City Council - Regular Meeting

Good morning. The July 15th, 2026 meeting of the city council will be called to order. This meeting has been properly noticed and posted in compliance with the open meeting law. These proceedings are being video recorded and can be viewed live on City of Las Vegas TV on Cox Cable Channel 2. You could also watch the meeting live online and access other city content by visiting lasvegasnevada.gov slash connect. The proceedings will be rebroadcast on the City of Las Vegas TV the Wednesday of the meeting at 8 p.m. and also on Friday at 4 a.m., Saturday at 7 p.m., Sunday at 7 a.m., and the following Monday at 5 p.m. This building is protected by a state-of-the-art fire detection and suppression sprinkler system. If alarms should activate during today's meeting, please evacuate using the exits at the back of the chambers out to the mezzanine, proceed out the double doors to the terrace and down the back staircase. For anyone that has difficulty with stairs, Please check with the marshal or fire official for assistance. Once outside, assemble on the northeast corner across the street from City Hall at Lewis and First Street. Employees wearing safety vests or our city marshals will inform you when it is safe to reenter the building. For public comment related to the items on the agenda, citizen participation and public hearing items, we have available a speaker card that you can complete and submit to the city clerk. Cards are available in the clerk's office or at the rear of the chambers. If you do not submit a card, it does not prevent you from speaking under public comments, citizens participation, or specified public hearing items. If there is anyone present today that has a need for hearing impaired equipment, please see the city clerk staff. And please note, if you parked in the parking garage across the street, a self-validation machine is located in the foyer between council chambers and the security desk you walk through to enter these chambers. You must have your ticket with you to use the machine. If you do not have your ticket, see security personnel when exiting for a validation coupon. Before we proceed with the meeting, would everyone please rise for the invocation given by Reverend Wanda Floyd. And I asked you to remain standing as she leads us in the pledge as well. Welcome.

Good morning. Good morning. Let us pray. Gracious and loving God, we give you thanks for bringing us together today. We recognize that this council has been entrusted with a sacred responsibility. to serve the people of this great city. As they gather today, grant wisdom for every decision, courage for every difficult conversation, and compassion for every person whose life will be touched by the work done here today. Help them to remember that behind every agenda item, every policy, and every vote are real people with real hopes, real struggles, and real dreams. Give these members ears that truly listen, hearts that remain open, and minds that seek understanding before judgment. May they lead with integrity, humility, and a commitment to the common good. May they use whatever influence they have to lift others up, to seek justice, to protect the vulnerable, and to ensure that every person is treated with dignity and respect. May the work accomplished here today help build a Las Vegas where people have the opportunity not only to survive, but to flourish. We offer this prayer in the name of love and all that is holy, and in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. Please join me now in a pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you so much. We will now proceed with the ceremonials.

Thank you very much.

We won't start without you, don't worry. Good morning, everybody. This is the ceremonial portion of our agenda, our council agenda. And for the first item, I want to invite our Director of Youth Development and Social Initiatives, Dr. Tammy Malish to join us. Our employees strive to meet our values of being kind, committed, and smart, and they work to build our community to make life better. I am proud to announce that the employee of the month is Candace Camarillo. Candace, please join us.

In addition to being a hugger,

Candace is a management analyst and has been with the city since 2016. She is always willing to provide support and assistance. Most recently, Candace helped our SafeKey committee members create a more efficient, effective, and organized planning process for their annual mid-year training. This training supports more than 300 part-time staff members. Candace also recently helped a community partner, UNLV, when the school was having challenges with getting their practicum students approved to begin providing mental health services at five elementary schools. Thanks to Candace's knowledge, understanding, and contacts at the school district, she was able to ensure that all the agencies involved were working together. Candace goes out of her way to provide additional help to anyone in need. Candace, thank you for everything you do. You are an incredible representative of the city. And now I'd like to invite Tammy up and have a chance to say a few words. Then we'll hear from Candace and then we'll take a couple of photos. Dr. Malich, there you are.

Yes, thank you, Mayor. So Candace, as the mayor said, is the definition of team player. Candace always steps up to help no matter which department in the city, no matter which partner outside of the city, or which team member within YDSI. When I arrived at the city, Candace supported our Reinvent Schools Las Vegas program and supported all of that work. and she was an AmeriCorps supervisor and I was taken aback by her ability to mentor, coach and guide our young AmeriCorps members. She poured into them and invested in them and many of them have gone on to full-time careers in the city and outside of the city. She built our Strong Future Technology Training Center. She literally built the computers within the facility that allows us to do, I think most of our council members have seen the work that goes on and every council member has constituents that attend and then she helped Parks and Recreation and Cultural Affairs build their Pecker Tech Park because she's that person. We quickly were able to promote Candace and now she leads our AmeriCorps and AmeriCorps VISTA programs. She has exceeded standards in every area for AmeriCorps through Nevada Volunteers. She has exceeded all of our metrics. She has fully recruited, and she's done it with clean audits every single time. And if you don't know about federal money, it's not easy to get clean audits. And so Candace, and then as the mayor mentioned, she supported UNLV with our Exhale program, getting our undergrad mental health students into CCSDs. I think you see multiple members from departments here because that's who Candace is, our friends from Metro in the back. because she supports their programs. So Candice is just such a great human being. I'm honored and privileged to work with her and shout out to Candice's family and extended family for being here to support her. Candice.

