The North Las Vegas City Council welcomes you to its meeting.

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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 have the opportunity to have the invitation given by President Mark McRay of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Sky Canyon Stake.

And then following that would be the Pledge of Allegiance led by Mojave Bowling Team.

All right, please rise.

Above all, Heavenly Father, we are grateful for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and for his perfect example of love and service and pray that we can continue to strive to be like him and we ask for these things in the sacred name of Jesus Christ.

Amen.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

So councilwoman and I were just up here saying this is Mojave's bowling team, and we have something in common with you all.

I bowled on uh I have a few bowling trophies myself, but this was way before you were even born.

So I was on a bowling team in high school, and I believe you bowled as well.

One year.

One year trophy, like I used to throw a mean strike, probably couldn't do it today.

So let's go down front, councilmen.

Is that four council?

I'm putting you on the spot.

Welcome.

Oh, it's okay.

Now it's on, right?

All right.

Good afternoon, everybody.

Um I'm lucky enough to be the councilman for this uh this school, council uh the church here and uh to more four.

And um I'm really really well we were talking before the uh the council meeting.

I had an opportunity to meet these uh these young bowlers.

Um and uh they were wondering where where are we gonna have a bowling alley here in North Las Vegas?

Okay.

We had to, Mayor?

Texas and it's over now.

Oh yeah, well the Texas is gone now.

Well, you know, th uh I remember bowling when I was younger.

I I I don't think I ever got a trophy, but uh I used to be a pretty good bowl too.

Uh but uh I want to uh congratulate uh these young people here, men and women, for being so involved with sports, and that is a sport.

It takes a lot of time to get out there and and uh and bowl well and uh it's very uh it's it's very passionate.

I know I'm very passionate when I was bowling and uh I take it I took it very seriously.

So uh I want to just say to you and present you with something here.

Um behalf of the city of North Las Vegas for Mojave High School girls bowling team.

Your historic achievement reflects the spirit, unity, and unwavering pride of the North Las Vegas community and signed by all of us in the mayor here on City Council.

Congratulations.

Hey, you guys practically team cheer for us.

Do you have a teen cheer or cheer team leader like to speak?

Yeah.

Okay, team leader.

Yeah.

And then maybe do that break, the teen cheers, right?

Oh yeah.

Oh.

Oh, we didn't bring our bowling bowls.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

So I started bowling my freshman year, but I come from a family of bowlers.

They're all sitting right there.

Uh um I I average on my own league a one eighty-five, but I ended the season on a with a one sixty-nine average.

My team and I we won we won championships undefeated.

We didn't lose a single match.

And really proud of my team.

We worked really hard this year.

And I'm I'm a senior, so I'm like it's kind of sad leaving my team, but I'm hoping they can carry it on and win next year.

We we practice at Suncoast.

Okay.

It's pretty far, but it's close it's the closest one we got.

So if we get that bowling alley in North Las Vegas, you know, we could be a little closer to home.

Yeah.

Any perfect games?

Um I my highest is uh two seventy-nine.

Thank you.

I just wanted to say I'm really proud of these guys.

If you know I've been keeping up with them and they've been made the title game a couple years before, got beat uh two years in a row, but this year, hey, step with it, everybody was positive, everybody improved all year, and these girls are just great in there.

Hey, I couldn't be more proud proud of them.

Rolling on me, running on three.

All right, so President McRay want to invite you back up to the microphone.

Yeah.

And I just tell us all things about your your church, your sky canyon stake.

All right.

Well, thank you.

The Church of Jesus Christ, the Latter-day Saints is a worldwide church, and we are organized in local congregations throughout the world.

And I have the opportunity to live in the Sky Canyon Stick, which is in the northwest Las Vegas area.

And I get to be one of the ecclesiastical leaders out there.

And as members of the church, we seek and strive to follow the example of our Savior Jesus Christ to go about doing good and serving others.

And we do that under the direction of a prophet here on earth today, just like in times of old that we read about in the Bible when they had a prophet leading and guiding the work.

So thank you.

Any upcoming exciting events that are happening?

We do have uh exciting event coming up in June, and it'll be throughout all of your mic away.

Sorry about that.

Okay.

Uh, throughout all of Las Vegas at all the local congregations, um, they're gonna have a watch party soon with a musical event um featuring the tabernacle choir at Temple Square.

So a great opportunity to listen to great music this summer.

Awesome.

Well, thanks for sharing that with us.

Appreciate it.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Okay, moving on to council items.

Councilmember Roan.

Thank you, Mayor.

I and I had no idea that you were such a bowler.

It was really nice to see, of course, you know, uh my Mojave High School's team.

Um they were not to be denied, and uh were able to close it out, and the seniors get to finish on a high note.

What a way to go out.

Hey, and that's something that can never be taken away from that team.

Um they get to live now in eternity, yay.

Um but before we get to eternity, right?

Uh, I'm happy to say that uh right here and and in Ward 1, we kicked out this safety week for the city of North Vegas, and we did a safety kickoff here.

Uh I I was here, of course, with Mayor and Mayor Putem.

And um, you know, I think I'm having problems with my short-term memory.

Um, Councilman, were you there too?

Kickoff.

Uh it's you know what?

Here I am, I'm putting you on the spot.

Please forgive me.

You know, I just uh got a lot of things going on, but I'm really happy to say that we kicked off our safety week.

And you know, uh, of course, the goal is uh of course to promote safety here within uh the uh our uh organization and I'm I'm happy to say that um we're off to a great uh to a great start there.

And um I myself I'm looking uh forward to that forklift challenge, right?

Um this time we're gonna have to follow the the reason the the example of the uh the Mother Hobby uh uh women's uh bowling team, and we're gonna have to come up on on top.

If not, I'm gonna say we're gonna have to, if we don't do it, you know.

I hey, how about this?

I'm gonna find out who made those shirts, and I'm gonna get some bowling shirts.

I'm gonna go ahead and sponsor them with uh for them to be warned during the fourth of challenge.

That's gonna be some motivation, right?

So I'm write that down.

I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna have you guys hold me to that.

Because you know, with those with those shirts, right?

They went all the way.

So I'll see if I can find that right, please.

Yeah, keep that uh in.

Um the old saying is that uh if you uh uh give a guy a fish, uh they get to eat uh one day, but if you teach them how to fish, they get to eat for the rest of their lives.

Uh I'm I'm I'm very happy that I had a chance to address that because I went here with with some of the the youth here from the North Las Vegas Recreation Center um to um a fishing trip to Lorenzi Park.

Uh that was uh last Wednesday, the April 8th.

Um I couldn't share any pictures.

I think you know they're all minors, so I'm not allowed to, since they're probably uh school district um um kids, I wasn't allowed to put that, but I took my son with me, and I was able to post a couple pictures of me and my little kid, the three-year-old, uh, as we were trying to drown the worms there.

