Good evening, everyone.

Welcome to the Tuesday, July 28, 2026 regular city council meeting for the city of Mesquite.

We are gonna start off with an invocation by Pastor Sue Taver of the Mesquite Worship Center.

Good evening.

Father, we thank you for um when we ask you, you come to our presence.

And so we ask, Father, for you to be here.

We ask Father for you to lead guide direct.

Give us um wisdom and insight.

Cause all things to be done in decency and order.

Cause all opinions to be made with respect and honor.

Cause ears to be opened and as long as those opinions are needing to be said, and cause decisions that are for the betterment of this community as a whole to be made tonight for the future of the betterment of the people.

Father, I ask you to bless the leadership here in all that it does, and I ask you to bless all of their families in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Amen.

Thank you, Pastor.

Could you all please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance?

Pledge.

I pledge allegiance to the flood of the United States of America.

And to the Republic for Nation, I like our indivisible.

All right.

I'm gonna make a couple of changes.

We are gonna move um item 3.2 into just presentation ceremonial matters.

We're gonna do that right now, and then we're gonna move 6.9 to the beginning of the sixes.

So but right now we will have a presentation from Eagles Landing on the best of the best.

Uh first responders charity golf tournament.

Good evening.

Mayor and Council.

Uh for the record, I'm Kenny Huff from General Manager Eagles Landing here in Mesquite.

Uh recently we had our sixth annual first responders tournament on June 13th.

Um had a good tournament, had 17 teams.

Uh great presentation of the colors and singing of the national anthem by Shay Whipple.

And the highlight was uh Mercy Air flying over right at the very end of the national anthem.

It was really cool.

Um I want to thank our mega sponsors, Conestoga Golf Club, Cardio Miracle, Casablanca, Jim Frump and Beltron Construction, and of course the City of Mesquite.

Um we had some mini donors or sponsors, uh Southwest Gas, Crown, Anytime Towing, Mad Landscaping, Reliance Connects, Grease Monkey, Wendy's, and Karen Fielding.

We had a little, I wouldn't know if it was friendly, but a competition between the police department and then the fire department and uh the uh police edged out the fire and search and rescue by three strokes.

So that's two years in a row for the police.

So fire department's got to step it up next year.

We have some awesome food and uh quite a few beverages.

So it is my honor to present a check for 9,250 to each department.

So that puts our total over six years for over 65,000.

Amazing.

Thanks, guys.

Thanks, Kenny, and thank you to Eagles Landing.

Thank you.

We just want to give these guys a little bit of a plug.

They have done so much for us.

This is like goes into our wellness program usually every year.

And uh like last year, we did a wellness app that we um utilized for both police and fire that we shared.

Gives a health and fitness things and stuff, and this is just like a great plus.

I know exactly where my guys want this to go.

The uh they love their they love their health and wellness, so we're appreciative of it every time.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, with that, we're gonna roll into our opening public comment.

Uh, you have three minutes, and this comment period is for things that are not on the agenda.

So if you have something on the agenda you want to comment, then just save your comments for that uh time.

So otherwise, come on forward.

I'm Jay Gardner, and uh I said a couple things I wanted to kind of present to you folks is uh the first one is we've been noticing that uh a lot of the developments in town are uh taking down the hills quite a bit.

Uh and one I'm thinking of in particular is uh outside of my neighborhood, and they're I find out that they're calling it uh majestic hills.

But uh anyway, I was hoping that the uh the council would would uh give consideration how they're uh proving developing the land.

I I know that uh there's a lot of people that would like to see some of those hills, which are pretty scenic.

Oh, would like to see some of those hills stay in place.

Um the second thing I was hoping to talk about is uh the 12 and a half percent that uh short-term rentals pay in tax.

Um I went up and looked at what the allocation is, and I noticed that ultimately the city of Musquete gets two percent of that 12 and a half percent.

And whether or not it goes to helping uh the departments that do enforcement for short-term rentals or not, I that's unclear or unknown.

So I would hope that the council would take up the idea of maybe reallocating some of those funds to where that uh uh Justin and her crew could uh help enforce some of the things that the committee had come up with uh to help out the neighborhood and help out uh just everybody and be enabling.

Anyway, that's all I wanted to bring up.

Thank you.

Thanks, Jay.

Good evening, Becky Peterson, resident here of three and a half years.

Last month I brought to the attention in a real quick manner um the fact that there is a companies that are going to have an option for drilling.

The drilling information was provided uh through the Salt Lake Tribune, and it was also posted on the St.

George News, and it was uh June 2nd and 4th.

I know that there's a possibility that it won't happen here, but there is a possibility that it will.

One of the things that we're um I was thankful for as far as being a part of the city councils and the meetings, is I did get a chance to attend only an hour and a half of your special meeting last week, and I was really happy and encouraged to hear the bantering as to what everybody wanted to do as far as letting our community grow and keeping it a community, and I was really happy to hear Travis as he spoke about the water issues.

Everybody I'm sure is plenty aware of the fact that we don't have good went winters, summers, our monsoon season.

Who got sprinkled on?

Um, I'm from Salt Lake area, born and raised, was there until I moved down here.

I'm accustomed to seeing Lake Effect snow.

Those of you that are from Salt Lake, Great Salt Lake is at a minimum now.

Lake Powell is at a minimum.

Lake Tahoe, I'm not really sure about, but Lake Mead, of course, we're only about two feet above record lows.

Without the water in the lakes, we're not gonna get the snows in the mountain, which is gonna trickle down to us as our aquifers and our streams and everything fills up and provides us for the water that we're going to need to grow.

I appreciate what Mr.

Bundy did last week or last meeting.

His um example, his information that he provided for us as far as what is available, what we hope to be able to reach getting that 20,000 acre feet.

But please be aware that there is a possibility that we may have drilling that will take place along the Utah Nevada border.

And if that happens, how is that going to affect our aquifer?

They're looking more towards the north portion of the Grand Canyon area in Arizona and the Arizona Strip was brought up.

But even at that, how is that going to affect what we have here?

So please be aware.

Please keep your ears and eyes open, as I will, because I am concerned.

That's one of the reasons why I moved out of Salt Lake City, is because the infrastructure and the overgrown building was just impacting everybody too much.

So thank you for your time.

Thank you, Becky.

Okay.

You're up.

I want to just touch up a little bit on that last meeting we had.

Um long meeting, but I think it was a great meeting.

Um I heard the figures for the senior center.

Um I was a little shocked, and I thought, what the heck's this all about?

So I went and did some research.

I went to the senior center uh last week.

Um, and then I went again today.

And I tell you what, if you have not had a chance to go in there and see what they do there and what that senior cedar means to the citizens of this community, I encourage you.

I know you have, and I know you have as well.

They did mention that.

Um, but I encourage you to go look at that senior center.

I've been so touched and moved by what it does for the sea people of our community that I'm actually going to sign up to be a volunteer, and hopefully that's approved through the city.

Um, just as you have your compassion for your, you know, the the shelter and your kitty cats and what have you.

I felt that same passion last week, and it I really encourage you to go look and see what that does for our seniors.

And I've talked to a lot of them last week and this week.

Just one little thing, just to um ease this and make a little fun out of it.

Whatever you do, don't go on fish day.

They don't like the fish.

Thank you for your time.

Thanks, Ron.

Good afternoon, Mayor and City Council members.

I'm Mary Mathis.

I'm president of the Mesquite Fine Arts Center, and I'm here to update you on what's what we've got going on over there.

We are currently at 255 members.

The gallery is totally run by amazing volunteers.

We're always looking for new members and interested volunteers.

We have a wide range of volunteer opportunities.

Membership is only $40 a year, and you can come and join the art gallery or online.

Uh, we're currently in our July exhibit, Desert Treasures through August 1st.

We invite you to come in and enjoy the new exhibit, Abandoned Places starting on August 4th.

Our August exhibit sponsor will be the Eureka Casino Resort.

We change our exhibits over every month at the end of the month, so there's always something uh fun and new to see besides the two different galleries.

We also have a gift shop, and everything in the gallery is for sale.

We also invite you to attend our awards receptions on the third Thursday of the month.

Uh, next month it will be August 20th from 4 to 6.

And we also have our special showcase feature exhibition going on in the Mesa Gallery right now.

It's going to go through the end of August, and it is artwork by our class instructors and the class students, and it includes glass, pottery, watercolor, drawing, wood burning, painting, and more.

Come and celebrate the talent that we have in the community, and this exhibit will go through August 29th.

Also remember, we're closed on Mondays through Labor Day and startup again Labor Day.

So we recently launched a fun new program that supports our scholarship and educational programs for the kids, and the artists are being asked to give give back and donate their artwork, and then it's raffled up every month of the reception.

You can come in any time during the month and purchase raffle tickets.

They are one dollar for a ticket or six for five.

We've also announced our August Pallet and Poor events.

It's a fun instructor-led event.

You come in and all of the materials are provided.

You get a little treat, you know, snack and some drinks and bring some friends or come and meet some new friends.

One of my favorite things to do at the art gallery.

Uh, we always announce the upcoming month selections on the 15th of the previous month.

And tickets are $35, and you can sign up online and select the picture that you want to do.

Uh, remember that our second Saturday uh community art walk will start again on October 10th.

We'll be holding them during the day from 11 to 3, hoping that more families will come this time.

Uh but it's really become quite a community gathering, and uh we're gonna have vendors, a food uh band, food trucks, and a fun opportunity to hang out with your friends.

Also a good great opportunity to do some shopping.

There's also the gallery that will be open, and of course, we continue to hold our classes uh in the gallery, and I run out of time.

Um we've also got our studios, the so uh also remember that the Heritage Museum is next door in case some of you haven't had a chance to see that.

Uh, they're also closed on Sundays and Mondays.

Uh invite you to go to the website at Mesquitefine Arts Center.com and thank you for your time.

Thank you, Mary.

Good evening, Mayor and Council members.

I'm Donna Benita, I'm a resident of Musquete for five and a half years, and July 1st has come and gone, and I see that our MOPA officers still do not have a contract.

They still serve our city without a glitch.

So I'm asking you, listen to the residents of Musquite, because I've been watching and they're talking and saying they need to have a raise.

So do the right thing and settle their contract with them.

I know you have a meeting with them on Thursday.

Do the right thing.

Thank you, Donna.

Good afternoon.

My name is Mike Crawley.

I live in Sierra Ridge.

Um, my concern is uh that wash behind us.

My understanding from uh months ago was that that uh majestic hills behind us.

Um I agree with the gentleman who talked about the uh the uh hills being completely just carved up and we've lost all the natural sites back there, but the wash is what consider it is what concerns me.

I my understanding was that they needed to stay a hundred feet away from the center of that wash.

Now I don't know if that's been changed or not, but but that wash has been condensed considerably with with big uh big equipment operations.

My concern is that eventually, not if but when we get a cloud burst up above us, there's gonna be four or five, maybe more feet of water come down through that.

Not only is it gonna endanger some of the houses that are the new houses that are built in there, but it's gonna affect some of the houses that already exist.

I'd like to see that wash armored well enough that that some of that isn't going to affect people that own property next to that.

I have my doubts that some of that on the other side is going to be very secure with sandy soils that are uh hopefully they're compacted well enough, but who knows?

Um but my concern is is the the the with that wash and the effect both sides of it when we get high water, and we will I'm I'm I'm I'm a retired Forest Service person and I spend a lot of time on fires.

Fires, fire uh happening in the wildlands is when not if floods in the desert land is the same thing.

It's it's are you prepared for when it happens, not if so.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mike.

Thank you.

Um something I just want to touch on uh that we can hear from the city manager during the reports of how we're doing on getting a full-time attorney, and also how we're doing with replacing uh Simon and some of the other things that need to be addressed.

Uh I think we've gone quite a while with that, and we need to make some changes here.

We've got a lot of things going on, obviously, and um needs to be addressed.

So I hope that we can get a good report on that today.

Uh something that I wanted to bring up.

I guess someplace along the way, something of the hateful eight.

And uh, you know, I really have to laugh at that.

Simple fact is the new changes, the honest eight, and the honest eight, for those folks that think it's the hateful eight, they hate the truth, and we are truthful.

Thank you.

Thank you, Nick.

Okay, seeing no one else come forward.

We're gonna go ahead and move on to item two, the consent agenda.

Um, and I want to recuse myself from any vote or comment on the consent agenda as my company does do business with the city.

So item 2.1 consideration or approval of the Tuesday, July 7th, 2026 technical review meeting minutes on the Tuesday, July 28, 2026, regular city council meeting agenda.

Uh any questions from the council on the consent agenda.

Any public comment on the consent agenda.

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

Councilman Ennis.

I'll go ahead and uh make a motion to approve the consent agenda.

Okay, do I have a second?

Councilwoman Fielding.

I'll second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

Yeah, that's all I motion passes.

Item 3.1 Southern Nevada Transit Coalition quarterly report.

Evening, Mike Jackson, Southern Nevada Transit Coalition, Executive Director.

So I'm here today to mainly discuss our free fare pilot program that we've been doing.

It started in May and it will be ending July 31st.

The ridership in your handouts don't show what I was hoping for.

The ridership did not increase as I was hoping, but that does not mean it's needed.

Um the ridership has been trending lower than the year before as it is, and it did improve in June, and it did improve in July.

