Okay.

Thank you.

You guys are so great out there.

Appreciate it.

The North Las Vegas City Council and Redevelopment Agency welcomes you to their meetings.

There are four public forums set aside for public comment.

One at the beginning and end of the city council meeting, and one at the beginning and the end of the redevelopment agency meeting.

If you wish to speak, please complete one of the blue cards, which are located on the table outside the main entrance and at the podium rail.

Please give your card to the city clerk when called upon to speak.

We request that you limit your comments to no more than two minutes and that you avoid repetition.

Madam City Clerk, are we in compliance with the Nevada Open Meeting Law?

Yes, we are.

Thank you.

Today we have the opportunity to have the invocation given by Deacon Jim Pittman of St.

John Newman Catholic Church.

Welcome.

Following that, we'll have the Pledge of Allegiance as led by Mayor Pro Tim Black.

Please rise.

Let our actions in this meeting be valuable to our aim, which is to build up our city and strengthen our faith and your love for all your people.

Amen.

And to the Republic for which it stands.

Thank you, Deacon, for being here and always answering the call when we call.

Today we're gonna have two presentations the certificate of recognition for business of the month and the proclamation recognizing library card sign-up month.

So council, let's go down front.

We're gonna go sit in the chairs out of any of our friends.

Each month we highlight a business that embodies culture, service, and innovation.

This month is a very special month because today is the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month.

And I'm wearing one of my favorite Wayabetas in Liberation Purple.

It's my distinct pleasure to recognize La Galana Tapatia, our September 2025 business of the month.

Located at 1820 East Lake Mead Boulevard, La Galana Tapatia brings the richness of Mexican Heritage to our community.

They offer a wide range of authentic and natural products brought directly from Mexico, along with a central services like money transfers and shipping to all parts of Mexico.

What makes them stand out is more than just what they sell.

It's the welcome the atmosphere they've created.

Step inside.

And believe me, the reviews don't lie.

People love this place.

La Galana Tapatia preserves as cultural Mexican traditions and the daily needs of our residents, making it a vital part of Ward One.

To the owner and staff of La Galana Tapatilla, thank you for a dedication and for making North Las Vegas proud to have you.

Congratulations on being our September 2025.

That is the month.

And remember, a tapatillo is from Guadalajara, Mexico, Viva La Jala, Viva Mexico, Viva Hispanic Heritage Month here in North Las Vegas.

Hello.

And Mayor, with your permission.

We actually have the uh the owners of uh La Galanta Teapatia.

Um please come up.

Actually, um it's interesting.

Uh actually um probably the best thing was to let you maybe uh there's a couple reasons why uh why they were picked.

Um actually when I first met him is because he was just a concerned resident because he actually lived right here in the downtown area.

Um I picked him for two reasons.

No, number one, um we're talking about people who they took a uh they've taken a chance with their entire livelihood because he's a businessman and he has interest in Las Vegas, but he's located and he's heavily invested right here in downtown North of Vegas.

He actually has two stores.

One which uh was a place that he's making a go out of it, you know, uh uh selling washing machines and things like that, and La Galana Tapatilla.

But he's also he he and he could have bought anywhere in uh in uh the valley.

He could have bought in Summerlin or Henderson.

I like Northern Las Vegas.

You know what?

I'm gonna let him tell you about that.

Well, uh, first of all, thank you very much.

Uh we didn't expect this.

Uh we are really happy.

That's my wife.

We uh her and I run the sorry.

And uh the only thing that I can say is that we like North Las Vegas.

We started our first store in Bernanza, which is Las Vegas, right?

And then we moved to North Las Vegas and we opened up two stores, and we live in Northern Las Vegas also.

And like he said, we could have bought anywhere in the valley, but we decided to come north because we believe in Northern Las Vegas.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And like me the McDaniels, and the other in Las Vegas.

Like me, the Civic Center.

Civic Center.

So he's not just you know our downtown business, but he's one of my neighbors.

So, you know, yeah, yeah, and literally he lives or just right behind the new building.

Oh yeah, right behind the new medical building here by Agora.

He lives right behind it.

There, they're they're literally, you know, uh neighbors.

So uh I I definitely have to honor, you know, from from the big businesses, they come from smaller businesses, and they're one, it's an integral business right here in our city.

So uh congratulations.

Thank you, thank you.

Oh, and I'm I almost I filled in this.

I almost forgot, mayor.

That's why it's almost better.

That's why you should always do this, because you know, you guys going back this.

I always rely on the women of my life to to take care of things because they're the ones.

So I'm gonna go ahead and read this.

Um we have the certificate of recognition presented to La Galana Tapatilla uh for your invaluable contribution to our community.

We commend you for your commitment to celebrating culture by providing authentic and well-crafted products and essential services while creating a welcoming space for all.

Felicity.

Thank you, thank you very much.

Thank you, thank you.

Oh three, big smiles, one, two, three.

One more.

One, two, three.

Thank you.

Thank you, thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, thank you.

Thank you.

Who's up next year?

You want to hold it on the show.

I'll hold this one.

You may have noticed that we all have on matching t-shirts today.

And so we are so so proud to support Score, the Raiders.

Um, and it says Raiders Library card.

Um, and we are so proud to support our libraries here in North Las Vegas.

And I don't know about you, but I recall um growing up visiting the library across the street where our old city hall, spending lots of time in the libraries and just to see all the resources that our libraries offer today.

It's a different world, a different place.

And so congratulations to our library staff from the direction of Forrest Lewis and his entire team.

Um, we'll have you guys come up in just a minute, but first they have to do the wear as is.

And so I'd also like to call on the following Raiders representatives to join us up here as well.

Um, Victoria Alejandre, our community relations manager, and Lila Hay, government and community relations specialist for the Las Vegas Raiders.

And then if the library staff of you guys want to come squeeze up here somewhere, okay.

You guys should be in the center.

Oh no, brother, you didn't wrong.

Thank you.

Cool.

Very cool.

Thanks.

And did we have a design contest for the the cards, or how did that happen?

We actually worked with uh the Raiders design team, and they um designed the card for us, and they actually um provided the library cards for the library district as well.

Thank you so much.

And I just um uh a parent um on social media said thank you so much, North Las Vegas.

My kids love coming to the library.

So that was a really feel good comment.

Okay, so the word ads is read.

Whereas libraries are foundational to education, imagination, and opportunity, offering everything from early literacy programs to digital tools that support lifelong learning and personal growth, and whereas libraries welcome all people serving as inclusive and accessible community hubs that connect individuals across cultures, generations, and experiences, and whereas libraries curate collections and design programs that reflect the diversity of the populations they serve, ensuring equitable access to information, technology, and culture for all, and whereas libraries help individuals navigate life's challenges by providing trusted information, digital access, job search support, and connections to essential services, and whereas libraries contribute to thriving local economies by equipping job seekers, entrepreneurs, students, and creators with tools and trainings to succeed, and whereas in times of both crisis and calm, libraries and their staff remain steadfast in supporting and strengthening their communities, and whereas library sources help households save money, reduce waste, and make sustainable choices, all through the simple power of a shared public good.

And whereas a library card opens doors to endless possibilities from books and technology to lifelong learning and imagination.

Now, therefore, we, the city council of the city of North Las Vegas, do hereby recognize September 2025 as Library Card Sign Up Month and encourage all residents to sign up for a library card and explore the endless possibilities and witness whereof we have set our hand in cause the seal of the city of North Las Vegas to be affixed this third day of September 2025.

Congratulations.

Thank you, Mayor, members of council.

Um just like to say, first of all, I'd really appreciate um being here in North Las Vegas.

We have uh wonderful families, we have um wonderful support.

We have a mayor and council who is intimately involved with the library district.

They are the best.

And we have um an executive team, um, city manager, city management team.

They are extremely supportive of what we do, and all of the departments within the city work with us, um, whether it's working in our building, whether it's providing our IT support, um, providing water to the building.

We every department works with us, and we have an amazing supportive uh team of directors within the city that we work with.

But really, our most important is the people that we serve.

Um, uh Shelley and Garrett.

We both or all three of us started at the same time.

We're in a going into our 25th year here with the city of North Las Vegas.

So in that time, we have seen the families grow, and you know, nothing is more special than having a family come up and years later and saying that you know I was in your story time.

I started out as a children's librarian.

We actually all were uh children's librarians at one point, and that is just a very special thing that the library um has to offer.

And we do have the the theme for this year's um library card sign up month is one card, endless possibilities, and that's kind of how we see that.

We have uh three core main missions within the library.

Uh we focus on school ready, college ready, and work ready, and all of our programs are somehow education-based, related around those three main areas, and we have everything from STEM programming, story times, helping people find jobs.

We have a lot of those resources, and we're always searching for different ways that we can help and better support the community.

So I'd like to have uh Shell, if you don't mind, just talk a little bit about um some of the things we have going on for Library Card Sign Up Month.

And before I go, I would be very remiss if I did not mention our partnership with the Raiders.

You see, they were very gracious in working with us.

Um they provided over the summer too.

A player came.

They had a we had a family event program that was very well attended.

And we could not do what we do without the support of community partners and people who really care about the community like the Raiders do.

So thank you so much for your help and support with that.

Forrest, can I put you on the spot real quick?

Yes.

You shared a story about your journey.

And could you it just is a very moving story?

Can I put you on the spot and ask you to share your story?

How you got your start?

You can't say no, though.

So I I had to talk before you know education is such an important thing in people's lives.

And I had grown up in a very low-income family.

Nobody in my family had ever gone to um college, much less my dad didn't even finish high school.

He had to go back and finish high school years later so he could get his job as a bus mechanic at the school district.

And when we grew up in Oregon, at the time they never had paid kindergarten.

So I never went to kindergarten.

We couldn't afford to go to private kindergarten.

And when I was in first grade, um I didn't even know the alphabet.

So that was the you know, kind of a hard thing that I had to deal with.

But through that time, I was always in the lowest reading classes.

Um the time they had the special education classes.

I went to a small school, so there was myself, probably three other people and a foreign exchange student from Korea who didn't speak any English, and at that time they didn't have any resources for language learners.

So we were in there, but the thing was I was in that program all the way through elementary school into middle school.

And once you were labeled in that program, you didn't get out.

So I I was in sixth grade sitting in my reading class, and my teacher at the time looked at me with a strange look and he said, Why are you in my class?

And I'm just like, I don't know.

They told me to come here, so that's why I came here.

But he moved me up into the middle class, and by the end of that year, I was in the highest reading level class, and here I am years later, library director.

And so that just tells you how one person who takes the time, an educator, a librarian, somebody in somebody's life who takes the time to notice a child who needs help, who could who could progress, and they see something in that child that they don't see in themselves.

It what they can do and how you can come out of that.

So I've always been a firm believer, and I always live my life and live the mission that we all have things in life that hold us back, and we all have areas where reasons why we may not succeed, but the one thing in somebody's life that can break any barrier is a good education and motivation to succeed.

And so that's where I love what I do, and I love working for the city that supports that as well.

Thank you, Sharon.

I appreciate it.

I love hearing your story, so thanks again for sharing it.

Okay, I'm not really sure how to follow that.

Um, let me just say thank you to Mary and Counselor for supporting us, and thank you to the Raiders uh for this program.

Um we tried to build our theme this year for Library Card Sign Up Month around the Raiders and the start of football season.

So we've got a couple of things going on.

The first one is for anybody who is already a library patron.

If you come into the library during the month of September, you can get a free replacement card.

And that can be because you lost that card, or it could be just because you really want to get the cool new Raiders card.

The second thing is we are doing something for everybody, which is uh we're having a special drawing this month for a special Raiders themed basket.

So each library branch has a basket, it has a football blanket, it has a Raiders Tumblr, has um Raiders Uno, so you can play a game with the family, has a couple of other little things in there.

To enter the drawing, you can do one of three things.

