Clark County Board of Commissioners - Regular Meeting

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Good morning, I'll ask everybody to take a seat so we can begin our meeting of the Clark County Board of Commissioners. Welcome to the Clark County Commission for Tuesday, September 1st, 2026. We will begin today's meeting with Commissioner and County Manager recognitions. Good morning, Manager Schiller.

Good morning, Chair and members of the board. Your first item is to honor Clark County participants of Team Nevada who competed in the 2026 Transplant Games of America. Commissioner Becker.

So I am super excited to have our participants from Nevada that went to Colorado and participated June 18th to the 23rd in Denver. We had four Clark County participants of Team Nevada, but there were 10,000 that participated, including transplant recipients, living donors, donor families, caregivers, and medical professionals. So I just want to say, introduce our four Clark County residents, John Huck, former Fox 5 evening anchor, and living kidney donor to his father, Chris Lance, liver transplant recipient, Maggie Caracciola, heart transplant recipient, and Dinora Arambula, kidney transplant recipient, celebrating 15 years.

Thank you. Thank you so much, Commissioner Becker, Chairman Naft, members of the board. You know, I've covered many of your careers for decades, and you're usually used to me coming in and asking you obnoxious questions, but today I'm just here to say thanks. Thank you so much. And I also want to thank HHS Regional Director Victoria Seaman, who got this proclamation moving. She was in Denver for the opening ceremonies, and we really do appreciate her support. On behalf of Team Nevada and the Nevada Donor Network, we thank you for recognizing Chris, Maggie, and Denora and our teammates who competed in Denver this June. And I also want to thank Sam Savali. Where are you, Sam? There you are. Her team at the Nevada Donor Network has done so much for this organization and for all of us. In Denver, they moved through Denver faster than the athletes to capture our competitions so that they could get it back to the television stations and online so people in Nevada could watch us compete. And the Transplant Games of America is a celebration of second chances. You know, it was fun to get back in the pool and compete like I did as a high school kid back in the day. But what really struck me was walking around and seeing the, I'm a living donor, but seeing the recipients wearing pictures of the donors on their shirts and their names. And it was such a lovely tribute. And it just, it really got to me. And they carried those faces onto the pool deck and onto the track, and some of those people told me their stories, and they were literally hours away from either having to go on dialysis or even death. But they told me that help arrived, and thanks to the participation, you've shown us human resilience. And it also speaks to a gift someone else chose to give. So 14 of us represented Nevada. We came home with 39 medals, 25 gold. And those medals, though, belong as much to the donor and the donor's family as they do to anyone on the podium. And next year, I know that a couple of us, you and me, are headed to the World Transplant Games in Belgium. We're looking forward to that. The work isn't finished. Nearly 700 Nevadans are waiting for a life-saving transplant. More than 105,000 Americans are on the list. So if you're not already registered, I respectfully urge you to register as a donor. That one decision can put another athlete on the starting block and give another family more time with their loved one. So thank you again, Commissioner Becker. And thank you, there you are, Commissioner Becker, and thank you to this board for shining a light on donation in our city. Thank you so much.

Thank you.

One more.

Thank you.

Just wonderful to bring awareness to these awesome organizations that we have in this state, in this country, that help other people and help families, so always keep that in mind. I have one other thing today.

I'll read it in for you, Commissioner.

Oh, no worries. Kevin.

Your next item is to honor Joe Brown for his years of dedicated service and contributions to the Southern Nevada community. Commissioner Becker.

So come on up, Joe Brown. Joe Brown has been in Nevada for a very, very long time. I would even say that he shaped the way our state works for more than five decades of service and leadership, dating back to his arrival in 1968. Joe holds the unique distinction of being the only person in Nevada history appointed to all three major regulatory commissions, the Nevada Wildlife Commission, the Nevada Athletic Commission, and the Nevada Gaming Commission. His public service also includes presidential appointments to the State Justice Institute and the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission. But more than that, just for me personally, Joe Brown wrote my letters to get me into law school, all right? Joe Brown wrote my letters so that they would accept me into the bar of Nevada. Joe Brown has been there for me personally since I was young. So I personally love Joe Brown, but I think everybody, everyone has come up to me today and said how much they also love Joe Brown. Everyone loves Joe Brown. What is it that they call you?

The guest?

America's guest because there's no place in the United States or probably the world that you can go that someone doesn't know Joe Brown. So I am very honored today to be able to recognize Joe in his service to Nevada and this actually came about on Joe's 85th birthday. The mayor, Shelly Berkeley, gave Joe a key to the city and I said well what do you need a key to the city if you get a key To Clark County, because all those little cities are in Clark County. You just need this one. So I said we are going to recognize you at our meeting and honor you and give you a key to the county and a key to the strip, but I think you probably can get into anywhere on the strip that you want. But that's what we wanted to do today is to recognize all of your service to the state, to Clark County, to me personally, and we just love you. Thank you.

That's very wonderful, thank you. As April said, I recently celebrated my 85th birthday and all of a sudden you become a historian. I was reflecting as I was driving down here today, 57 years ago I appeared before the County Commission. It was sitting in those days as the Liquor and Gaming Commission. And the chairman of the Liquor and Gaming Commission was Sheriff Ralph Lamb. He presided over the meetings. I was there representing my client, Howard R. Hughes, and we were asking to put in 15 slot machines in the Hughes Airport out on Las Vegas Boulevard South. was in a good mood that day, and when I got up as a young kid, it was one of my early, I think it was my first meeting before the county commission, Ralph said to me, Joe, level with us now. Are you really Howard Hughes in disguise? And I was taken aback. I didn't know what to say. He caught me. But I've been here hundreds of times since then. Sometimes I've even won a vote. and I appreciate this very much I want to thank everyone for coming here a good group of dear friends of mine are here today I want them to know how much it means to me to have them here and to have all of you commissioners behind this means a lot to me. I saw there's some commonality between three of your uncles were dear friends of mine. My best friend in the world was Barry Becker, April's uncle. William McCurdy's uncle, Greg, was my dear friend for many, many years. Still is. And, of course, Ted Gibson and Jim Gibson were longtime close friends of mine. So thank you. This means a whole lot to me. Appreciate it. Michael, thank you. Thank you.

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At this time, we will go ahead and continue with our meeting. The next item on the agenda is public comment period. This time is reserved for items that are on today's agenda. Anyone wishing to speak on items on today's agenda, please come forward at this time. State your name for the record. You may speak for up to three minutes. Good morning, Mr. King. Please state the item that you're here to speak on.

Good morning, esteemed leaders. Eric King. There's a couple that I found in here that I wanted to speak on. Let's see, it was... Oh, darn it. Anyway, I thought somebody was going to speak before me. I'm just going to find it again. Yeah, the health district one, that is item seven. Okay, so.

What item is that?

Number seven, ratify authorized amendment to the interlocal agreement, Southern Nevada Health District.

nurse liaison services.

So we all know that there's not enough nurses to go around the world, let alone be here. And I know there's appropriations all the time to ensure that that is addressed. And I wanted to speak specifically to how nurses, with all the stresses they have, are encumbered even more.

Mr. King, you have to speak to the material before you. I'm pretty sure that this is a pretty specific item related to an interlocal.

