City Council - Regular Meeting

Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Welcome to Boulder City City Council meeting. Madame city clerk, confirmation of posting roll call, please.

Thank you. The city council agenda was posted in accordance with Nevada open meeting law and all members are present. Thank you. We will all rise for the invocation by pastor Jason King of Calerie Chapel Boulder City Church followed by the pledge of allegiance. Thank you, pastor.

Mr. Mayor, city council, city leaders. Thank you. It's an honor to be invited. It is a privilege even beyond that honor to actually talk to our maker.

So I'll ask everybody to join me as I pray. Father, in the name of Jesus, we come before you, Lord. You are good and great and there is no one like you. God, we pray that you would display your goodness and your greatness in this city and that you would have your hand of blessing upon our city leaders and upon our city. Lord, we ask that you would be a part of this meeting here today in a way that provides us with the goodwill that is necessary for neighborliness. We ask God that you would give wisdom and strength. That you would help our leaders to fulfill their responsibilities with the integrity and character Lord that is honoring to you and that our people ask for. We pray for peace not only in this meeting but in our town. And we ask for this in Jesus name. Amen.

Amen. Thank you, pastor.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Do we have any announcements, Madam City Clerk? We will open up the public comment. And the first public comment that we have uh is designed to have matters that are addressed on the agenda. And um I would recognize that some of the things that uh we may think are on the agenda may not be on the agenda. So the the agenda is posted uh and anything that is on the agenda uh can be addressed in this first public comment. Things that aren't on the agenda are on will be heard on the last public comment uh at the end of the meeting. Um, not to be specific, but 15 and 16 and six do not have anything to do with something that is spelled with a D and an A and a T and an A. So, we will uh then go to our first public comment. Anyone who would like to come forward or call in uh welcome to do so. 7025899629. and that is 7025899629 or if they're in the chambers they can come forward identify yourself and take your three minutes to speak on whatever is on the agenda. Thank you.

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Good evening, Mr. Mayor and members of the city council. My name is Terry Adomik. I think I speak for everyone here when I say that I wholeheartedly support resolution number 8129. I want to begin by offering a sincere sincere thank you on behalf of all of us. The process that brought us to this evening has been a model of good governance. You and your staff took the time to listen to our community carefully considered the areas under discussion and weighed the concerns of all stakeholders to identify spaces that make sense for Boulder City and all its residents. The kind of thoughtful inclusive deliberation means a great deal to us and we appreciate every hour invested in getting this right. Passing resolution number 8129 will have a real and lasting impact on the people of Boulder City. Job owners represent a broad crosssection of this community, families, seniors, veterans, and many individuals who live alone. For lots of them, their dogs is their daily companion and the primary reason to get outside. Expanded off leash areas mean more opportunities for exercise, for fresh air, and for the kind of neighborly connection that happens when people share open space. And there is one other thing worth mentioning. Watching your dog run free, tail up, fully alive in the mo moment, triggers a genuine physiological response in us. The joy is not emotional. It's a release of endorphins that lift our mood, reduce stress, and leave us healthier for the experience.

These are not small things. They are a texture of a healthy community. And for our dogs, animals who depend entirely on us to meet their needs. designated off leash space is transformative. It allows them to run, socialize, and to simply be dogs. That kind of re enrichment reduces stress and behavioral problems, and it makes for calmer, happier animals in our homes and on our streets. Boulder City has always prided itself on the well-being of its residents, all of them, including the four-legged ones. Tonight you have the opportunity to take a concrete step in that direction. We urge you to pass resolution 8129. And whatever you decide, please know that the community sees and appreciates your thoughtfulness, the thoughtfulness that you have brought to the process. Thank you.

Thank you. Anyone else in chambers or anyone who'd like to call in 7025899629 Pam Triolo um I'm speaking on the same one but I'm speaking at number 13 in the same bill. Um, seven years ago, I used to walk my dogs down there and so many and I love dogs. I've had them all my life. I plan to have them the rest of my life. Um, I had so many friendly dogs running up to my dog and yes, most of them are friendly, but you never know how two dogs are going to react. Um, I don't walk there anymore. Um, I live on the lakeside and I walk one mile down and then I have to walk one mile up and pretty soon I'm not going to be able to walk that one mile up. It's getting harder. I thought it would get easier if I do it every day. Um, so I'm going to have to go down to the veterans park because our park on our side is we have the sheep so it's understandable no dogs. The sheep are very important to this town and they want the early morning hours and during the summer I walk at six o'clock in the morning and pretty soon it'll be at 5:30. And I would like to have the opportunity to walk my dog. I have a bigger dog now. He is a very friendly dog. I got him from the shelter two years ago, but I'm still not quite sure how he would react to every dog that runs up to him. And we all think our dogs are really friendly. I feel like as somebody who walks my dog on a leash, and a lot of people in my neighborhood, I run, they all walk, most of them walk them on a leash. There are a few off leash people, but they're

going to the desert. And we kind of watch out for each other. If they're letting them out with a truck, I'll wait before I go on. If he sees me closer, he waits before he releases his dog. So, we we work together. But at this point, I feel we've given them half the parks. Um, I have sidewalks to walk on. Um, yeah, I'd like to be able to walk my dog on some grass, but I want to keep him on a leash. Um, because he does have hunting dog in him and he, you know, and and her, so he he could run. Even police dogs don't listen to their uh trainer 100% of the time. I' I've heard stories. So, um, please really consider us people who do walk our dogs on a leash. Um, we can all live together. Somehow there has to be a medium, but we can't give them can't give them prep field. And I do understand that the town's got to go clean it up every afternoon before the kids practice on it, and that's not right either. Thank you for listening to me.

Thank you. Hello council. I'm Nancy Denine and again tonight I'm going to be reading from uh my dog walking friend who can't make it tonight as I did before. So this is her statement but I totally agree with it. So here it goes. Dear Boulder City Council, I am writing to urge you to vote in favor of resolution 8129, which designates additional locations for off leash recreation. For over 30 years, many residents have successfully utilized off leash recreation combined with voice command training to ensure their dogs are well socialized and well behaved. I believe the proposed additional locations effectively address the needs of the community by providing open spaces for fetch situated away from major roads. Accessible paved walking paths with gentle slopes to ensure elderly and disabled residents can exercise safely with their off leash dogs. Necessary amenities including shade, restrooms, water, and designated parking. Sufficient space for owners and dogs to maintain distance from others when needed. And access to waste bags and trash cans to encourage all dog owners, including on leash dog owners, to keep our public spaces clean. We appreciate your support in approving these locations to maintain a safe,

shaded, and inclusive environment for all Boulder City residents and their pets. Thank you for your time and consideration. Best regards, Cheryl Romines. Thank you.

Thank you. Anyone on the phone line? Darn glasses. Two years ago, it wasn't a problem. My name is Ted Taylor and I want to speak. It's resolution 8129, I believe. Um, I think over the last three or four years There's been a growing divisiveness in this town amongst the dog owners and I think it's been growing. I think there's been misconceptions and I think there's been a an attitude of tattling and telling on others and so forth and and I think it's just grown the community apart. I think this resolution is going a long way to bringing the community back together again. Understand people's concerns about walking dogs on leash versus dogs off leash. Personally, I'm an off leash dog, dog owner. Um, I will put her on a leash if I feel she needs to be on a leash. I'm like a parent. I watch them very closely. If I see another dog, don't know that dog, I'll keep her off the leash, but I'll keep her with me and then I'll determine if that dog is friendly or not. You can read dogs. You can understand dogs. And yeah, I don't leave in fear, live in fear. I I let my dog be. I've shown some videos. I've shared some videos of of Prattfield and how the dogs like I own need the space to run and to to get that movement and to be able to use that cardio or whatever it needs to be able to exercise and get that get that out of their system. All I'm saying is that I

don't worry about dogs being on leash or off leash. I pay attention to to my dog and I'm very very attentive to that and it's like my child just like a child I don't let them wander off. I don't let them greet other people unless I know who those people are and so forth. I ask the people are they okay with my dog approaching them. If they say no, fine. Say Ila, you come back with me. You stay stay with me. If they're okay with it, fine. Go go go say hi. And so again, I think this resolution is going a long way to bring the community back together. And if everybody would just be attentive and not live in fear, worry about their dog. Dogs don't bite. They they're not going to bite eventually. There's people that think a dog will always bite no matter what. It's just inevitable. That is not the case. No way. Not anywhere near the case. Um, so I just think it's important to understand your dog, understand how they react with other dogs, read other dogs, read the people that are owners, because the owners will tell you through their non-verbal and their posturing and so forth, whether they're friendly with their dogs, you can read people. So, I'm very attentive of that. And I just think that allowing these dogs to have some of the freedom that they need and and have to have is just something that's going to bring the community back together again. I think this resolution is a very strong way of getting that back together. It's a good start. It's a great way to kind of get this community to start healing and so forth. So I thank you.

Thank you. Anyone on the phone? 7025899629. Uh my name is Holly Levit and I'm also here to speak in support of the resolution 8129. Um, I think it's a great move to designate some additional areas, especially with specified times. Uh, the desert for us is a great area for us, especially with our larger dogs that really have a chance to get out and explore. Um, and uh, they need that kind of energy. And I know up until the last two dogs I had, I never had off leash dogs. I never had the opportunity. When I came into Boulder and found that I was very nervous about having my dogs off, but with the help of people who had off dog off leash dogs showed me to train them, how to work with them, and it's it's an incredible experience. Um, the dogs get along better. The dogs have learned to wait whether they go up to a dog. And as Ted said, you can see I will put my dog on a leash if I see that someone's very nervous. If I see they're just a little hesitant, I move them off the path and let them approach. And I never let my dog go up unless I'm going up with them so that I can have my hands on the other dog and let the dog know that it's a good situation. And I think if we work through a lot of those things among all of us dog owners, I think that would be helpful. The grass area around the ball fields is a really important thing in the morning because as we're going out to the desert, it gives the dogs a chance to get their morning wake up rolling in the grass, greeting other

dogs before they go out and explore in the desert. Pratt Field between 5 and 8 allows a lot of that, but it also allows um long-distance ball throws for those bigger dogs, a big area for them to run. And the greatest thing is because Prep Field is so big, you can look out there on any morning when there are groups of dogs. There'll be a a dog group in one area that has is off leash and another one over here, someone over here on leash. And if I've not seen many problems where people don't just spread out because the field's so clear, so everyone gets to use it. If we have people walking along the sidewalk, we make sure our dogs are down further on the area and not by the sidewalk. Um, this resolution is really important for their dogs and for the owners allowing for a shared community um at Veterans Park. Since we've left the park, we've split up our whole um group and it's a family group. I encourage you greatly to pass this resolution and I think it'll do a lot. Thank you.

Thank you. You're on the phone. 7025899629 or anyone here in chambers, please come forward and identify yourself. Good evening, council members. Um, my name is Molly Little and I am in support of resolution 8129. Um, it's about designating space, right? Um, it's surely the patrons of parks and people that want to get their early morning walk in. Um, there's plenty of space around. We want to designate a few spaces for us as well. Um, most of the early morning patrons that I've noticed at Vetsfield walk around the perimeter. And um, if you've ever visited Prattfield in the morning, early morning um, hours, you'll notice that that um, field is largely unused. It people are walking around the perimeter and the field itself is unused. And prior to the um law that was enacted, we would, you know, throw our ball, play fetch right in the middle of the field. And there's enough space there um to kind of buffer the folks walking around the perimeter who, you know, we try not to bother them with our dogs. So, um again, it's about space. It's about um designating a space for for us to do our thing as well. So, thank you very much. I really um feel like you did um listen to us very carefully and given us the opportunity through the focus group and such um to come up with this resolution and I think it's really well and thought out and I really do appreciate your time and hope

you'll support it. Thank you. Thank you.

Anyone on the phone? Good evening. My name is Jan Hubard. First, I'd like to thank the mayor and council for their willingness to explore our off leash proposals for Veterans Park. I am also in favor of this proposal. As stated in the last meeting, the desert area adjacent to Veterans Park is a viable option for off leash activities during park hours as it is not crowded and not used by many. The areas between the ball field with hours would also work as it has trees, shade, and grass for dogs and their owners. Pratt field with hours between 5 and 8 a.m. is an excellent option as there's not much usage during that time. I understand Pat's concerns, but that actually leads me to explain why Prattfield is a good option. Because of its size, it has ample space to accommodate numerous dogs and their owners simultaneously. It has shade, parking, lighting, water, and restrooms nearby. There's also not much vehicular traffic. It has become an area where many friendships and connections are made. People have become friends. They watch out and help each other and thrive together in our sense of community. I know there were concerns about the dog feces. At the last meeting, Julie Callaways asked if there was a difference in the amount of the aforementioned since the new leash law was enacted. If memory serves, it was stated it was about the same. As there is probably 80% less dog usage there now, it leads one to believe the problem can be attributed to unleash dog owners. I'm going to give you an example. In my neighborhood, there's a block on Adams

between Bristle Cone and Denali that's used by dogs on leash. I counted 27 piles of dog feces that were not disposed of properly by their owners. What I'm trying to convey is that you can't put the onus of responsibility solely on off leash owners. Human nature is what it is. I also understand some of the concerns regarding children and bacteria and or contamination from said feces. I researched this and could find no data stating any children or persons becoming ill or hospitalized due to contact. I realize our park remaining clean is very important. I will reiterate that a list of volunteers to pick up at Veterans Park was given to Julie Callaway at a prior meeting. Those on the list are still waiting to volunteer their time. in summation is for these reasons we ask you to vote yes to implement these new areas for off leash activities. Thank you for your time.

Thank you. Greetings. My name is Adam Schultis. I will be talking about item number 15 on tonight's agenda. There are three companies that were awarded proposals that involved amounts of energy to be stored. According to the staff report prepared by Cynthia Snee dated today, May 12th, 2026, the company Primer G says that they requested a total amount of energy to be stored 500 megawws. REV renewable for Delmare Energy Storage requested a total amount of energy to be stored 250 megawws. IOWN requested a total amount of energy to be stored 200 megawws. Energy storage is extensively used in data centers to enhance reliability, efficiency and sustainability primarily through systems like battery energy storage system otherwise known as BES BESS. The resolution that is being considered tonight talks specifically about battery energy storage system best. Each of the four mentioned companies are major players in storing energy for data centers. In fact, primer G that's what they do. They build data centers and they store energy for that's all they do. They go hand in hand together. Where is that energy that is being stored coming from? We don't get the answers. It can't be coming from all the solar panels down in Elorado Valley because solar tech panels, excuse me, because solar tech online states that quote to store 500

megawatts of energy, you would need hundreds of thousands of utility scale solar farm panels. Let's be honest, council. Does this proposal have anything to do with data centers? You can't answer now, but you owe it to the public. If it does, you should not consider this proposal until the voters decide on whether Boulder City should or should not have data centers. I'm done. Thank you. If you want to call in 7025899629 7025899629.

Hi Mayor and Council Bin Dormier and I'm also here to speak on items 15 and 16. Um, I'd like to remind everyone that on the December 9th, 2025 council meeting in which many sat here in this room and listened to this council pass an extension and approval for a best that's battery storage facility for Townsite Solar 2. Um, 3 months later, we sat here again surprised to hear the same company proposing a data center for the exact same site. So, that that is why a lot of us are concerned. And um further the Boulder City Climate Action Group had a table at the spring jamberee weekend before last uh during which a woman approached us on the Sunday and she said um she audits best facilities for a living and she warned us that nearly every best site nowadays in recent history converts into a data center and it's a way to fasttrack the process. I went home that night. I Googled it. Um I found that her information tracks and then a few days later I was surprised to see um items 15 and 16 on the agenda. So same I I Googled the the companies mentioned and I I found that um of the ones mentioned um I'll see how many long I can get. Um, Rev Renewables provides crucial renewable energy and storage solutions to support the high power demands of data centers and the broader grid. IOWN innovative optical and wireless network. They address addresses the massive power and latency demands of AI by replacing electrical processing with light, enabling distributed sustainable data centers. And on item 16, RWE is heavily investing in US

renewable energy, including solar, to meet the surging power demands of data centers driven by AI and technology growth. So, um, I'd just like to say with all of this, um, I do realize that those two facilities are in the Elorado Valley Transfer Area, which we will be voting on in November, um, which is question one on our ballots. So, I'd like to say with all of that coming down the pipeline, um, you know, there's one familiar quote that probably everybody has heard, and that's lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine or ours. Knowing that there's a huge shortage of um, you know, there's there's a supply and demand issue for data centers and AI. That's why they're all banging down our doors. Um, and at least one council member I've spoken with has said, you know, we can take our time on this. We don't have to raise I agree with that one with that council member and I hope that we can slow down and wait till the November election. You've all heard it from all your constituents on social media. Very few people in this town want it. So, I'm asking you again, please listen to your constituents. And thank you.

