Clark County Board of Commissioners - Regular Meeting

Officially kicked off our movie in the park series in Laughlin and Searchlight. Neighbors were invited to join us for family friendly movie nights featuring complimentary blankets, popcorn, and so much more. The next one will be on Friday, April 24 in Searchlight and will feature Despicable Me four. Looking ahead, our annual Silverado Ranch Community Center block party is scheduled for Saturday, May 30. The event will showcase the wide variety of classes offered at the center from ballet and music to cooking, along with games, crafts, much more.

I look forward to sharing additional details as the event approaches. Stay up to date on all things happening in District A and across Clark County, and connect with us on Instagram, Facebook, X, and LinkedIn at commission aft. Until next time, I look forward to seeing you all around a. Good morning. Welcome to the April 21 meeting of the Clark County Commission.

Good morning, manager Schiller.

Good morning.

We are gonna welcome reverend Christine Mersch from Peaceway Christian Center for the invocation immediately followed by the pledge of allegiance. Please stand if you're able.

Let's bow our heads and join me in prayer. Heavenly father, we come before you with gratitude and reverence, acknowledge that you are the true God, creator of the heaven and earth. Please be with us today in this meeting. Guide every leader, every decision maker. Grant these leaders discernment, integrity, and humility as they make decisions that impact our community.

We thank you for this county, for their families and the workers, our fire department, our police, our schools, our hospitals. Please be with them, Lord. Help their families as they are every day protecting us and serving us. May truth and compassion guide this meeting meeting today in every conversation. Establish the work of your hands, oh god, and may all done by your name. We ask you, God. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.

Good morning, chairman and commissioners. Your first item is to recognize the UNLV Rebel Girls and Company for their championship win at the 2,026.

If all the girls and company would come on up, while they're walking up here. While they're you're walking up here, just wanna acknowledge that they're they're world famous, but they just completed the second in a row championship as of of the of the I guess it'd be the NCAA. But, anyway, we're so proud of them. Still can't brag enough about them. And I could say a lot, but, truthfully, just looking at them kinda says it all. So thank you so much.

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if there's a a leader or someone who could say a few words.

Hello. As he said, we are the UNLV Rebel Girls and Company. We have defended our back to back championship at the u n at the UDA College Nationals, and we are proud and honored to represent UNLV, Las Vegas, Nevada, and, Clark County as well. So thank you so much for your support.

So do want them to come down for a picture? Or how do you wanna yeah. If you guys can go to go down right in front of us. Are not cheerleaders. These are professionals.

And because they're NCAA athletes, they are eligible to be paid money. They're being recruited around the world. So we gotta make sure they're happy here, and and we pay them well.

Commissioners, your next item is to present a proclamation to the Laughlin High School Interact Club in recognition of their service to their school, the township of Laughlin, and surrounding communities. Chairman Knapp.

Thank you so much. Welcome. We are glad to get to help recognize all the way from Laughlin, the Laughlin High School Interact Club. Thank you all for making the trip in this morning to be here with us along with your principal Jonathan Moss and your advisor missus Zanevski. We are recognizing the Laughlin High School Interact Club for their outstanding impact on their community and on all of Clark County.

These students with us today helped lead an organization with the help of their advisor that promotes leadership, that promotes integrity and service characteristics that are so important and valuable today. With over 60 members, nearly one third of the student body, it is one of the largest interact clubs in District 5495. That's right. One the largest. And their contributions to Laughlin, can speak to you personally, are just immense.

So, we're so thrilled to have you here and that you'll be spending some time with us today and to get to help recognize your accomplishments. And I'm looking for Renee. Is Renee here? Renee, you gotta come join us up here. Renee Yepez from Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is such an incredible booster of your organization, of the work you do, and is really an incredible champion and has always been filling me in on the good work that you're doing. So Renee thank you for being up here with us and would everybody just help me recognize and thank the Laughlin High School Interact Club. Thank

you so much. I am the very lucky advisor of the Laughlin Interact Club. We only have a 160 kids in our whole high school, but we have 60 kids in Interact. And this year they've set a goal to meet a thousand hours of service and they're almost there. I've had the privilege, I'm also an English teacher, I've had the privilege of watching these young men grow.

I was their teacher in sixth grade. I'm still their teacher now that they're in twelfth grade. So I have watched them grow from annoying little sixth graders to great leaders, and they are really the best of the best. I always say that our interact club is the best kids in our community and I firmly believe that. I'm super proud to be their advisor and super proud of these young men. These are three of our officers, our co presidents and our treasurer that came with us and our principal Mr. Moss. So thank you so much for this recognition. We appreciate it.

Commissioners, your next item is to recognize the week of April 2026 as National Crime Victims Rights Week and invite the community to go purple to help spark more discussion about local crime, available resources, the rights of victims and survivors. Commissioner Kirkpatrick.

Thank you. Today, we're going purple and proudly celebrating National Crime Victims' Rights Week. This is a time that we come together as a community and shine a light on strength, courage, and resilience of crime victims everywhere. While today, we wholeheartedly support victims of crime across Nevada and the nation, this week, we honor our dedicated professionals and compassionate volunteers who work tirelessly to provide critical services, guidance, and hope to those in need. Our goal today is really to bring awareness to this issue.

This is an issue that impacts so many every day that people don't stop to think about it could be your friend, your neighbor, your loved one. And we wanna make sure that everybody knows that we at Clark County recognize it, and we are here to support you and to continue to be your advocate. So our goal, this year, is the national theme is listen, act, advocate, protect victims, and serve communities. These are very powerful awards, and this gives everybody in this room, everybody in our community, over 2,000,000 people the opportunity to at least invoke one to protect somebody, whether it be a child, whether it be an adult. Everybody is counting on all of us.

So today, we're gonna show a short video, where we can highlight the importance of National Crime Rights Week, and then I'll ask the commissioners. We have a sign that we would like to take a picture so that we can post and to remind people that this is a week to really be extra strong, extra advocate, and to listen. And when you hear something, you should act on it. So Victor, if you could play the video, please.

Every day, members of our community are impacted by crime. In those moments, it can feel overwhelming, but no one has to face it alone. During National Crime Victims' Rights Week, April nineteenth through twenty fifth, Clark County recognizes the strength of victims and survivors and reaffirms our commitment to support, justice, and healing for all. If you or someone you know has been affected by crime, help is available. From crisis response to counseling and advocacy, these services are here to support you every step of the way.

Help is confidential. Help is available, and help can make a difference. Clark County encourages our community to go purple April nineteenth through twenty fifth to raise awareness, stand with victims and survivors, and help ensure their rights are recognized and respected. Resources are available through organizations such as the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada as well as statewide victims' rights information through Marcy's Law for Nevada. Together, we strengthen our community by listening, acting, and advocating. Together, we can turn awareness into action, support into healing, and move forward as one community together for better.

Thank you. And as we go out of here today, just a reminder that today we renew our commitment to always ensuring that our victims are not alone and that we as a community can wrap our arms around them. So thank you.

Commissioners, your next item is to present a proclamation.

Of course. I'm sorry. I didn't you were behind the desk. It's okay.

Commissioners, your next item is to present a proclamation to Silver State Fair Housing Council proclaiming April 2026 as fair housing month in Clark County. Vice chairman McCurdy.

Good morning, everyone. It's truly an honor to be here today as we recognize April 2026 as fair housing month here in Clark County. This month holds deep significance. It marks the fifty eighth anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, which is landmark legislation that affirmed a simple but powerful principle that everyone deserves equal access to housing free from discrimination. Fair housing is not about where people live, it's about opportunity.

It's about access to good schools, economic mobility, and the ability for families to build stability and generational wealth. When we protect fair housing, we strengthen the very foundation of our communities. And here in Southern Nevada, we are fortunate to have organizations like the Silver State Fair Housing Council leading this work every day, ensuring that residents know their rights, advocating for those who face discrimination, and pushing us all toward a more just and equitable community. And I would like to thank the representatives for already being behind me. We have Emera Cregan, Heidi Griffith, and Roland Daniels and your collective work does not go unnoticed and we are proud to proclaim this day, this month as fair housing month. Please give them a round of applause.

Good morning. Thank you. I'm Heidi Griffith. I am the vice president for the board of trustees for Silver State Fair Housing. We just wanna thank the county for all of the help that they provide and all of the work that we do to continue the fight. We're going into our fifty eighth year of the Fair Housing Act, and we're still working every single day to make sure that when we look to our right and our left, we're considering each other neighbors and that we all have fair and accessible housing.

Commissioners, our next item is to recognize Clark County employees who have been selected as Clark County Value champions.

I'm Renita, and I'm so happy to nominate Yvette for a value champion award. Yvette is one of six supervisors in pretrial services, and she's totally a rock star. Any problem that arises, Yvette has the wisdom to solve it. She handles everything with grace. She helps us even when we're feeling overwhelmed. She always encourages us. We always get it done, and we do. And not only does she look out for us in the workplace, but she celebrates us in our milestones, whether it's a marriage, a birthday, or getting a new home. She's always there to celebrate us. And so we just I just wanted to nominate her. And congratulations, Yvette. You totally deserve this.