You can get a brand new library card.

So if you don't have a library card, now is the time to get one.

The second thing is that you can check out from the library.

You can check out books, movies, um, we have merge cubes, we have hot spots, anything that you check out during the month of September gets you entered into our drawing, and you can check out every single day if you would like and get a ticket.

The third thing that you can do is attend any of our library programs.

I don't know if any of you have ever looked at the calendar, but we have something going on pretty much every single day at one of our branches.

So if you go to a program, you will get a ticket and be entered into that drawing.

And we hope that not only will this encourage our regular patrons to keep coming to the library, but new patrons, and that it will show them all the amazing things that they can do at the library for free.

So thank you very much.

Did you want to say okay?

We'll go with a picture, then go sit down.

Hold up your cards.

Three, one.

One more.

One, two, three.

We gotta go in bed.

We can do that.

All the cool kids with the shirts on.

I guess we need to cool.

Okay, do I need to start calling you by name?

I thought the cool kids would get it.

They're humble.

All the humbled cool kids.

We're gonna do two rows.

So if you're a little shorter.

Chris, who wants to get that short?

I need to be invited.

Are you sure?

Are you sure?

Okay, until we hear it.

Let's do no fun.

Like score.

So we're doing a score on three.

We're gonna throw our library cards up on three.

Action shot.

You'll get it back.

Okay, it's gonna be on three.

Everyone ready?

One, two, three.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thank you guys so much.

All right, we are gonna go ahead and move on to council items.

Councilman Barone, let's start with you.

Uh thank you uh very much, Mayor.

Um you know, uh, I'm really happy that you uh and I both went to the Burlington uh coat factory.

Uh they had the is it called Code Factory?

It's just Burlington now.

Burlington now, right?

Oh, yeah, and Mayor, I'm sorry, I'm mayor potem.

We're all there for the uh for a Burlington uh store grand opening uh at 2201 uh uh Civic Center.

It was great.

We were kind of reminiscing that the mayor and I because we remember uh before that.

Well, actually, Mayor Pratem and I we said before it was the indoor SWAT meet, it was Zodis, and that was an arcade there, but if we call before that, it was a grants, and um we're going way back.

So we're we're happy to see the transformation, but it's also uh a good um it's it's quite a sign because just a few years ago here in the in the depths of the uh of the of the Great Recession, uh I actually had a a news crew when that Fiesta Plaza was totally vacant.

Uh I had uh a news crew that came and uh did an interview, and that's when hey, we have some plans, you're gonna see some fundamental changes here very soon.

And he and he was like disbelieving us, right?

And right now, this is just you know the the latest iteration of just how far uh and how far we'll come back.

And we have, of course, Wall Street that definitely believes in Raja Vegas, and this is just another uh this just another example.

The Ross is doing fantastic.

La Bonita is doing gangbusters.

We we have lots of great investment from uh from small business owners to large business business owners.

Um people are flocking back here uh at this time, and I'm really happy to see that.

Um, it has some big news, of course.

Uh Hispanic Heritage.

Um the middle of September to the middle of October is Hispanic Heritage Month.

Um the middle of September to the middle of October is Hispanic Heritage Month, and we have a number of events uh right here in North Las Vegas to commemorate this.

Um on September 12th.

Well, we're gonna have an omenaje.

Um you might have heard uh of a certain guy uh uh uh singer um who is a legendary uh person there, um Mr.

Um uh Fernandez um uh Vicente Fernandez.

I mean, he is the quintessential uh uh Mexican singer.

If you have like uh any uh parties going on, eventually his music comes on.

He is the quintessential Mexican singer.

His son uh junior is a producer in his own right, and he has been declared by the uh by international uh journalists as the king of Hispanic Heritage Month.

And we're gonna have a um a coronation for him here on September 12th to kind of like initiate Hispanic Heritage Month.

So Vicente Fernandez Jr.

will be appearing here uh from 12:30 to 3 p.m.

in a in a small uh in a small ceremony, but he's gonna be kind of kind of kicking off Hispanic Heritage uh here.

You can kind of like say for the country.

Uh uh uh so that'll be a fantastic event.

Um that's uh it's a free event.

The big one will be a couple days later on Sunday, September 14th, from 1 to 9 p.m.

Uh we I'm very happy to say that this will be the fifth annual um Hispanic Heritage kickoff and a grito de Dolores, which of course that is the commemoration of of uh Mexican Independence Day, which kind of coincides with uh Hispanic Heritage, right?

Um and we'll be having uh well with some of our friends here from the Mexican consulate, we'll be doing the grito de Lotus at 6:30.

But before that, to start the entire day off at 1 p.m., we'll have the parade of nations, which uh this is our second annual parade of nations.

Uh last year we did the entire event at Craig Rance Park, but we're bringing it back here to Liberty Park here at uh his uh here at uh North Avegan City Hall.

And uh we're still taking entries.

If uh you would still like to be uh including this, but you can send me an email.

We also have lots of flyers out there.

There's still uh some opportunity to be part of the uh of the event.

And um we have a fantastic uh group that'll be our headliners.

That's conjunto brillo norteño, which you know it's really nice to have an A-list um uh uh act that will be the main headliners.

But the entire event is free, open to the public.

It is uh definitely something that you know last year it was surprisingly well attended, and we're very proud to present this.

I'm I'm very proud that my um colleagues on city council are bring uh and with staff, we're putting this together to present to our community.

Um now in this time uh when there's so much division, uh it's good to have events like this that in which we can share the things that we have in common with each other.

Things that make uh uh America an exceptional place to live.

It's a unity event, and everyone's invited.

We hope to see you all there.

I think that's enough for me, Mayor.

I have a good commission.

Wait, uh, don't don't look at me, mayor, because I'm gonna send a secret message on that camera over there.

Okay.

Okay.

All right, they'll know upstairs what I just did.

All right.

It's not a secret if we all see it now.

Seek it's out there.

So you have to share.

Okay, I'll actually.

Um, we're all you interrupted me.

So no.

On August 22nd of this year, I had the uh privilege of being inducted into the honorary base commander program at Nellis Air Force Base.

And uh I believe this was the first time that anybody from uh, and there's a number of people, businesses that are part of that uh that honorary command uh unit.

Uh, but this I believe is the first time that someone from uh from the city has been part of that uh that group.

And the purpose of my accepting that was that uh Nellis has been part of our community for a number of years.

And uh they're experiencing some issues right now.

They have been all along, but they want to start doing some outreach with the city to correct some of the uh the problems that they're having uh and help us correct some of the issues that we're having.

Uh and to kind of educate the community a bit on some things out there that we're unaware of.

And I could tell you one of the uh one of the things uh that I was unaware of is that um O'Callahan Hospital uh for Range Road.

Um that's a not just a military hospital.

That's anyone can go to that hospital.

the city to correct some of the uh the problems that they're having uh and help us correct some of the issues that we're having uh and to kind of educate the community a bit on some things out there that we're unaware of and I could tell you one of the uh one of the things uh that I was unaware of is that um Callahan Hospital uh off of Range Road um that's a not just a military hospital that's anyone can go to that hospital uh ambulances if you God forbid if you have to go to the hospital your ambulance could take you to O'Callahan it's not a problem the problem is right now is that the uh the hospital is on uh Nellis territory Nellis uh property actually that's another problem nothing with Nellis is on Nellis property it's all BLM land uh even the test range so that's another issue that they they would like to start working with us on but if if someone you knew was brought to that hospital there and uh you wanted to go visit them you would be able to do that but you'd have to go to the main gate at Nellis get a pass and then go over to Range Road and then you'll be able to go in.

But when it came comes time to leave you cannot leave unless someone takes you and brings you back to the main gate.

And I I could tell you from having an awful lot of uh veterans in Sun City virtually no one knew that hospital would take anybody other than veterans or military so that's something that uh that we're gonna start promoting over here with them.

The other thing I want to mention is that um on August 22nd we had our second meeting with uh with mayor berkeley uh this is an animal welfare meeting um they're making great strides we're making great strides when it comes to uh negotiating a contract with uh the animal foundation but uh there's other information coming out uh that I think is going to be much more important than extending their their contract for a while so I'm just gonna hold back on that just a little bit if you don't if you don't mind but I just wanted to let you know there are very many organizations out there nonprofits you know particularly Heaven can wait that do something like a a thousand uh spay and newters a month where other organizations that uh that get uh jurisdictional money can't even reach that so uh we're gonna be making some changes hopefully in that uh and then I'll kind of brief everybody on that last but not least um um I attended the uh the Air Force Welfare Center um change of command at Nellis on the 28th this is where they changed commanders and uh um commander uh general neemai stay they stay for about a year and then they they switch out and uh we have uh uh what I think to be uh uh a very good person coming in now uh brigadier general uh epperson who is very uh community supportive and is looking to work with us not just myself of course but with all of us over here at the city so uh we'll bring information like that back to you as we go forward thank you mayor thank you thank you mayor uh on the 21st of August I had the privilege to attend the United Way of Southern Nevada Project Reach Senior Expo that's held at the Aliante Casino had the privilege of uh touring through that and meeting a lot of our senior residents with our mayor and if you're not familiar with that it's it's such an amazing event with lots of vendors providing resources and information for our senior community what's really incredible about it is our community partners NV Energy United Way of Southern Nevada and Southwest gas offer a tremendous uh financial burden relief for seniors in our community many of which are on fixed incomes literally within moments you can go in there as a senior and have your power bill and your gas bill reduced uh near 500 uh were applicable if you had that much of a balance and just imagine what seniors can do freeing up that amount of resources it's just a really great program and I was glad to be a part of that.

Also on the 21st later that day I had the privilege of joining the mayor and Alfredo Willesio at the Ardiente senior community that's a great um age restricted senior community in North Las Vegas for a uh really robust QA session they had questions about what we have going on in the community um the mayor myself and Alfredo answered oh and uh Captain Vince Booker was there from the police department talking about the great projects that we have the progress we're making in North Las Vegas the investments that we're making in public safety infrastructure and uh the things that we have going on it was a really really great discussion and then a few days later on August 23rd I had the privilege of joining the mayor and uh her husband Romero at the Treasure Island for the uh Asian American group community achievements award and our awesome mayor was honored with the lifetime achievement award from the Asian American group.

Thank you.

It was a nice evening um on August 22nd I had the privilege of being invited to the Latin Chamber luncheon um where we had an opportunity to hear from uh Sandra Douglas Morgan she's the current president of uh Las Vegas Raiders and U.S.

She's the current president of uh Las Vegas Raiders and U.S.

Senator Catherine Cortez Masto.

Um, it was an amazing event.

Um just uh it was just great to hear their journeys, um, insights and uh their leadership, and I just want to thank the Line Chamber for creating such an inspiring space where we can um celebrate our diverse community and foster connections.

The next day, um, I was able to stop by Craig Ranch, which is in Ward 2 for movie madness, and I was pleasantly surprised to learn um that ET, the movie ET, it's a classic, was um they were gonna be showing that instead of the other movie that I hadn't seen.

So I was super happy.

Um I counted over a hundred attendees.

Um, I think our parks um director might have a more accurate number, and I saw several children uh just playing in the nearby playground.

Everyone had a great time.

So thank you, Parks and Rex for um the great job that you're doing and bringing this events to our community.

And then on August 25th, um, I was able to participate in the CCSD Bright Futures community uh walk, and there's here with us today.

Um, and alongside my colleague uh councilman Baron, giant high school principal, and Sis C CSD staff and volunteers, and we we visited um homes of families um that haven't enrolled their children in this school's um year, and it was just a wonderful experience just connecting with families, providing resources um so that we can make sure those students are enrolled and they can be ready to learn.

Um, and then also I'd like to recognize our home team.

Jason, are you here?

I don't I don't see him.

