Well, it is so nice to look up and see a full house this afternoon.

Thank you all for being here.

So, welcome to our city council meeting.

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

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

Please print legibly so we can read your name and give your card to the city clerk.

She just raised her hand.

And when called upon to speak, we request that you limit your comments to no more than two minutes and that you avoid repetition.

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

Yes, ma'am.

Thank you.

Today we have the opportunity to have the indication given by Elder Gregory Williams of Mountain Top Faith Ministries.

Following that, we will have the Pledge of Allegiance as led by Mojave Student Council.

Please rise.

Is our senior pastor, Evangelist Dr.

Mary El House, First Lady is our community advocate.

So thank you again for this opportunity.

If everyone could please bow with me.

As we gather, we acknowledge your guidance over all that will be spoken, thought, discussed, decided, and accomplished within these walls.

Give everyone a fresh supply of truth and strength to draw from during the time that they will spend in front of these esteemed members.

Allow your anointing to be on the creativity, ideas, and energy of everyone here, so that even the smallest of tasks may bring you honor.

Guide us through your through every anything that creeps into this course of this course that will try to bring confusion.

When the people become weary through the process, strengthen them to press on.

When efforts cause any to burn out, energize them with the light of your holy spirit.

We ask that the work to be done within these walls be done in such a way that it brings hope, life, and resolution to all that the city may flourish and be prosper.

Lastly, we ask that in this this day, most stressful moments, you help us to rest in you.

It is in your most holy name that we pray.

Amen.

Hi, I'm Jordan Anderson, and I'll be leading the pledge.

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

Madam President, if I could invite you back to the microphone.

And would you like you brought an entourage with you?

We'd like to know who's with you today.

All right.

So this is my council, Mojave Student Council.

Um, we've done so much in the 25-26 school year.

We actually earned a silver star granted.

It's the highest award granted by the Nevada Associations of Student Council and ASC.

And we're just really happy about our award and serving our community and our school.

And thank you for having us here today.

Awesome.

And would your advisor would like to say a few words?

So I just volunteered you to do that.

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

My name is uh Mr.

Jason Bates.

I'm the Mojave High School uh Student Council advisor, and I have been absolutely delighted to work with these kids for the past four years.

They are the best, as you just saw, I think.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Welcome to stay so you could see what this government process looks like here in the city of North Las Vegas.

You may be seated.

Thank you all.

Oh my goodness.

So impressive.

Awesome.

And Elder Gregory Williams, would you come up to the microphone?

I have visited your church probably too long before I'm embarrassed to say how long ago it was.

Um, but I thoroughly enjoyed it when I visited.

So if you just first of all tell us where you're located in your service times and whatever you'd like to share about your church.

Sure, we are located um a little further south of here, uh, 2845 Lindale Road, uh, this at the corner.

Well, in between uh Decatur and Jones office Sahara.

Uh we have a great time over there.

Membership is growing.

We have two fun activities taking place tonight.

One with marriage uh ministry, it's the marriage empowerment, where you know, us old folks who have been married for a long time get to have some fun with the young folks who are just starting out so that they can see that they can make it if they really want to.

Um, because in these stressful times, marriage is somewhat difficult.

My children say it's complicated.

I don't know why they say it's complicated because mom and I have tried to show them that it's not that complicated, and we've already discussed the mechanics.

So uh, and then we also have a singles ministry.

Uh, some people think that the singles ministry is there for a holy hookup.

It is not it's singles, whether they be uh divorced widowers or actual single people.

And uh we have an acronym that's called Solo, Standing on Love and Obedience to help them know that if they do that, God will bless them as they go to try and find a marriage mate.

Awesome.

Wow, thank you.

Thank you for being here with us.

So today we have four presentations, and I will just list them in the council.

We will go down front.

We have a certificate of recognition for Jeff Albert.

We have a proclamation for National Public Works Week, American Public Works Association Project of the Year presentation, and then the mayor's innovative teacher awards.

I I get to start this.

I was just telling the mayor over up there that we have a full house today, and this is really special for us because we work really hard to prepare for our um city council meetings, and seeing that we have so many people here makes us really happy.

So thank you all for coming.

Um I have the honor and privilege of recognizing a very special person.

Um his name is Jeffrey Alper.

Where is he?

Oh, there we would you mind coming up, Jeff.

So, Jeff, um, we consider him a resident historian.

And so we have a certificate of recognition.

He's written how many books have you written, Jeff?

Three books.

Three books.

So I've read one.

I'm on the second one, and I've learned lots about the history of North Las Vegas.

So I'm gonna go ahead and read the certificate, and he reads certificate of recognition presented to Jeffrey Alpert on May 20th, 2026, for your outstanding dedication and tireless efforts in researching, preserving and sharing the rich history of the city of North Las Vegas.

Your passion and commitment have helped keep our communities' heritage and stories alive for generations to come.

Thank you for all you've done.

Thank you so much.

One more operator.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Hopefully, everybody can hear me.

Um, I've written three books.

The first one was about Kyle Ranch.

And it's only about a mile from this city hall.

And it's on Carrie next to Losi.

And it started over 150 years ago by Conrad Kyle.

And it had a very colorful history over those decades that followed.

And then I wrote a book about the history of North Las Vegas and all its mayors, and they're very colorful indeed.

And spent months and months and months of my life doing research on those two books.

And luckily, UNLV has a special collections library that has wonderful access to thousands of old photographs.

And you can access anything you want about the old newspapers.

And it's just a great source of information.

And while I was researching North Las Vegas, I was learning a lot about Las Vegas history.

And it was interesting to me enough that just before COVID hit, I published my third book about the early pioneers of Las Vegas, better known as Freemont Street today.

And every summer they have to send their families to California to get away from the heat.

So lots of interesting research was done, and I appreciate all the faces that are here tonight.

Like you've heard already, we have a full house.

So it's nice to be talking to so many, and I thank the council for the recognition.

I am the official unofficial historian of North Las Vegas.

Thank you.

On behalf of our amazing public works team to come forward.

Whereas public works professionals focus on infrastructure, facilities, and services that are vital, of vital importance to sustainable and resilient communities and to the public health, high quality of life and well-being of the people of the city of North Las Vegas.

Whereas these infrastructures, facilities, and services could not be provided without the dedicated efforts of public works professionals who are engineers, managers, and employees at all levels of government and the private sector who are responsible for rebuilding, approving, and protecting our nation's transportation, water supply, water treatment, and solid waste systems.

Public buildings at other structures and facilities essential for our citizens.

And whereas it is in the public interest for the citizens, civic leaders, and children of in the city of North Las Vegas to gain knowledge of and to maintain an ongoing interest and understanding of the importance of public works and public works programs in their respective communities.

And whereas the year 2026 marks the 66th annual National Public Works Week, sponsored by the American Public Works Association.

Now, therefore, we, the City Council of the City of North Las Vegas, do hereby recognize May 17 through 23, 2026 as National Public Works Week in the City of North Las Vegas, and urge all citizens to join with representatives of the American Public Works Association and government agencies in activities, events, and ceremonies designed to pay tribute to our public works professionals, engineers, managers, and employees, and to recognize the substantial contributions they make in protecting our national health and safety and quality of life.

Thank you.

Yeah, just just real quick, thank you to the city of North Las Vegas for recognizing National Public Works Week.

Uh uh, North Las Vegas is has always been great to work with Mike and the whole public works team.

So we really appreciate it.

The building that we're sitting in, the water that we use, the solid waste, everything, you know, traffic signals.

Unfortunately, sometimes we we have to deal with those state flowers, those traffic cones out on the roadways every once in a while, but it's for the better good to help us move around.

And so, you know, I just really appreciate North Las Vegas for recognizing this week.

So thank you.

I guess we'll just streamline into the next one.

So uh I'm sure I I don't know if it's appropriate, but you know, uh the other team is here for this project.

Are they should they come up for this?

And yeah, so Barry and Carl and Bobby and Cassandra and John.

Uh just a quick background here.

Uh we're gonna be awarding City of North Las Vegas a project of the year plaque.

This is a big deal.

So every year, APWA has a spring conference where projects that were completed the previous year get submitted by proposals, and then they uh go to the conference for uh an interview presentation.

And so uh this project, which is titled the Apex Elevated Water Tower.

Uh, the category is structures, uh, 10 million to 20 million.

Um, it was heavily contested.

There were many other projects that were up for this uh award, and the project team did a really good job on the proposal, they did a great job on the interview, and so they were awarded this, and you can now put this plaque in your hallway.

And and this actually will also go on uh to be contested on a national level, not just in the state.

So um very excited to to award this to the city of North Las Vegas and and be proud of it.

So here you okay.

Uh just I'll I'll be quick.

Um, thank you, Jed, for coming for accepting the proclamation um and presenting this award.

We really appreciate it.

Um, and I'd just like to thank our team.

We have a an amazing team, close to 200 folks, various divisions.

We do a lot of things you see, a lot of things you don't see, and we would be nothing without the support of our team.

So um, can I get the team that's here?

Anyone to come on up for a photo?

Thank you.

Short screen.

So step up and you guys are gonna be in the last you motivated us for most important.

Okay, for the for the mayor's innovative teacher award, we're gonna do a group picture with you guys at the end because there's so many of us here.

And first of all, school's out in what?

How many days?

Not you guys.

Not you guys.

I'm talking to your teachers over here.

But right, congratulations, you made it.

Doesn't it feel good?

But look look at our young people over here that we are gonna prepare them to be out in this world.

So congratulations to you on the work that you have done, and congratulations to you all on the work that you have done.

How many of you are seniors that are graduating?

All right, all right.

And so, whatever your next career path is, whether you're going into a career, a technical career or to college, you're gonna stay right here in North Las Vegas and work, right?

Just nod your head.

Awesome, perfect.

Um, so we're gonna read one of the certificates.

They all read the same thing, and then we're going to call you up and so that we can recognize you, and again, congratulations on a job well done.

And I appreciate each and every one of you for what you do for our babies.

We have a video we're going to share with you.

Educator.

I know firsthand the heart and innovation innovation it takes to truly reach students.

Tonight I am proud to celebrate thirty-one extraordinary teachers right here in North Las Vegas.

The Innovative Teaching Awards recognizes educators selected by their own administrators for their creative, impactful work in the classroom.

Here's how students have described the teachers recognized here tonight.

Makes me feel valued, a transformative mentor, someone who truly cares, and from your administration, elevate student engagement, actively inspire students to pursue careers, accelerated growth, and improved attendance, engagement, and overall achievement.

Each honoree will receive a monetary gift as the city of North Las Vegas' way of saying, we see you.