Meredith. I am the enterprise resource planning functional manager. Pauline Simok has been nominated as value champion due to her invaluable contributions and her outstanding positivity. Pauline doesn't just solve problems. She works to ensure that her customers walk away from every interaction with both an understanding of the system and the processes to ensure that in the future they have more confidence and the ability to problem solve on their own. This makes Pauline both a mentor and an asset to her customer base. Congratulations, Pauline, and thank you for being a shining example to us all.

Hi, my name is Chris Jones. I'm the clinical supervisor at Childhaven and I'm happy to nominate Jesse Garcia as a value champion. Jesse is an outstanding employee. He goes above and beyond for projects that aren't even part of his job description. He is extremely helpful. He does a lot of work for our our soul committee, is our our fund committee that we have for clinical and community services. He's always bringing joy and cheer in his personality to to the holidays and to all the fun that we have. And I just really wanna congratulate him and say thank you for all that you do Jesse.

Hi. My name is Karen Cliff. I'm the assistant district attorney at the DA Family Support Division, and I am honored to nominate deputy district attorney Lauren Pena as a value champion. Lauren is someone who truly embodies our mission of improving the lives of children and families. Every day, she approaches her work with dedication, compassion, and a strong sense of purpose. Just as importantly, Lauren has a wonderful impact on the people around her. She brings a positive spirit to the office, she celebrates the successes of others, and she helps create an environment where people feel supported and appreciated. Lauren truly represents the values we strive for, and our team and the families we serve are better because of her. Congratulations, Lauren.

Hi. My name is Christina Badipian, and I am a commission analyst. And today, I would like to recognize Ricardo Rivera as a value champion with RPM. Ricardo has been amazing at all of our large community events, especially at Cashman Park. His willingness and dedication and to help him jump in when need be has played a huge role in our events. Ricardo, thank you for being such an amazing team player and contributing to these

events throughout the community and at our parks. Congratulations. Ricardo,

How about you a hand for these Clark County employees? We have quite a mix today. We got five separate departments. I wanna highlight a couple things. Jesse in clinical services walked around. He actually came to my office dressed up like a clover for Saint Patrick's Day. RPM, I wanted to talk a little bit about that. Fun fact, they're managing over 531 buildings across the county. I think it's like 6,200,000 square feet of office space for our 10,000 employees. So never a dull moment, never something that's not breaking, always something to maintain and keep things looking good.

We have representatives from ERP, I think that's one of the first ones I've seen up here, so that's a really good one. Also Justice Court and the DA, our criminal justice system, we do lots of great work. People always think of all the different pieces, family support, criminal justice diversion, all those things representing our courts and representing our system. So just wanna give a huge hand. These are just huge representations of what we do every day and we never stop. And with that, I'll hand it over to Commissioner McKernie.

Thank you, Manager Schiller. On behalf of our board, we just want to thank you for the work that you put in day in and day out. And we know that not all your days are great days, but yet indeed you still show up, and present your best self to our constituents of Clark County. So thank you for all that you do. We truly appreciate you whether you've been here five years or twenty three years or more. We just wanna say thank you. And by the representation that we have here in the crowd, we know that we have the very best that we're recognizing here today before the Board of County Commissioners and all your colleagues. Congratulations.

Thank you, mister chair. This past weekend, our Clark County family lost a very special person very suddenly. Kayla started her career with Clark County working part time at the Paradise Community Center while going to college at UNLV. Kayla Parker was hired full time in January 2017. She was an integral part of the communities for both, Paradise and Whitney, where she served as a recreation specialist developing programs and special events for families, youth and seniors.

She worked closely with our team in District G because those rec centers are in our district, planning events for seniors and more recently planning events with Best Buddies, an organization near and dear to her heart. She served with passion, character and dedication, evident by the relationships she formed throughout the years. Kayla had a special way of connecting with patrons through her caring and compassion. She was not just a public servant and colleague, she was a friend to all of us. Kayla has touched the lives of so many here in Clark County and made our county a better place in which to live.

Our hearts break for Kayla's family. Kayla's brother Sean, who is here today, we all know he leads the Clark County Maintenance Division. Kayla's mom and dad, Kevin and Cindy Parker, are both retired county employees. Kayla will be missed by her county family more than you know and by all who knew her and had the privilege of working with her. And now we would invite all of us present to reflect for just a moment on her and what she brought us in a moment of silence.

Thank you.

Thank you, commissioner Gibson. We'll begin today's meeting with the first time set aside for public comment. Anyone wishing to speak on items on today's agenda can please come forward at this time. Items on this agenda, include items on section five and later. Please step forward, state your name for the record.

My name is Shoshana. I'm a resident and I would like to cite Nevada revised statute two four one point zero two one subsection two that I'm allowed to speak on any matter that is not specifically included on the agenda as an

action item? Ma'am that is a 100% accurate and that time is allowed at the conclusion of today's meeting. You're welcome to speak then. If there's an item on today's agenda that you would like to speak to, you're welcome to speak now.

So you're going against the Nevada revised statute? Nope. You're not? Okay. I'll I'll look into that. But again, I'm here for the separation of church and state. This should not be treated as a religious service. Thank you.

We'll look forward to hearing from you at the end of today's meeting. Anyone else wishing to speak on items on today's agenda, please come forward.

Good morning. My name is Miguel Canales. I'm a lead organizer at the Culinary Union. I'm here with the worker from the DBE at the at the airport, Harry Reid Airport, and we're here to comment in item 19. After three months of negotiations, the companies have still not offered the workers what they deserve. The workers deserve a good contract. They are not second class. The DBE workers are still the lowest paid at the airport and they deserve better.

Hi. My name is, Jacob Ramos. I live at 2312 North Green Valley Parkway, Unit 3113. I worked for the day one group, Moe's, for over five years now. You know, after months of waiting for a DB counter proposal, here here's a little update for you.

They offered zero improvements in terms of settling any remaining language disagreements, including technology disputes that could potentially save jobs. And in terms of, you know, economics, it felt like a backwards proposal because they removed retro pay that we that we worked hard for. You know, overall, I don't think the company wants to do the right thing for us and we deserve better. And I hope that we can count on you. Thank you.

Thank you.

Hello. Hi. My name is Melissa Bornow. I live at 8116 Redskin Circle, Las Vegas, Nevada 89145. I'm here because my coworkers and I are still waiting on the back pay, and the union contract has still not been paid.

The layover bars and closures now been moved back to June, which has given us an advantage to come back here and ask you for your help one more time. I'd like to update you. Although we found out that our working as a bartender, I have been classified under a kitchen and food server instead of bartender. I've been paying the union dues as a bartender, and the classification they have me under is not the same union dues that I've been paying. So I was doing a bartender work, carrying bartender responsibilities, responsibilities, paying paying for for bartender bartender dues, and not being able not being properly classified.

In my eyes, that's deeply wrong. Now the coworkers are facing uncertainty, missed wages, and guaranteed of returning to their jobs, not knowing if they're gonna keep their jobs with the new company. I am asking for someone to look into this and hold the company accountable and make the workers receive back pay protecting as we deserve for the company before they disappear. Thank you.

Thank you.

Good morning, commissioners. My name is Adam Levine. I am here to speak on agenda item 40.

Just for clarification, you are welcome to speak now. Item 40 is a public hearing if you want to speak at that time.

Oh, then I will save it at that time. Thank you. Thank you. Good

Good morning, commissioners. Brian Ayala, a y a l a, 4149 I'm here with the day one group, one of the nine ACDBE companies that are negotiating with the union. As I kept you all updated regularly, we are making progress with off the record discussions. I don't know if these guys are aware that there's off the record discussions continuing, but they are and we're making progress. I suspect we should be wrapping this thing up pretty soon. That's my hope. Thanks guys.

Thank you. Anyone else wishing to speak on this first time set aside for public comment, please come forward. Seeing no one, we'll close the public comment and turn to section four, the agenda.

Commissioners, your next item is approval of the minutes of the regular meeting and the special meeting on 03/17/2026.

I move approval of our meeting minutes from 03/17/2026.

Thank you. There's a motion for approval. Please cast your vote. The motion passes.

Your next item is approval of the agenda with the inclusion deletion of any items. Staff is requesting that item 10 under your consent section be deleted from your agenda. For the record, I'd like to read a correction on item number 43 under the public hearing section under the item recommendation and the item background, the special event date of 05/16/2026 should be changed to 05/17/2026. There's also a revised presentation.

Mr. Chair, I move for approval of the agenda with the recommended changes written to the record.

There's a motion. Please cast your vote. The motion passes.

Commissioners, we can now move to the approval of your consent agenda consisting of items number nine through 37. As a reminder, item 10 has been deleted.

Mr. Chair, I move approval of consent agenda.

Thank you. There's a motion for approval. Please cast your vote. That motion passes.

We can now move to the introduction of ordinances. Item 44 is an ordinance to amend chapter 3.74 secondtion three point seven four point zero two zero subsection two of the Clark County Code to amend the selection process for UMCSN governing board members and providing for other matters properly related thereto and set a public hearing.

Thank you very much. I'll introduce the ordinance and set the public hearing for Tuesday, 05/05/2026 at 10AM.

Commissioners, it's not yet ten a. M. So we'll now move to the business section of your agenda. Item 45 is identify emerging issues to be addressed by staff or by the board at future meetings, receive updates on the activities of various regional boards and commissions, and direct staff accordingly.