Thank you. Anyone else in chambers come forward?

Ros and Rabioly regarding items uh 15 and 16. I have been looking at everything that's been going on regarding their storage facilities for energy. I think that's wonderful. I think we should be able to store all the energy we possibly can. But when I ask specific questions, are you company Skyler talking about storage facilities or data centers? And I talked to three different people at the last open house and I get three different answers, including an answer that says, "Well, you know, we haven't done a very good job communicating to the public what this project really is. So my question regarding items 15 and 16, who can tell me are we talking about energy storage? Are we talking about energy storage that turns into data centers? because I talked to the head person, his name I believe, and excuse me if I'm wrong, Rick Leurs. Nobody had a business card to give me with their name with their phone number. That's a little strange to

me. I have my cards all over the place. Okay, anybody can call me, Google me, you get my phone number. Okay, I can't get that when I go. So I say to him, "Gee, I wonder how you make more money. Do you make more money with energy storage or with selling data?" He goes, "Selling data. Thank you very much. I want an answer. What are we voting on?"

Thank you. Anyone else want to come forward or call in at 7025899629? Good evening, council, and thank you again for giving us this opportunity for Moors Mobile Home Park to speak to you in regards to the situation. Um,

can you identify yourself for us? Number nine. Lorie Humphre. Thank you.

Park manager at Moors Mobile Home Park. And I'm speaking on the number nine position of changing the ordinance to public hearing on a on proposed zoning ordinance text amendment uh consideration of bill number 21001 an ordinance of the city of Boulder City, Nevada amending Boulder City Municipal Code, title 11, zoning and subdivisions chapter 6. Okay. Moors mobile home park zone to authorize mobile home park zone uh recreational vehicles as a permitted use. Many of you, if you're not aware, the park has been a part of the city since 1947. Began as a RV stop just like any other places you're traveling and grew into a mobile home park. Somewhere along the line in 1984, Boulder City chose to change the zoning names from trailers to mobile homes, taking out the RV part of it. Unfortunately, in Mo's mobile home park, we stand with many fifth wheels, bumper pools that existed long before those laws changed. And now in order to fill those lots because they were set there, we continued to allow without knowledge, without malice to allow fifth wheels and mobile home uh travel trailers, fifth wheels, big ones, little ones, not exceeding 30 foot or or less than 30 foot to attain their time in our park.

I'd just like to let you know that 34% are fifth wheels and travel trailers in the upper park. Only 21 remain as mobile homes. As those mobile homes are pulled out, they either have to be replaced with a fifth wheel because or a travel trailer because they can no longer maintain a mobile home at the size and the rates that they're built. Cost and moving and the features to permit them. plus all the people that are transit to our city that come here for work to the solar fields to the government offices and it just makes it a valued time. In time it will eliminate the park and force us to raise the rents greatly to maintain the people that are there in the park. So we plead that you make this arrangement to continue to allow us to have RVs fifth wheels in the park. Thank you.

Thank you. Anyone want to call in at 7025899629?

Hi, my name is Maryanne Ray and uh Mr. Mayor, members of the council, I just wanted to uh give my support for the resolution uh for on 13 to have uh dogs allowed to be off leash at Prattfield. One of the things I know that is a concern from some of you is about people who do not pick up after their dogs. I walk every day in this city. I walk sometimes here in town. I walk at uh the Veterans Park and I walk up at uh Bootleg Canyon and I can tell you for the most part people pick up after their dogs. The worst place, believe it or not, is at Bootleg Canyon with the big animals. And those people almost always have their dogs on leash and because if you have a dog on leash or dog off leash, it doesn't matter. And it is Prattfield is a beautiful, wonderful place. In the morning, so many people go out there and there's been a such a change in this community when people have not been allowed to let their dogs be off leash. I've lived in this town for 30 years. I have had dogs. I don't at the moment but I have never ever had a problem with a dog with owners who have dogs who feel that there is a problem they put them on leash. So please uh consider adding these place spaces for people to allow their dogs to run off leash. Thank you very much.

Thank you. 7025899629 or anyone here in chambers like to come forward. You have someone on the line. Go ahead. Public comment. Go ahead. Yes, it's David Pitcherman spelled P I T er M- an data center would be nice to have it there approve of it and have a set of solar panels for each floor mirrors directing sunlight

I'm going to interrupt you sir this is limited this public comment is limited to things that are on the agenda and our data centers are not on the agenda. You can stay online and you can call in again for public comment at the end of the meeting. Thank you. Yes. What's on your agenda?

It's on the city's website if you'd like to take a look at it. Yes. I'm sorry I misunderstood of what I read. Thank you. Here in I hope to look at it. And and it would be nice that the fire department would have a school for kids for our troubled kids that are arsonists and pyromaniacs teaching why not light up fireworks when they have no Thank you for your comments, sir.

We'll come back here to chambers. Evening, mayor, council, staff, ladies and gentlemen. Um, Brandon Smith for the record. Just here to uh comment briefly on agenda items 15 and 16. Um, it's my understanding that um that bees has been um already approved for the wilderness transfer area. Um and as such, um the proposals being forwarded tonight, um kind of a given to to insert into those spaces. Um and as you've heard from several people already tonight, uh it seems like best stoages are like just pathways to u data centers. They grow up. When they grow up, they just turn into data centers. Um we've already heard from hundreds of people, thousands of people um throughout the last uh 3 months since since um Skylar and TS2 were here in December uh proposing a BESS that's again turned into a data center proposal. Um, and I'm curious to know exactly when this council is really going to start considering um, the constituents of the city that elected them um, and who are opposed to this this use of of our land. Um, I'm not going to go into uh the esoteric nature of of of what everybody's speaking about, complaining about um the

things that are and aren't necessarily a part of of um this direct proposal tonight. But basically, if you guys are are voting this through, you're just kind of uh laying a red carpet for the next two data centers to come online in an area that that you guys have already approved for BESS. Thank you.

Thank you. Anyone else here in chambers or calling at 7025899629? No one on the phone. No one here in chambers. We'll close public comment. I see one person who wants to get up and is rushing up for the public comment that's just been reopened.

Sorry, I just can't shut up. Somebody stole a pin. Fred Demano. Um, and I just want to say thank you for the consideration on the new changes made in the off leash uh program for people that have their dogs out there and and do want to take them off leash and and have a a good relationship with their neighbors, their dogs, and everybody else. I I think that uh you've gone a long way to change it from what it was and I think you're in the right direction. So, we support it. Thank you. Thank you.

Anyone else here in chambers like to come forward? Yes, sir. Anyone online? 702589 9629. If not, we will close public comment. Thank you. Public comment is closed. And that brings us to approval of the regular agenda. Madame city clerk. Yes. Thank you. Council is requesting that item number 15 and 16 be moved up on the order of the agenda to precede item number seven. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve such? I move to approve. I'll second.

Any discussion? All those in favor of moving item 15 and 16 uh before item seven on the regular agenda. All those in favor say I. Any oppose say nay. Thank you. That brings us to approval of the consent agenda. Madam city clerk. Yes. Thank you. Staff is also requesting that item number six be moved to the regular agenda for discussion. Is there such a motion? Move to approve as amended by city clerk. A second.

And is moved and seconded. Any discussion of moving six before items 15 and 16 on the regular agenda? All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose say nay. Thank you. That brings us to um consent agenda. We do we have to do that or did we just do that? No, we just did this. So now you can consider item number six.

We will open item number six for discussion. And Mr. Armen. Thank you, Mayor. I'm Brock Carman, your revenue contracts real estate manager. Uh item number six is to approve resolution 8126 to authorize the appraisal of land located at the southwest quadrant of Spring Canyon Road at US Highway 95. Up in the overhead shows the approximate location and if we do the next one shows a better one. Uh Delmare uh is constructing a battery energy storage facility on the two county islands that bracket this site, 10 acres on either side for a total of 20 acres. Uh to connect the two locations, they require a 50 foot wide by approximately 350 foot long underground vault uh so that they can have a transmission line to interconnect the two sites. to establish the uh ease the rate for that easement. We do need to have the land appraised by two independent appraisers. Uh so resolution 8126 will authorize staff to then obtain those appraisals. Uh and then we will then come back at a later date with the easement agreement with the appropriate lease rate.

Any discussion? I have a couple questions. Mayor, if we could get the map back up, please. Holly. Uh, Mr. Armen Trout, could you please explain the outlines, the the city limits, the county limits, the shaded in yellow, the shaded in green, and the underground easement location in that light brown color. If you could identify what's in what limits there uh for everybody, uh, that would be appreciated.

Well, in the upper third of the map, uh, identifi identified as the city of Henderson, that's the orangish area. Uh so that's their city limits. It's more or less runs right along Spring Canyon Road except for these sections that are being developed by Delmare and the site known as Armor Rock which develops a polymer um cast um collars for sewer pipes. Um the uncolored areas outside the two Clark County areas are Boulder City. Um it's within our city limits and we own all that land. The area that's in that lattice turquoise green color uh while owned by Boulder City is a BLM administered transmission line easement. Uh that particular one is 3,000 ft wide and runs uh the length of the city limits from the point you see there down to the Elorado substation and then down to our southwest city limits. Uh and then on the lower far bottom right you see kind of a green hatching area. uh that is uh including part of the Bum administered area as well as the majority of the Elorado Valley. That's the desert tortoise habitat, also known as the Boulder City Conservation Easement. Uh and then the underground easement location is located at the far east end of what historically has been thought of as a former runway for the ultralight gliders that used to operate in that area. Um uh and it's now also being included in item number 15 at a later discussion. Is that helpful?

So, the areas um above and below the red are a county island. Two small Clark County islands. That's correct. And that red strip there then is that in the county island? That's in beside Boulder City limits. Okay. So we have that little strip there which is kind of just a anomaly from from the uh dates back to 1995 when we auto valley. Yeah. Okay. Thank you for for uh explaining that red polygon is approximately 10 acres in size. Thank you.

Any other questions or observations? What's the desire of council? Move to approve resolution 8126. Is there a second? I second.

Discussion. Any discussion about approval? All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose say nay. That is unanimous. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Arman Trout. That brings us to item number 15. Yeah, me again. Again, Brock Armen. I'm your revenue contracts real estate manager. Uh this is for consideration resolution 8130 to award the request for proposal for renewable energy projects. Uh they're at the southwest corner of um Spring Canyon Road and US 95 also bracketed by Drumort Way there on the west side. A bit of history. Back in 2022, uh voters approved an amendment to the city charter to allow battery energy storage systems within the Elorado Valley transfer area. Uh for those who aren't familiar with where that's located, if you're familiar with the transmission lines that run from the ME trans the me substation that go due west, uh there's approximately six of them. Everything south of that uh is the Ela Valley transfer area. It's approximately 167 square miles. So that has special charter restrictions and then the voters in 2022 allow or approved adding BES as an additional approved use within that area. Uh since 2022, staff has been looking as we've been directed to diversify our revenue stream for the city alternate locations for for battery energy storage systems and we identified approximately 141 acres uh located at this location and easier seen at this location uh which is partially occupied by the former motocross site uh and it's bracketed in one portion by the Clark County uh islands, the city of Henderson to the

north, the BLM administered transmission corridor to the southeast and to the west uh is actually uh a combination of the B of a Nevada department transportation material site as well as a public safety uh training facility. The RFP was released in November and uh closed in February. We received five responses. Uh after city staff evaluated the responses, there were three responses that did not conflict or overlap with uh each other uh and uh as they're identified on the screen. Primary G in the upper left, Rev Renewables on the right hand side and ion the triangular shaped piece there on the bottom. For reference, the primary G proposal is proposing a lease rate of 20,000 per acre uh with energy storage fee of $2,000 per megawatt of energy storage. Uh they are proposing 500 megawatts of storage on site and they are still looking for the appropriate uh interconnect location between the different substations of me elder marketplace makulla and Sloan canyon. Rev Renewables, uh, also known as Delmare Energy Storage, uh, is proposing to lease 10 acres, uh, at a lease rate of approximately 12,000 per acre with an energy storage fee of 2,000 per megawatt of energy storage. Uh, they're proposing to store 250 megawatts of storage. They already have an an interconnect location at the Elorado substation and will follow along the same circuit that will be constructed to for their project that they're constructing that will bracket the site that we just discussed in the prior item. And last I own uh is proposing to lease

approximately 60 acres as the purple on the map. Their overall proposed uh combined lease rate is $1.25 million. That's the lease rate plus battery energy storage up to 200 megawatts of storage with up to 5 megawatts of energy generation through photovoltaic panels and they intend to connect uh to the grid through a loop connection through one of the passing transmission lines that locate within the BLM administered transmission corridor. Approval of the um resolution does not approve leases. It only authorizes staff to enter negotiations with these three companies to come back at a later date with a negotiated lease for these three sites. And there will be three separate individual leases. That's all I have at this time. Are there any questions?

Questions? I do. Thank you uh for the update and thank you for the ride out in this area yesterday so I could physically see where this place is. Um are the is there anybody here representing these companies? Yes, there is. I have a question for them in reference to emergency management. Can I do that or Well, we'll start with Primag.

Hi, Councilwoman. Nice. Hi. Good evening. Um, you're proposing to put uh battery energy storage. You heard a lot about it today from our residents. Um, my my concern is emergency management. We have had a battery fire uh last year I believe it was and um there was a lot that needed to be um taken in consideration as far as land and signs. Are you prepared to look at the emergency management work with the fire department and um come back to tell us just how you going to prevent um any type of emergency management hazards?

Yes ma'am. Uh we are the developers of Gemini Solar. It's one of the largest solar plus battery installations within the state just located north of Las Vegas. Uh we worked very closely in developing emergency action plan and a response subsequent response plan for that project with Clark County Fire Department that we will leverage uh in those or take the lessons learned from that project and apply those with the coordination with Boulder City Fire Department. So we have we work very closely with first responders in developing those plans. Okay. And I I'm going to just ask you the question. Are you It looks like you're going to be here five years. Is your intentions to turn it into a data center?

Uh no, not at this time, ma'am. It is a I shouldn't say not at this time. No, it is a standalone battery facility, not a data center. And how many batteries would be stored there? Uh for 500 megawatts, it really depends on the technology. I'd have to the exact count. I'd have to double check with our engineering team. Okay. For the exact battery count, but I can get back to you on that. Thank you. Can you please provide your name for the record? Yes. Christina Casaris. I'm a senior director of western development for Primer G. Any other questions I can answer? Do you have any questions for

So this came up yesterday in our meeting was who is going to be paying for the appraisals? Uh it's recovered through the lease payments by each of the individual lees. So the individuals will be paying for it. We'll bill them for the It's part of the lease process. Part of the lease process. Okay. Thank you very much. Is Rev available? Yes.

Hi, my name is Nathan Murdoch. I'm the developer of the Delmare project for Red Renewables. Good evening. Um, just for the record, I wanted to know what does your management uh emergency management plan look like for this area should you be awarded down the road? Yeah. So, we've developed the two projects or the two sites north and south of this Boulder City parcel. We've done that in coordination with the Clark County Fire Department as well as Brad, I believe Brad Stac at the Boulder City Fire Department. So we've already been in coordination with both fire departments uh in terms of the plan and the design as well.

We have sorry that was so we have we have water uh storage on site as well and that came out of the coordination with the fire department groups. Uh so we're very, you know, conscious of of the location and who in fact uh Clark County is has jurisdiction over two of those three parcels. However, because of proximity to Boulder City, it would actually be Boulder City responding most likely. So that's why we included Brad in those conversations with the Boulder City Fire Department. So in addition to that pre-development work and design work, we also do training with fire departments in locations where we put these systems. We've done that in California in multiple locations and we find it very valuable and useful to do that. So that's something that will happen as well as part of the development as as it comes closer to being online.

Okay. I noticed that your option period is for one year. What can you do in a year? Well, that that is interesting. We have the the the site to the north and the site to the south. They're on a much faster timeline because they've been through planning and design already. So, we still have to do the lease agreement with Boulder City. So, there's several things that still have to take place. So, that will be uh part of the conversation um and how the lease is structured, I guess, to accommodate for some of that timing. And how many batteries will you have on site? Um there'll be probably several hundred modules. It really comes down to like the prior 700 or

several hundred. Uh yeah, it really comes down to the design uh based on a specific technology. But to to generalize maybe a little bit the existing facility that uh is off of Highway 11, it'll effectively be fundamentally be like that. Um maybe just a little bit bigger. And I think that may maybe hundreds is each each container has hundreds within it. So in terms of containers, if you're looking at it from the road and you're thinking how many containers will there be, that's probably a better way of putting it. Um well, how many batteries in each container? Oh, thousands and thousands. Yeah. Okay.