We value you and we thank you for your dedication to our students.

To all thirty-one honorees, thank you, and congratulations on this well-deserved recognition.

The certificate reads, Certificate of Recognition.

This certificate is presented to to acknowledge your outstanding contributions in education in North Las Vegas, Mayor's Innovative Teacher Award, awarded on this day of May twenty twenty six.

The first honoree is Bernadette Adams.

Daniel Anderson.

Is it Godinas?

Congratulations, thank you.

Congratulations, Andre.

Jamie Henry.

Jill Holmes.

Christian Honeywhat, honeycut.

I'm sorry, Christian.

Molly Kane.

Brandy Kissner.

I'm sorry, Brady Kissner.

Diana Lusson.

Okay.

Um, Bobby McGlure, not sure Bobby's here.

Sarah McLaughlin.

Melissa a soda or soto.

Congratulations, Jordan Provost.

Grace Robinson.

Rachel Rutten.

Hi.

How are you?

Congratulations.

Oh, you gave me a odd one here.

Vanessa.

Skiring.

Okay.

Dale Smith.

Lori Soldat.

Congratulations.

Angelica Sefan.

Congratulations.

Okay.

This is like um the first week of school when you read your your students' name not in the roll call.

Boy, I've got some horror stories on that one.

By the way, I just have to also recognize our unofficial official historian is also a retired teacher, as is our wonderful mayor.

Just gonna say that.

So uh Jeff, is it uh Termina?

Actually, I think I know you from somewhere.

Yeah, congratulations.

All right, and then we got Sheila Taylor.

Congratulations.

And Cedric Thompson.

All right.

Uh is it uh Lacey Taco?

And then we've got Adrian Trujillo.

Next, we got uh George Oyuste.

Congratulations.

And then we got uh Kim Weisbarth.

What's a real big honor is actually some of these folks are my former colleagues.

And then Sheila White.

Congratulations.

Is that it?

Oh, just getting into the groove there, Mayor.

Let's give them another round of applause, please.

And if you are an administrator that is here, would you please stand?

Yeah.

And thank you all for being here in your hand in selecting these great educators to receive this award tonight.

So enjoy your goodie bags.

And again, you are welcome to stay with us as well as long as you would like to.

And I think that's it.

All right.

Administrators, we'd like you to join us as well.

And then family and friends, we'll invite you up just as soon as we get done with this with this group.

Okay.

All right, moving on to council items.

Councilman Barone.

Thank you, Mir.

It's always, you know, it's um it's a pleasure welcoming our fellow admin uh our fellow administrators and uh and uh uh teachers into uh our city council uh chambers.

Um it's always gratifying to see a few people that I've actually taught with, you know, former colleagues um being honored.

Uh I know the caliber of their teaching, and um I um I'm honored to even be in the same conversation with any of them.

Okay, so uh I wanted to say something about our uh exhibit here for the Stone Soup Gallery, but I'm not gonna steal the city manager's thunder on this one because there's something really special, and um I know uh he's gonna get things anyhow, but I want to give another special thanks to our our good friend, our unofficial official, unofficial historian.

Um, and everything that you do, you know, you do it from a place in your heart.

Um you're a transplant here from California.

Most people just come here because um, you know, no taxes and cheaper uh uh land values, but you didn't just come here.

You made this your home, and you you documented it in a way that no one else has done.

So I just want to tell you from a person who was lived here all his life, and I'm gonna die here.

Thank you so very much.

And you're a teacher, so I just had to throw it out there.

Anyhow, uh Mayor, I was really happy that uh I think uh I I went to our city, and it might be one of the very first one in the whole valley, a certified community behavior health center that we uh an opening uh here.

Miracle Minds Therapy grand opening.

Um I think uh uh that Mayor, you were there with us uh too, weren't you?

Uh she's actually engaged in the conversation, but I know I wasn't the only uh member of the council that was there, and so uh we're happy that they're here.

Uh a percentage shift in available uh mental health mental and behavioral health um located here just right down the street.

So we welcome we welcome them to our North La Vegas family.

Um I would uh I had a chance to go out uh canvassing with our uh redevelopment agency uh personnel.

Uh we canvassed here up and down uh Laveg Boulevard a bit uh to promote the commercial facade improvement program, and that was on May 13th.

Yes, lucky May 13th, it was great.

We uh made lots of connections and uh got the information out, and so uh we made quite the team uh between myself, Scott, who's uh strapping six foot four guy, and then uh we we we uh the little blonde there, right?

And it was fun going up and down the street and making this connection with people um again, it's a way for us to uh improve the downtown area, and we do this by including everybody.

Um another grant uh uh again, uh my colleagues uh all joined me yesterday.

Uh we have a new medical center.

The the building's incredible.

It looks like it was cut from a single piece of grant black granite, and already it houses uh Pueblo Medical Imaging, and soon we'll have uh Alonso Medical.

But yesterday we also had the grant opening for uh the Las Vegas surgical associates, and they'll be doing uh surgical procedures right there, um, but and also working with our uh existing hospital again to bring resources here to um the to the downtown area where there was there was nothing before.

And it didn't seem like it was that long ago, uh Mayor, when you and I were presenting in front of the the Clark County School District to actually advocate for the acquisition of that property, we turned it into something great.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um today again uh my my colleagues uh uh and I we got together and we were here in the downtown area to celebrate the Dolores Werther Resource Center's their first year anniversary celebration.

And the best way to I think to celebrate um a resource center is to have a resource fair and food uh and music.

We we uh uh uh the um the mariachi from JD Smith, the pride of downtown North of Vegas, Mariachi Los Bravos was there to help help us also um uh uh celebrate it.

And so I wanted to give a very special shout out here to uh the the folks on the ground who really make that happen.

I guess the the Loras for the team.

Um they're headed of course with two really special people, uh Ms.

Maggie Mora and Mr.

Seraphim Calvo.

And so I wanted to uh to really uh they they work out of the direction of uh of a man who's truly a giant for our uh for our community.

Um because he's six foot four and about pushing 300 pounds of muscle, right?

Uh will Mr.

Wilson Ramos right.

Um you're a giant in many ways.

Uh you have a fantastic team.

So keep up the great work.

Um, and finally, um, I know it's kind of early to announce it, but hey, as the mayor pointed out, summer's just about here, and we're gonna begin to have some put uh some pool parties.

Um, and I'm out uh announcing my annual pool party at Petiti Pool.

That's almost like a uh time twister.

Did I get it right?

You did.

Yeah.

So our I'm gonna push our pool party at Petiti Pool on June 20th from 12 to 3 p.m., right?

I think that's enough.

Thank you.

Okay, ward four.

Uh, I don't know how many people get excited over going to a dentist.

Anybody can try to go and go do it.

Okay, he does.

Okay.

I could understand that.

Well, we have a dentist opening up in ward for dynamic dental.

Um, it's an amazing uh facility, state of the art.

Um, it's not your average uh dental office.

Uh the staff is amazing there.

We it's family-owned by uh a veteran here in North Las Vegas.

Uh they've been around for quite a while, but that they've taken the uh the services that they provide our community to the next level.

And uh what I like the most when I when I took a tour of there the other day with the fact that they have different locations within the office for young children to stay with their parents.

They have orthodontics work in one area, kind of a private setting, and regular dentistry in another section.

Plus, what I think is one of the uh the most important aspects of what they provide us.

Uh they have uh in-house facilities to go ahead and have your crown made and placed all at the same time while you're there.

No having to wait until a couple of weeks and then praying that it's okay that you don't have to redo the whole thing all over again.

So it is family-owned, it is owned by an army veteran, and uh, you know, uh matter of fact, uh I feel so strongly about this uh this this family and what they're providing this the uh the city that uh I'll be recognizing them next month as uh as my business of the month.

Um secondly and lastly, um I had the uh the good fortune and the fun to be up at Ruby Duncan elementary school with uh with the mayor and our police, our fire, and um uh karate people up there, and uh matter of fact, I had a uh a cement truck right next to me, and it was very, very windy.

So we all had fun up there trying to let the children hear us speaking.

But uh I I kind of uh posed a couple of questions.

So you know, like what was over here 16 years ago?

You know, were you here 16 years ago?

Well, you know, Ruby Duncan uh unfortunately we lost her just recently.

She was an amazing lady, uh an activist in our community and uh and all over the valley.

Uh but it was 16 years ago that that I remember sitting behind her uh when the ribbon was cut.

Doesn't seem like 16 years, it seems a lot less than that.

But uh the uh the children that uh that go to school over there, which happens to be right close to where my wife and I live.

Uh it's a it's an amazing facility.

The teachers over there are second to none as well.

So uh that was a privilege to be involved with that school from the very outset, and then to go back uh just the other day to uh let the children know exactly what the uh the background to that school was.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Mayor.

On May 9th, I had the opportunity to join our Parks and Rec as well, our parks team as well as Nevada plants for a tree giveaway at Nicholas Flores Park.

It was an awesome, well-organized event.

They had fruit trees, shade trees.

Uh I think it was close to 300 trees that were given away, and the people that received those were incredibly think, thankful and excited to get those trees in the ground and get them growing.

Um that's part of our city's uh investment in our tree canopy as well as um the water authority, which I represent the city on investing in uh an urban forest in our community to uh give some good shade and mitigate the heat.

Um also on May 12th, I had the opportunity to go to Steve Cozine Elementary School in Word 3 for their career day.

I spoke to a second grade class and a fourth grade class, and it was really great to hear the questions that the students had, but more importantly, we talked about things that young people can do, even though they're not adults or old enough to vote, they can do things that can make a difference in their community and be leaders in their own way, and we talked about that, and the kids were real motivated and excited.

Uh speaking of exciting, the last thing I'd like to talk about is this coming Saturday, the 23rd at Craig Ranch Park in connection with our month-long 80th birthday celebration of North Las Vegas.

There is a glow bike ride in partnership with the RTC.

Uh, the event, your bike decorating.

If you want to bring your bike, you don't have any glow apparatus on your bike, don't worry about it.

Some will be provided.

Bring your bike.

You can be there at six o'clock to get the bike all dialed in and decorated.

Then the ride will start at 7 45.

It's a family friendly ride.

It will be a 0.9 mile loop around beautiful Craig Ranch Park.

If you feel motivated, you can keep doing laps and loops into the evening as you uh let your bike glow.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, thanks, Mayor.

On May 8th, I started celebrating Mother's Day the right way.

I spent my afternoon at the NRC, the neighborhood rec center.

And uh it was a lot of fun.

We uh enjoyed a delicious lunch and there were prizes, um music, and it was just great to interact with the the residents and get to know them and um just celebrate Mother's Day.