Thank you. Does anyone from the board have emerging issues? Commissioner?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And really, I apologize, Abby, for putting you on the spot here. But one of the issues that only we're seeing at the health district but at the school district is the vaping. And kids are getting exposed to vaping with or without marijuana or other substances in it.

So I was wondering if there was not something that we could figure out who to work with to maybe do a push on to educating the kids. And it's really impacting sixth through ninth graders more than anybody. So I'm kind of worried because we've numbers escalate, and I was going to ask the school district too if there's a partnership that can be had because I just feel like maybe kids don't really know what they're doing or that's my hope anyways. And maybe if we educate them, they'll realize to stay away from it. Thanks.

Thank you. Commissioner McCurdy.

Thank you, mister chairman. We As you can see, we have a new member joining us on the board today. I want introduce to everyone miss Mariska Stewart, our twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six youth council member who will be shadowing us today. I wanna talk a little bit about her, but I'm gonna allow for time for her to introduce herself. But she's also joined by her mom, Felicia, who's up in the audience with us.

But she's a passionate young leader who recently ran for youth mayor with a platform focused on mental health resources, increasing access to affordable childcare, and improving safety for children across Southern Nevada. And her advocacy has centered on critical issues facing the young people today, and she shared a little bit about what she cares about, but just some of those issues are medical care access, access to healthy foods, and the need for more safe places for physical activity. But beyond her advocacy, she is an accomplished pageant competitor and was proudly named the twenty twenty six American Idol Miss Nevada preteen, and she's also the founder of Brave Like Me. Brave Like Me, a nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness and support for young people affected by cystic fibrosis. So please join me in welcoming her, and she's gonna introduce herself a little bit.

Hi, I'm Mariska Stewart, a youth council member, and I am really glad to be here with you today, and I really love doing pageants, so I do them every time I can.

Thank

you everyone.

Thank you and welcome. Anyone else for emerging issues?

Commissioners, your next item is to approve the reappointment of Anna Danczak, Joseph Burkowski, and David Dubrinsky to the Clark County OPEB Board of Trustees effective 07/01/2026 for terms set to expire 06/30/2028.

Mr. Chair, I move approval.

Thank you. There's a motion for approval of item 46. Please cast your vote. That motion passes.

Commissioners, your next item is to authorize the chair to appoint five members to the local law enforcement advisory committee including three Clark County commissioners, Tixe Rulham chair, William McCurdy II, vice chair and Michael Knaft, and two Las Vegas City council members, Francis Allen Polenski and Olivia Diaz for a one year term expiring 04/15/2027.

Mister chair, I move approval.

Thank you. Just before the motion, I just wanted comment on this. Commissioners McCurdy, Sagerbloom and I have worked on this committee for a number of years now. We're really the only ones in the whole country who use this process for distributing these funds. For the organizations that are recipients of these funds, it's a very difficult process.

The dollars that we receive from the Justice Department vary dramatically from year to year. It's hard to depend on these funds, and so we've asked that we work through ideas to bring back to the full board for how these funds could be more strategically utilized, but also not so cumbersome in the way that the process works. And so, Commissioners McCurdy Blum might have an opinion on that.

Amen.

Yeah, ditto. It's a very cumbersome process, but looking forward to exploring alternative ways to distribute.

Thank you. And the purpose of today's motion is that there is some unfinished business that the committee has to do that's required of us. And so think that's why the motion is made today and why this agenda item is here. So, there is a motion for approval Mr. By

Chair, just wanna make a comment though. One thing we did see was all the incredible non profits that are out here and the need that's out there. So, we need to figure out a way to try to subsidize them in any way we can because they're just fantastic groups that we were voting on. Thank you.

Thank you. There's a motion for approval of item 47. Please cast your vote. The motion passes.

Commissioners, your next item is to receive a presentation from the Las Vegas Clark County Library District about their various programs and services.

Thank you. Good morning. Welcome back.

Morning Chair NAF, commissioners, distinguished guests and community members.

There should be a handheld microphone there. If not, use one of the stationary.

I'll

start over. Good morning, chair nav, commissioners, distinguished guests, and community members. My name is Kelvin Watson. I am the executive director for the Las Vegas Clark County Library District, and it is my honor to join you today in recognition of National Library Week. This annual event salutes the important role that libraries play in our communities every day.

This year, it is being celebrated from April 19 to the twenty fifth, and I greatly appreciate the opportunity to join you today to share some of the exciting events and promotional partnerships that the library districts district has worked on in this past year. There we go. We began the fiscal year with encouraging gains over the prior year. Results I firmly believe reflect the dedication, creativity and hard work of our staff that they pour into the programming and resources that we provide to our community. Year over year, we served 23% more customers.

Our program attendance increased by more than 56% and our website visits have surged over 72%. Based on this momentum we've built and the work that continues to happen every day, I fully expect that these numbers and engagement will continue to increase. A spectacular new West Las Vegas library was also, just a dream that was in years in the making. And the branch opened to a warm welcome by the community this past December. We were welcomed by our vice chair, as well and many community members.

We had over a thousand attendees at the grand opening. The building offers a wide array of impressive facilities and features and highlights that include an art gallery, an event center with a state of the art sound, lighting, and video systems, a podcasting room, a k through 12 homework help area. We have an adult learning program space, a business incubation space, mini creation labs, and we also have a dedicated teen and tween zone, just to name a few things that are in that library. In anticipation of our future growth in Goodsprings and surrounding areas, a larger library is needed. Our current branch is housed in a 600 square foot single wide trailer located in the Goodsprings Elementary School parking lot with no access to running water or sewer.

In March 2025, the library district purchased an adjacent thirteen seventy two square foot home situated on one and one third acres where we plan to relocate the Goodsprings library. Some of the features in the new library will include a maker space, separate adults and kids area, an outside porch, and expanded parking lot. We don't currently have an opening date, but we will continue to share updates as we move forward. Some of our national and local recognition. We were truly humbled by the local and national recognition that the Las Vegas Clark County Library District has received this past year.

I'm especially grateful to the county for your continued support of the library district and our staff. In January of this year, Library Journal recognized me as the twenty twenty six librarian of the year. But this honor really belongs to our 678 employees whose passion for our community and uplifting lives shines every day across our 25 locations. Since launching the Whitney Library's annual teen empowerment summit in 2023, we've continued to expand its reach and impact. This year, I'm proud to share that we actually partnered with UNLV to host a summit on their campus.

We had a 140 local high school students from across the valley. They had an opportunity to experience firsthand what higher education is and how it is achievable and within their reach, engaging with UNLV students and faculty while envisioning themselves campus. The summit also highlighted a range of career pathways from college and trade schools to other skilled skilled professions. Our partnership with three Square continues to address the food insecurities in our community and our neighborhoods with nutritious, predictable meals along with meaningful meaningful social and connections for kids, teens, and seniors. Since 2023, the library district has served 371,390 meals through our meet up and eat up after school meals during the school year, our kids cafe, which is free summer lunches for kids and teens, and our senior community lunch and social hour for ages 60.

We are incredibly grateful for our partnerships with the Vegas Goggin Knights and the Las Vegas Raiders. Both teams value and promote literacy and learning and support awareness by supporting our programs and services. Both teams provide the library district with branded library cards, co branded t shirts, and we also use other promotional giveaways to our customers. The collectible bookmarks feature teams' favorite books, movies, and music, which can be checked out for free with your free library card. Additional partnerships have also enriched the library district with grants and funding for specific programs.

This year, the Pizza Hut Foundation recently generously awarded the library district with a with a $10,000 slice of literacy grant in support of our partnership with Barbershop Books, which brings the joy of reading into neighborhood barber hops. And thanks to another generous $25,000 donation. This one from local ticket seller, vegastickets.com, our little learners activity kits program continues to grow at our enterprise library. The kits are loaded with books, skill building exercises, crafts, activity projects with the goal of empowering caregivers to encourage early literacy and skill building at home. A federal grant is helping the library district to launch STAR Lab, an inflatable portable dome with a projection system that immerses children and adults in spectacular visual learning experiences about everything from ancient civilizations to the farthest corners of the universe and everything in between.

The library district staff are just beginning training on this unique and exciting experience. Star Lab is launching this month to the public at our East Las Vegas Library, just in time for STEAM month and will travel to more branches throughout the year. We're also fortunate to be able to bring national arts to our community, thanks to our contacts with the educational and entertainment industries. This allows the library district to continue to bring cultural experiences of all kinds to our community. Three recent examples that opened to packed houses include Pepperland, a fiftieth anniversary tribute to the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's album, Disenchanted, a comedy satire for adults that flips the script on a on traditional storybook princesses and Bach to Beyonce, a musical journey across genres from classical music to contemporary pop.

Summer challenge is the library district's largest literacy program of the year, and we're working to launch it in just a few weeks. The program promotes literacy and the joy of reading for all ages, from babies and kids to teens adults. All ages receive fun rewards just for reading or just being read to. Our goal is always to draw in new library customers and cardholders, which we do during summer challenge with a unique direct mail campaign. Early registration begins May 1 and program runs May 15 through July 15.

Thank you as always for inviting me here to share what the library district is doing and accomplishing along with you. And now happy to answer any questions here.

Thank you so much. Are there any questions? Commissioner Segerblum.