Um, but yeah, our home team along our COP team from the police department, um, our parks and recs team, court enforcement and parking enforcement for their collaboration in addressing an encampment um near one of our public parks recently.

Um their teamwork was incredible.

Um, it was uh it was during the weekend, and I had um neighbors calling me.

They there were some issues there, and all these departments just worked together.

Um, and uh I just wanted to share that.

This neighbor, she she'd been she just shared with me recently that she appreciated the outreach and the support she received from the home team.

So for um anyone that's here and doesn't is not aware.

We have our own home team, our homeless outreach and mobile engagement team, and they can be reached at 702-633-1555.

And then looking ahead, we have a community uh meeting, which will be taking place on Tuesday, September 16th from 6 to 8 at the Alexander Library in Ward 2.

Our guest speaker will be Officer Ronska, and he will be leading a discussion on policing in our unhoused community.

So I hope you can join us.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you so much.

Um, if you look at our agenda, we typically go into redevelopment meeting, but we're switching up things, so I have not forgot about it.

So we're gonna move on to the city council's first public forum.

This is the time set aside to comment on posted agenda items.

The items listed under this public hearing section of the agenda will have their own public hearing when the items are called.

So if you wish to speak on any items on today's agenda other than the public hearing items, now is the time.

Madam City Clerk, do we have any blue cards or written comments for posted agenda items?

No, ma'am.

Thank you.

I I will go ahead and close the public forum.

Let's move on to the agenda.

Item one city council regular meeting agenda of September 3, 2025.

Staff recommends approval of the agendas published.

Okay, I'll call for a motion.

I'll make a motion to approve the agenda as published.

Well, my screen didn't change, so I will vote aye.

Oh, showed up.

And that motion passes Mayor.

And that motion passes.

Okay, moving on to the consent agenda.

Council members, the consent agenda consists of items two through 13.

Staff recommends approval of the consent agenda.

Thank you.

I'll call for a motion for consent.

We have a motion.

I will vote aye on consent.

For some reason, my screen's not changing.

So that vote passes, I assume.

And that motion does pass.

Motion passes.

Thank you.

Okay.

Well, moving on to public hearings.

Item 14, ratification of the International Association of Firefighters Local 1607, non-supervisor collective bargaining agreement for the period of July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2027.

If approved, the cream agreement before you today will be effective for two years from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2027.

Pursuant to NRS 288, the chief executive officer of the local government is required to report the fiscal impact of pro of the proposed agreement.

The incremental cost estimate of the proposal is two and a half million in year one and 3.4 million in year two.

Thank you.

If you want to come on up just in case we have questions, um, this item is a public hearing item.

So I'll go ahead first and open the public hearing.

Madam City Clerk, do we have any blue cards or written comments for items 14?

Madam Mayor, we just have the requests to speak from Josiah Jensen.

Okay.

Thank you and welcome.

Good afternoon.

I just wanted to come and and kind of give an overview of some of the little details that are in this contract.

And also um take a moment to thank those those that have been kind of instrumental or key in this this process.

Um obviously uh to kind of think first, I guess, and it to start um with uh city manager Michaela Moore and her team, um, especially those kind of key individuals, of course, fire chief Joe Calhoun.

Um, the the assistant city manager uh uh Will Hardy, um, the director of of HR Wilson Edgel, and of course our uh our lead negotiator Nicole Hughes, who promised she was gonna come up after and and say some words too.

So we expect that.

Um of the things that we were able to get accomplished in this in this contract that may be hidden a little bit or maybe something that that isn't easily viewable from people who don't have an uh uh uh an in-depth knowledge about our contract.

I just want to make sure that the the the mayor and council are aware of some of those things.

Um I know in the past I I talked to to Councilman Churchio uh before the meeting, and and being somebody who's been in this this role that I'm in as a union president in a in another lifetime.

Um he he brought up some points about how you know before before years ago, it used to be very adversarial between um city management and and the union.

Thankfully, we're beyond that, I believe.

Um I I thought that this this negotiation went very smoothly.

Um from both sides, it was a collaborative effort for us to get accomplished some of these things that we we were able to get accomplished.

Um some of the things that I'm super proud of in this contract and that I'm excited about are the fact that we were able to take care of uh our our newer firefighters, especially.

Um we had a a discrepancy uh uh uh in their pay compared to the rest of the valley.

Um we have several new firefighters who were working two and three jobs just to be able to afford rent because of of what's happened with the the economy um and and the housing market here in the valley.

Um and by us being able to address uh you know this issue.

We we hopefully made it so that they don't they maybe only have to have one job to get by now instead of having to have the two and three.

Um, but we are working in in the right direction.

It's comparable, it's it's competitive across the valley.

Um we were also able to address some some safety concerns that we had.

So we no longer are gonna have battalion chiefs that are driving to calls while trying to map how to get to that call, um, going lights and sirens, of course, you know, trying to get there in a in a quick manner, and also um listening to the radio traffic, taking notes, doing all these things.

Now we we've one of the things that we were able to to negotiate in this contract are our BCAIDs to where they now will have somebody that will drive them there so they can do all of those functions while while on route in a safe manner, and and it doesn't put other citizens at risk.

And it doesn't put other citizens at risk.

It doesn't put our our personnel at risk.

But we were able to address it in a way that the majority or a large portion of our group are gonna not feel it.

And so I'm I'm super proud of this contract.

I'm excited that we were able to work together with those team members.

And there were several that I didn't name that that didn't miss a meet, didn't miss a meeting that were key in there as well, but just not as much a part of it.

Um but I do want to thank the the city council and the mayor for recognizing and and and making sure that we had a team in place to uh get this accomplished.

I'd ask for you guys to vote this through.

Um I believe that it's fair.

I believe that it's honest.

I believe that that we did a good job in uh in meeting our goals, but also you know, taking care of the citizens fiscal, the the fiscal responsibility that we had and the safety issues that we had as well.

Thank you very much for your comments.

Is that the only one?

Yes, Mayor, that was the only one.

Okay, with that, I will go ahead and close the public hearing.

Um and again, I want to say thank you to our firefighters, and of course, always on our mind is the safety and the welfare of our community and thank for the the work and the respect that you all do every single day to ensure that our communities are safe.

Um and I know these contract negotiations, they're not fun.

Let's just face it.

Um we all but we have to go through it.

We all have our ass, we all have our wants, we all have our needs.

Um and so I'm so glad we were able to come to a somewhat happy medium at the end.

And and so um, and just for you know, younger firefighters starting out, I always just like to think of it as you don't get all the the cookies in the cookie jar at the very beginning, because you have to earn those and you have to grow over time.

So it's very, you know, it's it's hard to to kind of vision to make that vision right now when you're just starting out, you want it all at the beginning, but you you still have to earn your strides.

So I'm so glad we're able to come to agreement, especially with pay levels and salaries and things like that.

But as long as you know, safety is addressed and we are all comfortable with that level of safety in in the contracts.

I think that speaks volumes in our residents as well, will feel safe when they when they make that call to you all.

So congratulations and appreciate all that you do.

Council, any other comments or questions.

Councilman Baron.

Yeah, uh, Mayor, thank you very much.

Um of course, uh we we want to uh thank uh our union representatives.

Uh thank you very much for having um such a good dialogue with your members, uh, understanding what their uh what their needs are and um working with it with our team.

Uh I also want to thank uh, of course, our team and uh the the council uh the councilman's right.

Um it wasn't that long.

Well, that now I'm happy to seem that say that it seemed like a long time ago.

But there were times when, of course, you know, we we were working from an adversarial uh position.

But I'm I'm happy that, you know, um when you come together to work um in a sustainable fashion uh for our residents and of course with our uh with our our our members, our our first responders.

Um right now, of course, uh we're facing challenges.

I I think the entire valley is facing challenges along with the rest of the country.

And uh I'm I'm happy that uh we can sit down and of course uh come out and and work with the team to uh discover what is uh what is uh the most important things and uh work from uh of course from a uh position of trust uh on both sides.

And I'm very happy to say that that we're there, you know.

Um recently uh the the school district just you know uh has forged a new relationship with it uh with its own barking group and has passed, you know, a um a contract uh before the school season uh before the school year even started.

So I I'm happy to say that, you know, there uh we have a position to trust from our largest working group.

And I'm happy uh to see that we've been leading the way over here in the city in North Vegas, you know, uh earning the I think the trust of our bargaining groups.

And um uh Chief, you've done a magnificent job, I think, you know, setting the tone for for our department.

Um I I really appreciate your leadership.

Uh and and of course, Josiah, you're on your team again.

I sleep well at night knowing that if anything happens while I'm asleep, I feel really well uh I feel um that I can go to bed knowing that your team will be there to answer the call for our residents.

And that's a big deal.

Please uh forward our thanks to them for doing what they do.

Thank you.

Mayor Pro Tem.

Thank you, Mayor.

I I just wanted to say um how appreciative I am for our fire department um on a on a personal note.

My uh my dad passed away at the end of December before he went to the hospital.

I was monitoring his health, um, and I am not qualified to monitor anyone's health for a few days around Christmas time, and I finally decided to call 911.

Our firefighters, paramedics came.

Uh my dad's oxygen was about 78.

He was in very, very bad shape.

And they came with with um earnest, they came with compassion, they came with a high level of skill and calm under this uh stressful situation.

I don't want anyone to have to call 911, but it's incredible to know that in our community, if you call 911, your emergency, whether it's large or small, is your emergency.

And we have trained men and women that can meet that need in uh a professional, compassionate and capable way.

Just recently on North Fifth with the large uh apartment fire under construction property was saved because of the training and capability.

But we're not only that, our fire service goes above and beyond in terms of emergency management preparedness, offering services to the community for mental health uh supports, also um you know, hands-free CPR teaching the elderly and and senior community about home safety, all these things that we're doing with the limited resources that we have is incredible.

We make an investment in our people who are putting it out there every day for our community.

I'm very thankful for 1607.

All right, so I will call for a motion to ratify the IAFF non-supervisor C BA.

We have a motion.

It's working.

And that motion passes.

Congratulations.

Item 15, ratification of the International Association of Firefighters Local 1607 Supervisors Collective Bargaining Agreement for the period of July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2027.

Mayor and Council, consistent with the previous item, if approved, the proposed agreement will be effective for two years from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2027.

Pursuant to NRS 288, the chief executive officer of the local government is required to report the fiscal impact of the proposed agreement.

The incremental cost estimate of the proposal is 371,000 in year one and 218,000 in year two.

All right, thank you.

This also is a public hearing item.

With that, I'll go ahead and open the public hearing.

Madam City Clerk, do we have any blue cards or written comments for item 15?

Uh yes, ma'am.

Mr.

Jensen.

Okay.

Do you care to speak to this as well?

You had written both numbers.

I think I'm sure.

Okay.

We'll echo those same comments.

Okay.

All right.

That was it.

With that, I'll go ahead and close the public forum.

Um should I echo the greatness again?

So we appreciate you all to the fullest.

And thank you for everything that you do again.

And for our supervisors as well.

In council.

Same comments.

All right.

Okay, we're good.

All right.

With that, I'll go ahead and call for a motion for item 15 to ratify the IFF supervisor CBA.

I'll make that motion.

And that motion passes.

Okay.

Moving on to business.

Item 16 presentation by Clark County School District, Region One Superintendent.

Welcome.

Thank you.

I'm sure.

Good evening.

It's wonderful to be here tonight, Lindsay Tomlinson, Region One Superintendent for the record.

I'm especially excited to share a fantastic milestone this past month, the opening of our schools.

This has been a vibrant time for our community, signaling new beginnings and bright futures for our students, dedicated educators and supportive families.

Speaking of bright futures, I want to send a huge thank you to Mayor Pro Tem Black and Council Members Barone and Garcia Anderson for participating in our bright future walks on Monday, August 25th.

And I've brought some pictures to share of the event.

So I'll flip through them real quick.