Um but in in relation to the project that's off of the 11, it'll probably be about twice that size roughly. But I'd have to go back and compare uh those two. But that's a rough idea. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Um one other maybe comment that might be helpful. Um I've heard a few folks with concerns about data centers and these becoming data centers. Um we have no intent to turn ours into a data center. Completely different hardware by the way. We It's either a battery storage system, right,

or a data center system. and there's simply not room to do anything, but there's also not enough uh uh power available to to support that at this location either. So, just to and I'm I'm happy to take questions with anybody that has, you know, concerns about the area and what our plans are, but we we're just just doing the battery project. So, thank you. And maybe it would be prudent down the road if you had a town hall for our residents. They like asking questions. Yeah, we could absolutely do that. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Don't go away. Okay. Anyone else have any questions?

So, it seems to me when we were looking at our solar fields, for instance, and we look down in the valley, we see a a white container, for lack of a better word of saying it, and it has about 10 megawatts. How many megawws is your quote unquote hundreds of batteries within a container? How many megawws does it hold? Uh, it depends on the design of course, but I think between two and five megawatts per white container is probably a good ballpark figure. Okay. So, it's actually probably less than the individual white things we see down on our solar field.

Yeah. The the white things you see on the solar fields are inverters. They don't actually really store power. They just manage the power that's generated by the solar panels and and convert it to uh alternating current to go onto the and they handle about 10 megawws. Yeah, that that's a broader range I think for the inverters and solar farms. You know, over the 15 20 years that those have been in development, the range is is pretty broad. Those could be one megawatt, maybe up to 10. Uh it's hard to say, but yeah, it's uh yeah, it's a little different for the inverters.

We have inverters, too, by the way, uh coupled with our batteries that function similarly. So, there will be containers for the batteries with more white boxes, I guess, that are inverters that function very similarly, converting AC to DC and all that. So, okay. Thank you. Any other questions? No, other than um I'd like to speak to ION if they're available. Like to what? I own the next company.

Good evening. My name is Bradley Boot. I'm a partner with Holland and Hart, which is a law firm in Las Vegas. I'm uh just one caveat. I'm a a real estate lawyer and I've been working with these guys for about two and a half years on another project that they built in your fine community, the ROACA best project. But I'm I'm probably not going to be prepared to answer too many engineering or technical questions, but I'm happy to follow up and get you whatever whatever information you need. I I think these three questions are pretty easy. Emergency management, I'm sure they're going to have something in place like the others and work with the fire department um on that level. Absolutely.

And you have no idea how many batteries will be on site. Okay, that's fine. And uh for the record is do you have any plans to move your battery energy storage into a data center? No. At this time this five years. Our request is for a best project. Thank you sir. Thank you. Any other questions? Mr. Arman.

I have a couple for Brock. Mr. Armit. Mr. Armitra. you. So, council sits here and we see this agenda item come up just like everybody else in the city. So, I think it's important to outline how does this RFP RFP process initiate, who starts it, how is it identified, how do we end up where we're at sitting here today?

Well, as you're aware, uh, contracts real estate's within the finance department and we're charged with diversifying the city's revenue stream. Uh so we're constantly evaluating our city lands to determine how can we best utilize these lands to turn them into revenue for the city to minimize the other impacts that we have on our residents such as higher property taxes. Um and as opportunities arise or technologies change uh we evaluate those to see if they can be applied here in Boulder City. Early on 20 years ago the finance department had determined we could lease land for solar energy. Solar was very young in its uh life cycle across the country and we were not the first but one of the first to have a concentrated area of solar energy projects. Moving forward 15 years now at 2 in the afternoon they can't give solar away uh because there's a glut on the market uh in certain markets. Uh and then we realized well there's battery energy storage to take that glut and turn it into energy resource that they could then resell later in the evening. And uh that's when we initially started adding to our leases that they could also add battery storage knowing that it would make their projects more marketable to sell solar energy or renewable energy uh to the different utility operators in California and Nevada. Then it we came to the realization 2022 when we had that ballot question that standalone projects can make money. Uh and so since 2022 we've been working to identify locations within the city uh where better energy storage facilities could operate. Uh this was the first area that we brought forward. We have other areas that uh as things mature we'll be bringing forward at a later date uh to help diversify our revenue portfolio uh and take advantage

of the technologies that are out there to help our national grid as well as our local energy needs. Thank you. In brief summary, staff decides, hey, this looks like a marketable area. We're going to put out an RFP. Thank you. I do have a bad habit of giving long answers.

No, I appreciate that. It was very thorough. Um, and then in addition to that, uh, the various battery energy storage systems that we've had go up in the last handful of years, where do they connect into the grid and where have they been sending their energy? Just generally speaking, I know there's a variety, but we have multiple substations down there, right, in the Elorado Valley general area and some in the transfer area. And so up to this point, what have those best uh systems been doing? Where have they been connecting? And where has that power been going?

The first operational best was at Townsite Solar. That's the one that's adjacent to I1 that everyone sees where we had that unfortunate incident last October. Uh they interconnect at the Eldrada substation. Um and they their power is delivered to Scappa, the Southern California area power something. It's a bunch of small cities in Southern California that operate much like uh the Silver State Energy Association but for the Los Angeles basin and that's where that power goes. Uh the next one that uh will come online here soon is the Rockaseca battery project and they interconnect uh at the Sloan Canyon switchyard um which sell or delivers power primarily to Southern California as well as to uh Envy Energy and Valley Electric. Uh, next coming online within the next couple years is the Nelson Hills energy storage project. That's on Elorado Valley Drive bracketed by the Nevada Solar One project and the Copper Mountain 2 project. Uh, we don't have a an exact date, but they anticipate to start construction 2028 and they will interconnect uh via the Envy Energy Merchant Station at Nevada Solar One to the Elorado substation. I think that's a a good enough summary. Appreciate it. All it goes to California, some to Nevada Valley Electric. I think

people need to understand it's perump area, right? As well as Envy Energy. Uh and so there there did you have any nefarious intent to turn this into a data center? I didn't even know data centers were a viable thing in 2022 when I started looking at the locations.

Right. I think that's important to identify as we sit here and we consider uh diversifying our revenue stream for the for the community and looking at uh prudent financial stewardship and looking at how we manage the escalating costs for everything. I think it's important to realize that as city council sit here, we're not identifying sites for anything that anybody might dream up, but that we're talking about specifically these things right here as staff has presented to us. Then we have to unpack all that and consider what are the impacts to the community, positive and negative. How can we manage this in the best way so that everybody has their concerns alleviated as well as strategically thinking forward into our future to preserve what we love about Boulder City which is here right and without that this is going to suffer. I think it's really important to uh delineate those particulars. I appreciate your answers to the questions mayor. That's all I have. Thank you.

Thank you. Oh, mayor could be Oh, may I interject one thing? Sure. I just want to clarify that before even before we get to the RFP process is where we we started this,

all of these projects have had to go through the land management process because every parcel if if something is proposed for that parcel must go through the land management process. So that that is yet another layer and then we do the RFP. And uh as we look at data centers, I think at this other proposal, I think that is one um thing that is being overlooked that the the other parcels are that's where we are with them is going through the land management process for a different use. Those parcels have been approved for battery storage, but there's no connection to a data center because there they have to go through a separate process for because it's two different uses. And that's where we are. And I I just wanted to clarify that because I think it's it's getting a little bit lost. Um if if that any other proposal for a data center for example was successful through the LMP process, they would any of them would then again go through the RFP process. And that that is something that we talked about last year. Again, I I don't want to I know this is separate, but I and I I don't mean to um bring any additional confusion to what we're looking at, but um we at the city at least, I just want to clarify for the any of the residents who are concerned that there are a number of different we've said this over and over again, there are a number of different steps that this has to go through all with a public input process that uh we go through different step each of those different steps. Thank you for all the clarifications both sides of me and in front of me. Um I think it's important for us to recognize we have done a five-year plan. We did talk about being um financially prudent for the community that we live in so that we can sustain the lowest power rates, the lowest um you know property taxes. There's a lot that we truly enjoy here in Boulder City and a lot of it comes from the revenues of people long before me or any of us

sitting in this chair with forethought on what to do. I think it's very interesting. I sit on a couple of boards, Clark County School District being one of them for facilities talking about the crashes in 2008 and how it affects people. We've been very blessed that solar and other projects out in that valley kept us at the level that we were we didn't fill it like other places did and we're very blessed. So I think what the staff's intent is is to follow the five-year plan like we've asked them to and that is to diversify um revenue and to your point yes it comes to us about the same time that it comes to everyone else. There's nothing behind the scenes that we are either doing or trying to do to um to make something happen. We live in this community, too. We love this community. We love where we live. And our intent is to look through it um with a fine tune comb probably much to staff sugarin sometimes. Uh we've been on this dog breeding ordinance for um uh Tammy Mccay said seven times now. So um we we really do look at things with a an eye forward to your thoughts, your concerns, with no um intentions other than what you see. So, with that being said, I love the idea that you said we took it to the voters and asked them, "Can we do this in the valley battery energy storage?"

They said yes. That's why we're doing this. You said yes. So, we said, "Okay, and that's what we're doing." And it's for us to be able to provide a diversification of revenue so we're not stuck just with one source. if something happened to that one source. Secondly, um we did learn something when we had the battery fire. We learned that resources needed to go towards that. And I don't know if um city attorney would speak to what we've done since then to ensure that that goes well.

Yes. In this RFP, we included a fire safety assessment fee to help compensate the city for the increased risk um and to compensate our public safety response. Um, in addition to that, we also bolstered the terms that we include in our template leases um that we've already implemented in some leases to have indemnification for um all costs to the city, mutual aid, um as well as they have to work with the fire department to install fire suppression that's um satisfactory to the fire code and the fire department's uh requirements. So, we have bolstered those provisions to improve um fire safety and response. My mom used to say, "Live and learn." Live and learned. And we've put in place some some stop gaps that help us to be able to conquer anything of that nature in in the future. Hopefully not to have it, but maybe preventative is better than than um having to be restorative, right? So, I appreciate staff for doing that also. So, when I consider something like this, I look at this is the area that it's been zoned for. the community has said yes, we can do this. I don't think the answer given by any one of these individuals coming up. Um they didn't have any intent with data center. So I it's not our intent. It's not their intent. So I I just think that gets crossed off the board when that happens. So thank you.

Thank you. I I guess I may be a little simplistic when I say if we don't have energy produced, California doesn't keep their air conditioners on cuz that's where we send it. And so it and then I have to give a shout out to our our fire department because when that uh fire happened, we had just done the tabletop organization. We had all the agencies involved and it was done exactly the way we wanted it to be done and it was uh very well planned out even before it happened. And so all of these batteries that we talk about, we actually know what to do uh and how to intervene with anything that happens at them. So, I I am I have to say our fire department worked with other fire departments to their credit and so we we know what we're doing. When I say we, I take credit for all that because I'm the mayor. I um it I mean it really does. Kudos for our our fire department and all those that worked with them. Uh have we beat that horse? If there's no other discussion, I'll move to approve uh resolution 8130, item 15.

Is there a second? I'll second. Moved and seconded discussion. All those in favor say I. I. Post say nay. Thank you. It's unanimous. That brings us then to number 16.

Uh number 16 is very similar to item 15. Uh and as uh our city manager mentioned earlier, this site has also been through the land management process, also the resoning process with the planning commission uh many years ago. Um back in November, uh we released an RFP to lease approximately 1,200 acres for an energy a renewable energy project. In February, uh the RFP closed and we received 10 responses, all very good responses. Uh after evaluation, uh the top three responses were invited to come and do a presentation to the evaluation committee. And after uh a lot of discussion and and uh number crunching, um we determined that RWE uh was the best response for the city to award the RFP. Uh, RIW is a German company. Uh, they have many assets within United States as well as within Europe. Uh, they're also currently the parent company for Copper Mountain 1, 2, 3, 4, and five. All within the Elorado Valley on the map that's on the screen right there. That happens to be Copper Mountain 3. That's in red. Uh, the site is approximately 1,200 acres. It is at the upper reaches of the area locally known as Dutchman's Pass. We also know it as Black Hills North. Uh the RFP advertised a minimum lease rate at 1450 per acre per year with a minimum battery energy storage fee of 2,000 per megawatt per year along with the fire safety fee. RWE proposed in their RFP uh that they would lease the land at 2,300 per acre, which is more than 1450 per acre, and a battery energy storage fee of 20 2100

per megawatt of storage, which again is more than the minimum listed on the RFP. Uh they intend to generate up to 250 megawatts of renewable energy through photovoltaic and store up to 250 megawws through Bess. The interconnection location is at the Copper Mountain 3 switchyard uh which does allow them to take it to market uh faster than many of the other responses. Uh and they do anticipate to be online by fiscal 28 uh if they can sign a power purchase agreement in the very near future. Again, the awarding the RFP does not uh award a contract. It awards the right to negotiate a contract, uh which I'm sure they will be doing here shortly. Um some financial terms uh in fiscal year 30 assuming this deals go forward and they're developing online in 28 or 29 uh is expected to generate just uh under 3.9 million uh to the city's funds by fiscal 2050 uh the life of the project or not the life of the project but through 2050 they will have generated just over 81 million uh for the city for revenue from this site. So again, it's another way that we can help diversify our revenue stream through a stable energy source. And as the mayor mentioned or maybe Sher, as Miss Jurgens mentioned, uh when the entities in the valley had a problem with the COVID pandemic, our revenue stream stayed nice and stable because these leases are high performers. Um and as the mayor mentioned, California likes to keep their air conditioners on. So it's a good stable resource for the city for revenue. So staff is recommending that we award the RFP to RWE and that resolution 8131 be approved. They do have representatives here if you have

questions. Um and I can also answer any questions that you may have. Questions for Mr. Trap. I don't questions for anybody else who's here with whatever it was initials RWE. Anyone have questions for them? Any discussion? Questions at all? I'll accept a motion. Move to approve. Move to approve 8131. Is there a second? I'll second. Any discussion? All those in favor say I.

I. Post say nay. Unanimous. Thank you. That brings us to the start of the regular agenda. Back to number seven.

Go ahead, Chief. Good evening, counselors. Fire Chief Ken Morgan. Uh, I brought item number seven to you from a staff report. Uh, title six of the Boulder City Code establishes fire safety requirements in the community to ensure consistency with neighboring southern Nevada jurisdictions. Staff proposes updating these regulations by adopting the 2024 International Fire Code, which would replace the current 2018 edition. Additionally, new sections regarding enforcement and appeals are incorporated to align with the city's current administrative process for code violations, ensuring a standard procedure and a clear path for administrative review,

questions, no comments. I'll accept a motion. Mayor, I'll move to approve uh bill 2099. Is there a second? I'll second. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I It's unanimous. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Chief. That brings us to number eight, Mr. May.

Good evening, Mayor Hardy, members of city council. I'm Michael Ma, your deputy city manager. Currently, truck rentals are not a permitted use in the C2 zone. And you'll see on the screen, this map reflects the current properties that are zone C2, which is our general commercial zone. John Malaya would like to open a truck rental business at 901 Walnut Drive and has submitted a text amendment application to add truck rentals as a permitted use in the C2 zoning district. Looking at other southern Nevada jurisdictions, the use is permitted uh either as a permit by right or as a conditional use in similar commercial zoning districts. This info is provided in uh the staff report. Truck rental is already a permitted use in the city's commercial manufacturing zoning district. Permitting truck rentals would be subject to trucks not exceeding 30 feet in length and must be parked on premises. The proposed text amendment was heard by the planning commission on March 18th and they recommended approval with a vote of 6 to zero. staff requests that the city council hold a public hearing and consider bill 2100 uh subject to the findings that are contained within the bill. Um and with that staff and the applicant can uh answer any questions the council has. Okay, any questions?

Okay, no questions. That brings us to then we can open the public hearing. Anyone who would like to address the zoning ordinance text amendment on item number eight, welcome to do that or call in at 7025899629. Um, this is a public hearing and anyone can come forth and address this particular item. 7025899629. Anyone would like to call in or hear in chambers? Anyone on the phone line? Madam city clerk, I don't see anyone in chambers. I will close the public hearing and look for consideration of bill number 2100. Then discussion.

