Good afternoon.

And welcome to the North Las Vegas City Hall, City Council meeting.

There are two public forums set aside for public comments at this meeting, one at the beginning and one at the end.

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

Yes, ma'am, we are.

Thank you.

Today we'll have the opportunity to have the invitation given by our own mayor Porteim Scott Black.

Following that, we'll have the Pledge of Allegiance as led by Councilman Churchill.

Please stand.

Our most gracious Heavenly Father, we pause at the beginning of this city council meeting to express our gratitude and humility for the gift of life for each day that we are afforded to be here in this community.

We're grateful for the blessing and privilege of freedom and the opportunity to help and serve.

And I pray for guidance for mayor and my council colleagues that we may make decisions that will benefit the lives of others, that we will be able to lift and serve and help where we can.

I pray for our law enforcement, our public safety that they may be watched over and protected as they serve and put themselves in harm's way.

I pray for the families in our community that they can have their needs met, that we can be instruments in service.

And I pray for these things in the name of Jesus Christ.

Amen.

Please remain standing for the pledge.

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

To the Republic for which it stands.

One nation.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We had quite the exciting afternoon earlier with the demolition starting across the street on the old city hall campus.

And we've had such great days and great weeks here.

We didn't have anybody to take our frustrations out, so we just took the sledgehammers and hit the wall and just made big holes in the wall.

But the funnest part was the excavation part.

Which I got to tear down part of the building.

That was so much fun.

I was so afraid that I was gonna hurt the machine, but they're like, nah, but it was super cool.

So I think I found my calling when I finish here.

So thank you for that opportunity.

It was so fun.

So let's go ahead and move on to council items.

Councilman Baron.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Mayor.

And uh I was I was impressed with your heavy machinery prowess.

Um I'll tell you what, uh, your election as the state's first black mayor in the history of state.

That was you are breaking down barriers doing that.

And today you're breaking down, you know, uh that building very much in line with uh a historical, you know, look back.

And that moment totally defined you.

Thank you.

A little bit of a poet, huh?

Uh I guess I'm angling in front of the job too.

Um no, but uh seriously here.

I was really impressed.

Uh matter of fact, uh, that's gonna be my first council uh item.

Number one, I um I want to thank all my um council uh peers here, including you, mayor, uh, our city management, our leadership team, our legal team, all of our uh our economic development team, and of course, I definitely want to uh extend a very warm thanks to our friends here at Agora Realty.

Um, a really fantastic event that again exemplifies what you can do when you have um good policy, good procedure, hardworking people, and a fantastic uh community uh community partner there that combines uh with I think with the faith that our uh resident has shown in us to um get this uh transformative uh project done.

The transformative project is of course we're knocking down uh a once very proud building.

I guess it's still a proud building that at one time when it was uh built back in the 60s.

It uh was an award-winning uh design, a neoclassical building.

Um our old city hall had outlived the truthfulness.

Um, unfortunately, it had a whole bunch of asbestos in it, and there were things we we just couldn't do with it anymore.

But out of the ashes, out of the dust for uh that will become you know, the pile of dust and rubble that uh that building, that whole complex will become.

We're gonna have uh a new transformative project that will have um housing, 19 acres of housing, of new city amenities, um employment, a civic building, and it's gonna be the anchor here on the east side of our new downtown, a walkable downtown community extending from the very time you get off the freeway, and you'll be able to it'll have access to public transportation, we access you know to shopping to a fantastic schools.

We had Nevada State uh university coming in.

So I see some people here.

You're gonna have a chance to study right here in your own neighborhood.

These are things that we just didn't have down here before.

Yeah, although I uh with our apologies to Nevada uh to CSN.

But we have a new partners coming in with us, right?

And for me, I I tell you what, this is uh a legacy that everybody who had a hand in it can definitely be proud.

Now this is gonna this gonna be something that we'll look back with pride and we'll we'll know that we we have accomplished something.

So you'll have to excuse me for being you know kind of like emotional with this, right?

But it's a big deal.

And uh I'm happy to say that today, if it happened in North of Vegas, it happened in World One.

Uh also um I was speaking of being here in North of Vegas.

Last meeting I wasn't here, unfortunately.

Well, I guess I was here in spirit.

Um the the um uh the team put together a video uh in which I congratulated uh one of our downtown partners here, one of the partners that kind of helped uh initiate the transformation of downtown, our friends at Maya Cinemas, who uh I named our January's business of the month.

I couldn't be here because they had some business over here at the city uh I'm sorry, at CCSD.

You know, I'm still the the trustee, I'm the councilman, I'm I'm the crusty, and uh sometimes I'm way crustier than others.

But uh I definitely wanted to uh remind everyone and and yet again extend my extended congratulations to Maya Cinemas for being our January business of the month.

And also this morning, uh I was able to lace up the boots and got together with our um fantastic uh code enforcement team.

Uh we did something that they call a knock and talk.

I call it canvassing because uh uh that's what you do when you go from door to door and give out literature, right?

Uh we walked the neighborhood, not too far away from here, and um we're gonna be doing a cleanup uh in the and uh next week.

So we were able to get out there, get the word out to the residents.

Uh the cleanup takes place on Wednesday, January uh 28th from 7 a.m.

to 1 p.m.

in the Cartier Civic Center Ferguson Daily Area in Ward 1.

And our residents, if you're listening, I hope you're listening.

Uh all you had to do is place your unwanted items at your curb during the mentioned time on January 28th.

City crew members will remove the items, deposit them in the dumpsters provided by Republic Services.

So thank you very much to our friends of Republic Services.

And uh I want to also remind people if you have nasty old mattresses, remember, uh they won't haul them away.

You have to have a special bag to put mattresses in, and then Republic Service will take away.

We have those bags.

Uh records of Los Gabriel Español, sacar Tola Murique to Mujer de Dijo que Sacadas, but nunca seas caso, y ya después that Cinco Six Años, yeah to senora yet.

So yeah, uh and uh but I can not salpe la semana to La Spalda La Pona Yo Varay uh uh enfrente de su casa in Rodejan, you want to keep the Los Pedro North of Vegas by I do almot.

I said all that stuff in Spanish.

Just take it for me that I said the same thing in Spanish.

Uh uh, right, Maestra?

Well, it's coming up over here.

Oh, I forgot about wordly.

Okay.

I think I'm done.

Thank you.

Councilman Churchill.

Who just said haha on there?

Okay, Mayor.

I only have three items tonight.

Um we had the opportunity, and I believe uh besides the mayor and I, were there anybody else that came to Finley Middle School on that uh grant program?

I remember you spoke over here.

Um on January 16th, uh, the mayor and I had an opportunity to uh to speak at uh Finley Middle School on the um the funding that we provided them from uh the micro the micro grant funds for um improving the attendance there on our our young adults there and uh you know we hear a lot about uh the next generation, some concerns about them.

But all of the events that uh that I've had an opportunity to go to, um quite a few.

And uh for me, as I've said many times before, it's really um it's a pleasure and a privilege to be given the opportunity to to be at um uh events like that to see what the next generation looks like and what's coming in the future.

So I appreciated the opportunity to be there because it was in Ward 4.

Um Ballantine Bingo is coming up at Skyview, YMCA on Thursday, February 12th, and it'll be from 2 30 to 4 30.

We started this from uh 7 Tyrone Thompson uh who passed away unfortunately several years ago.

Um he started that bingo for seniors out there.

And um I kind of took the baton and been running with it uh since then.

And uh we got a good turn out out there.

Um they work with us, meaning the Y out there, and uh sometimes you get 50, 60 people, and uh we provide all of the winners with the gifts and such, and we we try to keep it around uh Valentine's Day for appropriate reasons of being Valentine's Day.

So um if you're uh if you're a senior or you know a senior, or if you want to dress up like a senior, uh I'm sure that will give you enough room so you could play bingo.

I know my wife will be there, that's for sure.

Uh she's one of the um the callers, I think.

So uh if you know anybody that would be interested in going to that, I think uh I know it's gonna be a fun thing.

Uh and of course the the event of the year so far has been the annual MLK parade this past Monday, January 19th, uh, with our our police and and firefighter departments.

That was uh, I think that was the the largest MLK parade that uh that we've had here.

We were number 22 um in line, and we weren't the end.

There were still um other floats behind us, but um have to put it together for all of the people involved in uh you know doing that, our police and fire, very well represented.

Um the mayor was in her own uh police pickup, which was really cool.

You know, she was we were throwing the candy, no, we were handing out the candy, and she was eating the candy.

She had a little grandbaby with her and a husband.

Oh, she was eating the candy.

Okay, I know one of us were.

So it was an amazing parade, and uh, you know, try to make it out there next year.

It's not only well worth it, it's appropriate to be there to recognize this man.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And I think um Councilman Barone, you came to Finley with us as well, correct?