This is at Cheyenne High School walking with Councilman Barone and Garcia Anderson.

And then Councilman Black was at El Azondo.

I had to think if I was at Watson Earl's at El Izondo, and then this final picture is one of my favorites.

Brone looks so happy enjoying his You got memed.

I got memeed on it.

Oh no.

I hope it was a positive one.

I'll tell you later.

The bright future walks are a core component of our broader initiative of CCSD to become the destination district for all students and families.

We are proactively reaching out to our community to show that we wholeheartedly welcome their children back into our schools.

This effort is vital, and our team has already seen a solid success rate in re-engaging disengaged families, and we are excited to continue this work with your help.

To begin this evening, I want to start with our updated compliance monitoring status.

On November 25th, 2024, the district received a notice of noncompliance related to the district's ability to provide accurate, complete, and timely information necessary for the development and implementation of school plans of operation.

The district has worked with a compliance monitor appointed by the Nevada Department of Education to further pro to further progress on process improvement plan for our final report, and that was provided to the School Board of Trustees on August 14th, 2025.

This evening, I will be reviewing disaggregated data that was presented to the Board of School Trustees during the second calendar year of 2025, covering April through June.

I'll be diving into key areas, including perceptions of student climate, student safety, chronic absenteeism, and student behavior.

Regarding student safety, our district wide survey data reveals that we have mixed trends.

For elementary schools, students, positive responses are on a slight downward trajectory, decreasing from 85.5% to 82.8% over three years.

Conversely, middle school students show an encouraging upward trend in positive safety perception.

And most positively, high schools have demonstrated a significant increase in students reporting feeling positively safe on our campuses, jumping from 69.7% to 78%.

We are actively implementing several strategies to continuously enhance safety perceptions across our schools.

We are exploring additional ways to include student voice and safety enhancements, ensuring their perspectives are heard and valued in creating such environments.

Furthermore, we continue to emphasize student safety through our MTSS system with a dedicated focus on student behavior and socially emotional needs through ongoing professional learning.

And lastly, we are reinforcing the consistent use of established protocols for student re-engagement following defined incidents, aiming for a supportive and structured return to learning after challenging events.

Moving from student safety, I'm pleased to report on our progress with chronic absenteism.

For the third consecutive year, we are seeing a significant drop in chronic absenteism rates across the district.

Just three years ago, we were at 41.8% of our students, and now we are at 33%, excuse me, 34.3%.

This positive trend is broadly shared with nearly all student groups showing improvement.

And to continue this positive momentum, we are focusing on several key initiatives.

We understand that building positive relationships between students, families, and staff is paramount, as this helps cultivate a supportive school environment that directly promotes regular attendance.

Our collaboration with community organizations and local agencies has also proven highly effective in addressing external factors that can impact student attendance.

Finally, recognizing that attendance challenges often begin in the early grades.

We are prioritizing early interventions as crucial for preventing long-term absenteeism.

My final key area of focus is student behavior.

Overall, we are seeing a positive trend with a decrease in removals from instruction.

However, our data also reveals that gaps continue to exist in equitable assignments for removals of instruction.

Specifically, students eligible for special education and students who are black African American continue to experience a disproportionate share of suspensions and expulsions.

Furthermore, there have been a notable increase in discussion discretionary expulsions within our black African American student population.

Specifically, we are focusing on two middle schools in North Las Vegas, Cram and Finlay, implementing a tiered support framework to model to provide a comprehensive support.

This initiative involves a team approach designed to equip these schools with a cross-departmental collection of resources, support, professional learning, and progress monitoring.

The ultimate goal is to reduce the frequency of exclusionary disciplinary practices utilized, particularly student suspensions.

We saw huge improvements when we applied this collaborative approach last year at Sudway Middle School, and we'll be sharing those positive outcomes at an upcoming school board meeting.

Before we conclude, I'd like to highlight a few other key positive updates in CCSD.

Hiring has been a huge focus.

As of August 25th, North Las Vegas schools had only 69 teacher vacancies, with the highest numbers at JD Smith, Cheyenne High School, and Brunner Elementary.

To address this, principals are using long-term substitutes who have been with their students since the first day of school and are fully integrated into the school community.

Additionally, Bruner and Cheyenne have also recommended three candidates for hire who are now in the final vetting process.

The district's HR recruitment department continues to actively seek licensed teachers to fill all the remaining promotions.

This is a large celebration and a focus for CCSD with a licensed teacher in every classroom.

This evening at the CCSD work session, Super Superintendent Ebert is providing an update on the 100-day plan.

Throughout the days, Superintendent Ebert focused on listening to the community's concerns and priorities.

The community engagement supported approximately 30 opportunities for the community to hear about the plan and forintendent Ebert to invite feedback.

Now, as we conclude our review of the critical data and strategies, I'm thrilled to transition to what I believe is the truly the best part of our evening, celebrating the incredible achievements and positive developments emerging from our North Las Vegas schools.

Please welcome Ms.

Carrie Riesbeck, the proud principal of Tom Williams Elementary.

Thank you, Lindsay.

Good evening, everyone.

For the record, I'm Carrie Riesbeck, and I am the proud principal of Tom Williams Elementary School.

It is such a pleasure to be here with you tonight.

The support of North Las Vegas community is so appreciated, and I'm excited to share some of the wonderful things happening in all of our schools.

Tom Williams was recently recognized by the Nevada Multi-Tiered System of Supports MTSS project for our outstanding implementation of MTSS.

Our bronze status highlights our commitment to creating a positive school and I'm sorry, a positive and supportive learning environment.

We were selected after a peer review of our application, which showcased our school's accomplishments in advancing MTSS.

By effectively implementing positive behavior interventions and support, we have seen improvements in student achievement as our tiered system allows us to better identify and address the academic behavioral needs of all students.

This data-driven approach ensures that students receive the right support at the right time.

Our strong PBIS framework has also positively influenced our school climate and culture.

We have fostered an environment of collaboration among teachers and staff who have now a shared understanding of how to support student success.

This has led to a more cohesive and support professional supportive professional community.

To close out the Cozine Extended Year program, summer school students showcased their best skills in a talent show that truly put them in the spotlight.

The excitement was contagious as the students took center stage, many sharing that they had tried to be a part of a talent show at their home school, but had never made the cut.

This time they were the headliners, and their joy of their pride lit up the room.

It was an unforgettable day filled with talent, confidence, and celebrations.

At GOINGS Elementary School, they are proud to announce their house system.

It's officially underway.

Last year, staff members joined their houses, and this year, students were selected to join on Raka, Amistad, Reviewer, Isbidney, Alterismo, and Protests.

Try saying all of those if you have no clue what they are about.

During the first Friday, student titles, students were welcomed into their houses with great excitement and celebration.

Each house represents one of the GOING's core values, teamwork, growth, empathy, bravery, creativity, and community.

Throughout the year, house activities will build a camaraderie, strengthen school spirit, and give students and staff a new way to live out the values while learning from one another.

They can't wait to see all of the amazing things their houses will accomplish together.

Lincoln Elementary is grateful to Amazon LAS2 and their North Las Vegas associates for their generous donation of back-to-school supplies, hygiene kits, and backpacks.

These essential items will directly support the students throughout the year, meeting both academic and personal care needs.

The kindness and commitment of our community partners like Amazon help ensure our students are equipped to learn, grow, and succeed.

Thanks to the generosity of the City of North Las Vegas microgrants, Martinez Elementary successfully reduced the chronic absenteeism rate to 13.8% last year, significantly lower the district's average.

This achievement reflects the power of community partnership and a shared commitment to keeping school students engaged and in school.

McCall Elementary had the highest growth in Region 1 English language arts with a 27.4% point increase with preliminary data that was shared at the annual administrator kickoff at the Smith Center on August 5th, 2025.

As well, McCall Elementary made tremendous progress in student attendance during the 24-25 school year, reducing their chronic absenteism by 16 percentage points from 30% down to just 14%.

This remarkable improvement highlights the school's dedication, ensuring students are present, engaged, and ready to learn every day.

At the grand opening of the new Burlington store on Civic Center Drive, McCall Elementary was honored with a $5,000 donation through a partnership with AdoptAclassroom.org.

These funds will provide teachers with much needed classroom supplies directly supporting student learning and success.

McCall is deeply grateful for this generous investment in their school community.

At Bridger Middle School, Ms.

Sweeney was awarded 21,000 from the Nevada Governor's Office of Science, Innovation, and Technology to support the development of innovative curriculum.

This significant investment will enhance teaching and learning opportunities, and Bridger is eager to see the powerful impact it will have on students through this dynamic program.

At Finley Middle School, the Dodgeball Tournament hosted by the NAACP was more than just a competition.

It was a celebration of teamwork, inclusivity, and resilience.

The event united a diverse group of Finley Middle School Middle School students of different genders, skill levers, and competence, creating a safe place where everyone could step outside their comfort zones.

In first place, the average Joes and Aaron Henderson, the campus security monitor and campaign team for Senator Dina Neal.

And in second place were the Finley Lady Flyers, Alexis and Mariah, Zari Harmony, Saniah Cherish, and Anaja.

On August 19th, Canyon Springs High School, in partnership with the Silver State Education Foundation, proudly honored 26 outstanding students for completion in dual summer credit institute.

Each student earned a monetary award ranging from 240 to 480 in recognition of their dedication and academic excellence.

Excellence.

To achieve this milestone, students successfully completed at least two rigorous college level courses, with several exceeding even further by completing up to four.

Last but not least, on October 22nd, Northeast Career and Technical Academy proudly kicked off the year with their first senior sunrise, celebrating the inaugural senior class of their school.

This milestone group is not only making history as the first graduating class, but is also preparing to enter the high skill workforce, leaving, leading the way for future pioneers.

We appreciate the city council and community support in making these successes possible.

I told you that's the favorite part.

All the amazing things happening in our schools.

Do you have any questions for either one of us?

Just a couple questions, so um.

So you have to I'm baiting myself here, so I just wanted to say altruism is the best house in the house.

Just say it.

At least you can say it.

Yes.

That was my house.

Um is PPS, is that in all schools now?

PBIS.

PBIS, yes.

So not necessarily in all schools.

I think it depends on MTSS is in all schools, and there is a process in which we had to apply.

So we come we complete what we call the TFI.

It's a inventory where we are graded on how we implement the systems and structures within our school.

So at our school, we started with school-wide and then it moved into the classroom.

So you can only achieve certain statuses after you reach the benchmark.

So you apply for bronze, then you have to apply for silver and so on and so forth.

But not all schools are implementing it in that way.

Um, we were part of a pilot program.

I think about 40 or more schools have been part of that pilot program.

Okay, thank you.

And also as house systems grow and in more and more schools, is the district looking in any ways to fund more and more schools to actually go to the Ron Clark Academy because it's a phenomenal experience.

It is.

Each um, as a district, we have not made that decision, but there are um schools that I know that are actually funding it right now, is with a principal today that is looking into that.

And the schools have the autonomy in their budget to make that choice if they want to take their um their staff there.

Some staff choose to do Ron Clark, some um do leader in me.

So it's whatever works best for their um their specific school, but not as a district, we haven't looked into it.

Okay.

And real quick, are there can you share like in a specific example when you did the um the bright futures walk where parents say why they have not enrolled their kids?

So I didn't, we actually, I was with Councilman Black, and we had a couple students that we weren't able to get any access to the houses, they weren't there.

We had one family when we knocked, um, the child had moved, um, I think they were with the grandparent, so they moved to live with the their parent.

And then we had one family that we knocked on.

It was our first house, and they um came in.

Um, there was a group of kids at the house, and one of them was currently going to Elizondo, and the other ones were in charter.

And so we were trying to work with them to get them back into CCSD.

And the reason they were in charter was they got in in pre-K.

And once they got in in pre-K, they stayed.

Yeah.