Mayor, if I might, um, the, uh, applicant is here and and maybe he has a desire to say something to us. I I don't want to overstep, but it' be great to hear from him. Okay,

good evening. My my name is John Myella and um I'm here to answer any any questions that you might have for me. Um this is just basically part of um U-Haul's neighborhood uh truck rental program. So we're looking to partner with them. Um and again, this would be pro uh truck rentals contained within the property and not to exceed 30 ft. So, just a supplemental uh revenue stream for our business. So, could you make it more complicated than that?

I'll try. Yeah, he was here and you know, give him his give his five minutes of fame, so to speak, and appreciate uh the applicant being here and and being interested in really it would be a service u offered to our residents and and um you know, I think the location as we look at uh the other types of uh of um zoning in in throughout the valley, it it there's no conflict there, no contradiction with what the use would be based on the the zoning and um so yeah, I just wanted to give you a moment to come up and and say hello to the council and say whatever you might want to. So, thank you.

Absolutely. Thank you. I'd like I'd like to add to that, too. U you know, we always say here that we like to shop local and don't have to go over the hill and this is yet another service that uh we'll have. So, thank you for your considerations for our town. Thank you so much. Thank you. Any other questions or can I accept a motion? Move to approve uh number 2100 subject to the findings. Is there a second? I second.

Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Unanimous. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. May. We're on to number nine. So, in the uh mobile home park zone, or what we refer to as the MP, only mobile homes and tiny homes are permitted. Uh Kim and Lorie Humphre, park managers from Mo's Mobile Home Park, have submitted a text amendment application to add RVs as a permitted use in the MP zoning district. You'll see on the screen that we have uh three areas that are designated MP zoning within the community. These constitute three mobile home parks. Looking at other southern Nevada um jurisdictions, RV uses just like within Boulder City are permitted within specifically designated RV zones. However, we could not find one that allowed RVs within a mobile home zoning district. The proposed text amendment was heard by the planning commission on March 18th and they recommended approval of this text amendment with a vote of 5 to one. Um, we have provided additional information to the council and to the community. It's at the back that uh provides definitions for RV vehicles, manufactured homes, mobile homes, and tiny homes. And also, it's important to point out that this text amendment would require, if approved, that the RVs would have to follow the same setback density requirements as the mobile home and tiny homes that are already permitted within this zoning district. Uh staff requests that the council hold

a public hearing and consider bill number 21101 subject to the findings listed in the bill. And again staff and the applicant are here to answer any questions.

Thank you. We have a disclosion first. Disclosure first. I would like to disclose pursuant to NRS2881A that I manage Elorado Mobile Home Park and was involved in the application of this item because this is a relationship under Nevada ethics law that would likely impact the judgment of a reasonable person in my situation. I will be abstaining on this item. Thank you. So noted. and then um we could open up the public hearing at this time. If there's no other comments, we'll open up.

Mayor, I have a couple questions, please, before Mr. May steps down. You had a map up there of the three uh mobile park areas. Could we identify them, please? So you have um

the the one that is at the western end or the left end of the map uh that is Gingerwood. Okay. And then the other two are along Elm uh which is Moors the applicant and um adjacent to that is um um the name escapes me the one across the street. Thank you very much. So you will note that there is a third parcel shown on the map. It looks like an outlier.

That was part of an old mobile home park that is no longer there when the cottages were developed. It's a remainder. It will never be developed as a mobile home park. It's city- owned land. So, we have three mobile home parks and that's what's reflected on the map. Okay. Thank you. And then we have mobile home park which is MP. Then we have mobile home estates. Correct. Right. Could you differentiate that for us and help us understand the difference?

Sure. So with uh mobile home parks, the land is owned by a single owner and then they rent the spaces to the mobile home owners. Mobile home estates, the lots are individually owned by the property owners and they have their mobile homes on those lots. And it is important to point out that this text amendment will not impact mobile home estates, only the mobile home park. So, excuse me, if I read the the back page or the second page, if you will, um the the real estate tax or property tax um and I I haven't had a time uh to to really digest it. So, you're going to help me here. If if you don't own the land upon which your mobile home sits, you don't it's not listed then as real property. It's just personal property and no property tax is assessed.

Correct. It had to be permanently affixed to the land. Okay. Plus permanent affixiction. Mhm. So when we go to and and just as a you know clarification, mobile home estates, those are owned by the individual lot owners, not a a a bigger company or individual, right? And if somebody owns the land and they put their mobile home on it and it's permanently affixed, then property tax is assessed on those. Correct. Okay. So in this case, we're not talking back to the original what we're talking about here. There's no property tax implication because the individuals don't own the lots.

Yeah, there's no individual lots. It's it's one lot. Okay. Yeah. Okay. That was the clarification of that. I appreciate that. Um Mayor, I think uh those are the only questions I have for Mr. Maze right now. We'll open up the public hearing. Anyone here or online? 7025899629. Go ahead. It's in public hearing right now.

Good afternoon again. My name is Lori Humphre. I've been the manager at Moors Mobile Home Park for 13 years going on 13 years. Um, of which I took over from my mother-in-law who ran it for 23 years before she passed. Um, we came into the park um and we worked very diligently and hard in the first three years to clean and remove the unwanted necessary disasters that were going on that were being hindered into the city of Boulder City. Um, we found to make it an appropriate mobile home park. Um and we did find in that time we removed 14 to 15 uh mobile homes, travel trailers that were in despair that were no longer eligible or felt that they were eligible to live in for persons and work very hard in cleaning that park. Um, so we take great pride and it we take great pride when we see people come back and tell us, "Oh my gosh, I have people that have returned that live there 15, 20 years ago, how the park has been cleaned up and that they enjoy living there." um in the upper park which was questioned in our in our uh paperwork originally on the 28th. Um I was asked how many uh were mobile homes and how many were fifth wheels or travel trailers. I've since done that. Um there are 58 lots in what we call our upper park um where the office is located which was originally the KOA camp that was started in 1947. Um and since then there are travel trailers or what they referred to then

as park models. They were 30 foot 8 by 10 eight or 10 foot by 30 foot considered park models that they put into mobile home parks. They're bumper pull trailers is what they're called today. So in our park out of the 58 we have 34 fifth wheels and travel trailers that are in our park. Some have been there for 15, 20 years or longer. Um, mobile homes and trailers that were there on the larger lots towards the back of our park only exist at 21. Again, when a trailer becomes either the person is deceased or the person wishes to sell, they're locating. We evaluate. We make sure that this trailer is worth remaining on the property and is safe. So in that that's 58 lots that are up there on that park. Most of them are still cut very small to accommodate a 30 foot 8x30 foot. Okay. Some of them are 40, some of them are 50. in the moment. Moors does not permit motor homes, campers with shells, pop up tents, or tents. Um, we only permit trailers or bumper pools that are 2018 or newer to help us comply with electrical issues or these situations. Fifth wheels, uh, 30 foot or longer permitted or bumper pulls 30 foot or more. Um, they must submit an application for approval to live in the park. Their vehicle that they want to bring in has to be approved to be there.

Proof of income must show that they have three times the monthly rent to accommodate the rent there, which is very low. Um, and show current ID, pass a background check. So, this is very, very strict in what we're doing to try to maintain a clean environment here in Boulder City and protect the people that already live here and the people that have been living in Moors Mobile Home Park for 60 years. I have a few of them. Um with that required they're required like the mobile homes as the gentleman spoke they are required in our park to hard plum to the sewer system of which they are required to skirt to the home skirting around the home T11 uh to pro protect the underneath just like all the other mobile home part uh trailers in the park. required to submit a copy of insurance of liability and property damage for anything in the park and maintain that insurance. They're given notices 30 days prior to expiration. They must have it. Required to pay county taxes every year. They're on the county tax role. I work very hard with the county office to make sure any motor homes, not motor homes, uh, uh, fifth wheels or bumper pools coming into our park, get a paper that say they still have to pay county taxes. Um, and I give them the information and what they need to do to go to the county assessor to maintain that in that perspective of getting their taxes and not worrying about any of that. they're on the roll call and so far we've done really good of maintaining that and keeping the county taxes going. Um so

our argument is basically if Morris is not permitted to continue with fifth wheels and bumper pull trailers to fill our lots as they come in as they go out. This will cause lost revenue to the park and mainly hurt the people that exist there already. This in turn will force lot rents to increase more frequently than a current rate of every three years. Morse has only raised rent every three years. 20. This one is 25 in three years. That's $5 a year. And this last rent didn't even occur. Five years. So it's keeping the rent affordable. The highest rent is $430 a month there for our upper area. Our bigger trailers 415 and 405. That keeps my people that worry about um being just on social security disability. And we do have quite a few veterans in my park and quite a few seniors in my park. And they worry every day when they hear that rent's going to go up. They don't know where they're going to live. They don't know what they're going to do other than they can pull their trailer to the desert and hope they can maintain. So, this is why we are asking that they understand that we keep a tight rain on what we allow and what we work with. And we would like to still continue to bring our bumper poles and our fifth wheels into the park as long as they maintain the same rules that we have. We found it works.

Okay. Any questions? Who pays the power? Morris Mobile Home Park does. So you have one meter that pays for everybody. Correct. Excuse me. I'm Kim Humphre and I'm So, this is a public hearing. You're welcome to come forward. Yes. Under the power, each individual tenant pays for their own power through Boulder City Power as well as um each individual tenant has a US post or post box, mailbox,

which is all integrated to the Boulder City Post Office. And it has been that way 40, 50, 60 years. I guess the confusion that I have now, the tenant pays the power based on how much power they use or just pays a power. Each tenant has a meter that is based through Boulder City Power that they pay for their own power. So the park doesn't pay for the power. We pay the water. We pay the water, the sewer, and the trash.

Okay. Thank you. Public hearing. Anyone else like to come forward and say anything? Thank you. We'll have you step away. Okay. Thank you.

Good evening, mayor, council, staff, ladies and gentlemen. Brandon Smith again for the record. Um, I would just like to support this uh amendment to the code to allow RVs um for use in a mobile home park. Um, I think we could probably all agree that not a lot of us would choose to live in a mobile home park if we could afford a space at Lake Me Estates for example. Um, I think that if minimum standards are met, as in maybe these RVs are required to remain uh registered, drivable, um, roadw worthy. Um, I think allowing them to be introduced into a mobile home park would be like no problem. Um, I think I mean there's some million-dollar rigs out there. I wish I could afford one. um and the park one in a mobile home would be useful to any number of people. Um but I don't want to see what has happened um say in the past in in places like Los Angeles where where they relaxed the laws um during like COVID for example and it was a free-for-all. Um you know they were these things didn't run, they weren't registered, they parked in the street, nobody could get rid of them. Um people were paying millions of dollars to live in houses 50t away, but they had um vehicles that actually had to be towed into spots because they didn't actually run. Um but I think as a function um everybody needs a place to live. Everybody deserves a place to live. Um and if this helps that cause, I'm all for it. Thank you.

Thank you. Anyone on the line? 7025899 9629. Anyone else here in chambers want to come forward? Seeing no one in chambers, no one on the line, we will close the public hearing and come back to council. Thoughts from councel, please. I I have can I ask a question or just this is just among us um for the owner. So is this a trend that you're seeing across the nation or is this something that you just thought up yourself because there was a need I understand that there was a fire then somebody put an RV there. So was there a need to do this or is this a trend? Well, um, since co, excuse me, since COVID, it's become pretty much that people have invested, um, in buying, um, fifth wheels and bumper pools to live in because they found it easily with being able to get into a park like that and stay. But our park has always been that way since 1947. That was where people came in with their bumper poles and their little trailers. They worked at the dam. They worked all over and the park evolved from there. Mr. Moore then bought property that extended to second street that became as mobile homes and brought in single wide 60foot. And then our next third street was expanded and they brought in the double wides and those lots were. So it became under one entity the upper park the lower park but the upper park has always remained with bumper pools and fifth wheels of which I have some very very nice ones in there.

Uh the other question I have is because it's RV they could come and go. Is there do they lease the land for a certain amount of time? A year or two years?

Yes ma'am. The lease is actually a month-to-month uh lease agreement. Um it gives them the opportunity. We do ask them and most of them that choose to come in stay um a year, two years, maybe longer. Um because they have to invest in T111, which is like $56 a sheet now, and add eight sheets to do skirting. Um they maintain it. So, we have I I can't tell you they stay. I have very few people that move on. Um, usually they're for at least two years um and do very well. Um, unless they get relocated. Um, this just allows them to take the skirting down, they repurpose it maybe to somebody else new in the park coming in and they are able to travel. We just had a couple that left to go do campgrounds up north in Montana that they got a job.

So like snowbirds, they could come and go, but they So they can come in, they're in their homes, and a lot of people have downsized, sold their homes, take a fifth wheel, and they're able to travel and stay for a certain length of time. I have the gentlemen that work for the rescue out at our lake me and marina uh that make and come every year to me and stay in the certain lot every year. Do you have any opposition from any of the other residents or No, ma'am.

Okay. And the last question I had was um it it sounds like this could be good for I I guess if this gets approved tonight, it covers all the um mobile home areas in Boulder City. The three that were up on the map anyway, the three. Um so it sounds like it's a it's a good thing for housing shortage. There's not lots available very often. I just got another lot out of almost two years. I haven't had any empty spaces which makes it good revenue. They become part of the city. They support our restaurants and and everything within our city. Um take part in our lake and enjoy the things that are there and they either stay there or they move on, okay?

Or they find. And the same thing with parents or grandparents coming to help children um and survive with a new baby or whatever. It allows them the opportunity not to have to worry about their own personal belongings and have their own space and not worry about that high rent or those issues. Well, thank you. You sound like a good owner and um I look forward to hearing if my other members have questions, but thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. Okay. Anyone have any questions? We have somebody on there.

Thank you. Aha. Thank you. Public hearing. Go ahead.

It's David Herman and I saw what they about those cars that had to be removed. Instead of scrapping them, how about let students work on them to learn how to be mechanics and so that way we don't become a waste. Okay, thank you. in redeveloping for the mobile home or trailer parks. How about solar panels and windmills for generating electricity that look in the manufacturing company lose lu and it has a battery pack so there's plenty enough to use when it's not windy and even during night time that I'm trying to put together to make sure that nobody abuses it or dogs that were mentioned leaving droppings that people don't clean up after their pets and animals no matter what animal it is dog cat or any other animal. How about surveillance cameras in the parks with sound pickup that look at Polaroid models cuz that sound pickup of course could be pulled up by date and time. That way they make him or her clean up after him or herself as respecting the park and other properties like I don't want anybody to do that on my property like you don't want do on your property like treat with respect and I have one more last thing to save room on land could have a 10story building like low-income housing with set solar panels per floor with mirrors directing sunlight even solar yard if it's not if it there's something

blocking the sun the mountains or the rock how about have mirrors that look to lose l this manufacturing company like solar panels they also make mirror to go with it as well that look into this and even for high even for pumping systems look to ones that don't rust and rot And digging wells also as well if you need water. Pitcherman is spelled my last name spelled peace and penguin. I t e r m- an d- a v i d is my first name.

Thank you. Appreciate it. And thank you very much. Welcome. And and I haven't been to Bulging in a long time. I'd like to go there. And next to Interstate 11, they should have a county police station like Metropolitan Police to patrol the freeways between Boulder City and Hoover Down should have a police station. Even one metro police should also as well as Boulder City Police show that they are the county police. So residents understand. Okay, we will close public comment or public hearing for this and then what is the desire of council?

Mr. Mayor, I've got questions for our community development uh assistant city manager slash whatever else we want to call him. Could you elaborate please on the you know as the manager had indicated this was a KOA and this was news to me so thanks for the education the historical education I wasn't here in 1947

um that it was a KOA and then there was apparently a zoning modification either by request or whatever. Do we have any information on that and how we ended up where we are today please? Yeah. In 1984, uh the city amended the uh zoning designation for that property. It was previously TR zone and that did allow for RVs, but in the 84 amendment, it excluded RVs and was just for uh mobile homes. Was was the entirety of the park from the original time to 1984 or whenever was it just that footprint? Because I see there's kind of three sections as the manager indicated. There's there's an entrance only off of Cottonwood then there's that main entrance that runs between Elm and Cottonwood and then this upper part. Did I describe that right? Okay. So that was it just the upper part in 1984 or did did these other sections exist? One or two of the three or all three where do how do we get to where we're at?

Well, I it's my understanding that all three parts were a part of the park in 1984. That that hadn't changed. And I would ask uh the uh applicant to verify that. That is correct. All three parks. Um as in 47 the park started in the microphone. Oh, sorry. Thank you already.

I'm sorry. In 47 the park started in the 50s. They expanded from the to sec to what was known as second street. If you look on your city map you'll see that second street is part of your city map. First Street is the upper park. Third Street is part of your city map. In the 60s, they expanded into Third Street and developed all of that land down there. So, uh, in ' 84, it all would have been one entity. Okay. Thank you. That that answered that question.