And also just a huge thank you to Ingrid, our education manager, for all she does to help us support our schools.

Hey, MPT.

Thank you, Mayor.

So the City of North Las Vegas family consists of about 2,000 employees, uh a group of individuals from a wide variety of disciplines, positions, expertise, and we all come together to serve our community.

Yesterday was amazing.

This chambers was filled with members of that family for the employee years of service recognition.

Uh, I think it was a record number of people that were recognized, ranging from five years of service all the way up to 30 years.

Uh, the one one of the people that uh received 30 years of service, I asked him what was next for him, and he said this Friday is his last day.

He's gonna take his Tesla and just go from charging station to charging station around the country.

So that's pretty cool.

Um, but we have an amazing uh family here that does great work to serve our community every day, and it was an honor to be here to witness that.

Also, every every now and again I get a random idea to to push myself, and so I on this uh Saturday morning I'm going to Craig Ranch Park at 7 a.m.

and I'm gonna see if I have the physical wherewithal to make the police academy.

So I hope I don't embarrass myself, but uh we'll see how I do.

That's gonna be fun.

So you want to come try out for the police academy physical fitness test, uh, 7 a.m.

at Craig Grant's Park.

We'll see how that goes.

If it goes well, I'll report it.

Next council meeting.

If not, forget I mentioned it.

Um and then lastly, I I am a member of the the Health District Board of Health representing North Las Vegas, and every year for the last seven years, they asked me to MC their uh awards gala, which is this Saturday.

I don't know why they keep asking me back because the jokes don't get any better.

Thanks, Mayor.

Thank you, Councilwoman.

Yes, thank you, Mayor.

Last week on January 13th, I um had the opportunity to celebrate the PECO's apartments groundbreaking, uh, which is in Ward 2.

And it's actually called the the complex is called North and Valley.

Um and this is just an amazing project.

Um it's very it's a very thoughtful um and responsible uh affordable housing project, and it will be a great addition to our city because it's gonna help fill the much um much needed gap in affordable housing in our community.

Rents will be set below market rate so that working families, such as our teachers, young families, healthcare worker service employees.

All on fixed incomes can live safely and with stability.

So if anybody's interested, um, for more details or information, you can email info at nrpgroup.com.

Um, and then also on January 17th, I had the opportunity to attend the 44th annual Martin Luther King scholarship banquet.

Um, and it was just awesome to be surrounded by such wonderful people and um you know make new friends and also celebrate the legacy of Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

And support the next generation of leaders.

So we want to thank the King committee for another successful event.

And last but not least, I want to give a shout out to our parks team over at Craig Ranch for a wonderful event taking place this Friday.

It's a drive-in a drive-in movie experience.

Registration has reached capacity, which is awesome.

Um, and so I have a feeling that this is this will become one of our favorite events for the community, and we'll probably end up planning more.

So thank you, Parks.

And that's it for me.

Thanks, Mayor.

Thank you.

And I just like to mention a couple things as we close out King Week.

Um, this year was the the 44th annual Martin Luther King parade, and I'd just like to thank former assemblyman Wendell Williams for his dream and his vision because 44 years ago, he decided to have a parade, and at that time there were only 13 entries.

So the parade has grown into um Monday.

I think there were close to 200 entries in the parade, so it just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger.

So congratulations and thank you for his vision.

This Friday at um I I think the the part that really stared at home for me is that we had people weren't just local, but from all over the West.

Absolutely.

Yeah, that I was really impressed to see people from Louisiana coming and uh yeah.

I was really honored to be part of it.

Absolutely.

Thank you for sharing that.

This Friday at Second Baptist Church at 6 p.m.

They have their young dreamers award ceremony, and what each school that is named after an American African American person in the state selects students to participate in the Young Dreamers Award because they have certain criteria that they have to meet to be awarded this.

So it's quite an honor and such a moving ceremony.

So you're all welcome to attend.

And the address is 500 West Madison 89106.

All right, so let's go ahead and move into the first public forum.

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

The items listed under the 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 item on today's agenda, now is the time.

So this would be other than a public hearing item.

So, Madam City Clerk, do we have any blue cards for posted agenda items?

No, ma'am.

Thank you.

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

Moving on to the agenda.

Item one, City Council regular meeting agenda of January 21, 2026.

Per the applicant's request, item number 12 is withdrawn, and item number 13 is continued to May 20, 2026.

Additionally, item number 17 is continued to February 4, 2026.

Thank you.

With that, I'll call for a motion to approve the agenda as amended.

Mote to approve is amended.

And that motion passes.

Moving on to the consent agenda.

The consent agenda consists of items two through 10.

Staff recommends approval of the consent agenda.

Okay, thank you.

I'll call for a motion for the consent agenda.

Move to approve the consent agenda.

And that motion passes.

Moving on to public hearings.

Item 11, VAC 112025, opposite Lone Mountain, Cavison Homes LLC's application to vacate 10 feet of existing right-of-way on Lone Mountain Road near Northwest Corner of Intersection of Lone Mountain Road and Ferrell Street.

Good afternoon, Bob.

You just left us some light reading, right?

This one's an easy one.

Okay.

This is uh I'm representing Cavison Homes.

It's a vacation.

Staff's recommending approval, and I'm gonna be done with that and just ask you to follow staff's recommendation.

All right, thank you.

So this is a public hearing item on this one.

Um I will open the public hearing.

Madam City Clerk, do we have any blue cards or written comments for item 11?

No, ma'am.

I'll go ahead and close the public hearing and entertain a motion.

Oh, are there any questions or comments?

First of all, this is ward three.

Yep.

I'll just make a quick comment.

Um this is a really unique and great use of this rectangular shaped two-acre parcel at Ferrell and Lone Mountain.

I believe there are either six or eight um large lot single family homes that will match the surrounding area, which is the ranch estate's rural preservation look and feel.

Uh, it really lends itself to what's on the west side of it, built by um Lenar Homes uh on the 16 acres in that same ranch state's rural preservation area.

So I think it's uh an awesome project.

And I know you've done a lot of work for this project to get it where we are to today.

So thank you.

So I'll make a motion.

If there are no comments, mayor, I'll make a motion to approve VAC 1125.

We have a motion.

And that motion passes.

Thank you.

Item 14, City Council review pursuant to Section 11.03 of the second amendment and restated development agreement for the villages of Thule Springs regarding closure of villages at Tule Springs Regional Park and Master Developers' alleged non-compliance with requirements in the villages of Thule Springs Parks and Trails Agreement.

Welcome, Marissa.

Good evening, Mayor, Council members.

My name's Marissa Rodriguez, uh, Chief Deputy City Attorney.

And I am here today on behalf of the city manager and her team regarding the closure of the regional park at the villages at Tule Springs.

Specifically, staff is asking you to conduct a hearing, uh, this hearing pursuant to section 11.03 of the of a development agreement between the city and master developer KBSOR Park Highlands TRS LLC, and I'll refer to it as the master developer for Issa reference.

Um this hearing is about a master developer who 10 years ago negotiated an agreement, um, a parks agreement with the city, where he agreed that in lieu of paying a residential construction tax for the privilege of building the master plan community of the villages of Thule Springs, taxes that the city would have used to build new parks or expand new parks, that in lieu of paying that tax, that the master developer would build a number of parks, including the regional park at issue here.

The master developer has not kept his end of the bargain, and currently that park is closed.

Um as soon as the city heard that the park was closed, it tried to first informally and then formally try to get the master developer to reopen the park.

Uh, unfortunately, we haven't been successful, and that's what brings us here today.

This is the final step before the city can seek judicial um relief.

So we'll present evidence and at the end of the hearing, uh, we'll be asking that based on the evidence that you find that the master developer is not in compliance with the parks agreement.

And second, we'll be asking you that you authorize the city manager and the city attorney's office to take any action necessary to enforce the agreements, including instituting a legal action in the eighth judicial district court.

So before I go into the presentation, I think it would be good to talk about the process.

Uh I left you that the light uh reading, uh, the binders uh in front of you.

And we also have a representative for the master developer here today.

I believe that is uh Brian Raxdale, and I believe he's the executive vice president.

And also with him are his attorneys, Ms.

Brianna Martinez and Mr.

Bob Gronauer.

And they also have a copy of the exhibits.

And exhibits one through 11 are exhibits that the city provided, and the rest are from the the master developer.

So the first exhibit is your development agreement, and on section 1103, that's where it lays out the process for these hearings.

And basically, it says that the hearing doesn't have to be very formal.

You don't have to follow any judicial or technical rules related to the evidence or the witnesses.

Uh any relevant evidence can be utilized.

Both parties have the right to call and examine witnesses, cross examining examine them, introduce exhibits, and then offer rebuttal evidence.

But ultimately, the city council has the authority to regulate the hearing however you deem appropriate.

So with that in mind, I would like to propose the following outline.