So we're working on that.

That was actually feedback I took back and shared about how do we encourage and get more pre-K programs in our schools because that's so important, right?

If we can get them in pre-K, then they usually stay in our district.

So those were our experiences.

Um, we didn't really have any that weren't, I think those were the only houses we we got, if I remember right.

Okay.

And again, on that line with the data about you know, um students feeling safe in school.

I'm sure middle and school, just because of all the new safety protocols that the district has implemented.

But what about any specific example with our with our little babies?

Why why are they not feeling safe?

Well, when we look at the data on that, that is specifically only asking our fourth and fifth grade students.

So when we look at elementary data, we don't look at the K-5, we look at fourth, fifth.

Fourth and fifth, okay.

Yep.

And so one of the things in there was we've talked a little bit about is the data truly understood at that age by the students, right?

Because sometimes the verbiage in the language isn't understandable.

Also, you know, they mark bullying, but sometimes they don't understand bullying in elementary school.

So there's no real specific reasons that I've we've found um that's something more we probably need to probe in individual schools that maybe have lower data of what is maybe at that school specifically that we're doing, but there's nothing specific.

Do you have anything to add?

I would just like to piggyback off of that, Lindsay.

So when we look at our fourth and fifth graders, one of the things that we noticed is we started reading the questions to them.

So they all take it in a common setting, like the library or our humanities class.

So the environment is structured.

Our school counselor is part of that, or our social worker, they're reading the questions to them and trying to explain the questions because they think bullying is oh, your shirt is ugly, and that's where they're feeling unsafe.

So I just think the questions are not geared toward elementary school sometime.

I don't think that they're feeling less safe.

I just don't think that they understand.

Yeah, that makes sense.

Last question, I promise.

It's okay.

Um, you talked about expulsions and suspension, especially with um our minority students.

Um you mentioned some things, but just mindset of of staff who are dealing with uh population that they may not know culturally or what have you.

Are there specific training targeted um for those kind of and I'm not blaming anybody because you don't know what you don't know, but there are any trainings, especially to kind of change those mindsets or how to communicate or deal with students from other um ethnicities.

Yeah, I think there's um we do have culturally um responsive teaching practice training in our schools, but I think it has to go to we have to look at specific schools and look at their data.

So when we get the data from the schools, we as principal supervisors connect with those principals and try to identify is it like what is it?

Is it mindsets that we do need to help with and provide training?

We have um the safe and um inclusive learning um department that does provide that.

We've done in the past, and I know we're getting back to it, we've done a lot of like round tables and um panels that we get to hear the voices of the students, and I know that's a big push with Superintendent Ebert, because sometimes we need to hear from the students so we know how to help them and address them.

And and you're right, like we as teachers, as leaders, sometimes we don't know how to handle or work through problems with every student, so we can always use training on that.

And I do know that's something that um we are working through, and I do know that there are trainings that we can, but we can continue to get better with it for sure.

Okay, hopefully longer than an hour and a half, two hour training and say go fix the world, right?

Yeah, yeah.

Yes, okay, thanks for sharing that.

All right, council, I'll open up for questions, councilwoman.

Thank you.

Yeah, um, thank you, Lindsay.

That was a great, great presentation.

Um, just about the CCSD community walk.

I just wanted to um I was wondering if you could share with us this amazing initiative, which I just thought was fantastic.

So can you tell tell us a little bit a little bit more about this idea?

Because it was my understanding that it's the very first time that it has been done.

Um for enrollment, is that correct?

Correct.

So over the summer, um, one of the big things we wanted to do is how do we engage our students back in the CCSD?

So the first thing we did was throughout the month of July, each region um was received a list of students that were not currently in enrolled.

So we actually called every family on that list.

So we had about 1100 in each region that we had to make phone calls to.

And we found during that time that we were able to engage some.

We were some that maybe were in charter, but they were interested in coming back.

So that was our first kind of push in July.

Then after the first couple weeks of school, we looked at student enrollment and we identified schools within each region.

So in region one, um, which actually three of the seven schools in region one were in North Las Vegas that were not meeting their enrollment numbers.

They were lower than um other schools in the area.

So we identified those schools, and that's how we set up our engagement walks.

So there were seven in region one.

We had Elizondo, Cheyenne, and Hayden out of North Las Vegas.

We connected first with the families to try to see if they'd be home so that we could meet with them.

Those that were not home, we still decided that we wanted to go out and do door hangers and do anything we can in the community to ensure that they know we want you back in CCSD.

We found during some of that, like I know at Western High Schools specifically was not North Las Vegas.

Some of them just didn't know how to enroll.

And they didn't have the right documents, and we were able to work with them and get them in previously, even before getting out to the house.

So when we made that initial call.

But then when we went out to the house, we were also able to engage them in conversations that just were not comfortable and they needed the support.

So the initiative actually not only did it engage some of our families, I think it engaged our community.

It was amazing, to be honest.

It was a great, like we were um walking in one of our um apartment complexes and and stopped and talked to a gentleman that was asking why we were in the neighborhood.

And so it was a great start to get us out in the community.

And I do know that they're gonna continue these, not only in enrollment, but also for attendance.

How can we, because it can't just be CCSD, right?

It was so amazing.

North Las Vegas was one of the biggest representatives in our um in these walks.

And so we want to continue that because we have to be a partner in this work.

You know, and um one of I had an amazing experience, you know.

I council member own and I were with um Principal Nunes, and one of the doors that we or one of the families that we visited, the mom when she came out, she she did like a double take because she's like, wait, you're in the city council, you're in the city council, and and you're the principal at my son's school.

I should just go and believe that we were there, and that we cared about education so much.

And so um, yeah, just let you know Superintendent Ebert know that we're so grateful for her efforts.

We're grateful for you.

Um, you know, I think um this is just a uh this just shows you know how much we we care about our community, we care about our youth, and these are the the this children would be running our city in a few years, and so it's so important that we we we support our family.

So thank you again.

Thank you.

Thank you for a very interesting report.

I want to thank you personally for uh taking time to answer some of my questions, you know, upstairs when we met.

Uh and very clearly, uh I think right now with your team you're doing uh a great job, you know, representing the the schools and uh of course the children in the school.

But since um I was appointed in 2009, up until being elected or today, one of the things I I I kind of you know um entrusted my constituents to do is include me in anything of any concern to them, whether it be with a department, whether it be the school district, whatever.

So um I'm not gonna go into detail what we discussed over there, but um, you know, when I get calls, you know, um I think sometimes it's um it's after they haven't gotten any uh resolution or any call back, but many times I get uh you know copied on a call.

And uh in this particular case, when it came to cell phones, when it came to food trucks, when it came to maintenance of the schools in North Las Vegas, uh that's something that I've been kind of working with and not the uh cell phone issue and not with the food trucks, but with the maintenance aspect of it.

So uh, you know, I I appreciate you looking into that and uh trying to work with me on that.

You know, I live just uh a little bit south of uh Legacy High.

I remember when Core Construction built Legacy High, and then of course we had Ruby Duncan and Hayden, which sometimes I call at dismissal time um the uh devil's triangle getting out there.

But you know, uh it's difficult with all of the people moving in now, but you know, I just want to say personally, not just as a uh a council member, but also as a resident, uh that you know you take interest when uh when you hear something and try to resolve the issue.

We understand not everything could be resolved with the amount of people moving here now, but uh I appreciate the effort that you're taking.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Kelsey.

Yeah, uh thank you very much, Mayor.

Um I I call her the the A sub for uh uh assistant superintendent.

I really that's got a little bit, you know, unwieldy.

Um night and day.

Um at about this time last year, I was basically yelling at uh at one of your predecessors because we weren't getting any answers.

Didn't seem like CCSD was uh was all that much of a partner with us, right?

Night and day.

And uh I I definitely uh want you to carry back the congratulations to our us uh to our superintendent, right?

I think we got the right person to lead us forward.

Um uh I uh I'm looking forward to other things that I know that are uh are definitely our um priorities, uh like the uh the pre-K that will pay off dividends.

That's about investing in the future of your community, right?

And uh I'm sure if anyone can pull it off, it will be that the superintendent.

Um to the um to the uh councilwoman's uh um concerns there of the families we visited, most of them weren't even in Las Vegas anymore.

They and they just had not told us, right?

Uh I don't know if the rest of the council knows this.

So if we have a um a student who leaves our school district and they do not enroll, let's say they move to Arkansas or Florida or Vitorino, right?

And they don't re-enroll.

Believe it or not, that actually counts against our our particular school and against our district.

So I think at the state level, we're gonna need some support uh for that.

You know, we we need to get um quite frankly a new way of looking and grading our our public schools because sometimes you know we we can't control where people move to, right?

And and it's really difficult.

So I'm hoping for some more support, you know, at the state level from uh our future uh legislature.

Um I uh I to me the thing that um that always was the most important thing was having a licensed teacher in the classroom for every kid in North of Vegas.

And you really it's kind of funny.

Your presentation kind of downplayed a little bit, right?

It made it seem uh last year at this time we had we were 35 teachers down at Cheyenne, which is like like almost like uh a fourth of the staff, basically, right?

And this year I think he started off with I think with maybe six, right?

Um actually not in that many, because uh some of them, you know, he had he had people covered, right?

So um I I definitely think uh that uh it's it's hard to express just what what I again went night and day.

I'm very happy that you know, um now uh my colleagues uh there at the at um the school board uh were again are working with C CEA, and now uh we have a a great contract that makes uh even future equipment a little bit better because now we're competitive with other uh well with other school districts here uh uh in this region, which makes it a big deal.

You know, now you don't have to worry about people not moving here because the pay is not going to become uh comparable.

Now we have that.

So uh I'm I'm very happy.

You know, there's a lot of people to think for this, right?

We're I think we're moving in in a good direction.

Um it's still things we have to iron out, of course, right?

But I I think we have all the pieces to uh to uh work um to uh moving forward.

And um I'm really uh Scott, wasn't Lincoln was didn't you go to Lincoln?

Yeah, uh yeah, yeah.

No, I don't think we both went to you went to to Quinn of Call, didn't you?

You didn't go to McCall.

My wife did.

Oh, okay.

Well, hey, I knew there was a family thing in there, right?

Um uh Tom Williams is my uh is my neighborhood school, right?

Uh Quentin McCall is one of my school.

I'm I'm happy to see.

Uh you know, and I just texted Samantha Sweeney, right?

She's um I I know her, she's like uh she's related family as well.

And she didn't even tell me that she had won that award.

And here I am.

Uh but I'm I'm I'm really proud that of course it's Jim Bridger uh doing quite well.

Um let's let's uh uh I I think what I will ask, you know, because I always ask, you know, it's good to see where everybody where we're at.

And uh I I think in the future, what uh what I'll be asking for is uh how are you doing on those two elementary schools that are getting the uh that that are getting the the extra uh help there?

Well uh it it it sounds uh discretionary and non-discretionary um um expulsions.

Maybe next time, uh, because uh when you come here and you talk about those, right?

Sometimes people don't understand, you know.

And uh over at CCSD, you you've actually seen me uh uh uh for staff to explain what that's about.

So maybe just uh uh explain what a uh a discretionary because it's it sounds bad, right?

But it's it's not really as bad as it sounds, you know, just uh a thing you have to do.

So, you know, so we can measure where where we started off with and how far we've come, you know, that kind of thing.

Thank you very much.

Uh this uh I will echo my uh my colleagues.

This has been a good report.

Thank you.

All right, thank you for your support.

Thank you.

And um, Dr.

Jordan Brown, did you want to you just did the camera person today, right?

Well, thank you for being here.

Uh yeah, you all really did downplay the staffing numbers.

That's that's something that's a very big deal.

So thank you very much.

Um, this item is for discussion only, so no city action will be required.

So moving on to item 17.