Um I really want to uh give a big shout out, I thank you to our uh to get this uh get the staff, uh our park staff to get the shout out to our uh NRC.

Um again, anything we can do to promote you know young people to get out and enjoy uh uh uh uh nature to get to participate in sports like fishing, um, other hiking, things like this, to enjoy nature, to be able to um and uh to for them to appreciate it so that they'll be in a position to preserve it later on for uh for other generations, right?

Um it's uh it's always a positive thing.

So I wanted to thank again our uh uh our um neighborhood recreation staff for putting that together.

And next time we go out, we'll definitely catch uh a couple of lunkers there, right?

And but of course, we will responsibly put them back in the water.

Finally, um, as your appointed trustee to sit on the on the Clark County School District Board of Trustees, it gave me a lot of pride to present the Educator of the Year winner in the licensed specialist specialist division uh on April 10th.

Um I'm very happy that it was uh an educator at our very own Elizondo Elementary School.

It was uh the school psychologist Yasmin Beckett, who we were able to uh to give this award, and of course, it's a very competitive kind of thing.

Uh she was actually presented uh I I think uh previously, but uh on that day we actually went and the the superintendent brought a whole like um a basket full of uh guests from the community and presented to her.

I'm very proud that our school district uh attracts this top flight talent to give service to the children here in North of Vegas.

And um, Mayor, uh of course, you know, we're both at actually three of us here educators.

We know just how difficult it is to be an educator and and provide service and especially to be an educator of the year in your very first year.

That's amazing.

So um thank you so very much.

Um my total respect to Miss Yasmin Beckett.

Thank you, Councilman Churchill.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh this morning, uh my colleague and friend, councilwoman um excuse me.

I'm gonna take a shot of off.

One second, please.

Okay, better.

My colleague and friend, councilwoman um Garcia and um Ruth Garcia and Anderson and myself had an opportunity to take a tour of the uh diffusion center, which is in uh metro headquarters down on MLK.

Uh it was uh was probably the most enlightening uh tour I've I've had.

Uh just the opportunity to see what we're doing behind the scenes to protect the community, uh, particularly when it comes to uh of course crime, but also uh any other violations, uh any other issues that kind of uh negatively impact our quality of life.

Um we're definitely into uh uh AI right now uh just by looking at what they do with the drones.

Um I I you know I don't know if we'll have an opportunity to uh to take a tour like that if they ever offer something like that to the general public, but I could tell you that we're in good hands uh as a city and and as southern the batter over here when it comes to being a part, our office is a part of the fusion center as well, uh, as far as what they do with these uh these uh drones and how they go ahead and protect us here in the city.

Um I appreciate the invitation that uh that I had to go there.

Um May 23rd from nine o'clock until 11 a.m.

We're going to have a grand opening of our Skyview Multi-Generational Center uh on Centennial.

Uh we've had um the YMCA running that facility for a number of years just because of the fact that we were understaffed here.

Uh they did an amazing job, but uh it's time right now that uh that we take our sky view back.

And uh I know that um our parks department uh is doing an amazing job uh refurbishing what we have over there right now, and uh we're gonna see exactly what uh what uh the Skyview looks like.

I'm looking forward to being a part of that, and I want to thank uh uh Doug and Valerie for all the hard work and your team for putting it to to make that a uh a beautiful uh center coming up again for us here in North Las Vegas.

Um lastly, I want to mention that uh April Pools Day.

Um councilwoman Garcia Anderson, myself and uh code enforcement manager Tom Martins were present over here at the uh at the pool in uh in War 3's uh area, Mr.

Scott Black, MPT Black.

Uh and uh I want to mention that uh uh one of our employees uh uh I'm sorry, one of our employees, uh Maryam Guzman uh daughter, kind of uh played the part of a drowning child, and she played uh a very convincing part as well.

Uh and I want to thank uh all of the people that participated in that, as well as the um SNDPC for organizing uh an extremely successful April Pools Day on April 1st, but also for us to remember that it just takes a second uh for one of our children to drown, and uh we should be aware of that.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Councilman Mayor Pro Sam.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh last week was Public Health Week here in the United States and in Southern Nevada.

I had the privilege on Tuesday, April 7th, to speak at the uh state of public health at the Health Health District.

Um the Health District does a tremendous job throughout our community.

I have the privilege of representing North Las Vegas on the Board of Health, and I currently serve as the board chair.

There were two presentations.

One was to show based on the proactive programs within our community to lower the opioid overdoses and deaths related to those um those drugs, as well as a really, really amazing uh panel on the street medicine team that the health district has that embeds with uh our like our home team here in North Las Vegas to go out and bring primary uh care and medical services to the unhoused community.

It's really a great investment in people's lives and having that um primary care relationship, even uh in rough circumstances uh such as being unhoused.

On the 11th of April last Saturday, I went to the Nevada Fossils Day at Ice H Fossils Park, which is uh on the northwest edge of our city, just uh outside of Ward 3, and uh had the privilege of uh presenting a proclamation for Fossils Day.

Nancy Bruni, the councilwoman from City of Las Vegas Ward 6, uh was our partner on that.

She had a booth, we had a booth, we gave out uh goodies to the participants at an art contest.

Uh Councilwoman Bruni also um gave a proclamation from the City of Las Vegas, and it just shows the value of having good relationships with uh the other jurisdictions and how we can work together to elevate our our collective communities.

Uh lastly, um each year for the past four years I've uh held the read to ride program in connection with Nevada Reading Week that ended at the end of March, starting last week and into this week.

I'm uh awarding the BMX spikes to the winners at each school.

Uh the stats for that, there were seven schools that participated, 114 students for a total of 58,076 minutes read.

Thank you.

Awesome.

Councilwoman.

Thank you, Mayor.

On April 2nd, I had the privilege of participating in the Entrepreneur Fest 20 2026 competition as a judge along along with my um colleagues, Mayor and uh Mayor Pamel Goins Brown and MPT.

And this competition was so fun, and I I am so glad I I uh I was a part of it because it involved the Kenyon Springs High School Business Leadership Studies.

Um this is a really great program.

Um and this uh students brought amazing business ideas, and um this program is designed to promote the development of soft skills for for students.

Um communication, teamwork, and problem solving.

So I re I want to thank their teacher, Miss Um, her name is Ms.

Paula, Paula Anderson, um, because she does a fantastic uh fantastic job uh with helping the students and pushing and moving forward with this great program at Canyon Spring, which is in it's in my award.

Um and then the winners were the names, Baby Bloom, and it was Kayla Lorraine and Evelyn Hicks.

So I just wanted to give a shout out to them because they they all did a great job, and it was really hard to pick a winner.

