Let's call to order the Spark City Council meeting for August 10th with a roll call.

Council members Abbott.

Baby.

Here.

Rodriguez.

City Attorney Duncan.

City Manager Lin.

Here.

We have a quorum.

Thank you.

In uh Psalm 16, it says, You make known to me the path of life.

You will fill me with joy in your presence.

Or Nehemiah 810 tells us the joy of the Lord is our strength.

And so let's pray for joy in this gathering.

God, we thank you for your presence in our community.

We thank you for your presence in our lives and in this chamber.

God, would you give wisdom here and with joy permeate the decisions uh that are made and how that impacts the lives in our community?

As we pray for joy in this gathering right now, we pray uh your protection upon property and lives as fires are raging just north of us.

God, would you uh shift the winds?

God would uh the fires go out, and would you get the glory in that as well?

And would joy permeate even in the midst of tragedy.

So we give you this time and uh move in this council.

We pray this in the name of Christ, amen.

Uh Mr.

Rodriguez, will you lead us in the park?

Please join me.

One nation on your comments.

Liberty.

Okay.

All right, we're gonna move on to public comment.

But I want to give you a slight warning here.

We were notified by NV Energy that depending on wind conditions, they may be shutting off power in North Sparks.

So uh be prepared for that announcement.

If it comes as of right now, it's not happening, but things could change to uh that would affect you.

So if you have a generator, I might get it out and get it tuned up because I don't know when they would turn it back on after that.

So just as a public announcement, since most of you I know are from that area.

I just wanted you to be aware.

Okay.

With that, we'll move on to public comment, and it'll start with Tom Szynski, followed by Jim Brick.

For the record, my name's Tom Szinski.

I'm a resident of Wingfield Springs and also with the Wingfield Springs Preservation Group.

Um, Mr.

Mayor, members of the council, I'm here today to say simply thank you.

Thank you to city staff for their expertise in reviewing the foothills and wingfield applications.

Thank you for the planning commission for asking tough questions and uh voting for denial of these applications at the most recent planning commission meeting.

Thank you for this to the city attorney and his office for the work that they're doing on these applications, and thank you to the city council for your patience with our community.

We know we're a lot, and I'm sure you're tired of seeing us, and um, I'm sure we're tired of being here.

But uh, this has been a very challenging situation for our community.

So thank you for your patience with us, and uh thank you for the decisions that are coming your way.

Have a good rest of your meeting.

Thank you.

All right, Jim Brake, followed by George Lee.

Good afternoon.

My name is Jim Brake.

I live at 6637 Fabric Drive, just a short walk from the open space item nine 9.1 on the agenda today, and I enjoy walking around there and taking photos of sunsets and wildlife.

But I wanted to clear up a little bit on uh open space because a lot of people are using the term kind of loosely is it's open space, it's private property, and just to clarify it is that piece of property is zoned open space as part of the master plan for a development of that area, and all the homes that were built around it were built knowing that was going to be open space, and so they'd have a view in their backyard, and they have a view fence, and they weren't planning on having any houses built behind in that open space.

The other things you hear term open space used is oh, there's a vacant lot next to my house, so it's open space.

Well, it's not really open space, that's private property that is zoned for development, and it will be developed, and then there's common areas in the some of the subdivisions that are maintained by the HOA, and that's also called open space.

That's a different type of open space that will be maintained.

In this particular case, it was zoned open space, and then it was developed with a three-hole golf course a long time ago, and that didn't work out, so they abandoned it, and it hasn't been maintained ever since then, but it's still open space, it's zoned open space, and it should stay open spaced.