It's not really a question, but it's a statement. I know the property on Hollywood is ripe and ready to go, so we look forward to that new library on Hollywood. Across from the police station.

Thank you. Anything else? Thank you so much. Thanks for being here and for your work.

Alright. See you next

year. Partnership.

Commissioners, your next item is to receive a report from Clark County's non voting member on the Clark County School District Board of Trustees.

Good morning, trustee. Thanks for being back with us.

Hello. Thank you so much.

Remind us when can we stop saying nonvoting member?

I know. Soon. Twenty seventh. Slide four isn't? Okay, I'll call for your help. Okay, we'll see what happens there. All right. All right, good morning Chair NAFTA, members of the Commission. Lisa Satori for the record, appointed trustee for unincorporated Clark County. I'm here today to provide a brief quarterly update from the Clark County School District.

I'll briefly cover our educational priority areas, provide updates for the core four work, highlight recent data request, share community engagement efforts, and close with a mid year performance update and keyboard notes. These are the education priorities that were established to guide collaboration between CCSD and the Clark County Commission. The following slides provide aligned updates by category. Today I'll walk through key priority areas, progress updates, and next steps. All right one update tied to rural education is Goodsprings.

The board will be voting on April 23 regarding the proposed closure due to low enrollment, extremely low enrollment. If approved students would be rezoned to Sandy Valley. This reflects the broader challenge we're seeing in some of these rural areas. Goodsprings does have historical significance and legacy as the longest operating school opening in 1913 and is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. And speaking with Principal Flanagan and we've been in meetings with her regarding this closure.

She shares a commitment to the site and has noted that closure for instruction does not constitute abandonment. The district intends to explore long term lease opportunities with agencies such as Clark County Parks and Rec to ensure historic landmark continues to serve the local community. And she has been very supportive in communicating with the constituents of that area and just moving forward and making sure that some of those historical events that happened at the school still continue. Any questions there? Okay.

You get one for an extra one. Yeah, skipped one. It's fine, it's fine I'll just share. It's the slide before that. Received an update on our core four bridge work on the April 1 work session.

Pre K we've identified four key root causes. Those include funding, infrastructure, workforce challenges, and family engagement. And so this is really about building the strong foundation and that's what a lot of the Core Four is about that early literacy, Pre K, math foundational skills. This target focuses on supervision and support of pre k programs with a pre k instructional leadership cohort launched including 20 teachers across 17 schools. The district has completed 55 coaching cycles providing specialized technical feedback to enhance program quality.

A thirty hour instructional leadership series and formal implementation manual will be launched to ensure district wide standards. And the district has added 500 pre k seats and plans to add additional seventeen twenty seats next year. And that is due to a $2,200,000 infrastructure grant from the Nevada Department of Education. So in response the district is focusing on teacher retention. That teacher pipeline is a huge key in that pre K is developing those skills, developing those partners particularly with UNLV and some of our feeder pipelines for some autism teachers and developing that professional development.

Then once we get them in the door that structure and professional moving forward for them. The second of the core four bridge work is early literacy. In early literacy the focus is on instruction quality, teacher support, and readiness. The response is very targeted. Tiered instruction, high dosage tutoring, and differentiated professional learning.

So the key is and we've been moving this way in a little while is that consistency across all grade levels, consistent curriculum. And then the focus this year was focused on identifying the students in the lowest quintile of achievement and doing intensive support there. So we currently operate 39 reading skill centers which provide small group tutoring and reading comprehension, fluency, vocabulary and phonics. And the data is definitive for English limited proficient students. These centers have shown a 14 to 48% higher growth than their peers while our English learners saw a gain of 15 to 38%.

Showing that this model is definitely helping to improve the achievement gap particularly in some of our highest need students. Also expanding those reading skill centers we did those Bright Futures walks. We had 1,300 home visits through those walks and those were great opportunities to get some feedback. Also some other opportunities for early literacy I wanted to highlight is reinstatement of the read by grade three literacy specialist candidate selection pool that allows us to get some qualified read by grade three strategists in the building and making sure that we have qualified support there. And aligning formative and summative assessments at that early literacy stage.

And number three is middle school math. We've known for some time that middle school math has shown in the data to be a deficient area. The challenges center around instructional consistency, teacher capacity, and alignment. So our response includes strengthening teacher training, increasing small group instruction. Small group instruction tends to not be as prevalent in middle school instruction as elementary.

And reestablishing common assessments. Common assessments had kind of gone away for a period of time as schools were kind of doing their own assessments now realigning back to those common assessments. And it's about ensuring rigor and consistency across all middle schools. For middle school math the strategy centers on that vertical coherence ensuring that math and that's why middle school is a huge focus of it. Because we want that vertical alignment from when they start in middle school through their progression of courses in high school.

A big component of the math instruction this year and kind of increasing that professional development for teachers and leaders is MILI, the Math Instructional Leadership Institute. And the data from that most recent cohort is very compelling. 81% of our schools whose administrators participated in Project Millie demonstrated increased student achievement in math. So it really is about standardizing that math instruction starting off with the leaders in our building and then providing that scaffolding down. Workforce and college readiness, our fourth core bridge area.

For workforce and college readiness the main issues were pathway design, support systems and workforce shortages. We are addressing these through stronger scheduling systems, expanded work based learning, and increased collaboration with higher education. That has been a big focus in a lot of these areas is that collaboration with higher education. Additional work includes improving communication and expanding access to CTE pathways and addressing barriers for instructors.

Trustee could you just pause there for a second?

Yeah absolutely.

Commissioner Kirkpatrick?

Course I I see my know,

Well I was trying to maybe let you get through the whole thing but I'm curious. So I'm glad to hear about the math, but I think that part of the problem is that math can be fun, and it can be super exciting to learn how it works, but I don't think the lecture type math works for students. At least that's what they tell us.

Well that is a big component of the small group instruction and the differentiation. That it is not a one size fits all. You do have a common core curriculum. But you also need to pulling students and differentiate it. And that's what the big focus is.

So what is the component to I get we've done this for years, right, where we have the RIP teacher is the main learning person, the reading person. But if that person leaves, then there's no underling to fill that. So are we doing something to try and keep that person that we're asking for as far as

The strategist? Yeah.

And that is part of that pool of having that pool for the strategist that has a common criteria for those entering the pool that we know they have those qualifications. But that also gives us the pool to go back to when we lose some of those strategists to keep some other teachers in the pool who have that certification on their license.

And has that come out of the school's budget or does that come out of like the general budget? Because I worry that principals have to

cut that as a person

know they owe it was to cut just just

extra.

Extra next year about that every school would have that position. So I would have to

Well I would just be curious because

It probably would be a school.

When they're forced to cut, those are the first people that go, right? Okay, so let me ask you about workforce. I want to understand workforce. So you know I spend a lot of time with kids in my district, and I feel like we're only doing the CTE programs specifically to the AI world, right? When at the end of the day, you still need someone to cut your hair, you still need someone to work on your car, you still need someone to call a plumber, right?

So have we talked about putting some of that stuff back, some of the basic skill sets? Because I gotta tell you, my personal I waited four weeks to get my car fixed, to get the brakes changed, because they're short on mechanics, and that is ridiculous, right? Because those jobs are never going away. Imagine if we it's great to be the AI piece and the drone piece and all those other technology pieces, but I feel like we gotta have at least a couple schools that focus on the basic, essential things that everybody needs in life, right? Need your haircut, you probably need a dentist, you probably need some of the basic stuff and that's lost.

I do know when I had the opportunity to tour South CT, South CTA that that was they did have some trade focuses like that like welding and some of those. I don't know specifically, I can't remember all of the courses of study that they offered. But that being a brand new school I was very impressed with the range of services that they were coursework that they were providing there.

He says he can't hear you Lisa.

Sorry. I was saying when I went to South CTA I was impressed that they were offering some of courses. I know there's also discussion about getting together our instructors across the valley say for welding came up as an example and getting those instructors together and developing a cohort of them so they have some strength together and you know in their profession. But yes there's been has been a lot of discussion about. And some of those fields too, they're just being done differently. So they still exist, they're just being taught differently in some cases. But definitely all of those high need areas you know of daily life are still there for sure.

So could I ask this, I share a lot of stuff in my newsletter right? Like on the pre K stuff, we've been sharing that all year long because we find from the principals that kids are not ready, or they're not getting assessed, they may be autistic and showing up for the first time in second grade, and we're like, what do we do, right? So could we get some of that, a better marketing piece of it I suppose, so that we can kind of tell because the one thing when it opens in January, nobody really knows what opportunities there are.

Identification of students, that's a huge component to try to, especially for next year with having so many additional spots, to try to get those, the word out in the community and get the communication out so that we can fill those spots that we will have.

I feel like I'm a better person for having shop, home ec, and explorations, you know, in high school when I was a kid. I maybe learned a few more things than they might learn today, so I worry that the basics should be in every school, right? Every one of those should be in every school. Okay.

And this slide really shows the system working together, master scheduling, work based learning, advanced course work, and family engagement. So the goal is really clear. A lot of it is working with counselors and the master scheduling to make sure like I said that there are these clear pathways for students. They that they know which what trajectory they are on in their college and career readiness. Did it go backwards? Okay. Recent updates also include new career guides, expanded advising, and efforts to reduce vacancies. We're also prepping for the twenty twenty seven legislative session to address long term work force and funding needs.