Uh, they all you know brought fantastic ideas, and so um thank you to all those that participated, and thank you to Natasha from our team for helping coordinate uh this great um this great competition.

And then on April 18th, I had the privilege of attending the Hispanic and Politics Breakfast event.

It's always great to attend community events.

Um this one was a little bit um more special because three of our um council members were speakers that morning, and it was just so great to uh be there and then just you know see them talk about the wonderful things that are happening in North Las Vegas and I I'm sure that everyone that was in attendance, you know, left feeling that North Las Vegas is doing great things in our community and it's moving in the right direction.

Um so I want to thank Mr.

Fernando Romero for his advocacy and for the work that he's doing in our community.

And then last but not least, there was an awesome concert that took place last Friday at Craig Ranch in Ward 2.

Um, that I'm still like, I'm still wanting to dance because it was so fun.

It was a totally 80 symphonic.

Uh for those of you that aren't aware, the amphitheater at Craig Rant went through some major renovations, um, including getting an ox on your roof, which is gonna allow you know big bigger and uh bigger bands to come and to have bigger concerts, and uh, this was a free show for the community.

Um, and it was just phenomenal.

Um, I heard such great feedback, including from my own kids, um, which you know I ended up staying the entire time.

We're there for two and a half hours, and they just didn't want to leave.

It was a really fun event.

So I just want to thank our parks and rec team for all the work that they're doing uh for you know working hard to ensure that our community feels included and that we're bringing events that our community um really enjoys.

Um, and so for anyone that wants to see what's coming up in our city to stay informed, just make sure you are following our city's website, city of North Las Vegas.com, and make sure you follow us on social media as well.

We have fantastic comms team who is constantly um, you know, bringing uh making just amazing uh polls so that everyone can stay informed.

Um, and that is it for me.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, councilwoman.

And April 19th through the 205th is National Crime Victim's Rights Week.

And so today you may notice we are in purple to signify the city of North Las Vegas' support to all victims of crime.

Together, we can make sure victims and survivors are aware of their legal rights enshrined in the Nevada Constitution, thanks to the November 2018 voter approval of Marcy's Law for Nevada.

So Marcy's Law for Nevada guarantees crime victims several things.

The right to receive information about their rights and the services available to crime victims, to be treated with fairness and respect throughout the criminal justice processes, to be notified of a defendant's impending release and be protected from the defendant, to notice of all public proceedings in the case, to be reasonably heard upon request at all public proceedings regarding the case, to reasonably confer with the prosecuting agency upon request regarding the case and the right to full and timely restitution.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Marcy's Law for Nevada, our very own North Las Vegas Police District, and all citizens, agencies, and organizations who work tirelessly each day to protect crime victims and their families.

And I want to say thank you for your service.

And I know you're over there filming.

Would you like to come over and say something, Kim?

Yes, ma'am.

Thank you very much.

I'm putting you on the spot today.

Thank you, Mayor.

I just want to say thank you to the council and to the mayor.

Your dedication and support to this effort throughout the year since I've been involved since 2016, really, and then it was voted on in 2018.

Um it just shows how much you care to this community.

Uh so many of us are touched by crime.

So many people, many of us don't even know, have been victims of crime, and we can all benefit from Marcy's Law and the Victims' Bill of Rights and the laws that we have under the Nevada Constitution.

So thank you for your continued support and all that you do for the community and for the police force and all those working within North Las Vegas who do so much to help community members.

We appreciate you.

Thank you.

I appreciate hearing that.

And you know, you would be so happy to know that um just across the board, our police are fantastic first responders have done a great job protecting our community and our crime stats have diminished significantly.

And so just a testament of the work that they're doing every day.

Thank you.

All right, thank you for being here.

Well done.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Okay.

All right, moving 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 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 other than a public hearing item, now is the time.

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

No, ma'am, we do not.

That'll go ahead and close the first public forum and moving on to the agenda.

Item one city council regular meeting agenda of April 15, 2026.

Yeah, I'll call for a motion to approve the agenda as published.

More to approve.

And that motion passes.

Yay, all systems ago.

Okay, moving on to the consent agenda.

The consent agenda consists of items two through nine.

Staff recommends approval of the consent agenda.

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

I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda.

And that motion passes.

Moving on to public hearings.

Item 10 ZN 012026 and ordinance number 3273, an ordnance related to zoning, a property reclassification of one acre from an M2 General Industrial District to an M1 business park industrial district.

ZN 012026, 235 Westbrooks for property located at 235 West Brooks Avenue and providing for other matters properly related there too.

Ricky Barlow, welcome.

Good to see you.

Good to see you all.

Good to see you.

For the record, Ricky Barlow, LV Access on behalf of the applicant, and the item before you, item 10, 235 Brooks Avenue.

This project proposes the adaptive reuse of an existing 6500 square foot warehouse into a banquet hall designed to host private events such as weddings, corporate events, corporate functions and community gatherings with a maximum occupancy of 150 people.

The use is intentionally structured to be low impact and compatible with the surrounding industrial area.

Events will primarily occur during evening and weekend hours, which avoids conflicts with typical daytime industrial traffic and operations.

From a planning standpoint, the project utilizes an existing building requiring no expansions, provides adequate on-site parking, incorporates event-based scheduling to manage traffic flow, and includes on-site management and security to ensure compliance and safety.

While improvements on the indoor uh such as the service bar, um, we will be getting those items permitted based on the outcome of uh tonight's meeting.

Um, we're looking to have a service bar on the interior of the warehouse space for the guest.

Importantly, uh this project delivers clear public benefits to the city of North Las Vegas.

It creates local jobs and tax revenue, provides a needed event venue space for residents and organizations, supports the revitalization through adaptive reuse of an underutilized industrial space and ensures a safe regulated environment for all activities.

If I didn't mention that we held a neighborhood meeting on January 21st, 2026, the neighborhood meeting went fairly well, over uh close to 100, approximately 100 notices went out to surrounding neighbors and our um in our community, and three neighbors showed up.

Um very nice people, basically, with uh very good questions that they've asked, and we addressed those questions accordingly.

Um March 11th of 2026, we were before the planning commission, as you all very well know.

The planning commission had a variety of questions that we were able to also address, and the planning commission um therefore move forward for approval.

So, in closing, this is a well-managed low-intensity use that aligns with the surrounding area, minimizing impacts and contributes positively to the community.

And so at this time, we respectfully ask for your approval tonight as we uh appreciate your consideration and any comments or questions that you all may have at this point as relates to the item before you.

Thank you, Mayor Council.

All right, thank you.

Um, I'm gonna open the public hearing since this is a public hearing item.

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

Mayor, we don't have any blue cards or requests to speak, however, we did receive two comment cards in support.

Okay, thank you.

And with that, I'll go ahead and close the public hearing.

