City Council - Regular Meeting

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Welcome to Boulder City City Council. Call the meeting to order. Madame City Clerk, roll call and posting, please. Thank you. The agenda was posted in accordance with Nevada open meeting law and all members are present.

Thank you. We will now arise for the invocation by clergy David Picket from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Our dear Father in heaven, we thank thee for the blessings of living in America, in Nevada, and in Boulder City. We thank thee for the gift of time in our lives. Please help us to always be mindful of the stewardship that each of us has with each day. to lift others, to do good, and to serve those within our reach, especially the discouraged, the downtrodden, and the stranger. Please grant us the courage to do what is right and to resist what is wrong, regardless of the challenge. In all of our decisions, let us consider what is best for our shared and common good. Please bless us each with personal resolve to defend and promote the rule of law, our civil liberties, and our best democratic principles and traditions for the equal benefit of all, including those who may think, speak, or worship differently than we do. We ask for thy blessing upon this meeting that those who participate will feel welcome and respected, and that the decisions made here tonight will advance our community's best interests. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Amen.

You can stay standing for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. in in the way of public announcements, we have first uh Christina Valardi uh and if she would come forward and tell us uh something about your organization before we turn around and have a picture with you.

Well, thank you so much for having us today. Um, as you mentioned, my name is Christina Valardi and I have the pleasure of serving as president of the Junior League of Las Vegas. This month we are celebrating our 80th anniversary, eight decades of women serving our Las Vegas and Southern Nevada communities. Organizations that we all know and love, help us Southern Nevada, Shade Tree Women's Shelter, Ronald McDonald House, all began their lives as a Junior League project. And today we're continuing to make that impact with organizations here in Boulder City like St. huge grants for children and we have grown from 12 to over 600 women that volunteer with our organization and we are so grateful to be here today to have the opportunity to share that with you.

So are you trying to say the current mayor of Boulder City is not uh encouraged or allowed to join your organization? Mr. Mayor, if you would like to identify as a woman, you can come on down. [laughter] That's a good one. She's good, isn't she? [laughter] She's good. She's good. So, we would love to come down and join with you and your group that are here and get a photo if you'd like us to do that. Thank you so much. Yes, please. Thank you. Careful.

I'll get your name badge ready. You ever heard the word? [laughter] All right, everybody. Are you ready?

Stay right there.

We're going to have another photo up. Uh but we do have a proclamation uh for u detective Dubois who's retiring after 30 years. Hopefully he's here. Come on forward with us. [applause] [applause] So Detective Dubois has been with uh law enforcement for at least 30 years as I read it in different capacities and particularly here in Boulder City. We appreciate what you do and how you've done it. And so when you walk out, we'll give you the presentation that it is shows a lot of things that you've done that you already know. But thank you for your service.

Thank you. Thank you. [applause] [applause]

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Are we all ready? One, two, three. Thank you. Congratulations. [applause] [applause] Which one's your dad?

Well, I understand you had that job, too. Yes, sir. Well, thank you. You're welcome. Where do I get? You stand right in front of me. Right like this. Right in the center. No, stand up. Just remember

everybody. All right. One, two, three. [applause] Patient.

That's why I said in our little group thing, I said I'm not going to know any of the police officers pretty soon. They're all leaving me. [clears throat]

I have not. We'll now open the uh meeting up for public comment. The first public comment is to uh talk about anything you want as long as it's on the agenda. And those in the room can come forward, identify themselves uh at the microphone or call in at 7025899629. Anyone on the phone yet? Okay. Now, all of those here in the room would like to say something on the public comment are more than willing to do it at this time. And anyone who's still calling in 7025899629. We'll wait a little bit. 7025899629 or anyone here in the chambers? No one on the phone. We will close the initial public comment and move to approval of the regular agenda.

I move to approve the regular agenda. I'll second that. All those in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Unanimous. Thank you. And then for approval of the consent agenda, please move to approve. Is there a second? Second. All those in favor say I. I. Thank you. Unanimous. That brings us to item number three, presentation by the Boulder City Museum and Historical Association's annual report. Mr. Galbert, please identify yourself and the major role you play. [laughter]

Good evening, mayor and council. I'm John Calbert. I'm the chair for the board of directors for the BCMHA and we are here to present the uh BCMHA annual meeting report. Um there we go. As we present our report tonight, I'm reminded that the strength of the Boulder City Museum and Historical Association lies not just in our collections, but in the passion and dedication of this community. Uh today, we're excited to share major updates on our finances and our future, where we'll see how years of commitment are paying off and enabling us to make generational improvements. Uh I have two pieces of incredible uh financial news to share illustrating just how much progress we've made together. First, I'm thrilled to announce that the mortgage on the Boulder Dam Hotel has been paid off.

Wow. [applause]

Um, this uh this significant financial obligation, which stood at approximately $950,000 back in 2012, is now just a part of our history. So, this achievement frees up substantial resources, allowing us to focus more on our mission. Second, we're deeply grateful uh to acknowledge the immense generosity of the Dan Bunch estate. Uh this donation includes approximately $310,000 in funds along with dozens of amazing Desert Sands pottery pieces. Uh this legacy gift is providing an essential foundation for several key projects. And finally, thanks to both of these funds and prudent management, we are able uh we have also fully funded our emergency savings account, bringing us to industry standard levels, helping to ensure the long-term resilience and stability of the BCMHA. Um with these new with this new financial strength, we have strategically allocated funds to a suite of critical initiatives to help futureproof the BCMHA and enrich our collections for everyone. Uh we have begun allocating funds towards the Avenue Sea House uh preservation project, that's the Fenton House, securing a vital piece of Boulder City history. uh the creation of a dedicated research room and a digitizing room, modernizing how we interact with our artifacts, a new special a new spectacular desert sands pottery exhibit allowing us to properly showcase the valuable pieces from the bunch of state and key improvements to three of our permanent exhibits, ensuring our stories remain fresh and engaging. A major focus this year is preparing our organization for the next century of historical preservation. We're currently in the process of tiering uh the museum's collections. This is a necessary step that nearly every successful historical museum eventually undertakes as its collection grows. Uh this process

prioritizes materials that best support our mission and it's essential for a successful digitization pro uh program. So by tiering our collections, we can create fresh, engaging and educational digital content that reaches far beyond the walls of our museum. I want to emphasize that we continue to provide excellent care for our materials and artifacts, but we're now revising our storage, cataloging, and utilization procedures to be more efficient and impactful. Our commitment to the digit digitization was recently strengthened with a significant grant we received from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, which provides the necessary equipment to launch launch our full-scale digitizing program. Our purpose is to connect the community with its history. We have officially created a research and educational outreach room designed to dramatically improve community access to our collections. This room will be accessible to the public Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 3 p.m. by appointment. And this is a dedicated space where students, historians, and residents can dive deep into the records and artifacts of Boulder City. The BCHA is stronger and more resilient today than it has been in decades. We have eliminated debt, secured a major endowment, responsibly funded our emergency reserves, and most importantly, we have launched the strategic initiatives necessary to secure and share Boulder City's history in the digital age. So, I just thank you for your trust and your membership and your continued belief in the power of our shared past. And now, I believe Hava has the next part. Hi, my name is Java Brown. I'm the museum development officer uh for the Boulder City Hoover Dam Museum. Thank you for having us and I'm happy to be

here. Um I just wanted to say that when we did this initial report, uh we released it in October and so uh some of my numbers have changed. Uh so we do have uh about 171 members now. We have 15 participating businesses in the discount. We've had three member exclusive events including a Golden Knights ticket giveaway uh which is going on right now. Uh we've had over 40,000 people visiting the museum and um as of the end of this month it'll be 443 children who have taken guided tours of the museum. Um, we have over 6,000 people on our historic walking tour. Our membership partners are listed on the next slide and uh they include uh lots of businesses around Boulder City. I'm sorry, can everyone hear me? Um, so starting with restaurant 1933, Cleveland's uh the museum gift shop and, uh, ending with two of our newest members, uh, BC Massage and Sound Therapy, which is located inside the hotel as well, and Utopia Pinball. On our next slide, um, my part of my job is also working with sponsorship and donations. And so, thank you to the city for the lovely grant of 105,000 last year. Uh, that does cover all kinds of museum programs. Uh, John mentioned the grant from Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. It was $12,000 for digitizing equipment. They also sponsor the walking tour, which is 5,000 a year. Um, they also sponsor an exhibit inside the museum, which is $1,000 per year. Uh, we also got a very lovely sponsorship from the