What what is that Lee? What is that Lisa? What is the long term needs? I mean everybody's looking for dollars right? We get federal dollars for that, we get the Perkins grant for that, but what what what is that? Did you guys already decide that? Are you working on it?

That's what we're working on, yes for our needs for the next session. I got some information. Yes we actually have individual meetings scheduled with our representative, with our liaison. So that's what we are each going to go and share our input and then it will be

a

collective input together from the board.

I'll send you some input. Okay.

One notable update, several 4A and 5A football programs will move to independent status for the next realignment cycle. While this limits post season participation, it provides flexibility as programs evaluate scheduling and competitiveness. Independent status 4A and 5A football programs. They have formally notified NIAA that they will be on independent status for the twenty sixth, twenty seventh, and twenty seventh, twenty eighth realignment cycle. It will be for a minimum of two years in accordance with NIAA regulations.

During this period the football program will not participate in any NIAA sanctioned post season competition including league, regional, or state competition playoffs. And this is only for football as well. Also in response to the commission priorities we continue to provide data transparency and this includes updates on staffing especially surplus and vacancies. We're seeing ongoing challenges tied to labor shortages but also progress in filling positions and stabilizing staffing. So where we started with support professionals, let's see this was for April 9 when I provided this.

So my data right now is a little bit different. But we started the process initially with five thirty four support professionals identified for surplus. Once budgets closed going into actual surplus and as of last week we had four zero eight. And so some of those were able to accept positions which is exciting. Some people did retire or resign. And so 188 support professional selected positions last week and two zero eight selected no position. So those are the ones we are working with to secure positions. As far as licensed professionals when we started the process we had seven zero seven identified after budgets closed. That number went down very excitedly to three thirty seven which means 400 people were able to select jobs or retire. So that's a good large number.

So we have 103 left, sorry, 103 remaining to secure positions if I that number correctly. But those are all in process. So we've had a good position of them. They're on a hiring freeze as well of not accepting any internal hires. So the process right now is getting all those people secured positions.

May I ask So you a question let's talk about these pending pre K vacant positions. Crazy enough I've learned over the years that you have to have education to be a pre K teacher than a first grade teacher. Is there any conversation, because at the end of day kids do need pre K, it's good for them, right? So they're like little sponges and the sooner we can get to them, but you have all those positions because the requirements, you actually have to go to school longer for pre k than grade school. So is anybody talking about that or am I just falling on deaf ears all these years?

I'm growing tired of advocating for pre k if we can't get the teachers because you have to go to school longer and the cost of the loans.

Partnership with UNLV is to try to or at least make that transition, that process smoother and help guide them through it and give them a position that they have right when they finish. That way they've got a

position to I'm trying to carry fix it at the legislature and they won't buy it. But I mean some of the best pre K teachers are the, and how do we even have a pipeline with our high school kids to get into that field if they don't have this opportunity?

Which has been great to see the teaching and training program, CTE program growing in our schools. So we are promoting that as well and trying to get some of our students in the high schools into those fields. You mentioned.

And so do we think we're gonna fill those 150

spots this year?

I'm hopeful. The filling up positions has looked really well. Mean definitely where we started at the beginning of the previous years lowest in many, many years. So definitely have been doing a good job like I said and right now with hiring, pausing the hiring of any external. I think we can definitely be in a good place for next school year from the reports that we've been given as well.

I have one question.

Yes.

Trustee, we see these numbers, the current number of known vacant positions, then the pending vacant positions that relate to pre K, ELL, and early childhood education. How many positions are there altogether in the, ELL Nevada pre K? You probably don't have that number in front of you, but could you supply that to us in the early childhood special education?

Sure thing. The number say that again.

It's a 150 licensed employees that are pending vacant positions.

Okay.

How many are there altogether, not the ones who have a job and the ones who likely won't have?

Okay. Excellent. I will get that for you.

If you could provide that to us, that'd be Thank you.

Community engagement remains a major focus. We're actively working through the facility master plan process, hosting meetings across the valley to gather input and ensure community voice is reflected in future planning. So we have scheduled more than 40 community forums. Some of those are virtual as well to try to make it convenient. There's some on Saturdays, I know there's some Saturday virtual as well.

And so feedback from those forums will inform the Building Brighter Futures Facility Master Plan that will be presented to the board this fall. The options that will be discussed as part of this are not expected to begin until 2030 or later. So we are just in the gathering information stage currently. CCSD with Contractor Canada Design has already gathered feedback with forums last spring along with enrollment trends, facility evaluations, other data to develop possible options that balance current and long term future needs for the district's buildings. So the forum dates, so this flyer has all the upcoming dates for our meetings.

Please we encourage you know as many people as possible to attend these and like I said if you can't virtual options are available. All the forum dates can be found at fmp.ccst.net. On April 9 we received our mid year performance report from Superintendent Ebert. She has also completed her first one hundred days in the job. This is a formative check and the first time we have utilized a specific process for this.

So it was just an informal report that was provided to discuss factors affecting goals. We selected these goals actually last November as a team of 12. And so we discussed areas going well and potential areas that we wanted to revise moving forward. Superintendent's mid year report highlights some key metrics including 136 schools improving their star ratings. A graduation rate of eighty six point six percent which is higher than many other large urban districts that we compare ourselves to as well.

And over 16,000 classrooms staffed by licensed educators as we talked about earlier. The district secured 15,800,000 in philanthropic gifts. That number is hugely up from where it has been in the past. So superintendent has made, and Ebert has made a big focus on these community partners and raising funds for our students. And let's see we talked about the pre k so we'll go there. And then mathematics initiative showed an 81% increase

student achievement. Mathematics

The strategic plan is being co designed with the community and extensive outreach including those surveys and community sessions. We received through the destination district survey, we received nearly 48,000 responses in over a 130 languages. And the cool thing about this was that 63% of those voices were from our students. So I really loved reading this survey and seeing how the voice of our students come out in that, that's not typical. And then our community dream sessions.

Oh the community dream sessions as well. They were highly engaging work sessions with over a thousand community members. And they were hands on if you had the opportunity to attend them. Had put your paper out and defining goals and really getting down to business. This mid year report is a pulse check to ensure and actions are designed to yield desired results before the final report in September 2026. So we will take these same goals and take a look at them in September as well. All right and that is all I have. Thank you very much for the opportunity to present and I will field any questions.

Thank you so much. Are there any additional questions? Commissioner Jones. Thank you Trustee Satori. I saw a reference to Open Doors, Open Schools on your first slide.

The reference

what? Open Doors, Open Schools but I didn't hear you talk about it. Can you

give Yes, me do not. I definitely have not heard any more updates, my apologies.

Okay. You make sure on that one? Because I've asked about it every single time.

Yes. Yes. And I have asked to be have updates provided to you as well. I will continue to ask. Thank

you. Seeing nothing else, thank you for being here and for your work.

Commissioners, it's now 10AM, so we'll move to the public hearing section of your agenda. Item 38 is to conduct a public hearing and approve, adopt, and authorize the chair to sign a resolution approving the issuance by Public Finance of Wisconsin in one or more series of tax exempt or taxable five zero one(three) revenue bonds in an amount not to exceed $35,000,000 in order to finance or refinance the acquisition, construction, development, improvement, equipment, and or operating of a charter educational facility located at 7038 And 7058 Sky Point Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada 8900131 for use by Somerset Academy of Las Vegas, fund a debt service revenue fund for the bonds, pay capitalized interest with respect to the bonds, and pay certain cost of issuance of the bonds.

Thank you. Is there a presentation on the item?

Mr. Chair, I don't think usually there's a presentation because it doesn't actually impact our, but they're required to have a public hearing.

Yes, I'm aware I thought there might be though. Okay. Anything you'd like to place on the record?

Just to clarify, these aren't obligations of the county, it's just required by the internal review code to present to the board.

Thank you very much. This is a public hearing on item 38. Anyone wishing to speak, please come forward at this time. Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing. Is there any discussion? Commissioner McCree.

Move for approval.

There's a motion for approval. Please cast your vote. The motion passes.

Commissioners, your next item is to conduct a public hearing and approve, adopt and authorize the chair to sign a resolution approving the issuance by the Public Finance Authority of Wisconsin in one or more series of tax exempt five zero one(three) revenue bonds in the amount not to exceed 20,000,000 in order to a) finance, refinance or reimburse the acquisition, construction improvement, equipping and furnishing of a charter educational facility located at 40254035 and 40554145 And 4075 North Rancho Drive In Las Nevada 8900130 for use by Quest Preparatory Academy, fund a debt service reserve fund for the bonds, pay capitalized interest with respect to the bonds and related working capital and pay certain costs of the issuance of the bonds.

Thank you very much. I'll open the public hearing. Anyone wishing to speak, please come forward at this time. Seeing no one, will close the public hearing. Commissioner McCurdy.

I move for approval.

There's a motion for approval. Please cast your vote.

Mr. Chairman, may I ask, I do think common courtesy is the applicant, both of those are in my district, I do think common courtesy, they should at least show up, right? Because what if we had some questions? At least for my district, I don't want them on my agenda if can't they have the courtesy to show up.

Would you like them to come forward, Commissioner?