So first, I would like to be able to talk to you, talk to you about the relevant provisions in the agreements, and then talk about the relevance, the relevant municipal code sections, the NRS, what the city has done to comply with the process whenever there's a dispute under the development agreement.

And then after that, we would call our first witness, Alfredo Millessio, he's our director of land development, and he'll tell you about the closure of the park, the involvement of code enforcement, and efforts that he has taken on behalf of the city to get the master developer to reopen the park, and then about communications that he has had with residents regarding the park.

Next, we would like to call Doug Geild, he's the director of director of parks and recreation, and uh he has visited the park a couple of times recently.

So he'll tell you about the condition of the park today.

He visited with a member of the communications team, and they were able to take a video and some pictures, so he'll show those to you.

He'll tell you about communications that he has had with residents about the park, and then about the confusion that some of the signs in the park are creating.

And finally, we'll conclude with Sally Moore, assistant city manager, who's going to summarize for you all the efforts that the city has taken to get the master developer to reopen the park as contractually obligated.

After that, it would be the opportunity for the master developer to respond.

And uh then after that, we would like to reserve the opportunity to reply to any response that they provide.

And this is a public comment, so after that, we think it would be appropriate to do the public um comments at that time.

Would that be okay with you, Mayor?

Yes, indeed.

Thank you.

Okay, so exhibit seven in your binder includes chapters from Title 15 from the municipal code.

And I included a lot of them, uh, but really the three that are the most important are 1552 020.

And here it's where the city imposes a residential construction tax for the privilege of building a residence uh in North Las Vegas.

And the city is able to do that pursuant to NRS 278.4983, which you also have as exhibit eight.

And then the next chapter is 1552 060 subsection B, where it states that the city must use those taxes to build or improve existing parks for the to meet the recreational needs of the residents.

And then finally, chapter 1552 100 states that a developer can be exempt from paying those taxes if they agree to construct a public park.

So that's the legal background behind.

Now with that, I would like to bring you to exhibit one, the development agreement.

All of you are very well familiar with this.

This is the agreement for the the villages of Thule Springs, uh, the master plan community that includes four villages.

And the DA incorporates by reference the parks agreement, which is your exhibit two.

And that's the main agreement that's at issue here today.

So on the recitals and section two, uh, there are three provisions that I would like to bring your attention to.

And one of them basically states that the parties understand that the city has parks and recreational needs, and that the parties are entering into this agreement so that we can facilitate the conditions for the developer to build the master plan community and meet those requirements from the city.

And then it first it further states that the recreational needs of the residents of the master plan community will be met in two ways.

One, the master developer will build uh the regional park, which eventually will be dedicated to the city, and you'll build additional parks that are not at issue here that are going to be dedicated to the association.

And the parties agree that if the master developer performed according to the agreement, that would meet its obligation under the for the residential construction tax.

And then if you look on section article three, which is page five of exhibit two, it expressly states that the regional park shall be available for public use.

But instead of reading what it says on the agreement, I would like to uh bring your attention to exhibit three, which is uh ordinance 3207.

And this is an ordinance that you pass and adopted, amending that portion of the parks agreement.

And here is where you talk about like what the regional park is.

So basically to summarize it for you, the regional park, the parties agreed would be 35 acres, and the parties agreed that it would be built in two phases.

The first phase was going to be 10 acres with one restroom facility, and the trigger date for the developer to start building that park, that phase was whenever the city issued the 750th residential building permit.

And the master developer was required to complete and open that phase one within one year from that date.

So that trigger date was reached February 12th of 2020, which means that phase one was supposed to be completed and open to the public by February 12th of 2021.

Phase two is the rest, the other 25 acres, everything is in one parcel.

It's the parcel, the section to the to the west of the parcel.

And that is going to have two additional restrooms.

The trigger date to start building that phase is after the city issues the 12,000th residential building permit, or 18 months from the date of the sale of phase one of villages too.

And the city estimates that that trigger date will be June 2026, so June of this year.

So they cannot dedicate part of it at this time.

And that's what the agreement calls for.

And at that point, the city will assume all the maintenance responsibilities of the land and the improvements made by the master developer.

The agreement also says that nothing prevents the master developer from building phase two or phase one before the trigger date.

So if tomorrow phase two was completed, then that dedication would be triggered.

And then the final provision on page three of exhibit three states that the city shall not accept dedication or assume maintenance responsibilities until the entire regional park is complete.

So the master developer did in fact build phase one of the park.

But it the master developer closed it around October 2024.

The city immediately upon learning that the park had been closed, began to do to work with the developer to try to get the park reopened first informally, then formally, and you'll hear about those communications from Alfredo and Sally.

But basically what we learned is that the master developer entered into an agreement with the HOA for Village 3, where the park is located, and there's a dispute between the developer, the master developer and the HOA.

And during this time, the city was working with the master developer because we were thinking that they were advancing toward a resolution, but unfortunately, the park remains closed.

And so the city decided to, city staff decided to now enter into the formal process.

And if the process does not resolve the issue between the parties, then the next step is coming before you, and so that's why we are here today.

So without further delay, Mayor, if it's okay with you, I would like to have our first witness present uh the information on the slide.

And because this can be done informally rather than doing a direct examination.

If it's okay with you, I would like for him to just present what's on the slide, and then we'll call the other three witness witnesses and then the master developer.

Perfect.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you, Marissa.

Uh, mayor and and members of the council.

I'm Alfredo Malessio for the record, the director of land development.

Responsible for building and fire prevention, um, business licenses, and our team does a great job with first floor customer service.

But more specifically, in this matter, we're gonna talk about my responsibilities as it relates to code enforcement and and planning.

So we we take our agreements uh very seriously and try to be uh good partners.

We feel like we're here to work together for the betterment of the community.

Um, and so we were very surprised when we got a complaint, just a innocuous complaint about uh maybe some garbage and debris in September of 2024 in this park.

We thought maybe it changed landscapers or something, and it needed to be resolved.

It wasn't until about a month later that we uh well we cited the the owner, uh the master developer for that that maintenance.

Um, and it was about a month later we realized that there were barricades put up um at the entrances to the park.

We're just basically closing it.

Um we had done that outreach through uh code enforcement.

We texted the attorney for the uh master developer, and uh we did get a cleanup, but then in December we got another complaint about continued uh garbage and litter uh at the property.

Uh that got cleaned up again, but then we got a complaint in April about an encampment um on the sort of phase two deserty area um to the east of the existing park, and we actually had to clean that up to the tune of about three thousand uh three thousand seven hundred dollars.

So over the summer we started having um text messages, and I personally made a phone call uh to the master developer to see what what what is the dispute, what is going on, how can we resolve this?

Um that was around August 7th.

Um previous to that, the city had sent a demand letter for the park to be opened.

But we thought maybe within 30 days we could get this resolved on September 2nd.

We also sent another email, and we did not receive um a response.

And then um, I don't want to say, but very very quickly after that in December, uh, we had another complaint about garbage and debris, and I think Doug is gonna talk a little bit about that on the on the property.

And so we cited them for that, and that case is actually uh still open.

Uh over the past year we've talked to a number of residents trying to explain to them um where the responsibilities lie um and who uh we our our agreement is with the master developer, their agreement um with the the homeowners in the area is is uh we're not a party to that agreement, and so we've we've done our best efforts to try to explain about everybody's uh responsibilities in this matter.

And so with that, I'll turn it over to Doug to uh talk to you about the uh most recent conditions that he noted at the facility.

Thank you.

There it is.

Well, good evening, Mayor Goins Brown, uh members of City Council.

I'm Doug Guild, the director of parks and recreation.

It's an honor to serve as director and to speak to you this evening.

I also want to thank uh Alfredo and Marissa for their comments and coordination of this hearing.

This evening I'll be referencing exhibits tab 10 and 11, tab 10 and tab 11 in the binder that you have.

I'll also provide an overview of the current conditions at Thule Springs Regional Park and briefly summarize the feedback that my department has received from the community.

But before I do that, I'd like to show a short video, approximately one minute and 45 seconds that our communications team and I took on Monday, January 12, which reflects the park's current conditions.

And following the video, I will I'll walk through my observations.

So, Mayor, as uh Marissa mentioned, Thule Springs Regional Park Phase One is a ten-acre active park located on Durrell just west of Revere.

The park includes the following amenities: an open turf area, approximately one acre, four sand volleyball courts, playground with swings and shade structures, splash pad, four basketball courts with lighting, picnic shelters, a restroom building, perimeter walking trail, which is one of the favorites, parking lot and area security lighting, and a significant significant number of trees throughout the park, which we like.

Number one, the turf throughout the park is no longer viable and will require a replacement.

Sand from the volleyball courts has migrated beyond the courts along Durrell Lane, sidewalks into the parking lot, and into the planter areas, creating maintenance and safety concerns.

One basketball backboard has been vandalized and requires replacement.