Boulder Dam Credit Union in $10,000 and that went straight into the research room that John mentioned. Um, San Diego Gas and Electric gives us $1,000 each year. That's helping with the Avenue Sea House preservation and Platinum Title also gave us $1,000 last year for a museum exhibit sponsorship. And I am pleased to announce that the Lions Club has uh verbally said yes to a thousand dollars a year for the next five years. So more to come with that. Um going on to educational programs. Um I do list some pictures. Um, we not only do educational tours that are um different per age group, but we also do educational activities at the end of those tours and grants and sponsorships pay for those educational activities. For instance, we work with Reuben's Woodcrafts and they create uh wooden holly hawks that the kids can paint at the end of the activities for the youngsters. Um, and then so we go on to explain what Holly Hawk means to Boulder City. And, uh, that's part of the educational activity as well. And they get to take the Holly Hawks home to their their parents. So, I do have pictures here of some of the educational programs. We had a great class. It's a school come in from Gilbert, Arizona. It's called Pathways, and these are kids from age 8 to age 18 and a half, and they're sponsors. These kids are all neurode divergent and coming up with an activity that everyone in that age group and activity and an ability could do was really fun. Uh, so we gave them historical postcards and had them write a letter to themselves and we about what they loved about the museum and then we mailed it to the school so then the school could

distribute the postcards and some of the art that I saw and um, a lot of people were very interested in the the workers on the Hoover Dam and what they did. It was incredible to see. I love that. So and they've already promised to come back again this year. um more educational programs. I took the entire um third grade of Martha P. King around the museum. I'm also taking the entire first grade of Mitchell Elementary around at the end of February and the beginning of March. Um I've also taken and Mr. May was present at the water filtration plant took the Southern Nevada Water Authority group. Um, these are a group of high schoolers. It's a youth council um into a tour of the old filtration plant and we had um Thomas's father, Mr. Member, who worked there in 1966 to 1982, explain his role at the water filtration plant to the Southern Nevada Water Authority Youth Council. It was very, very interesting. Uh going on to exhibit development, which is also probably the funnest part of my job, the most fun part of my job. We have um Characters Unlimited had uh donated a character which is now being um the character's placement is at the entrance of the museum. He actually sings a song that was written and sung and donated by a museum member and that will be welcoming people into the museum. Uh we have a tunnel projection uh project that was uh a member Barry Joe Burman donated her time and expertise to create that inside the museum. Uh we are now working on telescoping video that is from a 1935 video that UNLV was able to digitized for us and

we're going to be adding that to the museum um as as a lot as in addition to the damn work um description audio. A lot of our museum is um accessible by reading and we want to have our museum accessible by listening as well. So we we'll be working on that. Characters Unlimited also donated a coin press and it's uh a very passive income revenue sharer with us. Uh I'd now like to introduce Jennifer Smith, our archivist. She's going to talk about the collections. Thank you.

Hi, good evening. Um, for the record, my name is Jennifer Smith and I serve as the archivist for the museum. Uh, so I briefly just want to add context to what's been shared. For our material donations for our collections, we've had 15 donors um contributed 39 items. And out of those items, we've had three significantly uh unique items. Uh, as you can see here, we have a 1937 8 millimeter film that Jav and I had the privilege of going to UNLV film department and seeing that firsthand in action to um be uh transferred digitally. And then our next item is our 1935 Fortune magazine collection and it's featuring an article from Boulder Dam, a portfolio of watercolors by Stanley Wood. And then our next one is a drafting kit used from the reclamation service engineer Ruthless Caxton during the Hoover Dam construction project. And then our recent one that we have that's wasn't included until la from last year's record um was a lithograph lithographs from William Wullet. It's not on here um that was recently added to our collection. Okay. And then I'm going to go into our researchers overview. We've conducted 39 research projects. Out of those, we've had uh one notable notable project from Broadbent, Inc. And we've had Sarah Lane from the National Park Service who's been working on um developing educational lesson plans for the World War II Heritage City series.

And we also had Deborah Sailor. She's a library media specialist and she's doing a biography of B uh excuse me, Ida Browder, a pioneering businesswoman in Boulder City and founder of Browers's Lunch Cafe, which is now Damn Roers. And recently, two weeks ago, I've had the privilege of helping uh Boyd Productions. They've requested permission to use an expert from an original Elton Garrett letter held in the museum's Boulder City Pioneers manuscript collection for the city of Las Vegas commission documentary on the history of Freedom uh excuse me, Freedom Fremont Street. So, this documentary will be streamed on YouTube and air on the city's official channel and be used for educational purposes. This request represents a significant opportunity for the museum to showcase its archival collections and reflect museum's role as a trusted regional source for primary source material used in highly visibly visibility public history and educational media projects. Okay. And so next slide archive volunteer contributions. Um, I'd like to highlight Jeannie Rutherford Rutherford, excuse me. And she we've been very fortunate to have her back with us. Um, her commitment, her expertise has great uh greatly benefited our efforts in our collections. She's provided helping with assessioning our collections, cat um cataloging, indexing, processing our donated materials, and storing and right now currently storing and preserving our artifacts. That's a huge collection that we have also at the library basement. Okay. And next slide. Okay. So now I'm

going to go into our collections and just uh help you guys um understand our tearing and digitizing collections. So our primary focus is Hoover Dam and Boulder City. during the period between the beginning of Boulder City project can Boulder Canyon project from the 1920s through the 1960s uh when Boulder City was incorporated. So with our taring collection, we have three. We have our primary support and instructional. Our primary collection preserves original objects from the Hoover Dam, early Boulder City era from 1920s to 1960s. And these are original, unique, and significant materials. They're high research exhibits and historical value. Then we have our support collection which provides context and illuminates our primary collection and it could may be reproducible or commonly available not essential on their own but valuable in exhibits and education. And then our last tier is our ed instructional or therefore our consumable collection and this is our handson and educational materials intended for use rather than permanent preservation. These items can be replica artifacts or for school programs and temporary exhibits. And now into our digitizing. So we're converting currently right now we are converting our physical collections into digital assets for preservation. So that's limiting our handling for those uh artifacts or documents. Research which increases accessibility for collections for our museum's programs and ex exhibits. and then public access to provide online access and improve searchability for those collections. Um and then once we're done with that,

which will take a very long process, um our next goal would be to um after we've organized our collections, we can focus and create online exhibits from from our collections. And let's see. And that's it. That's all I have for you guys today. And I want to turn it back to John. Thank you. Thank you.

So, wrapping up our presentation. Um, can you get that slide back up? Yeah. The next There we go. Um, just wanted to point out uh something that makes our museum unique in our association. You can see where most museums across the US uh get their funding from on the left and on the right's where we get our funding from. And that big light blue on our side is us uh operating income. So a majority of museums uh get over half of their funding from government grants in the private sector where we are actually uh providing our generating our own operating income through the museum. So the uh the reliance on outside sources is uh very important to us uh so that we can make that more of an even graph is is what we're trying to look for there. Um, and then finally to close out, uh, we've submitted the following material to the city in October 25, the annual meeting report, financial statements, our 990 filing, and in January of 26, the list of grants, request for funds, proposed budget, our copy of our strategic plan, and then, as always, we have the following material on our website. our code of ethics and collection policy, balance sheet, our P&L, and our IRS 9990 tax return. And that's all I have for you guys.

Any questions? Um, I do have a couple questions just because I serve on the board, I get that opportunity, which is nice. And Ahava talked about volunteers and I know that the one that you highlighted is one that's how many hours? I mean I it's incredible, right? The number I feel like Jenny or that's Jen. Oh J. Oh okay. Yeah. The number of hours of one volunteer, right? Yes. Yes. Speak into the mic so we can hear you.