Um, I just have a couple questions and then councilwoman will have you go next since this is in your board and then council if you have any additional questions.

Um, so it to my understanding that this was already operating as a banquet facility before today, correct?

Or before you went to planning?

No.

Wasn't no, it it's an empty warehouse space.

Okay.

Um the front portion, the office spaces are um utilized for medical transport and some uh behavioral um health counseling on uh on the frontage, but the warehouse space is completely empty.

And so what the ownership was looking to do was basically identify how to best utilize the highest and best use for this open space that they have that was completely underutilized.

So they found an opportunity such as no venues in the area to date would support, for example, um opportunities for this reusable um space such as events and banquet hall facility.

And so that was the direction that they felt would be best to basically fill a void that's in this geographic area of North Las Vegas.

And so in the process of that, working with your staff, um, which basically triggered a thought and thank you, Mayor.

Um, in the process of them applying for the banquet facility, um, staff informed us that the zoning could only be on M1.

The ownership had no desire to down zone from M2 to M1.

However, in order to make this happen, we had to request a down zoning to M1 in order to meet the requirements of the City of North Las Vegas for the banquet use.

And so I can share with you, having spoken with ownership, that in the future, if in fact they ever sell the property, that they will be coming back before this body to request that the property be returned to M2.

So I uh I do want to make make sure that you all are aware of that because they have no intentions on selling this property with a lower zoning use.

So they will be coming back.

If in fact that date ever comes, they will be coming back requesting the M2 and just basically remove the banquet facility in order to make that happen.

Okay, and you had mentioned something about jobs.

So are are people currently employed for the banquet portion, if not how many will you employ at that location?

Well, of course, is based on um the number of the number of of um uh individuals or organizations that uh you know come in to utilize it, but you're looking at approximately uh 10 to 12 uh part-time and possibly a couple full-time employees to basically manage manage the um the banquet use facility.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, go ahead.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um thank you, Mr.

Barlow, for being here.

Um I appreciate you making yourself available to answer questions.

Um I am aware of this project.

I also watched the planning commission meeting, and um, and I want to thank the any of the residents that uh spoke.

I know there are some that are in opposition.

Uh, one of them being Mr.

Um, I think Waltz Chris.

Um their comments were very helpful in helping uh our staff and myself understand the needs of of this community.

Um I'm I want to say that I'm very glad to hear that the business is doing their best to um work with our city and to pull um all permits necessary to ensure that they have um you know business running.

Um and I also know that what we have before us is uh the zoning.

Um we aren't able to impose any um you know any conditions at this time um on the the uses that'll come at a later and so um I just want to make it very clear that this application is not final if the zoning is approved tonight, you'll have to come back and present in front of planning commission again, uh, which is gonna allow um you know our team to be able to talk about some of those uses because uh M1 zoning allows for a lot of different things, correct?

Um I also share some of the concerns that the residents share as far as um parking, and so I've been at that location several times this week.

Um I went in the morning and then I went at night time.

I noticed the vans are parked outside, so I just wanted to just kind of get some clarification as to what your plan is for moving those vans because I counted about 16 of them, and you only have about or they have the business has only I think 27 parking spots available.

Right.

And so, based on the parking ratio, based on the your parking ratio, uh we reduced our occupancy to 150, which basically we meet the requirement of the parking ratio.

And so, whenever there's an event in the afternoon and the evening, which is predominantly when uh the event space will take place, the vans will be moved to another site that the ownership has control over that will allow for that parking to take place in order to free up the space for the customers that the clients that'll be coming in for any special events after hours.

Okay, so the vans will be moved prior to any events that are taking place.

That is correct.

And won't be anywhere near that neighborhood, because I don't think there's no because there's nothing in the neighborhood right now, Councilwoman, as you may well know that will allow for off site parking, specifically in uh the desert area.

And so we have no intentions to park uh those vehicles in the desert because of the type of use that they are.

You know, we need to make sure that they remain protected and and uh there's no issues there.

So they will be moved to an to a remote location that allows for that to take place.

Okay, I see.

Thank you so much.

And then one last question.

Um, you also mentioned uh your willingness to work with business owners.

What is your plan for working with uh adjacent businesses for added parking if needed?

Well, one thing that we have done is communicated with our neighbors, and so uh a couple of them have stated that they're open to allowing us if in fact there's a need for overflow to allow their parking spaces to be utilized based on based on need.

And so um if that ever takes place, then we'll basically work within the parameters of North Las Vegas to make sure that we have the appropriate permits and and and um and um allowances in order for us to do that appropriately.

Okay, that's that's good.

All right, well, thank you so much.

Um, anyone else have any additional questions?

Yeah, um, by the way, uh I want to welcome you.

Uh it's really good to see you again.

And see that you're uh out out and about working.

Um I have a question.

Um of course, so this is gonna be a small reception hall event center.

Um is someone going to be applying later on for a liquor license?

Yes, that is a part of the of the overall package, and so that will come during the special use permit, just as the councilwoman mentioned that uh based on the approval because the zoning has to take place first, and then we'll have an opportunity to apply for the special use permit, which which will allow for um liquor caterings on the interior of the of the site um to include uh applying for the bank license through your business licensing department.

I mean, uh well through your business licensing department, but by way of your um your planning department.

Okay, and um I I guess uh my question for staff is uh there would there's uh there's there's nothing else around there that would affect uh the the setback uh for a little license there.

No.

To your knowledge now.

Okay, no, no, I I've already did I've already did the due diligence there, sir.

So I I don't want to speak on behalf of your staff, but um there is not okay.

Um that's that's my uh main question.

All right, thank you.

Councilman, I'll turn it back over to you.

Thank you, Mayor.

Okay, with that, I will like to make a motion to approve um ZN 01 2026 in ordinance number 3273.

And that motion passes.

Thank you.

Okay, Mayor, may I just thank someone that was critical in all of us all of this to make this happen?

I would like to thank uh Mayor Elect Mr.

Black for your due diligence and your assistance and basically pull helping us work through uh the issues from the onset.

So really want to appreciate and say thank you for your assistance as well, sir.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor Council, for your assistance.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, moving on to item 11.

Item 11 status check on city council review pursuant to section 11.03 of the second amendment and restated development agreement for the villages at Tullee Springs regarding closure of villages at Thule Springs Regional Park and Master Developers alleged non-compliance with requirements in the villages at Tule Springs Parks and Trails Agreement.

All right, welcome, Mr.

Gronauer for the record, Bob Grona 1980 Festival Plaza Drive.

I'm here representing the master developer.

Park is open, as we told you.

Things are being done, so I don't think there's anything else we need to report unless your staff has something they want to add.

Okay.

So I'll call you up, Doug.

You can go ahead and give your presentation.

Good evening, Mayor Goins Brown City Council members.