Uh, I and and that Thank you, Mr. Maya. That was for you. And I have questions for the manager now. If if mayor if we can manager up please. Sorry. Um are so I've got I'll try to keep them somewhat relevant as I move through the progression but I I can't please don't hold me accountable to all that. Um, are any mobile homes anywhere within the park owned by the ownership or are the and then leased not only just with the lot but also with the mobile home or the mobile homes all personally privately owned.

Correct. We are owner occupied. The only time that Moore's mobile home park will go onto a mobile home is when it became a lean sale. They were in default of payment. It goes to lean sale. It is to then not bought by anybody. It goes to Moors. Moors turns around and resells it. Okay. Thank you. After it's been evaluated to make sure it's worth or demolished or it's demolished, hold off whatever you do. Yeah. About $10,000 to go to the dump with it. Okay. Thank you. I'm looking at the upper part here. Sure. Um it looks like I might see some single I'm looking on Google Earth.

No, go ahead. Are there some single wides up in that upper section that are that are qualified as mobile homes? Yes, there are 21 single wides. Okay.

They vary in size. Um, and I have a listing with me. So, that's how I did uh that I report to county on county sheet. They require manufactured home. Um, and I have them. That's how I got them. They're listed as are they registered through DMV or manufactured housing along with their serial numbers or VIN numbers. And so, I counted them up. I brought my evidence here. 34 of them are fifth wheels or bumper pulls. Some of them, like I said, have existed in my park there for 25 to 30 years or more or more.

We've got one couple of them that were manufactured back in the 50s. The mobile homes because I was going to ask you because you said the RVs had to be 2018 or newer, but the mobile homes and trailers that exist there are 21. Okay. Thank you. Single wives. Thank you. It It looks like to get if you if somebody wanted to put a mobile home in the upper part, it looks like you couldn't even get a semi with a mobile home on it to bring it in there. Is that a fair statement? Very fair. It's pretty hard. Yeah, it looks like it would be

even getting them demolished. The ones that we did take out was a lot of maneuvering without damaging anything to get them out. Okay. Thank you. Has anybody since the tiny home uh designation was was created and allowed, has anybody ever approached management about a tiny home on any lot there? Yes, sir. Can you elaborate on that, please? Sure. Manufactured housing and Boulder City rules have two different ideas. manufactured housing says there's no rulings and regulations by them for

tiny homes. They will not allow them in the park. Boulder City has Yes. Tiny homes is listed in your paperwork here. Your rules and regulations. I I don't understand the conflict there. Is this something the city attorney needs to weigh in on or city manager? It could be. I'm not quite sure. or assistant city manager, but we do not allow at this time. We have not allowed. So the CCNRs, you're saying for or the HOA, whatever it is that governs doesn't allow tiny homes in Moors Mobile Home Park.

Manufactured housing. The state at our last class stated to us, we cannot allow. Okay. So I'll ask our assistant city manager to elaborate. Thank you for that. state, but stand by if you don't mind.

I I think what they're hearing is that um because mobile homes are regulated by the state and all permits go through the state, the city doesn't regulate that. Tiny homes would need to get building permits from the city. And so, uh, for the manufactured housing industry and the state regulations, they won't review and approve tiny homes. That would need to come to the city. And so, certainly, we would be happy to work with anybody who was interested in putting a tiny home in any of the mobile home parks because that was the intent when it was added a couple years ago. Right. Thank you. So, it sounds like Thank you. And I'm going to come back to management. Mayor, thank you for your forbearance on this. I hope I'm not wandering too far off.

Um, so do do does the HOA or the governing uh covenants We would love to have tiny homes.

Okay. So that said, tiny homes, if somebody chose to lease a space and to then say, "We want to put a tiny home. We're going to go through the city and we're going to get the building permits and we're going to build a tiny home." That's okay. As with moors, right? Okay. Thank you for that. Um, now if if somebody wants to have a an RV, we'll call it anywhere in the in the park, they have to put skirting around the the bottom, right? So, so to a certain extent, while it can be modified to add skirting, it would also have to be modified to remove it. So there is a certain amount of steps that would need to be taken to return it to mobile or movable, right? I mean,

it still would have the I mean, somebody could take the wheels off if they want to once it's skirted, right? So it would become essentially and surprisingly enough, I would say um 90% plus of all mobile homes in the park right now still have the wheels on them. Okay. Even with the skirting around the skirting, you're talking mobile home, not just RVs, right? Exactly. Okay. So, you know, referring to them being, you know, tires being removed. I haven't I think we've pulled two trailers out of the park, mobile homes themselves that did not have tires on them. Everything else tires.

Okay. Thank you. Uh let's see if I have more questions for While you're thinking, so the state regulates, correct? The county taxes. Shake your head. What do they tax? Personal property tax. Personal personal property just like your car. And then the city regulates according to our zoning. Correct. Correct.

Merry Christmas. You got three people regulating you. I'd also like to add too that Moors is responsible. What I was going to say before when you asked me about electricity, if a tenant leaves and doesn't pay their electric bill and the debt is left, I can't rent that lot until I pay Boulder Power.

So, some of my bills have been 700, 400. And so we have to pay that fee in order to rerent that lot and make it accessible for another tenant. So we eat that cost. We stay in great connection with Brady and the power section of Boulder City and maintain constantly if somebody's behind what we're watching. So to protect those dollars. So do you repossess if they don't pay their power bill? I cannot do that. No, no. We can only go in and if they don't pay their lot rent,

then we have to serve just like an regular eviction appear in court after a period of time. And then it's up to the judge if he's going to allow us to evict them out of the park. And then if they don't pay their power bill, we're stuck with the power bill. And you can evict the person, which is a process in and of itself. It's it's a process in its own. It's not like a an apartment complex or a house where you can give them a 5day evict and they're out. It actually takes up to 3 to four months to get somebody out of the house.

And you have to leave the power and the water on. You cannot mess with the utilities at all. They remain with utilities till we go to court and the judge says you're out in x amount of days. So when those x amount of days occur and they're done, then we can turn off the utilities. And the eviction is not just you have to leave the structure, but you have to take the structure with you. If it's a travel trailer, they have to take the trucker with you because

under DMV laws, we can't lean a travel trailer. You can lean a mobile home because that's a different uh avenue. That's through the state titling. Whereas a travel trailer is through DMV. I'm glad I'm not in the legislature still. any go ahead. Thank you. No, I I had other comments but not questions for the management. So, I'll wait until it comes back up. Thank you. Got it off. Thank you. Thank you for coming back up.

Discussion then questions of Mr. amaze or

Well, it looks like I have the most uh things to share here. Um I'm struggling with the um the regulation that we have in ordinance and I might need the city attorney to to do some recitation for us. We we currently have an ordinance says you can't occupy an an RV for greater than 180 days or for yeah for more than 180 days straight and I don't know if it's within a year period or whatever but um are you prepared to to clarify that city attorney for council?

Sure. I are you referring to section 1186? That's exactly the section I had memorized. Thank you. So 1186 um does limit recreational vehicle occupancy, but that is within the recreational vehicle zone.

Okay. And and that's kind of where we ended up. I we we addressed this issue when I think I was well I might have been on the planning commission at the time but you know we have two recreational vehicle parks in off of industrial and one is ownership by the overall company or LLC we'll call it and one each lot is individually owned by the the the RV occupant and that that was never intended. I think there was um an unintended consequence when that land was cuz that land was sold and I don't remember the name of that park. Can anybody help me with the name so we all know

Michael? Can you Boulder Oaks?

Boulder Oaks. Thank you. Boulder Oaks is individually owned. Each lot, each RV lot is individually owned. And and then of course what is happening here at Moors or or has been is exactly what happened there. That was not intended that people bought their little parcel. They moved their RV on it and then it became their permanent residence. And that was not what was intended for RV occupancy. And then uh at some point the the ordinance was passed that you can't occupy your RV for greater than 180 days. Uh which you know you leave for 2 hours or one day or whatever and then that 180 days resets. So that's basically an uninforcable kind of thing we have floating out there. But the other RV park is owned uh by the larger LLC and therefore they're not allowed to stay uh for greater than that period of time or the expectation is that they're not because they're it's transient by nature. And so, um, knowing that history, uh, the intent certainly with RV occupancy is that it's transient and not permanent. And so, we have the RV zones that are intended and designed and zoned for that RV transient occupation. Now, we know Boulder Oaks, they kind of work around that. inadvertently, but certainly not intentionally. And the code was attempted to address that. So, what we're what we're talking about here is creating in a mobile home or a mobile park zoned area permanent

occupancy in an RV. And none of that is congruent with any of the zoning or the intent of the zoning that we have established with RV areas not permanent transient by nature yet here permanent in an RV. And what we're being asked to do is to change the code for all mobile home park zoned areas, not just moors. not a conditional use permit, not a variance, but to change the code. So for me, and let me let me step back. Thank you for doing such a great job of managing that part. And I think that needs to be noted because it can quickly run away from management. We've seen that all over anywhere you go. And so for manager to to proactively take kind of charge of what's going on there and in your words create a clean environment is laudable. Thank you and that needs to be stated and we appreciate that and your investment in energy and time in the community for that reason. Thank you for that. And certainly these comments as I'm going around this has no reflection on the appreciation we have or the need for affordable housing. Um I'm just trying to reconcile our codes here and what the intents are. Um so I I'll get to the chase. Mayor, while I I could be wrong off of 100%, it looks like the majority of the lower second and third streets are mobile homes.

All of them. Okay. And so we're really just talking about the upper park, right? Thank you. Which makes my statement a lot easier.

I would rather see us perhaps not change the language of the code, but come back, if the applicant's willing, and consider a reszoning of that little parcel to RV and create an RV park there. that's not a mobile home park because to change the code to me feels in congruent with everything we have everything else we have going on with RV parks as meant as transient and this mobile home park with these RVs that are there uh that you know have to comply with certain regulations that that make it a little less you know I'm staying for two or three nights or two weeks and then I'm going to hook it back up and I'm on the go. These are pretty permanent. Um, while I'm not in favor of um, you know, skirting around that particular ordinance we have that mentions the 180 days, the fact is that's happening. And for my flavor here, mayor, and I'll end on this, I'd rather see us readress this as parceling out that little section for RV than changing the entire code for all of the mobile park estates. So, I'll I'll finish my comments there. Thank you.

Thank you. I I have I think your comments have been very wise. I think what we're doing is we're we're listening to something that's bigger than all of this and how it affects other places in the city. I feel very uncomfortable saying, "Let's do this tonight when I don't have all the information and how it affects other places in the city." I I think that's my concern. And I and I guess I would open that up to council because it's up to us now what we want to do.

If I'm seeing what's presented to us tonight, it seems to me that um it based on whoever's managing is how it's going to look and where I have complete confidence in your ability to manage your park as you have and to continue. it doesn't secure the fact that somewhere else or at some other time it couldn't where um so it it' be kind of subjective over time how that was managed and how it looked. Whereas if we created an actual zone change in there for that then that that gives it a little bit more structure as opposed to opening that up to the entire three parcels of land that are are like that. um that feels more comfortable to me than what we have sitting before us right now simply because it feels to me that um just like you said, we have the 180 days. We've got people who are in mobile homes that have to get or that are in RVs that have to get up and leave out of one section. Then we have some here. I I think we need to really dive just a little bit deeper and possibly look at this as opposed to making it a permanent change within this zoning area, maybe consider it for a different zoning area.

Are any of the managers from the other two properties here? So, we would be speaking for them and we haven't heard from them. My question last time was about the residents, but maybe I should have brought in that to the the other managers as well. Um, what do they think about this change? I'm going to get out.

So, so in saying that, it it probably would be prudent to come back and maybe hear from them as well. I think in a public meeting we obviously have to have this in a public discussion and I don't think we are prepared to make a overall change that affects people that we don't know what we are now I see somebody at the podium uh for a reason obviously um so I'm going to ask my attorney um

yeah I believe Councilwoman Booth previously disclosed she manages El Dorado um and as a manager of Elorado I think she's asked looking to answer questions as as in her capacity as the manager of Elorado not as because there were specific questions from the council um you know anyone can be an applicant and including a council member so I mean she would be speaking in her capacity as an applicant or as a affected party not as a council member so she has already disclosed she's not going to vote, but she can obviously have the rights of a citizen, right? Exactly. To speak. Absolutely.

Koki Booth, property manager for El Dorado. And El Dorado, we represent people 55 and older and we have about 42 trailers in there. And we don't have sections. So, we have travel trailers all over the park wherever when somebody leaves and people can't afford a man a manufactured home any longer. They'll pull in a travel trailer and we have rules for those just just like Moors. We're a lot like Moors, but we can't have we don't have a section. So, we would be displacing seniors that live on a very fixed income by making a section because a lot of them can't even afford to move their trailer from another spot because it's it's probably about 5,000 to move it to another spot. So, we could work towards something, but at this point in time, it would be displacing all the seniors at the park.

Thank you. Any other questions? Any questions? So, you're saying at El Dorado, you would not want RVs there? No, we have RVs at El Dorado, but we can't we don't have a section. They're all over the park.

Okay. So, it it's it's legal to have RV at a mobile home park right now. Well, I think as us as well as Moors found out when they went to have their the electrical box installed at their park, they found out that we couldn't have travel trailers. We've had them all along because the law up until ' 84, nobody ever came by and said no. And we didn't know, none of us knew that we couldn't have uh travel trailers. So my park in in Henderson has it's probably more travel trailers than it is mobile homes. So it this is just really kind of something that's going on in a lot of the parks. And I and I think Lori hit it on the head when she said that a lot of people just simply can't afford a manufactured home. And because the rents are more affordable, they'll they can get a travel trailer that's very nice and very comfortable and the standards are much different today than they were a long time ago.

So, is it correct to say that this is not only would be changing ordinance, but it would be making it legal to have them there? Yes. Just like it was back in 84. So, let's just have the tea back that got taken away. Yeah, that we want the tea back. that was taken away. And what's the third property? It's more El Dorado. Gingerwood. Oh, Gingerwood. One additional Eminem. Yeah. Eminem. That's another one. No, that's all um manufactured homes. Yeah. But he's still Oh, that's true. Yeah.

We We have to have somebody at the mic in order to be able to have So, if you want to yield for someone else to come up, I'll just say Eminem is also a trailer park. And that was my question. So there's four actually. Yes. So I think it would be prudent to hear from the other four the other two because you're covering El Dorado they got more but Eminem I'd like to hear would they they may be you know okay with this but it would be prudent to seem to have them here as well. I'm going to go back to my chair. Eminem is states not Oh okay. So they would park. There's only three parks

and Gingerwood is not Gingerwood is all mobile homes. There's no RVs in Gingerwood and there would never be any RVs at Gingerwood unless this was changed tonight. Right. If if the council approves the text amendment, then that would allow for RVs at Gingerwood as well. Okay. I don't see anybody who wants to change something right now.

No, I'm not prepared to do that tonight. At least may or may go back direction to staff to work on some additional alternatives. Um, if that, but I'm not prepared to even take this matter up any further. I'll accept that as a motion, especially if I get a second. I second it. And discussion on tableabling this. Could you clarify the motion? We're tableabling this. I was just giving I was given my opinion. I wasn't making a motion. He called making a motion. Okay.

I will accept. If you need it to be a motion, um I I move that we table this and direct staff to continue further discussion on what some alternatives might be to bring back to council. I second that discussion. All those in favor say I. I any say nay. Thank you. And there's one abstension because of disclosure. Thank you. Uh that brings us to a recess. Huh?

I just got back from Mexico.

Mayor, if you could stand by, I can make the mics live and I'll let you know when we're ready. If you're ready, just stand by then. All right.

All right. We'll now move uh to item 10 on the agenda. Mr. Arvin Trout.