Definitely. Um definitely thought it was like 100. Yes, it was over a hundred hours over just from one or one volunteer. So that sparks the question for me is volunteers. Do we need more? If we could have more volunteers and if so, what volunteer opportunities are available? if there are people out there who might be listening um that have a desire to volunteer at a community place and give back.

Oh, definitely. Yes. Um that's something that we are definitely open to and if they'd like to contact us, they can talk to me directly and we can see where we can fit them. And how would they do that? Uh go. Yes, please. No, no, no. We cross over when it comes to volunteers sometimes. So part of my job as outreach. Just right into the microphone. Sorry.

Sorry. Part of my job as outreach is to uh collect volunteers when I can. So I collect volunteers uh when we're at public events. Uh we attended the volunteer uh thing at the I think Ki was part of that over at parks and wreck. So I had a table there. We got about 15 people who sign up to volunteer from there. I get people who uh volunteer during winewalks as well. Um, and from the Southern Nevada Water Authority, I had the uh Henderson uh one of the high schools in Henderson, their National Honor Society reached out to me. The whole honors society wants to volunteer for the museum. And so there are different places that people can volunteer. Right now, probably digitizing and helping with collections would be our primary. Um, and that would be, you know, that would be great for the honor society. But then we have other instances too um where I have members exclusive events. I always need people helping me set up and tear down and you know clean up and that kind of thing. So there's always opportunity for more volunteers

and it's a great opportunity to also see what's available there. Um I also put down membership if you if you don't have the time but you have some funds. How much is membership for a year? membership is only $30 annual uh excuse me annually and $600 for a lifetime membership. Um and that is of course tax deductible as well. Um and uh yeah, with that exclusive membership, we have parties, events, um like I said, we're doing the Golden Nights ticket giveaway now and um access to um newsletters and all kinds of other things as well. It's only $30,

right? And this is also to benefit I mean I think it's so important in a community where we have a little sense of pride right about um how we became Boulder City and um it matters to us and this is a place really where our roots are um kept and archived where I just got so excited because I was a school teacher to see all those kids which are our branches right coming back to learn about where their roots came from and how they are who they are today and history is is not any good if no one visits it and we don't know where we came from and we don't know how we became who we are today. So I love that we have a place to bring and we still every once in a while just get that um um odd piece of thing that comes in that's um material that is is authentic and to the to it. So, if you have stuff sitting up in an attic, a basement somewhere, right, when you start going through things and you say, "Oh, wait. Where where what should I do with this?" This allows people to see this. This allows people to be able to to understand again what the city of Boulder City and Hoover Dam uh went through and and and how they became who they are, which I think is beautiful. So, yes, we're social. Yes, we're fun. But more importantly, and most importantly, I think is you guys are doing an amazing job sharing with everyone the story and I so so appreciate it. So, thank you.

So, [applause] before you leave, speaking of roots, why Holly Holio Hawks?

Holly Hawks. Yeah. Uh so uh holly hawks are the actual official flower of Boulder City and um I know of some people who can grow beautiful holly hawks and some people who have been trying forever and can't grow them at all. Um but they are a beautiful flower. They are a transplant. Um you know like everybody was a transplant to Boulder City. We have no native people to Boulder City back in 1931. Uh, everyone came to Boulder City to work on the dam and they brought with them things that mattered to them from their hometowns. Holly Hawks were one of those things that came and they sprouted and they grew here and they came from the east coast and uh the fact that they can grow here still after hundred years is incredible and they are the official flower of Boulder City.

Thank you. So, I thank you all for preserving history first and foremost and I I know Um, Haba is always shaking the trees for volunteers. So, um, I know you you have plenty of those and I hope you get more. Um, I have a question. Do you share your information like with the Smithsonian or with other um, museums around the nation? Um, locally right now, yes, it's just local. Um, right now it's um, well, there's I had one from Colorado just recently. Uh that was actually the Bureau of Wreck that I've had recently helped them out with. Um but yeah, I'm Yeah, we're open to all museums. Yeah.

Okay. And uh in your briefing, in your presentation, you mentioned the sponsorship was $1,000 for each each presentation, each exhibit. Is $1,000 that does that go to a specific um individual's exhibit or is the $1,000 just go to any exhibit? Um, I'm not sure. I can talk about that. Yeah, that would be [laughter] helpful. Uh, yeah. So, the thousand level actually does correspond to an exhibit in the museum. So, if you're browsing the museum and you say, "Oh my gosh, I really want to sponsor this piece. Um, it's available. I think we still have about seven other exhibits that are available

in case you're wondering." Yeah, I was wondering because I' I'd like to sponsor some of the black um work dam workers an exhibit um to to put at the hotel. So, I'll talk to you about that after, but and that's what I wanted to know. Can you uh donate just for the exhibit or it just goes into pot for everything? So, it is specific exhibits. And then my last question or my last We can do both. Oh, you can do both. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So, definitely I mean we'll talk. Okay, we'll talk. We can do both. I also want to talk about the other historians. You asked if we work with um with anybody outside of Smithsonian.

And and yes, we do. We work with other historians. Um I'm working with Levi Strauss historian right now on something. Oh, neat. Okay. And I I I have Holly Hawk seeds. It took me three years. I I kept cutting it down because I thought it was a weed because I forgot I had planted. Seriously. And it just grew up on its own. So, if you need some, I'll I'll pass it on. Yeah. Took a while. But they do grow. Thank you for your service. Thank you.

I just wanted to say thank you so much to you and your team, but most of all, I just can't imagine Boulder City without the hotel and the restaurant there. It just it wouldn't be Boulder City. So, that would break my heart. So, I think that's wonderful that you guys are keeping it alive and I didn't realize how much work goes into it and I hope somebody comes out and volunteers for Thank you for all your efforts. Really appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it.

Hold on before you go away. Could you really fast explain what the Avenue Sea House is because I think people might want to drive by it. Right. You we've said Fenton House, Avenue Sea House, but I don't think they realize what you've done with that or what it is. I I don't know exactly everything that we've done with it up to this point. If you drive down Avenue C, you'll see the newest looking house from 1932 on Avenue C. Um we've recited I do know that part, but um this house, as far as we can tell, is probably about the most historically unchanged of the Deanbat houses in the floor plan. Um and so it was donated to us by the by Teddy Fenton's um estate. And so we are in the process of rehabbing it, starting with preserving the outside and then working our way to the inside. And uh it's a really really neat looking house. If anyone wants to see it, stop by the museum. Um Isaac, Roger, anyone there can can run you over and get you in.

So that's the It's looking really great and the neighbors are very happy, they said. But it's going back to its roots again, right, about what it looked like. And so it gives you a representation of of kind of what they looked like. It's amazing the work that's been done by the crew that uh that's been assembled to to focus on that. They even had the uh sighting mil specifically to match the correct profile. Um so I mean the attention to detail has uh not been overlooked on this on this project. Yeah, it's worth a look. Drive down. Thank you.

Thank you all. That brings us to uh bills. We need an introduction of bill number 2093. Need it introduced and wave the reading except for title. I can introduce uh bill number 2093 and wave the reading except for the title.

Thank you. Bill Number 2093, an ordinance of the city of Boulder City, Nevada, amending Boulder City Municipal Code, Title 11, Zoning and Subdivisions, Chapter 10, C1, Neighborhood Commercial Zone, and Chapter 11, C2, General Commercial Zone, to authorize residential uses on property zone for commercial uses subject to certain requirements as required by Assembly Bill 241, 2025, legislative session, and clarify Apply existing language regarding caretakers residences AM-26-384. This matter will be considered at the February 24th council meeting.

Thank you. That brings us to number five, which is matters con pertaining to the collective bargaining and it will require a public hearing after your presentation.