Doug Gile, Director of Parks and Recreation.

And I'm pleased to report that there's some encouraging news.

Last month I sent an email uh to Mr.

Gronauer and Ms.

Martinez.

There was 14 outstanding items that still needed to be addressed.

And right now, 11 of the 14 have been completed, and two of them are in process.

So if you um don't mind, I'd quickly like to just go through this list.

I'm not gonna show pictures of everything.

I do have some pictures, but uh the restrooms have been cleaned and are open.

But uh the restrooms have been cleaned and are open.

Um they look really well.

I was there yesterday, they look really good.

They've been disinfected and they're open daily.

They open at 7 a.m.

And I think they close at eight or nine.

They're closed every every evening.

Um the trash has been picked up daily, the trash cans have been emptied.

Um the the irrigation that runs the sand volleyball that keeps the sand damp is on every morning, and I do have a picture of that.

Um the missing swings have been replaced.

The stonework on the picnic Romadas have been um have been repaired and secured.

The entry gate has been repaired, and I have a picture of that.

Uh the interior sidewalks are being blown off regularly, and sometimes we that needs to happen because it's a slip, a slip hazard.

And the splash pad has been uh has been certified, evaluated, and it does work.

Um the splash pad works, it's just not open yet.

We'll probably it should be open in May when it warms up a little bit.

Um there's three remaining items, two of them are being done this week.

The plants are being replaced, and the trees are being replaced.

When I was there yesterday, they were in process of doing that.

The the last remaining item that still needs some work is the grass, the the turf grass.

But I just wanted to show you some pictures of uh what I saw yesterday.

This is the gate.

The the gate that has been repaired.

So that's good to go.

This is the water that irrigates that wets down the the sand, and that's on every morning.

And the benefit of that it keeps the sand damp damp instead of spring uh when the wind takes it into the planters and the parking lot.

This is a picture of the landscape maintenance, the landscape contractor uh replacing plants in that one planter there.

And they were headed there next.

That that plantary area there in the parking lot.

You can see the emitters that are sticking up, but that's probably that could be done this week.

And here's another location that needs to still be done.

Um needs to be replanted, and then along the the sand volleyball court.

Now, I just the one issue that I I did see yesterday that still needs some improvement is the tr is the turf is the grass.

You can see there's some germination, but that there's an area that uh did not.

Um so that's one picture.

Here's another one at a different angle.

You can see that some of the grass has grown, but a lot of it hasn't.

And then this is the area by the by the basketball court.

You can see the basketball court there in the background, and this is another turf area.

Now, having said that, uh the landscape contractor was on site yesterday, and that these areas were uh re reseeded last Friday.

So, what they did is they cut the grass down, they mowed it down, almost scalped it.

Uh that's why you don't see the weeds because the weeds were cut down too.

But uh these areas that I just showed you have been reseeded and they are on a seed program.

So hopefully we'll get some we'll get some germination out of that.

And that's my report, Mayor.

So encouraging news.

Yes, absolutely.

And this is a public hearing item, so I'll open the public hearing first.

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

Uh no, ma'am.

Thank you.

So I'll go ahead and close the public hearing.

And well, thank you.

I'm so glad to hear about the progress that's being made out there.

Um, but I just thought it was really important for us to continue our status checks because that's what we promised to our residents and to the community.

So with um 11 of the 14 items that are are done, and just only a few that have to be you know rectified, and sounds like they're already being a work in progress.

So um, is June a reasonable amount of time just to have another status check?

So hopefully the grass will do what it does by then.

Well, most of it should be germinating.

So do you think that's a good time just for another status check?

I think so.

I I I the germination should have by the way, the temperatures are mild right now, so it's perfect time to reseed.

Um, we should see germination within a week, a good stand within two weeks, and within four to six weeks, we should know if it if it's successful.

So if the if the meeting in June is two months away, absolutely we should know.

All right, Bob.

Yeah, out of due respect, we're asking not to come back again.

Um respectfully, my clients spending thousands of dollars every time we come here to try to prepare and meet with your staff and get ready.

Um we think there's better things to do from here.

Um we've told you the park is open, we're not in violation respectfully.

I think if there is a violation, we'd rather have your city attorney do what needs to get done from there.

I think respectfully, there's other things that could be addressed.

And and I'm getting direction from my client, and we will not be here in June.

We don't think we have to be here any longer, and uh we've done our job as respectfully.

So the trees will be in by May 1, and uh the rocks will be done, and then in June, the parks gonna probably be already transferred over to the HOA at that time.

I mean, that's where we are right now.

So I I appreciate that, but respectfully, we we said we were going to do status checks every 30 days, and so we're not doing one in May, so we respectively request one in June.

Okay, well, then I want to make sure then that if there's a problem with our grass, that it's held to the same standards of the city of Las Vegas as North Las Vegas in your parks, because there are parks in the city of North Las Vegas that are not in the same condition as we are, and we're being held to a different standard, and we keep coming back, and so we want to make sure we're held to the same standard as your city parks.

Um, because we there are volleyball courts in the city that have other issues where our parks are much cleaner and better, and we would like to move on instead of being criticized because we have a couple weeds that are grown in our grass.

So we've had these conversations with your staff off record, and I have to put that on the record that respectfully.

I we understand what you got to do, and we want to do another status check in 30 days.

You can do that, but respectfully, we're not gonna be here because we're in compliance to the parks agreement.

Okay, we will it's a game to thank you.

All right.

Council, any additional questions or comments?

No, ma'am.

Okay.

Um, do we and so um you know I can just ask for someone to make a recommendation, or I can make the recommendation.

You want to make a recommendation?

Well, I've been out there looking at the park as well.

And I would say from uh my perspective as a councilman representing that area.

I have a concern for the residents out there that they they get a decent park.

And um I think um Bob has uh accomplished that like 95%.

I don't know if we need to go any further, but I think with Doug being a part of this, um I know that he will keep us informed.

Uh and um I'd like to move on as well.

So what's your so do we have to make a motion to do what?

Well, it says recommendation to make a recommendation.

Recommendation to make a recommendation.

So I would make a recommendation that uh that Doug report to us if there's any issues going on that we need to have a Mr.

Gronell come back in.

Can we ask clarification, Mr.

Um Andy?

Um do you want to just set a status check hearing in June, and you can have staff report, and then if there are any issues at all, like I mean, we can address them at that meeting, but I think based on what's trap transpired here, I think like the issues are gonna be resolved, but we could set something for the second meeting in June and just note that it would be staff report to city council related to park condition.

I would like to have a status report.

We have to remain consistent throughout this process.

Well, then that would be my recommendation.

It would be uh, I guess staff or Doug coming back in and giving us that report.

So that would be my recommendation.

Are we voting on that or not?

We have a motion.

That's a recommendation.