So I want to thank our recenter team for putting together this uh very meaningful events for our community.

And then that same day, I headed over to the Alexander Library, which is in Ward 2, to attend that presentation by UNLV graduate students.

They uh were they shared their final uh designs for a class assignment for a new library, and so it was um I was really proud to be able to support this initiative because this encourages creativity and innovation.

And I want to thank our library director, Forrest Lewis and Development Manager Dr.

Melvin King for inviting me and for supporting opportunities like this for our students.

And then this morning, I attended a symposium that was hosted by our fire department, and it was at the Martin Luther King Senior Center, and it's always so fun to go and hang out with the seniors in our community.

Um this event was amazing because they provided information, um resources, and just peace of mind uh for our seniors in our high-safely disposed.

Lithium batteries, they they talked about um emergency preparedness, high pressure, and uh lots of other important topics.

So we want to thank our fire department for your efforts and for being just such amazing advocates for public safety.

And last but not least, our Ward 2 annual pool party at the Walker Pool.

It's it's just around the corner.

Um, once again, I'm partnering with Commissioner McCurdy, and I will be co-hosting this event.

It will be on Saturday, June 6th from 1 to 4 at the Walker Pool.

So we want to make sure that the community um comes out and enjoy um all the fun that we're preparing for everybody that day.

We'll have food and games and prices.

We'll have we plan on filling up the lawn area with providers and just having a blast.

So thank thanks so much, Mayor.

Thank you.

And we have so many great activities planned the rest of this month and throughout the entire summer.

So make sure that you you know keep up with us on social media, the city of North Las Vegas' um website.

And if you have not, you can subscribe to our newsletters because there's so many activities going on, and we want you to be a part of it.

We don't want you to miss any of the fun.

All right, moving on to the city council's first public forum.

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

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

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

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

No, mayor, I don't.

Thank you very much.

After that, we'll go ahead and close the public forum.

Let's move on to the agenda.

Item one city council regular meeting agenda of May 20, 2026.

Yeah, I'll entertain a motion for the agenda.

And that motion passes.

Moving on to the consent agenda.

The consent agenda consists of items two through 21.

Staff recommends approval of the consent agenda.

Okay, if there are no questions or comments, I'll entertain a motion for consent.

Motion to approve the consent agenda.

And that motion passes.

Moving on to public hearings.

Item 22, public hearing on tentative budgets and potential adoption of the city of North Las Vegas budget, North Las Vegas Redevelopment Agency budget, and North Las Vegas Library District budget, either as presented or with modifications for the fiscal year 2026 to 2027.

Welcome.

Mayor Council, it's a pleasure to be with you this evening.

Uh Will Hardy, uh, Chief Financial Officer and Assistant City Manager for the City.

Um, filling in for our finance director who had to leave unexpectedly for a family emergency.

So our prayers are with him and his family.

But as you might recall, we were here about a month ago to present the tentative budget to you guys.

And today we're presenting the final.

So I'll probably go fairly fast because I'll just cover what was changed for the tentative to the final, unless you have any questions.

If I could figure out how to thank you.

Perfect.

So uh again, the final budget changes from the tender to the final.

There was really only uh two major changes.

One is some in internal accounting between funds for vehicle purchases, so just moving some money um from various funds to the to 750 where we where we make all our vehicle purchases, and also we added two new uh uh positions for public works for building maintenance.

Those are really the only two major changes from our tentative.

Next slide, please.

So as you can see, uh here's the staffing uh by department.

Thank you.

And uh I believe the tentative had 92, this one has 94 positions.

This does put us uh slightly over 2,000 budgeted positions, 2,053 budgeted positions for fiscal year 2027.

Here's the slide that we show our general fund, both revenues and expenses and transfers in and out.

Uh, like I said, there was some some changes due to you'll primarily see those in transfers out just because uh oh yeah, I'm sorry, you'll see those in uh services and supplies to cover vehicle purchases, and again, uh the inning fund balance uh shows our project is projected to be just under 40 percent, which is between four and five months of of expenses.

This slide shows all the funds, so you can see the the total uh 1.05 billion dollars of appropriations for all funds.

Um some funds are negative, meaning that we're spending down beginning fund balance.

And uh again, we have to we have to report separately the redevelopment fund and the library fund.

You'll see those there at the bottom.

And uh that's pretty much it.

We recommend approval and I'm here to answer any questions you might have.

Thank you for sharing it.

And this just shows well, I'm glad to see, especially the FTE that slide um as the city continues to grow because our our residents deserve the best services that we can provide for them, and then just how intentional we are being with our budget is really impressive.

So thank you to and to your entire team.

Uh thank you, Mayor.

I appreciate that.

I did want to mention how hard they are working right now.

We are, I as you know, we're in the middle of moving from one ERP system to another, an accounting system, and so they're working very hard to budget in one system or working in another.

So I'd really like to give a shout-out to our budgeting team led by Justin O'Brien and as our budget manager.

They do a great job.

Awesome.

All righty.

This is a public hearing item.

So at this time, I'm gonna go ahead and open the public hearing.

Madam City Clerk, do we have any blue cards or written comments for item number 22?

No, ma'am.

I'll go ahead and close the public hearing.

Council, any comments or questions or motion?

Yeah, um, Mayor, um it seemed like it wasn't that long ago, but I guess it was another lifetime, it seems like maybe when we had, of course, our our uh former CFO Darren Adair with his visuals there with the mountains and the airplane that needed to go ahead and clear those mountains and how the heck we're gonna do that.

And um, you know, I I guess we're we've gotten uh uh over those mountains, you know, although there's always mountains to climb.

I get that right.

Um, Mr.

Director, I I uh Mr.

Assistance Manager, uh, I appreciate you know you putting this uh together here.

Um, but yeah, of course, we have you have a strong team again uh around you, but um this is a of course a culmination, not just if you're departments hard work, but a lot of departments that had to come together along the way to put this uh thing together, this uh this jigsaw puzzle.

When um what I want the public to know is you know, back in the not so good, not so good days, right?

When we were still scraping by and getting three quotes on printer cartridges, not not talking about a shipment of printer cartridges on three quotes on just printer cartridges for you know for people to print things out.

I I remember those days.

And uh we we had, of course, the the directors and the manager would get together, and they would uh they would pull their resources instead of having the different departments fighting against each other and jocking for position, you know, uh uh on the uh on the budgets, they would actually work together and decide what was important to each department.

Hey, I need this amount of personnel for this.

What can you do?

And everyone worked together, you know, uh collaboratively collaboratively because that's the way we delivered services to our residents.

Uh I know we're we're past that, and it's almost like mundane, and it's happy to be mundane, you know.

We we want to be mundane on this uh on a report uh regarding our budget, but uh several of us uh were here on this board when things weren't so rosy and weren't so great.

And uh I just wanted to reflect on how far we've come, how hard we've worked, how much our partners, you know.

I again uh I see uh I see our firefighters, and they had to work with us.

Our police unions had to work with us to for everyone to get through.

Our our teamsters had to work with us.

So we we we've uh we can also you know reach out and thank I think our our our our uh organized labor that's been part of this.

Again, we didn't do this by ourselves, it was everybody working together, but I'm happy that you know that that um the leadership here, the leadership from uh from our upper management, and of course, you know, our fan analyst guys, you know, uh uh putting everything uh put no putting everything together.

And um Mayor, unless someone else wants to say anything, I'd like to make the motion uh yeah uh after they after they say something, I'd like to make the motion to approve.

Thank you.

Thank you, Will, for for that presentation.

I'm impressed because uh Mr.

Riggs was supposed to make give that presentation, so I won't ask any hard questions.

Thanks kidding.

So you mentioned that the ending balance um is projected to be under 40 percent, which is between four to five months of expenses.

Well, I'm just curious what is considered a healthy reserve level.

That's a great question.

And I think it depends on the times that you're in.

There's really not a set standard.

Um, I believe uh other jurisdictions target six months.

Um there were times not to reminisce with uh council member Rome, but there were times when I believe this council approved us going down as low as four percent.

Um so I do not think that is a healthy ending fund balance.

I do think four or five months is healthy as long as you're keeping your expenses in line with your revenues, which is what we're striving to do.

Uh right now we have had our expenses growing at a faster rate than our revenues over the last few years, but that's because to Mayor's point, we have been growing, the city's been growing, and the needs of the residents have uh required us to increase our expenses.

Um so we're going to have to learn to slow down that expense growth to line up with our revenue growth.

But right now, I I think between four and six months is a is a healthy ending fund balance.

Perfect, thank you so much.

No problem.

And with that mayor, I would have to make a motion to approve.

Okay, we have a motion.

And adopting that motion passes.

Thank you, Will.

Item 23, AMP 072025, MG Carry Senior Apartments, applicant MG Carry LLC's request to amend a comprehensive master plan to change the land use designation from mixed-use neighborhood to mixed use commercial for property located on West Carrie Avenue, approximately 234 feet west of North Martin Luther King Boulevard.

Do we have anybody for this item or anybody who's I apologize?

Um, Mayor and members of the council alfred will also um this matter is was requested to be uh continued into the August meeting.

Okay, thank you.

So then we go on to 24.

We don't have to do a public hearing on this one then.

Okay, so we'll call for a motion to table it until to move it to August meeting.

August 19th meeting.

So item 23.

Yes.

Okay, so I'd like to call a motion to continue paying P07 2025 to the August 19th council meeting.

Okay.

All right.

Okay.

Okay.

All right, that motion passes.

Item 24, BAC 012026, CarMax at Apex Aero Tech Mapping Inc.'s application to vacate public drainage easement on a parcel located approximately 9100 feet north of the intersection of Nadine Peterson Boulevard and Donald Lee Adamsway.

Okay.

No comments on this one.

Okay.

All right, so we're gonna go ahead and open the public hearing item on this.

Um councilman, this is in your ward.

Um, Madam City Clerk, do we have any blue cards or written comments for item number 24?

No, ma'am.

Okay.

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

Um, if you have any questions or an explanation is needed for this one.

Yeah, but the applicant's not even here.

Um I am I'm actually of the uh I'm actually not pleased with this.

You know, I'm on the verge here of uh of actually making a motion to deny this.

If they're not gonna have that the courtesy to come and ask for something right, why shouldn't we even consider it?

Uh I know this sounds like I'm uh throwing a tantrum here, but this is business.

Everyone else comes to to uh to have their their their item heard and and explained, right?

Now if they needed uh if they need uh a favor, because they're asking for a pretty big favor here, right?

You think that they would actually have the courtesy to show up.

I I guess I'll I'll I'll ask public works.

Uh so what is this actually about?