In your report, it shows May and June.

May it dropped, but that was the very beginning of the program, and it took a while to get the award out.

But all in all, it's the worst time to do a pilot program like this.

It's hot, the population and mesquite is less than it is in the winter time.

So we're putting together a report for NDOT and FTA on this pilot program, and it's not necessarily going to be based on ridership, it's based on economic impact and how it helps the people to be able to have free rides on public transit.

So we're hopeful that with our report, uh, we're able to give some good information to FTN FTA and N DOT.

And I would think at bare minimum, they would allow us to run this program again in the winter time, or we're able to move forward and implement it for good.

Of course, that would all rely on how successful we are with the sponsorship, uh, which I think that we would be very successful on that.

So we're putting out a uh a survey, it's on all the buses.

We're already starting to get some good uh feedback from the riders, and I'm gonna put some copies uh in the back for anyone that that's interested in leaving some comments in regards to the free ride program.

Feel free to do so.

Um other than that, we're moving forward.

Our workforce is stabilized pretty well.

You know, that was a real real problem there for quite some time, and uh, we're still accepting applications, but our workforce is strong.

Uh we got uh approval from NDOT to move forward again on our CDL training to where we can bring in non-cdl drivers, and if they qualify, send them to a uh class in Vegas to get their CDL license.

Uh that of course is uh needs to be approved for every for every class that we want to do on somebody and dot has to approve it.

Other than that, I would like to thank the sponsors that we did have for this program.

Three bears air conditioning, desert pain specialists, Eureka Casino, Juniper Outpost, Reliant Connect for their support and free on our free ride program.

Any questions?

Councilwoman Gellman.

Thank you, Mike.

Um the free rides, how much longer is that?

I don't know that everybody is completely aware, so that goes on till the end of this month.

End of the so we're just about done.

We're just about done.

And then could you share a little bit about what your your um your capability, what you're all doing with the uh para the the para um transit, transit yeah.

The paratransit ridership increased uh more than the fixed route.

Paratransit is a more expensive service.

Uh it's a door-to-door service, but it's the service that's very necessary.

As I see implementing this free ride program, we will have to expand the service in paratransit and to offer free rides to those riders is very important.

Is very important.

They're on a fixed income.

So that's something that through this pilot program we learned that the need is more there than on fixed route.

It's just in public transit.

We always try to put the writers on fixed route because it's cheaper to run.

And we get more bing for our buck.

So it was a good lesson on that.

Very much so.

Well, thank you for all that you guys do, especially for our para transit, because otherwise these people would people would be homebound.

So thank you for what you guys are doing.

And I did want to mention Gabrielle will be our first person to go to our CDL training in Vegas.

She's gonna be going next next month, and she'll be getting her CDL license.

And she's also the supervisor.

Yes.

So she'll be able to be able to do it all.

Nice.

Any other questions from council?

All right.

Thanks, Mike.

Thank you, Chair.

Do we have any public comment on the that presentation?

Okay, seeing none, I will ask for a motion to accept the presentation.

Councilwoman Gellow.

I'll make a motion to accept the presentation from Silver Ryder.

Do you have a second?

All second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Yeah, so Galloway.

Okay, the motion passes.

Item four department reports.

Um, I don't have anything.

Do any council members have anything?

Okay.

Any staff?

Rebecca.

Yeah.

Um, so uh just for the public sake, since um not everyone who is here was at the last uh meeting that we had.

We did a work session last Tuesday.

Uh we discussed a lot of things, like you heard in a couple public comments.

Um, some of those I'll kind of go through not in depth, but just kind of quickly.

We talked about uh future growth of the city with BLM land uh with making sure that as we grow, we keep our small town safe community feel with things uh for uh to do for for our citizens.

Uh workforce housing would was discussed and ideas for apartments and smaller lots.

Um the mayor talked about forming a housing committee.

Uh we focus we want to focus on industrial growth.

Our downtown district was discussed, so a lot of discussion on how we how we see that.

Uh, do we want to embrace the historical downtown?

Uh talked about finding a place for a town square, uh, which could be um something that was talked about was in the future, taking down the old school and putting it there.

Um sports tourism was talked about, talking about we need more fields, um our facilities and how we're going to upkeep them because some of them um are in need of being uh kept up.

We talked about our capital improvement plan, our 10-year plan went through all of that and then kind of discussed some things that weren't on there, such as uh shop for the public works and the parks, um, and then the landfill was discussed.

Uh it's at 60 percent capacity, uh thinking it'll be filled by 2040.

So trying right now to find where we're gonna do that and um next steps for that.

Our finances were discussed.

Um, as we learned in our budget talks, our revenues are under our expenses, so looking at ways to increase revenues.

Uh so it talks about impact fees, um, increasing property taxes, other fees, how things like that would look.

Um, at the moment, staff uh is going to be looking at changing some of the fees we can putting them into a fee schedule, and then those in ordinances will be brought to council.

We had economic development talks on getting rid of the matrix and taking incentives on a case-by-case basis for any new developments that come into the city, and then it was recommended that staff go and talk to developers in St.

George to see how they have done housing as they brought in businesses.

Um, and then last uh was the RDA talking about identifying businesses in the RDA district and talking to them about the program uh to see if they're interested, and then identifying uh projects that could be used for public purchase purposes, such as Hunter Park, the old gym, the relief house, um a town square, the welcome center, and parking lot and expansion at SCC.

So none of those are approved uh besides the relief house had went to the RDA, but those are just some ideas that floated through.

Um other things to note.

We do have interviews for development uh development services director tomorrow.

Um interviews for the finance director on August 10th.

Um just to answer your question.

The city manager's office doesn't hire the city attorney.

Um, so that one is not in here.

Um, and then just uh to note um August 5th, we will be shooting a promotional video of the city that will be shown um at the ICMA conference and on their website.

So for those who don't know, that's the International City County Management Association.

Um when I first started, uh, the city was looking at revamping the current video that they have on their website.

Um during that time, um, I was asked if we would want to be one of the featured cities for the ICMA conference.

Um, and looking at the cost to do the videos, it was very comparable from just upgrading the one we had versus having someone come out and shoot a different promotional video.

So it'll be we'll we will at the end of the day get a five minute video, uh, one to two minute um video and then the raw footage.

Um so the focus that we've we've looked at are focusing on economic development friendliness, our infrastructure, tourism, and being the safest and fastest growing city in Nevada.

So thank you, Becca.

Thank you.

Any other staff?

Oh, Chief.

Good evening, uh Mayor Whipple, Council, members of the public, really quick.

I'm not gonna tell you anything you don't already know.

It's it's it's hot outside.

Uh I had the opportunity to listen in on a conference call this morning with the National Weather Service based out of Las Vegas.

Um it's summer, it's gonna be August at the end of the weekend.

Uh we are looking at an extreme weather warning uh for heat on Saturday and Sunday.

And so we appreciate uh Mr.

Randy Lobb.

It will be opening up as is normal hours, the recreation center as a cooling center uh for anyone in the general public that needs to get out of the heat.

And when I say heat, looking at about 116 degrees uh on Saturday and Sunday, and so uh the rec center will be open, water will be made available, restrooms will be available, most importantly, air conditioning will be available for Sunday.

The rec center is closed.

And so working with Mr.

Lob and uh the cert team volunteers, we will be opening the senior center on this Sunday from 10 a.m.

until 5 p.m.

Uh hours do have the ability to be expanded, but those are the hours right now as recommended per the National Weather Service.

And so as you can see on the matrix, there's a lot of uh cities and areas.

Uh Mesquite is the third uh city with Malapa Valley and August 1st and August 2nd.

Uh as you can see, there's four uh major warnings from the National Weather Service, and this will be an extreme for those two days.

Uh, we're gonna communicate this information on social media.

We will do it on the website, the city's website.

We will also communicate this before the weekend on our FM radio station 105.3 on hours and accessibility.

If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them.

Other than that, that's end of report.

Um that's it.

Councilwoman Kilby.

Thank you, Chief.

I know I call you every year when it gets 105 and go, what are we doing?

What are we doing?

And so thank you for seeing this through every year because it really is detrimental to the residents.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks, Chief.

We have had a big rash again of some scams lately.

So um we don't ever call and ask you to come to the police department for a subpoena.

We'll just come and knock on your door.

Um we I have had the well, the scammer had the unfortunate occurrence to talk to me twice on the phone today, and he got a little bit of the redhead.

So we've had a bunch of them.

They've been very they've actually called one of the police officers, one of my friends both called me and put on speakerphones so I could talk to Deputy Wilson of the Mesquite Police Department, which I don't have a Deputy Wilson, I don't have any deputies.

So, anyway, we do not ask people to do crypto, we don't ask them to do Google cards or or any of those kind of things or play or cash apps or anything.

So if anything like that pops up, I just want anybody listening to please.

This has been a little bit of a rash over the last couple of days.

Um we also had our um PIO do uh a six-day scam and you know, and fraud uh campaign on our Facebook site.

So there's six days of different options of the recent scams and the things that we're experiencing.

Please go look at that on our Facebook page, um, have those looked over.

But if W Wilson calls you, tell him to call me.

Thanks, Chief.

All right.

Okay, we're gonna move on to 5.1.

Consideration of adoption of bill B26-006, amending title six of the Mesquite Municipal Code to add chapter nine to establish rule regulations for bicycle and electric micromobility device use and operation, amending section 6.20 regarding driving on sidewalks, amending six-1-2 regarding the definition of a motorcycle providing for penalties and other matters properly relating thereto.

Um, Adam, are you yeah, I'm here.

Can you hear me?

I can hear you.

Yep.

Okay, so we had this before the council during our last meeting, and so it's back now for the public hearing.

And so I know there's been different discussion in the interim, uh, maybe particularly about helmets if we want to make that for minors only or for all um all writers in the community.

But uh this is just back to the council now, and we're asking for the public hearing to take place, and then if we need to make changes, that there'd be a motion for those changes, and if not, then we would move forward on adopting this ordinance.

So, do we have any questions from council?

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, so I've been going back and forth about the helmets with adults.

So I drive to St.

George's quite a bit, and around St.

George, they have those scooters.

They're like hop on, hop off, and then somebody come pick them up later.

You see him down at I saw him in Washington, DC.

I see him down in Newport last week.

Um, so I don't know how if in the event a company comes to town to one of the casinos and they just want to hop on a scooter, go around town, they leave it wherever.

I don't know how we're gonna dictate to them you have to wear a helmet because those scooters don't come with helmets.

Um have you seen the scooters that I'm talking about?

I mean, they're just yeah, the scooters, yeah.

Right, and you just put your credit card in and you pay them, and then you wherever you leave it, they track it and they come pick it up.

So that's something really big around universities, and I'd actually like to see that sometime with some of the casinos um around mesquite for them.

So I don't really think helmets is a question.

We've gotten a lot of emails, council.

We all have gotten emails from people about they're adults, they can do what they want.

And I really think that it comes to being smart and um taking advantage of a helmet, but if you don't, how do we dictate you have to wear a helmet?

I do believe that kids, um, and even in high school age, maybe up till 18, should require wearing a helmet.

Um, so I that's my two cents on the helmet.

I don't know how we're gonna make adults wear helmets when if unfortunately, if they get hurt, they had that option to wear a helmet.

So anyhow, that's my thank you, thank you, councilwoman.

Councilwoman Gallow.

I'm in agreement with that.

I just I just find it really difficult to tell an adult that you have to wear a helmet in order to ride your bicycle down the street.

Um, especially in this heat and in with these temperatures.

I think wearing a helmet does not make a whole lot of sense.

Um, we do want to protect our children.

Adults should be smart enough to know they need to wear a helmet, especially if they're on a motorized bike.

But um I know the mayor talked about this last week, and I had time to think about, and I thought, you know, that's not our job to tell adults how to dress or what to wear.

So I'm in total agreement with that.

I don't think helmets for adults should be mandatory.

Um, we would hope that people, especially on a motorized bike would wear one, but a bicycle, um, I really have a problem with that.

So I'm in agreement with no helmet, no helmets for adults.

Thank you, councilwoman.

Councilman Juanus.

I'm indifferent to this topic.

I truly am.

I don't ride a bike.

So it doesn't matter to me.

But I've said this once before about six months ago.

Probably 10 years ago, I went in for manual checkup, and everything was fine.

My doctor told me he had a computer printout that he put in everything, all of my stats and everything.

And I told him the number one way I would die over the course of the next year.

And it was getting in a crash of my bicycle without a helmet.

So like I say, I told him at that time, I don't ride a bike, so I'm good.

And he said, well, that's up to you.

But I don't care if we tell adults they should ride them or not.

But if medical people are telling you that's the easiest way you can die over the course of the next year.

And I see people riding all the time.

I go for my walks in the morning, and there's people riding all the time.

And half of them have helmets, and half of them, if they crash, they'll die.

But it's their choice.

I really don't care.

I'm indifferent to it.

Thank you, Councilman.

Um I made my opinion known on our last meeting, is I don't think I should be told if I want to wear a helmet.

Um one of the leading causes of death, accidental death for men over 50 is falling off ladders.

I put up the Christmas lights last year, and then for the first time in my life, I was truly afraid.

And I turned 50 in a month, and so I probably won't get on the ladder as much.