No, but just for the future they could at least, because we have to explain to the public that this is not Clark County dollars, this is a whole other thing, but so at least they could come to the podium and state.

Yep. I I totally agree, I I think maybe finance can advise individuals in these cases to reach out to the commissioner whose district it's in. If you just

Apologies. We we thought you guys wanted to move quickly. I'm Jessica Shaham. I'm bond counsel from Kutaqwap for the financing.

I'm Wendy Sedlecki from Quest Preparatory Academy. I did reach out to miss Kirkpatrick, by phone and I

was at a funeral, but the point is you could at least come up when we called the item. I'm This not

is our first time ever doing this so I apologize. Thank you.

Thank you.

I'd like to also thank the board and also staff for making this process so professional ized and helpful.

Thank you very much. You can have a seat, thank you. We got a motion. Did it pass? The motion did pass. Okay. Item 39 has passed. That brings us to item 40.

Commissioners, your next item is to conduct a public hearing to receive a report on the non binding fact finding recommendation for the FY twenty six collective bargaining agreement between Clark County and District Attorney Investigators Association.

Thank you. This is a public hearing. Anyone wishing to speak, please come forward at this time.

Thank you commissioners. As I indicated earlier, my name is Adam Levine. I have the privilege of representing multiple law enforcement unions here in Southern Nevada and in Northern Nevada. And one of those that I have the privilege of representing is the Clark County District Attorney Investigators Association. We it is important that the commission realize that you have a formal legal recommendation from an uninterested third party that was selected by both parties, and both parties had the opportunity to present evidence and arguments to them.

What the commission needs to understand is in the prior contract, the DAIA told the county we are grossly under compensated. And the county's like well we're gonna do a compensation study. So we deferred the compensation that we should have received to this contract cycle And lo and behold, the compensation study sought by and from the county revealed that our entry level salary for the investigator two position was 29.6% below the market. The midpoint was approximately 21% below the market, and the top out was 16% below the market. It is what the fact finder referred to as in issuing his recommendation as because of the magnitude of the undercompensation to the market that he made the recommendations that he did.

The county historically when it has been receiving fact finding recommendations has not been accepting them. This is a disservice to the taxpayers. I would go back to '20 fiscal year twenty twenty two for the fact finding with the prosecutors association. The fact finder issued a recommendation. This commission did not accept it at the public meeting, and then spent thousands of dollars on outside counsel only to finally accept the recommendation on the eve of binding interest arbitration.

That same fiscal year, the same process played out with the public defenders union. You did not accept the neutral recommendation of the fact finder, you spent thousands of dollars on outside counsel, and then right before the binding interest arbitration you accepted it. The following fiscal year, the same process played out for the prosecutors again. We had another fact finding. The fact finder issued her recommendation.

This commission did not accept recommendation. You spent thousands of dollars on outside counsel only to finally accept the recommendation on the eve of binding interest arbitration. The only time that process has not played out that way was recently with the public defenders where in fact you did go to the binding interest arbitration, spent tens of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money, and still ended up with the same recommendation issued by the non binding fact finding. It is high time this commission breaks this cycle this and starts accepting the recommendations of neutrals. I would note that the statute, NRS 288 dot 200 sub eight says that at this meeting, the commissioners are supposed to have a discussion of the issues of the parties submitted and the report and finding of the recommendation of the fact finder.

You should not be just simply passing on the matter. You should be explaining to your constituents why it is that you believe that spending thousands of dollars of additional money paying outside counsel is in the best interest of the public. I don't think I'm just about to wrap up. The irony should not be lost on anybody that this commission has recognized National Crime Victims Rights Week, yet the district attorney investigators who are integral to the process of securing rights for the victims of crime are not being appropriately compensated. This isn't just my opinion. This is the opinion of a very experienced neutral arbitrator. Finally, I do want to point out

If you could just conclude your remarks, Mr. Yes.

Your fiscal impact summary has a misstatement which is misleading the public. It states there is an additional 5% COLA fiscal year twenty six and a 5% COLA for fiscal year twenty seven. These are not COLAs. A COLA is a cost of living adjustment to address purchasing power. This is a wage adjustment and your management team knows the difference and is deliberately putting what I believe to be false statements into the public record. Thank Thank

you very much. Anyone else wishing to speak during public comment on item 40, please come forward at this time. Seeing no one, I will conclude the public comment period on this item. Ms. Lockson, this requires a vote.

This does not require a vote, it's just required to give this report to the commission, which the report is in your backup in your summary. You don't even need to accept the report for an action item.

Thank you. Then we will move on, Mr. Schiller.

Commissioners, your next item is to conduct public hearing and approve and authorize the chair to sign a letter of agreement LOA between Clark County and the Service Employee International Union Local eleven o seven for both supervisory and non supervisory units effective 07/01/2026. The LOA between Clark County and the International Association of Firefighters effective 07/01/2026, and the LOA between Clark County and the Clark County Law Enforcement Association, effective 07/01/2026, and extend the same salary and benefit changes to nonunion employees not otherwise covered by a collective bargaining agreement effective 07/01/2026.

Thank you very much. This is a public hearing on item 41. Anyone wishing to speak, please come forward at this time. Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing.

If there are no questions, move for approval. There's a

motion for approval. Please cast your vote. The motion passes.

Commissioner, your next item is to conduct a public hearing, approve, adopt, and authorize the chair to sign an ordinance amending title 13 chapter 13.04, section thirteen point zero four point zero seven zero of the Clark County code to correct clerical errors in table one zero eight point two point six subsection two and table one zero eight point two point six subsection five relating to gas quantity ranges and the standpipe permit fee.

Thank you. I'll open the public hearing on item 42. Anyone wishing to speak, please come forward. Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing. Turn it over for possible action.

If there are no questions, move for approval.

There's a motion for approval. Please cast your vote. The motion passes.

Commissioner, the next item is to conduct a public hearing to approve or deny a special event preliminary approval application from Tau Group Elite Immediate Holdings LLC to hold a special event on 05/17/2026 at Caesars Palace located thirty five seventy South Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada eighty nine thousand one hundred and nine and providing for other matters properly related thereto.

Thank you. Good morning, director Keanu.

Good morning, mister chair, members of the commission. Vince Keanu, Interim Director of Sports and Special Events. So this special event application is in partnership with Caesars Entertainment and Group Holdings. The proposed event is on Sunday, May 17. It's a motorcycle jump to celebrate Tower Group's Omnia nightclub grand opening and also to commemorate Caesars sixtieth anniversary.

We have IC Fire Chiefs Daley and Horvat in the audience to answer any questions at the conclusion of the presentation. I believe we also have Caesars, Richard Von Felt Director of Security to answer any questions. But for now I'll turn it over to the tower group for their presentation. We have Senior Director of Security Chris Massullo and Director of Compliance Renee Rivera Schafer. Thank you.

Thank you. Good morning.

Morning commissioners.

My name is Chris Fasullo. I'm here on behalf of TAO Group Hospitality.

Good morning commissioners. I'm here director of compliance Renee Rivera Schafer, TAO Group Hospitality.

So we're here to discuss the motorcycle jump that Director Vince mentioned. Brief overview and impact of this motorcycle event. TAO Group Hospitality stands as global leader in entertainment nightlife and daylife with a strong presence in Las Vegas. TAO Group currently operates approximately 85% of the large night clubs and day clubs along the resort corridor with over 1,000,000 visitors a year. Omnia Day Club, which this motorcycle jump is for, is a $60,000,000 plus investment located in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip, has created hundreds of new jobs and continues to elevate the city's hospitality landscape.

This world record motorcycle jump will bring a dynamic piece of Las Vegas and Caesars history to the resort corridor building on the legacy of iconic stunt performers like Evel Knievel and Travis Pastrana. This event also serve, will also serve as a lead in to Caesars Palace's year long sixtieth anniversary celebration. The motorcycle jump on Sunday May 17 is planned by Colby Raha who will be doing the motorcycle jump. He's a seven time x game gold medalist and a four time world record holder. This event is expected to generate significant economic impact through increased hotel occupancy, dining and local spending.

The guest list will include A list celebrities, influencers and key hospitality industry leaders amplifying reach and visibility globally. Estimated global media impressions are projected to approach 1,000,000,000 driven by the historic world record attempt, grand opening of the day club, world class entertainment and high profile presence. To get into the details of the event, as mentioned before, it is Sunday, May 17. The event time will take place between two and three. We are looking to close the sidewalk along Las Vegas Boulevard from 12PM to 4PM.

And here on the map you can see at the fountains where the event location will be, where the motorcycle jump will be. It is a professionally coordinated motorcycle jump. It's a vertical jump only. There will be no jumps conducted over any persons or structures. There will be installations of barricades to secure the event area.

We are coordinating with Metro and American Medical Response. We have designated staff for pedestrian direction. We'll have clearly marked sidewalk close signs and detour routes for pedestrian flow and no pedestrian access will be allowed on the closure of the sidewalk. Here is a map that we have of the closure. The blue X's are where the closure is already, there's already a closure there for the new construction of the Caesars Marquis on the corner of Flamingo and The Boulevard.

We are looking to extend that closure with the red Xs north to the southwest corner of Caesars Drive and Las Vegas Boulevard. The yellow arrows represent where pedestrian traffic will be redirected. They'll be redirected onto the Caesars property across the crosswalk towards the main valet, around the main valet and towards the pedestrian bridges. On this map here, this is where we will have parking and transportation group flaggers represented by the yellow dots with the red dot as their supervisor. The black and blue are metro that will have staff there.