I don't think it's in the interlocal agreement.

Well, perhaps your comments are better reserved for the end of the meeting then.

I don't say that's an unfair statement, sir, given that I literally don't know what's in there. But I feel strongly that if there was less thousands of people going to nurses every year because of heat-related illness, that we would have better service in general from the lower amounts of nurses. that would be included in this interlocal agreement with Southern Nevada Health District?

If you want to step aside, you can read the agreement that's posted on the agenda. If you have questions, you can call me, but this time is set aside for people to speak on items that are on the agenda.

Apparently, there's obviously no particular connected dots that I'm seeing with that one, per your perspective on it, and I respect it very much. I thank you for hearing me on any of these at all, and I cherish that between the aviation and so forth, lease agreement, Director of Aviation, First Amendment.

There's no lease agreement on today's agenda.

I see item 14, Nevada Stars LLC take other action.

First amendment to the concession lease agreement again, which I'm... Mr. King, if you're not familiar with the details of that item or don't have comments that are specifically related to that item, there's ample opportunity for you to speak publicly here, okay?

I cherish that you're saying that, sir, and I know that in general with the public works projects that you do have here, with the little bit of time that three minutes grants me, I would just like to say that to take rainwater, use public.

Okay. That is not related to an item that's before us. You're welcome to step back, and if there's items that are here before us for business that you have details on that you'd like to speak to or anything on your mind, that comes before the jurisdiction of this body, you can speak at the final time set aside. Thank you. Good morning.

Good morning. Will we be able to speak on item 16 when it comes up?

Item 16 is scheduled for routine action and is not currently slated to be heard separately.

Okay, so item 16 is about the consultant for the Clark County Department of Aviation. We don't think that we should be spending...

I'm sorry to interrupt, if you could just state your name for the record.

Okay, Tim Ross, 2537 Dayspring Street, Las Vegas, Nevada. Okay, I'd like to oppose spending $230,000 for a lobbyist for Washington, D.C., because we have business that's not being taken care of locally here. In fact, five-year renewal of that would be $1,150,000 sent to spend for a consultant for Washington, DC. The same department said that they could not afford to replace shade hangers that were blown down at North Las Vegas. So if they can't replace shade hangers, why are they spending money for a lobbyist far away? We're very unhappy with Mr. Chrisley. We were very happy with him at first. He said he would keep our hangers, and that's a different topic. But due to that, and it is part of this point, we have a petition signed by 198 people that I'd like to enter into the record, people that would like to terminate the employment of Jim Chrisley. And we're very unhappy with sending money out for lobbyists in Washington, D.C. What does Clark County Department of Aviation need to send out for a lobbyist to Washington, D.C. when they can't take care of business at home? We've been speaking about this same topic for over a year now, and some folks are starting to get more than restless. They're starting to assemble their legal teams and things like that. It's a small item. I mean, what do they have to lobby for? They're trying to take hangers from veterans and people and retirees in North Las Vegas. Are they going to lobby so they can start stealing from widows and orphans? Start trying to take from... The blind and disabled?

Try to circle back to the item that you're here to speak on.

Okay. We're speaking about the lobbyists. What are they lobbying for? It's not clear what they're lobbying for in Washington, D.C. Why would we spend our tax money to go to Washington, D.C., when they can't take care of the items at home?

Thank you very much. Anyone else wishing to speak on items that are posted on today's agenda, please come forward at this time. Seeing no one, I will close the first opportunity for public comment period. Turn it back over to Mr. Schiller.

Commissioners, moving to your agenda, the next item is approval of the minutes of the regular meeting on August 4th, 2026. Mr.

Chair, I move approval of regular meeting minutes from August 4th, 2026. Thank you. There's a motion. Please cast your vote.

The motion passes.

Commissioners, your next item is approval of the agenda with the inclusion of any emergency items and the deletion of any items. The only change for the request of the chair is that item 33 be taken separately on your consent agenda, no other changes.

If there are no further corrections, I move approve the agenda.

That motion passes.

Commissioners, we can now move to the approval of your consent agenda consisting of items number 6 through 37 and 33 be taken separately.

I move approval of our consent agenda items 6 through 37.

That motion passes.

Commissioners, we'll now move to item 33, which is to ratify the transmittal of Clark County's FY2027 through 2031 capital improvement program to the county clerk and the State Department of Taxation. Made advance of the board approval to meet statutory filing deadline and approve and adopt the FY27 through 31 capital improvement plan. Commissioner, now.

Thank you, Manager Schiller. In a moment, I'll move for approval of this item. I just wanted to comment, since Commissioner Jones had asked this item be held several weeks ago. In that time, I know, Ms. Kramer, you have briefed members of the board. It is really important to me, I think to everybody here, that given the sizable dollar figure attached to the CIP program, that there's extensive briefings in advance with the board, but more so than that, that this item not in the future be taken as a routine action item, that it come as a public hearing and frankly attached to a presentation. I think that's understood, but I wanted to put that on the record and we'll see it again next budget cycle. If there's nothing else, I'll move for approval of item 33. The motion passes.

Commissioners, we can now move to public hearings as it is now past 10 a.m. Your first item is to conduct a public hearing and approve and authorize the Chair to sign the collective bargaining agreement between Clark County and the District Attorney Investigators DAIA effective July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2028 and extend the same salary and benefit changes to non-union employees not covered by DAIA collective bargaining agreement.

Good morning.

Good morning, Commissioners. Christina Ramos, Deputy Director of Human Resources. Item number 38 is a two-year contract between Clark County and the DA Investigators Association. It is for a two-year term from 7-1 of 26 to 6-30 of 28. The estimated cost of the agreement for fiscal year 27 is $4,535. Of the entire agreement, we amended six articles and there'll be 30 impacted positions. I want to thank Jocelyn Scoggins. I'm not sure she's here, the president of the DAIA group. They're really a pleasure to work with, and their partnership to get this contract done was really appreciated. With that said, I respectfully request your approval of the collective bargaining agreement.

Thank you. At this time, I'll open the public hearing. Anyone wishing to speak on item 38, please come forward at this time.

Again, Eric King, for the record, a long time resident here. Thank you all, leaders. I can't speak with authority on all the particulars of what you all have negotiated and so forth, but I would like to say that per some of my experience, I think that greater consideration to this before you pass it or otherwise, going forward here, that the employees that help support all these fine folks that try to keep our legal system in order and so forth, I think to have more attention paid to ethical standards of how they interact with people in the public be much helped and that's for my own experience and I don't know how much discussion has ever been attended to in regards to that but I'm voicing my opinion as a citizen here who's interacted with some folks like that we hear you thank you anyone else wishing to speak on the details of item 38 please come forward

Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing and open it up to the commission for conversation. If there are no comments, I move approval. There's a motion for approval. Please cast your vote. The motion passed. Thank you.

Commissioners, your next item is to conduct a public hearing and approve and authorize the chair to sign a collective bargaining agreement between Clark County and the Clark County Defenders Union, CDDU, effective July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2028, and extend the same salary and benefit changes to non-union employees not covered by the CCDU collective bargaining agreement.

Go ahead.