Thank you, Mayor Hardy and members of the council. I'm city manager Ned Thomas. This is a public hearing item for council consideration of resolution 8098 uh approving the collective bargaining agreement number 26-014 between the city of Boulder City and the city professional firefighters association or IAFF local 5073. Uh this is a two-year agreement and we appreciate very much all of the efforts on both sides to reach this agreement. Uh briefly, the agreement will be retroactive to July 1st. Uh provisions of the agreement will be retroactive to July 1st, 2025 and again as a two-year agreement will extend through June 30th of 2027. Just a few of the I the key items on wages in the first year. There will be a rec retroactive adjustment of 4.375%. This represents a COLA plus a market rate adjustment. And then in year two uh any increase will be based on the consumer price index uh with a minimum of 2.25% and a maximum of 3.25%. So any increase will fall within that range. Uh it the the new agreement also addresses any increases in health insurance and other benefits. Um on a monthly basis the the firefighters will be part of the uh city's insurance offerings through the teamsters um insurance program. And then finally uh the other item that we negotiate over was incentive pay. And each of our firefighters uh in addition to their base pay may receive additional pay for their certifications for hazmat. That would be an additional 2% if they have that if they have earned that certification. And then an additional 1% for up to three or what are known as

technical rescue certifications and those pertain to uh specific items that are related to the uh work that they do here in Boulder City. Uh, for example, there's a vehicle and machinery certification, swiftwater rescue, high and low angle rope rescue, and wilderness rescue. And depending on which of those they choose, again, each firefighter can receive up to 3% additional above their base pay as an incentive for those additional certifications for the work that they do here. And with that, happy to answer any questions. Again, want to express appreciation both sides for the work that they did on this agreement. Any questions?

No sir.

No questions. So we will open the public hearing at this time. Anyone who would like to come forward regarding this particular item or call in 7025899629 702589 9629 or anyone who would like to come forward. Anyone on the phone line? We'll close the public hearing and go to item B of number five. Our attorney is keeping me in line, which I always appreciate. I am required to um publicly uh note uh state the fiscal impact of that. So the fiscal year 26, current year that we're in, the overall increase uh will with benefits and medical insurance contributions will be $259,688. And then in the second year of the contract, the increase will be an impact to our overall budget of $493,155.34. and our finance department has analyzed that and we will be able to cover those increases.

Thank you. Any questions? Appreciate it. Thank you. That um I will reopen the public hearing then. With that said, is there anyone who would like to say anything about the public hearing here in chambers? No one on the phone. Madame city clerk 7025899629 702589 9629 on a public hearing. If not, I will close the public hearing and go to item B of that, the resolution 8098, the resolution uh regarding that collective bargaining unit decision. Any questions about that?

I would accept a motion to approve resolution 8098. Move to approve resolution number 8098. I'll second that. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Unanimous. Thank you. Uh we will now open uh for number six or on madam city attorney.

Good evening mayor and council members. Before you this evening is item six, a discussion and possible direction regarding a potential ordinance amending our municipal code to create a breeder permit and establish regulations for the breedings of dogs and cats as required by NRS 574 353. So before we get into the direction, I thought I'd give just a brief overview of of the history of this item and where how far we've gone and where we have to go. So just a quick timeline and refresher. Uh this issue was first discovered by my office after uh we had an an individual who uh was cited for failure to spare or neuter but uh pointed out the exception if there's a valid breeders permit and the person did wish to breed their animal but our code doesn't have any parameters on when a breeders permit can be issued and and this could operate as a barrier to enforcement for the spay or neuter law if an individual does wish to breed. And so uh in looking at it, I brought this among other animal control issues of the time to council to seek direction on how we wanted to go about addressing them. So uh there was a multitude of animal control issues, but I'm just going to focus on the breeding issue here. Um on June 27th, 23, the council did direct me to research breeding licenses and review our curtain ordinance as a whole regarding the keeping of animals. I began working on uh one of many bills addressing animal control, but one was to create a breeders permit, and I uh carried out a business impact statement notice as we're required to um for any anything that can restrict the operation or expansion of a business. Uh we have to send notice of those potential regulations to any businesses and the

trade associations to let them know, hey, this might affect your business and uh please provide us comment. So, we did that. We in in that process had a lot of individuals uh seeking that the city prohibit breeding altogether. And so we did look at that. Um but there is a Nevada state law that requires the city to issue permits for breeding um and regulation of breeding. So I did interpret that law as a preeemption on the city's ability to prohibit breeding altogether but wanted to seek an attorney general opinion to confirm that interpretation. and the attorney general is the is the officer tasked with interpretation of Nevada's laws, Nevada state laws. And I thought that would be the most appropriate route to go. So, in June of 25, uh, we did receive that attorney general opinion, um, approximately over a year later, and they agreed, the attorney general's office agreed that NRS574.353 does require the regulation of breeding and preempts the city from prohibiting commercial breeding, but it did clarify the city is allowed to prohibit breeding as a hobby. So in July 8th uh we brought that opinion to council and sought some direction on how best to regulate breeding. We discussed number of dogs and cats allowed to be bred, the appropriate age to breed and number of litters, minimum space requirements and zoning, fines and fees as well as breeding as a hobby. And the city council deliberated these topics uh at length discussing the appropriate number of animals ultimately supporting a limit of three dogs or cats total. They discussed uh you all discussed and deliberated whether zoning restrictions would be appropriate and majority believed that the minimum space requirements adequately limited where breeding could occur. The city also discussed minimum distance requirements and ultimately there was not support for

minimum distance requirements at that meeting. Um the city council then directed my office to regulate breeding as follows. Regulating commercial breeding and pro prohibiting breeding as a hobby. Uh the commercial breeders would have to obtain a business license, home occupation permit. The ordinance would regulate dogs and cats. The other animals would not be addressed by this ordinance. The breeding limits uh would be a maximum again a maximum of three dogs or cats total. Minimum breeding age would be 2 years and then one litter every 2 years. And the council also asked for annual reporting so that these requirements uh we can ensure that they are met and the animals are not being bred too often. breeding conditions. The person has to have no less than 40 square ft of indoor space dedicated per female dog being bred and 1,000 square feet of quality outdoor space which is adequately shaded. The person must occupy residence with clean and a clean and safe environment, adequate feed and water properly heated and cooled and animal control must inspect this residence upon the initial application and annually thereafter to determine compliance. The fees were directed by council to be at 250 plus actual costs for the initial permit, renewal at 100 plus actual costs, and then fines would be 500 for the first violation, 750 for the second, and 1,000 for the third. And we would enforce through citations and fines and license now renewal or revocation for repeated violations. um animal control uh was here at that meeting and was comfortable with uh these they felt that the this enforcement would uh be manageable with current staffing. The bill was brought forward to council on November 10th for consideration and at that meeting there was concern amongst council about the possibility of the close proximity of breeders and uh it appeared that additional limits were

were sought. Um, so the bill did not receive a second and did fail. And so now I'm seeking direction on the further regulation of breeding. And these are some options. I thought we could focus the discussion. The discussion is not limited to these options. If there are other parts of the ordinance uh which is included in your packet that you want to discuss, you can. Um but at the last meeting it seemed that the primary concern was uh was the this possibly being um there being too many breeders allowed under this regulation. So here are some options for regulating it further. We can limit the number of breeding permits. Um we could revisit minimum distance requirements. Um or we could also revisit the zoning restrictions. And so with that I submit it to council for your discussion and direction. and then myself and staff are available for any questions.

So, could you tell us what exists right now in the city of Boulder City for the breeding? Is that your So, the chart before you as a handout uh was a refresher. It shows how the city of Boulder City's proposed ordinance compares with other jurisdictions. Uh the currently Boulder City doesn't have any of this in place. The only thing our code says with reference to breeding is you have to have a permit. It doesn't say how or when it can be issued. And that's really the issue we're trying to address. Okay. So, I open it up for discussion.

Does a state require how many licenses does a state require that we have? How many do we have to have? Uh there's not a specific number, but in essence, one. Um the states just per requires us to regulate breeding and issue a permit for people that qualify. So it's it's really up to council how many if if a limit is is uh desired what that limit should be. Uh we can limit it how we choose. And how many tavern licenses do we have? We have three tavern licenses. Those were my two questions of you.