We'll have two per post. So we'll have eight total metro with a sergeant. Those metro will work in conjunction with the pat g flaggers to make sure pedestrian traffic has safe passage across crosswalks with vehicle traffic. And then the red and blue is AMR where we'll have EMTs on-site for this. Also this is our third party security positions that we'll have dedicated specifically for the event. There will be twenty five secondurity positioned around the event for crowd control and to ensure safety of the event. Thank you.

Thank you very much. If that concludes your presentation, I'm gonna go ahead and open up the public comment period on item 43. Anyone from the public wishing to speak, please come forward at this time. Seeing no one, I'll close the public comment period. Commissioner Segerbloom.

Thank you, mister chair. I just wanna congratulate you for doing this. I wanna point out to, everyone that earlier in that week, Maryland's parade is gonna be at the North end of the strip. And then in this also in the North end of strip is gonna be this event on Sunday. So between EDC and what you're doing and the sixtieth anniversary, the north part of the strip is gonna be jumping. Bruno Mars, eat your heart out.

I I think that was a motion for approval. If there's no other questions. Seeing none, there's a motion for approval. Please cast your vote. The motion passes. Thank you very much.

Thank you, commissioners.

We have a we have a question. Oh, okay. Sir. You're Fasulo. Is Todd related to you?

He is. How? He's my father.

Okay. Yeah. Good. Thank you.

Yes.

He knows security.

I do. Thank you.

I just wanna say on behalf of the Tau Group Hospitality, we really appreciate you allowing us to do this presentation today. Thank you so much.

Commissioners, we can now move back to the business section of your agenda. Item 50 is to discuss issues in the resort corridor regarding excessive noise and artificial amplification devices in the public right of way and potential ways the county might address the issues and direct staff accordingly. Commissioner Gibson.

Thank you. Over the last several years, we've received and the resorts have received countless complaints about the noise and the conflicts when, there are activities that are resort related that are licensed and authorized by the county, in and near the pedestrian traffic that moves, north and south on the boulevard. The issue seems to be the commercial activities that are occurring on the sidewalk and the dining areas in particular. And those conflicts are increasing. We were out there just the other day, and there were folks that were conducting commercial activities collecting money from passersby in an effort to, be heard, I suppose, but the problem is that the noise levels are very difficult to manage.

It turns out that we have a noise ordinance in the county, but it doesn't apply along Las Vegas Boulevard, for reasons that existed in the past but may not any longer exist. And, because of the exemption, it feels as though there may be an opportunity here to do something that would, provide us some relief. There are also issues related to distance separation between the outdoor commercial activities and resort dining, and one of the other issues that has come up is the extent to which many of those commercial activities on the sidewalk are using amplification of the sound, which is making it even more difficult to enjoy oneself at a dining experience outside. We have with us today Lieutenant Mullins from the City of Las Vegas Marshals office and Captain Dennis, the area commander at the Convention Center Area Command. We know that other jurisdictions have done things to address these kinds of conflicts, and in particular the city of Las Vegas has adopted an ordinance that governs much of what we are considering or what we're concerned about, I suppose, at Fremont Street.

And it's been a I I guess my observation has been that it's been kind of a mixed bag. They've made progress, but it's a it's a little difficult to manage all of the different things that occur. And my thought is that many of us here have taken the tour. We've gone out with resort folks and the police and others, and we've walked up and down the strip at night, and we have seen these conflicts. We know that there are gatherings around those commercial activities that tend to block the flow of traffic.

We also know that there has been additional trash generated along the boulevard that needs to be collected. I believe that action is being taken to increase the trash collection and keep it cleaner. We also have repainted stripes that designate pedestrian areas and areas where there can be some measure of gathering done by those who are conducting those commercial activities. But we're not to a point yet where we've overcome the issues that are affecting us. And in a time when we're competing with the entire world to make sure that the experience that people have when they come and visit Las Vegas is unique on the positive side, this appears to be a time where we need to take a really hard look at both the process and then the particulars so that we come up with something that passes legal muster but that addresses the problem because these conflicts are intolerable.

Now I've asked, or I'm grateful to Lieutenant Mullens and Kevin Dennis for being here. It might be good, Lieutenant, if you were to help us understand a little bit about what the unique challenges are at Fremont Street. And then, captain, we'd have you come up and maybe just take a moment and help us understand the frustrations that the police department experiencing. Because I think that there are plenty of things that can be addressed if we think about them in advance. So thank you, sir.

Good day, commissioners. Thank you for having us here. This is Stephanie Scott. She's actually our tourist liaison officer down there. So I brought her along because she is gonna be far well abreast of all the ordinances as it relates to what you all are talking about. She actually worked convention center area command for a few years as well. So I thought that best of both worlds. But what we have here at Fremont Street

Just excuse me.

Yes,

sir. I said your name, but under our rules, would you please say your names before Oh, you sorry.

Yes. Timothy Mullins, m u l l I n s, lieutenant with Department of Public Safety, City of Las Vegas.

Stephanie Scott, Department of Public Safety, City Marshall.

Okay. So if you guys

are familiar with Fremont Street, I came I took over the Fremont Street substation about two point five years ago. So it was a new entity for me. I'd never really dealt with anything to the level of you guys refer to it as outside commercial activity on our side street performers. So that was certainly a new challenge for us, but what we came to learn is that the mechanism, I know that you all don't have circles and it's about noise ordinances, but those circles ended up being a tremendous asset for all parties involved. That's stakeholders, that's tourists, that's city officials as well.

Believe it or not the performers actually came to, they actually love circles at six foot radius that they're engaged with. The noise ordinances as to what you're specifying sir, there certain distances, ATM machines, intersections, if there's an active stage that performers can actually amplify their music if you will or their voices for that matter. We have decibel meters, there are individuals that are certified in that, So it's about 107 decibels that they cannot exceed from a foot away. And that's really a one second read on up to, I think it's 85 decibels from 25 feet away. So to expand a little bit more, I'm gonna let officer Scott go ahead and give you guys more info.

Thank you. Good morning or good afternoon. Yes, security officers regulate the noise. It is a 107. They cannot exceed that. If they do, it is a sightable or an arrestable offense. So there is a criminal aspect that follows behind it. The 85 foot 85 decibel reading is about 25 feet away. I think that's less important. They are approximately 40 feet away from another performer.

They have to be 20 feet away from every ATM, every door, every intersection, anything that has to pertain to fire hydrants, anything of that nature, 10 feet away from any kiosk and 10 feet away from a patio. They also have the ability, unlike the Strip at this moment with the circles, they have the ability to close circles. So they work with stakeholders in order to close the circle, maintaining 25 circles at all times out of a 38 circles that they have down there, which allows if there is a high traffic weekend and there's a beautiful patio going on and they have music, they can close the circle for those three days and reopen a different circle. So it's really working with the stakeholders, really working with the area down there to make sure that everybody's happy at all times.

If I could ask a question, I wanna make sure I understood properly. So your officers carry decibel readers and are able to enforce the decibel coming from one particular performer versus surrounding sound, they're able to isolate that in an enforcement, in a way that is enforceable?

Commissioner, we don't have anybody that's certified with our agency, however, Fremont Street Security. We work hand in hand with them. There are 70 secondurity officers and they do have security that is certified. So they will usually walk with us and capture those.

So it's the private security that is doing that piece.

Yes.

Thank you.

Are there other questions? Yes.

Thank you Commissioner Gibson. Approximately how wide is the Fremont Street experience? Experience? Do we know?

80 feet wide, I believe it's about three tenths of a mile long.

Okay. Thank you.

Alright. Thank you. Thank you very much for being here.

Thank you. Thank you, commissioners.

Tim Dennis.

Good afternoon. I'm Captain Chris I'm with the Las Vegas Metro over at Convention Center Area Command. I have with me Sergeant Joseph Vanez.

Sergeant Joseph Vanez, I've been with Convention Center Area Command for about seven years and worked extensively on the strips. Obviously,

we've all gone down there and done the walk of the strip and looked at some of the outdoor commercial activity that takes place down there. Obviously there's certain laws that are already on the books that we can enforce that are extremely helpful with obstruction and certain types of amplifiers whether they are the type of generator or something that you actually have to physically plug into electrical socket, obviously those kinds of things that we can definitely enforce. But one of the complaints we're getting from a lot of our stakeholders up and down the Strip is a lot of these the outdoor activity that's taking place, they're bringing now you have the Bluetooth ones, battery operated or you even just have some of these acoustical instruments that are extremely loud. And then there's no really zoning for it. So you'll have different entities coming out and kind of competing with each other trying to get louder and louder.

Obviously if crowds don't form, then we can go in and we can move people along and have them stop or go to another location. However, what we're trying to do is figure out a way to prevent the problem from actually occurring. So a lot of these people that are coming down to our city that want to go enjoy the outdoor dining, they can actually listen to the music taking place at that establishment versus waiting for the crowd to get so large that we have to go in and take enforcement. And I can answer any questions or Joseph can answer any questions you guys might have for us.

Thank you. Are there any questions?

I have a few.

Please ask them.