I move with that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Moving on to business.

Item 12 proposed fiscal year 2027 to 2031 capital improvement plan.

Authorization for city manager designed an amendment plan as necessary to address changes in fiscal year 2027 funding.

Hey, Bob.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

Uh, it's my privilege to be here to present this year's capital improvement plan.

Um City of North Las Vegas proposed five-year capital improvement plan.

Uh, I'd be remiss if I did not recognize the efforts and give gratitude to all the departments and their directors as well as leadership for the collaborative effort that went into developing this plan for you all for your consideration tonight.

Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't hit the deal.

The CIP is a five-year document with the first year of the plan recognized as capital budget, which appropriates funds necessary to implement a capital improvement, and is ultimately incorporated into the annual city budget, which will be presented next.

The value of the proposed capital improvement plan for fiscal years 27 through 31 amounts to approximately 958,617,952 with a year one capital budget of 267,855,272.

This slide shows our trends over the past several years.

The CIP five-year value has remained fairly consistent over the last three years, as you can see from this chart.

Since 2002, most of the funding for the CIP is from external sources.

Additionally, funds designated for capital projects are typically not eligible for use for operating expenses, with few exceptions.

For the 27 to 31 CIP, the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada Regional Flood Control District and Utilities Fund make up more than 36% of the five-year funding.

And this this pie chart shows uh the CIP by category.

Um by the type of project, the largest being utilities, sewer, followed by flood control, then transportation.

As you can see with this chart, um, it represents our continued commitment to our infrastructure to keep pace with our exciting growth as well as our current maintenance responsibilities.

And with that, it's short and sweet.

Uh would you like any questions?

All right, I'll turn to council first if there are any comments or questions.

Um thank you, Bobby.

That was great.

Um, just a question.

I um how are I mean for anyone that's watching and that you know not quite understanding how this process works.

Um, can you simplify it for those that are just hearing about this for the very first time?

How do we prioritize how much is you know, like this capital improvements for our city over the next five years?

Tell us a little bit about the process.

Uh a little bit about the process.

It's um it cut it's it's really made of uh all requests from all city departments from leadership as well as is council for for prioritization.

Um we take all recommendations, we put it in the plan.

We we you know develop the funding and then all the modeling that we need to do, and then also what we can deliver.

Um, and it's just based on leadership and and and our council's uh direction and what you guys would like and what we also let you know that we need to uh keep pace with with our with what we need to accomplish.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, I don't have any additional questions right now, Bob.

So if we I'll entertain a motion to adopt an authorize item number 12, please.

So moved and then motion passes.

Thanks for your presentation.

Item 13 presentation and a tentative budget for fiscal year 2026 to 2027.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

William Riggs from the Finance Department.

And we're here to present the budget workshop for your fiscal year 26-27.

And just to give you a brief update on the process of this.

This work actually started last October when we started to reach out to the different departments and presenting, started giving information and started to work on this budget.

And it has been worked on from October until just this last week where we got it finalized.

And so a lot of time is spent.

All the departments and the directors, the city management has been a very big part in making this happen.

And our deposit our budget team with Justin O'Brien and his staff helped put these numbers together.

Also, Michael Smith was a big portion.

As this year, we had to make some changes from our process from last year, and we had to convert it all to the new workday system that's underway.

And we're in the process now is getting that ready to go into that new system.

And so there is a lot of work that's put in here and a lot of time and effort.

And we'll go ahead and give you a overview.

So in this budget, we have just over a billion dollars in the budget here.

Some of our highlights, we have a cost of living included in the budget.

Now the CPI comes out in December, so we know what that cost of living is, and that's at 2.62%.

That has been included.

We also have $7.5 million being transferred out to some of the CIP projects to cover some of those.

Making sure that our reoccurring revenue does not get exceeded by reoccurring expenses.

Currently, this year we have about a hundred thousand dollar leeway.

So we are getting close to that, but we are maintaining that structural balance.

Staffing, and you see this year we've had 92 FTEs added to this budget.

There was 127 positions, but uh some were given up, and a total of 92 was the impact.

Now these budgeted positions, four of them came out of the general fund.

The majority of them came out of the More Cops fund and the special funding for public safety, and those positions are there.

But we will be adding that up to just over 2,000 employees here next year.

When we look at the general fund, here's the uh budget of revenue and expenses.

Now, our two largest uh two of the main revenues is our consolidated tax and our property tax.

Those estimates are given to us by the state, and they tell us what they project that we're going to collect, and that's the amount that they expect to see in our budget, so we've included those uh salaries and wages, those include the CPI that's of the 2.62 percent.

In addition, there are the 16 million in the transfer in that is the PILT money that's coming from the utilities.

This is reduced a million dollars from the prior year, according to this plan that we have with the state.

The transfers out of the 16 million, that's the 7.5 going into our capital projects, and the 8.5 million for debt service payments.

Our ending fund balance, you can see that we've got a net change is negative, but that's because of the capital projects and one-time costs that's not being reoccurring in future years, and so that's appropriate use for excess fund balances to take those one-time expenses.

When we look here at all funds summary, uh, we'll notice those with uh red in the center.

That means that more revenue or expenses are occurring than revenue.

The general fund, that one is the non-reoccurring amounts.

Now, the state law requires or the city council set in a standard for 8% fund balance, ending fund balance.

The general fund has a 43.9 percent, so we would exceed that required 8%.

Now, that 43% is about four months' worth of operations, so it's not like we have a lot of extra money, we do have a little bit for an emergency.

When you come down to the park construction and parks and recreation, the park construction tax is using a lot of money there to help improve the parks as part of their CIP and the parks and rec support is also capital projects in there.

As you can see, the more cop sales tax, we are using some of that for one-time cost and to set up for some of these new positions and fund those positions.

The capital projects, that's money being transferred in, and those are projects that are actually getting completed.

As we mentioned, that we had four uh positions that were added to the general fund, three of those were engineers to help with the capital projects to make sure we can get those projects completed.

The water utility fund, we're getting some projects done with those, and that's the reason you see that uh decrease.

The motor equipment is purchasing of new uh equipment that to replace uh fading ones, and so those are expenditures that were uh budgeted for there as capital.

And then the redevelopment has the money for uh 15 million to for supplemental for the property uh acquisition, repair, and replacement and infrastructure.

And so that's the amount we see there.

The library by state law, it has to have a four percent ending fund balance, and you can see that they've exceeded that, and that is the money that's being set aside for future uh capital expenditures in the library.

And that's the presentation for our tentative budget.

If we have any questions, thank you, Will.

Councilman.

Um yeah, thank you.

Um the mayor, um Madam Mayor.

I guess that's kind of formal.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um Mr.

CFO, I noticed you have a green tie.

Are you uh is that like a statement?

Uh greener ink?