Several trees require replacement, and previously pruned branches were left in the parking lot and need to be removed.

The restrooms are currently closed, that there is a visible urine staining outside the restroom gate areas, which you saw in the video, which can be addressed through pressure washing, disinfecting, and applying an application of epoxy at the concrete entrances.

The splash pad requires pressure washing, and there's my there's minor damage throughout the park that is repairable with routine maintenance.

Now also it's important to mention what is good in good condition at the park.

The playground area, including the structures, the swings, the shade covers, and safety surfacing, are in good condition.

And I I was pleased to see that.

The basketball court service is also in good condition, and I did not observe any visible damage to the area security lighting that's throughout the park.

So now, Mayor, as the parks and rec director, my department has received numerous complaints from residents through emails and city track cases expressing concern over the park's current condition.

One contributing factor is that the City of North Las Vegas logos are installed throughout the park, including on the primary park sign at the entrance, which is shown on the first the first page of Tab Ten.

Now, as residents pass by or use the park, it's reasonable for them to assume that the city park and rec department maintains the park.

However, that is not currently the case.

City branded signage and requested the installation of signage consistent with other HOA maintained parks in the area.

Which could help clarify the maintenance responsibility.

So mayor and council, that concludes my report this evening, and I'll now like to introduce our assistant city manager, Sally Moore.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

Sally Moore, Assistant City Manager.

I'm here to summarize what the cities has done to help alleviate the situation and bring before you you heard Alfredo explain earlier some informal communication that he's had with the master developer.

He cited that on June 11th was our first official demand letter that was sent to the master developer.

After this letter, the master developer attorney called city staff to schedule a meeting to discuss the issue.

The city set up an in-person meeting for July 8th, 2025 with the master developer executive vice president Brian Ragsdale, his attorneys and city staff members who are present today, the ones you've heard today.

On July 7th, my assistant called to confirm the July 8th meeting, and Brian Ragsdale said he could not be there in person.

The city offered to change the meeting to virtual, but the developer's attorneys instructed the city to cancel the meeting.

On September 24th, Councilman Churchill met with the master developer attorney and the city team in person about the reopening of the park.

The developer's attorney explained that they were trying to negotiate the reopening, which includes repairs and future maintenance with the sub HOA Village 3, because the master developer had assigned the maintenance contractually to this HOA.

The attorney for the master developer further explained that it made sense for the developer to do this because the HOA Village 3 is the one that collects dues from residents.

It was decided at this meeting that the city would provide a meeting space for the master developer and the sub HOA Village 3 to discuss and attempt to resolve the issues between the two parties so the park could get reopened.

The meeting was held on October 9th.

Councilman Churchill facilitated the meeting along with city staff.

Both the master developer and members of the sub HOA Village 3 board of directors were all present.

The two parties appeared to make progress.

In fact, city staff left the meeting, believing the master developer and the sub HOA3 had reached an agreement the following week on how to reopen and maintain the park.

However, over time, no agreement was reached and the park remained closed.

On November 18th, which is exhibit five in your notebook, the city sent the second demand letter to the master developer, reminding them of the contractual obligation.

The city received an email from the master developer's attorney after this they received the letter on November 26, expressing that they were hoping to resolve the dispute with the HOA Village 3 and requesting a 60 day extension before pursuing injective relief.

After consideration, the city denied this request on December 3rd.

City staff have been working consistently with the developer, both as you've heard, informally and formally.

Since December of 2024, it had been over a year the regional park had been closed, and the community has a right to enjoy that park.

The city did offer that if by December 11th, the master developer, one provided proof that it has retained a company to repair the park so that it was ready to open.

And two, the repairs can be completed within a reasonable time.

The master developer did not do anything to open the park.

Finally, on December 17th, which is exhibit number six in your notebook, the city sent the final demand letter to reopen the park and provided notice of this hearing today at City Council.

And you heard from Marissa today the park is still closed.

So at this point in the presentation, um, according to the structure, the master developer may respond to counsel if they wish to do so.

I'll turn it over to the master developer and the attorney.

Because you're looking at me.

And I stay and correct it.

So Marissa, thank you for the lovely notebook.

Thank you.

Good evening.

My name is Bob Gronauer, 1980 Festival Plaza Drive.

With me today in the audience is the master developer Brian Ragsdale and also Brianna Martinez, who has been working on this case with me over the last uh approximately two years.

The first thing that I'd like to do before I get into my presentation is make some acknowledgments.

Your staff has been very patient, they've been kind, they've been cooperative, and they've been proactive in trying to find a result here with all parties.

So this isn't something I'm gonna go up here and and all the facts that Marissa and everybody discussed.

We understand that and acknowledge that also.

But what is important is what I do want to make known for the record.

Once when we knew we had this issue of the park closure and the failure, which I'll get into of the uh village three uh HOA, their failure to make payment for the park.

I personally immediately called several people that were key people.

One was um Councilman Richard Churchill, called the city manager, called the planning director, and also Robert Eastman in his position, I believe, as planning manager or assistant director.

Explained to them that we were running into an issue with the park is gonna probably be closed because uh the HOA failed to make payment and they refused to make payment.

And we're gonna start that, you know, we're looking for a way to get a resolution.

And from that day on, you're as I said, your staff and your management has been great to work with.

And again, I we do appreciate that, and we understand why we're standing here today before you, but I think that this is good because I think we're gonna get some progress here and get some results.

That being said, let me explain to you how we got here.

Okay.

First of all, I'd like to show you on the overhead is the master plan community of Thule Springs.

Uh this master plan was approved, I believe, in about 2005, 2006.

Uh that's gone through, as your staff has just mentioned, and many of you who knows, a lot of ownership.

It's gone through the Great Recession, gone through bankruptcies, gone through COVID, and we're still jugging along here after 20 something years uh for development.

Currently, um, on the on the map here, I'll lay out the villages of Thule Springs.

You have four sections.

You have village one, village two, village three, and village four.

What separates us uh in this entire master plan community is the beltway which comes through the property as I'm showing you east and west.

I believe currently this is today your largest master plan community.

You have village three, which was the first village that was under construction and completed in this area with a few builders that came in with respect to the home building side.

Uh, you have village four, which the uh master, excuse me, the village developer is KB home in this matter here, or in this uh village four area currently under construction in village one.

You have D.R.

Horton is the uh village master developer in this area, and just recently you just approve the changes to this area, which is with village two, where KB Home is coming in as the uh village developer in this area to um finish off in this area the village two development.

That being said, um, what I'd like to do is next is get into the practicality of what happens here and the and the way these development agreements and master plans go.

Uh the master developer who's here today, just like any other master plan that you see in southern Nevada, the master developer negotiates a development agreement with the in this case the city of North Las Vegas.

During those negotiations, based on the amount of homes that are going to be provided for that master plan community, there is the other part of the equation where the city would come back and ask for exactions.

What are exactions?

Exactly, it's negotiated between the city and the master developer, where you provide police, fire services, police services, parks and open space, and other public facilities and amenities.

The master developer has that obligation to go ahead and build and construct or either dedicate or maintain those.

We don't dispute any of that tonight.

That's typical in every master plan community that I've negotiated over 30 years, and that's exist that you you know in southern Nevada.

So that fact is not disputed.

Another fact that should not be disputed is what actually happens in these master plan communities, the practicality.

Okay.

One of the practicalities here is the fact of the matter is when the master developer sells property, sells these parcels, there's a negotiation with that merchant builder.

Name the merchant builder, the KB home, the DR Horton, the tripoint homes, when they negotiate that purchase and sale agreement, there is a price that's put on the land, and there is a charge for these exactions.

Okay.

So there's a negotiation between the owner, the master developer, and the proposed merchant builder that will negotiate who's going to be responsible to put in certain facilities and infrastructure.

Happens all the time.

What it's known as, along with the purchase and sale agreement, is a joint development agreement.

And again, this is very common.

What happens to help put in the amenities that needs to be in there?

Because when you start these negotiations, and when this was in 2004, 2005, all those exactions get put on to the builders, which gets put on to the home buyer.

And that's how that process works.

In other words, that's how the sausage gets made, which a lot of people don't understand that, but I want to at least give you that so you could appreciate how where we are today with this process.

The other part of this is now I'm getting into the issues that were discussed, is the structure that you set for the homeowners association and who pays for these maintenance and operations of these facilities.

The structure in this master plan community, you have a master association with the master HOA.

Then we have the village one HOA, you have village two HOA, village three HOA, and village four HOA.

And in those villages, HOAs, they all have a certain amount of obligations that are assigned to the homeowners association.

For example, all the green space that you see, because that's where we focus on parks on the parks and open space and trails that you see on this master plan, the HOA is the ones in each village to maintain those areas.

And what's specific in this development agreement, which all development agreements are different in each city and each jurisdiction, but in this one that was negotiated, the city did not want to maintain the parks, which is fine, which is common in most master plan communities.

