 120 might be a different story, but I I trust our engineer on some of the things he's telling me.

So um, but as of right now, there's really uh there's really nothing nothing that's offensive to this project, and I would uh encourage council to approve it.

Thank you.

Councilwoman Gallow.

So I I just my question is if people in these homes are going south.

If this is this Matt South, are they just going to be making U-turns on Palmer or if they wanted to go north?

Yeah, they would have to do that.

So they'd be making U-turns.

Okay.

So right now, maybe not an issue, but could be another.

And that would right, that would follow just exactly the same as anybody that's coming down there past the roundabout.

I mean, right now it's only seven homes, but we may have to do that.

That does the exact same thing.

But like I said, they anticipated these for and did the when they did the traffic study looking at these all of these intersections.

That was not even a concern as far as U-turn patterns on this.

Um yeah, thank you.

And with this being a multi-family um for the rest of it, uh, it was analyzed for a full build-out situation.

Thank you.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, I have to um agree with Councilman Parrish.

Um, in 2003, July 11th, I believe it was.

We did approve and we did make it very specific for the homeowners at Portobello.

That those were single family homes, those seven homes.

So it would not block the properties above them.

Um and that's one of the conditions we made.

And so I I don't have a problem with that because we kind of we followed what we thought was going to be best for those um those other properties in Portobello.

So I don't have a problem with this right now as well, because this is something that, like I said, we decided in July of 23 that would work best and facilitate the developer and the homeowners.

Thank you, councilwoman.

Um seeing no more councilman light up.

I'm going to turn it open up for public comment.

Any public comment?

Uh I believe there should be uh I'm uh Bob Dan, I live on Parliament Point, and uh a couple of issues I had were addressed uh through an email, but I think there needs to be an area for children to play uh with the seven homes, and I I think those seven single family dwellings should be uh one level, not two-story, because uh Richmond American when they built on Parliament and the general area there, their rule was to build home next to a uh single level, had to be a single level, and then they put up double levels, which looks like a life-size monopoly board, which doesn't bother me.

I don't care.

But there should be some some consideration towards the west side where it actually will end in a cul-de-sac up against the bluff.

Should be a children's area.

And then there should be some consideration to the wildlife that I observed there quite a bit.

There's a roadrunners, there's eagles come in there, you know, quite quite a bit.

Uh uh gimbals come in there quite a bit too.

So uh just a few, you know, considerations like that.

Uh there is quite a bit of wildlife around there, which is very nice.

So whatever two cents for it works for me.

Um thank you.

Thank you, Bob.

Okay, seeing no one else come forward.

I'm gonna turn it back over to council.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Mayor and Council, I am Susan Sackle, and I own the pie shape up there in Porabella.

Well, my question is I want to know are these seven houses gonna butt right up to my property line?

Or do I have a street in between, or is there space between me and my back?

So, yeah, this would be just like any typical subdivision where the back of lots would match up.

So your property line would be the the back of your lot, is the back of the lots adjacent, and then you have a roadway there.

So this would be exactly the same as any other subdivision in town where you've got lots backing up to each other.

Okay, and uh I I was here at that council meeting uh when he proposed what he wanted.

Um I did not understand that those houses were gonna be two-story.

Every home on Polar Bella on that main road are single.

So is he gonna take a view away from all of us?

So also I don't know if I answered your question really good on the first one, and then I'll ask you your answer your second one.

So also there is a setback from the home to the back of the lot, and I believe that's either 20 or 25 feet is they have to be away from that.

Okay, question on the height of the in the code, it specifies that you can um have a two-story two-story home.

It doesn't differentiate in this in any part of the development agreement that they are only allowed a single story.

So in our city code, we allow people to go up to I believe 35 feet, um two stories, so they would have every right to be able to do a two-story home in that section.

Okay, and on those uh other uh homes or apartments.

Are they going to be rental apartments?

Are they gonna be condominiums?

Are they gonna be so right now?

We're only talking about these seven.

When we when they bring in the tentative map, that's when we'll have a better idea of what they're actually looking to do if they're rentals or apartments, um condos for that particular thing.