So this is uh basically there's a drainage easement for the prior development that never came to fruition.

Um so now that this new development's coming in, that easement is going to be vacated.

And so that's what this request is.

Any future drainage easements that's required for the new development will be you know put in place prior to approval.

That's fine.

Hey, look, I'm gonna be here for a few more months.

I'm I'm not uh I'm not a lame duck.

And would you please let no other applicants uh if they uh if they think they're just gonna go ahead and ask for a favor and not even have the courtesy that they show up or send someone?

Um I'm gonna go ahead and make motions to deny them.

That's for the the last few months that I'm beyond here, and I hope it stays for the uh uh uh for the next council as well.

With that, I'll think I'll make a motion to approve that motion passes.

Item 25 memorandum of understanding with North Las Vegas Police Officers Association amending the collect collective bargaining agreement July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027 to include revisions to health insurance coverage options and wage scales.

So through mutual agreement, the city and the police officers association desire to revise the current collective bargaining agreement to make changes to health insurance coverage and pay scales.

If approved, this MOU would allow the city to offer high deductible plan option beginning in calendar year 2027.

Additionally, the city and union desire to adjust wage scales by two and a half percent.

NRS 288 requires that any amendments to collective bargaining agreement be approved by the governing body at a public hearing.

The fiscal impact is estimated to be 1.57 million dollars in the first year.

The term of the current agreement remains the same through June 30, 2027.

Thank you, Michaela.

And I'll open the public hearing for this item.

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

No, Mayor, we don't.

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

All right, who's coming to the microphone?

Any words from our PoE.

There we go.

Hello, welcome.

Phil Karas, North Las Vegas Police Officer Association.

Just want to thank you all for your efforts on uh your side and our side and everything in between.

Uh I feel that we came to an amicable uh decision on both ends, and we just appreciate you for everything you've done for us.

Thank you so much for your comments and Ditto.

We we appreciate you.

We know how these conversations start.

They all start the same.

Um, and but it takes lots of dialogue, lots of give and take on both both sides of the table.

And the nice thing and the good thing about this is we're amicable and we can come to an agreement.

Um, which at the end of the day, it's about service to our residents.

So I appreciate you and your organization's time and willing to work with us and us willing to work with you.

So I appreciate you.

Thank you.

Council, any comments or questions?

Okay.

So um could a quick question.

Hey, so um I really appreciate uh you coming and of course working with our team to come up with this agreement.

Now, uh, in um for practical purposes, does this keep us current to where now we can stay competitive to attract quality uh recruits to uh to our city?

I do.

I believe that this puts us on par uh slightly above uh where our main competition is.

This will allow us to keep an edge over them as far as recruitment goes.

And also with the new insurance option, I believe we offer a much more attractive package and options uh that uh uh the uh than the other uh agencies in the area.

I also believe that uh this will allow the city to have a cost savings benefit further down the road for other options as far as insurance uh amongst other bargaining uh units that may be looking to join the city side of things.

So I think overall this is a good deal for everyone involved.

Fantastic.

Sound like a win-win uh uh as far as I'm concerned.

Um if there's no other uh comments I'm ready to make motion.

You're good.

And with that, mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve.

Thank you.

And thank you for being here.

And that motion passes.

Item 26 memorandum of understanding with North Las Vegas Police Officers Association amending the corrections non-supervisor collective bargaining agreement, July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2020 to include revisions to health insurance cover coverage options and wage scales.

Similar to the last agenda item, the City and the Police Officers Association desire to modify existing contract language and the corrections non-supervisor collective bargaining agreement.

The revisions pertain to health insurance coverage and pay scales.

The estimated fiscal impact is 213,970 in the first year.

The term of the agreement remains unchanged, expires June 30, 2027.

Thank you.

And this is a public hearing item.

I'll go ahead and open the public hearing.

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

No, Mayor.

Okay, I'll go ahead and close the public hearing.

Do we want to add any additional comments?

Council need additional comments?

Questions?

If not, I'll entertain a motion.

Move to approve.

And that motion passes.

Item 27, memorandum of understanding with North Las Vegas Police Supervisors Association, amending the corrections supervisor collective bargaining agreement, July 1, 2024 to June 20, June 30, 2027, to include revisions to wage scales.

In conjunction with items 25 and 26, the city and the police supervisors association desire to modify existing contract language and the corrections non-supervisor collective bargaining agreement.

The revisions pertain to pay scales and are related to the city's intent to make changes to health plan options in 2027.

The estimated fiscal impact is 372,877 in the first year.

The term of the agreement remains unchanged, expires June 30, 2027.

Thank you.

And this also is a public hearing item.

I'll open the public hearing.

At a city clerk, do we have any written comments or blue cards for item number 27?

No, Mayor, we don't.

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

Any additional comments?

Okay.

Okay.

Come on down to next.

Good afternoon.

I'm the President Jason Ardona with the North Las Vegas Police Supervisor Association.

I just want to tell you from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for engaging the conversation with us to make this possible.

I appreciate it for your community uh continued commitment to public safety.

Thank you very much for that.

I appreciate your comments, and I'll just my same comments for each item.

They're very closely related, so we appreciate all the hard work.

Okay.

Comments or questions, counsel?

Okay, that I'll entertain a motion.

I'll make the motion to approve item number 27.

And that motion passes.

Moving on to business.

Item 28, set future public hearing dates.

Madam City Clerk, I direct you to set hearing dates as necessary.

Yes, ma'am.

Item 29 presentation regarding police department progress and accomplishments over the past year.

Okay.

Welcome.

Good afternoon, Mayor and Council.

My name is Jackie Gravat.

I'm the chief of police for the North Las Vegas Police Department.

I would like to begin by thanking you for giving me this opportunity to share some amazing highlights from the North Las Vegas Police Department in 2025.

This department is comprised of men and women whose mission is to support this community and keep it safe.

So I'd like to begin with just kind of talking about some of the crime trends and how we've seen a decrease in violent crime.

Last year in 2025, we saw a six percent decrease in homicides, a 15% decrease in robbery, 34% decrease in burglary, 33% decrease in sexual assault, six percent decrease in aggravated assault, and 26% decrease in motor vehicle thefts.

As my counterpart assistant Chief Hyde always mentions, to really tell the true crime in an area.

You look at what the motor vehicle thefts are.

At times people are afraid to report or they feel like it's just something that's not necessarily worth it for them, but people will always report a vehicle stolen.

They either want that vehicle back or they want to be able to be in a position where they can replace it.

So that 26% decrease in motor vehicle theft is really important to us as well, and we look at that along with the other data.

We also had a 60% increase in shoplifting arrest.

I think that it's really important that we have to all understand that it's not a victimless crime because when items are stolen, it affects the entire community by increasing the cost of the goods that we want to purchase.

So, with that 60% increase in shoplifting, our Detective Bureau actually received the Professional Excellence Award from the Nevada Organized Retail Crime Association last year.

So that's a true testament to the hard work and dedication by all of our officers, the Detective Bureau and the specialized units that focused on those areas.

Last year in 2025, we had a six 40% decrease in traffic fatalities, a 44% reduction in traffic collisions, and a 12% increase in DUI enforcement.

This was not just by accident.

This was very strategic and mindful on behalf of the department looking forward and really determining the efforts and the steps that we need to take to make the community safe.

Something really important in one of the photos in the video was our Academy graduation photo.

Last year we had our largest police academy, and at that time it had 36 recruits.

I'm proud to say that this most recent academy that's current in session started out with nearly 60 recruits, and we're on the trend upward where our next academy may have even more.

The hard work and dedication from the recruiting division under the leadership of Lieutenant Ochoa has made a drastic change in what it looks like with this department and people being motivated and wanting to come and serve.

So I thank him and his team and his vision for getting us to a place where we're able to feel the vacancies that we currently had at the time.

I want to talk a little bit about next generation 911.

This is with our dispatch.

It is a new system that was brought online last year.

It moves faster and it is more accurate when in routing calls, is cloud-based for redundancy, and modern communication support, which is so important right now when people are in crisis and they call into our dispatch center.

Pretty much everybody has a smartphone.

So with this system, they're able to receive that information via text message, photos, video, and real-time data from their smartphones.

So that's helping with our response times and getting accurate locations and where we need to actually go out and assist our citizens.

Something I'm really excited about and proud of is, and it was mentioned in some of the comments is Craig Ranch Regional Park.

We have a Craig Ranch Park Initiative.

Craig Ranch is one of the crown jewels in North Las Vegas, and we want to ensure that families and events that occur there feel safe.

So under the leadership of Captain Booker, he took it and ran with it, and we now have a portion of rotated patrols that are dedicated specifically for working at Craig Ranch Park as well as the business corridors that really much just ensure a safer environment for the park and for the businesses and all the visitors.

We utilize UTVs.

We got two UTVs, they're outfitted with lights and sirens and markings, and we can use those to patrol through the park.

We also, and I think you've all seen our officers on bicycles.

We're utilizing that as well in the park.

We're utilizing cruise mode, and I believe all of council has seen the patrol cars that drive around and they have the lights, the exterior lights on, they're not flashing.

But again, that is just deterring any type of activity that would be nefarious and causing families to just not feel safe there.

I want to let you know that it is a primary focus of ours to ensure that Craig Ranch Park remains one of the crown jewels of this city, and we continue to attract entertainment and all of the things that make us feel safe and enjoy living, working in this community.

Very notable our canine division last year.

The canine trials were held in March of last year, and North Las Vegas police department received top agency.

They competed amongst 50 other agencies from Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah.

And I think that says an awful lot about the dedication and commitment of what they're doing and how they perform and how serious they take the training.

Last year they secured the Tech 84 Body Scanner via grant.

With this scanner, they're able to detect weapons, drugs, cell phones, contraband, all in a matter of 3.8 seconds.

What this does is that creates a safer environment for those individuals that are in the community correctional center as well as all of the officers and staff that work there.

That was the vision of this council, and we are continuing to focus on those goals.

Some of the most successful events are obviously our Citizens Academy and our Hispanic Citizens Academy, which the Hispanic Citizens Academy will have a graduation next Wednesday, and I believe everyone has an invite.

Last year they had the Faith in Blue event, which had over 200 attendees.

I think that says a lot about the community coming together under this faith-based umbrella to show support from each other and to hear from the department.

The other event was Dia del Nino, Day of the Kids at the Boys and Girls Club, where they had over 500 attendees participate.

I believe that that shows that our community is embracing the relationship that we have with law enforcement.

It would be remiss of me not to mention how strong community partnership directly is directly related to crime reduction.

Because trust between the citizens and the police increases communication, cooperation, and a shared responsibility for public safety.