And the reason is is because you know, typically the master developer wants to maintain the maintenance of those facilities and the maintenance is done by the HOAs, which is a subdivisions.

No matter what subdivision or master plan community you live in, that's what it is.

You pay those fees.

So in village one, if you live in village one today, your responsibility is to pay for all of these parks in open space and trails, only for village one.

And that's for internity.

Okay, because there's something important here as I get to village three.

Village two, same thing.

If you move in here, you're gonna pay to maintain the parks in open space.

That's a part of your HOA fees.

If you're in village four today, whatever's in village four, you pay for those exactions for the parks and open space.

What's unique about village three, as you can see here is Marissa was pointing out down here, this is the plan for the regional uh mass the regional park.

What's unique about this, this HOA is only required to pay HOA fees for the maintenance of this park until phase one and phase two is turned over to the city of North Las Vegas.

Now, when that is turned over to the city of North Las Vegas, and if I'm a homeowner in village three, guess what?

I have no more park park fees I got to pay for to maintain that park.

But guess what?

Village one, village two, and village four, they'll continue to pay for those fees for all the parks that all of us enjoy in Tule Springs.

So I wanted to make sure that I'm clear enough about the uniqueness of how this master this master plan structure is working.

Now, what was mentioned, which I was gonna plan on talking about the RCT, okay, residential construction tax.

The only reason I'm gonna bring it up because I think I need to explain a little bit more of how this actually works, not only in North Las Vegas, but Las Vegas and Clark County and City of Henderson.

When you come in with a master plan community, that RCT tax, and I could be please correct me if I'm wrong, is about a thousand dollars per unit.

In our master plan community in Thule Springs, there's 8,683 units that are approved to be built in this master plan community that you see.

If we were to give you 1,000 per unit, that's just under 9 million dollars that you'll have to do your parks.

Okay.

And as you know, you start doing the math.

If you had $9 million to build parks up in this area, you wouldn't, you wouldn't meet that obligation.

So what happens is we negotiate, we sit in a room, and the city comes up with the list of wants, and the master developer comes up and tries to compromise, and this is what we get.

The parks that you have here are tens of millions of dollars that the master developers putting in here.

Okay.

So I want to make it clear because when I was hearing about the RCT, yes, there is an exception that is given, but I can tell you, I develop I have I have negotiated the majority, if not almost all these master plan communities in southern Nevada over the last 30 years, especially the last five to seven years, and every negotiation point on parks and rec, RCT is removed because the master developer is going to build parks that are way greater in price than you would pay for the RCT tax.

So I want to at least mention that just to make sure we're on the same page that although we got exempt in the RCT for the RCT, we pay way more in every master developer does it.

It's it's it's something that is just automatic negotiated in all these development agreements.

So that being said, uh what I'd like to get into is the regional park and where we are.

So as I mentioned in August, it was actually in August of 2024, I received a call from my client and explained to me that the invoices that were sent over to the HOA in Village 3, the president and the HOA board declined to make payment.

And by them declining to make payment, we were unable to pay the maintenance for the park with the landscape contractors out there.

Um we've tried multiple times at that point in time to make payment, and they outright said they ignored the contract.

It's in there, it's in the CC and Rs.

It's in the documents that they signed that they are contractually liable to pay for the maintenance of that park as we submit the the receipts for those payments.

Um I don't know in a million years as we negotiate these and you put these documents together to use common sense is if you sign up and you have a contract and an obligation, you should fulfill that obligation.

Unfortunately, we've been dealing over the last almost two years with a group of people that has had multiple attorneys, a group that has keep pushing us along here with every proposal that we have to come to a settlement.

Um and just recently, as I get ready to close everything out here, uh, just recently we tried again to negotiate a settlement.

A matter of fact, we thought we had a good meeting when uh your management team set it up at the police substation with councilman Churchill.

They were there, they saw what we were negotiating, what we were talking about in good faith.

Um, but for some reason, uh council members and your uh and your honor, I don't know why someone thinks that they are not responsible to pay for the maintenance of the park.

But that's our issue, right?

And I understand it and we respect that that's our issue with the side contract that we have on the side.

Understand that there's an obligation here by the master developer.

We're not telling you we disagree with any of that stuff.

We're just giving you the inner workings how these things go.

So, yeah, as I stand up here, I'm very disappointed.

I'm I can't, I'm I'm this is unconscionable as I'm standing here.

I remember having the conversation with Alfredo uh about two years ago, and I'm like, I told my client we might have to sue, you know, and I don't want to recommend the sue because when you sue, the only people that make money are the attorneys, okay?

Everybody else loses.

But I've said and been consistent with Brian, and for some reason Brian didn't want to sue.

Brian says, no, we're gonna work it out, we're gonna work it out, we're gonna work it out.

Well, guess what?

Because where we are today, and I thank you, and and I do mean that respectfully, is finally we're able to file that lawsuit.

That's what's before you that I handed out as an exhibit.

That lawsuit was filed today against the HOA.

Uh, and uh matter of fact, we're gonna amend that lawsuit because what we're going to do is for a breach of contract, but there's a breach of fiduciary duty, we're gonna amend that and go after individuals on the HOA board also, because as I'm telling you, this is unconscionable that someone's put in a fiduciary duty as an HOA board member and fails to take the money that they receive to pay for an obligation that they need.

And again, it's unheard of.

I just don't understand it as in any, you don't have to be a professional.

You just have to be a decent person, understand what needs to get done.

So that being said, because of the options that we have, our proposal for you today as we're going to go through that litigation process, and there's tens of thousands of dollars, unfortunately, that are going to be lost here that we've already lost on our side.

But we'll go and open up the park in the next couple of weeks, is our proposal.

We feel that in about two weeks we could clean up a lot of the stuff that you see out there.

Um, obviously, as your parks director has mentioned, is we know we're gonna be resoding the area.

Um we look at residing that area, it could take about 30 days because before we could actually open that area and you know have some usage of it.

Um, and we're also okay, just reporting back to your management team on a monthly basis uh to explain to you where we are uh with respect to the park.

The truth of the matter is the park's not gonna be in perfect condition on day one, but the goal is is to open that park, and as we go through is continue to clean up the park stuff because really at the end of the day is you you hold the hammer, right?

Because at the end of the day, the regional park before it gets turned over to the city of North Las Vegas, you have to accept it, and it has to be in acceptable condition.

So we have that time now to start working on it.

And it's unfortunate that uh we're at this place.

I'm standing before you because it's not fun.

Um it's not fun to talk about this stuff, and it's not fun to talk about an HOA Village 3 that has an obligation that has shirk that uh shrieked that obligation over the last two years, and we've tried.

And again, I'm gonna close out because your staff has been tremendous.

They've been very professional uh even today and handling the matters, and I look forward to continuing to work with the city, and we'll get a resolution here, and that park will get open.

And unfortunately, we're gonna be dealing with something on the side with the HOA, and I think there's gonna be more to come on this.

And um, with that being said, I'm here to answer any questions, and Brian's here if there's any questions for him, and uh we'll go on from there.

But thank you for giving me this time to at least lay out a few of the facts and clear up some stuff.

Thank you, Bob.

Marissa, did you have any more closing remarks before we open up the public hearing?

Hi, Mayor.

I think it it would be up to you uh if you want to open public comment.

Will you have any questions for staff?

We'll have, I'm sure we have lots of questions.

Okay, then I will reserve my conclusion for those questions that are answered if that's okay.

All right.

So this is a public hearing item, so I'll go ahead and open the public hearing at this time.

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

Yes, ma'am.

I have a request to speak from Leonard Scott.

Welcome, Mr.

Scott.

Good evening, Mayor and uh to the board, City Council.

My name's Leonard Scott.

I'm a homeowner in the village of Thule Springs, Southwest 3 Blackstone community, and I'm also the newly elected HOA president.

Um, listening to the gentleman speak.

Um we are willing to honor the contract.

That's that's not the problem.

The problem is the park, they want to turn over a park to us that's not constructed properly.

Um the park and trails agreement under Article 2, maintenance of phase one regional park, section five, section 2.12, and section 2.13.

If it reads that on the other hand, maintenance obligations shall not include the repair or replacement of any items caused by defective work or by or on behalf of the master developer.

Well, the master developer turned the water off without notification to us, and they claimed they weren't getting paid, which is not true.

I wasn't the president at that time, but I was very proactive with the board.

They were sending invoices that was incorrect, and they expected us to pay for them.

And of course, we refused.

We asked them to send us the proper invoices.

We checked with three different accounting firms about the invoices, and it's illegal to accept and pay for improper invoices.

The part they claimed opened in October of 2023, which wasn't true.

It opened February of 2024.

Um we've given them 430,000.

And Mr.

Scott, let me stop you right there just for one second.