Item 17, additional expenditure of 11 million dollars from the downtown redevelopment agency fund for the demolition and environmental abatement services to be performed on 19 acres of the former City Hall campus located at 2300 Civic Center Drive.

Okay, welcome, Terry and Scott.

I didn't walk fast enough.

Hello.

Good afternoon, everyone.

Um item number 17.

Uh, we're here super excited to be talking about a couple of these items for you before for today.

Um, after many years of careful consideration and planning for the former city hall campus, almost 14 years.

Um, we've been in this building.

So we in that we've been uh away from the old city hall campus.

We are redeveloping the site, and this item will provide a funding mechanism for the redevelopment agency um to uh prepare the city property located within the heart of the downtown redevelopment area and to be repurposed for economic development purposes.

I need to go back and just say mayor and council, thank you for the record.

My name is Terry Sheridan, and I'm here with Scott Carter, because I forgot that part.

Um, so we back up a little bit.

Um the um staff recommends approval for the additional expenditure of the funds to allow the redevelopment agency to put redevelopment funds to work within our current operating budget.

So that is this particular item.

This is super exciting, but it's kind of bittersweet as well, because lots of memories across the street.

Um, but yeah, it's time.

Um so I am super excited.

That's probably why I for asked forgot to say stop and state your name for the record.

But thank you for your presentation.

And I will go ahead and ask counsel if they have any comments or questions.

No, no, we all go, but no, this is not.

So I'll just if you haven't you have a comment or question.

Uh no, it just um sometimes uh moving forward.

Um, there's things you have to get done and knock things down to put things in place for a much better um uh I guess the uh the surgeons call this the benevolent cut.

And so um, this is what this is what this uh entails.

Thank you much.

Okay.

Do you want to go ahead and make the motion then?

With that, I'll make a motion approve.

All right.

And that motion passes.

Item 18 interlocal agreement for demolition and environmental abatement services between the North Las Vegas Redevelopment Agency and the City of North Las Vegas for the removal of all existing buildings, fencing, asphalt sidewalks, power poles, and above ground storage tank on the 19-acre former city hall campus located at 2300 Civic Center Drive, APN 139-2350605 in an amount not to exceed 11 million dollars and authorize the city manager to award bids and enter into agreements for the project up to 11 million dollars.

All right, thank you.

Okay, we'll do it right this time.

Uh so again, mayor and counsel for the record, Terry Sheridan, and with me is Scott Carter, also economic development and redevelopment here for the city.

Um, with this interlocal agreement, we look forward to maintaining the momentum and the economic development by helping redevelopment, redevelop and revital revitalize the former city hall campus.

This long-range project will help bring additional opportunities and services to the residents of North Las Vegas.

Staff is recommending approval of an interlocal agreement between the city and the redevelopment agency to work together to prepare the former city hall campus for future development.

Thank you.

Scott, did you have any comments you wanted to add?

Okay, just for moral support, correct.

All right, thank you.

Um Councilman Brown, I see your light, and Councilman Churchill will have you next, and then councilwoman.

Oh, uh I'll I'll defer to the I'll defer to the uh the colleagues first.

Okay.

If you have any questions, we have some comments.

No, just to comment.

I have a comment.

You know, I I think it was yesterday.

Our city manager, Mikhail Moore.

We were having a conversation.

Actually, I was getting briefed before the council meeting.

And we started to digress to something else, meaning the city hall.

And I told, I said, you know, back in 2009 when I was appointed there.

Um I recall going to Henderson uh with several other jurisdiction representatives there to a company that uh ground, I found out ground uh beer bottles into like uh uh to make benches out of.

So she was able to, in no time flat while we were still talking on the phone.

I don't know how she did it, but I couldn't find it in how many years in 2009.

But you know, she saw us, you know, sitting on the bench and she saw the bench that was made for North Las Vegas.

Uh and it's not a small bench, it's quite heavy.

So they supposedly delivered it, you know, over here to the old city hall campus.

And the only place that uh I would think it would be in would be the atrium area, which would really be that's the only window I think in that building.

You know, so any time you were having lunch or something you want to get away from your desk and you want to find out if it was still light outside, you would go into the atrium and just walk around or sit over there.

But I don't know where that bench is yet.

I I I think Michaela's on a mission now to track it down because that was I think that would be iconic to have over here in place in our city hall, maybe in um, you know, Liberty Park.

So um I just want you to be aware before they start uh knocking things down over there to look for this bench.

You you can't miss it.

You can't miss it.

That's all I have to say.

All right.

We're having a scavenger.

Huh?

We're gonna have a field trip, so bring your hard hat and your flashlight nodding.

We can do our own exploring.

Okay.

Council Lumen.

Thank you, Mayor.

Yeah, I just have a quick question.

Uh I'm gonna make you speak, Scott.

So let's say that there we have community members, community residents in their community who are super attached to this building, and they're saying, and they feel that maybe we should not knock it down.

Can you talk a little bit about the condition of this building and um why we feel why we're doing what we're doing?

Good.

Uh Scott Carter, economic development.

There's a reason you're in this building today, because that building was so outdated and didn't really comply with current code.

So you moved out of that facility into this facility.

We've looked into removing the environmental issues.

We've looked into bringing the building up to code, and the cost was so extensive that it's more cost effective to build something newer.

The real estate is more expensive today than it was back when we left the building.

So for the value of the real estate, you want to put something bigger and better, not single story, and not that single-story building with the tall roofs.

So it's not functional for today's market.

Got it.

And then um, can you talk a little bit about the the money?

The saving, how we're switching the money from our savings, pretty much.

And it's not coming out of the general fund.

Right.

So that was item number 17, where we're moving money from our savings account in the redevelopment agency to the checking account.

And then item number 18 is where we part RDA partners with the city to use that money to demolish the building and prepare it for future development.

So it isn't it's RDA funds, not city general fund.

Very good.

Thank you so much for the clarification.

This is super exciting.

Thank you both.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah, Mayor.

Um, as we get closer to this, you know, we'll we'll probably, you know, uh have a lot of people come forward.

Um I uh I remember uh being down in the sub-basement, which at the time it's actually a have you been in the sub basement with the fallout shelter?

Long, long, long time ago.

Yeah, yeah, it's a long time ago.

I I was there when I found, you know, civil a civil defense uh things up on the wall there, right?

Because uh back in the in the bad old days, uh uh, you know, we're we're Generation X.

I'm really a proud member of that.

And we still recall getting those alarms, you know, on Saturday in the afternoon.

You have the the air raid uh starting going off, you know, uh, which of course had it been going off back in the and during the middle of the day back in the 80s, that would have meant that you had 15 minutes to find shelter.

And believe it or not, that uh the sub-basement there to the uh to the old city hall was a designated uh fallout shelter.

Uh it's it it's amazing, you know.

You go down there now, it looks like you know maybe you should like uh film like uh one of these uh uh uh um horror movies down there.

Uh that one place ain't got nothing on the old city hall.

It's it's it's kind of declined.

When it when it was first opened in the 60s, you know, I read how it actually had won uh awards for the neo uh uh for the um the neoclassical uh design to the front, you know.

And uh, but um it's it's it's been time to move on.

With this something that we've been uh wanting to do for I think for a long time.

And quite frankly, in the first few years, you know, with no outside help.

There was no federal government, no state government to come in to help us, right?

We had to sit and we had to sit tightening, we had to help ourselves, and we're able to grow things, you know, uh through the RDA with a lot of really wise acquisitions there.

We were able to build up things, and now we we we've gotten to uh quite frankly, uh, this critical uh mass where we're actually moving forward.

And um the the future looks very bright with this, right?

Um, again, sometimes you know you you have to have a good pile of dust and debris, and there's lots of really great things about the old city hall, those massive slabs of marble there that you can't even get anymore nowadays.

I maybe someone will make a bid on them, right?

And we can recoup a little bit of cost, but if we don't, right, what's go uh what we have planned for there is much better than what we have now, uh, quite frankly.

And and you're right, you know, the the the cost sometimes of renovating it much is much less, but we can um safely say that uh the future looks great on that piece of property, and you know, all you you'll have to pardon our dust in the meantime.

Well, nothing can happen until we make a motion and it passes.

And with that one, mayor, with yours very subtle and a gentle nudging there, right?

I'd like to make a motion uh to pass this.

Thank you.

We have a motion.

Motion passes, and just echo those comments now.

Thank you very much, counseling.

Thank you.

Item 19 presentation by the court administrator on the accomplishments and objectives of the North Las Vegas Municipal Court.

Welcome, Erin.

Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

Erin Tayas, court administrator for the record, and thank you all for the opportunity to present our annual report.

The municipal court, as you know, is often where members of our community come to have their very first experience with the justice system.

And our mission is to make sure that that experience is fair, efficient, and respectful.

Tonight I'm gonna walk you through the highlights of the fiscal year 24-25 and how we're managing an extraordinary caseload with two judges, the successes of our specialty court programs like the care program and our brand new youth court program, and the incredible efforts of our staff who keep the court moving every single day.

You're also going to hear about how we're preparing for the future, including our upcoming case management system upgrade, which will modernize operations and improve access for the public.

Above all, this is really a story about collaboration.

Working hand in hand with you, our city partners, while also preserving judicial independence is really the mission of what we're trying to do, improve that collaboration.

I'd like you to think of this as a little bit of a behind the scenes tour to your court in action.

Both Judge Lee and Judge Ketter lead from the bench with integrity, fairness, and together they oversee tens of thousands of cases each year.

Judge Ketter has also launched our youth court this year, a new innovative way to support young adults in our community.

I'm proud to serve as your court administrator and to showcase the incredible work of our staff who balance customer service, justice, and efficiency every day.

Our mission is really simple: access, fairness, and efficiency.

Every single decision we make, every innovation, every program comes back to supporting those three principles.

We see ourselves not just as processors of cases, but also as problem solvers and community builders.

Behind the two judges you see on the bench is an incredible team of clerks, marshals, and case managers.

This group makes sure that every hearing is scheduled, that every question gets answered, and that every person that walks through our doors is treated with dignity.

They may not be wearing the robes, but they're the ones that keep that court moving.

Criminal filings are up 20% from last year and nearly 50% compared to two years ago.

That's a really marked increase.

But the court has continued to deliver strong clearance rates and timely case processing.

This really shows the impact that our judges and staff have, but also how well they've risen to that challenge.

When we highlight fines, fees, and collections, we want to be clear.

A lot of the focus on that is about accountability and promoting public safety.

We want to make sure that our customers have options to allow for payment plans or conversion of fines to community service so that our residents have options to ensure they're able to succeed in meeting their obligations.

Every single year, thousands of people walk through our doors, give us a call, or access us online.

Our clerks are often the first and maybe even the only point of contact with the justice system that many of our residents have.

They're not just answering questions, they're calming nerves, they're explaining processes, and they're helping people move forward.

With only two judges, we've held nearly 30,000 hearings last fiscal year and scheduled over a thousand trials.

That's a pretty large caseload.

And it really shows just how productive and efficient our court is.

With over 17,000 warrants and judgments issued, that really reflects a consistent enforcement of our laws.

Our disposition ratings, even with rising caseloads, our clearance rates remain excellent.

89% for criminal, 94% for traffic, and 78% for civil.

With only a small fraction of cases, less than 6% that are more than a year old, well within national standards.

That means that people aren't waiting years for resolution.

We're delivering justice in a very timely way.

Since 2021, over 175 people have graduated this program, many of them from historically underserved communities.

So these are real second chances, and they improve public safety by reducing recidivism.

Our youth court was launched this year, a brand new model for young adults facing misdemeanor charges.

It's cohort based, so participants move through together, building accountability and peer support.

I'd really like to give a huge thank you to the city's organizational development team.

Due to their help, participants are getting weekly workshops on skills like emotional intelligence, job readiness, and personal development.

This program is an investment in young people and in the future of North Las Vegas.