But if somebody comes and tells me I have to wear a helmet while I'm on my ladder, I'm gonna climb down and punch them in the face.

So anyway, maybe because of my pride, sir, but um but yeah, I got really nervous.

Uh anyway, I'm against uh the helmets as well.

The other thing I don't like about this bill is the fine structure.

Um I think it's excessive.

I think if it's a $25 fine, and it's a $25 fine each time you get pulled over, then it's a $25 fine for whatever European.

I mean, there's a bunch of different things on here, I guess you get fined for.

But I don't think a young family should be forced to pay $600, which could be a third to a quarter of their monthly income on a fine because they didn't force their kid to wear a helmet, or the kid didn't listen.

And I would hope that the judge would not inflict such a fine, but I don't think it should even be on the books as an option because maybe some judge would.

Um I years ago got a ticket going through the gorge, and I was doing 75 and a 55.

Which I don't know if all of you drive like I do, but I would be willing to bet most of you speed through the gorge, because everybody speeds through the gorge.

I mean, I'd drive in through there a thousand times, and everybody does, and the people that do cause congestion.

At the time, that was more than my car payment, about double what my car payment was.

It was a 250 fine, and it strapped me for that month.

And I don't think we should be strapping families or individuals that maybe the bike is their mode of transportation on a fine.

So my two cents.

Councilman Ennis.

I basically agree.

Now the the retired police officer is coming out, and the last thing that I want to do if I was working for a chief back there is stop adults on bicycles for not wearing a helmet.

You're adults.

If you're not gonna wear a helmet, you want to crash into a light pole, go for it.

Um, I know you don't want to, but I'm just saying, and I also agree, and hope don't regret this, Mr.

Mayor.

But I agree with the penalty thing that he is talking about.

I $600 is a lot of money for a fine, and so I'm not gonna belabor it.

I'm just wanting to get my my opinions out there on the helmet and the monetary punishment, Councilman Parish.

I think one thing you need to bear in mind is that the maximum penalty is $600.

Majority of these e-bikes and motorcycles are over 600 bucks.

So if they came up with 600 bucks to buy the bike, why can't we charge them 600 if they are not wearing a helmet?

That's my problem.

I'm sorry, but uh, I think the fee schedule is is proper and just, and it will curtail kids running around without helmets on.

So I'm sticking with his fee schedule.

Um, I'm sorry, Mayor, but uh so my question to you, councilman, is I believe this includes pedal bikes as well.

Is that not the case?

That is correct, and there's pedal bikes out there for 1500 to 2,000 also.

Yeah, but there's also pedal bikes out there for $50.

I understand that, Mayor, but uh you know.

Um $150 nowadays is not the same as $150 it was when you're a kid.

I'm sorry.

Um I think our fee schedule is proper and fair, and uh I will be voting to keep it.

Any other questions or comments from council?

Okay, seeing none, I'm gonna go ahead and open up the public hearing.

Don't check Ron Shekelford.

Um just uh 2023 National Safety Council report.

440 accidents occurred, which include falls, striking fixed objects, medical events, and other non-motor vehicle causes.

Uh those are 440 deaths, and whether they were wearing a helmet or not is not recorded in the um safety council report.

Um I've rode, like I said, when this all came up, I told you I'd be happy to be on that committee.

I've rode my bike, pedal bicycle, uh thousands of miles.

I've been in the STP Seattle to Portland ride six times, 208 miles in two days.

I was a uh med medical person for that event as well, and I've seen what happens if within riders at that event they're required to wear a helmet.

Um, and I've seen what happened with those riders uh that have smashed their head into the ground.

That helmet is smashed.

Um falling from a bicycle 10 to 15 miles per hour, hitting the head on the pavement can cause a skull fracture or severe brain injury, particularly without a helmet.

At higher speeds, the risk increases substantially.

Um I don't think we should be telling adults, but we should be very much encouraging them and giving the information that I've just given as well, whether or not we should be wearing a helmet.

I know for my personal use, I'll always wear a helmet.

And I always have a rear view mirror, always have the flashing lights and everything on my bike, and I'm high viz.

So I encourage our seniors to do that.

I mean, it takes just one spill, and you've lost a loved one, or you've now are a caregiver for somebody that's you know totally disabled and cannot do anything for themselves.

Um, so I encourage it, but I don't think we need to tell adults what they need to do.

Um I agree with that.

So, but I highly encourage it.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ron.

Well, I hate to agree with you, Mayor.

It's bad for my image.

Uh the helmet deal I agree with.

What I don't agree with is putting a 10-year-old kid on a motorized bike and turning him aloose in traffic, expecting him to be able to handle traffic as well as an adult with a driver's license.

I still say it and I say it again.

If it's motorized, they ought to have to have a driver's license just for safety's sake.

Thank you.

Thanks, Dominic.

Mayor Council Nick Elfonsetti.

Uh anybody been on a cruise ship, gone to Bermuda, rented a moped.

About uh 10% of those that do uh wind up coming back with either broken bones, whatever, they're all adults.

They are told to wear helmets, you do have to wear a helmet on a moped.

Uh as far as motorcycles, yeah, the state does have DMV.

It's a law in Nevada, you do have to wear a helmet.

I've been cross-country, I wore it no matter where.

Uh I believe in helmets.

Uh, and I was told by a doctor that once you get over 30 miles an hour, it's a death experience if you fall.

Okay.

So whether or not parents want to take the responsibility to take it and tell their children, look, you gotta wear a helmet, save yourself and save the family from a lot of headaches, a lot of sorrows with falling.

I believe that a helmet would save someone.

And again, uh, like Mr.

Wanless said, you know, some people do choose to wear them, some people on bikes do choose not to wear them.

That's their decision.

But I think as far as education and kids, you know, parents should educate their kids.

As far as the fines go, I would say this.

I always uh this is the way I feel.

Take and the first one should be a warning.

A warning that the parents are told, okay, your child did this, this or this or whatever, okay, and their name is put on a file.

Second time, I would say this a low fine, but with community service.

Now, again, Don.

Don that does all the picking up along the freeway edges and that on the inside.

Okay, he's going to be retiring and leaving us, and we could use a lot of help out there.

It would be uh useful that they would be in the parks picking up after the games, whether it be under the bleachers, whatever.

Give them so many hours of community service, and to me that would work.

I say divide it in half, whatever.

But it it works.

As far as the $600 fine, I think that's for the extreme.

The one that just wants to ignore the fact, and I that's my feeling on it.

So do the best.

Thank you.

Thanks, Nick.

And I don't want to ruin my reputation by agreeing with Nick.

But I I'd love that idea, Nick.

Um, community service versus a monetary.

Um the one thing about life is we're not all equal with how much money we make, but we are equal with our time, right?

We you know, we all have 24 hours in a day.

So, you know, whether I have to go spend an hour or whether I won't point out somebody in here with a lot of money, but whether they have to go spend an hour, we still have to spend an hour, but the uh monetary fine is not gonna affect us equally.

So I agree with that.

Anyway, do we have more public comment?

Uh good evening.

This is my first uh council meeting in oh yeah, my first uh council meeting in the and give us your name as well, please.

Peter Irwin.

Uh so bike riding is near and dear to my heart, and the helmet thing I agree as far as being a choice, but you need to consider what's really more dangerous a 10-year-old on an e-bike or a 70-year-old on an e-bike.

Because more than likely, in my experience out there from riding around town, uh, let's just use my age, 70.

Uh that a lot of them have never been on a bike, and with the advent of e-bikes, it gives them the chance to get around town easier than they would if they were bicycle riding.

What I would think is a good idea for the council to consider is to be sure that people are obeying the rules of the road.

Just because the shoulder is this wide on one side of the road and the same on the other side of the road, be on your side, ride with the traffic, don't ride against it on the other side.

People are not looking for a bike rider on the wrong, let's say the wrong side of the road.

And this is what I see out there because the e-bikers are more than likely are new riders.

They're not experienced like this gentleman over here that spoke earlier.

So that's what I would think is the helmets.

Okay, if you don't want to wear one, you know the consequences, hopefully.

But at least obey the rules of the road.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Peter.

Mr.

Mayor, City Council, I'm John Rosen, citizen of Mesquite.

Um, this is a uh a topic that says a lot of opinions by a lot of people, and I'd say almost all of the opinions, most of the opinions that we've heard today, I I consider to be quite reasonable.

I I would bring up one point, however, and that is that the fines themselves are not intended to be punishment, they're intended to be deterrents.

So that's where you want to set a fine structure, whatever you decide to be one that is appropriate for deterrent.

And when we are talking about protecting our children, and yes, it's the adults, it's the parents' responsibility to protect their children.

But when we are talking about something as important as protecting our children responsibly, I would encourage you to consider your fine structure for not wearing a helmet or riding a bicycle inappropriately.

About the same way you would consider your deterrent for a parent that would leave a child in a car in the temperatures that we have here in Mesquite.

Thank you.

Thank you, John.

Mayor Whipple and members of the council, my name is Rick McIntyre.

I may have started this two weeks ago when I suggested that the mandatory wearing of helmets was probably overreach, government overreach.

And we've had a great opportunity in the last two weeks here to uh listen to many people about what they think.

Uh meet me as as well.

I've had an opportunity to talk to lots of people uh about this particular topic.

Education is clear.

I everybody thinks it's a great idea to educate our children, to educate adults, to educate everybody on the value of wearing a helmet.

It's clear that that's a good idea.

But in the end, uh I would suggest to you that about you know maybe not even a quarter of the people that I speak to would even come close to suggesting that it should be mandatory to wear a helmet.

And I think your discussion is appropriate here.

So we should educate people all day long about the safety issues about helmets and everything, but in the end, it really needs to be uh an adult's choice of whether they wear a helmet or not.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Rick.

Mr.

Mayor, I I I agree with the uh give us your name again.

Mike McCrawley.

Um I agree with what's been said uh about wearing helmets.

I'm a bicyclist, I wear a helmet, I use a mirror, I got flashing lights.

Because if there's an issue between me and a and a vehicle or me and the and the road, guess who's gonna get hurt?

You know, it ain't the road, and it ain't the it ain't the vehicle.

So that's smart for an adult.

Um for kids, I I think at the very least, there should be some some public information, some public um statements made that kids ought to be wearing them.

Now, there's a lot of people that understand that already, I know.

The other issue that I want to point out though is I I I ride by uh on Hafen quite often when I make my big loop of the town, and and I don't see any pedal bikes at those schools anymore.

I see scooters and and and riding, I mean autom uh automotive stuff.

My concern right now is that's only gonna get worse.

And some of those things are gonna get more powerful and more powerful as time goes on.

Is there any licensing that needs to be done for that?

And and are there any re requirements for uh for people with their kids?

Because it's mostly kids that are on those things.

I I think we owe it to children uh uh to uh to try and make them as safe as possible.

They're kids, they're not gonna have the judgment that most of us do, because they haven't had any experience yet, and it's gonna be a while before they do.

But the keys kids riding to school in the mornings, they're they're they're just screaming down the sidewalks, and some of them are crossing streets, and most of them, most of them do a pretty good job.

Most of them are safe, and they've and obviously they've been educated, but there's always that fringe element.

So I just thought I'd point that out.

Thanks, Mike.

And there are some e-motorcycles, they are treated like regular motorcycles, and they'll do 50, 60 miles an hour, some of them.

But I I think that'd be the only ones, correct, Chief?

Take those things in your bike.

Good afternoon, counsel.

Count Harder.

Uh, I'm gonna make this short and sweet.

If I look out here in the audience, I don't see many people out here that probably have young kids.

Maybe we instead of us talking about it here, we need to make some kind of a coalition that can work with the schools to teach these young kids how to ride their bicycles and what those rules are.

If we can take time out to do gender studies in school, why can't we actually teach them something they need to know?

I mean, that's that's just my feeling.

You know, let's get the kids to know the rules.

I got that way back when I rode.

Uh, you know, if you get hit by a car, a helmet's not gonna help you.

I mean, I've seen a couple accidents where you know, chances of you hitting your head are pretty slim.

You're gonna get your whole body is gonna get hit.

Uh I've been riding for many years.

I've never run into a tree, I've never run into a post.

Accidents happen, I get that.

I also rode horses.

You would never catch me with a helmet on, because you know, it's just not what you do.

I mean, a lot of people do that, and Superman got hurt because of it, but you know, there's always that chance.

But that's it.

Thanks, Ken.

And I do believe that the uh PD has done classes at the middle school and elementary school, correct, Chief.

Nope.

Yeah, awareness.

If you'd sit up here closer, yeah.

We in fact we did we did uh uh individual classes with every single class at the middle school this year.

We've done we've got work with the the the county did a traffic safety study.

We were the safest um pedestrian and child group in the in the county, of course.

You know, the bigger places have bigger traffics, whatever.

But yeah, we've done training, we've done flyers, we've done um you know, classes with the kids on how to ride the bikes.

Um Randy just did one with the RTC, a big safety ride, whatever, handed out helmets.

We we we've given I don't know how many helmets we've given away.

I mean, we've done all of the things that everybody's talking about.

Um we're we're very proactive, push forward, we'll do it every year, we'll do it again next year.

Um the SROs will take care of it, and we'll do we'll teach the kids about helmet safety and that kind of thing.

Um the the middle school kids are the are the biggest group that ride bikes, high school kids are too cool.