Madam City Clerk, how many other blue cars do we have for this item?

No, I don't know.

So I will extend you another minute.

So you got to keep it moving.

My point is we will take the park and take over the maintenance once the park is brought back up to operation, full operation.

That means everything cleanup, replanting of trees, the pad water pads refurbished and redone, bathrooms opened and cleaned and pipes.

And that's pretty much where we're at.

They offered 10,000.

We had three beds, we accepted the bed of Gothic landscaping.

I was there and they were there that day when we went out there.

And just to open the side and the cleanup is 179,000.

And they offered 10,000 to clean up the park and get it opened.

So they haven't operated in good faith with our community at all.

Thank you.

Mayor, that was the last request to speak for that item.

All right, thank you.

And I'll go ahead and close the public forum.

Um and we'll turn it over to council for comments and questions.

But um Bob and I appreciate your comments for you know complimenting staff on working with you all.

But to me, this is disheartening.

It's embarrassing.

I mean, looking at those pictures and seeing it for myself, I'm very disappointed.

I'm just uh I would be ashamed to even show something like that because you have an obligation to the residents in that area to have a park for that community that they can use.

I looked at, you know, the dead landscaping, the dead grass, sand blown all across the park, all the safety hazards with the equipment, um, the bathrooms, the trash and the debris, and so those toilets haven't been flushed in over two years, so we don't know what kind of shape that is, and then going in there just to pressure wash that that's that's intense, and that's super such a super safety hazard as well.

Um the issue with the home, the HOA, that's we're we're dealing with the the the master plan developer, and so you guys have to kind of figure that part out of it.

But I appreciate the action that you're you're going to take against them.

Um I just and also looking at the shelter rules and how that's confusing to the residents to say that it's the city's um priority to maintain that, but those should not have our logo on them at all, in my opinion.

And so it's just the whole thing is we wouldn't be here today if you had honored the obligation that you had to have this park maintained and opened.

Um, it took all of those steps that Sally mentioned to finally get attention and to get action.

I would just have to say, shame on you for that.

Um, you wouldn't want that in your neighborhood.

I'm sure you would not.

You would not accept a park like that in your neighborhood.

And so I don't know why you think that's okay for the residents here in the city of North Las Vegas.

It's totally unacceptable to me.

And so um our job is to uh for me personally, I'm not waiting anymore.

Um, because like I said, we wouldn't be here at this stage right now because we've done our due diligence to be communicated to communicate with you, and you know, it seems like you have blown us off until it we've got to this point here, so we want to be completely transparent so our residents understand what is going on.

And so um I'll I'll let council ask their questions.

Um we could ask a bazillion questions, but the bottom line is you had an obligation to those residents, and that obligation has not been fulfilled according to the master plan.

So um, Councilman Churchill, I'm gonna turn it over to you since we this is in Ward 4.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, as was mentioned, um, I was out there with uh with Bob and his associate and with uh staff to listen to what the issues were with the uh with the park there.

Um it was um it was well attended uh after I had two meetings.

Uh one was with the uh HOA board and all of the residents, and then we decided to go ahead and meet with the HOA board uh and staff and myself, and I believe Sally was there as well.

Um I I don't know why it's gotten to this point either.

Um I've listened to all sides over here, but uh but I truly believe, and I'm willing to listen to more of my colleagues over here as well.

But uh I truly believe that the we as the city and the residents out there are recipients of uh some wrongdoing and wrong dealing with each other between the master and the HOA board.

Whether that was purposely done or not, it it really doesn't matter to me.

Fact of the matter is that it is the residents in the city who suffer by that.

So um I'm gonna reserve my opinions beyond that to uh my colleagues here and see what we can come up with.

I just hope that when we leave this room tonight that we have a uh a solid agreement uh that will work together with all three parties.

And I'm talking about um KBS, I'm talking about the HOA board, and of course us as a uh an entity here involved in this because it will be eventually our park and and eventually will be for the use of our residents.

Thank you, Mayor.

Okay, councilwoman, do you have any questions or comments?

Um thank you, Mayor.

I I have a question.

I'm I have concerns about that timeline.

Um two weeks, I heard that the timeline is that the time for reopening it, and then maybe this is a question for our parks team.

Is that an appropriate time to reopen the park so that it's at a standard that it's acceptable for the community?

I'm not a parks expert.

Councilwoman Doug Gyell, director of parks and recreation.

Um great question, probably not.

There's a lot of things that need to be improved there.

I think if if we opened it within two weeks, we would have to close parts of it, the turf, the volleyball, and and uh slowly reopen it.

But two weeks is asking a lot.

Um maybe we could do it, but we would have to probably fence off the turf area and the volleyball area, and we'd have to fix that basketball court uh backboard.

Okay.

Yeah, I'm not sure, Mayor, how we can um is it something that I mean, can B's client and our team work together on this, and can we have something written?

We could how would that work?

It's it's still technically private property, so I don't know how much I can get involved in this without without talking to Andy and the city attorney's office.

Okay, I just need to think.

Councilman Baron, do you have any comments or questions?

Yeah, uh I think that was uh one of my questions uh following the the councilwoman.

Uh yeah, uh I mean uh this appearance to me is we we have something that's uh a dispute between two private parties, right?

Um the two private parties, they are in disagreement.

It falls on us because uh of course our name is associated with this, right?

But this is this is between uh, of course, this homeowner association and the master developer.

Um do we have any uh do we have any fiduciary responsibility at this time before we assume uh the control of park?

Uh I guess this is a question more for our city manager or uh our legal team.

At this point, we do not have any fiduciary uh responsibility, is that correct?

Yes, under the applicable agreements, we don't have an ownership interest in the park.

We don't have a maintenance obligation in the park.

It is private property that is to be maintained under the agreement by the master developer who has then assigned that responsibility to the HOA uh Southwest 3 association.

And and correct me if I'm wrong, uh counselor.

Before we actually even take it uh upon uh our uh to our ownership, it still has to meet our standards.

Uh well we'll we'll have like I I think uh the contractor uh term for it is a punch list, right?

We would go through to make sure that this uh park meets our park standards as if we had built it, correct?

That's correct.

Once phase two is complete, and then it would be dedicated to the city before we would take ownership of it.

There would have to be a walkthrough, and we would have to make sure that it complies with all of our standards before we could actually take that over as a public park.

And and I'm no uh I'm no expert, you know.

I can barely keep my own.

I don't know, I don't even have a lawn right now.

Uh I can barely keep the uh the weeds from coming up coming up through my my rocks and all that, right?

But um I take it right now uh as uh to be attested, we're nowhere near being uh the standard to uh that a city of North Las Vegas park would be, right?

Or or perhaps, you know, uh again that's be a question for our our our our our parks uh department Well, I one thing I do want to clarify is like the question about maintenance, I mean the responsibility obviously to bring it up to standards to be open to the public.

I mean, that rests right now with the private owner.

I mean, we obviously don't want to have a park that's a hazard, and we can obviously have code enforcement go out there, but right now, I mean, any sort of obligations related to bringing it up to a standard to be open to the public, as Doug was mentioning about basketball courts needing to be possibly fenced off, that would rest with the private developer out there.

It wouldn't be our responsibility.

I don't even remember the event, but I I do recall going to this park early on in its existence, and it was beautiful.

Yeah, it yeah, that's wow.

I wish I had I I wish I had one of my parts and uh in Ward One to look like this one, right?

Because we're very limited with park space, quite frankly, in Ward One.

Uh so uh I uh uh on one hand, I'm I'm very sad, I think, for the residents who live over there who do not have access to this park.

Um at this point, what is our action that we're required to do here as a city council.

Uh this hearing was set up pursuant to the parks agreement and the development agreement as a kind of a gating item before we could file a lawsuit related to a breach of the development agreement.

We had to conduct a hearing to determine that the master developer is not in compliance with the development agreement, and we just wanted to foreclose any potential arguments that the developer could raise in a litigation matter if we were to pursue a judicial action.

So right now, I mean, the developers represented that they have filed a lawsuit against the HOA.

They just did that today.

So obviously, like the efficacy of this hearing is kind of borne out by the fact that it did actually result in some action being taken.

They made representations that they're gonna try to reopen the park as quickly as possible.

Um, I mean, the ultimate like goal of this was just to conduct this hearing, determine that the master developer was not in compliance with the development agreement, and then authorize city attorney's office, city manager to file a lawsuit in connection with that breach of the development agreement.

Um but right now, I mean they've made representations, so like there's a course of action where I mean we could set a status check hearing, we could do something else, or you could just instruct us to actually file a lawsuit because obviously we are an interested party in this matter.

I I get that.

Uh I I think uh for myself, I at this point I'm pretty satisfied that uh the master developer is taking positive steps to resolve this.

Sometimes uh I I think um I I'm I'm not of the opinion that we necessarily have to sue for everything.