When our community trusts law enforcement, they're more likely to report crimes, provide critical information, serve as witnesses, and work with us collaboratively to address neighborhood concerns.

We want our residents to feel heard and supported.

Effective policing is not accomplished by the police alone.

It requires a strong relationship with the North Las Vegas community together, trust and collaboration, create safer neighborhoods and a strong quality of life for everyone.

So in closing, I want to thank you, our mayor and council, leadership team.

But more importantly, I want to thank our citizens for trusting us.

And I want them to know that we will be there when they make a call.

With that, I'll close my presentation.

Thank you, Chief.

And would all of our police please stand who are present.

Hearing this report just it it melts my heart simply because it's a testament of the work that you all do each and every day, no matter what level you are in in our police department.

I am so proud.

I can hardly stand it up here.

So you all may sit down.

I just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart.

But here in your presentation, it's paying off.

The work is there.

Our citizens see it, our community see it, and you just give us more tools in our toolbox.

So we were out in our community.

We can talk about and boast about our fabulous police department and our men and women in blue.

And I know when I go to the community engagement events, just the sheer volumes of citizens that are coming out to learn about the police department to see what you do, um, even in our VIPS program, and just say, you know, this is what's happening.

Um, and so they know what's going on in the community, and and just to be so accessible, it just speaks volumes to me.

And then to hear the data and the crime stats that they're going in the right direction, they are trending down.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the work that each and every one of you do on a continuous basis, and we couldn't be more proud to call you our North Las Vegas Police Department.

Thank you.

You may sit down.

Okay, counsel, any comments or questions?

Okay.

Okay.

Maybe yeah, um, Chief.

Uh basically that was the state of the that that was basically the state of the North Las Vegas Police Department uh speech, right?

Thank you for the for the uh for the um presentation.

Um in particular, I um just things that I see because um like it or not, you know, your officers are basically the first line of communication that most residents, whether they're our North Vegas residents or visitors to our city, uh include you know, valley visitors or people who are visiting from outside.

Um, for good or for bad, our police officers are usually the first point of contact, you know, of uh of our of our government, our city government, you know, with the public.

And I I am very happy with what I've seen, you know.

Um this ain't the nasty voice, you know, that those those guys are all gone, right?

Um, and I think that's a good thing.

They know we're good for their in the 80s, right?

That was good for them, inspired a TV show and all that, right?

But this is modern policing, and uh you've done a fantastic job in the face of our department.

Um I in particular, I really um I think your uh department should really be uh committed uh for its outreach, like as you pointed out, the recruiting and the delivering of these officers that are you know uh they're they're really interesting people that you brought in, you know.

Some of them are not like fresh faces, you know, some of them are people have been around the block, you know, uh a time or two, but they it's only because you go say I look like I've been around the block.

We're not gonna be able to do that.

No, I mean uh we have recruits.

Hey, you know, one of my friends that I went to high school with was one of our recruiters a very a few short years ago, right?

But we have other people that come in that uh have they have life experience from other uh next other department, other walks of life, and you bring them in and you attract them, you've done a good job attracting them to our city, right?

And they've delivered, you know, admirably.

Um the leadership development.

Um I really don't know exactly how to compare them, you know, with maybe uh leadership of the 1980s and the 1990s.

But uh I have a feeling that the future looks good because you've developed an entire uh uh a group a cadre of leadership that is totally different from people that was seen in the past.

They don't just reflect our community, right?

They're from the community, they're they're with us, you know.

And um again, the future looks bright because you have the right leadership, I think, to develop, you know, uh all of our uh all of our rookies.

Um as someone who gets these uh re reports, um, I'm on the RTC, and so we get these reports from the um department of uh uh transportation.

Um the redu reduction and fatalities uh and collisions is a big deal.

You know, if there's any city that's suffered from collisions, especially like with uh people who are not in the right state of mind, you know, it's North of Vegas, right?

And so I really appreciate everything that your department has done proactively to uh to do this.

At this at the same time, I would like to also uh say that uh policing and crime prevention is also a product of our public works and our park department.

Hey, they've done a fantastic job increasing, for instance, lighting and parts that reduces crime, you know.

We we have a skate park, we have young men and women, and sometimes not so young men and women recreating those parts instead of bothering you know our uh our residents, you know, at shopping malls, right?

Um so I I I'm really I'm really happy with our public works and our uh and our park.

I'm really uh happy for your your upgrade there that parts security, right?

Uh for uh for our our our greatest jewel when it comes to that, and which is now that the the gold standard of Craig Ranch Park.

And um I think I mentioned visibility and deterrence.

Uh I can't begin to tell you just how happy our residents are to see uh our cops tooling around in bicycles.

It's uh kind of like an old idea that's been resurrected, but they're very happy to see you know uh the ghost and blue come uh come rolling by, you know, and it's uh it has a a really uh uh fantastic event.

I mean, uh effect.

Uh the one thing I I think just uh as a comment uh as a I as I guess one of the policy people over here.

Um I'm just looking forward, uh we uh mayor and I spent some time at the fusion center over at uh at Metro, right?

Oh, right, of course, with some of the leadership as well.

Yes, it looks like a it looks like a set of that movie Tron, you know.

Uh it's the the eye in the sky, you know, but uh the potential there for uh enhancing crime as a force and and having this surveillance with the grown uh with the drones force multiplier.

So I should be very happy to see, you know, what the development and integration of tech um with our policing, what it's gonna look like into the future.

And uh I'm I'm just uh I'm very much uh interested in that kind of thing because I again um we're not in the we're we're we're again we're not the nasty boys.

We we don't you know do uh well I guess you sometimes you have to be two fisted when it comes to uh to to being a cop.

You sometimes you you have to get tough there, but the the days of hiring people because they're ham fisted and and you know can uh zonk people that that day is out.

We're in a new age of policing, and I think that you and your department are on the cutting edge, and you should all be commended.

Just uh that's my uh comment.

No real question, just uh the commendation here, and uh, I think I'm very interested in the direction that you're going in.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Chief.

And this is just a discussion item, so no action needs to be taken.

We appreciate you.

All right, moving on to item 30.

Item 30 presentation regarding fire department progress and major accomplishments in 2025 and the first quarter of 2026.

Welcome, Chief.

Thank you.

So while I'm waiting for uh my folks to get up here, I just uh first of all, uh Joe Calhoun for the record, fire chief.

Uh proud to be the fire chief of the city of North Las Vegas.

Uh with me today are many of my division heads within the fire department.

Um I'm proud to be up here today.

I'm not up here to boast about what I've accomplished.

I'm I'm here to boast about what they've accomplished in the the last year within the fire department.

Um without them, I I could not uh uh serve the community the way that we we do each and every day.

Um I also want to welcome up uh our union uh wanted to be here today because their collaboration and their teamwork with us also are they're a huge part of helping us accomplish what we do.

So uh they're here to represent the the great works of the fire department.

The last thing before I get started, and and and I do truly mean this, um, you know, I've been here for almost nine years now, and the the progress that we've made within the fire department uh is thanks to our our city management and our our mayor and council now and and over the last several years.

Um, you know, I work with a lot of colleagues throughout the the country in public safety, and unfortunately, sometimes public safety becomes a catchphrase during elections or or whatever, and that's not what I've experienced here over the the last uh nine years of my time here.

So I appreciate what you've allowed me to do to uh build our fire department and improve the public safety in our city.

So uh I'll go ahead and get started.

Um again, we're we're talking about protecting a growing city, as you all know uh well.

Um, as I talk, kind of keep in mind today that every year, you know, our community is growing, every year our call volume is growing, and the things that we are doing are not only improving on the previous year, but they're improving based on the the increases in call volume that we see every year as well.

So this is an important map to show you.

Uh recently I did a uh uh uh a news interview and talked about our response times in the city, so I kind of want to talk about that first.

Um, this is to show you um what we have established in the city.

This is a four-minute response time zone uh using GIS to show where our stations are located.

As you can see, our city is is very well covered.

We you know, we're our our next uh venture is out into the apex area to make sure that's covered.

But our city, the main point component of our city is very well covered within a four-minute response time.

Um, what we have to look at next is the busier parts of our city, where not only the first call is, but where the second, third, and fourth calls are.

And so we have to look at that data each and every month and and every quarter and every year to make sure that we are putting our units in the right location.

So, part of that uh interview that I did with the press recently talked about the uh the program that we have where we lease Medic West units to protect uh and provide coverage uh for again those busier areas of the city and to fill in in the areas that we have between our stations.

So, as you'll see, uh the coverage that we have on the maps there, all of the uh the red stars are where our fire stations are located.

Uh, there's a red star missing right now where fire station 51 is being rebuilt, and then all of the circles are the uh advanced life support and intermediate life support units that we lease through Medic West to provide coverage throughout the city.

Um, as you probably know well already, um, as we look at data, we're very data-centric at the fire department.

So as we start to see fluctuations and trends in our call volume, uh, those units were able to move uh to help provide better response times uh throughout the city and in specific areas.

So this is a pretty busy um graph here.

But what I want to show you, uh this is back to 2022 before we had uh station 58 and before we had our our lease agreement with our medic units.

Um, our focus, you guys have heard me talk about them before, our focus are especially our higher priority calls.

Our our medical calls are broken up into five different priorities.

But our priority ones and twos where people aren't breathing or are having chest pain where seconds and minutes matter are what we've really focused on.

As you can see back in 2022, 70% of the time we were making our were our priority one times of five minutes and 59 seconds.

Um that's good in a in an urban or semi-urban area.

That wasn't good enough for us.

As you know, within six minutes and somebody not breathing, uh brain death sets in.

And so we were trying to do much better than that.

Fast forwarding to 2025, as you see, we made a 20% improvement in our priority ones.

Um we were able to get up.

Our goal is 90% of the time to make that time, but as you can see, a 20% improvement was really good.

The one thing I'll I'll I'll um caution you on too is priority ones, the times where people aren't breathing.

We only have about three, maybe four of those a day.

So if you miss one of those, that can really skew the average.

So we're really happy with the 85% of the time of making that, but we're still working on making that better.

And then as you'll see in the uh priority two calls, uh, we went up 7.6% improvement.

Uh the last thing I'll show you, I just want to kind of fast forward to 2026 already in the first quarter.

Every one of those numbers have already improved in 2026 in our first quarter from some of the operational changes that we made.

So things are definitely trending in the right direction and getting to our citizens that need our help.

Fire responses, uh, those are also doing very well.

Our priority one and priority two, those are just separated fire responses by the size of the occupancy, uh, but we're doing very well in making those response times uh um when the seconds matter in fires.