For the record, Christina Ramos, Deputy Director of Human Resources. The item before you is a contract between Clark County and the Clark County Defenders Union for a two-year term from 7-1 of 2026 to 6-30 of 2028. The estimated cost for fiscal year 27 is $603,617. Of the agreement, we amended six articles and one appendix, and then we added one new article. there will be 152 impacted positions. As with the previous contract with this one, I'd like to thank David Westbrook and his team for their partnership and willingness to get this contract completed. And with that, I respectfully request your approval of the collective bargaining agreement.

Thank you very much. At this time, I'll open the public hearing on item 39. Those wishing to speak, please come forward. Seeing no one, I'll close the public hearing.

Mr. Chairman, I'm at... I abstain from this vote because my son is a public defender.

Very good. Thank you. If there are no further comments, I move for approval.

There is a motion for approval on item 39. Please cast your vote. That motion passes.

Thank you very much.

Commissioner, your next item is to conduct a public hearing and approve, adopt, and authorize the Chair to sign a resolution approving the issuance solely for the purposes of Section 147F of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended by the Public Finance Authority in one or more series of tax-exempt 501 revenue bonds in an amount not to exceed $1.1 billion in order to A, finance the acquisition of substantially all assets of Quorum Health Corporation, a Delaware corporation that consists of hospitals, other healthcare facilities and related assets, including the acquisition of Mesa View Regional Hospital located at 1299-31301 Bertha Howe Avenue, Mesquite, Nevada, in an aggregate principal and amount not to exceed $60 million, and for routine capital expenditures at any of the hospital facilities being acquired, including Mesa View Regional Hospital in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $2 million to be funded debt, service reserve fund for the bonds, and pay certain cost of issuance of the bonds.

Thank you. I'll turn it over to Commissioner Kirkpatrick.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I know this is a public hearing. I did speak with them on the phone, and because Mesquite is always such a truck for people, and their other folks are in Tennessee, I told them it wasn't necessary for them to come, but... Once you open the public hearing, basically, they're going to go to a nonprofit hospital and get away from all of the financing that they have today. And they've agreed to be more in line with the other 14 hospitals that we have throughout the valley.

Very good. At this time, I will open the public hearing on item 40. Anyone wishing to speak on that item, please come forward. Please keep your comments very narrowly tailored to the item before us.

I can repeat some language here again. Eric King, a long-time resident here. I'm understanding that the assets with this fine company, I'm sure Coram Health Corporation from Delaware, a corporacy, that has a bunch of hospitals and facilities and related assets are gonna acquire this Mesa View Regional Hospital and there's quite a sizable amount of money, 60 million as a principle, capital expenditures that seem to be routine, and I'm speaking specifically to how those approvals, the discussions that shape the approvals for the $60 million or other amounts that may be included with other health district-related services and entities, because we have a massive amount of people going to hospitals because of heat-related illness and stress. And my understanding is... Mr.

Chair, I want to call for a point of order because that has nothing to do with what this is. This is a TEFRA thing that's required by the federal government that we have a public hearing on this particular item. So it has nothing to do with anything that we say or do. They have to do this in 15 other places.

There's no allocation of county funds here? associated with this item.

I'm just, I'm responding to the, and without absolute respect for all of you, including Ms. Kirkpatrick, Commissioner, that when I see routine capital expenditures, it speaks very much to me.

There's no expenditure of funds related to this item. This is a Tefra hearing. Thank you.

Thank you for hearing, and I'll take the clarity. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Anyone else wishing to speak, please come forward. Seeing no one, I will close the public hearing on item 40 and turn it over to the board.

Mr. Chair, I'd like to make a motion for approval on item number 40.

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

Commissioners, we can now move to introduction of ordinances. Your next item is an ordinance to amend Title IV, Chapter 4.18, Sections 4.18.095 and 4.18.175 of the Clark County Code to remove the funding limit to amend Section 8 of the Clark County Ordinance No. 2931 to remove the sunset date and associated funding limitations in providing for other matters properly related thereto and to set a public hearing.

Thank you. I'll introduce the ordinance and set the public hearing for Tuesday, September 15, 2026 at 10 a.m.

Commissioner, we can now move to your business section. Your next item is to 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.

Seeing no one, we can move forward.

Your next item, Commissioner, is to appoint two qualified individuals to serve as members of the Clark County Family Services Citizens Advisory Committee for a term of September 1st, 2026 through January 2nd, 2029 from the following applicants, Sheila Parks and Vicki Wilson.

Mr. Chair, I move to approve Sheila Parks, appoint Sheila Parks and Vicki Wilson.

Thank you. There's a motion for the appointment of Sheila Parks and Vicki Wilson. Please cast your vote. That motion passes.

The next item is to appoint a qualified individual to serve as a member of the Clark County Advisory Board to manage wildlife for a term lasting three years from the day of the appointment from the following list of interested individuals, Nicholas Harold Julie Jr. and Stephen E. Stocking.

Is there an appointment recommendation? Commissioner Gibson.

Thank you. I move the improvement of Nicholas Harold Julie Jr.

Very good, there is a motion for the appointment. Please cast your vote. That motion passes.

Commissioners, your next item is to approve, adopt, and authorize the chair to sign a resolution in support of the City of Hope's application to the state of Nevada and direct staff to submit the resolution to the City of Hope for inclusion in its application materials.

Thank you. Is there a motion related to item 45? Yes, Mr. Chair, I move approval. There's a motion for approval. Please cast your vote. That motion passes. Well, this brings us to the conclusion of today's meeting. Anyone wishing to speak during the final time set aside for public comment, please come forward. You can speak on any matter that comes before. the jurisdiction of this body, please state your name for the record, and you may speak for up to three minutes. Good morning.

Good morning. Chair, members of the Clark County Commission, my name is Steve Sanson, President of Veterans in Politics. I'm here with Stephanie Phillips. And we're here in our personal capacity to endorse Commissioner Jim Gibson for reelection to represent District G. I have known Jim since 2003 when he was mayor of Henderson. During the past 23 years, I have observed his character, judgment, and dedication to public service. Jim served three terms as Henderson mayor from 1997 through 2009. He guided the city through tremendous growth as Henderson became Nevada's second largest city. His administration updated the city's comprehension plan, created its nationally recognized development service center, and helped establish the West Henderson Business District. Jim also supported the Apple Partnership, a literacy program for children from kindergarten through third grade. He led the effort to establish Nevada State College and now Nevada State University. These accomplishments demonstrate leadership focused not only on immediate needs but also on future generations. In 2006, Jim sought the Democratic nomination for governor. When that campaign ended, his commitment to serving Nevada continued. In 2017, Republican Governor Brian Sandoval appointed Jim to the Clark County Commission. That bipartisan appointment showed that Jim's experience, integrity, and qualifications were respected across party lines. District G voters elected him in 2018 and reelected him in 2022. His fellow commissioners also trusted him to serve in leadership positions, including vice chair and chair of this commission. Although candidates from from this office appear on the ballot, with party affiliations, I believe county government should operate in a nonpartisan spirit. Safe neighborhoods, responsible growth, reliable emergency services, parks, roads, and water are not a Democratic or Republican issue. They affect every resident. Jim understands that. He works with people instead of against them. He knows Henderson, District G, and Clark County, and he brings decades of experience to every decision. After knowing Jim since 2003 and watching him serve our community with steadiness and integrity, I'm proud to endorse him for re-election. I respectfully ask the voters of District G to return Jim Gibbons to the Clark County Commission so he can continue working for every residence, regardless of political affiliation. Thank you so much, Commissioner Gibbons. Gibson.