The elementary kids, you know, probably get driven home given there mostly.

So the middle school age group is um the biggest group that rides the um scooters and stuff like that, and we monitor it pretty close.

Um bunch of respectful kids, I gotta say, I never see anybody I don't see hardly any problems there, they're just good kids.

So um oh fine-wise, I did want to mention something.

Um so citations work in stacks, right?

So the fine might be 25 bucks for the helmet, but if they're doing something else, he's riding a wheelie or something, that $600 or a thousand dollar reckless driving fine is gonna be what hurts.

Um there might be um not turning, there might be a travel lane violation, there might be those things all, you know.

I don't know how many people have got tickets in here, but um you usually don't get one.

Um usually don't get one.

So I uh the fines are great with me.

Um the the community service thing, that's it that's um an issue strictly for the judge.

He's the one that gets to decide that.

Um not big on juvenile community service, I gotta admit.

That's a huge liability for our city.

Um so I don't I'm not a big fan of that.

Um, but that would be up to the judge anyway.

Um but there, yeah, fines are all over the board.

There's other fees that go along with this fine.

This fine is not a standalone thing, it's not just the 25 bucks or whatever for the ticket.

There's a service fees and court fees and whatever.

By the time it gets done, it's probably a 25 dollar fine is probably 75.

So I don't know what I'm exaggerating, but it's a little bit more anyway.

Things to think about.

Oh, stay here for a second, Chief.

Councilman Wamless.

I'm not from Nevada, I'm from Utah.

And I used to ride motorcycles in Utah.

Is there an age where you don't have to wear a helmet riding a motorcycle on the freeway in Nevada?

And if so, what is it?

Nevada has some of the most complicated helmet laws ever.

So a motorcycle.

So the the electric motorcycles, regular motorcycles, anything driven on the roadway, over 50ccs.

So 49 out of 50cc, you are required to wear a helmet no matter who you are or where you are.

Um the the scooters, the Vespas, that kind of thing, right?

The ones that are under 49ccs, they do not require helmet.

So um uh so a motorcycle, oh over that will go over 35 miles an hour, basically.

There's a break horsepower issue that goes into the law, but those all have to be you have to wear a helmet regardless of age or anything in Nevada.

Um trikes, like a Harley Trike, you don't have to wear a helmet.

Go figure.

I don't know.

Um ATVs, OHVs and ATVs all require a helmet.

Roadway, anytime they're on a roadway, they have to have a helmet.

So the razors and all the the side-by-sides and stuff like that are all required helmets.

It's sort of a back and forth thing with the Nevada legislature and the state laws.

I wish it was a little bit more consistent, just across the board, like Utah is over a under 18 you wear a helmet, over 18, you get a choose.

And that's not the way it is here.

There's a little bit different law for each kind of kind of category.

Well, it'd be a lot more helpful if it was a pretty even law across the board, yeah.

Yeah, Utah's better at that than us.

I gotta admit.

Councilwoman Gellow.

So I was just thinking, um, what do we have any videos like of some really gross accidents that happened?

Kind of like when you were in high school and they used to do the drunk driving videos, and it would like scare the heck out of all the kids and they're you know, hopefully.

Hopefully, so I'm thinking that maybe something like that on the bikes, maybe somebody's brains laying on the sidewalker.

Um, they would scare, I mean, they worked.

Yeah, they do seeing some of the the really traumatic things that can happen to people.

So maybe um sometimes talking to kids is one thing, but actually seeing it could be a little bit different.

You're you're you're right, and I and I on a personal level agree, but PTSD is a big thing these days.

Um I think it's better than being hurt.

Yes, it is.

It is.

Um, I'm one of those people that has been affected deeply by a bicycle accident.

Um, my father was killed riding a bicycle.

Uh he'd called me earlier that week and asked me about some laws and how to follow those laws, and I gave him as a cop gave him the directions on how to ride those laws, and those directions, like uh, in my opinion, led to his death.

Um, he got hit from behind riding with traffic on the right hand side of the law on the road as the law requires when you couldn't see behind him.

Um he was wearing a helmet, it didn't help.

But uh there's I've I'm this is very this is an important code for me.

Um, I I really I really believe that we should regulate these things because um the e-bikes and the electric motorcycles and that are just gonna it's gonna expel it's just gonna rotate, it's just gonna be snowballing for years.

What we're gonna do here today is gonna be one thing, and the state the state is gonna catch up with something next year, and every legislative session the state is gonna have to follow suit.

So this is a good start for us, and it's I I think what we have in place is gonna be adequate for our needs right as a community right now.

I've I I really believe that.

I mean, Adam did a great job finishing up.

I gave him like a pile of rubble and he turned it into a beautiful thing.

So he did a great job with it.

Um the helmets, up to you guys, the fines up to you guys, but I think the basics, nuts and bolts of our of the code that he's finished up is really good.

Thanks, Chief.

Um we are still in the open and public hearing.

So do we have anyone else who would like to come forward and make comment?

Okay, seeing none, I'm gonna go ahead and close the public hearing and turn it back over to council for any more discussion.

Councilman Ennis.

I don't have any discussion.

I was just gonna make an amended motion.

Okay, do we have any other discussion?

All right, go ahead, councilman.

I'd like to uh consider the adoption of the bill as ordinance uh beat 2600 six with the following amendments.

Uh no helmets required if you're over 18 years of age, and we go back and look at the fine structure.

Okay, councilwoman Gellow.

I'll second.

Um, I have a question, which I think I have the right.

Do I have a right to ask a question about the motion?

Yep.

Um, what was your actual motion concerning the fee schedule, please?

Do go back and adjust the fee schedule.

Can't we adjust it before we vote?

Yeah, uh this is Adam.

I I would encourage you if we can if we want to make changes that we decide what those changes are now, and then um then that can be something that can be part of this public hearing, and we wouldn't have to come back to the council again.

So that's so I'll on that part of the uh motion.

I'll may an amend the fee schedule first as a warning, second, as a some type of a community service uh small fine, and the third violation is cut the six hundred dollars in half.

Could we what do you think about the idea of saying the fee schedule is 25 to no more than 600?

I'm fine with that.

And let me let me just jump in again.

But there's a first violation, a second violation, and a third.

What if instead of doing that, Adam?

We basically just said 25 to no more than 600 at the discretion of the judge.

Uh that would and I guess the let me just think through that a little bit.

Then any person who would have a fine would have to go in front of a judge at some point.

Um, so it might be easier if we just provide clarity, like 25 for the first, 50 for the second, you know, or you know, whatever number we come up with.

If we if we provide those details and clarity, it'll be easier to communicate to the public to enforce and I guess not have people needing to be brought in front of the judge often.

Uh Chief, did you want to make comments?

Mayor, could we just say that we're gonna cut the fee schedule into thirds?

So, in other words, that would be 50, 100, and 200.

I think that's more in line with with what you want.

I would be I think uh councilman Innis is shaking his head too.

I think all we gotta do is say we're gonna cut the fee schedule into thirds.

25 and 50 sounds perfect to me because of the added fees that will go on to it.

So 25, 50 and 200.

First, second, third violation.

Is that sound correct, Adam?

25.

Yeah, if you want to make that as part of your motion.

I think Councilman Parish had said 50, 100, then 200, but it's really what we want.

It could be 25 and then 100 and whatever numbers you'll go along with councilman Innis's, but uh I was just trying to make it simple and clear to uh to get this thing passed tonight.

That's all.

So my motion would be to amend approve the motion with the amendment of every anybody under the age of 18 required to wear a helmet uh over 18, their choice.

Fee schedule be in first violation 25 dollars, second 50 dollars, and third 150.

Okay, do I have a second on that?

I'll second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Yeah, sorry Galloway.

Thank you, guys.

Thank you for all the discussion and your work on this.

Thank you, Adam.

Okay, so we're moving up 6.9, which is consideration of approval of resolution R26-020 providing for the transfer of the city's 2026 private activity bond volume cap to the Nevada Rural Housing Authority.

And uh welcome Bill Brewer to Thank you, Mayor Bill Brewer for the record, Nevada Rural Housing Authority.

Appreciate this opportunity to visit with you this evening.

Just to be uh brief, you know, we've been around for a little over 50 years.

Over that time, we've invested a couple hundred million in developing housing around rural Nevada, including 35 million in your community in the last couple of years.

We administer about 1300 excuse me, rental housing vouchers around rural Nevada, and uh over the last 20 years, when we've had our single family housing program, we've uh created about two and a half billion in mortgages for 11,000 families across rural Nevada.

Here in uh mesquite over the past year, we've done um where is that number five loans for 1.7 million.

So we're doing a little better in Musquite.

We've struggled for some years to get to uh the lenders here to pick up on that, but the last couple of years we've done better on that.

So I'm uh hopeful that we continue to improve in that regard.

Uh, we are asking the city to transfer that cap to us so we can aggregate that with other communities and have a program to work with.

Uh just as a matter of information, I will remind the council that although bond cap is stated in terms of dollars, it's not really dollars, doesn't come out of your budget, it's just the opportunity to issue tax exempt debt.

So be happy to answer any questions you might have.

Councilwoman Philly.

Thank you, Mayor.

Bill, I'm just happy to hear that you've had five loans for 1.7 million because we went so long with nobody even knowing that they could access you know these loans.

So thank you for getting that out there.

And hopefully we can see somebody use more of these with the programs that you offer.

So thank you for keep coming back.

Thank you.

Any other questions from council?

All right.

Thanks, Bill.

Thank you.

Okay, with that, we will open it up for public comment.

Okay, seeing none, we'll close that.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

I I think this is great that we can um give them um that private activity bond.

So I'm gonna go ahead and make a motion to approve resolution R26-020.

Okay, do I have a second?

All second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Parachive.

Yeah, no, sorry.

Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

Now back down to 6.1.

Consideration of conditional use permits, application number C UP-25-007 to allow a single family residence to be operated as a short-term vacation rental.

The project site is located at 460 troll away.

The project site is Clark County Assessors parcel number 001-08-614-021, and is located in the single family residential zoning district.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Dan Kitron planning staff.

All are located in the single family residential zone, and most all of them are surrounded by single family zoning as well.

And that's to allow the conditional use permit is being required for short-term rentals because the subdivision regulations, the CCNRs, either they do not prohibit them, but they do not allow them either.

If they allowed them explicitly in the CC and Rs, we would not be requiring a conditional use permit.

And likewise, if they were prohibited by the CC and R's or subdivision regulations, we would not entertain a conditional use permit.

But in these in the next uh for the next several agenda items, the uh subdivision regulations are silent, so they were require a conditional use permit.

Umes are generally considered compatible with the permitted land uses, however, because of their nature, they may they may require a little bit higher level of scrutiny.

Um the council has the discretion to impose uh design and operational uh parameters to uh protect the neighborhood.

Um, and generally for all of these next several agenda items, what I'm looking at primarily is is there any special uh circumstances that apply to these residences?

And the answer for all of them is no.

Um, and then I looked at is there is there a solid wall that surrounds the property?

Um so that's mainly the information that I'm gonna give you is whether or not there is or is not a solid wall.

Um on this first one, which is on Chola Way, which is up off of Turtleback, um, there is not a solid wall on the rear or the right-hand side as you're looking at the property.

So staff is recommending that um that be included in the approval.

Um staff is recommending that the council hold the public hearing and approve this conditional use permit.

Uh what we will be expecting is that the license, the licensing requirements uh that you just passed a couple months ago that they will do most of the heavy lifting for preventing or mitigating impacts on neighbors.

Um so that's where we're gonna rely.

Thanks, Dan.

Councilman Ennis.

And just a couple of questions.

Um STRs are killing me.

Um so do we have a local 24-hour contact for this STR?

Uh yes.

Okay.

Now, but uh um they will be they will be required to document that when they apply for the but it is local, it's not an out-of-state owner.

That's a requirement.

It is a requirement, that's why I'm asking.

Oh, okay.

Very well, good to go there then.

My second uh never mind, I won't I won't ask my second question yet.

Any other questions from council?

All right.

Seeing none, I'm gonna open it up to public comment.

Public hearing.

Public hearing.

My apologies.

Dominic Olivetto.

Boy, I'm trying really, really hard to control it.

You're gonna not fix this problem, and every time this comes up, you're gonna get a whole bunch of us up here saying, hey, we bought a house and it said single family residence zoning.

It didn't say that you could turn around and get a special permit until 2019 when you change the rules.

And I was here then, and nobody called me up, sent me a letter saying we're changing the rules on where you live.

And who's gonna enforce all these laws?

We got a part-time code enforcer.

Now, do you expect me as a citizen to go down the street, knock on the door, and start counting the number of people that are out there yelling and screaming before I call the PD to come and arrest somebody?

I'm 77 years old.

I don't need another butt whip and I got enough of them growing up.

If you guys don't do something with zoning like a million other cities have done, and I should have brought all that with me, but nobody listens anyway.

This is a problem that's not gonna go away till you make it so that people can look at what they buy and know what they can have there.

If I'd have known that I could have a vacation rental next door to me, I would not have bought that house.

I'd have bought somewhere else.

Thank you.

Thanks, Dominic.

Gardner, and we will be that particular properties, local contact, 24-hour contact.

And we will be the next two properties, local contact for 24 hours also.