I just wrote a few things. I tested it on somebody yesterday. Oh, I tested it on somebody yesterday and it made her cry. So I think I did okay. First off, thank you so much, Mayor and our City Council for your recognition and to the Employee Recognition Committee. I know that there are a lot of names out there and I appreciate you picking me. Thank you very much to my family who's all here. Sorry, my dad couldn't make it, but he'll watch this later. And someone laughs. And to our YDSI family, Dr. Malich, we have such an awesome team, don't we? So right over here to our YDSI family, thank you. I'm so grateful to be recognized as the city's employee of the month. I've been with the city almost 10 years, and without a doubt, this has been the hardest year, but also the most rewarding. For those of you who don't know, I serve as the AmeriCorps program director out of the Department of Youth Development and Social Initiatives. Just over a year ago, our AmeriCorps program was abruptly terminated. With a single 8 AM email, more than 40 of our service members lost their positions and our community lost services we promised to provide. This was undeniably the hardest day I've ever experienced during my time with the city. But that experience changed me. I grew, it challenged me to become smarter, to work harder, and be relentless in finding solutions. What never changed was why I do this work. I continue to care deeply about our members and the community that we serve, and I fought for every one of them. Because of that effort and a whole lot of teamwork, we were able to reinstate our program, and every member ultimately got what they deserved and earned. We can absolutely clap for that. Receiving this recognition is incredibly meaningful to me because it reminds me that perseverance matters, that service matters, and that leading with compassion matters. It affirms that I'm walking in my purpose, and it reminds me that even during the hardest times, the work is worth it. Thank you to my leadership, my teammates, and everyone who believes in our program and supported us through one of our toughest moments. This recognition may have my name on it, but it reflects the resilience, teamwork, and heart of so many people. I'm honored to accept it, and I'm excited to keep serving the city of Las Vegas alongside all of you. Thank you.

For our final item, I have the pleasure of recognizing a true superstar in our community, Judy Perez-Siegel. Judy, would you please join us at the podium?

Oh, we need... I love you.

all right well you need to be near me okay all right um judy is a very long time friend to me uh not only to me but to our entire community she moved to las vegas in 2004 i remember that very very well where she managed the day-to-day operations of a fast-growing, multi-residential real estate portfolio. Now she runs a diverse collection of properties, such as the multifamily units, hotels, retail... I was hoping... land developments across multiple states. She currently oversees all the philanthropic and governmental affairs for the company and serves as a liaison between the local government community and nonprofit organizations. She also serves on the Nevada Commission for Tourism and is an advocate, a strong advocate for Las Vegas. In addition to that, she loves creating smiles with her fun and whimsical Pinkfock Donuts brand, one of my personal favorites. On Sundays, you could find her at Segal's Bagel Mania. greeting customers and serving them bagels and deli scoops at their tables. Judy, before I go on, I just want to say in a very personal way, how much I love and admire you. What an extraordinary impact you have made on this community and what a wonderful role model, not only to the rest of your fellow citizens, but to your children as well. And so I'm just delighted to see him. I usually see him at Bagel Mania on Sundays. I want to thank you for everything you do. And I also understand that you're now in charge of the library reach out in ward two. We're very cool. So we appreciate that as well. And so I thank you for everything you do to make our city a better place. And I'd love to give you a chance to say a few words. Then I'm going to present a proclamation to you and then we'll take pictures and perhaps you'll invite the rest of your family to come down and join us for pictures. Is that okay, rest of your family?

Okay.

All right. Judy, would you say a few words? And I know you don't love doing that, but I appreciate it if you did.

Mayor, thank you so much. City Council, thank you so much. My two boys that are here, Jackson and Nixon, thank you for coming, letting me wake you up so early in the morning. You're in summer and you were on board to come and see mommy. Thank you, guys. I truly wouldn't be standing up here if it wasn't for every single one of you guys and the partnership that you have created with us, with the City of Las Vegas. So thank you for your commitment, your dedication. It truly doesn't go unnoticed. I know this award probably says my name on it, but really it should say all of our names on it because Because I wouldn't be able to do anything without you guys. You guys are always answering your phones at all hours of the night and day. And your text messages, the millions I send out all the time asking questions. And I can probably stand here and say a great story about every single one of you and how you impact the community. I have a really quick story to share, though, about that guy over there, Peter Lowenstein. So we were new to Las Vegas, and he was a baby planner. And Peter would help me with banners and permits, and he would give me such a hard time. But you made me learn a lot, Peter. Thank you so much for all of the, everything that you taught me, and every note that you told me that just made me get stronger to come back again and again. So thank you. Thank you again. Solo quiero... Okay, all right.