And uh I would like our city's resources to be more contained and uh more used uh judicially uh judiciously and sparingly because we have limited resources ourselves.

And I'm pretty I I'm pretty sure certain that um that uh that one principal, the the master developer has competent uh attorneys who can uh now in light of the this pretty extensive um uh uh document, I'm pretty sure that uh perhaps they can maybe settle this out of court.

Uh so that there's no uh so this is not necessarily going to court and you're gonna spend more money on attorneys' fees than you would uh uh uh maybe even on fixing this.

So uh I am satisfied uh at this point with uh with I guess the plaintiff's uh uh lawsuit towards the homeowner association.

And uh I I feel for the homeowner association, I guess we have the the new president here who uh I they're gonna maybe uh be made to answer for possibly bad uh a previously bad um choices uh from the board.

So uh at this point uh I'm ready to go ahead and uh maybe uh come up with a timeline as to when we can do a status check as to how they're going along with this lawsuit or if they're uh have any out-of-court settlements that will bring us to a uh a resolution that uh will not uh of course uh um necessitate necessitate necessitate the night the uh city in Holly Vegas to get involved uh any further legally or to incur any more uh cost.

Any comments or questions, maybe approaching?

Briefly, thank you, Mayor.

Uh so I I believe that the mayor articulated the fact that this uh circumstance is unfortunate, and here we are today discussing the details of the how and the why.

I'm mostly interested in uh uh how we go forward, where we go from here and to define a reasonable timeline.

I'm hearing I I can't put words, I'm not going to put words in Mr.

Ragsdale or the master developer's uh mouth, but I'm hearing from you, Mr.

Gronauer, that there is an absolute commitment to fix the park and reopen it.

And if if that is indeed the case, I would like to, and you know, anything extraneous to that is between you and and and other parties, but for for us, the residents need the park opened, and we need to know definitively when that would take place.

You can't speak to that today.

There's some technical aspects of that with experts and landscaping uh professionals that need to determine that.

I would like to hear as soon as possible what a reasonable time frame would be for that.

And then we work towards that end so the park can be properly opened and utilized by the residents.

Um I think that uh you know that's really the the ultimate goal here, and I think that's what we should we should be exclusively focused on.

One thing that you did say is you're open to a monthly um you know check-in, ongoing uh progress.

I would be of the opinion that we make the frequency of that um greater where we uh meet or have some type of communication on a weekly basis uh until it's opened.

I think one month, the next thing you know, we'll have six months transpire, and so I think we should have a uh an accountability uh check-in on a weekly or every other week interval until it's open.

So thank you, Mayor.

Councilman Churchio.

Yeah.

Thank you, Mayor.

You know, I know all parties over here discussing this here.

And um, I'm the same we're making more out of it than what it is, but I think uh we are making more out of it than what it is.

Uh I don't believe that as a city, we should be involved in this to this point right now.

We're not responsible for that park to try to lend a hand on some guidance or to oversee the remediation, absolutely, because it's our residents out there.

But we shouldn't offer any help to remediate that park.

Uh, that's between unfortunately between um KBS and the HOA.

I know that the HOA has had some internal problems uh for quite some time over there.

Um Leonard was on the board at the time, but he wasn't in charge.

Uh they've since uh I'm not gonna say remove the president, but they've changed presidents there now.

So I I think there's uh there's a burden on on both of those uh um organizations there to come up with a timeline to bring that up to standard for us to approve and open it up to the people.

Uh but I would not uh I I would not support getting involved in in in assisting in any way because then you you become culpable as well.

So uh I would rather come up with a timeline, as uh MPT said, and uh let's see what uh what you can come up with uh to accommodate us in that that respect, uh Bob.

Yeah, if I may, um I think that's a great idea, is maybe if there's a 30-day check-in, because one thing I wanted to clarify, and I thought I said it, and I apologize sometimes.

I don't speak clearly, is in I said in two weeks we could start opening up parts of the park, but not all of it is gonna be resolved because I gave the example the SAD.

That's gonna take about four weeks.

So we're okay to start cleaning up and trying to open up certain areas that can be open, but we believe I think in 30 days, we could come back here and give you a status update of where we are.

Um it's not so much on the litigation side, because like I said, unfortunately, that that that cart and our horse is down.

That's going down that road, and it's not gonna look it's not gonna be pretty for anybody.

So that's not your problem, okay.

Your issue is to resolve this park and make sure it's up and functioning.

And as the mayor has mentioned, you're absolutely right.

We got to go do that.

We'll work on it.

We had to go and figure out ways because I was trying to explain in my presentation.

The resources of money are is not there when the responsible party is supposed to be paying for that.

You don't deal with that, right?

Like I said, common sense.

But because of that, we are taking money out of our other parks reserves to take care of this because the money that's supposed to be taking care of this is in is sitting somewhere that we don't know.

But we will.

Brian's here.

If you need him to make a commit uh statement of anything, he wants to talk.

I told him I don't want him to talk.

I said it's okay, let's just go forward here and do the right thing, and he wants to do the right thing.

And we've been trying to do the right thing.

It's we have not ignored the city.

I have not ignored a phone call, an email or a conversation with anybody that in in talking about this.

As I said, I initiated this conversation almost two years ago with the key parties that are involved in this stuff, and we'll continue to do so.

Um, it's not pretty, but I want to get it done.

I'd like to do it in 30 days because filing a lawsuit against us, all that creates is more work for us, and we're gonna get to the same solution without the lawsuit because I'm standing up here.

Brian has uh gotten the authority within his group to find the money to go ahead and open this park, and it's not gonna be open immediately, but we're gonna open it in 30 days, you're gonna see.

And if we're not there, you guys have every right to come and do whatever you want with us.

So I think it's a great check-in.

Uh let me just add one thing, and this is only my opinion, that as somebody who uh represents that area there.

Um this is like the broken window concept.

Um, I don't think that we should open that park up until it's complete to our standards and what the uh residents expect out there.

If we start opening up or you start opening up the park to try to accommodate the wishes of um what the residents would want, the use of that park, they're gonna go in there and they're gonna see broken stuff yet, and they're gonna see some stuff repaired, and then I don't know how we're going to explain to those people what we're doing over here tonight.

Uh I would prefer to keep it simple as possible, bring it up to a standard that we could agree to, and then open up the park when it's ready.

You had another question, Councilwoman.

Thank you.

That's a really good point, Councilman.

I I had a request, uh, Bob, I don't know, would your client be okay with the removal of the signs?

Um that there are currently and replacing with the other signs at Julie Springs.

That has been creating a lot of confusion.

Yeah, uh, we're we're fine.

And what I'd like to do is in the next 30 days is work with parks and your management team, and we'll work on that list to come back and tell you what we can, can't do or where we're going.

Okay, I think that's the easiest way, because I think there's ways we could try to get this park open, all due respect.

I I understand there's two sides of philosophies here, but I'd like to see what we can do to get the park open sooner.

Brian would like to do that.

But uh, we can do that and work on that and how we remove signage um for the park because it was set for a regional park, that's what it's supposed to be.

Okay, thank you.

Um I'm gonna ask Andy or Marissa to come Marissa to come back up to the microphone.

Um, and I as far as like a timeline, there's just no way, and I agree with Councilman Churchill, we don't want a piecemeal opening this park.

That makes no sense to me.

And there's just no way that's gonna happen in 30 days because you've got to get bids, you've got to get kind of you've got to go through a lot of things, and this one may work out, this one may not work out, so then you're going back to square one.

So it's gonna take a while um to to get this right.

And so I don't want our residents in there playing in a half park, or you can do this section, but not that section.

So that makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever.

And so I guess we'll just talk about what a uh uh appropriate plan of action could look like, and then we'll make a determination.

Yes, mayor.

I think um as Mr.

Gronauer proposed, I think it would be appropriate for them to work with uh our parks team and management and provide weekly reports of of what they're doing.

And it is important to make eventually the park is going to be dedicated to the city.

So it makes sense that whatever repairs they do now are acceptable to the city once we do the the punch list.

So uh the city would be agreeable to work with uh with uh Mr.

Grohnauer's team to make sure that those repairs are acceptable.

The standards uh are acceptable to the city, and we could continue the matter.

Oh, and another thing would be the removal of the signs.

That's really important because it's creating confusion for our residents.

So I appreciate that they've agreed to remove those.

Uh so it would be appropriate to continue the matter for for a month as requested, and then um they can provide an update at that time, and then if things are not moving forward, then we can make the motion that we were requesting initially.

Does that answer your question?

Um Andy, did you want to say anything or the only thing I want to add is I think yeah, maybe a check-in in about a month makes sense, but obviously we can have periodic status updates depending on the length of time it's gonna take for all the work to be completed because obviously we can just put an agenda item in the future, but I think obviously having a check-in in about 30 days makes sense to me.

Do we need to do something formally in writing about the timeline?