Sorry. And maybe this is more for our attorneys, but it feels like years ago when we went this long before I was sitting in the seat, we went through, spent tons of money with the newspaper racks and all those things based on the traffic flow of the strip. So it feels like they would, at least when I was down there, they're impeding traffic because people are stopping. Is that not reason enough to move them along? I've said I like the circles for a long time now because we could put them all six miles because it seems whatever we do today, they're gonna find a loophole and do something different, right?

But I'm just wondering why how do they get stationary to begin with?

So once they've created an obstruction of the sidewalk, yes we can go in and we can enforce that and we can move them along. Some of the issues is during let's say during lunch hour or whatever we'll get a complaint from one of these outdoor dining establishments where they're not really impeding traffic but they're just a noise nuisance to the outdoor dining establishment. They're the ones calling in and complaining about it. So unless we can actually show that they're actually causing an obstruction of the sidewalk where you have people walking around them if they go into the street absolutely you're correct and we can go out and enforce that. It's when maybe they're just a single person out there and they're not causing that obstruction and people can walk past them. The dining establishment still has the issue of the noise and they're competing with them.

So when I walked this trip I collected a lot of business cards because everybody had a business card down there and they didn't have a business license. Is that not another way? Do we need legislation for that? I just am trying to figure out because I get it, there was rock bands out there, right, in front of a place that you go to hear the ambiance and have your, you know, look across the way at the fountains or whatever, and then you can't hear or even talk to the person you're sitting with. So I get that, but I'm just like, sir, I feel like we have to come at this like 10 different ways.

And I'd be curious as to what do they do in Times Square? What do they do in all these other places? Because I feel like if they don't have a business license they shouldn't be there to begin with.

I agree with you but based on the way the law is written is if they're not actually charging people, they're allowed to ask for tips. And then you can't you cannot charge them for the business license.

That's an additional law we need to maybe look at.

Anything more? That really is the the extent to which we can talk about this. I mean, we we know what the, complaints are. We know how that there are far more today than there ever have been, in the way of these, folks that are conducting these commercial activities out on the sidewalk. We're getting more complaints as a result.

That means you're busier walking up and down the strip trying to keep peace. We've gotta do something to deflate the conflict, and we appreciate very much the way that you're responding and what you're trying to do. While we were over there, we had a couple of officers show up and talk to both of the groups that were doing their activities, and that's helpful. And it was helpful that day. But the thing that we we also wanna avoid kind of a battle of the bands thing where you have a restaurant that doesn't want the people to be bothered by what is what noise is coming from the sidewalk that has sound piped into the outdoor area, and so they're turning up the volume, and it ends up ruining the experience for folks.

My thought was that we direct staff to take a look at all of these complaints, the challenges that Metro, the Fremont Street experience in any other jurisdiction that has been down this road, come back to us with a process recommendation that would yield some action. And and if it turns out that maybe we do something about proximity early on or something about noise early on and come back and look at it after you had an opportunity to look at all of the rest of the considerations, that's fine. With with us, we would leave that to you to recommend something. But this isn't something that can take forever. It's something where we really need to see you back in reporting on at least the process, but process and the particulars of outcome as fast as you possibly can.

And I I would leave it to my colleagues to offer their comments.

I would just add, and Commissioner Gibson, thank you for you've been leading on this for a long time. I think we all share the passion for needing the strip to continue to be successful. I would just add, and I realize this item is narrowly tailored around noise, but we have all had conversations around some of the other things you mentioned, like the trash. The county is the supervisor of the contract for the strip cleanup. We have to have better supervision of that contract.

I know, Ms. Cramer, you've been working on that. I would ask perhaps public works comes before this board and explains that contract because I think we need to look more seriously at how it's supervised the number of individuals that are on the street. That contract is paid for out of strip dollars, so there's a different sensitivity to the budget there, but I think we ought to do more there. Just today we had an item getting after some of the issues that Commissioner Gibson had been working on related to the elevators and escalators on the Strip.

I think that's really important. It probably is important for the whole board to be involved in that conversation because it's a high dollar issue, but it's a high dollar problem too, and it is all related to how Las Vegas Boulevard functions in a successful way. So, thank you for getting after the noise issue. I think it is an important piece of many of the challenges, Captain, that you and your colleagues have brought to our attention. Is there Commissioner Segerblum?

Just to follow-up with both of you, I totally agree. We need to make the strip like Disneyland as far as spotless and as far as noise goes. There's gotta be a way that we can differentiate between, constitutional and unconstitutional noise. When you go out there and sit at the motorbike and you can't talk to your your person with you because there's some guy on the street with a loudspeaker pumped up, that that's gotta be illegal. So we gotta thank you so much for your help. Thank you.

Thank you for being here. I I I wanna say the the elevator, the escalator issue, and the bridges on, the boulevard is a mammoth problem. And I something I'm remembering something like $40,000,000 an intersection, or I think it's it might be 70 per intersection, 40 per, set of stairs or something. It's terrible. And some of the escalators we inherited from the state, the ones that we spec'd out and built and paid for ourselves are doing a little better in terms of their maintenance, but the the low bidder won when the state put those out for bid, and there is an enormous expenditure that's coming to us to keep those moving.

So thank you very much. We know you have to deal with that as well, and, we appreciate the work that you do out there for us. Thank you, sir.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

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This concludes today's agenda with the exception of the final time set aside for public comment. This is where anyone can come forward and speak on any matter that comes before the jurisdiction of the Clark County Commission. Please state your name for the record.

Hello. My name is Shoshana and I'm a resident and I would like to speak about the urgency for the commissioners to consider the separation of church and state by eliminating prayer from these commission meetings. I also want to give a shout out ironically to the satanic temple who will be here next month to give their invocation prayer on May 19 since they too are a religious organization. Because when you want let one in, you have to let them all in. And going back to the whole issue of the bible which is incredibly gruesome, I've read it many times, I encourage people to read it, most don't.

Most religious people have no idea what's in it. And to mention to you the irony of the satanic temple, they don't believe in satan. Christianity made up satan. It's not even in the Jewish bible part of this, which is 75% of this. It was made up by the Christian groups. They added a Satan. To me it's completely fictional, but a lot of religious people believe in it. And the irony in it is that in this book, if you do the killing count, God versus Satan, because this is the source of our invocation, that's why I'm bringing it up. Satan killed 10 people. God murdered millions and millions and millions of people.

Your God actually aligned with Satan in this story and had him kill the 10 children of a man named Job. And Job was a man who professed his loyalty to God. And so Satan's or God said, well, let's test his loyalty. Let's torture Job, and they did. In the story in the Bible, God killed his livestock, ruined his his life, did terrible things to him, and put sores all over his body among other things, just to test his loyalty.

That's what's in this book that we are using as a source of our invocation. Your God murdered millions and millions of animals by sacrificing them. There was killings, drownings, torturing, enslaving, mauling, capturing men, women, and children, and of course the virgin girls because God is obsessed with virgin girls. It's disgusting and it's perverted. Yet the Satanic Temple who will be here next month is against every bit of evil in this book.

They are not the bad guy. You go to their website satanictemple.com and see what they are really about. They're very actually about a lot of rights. They're very liberal minded and they're about sovereignty and the freedom to question authority. Again, we the people support the complete separation of church and state, so please stop hosting religious services at our government meetings since 70% of the cities and counties in Nevada don't pray at their meetings and we should be one of them as well. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much. Anyone else wishing to speak? Please state your name for the record.

My name is Daniel Stanford, a citizen here of Las Vegas and Clark County. I just wanted to speak on the last agenda item you talked about, the noise agenda item 50 I think it was. As a born and bred Las Vegan, I've lived here all my life. My family has my father worked on the strip. And I wanted to give a bit of probationary support to such an effort to review ordinances and things that can be done.

However I wanted to express my concern to make sure that any activity and any undertaking that we do takes into mind two elements. One, that none of the ordinances or efforts that are passed result in any type of potential loophole or can be abused for the infringement of political speech. To make sure that it's not used as an excuse of shutting down political activities. The second thing I wanna bring up is that as somebody who has grown up my entire life here, I remember a time when the strip was a set of buildings that were either set back or were in and of themselves fairly closed in. The noise contained within the buildings tended to be within.

It wasn't until you approached the openings and actually stepped inside that you tended to hear the activities going on in the hotels and casinos. In fact I remember my father worked for Harrah's entertainment at the Harrah's property in the party pit. And one of the biggest things that happened was a bit of a brouhaha around the fact that you could hear the music from the sidewalk. It caused some concern and issues about ruining the ambiance of the strip. Now we end up with these business entities actively putting patios in public thoroughfare areas.

In my opinion, when you open such an establishment, you admit and accept a certain level of you don't control that space. So when we make sure that we move forward with this effort, it does have to be a bit of a compromise and consideration of you have accepted a bit of that you will have these outside noises. But that being said, you shouldn't have outside performers overwhelming business entities that are set up. There can be a compromise of hey let's move it down just a little bit so that we don't have that competition going on. So any efforts that are taken I just ask that care be considered to make sure that it is a good compromise for both parties.

And then again, it does not infringe on any political activities that could possibly happen. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Anyone else wishing to speak during this final time, come forward now. Seeing none, I'll close the public comment period. We will recess until tomorrow morning at 9AM. Thank you.