Thank you, Mayor. I'm Brock Art, your revenue contracts real estate manager. Uh, this is to consider bill number 21102, ordinance of the city council to approve agreement number 26-032 between the city of Boulder City and VB BTS3 LLC to approve a cellular ground cellular tower ground lease located adjacent to Wayan Field at approximately 852 Adams Boulevard. For reference, this is the that grally area immediately east of the substation, immediately west of the playfield for the middle school, and immediately adjacent to a center field of the baseball field. Uh some time ago, the city awarded an RFP for several tower cell tower sites within the community. Uh VB or Vertic bridge was awarded that RFP. Since that time, they've been going through the process for a land management plan or excuse me, land management process as well as a condition use permits uh to obtain the necessary entitlement so that they can then move forward with a formal lease with the city. Uh the lease negotiated is for a 5-year term with four additional five-year terms uh following the initial term should they choose to renew. The initial lease rate based on appraisals is 2500 a month, which is the equivalent to $30,000 per year. Over the initial five-year term by year five, that equates to about 43,000 as the lease has a 7.5% annual increase built into the the lease. Should they have additional uh carriers other than the initial carrier on the tower, uh that would be an additional $200 per month per additional carrier on the tower. Lastly, uh, as a requirement of the RFP as well as in the contract, uh, the tower has to appear as a coniferous tree or pine tree. Uh, and as I joke, a healthy pine

tree. We've all seen those that look like they have not been watered for some time. Uh, the site itself is approximately 50 ft by 40t and accessed off Adams Boulevard. Are there any questions at this time? Any questions? I do have a question. Is this a 5G tower? Uh, it's a tower. They may have 5G on the tower. Do you know if uh over the time I think you said five to six years, a fiveyear term for the initial term

initial? Um, yeah. I was wondering about radiation 5G going up to 6G, 7G. I I don't know how fast they're moving, but if is is the owner here or not that I recommen anybody here to answer that question? Not that I see.

But again, they're the tower operator. They're not the customer who will place the antennas on the tower. They build the tower. Then whoever the lei is, whether it be T-Mobile, u AT&T, and so on, would be the ones that then be able to answer those questions. Will we have a chance to ask them those questions or does this lock it in after tonight? How does that work if if we're not involved? Whoever they sublet the tower to. Um

so we wouldn't have any accountability after tonight. Um well typically once when the city leases land for a cell tower the city is there's not terms that govern the particular technology whether it's 5G 4G those are not terms of the lease the lease just authorizes the cell tower to be built and then the operator of the cell tower leases to the carriers who will put the transmitters um with the particular technology we could certainly um follow up with the uh with the company to see what is planned. Um

yeah, from what I understand right now they're 300 ft from the school, right? They'll be right in the school area and across the street are um residential areas. So I was concerned with any type of radiation. Maybe at 5G there's not, but if they're going to be there for 10 years and technology moves and you know um this technology gets more dangerous, what do we have as a stop gap to say, "Hey, we need to know this is radiation right next to our schools." Um if there's if there's any kind of um

Well, there's always hazardous materials clauses. if they bring on any hazmous materials that will they they'd have to address that. I don't believe these types of facilities have radiation. Are you aware?

Well, it's all regulated by the FCC as far as what they can emit and so on. Um I mean cell towers are very commonly have multiple uses. Uh, for example, we had attempted to have them replace one of the towers in the ball field itself. So, we would have the lights below and the antennas up on top to minimize the visual impact. Uh, but it's that's very common use throughout the country. Um, where they may exist on ball fields for schools, parks. Uh, where I used to work in Utah, we had three city parks that had ball field lighting. All three had cell towers and for the ball field lighting.

Okay. I don't know the technology behind it. I just had the question of when are they emitting, how much they emitting, when when do they emit and obviously technology changes and you know everything that I looked up was 300 to,500 ft and most of the places were 700 to,500 feet. Very few were around schools. I I I didn't see the one that you were talking about but just uh for the record that's a concern that I have. I don't have any children in the school system here, but still there's residents that live right across the street. Thank you. Any other questions? Any other questions, comments? I would accept a motion.

I move to approve 21102. Is there a second? I'll second. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I I Any oppose say nay. Oppose.

The vote is 4 to one. Thank you. And that brings us to number 11. Good evening, mayor and council members. Item 11 is consideration of bill 21103, which is an ordinance that would create a breeder permit and establish regulations for breeding of dogs and cats. Um, there have been several presentations uh regarding this and the history of how this came to be. Um, most recently February 10th, I went into great detail on what the proposed regulation would do and sought further direction from council. So, I'm not planning to go into as much detail this evening unless the count city council would like me to. Um, but generally, this uh regulates breeding of dogs and cats um within the city of Boulder City. Uh there this would be the strictest ordinance in southern Nevada regulating breeding, requiring minimum space uh requirements both indoor and outdoor when breeding female dogs um uh and having no more than three permits total within the city and distance limitations of a,000 ft per license location. Um the breeder uh violations of the ordinance would uh trigger fines of escalating fines from 500 from for the first violation to up to a thousand for the uh for three or more. Um in addition, there are penalties for repeat offenders. the city attorney can request a hearing before the municipal

court to request that the animals be uh taken from from violators um and that a violator be prohibited from owning animals in the future. So there are uh are a lot of uh enforcement mechanisms to this as well. So um again this is in accordance with city council direction previously in November and of last year and February of this year. Um, again, and I'm available for any questions or if you'd like me to go into more detail, I'm happy to do that, too. Any questions of our city attorney?

Just one, please. There was a a comment or question in a public meeting um about what if uh the a particular breeder who has a litter can't find homes for those pets, how many can be at a residence and for how long and what would be the the um downstream effect of having those on property?

Yes. Uh the puppies do have to be homed uh within a set amount of time or the owner has to apply for say a fancier foster permit if they want to keep u more than three animals. Um I believe it's um I believe it's six months but I'm I have to look at the particular is under subsection D pet fancier foster permit. Yes, that's for uh the permit that would have to be uh applied for if the person wished to keep the puppies right

longer than um I think it's by the time they reach I think four months I think they have to get licensed and and have that requirement. So, um, the puppies do have to be homed, um, or the person has to apply for the fancier foster permit, in which case they can still only have six animals. So, they'd still be limited to six and they'd have to home the rest of the the puppies or kittens. Thank you. That's all I have. Mayor, any other questions? I'll accept a motion. I'll move to approve 21103. Is there

a second? I second it. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose say nay. Thank you. It's unanimous. Brings us to our regular agenda, regular business. And Go ahead.

Yes. So, item 12 um is a companion item to item 11. These are the resolutions that would enact the fees for breeder permits um as well as fines for violations. So, the initial fee would be uh $250 plus actual costs incurred at staff's hourly rate to conduct the inspection and then $100 plus actual costs for renewal. Um and then there's also a business license requirement that would be about $80 annually. Um in addition to that uh and then the um fines again 500 for the first violation, 750 for the second and a,000 for third and subsequent violations.

Any questions? I'll accept a motion. to approve 7817. Oops. Move to approve 7817. Sorry. The current 8127. 8127. Um the current 7117 was the previous um so it's the 8127 and 8128 are the current. So we're approve move to approve 8127. Is there a second? I'll second.

Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Nay. It's unanimous. And then on 8128, I would accept a motion. I'll move to approve 8128. Is there a second? A second.

And is there any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Any oppos? Nay. It's unanimous. Thank you. That brings us to item number 13. Good evening, mayor, council, Boulder City residents. I'm Julie Callaway, your parks and recreation director, and we have one more agenda item regarding the dogs of Boulder City, and that is specifically regarding um potential for additional dog recreation locations in Boulder City. And to give you a little bit of a background, um, a November 10th city council meeting, um, council agreed to amend the code to establish off leash areas for dog recreation. And at that meeting um some areas were identified including uh the desert area adjacent to um Boulder City, North Escalante, a linear park and Wilbur Square with set AM and PM hours. Con Council at that meeting also directed staff to work with Pratt Field user groups that were enjoying dog recreation at that location to see if there could um come if they could come up with some recommendations for alternatives for dog recreation. Um since Pratfield at that time was not uh deemed um a location that we wanted to move forward with. staff did in fact meet with the uh group user group and at the April 14th meeting um the alternatives were presented for council to consider. The first um map that I'm going to show you are the current areas where dog recreation is u

permissible within Boulder City. And you can see we have the two fenced in dog parks at Veterans Memorial Park. We have the adjust adjacent desert area kind of to the southeast of Boulder City. There is North Escalante Park right in the downtown area along with Wilbur Square with AM and PM hours. And then there's the linear park over on the lakeside between Vil Drive and uh Lake Mountain Drive. And the um uh areas that we're going to look at tonight are um Lineer Park. At the meeting in April, staff wanted some more information specifically on this area that was identified by some residents that it might be um a nice uh additional location for the Lakeside residents specifically because this area does have ample parking. This is Pacifica Way about halfway um up the uh road, not quite to Heway Valley. I don't think that it's going to disturb our our sheep at Hemmonway Park, but it is going to provide additional space for uh dog recreation on Lakeside. Plus, it does have that parking available. As you can see on this graphic, the green X's um notate the linear park that is currently approved for off leash activity and the yellow section is uh notating um a potential for additional recreation for dogs. It stops basically at a drainage area. There is an identified space where it would be easily notated and signage could be placed so that people would understand where it start stops and where it starts. And again, there is parking at the trail head at Pacifica Way, which makes it um very convenient for users. The other areas uh for consideration that council wanted uh to

bring forward tonight for further discussion were all at Veterans Memorial Park. The additional locations that were recommended by the user groups were the desert to the west of Veterans Memorial Park as identified with the yellow X's. Also identified with yellow X's are going to be the common areas in between Veterans Memorial um park the ball fields. And then while it wasn't in the scope of the direction from council, there was still a very strong desire to utilize Prattfield itself. So that's notated on here as well for at least AM hours uh to be considered from 5:00 a.m. until 8 a.m. And so those are your um the options that you wanted to have come back with you. Another directive from the April meeting was to see if we had any data regarding the dog waste and if there was any um likelihood for dogs on leash to have it picked up more often than dogs off leash. And while we didn't necessarily have a team go out and survey that, I can tell you a couple of things. There are jurisdictions who have done that. They've done the data. They've done the research and um research indicates that uh there is more compliance to pick up when dogs are on leash versus off leash. And I can certainly go into details on how they did that. But um there were more than one, you know, set of research that that we found accordingly. I will tell you too that we did reach out to our little league and they uh do have a habit of trying to go out and look at those common areas because they know that the dogs are on there on a regular basis, some off leash and some on leash. And they try to make sure that they pick up

before big games and tournaments because that's where they're going to be doing their warm-ups. Much like our parks and recreation department, we also when we utilize Prattfield, our staff will go out and kind of case the area just in hopes that we don't find anything, but really if we do, we make sure we pick it up so that there's not going to be a player incident along those lines. Uh same thing at Wilbur Square when we do our Easter egg hunt. We make sure that we're looking around to to pick up after anybody who might have um left something behind. So, uh, another thing that I wanted to, um, bring back to your attention is, um, there are these locations mentioned in the resolution. Um, and you can make any adjustments to the resolution in front of you. It's resolution 8129. The one thing that's haven't hasn't been mentioned yet is that there's also a change to the hours at uh, Wilbur Square that's recommended to compensate for daylight savings. We're recommending that during daylight savings summer hours, instead of it being um the afternoon hours being from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., we're recommending it being from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. to utilize the sunlight in the summertime. With that, I'll be happy to take any questions.

Of course. Um, so in what you're proposing, Wilbur Square time change is not in there. So that would have to be added. It's actually in the resolution in front of you right now. Correct. What about Prattfield? So in the resolution, Prattfield is mentioned. Yes. As well for the mornings. Okay. Very good. So, it's up for it's up for uh council's discretion at this point to decide if what they like in the resolution is what they want to move forward with, if they want to make changes to it or if they want to make additions to it. Okay. I'm sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you said two items weren't added. Nope, they are.

Okay. And I want to say great job and working with the public and getting this resolved because it's been a major issue. Thank you. It's my pleasure. I just have one question on Linear Park. The yellow X's, is that South Lineia, correct? Okay. And and that's up tonight for approval or not or is that good to But you're saying it's good to go. It's it's it's your call. You all are the ones that are deciding whether or not um these are authorized locations for off leash activity. Right. What I meant by that is not um impacting the big horn sheep or anything like that. That that is

that is correct. I don't believe that that will have any negative impact on the sheep because it's further south. And uh those the linear do they have times at all or is that off leash all the time? All the time. So it's in essence a non-fenced dog park much like North Linear Park. Yes, same. Thank you.

Thank you for all your work and thank you for reaching out to the community because I know that that's it's important. I mean it's important period, but it's really important here. where we live in a small community, change affects many people differently. Um, so I have a couple questions. One is how many parks do we have in the city? 17. 17 parks in the city. Okay. Um, how many would you say the kids go to? All of them? 15.

15. Okay. When you say you pick up when you know an activity is happening at Pratt or those different areas, do we also pick up at the other parks? Because it may not be a specific activity, right, but all of a sudden the kids are going to go play there and do whatever. Yes, we actually have a part-time staff member whose job is to do that. That's a picker uper. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Part-time staff member picker uper. Absolutely. Yes. Absolutely 100%. Thank you. Yes.

So, um because I think it's important to recognize, right, all of our parks probably need picking up from time to time. um whether leased or not leased. And if we have 17 park or 17 parks and we're looking at just carving out some of these areas for some of the time for, you know, for this use here, we also carve out areas for soccer time for kids, for baseball time. There's all different kinds of times that we carve out. There's a a dog show I saw the other day that looked kind of fun to just go and sit and watch, right? Um we have our events like Spring Jamberee that we just had that when it's here, you definitely aren't just going and hanging out at the park. You're going to attend that. So, um when when I look at some of these areas and and I recognize pickup's going to happen. It's going to have to happen on or off leash. Um, I like the idea of those Prattfilled just the morning hours because it says to me that leaves the whole day for for all the other things that get done there. So, they're out of there by what did you say? 8,

correct? They'd be out of there by 8:00 a.m. So, and when do our parks close? They close at 10 p.m.

So from 8:00 a.m. to 10 p.m. which is basically 14 hours, it's open to every other activity um that's you know available there. So, I I I I know that it has some opposition, and I recognize that for various reasons, but I still feel like we're a small enough municipality with 17 parks that we could carve out a few hours. I will say that Prattfield is out of our 17 parks, Prattfield is the only park field that is used for youth sports. that is not a fenced in field build because it's used for

soccer. Soccer um flag football. Okay. T-ball. Okay. And and I've had people say to me too, there's no human parks. Well, they're all I mean, we share the city together. You know, it's saying like saying there's no human sidewalks. it goes. We can't guarantee that, but the one that we can guarantee that it shouldn't be there unless you're breaking the law is the Hemingway Park where there is absolutely no dogs allowed. And so I because I I did have someone say, "Well, I dogs are there too." Well, not legally

and a lot of things happen that aren't legal. Um because people choose to do that. So we can only control what we can control by putting parameters in and then people need to choose to follow those parameters. So, thank you for the clarification. I appreciate it. Of course. Other comments.

So, I had some research done uh visa v Prattfield when I was on city council back in the day. Uh Ron Pratt donated half a million dollars to Prattfield for the soccer fields. And so I obviously have challenges with dogs leaving waste on kids where kids play, but that's my problem. Other comments?

I I do have a comment on uh Prattfield. I walk around the ponds over there and and I've done this quite a bit. Just talk to people who are around there. A lot of them are visitors from Henderson. So, I think you're going to have um dog waste there, whether it's Boulder City Dog Waste or Henderson Dog Waste, but I don't think you'll ever get around that problem of having um the excrements there. So, that's something to consider as well, that it's not just us that's used at Park Henderson. And if if we said no to hours, our residents on Prattville for the short time of 5 to 8 a.m., which they're probably the only ones at that time, but the rest of the day, you have visitors there from even people just passing through will be on Prattfield with their dogs running. And most of the people that I engage were from Henderson after, you know, later on in the evening around 9, 10:00, 11, they were from Henderson. A couple of people were living out of their car. They don't even live here. and they had dogs running around. So, I don't think we'd ever get away from it is my point of it being a clean field 100%. I guess you could say you could cut down, but I just wanted to make that statement. Thank you for all you do. Thank you again for uh meeting with the groups thoughts.

So, this is council conversation, right? Yeah. We don't have I don't think I don't have any questions for Director Callaway, by the way. Thank you.