What's a tavern license? So, in our liquor code, um the tavern license only allows the sale of alcohol and you can't sell food. Um it's essentially just a bar. Okay. Um and so there are only three in our jurisdiction. There are other lots of other businesses with bars, but they are in conjunction with another business. Um restaurants, uh other types of businesses. So, the the taverns by law cannot serve food. And so, there's only uh one per allowed per 5,000 people. And since we have about a little over 15,000, uh, it's there are three tavern licenses. I think I missed something. How is that related to the breeding?

I just wanted to know how many licenses we pass out for tavern. What is our requirement for tavern licensing? Okay, thank you. To kind of compare them to breeding. Sure. I think more people like to go to the tavern than breed. Then breed. That's your point. Okay. I'm just tasting. Very good. [laughter] Other questions or observations? I I have one more question. Go ahead. So on zoning, the law require that we go to certain areas for breeding. Is there any requirement of where we breed

under this current draft? No. There are minimum space requirements and the thousand square feet uh would limit in effect where it could occur because many lots um would not have a th00and square feet like a thou a multif family and uh mobile home zones would not likely have a th00and square feet of quality outdoor space for the animals. So, it would be probably more limited to the larger residential lots uh that have 1,000 square ft of outdoor space, but we do not have that now.

We do not have that now. That's in the proposed ordinance though, but it is not in our code currently. Other observations, questions? I'll ask a question. How how many people are breeding now, dogs or cats? Um, I spoke with our animal control officer and asked how many we have found in the past year and he looked at his uh records and determined there were three instances this in this year where breeding was found to be occurring illegally.

Yeah, I have another question. One of my this is just my observation is what I'm going to say here is that I think we should keep breeding to three animals because I haven't had one person ask me to have a breeding license. Most everybody does not want to have breeding. Uh I I know that when our very first meeting there was one lady that did show up and want a breeding license. But in the meantime, most of the letters I've gotten, most people I've ran to on the street do not want to have the breeding license. But since we have to have it, I don't believe we should have more than three licenses. The other thing that concerns me is I still like Bee Hill for uh raising these dogs because I don't want to live next to somebody breeding dogs. So, and I live where we have an association so I don't have to worry about that. So, I feel like I don't want to make somebody else have to live next to somebody breeding dogs because you could have 20 little pups running around, possibly even 30. And I personally wouldn't want to see that if the female dogs were all breeding about the same time. So, at at most of the time, you're going to have eight to eight to 15 dogs in the backyard. I I wouldn't want to again live next to that. So I just think if you were in Bee Hill where you have the larger acreage and it's assigned up there for agriculture and breeding that that's where the breeding license should be is up in Bee Hill on those lots and that's where you have our horses and our cows and chicks and the other animals that they're raising up there. [clears throat] Um, and so that's just my suggestion of how many we should have and uh where it should be zoned for bee hill.

Are you saying three total for all of the city? Oh yes, three breeding licenses like we have taverns. Can I ask just for a point of clarification? So if I was to come in and get a breeding license, could I hold that breeding license indefinitely then? So, like if I was one of the first, like if would they be the only three ever that, you know, if they continued to use that as a business?

They they do have to be renewed annually. Um, but yes, I mean, that's how we treat the tavern licenses. Um, essentially, if there's still the same thing with the tavern licenses have to be renewed annually, but if that person's in possession, then then we don't issue another one. Yes. I kind of see that as apples and oranges, taverns and breeding. But um but I understand the underlying idea of what you were saying is that we do have things in our city that we limit

to be able to provide licenses for. I think my concern with three would be if someone if they came in and then three were taken, then you know it didn't open the door for anyone else. I don't I don't know how that process works. Um, do I see that we're going to become the breeding mecca of the world? No, I I do not anticipate that's going to happen. Right. However, I agree with Councilwoman Booth that just in case that phenomena happened here that the parameters that we put in place are very, very important. One of my concerns was that you'd end up with neighbors on both sides of you that were breeding and then you'd be like the Oreo cookie of breeding right in the middle there. And um I didn't feel like I also would want to be the person in the middle of of the breeding. So I know that when this came up um my concern and I don't know if anyone else's was that that could happen. So, I would be for maybe um minimum space limits and I you know amount of space in between breeding licenses. So, if you have one in this area, the next one can't be for who knows how long so that you don't end up with you're the only game in town for breeding in your neighborhood and then you're um stuck with that. So, I don't know if three seems like the number for me, but I I I do understand. I mean, and and I applaud and appreciate your passion on this and many people's passion. Again, I don't feel like this is going to become a huge situation in Boulder City. But what I do want to do is make sure we have um things in place that would actually allow for

appropriate breeding as opposed to illegal breeding and um in space humane good places for these animals to be able to be there and not too close to all of our um you know in close proximity um more than one. So, I don't know if anyone else has a feeling on that or a thought or

I don't have any animals, but um I like the idea of the distancing and I don't know how this would work out if you draw a circle and you say had four, but they had to be on each side of town or whatever, but three does seem a minimum. And if somebody else comes in, a fourth, I can't imagine that, but if a fourth came in, they would they get on the waiting list. So the one who had it for a year would go back on the list if if you're going to go with three, maybe there's some type of rotation that that would have to take place just to be fair to somebody else coming in. Yeah, we could certainly have a waiting list where and then when someone or limit

doesn't renew their permit, then we go to that person on the list and call them and say, "Hey, we have a permit available if you're still interested." Um, that is something we could do. Um, minimum space requirements are something that jurisdictions have adopted. Um, one of the most salient reference comes to mind is the short-term rentals in Clark County. Um, there does have to be a minimum distance of of those. there can't be too too many close together. Um, so it's definitely something that we could adopt. We could have a 500 foot buffer, a thousand foot buffer between uh between licences. Could that work if they we had three and then they would kind of rotate out

something to where like Councilwoman Jurgens said,

the next person would have a chance so somebody doesn't have a lock on all the breeding. Not that they would be, but I just wanted to share this because reading the newspaper, 31 million is being spent for animal control in Clark County because they have that many animals that are looking for homes and need to be adopted. So, I think that that's one of the reasons why I'm so passionate about it and I believe that a lot of Boulder City residents are passionate about it, too, because of all the animals that are being put down and that all the animals that need homes. So, we have plenty of animals for years and years to come uh just by doing this. But 31 million in Clark County to to build their new shelter out there, I think is a lot of money. And one of our former uh people that worked uh in Boulder City is going to be working at CL County, and he's all excited about the new shelter. So, anyways, I just wanted to share that.

Other comments? I I look at this and you know I appreciate you uh providing what other communities are doing. Um one of the things I think that we've already heard is how do you if you don't breed then do you rotate off and someone else who's been waiting to breed um then they could come on if you forgo your year of of using it. Um the I know we had talked about um zoning looking at R20 which I don't know that we have a definition of uh bee hill specifically but I think there's zoning issues there. So I I appreciate that. So, I I like the permit fee that actually allows us to make sure that we are having the resources to inspect. And then how many litters, one every two years. Uh the age of breeding, two years old or older. Uh the the limit of three dogs and or cats total. I like that. Um, so I I think we have some rational things as we look at other people, meaning Clark County and Las Vegas. I think they all have wrestled with this in one way or another. And I don't think anybody's come up with a magic figure that uh would work. So I think we we can do what we want to do as a council and say um whatever we want. So I to be practical I would just go down uh the top of the list and say how many animals do we uh just to get a feel for council

how many animals do we want to have for breeding? Do we want to have more than three dogs and three cats total? Go ahead. I feel like these were things we had agreed upon before. All these things that are sitting here right now are things that over the course of this long journey we call breeding ordinance have already that's what we've agreed upon. The thing that's left hanging here for us is do we limit the permits? Do we limit the space between breeders? Right. And what was the other one that you gave or zoning? Yeah, you could revisit zoning.

So is there an appetite? I I heard maybe three um three permits

renewable every year because we in essence have created the strongest ordinance by quite far if you look at all of these together. I mean three dogs or cats total compared to six in Las Vegas. Two two years age of breeding compared to one year you know I or one every year. So, we've created some pretty stringent rules [laughter] to to pull that down. [clears throat] I would be open to either a number or a And did you say you do it in a radius? Is that radius? Okay. Or a radius. Mhm.

These are good. So, let me clarify. Have we agreed to all of these?