Excuse me, Mr. Chair. Thank you. That is one of the nicest eulogies I have ever heard. Thank you so much.

I know you guys get beat up all the time. I figured I'd come here and do a little change. Thank you so much. That's a change. It's different. Thank you very much.

Next speaker, please.

Love to see smiles, love to see praise for people that obviously have earned it, and thank you as well, Commissioner. I take none of the leadership on this board for granted. It may sound that at times I am critical, overstepping the bounds to be so here, and yet I have observed for decades here certain things that could be enhanced with how we treat water. Some of you know a lot more than I. On the ground, boots in motion, what gets done to make water come to homes, hospitals, and all kinds of places where people need it. Take none of that for granted either. My hope is that the words I'm sharing and the kind of wisdom that they stem from are not taken for granted either. because I know if at least a portion of what I recommended is designed for streetscapes and trees to grow more of them more often in healthful ways had been applied in some meaningful way over the past 15 or so years since I've been advocating for that. Really, I stopped some years ago, I have to admit, but had I been encouraged, by some very smart staff that I did talk to in regards to that. I feel strongly that thousands of trees, maybe tens of thousands of trees or 100,000 or more trees would be standing as mature canopy trees right now on street sides with rainwater infusing them with more life and less salt in their root zones. needing less water or maybe none from city or county facilities to grow and thrive and cool and heal people that otherwise go to hospitals because they would see a tree, get shade from it, not go to that hospital that day or that night and feel strongly that they felt better about living here and encourage their loved ones to do so as well. And those are all possibilities with great design for what confronts us now and taking rain out of the sky and most efficiently as we can getting it into places like city streetscapes, county streetscapes where it does desalt the land and does not salt it more and doesn't require more water or maybe any for some of those trees. means that all of our lives are better without cost to taxpayers, staffers' headaches, or any of the other things that are on the way if we don't get a better handle on how to treat rainwater, gift from the sky, I called it the other day with a person in the know, gift horses falling from the sky. Please, let's look at them more than just a mouthful. Thank you, Mr. King.

Good morning. Good morning. Lisa Skirrow, 6245 Edna Avenue, Las Vegas, 89146. I would like to thank Commissioner Jones for representing us for all of these years, and we will miss you. I'm here to speak on the short-term rental issue that we're having and continue to have. I feel like a broken record over 10 years now that we brought this to everybody's attention in light of the murder, shooting, in the southwest over the weekend and a week prior to that in our neighborhood on El Camino there was gang activity with somebody being bludgeoned. Something needs to be done. I'm happy to volunteer to work with all of you to come together with a coalition, work with the county, whatever it takes to control this issue we're having. right now there's thirty seven homes in section eleven currently on airbnb with four more building without permits to make more short-term rentals we need it to stop we want to restore our neighborhood for our families and the safety for animals we are rural preservation estates And the animals are going crazy. The families are going crazy. We just want to have peace and quiet enjoyment in our homes. Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Carroll.

Tim Ross, 2537 Dayspring Street, Las Vegas, Nevada. Commissioner's laws prohibit people from harming others. And the laws are more harsh if someone harms the elderly. At this time, you're permitting Director of Aviation Jim Chrisley to harm elderly persons, veterans, and active duty who own property at North Las Vegas Airport. Now, he's not holding a knife to them, but he's causing loss of sleep, economic harm, and loss of belief in the government. Unlike one of your regular speakers here, I believe in God. I believe in heaven and hell, and I believe there's a special place in hell for those that abuse the older the elderly and children and those vulnerable. And I believe Jim Chrisley is going to go to that special place.

Okay, sir, you can tailor your comments towards the people who are before you for the board. You could speak professionally about a member of county staff, but I would caution you to be really selective with the words you're using, okay?

In fact, I've never known any government or private enterprise person who has lied so much or betrayed the trust of those they were entrusted to serve as Jim Chrisley. So it's my duty to give you the petition I gave today demanding the termination of Jim Chrisley. Jim Chrisley's employment. We don't want to terminate Jim Chrisley. Chrisley has been in this position less than one year and the entire group of people, agree at this time that the airport is a disaster under his leadership. About one year ago, I came to this commission and said, we're rooting for Mr. Chrisley. He has told us he does not want to own our hangars, and he's guaranteed us he will renew our land leases. Last Thursday, August 27th, the airport held a private tenant meeting. They hold private meetings because not only are they cowards, liars, they're also cowards. They want to keep their heinous acts as low key as possible. They don't want the public or the press to be allowed in to hear what they're trying to do to us. So they had their $107,000 consultant tell us that the airport would make more money if they took ownership of our hangers and then rented them back to us. Of course they would. We could all make more money if we just took over the resources and stole them from others. Our petition to terminate Jim Chrisley's employment is right here. The only question is, will the county commission stand up for constituents? Are you gonna stand up for us? Or are you gonna allow them to go get lobbyists in Washington D.C. and do things like that? We're veterans, retirees, business people. We need your support.

Does that conclude your presentation? Thank you. Next speaker.

Good morning. Walter Miller, Henderson, Nevada. First, I'd like to offer a shout-out to the national champion Paseo Verde Little League team, which brings pride to the Las Vegas Valley and Clark County. Congratulations. But this morning, I want to speak to actions that will not bring pride to this Clark County. Let me be blunt.

If you could just state your name for the record.

Walter Miller. Thank you. Yes. Henderson, Nevada. That is a blatant effort, let me be blunt, that is a blatant effort by the Clark County Department of Airports to steal airplane hangars from the many retired veterans and small aircraft owners at North Las Vegas Airport. I teach aviation at the College of Southern Nevada and a part of that class is the history of aviation in Southern Nevada. It is a grand history. Clark County bought the North Las Vegas Airport from Howard Hughes as a reliever airport to move general aviation to North Las Vegas to provide more capacity at Reed International. Retiring veterans and area pilots paid to have hangars built at North Las Vegas Airport. Clark County did not. The taxpayers of Clark County did not. Individuals built those hangars as personal property on land leased to them by Clark County. It was a harmonious relationship. Now, due to greed, the Clark County Department of Airports, or CCDOA, wants to take those hangers away from the owners to make more money. And they are using threat and coercion in an attempt to do so. The hanger owners paid for the construction of those hangers. The hanger owners have maintained those hangers with improvements in many cases. The hanger owners have paid the personal property taxes on those hangers. Yes, the hangers are personal property to the owners. In Nevada, the government cannot take private property for public use without providing just compensation, protected by both the U.S. Constitution's Fifth Amendment and Article I, Section 8 and Section 22 of the Constitution of the State of Nevada. That statutory framework is clearly outlined in the Nevada Legislature Chapter 37. Yet the CCDOA threatens to take the hangers if the owners do not sign new leases that has a new reversionary clause to deed the personal property over to CCDOA without just compensation. And what is just compensation? Nevada defines just compensation as the exact sum of money required to place the owner in the exact same monetary position as if the property had never been taken without negative government offsets. The present and historical value of the hangers is clear and well documented. What is being attempted is nothing but blatant extortion and larceny. After many broken promises by the CCDOA to negotiate in good faith, after rejecting three proposed lease agreements by hanger owner groups legal counsel, after CCDOA brought in an expensive consultant to hide behind, after breaking a promise to involve the hanger owners in the consultant selection as part of true partnership, the CCDOA is slow rolling this essential eviction effort to try and wait out the efforts of hanger owners on a bet the hanger owners will not take this effort