But tonight we're only talking about those seven that on this particular map right here.

Okay, and so he's not um presenting to do a resort there now.

Is that not that I'm aware of?

We have seen some different plans showing like I don't know if they were apartments or condos or whatever, but as we're saying for tonight's agenda item to stick with that, we're only talking about these seven that are uh adjoining on the top there.

Okay, all right.

Thank you.

Travis, also they would have a setback too.

That that 20 or 25 feet would actually be 40 or 50 feet between the homes.

Yeah, uh exactly, exactly.

Okay, councilman Fielding.

Okay.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um I will make a motion to approve the tentative map TM26-002.

Okay, do I have a second?

Okay, call for the vote.

Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

7.4 consideration of conditional use permit application number C UP-26-006, LC5 duplex short-term rentals to allow two units of four-unit multifamily housing project to be used as short-term vacation rentals.

The project site is located at 41 Desert Drive.

The project site is Clark County Assessors Assessors Parcel number 001 6201037.

And it is located at commercial uh in the commercial general CR2 zoning district.

Um are you doing that, Dan?

Okay.

Uh yes, this is uh proposal to uh allow two units of a residential fourplex um to be used as short-term rentals.

Uh the complex is currently under construction across the street from uh fire station number one.

Um and uh yeah it's the two it's the two back units that back up to LM welding there.

Um the only real what I call sensitive receptor is the single family property to the north, and my understanding is that he is going to build a uh a block wall there to mitigate any impacts on that.

Um but staff is recommending that uh we open a public hearing and approve a conditional use permit to allow these uh short term runs.

Thanks, Dan.

Um do we have any questions from council?

Councilman Pilding, you're you're lit up.

Nope.

Okay.

If not, we will open the public hearing.

Okay, seeing no one come forward and go ahead and close it.

Um councilman Ennis.

I usually got a loud voice.

There's no other comments.

I'm gonna go ahead and make a motion to uh consider conditional use permit for number C UP 26005.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Um I think that was that was the wrong one, I'm sorry.

Thank you.

I'll second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

Yeah, sorry.

Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 7.5 consideration of conditional use permit application number CUP-26-005.

Virgin River Adventure Rentals to allow the establishment of an off-highway vehicle OHV rental facility within an existing car wash space, 120 North Sand Hill Boulevard.

The project site is Clark County Assessors parcel number 001166 02032 and is located at the commercial general CR2 zoning district.

Is that you again, Dan?

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Dan Catron Planning Staff.

Um this is a proposal to operate an OHV rental facility in the old uh fast track car wash on Musquite Boulevard, which I understand still functions, but it's not a commercial facility anymore.

Um so all of the all of the OHVs would be located out outside in the parking area, and there is a a covered area where they can you know exchange equipment and uh get people checked out on the vehicles.

Um there was an issue about traffic uh safety coming out there.

Um just want to make sure that people know that they have to make a right hand turn, go up to um old mill and make a U-turn to head back to the south.

Um the applicant is here.

He's advised that uh they really only use standard uh 1000cc razors, they're not the big big souped up version.

So um that's that's relevant as far as noise impacts.

Um but otherwise staff recommending that the council hold a public hearing and approve the conditional use permit.

Thank you, Dan.

Councilman Oneless.

I only have one question.

It's probably for the police department more than anything in this area taking people who are just renting uh 1000cc razor and putting them on sand hill and sending towards Pioneer or Mesquite Boulevard to get to wherever they're going.

Is that gonna be legal and are we gonna have any problems with that in the future mayor council?

Um I believe that is legal.

The only area or problems, problem areas, excuse me, would be the interchanges with I 15.

So they would have to turn off that that road.

They get two miles to go, of course, to any any direction to get to uh off road area, but once again the problem areas are the interchanges, and I believe that if they can make that U-turn, it shouldn't be a problem.

But once again, the problem areas are the interchanges, and I believe that if they can make that U-turn, it shouldn't be a problem.

Is that onto your question?

It does as long as the owner knows that and tells people where they can and can't go.

Correct.

Thank you, Captain Raleigh.