Yes, these have been already directed by council. Of course, you can revisit them if you if you want to change anything, but this in the column that says Boulder City draft, this was previously council's direction. Um, and so, and you could think that this is enough, right? Um or if the council feels you need additional restrictions, that's where you could visit, you know, the number limits on the number of permits, minimum space requirements, or revisiting zoning. Um or if you feel this limits it enough, then then we can just move forward with how we have it. So, it's up to the city council.

So, I see the how many if you don't use it, you lose it as it is. And then how many you are allowed to get uh a year? So how many do you have existing in a year period? If you don't use it, you lose it. And then everything else is already there. Did I miss something? Uh well there, if I Yeah, go ahead,

Adam. city attorney. The only thing I'm seeing there, um, [cough and clears throat] mayor, is that the use it or lose it idea is you can, according to, uh, the third line, you could only have a litter one every two years. So, the the uh, use it or lose it would have to be on a cycle that coincides with that timing. That's all I observed. Thanks.

Yeah. Can I say something? What what about uh which you Mr. Walton brought up a good point there. So every two years you can breed. You can't breed every year. So what if you made it six and then that way you could breed there'd be somebody could breed every year that way. Well uh disrespectfully, you could also just not require a litter be produced. You could just require you could the person could just get the permit and if they choose to renew it, it's still their permit.

Okay? If they choose not to renew it, then we can give it to somebody else. But if you put a that they have to produce a litter to keep it, that becomes it becomes an unintended consequence. We're kind of forcing people to do it where the goal is to encourage them to not do it. Is anybody upset with three or do you want to somebody want to have more? Honestly, I would say less. Okay, I'll go with that. One. One is good with me. [laughter] I'd be happy to do that. So, you're talking about the number of litters. No, permits. Permits. Oh, permits.

I'm sorry. No, I was talking about the number of animals breeding. I thought you were looking at line one. Looking at permits. The number of Oh, I don't I don't have a I don't have a comment on that one. No, thank I think three sounds good with that cycle. Three. What? Three. three permits per year and per year and they cycle out especially if there's a list which I doubt that I don't know there could be a list but that way somebody else could jump in the other can I make a clear would there be three permits total issued or three permits per year so that each year additional three permits become available total

total okay three permits total so we hear three permits per year. Yes. Uh allowed. And that sounds like cuz there's three breeders now. Okay. And with that, could we also require at least a,000 ft distance between those?

Absolutely. I think nobody wants to be on top of Is isn't that number four? 40 ft indoor and 1,000 square ft outdoor. That's in addition. That's in addition to Yeah. So, nobody can be right next to each other. So, so you're looking at uh not doing away with the R20 zoning restriction, just looking at the,000 ft or you're I think I'm the only one that wants the R20.

Yeah. Currently, there are no restrictions on zoning. There's just a minimum outdoor space of 1,000 square ft. Um, what I'm hearing from council is a limit of three permits total and minimum distance of a,000 1,000 ft between licences. Not to be a stickler, but I'm going to be a stickler when you say on this form, yes, R20 or higher. Is that in place now or not?

Uh, that is not in place. No, that I updated this to say there's none in the current draft. So, that was from the Yeah, there's I I apologize. There's two There's a handout there that has a more updated information. That was my my mistake. All right. Yeah. So, let me go down then if I can kind of get my head around this. We're talking it's okay for having three dogs and three cats total for breeding.

We're looking at two years old for the animal. We're looking at one litter every two years limit. We're looking at 40 square feet indoors, 1,000 square ft outdoors. The zoning requirement we would have it be no closer than a th00and feet radius. Correct. And we are looking at the same fines 5 500 750 and a,000 and the breeding as a hobby regulation continue to be no.

Number of licenses and number of licenses limit to three. And likewise, if not used, then they rotate off after three years. Just reassessed it or two years. I think they're only good for a year. Didn't you say they were good per year? It was Yeah. The idea would be that the person can renew every year. Uh if they choose not to renew that year and they allow it to lapse and expires, then it goes to the next person. Um, if they continue to renew every year, do we want them to lose their privilege so someone else can do it?

Yeah, there should be a maximum of if there's a list and maybe that's the way the wording has to be. If there's someone in a queue, then you have to drop out and let someone else. That's a policy decision for council. Well, I don't know how that would work. So, do we want to term them out even if they don't breed? I think it should be like the tavern license. You you get it or you don't get it. If you want to go out of business, then somebody else can have a tavern. Same thing with dogs. You can have a breeding license. You don't you don't want to term them out. As long as they pay their their yearly fee, then they're

then they're okay. So we could have up to three total licenses at any one time and if you don't pay your money then you the next person that wants next person goes up if they want it if somebody wants it. Other thoughts. So I don't want to keep going around and around. So but what you're saying is the person could stay on forever. Mhm. If they've invested in, it's kind of like a tavern. If you invest in your animals, then it's a business. This is about enough to drive a person to drink.

It is. [laughter] That's how it's related. That's why I'm drinking my tea. Okay. So, have we come to some kind of I'll accept a motion. Second, cookie. I'll make a motion. Can I make a motion? Uh, just one clarifying question. Ned's keeping me out of trouble now. Okay. Um, is that per household? Uh, like per is the limit of per household or per person? Uh, typically we limit the number of animals to per household. So I household would make the most sense. So per household. We all understand household and we're glad for that clarification.

Okay, great. So I I would like to propose having three licenses per household and a thousand ft. No. Oh no, not per household. [laughter] Oh no, I'm creating havoc here. Let's just go down this list for for clarify. Yes. You want me to do the whole list? Yeah, go ahead and we'll go down. We we did have previous direction on this list. Um so unless there's changes, we don't need direction on the full list. But if there's changes, we can

Okay. So I'm going to clarify that on this list. We have a number limitation of animals for breeding three dogs or cats total. We have age of breeding two years. We have number of litters one every two years. We have space requirements 40 square feet or thousand square feet outdoors. And we have zoning restrictions. Um, we don't have anything at current, so we have to figure what that is. And we have a permit fee that we're okay with, $250 plus actual costs. And that is renewable yearly. And if they don't pay, they lose it. And the fines for the violations were comfortable with. And the breeding as a hobby is not regulated. So we are left with the zoning restriction

the feet and the three permits and the three per Boulder city per Boulder city total total per year per year. Um just one clarification on breeding as a hobby. The the direction from council was to prohibit breeding as a hobby. So it would not be allowed. Right. Okay. Just one. Yeah. So, and also in my proposal, I would like to propose a thousand feet distance from each breeding. Okay. Breeder.

So, I'm hearing three permits total, one per household with a,000 ft distance requirement between licenses. Correct. Glad you heard that. That's my proposal. Is there a second motion? very seconded. I think did not yet. Sorry. No worries. I'll second that. So, we have a motion and a second. And would you repeat the motion for us? Three licenses total, one per household, and a distance requirement of a,000 ft between lenses.

Yearly renewable. Yearly renewal. And if they don't renew it, then the license will go to the next person on the list who meets the requirements. Is that your motion? Yes, that's my motion. That's my second. Uh discussion. None for me. That's my job. Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. I. I. Any opposed? Nay. It's unanimous. Thank you. Thank you. Well done. And it was not 7 o'clock yet.

Well done. Okay. Thank you. And that brings us to number six. Well, we did it. We just did it. Yes. Number seven, city managers report claims paid. Thank you, mayor. There are no unusual items on the claims paid report. Go ahead on number eight. And same with number eight um finance department. This is the un unodudited report as of the end of December. So for the second quarter of 2020.

Thank you. We we will open public comment for the last time and person has three minutes to speak on whatever they would like and please identify yourself if you're calling in 702589 9629. Anyone here in chambers welcome to come forward at this time. And if you're still waiting for the phone call, it will be after this person. So you can call in at 7025899629 and wait patiently.