And we are not slowing down.

Next year we'll be rolling out our new case management system, J Works.

That means better data, better transparency, and a smoother experience for our public.

We're also expanding access to justice initiatives, strengthening our specialty courts, and using data to help guide that improvement.

One of the most significant and most exciting projects for us will be going live October 2025.

Again, that's our case management system.

It's an opportunity for us to really overhaul all of our processes and provide efficiencies to the public.

It streamlines processes, improves accuracy, and expands public access to case information.

Our staff have really embraced this challenge with professionalism.

They've trained, tested, and prepared so that our go live in October will be a really successful transition.

The biggest thing I want to acknowledge today is that we recognize that none of this happens in a vacuum.

We're incredibly grateful to Marin Council for your leadership and to our partners in the police department, community corrections, the city attorney's office, and the organizational development team.

We work together while preserving judicial independence, which is a balance that ensures fairness, but allows us to best serve our community as a whole.

This collaborative spirit is what allows us to do so much with a small team.

As you can see, the municipal court is small but mighty.

With only two judges and a lean staff, we manage tens of thousands of cases, deliver high clearance rates, and run programs that are changing lives and strengthening our community.

We're proud of the progress we've made, and we're even more excited about what's ahead.

Modernizing technology, expanding access to justice, and continuing to partner with you to serve the residents of North Las Vegas.

On behalf of our judges, our clerks, our marshals, and our entire team, I want to thank you for your ongoing support and vision.

Together, we're building a court that delivers not only justice, but hope, accountability, and opportunity.

That is in no small part due to the forward thinking and leadership of this city council.

And with that, thank you so much, and I would welcome any questions.

Thank you for your presentation, very thorough.

I just have one question.

We uh pretty much see the end result, especially when we're invited to the graduations and the care court and the veterans court.

And so it's just a good feeling to see all the work that goes into what the outcome is from those programs.

So I really appreciate that, and thank you for the work that you do in and our judges.

The only court program that I am not familiar with, I don't know about my colleagues is our youth pro our youth court.

Um we don't know anything about it, or I would just like to know with with with Judge Ketter, you know how is that program run?

Who, where do you the kids come from or the young adults, where do they come from, and just how that court has um or that program has evolved, because that's the one I know the least about.

Absolutely.

So that was a pilot program that we had the opportunity to start this year due to some funds that were made available to us by the Nevada Sentencing Um Commission.

And with that, we were able to start with a relatively small cohort of about four participants and kind of build what that ideal model might potentially look like.

Um we knew that those individuals um were more likely to need that peer support and a sense of community that was missing from them at that time in that 18 to 24 age range.

So this uh is an opportunity afforded to those facing criminal misdemeanor low-level charges between the ages of 18 to 24.

For the majority of them, it's their first criminal infraction.

They're referred to us primarily by the public defenders that are aware of their public uh of their any criminal history and can refer them into the program with the approval of the city attorney's office.

Okay.

And how often do they, how long was your program what they go through?

It's approximately a six month program for all of them.

They meet weekly.

So as opposed to some of the other treatment courts that we have with a care program, those are sort of in phases and they go through phase promotions.

So we might see those individuals more frequently initially, and then eventually they'll sort of graduate to phase two or phase three, where their check-ins are a little less frequent.

Throughout the duration of this uh the youth program's participation, they're um in job training collectively.

They uh receive these workshops that are through different community partners, and that happens weekly, and they're in court with the judge uh initially weekly, and then they'll go to every two to three weeks, even though they're physically checking in at the court.

They're also subject to drug testing and alcohol monitoring for the duration of the program.

Okay.

Give me a little more insight.

Thank you.

Council, any comments or questions?

Oh, I have a quick comment.

Thank you, Erin.

That was amazing.

I've had the privilege of um touring the municipal court.

Um, and I just wanted to say that you guys are doing an amazing job.

Um we we see you, we uh we appreciate the work that you're doing.

Um, like the mayor said, um, you know, we we are trying to do our best to support all the wonderful things that are taking place over there.

Um, and so the youth, um, this youth uh I think it's Judge Ketter's youth court initiative.

Um, you know, if there's anything that we can do to to help him and support you guys, just let us know.

Thank you so much.

Um, and again, this still in the pilot phase.

We're through our third cohort currently.

Um, but those court sessions are on Wednesdays at 10 a.m.

Um, and absolutely it's an open court session.

I would be uh I would absolutely love the opportunity to welcome anyone from council or the public that is interesting in observing that court session to to join us in department two.

Thank you.

Hi, Erin.

I just have uh one comment.

It's also actually too.

Um I I think when we brought our jail back in-house and we opened the second department, we had really specific vision and I idea as a council to find ways to meet people where they are, find out why they are engaging with our court system and with our our jail and help them identify those barriers and work through those during the time that we have them.

Um, you know, that we have them in our in our you know, care, if you will.

And so um I just think it's incredible.

You know, I've been to many of the of the graduations and the fact that lives are changed over the course of a year or six months in these intensive programs and the trajectory of those lives, and then the families that are attached to those people, just the exponential impact of the dedicated work that you and your team are doing.

Uh, in terms of the youth court, um, I'm glad that you mentioned that there's a workforce uh work development component.

And I uh I know you're using the our organizational development team.

If you're not leveraging uh workforce connections and employee NV, we have the employee and V youth hub at the Alexander Library to leverage that resource that's embedded in our community to help with the workforce component in the youth um court that I think that would be really worthwhile.

Thank you so much uh for that suggestion.

As I mentioned, this was initially a pilot program that we received some funding for, um, which has since expired and was not renewed this last legislative session.

So we're definitely looking for ways to leverage that community support and engage with other community partners that offer the same type of services that we can engage our our youth offenders in.

Absolutely.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um again, how far we've come.

Yeah, uh, we remember the the bad old days when we had to uh shut down uh the old North Las Vegas jail because of course of funding issues, right?

And uh a few years later, we're able to reopen it as our correctional center that that we want to reopen it with a different uh state of mind.

And and that really coincides with, you know, uh what I think with the rebirth of all course of our of our uh of our courts.

Um I'm very happy with the work uh that uh Judge Lee and Judge Ketter have brought and what they brought in, even though they come from a little bit different backgrounds, but each has brought so much, and uh they've been good partners with us.

Uh I think with the division of of this council and doing things, of course, to reduce recidivism.

You know, that that was a priority uh uh of this council.

Uh don't look now.

And our our cops have also they've played a very good part, you know.

And again, um not just the that the guys are that are here from top down.

Um they've played uh an integral part in and and the reshaping, I think, of of how we address this.

Don't look now, but you know, useful force for our police department has dropped down steadily over the years.

Uh the the when you talk to people out in the community, they recognize our cops are tough, but they also that they're fair and they're always willing to help.

And I've actually seen that personally out there.

And our court system has been a good partner with this.

So uh it's not so much a question as more of more than anything else, it's a thank you.

Because of course, you know, we can go ahead and have as much vision as we want, and we can try to do uh try to install as many programs that that we're responsible for.

But in the end, it's the it's it's the court.

They have that in uh they are uh thankful so much in this country, the uh court systems, whether at the they're at the federal level, right, or uh at the state level or here locally, they have that independence.

It is the hallmark of our democracy.

And in this case, our city has a fantastic partner there with our two judges, our our court system.

Um you've done a good job as an administrator, uh doing as much as you possibly could with limited resources.

And so um you should uh definitely be, you know, uh you're you're part of the uh of this thanks as well.

Because again, you know, it'd be easy to say, oh, we don't have the resources, you know, but you guys just make it happen.

So thank you very much.

And and please, uh, if you can carry that message back, if they don't happen to be listening, please carry that uh message back.

It's good to be good partners with our with our uh municipal judges.

Thank you.

We appreciate that.

As I mentioned, we're we're very aware that none of this happens as a vacuum.

And while we acknowledge the need for that independence of the judicial branch at the municipal level, especially, it's not lost on us that partnership is what builds that success and allows us to best serve the community.

I did forget to uh I forgot to also mention our attorney's office that uh of course, again, has been integral in working with this.

You know, uh again, we have a tough system, but your yeah, your uh your prosecutors there, they've always been very fair when we whenever whenever we have residents who have special considerations, uh and they've been very good in working with them, also part of the team, uh Mr.

City, uh Mr.

City Attorney.

All right, thanks, Aaron.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

All right, this is just a discussion item only.

No city council action is required.

So moving on to the city manager's report.

Well, first I just want to say I'm really happy to hear all you guys very happy and all the kudos that are being shared with our team.

I mean, I really do love our team, and I think we have a special thing going on here in North Las Vegas.

Everybody really works hard.

And and I think I was just saying to um one of our colleagues when I was on a ride-along today, you know, it's it still kind of surprises me, but not really when I see all of our team members so passionate and really really care about their jobs and the work that they do.

And so with that, um, I'm hoping this isn't become a meme.

All right, so yesterday I visited Fire Station 52, where a new heavy rescue apparatus will go into service on September 8th.

And as you all know, um, as the Apex and the Speedway industrial areas grew, so did the need for specialized rescue.

So our fire department has trained for ropes, swiftwater, trench, and building collapse incidents.

This apparatus completes their equipment and strengthens the city's emergency response.

So congrats to our technical rescue team for bringing this vital resource to our city.

So to this is what I was doing this morning.

I was um out and about with our code enforcement and graffiti removal division uh to see firsthand how they keep neighborhoods clean and safe.

And so they did, we did go into one of our older neighborhoods, and I have to say it actually looked really good.

And when we went there, um we were actually greeted well by our residents who were very thankful, who said we're super responsive, we're on it, and um I was actually really again surprised to hear such great feedback from um our residents.

In fact, we did get something emailed, which I think is going to be shared with you guys about um the great work one of our code enforcement officers, Anthony Coleman did for him this week.

Um, and he, as you may remember, was actually our June team member of the month.

So again, such great kudos for our team.

Um working with the graffiti team was extremely gratifying.

I know some of you guys have worked with that machine.

But was what was even more gratifying was when I was doing that particular wall, the resident came out and she just was like, oh, thank God.

Like she was so relieved that we were there.

And we did have the opportunity to advise her as well as her neighbor across the street that we have an app, which I know Count MPT Black is a is a is a user of where you can go and instantly take pictures for any code enforcement and graffiti concerns.

So we're gonna push that out again with comps and hopefully with our utilities teams to get the word out for people to download the app because our team is really responsive to try and keep things clean and again instill that pride in our communities.

This is coming up in a few weeks, but I think it's a big deal.

Just again, another another uh another win for our mayor.

She's racking up the accolades.

She's going to be honored at the Silver State Education Foundation's homegrown heroes, Gala.

Um I think you're supposed to really dress up like big time, right?

Like, and so the event's gonna raise funds for scholarships, housing, and support to help local students earn teaching degrees and join CCSD classroom.

So congrats, Mayor, on this well-deserved recognition.

And this is really more of an invitation to check out our events calendar.

Um and kudos to our comms team because as our programming grows, our events calendar is also growing.

And so one of the things I asked him to do is to include things from Dolores Werta Resource Center.

So now you're gonna start seeing the events there populate.

And we're also gonna start including the Veterans and Community Resource Center, including our library.

So these calendars are gonna be jam-packed with all the different offerings we have through the city.

So hopefully our residents will be able to view them in one place.

And you know, we'll include them in your newsletter letters as well.

So really again excited with all the programming we're able to provide for our residents.

We're just gonna have to change your title to I don't know, does it all, everything, wear all kinds of hats and wears all kind of equipment and well, mayor.

I I you know, I I was telling our fire department, I'm like, I don't want to look like a wuss, I want to do it right.

And so, you know, same thing with you know, whether it's I'm it with our utilities team or code enforcement.

Like if I want to be able to try and see and you know, experience what our teams are experiencing, then I think that makes me a better manager.