No, I think I mean you can make a motion to instruct like city clerk to set an item in the second meeting in February as a check-in item on this, because it's not really a continuation of this matter, it's uh more or less a status check, and then we can obviously draft the agenda item to reflect that if there hasn't been sufficient effort made to we can then proceed with a legal action.

Okay, Mr.

Bob, did you have any additional comments?

No, I was just gonna add this to the record.

I did um because since our records been made, what I'm gonna submit to you is counsel for the HOA last night saying they are not obligated to build uh to make any contributions to the park.

So I want that for the record.

That's all.

Okay.

Councilman, your word, sir.

All right, we're all reasonable people over here.

I know Brian, I know Bob, and I know uh Leonard.

Um, but I also know the residents out there.

So that's why I had suggested.

Um I'm happy to hear that the mayor understands the importance of that and agrees.

Let's uh let's bring that park uh to the people when it's ready to go.

And uh as per our city attorney, uh we could agree to the wording and in exactly what you said to come up with an agreement to have them come back to us and work with them on the punch list.

So when that thing is ready to go, uh it'll be appropriate for the residents to go in there.

So it won't be opened up until we're all in agreement that it's appropriate for the residents to go in there.

Is that okay?

Did that meet uh what you're saying?

Well, I was just uh saying, I mean, obviously that's something where they can agree to work with the parks department and make sure that it's up to our standards.

But I think in terms of procedurally with this hearing, I don't know if you just want to have something come back in second meeting in February.

Okay, yeah.

Whatever you think is appropriate, that's fine too.

Yes.

Okay, I'll make a motion to accept that suggestion made by our city attorney.

One month status check.

Perfect.

Okay.

We have a motion.

I made the motion.

And that motion passes.

Thank you very much.

I'll see you in 30 days.

Thank you.

All right.

Moving on to business.

Item 15, resolution number 2746, a resolution authorizing the city manager or her designee to give notice of the sale of property subject to an assessment lien that is delinquent and providing for other matters properly relating thereto.

Here, if there are no comments or questions on item 15, I will entertain a motion.

Move to approve.

That motion passes.

Moving on to appointments.

Uh Mayor, I think we're at ordinances.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I think I skipped something here then.

Thank you.

Moving on to ordinances of final action.

Item 16, ordinance number 3267, an ordinance of the city of North Las Vegas repealing and replacing chapter 5.05 of the North Las Vegas Municipal Code relating to the licensing of providers of ambulance and other mobile medical services by amending definitions, providing for updated application procedures, providing for certain duties and exemptions, and providing for other matters properly related there too.

Thank you.

That motion passes.

Now moving on to appointments.

Item 18, appointment of Richard Churchill to the Southern Nevada Council of Governments for a term ending on November 30, 2028.

Councilman Churchill, do you accept this role?

Yes, I do, Mayor.

Like I have the choice.

Then I'll call for the motion to appoint Councilman Churchill to the Southern Nevada Council of Governments.

I'll make that motion.

So move.

Okay.

We'll get them now.

And that motion passes.

Item 19, appointment of Scott Black to the Southern Nevada Council of Governments for term ending on November 30, 2026.

So you can question Mayor Pro Tim.

Do you want to be a part of the COG?

Indeed, I do.

It's a slow-moving cog, but I'll do it.

Motion to uh appoint MPT to Sven Avenic Council of Governments.

Oh did my vote go in?

Touch your screen and see if it'll make it larger again.

Oh okay.

Sorry.

And that motion passes.

Moving on to the city manager's report.

Well, 2026 is really shaping up to be a year of milestones, especially since this is going to be the city's 80th anniversary.

Um, and on January 13th, the care court reached a milestone with its largest graduation to date, recognizing 17 graduates.

And as the program enters its fifth year, I mean, that's really kudos to our city council as well as to the team that's running that.

Um each participant's graduation reflects more than a year of sustained effort, accountability, and engagement in treatments, services, and court supervision.

This success reflects strong collaboration among the court, prosecutors, treatment providers, community partners, and mayor and council programs like care, reduce, repeat court involvement, improve public safety, and connect individuals to long-term support that addresses root causes and straightens the community.

Um our North Las Vegas Hispanic Citizens Academy is going to be starting soon.

This is a 10-week program that runs from March 25 through March 27th from 6 to 9 p.m.

at City Hall.

Participants will get a behind-the-scenes look with demonstrations from divisions including SWAT, canine narcotics, traffic, crime scene investigations, communications and patrol.

Applicants must live in North Las Vegas, be at least 18 years old, and meet eligibility requirements.

Please contact our community engagement division at NLVPD Community Engagement at City of North Las Vegas.com or call 702-633-1818.

And thank you, MPT, for shouting out that amazing award ceremony we had.

We had 221 employees recognized during our years in service awards.

And we have six employees that have hit the 30-year milestone with the city.

And of course, we had our special award for who is our basically our team member of the year, and that went to Michelle Cowles, who is the special assistant to the director of community services and engagement for her outstanding commitment to the community.

And thank you all for being there.

So North Las Vegas Fire Department 2025 year in numbers.

Fire Station 58 opened, serving 30,000 residents in Thule Springs.

We had 9,047 EMS training hours.

That's Academy Hands-on Classes and Paramedic Training and Rescue 53 was named UMC EMS Crew of the Quarter.

Heavy Rescue 52 was added with a fully trained technical rescue team.

And the CRT and Core Impact, we had 254 referrals, 535 on-scene assessments, 1,168 fault contacts, 83% reduction in repeat client calls, and 575 residents trained in hands-on only CPR.

So big kudos to our fire department for a tremendous year.

Amazing.

Thank you so much for sharing that.

All right.

So we can move now into our second public forum.

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

Speakers are limited to two minutes.

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

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

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

Yes, ma'am, we do.

We have two requests to speak.

The first being Mr.

Silence Do Good.

Welcome, Mr.

Silence Do Good.

Mr.

Silence Do Good, North Las Vegas 89030.

This is another L for uh mixed economy nonsense, you know.

Like it is, I wonder if you guys truly like rationally under like think of is a mixed economy as a master plan economy the best way to uh grow the city.

You know, I mean, there's we we've been doing this for about a century in America and in Nevada.

We've been doing this about 50 years or so.

Uh there's substantial evidence to suggest that this is actually detrimental, and it only propagates uh problems and uh economic issues within our uh our communities, you know, going down from the job market, the heavy regulation in the job market, to housing, you know.

It you is you see it all over the place, and it's uh it it truly makes me wonder like is is there any like rational reasoning or is it just irrational emotional sentiments that causes uh a lot of this uh movements and decision making associated with the planned economy?

You know, we're not we're not in uh the 19th, uh the 20th century, we're not there like before.

We have modern estimates, you know, we have better uh models to uh imagine the world.

We don't have to follow uh the statist uh mixed economy nonsense, you know.

The only system that hasn't been tried is capitalism.

Lazar capitalism and those forms of approach.

And I wonder if uh you guys think about it, dude.

But anyways, uh farewell, yeah.

Thank you.

The last speaker is Kimmy Johnson Lindsay.

Welcome, Miss Johnson Lindsay.

Thank you.

It's uh it's Lind's Day.

Lind's Day, okay, thank you.

Thank you so much.

I actually um I live in Henderson, um, but I'm a concerned resident.

I actually oversee a territory that this is part of.

And I used to just two years ago live in North Las Vegas, so I have a heart for the community.

Um, I wanted to talk to you guys about an agitation campaign that's being done right now by the Las Vegas DSA.

It's an anti-ICE agitation campaign, which today culminated in a bunch of students walking out of class, and one student was actually hit here in North Las Vegas.

And our law enforcement is awesome and responded timely and did their job wonderfully.

And I understand that ACLU right now is in a lawsuit with uh with the city because of 280 287 G, which is our contract to work with ICE enforcement, and and it's contested and it's heated.

And I just want to say thank you guys for your support, continued support of law enforcement and what they're doing keeps our community safe.

Um, but we if we can do something to address these organizations that are now impacting our students in class.

I have parents reaching out to me because they didn't know that this was happening, that their students were gonna be leaving class in the middle of the day just to go wherever, and then kid kid got hit today.

And that's not I'm all freedom of speech is awesome.

I think it's wonderful.

Kids have that's more power to you.

But when safety is uh when safety is impacted, we need to do something.

So maybe there's I'm not sure who needs to address this, but if they're gonna be doing this campaign all 2026, I want to ensure that our families are safe, our students are safe.

And we'll be talking about this at the school board tomorrow, but I wanted to bring it up to you guys since this is North Las Vegas and we love law enforcement.

And so thank you guys for what you do, your continued support for the good guys.

Um, and then that's all.

Thank you.

Thank you.

There are no further requests to speak.

All right, thank you.

So I'll go ahead and close the second public forum.

This meeting is adjourned.