Uh my name is Pamela Triolo. Uh first thing I want to say is that is a really strong breeding law. Only change I might put in it would be to require them to be in AKC registered dogs only rather than your Hines 57 or whatever because if there weren't so many dogs out there um in shelters I would pref much prefer to get certain breeds but I haven't done that for ever because there's just so many dogs in need at the shelters. Um, but what I really wanted to talk about is, um, about 30 years ago, I moved here from a little town called Marramac, New Hampshire. And it's been on the news recently, um, because they had an Annheiser Bush factory that was really part of the town. They had soccer fields my kids played on. They had the Clydesales. They had uh, two Dalmatians, Budweiser. It was part of the town. Well, it recently closed. And now they want to turn it into a detention center for ICE. And of course the town is uh they're having meetings upon meetings. And it is now a town of 28,000. So it's a relatively small town. Um I just want to know I want our town to be prepared if anything like that happens. I mean we have the regulation you can't sell property but you can lo without a vote of the people but it can be leased. And um I'm hoping for transparency. A lot of these towns aren't finding out until it's almost too late. I grew up in Virginia and um there's small towns that they want to build detention centers in and hold more people than are in the town. Um so I would like there to be some type of discussion eventually and some type of plan if this comes to us because there is a detention center in Henderson already. Um, and I hate to say people like to say, "Well, it'll never

come to Boulder City." But yeah, it can. So, I just want to make everybody aware and um hopefully um we can do something to make some have some plans in advance. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone on the phone line? 7025899629.

Hello. Hello. Hi. Public comment. Go ahead. Oh, are we ready for me already? Yes. Okay. This is Cindy Swanson. I live at 535 Birch Street and um the reason um I'm making a comment is because of um preparedness for um I don't can Okay. Yes, we're on a a delay and it's confusing me and I apologize. Cindy, Cindy, I would I would suggest turning your um TV volume down so you don't get the feedback.

Take that away. Thank you. Um I think that we're always prepared. We when we drive a car, we take driver's lessons. We know what the rules of the road are and the drivers and pedestrians know the rules. And I think it's important for our community to understand what we can expect if um ICE should come to town. I think there has been a lot of confusion and a lot of concern and I would like to know that our town is prepared. I mentioned this to a group of people earlier today. We have a um fire extinguisher in our house. We practice fire escapes. We do fire drills. And we've never had a fire. But I think that it's I'd like us to be as proactive in this effort as having um preparedness for ICE and knowing what we can expect from our local police and knowing what we can expect from our own restrictions. I'll add this one thing. Most of you know that uh we have a son who has a disability and people with disabilities are at higher risk for um abuse and neglect from police that's statistically significant. And if somebody told my son to halt, he may not listen to them because he's been told to not talk to strangers. So, I think we all need to have a clear understanding of what we can and cannot expect from our law enforcement in the city and if ICE should come into um Boulder City. So, thank you for your time.

Thank you. Anyone else on the phone? 7025899629. Have a comment. Go ahead. Yes. Good evening, council. For the record, Fred Boltz. I would like to congratulate the decision you made on item number six tonight. Uh I think you put enough guard rails into this that we're not uh violating state law, but at the same time we're doing the right thing by our animal residents. So I applaud you for coming up with this very measured and limited breeding ordinance that state law requires. Thank you.

Thank you. Anyone else on phone? 7025899629. Anyone here in chambers? Hi there. I'm Pat Murphy. I live on Bryant Court and um I'm going to chime in. I'm not going to talk about animals. You'll be happy about that. Anyway, um last May I was at a writer's retreat in Minneapolis with a group of other writers. We stayed in an Airbnb in a lovely neighborhood. And two weeks ago, a block from where we stayed, which was a lovely neighborhood, beautiful place, great restaurants, Alex uh Prey was shot by the police, by the not the police, thank God, by ICE, and shot in the back as he lay on the ground. And now that lovely neighborhood looks like a war zone. And so I started thinking about, well, how quickly some place that's really great can be destroyed. Um, and what would happen if ICE came to Boulder City. Now, I want to know if the if we can have a plan, how we can be prepared as a community. And I know people say that's not going to happen here. Why would they come to Boulder City? Well, one out of five people living in Clark County is an immigrant. We have one of the most diverse counties in the United States. So, that's 20% of the population are immigrants. And that makes us a very attractive target for ICE. Um, and we're a small town, but size isn't any protection. I mean, now ICE is going into small towns in Wisconsin and just uh staging raids. And this makes me start thinking about

what can I do? What am I permitted to do if I see ICE trucks in the school parking lot and they're trying to go into the school and take immigrant children out of the school? Um, I know, uh, I know that I know from reading or at least I've read that, um, ICE can't enter a classroom unless they're given permission or they have a valid judicial warrant. Do the teachers know that? Do the school superintendent know that? If that was a situation, can the teachers call the Boulder City Police Department for assistance? And can I if I see someone in a mask going to my neighbor's house and demanding entry and when refused bringing in a battering ram. Should I call the police? Should I call the ACLU? What do I do? So, I think we all need to be educated about what what as a town we can do. Um, I obviously have more questions than I do answers. I don't have any answers, but I'd like this topic to be on the agenda for a meeting so we can talk about what what can we do as a town um and give us some guidance um so that we don't have a situation where we're all flailing. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Anyone else here? [clears throat] Welsh, a Delpra resident. And I think what we're wanting to know and bringing it to you and whether or not this is the place to do it, we don't know. But it's a matter of how do we go about finding out what is the plan and I think it would be hard to believe any municipality in the country at this point isn't thinking about it. Somebody's thinking about it. And we would like to know how we find out what that is exactly like. And you know it's been um they are federal agents sure so there's some difference to that but anybody paying attention is aware that they are not always lawful. So, like Pat started to mention, if they're in our community and they're going into unschools unlawfully and someone calls the police, if they're in my neighborhood breaking into someone's house unlawfully, lawfully, maybe we can't do anything unlawfully. I feel like we need to know that if we call the police or whoever we call that um they're standing up for our residents. And so I think mostly we just want to know about how we get this started, get a conversation going, and how we get better informed about what the city's plan is.

Thank you. Anyone on the phone line? 7025899629. And anyone wants to come forward in chambers.

Good evening everyone. My name is Char Mry. I am a resident of Boulder City, 679 Bay View Drive. I'm pretty much going to repeat what everybody said, but I did want to go on record that as a a member of the community, if I were sitting and having dinner at Tito's, what would I do if something like that happened? I wouldn't I would I would be watching. And that's what I don't want to do. I want to be able to be proactive in the right way and not get emotional, but know exactly what I should do. like an earthquake, you need to know exactly where to go. So, uh, I just wanted to go on record of saying that and and I hope it will be put on the agenda for one of the next meetings. Thank you.

Thank you. Anyone here in chambers or 702589 9629 7025899629 Anyone here in chambers? Anyone on the phone line? We will close the public comment. Thank you. And go to city council's report. Thank you, mayor. Had a pretty busy two weeks. Um the Nevada League of Cities started to had their board meeting actually today, this morning, and um I received an orientation package. Um we uh I got appointed to some um internal board assignments and uh we also talked about dates for upcoming conferences. um they need volunteers who would be mentors for uh uh newcomers like myself. We also discussed an award slashpla presentation for Congressman Mark Amada um who's retiring uh from Congress and um it was a my first meeting taking over for the mayor there and um I look forward to representing Boulder City on this um on this board. I also attended Nellis Air Force Base Red Flag DV day and that was a tour of Red Flag uh Nellis Air Force Base and we shadowed the international press as they conducted interviews for pilots that are foreign nationals which were Australian and Brit British pilots that come in to fly with our pilot our pilots during Red Flag. So that was a day of um representing the uh CMC over at Nellis