to save their hangers through the nevada legal system to the supreme court thank you very much morning commissioners uh... thank you for allowing us to speak my name is sammy vasilev commissioner kirkpatrick pleasure to see you again it's been a little while uh... i uh... live in henderson nevada and i represent a company called las vegas skydiving adventures doing business as Ferocity out of Perkins Airport. We provide a lot of fun activities and adventure tours for the tourists here in Las Vegas, as well as a lot of local skydiving enthusiasts. We are also a Department of Defense company. We provide military training for some of the best of the best, PJs, United States Army Parachute Team Golden Knights, which I am an honorary Golden Knight. They come here twice a year or more to practice and train for their deployments. We work with Nellis Air Force Base. But unfortunately, our company's facing extinction due to what's happening with Department of Defense. Clark County Department of Aviation, and that is basically what the gentleman before me stated, that the Department of Aviation is actively pursuing into going after our privately owned hangars, converting them and stealing them from us, and then possibly releasing them back to us. That particular move has put our company at pretty much the end of its cycle. We are the only such business at Perkins Field Airport. We're the only business that generates any income to that property, which I personally wrote a very big letter to support the renovation. Unfortunately, when the renovation came, it came without a notice. We were basically notified with a letter posted on the pilot lounge, oh, by the way, the airport's closing and you have two weeks to get out. Well, due to that, our company lost one of our military contracts, because we were not able to deliver the services that we promised to the Department of Defense, which put us in a very, very difficult scenario. So right now, we have about seven months before these leases are up, and I am here to plead in front of you to reconsider this move by Department of Aviation. by stealing our hangers, converting them from a land lease into a facility lease and then leasing them back to us. This will end our company in Perkins Field. We bring about 20,000 people to that valley and we provide a lot of businesses to the local community and economy to local businesses. So it is very, very important. 10 years ago, actually 12 years ago when I stood right here in front of you and in front of Commissioner Capacly, she promised to make Perkins Field and Overton the extreme sports capital of the world. I'm here in hopes that you...

If you'd like to stick around, I'm happy to stay and talk to you.

Thank you very much. This is it.

Thank you. Good morning.

Good morning. Richard McCann, 3816 Lower Saxon. I'm a hangar owner at North Las Vegas Airport and a member of the Hangar Owners Group. Before I continue, I must state that I appear here as a private citizen and none of my remarks are endorsed by the United States Air Force or any other federal department or agency. I say this as I am on active service on assignment here in Clark County. I've been a tenant at the North Las Vegas airport since 2013 and a hangar owner since 2016. When I purchased my hangar, I assumed the current land lease as there were no options to obtain new land lease from the county at that time. In 10 years of ownership, I've paid lease fees and property taxes on time despite being stationed overseas and out of state. In 2023, I was fortunate to have the opportunity for another assignment and I was able to move back here with my family. My wife and I will retire from the military next year, and when we do, we will have to make a decision about remaining here or moving elsewhere. That decision is going to be shaped by the actions and policies of the Clark County Department of Aviation regarding leases at North Las Vegas Airport. I am opposed to any policy or offer of leases that would explicitly or implicitly transfer or forfeit ownership of my privately funded and owned hangar to the county through a reversionary clause or facility lease agreement. If the Department of Aviation pursues such agreements as the only option to obtain a lease and remain at the North Las Vegas airport, I will be forced not only to move my hangar, but my family as well. We must have a safe, secure place to store, maintain, and operate our airplane, but we are unwilling to lose the significant financial investment that is our hangar. Thus, if a facility lease or reversionary clause is pursued, Clark County not only loses rent on one hangar at North Las Vegas, but an entire taxpaying family. Additionally, I am often asked, even as recently as yesterday, by other military members about moving aircraft or aviation businesses to Las Vegas, either to North Las Vegas, Henderson, or Overton. In the last two years, I have advised those service members not to bring aircraft or aviation business to Clark County, due to the uncertainty of the future of general aviation at North Las Vegas, the at times adversarial approach of the Department of Aviation with hangar owners, and the breakdown of any good faith negotiations to date. I've had to recommend that they either wait out this uncertainty or go elsewhere. I am asking you today to intervene with the Department of Aviation. I am asking you to go on record rejecting any policy that would force existing hangar owners to surrender ownership through reversion or other means. I am asking you to direct the Department of Aviation to honor its written commitments with the hangars owners group, to negotiate in good faith, provide feedback by the end of September on the multiple draft agreements the group has proposed, and to present acceptable land leases to the existing owners by the end of the calendar year. I am also asking you to keep Clark County airports open to general aviation and small businesses for both permanent and temporary residents by directing the Department of Aviation to prioritize general aviation over large business jet traffic at North Las Vegas and Perkins Overton at a minimum. Thank you.

Thank you.

My name's Todd Graves, 9745 Mount Cupertino Street. I own a hangar at North Las Vegas Airport. I'm here to protest the revisionary language now being forced into these leases, assuming they actually renew our leases. When I purchased the hangar, I did so with the reasonable expectation that the ground lease would be renewed at the end of its term. That expectation is what made the purchase viable. I put substantial financial investment into this property, money I would never have risked if I'd known the company planned to take the hangar, effectively confiscating my personal property. This reversion language turns that investment into a loss. It tells every hangar owner that the building they paid for, maintained, and improved will simply become county property when the lease expires. No renewal, no compensation for the improvement, just reversion. This is not how a public airport should treat private capital. All aircraft owners and hangar operators are not temporary guests. We are long-term partners who have already put real dollars into the airport's infrastructure. We generate ongoing economic activity. We buy fuel, pay for maintenance, support local flight schools, employ mechanics, attract visitors who spend money in North Las Vegas and Clark County. That activity supports jobs, tax revenue far beyond the monthly rent we pay. By inserting a revolutionary language that blocks the renewal, the company is discouraging exactly that private investment that has improved North Las Vegas at no cost to taxpayers. It freezes, if not collapses, hanger values, stalls sales, and sends a clear message, your capital is welcome only until we decide to steal it. Not only has this issue devalued our investment, but the county's Department of Aviation has been acting in bad faith. We've been told that the county doesn't want to own our hangers, but they insist on adding a revisionary clause that expressly does that. If the county doesn't want to own them, what corporation are you going to hand our property over to? Now I understand over $100,000 they've already wasted on a consultant isn't enough. Now they want to squander another $230,000 on a more expensive consultant rather than work to resolve the situation with tenants like me. I'm not a rich guy who can afford to just write off this expense. Actually, I was one of the captains at Spirit Airlines who's now unemployed and looking for a job since I can't afford to retire yet, despite the gray hair. My hangar is, or should I say was, a substantial asset that I can no longer count on selling if I have to move or don't find employment in a timely manner. I'm not asking for a gift. I'm not asking the council to honor, or I'm just asking the council to honor a reasonable expectation under which I and many others bought our hangers. Move the non-renewal and automatic reversion policy, provide a fair and commercially reasonable path to renewal for the tenants that met their obligations, and protect the substantial private investment already made at this airport. small aircraft owners strengthen the local economy do not punish the people who have already invested in and prefer to be here for years to come again thank you for letting me speak and we ask that you just reject this revisionary language and this non-renewal policy thank you thank you good morning