Any other questions from council?

Okay, seeing none, I'm gonna go ahead and open it up for public comment.

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

Uh Councilman Ennis.

I'm gonna go ahead and make a motion to permit.

I mean to uh approve the conditional use permit for application uh CUP 26005.

There'll be an improvement for that.

Councilman Fielding.

I'll second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

Yeah, the why.

Can I can I say something first?

Just I know we're voting, but I just got a text from the chief that said no, it's not legal, and that Mr.

Rowie was wrong.

I don't know if that changes anyone's mind.

As long as the vehicles are registered, I can't see it being uh illegal.

Okay.

As long as as long as they're registered, aren't they?

Just like a moving vehicle.

I mean, you're an ex-cope.

Well, okay.

The writing area, which is what it was, and if it's not like yeah, okay, motion passes.

Um item 7.6.

Consideration of conditional use permit application number CUP-26-007, architectural and site plan review application ASR 26-004 and variance V-26-C02 for an automobile glass repair and tinting service, CA autoglass and tinting.

The facility would be located on the southwest corner of the intersection of Riverside Road and Whitey Lee Lane at 301 Riverside Road, Clark County Assessors parcel number 001-18-811-005.

The project site is located in the neighborhood commercial CR1 zoning district.

Dan, you got that one too?

Yep.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Um yeah, this is a problematic site, I will say.

Uh it's the a remainder of a plat alteration that was done in 1995 where they straightened out Whitey Lee Lane.

Um, and I left this strange lot here.

Um the applicant is proposing window tinting.

Um, which sounds like a fairly uh appropriate use for this site.

It would have an office and then a two-bay uh garage for servicing the vehicles.

Um variance is required uh for the setback from Whitey Lee Lane.

Uh needs to be 20 feet per code, and this slot just doesn't have it.

Um so for that reason, staff uh made the findings for the variants, um saying that it is it is uh prompted by special circumstances that apply to the law.

Um staff is all also recommending to make the project more compatible with surrounding residential uses.

Um asking for the existing landscape area on the east side of the site, uh adjacent to Riverside Road, that there's a landscape island there that that be uh rehabilitated.

Um we're also asking for a wood fence along the south property line, and we're asking for wood because we're afraid that a block wall would reflect any noise generated on that site back to the residential uses on the north side of that street.

Staff is recommended.

The council hold a public hearing and approve the conditional use permit for the automobile repair use and the architectural review uh application and also of the variance application to be less than less than 20 feet from the front property line with the buildings.

Thank you, Dan.

Councilman Parrish.

Well, I sure wish I could have built a commercial building on such little property as this.

Um this is nothing but an accident waiting to happen.

They can't turn around on the subject's property.

The only place they can turn around is back out into Whitey Lee, and that's that's not safe at all.

Um I just see a ton of problems with this, and uh I think we better really look hard.

Um I'm really not in favor of it.

Um, it's not set up for vehicles coming in and out.

Um it's just too narrow.

So I would consider uh I would ask council to really consider this and uh maybe turn this down for a different location.

Thanks.

Uh Travis, did you have a comment on that?

Um just one thing to kind of keep in mind as far as your backing out.

So this would be identical to the house.

You know, you have houses all along Ivy or Whitey Lee Lane as they back out of their driveways onto here.

So this would mimic that being on a house, and you're backing out of your driveway.

Councilwoman Fielding Thank you, Mayor.

Um, and on the contrary, I thought I think this is a great location for this small little um new business that they want to start.

Um I've been looking at that vacant property for 35 years, wondering what is somebody ever gonna put there.

So now that they purchased the property, and this is what they came up with.

Um I think that this is great.

And I would have to agree with Travis.

All the houses on that street and that whole subdivision have to back out into Whitey Lane on that street.

So I'm I'm in favor of it.

Councilwoman Gallo.

Thank you.

Have they already been doing business?

I saw that there's like a container already with their name on it.

When I went out there yesterday, the the space was completely empty.

Empty now, okay, because I didn't know if they were already doing business.

Okay, thank you.

Any other questions from council?

Okay, if not, I'm gonna open it up for public comment.