Um, just so I can see, okay, are there operational things we can address?

Uh what are their concerns that they're experiencing on the field?

Um, it just gives me a chance to really talk to them and see again how better we can serve our residents, how better we can keep them safe and keep them happy because when they're happy, they're gonna provide a good service to our residents.

Awesome.

And I just like to give kudos um to Doug and and you know, our parks and rec team, because I had a uh uh constituent email me.

Well, she texts me yesterday about some issues with weeds and in her community, and she texted me this morning just saying thank you, thank you to the city, because it was taken care of immediately.

So we're appreciate the hard work that our that our teams are doing.

And also, Chief Calhoun, thank you for the amazing um annual report that you submitted to it's very thorough and speaks volumes for what our firefighters do every day.

All right, so we're gonna go ahead and councilman.

Yeah, I just had a good quick uh uh of course, you know, uh part of this uh the community protection and keeping things clean, our parking uh enforcement team, right?

Um I I uh they've they've done so much, especially like here as you say in the in the more mature neighborhoods, right?

Um the the cars that are left behind, you know, uh they just attract so much uh so much issues.

So I don't know if you've had a chance to go out with them.

I'm waiting for my chance to go ahead and do it right along with them, right?

But they do a lot really to uh to help um keep our neighborhoods uh uh honest, especially around here.

Uh I I mean um I'm that's one of the that was one of the number one complaints for all the abandoned cars in uh in the neighborhoods, right?

And so now, you know, it's hard to find, I should knock on wood here.

It's hard to find graffiti in our uh in our neighborhoods.

I remember well when uh there was a team that uh they uh I I think it was the review journal, they needed to do a story on our uh graffiti abatement program.

They had to go into a different jurisdiction that I won't mention to find graffiti to to use for their story because they couldn't find it here.

So uh uh and and as I remember correctly, I already forgot, but I think we have uh uh I think we have um the the monster coming on online too.

Uh um uh do you recall when uh we'll have the the big graffiti truck that I got to go see uh getting built.

Uh what is that ready to is it ready to when we'll be hitting the road?

I'm I'm like bushy tailed over it.

Well, we're hoping it does come soon because Tom Martins I know is retiring around you know on the horizon.

I hope not, right?

He can't leave until after that thing is.

But I don't think he's gonna leave until that truck comes.

Yeah, and of course, with the big mouth, you know, that it suggested that we spend a few bucks, you know, and put the big uh mouth on the front, you know, to make it the graffiti eating machine, right?

Yeah, no, no, uh I mean and uh I was actually talking with um Scott Nichols, who helped design that truck, um, one of our 28-year employees, and so he's very excited for when that truck comes.

Um, and then just to go back to your initial comment.

Parking enforcement was actually one of the first ride-alongs I did.

So if they're listening out there, right, uh you're getting the kudos here.

All right, let's move on to the second public forum.

Now is the time for the public to speak on issues that were not on the agenda, but are within the jurisdiction or control of the city council.

Speakers are limited to two minutes.

Remember, no items raised during this second public forum may be deliberated or acted upon by the city council.

However, the items discussed may be referred to the city manager or other city staff for action later by the city council at a different date.

Madam City Clerk, do we have any blue cards or written comments for the second public forum?

Yes, ma'am, both actually.

Um, I'll start with the comment, as Michaela alluded to a few minutes ago, made mention of.

We received a comment from Mr.

Dan Hawley stating that he had served with the North Las Vegas police department in the early 80s, and states that he loves the neighborhood, his neighborhood and his neighbors, and he wanted to contact you to notify you that Officer Coleman did a great job in responding to a request for assistance, and because of Officer Coleman's swift actions, um it saved a continuing or prevented a continuing neighbor dispute.

Uh, and states further that Officer Coleman is to be commended for his actions.

So noted.

And then we have three requests to speak, Mayor.

First is Bob Mosco.

Welcome, Mr.

Mosco.

Thank you.

Yeah, there's a lot of nice things said tonight about a lot of people with that.

Just go ahead and state your name and address for the record, please.

Bob Moscow, Sun City Aleante.

Thank you.

Um a lot of nice things being said.

You how safety is so important, the firemen with the compassion at the house.

You talking about the, and I don't know everybody's name, but talking about the uh the people, just the residents of North Las Vegas, even serving the community, the city manager just going into that about with the graffiti removal.

But I'm here because I have a problem, and I've been here before.

I think you might remember it's been a couple months now, but what do you do when that happens?

I brought it up to Mr.

Moore's attention over and over and over.

It's just ignored.

Who takes care of that problem?

You know, you guys run on things, we voted for you, and all and be all, you know, the constituents are our residents or their things, then you're mistreated by vendors at a golf course.

And by your well, it happens to be your old uh parks and recreation person, and that guy right there too.

All had a chance to just say, can't do that, but none of them could step up.

What do I do?

And I'm sitting here suffering two and a half years sitting there doing nothing, waiting for a decision.

Who makes that decision?

Can you help me, Mayor?

Who makes the decisions?

I don't know.

Who do I take it to that says this is what's gonna happen?

It's either them or me.

But just let me know one way or the other so I can move on.

Who does if you want to hang around till after we finish the meeting, we can talk with you further?

Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Mayor, we also have Jasmine Kenata, followed by Dutch H.

Welcome, Miss Cañada.

Hello.

Good evening.

My name is Jasmine Cañada.

Um, I was here two weeks ago uh regarding immigration, and I am here again for that issue.

Um I wanted to know what are we going to do?

What are we going to protect the people who are going to be attending our Hispanic Heritage event?

Who are we going to be protecting the performers?

Are we allowing ICE to just show up and take our people, our residents, our citizens?

What are we going to do?

Because I'm tired of living in fear, and I'm tired of the complicity around with elected officials and everybody just lying down and letting this happen.

I am an a US citizen.

I was born here, and I should not have to live in fear the way I am right now.

I shouldn't have to carry two forms of identification because ICE is going to take me because of what I look like.

That is ridiculous.

I moved here from Reading, California almost two years ago.

I was born and raised in Santa Ana.

I moved here from Reading because I was not accepted, because I was not white enough, and I was not a Christian nationalist.

I moved here because of the diversity, and because I thought I was going to feel safe here.

And I don't.

I felt safe here the first year I was here, and that was it.

Once this administration came into presidency, that was it.

I'm scared.

And what are we going to do about it?

Because I know there's more people like me who live in fear.

I know there's kids who were like me who lived in fear that their parents were going to be taken by ice.

What are we gonna do?

Because I'm tired of showing up to these places and nobody doing anything about it, and it just being brushed under the rug like it doesn't matter.

I will continue to come here until something gets done.

I will continue to show up to the city council meetings.

I will continue to show up to the school board meetings until something gets done.

So please know my name.

Please know I'm going to be here, and I'm going to keep showing up until something gets done.

Because you can't just brug me, brush me off the rug.

Thank you.

Is it Mr.

H?

Uh Dutch.

Just call me Dutch.

Okay.

Hi.

Yeah, I am a member of this community.

My name is Dutch Harbor.

I moved here about a year and a half ago.

And the reason I'm here today is because I'm coming here as a concerned citizen about the presence of vice in this city, especially this heritage event you guys are talking about, right?

And I would hope and assume that there are protections to protect the people that are going to be attending this event.

Because I hear you guys talk about last year it was a good turnout.

Last year it did well, but that was last year.

That was before ICE was militarized, before they were throwing people in vans, before they were wearing masks.

So, like that was a different United States than it is right now.

So, what are you guys gonna do about that?

That's it.

Thank you for your comments.

Mayor, that was the last of the speakers.

Okay, with that, I will go ahead and close the second public forum and adjourn the city council meeting.

And we're going to adjourn to the redevelopment agency.

Moving on to the redevelopment agency, first public forum.

This time it set aside to comment on posted agenda items.

So if you want to speak on any items on today's agenda, now is the time.

So let's go ahead and open that public forum.

Madam City Clerk, do we have any blue cards or written comments?

No, ma'am.

Okay, thank you.

Let's go ahead and close that public forum.

Let's now move on to the agenda.

Item 20, redevelopment agency regular meeting agenda of September 3, 2025.

Agency members, staff recommends approval of the redevelopment agency agenda is published.

Thank you.

Regular meeting agenda is published.

Would you approve?

Thank you.

Thank you.

And that motion passed.

Now moving on to the consent agenda.

The consent agenda consists of one item.

Staff recommends approval of the consent agenda.

Okay, do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda?

Move to approve.

Thank you.

And the motion passed.

Let's now move on to business.

Item 22, interlocal agreement for demolition and environmental abatement services between the North Las Vegas Redevelopment Agency and the City of North Las Vegas for the removal of all existing buildings, fencing, asphalt, sidewalks, power poles, and an above-ground storage tank on the 19-acre former City Hall campus located at 2300 Civic Center Drive, APN 1392350605 in an amount not to exceed 11 million dollars.

Welcome again.

Thank you.

Madam Chair, redevelopment agency board members again for the record.

My name is Terry Sheridan, and with me is Scott Carter from Economic Development and Redevelopment.

Um Madam Chair, the staff is recommending approval for this item.

This is the companion item, if you will, to item number 18 that was on the city council agenda.

And this would have you as redevelopment agency board members approve the interlocal agreement between the redevelopment agency and the city and the city for work to be prepared to work to be done to prepare the former 19-acre uh city hall campus for development.

This this 19-acre site will play an integral role, an integral part in our redevelopment efforts for future economic development job creation, and we'll provide services for our community and nearby residents and here for any questions you may have.

Thank you, Terry.

I don't have any additional questions or comments.

Did my colleagues have any comments?

Um more than anything, uh Terry, you and I would know each other for a long time.

Uh way back in 2013 when it came on.

Uh I think uh I don't think we even had 11 million dollars uh in in our redevelopment agency fund at all at that point, right?

Um I I think um you are to be uh commended because you gave really good advice on uh uh moving forward on uh on the acquisition of a property that we wound up parlaying further and further uh up to where we're in the position that we could actually do something like this.

Um staff, you know.

Um I just when I say staff, I guess that means everybody, but in particular, you know, uh you've been you've been the person uh with us this entire time uh that helped us uh do all those things.

You went out to um on those appraisals of property.

You went out there to talk to uh to landowners who um I don't know if they wanted to sell to us or not, but but they went eventually did.

And again, it was one of those things where you were parlaying and parleying and building and building uh to the point where we have these resources to do this.

Um the the proof is out there, you know.

Uh, if you're coming off the freeway, uh you see uh, of course, uh the um the Starbucks there that's in the center island there.

But then uh we have a little sneak there uh where you we see all these cars.

Back when we said, you know, you're crazy, no one's gonna come down here.

People are coming down to this area.

And in the in the very not too distant future, there'll be some extremely there'll be some transformative changes, and we'll have a uh a walkable downtown community.

You know, uh hopefully um in the future.

Um, I'm hoping that people will look back and and see uh what your leadership meant and it'll be recognized somewhere beyond, you know, just giving you uh like a um an at a boy that kind of thing or an at a girl.

Uh but I I just want uh to thank you and your team for uh of course uh working with our uh our partners and you know um uh uh Miss City Manager making this step you know forward here.

Um we have the critical mass.

It's time to make these moves.

And uh Madam Uh Madam Chairwoman, um, if you uh if there's no one else, I'd like to go ahead and make the the motion to uh to approve this.

Perfect thank you.

Great, and then motion passed.

Thank you.

All right.

Oh my with that, I'll take my leave.

So now moving on to the second public forum.

Let's go ahead and open that.

Madam City Clerk, do we have any blue cards or any comments?

No, ma'am, we do not.

Can I say one more thing?

Sorry to interrupt.

Sorry, you may not interrupt like that.

Sorry.

Thank you.

Let's go ahead and close that public forum.

And now this meeting is adjourned.