Um the thing I wanted to make sure I pointed out was the fact that uh as a local contact, and what we've been doing since 2018 is taking care of the situations that happen with neighbors.

We have given our uh contact information out to the neighbors, and um I have responded to a lot of different little things that maybe a guest has to do with the property or something like that uh on a regular basis, but the actual disturbances that I've had to respond to.

Uh, we've had to ask three guests to leave in the uh six years.

I'm sorry, the eight years that we've been doing this.

And um a neighbor calls us, we do respond, and we're usually out there within 10 minutes.

I want you to want to make sure that you uh you understand that.

So we are the local contact.

We are gonna make sure that this property is neighborly, and uh that's really all I wanted to say.

Thank you.

Thank you, Jay.

Nick Elf and Suddy Mesquite, mayor, council.

We keep going over this and over this and over this.

Uh you know, putting a wall up, it just creates an echo chamber.

Wall doesn't mean anything, size doesn't mean anything.

I got an eight-footer around the ones next door to me.

People across the street question me, how do I put up with all the noise?

And I'm next door to it.

Noise moves noise, parties are parties.

People come here to party, they come here to drink, they come here to have a good time, and just act crazy.

It goes on and it goes on and it goes on.

10 o'clock means nothing.

I can call somebody, yeah.

I call the number for the PD.

They respond.

What's it taking them away from?

Something else that they're trying to do?

It isn't fair.

Why should we put that on someone else?

The fellow that was just up here previously to me, for him to have to get up at three o'clock in the morning and go talk to someone that's intoxicated.

That's ridiculous.

All this stuff is just brewing and brewing and brewing.

And if this continues on, there's gonna be problems, and the problems just keep growing and growing and growing because nobody's doing anything about it.

You know, they give them a license, temporary, whatever you want to call it.

The bottom line is it still keeps going.

The complaints roll in, part-time person comes up, does what he can do, and again, part-time.

Can you get them at two o'clock in the morning?

No.

So the PD shows up again.

How many times do they have to keep coming before finally that license pulled?

Okay, this just keeps on going and going and going.

And you don't want it's not showing any respect to those other houses that are all around that.

And I don't care if it's the one in the back, the one on the side, or the one that's across the street on the other side of that development, they can hear the stuff going on, they can see it going on.

They come in with trucks and trailers, ATVs, all the stuff, and then you got them the whole weekend running around the neighborhood with them.

They aren't licensed, they aren't helmets, all this stuff going on.

For what reason?

Straighten it out now, please.

Stop.

Thank you.

Thanks, Dominic.

Or Nick, sorry.

Sorry, Nick.

Corbin Van Est.

Um, I'm glad to see some of the same faces here.

And I intend to come every time you have one of these to approve to remind you that you have not solved this issue.

Um the modifications you made at chapter 13 really just created the perfect storm now.

You have the moratorium, now it's open, now we have a deadline of possible counting the census, and that's now we have like five of these on the agenda tonight.

And I don't think the main issue, and it was discussed so many times that the main issue was density and proliferation of these in the neighborhoods of how many there are.

Not that there's one or two or none.

I'm not against them entirely.

Just we don't how many are we gonna have on one street?

And that has not been addressed, and this is an issue that's not gonna go away, it's gonna keep coming back.

Um I'm looking very forward to some new council members to maybe reinvigorate this issue.

Um, one of them has some really good points, and that's that one's probably gonna get my vote.

Um, somebody didn't mention enforcement here, that we have a part-time enforcer, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but the research I have done, it appears to me that licensing fees in Henderson about are $848 annually.

Las Vegas are 500 and Mesquit's like 50.

Shouldn't this at least support itself and the fees that are collected here?

Um that's all I have right now, but I'm going to get up and speak again because I do have an issue with one on my street that is uh makes it a little outstanding from the others.

But again, I'm gonna come every time there's one of these.

I understand you really can't turn them down.

If they've met all the conditions that you've put upon them, you can't turn them down.

But this was this is the storm that did not get addressed.

This is the issue that just got procrastinated on is going to come back and haunt all of us.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, John Rosen again for the record.

Um, I agree that the problem has not been solved.

I certainly agree that all of the enforcement changes that were made were very, very helpful.

And I I appreciate the work that the committee did to do this.

But I just wanted to let you know that as a member of the Master Plan Committee, I will be submitting a proposal that does in fact address and solve the problem.

And that committee meeting is scheduled for August 4th.

Third or fourth, I can't remember which one it is, but the regular scheduled meeting for the Master Plan Committee.

Uh, I will be making a specific proposal for changes to the zoning requirements.

The master plan committee will either approve my idea or reject my idea or modify my idea to make it better.

But if it they approve it or they modify it, then that proposal on behalf of the master plan committee would come before the council for their consideration.

Thank you.

Thanks, John Hello.

My name is Nancy Camisher, and I live across the street from the house that you were talking about this evening.

When we moved in in-house, it was a joke that we moved there because it was single family houses, and my husband wanted to live on a street with children.

Unfortunately, we're all seniors, and we're 20 years older.

And the people that come here, I see things you wouldn't believe.

There's one family that comes back.

They have 18 children.

Their fun is going in front of the ring doorbells and waving after they set them off and when I'm away.

A few months ago we had some that kicked the garage door.

We don't know who's coming in.

Yes, they come in.

Hey, great.

You know, this neighborhood's all seniors.

Let's come back.

We can hit their houses or their vehicles or whatever.

A couple of weeks ago, I saw someone at the house in that house stand in the middle of their driveway and watch me come back from the mailbox to see what house I went to.

He stood there while until I went into my house.

We don't know these people.

We practically know everybody on our section of street.

And now there are so many of these houses.

It's something like 20% of the houses in our subdivision are short-term rentals.

We purchased our car.

We purchased our house because it was single family.

Changing the rules, we I never received a notice telling me that it's been changed.

These houses can go to single family.

They just need to permit a cheap one, too.

I just want to say I'm really what I've seen being across the street, and I don't run out and look through the window.

You have to consider these are family homes.

We bought our home.

I don't know what these houses are doing to the value of my home.

And really, that's what us seniors have as our homes.

That's all we have.

You're cheating us, most likely out of money by allowing so many of these houses going up on the same street.

There should at least be a ruling of how the distance between them.

We have them back to back.

So please consider that.

And I thank you.

Thank you, Nancy.

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

Councilman Innis.

Chief.

So we're gonna close the public hearing.

Councilmannis.

Yeah, we're closed.

Chief Fields, I'm gonna put you on the spot here for a second.

You should sit in the crack.

Yeah, I did that on purpose.

So uh really quick if and I don't know if you have the numbers or uh how you might be able to get them this quick, but over the course of let's say the past six months, how many calls did you receive uh concerning short-term rentals problems?

If I'm gonna guess, this is a complete guess, but I would say two to four.

Okay, four.

Okay, and four.

Okay, so over the past six months we've uh received four complaint calls.

Uh John, I'm looking forward, Mr.

Rosen.

I'm looking forward to that report from you.

Um as you all know, this is one of my nemesis, I guess you could say, or whatever you want to call it.

And um if the if the criterions are met as per the ordinance, and we're the gentleman that said it earlier, you're right.

We do have to approve them.

And um I think that the the company that is gonna take care of these next three, I they're they're well known and they do a fantastic job, and they have a great track record.

And so that's all I'm gonna say, unless there's other comments, I'll make a motion.

Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and make a motion to approve consideration use permit application cup 2500 seven.

Which one with a recommendation to add a wall?

Oh, with a recommendation to add a solid wall.

I'm not sure what a solid wall does, but that's a recommendation.

Okay, councilwoman filled in.

I'll second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

Gallo, no.

No.

Okay.

Motion passes.

Item 6.2, consideration of conditional use permits, application number C UP-25-008 to allow a single family residential to be operated as a short-term vacation rental.

The project site is located at 80 Sageway.

The project site is Clark County Assessors Parcel number 001-16-611-049 and is located in the single family residential zoning district.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Um, yes, similar to the to the last agenda item.

Uh, this project site is surrounded on all sides by single family zoning.

Um this site does have a a solid wall around the perimeter of the property, um, except for the front yard.

And uh staff recommends that we hold the public hearing and approve the conditional use permit for the short-term rental.

Okay, do we have any questions from the council?

Okay, seeing none, I'm gonna open up the public hearing.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor, City Council.

This is John Rosen.

I just wanted to clarify.

Uh I should have done this at the last comment, but uh I do understand and it is correct that the city council cannot reject these proposals without having some valid basis for doing so, and that right now no such valid basis exists.

So the proposal that I am presenting to the Master Plan Committee, if adopted, will in fact give the city council the tools necessary to make the appropriate decision.

Thank you.

Thank you, John.

Okay, seeing no one else come forward, I'm gonna close the public hearing.

Um we have a motion, councilman oneless.

I'll make a motion to allow consideral or conditional use permit application number CUP 25-008.

Okay, do I have a second?

Awesome.

Okay, call for the vote.

So since I'm told I'm not allowed to say no, I'm gonna abstain.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 6.3 consideration of a conditional use permit application number CUP-25-010 to allow a single family residential residence to be operated as a short-term vacation rental.

The project site is located at 564 Desert Tortoise Way.

The project site is Clark County Assessors Parcel number 001-08-514-013, and is located in the single family residential zoning district.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Again, this one is in the single family zone and surrounded by uh other single family zoning and uses.

This one's a little bit different in that it has a large slope up to Turtleback Road in the rear yard.

Um they do have they do have walls on the two sides, um, but I don't believe that there's a wall in the back, but I don't know that it's necessary because there's not a whole lot back there.

Um so staff is recommending that we hold the public hearing and approve the conditional use permit.

Okay, any questions or comments?

Councilman Wanless.

Could lot 574 have a house built there.

Uh it does have a house.

Do that again.

There's like an extreme slope behind all of those houses right there.

There's a lot right behind it, 574.

That's to next door, but that's the same lot as the house that's up on the street.

So there's already a house right there.

It's just covered by the thing right there.

I was just saying, if if something could build behind them, we should have a wall behind it too.

But if if not, um that's fine.

Yeah, those are all just really big lots.

Half of it's just unusable to the slope.

There's a big slope there.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Okay, it's seeing no more uh questions or comments for council.

I'm gonna go ahead and open up the public hearing.

Just real quick about the uh wall behind the house.

He is gonna put a wall back there.

Um he actually had to, he actually had to tear down the wall to do some some remodeling and so forth, but uh it kind of got delayed since we had all of this going on with the STR situation.

He didn't know whether or not it was gonna be uh allowed.

So now that we're in the process here, he's he's taking care of that.

He is going to take care of that.

Let's put it that way.

Okay, okay.

Thanks, Jay.

First timer here, Erica Hansen, city uh CD cent of Mesquito for 20 years.

I live east to this house, particularly.

Um nice to see or to see who is the owner of this house.

Eight months have gone by, and I didn't know who bought this property.

Um, I knew it was gonna be used as a short-term rental, and I guess that it's not my issue, but it will be nice to see who to contact if something was to go wrong.

I don't care if the person is in China and whatever they are.

I just need somebody to answer.

Um, I'm not the one.

Eight months later, I know.

Um I was reading.

Sorry, first time standing here.

Um from the senior planner.

Um, it says that it's for 12 people.

I was reading the CD code and it's two people, two persons, two guests per room plus two.

It's a four-bedroom, that's eight plus two is ten.

It says it's for 12 guests, so my math is just not mathing in my head.

Um, it does not have a six feet, high six feet high solid block.

It does have it on the west.

It has a regular uh fence on the east.

There is no wall on the back.

It does have a pool.

So my I have a pool myself, and we were told that Bur City Coding he has to have protection if he has a pool.

I know that it's a big heel because I have the big heel, so I know there will be no nobody else as a neighbor, but I do have an SRT to my east.

I have an SRT to the north, and I have an SRT to houses down to the East, and I have an SRT three houses up to the West.

I'm not here to shut it down.

I really, I'm really not.

I use SRTs myself as a family.

Um I know who to contact on my house to my ease directly.

Um most of the times they're golfers.

I know that they're here to leave the money in the city.

I have family who who works in the casinos.

I work myself providing for the elders for the seniors of Mesquite.

So I see both sides, really.

Um it's just nice to have some direction from the city of who to contact or where to go.

I'm not the one who's gonna be calling 911 every time that somebody just is drunk.

Um but yeah, that is just some discrepancy here, and I just would like some clear clarity on this, if it is possible.

But like I say, neither yay or nay.

Everybody has the right to do whatever they want to do with their house, I think.

Thank you.

Thank you, Erica.

Can you look into that now?

Yeah, I'll I'll clarify that we could uh require a solid wall on the two side lot lines and a fence that complies with the pool code along the back.

Okay, seeing no one else come forward, I'm gonna close the public hearing and uh councilwoman filling.

Mayor, hey Mayor, this is the can I jump in real quick?

Of course, Adam.

I like you looking up, it's like the voice from above.

Um, I just wanted to address something just real quickly.

On these conditional use permits, there's different criteria.

And if it doesn't match the criteria, the council could vote differently.

Um, you know, one of the criteries is whether or not the specific location is consistent with the master plan.

I'm guessing that's what Mr.

Rosen is in addressing.

If the master plan changes, then maybe there would be a different consistency there.

But the reason I wanted to just bring this up quickly, I want to encourage the council to be consistent with the decisions that have been made in the past.