No.

Well, you see, I I thought that you had kind of like a breath for the occasion, you know, greener ink, you know.

Uh I was about to wear my money tie, but I didn't today.

Uh all kidding aside, um uh again, you know, I um going back to to see how that the budget has uh increased here that um it's increased um year uh year over year uh as we uh recovered from the the Great Recession.

Uh we remember the the bad old days when um we were actually getting three bids for uh for printer cartridges.

Uh those of you have been with us long enough, right?

We remember those those battle days.

And what I mean by three uh quotes for printer cartridges, we're not talking about for a shipment of them, uh we're talking about individual printer cartridges.

We're getting three uh yeah, we were getting three bid for those.

We had a hiring freeze, right?

And I I mean, um I looked uh all these budgets, you know.

Um, we've hired how many police officers because we're basically doing almost like a uh like a turnaround or a turnover with so many of our police officers who are due to retire.

We've been bringing on you know 50, 80 uh officers at a time, right?

Uh this it's uh it's really astounding to see you know uh how we'll build back, and I think that one slide shows the city the the story of our city who are here over the last decade or so.

Um, I guess um the the the big thing that I always ask, right?

Um our end our end fund balance right uh again there was a time we were looking at we're considering you know um uh going under the eight percent right which is not really uh recommended but but but we're we're we're we're beyond that.

We're not we're not making it rain, obviously, right?

But we're doing well.

Um maybe uh I guess the the big question is um what's our outlook?

I think for the next uh not just for the for this uh next budget year, but what's our outlook here for the next uh four or five years?

We are still putting that together.

We're in the middle of the replacing our financial software, and it does our staff is really taking a lot of time trying to get this work day implementation.

Once we have that up, our goal would be have some better projections.

Right now, we're really projecting the flat growth.

It's not gonna be a large growth, but we're still seeing about four percent increase in our revenue each year.

Fantastic.

Well, please uh your your team uh has won awards in the past for its uh uh it's uh accounting acumen.

So um please um give them my my best regards, you know, for putting this budget together.

Thank you.

All right, thank you so much, and thank your team for all the hard work on getting our budget and getting us in on time, the balance budget.

Appreciate it.

Okay.

All right, thanks, Will.

And this item is for discussion only, so no council action is required.

Moving on to the city manager's report.

I just really want to thank our teams.

It's been a long collaborative effort for um all of our uh teams in the city to get this budget and the CIP where we need it to be to deliver on a lot of the um goals we have in the strategic plan and to maximize this the service output as well as delivering on the infrastructure we desperately need to improve here in the city.

And so this is one of the ones that we've been talking about in our strategic plan that the councilwoman highlighted is to um re redo the roof for the for the amp, and as you all experienced, it was incredible.

It is incredible and amazing, and it's going to create so many wonderful memories and opportunities for the city in the years to come.

So thanks again to our parks team and to um you know for for bringing this to life.

So some other KPIs we want to highlight for Craig Ranch.

Um Craig Ranch recorded 200,100 visits just in February, up from 117,300 in January.

Citywide park visits reached 455,000 that same month.

Field allocation bookings climbed up to 921 in March, up from 316 in December.

Last year, the park welcomed more than two million visitors, and event revenue grew nearly 75% year over year.

And so we feel very strongly that the renovative renovated AMP is going to keep that momentum going.

Surprise.

Congratulations to our city clerk Jackie Rogers, who's been elected treasurer of the Nevada Municipal Clerks Association.

This is a well-deserved recognition of Jackie's expertise and leadership in municipal government.

We are so proud to have Jackie representing North Las Vegas at the state level.

She's got fans all over.

And we are super excited to announce on Wednesday, April 22, we are launching a North Las Vegas Library District card in partnership with the mayor.

Do you want to say it?

The world champion three times.

Las Vegas ACEs.

That's right.

So this event includes story time of the team and activities, including 3D printing exercises.

So stop by any North Las Vegas library branch to pick up your card.

If you want to join us at the event, it's gonna be from 4 to 5 p.m.

on Wednesday, April 22.

And this is something that's been years in the making.

This was actually one of our park superstars.

This was a conversation I had with Charlie.

And he was saying this was such a great event.

I think it was called Taste and Tunes back in the day.

And so we're bringing it back revamped.

It's going to be Taste of North Las Vegas, with of course the theme that commemorates that it's going to be our 80th anniversary.

And so this is going to be on May 2 at City Hall's Liberty Park from 1 to 10 p.m.

It's going to have more than 20 food trucks, a car show, family carnival, birthday cake, and 80s cover bands.

And you guys all seem to like the 80s after uh the totally 80 symphonics.

So this is going to be totally uh your jam.

The celebration continues Wednesday, May 6th with a time capsule burial and memorial tree planting at City Hall at 10 a.m.

So all are welcome.

And that's it.

And if you were you were looking for families or community members, um your prominent family that were around in the in that era.

Um it is kind of a hard going back 80 years, but if you know of anybody um that you know just has a story or part of our history, please let them know about this great celebration because we're super super excited about that.

So thank you for sharing that that awesome detail.

All righty.

So we're gonna move to the second public forum.

And this is the time for the public to speak on issues that were not on the agenda, but that 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 discussed may be referred to the city manager or other city staff for action by the city council at a later date.

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

Yes, ma'am, we do, starting with Mr.

Terry Maria.

Welcome back, Mr.

Maria.

Good to see you.

See you.

Trying to without my cane today.

Um I want to thank you.

My name is Terry Maria, Theatrical North Las Vegas.

Um I want to thank the people responsible for putting the parking sign, the no parking signs up on the street that I've asked about.

Um with that, we also had a couple of more incidents with the racing and the school buses.

That's still not being taken care of.

Um, just to give you an idea on the four on 410 at 6.15 a.m.

I got a bus number of 1552 nine.

Um it was race, it was not basically just doing way over the speed limit with kids.

Um it was racing, it was not basically just doing way over the speed limit with kids, and I feel that I don't have a child in school bus, but I know that people do.

I'm sure they would not like to see their kids being driven way over the speed limit in in a school zone.

Um, also we have the motorcycle racing that's going on on Coleman from TROP all the way up to Centennial.

Um on 413 at 11:30.

There we had a person that was doing donuts on Tropical and Clayton.

This was at 11:30 in the morning.

While that was going on, there were kids in the school uh yard out playing.

This was only maybe half a block away from where they were doing the donuts.

Again, this is continuing at 12:30 that day, more motorcycle racing.

It's continuing.

Um is the CCSD PD because it's school time, their school there, they would have been able to stop that from happening.

I'm not asking North Vegas because I know they can't be there all the time.

I get that.

Um the red light cameras.

I looked it up and I found out from me that's not allowed in Nevada.

Okay.

Thank you.

Sorry.