Public hearing, public hearing.

Good evening, everyone.

My name's Dorsey Staley.

I live on Whitey Lady Lane, directly across the street from this project.

I'm also uh representing the Salazars.

They live just east of me.

I find this project very uh concerning.

Um where would they enter the property?

I mean, do they have do they show where there's access to the property?

So they would access off of Whitey Lee.

So right in front of my house is gonna be their driveway.

So with a public roadway, yeah, they could access off the road.

Also, where's everybody gonna park that goes to do business there?

So with their business, they would have that parking that's shown on that map, and that would be the limit of their parking.

Okay, so I'm uh also it says the development of a 6652 square foot site.

Is that supposed to be on that property also?

No, I think that's the square footage of the entire site.

So they're just no, that's not even the entire square footage of the site because I looked it up.

The entire square footage of the site is 6534.

So I'm very concerned they're gonna be parking inside.

How many parking spots?

So there's three parking parking spaces with one handicap for a total of four.

Four parking space.

Four parking spaces.

That they when they put a storage container there before, they had an outhouse.

Is that what they plan on doing for restrooms for their business?

No, they would be um required just like anybody else to tie into the sanitary sewer that's it.

Do they have plans for that already?

No, they have to go through this prior to creating and the setback, where would that be?

So that's what Dan was talking about as far as the variance on that from the their we they are requesting a variance from the setback being on Whitey Lee.

So they are requesting that.

So is that a normal thing?

No, that's why it's a variance.

Um, this does show it's a hardship situation.

Absolutely.

With that, yeah, and this was as they brought this in.

We felt that this was a good use of this.

Um, there would be stipulations as you're talking about with the parking lot enforcement would so I'm sorry.

All I see is nothing but problems, park people parking in front of our houses because there's not sufficient parking.

Um access off riverside, so it's all in front of the houses there.

And you say that it's just like backing out of uh back and out of my driveway.

It's a business.

I I don't agree with that at all.

Anyway, I don't have anything further.

Thank you, Mr.

Staley.

Okay, seeing no one else come forward, I'm gonna go ahead and close public hearing.

Uh I'm sorry, I didn't see which one of you gentlemen lit up first, so we'll go councilman Ennis.

Yes, uh, before I'm not gonna make a motion, I'm gonna make a comment here.

Um, I agree with councilman parrish and uh gentlemen out there.

I don't see how this is gonna be.

I I can foresee I can foresee a lot of issues here because of getting your windows tinted in mesquite is extremely popular, and I can just I can sit here and just imagine the polythera of vehicles coming in and out of that lot right there, which which they want us to do a variance to begin with, and it's a really small lot.

I get where councilwoman fielding's coming from, it's been vacant forever, and it'd be great to get something on there, but I think that this project probably is not going to be the best fit for that area, especially with the shop being anchored is and the amount of traffic on uh on Woody Lane.

I just I just don't think it'd be a good fit.

Councilman Parrish.

How many uh parking spots are required for a commercial building if there's no variance required?

So I remember when I built my building, it was 15,000 square feet, and I think I had 45 or 50 parking spots.

Um what is the ratio for parking spots per square footage?

Because I'm only like Travis said, there's only four parking spots, and we got 700, 800 and uh 25 21 square feet, and so four parking spots, it just doesn't equate.

So that adds more fuel to this gentleman's statement over here.

Councilman Wannless.

This might be way out there, but would be would it be possible to take parking stall one and the handicap and turn them up against the office and two and three and turn them up against the shop where they're turning in, pulling into the parking, then backing out in the parking lot and turning and driving out forward onto the roadway.

So from what we understand, the parking that is shown like that maximizes the area because you want to have at least uh 24 feet in between, like if you're at the grocery store and you're backing out, you want to have at least 24 feet as you're backing out, and then you can go.

My understanding of this project is that the building towards Riverside would be the shop where he would be inside working on tinting the vehicles out of the sun.

So you wouldn't be able to put parking along that because that's where he would be going into that, and then so this actually maximizes the parking, still allows him to to take a vehicle into that shop um going that way.