Um yeah, I I think we need to look at the totality of all of who we represent. We represent dog owners. We represent people who like off leash activity. We represent people who like on leash activity. And we represent people who don't um do any dog activity at all. And all of them need equal representation. Um, you know, it it is often said if everyone would just dot dot dot and everyone doesn't just dot dot dot. That's the problem. If everybody did, this conversation would never have come up. And and it it's also said often, you know, a few bad apples, you know, ruined the whole the whole bushel. And that I think is very evident in in this particular instance. All it takes is a few bad actors and all of the good actors are now lumped in because how do you enforce this truly difficult to define under voice command, visual or voice command? Because this this is also to a great degree not just about space. It's about control of your animal. And whether on leash or off leash, whether in a designated off leash area or not, anywhere in the entire city limits, this is the ordinance. And I think it's important for us to frame it also in that uh I think to me off leash activity is the exception and not the rule. I think if we give folks what in from now because I'm calling it basically we're in summer based on

temperature until sometime in September or later 5 to 8 a.m. is the prime time for using the park. And we're saying, let's take the exception and let them have the prime time rather than take the rule, which is let's not forget not everybody wants to have a dog off leash or to have a dog on you with them at all at the park. I would say that what I'll call the rule, not the exception, should get first dibs at the prime time and not the exception. But also, mayor, I agree with you. I would go so far uh where I where I have, you know, grandchildren participating in sports both not in Boulder City as well as in Boulder City. The places outside of Boulder City, dogs are forbidden on those play surfaces. Period. Fenced in or not. And I believe for good reason. I believe that the desert area to the west of Veterans Park is a great area for off off leash activity. It's separate predominantly from from pretty much everybody else who would be utilizing the park. Uh the reason because it has been brought up maybe we should open up one of the fenced in ball fields at vets for dog activity. And the reason, if I recall correctly, that it failed was because we didn't want to put a concentration of dog waste in an area where kids are playing sports. And Pratt is the to me Pratt is the same. It's just not fenced in. Um I would go so far as to say grass

area at Prattz should be considered a play surface just like the fenced in ball areas. and that entire grassy area of the ball areas because I've talked to coaches both who do parks and wreck activities at Pratt and coaches who participate in the little league over the fence den and they all in addition to parks and wreck and part-time staff do their own policing and picking up of dog waste before practice or games. Um and and so it's not about on leash or off leash to me. It's about dogs on services where kids are participating in sports activity. I just can't reconcile that. Um so um I know that's a a difficult pill u to try and put out there for anybody to take, but for that reason uh I just don't support uh that. I do support um Escalani, North Escalani, the linear parks, and I'm not crazy about Wilbur Square, but I can I can get there. Um because that's again the Easter egg hunt. Got to do searching for other surprises. Um but again, it's not about on leash or off leash there. So, um, you know, I don't just want to I don't want to turn our our surfaces into essentially unleashed dog parks for certain periods of the day, especially Pratt. if I, you know, if I don't um if if we end up putting Pratt as an off leash acceptable area, I I just can't see how picking the the best time of the morning during the summer for the exception the the folks that want to use it rather than ensuring that dogs are on leash

only um around that because of all the folks that use it who aren't uh dog folks. folks. Um, so those are my comments to throw in the bucket and shake around.

Comment. I commented.

The only thing I'd like to add to um that what Steve said is how do you enforce the people who don't live here that use Prattfield? and and and we could say that's not our problem because they don't live here. But I'm I'm saying you're still going to have the same situation of poop on the grass because uh we're not we we can enforce that it's not fenced in. If it was fenced in, yeah, you lock the gate, but you 5 to 8 when I'm down there, there's only the dog people down there. I've never seen anybody else down there from 5 to 8 in the morning, but maybe you have. So, I'm not saying it that that's not true, but how do we enforce anybody else not going on? We're telling our residents you can't go on, but however, visitors can basically not us saying visitors can, visitors do. They are there. So, it's something that um either we're going to enforce somehow to keep anybody off of Prattfield or otherwise it's somewhat of a mute point of trying to keep dogs off of Prattfield period. if it's, you know, our folks or somebody from visiting passing through. That's the only problem I have to say we cannot, and maybe you could correct me, we can enforce that no dogs would be on there. Even if we said our residents could, we couldn't enforce other people from passing through or from Henderson with their dogs. You could put signs out, but you would almost have to have somebody there 24 hours to say, "Get the dogs off." And and to me that's unfair to our guys who are picking up. They're making sure they pick up. They they've said that over and over. We will police it. We'll walk through. So we know at least that they they are going to do what they say they're going to do. But we cannot say that a passer through or somebody from Henderson will do that and probably they won't. So I'm just pointing out the obvious of of what it would be. I don't think we'll ever get away from dog poop on the grass.

Miss Callaway, do we have Can you walk your dog with a leash on Prattfield? Yes, ma'am.

Okay. So, I think what Councilwoman Denise is saying is that you really can't control the dog droppings because they're hopefully everybody picks up after themselves. So, we do allow them off on leash over at Prattfield. There's one other question and I forgot what it was. Um, so if we wanted to make Prattfield off, then we'd have to make signage that said no dogs period on there. And and that's not that would be a discussion for another time. We can do that tonight. It's on the I'm not

whatever we're doing, we can discuss. Okay. We could add that on. But I personally I'm you can walk your dog anywhere. I'm I'm for that. I I taught um softball over there for a YSO you or something and we never had a problem with dog poop and I didn't even know I should have been looking for it which makes me feel bad now that I didn't but probably because you were there cleaning up for us. I'm guessing I'm sure that's it. Yeah, I'm sure it was. But we were over at the ball fields basically. Correct. And those are fenced in and they are locked now. Okay. And that would be one reason why they are locked.

Okay. But that's where we played our soccer except over on Prattfield. We'd have a big game on the weekend. So that was never our experience to run into dog droppings. Thank you. That's all I have. Mayor,

so I think we definitely have consensus not happening. I I disagree. I think you need to take a vote. Make a motion. I make a motion to move forward 8129. A second and discussion. So, madam city attorney, can you tell us what the motion was specifically?

Yes. So, a motion to approve resolution 8129, which would um add the desert area west of Veterans Memorial Park during park hours as an off leash area. would add Pratt Field during the morning hours of 5 to 8 am as an off leash area. Uh the common areas around the baseball fields at Veterans Memorial Park between the hours of 5 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. as an off leash area. Linear Park South between Pacifica away and the drainage ditch during park hours uh would be off leash. and then changing the Wolver Square off leash show hours um from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. from November to March and 6:00 p.m. to 900 p.m. um April through October. Um and then morning hours or I'm sorry, let me just read that again. It's uh yeah, so just to reflect daylight savings time from November to March, um the hours would be 300 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Um and then April through October, they would be 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. and morning hours of 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. Um, this is in addition to the previous areas that were authorized which included uh North Escalante, Desert areas, linear channel between Vil and Lake Mountain Drive and then we'll and then Wolver Square again.

Thank you. Anyone want clarification? Uh as far as um right now at Pratt Field there are signs that say hookup and pickup right now. Um so that that is there. Those signs thus with this motion would go away. Um, and so this motion would allow uh Prattfield to be used and the places by the ball field would be used and the linear park and then the desert and those are those, right? Mhm.

And mayor, for clarification, the areas at Veterans Memorial Park, the resolution states that it would only be from 5:00 a.m. until 8:00 a.m. Okay. So, new signage would put up be put up to signify that change should it be approved. And then while you're there, do we not can we not police anybody no matter where they live? Absolutely we can. We don't discriminate by where you live. If you're breaking the rules, we'll let you know. Well, I won't. Well, I might, but it would be I mean that our police are still the police no matter who's breaking the law anymore. That is correct.

Yeah. So, anybody else want any clarification? No, sir. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. I. All those opposed say nay. Nay. Nay. That passes three to two. Thank you. Thank you. And that brings us to number three. 13 14. 14. I just like to revisit it. You want to go back to dogs again.

All right. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Gary Po Dexter, public works. Thank you. And utilities director. Uh this item is uh for discussion and staff direction on a joint Boulder City Sunrise Rotary Club and Boulder City Rotary Club proposal to fund and install at no cost to the city a shade structure over the bsentennial park grill at B uh to meet Southern Nevada district requirements for permitted uh special events. Public Works Department respectfully requests that city council discuss the proposal from Boulder City Sunrise Rotary Club and Boulder City Rotary Club to fund and install a shade structure over by City Park Grill and provide direction to staff uh regarding acceptance of the proposal and the terms under which the projects how to proceed. With that, I can answer any questions.

Questions? Disclosure. Oh, we have a disclosure. Go ahead.

I'd like to disclose pursuant to NRS281A that I am a member of the Boulder City Sunrise Rotary, but I've been advised by the city attorney that this matter would not impact the judgment of a reasonable person in my position as I am a general member and do not serve on the board. Mayor Cup play, I would like to disclose pursuant to NRS281A that I'm a member of the Boulder City Sunrise Rotary, but had been advised by the city attorney that this matter would not impact the judgment of a reasonable person in my position as I am a general member and do not serve on the board. Thank you.

Thank you. Any other disclosures or any comments? I just wanted to say I think the Rotary Club is an amazing club here in uh Boulder City and they do a lot of great things for the city and I've never seen them do a bad job yet. The barbecue is fantastic. We use it all the time and I just would highly recommend letting them proceed with this. But is that a motion? I'll make a motion. Is there a second? I I can I make a comment before we motion on it. So, the picture that's on here, um, it doesn't match the gazebo. Are we voting on this being the end all?

Uh, that would be council direction on, um, going with a different design. That design that represents, it would not include some of the accessories you see in that picture. Sure. Um, it would not include the backing of that. It was a concept to show um how it would be installed and overhanging. Uh but with it be up to council to direct us on uh how the design what you would want to look like or uh work with the rotaries uh to come up with a design that would at least uh be color matched to the other carports in the area.

Well, it it if I'm correct, it's still a historic district. Correct. It correct. So, is this this rendition approved by the historic commission? Once we have direction from council, we'll take it to HBC and that's what we're doing tonight giving that direction. Okay. I thought it was final when you make the motion that it would be this. So, my bad. I I will point out that it doesn't come with a swimming pool, right? Or the TV or the ceiling fan. Okay. So this motion is to allow this to happen and then the rest is what we have to figure out what it looks like.

May I clarify? So um the Rotary has uh looked and received bids uh or received quotes and this rendering is what they would look to install. It would have to go to the Historic Preservation Commission for approval, but in the staff report, they're saying it would be similar to design in this image and tan in color to meet to to match the recently completed parking structures. So, if if the council wants to see something different, that could impact the cost because the Rotary, you know, has I I don't know what their their funding capability is. And do we have representatives here to speak? We do not. They were here earlier.

Okay. Um, so I'm just saying come back in. If there are is there if the design does need to look different, um, we would need to to go back to Rotary to see if that's something that, you know, if the if the Rotary is going to completely fund and install this, then they would need to we'd need to go back to them to see if that would be within their capabilities. Um, alternatively, we could also accept a donation um, and it could be a citybuilt uh, facility and the Rotary could donate toward it. That's another option for the council to consider. So, if I may, yes, you may.

This says to fund and install a shade structure. And just because we have a picture of this does not mean that we are approving this structure, I point out because it's got a pool. It's my understanding and you know may talk about his capacity.

Yeah. Um I believe Michael Maize is a member of Rotary that might have uh in his capacity as Rotary could talk about this because it's my understanding that this is this is the shade structure they would propose to install that would be tan

and so meeting with them that represents what without the accessories and the backing and the color of going with the sand color that matches existing. It would leave it open for uh the events how they're using they have uh setup tables uh for prep tables I should call it. So that will be open in the back. So it it allows it to cover that because it does have to open up. It does have to be canlevered a little bit to allow the smoke from the barbecue out. Does it have a fan? No, it will not have a fan or misters. It kind

I mean that's where I'm coming from. It's got a fan. It's got a swimming pool and it's got other things. I I I think we're voting on a structure and then we are going to have to figure out what that looks like so that it's compatible with the area that it can levers and all those kinds of things. But I think it it should be something that is approvable as opposed to a modernistic TV fan and swimming pool.

Yeah. Prior to putting any further money into design, we wanted to make sure we get direction from council first. Could we possibly hear from Michael Mays in his position as a member of Rotary um to say whether or not he knows if this is something that is very similar to what they're thinking or very different.

Good evening again and let me make a disclosure. I am the Boulder City Sunrise Rotary Treasurer. I'm also the Boulder City Sunrise Rotary chair of Worst Festival. So the intent as Mr. Po Dexter has pointed out is uh to cover the grill for all the special events that occur throughout the year. Um this is a requirement of the Southern Nevada Health District and um with the concept that is shown as an exhibit. Yes, it would not include a pool. It would not include the fan. And it would not include the back wall, but it would be of that metal structure of a similar color to the planned carports that have gone before the historic preservation commission already and have been approved. Um, this would require a building permit, which means it would require a certificate of appropriateness, which means it would be reviewed by the Historic Preservation Commission. Thank you.

Go ahead. So, if the historic preservation says, "No, we don't like this," then does it come back before us? Um, yes. It could be appealed to the city council as part of the process. Okay. So, if what I'm asking is if because the mayor brought up that it's kind of modern looking, but I know it will match the structure because it's the same. But if the historic district doesn't like it and they recommend something else, will it come will that something else a picture of that something else come back before us?

No. They would be looking at the building permit before them. They would either approve or deny. So, if they deny, what happens? It just then the applicant has the right to appeal to the city council. Okay. Thank you. I'm sorry. I just didn't understand that part. Mayor, may I further clarify? Yeah.

Thank you. So, this item was placed on the agenda for this reason. Really two reasons. So that the council could provide some input on the design of the structure. And you you've identified this one looks a little more modern. if you wanted something that looked a little different. That's sort of the direction that we're looking for is about the design. Now, this uh project was part of the ADA improvements were that were being done out there, but it was removed from that project because of the cost. And at that point, as it noted in the staff report, the Rotary Club stepped up and said, "Well, we can put this in." It's my understanding that their uh fundraising um capacity is somewhat limited. So um the other question that's before the council is would you like to go forward with what the two Rotary clubs are proposing and we appreciate that they have stepped forward to do that. However, I thought it was important to have this in front of the council because this will be a permanent structure and a very prominent location within the city. It's it's used for many public events. So before we go through any of that process, it's important that we come before the council and provide you an opportunity to provide some direction both on design as well as the funding of the project and what you would like to see as part of this proposed improvement in the park.

Sorry. Go ahead. Did I hear it said that it matches the car park? It's going to match the car ports. Yes, car ports. Okay. These are the new ones that will be constructed this summer. Do we have a design of those anywhere floating around or No, we do. And um it just wasn't included. So, we can correct. Yeah, that's what went before the historic preservation commission, but it's also a similar modern design. Um see if you have another way of characterizing it.

U so it is a modern design modern design candle levered uh but the color will it currently matches the solar array cover that we have. So we did stick with the consistent on the color. So if that helps any but uh and the historic preservation they did approve the they approved the carport. Yes. And we also have one going in front of the police department to cover the EV chargers. Okay. So, this will be a consistent flow. It won't stand out. It will look like everything else that's going to be built.

Try to blend it in with the surrounding ex with the exception of we do have the gazebo right there. That was the original plan. Uh the price was quite steep.

Can I Thank you. Um I have various thoughts about this. Number one, um we're appreciative and I'm a relative newcomer to Rotary in relation to the many many prominent community members who have been u Rotary members for decades and have contributed to this community in phenomenal remarkable ways. Uh that said, um and the grill being put there was was a great gesture on on behalf of the Rotary clubs, both Boulder City Rotary and Sunrise Boulder City Sunrise Rotary. um that's used frequently and it's not only accessible to special events, but it's accessible to residents of the community if they want to reserve it, pay the fee and and have a family reunion or a group gathering or whatever they want to do. So, when we look at this area, it's not just a rotary area. This is a community area. Um now if if the parking structure looks similar to this you know there's a certain reality and functionality that that has to serve or not the parking structure but the covered parking and it it certainly if it's similar to what we see in the packet it's not anywhere close to the style of architecture that would typically be considered contributing in the in the historic district. But I think to their credit, they have to, you know, weigh what can reasonably be done and then sign off on it. Now, I wasn't in the meeting, so I can't say what the conversation was, but

when we look at this, I think this is a one-off enough that we can separate it. I think this should be a Boulder City project. I don't think we should be limited in the scope of this just by what the two Rotary clubs can afford. I think this is a Boulder city truly a flagship area for our community and I believe it should match the the general historic nature of the gazebo and the general historic nature of city hall and not try and match the brand new parking structure, you know, covered parking that happens to be going up because we need covered parking and that's what the city could afford. But this is a one-off of a very prominent meaning and significance. I think we should cons and we have and this is also in the RDA district

and RDA funds happen to be available. We could consider funding through a variety of sources that are cityf funded that we could put the city's historic consistency there as part of that project rather than something that and bless their hearts for on and you know some of my contributions might actually go to pay for that as well but um I I think it's limited in its scope and it's just limited because what the Rotary clubs could afford. Bless their hearts. But I don't think that should be the flagship area for Boulder City for that reason. I think we need to aim in design type and look for the gazebo and have a shade structure that meets the the Southern Nevada Health District requirements for the slope and the amount of overhang and and the need. Right? Let's begin with the end in mind on this project so that it's usable uh for how far it goes back and where we can set up or anybody who uses it can set up their prep areas and and supplies and so forth. That all of that is considered in what we direct staff to do and not just say, "Well, you know, that's it's really nice. Thanks, and let's do it because it matches the covered parking." That's my two cents for right now.