So I want to talk about a few uh other areas before I get into my individual divisions.

Uh, station 58, I wanted to give you an update.

Whilst opening station 58 happened in the previous calendar year, not last year.

Um, last year was the first year that we really had the effect uh of us saw the effects of opening up a new fire station.

So in 2024, our priority one EMS response times, we were making them in four minutes and 52 seconds.

In 2025, they just got a little bit better.

The reason, and that kind of stumped me at first because we had a new fire station open, is because again, of those Medic West units that were able to put, we did have medical coverage up there.

But as you can see on our fire responses, we improved in our priority ones, uh, our priority two EMS calls, we we improved those 25% and 30% respectively over that one year period because of that new fire station opening.

And just so you can uh see the districts that are covered within stock fire station 58 accounted for over 4,000 calls in 2025.

So, as you can see, we we badly, our citizens badly needed that fire station, and we're proud to have that open.

Station 51 opening fall of 2026.

We're looking forward to that.

It's gonna be a beautiful station to protect that busy and and and necessary uh uh to protect uh area of our community.

Um, one thing I want to talk about with station 51.

Yes, there is not a fire station open there right now.

We were able, as you saw on one of the previous maps that I had, we were able to relocate our medic units that stage in those areas, plus with all of the mutual aid fire stations and our current fire stations, we still have a good reach into that part of the community.

And as you can see, our compliance goals over the last six months without having an open fire station are still 90% or higher, even without that fire station open.

Now, don't take that that that doesn't mean we don't need that fire station there.

That is our busiest area in the city, and so it's again not just about that first call, it's about the second, third, and fourth and fifth calls that we might be having in that area.

So uh that community uh needs that fire station, and this fall they will have a new beautiful fire station open in our investment in that community.

All right, so I want to talk uh about our emergency medical services.

Uh last year we added our eighth North Las Vegas Fire Department uh uh ALS rescue.

Uh, we added an additional ILS unit during the daytime from Medic West.

Um, one of the things we've done is we focused about 40 to 45 percent of our calls, don't need paramedics on them.

Um, they can take a lower level of call based on the type of call that it is, and so adding that additional unit is definitely helped us make our response times and our lower acuity calls or lower priority calls.

Uh, in 2025, for you those of you that came, I think all of you were at our award ceremony uh at the beginning of this year for last year.

We had eight cardiac arrest saves, and eight doesn't sound like a lot.

When we talk about eight, we're talking about people that we were able to revive from a cardiac arrest.

They walked out of the hospital and they are living pretty much a normal life again, maybe a few residual.

Um we are finally getting up into our cardiac arrest saves to the national average on the cardiac arrest saves in our city because of our response times because of some of the education that we're doing.

Um, and so that's a very important milestone for us.

The year before we only had four, and again, there are a lot of times that we are getting saves where where they have a lot of deficits, or um, they were just you know too far gone, and it was it wasn't a true save, but um, eight cardiac arrest saves in that year where people were able to come and recognize those those first responders that helped save their life was just an amazing thing for us.

Uh, paramedics, uh the the country has been going through a national uh paramedic shortage.

Um, this the city has helped us invest in educating our own paramedics, hiring the best of the best people, and then sending them to paramedic school so they can train be trained to become paramedics instead of searching across the country to find people that already have paramedic certifications.

This has worked out for us very well.

Um, in 2015, we graduated 17.

In the last four years since you allowed us to start this program, we've graduated 52 paramedics with 15 more this year.

So while there's a national paramedic shortage going on, your city is very well protected by paramedics right now.

Uh our crisis intervention, our crisis response team.

Um, this team uh right now is is completely grant funded.

Um, I one thing I'll say I could probably talk for 15 minutes on each one of these slides and tell you things about it.

So I'm trying to kind of focus on some big things.

So our crisis response team, our social workers that go out and deal with mental health issues uh out in the community.

Some of our big things in 2025, they did responded and did assessments of four uh 547 people experiencing mental health crises.

On top of that, and probably the more important component of that is they did 1,215 follow-ups.

So the people that they responded to, plus additional people when they weren't on duty that we reported had an issue, they responded, they they followed up with them to try and get them connected with the help that they need.

And then another huge number for us when they responded on calls, 40% of the people that they responded to were not transported to an emergency room.

So in the past, before we had this, and the fire department went out to take care of somebody with a mental health crisis.

All we could do for them was put them in an ambulance and take them to the hospital.

Wasn't the ultimate thing that those folks always needed, and it wasn't really ideal for the emergency rooms, packing in with people that didn't really need to be there.

Now, 40% of those people are able to either go to an alternative care mental health facility or they're able to allow them to stay at home and connect them with the service that they need at home.

And so it's a win-win-win all the way across with this program.

Our core program.

That's what our core program does.

They help people get connected with the services that they truly need so that they don't have to call 911.

One of the things that we saw, and I want to point out with the illustration that you see there on the right of your screen.

In 2025, they dealt with 92 superusers.

And super users are people that have called 911 in five times or more in one month.

And so again, those people probably don't have a problem that we can fix.

They need to be connected with some other services.

So as you see on this on the slide or on the picture on the right there, over a year period, those superusers, that is the reduction of call volume with those superusers because we were able to connect them with the services that they truly needed, reducing the times that our units have to go out and keep them free for you know more critical emergencies.

So again, a very successful program.

Some of those things, and there are just a few items that the core program has been able to help get people connected with.

Some of the critical things they did for us in 2025.

In the past, we we had in case we had a major emergency or disaster where cell phones or phones went down, uh, we were carrying satellite phones.

I think they probably cost like $10 every time you looked at them because they were just such an old technology.

We've now uh been able to purchase a Starlink system so that we can actually connect our cell phones to that and make phone calls using satellite technology during critical times.

Uh they put together a ready and resilient program that's gonna that's being posted on social media to help educate our community on being ready and resilient if and unfortunately when a disaster does happen.

And then they've done a lot of preparedness workshops, and they just recently start restarted an emergency management council to get all of our city employees and departments uh on the same page so that we're all working on being prepared for an emergency when it does happen and working together.

Community outreach and uh education, uh hands-only CPR.

Last year we were able to train 575 residents and handle hands-only CPR.

Our goal for this year is at least 20% more of that.

So we're trying to get the information out there to get allow people to help us bridge that gap and save more lives before we're able to arrive on scene for a cardiac arrest.

Um, we as uh uh councilman councilwoman Garcia Anderson said, we're we're doing an educational uh symposiums to get educate folks and the open houses that we do.

Um one thing I want to say about our open houses for the council people that have that have come to those, like we have hundreds of people showing up at our open houses, and it's so heartwarming to see that people are coming out of their neighborhoods and pushing strollers and just coming to visit to visit the firehouse uh to see who we are.

There's not a lot of phrases that I say that are too memorable for our folks, but one of the things that I always say at our open houses is the first time that our community meets their firefighters shouldn't be when they call 911.

I want them coming to events like this so they feel comfortable with who we really are.

And as you can see, uh that they're they're pretty awesome events.

I know that you've all been to them.

Training.

Um couple things in training that are really big for us.

Uh, we've revamped our development programs.

We're starting to look at how we educate our future engineers, our future captains, our future battalion chiefs, and then succession planning for people all the way up to my position.

Our training center.

Last year we broke ground on phase one of our training center.

That's to be completed hopefully in late June.

As we can thank Mayor Pro Tem Black, he helped us get a building from the Southern Nevada Health District that is going to be our classroom at our training center.

Originally we were hoping to get, if we were lucky, a an 1,800 square foot classroom that we were going to build.

And now we have about a 5400 square foot classroom that is going to be an amazing addition to our training system.

And then you recently approved and in the first quarter of next year we'll be receiving a fire skills training structure that I will show you a picture of here.

So this is our classroom, a building that we received from the health district.

And then on the left side of the building, we're going to have a smaller classroom, and the little area there you see with the Star of Life, we're actually going to put build an ambulance box in the back so we can have an EMS skills lab to better train our people in providing the best EMS care possible.

So a lot of great stuff, and we're looking forward to hopefully right around October having an open house for this new building and our new training center is going to be open.

This is what you just approved last council meeting, I believe.

This is the training tower that is going to be built and erected on site at our training ground.

It's a four-story structure with all kinds of different things for training of our technical rescue team, our firefighters.

Every skill that we do on the fire ground is something that we can train in this structure.

And then on the top of the fourth story, we'll have a fifth story repelling tower for our technical rescue team.

So a pretty awesome addition to the city of North Las Vegas.

Fire investigations.

One thing I'll point out, and I'm not really pointing out people individually, but one of our big accomplishments in fire investigations last year is we we hired a new fire investigations commander, Commander Wavy Reed.

We were lucky to bring a 25-year veteran of the Henderson Police Department over to the North Las Vegas Fire Department and run our fire investigations division.

And he's definitely been busy over the last year.

And then one of our highlights last year, and unfortunately it's a little bit of a low light.

Our our fire investigation canine Jersey retired.

So right now we do not have a fire investigation canine.

Special operations.

As you know, you guys have all seen our truck and seen the uh the tools that we have.

Our technical rescue team, our heavy rescue team, our heavy rescue unit was put in service.

All six disciplines are now trained and staffed daily.

So we have a fully functional technical rescue team.

Uh and that team has already been on several very complex incidents, um, not only throughout North Las Vegas, but assisting in other jurisdictions in the valley.

Um tactical uh emergency casualty care.

Uh one of the things that's been important for us is to work with our police department to make sure that they have the equipment and the training to deal with uh traumatic injuries uh in in hostile events, uh, whether it's an officer injury or a civilian injury.

Um we're happy to say that in 2025, our police officers performed the the tactical emergency care uh that they were taught with the equipment that we had 17 times with some amazing outcomes.

So we're really proud of the efforts that we did and an amazing uh partnership with our police department.

And then finally, one of the issues that we're combating, and it's a new issue with technology is just dealing with lithium-ion batteries and EV fires.

That's something that we're dealing with a lot more.

Uh, creates a hazardous material issue for us, and so we've been developing new policies, procedures, and techniques to deal with these complicated and complex issues.

And then here's just a few uh few pictures there of uh of our special operations.

Almost done, almost wrapping up.

So logistics.

Um, last year, and I think you were all at our open house for our new logistics warehouse.

Uh, this centralized all of our equipment.

Uh, in the past, all of the fire department's equipment was in offices in our building and container uh boxes out in different properties in the fire department.

And as you can see, that was a lot of stuff when you guys toured that building.

Um and so we're now able to centralize it, and it's definitely more efficient in how we keep our fire stations and our equipment stocked.

The other big thing that we're really proud of is we have a shop in that in that place where we're able to not only do small motor repairs, but preventive maintenance.