So that's where we were looking at that and thought that would maximize the best for the parking um for that.

And yes, unfortunately, you do have to back out onto white E.

Lee Lane.

Councilman Ennis.

Okay, back back to Councilman Parrish's question about required parking lot stalls.

So here's what I'm looking at.

I'm looking, we can't park down there by the shop.

We have an office right there, it's gonna be staffed by personnel.

That right there, unless they have some magical place they're gonna park.

There goes your parking stalls for office staff.

So we have all these customers coming in, and they're gonna be parking along the road or be parking next to their current next to their house, not blocking their driveway, because then Captain Rowley would get involved with that.

But uh so I'm just I'm confused on the parking here because I don't see how this is gonna make sense with office staff and parking, and and you know, because people are gonna come in and leave their cars there, and that it's gonna get it's gonna get all convoluted and cars are gonna be everywhere.

That's just my that's just my thoughts on this.

I I don't see how this is gonna work with just four parking stalls.

So there you're absolutely right.

The parking is um both with employee number and with the square footage on that.

Now keep in mind that along a public right-of-way, they can park, you know, in front of that area, but there is a stipulation, they wouldn't be able to leave a vehicle um over a certain amount of time.

So court enforcement could help with that, but I mean, you're bringing up good points.

I'm not going to say that there would never be any issues with that, obviously.

Um, but when we were looking at we felt that that was a good use of that area, but ultimately it does come down to council's action if you feel that this would be detrimental.

But ultimately it does come down to council's action if you feel that this would be detrimental.

We felt we recommended approval but obviously leave that up to council.

Any other questions from council I have one.

Councilman Wallace.

Can you think of any other use for this piece of property that could work?

It is as Dan pointed out kind of a problematic because it is short and narrow you know and um I think anything when they're with that property other than you know storage for food trucks before they go out I mean it would be something like that.

It's this we felt would be a better because they're able to keep it clean kind of clean up that corner um but you know it it is one of those situations this was as Dan pointed out an alteration to the existing subdivision when they were back in 95 they remapped that road actually used to wind down and come right there but then they pushed that up to be able to create the lots to the north and make that so again we did recommend we felt that this was a good use of that is a hardship with that and they're requesting the variants and that's why we were recommending approval okay if we have no more questions or comments I'll go ahead and ask for a motion councilwoman fielding I will make a motion to approve the conditional use permit CUP26007.

Okay do I have a second okay call for the vote building no Annis no Gallo no okay motion fails no okay consideration of a bid award for the 2026 town wash detention basin spillway rehabilitation project Travis thank you mayor council um as I alluded to earlier this spillway project is at the town wash slash Jim Wilson detention basin which is just north of the OASIS golf course driving range we've been working on this uh steps of this project in phases for the detention basin spillway so back in the day this detention basin is created with roller compacted concrete and over time uh the steps have started to deteriorate so we have a project to um install new rebar and shock crete over the top of those to create that safe deal so back on July 7th of 2026 uh we received um six bids and let me see yeah I'm sorry six bids ranging in the price from 1359 dollars to 2600 this project consisted of the new reinforcement and the shock creet as I pointed out our original estimate on this was 280 so we received a very very favorable bid on this we've reached out to the contractor they understand this is a prevailing wage project and they're um firm with their bid and they believe that they have a great price and quite honestly I am tickled pink to have this number um that allows me to do more with those maintenance dollars that we talked about so with that being said it is my recommendation to award the 2026 Townwash detention basin spillway rehabilitation project to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder which is WRX contracting in the amount of 1349 dollars.

Thank you Travis do we have any questions from council okay seeing none I'm gonna go ahead and open it up for public comment okay seeing none I'm gonna turn it back over to council for a motion councilwoman fielding thank you mayor I'll make a motion to approve the bid award and for W R X contracting for 1349 councilwoman gallon okay call for the vote bearish gallow I the motion passes 7.8 consideration of approval of a full off sale liquor license for Fitzjack LLC DBA lease discount liquor at 670 West Pioneer Boulevard hello okay so Lee's liquor is undergoing an ownership change they have designated a key employee of their manager Ryan Calzada and we have his findings of suitability back from PD so staff is recommending that you approve the full off sale liquor license and we'll grant the license thanks Jesslin

7.8 consideration of approval of a full off-sell liquor license for Fitzjack LLC DBA Lee's discount liquor at 670 West Pioneer Boulevard.