Good morning. My name is Wilhelm Percival, Colonel, USAF, retired, 8425 Telescope Peak Court, Las Vegas, Nevada. This is the third time I'm expressing my disappointment and concern with the hangar land lease replacement process at North Las Vegas Airport. When I signed my lease 24 years ago to build my hangar, I made the assumption that since the airport had a 60-year history of issuing land leases for hangars, that a new land lease would be enacted when mine expired or that I could sell my hangar at some point. The Department of Aviation has a bureaucratic and lengthy process for examining options at the end of leases. I believe this process is a smokescreen. They already know what they want to do and have hired a consultant to make that happen. They want me to abandon my hangar at the end of my lease so they can take possession of my personal property for free. This is a theft they call reversion. The consultant more or less confirmed this when they would not acknowledge that a new land lease is an alternative, instead floating the idea of a land lease changing to a so-called facility lease, reversion. Further, I believe they are deliberately misreading FAA federal grant assurances to justify this strong-arm theft of personal property. The FAA, in a Part 16 case from 2006, Clark v. The City of Alamogordo, stated that reversion need not be included in a lease. and that according to the FAA, as long as the individual lease term is less than 50 years, it can be renewed with no violation of grant assurances. I just can't believe the county wants to go down this reversion road for no good reason, especially since the DOA signed an MOU to conduct good faith negotiations with our hangar owners group. We've had numerous meetings with them, nothing to show for it except the hiring of a consultant we objected to. to enable reversion. We submitted three draft leases for their consideration and have heard nothing but crickets from the DOA. Now I'm in a situation where I will have to pay tens of thousands of dollars to either remove my hanger or just accept the loss of $150,000 that I put into it. By the way, the DOE thinks the value of my hangar has been amortized away to zero, despite the fact that amortization and depreciation does not apply to non-business personal property. If they think my hangar is worthless, they should tell the county treasurer who charges me more tax on it every year. I can't sell with the current bureaucratic turmoil, and the thought of abandoning my valuable hangar makes me sick. Why do this? Why not just offer new land leases to tenants and avoid all this drama? I implore you commissioners to take action to stop this travesty and treat your citizens and their property with the respect that we deserve. Thank you. Thank you.

Good morning.

Good morning. Robert Devaney, 2857 Paradise Road. Commissioner Segerblom's. I want to say thank you for being here. And here's why. I've been in your shoes. I've not been a commanding commissioner, but I have been a union officer at the national level. And I've had a couple thousand people who constantly wanted to criticize me. And I've negotiated what would be a $2 billion contract. So that having been said, living here, I love Las Vegas. I really wanted to have a hangar. 35 years of flying, have an aircraft, have the hangar, get ready for retirement. These hangars are not cheap. And a lot of people when they buy them, like me, you'll do part of that through a HELOC, right? Makes sense, works well. And I asked the county a year and a half ago when I bought it, are these going to be renewed? Oh, they're always renewed. Don't worry about it. Well, that doesn't seem to be the case. Now, I ask you, put yourself in my position. Would you want to buy something with a note for a piece of property that is leased on ground like a mobile home, typically, and now that's taken from you, that mobile home or that hangar, and you still are responsible for the note, and you get zero compensation back from it. So I feel like this board has been misled, Department of Aviation. I feel like I've been misled. And this is indicative of entities within a county, a union, a political structure that I know well, just like you do, where they're doing their own thing. So I'm gonna ask you all, this can change with the weight that you carry. As our elected commissioners, you can fix this. I ask you to put pressure where pressure is, where it's deserved, to allow us to meet a fair and equitable, reasonable outcome for not only the county, but for the hangar owners. Thank you so much, thank you for your service.

Thank you.

Good morning. Nancy Frank, Heritage Heights Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada. Yes. My husband and I own a privately financed hangar at North Las Vegas Airport. Many of the land leases are approaching expiration. Last November, the Clark County Department of Aviation signed a memorandum agreeing to negotiate with hangar owners in good faith. However, since that time, these negotiations have essentially been halted by the Department of Aviation, despite their obligation to reach a shared agreement. Instead, the Clark County Department of Aviation hired an out-of-state consultant, AMCG. The issue was simple. Today, we have land leases. The county owns the land. We own the buildings. We purchased, financed, constructed, and maintained the hangars. They are private assets, and their owners have substantial investment in them. Clark County Department of Aviation, through their consultants, is now inventing a facility lease model. Under that model, the county would take out the hangers, the owners would pay the county rent to continue to use them. Think about what that means. Today, I own my hanger. Tomorrow, the county takes my hanger and I pay the county rent to use my own building. By FAA rules, the new revenue must stay in North Las Vegas airport accounts, which is already running a surplus. So why do this? The consultants repeatedly respond that these buildings have been amortized and accounting sleight of hand attempting to show zero value for these buildings. That is not true. Amortization is not equity. A building can be fully amortized for accounting purposes and still be a valuable asset. These hangers can be used, sold, transferred by their present owners. Changing from land leases to facility leases is taking private property. It doesn't merely change the form of a lease, but becomes an unreasonable and predatory condition for remaining at North Las Vegas Airport. fundamental question why would the county abandon a successful land lease model consultants have made assertions that faa requirements necessitate that change they do not faa order 519 0.6 c is the ruling faa airport manual they quote does not mandate converting ground leases into facility leases it does not require clark county to take ownership of privately owned hangars. We are not asking for free land. Charge us fair market land rent, but do not confiscate privately owned buildings to turn us into tenants. I respectfully request this commission to direct the Department of Aviation to negotiate reasonable long-term ground lease renewals, including at least 30-year terms. Clark County Department of Aviation significantly signed 50-year leases at Henderson Airport. Please compel the Department of Aviation to meet their obligation and their promise to give us new leases with reasonable length and terms. Thank you.

Thank you. Good morning. Thank you.