And as you know, preventative maintenance uh is gonna save us money in the end.

Uh partnered with fleet services to upgrade our apparatus.

Uh, we we began receiving a large order of of uh rescues of our ambulances.

We put a lot of miles on our ambulances every year, and so we have to replace those a lot more frequently than we do our fire engines, and then we also ordered a water tender because of our need for to carry large amounts of water to certain areas like our like our highways.

All right, so the one of the last few things I'll talk about new equipment uh for to meet our growing and uh evolving community.

There's a lot of new technology out there.

We've been fortunate to be able to bring a bunch of new technology in.

There's a lot of great battery operated equipment out there, our extrication equipment now is battery operated, which allows us to quickly deploy it off the truck and and uh start operating a lot more quickly than using the old uh technology that we had.

And then one of the things we're really proud of back when I started in the fire service a few years ago, um not everybody even had a portable radio to carry.

They you know, uh, a whole crew had to carry a portable radio.

Now we're proud that in North Las Vegas fire department, every one of our personnel on the fire ground has their own personal thermo thermal imaging camera, so that when they're inside a building, um they're all able to see their surroundings, and in case they do get separated from their crew um in a very dark and smoky situation, they're able to find their way out.

So, this is uh an amazing thing that we've been able to add to our repertory of equipment.

One of the other things um we did not add our drones.

We we started drone technology about two years ago.

Uh, this fire um at uh Centennial in North Fifth happened last year.

But I just want to talk about how uh technology has really improved what we do within the fire department.

This was that major apartment complex fire.

Um, these pictures here, as big as it was, this was only 30 minutes into the first 911 call, so it spread very quickly.

But the important thing I want to kind of show you here with using drones on the fire ground, you can see the thermal imaging that we have on there and the houses that are pretty good distance away from the actual fire.

We were able to see the temperatures of those homes and that they were starting to smoke.

And so our incident commander who had a visual of what was going on the fire ground was able to change his tactics and figure out what we needed to do to protect the exposures here.

So technology has been a great boost in providing better public safety and better operations on our fire ground.

And then there are just uh an example of over the last uh year some of the new vehicles that we've been able to get in with a beautiful picture in the background here.

And then final thing is none of this would be able to happen without these amazing people.

Um, all these people that we have working in the fire department are dedicated.

Um, I'm blessed to have an amazing staff and amazing personnel that uh provide for the safety within our community.

So again, I thank you.

I thank you for allowing me to do what we do each and every day.

And uh, if you have any questions, I'm here to answer.

Wow, thank you, Chief.

And thank you for bringing your village with you.

And so your village has to stay in, so we can recognize you.

So many amazing slides in your presentation.

The one with all of your your vehicles, uh, that that scenery just speaks volumes to me.

And so, thank you for what you all do every day.

Um, when when those calls come in, and you know, most times people are in panic mode.

And so when you all show up to whatever that call is, um, you're calm, you're very professional, and your goal is to ensure the health and safety of those people that are making those calls.

And so I'm glad that there are social workers now that can help you all to stay people in the right direction and get the resources to them.

Um, and what I like when, especially when we're at your graduations, when you're showing the video of the training that those recruits go through, it just puts it in a different perspective for me.

I know because we see the work that it takes to become a firefighter, just anyone who is in public safety, and then having put on that equipment once upon a time of mic, and and I guess Captain Marin, you know, you have to breathe, you have to breathe.

So it's really easy to panic.

So but you all just do it like it's effortless.

And so that's just a uh a testament of the work that goes into getting people ready to be a firefighter paramedic.

So, Chief, thank you for being the outstanding leader that you are, and also again, thank you to your village for the work that you do in getting people ready to be a part of this amazing team.

So job well done.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor.

Yeah, um, Chief, uh, again, not this one not quite like the state of the city fire department, right?

But um, I uh I want to uh commend you.

I think you and your leadership team, their medal was tested.

Had you performed brilliantly, building when we had, of course, the global pandemic 2020.

I can I I look at that members of your team.

You and your team delivered uh a work that was a cut above anybody else's output, quite frankly, and led to the saving of hundreds, probably thousands of lives, right?

Um but you know, uh instead of just you know, um staying on those laurels, your team is still forging quite just forging ahead.

You know, and uh and uh again, that's that's leadership.

Yeah, instead of again, you guys did an outstanding job.

Maybe you guys just crew been on cruise control, but you're not uh your team uh is still forging forward, and uh I'm I'm really impressed.

Uh I I have a uh a question about the the crisis response team.

I um of course that's uh that was established here a few years ago.

Um, we we had had talks, of course, with the city manager at that time, and I'm very happy that we found money to fund it.

And uh for us, of course, it's it's um we're ahead of the uh the other uh uh municipalities at the uh uh at this.

Uh what can we do to preserve or maybe if we need to expand uh on the crisis response team?

Uh is that something where we have to dig further and try to get more grants, or uh is that something that you know that could eventually be uh uh something that um we fund organically.

Uh what's your what's your take on that?

Yeah, I I think there are options out there.

The city manager and I have had some conversations about it.

Um I I think we all agree that with what it's accomplished so far between our core program and between the CRT program.

Um this is a program that that's you know proving its benefit, and it's here to stay.

It needs to say it's a component of what we provide as a as a city.

Um so yes, there are options.

Um the the state uh grant.

We we had a federal grant for the first year, we're in the middle of a two-year state grant for that.

Uh so we're looking at options for continued support either through the state, some federal grants, um, or even some other funding sources.

But um, I I think we all we have all agreed that this is something we need to continue to not only uh continue here, but to continue to build and roll.

Fantastic.

You're gonna need some state support on that.

Hmm.

Gives me a couple of ideas, just saying.

Um I do have a question, and I I don't think I've asked this one a long time.

Whatever happened to those autopulses, right?

Uh and uh I remember that was a big those were a big deer, a big deal here a few years ago.

Do we still have though that little technology?

Are they using we still have them and they're actually in our capital plan to they're they're due for replacement next fiscal year?

So yes, we we still have them and they're still being used.

Yeah, so not only do they provide good CPR, but they're also safe for our personnel, so that not everybody has to be standing in the back of an ambulance doing CPR on the way to the hospital.

So obviously it wasn't a gimmick, it was something that was actually pretty well needed.

Yes, sir.

Yeah, well, that's good.

I again, you know, I I like gadgets too, but it wasn't just a gadget actually now integrated as uh as standard operating um equipment, right?

Yes, sir.

Well, fantastic.

Uh uh again, uh Chief, you've been um the you yourself personally, you have been, I think, uh the very uh epitome of stability uh for uh our our department.

But um we were lucky to get you uh just stealing away from the Midwest.

You brought that Midwest can do, and you know uh stable attitude with you, right?

I hope it can clone you and and keep you in perpetuity.

Thank you.

Sure, appreciate it.

Thank you so much.

All right, thank you, Chief.

This is just a discussion item, so no action is taken.

We can move on to item 31.

Item 31, resolution number 2751, a resolution of the North Las Vegas City Council adopting findings regarding utilization of revenue generated by the Clark County Crime Prevention Act of 2016.

Nothing.

All right, well go ahead and if there are no comments or questions, I'll entertain a motion to um recommend to pass and adopt item 31.

Motion to approve resolution number 2751.

Oh, that motion passes.

Item 32, resolution number 2752, a resolution of the North Las Vegas City Council adopting findings regarding utilization of revenue generated by the Clark County Sales and Use Tax Act of 2005.

Council, are there no comments in question or questions?

I'll take a motion to pass and adopt item 32.

Motion to approve.

Wait, wait, wait.

Rescind that motion.

We'll go back.

Andy.

Oh no, the question is.

Okay, so go ahead and make your vote.

I'm sorry, I just saw you walk up there like, okay.

All right, that motion passes.

All right.

Moving on to ordinances.

Final action.

Item 33, ordinance number 3275, an ordinance of the city of North Las Vegas, amending chapter 10.60 of the North Las Vegas Municipal Code related to bicycles by adding provisions regulating the use of electric bicycles, electric scooters, and electric motorcycles, and amending section 12.16.020 of the municipal code related to parks, recreation facilities, and trail use by adding provisions related to the use of electric bicycles, electric scooters, and electric motorcycles in city parks and on trails, and providing for other matters properly related there too.

All right.

Sorry for creating confusion on that previous item.

No, I was looking at something else.

I just have to be Andy Moore, a city attorney.

I'm here to discuss uh ordinance number 3275.

And this is a the city attorney's office and the police department has been working on a draft ordinance for some time.

I want to thank initially Madison Zorn's Villa and the city attorney's office and uh Sergeant Farrell and the police department for their work on this.

This is an ordinance to address the proliferation of electric bicycles, electric scooters, electric motorcycles on city streets and in city parks.

And I'm just gonna give a general overview of what the uh ordinance entails.

Um we've added definitions into the ordinance for electric bikes, electric scooters, and electric motorcycles.

And for the sake of um just like a clarity on this, an electric bike, there's three different classes under state law.

There's a class one, class two, class three.

This isn't in our ordinance, but I just want to clarify to kind of distinguish between what an electric bike is and what an electric motorcycle is.

A class one bike is generally propelled by pedals, but you get motor assist up to 20 miles per hour.

A class two electric bike is generally propelled by it has operable pedals, but it's generally propelled by a throttle, and you get motor assist up to 20 miles per hour.

And a class three bike is propelled by pedals with motor assist up to 28 miles per hour.

So the definition for electric bike in the ordinance caps the speed at 28 miles per hour provided by a motor.

Whereas an electric motorcycle is something that goes over 28 miles per hour and it doesn't have operable pedals.

So those are the distinctions in the ordinance.

Um the ordinance primarily just takes the provisions that pertain to bicycles and adds provisions, I mean adds references to electric bike uh electric bicycles, electric motorcycles.

So the general traffic laws that apply to bicycles are gonna apply to electric bicycles and electric scooters, and those are things like obedience to traffic control devices, so stop signs, red lights, um write as close to the right-hand side of the road as possible, obey speed limits, those types of things.

That's all obviously in the ordinance still.

Um we added language though to prohibit reckless behavior.

That was language that wasn't in the ordinance previously, and that's when you see people obviously like popping wheelies.

I'm sure you've seen that on city streets.

I've seen people on electric bicycles going very fast looking at their cell phone.

So the language there's language in the ordinance now that prohibits reckless behavior along the lines of writing on handlebars, popping wheelies, looking at your cell phone while you're on an electric bike or an electric scooter.

Um there's prohibition on e-bikes and e-scooters on sidewalks unless authorized by a posted sign.