Air Force Base. And I also had the honor to um host the scout troops number 27 here at the city council right here in the um in this room. And those kids are new, our next generation. And they are pretty bright. They ask good questions. They listened first and they asked good questions. They caught me on a couple of them. And uh so I I I was encouraged to see that the kids are interested in um what we do as a city council and how ordinance and laws are made and how they could be impacted by them and what they could do, but most importantly when they grow up, what they want to be. So that was a really good um meeting to have with the scouts. And I also got the honor to um be at the hospital foundation GA gala who honored uh Cindy Ford who is owner of Southwest Diner and Mr. Allen and Christy Kerner who I didn't know but I met that night. It was a beautiful event. Um if you didn't go this year I I suggest that you would go next year. you really would enjoy yourself and just see how Boulder City um impacts the hospital through donations from residents and it was just a beautiful event. So that was my week. Really busy. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Well, I'd like to share that I'm sometimes a nosy rosy and the park service has grass growing around their property and I thought, "Oh my gosh, we're supposed to be cutting down on water and they're putting grass in instead of fake grass." But they're doing something very unique. They found some clover that doesn't take a lot of water and they're putting the sprinkling system underneath the grass so that it doesn't waste nothing evaporates. So, it's really very water efficient and so I thought that was really interesting and it's here in Boulder City and we can see how that goes. Uh, also I was lucky enough to go to the gala for the hospital and I think as they talked about it, it's it's our hospital. It's kind of like our hotel. It's belongs to us. And if we didn't have that hospital, our insurance would be so much higher. And so I just think how much I appreciate that hospital and how much we should all work to see that we get to keep that hospital here in Boulder City. And if you've never been and you get the opportunity to go to the ER, um there it's a great great uh opportunity. Also, I wanted to say the Boy Scouts, it was so much fun having them here and I thought I'd talk about the swimming pool and they would love that and have a lot of questions. They weren't so interested at all, but that's how it goes. But one of the things that I was really surprised at is the helmet. Sherry brought up the helmet law and those kids knew all the rules and knew that you had to have a helmet on and what would happen if you didn't have a helmet. They shared how one little boy had a helmet and fell off his scooter and broke both arms, but his head was okay. So I I that to me was just amazing how knowledgeable they were. And then also we had our uh uh work uh force uh meeting today. Uh not a lot going on with stuff coming in

the future. We're going to have one of the gentlemen from workforce come and speak to us in the next couple of months. And that's all I have to report. Mayor, thank you.

It was really fun. And one of the really fun parts is is that so many of us showed up to talk to the um boy scout troop here and they were more interested in how much we made, how we got our jobs, what our what our jobs were, but in the end we actually did a mock vote on helmet. We talked about how we would have the discussion and um the five all all were in favor of the helmet. So, I mean, that's the population that we were hoping to target. And so, it was nice to see them um talk about that. I 100% agree. As you saw tonight, um the Boulder City Museum and Historical Association came and spoke to us, and that's one of the boards that I've had the privilege of serving on. And just as a side note, want to say that in the last four to five years since I've been there, I've seen them working very, very hard to be able to keep that treasure here and then to build upon it. And um we're blessed to have just like you said, a hospital here. We're such a small community. I think sometimes we take it for granted and we assume we deserve to have a hospital or we deserve to have a museum, right? But I think it's it's a gift or a blessing and that um we should cherish it and that includes supporting it and helping helping keep it going. Then outside of the community, but yet inside the community, I had a chance uh this last two weeks to go to the Clark County School District community dream session in the Clark County School District state of the district um where Superintendent Eert spoke and she's new to the position and she has some goals and she is not afraid to shake it up a bit. So maybe we'll see some new things there. and her goals are for pre kindergarten and early literacy, uh, middle school mathematics, which we're excited to hear, workforce and college readiness, which is what we need,

improving climate and culture through her destination district strategic plan. And that's the community dream session that we got to go to. the mayor and I were there um with other mayors, other stakeholders, uh uh Nevada State College, sitting at the table with the person who runs that and talked about and they wanted to hear, I really felt like it, the needs and the things that could change um for the district and recognizing there is a need for some change, but also being proactive in how that change would happen. And um just uh maybe a little shout out. He doesn't know I'm going to do this, but to our mayor, I do not think that we recognize the value of his connections inside this Clark County area and how much it benefits us here in Boulder City where we are a small little fish in a very, very big pond to have a pretty big fish right here who knows quite a few of the little bit bigger fish and um and they respect him and they love him and Wow. I I I will have to include that when the scouts ask me how much I make now. Depends on how much I compliment you. Is that

But it is it is a gift to have that for us. So with that said,

I hope the scouts know we earn about five cents an hour. I just want [laughter]

Yeah. Hey, good for you. Uh we will continue in a level one water shortage per the uh Department of Interior um standards. Uh the same we've been for a while. Uh at the CRC we did so the water at at the water authority we approved funding for a specifically designated firefighting line water line to go down to the uh substations down in the Elorado Valley. And today with the CRC we approved proceeding with the contract. And so the CRC does all the contracting and arranging for construction and the the various agencies depending on who it's benefiting will pay for it. So we did that today and as uh many of us remember we had a substantial battery energy storage system fire down there and they didn't have a firefighting water and so they had to shuttle back and forth. It took people away from the actual activities and made it last longer and potentially spread further. But um anyway, that line was approved and will be constructed in the near future. So that's a positive thing for Boulder City coming from the CRC. Um and also the CRC has access to roughly 22% of the hydro power from the Parker Davis facility further down the Colorado River. And today we approved the final distribution of that. Boulder City will receive about 7% of the Parker Davis power through WA distribution. What does that mean to us? It means basically firm power which means dependable power but it also means power that is generally less expensive than power available out on the open market. So we will see that at directly as rateayers a benefit to Boulder City. Um the hydraology going forward is about

the same to get beyond the the rather dismal 52% of the snowpack that we're currently at for the year. We would need as it was said a fabulous February and a miraculous March. The odds are pretty low of for that. So continuing on in the shortages and the water conservation plans. Um pretty big deal for the convention authority. After the college football playoff that was held earlier in January, within a matter of days, the handoff occurred to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, which will be hosting here at Allegant Stadium. the the season 2026 college football playoff which occurs in January of 2027. Big deal for um Las Vegas. Uh the economic impact of that stands to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars if not beyond. And um there continue to be planning and bookings for countless uh largecale global interest conventions and events u and concerts and so forth. and the brand is present everywhere to try and uh continue to grow the destination which continues to grow the county at large of which we're part and I've said it multiple times as goes Las Vegas so goes 30% of our budget the uh the the uh C tax or consolidated tax is what it's known as uh which includes all of the well nearly all not the hotel tax or the gaming tax but All the other income that comes from visitation as well as local expenses um goes to combined into the sea tax which benefits Boulder City directly and we get a good share of that. So good for LVCVA for their continued work. Interestingly, the circa property held a

Canadian promotion where they exchanged Canadian US for or Canadian dollar for US dollar one for one, which was a really big deal for them because it's about 30% less for Canadian dollar value compared to US. So, that was a big deal. And the properties are doing all they can to help offset the diminished u socopolitical visitation impacts. Um, as we all were uh uh probably here local, I think all of us were here um a few years ago when the one October tragedy occurred and there is um big plans uh combined with the convention authority, Clark County, all the properties to proceed forward with a one October memorial uh which will help us to recognize those who lost their lives, those whose families lost their lives. and those both professional and volunteers that responded to that tragedy to boy up our community and that we might always remember the the the things that occurred here at that time and and uh continue to pull together as a greater community with heart and um and remembrance and reverence truly for for life and for the loss of it that can occur. Um, and that's all of the report I have. Mayor, thank you.

Thank you. I had uh I was fashionably late to the hospital gayla about two hours, maybe two and a half hours late. Um, but I attended the Veterans in Politics where a general, retired general, uh, was asked to share a war story. And so he got up and he u he was a pilot and he was in a position where he'd been in the Pentagon etc etc. But he he was sharing the story with ISIS back in the day when they had um taken out some people and the military was tasked with taking them out. And so they were uh in the England at the time and they sent uh six jets off and for one reason or another refueling etc. only one was left and the general asked his team if that uh person who was piloting the plane could go ahead and literally take out ISIS. And they unanimously said yes. that 26-y old pilot can accomplish it. He did it. He took him out. And the military, uh, sometimes we don't really fully appreciate how much they protect us worldwide and right here in our hometown. So, I had a wonderful experience and when I came back to Boulder City, the lights were on. So, I was able to stop off at the Gayla and saved a lot of money because the bidding was over. But what a wonderful town we live in. So many people doing so many good things. And that being said, uh meeting adjourned. Thank you.

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