Um, but a new rule that I recently became aware of is that if there is um if someone is gonna abstain from a vote, there's an ethical rule that requires you to state the the ethical conflict that would require the abstention.

And that's that's an uh rule that I wasn't aware of previously, but I thought I just mentioned that for um councilwoman gallop.

She mentioned during the last item.

But it would be more appropriate to vote unless there is a real ethical conflict that would require abstention.

So just throwing that out there.

Okay, thank you, Adam.

So Adam, basically, you're selling telling me I have to vote yes.

I'm not telling you that you can't definitely could vote vote your heart and and um, but I I am encouraging the council to consider what they ask.

I'm not really understanding, so I can't say no, and I can't I shouldn't abstain.

You can say no.

You can say no.

You just can't abstain.

Well, when I said no, they said you can't.

Excuse me, but I was following what John was saying, and that's why I yes, please.

I'm sorry, this there's already plenty of confusion here.

I didn't mean to add more to it.

Uh, what I was really saying, Patty, is that if you guys voted no without having a valid legitimate reason for doing so, then that would be subject to challenge.

I I wasn't saying that you couldn't vote no, but the the actual decision that is made, if it was no, would have to have some basis, some defensible basis to it to continue.

Which is why I thought I would abstain and not vote either way.

No, but you you can vote no if the the problem would occur is if everybody voted no, or if the majority voted no.

Thanks, John.

So I think basically it just opens up the city to a lawsuit if I can't.

You can vote no.

No, for sure.

Yeah, we did close.

I'm sorry, sir, that we've closed the public hearing.

You can get up on the the next one, but um okay, so councilwoman filling.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, I was just gonna make a motion um with um Dan looking into the wall and Jay, you said that they were gonna put a wall on the side in the back of that property.

Okay, as as long because I I do feel like if there is a pool, although there's nothing going up that hill that there should be a wall required.

So I am gonna make a motion with the requirement of a wall to approve um the permit application CUP 25-010.

Okay, do I have a second?

No, I'm second.

Okay, call for the vote.

Yeah, that's all I gallow no.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 6.4, consideration of conditional use permit application number CUP-26-008 to allow a single family residence to be operated as a short-term vacation rental.

The project project site is located at 537 Palos Verdes.

The project site is Clark County Assessors Parcel number 001-09-512-016, and is located in the single family residential zoning districts.

Dan, Mr.

Mayor.

Dan Catron Planning Staff.

Um, yeah, this one is a little different in that the property to the west is not in the SF zone.

I think it's in the MF2 zone.

Um, and that is uh uh uh condominium complex back there.

Um and I'm not sure about uh the wall on the left side, it looked to me like it was maybe only five feet high and not six feet high.

Um but otherwise, uh yeah, it's a the the property is zoned single family, and staff is recommending that that we hold the public hearing and uh approve the CUP.

Okay, Councilman Perse.

Okay, um I might as well get it right out in the open right now.

There is no local contact for this one or the next one, and that is one of our conditions.

Uh it's not on the application unless you have information that we are not aware of, but as far as I'm concerned, that's a automatic table or denial.

So that's one of my sticking points.

I need to have a local contact.

So unless you can provide me with that, it's gonna be a no on my part also.

I'm not sure if we've asked for that.

Are you local?

And you're the managers of that property.

Are you licensed, bonded, and insured?

Okay, that's uh okay.

I don't think that meets the ordinance.

I'm sorry.

I didn't hear what was said.

I'm just trying to get to the bottom of how come we don't have a local contact on the application, and that person is responsible.

Yes, you may come up.

I'm the owner of this property.

I purchased this property last spring and did a bunch of renovation work and actually submitted my application before the moratorium and was told at that time that it was considered a completed application.

And then after the moratorium was lifted, I worked with Jesselin and team who confirmed that the application was complete.

I do have a local contact.

He does live two doors down.

It's my father-in-law.

So if there's something that's missing, there must have been a miscommunication between the time that my application was submitted eight months ago and to the time it actually made in front of the council.

Um I would just encourage you to get the new ordinance and to follow along.

Um your father-in-law's phone number needs to be given out to neighbors so that they have a contact.

Whatever the ordinance says, let's just make sure all the uh T's are crossed and the I's are dotted.

But uh I'm sorry for the miscommunication, but there was no I didn't realize you'd done this six months ago.

So anyway, that's what's going on.

We we did create a new ordinance after you filled out this application, but you are still bound by those new ordinances.

I'm sorry to say.

Understood.

I I conducted and paid the fee for the application after the ordinance was passed.

So it was my understanding through the communication of the business licensing department that all application requirements had been met.

Yeah, I think the the uh the matter of uh the eight local agent, that's something we would pin down with the business license.

Rebecca.

Yeah, I just wanted to kind of verify that too.

It sounded like from Jesslin that this is the first step, and once this does when they get their license, that's when she gets all the local contact information.

She does not give the license until all of those steps that you guys just approved come back to her done.

Yeah, I think the the uh the matter of uh the eight local agent that's something we would pin down with the business license Rebecca yeah I just wanted to kind of verify that too it sounded like from Jesselyn that this is the first step and once this does when they get their license that's when she gets all the local contact information she does not give the license until all of those steps that you guys just approved come back to her done any other questions from council okay seeing none I'm gonna hook ahead and open up the public hearing uh court of dynast again so we just discussed that if they meet all the conditions you you have to approve that I mean it that's actually fair if they met all that criteria as I stated when I got up last time but now I'm seeing now you're saying well if they add this wall or if they come into code with a swimming pool that requires a fence those ones didn't meet the criteria so there should be a no vote and once they do they they need to meet that criteria when they fill out their application not fill out their application and then wait or at least for your approval that should be when every conditions are met because now I see you bending the rules and say well if they put up a wall then we'll approve it so I would say those should be a no vote thank you.

Corbin you have to come all the way from the back elf insettior council I agree with the previous speaker when these type things come in they should check the update and obviously there was no update no name and uh Mr Kevin I agree with you uh Miss Patty uh you can say no you can say abstain just give a reason why and then you're set I don't like this I don't agree with it you know too bad it doesn't fit my uh style you know whatever the case is but as long as you give a reason it's legal uh but going back look at look at what's around that place my gosh it's it's incredible uh I just can't believe that looking on the map it just it's unheard of to see these places getting popped in there and these families have been there I know someone that lives on that street been there for over 30 years and uh boy what an experience anyways uh I just say does anyone here that's on the council live next door to one of these you do how is it fine you probably not home all the time I know you like to golf okay thank you very much sir thanks Nick Okay seeing no one else come forward I'm gonna go ahead and close the public hearing councilwoman filling thank you mayor I will go ahead and make a motion to approve conditional use permit and 26-008 okay do I have a second do we mayor do we have any conditions that need to go on this one I didn't I wasn't uh planning any special conditions on this well you mentioned something about a fence uh well if there's a I believe that there's the fence on the right hand side may only be five feet high or on the left side excuse me um well there's no specific rule that says it has to have a fence um we're just putting that in as uh I'll second I'll second the motion if you're done okay call for the vote I should I guess I don't know okay item 6.5 consideration of conditional use permit application number C UP26-009 to allow a single family residents residents to be operated as a short term vacation rental the project site is located at 160 quell run street the project site is Clark County Assessors parcel number 0017-714-007 and is located in the single family residential SF zoning district Dan thank you Mr Mayor um this one is in the middle of a residential area and it does have a a block wall around the perimeter um there is some I guess some civil issues going on with the ownership of the property but I don't know that that's uh um germain here um and the and I also note that they were operating without a permit for a while um I don't know this all the details about that uh maybe our code enforcement officer can fill that in um but they're trying to get licensed now so we're recommending hold a public hearing and approve the conditional use permit okay councilman parrish okay same questions as the last gentleman that I called on the carpet um I don't see a local contact um that's very important um so

Um I don't know this all the details about that.

Uh maybe our code enforcement officer can fill that in.

Um, but they're trying to get licensed now.

So we're recommending hold the public hearing and approve the conditional use permit.

Okay, Councilman Parrish.

Okay, same questions as the last gentleman that I called on the carpet.

Um, I don't see a local contact.

Um that's very important.

Um, so can we get that?

Do we have a local contact on the application or any other or it's not on the application?

Is there any other document that it might be there?

Um, like I said, uh, this is that's something that I would think is going to be fleshed out with the business license.

Uh not quite yet.

Not yet.

So we're relying on our approval and then the local contacts get given to Jesslin.

Is that what you're saying?

Yes.

Okay, fair enough.

Councilman Ennis?

I'm not agreeing with that.

I think we should have local contact prior to and be part of that application.

Also, and going back on what we said before, and I and I apologize to the folks out here.

I agree that all of the requirements should be met as part of the CEP before it goes.

Yeah, it's it's Jeslin's duty to make sure that everything's met, getting to the license portion of it, but that takes a lot of load off of her feet and off and off of the code enforcement officers' feet.

If this stuff is done and completed, if they do their due diligence, if they want this to be a short-term rental for them, then they need to do their due diligence to get all that stuff taken care of prior to even coming in and filling out a CUP.

That's my opinion on this, um, which is just my opinion.

And so um, Adam, if you could chime in on this when we talked about this earlier, and um do you want to add anything or you want me to go forth on it?

Well, um Dan, you mentioned that there's a civil issue related to that.

So I'm I'm just curious of what that is specifically.

My concern is that if it's meant if it's owned by two different people and there's a dispute among the owners that um it may be appropriate to table something like this until the dispute gets resolved, because you know we can't um we can't be the one playing judge on what happens to the property if only one owner would want to report on this, and a second owner would not.

And are both are both uh of them on title, both names on title.

Um yeah, well, I I actually just you can find a deed pretty easy on clerk counts.

Austin Mortensen, an unmarried man and Cammy Jensen, an unborn tenant titles.

Okay, we have we have one of the owners here.

Can would it be appropriate for us to let her talk?

We have both of them here or just one.

Yes, during public comment if they wanted to address that.

Okay, we have both the owners here.

Well, look, we'll have you come during public comment.

Um, councilwoman filing.

Thank you, Mayor.

I think Dan kind of said something kind of struck me that they were actually operating without a license prior to getting this coming here.

Is that what you said?

That's what I've been told, yes.

So that's what you've been told secondhand.

You don't have any 100% no, I wasn't uh that's coming from justin.

Okay, and and just so you know that concerns me because that's what we're trying to do here is to make sure everybody's and are having an STR is license, goes through the process, and so that kind of hit me a little bit because we still want everybody to go by the rules.

So all right, thank you.

Any other questions from council?

Nate, did you want to turn it on that one?

Yes.

So Jessula and I talked about this.

So Nate code enforcement, Jessel and I discussed this.

Um the one thing about the uh when they were operating illegal, they did do everything that the judge wanted them to do to rectify what they had done.

They stopped renting it, they stopped renting the they stopped it, they pulled it off the uh websites, and they said stained from using it as a vacation rental per what happened in the courts.

So they did do what they were supposed to do when they were told when they were told to stop.

So I don't know if that is a factor, but I do agree that they did the right thing.

Okay, thank you, Nate.

Dominic Olivetto again.

I was being nice.

I didn't comment on everyone tonight, just two.

The gentleman that was up here a minute ago, I forget his name, but he had a valid point.

If I come to the city and want to do something, and I say, here's this pipe dream, are you gonna give me a permit for it until I have everything in order?

No, you're not.

So why should you give out approval for a business license to somebody that hasn't met all the rules?

I mean it to me to me that's simple.

I mean, if somebody comes to me and says, hey, I want to buy your car, but I don't want to give you any money, I'm not giving them the car till they give me money.

It should be the same way with the city.

I mean, it's ridiculous.

Uh sorry, I promised I would not be rude today.

Quit shaking your head there, uh, councilman.

And by the way, you hurt my feelings when you called Nick Dominic, by the way.

Thanks, Dominic.

Uh Corbin Van, so Nick just verified for you that that was house was in fact in violation, not just a violation, they were ignoring the laws.

I live on that street.

That house was ignoring the laws for a couple of years.

I'd like to know where's the room tax, where was the city's expenses and going after these people, where you know what kind of fines, what what public money was recovered from the slot, and they ignored our rules for a couple of years.

Now they want to come back and play nice and ask uh to get their their license.

And I suppose if they met all the conditions, once again we'll have to do it.

But there's a history with this home, and it's not appreciated on our street.

Thank you.

Thank you, Corbin.

Council members, my name is Cammy Jensen.

I am the owner of the property that we're referring to.

Um everything that needed to be met to get the conditional use permit has been done.

Um also I would just like to state that I have been trying to get the licensing taken care of for quite some time.

Um my local contact information has already been given to Jesselin before the the shutdown had happened.

So if she doesn't have that already in the file, it are it is there.

My local contact is two blocks away from the house.

I'm also available all the time.

I've given my phone number to both of the neighbors, um, and I've spoken to my neighbors, and neither one of them had a uh issue with me running this as an Airbnb.

Um, never to directly to me when I've spoken to them.

Um, if there ever was any concerns, I was unaware.

Um, the licensing issue was a civil issue going on in Utah.

It's being addressed.

It's not an ownership issue.

It's my ex-husband and I are both listed on title.