The general, like the language in our ordinance now, it authorizes writing an analog traditional bike on a sidewalk.

That language is still there, but this is a prohibition on e-bikes, e-scooters on sidewalks.

For safety um considerations, um, we have language in the ordinance now that says helmets are strongly recommended for any person operating a bike, e-bike, or e-scooter, but for miners, anybody under the age of 18, helmets are required for e-bike and e-scooters.

Um there's existing language in there about having a reflector on rear of your bike.

There's new language about adding a light if you're riding at night on a bicycle, e-bike, or e-scooter, have an actual operable light on the front of the bicycle.

Instead of being criminal infractions, I mean criminal um penalties, which was in the existing ordinance.

It's now civil infractions.

So violations of the provisions in chapter 10.60.

It's going to be a civil infraction, and the penalties are structured, and this is in line with what other jurisdictions have done in southern Nevada.

The penalties are 150 dollars for the first infraction, 300 for the second, and $600 for the each subsequent violation.

And on that, you know, obviously a lot of the times you're gonna have police if they see somebody operating an e-bike, an e-scooter, um, it's gonna be somebody who's a minor, but we actually have language in there that says that parents and guardians are responsible for paying those civil infractions.

And the one thing I talked about at the beginning, the distinction between e-bikes and e-motorcycles, the language in the ordinance prohibits e-motorcycles, and those are items that are I mean, those are devices that are controlled by a throttle, no operable pedals, and they go in excess of 28 miles per hour, and those are prohibited now on city roadways, sidewalks, and in parks.

And then in addition to um amending chapter 10.60 pertaining to bicycles, there's also provision um in this ordinance that amends language in section 12.16020 of our code, and that just details what's prohibited in city parks.

So under this ordinance, um, operation of electric motorcycle in city parks or on city trails is prohibited, which is what I just said related to the language in chapter 10.60.

Writing an e-bike or e-scooter on a sports court, skate park or within 100 feet of a playground or splash pad is now prohibited in city parks.

And um, but e-bikes are any scooters are allowed on city owned uh and operated trails designed for bike use.

So that is generally the overview I have.

If you have any questions about the ordinance, I'm here to answer any questions you might have.

Thanks, Andy.

I do just have one question.

Um uh and I'm sure that the legislature will probably keep this conversation going in next session because I knew there'll be probably lots of changes and more discussion.

But does I don't know if this makes any sense, but does tire size and width play into any part of this or the speed or the speed and looked at the speed does.

I didn't see anything in state law that talks about tire size and tire width.

It's primarily those distinctions between class one, class two, and class three bikes where it's capping the motor, like a class three electric bike caps it at 28 miles per hour, class one, class two are capped at 20 miles per hour.

But I didn't see that there's nothing in our ordinance and nothing I saw in state law that talks about tire width or tire size.

Okay, or the safety of those sizes of time.

Okay, thank you.

Any comments or questions, counsel?

Yeah, I'll do the motion because yeah, um, Mr.

City uh attorney, uh, thank you very much.

So uh basically our ordinance is basically kind of following and um just a mirror of the our sister municipalities, right?

That's correct.

And Henderson, uh, I want to say a couple months ago adopted some clearer language about electric motorcycles because that's been when you talk about when people talk about electric bicycles.

I mean, there's a lot of times you'll see people, I mean, for instance, I'll just give an example.

When I was driving to the uh the event that was at Craig Ranch with that 80s symphonic, my wife and I were driving on Craig Road.

Um there's an individual, like a child, I mean, I would say probably about 12, 13 years old, keeping up with traffic going well in excess of 40 miles per hour without a helmet on, looking at his cell phone.

And so those are the types of things that we're obviously trying to address with this ordinance.

And Henderson like added some language to just to kind of distinguish between what an e-bicycle and an e-motorcycle is, and we have that language in this ordinance, so police officers trying to enforce this ordinance know an e-motorcycle is something that is not allowed on city streets where an e-bicycle that's capped at that 28 miles per hour is.

Yeah, no, I I think I uh share the concern of not just people here, uh my colleagues on the board or people here in the audience.

I'm freaked out by seeing by you know, um I I guess you know, uh people when you see people like uh on like uh BC um that the old cartoon BC, the that the caveman on the uh on the um unibike, right?

You're just leaning forward and they're flying along at 35, 40 miles an hour.

I uh I'm I well I figure people that they want to take their life in their hand, but then you know the proliferation of uh of these by uh of these vehicles.

It's uh it's astounding, you know, and we're I think we're just now seeing the beginning of it.

Um I uh the only comment I also I'll add is uh at the schools, you know, you go and visit the schools.

Now uh there seem to be less bicycle racks and more like um electric scooter racks that you know that students you know pilot these things to school, and again, those little scooters uh they're not to be underestimated, they're fast, you know.

Um so I'm I'm happy we have something where we're addressing it.

Um I think my uh colleague wanted to um make a motion to you can go ahead and make the motion.

Only yes, oh okay, totally my fault.

Uh I'll bring a motion.

And that motion passes.

Item 34, ordinance number 3276, an ordinance amending chapter 2.40 of the North Las Vegas Municipal Code by repealing provisions related to the records management committee and providing for other matters properly related there too.

Uh again, Andy Moore, City Attorney here to discuss ordinance number 3276.

And I know we've been here for a couple hours already, but I hope everybody will bear with me.

I have about 30 minutes to talk about this records management ordinance.

I'm sorry, we don't have time for now.

Take all the time you need.

So this one is uh just a minor cleanup provision in our ordinance.

Um the NRS 239, which is the public records act, it has provisions that the city may establish a program for records management, including the adoption of retention schedules.

Um, and we actually have a records manager program that's laid out in our municipal code section 2.40.

Under that um chapter, there's a provision that creates a records management committee.

But when you have a city board or city committee that's created via an ordinance, it's subject to open meeting law.

And this is an internal city committee to discuss records management and any sort of action that that city committee takes related to adoption or potential revisions to our retention schedule is going to come before city council for approval.

And so then this is also a large um committee because there's every city department um represented, so it's about 20 to 25.

And so just to continue on having the records management committee meet, but not have to actually set up the agenda for like compliance with open meeting law.

We're just making a simple amendment that the records management program continues, but the records management committee language that's in that ordinance, which isn't a requirement under state laws just removed, but the records management committee will continue to meet.

So that's just what this revision entails.

Makes sense to me.

Yeah.

Okay, comments or questions.

Uh make a motion to pass about the motion passes.

Thank you, Andy.

All right, moving on to the city manager's report.

Well, we've had a lot to celebrate today, and I again I want to reiterate reiterate my thanks to our police and fire departments for their efforts and commitment to keeping our community safe.

So, as Councilman Barone noted, our 80th anniversary exhibit is now open outside council chambers at the Stone Soup Art Gallery during normal city hall business hours.

The exhibit traces the history of North Las Vegas from its earliest days to the thriving city it is today.

Stop by and explore the stories, people, and moments that shape our community over the past eight decades.

And on Thursday, May 14th, the city accepted Nevada State University's community partner award.

This partnership means expanded access to higher education, stronger workforce pipelines, and greater economic opportunity for our residents.

The North Las Vegas campus is expected to open fall 2027, meaning our residents will be able to earn a college degree without having to leave their community.

So thank you to our partners, NSU.

And this Saturday, May 30th, from 10 a.m.

to 2 p.m.

We are going to be having our Memorial Day barbecue and resource fair at the Veterans and Community Resource Center.

Join us to honor the men and women who serve our nation.

This event actually, my bad, this is next Saturday, not this Saturday.

I'm getting excited.

Um the event features food, resources, and connections to services that make a real difference in veterans' lives.

All are welcome.

So we also are having the summer learning challenge at our libraries.

This year, Unearth a Story runs through July 27th and is open to all ages, earn points by reading, doing activities, and attending library programs, redeem points for prizes all summer, including a book bag, water bottle, or stuffed dinosaur at a thousand points.

In celebration of the city's 80th anniversary, special locations across North Las Vegas locations offer bonus points.

Sign up on Beanstack at NLVLD.org or at any North Las Vegas library branch.

And we love hearing for our residents, and this one deserves to be shared on Wednesday, April 9.

Our utilities team responded to a water emergency.

They diagnosed a problem, resolved an underlying issue, and restored the residence yard before leaving.

The resident went out of their way to reach out to us and thank the team for a job well done.

So great work, Brandon, Brian, and the entire crew.

This honor recognizes our outstanding leadership and contributions to public sector, human resources, and the city of North Las Vegas.

Linda will be celebrated at the upcoming PSHRA conference.

Congratulations, Linda.

And in March, the municipal courts served 13,608 customers, the highest total in the reporting period, and up from 11,189 February.

Court hearings climbed to 3,019, a 17% increase over February's 2,585.

These numbers reflect a court that is accessible, efficient, and meeting the needs of our community.

And lastly, uh there is still no score in the night's game in the second period with 15 minutes left, but go nice.

All right, we're gonna move on to the second public forum.

Now is the time for the public to speak on issues that were not on the agenda tonight, but that what it 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 refer to the city manager or other city staff for action by the city council at a later date.

Sorry, I've got more chances.

Oh, I don't know.

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

Yes, ma'am, we do.

Okay.

The speaker is Terry Maria.

Welcome, Mr.

Maria.

Um, I've been here before mentioning things.

I want to thank the council and the mayor for the no parking signs on Coleman.

They've got them up, it's working fine, it's perfect.

Um, I appreciate it.

And so do the neighbors.

Um the speed limits for the school bus and other vehicles.

That's still an issue.

Um, I'm hoping that I can talk with somebody maybe after the meeting about the school bus issue.

Uh they're not stopping or they're just just going over the speed limit.

And I got city workers that I've talked to when they were putting stopping signs that said that they'll fly by them and they have the controls on their vehicles where they have to go a certain speed or they'll get in trouble.

School buses are passing them.

And this is kids and no kids.

I'm I mean, I'm feeling I'm looking after the kids.

Um, I think that's what everybody should.

Uh the other thing is the speed limit on Coleman.

They've decided to put a um a monitor up there to try to figure out how fast cars are going and to monitor how many that's just to monitor it.

Now, whether they do anything about it or not, that's gonna probably be up to you guys.

Um, other than the fact of that, I have nothing else other than to say thank you for helping with what you've done so far.

More more uh police up and down the street, because it's been rare that I've seen any.

And there's kids that are just walking up and down in the middle of the street with the e-bikes.

Um, and they're just in the middle of the street.

So that would be a help.

Uh if anybody else has got any questions, I'll talk to them after.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Mirror, that was our last speaker.

All right, thank you.

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