Good morning. My name is Nicholas Torno, 4413 Oasis Plains Avenue, North Las Vegas, Nevada, over by Aliante area. I came to talk about public access and safety in regards to small business and my dealings with CCDOA. I'm an aircraft mechanic of 20 years. I'm a crash investigator and aviation safety professional over at Nellis Air Force Base, but these views are not of the Air Force, they're mine and mine alone. Every time we remove property from private ownership, we reduce buy-in from the users of the airport. We pinch the passion and remove the capabilities that philanthropists use to serve their community. Every statute law or restrictive policy that pushes small business away crushes far more than just competition. We eliminate competitive pricing options. We eliminate work opportunities. We push the very mechanics you should be inspecting and repairing these aging aircraft further away from the places that need them. Every closure removes vital training opportunities for our local students. It deprives the young flight instructors of the flight hours they need to advance into the professional flying world. It shortchanges our mechanics and robs all the support businesses like restaurants and bookkeepers of honest work and foot traffic. I spent years trying to open a shop at North Las Vegas Airport. I've slacked on nothing. I've submitted business plans, marketing data, city, state, and federal licensing liability quotes. Southern Nevada Health District has met disposal plans and contracts, built employee training programs, secured private office space on the field, and maintain all of that, and still have not been able to talk with any of the agents or representatives of Clark County about getting an operating permit. It's not a denial. It's just a... just being ignored. I've requested a waiver to use a T-hanger, only to be repeatedly ignored by Clark County Department of Aviation leadership. The kicker is, in my most recent conversation with the community manager, Carl Kleipsig, he said that the county recently took possession of several T-hangers due to lease violations, and then asked me if I'd be interested in renting that space if they became available for commercial operations. So the same things that are prohibited for private homes Hanger owners and myself are now being considered for use by the county to generate revenue, and I don't think that's fair I'm a mechanic by trade. I'm not a lawyer so these things there may be more behind the scenes But I just I don't understand the logic behind it I'm just asking for a fair shot to serve my community and to provide for my family. This isn't about red tape This is about public access and safety last week a local pilot asked me if he could replace landing gear hardware with stuff He bought on eBay As an aviation safety professional, I had to tell them about me watching my boss die when a landing gear failed on an aircraft. It wasn't maintenance oriented, but that doesn't change the fact that maintenance shortcuts only guarantee failure. There's zero room for deviation. I don't want the catalyst for change to be a tragedy. We got pilots from all walks of life. that currently support ferry operations for puppy adoptions and medevac flights and organs, youth flights for the young eagles, and they do all that just out of philanthropy. It doesn't come at a cost to the county, and there's no liability for the county, and that's what CCDOA currently supports, just from having the space. The more difficult it gets, the more dangerous it gets. Thank you. Thanks.

Good morning. My name is William Rode. I live at 3500 Prairie Meadow Street out in Commissioner Becker's district, and I'm also going to talk about the hangars. As much as I love talking, I'm actually going to read you something. Good morning, Chair and Commissioners. My name is Ethan Lawrence. I am 14 years old. I attend Rancho High School, and I am pursuing a career in aviation. This letter brings the voices of my family and all the youth who are involved in the aviation community of North Las Vegas Airport. I hope you will consider something that might not be visible when you look at these hangars on a map, in a report, or as part of a financial decision. When I look at these hangars, I don't just see buildings, I see opportunity. I see airplanes that inspire young people to dream about becoming pilots, mechanics, engineers, and other aviation professionals. I see experienced pilots and owners who are willing to take the time to answer our questions, share their knowledge, and mentor the next generation. As a young person, having adults who are willing to share their time, experience, and passion with us is incredibly valuable. Aviation is not something learned only from a book. We learn by being around people who are flying, maintaining, and building airplanes and giving back to the community. Through this community, we have the opportunity to learn, to develop leadership skills, meet mentors, and discover futures and careers that we may never have considered otherwise. These hangars are part of that community. I respectfully ask you to consider what would be lost if this community is disrupted. Do not look only at the financial value. Consider their value to education, to mentorship, to me, and to future generations. Young people need mentors. We need opportunities for hands-on learning. We need people who encourage us to pursue our dreams. This community is doing exactly that. The decisions you make here will affect not only hanger owners, but also the young people who are being inspired by them. Please help preserve these hangers. Thank you for listening and for considering our voice. Sincerely, Ethan Lawrence. He couldn't be here because he's in school, of course. Now, my notes. I did not ask him to write this letter. I didn't coach him. I didn't tell him what to say. But he's a very intelligent young man. He's a willing volunteer in the EAA, Experimental Aircraft Association. And he's a leader in our youth education program, which is also free that we give on our own time. And he listens when we talk about what's happening here. And what's happening here is wrong. I'm not an attorney. There may be some technical way to legally justify this, but that doesn't make it legitimate. It doesn't make it right. The mission of the DOA is to promote and support general aviation at the airport, not take their private property. This board has the authority and responsibility to stop this egregious attack before it goes any further. I'm reminded of another poorly thought out attack. After Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto is alleged to have said, all we did was awake a sleeping giant. I think you've already done that. Here's another quote from him. Even the fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants. Last time I called it, you kicked a hornet's nest. Ants aren't very impressive individually, but see what we can do. Thank you. Thank you.

Good morning. James Grahn, 4315 North Tiago Way, Las Vegas, Matt 89129. I'm a military veteran. I talked to you before about the North Las Vegas hangars. But today I'm kind of focusing a little bit different. I can see by the look on your face that what I'm saying is going to ring true to you in that you have unelected bureaucrats doing things that you're not aware of in CCDOA. A little background. I recently lost my best friend.

Sorry.

He made me the executor of his estate. It took a year to move those assets into my name. In the meantime, I'm trying to settle his estate and pay UMC bills. I can't do that because I can't settle the estate. A year just to reassign a lease. It should have taken a day, maybe two. So a year or so ago, Ben Szczewski stood in front of this hanger owners group and said, these hangers are worthless. They're decrepit. They need to be torn down. Less than a month later, I'm getting Karina to do a walkthrough of these three hangers that I'm inheriting. And she says to me, almost to a quote, and I wish I recorded it, this is going to be a hard sell to the business office at McCarran because these hangers are so valuable, we got a waiting list. OK, which is it? Who's lying? OK, simple as that. Commissioner Kirkpatrick, you said you like the Sunshine and Tailwinds Cafe. Do you know how long it took Tara to get a lease? Six years. And the reason she got a lease is because she stood right here and asked you for it. Because all of her applications were sitting on Ben's desk and never made it to Virginia. She never even saw it. unelected bureaucrat do you know have you talked to her recently about the abuse she takes on a daily basis from park county doa i mean it's incredible and i i she has more intestinal fortitude than i would have and you compare the restaurant at henderson with her and what is paid for down there and is not paid for at north las vegas it's just vindictiveness it's it's all it is um You just met Nick, who's been three years trying to get an operating permit, and now they're trying to steal our hangars. So our reputation in the aviation world is worth a lot, and the aviation world is pretty small. I've told three friends of mine not to bring an airplane here. You heard from Ike that he's told people not to bring an airplane here. The word's getting out that this is an anti-small business valley. You don't want our business, and you don't want our airplanes here. So what happens if we leave? The restaurant you love is going to close. She knows it. We know it. Flight schools are already closing. Several of them have already closed. My neighbor is a police officer.

Finish your thought.

My neighbor is a police officer. I'm teaching his 16-year-old son to fly for free on my dime. I bought an airplane just to do that. I can't do that if you take my anger.

Thank you. Good morning.