I know you'll come back and visit us again, so thank you very much.

Okay.

Next speaker is Julian A.

Julian A.

Julian A, welcome.

That's for Juan.

This is my new friend.

Okay.

You come up to the microphone and speak, Julian.

You'll have two minutes to share your comments, please.

Welcome.

Thanks.

And state your name and address for the record, please.

Julian, and I'm in North Las Vegas by Craig Ranch.

Um Julian, and I'm technically a new resident here, but my family runs in deep history through Las Vegas.

Um, when all of this litigation stuff with the governments have been going on.

I take pictures and I've traveled Europe and other entities to back that I do this as a nonprofit.

I went to with doctors in a public event, and I was going back home after getting my medication, and I got I was taking pictures of a protest and I got illegally detained.

I have now two more broken screws in my back that I have to have surgery for.

They put me in jail, and I told them I'm an ADA patient.

I'm a psych patient, I have high anxiety, and I've had over 20 procedures on my body.

I should have been dead a long time ago.

That's from doing protective activities.

I did private security.

I took three bullet holes.

I have broken bones, and the way I was treated, trying to communicate the best of my ability.

I should not have been treated as such.

And we are already in litigation with the police department and a couple entities, but I am not very good at speaking in public after multiple injuries, and it took me a couple months to even know that there was this process.

I've been learning a lot in the federal court library.

So yeah, I have an idea with um the city that can help you guys with food sustainability, help with our mentally disabled and our veterans, and it will be self-sufficient, and it can be done off the side of Mount Charleston.

All right, thank you, sir, for your comments.

Thank you guys.

Have a wonderful day.

You do the same.

Mayor, uh, the next speaker is Christopher Pope, followed after that by Gary Bouchard.

Mr.

Christopher Pope.

Christopher to the microphone.

Hey, welcome.

What is it?

Christopher Payne.

Christopher Payne.

Okay.

Thank you.

Sorry.

My name is Christopher Payne, I'll leave it at 1331 Hills Spring Court.

Good evening, members of City Council.

Uh, I'm here today asking for consideration to keep my wrought iron fence on my property in North Las Vegas.

The fence has been in place for over a year.

It was approved by HOA, and I chose specific design because it's consistent with other properties in the area that have the same and very similar fencing.

Made a good faith effort to follow the standards.

I understand it, understood at the time.

I understand that the fence may not fully comply with current city code, and I respect the purpose of those regulations.

However, I would ask you to consider the practical reality of the situation.

The fence is not obstructive.

Does not create a safety hazard or impact community in a negative way.

The primary reason for the installation of the fence was to create a clear, necessary boundary between my property and my neighbors.

Unfortunately, we have current we are currently involved in two active court cases involving property damage as well as stalking harassment concerns.

The fence has several has served as a non-confrontational way to reduce conflict and protect my family's sense of safety and privacy.

Importantly, there have been no complaints from the community at large, only from the neighbor involved in these ongoing disputes.

From my perspective, this complaint is less about the fence.

It's more about continuing a pattern pattern of conflict.

I'm asking I'm not asked for special treatment, especially simply asking for reasonable consideration of facts.

The fence is safe, consistent with the area approved by HOA and serves as a little as a legitimate purpose and preventing further issues.

Allowing this fence to remain would help maintain peace, avoid further escalation, and support practical solution for any already difficult situation situation.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Thank you, Mr.

Payne.

And after we adjourn, um, Mr.

Melessio, if you just raise your hand, I'll have them just to chat with you after the meeting.

Sorry, I have a hard time here.

After the meeting adjourns, I'll have you speak with Mr.

Millessio.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you.

Gary Bouchard.

Welcome, Mr.

Bouchard.

I don't know who she is.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um I really gotta say.

Can you state your name and address for the record?

Oh, it's Gary Bichard.

And address on the record, please.

2611 Paradise Island Avenue.

Thank you.

Um I want to say something.

I'm kind of surprised.

As you know, I haven't been here for eight years.

There's been two reasons for it.

Number one, that the last time I came here, I was arrested and incarcerated.

And the other reason is I have a girlfriend now, and believe it or not, my girlfriend is more fun than hanging out here.

I know it's hard to believe.

Also, I was really shocked when the mayor said, Gary, I'm so glad to see you.

I thought you didn't like me for a long time, but maybe we got over that.

Or I didn't think she liked me, but boy, she sort of she can't smile.

My girlfriend doesn't smile like that to me.

So I didn't know I don't know what to say.

Um, except I've got some big issues with this city.

But I don't want you to look on me as a troublemaker.

I don't want to be a troublemaker.

I have legitimate issues that I want to talk to you people about.

Not at this time, because obviously I got 45 seconds left.

Uh, and I don't want to embarrass anybody.

I have no reason to make you people hate me.

I would much rather have you love me.

And so uh I've got 31 seconds left.

I can tell time.

You know, I'd like to set up some time when we can meet in private so I can tell you what I'm upset about and what the people I'm talking to are upset about because they're your constituents, and there's a lot of unhappiness in North Las Vegas right now.

How do I know this?

Because I'm out there canvassing every day, and people are not happy.

And they got legitimate reasons.

I've got seven seconds.

I'll just say, have a good night, God bless.

Let's talk soon.

Thank you.

That was just I got it done.

Madam Mayor, that was our last speaker.

I'm gonna um, and she's filling out a blue card right now.

I'm gonna ask Miss Nina Bailey because I see a beautiful sparkly crown over there, and I'd like to know who she is and Miss Corporate Nevada, if you would just come up to us and just bring the blue card with you.

We'll get it from you.

Tell us all about you and your role.

Charles is my friend.

He's cool.

I haven't built it out.

It's okay.

Well, good afternoon.

I know you've had quite a few people coming in registering their thoughts, so I'll make it nice and sugary.

I'll save my complaints for next time.

Just kidding.

Uh, my name is Nina Bailey.

I actually am a resident in Ward 1.

I'm in Isaac Barron's area.

Um I am at Cheyenne and Pecos across from the college.

I happen to also run transitional housing in that area.

So not only am I current resident, but I'm also a business owner in North Las Vegas.

I am the former uh Ms.

Corporate Ms.

North Las Vegas Corporate America, and I am now the reigning queen for Nevada for 2026.

So I thank you very much.

Thank you.

And it is completely an honor to opt to represent both the city and the state.

I will be competing for the national title in Florida this June.

But I just wanted to come by and actually sit in and see what's going on here in my lovely city at City Hall.

Um, and actually I'll be applying for a redevelopment agency grant as well.

So thank you for having me and have a good afternoon.

Thank you.

All right.

Okay.

And that was our last blue card, our last speaker.

Yes, ma'am.

Okay.

With that, I will go ahead and close the second public forum, and this meeting is adjourned.