Hello.

Okay, so Lee's liquor is undergoing an ownership change.

They have designated a key employee of their manager, Ryan Cassada Calzada, and we have his findings of suitability back from PD.

So staff is recommending that you approve the full off-sale liquor license, and we'll grant the license.

Thanks, Jesslin.

Um, do we have any questions from council?

Okay, seeing none, I'm gonna go ahead and go ahead and open it up for public comment.

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

Councilwoman Gallo.

Hi, yeah.

Sorry.

Um, I where are we?

There we go.

7.8.

Back up.

Yeah, but it was changed.

Okay, so consideration of the approval of a full off-sale license for Fitzjack doing business with Ali's liquor at 670 West Boulevard.

West Pioneer Boulevard.

Councilman Ennis.

I'll second to a motion.

Okay, call for the vote.

Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

7.9.

Consideration of a restaurant with bar liquor license for Passport Diner located at 570 West Pioneer Boulevard.

This is a new restaurant going to be coming into town, Passport Diner.

Um, the owner, Dan Cool would like to have a restaurant with bar liquor license.

Pizza Hut formerly operated in that location with the same liquor license, so we don't foresee any issues there.

We do have a findings of suitability for Mr.

Cool, so staff recommends approving license at this time.

Thank you, Jocelyn.

Any questions from council?

Okay, we'll open it up for public comment.

Seeing none, I'll turn it back to council.

Okay, guys.

Councilman Ennis.

I'll go ahead and make a motion to approve that liquor license.

Uh passport diner located at 570 West, Pioneer Bull Order.

Councilwoman Fielding.

I'll second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

Parish I'm sorry.

Hi.

Galloway.

Okay, finally to our final item 7.1 consideration of approval of the contract for the fiscal year 2026-2027 insurance program renewal and other matters properly related thereto.

7.10.

7.10.

Did I say one?

Good evening, Mayor, Council, staff.

This item uh is to recommend approval for the renewal of the city's general liability, workers' compensation, and cyber insurance policies.

The proposed renewal reflects um 8.65 increase, premium increase for the general liability and workers' compensation, and a total of about 10.9 percent, including the cyber uh liability liability insurance, which went up.

Uh based on the terms, renewal terms.

Um, I recommend approval of the coverage renewal.

And if there are any questions, I have Joe Ellis right here from Levit Group Insurance, and he has all of the answers.

Councilwoman Gallup.

Is this increase pretty comparable with all other insurance companies?

Yes.

Um, excuse me, Joe Ellis, fix you level at agency.

Um, yes, great question.

It is um what we're seeing right now is a hardened insurance market that's driving a lot of the rates, and then this last uh policy year there was a lot of additions to the policy with the extension of the new fire department, um staff vehicles, etc.

payrolls that have driven the rates to go up.

Any other questions?

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

So what percentage did this go up?

Because I'm seeing the numbers and everything, but the increase is overall for everything.

So the package program is written underwritten with traveler's insurance company who uh which the city has been with for some time.

Um, and that was an eight percent, eight point six five percent total increase.

Um, and then the including the cyber liability insurance, it's about a 10% increase over last year's policy term.

All right, thank you, sir.

Councilman Parish.

Gina, uh were you budgeted for about that much?

I I know you're close, but I think you're off maybe a little bit, maybe if I remember correctly.

My understanding from finance is that I am well within what was budgeted.

Okay, one penny over.

I'm just kidding.

No knew that's probably true.

Thank you.

Thank you, Gina.

You're diamond in the rough.

I appreciate it.

It's coming out of your next paycheck, Gina.

Yeah, I'll get it from your all right.

Okay, thank you, guys.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, we'll go ahead and open that up for a public comment.

Jeff Reynolds again.

I'm just kind of glad it only went up eight percent with some of the stuff we've had.