Not sure because I haven't talked to Rotary about this specifically. Love the idea that they saw a need and they wanted to fill the need and help us fill it. Um wondering if they still it could be a joint project that we could work on if they'd still be willing to donate those funds that they had available to themselves. and then us being able to add some RDA funds. Um, this is a focal point in Boulder City. I I too would really love to see us stay kind of consistent in that park with what we have. I think that was kind of my point that I I don't know if matching the carp point though effectively priced probably which I agree and I I get we we don't have endless supplies of money but I wonder if in partnership we did it if we'd have the capacity to add something to the park that would last for quite some time that would match with what we currently have. Gary, will you be uh replacing the grill and the that that whole setup or just the cover?

Just the shade just the shade structure. Okay. So, the grill is going to stay and not putting in a new grill. We uh we installed a new grill last year. The large Okay. Okay. And um would there be like a plaque or anything that goes on there for the rotary or would just have that big rotary size? I think that would be a great idea. We had discussed that and we definitely would include that. Okay. Do you think that the Rotary would be that they would object having it look like the gazebo if the city helped out? No, I think I believe they would be supportive on that and uh it could definitely be a joint venture. So something we can we'll discuss with them. Thank you.

I I just wanted to say as long as the Rotary is being involved, I agree. Let's design it so everybody's happy and the historic district is happy and um use some redevelopment money. So I I kind of agree with everybody else. I don't kind of I do agree. See how easy that was. Um, so I would uh accept a motion that we in essence partner with the Rotary, work with the Rotary and allow some kind of revenue sharing to do something that's compatible with what we look like in the park and how we do it. I would accept that motion.

I'll make that motion. C can I put some definition around that motion? Yes.

Okay. Thanks. I would add to uh Miss Booth's motion then that the city design or work with the design group to mirror the type of material and the look to match or as closely as possible match the gazebo as and as it ties into the city hall building as Well, um, and that it be functional per SNHD, the health district guidelines, and that it be functional in its support structure so that we can have prep area and storage for supplies, and that we then approach Rotary to see if they would like to donate the amount that they had already said that they would be willing to put forward here towards the project so that the city could receive a donation in the name of the two Rotary clubs and that we could properly recognize their donation with an appropriate plaque or or something of that nature. Is that okay?

No, I have one objection. Okay. I think that the Rotary Club should be involved with the designing of this and with the understanding so that they're part of the whole process. Then that's your motion. I don't support that. Because here's the reason why. Because we don't want to get this thing hung up because we might get three or four different opinions coming from Rotary because they like this tile color or that steel color or whatever. And then we're hung up meeting on this like we did the breeding ordinance. Well, I I just think Rotary's sharper than that. I think that they can get it together and get us It's your motion structure. Okay. I I don't mind saying that

it should be historic looking, but I really would like to see since the Rotary brought this to us that they be a part of the design concept that's brought back to us and approved by the historic committee. That's your motion. That's my motion. And is there a second? A second. Moved and seconded. And discussion. Discussion. Would it be possible to ask the Rotary if they want to be involved in the design process? Because maybe

I could accept that. There's a possibility, right, that they would just say, "Hey, we trust that you would pick something that would be wonderful and we might not want to be involved in it. Could we word it like that?" I'll accept that as a change. Does the secondary accept that? I accept that. Yes. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Oppose say nay. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you, Gary. And that brings us, we've already done 15 and 16. Uh, city manager report. Uh, sorry, this item is the monthly report on the I get to the right language. The claims paid. If it wasn't so late, I would pick one of them and go into a little bit of detail, but in the interest of time, I won't do that tonight. So, uh, there are there's nothing unusual in the report. Okay, any questions? We'll move to number 18, financial report.

Uh, same with number 18. This is the city manager's monthly financial report and it's for the end of the third quarter ending in March 31st, 2026. All right. Any questions? Mayor, just

Mayor, just a note um of the uh of the excellent work done by our finance department. Um the reporting has improved. It's it's more um user friendly, if you will, or lay person readable. Uh I appreciate that and I appreciate that we have the statistics as far as percentages as well as dollar amounts. it was always kind of presented in two different places and hard to connect the dots sometimes. And if we look at those at that that line that semiircle line that um on each of the chart pages is near each circle giving the percentages and the dollar amounts. Nearly every one of them is in the green which indicates that actuals are at or better than expected progress. Uh and so I I appreciate that um there's prudent financial stewardship uh going on at the direction of our city manager. Thank you city manager working closely with our finance department and then of course policy lands on our lap on how we're going to manage all this but um really appreciate and wanted to make note of that and I do appreciate that quarterly um summary included in this item. Thanks mayor.

Thank you. what he's alluding to is the very graphic representation of where we are financially, which is very helpful than just the the sheet that says the numbers. Appreciate that. Uh any other questions? We'll accept both of those then. And we'll open up public comment. Uh public comment at this time, open up for anything. Take your three minutes, come forward, state your name, and is there anybody on the phone? Okay. Okay. Greetings, honorable mayor, council. I'll make this short and brief. My name is Adam Schultz, and I am the only candidate for city council that is 100% opposed to data centers. At this point in time, I will be talking about how closed loop data centers still use tremendous amounts of water. This is part one of my 10-p part series to help educate you about the facts of data centers. Now, on the city's website, it says, quote, "The proposed data center would use a state-of-the-art aircooled closed loop system to eliminate excessive water use and protect southern Nevada water resources." unquote. This statement is not quite true. While closed loop systems reduce direct water use at the data center site, they significantly increase electricity demand. That's the key. That electricity is often generated by thermo electric power plants which are among the largest consumers of fresh water in the United States coming straight out of Lake Me. The result is a hidden shift. This is really important. The result is a hidden shift in the water burden from the data center to the power plant. In other words, this proposed data

center is still going to use a tremendous amount of water no matter how you look at it. It's just the way of the world. Harvard University states that quote estimates suggest that within a couple of years the electricity needed for data centers is going to be around 10 to 15% of total nationwide electricity demand. Now the truth of the matter is is that a closed loop system does not save that much water and the spin that the company is telling you is absolutely false. So what's it going to be council? Are you going to represent your special interest by saying of the council, by the council, and for the council and not for the people? I mean, there are thousands of no data signs. Or can you stand up and do the right thing by letting Boulder City know the truth and be a town of the people, by the people, and for the people by saying no data centers. Thanks for your time.

Thank you. Rosanne Rabiola Melee. June 1st is going to be the 31st anniversary of my arrival in Boulder City. And as a resident of Boulder City, I'm entitled, as every other resident, to the right to speak to elected officials. And I expect when I write, send emails that I get answers, especially when I say I would like to see in writing a couple of times in my email. I experienced um culture of Boulder City for about a decade and even though I'm no longer here every day um I'm feeling things that are changing and you know whether we call them solar storage plants or data centers or whatever. Um, this data center issue, it's it's much larger than just Skyler and the other companies that are involved. Um, we the the truth and the facts and the and the research that's involved with the these this project is

absolutely essential. This is not something that we can agree to disagree on. Truth, facts, research. You don't agree to disagree on facts. And so what I'm saying is that it's more than money. Everything that is voted on is about people. And if the people who voted for elected officials, whether it's Boulder City, whether it's the country, whether it's anywhere, if those people are intelligent enough to elect elected officials, then I guess they deserve answers and back and forth and every time I saw that we can stand up here but we can't get any feedback and not fair.

Thank you.

Anyone on the phone? 7025899629. 7025899629. Go ahead, sir. Yes, my name is Rod Walters. Okay. And um I guess like you know I did go to the second meeting uh that was presented by the people who are want to build the data center and one of the questions I posed to them is how big are this building going to be and they indicated that the applications they've made to the city is that it's going to be limited to 25 ft. I also talked to other individuals there saying like that they and they indicated that they're going to try to do anything they can to paint it in such a manner that it blends in with the surrounding background. Basically camouflage it. Um, and I I think they're trying to do everything possible uh to work with Boulder City to make certain it's it's like at least um non-intrusive as possible. Um, and that's a good thing. They're willing to work with us. Um and I you know there's a you know I guess like the first argument I've heard that basically yes there's going to be power coming in to that plant but it's also artificial intelligence and data centers is the future I mean at least you know from a standpoint of like industries and you know a lot of them are being built in in like Las Vegas area and stuff like that. Um, so I mean it's it's good that you

know they seem to be willing to work with Bowler City. they had they admit they're talking to other other uh cities like Henderson and if I looked at the possibility that maybe they go with the Henderson option and the problem is the Henderson property that you know that's controlled by them seems to be actually closer to Boulder City than where they're proposing to build it now in Boulder City land and so and it's also industrial zoning so it does not going to be any kind of restrictions on what they're building there from stand other than like, you know, something like equivalent to a warehouse. Um, and so from that standpoint, you know, the fact that they're uh willing to work with with like Boulder City to to alleviate any kind of issues and you won't get that same bargain when you when if it's Henderson dealing with them. Um so and also as to the issue of like you know yes like uh you know electrical power is generated by by water and stuff like that uh to a certain extent you know it's all boiled stuff like that a lot of that water is recycled too it's just not like you know let it into the air and stuff like that so I don't really believe they keep you know there seems to be a an effort to try to um constantly bring water into the issue when it's not really They've done everything they can do in building the uh uh building to alleviate any issues of water. Thank you very much.

Thank you. 7025899629 if you're calling in. Otherwise,

evening, mayor, council, staff, ladies and gentlemen, once again, Brandon Smith. Um, I just want to do uh another quick shout out to Gary Po Dexter and his crew for contributing help to uh plant a tree in Alan Stroberg's u memory this weekend for preservation day. Um was very wellreceived, very well attended. Um and our speeches made some of their family members cry. So I guess we did our job. Um, I'd also like to weigh in on the uh animal waste problem. Um, once again, I feel that this is not a dog issue as much as it is a people issue. Um, and I think if we put in some sort of extraordinary measure for punishment of leaving dog excrement behind, um, this would go away really rather quickly. Thousand bucks if you're let if you're witnessed leaving a turd behind, done and dusted. Um, at that rate, I think uh Boulder City Police Department, you can correct me if I'm wrong, probably pushing upwards of, we'll call it 50 bucks an hour for their time. You could have somebody out at Pratt Field. Um, eight hours a day and thousand bucks a time. If if if that's truly the case that uh that waste is an extraordinary problem, I think it would probably pay the Boulder City Police Department and therefore city coffers uh quite a reasonable return on that um manpower dedicated strictly to making sure that

people are being responsible. Um, in response to once again the uh the data center issue, um, I only ask again that the council be very prudent and thorough um, with what what data centers are and what they are not. Um, what they are not is good for any community that's that has introduced them into their midst. Um, we are Boulder City. We are strong and mighty and proud of who we are. And I think that it's time that we once again um dedicate our resource to um letting the world know just how strong we are. In the same way that we introduced the dam to the world, uh we could be a small city that stood up to big industry and found better ways and less intrusive ways and less destructive ways to make up for our um city uh shortfalls as far as cash is concerned. I know we can do a better job. You guys are smarter than that. Thank you so much.

Thank you. 7025899629. If there's no one on the line and no one here in chambers, we will close the public comment and go to city council's report. Started here in Thank you, mayor. Um, I have no uh board meetings to report on, but I was honored to attend the American 250 um monument dedication down at Veterans Cemetery. It was it was just a beautiful day, beautiful honor. Um, and serving um on behalf of our city or representing our city was an honor for myself. I just want to end with saying uh don't forget to pray for our troops that are overseas still in harm's way. Um, I'm always available to talk about anything. I think most of Boulder City residents know that and um, they have my number and my email. Thank you.

Thank you.

I wonder if they had such a great time at Bark in the Park at Spring Jamboree and Gary, our Gary Po Dexter won the lookalike contest with his pitbull and I forget I think it's Zor or something. got a great name, but we had a lot of fun. And the king and queen of uh Bark in the Park live next door to each other. We have Annie and Stanley. And I didn't realize it, but they were next door neighbors. So that was kind of unique and it's never happened before. And then also our mayor has loves hats. I know that. Yes. I think he almost has a fetish for hats. And he is also a celebrity. He did the most fantastic job of doing the commercial for keeping a helmet on your head. So I had to go get him a hat from Code of the Fluff so that you will never forget your experience.

Wow. And then I'm such a crazy dog person that the city manager has learned about. So I've got you a coin for code of the fluff. But enjoy your hat. Joe will probably kill me because you're coming home with another hat. But you did a fantastic job. We appreciate you so much. Thank you. Thank you.

I know we've been here a long time. I'm going to try to be kind of quick. I did have a pretty busy month as far as u meetings went. I had the Clark County Debt Management Commission May 7th where Las Vegas Valley Water District um came in for bond issuance. uh May 11th, Clark County School District oversight panel for school facilities where we discussed the upcoming projects that they would be looking at. And I did have an opportunity to speak to the facilities um uh what would you say for lack of a better word person who's over it. I don't know what his official title Brandon's is, but um about Boulder City Schools and about kind of what they learned when they came here and did a few of their uh meetings with our community and they promised that they would get back to us as shareholders in that and talk to us before any decisions were made and that we could have a voice in that. Um also went to historic preservation day. It was wonderful. got to see three kids. Um, three of the kids who have their flags if Are they still up downtown? I I didn't drive by to see. So, they're still up. If you go up downtown, it's in the um older town area. You can see the flags of the drawings that the kids did that they were able to win first, second, third prize. It was really cute to see them involved. I think that's how we get people to reinvest, right, of all ages into our city and the importance of Boulder City. So, I think it was great. got to go through um a a historic home that was redone over uh it's where the I got to look at this closer. Patrico um financial

Huh? Did I say it right? Oh, yes. Oh, thanks. Okay. Um also able to see the award given and able to see Brandon um give a nice shout out um for the tree dedication while we were there. It was beautiful to see Ellen Stroberg, some of his family there. As we said, thank you to them and to see the water filtration plant that looks nice. We've been working inside of it and it's nice to see where the monies go. Um, Spring Jamberee, thank you. It takes a village

and we were able to actually get the parking lot done in time. Barely. I I don't know. It was by the skin of our teeth. I don't know if some people even slept, but thank you to the volunteers. Thank you for those who prepped it. Thank you for our police who come and keep us safe and monitor when we're there. Thank you to the chamber who um who does this and does many things for our businesses in town so that we can have healthy businesses here. Um and and thank you to all of you who stayed the entire time. It it's impressive. Mayor, my committee reports for the water authority. I think uh thank you for mentioning the the Vegas Valley Water District. I think um did you know for my did you know segment the Vegas Valley Water District is not the Southern Nevada Water Authority and vice versa. I know you know that. But most people in the valley, you'd be surprised think they're one in the same and they are not. When the Vegas Valley Water District, for example, imposes excessive use fees, people come to the water authority meeting and blame us for their excessive use charges when it's the district that did it to their customers who are unincorporated Clark County and the city of Las Vegas,

North Las Vegas, Henderson, and Boulder City are the other purveyor members from the Southern Nevada Water Authority. So anyway, did you know um we're is still in a terrible drought crisis. Um save every drop of water that you can. And then the convention and visitors authority. Um man the staff that is one of the most professional and amazing staffs in the entire country if not the entire world for bringing visitors to a destination for tourism for sports for entertainment and for just generally generating interest and excitement around a destination. And in spite of all that's going on economically, worldwide, and sociopolitically, the staff still continues to hit home runs in bringing events, entertainment, sports activities to Southern Nevada, which we all benefit from. Um, another did you know segment. Um, we did some tenative approval of some budgeting uh at today's meeting. $463 million is the operating budget for the convention and visitors authority in addition to several million for their capital projects just to maintain all of the convention space in addition to speaking of debt management several million in debt management payments or debt service payments. So um really far above 500 million ultimately for for all the um cost to operate the convention and visitors authority and the convention center and all that is done there. Uh phenomenal um group of professionals that are at the helm of that organization and again we benefit greatly from that. Uh those are my committee reports. Mayor, thank you.

Thank you. I will uh say the same thing that I have meant before and we'll say it again. This council is wonderful. each and every one of you bring to this council a viewpoint and a representation of people in this community. And we have a wonderful community who uh has open debates and has open opportunities to talk and we are we are very blessed to be in this community and be able to have the funding that we have in this community. be able to do this the things that we like to do, to have the education we like to have and and be able to talk to one another and go shopping and be able to see people that are nextdoor neighbors. It is a great community. Um, I love it. I love you all. And with that, we are adjourned. Thank you.

Thank you, mayor. Thank you. And I've got my hat.