Good morning, Commissioners. My name is Paul Baxter. I live at 3757 River Heights Lane in Logandale in the Moapa Valley. I retired in June of this year as a captain of Southwest Airlines, and before that I served 22 years in the Air Force. F-15 fighter pilot, eight of them here at Nellis, about 28 years in the Valley here. Hold an aviation degree, aviation management degree. I've got two aircraft that I own and a hangar for at Perkins Field up in your county airport in Overton. I'm here about the hangar facility lease and the reversion policies that the Department of Aviation is developing because it doesn't just affect North Las Vegas. The consultant's contract covers Perkins Field as well. There's 11 hangers up at Perkins built and paid for by families in our valley at a field in a community cleared by hand and named by two Overton boys who died serving the country in World War II. Here's why I'm concerned, and I'll keep it simple. In January this year, eight months ago, I bought my hanger for $285,000. The county required a bill of sale. The county reviewed it and executed the consent to assignment. The county processed the transfer and the county assessor taxed me today as the owner of that hanger, every step certified by this county's own government this year. And yet the department's consultant is now presenting a policy under which hangers, like mine, would become county property, either when our leases end in March of next year or the moment we sign new ones. So, commissioners, both things can't be true. The county can't certify the ownership of my hanger in January and then study how to take it away in September. I'm not here against the county or any of its airports. I'm here to ask for three things. First, bring this policy process under the commission's oversight. The consultant contract driving this proposed policy never came before this body as far as any of us know. Second, a written commitment. That existing county-certified private hangers will not be transferred to the county without fair compensation. The county manager has already given verbal assurances that have been quoted already in earlier comments of an unequivocal guarantee that hanger owners will receive renewed ground leases, which we all expected, and he would never present a napalm bomb to the commission. So we ask him to have that put in writing or at least considered. And third, include the Perkins Field owners in this process. We're a small rural field with no jet traffic, no capacity problem. There's no reasons why our hangars should be swept into a policy written for someone else's airport. We built at your airport in good faith, and we're asking the county to keep faith with us. Thank you.

Thank you. Hello.

Yes. My name is Ed Yulin, and you guys just never learn. You did the same thing with short-term rentals. You took away the property of 10,000 people and handed it over, their property and their income, over to the hotels. Now you, and I'm part of this lawsuit, you have a lawsuit against you, and the federal court has issued an injunction against you for doing exactly that. The fifth amendment of the Constitution, I think it's the fifth, it may be the fourth, says, yes, the government can take any property they want. And you can do that. But you have to condemn it, and then you go to court, and in the court, the fight occurs about how much you pay for this property. You're losing, you're on the verge of creating a huge loss in the federal court. As I say, they issued us an injunction against the county, and those are only issued if there's a strong possibility of the party winning in the end. And so you can't keep stealing people's property. And that's what you're doing here, apparently. I don't know much about this, but from what people are saying, that's exactly what's happening all over again. You just never learn.

Thank you. Good morning.

Good morning, commissioners. I'm Lawrence Frank, 1262 for Heritage Heights Drive in West Summerlin with the Smekers constituent. I'd just like to reiterate that Clark County Department of Aviation has recently signed 50-year leases, the maximum allowed by the FAA in their manual, to companies at Henderson Airport. So it really is... a no-brainer for them to extend our leases at least 19 more years or 49 years, which is quite common around the United States, yet they're refusing any discussion of that at all. They should be questioned why they get 50-year leases to these companies in Henderson and won't extend our leases to the maximum time here at North Las Vegas Airport. We will all have quite an investment. Thank you.

Thank you.

Hello, my name is Shoshana, and I am again urging the Commission to end praying the invocations at these government meetings because this is not a church. And I would like to remind you, the clergy you invite to come here and pray for you to have a good day and to do your job can refuse to tell police of crimes against children in the forms of sex crimes, physical abuse, mutilation, and murder. And while the clergy can hide child abusers, they are often the criminals as well, as well as church members are sometimes criminals. Examples. Pastor Bobby Cornelius Smith.

All right, no, you're not going to name names. Go ahead with your general comment.

This is an indictment by Clark County. I would like to read something that is newsworthy.

You're not going to attack someone personally by name.

Why?

Because we don't do that here. This is a professional building. You can make your comment. We've heard you out for a year now. You're welcome to keep doing that. You cannot...

These are facts, sir. And these are records on the state records.

Go ahead with your comment without attacking somebody personally.

I'm not attacking. I'm reading articles that I read.

Carry on.

This is not an attack. These are facts.

It's your time you're using.

And these are the facts you're afraid of because I keep telling you religion doesn't belong here. And you're doing everything you can to keep me from speaking. And this is just another example of that. I can read their names. And if you want to arrest me, then arrest me for my First Amendment rights.

Don't be arrested. We'll turn off your microphone if you continue to state people's names.

So this is a hostile environment now for people to speak their First Amendment rights? Carry on.

You've been given ample time to speak.

Okay. Well, I totally disagree with you, and I would like to reclaim all my time.

You can proceed with your remaining time.

You took my time away on top of it. Pastor Smith, sorry, died by Clark County grand jury, nine counts of sexual assault and one of sexual assault on a child, abuse and negligence, no jail time, only probation. A local pastor, da-da-da, was charged with sexually abusing a girl under 14 during a boating trip to Lake Mojave. A Las Vegas pastor was arrested on child offenses of 11 women and girls between the ages of 15 and 23. He was finally arrested by police. He was 52 years old at the time. A 70-year-old Roman Catholic priest was found dead in his home in Henderson because he shot himself after being discovered. He was one of more than 180 New Jersey priests. facing accusations of groping and brutalizing boys. A nine-year-old juvenile was inappropriately touched by a 74-year-old man named Thomas Dodd, who was met through a Las Vegas church. A Las Vegas pastor at Redemption Church used a computer to lure children for sexual misconduct. He was trying to meet a 14-year-old boy for sex. The Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas has paid about $15 million to victims of known child abuse since 1995, and that church is still in business. Another pastor was assaulting his daughter for over six years. He finally got sentenced to 15 years in prison. Again, please separate church and state. Religion does not belong here. There's terrible things that go on with religion. Keep it in the churches where people can go and pray to whoever they want.

Thank you very much. Anyone else wishing to speak?

Joseph Sharafi, State Assembly District 8 candidate. I live in Southern Highlands. I wanted to speak specifically about our human trafficking rates, especially when it comes to child exploitation. I am the president of Stop the Traffic Foundation, and we're geared towards ending child prostitution, commercial child prostitution, and exploitation and abuse. We have some of the major issues, some of the biggest issues in the United States. It lies right here in Las Vegas. Some research that we're doing is we're trying to figure out the connection between our low general education rates, which the governor's doing a really good job pulling us down from 48 to 42, which is great, but we are the only state in the union that has a infrastructure for brothels. And so we want to look into research on statistics on coercion and where they're actually getting these women from and boys. to see if there's any support that we can give to those communities because maybe these women yes some of them are choosing to do it some of them are maybe culturally forced into it and we want to be able to support that and we need to support it with statistics and the statistics the statistics are lacking so wanted to put that on the record in public comment thank you so much for your time thank you anyone else wishing to speak

Seeing none, I will close the final time set aside for public comment. We will recess until tomorrow morning at 9 a.m., and we will enter into closed-door session. Thank you.