How much how many dollars?

Not eight percent or ten percent.

How many dollars did it go up from last year?

That's what my my thought is or concern is tells me you know if it went up a million dollars or if it went up a hundred thousand dollars.

Uh so that's what I got.

Thanks.

Thanks, Jeff.

14,000 sure.

The overall increase was just over 100,000 for everything.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, seeing no one else coming forward, I'm gonna go ahead and close public comment and turn it back over to the council for a motion.

Council one filled in.

I will make a motion to approve the contract um for the year 2026-27 insurance program renewal.

Okay, councilman Ennis.

I'll second that motion.

Okay, call for the vote.

Yeah, sorry.

Galilei.

Okay, the motion passes.

With that, we've come to our final public comment.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor, John Rosen again for the record.

Um at the last city council meeting, uh, this city council approved the proposed changes to the uh short-term rental ordinance, and that went into effect, which allowed a short-term rental application be considered at this meeting as it as it should have been.

Uh, what I want to do, however, is just make a couple of quick comments to let you know of what's upcoming for your consideration, and that is that our whole short-term rental discussion has not yet been closed.

The master plan committee at its next meeting will be considering proposals for changes to Title 9, Chapter 7 of the land use uh document as part of our code, uh, in which adjustments will be made to the various zone types in terms of what can and cannot be included there.

Uh I've already developed the mock-up for that, so we're ready to present that to Master Plan Committee for their comment and review.

Um, at which time they could either approve my recommendations, they could reject my recommendations, or they could refine my recommendations.

If they approve them or if they refine them, then that means that this will at some point in the future be presented to the city council for its consideration.

So I just wanted you to be aware that that work is going on, and uh we'll you look forward to talking to you guys later.

Thanks.

Thank you, John.

Ron Shackleford again.

Um so I just wanted to do uh I did go to the ethics commission about whether they should vote, and um they are and I just talked to them and they gave me the information.

Um we have no ownership in the OASIS Golf Club uh as members, so and as of the restaurant, we have no uh interest or financial um we cannot benefit financially from the restaurant, so that's why they were allowed to vote.

Also, um if we go to um under Musquete Municipal Code Chapter 6.7, uh a properly equipped and registered OHV may operate on city streets for the purpose of traveling to or from areas that are open to OHV use.

The ordinance specifically states that UTVs are included in the definition of an off-highway vehicle.

I wish Dominic was here, uh president of uh Coca-Pelle U TV Club.

But basically, um we're registered in Arizona.

We have tags for Arizona, we have tags for Utah, and we are um we do have insurance required to have insurance on our vehicles here and such, but we are to be go from our house to the trails.

We're not to use our UTVs for going to Walmart and picking up groceries and stuff like that.

So our um police force is very lenient on that, and they're pretty nice about letting us go to the trails so we don't have to trailer our UTVs all the time to get to and from.

So it is a privilege, something that I just want to remind people of that are out there that may be listening.

You know, don't go to the grocery store, don't go to the liquor store with your UTV, go to the house, gas station, the trail, gas station back home, or to the repair shop.

But that's it.

So it's a it's a privilege, and we are very aware of this, and we're very thankful for that.

We have that privilege, and the city's allowed us to do this.

So just thank you.

Thank you, Ron.

Rick McIntyre.

Um thank you for moving the bicycle ordinance to a public hearing.

Uh as some of you know, you've been to my home.

I visit with you and appreciated that.

You know, I have a big patio out front, and every morning about five o'clock in the morning, I go out there and I sit and watch the sun come up, and the people that live around me all come and talk.

And uh it can there can be quite a gaggle show up there, and we have big conversations, and often I throw some of these topics on the table.

One of them has been adults being forced to wear bicycle helmets.

It's clear to me, and I also have this view that if you're an adult and you choose to wear a bicycle helmet, wear a bicycle helmet.

If you choose not to, don't.

And that seems to be the consensus, not just the consensus, but wide uh opinion of all those people that I have a chance to sit and talk with in the morning.