His concern was all of a sudden after our separation that it was being ran without a license, what that he wasn't even aware of, he claims until the separation, and there was some criminal charges brought against him, so then he decided to do a whatever's happened.

I just want to make it clear that I want to be compliant.

I want to follow every single ordinance and rule that's in place.

I don't want to be a stressor to any of my neighbors.

If I had any record that any of my guests were causing disturbances, I would have immediately taken care of it.

I've had one in the two years that it was operating.

Anything that needs to be done or addressed, I am more than willing and would gladly accommodate.

So if there is any other questions or anything that I need to provide to the neighbors or the council, I gladly will.

Um also, other than that, like I said, everything as far as all the applications and the licensing on my end has been taken care of.

Um, when I did find out that there was an actual citation issued and a violation that was regarding the licensing, I had that license two days later, and that's when I was told that I couldn't rectify it because of the moratorium.

So I just want everybody to know that I would gladly follow through with whatever restrictions are in place.

So any questions for me.

Thank you, Kimmy.

I live directly next door to 160.

I had an issue.

I called her at 2:30 in the morning.

She took care of it right then, and she came over next time she was down.

And she came over next time she was down, she apologized for it.

We've not had an issue.

I know some of my neighbors across the street have, but we've had no issues at all.

So thank you, Senator.

Hi, I'm Austin Mortenson.

I'm uh the owner of this property.

And it is in a civil uh lawsuit currently.

Um Miss Jensen has blatantly been in contempt of court, allowing me access to this property, and is now trying to put renters in this property without my consent.

Um she's been in violation many times and doesn't care what anybody really says, it's whatever she wants to do.

So I would look to the board to deny this conditional use permit.

I don't want it to happen.

Thank you.

Thank you, Austin.

Oh, I'm sorry, Cammy, your time's up.

Um do we have any other okay?

Seeing none, I'm gonna go ahead and close the uh public hearing.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

I'm I'm gonna lean on caution um and per Adam as well.

Um tabling this item.

I don't think the city of Mesquite needs to get in between a level a civil lawsuit with the two owners of the property.

So I think I want to request that we table this until everything has been taken care of between the two parties.

Okay, councilman parrish.

I'll second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

Yes.

Yes, Gallo, yes.

Item 6.6, tentative map TM-26-003, Sierra Ridge phase two to approve the creation of 35 single-family residential parcels as part of a 73-unit single-family residential development on 8.43 acres, 31.8 acres total.

Located generally in the southeast quadrant of the intersection of way of Oasis Boulevard and Wingate Drive.

The parcel is currently zoned single family PUD and is Village 13 in the Wolf Creek Estates, Mesquite States, PUD.

Clark County Assessors parcel number 001-05-501-005.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Dan Catron Planning Staff.

Um, this is essentially uh filling in the phase that was that was bypassed oh 20 years ago, I'm thinking.

Um it's essentially the same as what was previously approved with the word with the exception of some landscaping that was removed along these three lots there, and then now they're just part of the of the lot instead of the common area landscaping.

Um but the lot sizes are all uh generally the same as what was approved previously, and this would fulfill um fulfill what was planned for this subdivision.

So staff is recommending that you open a public hearing and approve the tentative map.

Thank you, Dan.

Councilman Parish.

Um I'm pretty familiar with this project.

Um, but this is right next to the wash.

This gentleman talked about.

Um I would like to I don't know what I want to do, but I think we need to get Travis up there and look at this wash situation.

Um, I didn't realize I was so popular.

Thank you.

Um I think we need to before before this.

This doesn't really abut the wash because the houses around the outside are already built.

Um so but the wash, I think has been affected.

So and I don't really want to hang the developer up because of the wash, but I think the wash is important that we take care of it because it is a vital part of mesquite, and we need to make sure that nothing happens to the homes existing and new.

So I would recommend to council that uh we get some further studies done on this before we even look at it.

Councilwoman Fielding.

Thank you, Mayor.

So Dan, when you say this is the same design as the existing homes, they're all single level, no two stories, correct?

Uh I don't know about the homes.

I'm talking about the subdivision as this is the right, and all the existing homes, the design is all one level.

There's no two stories in there.

So yes.

One level.

Right.

So I just wanted to make sure that the existing the permit that expired that's going back.

It's the same design single level.

Is what they're no, the the the height limit will be whatever's assigned by the PUD.

Um I think it's probably I'm thinking it's 35 feet, but um okay.

And and I know that that's probably some concerns of you know, the residents already in Sierra Ridge that they don't come in and start building two stories around single level homes.

Yeah, so that's why that's why I was just I mean, wondering the design plan for the original homes are all single level.

So when you say the same design, in my head, I'm thinking single story.

I'm not I'm not speaking to the structures, I'm speaking to the to the lots.

Okay, and so would that be a different review where we would go over them to make sure there are single family?

I mean, one level if you want to change the terms of the PUD, we would have to open up the PUD.

Okay, no, I was just curious if you knew, but you said same design.

I meant the subdivision.

Okay, all right, thank you.

Councilman Wallace.

I agree.

This wash needs to be viewed, and if we need riprap in there or boulders or something to concentrate the flow and make sure we don't have wash out.

I'm fine with that.

But these properties you're right when you say the properties along the wash are already there.

These properties are just filling in the interior of the subdivision.

I don't I don't know how they have anything to do with the wash, but I do agree the wash needs to be looked at.

Okay, any other questions, comments from council?

Okay, if not, we're gonna go ahead and open up the uh public comment period.

Public hearing.

My name is Cheryl Greenhall, and I've been at Sierra Ridge since 2007.

All of our homes are single fam or single level homes.

That's the way the original plan was.

I have the original work from the beginning.

So that's a concern.

But the wash.

The wash is very concerning to us.

Even if they put a wallet, was it mysti mystic hills that they're putting it on?

They've built, they brought dirt in from the wash.

So half of the wash that is on the Mystic Hills side has been filled in and created new property, didn't exist.

So they've dug down.

So half the wash that remains is on our side.

Now, I don't know about you, but I think water flows the path of least resistance.

Well, at this point, the path of least resistance is our property.

So we're very concerned.

We've got on film about four times we've had water come down that wash.

White caps, and it came right up to um to almost the backyards of the homes that are there along the wash.

So it's a very concern when they're taking half that wash, and their comment was, well, we're dating it down deeper.

Well, as the water comes down from Lincoln County with the boulders and the trees and the tree stumps, the cities had to come in and actually clear that out because once you the water goes under Oasis Boulevard, doesn't go under when those boulders and whatnot come down.

So if that blocks up, it's all on our property.

And I would just as soon see my neighbors not lose their homes.

So please look at that wash.

We're desperate.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Hi there, Kurt Hirschinger, 400 Wild Horse Lane.

I'm right on the corner up there.

Is the builder here that can describe to us?

Yes, what's are you gonna come up and right?

What'd you say?

She's not the builder, but she knows the project apparently.

Okay, so you're gonna come up and describe what's going to be built.

Well, you go ahead and tell us in at the council house.

Okay, my question answer.

Who's the builder?

What's gonna be built?

What's the price point?

Are they gonna be part of the uh CR Ridge HOA?

And second comment is they have diverted the path of the wash behind my house.

So I know that's a concern to me.

Thank you.

Thank you, Kirk.

Name's Bob Thompson.

Um 464 Wild Horse Lane.

And I'm also concerned about what kind of houses are gonna be built in there next to us.

And my other concern is the wash.

Uh I pretty much got a bird's eye view of the whole thing that's gone on there.

And I think I got it in pictures in detail of what they've done.

And it scares hell out of me, honestly.

My house may not be there in a few years.

So I have concerns about, you know, we don't know anything about what type of homes and stuff they're gonna they're gonna build in this new subdivision, or the phase two of the subdivision I'm living in right now, and I've got a real high concern about the uh stability of the rock wall, the plastic, all the stuff they've been putting on the edge of this wash.

There was some concern about compaction.

I heard here earlier.

Well, I saw the compaction, and it's a track hole sitting up on top, patent with his bucket.

I've been involved in mining in the old industry all my life, and if that's compaction, I'm been surely mistaken about what it is.

So I think it needs to be looked at on both sides of it, and that's all I got to say.

Thanks, Bob.

Hello there.

My name is Tom Wildhagen.

I live at 416 Mile Horse Lane, and concerning the wash, I've talked to Travis several times, and they actually are changing the direction of the wash, which I thought they couldn't do unless they got approval from the Corps of Engineer, but I was told they had their permits and stuff.

But if they change the direction of the wash and affects our houses, they should be liable somehow.

That's what got some like if they change the direction of wash, it's the water's gonna find the path of least resistance.

So I don't know how they can change the wash, expect to not a file where it was.

And on the second point, the houses going in between the uh second part of our second phase of our HOA.

Are they gonna be part of our subdivision or are part of HOA?

And is there a guarantee they could be single like single story homes like we have now?

You know, like they apply for a permit, then change it.

Is that possible?

That's my question.

Do you have an answer for that?

If they get a permit for single family, can they change it to two?

Well, the PUD would govern what's allowed to be built there.

Um, I don't know if you know the detail.

I'm assuming you don't know the details of the PUD.

I do not have the PUD with me.

No, I'd have to so that's something you could get and look at, but the PUD would govern what's able to be built there.

Um, after the public hearing, if if the council would like the young lady to come up and answer some of those questions, then they can request her to come up and answer and answer those questions for you.

That'd be great.

So and then I also talked to Travis bought the walls you put up, you know, and I asked if there's gonna be a wall behind my house or a slant up a rocks.

He goes, Well, they can play for the permit and then do what they want, and I didn't understand that.

I can't tell you that you'll have to ask Travis again.

I'm not sure.

I'm sorry.

Well, who's in charge of that?

Who makes a decision on Travis?

Is the engineer, so he would be the one and then regional flood control.

I think what's understanding approving something and let them do what they want to do.

They should have a set plan and follow that plan, I would think.

Yeah, I I would imagine that's in conjunction with regional flood control, but that again would be a question for Travis.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Hi, my name is Kim.

I live at 440 Wild Horse Lane.

Kim, what's your last name?

Horseman.

Horseman?

Horseman, yes.

Um I too have a problem with the wash.

Um I have talked to Travis, and he told me that this was approved like 20 years ago.

And my concern 20 years ago, well, there's a lot of erosion, there's a lot of water going on.

We've seen water flow.

It's torn off the back side of the wash.

They have altered the wash, like you heard earlier, but they have to change the flow, and they have moved it closer to our houses.

I can tell you for sure that from the walkway on the back side of our house, the back side the of their wash or the front side was 300 feet 30 feet away.

Now we are only 139 feet from the wash.

That's a lot to come back when we see a wash that used to be wide, full of water moving, constantly moving.

And Travis's thing, and the water, oh, we all know it goes back and forth.

When the water comes down the wash, when they have a heavy rain from Clark County, it does not go back and forth to the wash.

They have covered the holes where the water goes under the road to the other side down the other side of the wash.

Now I don't know what you guys think, but somebody who comes along and does someone like that.

Why?

Because Travis says okay.

He said they had the permits.

This is 20 years ago.

Why would we are we still looking at permits from 20 years ago?

That's what I would like to know.

And if the same owner is gonna do this middle, then what's gonna stop him from doing things like this?

We see water trucks on the other side getting water out of the tanks.

The tanks are constantly leaking.

Is that gonna happen in the middle over here too?

We're gonna have mud walk washing down our sidewalks into our street into other neighbors' homes.

I mean, bisquites got a shortage of water.

Why is that some places over there in hidden hills?

A phase, a phase two having this water just run all the time.

Is that same kind of thing gonna happen?

Some of you builds in the spinal park.

That's what I would like to know.

Thank you.

Thank you, Kim.

Mayor and Councilman, my name's Lori Wildhagen.

I live at 416 Wild Horse Lane.

Um obviously our concern is the wash, but tonight we're talking about the middle, it being approved, and I do have some concerns.

One is will they be part of our HOA and follow our rules?

Will they use our roads?

And also there right now, every lot has um walls, brick walls that have deteriorated.

Are those going to be taken care of and gotten get out of there and make it look like a normal residential uh parcel?

Right now it looks like a big piece of mess.

So my concern is I want the aesthetics to stay the same into our neighborhood.

We all have very nice homes, we all are very great neighbors, and we just want it to be the way it was, it will all should be.

Um again, the wash is my one of my back uh concerns, and I guess we've maybe missed those meetings about the wash.

I don't know.

I kind of follow you guys along uh online, but it hasn't really been talked about, it's just been approved.

So I wonder if something can be done and give us some notice on when things are happening back there because it's I don't know if anybody has gone back there and looked at it.

It's scary.

So we see it every day at 5 a.m.

in the morning, they're pushing dirt to our home.

The reason they're doing that is because they're creating more homes.

They went, I don't know how it went from 120 to 170, but it got approved, and that's how come there that wash is being uh eliminated.

It's because they're creating more homes on the outside.

That's all I have to say.

Thank you.

Thank you, Lori.

Okay, seeing no one else come forward.

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

Um do we have questions from council?

Does anybody want to address those questions?

I do.

Councilman Wallace.

Can I get you to come up here?

Please.

And would you frozen, so they get to work.

Would you state your name?

Yeah, Brandy Walker with civil science.

I'm here tonight representing the applicant.