So I'm I'm standing here right now encouraging you to spend a little time and maybe ask your friends, ask the people you know, I'm sure you do anyway, but uh pay attention and maybe throw that question out to them and find out what you're getting back.

I think it's overreach to ask uh our police department to somehow start citing everybody that doesn't wear a helmet riding around, and I think that part of the ordinance needs to be uh uh moved back a little bit.

One other person that uh it gets really angry about this kind of a thought of forcing people to wear helmets is Margaret right there, and so uh to the degree possible I'd like to keep her happy as well.

Thank you very much.

Thanks, Rick.

It does mess up things to take that Jeff Reynolds again.

Last time uh my comments earlier about the helmets were for motorized vehicles like uh the electric scooters, electric bikes, electric motorcycles, things that go faster than a regular bicycle typically rides.

I think uh juveniles should be required to wear helmets, uh 16 or 18, whatever the smart people come up with.

Uh, but I think anybody riding uh electric motorcycle, electric, whatever that's going 30 miles an hour should have a helmet on.

And I don't care, you know, they if they don't, they don't have a lot of sense to lose anyway.

But uh, as far as bicycles go, I could I don't care.

Thanks, Jeff.

So we're not putting work off.

Mayor, counsel, my name is Thomas Jackson.

I'm a 20-year resident here in Mesquite.

I love it.

Uh I wanted to uh thank the gentleman from the water district on his report um on uh our concerns about water.

Um I had a question.

My question was the data centers.

There's data centers coming up all over the place.

Uh there's two right down the street from my sister's house in Vegas, and they take a lot of water.

Now, does the water situation that's going on with Lake Mead receding and uh uh Lake Powell?

Um, over time, will that water situation of the loss of water here in Nevada, especially in Vegas, with them growing at another data center, a 52-acre data center coming up.

Will that affect our water over time here in Mesquite?

Okay.

That's all.

All right, thank you, Thomas.

Thank you.

For the record of James Middle Mesquite resident, I'd like to thank Mr.

Jackson for an excellent lead in.

Uh I apologize for not being able to make a I didn't make my presentation fit the time allowed earlier, but I do have an important point to make.

Should serve as an object listen to Mesquite.

Should serve as an object listen to Mesquite and everybody in Nevada.

The Compact relied on projections of water that were simply wrong.

They had a study period from 1905 to 20 uh 1922, and the data they gathered during that time was what they signed the compact for.

And we all know today that that's a mess that's going to affect us all.

I got interested in this when I saw the report on the agenda that the water district was proposing, and it was excellent.

Well done.

They're a beautiful operation.

My concern was the reliance on that uh report 21.

Report 21 today is 57 years old.

The horizon time frame that they're looking at for water based on the current report, the 57-year-old report is an additional 36 years.

And uh I'm cognizant that things like Mr.

Jackson just pointed out, there's going to be many demands, and I think any projections made by any group regarding water should be looked at with a very healthy skepticism by this council or future councils because the uh history can repeat itself and the Colorado Compact will be remembered for a long time.

Anyway, I have nothing further.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you, James.

Bob Bradbury, once again, I'll make this brief because I know it's getting late.

Um a few meetings ago, there was a uh plan put together for the um music festival that's going to be held up at the Special Event Center, which I think is an outstanding thing for the city.

We need more of these kind of projects.

One of the issues I brought up at the time, because there's a lot of conversation about alcohol consumption inside the venue, and I mentioned at that time my experience through law enforcement in an outside venue is uh alcohol and perhaps stronger elements being consumed in the parking lot prior to entry, and I'm um uh assuming there are public uh alcohol consumption laws, etc.

But my urging at the time was for the planners and the police department to come together to have a comprehensive plan on how that is going to be patrolled, and I don't know if that has or has not been done, but I would urge the council uh to get with the police department to have such meetings with the planners and perhaps even present that at a future meeting so we know what's uh going to be happening.

I I don't want it to go bad because again, I think it's a great uh event for the city.

Uh but again my experience is alcohol consumption in the parking lot creating problems inside the venue.

Thank you.

Thank you, Bob.

Okay.

Seeing no one else come forward, this meeting is a