Is the applicant planning on being a part of the PD PUD that surrounds it?

Yeah.

And part of that HOA.

Yes, correct.

A lot of the reason this subdivision has set call it defunct for so long is due to HOA issues, concerns, private streets, and all that.

We have met with the HOA.

We've walked the property with the HOA, and these guys will be part of pay dues maintained as the HOA.

And you will follow their building styles single level.

The same documents will apply.

I don't have a problem with approving the inside.

I'm almost ready to table this until we take a good look at the wash when Travis gets back.

Well, I it doesn't really relate to the case.

And I know it doesn't have anything to do with the interior because that doesn't that doesn't change.

On our next meeting, I would I would really like to have this wash brought into play.

And before that other subdivision starts actually building.

Along the wash?

Oh, yeah.

They haven't started building, they're just moving dirt still.

Well, I I live, I live are they building houses?

No.

I I live right next to it.

I'm just I'm in Royal Vista, I'm the on the other side.

On the other side.

Oh, I yeah.

I didn't see another.

I would make a motion to approve the interior of the subdivision as long as you follow their HOAs, their PUDs, and their building styles.

But we need to take a look at this wash and make sure whatever has to do so there's no erosion or these people's homes aren't threatened.

Takes place.

And that needs to be sooner rather than later, especially if buildings started.

Yeah.

So my motion would be to approve the interior of the subdivision.

Um tentative map TM26-003.

Do I have a second?

Or do any more questions?

More questions.

So when the houses are ready to be built, do these folks have to come back before council to be approved, or is it just automatically done?

No, they're they're automatically done once the lots are created.

Subject to the provisions of the PUD.

Okay.

Councilwoman Gallow.

I have a concern that um the builder is actually changing the landscape of uh water flow and neighborhoods.

Um I I really have a problem with that.

Um it's not just building the interior, but it's not this builder paying.

It's a different builder that's doing builder.

So different builder.

Yeah, we're not associated, sorry.

Okay, so it's a completely separate.

So when we're talking about the center part, it has nothing to do.

So people's concerned about the wash tonight really has nothing to do with what's going on.

Okay, back up to the mic.

Brandy Walker again with civil science.

Um, the I mean, I understand the concerns of wash and erosion.

As the subdivision lies today, we are strictly interior to none of our we're on the inside, call it a donut.

We're the whole.

So the developer, the applicant tonight that now has acquired it, is trying to pull it out of the current state.

Is it's dilapidated, has is not the prior developer and has nothing to do with that wash as the site lays today with the grading.

We're not even altering it.

It will be as you see it.

We just have to go in, you know, the walls conditions obviously is a concern and put utilities and go.

There won't be additional grade change.

Then who is doing this?

So the development developer across the across the road.

Across the wrong.

We approved that six months ago, Patty.

I'm sorry to say.

But we did we approve knowing?

No.

No.

Well, I'm assuming Travis knew, but um Councilwoman Philly.

I I was just gonna um second that and also tell Brandy, thank you for being here.

I do have all of the letters from the HOAs, the utilities approving this subdivision for the interior, or as you call it, the donate.

The whole whole.

Um so I was just gonna second that.

Oh, you made the motion, right?

Or you made the motion.

So second, okay.

Call for the vote.

Yes, Parishai.

Yeah, so okay, motion passes.

Item 6.7, consideration of approval of a five percent increase in salary for the deputy city attorney.

Becky.

Yeah, so with the deputy city attorney's contract, um, it needs to come here for a raise.

So, unlike all of the other department heads, um his is brought here.

Um, so I'm asking for a five percent raise for him.

And that's for Kyle Waits for Kyle Wait, okay.

Do we have any questions?

Um that item.

The raise.

How long?

And I don't know this, maybe and I should.

How long have we how long has he been employed with us?

That I don't know off the top of my head.

I uh well, his contract is 11 for 2025.

So he's only been with us since November, and we're gonna give him a pair raise.

No, contract.

He's been oh okay, okay.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I misunderstood.

Councilwoman Philly.

Well, uh I have to tell you, they want this to be effective July 1st of 2026, and we're still waiting for the MPOA to be approved with negotiations.

So I I just have to I just have to put this out there.

I I have a little bit of a heartburn that he hasn't been here a year.

He's getting the colour, and we've been waiting for so long for the MPOA.

I think he's been here longer than here.

And right, he negotiations are a two-way street.

We are working with the MPOA.

We do have negotiations on Thursday.

It's not just a city management thing that is causing.

We are working together.

So I'm just gonna say that.

Was his pay raise in our budget?

Yes, yes, it's on.

Okay, that was just my question.

I do have I I mean I know he's he's taken on double duties, and he took this um a while ago, which we're grateful to have him doing all of his work.

So, but I just wanted to put that out there.

Thank you.

Councilman Gella.

Oh, I'm sorry, that was still on okay.

Any other questions or comments from council?

Okay, seeing none, I'm gonna go ahead and open up for public comment.

Cheryl Greenhall.

Uh my question is are we are you going to put on the agenda something happening to do with the wash?

Cheryl?

Yes.

If you want to come and ask this question at final public comment, feel free, but you need to stick to the subject of what this item's about.

I'm sorry.

Okay, you will.

All right.

According to this five percent raise for this person, 100,000.

Do you know how long it takes an officer to get five percent to five thousand dollar raise?

They cap out at 92,000.

It would take them nine years if you get the same five percent.

Thanks, Donna.

Okay, seeing no more public comment, I'm gonna call ahead and close public comment and ask for a motion.

Councilman Ennis.

I'll go ahead and make a motion to approve the five percent pay raise for the city deputy city attorney.

Okay, do I have a second?

I'll second it.

Okay, call for the vote.

Parish ISI.

Galloway.

Okay, motion passes.

Item 6.8 consideration and discussion of four proposed iron cactus sculpture locations.

Um who are we?

Who's talking to us about that?

Is Thomas here?

No.

Paul, you want to address that?

There's several of us here.

Oh sorry.

Good evening.

Uh Rich Sorum.

Uh I've been involved with this project for the last eight or ten months.

Uh Thomas Stark, who was the founder of the project, uh, is out of town up north, up in Idaho.

So any questions?

I know I know that you've gone around with Randy, right?

Yes.

Yeah.

Okay.

And I'm Dave Hubbard for the record.

Okay, and what just tell us for the public which uh locations are you guys suggesting?

So we're looking at the recenter.

Um, we have a spot picked out there.

Unfortunately, I don't have any of the pictures and stuff with me.

Okay.

Yeah.

So it's not the rec center, it's pickleball court across the street.

The justice center.

And I agree with those two.

Travis, everyone in the city agrees with those two.

The third spot's the cemetery.

There's a lot of heartburn over that.

I agree with that.

And the fourth spot is the welcome center, which we don't have approval from N DOT yet.

So I think if I was going to make a motion right now, it would be to approve the first two sites, the rec center or the pickleball courts across from recenter and the justice center.

Say no to the other two.

The one until we can get and dot to sign off on it.

Then we can say yes to that.

But the other one, I know this this all started out.

If if this is a geocache and you come to the welcome center, you come to City Hall, and you and you take whatever the hell you do with your phone and it tells you where to go next.

Pull up Mosquite.

Yeah, exactly.

To spread this out all around Mesquite and take take people to places where they normally wouldn't see it in Mesquite if they were just driving down the main boulevards.

And the original thought for the one by the cemetery was the sport event complex because unless you're going right there, you never know it was there.

Randy had some questions on that one.

Travis has questions on the cemetery.

Actually, so do I people shouldn't be stopping by and taking pictures of the cemetery when people are there grieving loved ones?

So I'm I'm fine.

I'm fine with saying no to that one.

We can always find another place, or we can work something else, Randy.

Like we can twist his arm and tie him up or something until he says yes to the sport event complex or somewhere that makes sense.

But my feelings tonight is we approve the two.

That makes sense.

We we say no to the other two until we have the blessing of endot and the blessing of the city because one thing we don't want to do while we're doing this is make either one of them angry.

Okay, councilwoman Gallo.

Yeah, I'm in I'm in agreement with um councilman wanless, uh, especially the cemetery.

I don't think a cemetery is um the right spot.

And we did hear from uh several residents that it's a solemn place, and that's probably to uh councilman wandless's point.

People taking pictures and other people are grieving at the same time.

So I I agree, just the two spots for now.

All right, thank you, gentlemen.

Thank you very much.

I'm gonna go ahead and uh open up public comment.

Do we have public comment on this?

Okay, seeing none.

I'll Randy, do you want to say something?

Uh Randy Lobb at the Rec Center, uh City Mesquite.

So I did take I don't I don't recall your name, Dave.

Dave.

I did take Dave around for about an hour, a couple weeks ago, and we picked out a few sites that I thought was pertinent for this project.

Soccer complex is not one of those.

Uh and and the reason being that we have a lot of golfers that try to go up there on our soccer fields that make divots in our synthetic turf and whatnot.

And so the other side of that was simply it is out of the way a little bit, and I was concerned about vandalism that's going to be happening to that statue, if you will.

And so I just kind of directed him that it was probably not a good fit for us.

Um the other side obviously is a cemetery.

I I basically told him that was not a good site.

Pickleball makes me nervous uh because it's not a golf area, it's a pickleball court, and I know it sounds a little bit different, however, when you see those types of things, it kind of gives you the illusion of well, maybe I can go just like they do at the soccer complex and everything else.

And so that makes me a little bit nervous for that facility.

I did take uh Mr.

Hubbard down to the fine arts area with the theater, and I showed him a couple spots in the arts district where I thought would be pertinent for these statues to be placed.

It is in the art district, it's downtown.

Uh City Hall has one, art district could have could have one.

Um you could put one by the theater.

Uh I did show him the justice facility.

He kind of wanted one by the uh softball fields.

I didn't really like the softball fields, but I thought maybe the justice facility may work for that.

Uh, but just a couple of my thoughts.

And so um pickleball, I'm not happy about, but that's kind of your guys' call.

Any questions?

Councilman Wallace?

Did you have a question?

I was gonna make a motion.

Okay, nope we're good, Randy.

Thanks.

Councilman Wandless.

I think the pickleball courts are fine.

People aren't gonna go and play golf on a pickleball court, and it's right next to the rec center where a lot of people who go there are golfers.

So I would like to make a motion to approve the two we've talked about, the just center and the pickleball courts, and take the other two out until we have permission for Mendot and find a suitable spot for the fourth one.

Okay, councilwoman Fielding.

I'll second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

Yeah, sorry.

Very sorry.

Okay, motion passes.

With that, we have come to final public comment.

Mayor Whipple and members of the council.

My name's Rick McIntyre.

This may be more for uh Becca than anybody, but we've had an opportunity to hear from Nate tonight a little bit, just a little bit.

Um so I serve as the president of the board of the Falcon Ridge Community Association from Wedgies to the Deep Roots Harvest from the Freeway to Bertie Lane.

A great deal of that is the commercial area, Walmart and all of the commercial area through there.

And uh, we occasionally have issues that we need to deal with.

And Nate has been absolutely fantastic in terms of his support in our uh efforts to maintain standards within the uh the community.

And he I just um want to commend to you the great work that Nate has been doing, not just for parts of the city that are that are outside of our HOAs, but even inside of our HOAs where we need him, and he has been terrific for us, and I wanted to commend him to you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Rick.

Uh thank you, John Rosen, for the record.

Um, I didn't make this comment before you took your vote for this last issue because I was uncertain of what I'm about to say, but I was interested in in Paul your your comment that NDOT hadn't given the approval.

And I'm not sure that that's exactly right.

So I just want to make sure that I I check with you.

I do know that when we submitted our uh tourism grant before Nevada Trial uh uh the Travel Nevada would allow us or give us the grant, we had to give them documentation that we had received approval from uh NDOT to do uh interior and exterior refurbate refurbishment to that property.

Is that what you were talking about, or is there something else?

I will talk to NDOT personally next month.

I'll meet with the director of N Dot and ask these questions.

Right now, the city leases the property, but N Dot owns it, and for us to put something permanent on it without their blessing.

Rather, we're re redoing everything, but to put a permanent structure on there.

Travis feels and I I agree we need to get their support.

Okay, well, I again I I didn't want to take issue or argue with you.

Just let you know that they had given us documentation that they were giving first of all, we could lease the property and that they could given us uh permission to do the refurbishments that we want to do to the outside.

And there's there's a whole lot of changes being done to that property as part of that.

Thank you.

Thanks, John Damo Nick Elfensetti Nevada.

Uh thank you very much.

Thanks, Nick.

The visitors.

Do we have plans to open that back up?

Oh, Dominic Oliveto.

I'm sorry.

I can't pronounce Alphacetti, so I have to leave that out.

I wonder why we ever closed it down.

Yeah, we are gonna open it back up because it was free to the city as far as manpower, because we personally manned it one day a week, and other organizations did.

And I know a lot of people say that uh there was no bang for the buck, but uh the donkey museum should love us because every time we told them we have the world's only donkey museum, we had to draw it on the map so they could go down and look at it.

But no, there was a lot of people that spent time here after stopping in there and finding out what we had to offer.

Thank you.

Yeah, I think we're gonna give them some bang for their bucket.

It's look gonna look good.

So okay, seeing no one else, this meeting is adjourned.

Oh, Ron, did you want to?

Okay.