Come on down. Judy, one of the things I love most about my job is being able to present proclamations to truly worthy people in this community. I'm not going to read the whole thing, but I will say this. I, Shelly Berkeley, Mayor of the City of Las Vegas, do hereby proclaim July 15th, 2026 is Judy Perez Siegel Day in the city of Las Vegas. There's gonna be wild celebrations throughout the day in your honor, but we love you. I know it's Judy Siegel Day. What do you think about that? Great. I think so too. So we're gonna take, let me present that to you. There's a little note from Councilwoman Kelly. Okay, maybe the kids can hold it. Ooh. Yeah, to the backside. There you go. Oh, good. But put it down so we can see your beautiful face, okay? All right. Jackson and Nixon want you down here. All right, I give up.

All right, well, okay, let us go to work.

I gave her the note.

City Council will reconvene at 930.

Agenda item number seven. Public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters on the agenda for action. The amount of time any single speaker is allowed may be limited. Please say which agenda item you will be speaking about. All comments made will be cross-referenced to those specific items. If anyone submitted a speaker card or who wishes to speak under this portion of the agenda, please come to the podium and state your name for the record this is your opportunity to address the council but the council is not able to respond or engage in dialogue you may also address the council at the end of the meeting during citizens participation regarding matters within the jurisdiction of the city council although you are not prohibited from speaking during both public comment periods. We kindly ask that your comments are not repetitive. We will set the time at two minutes. Does anyone wish to come forward? Good morning.

Good morning, powerful people. How are you all doing this morning?

Very well, thank you.

That's fantastic. My name is Eric Melchizedek Christ Nimrod. YOU CAN FIND CHRIST IN THE BIBLE CONQUERING DEATH, ESPECIALLY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. I'M SPEAKING CONCERNING AGENDA 19, AND IT'S A YES ON ACCEPTANCE FOR THE FITNESS EQUIPMENT. AGENDA 23 ABOUT THE VOLUNTEERS FOR THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS AMERICORPS PROGRAM, YES ON THAT. AGENDA 25, consulting services for faith-based non-traditional organizations. And I'm sure the presentation by the lovely Dina Babsky, Director of Economic and Urban Development, and the lovely Daniel Casey, President of CEO, President and CEO of Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance, will be a very fantastic presentation. Actually, and also, God is good, and the tribe of Judah, from which the word Jew comes from, the tribe of Judah was born from a hermetic woman, or so-called black woman, Canaanite woman, in Genesis the 38th chapter. So actually, the tribe of Judah is a Canaanite tribe. Interesting, isn't it? When you dig into the Bible without a racist mentality.

Thank you so much. Is there anybody else wishing to address the city council under this agenda item? Seeing no one, we will move to agenda item number eight. For possible action, any items from the 9.30 a.m. session that the council staff and or applicant wish to be stricken, tabled, withdrawn, or held in abeyance for a future meeting may be brought forward and acted upon at this time. Mayor Pro Temp. There are none. Shall we vote? No voting. Ah, oh, thank you for enlightening me. That's very good. Agenda item number nine, for possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the June 17th, 2026 regular city council meeting and the June 18th, 2026 special city council meeting. Mayor Pro Tem, I believe we need a motion for this.

Yes, Madam Mayor, I move to approve the minutes from the June 17th council meeting. And June 18th for the special city council meeting we held to canvas the vote. Thank you. Please vote.

Post. Motion carries. Agenda item number 10. Items number 10 through 25 are on the consent agenda, are considered to be routine, are recommended for approval by the departments and may be enacted in one motion. Are there any other items the council wishes to bring forward? Mayor Pro Tem, may I have a motion for the consent agenda for items 10 through 25?

Seeing that there are no agenda items to be pulled, then I move to approve agenda items 10 through 25. Please vote.

Post. Motion carries. We're going to take an item out of order, agenda item 46, reports and presentations. Report by Dina Babsky, Director of Economic and Urban Development, and Danielle Casey, President and CEO of the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance, regarding the organization's activities and outcomes in the past year AND AN OVERVIEW OF THEIR NEW STRATEGIC PLAN. THIS IMPACTS ALL OF OUR WARDS. GOOD MORNING, EVERYBODY. MS. BABSKI.

THANK YOU, MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, DINA BABSKI FOR THE RECORD. AND I'D LIKE TO WELCOME OUR GUESTS, DANIEL CASEY, CEO AND PRESIDENT OF THE LAS VEGAS GLOBAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE, MOLLY HAMRICK, CHAIR, POLICY COMMITTEE CHAIR, AND ALSO BOARD DIRECTOR, AND MR. BRIAN THORNTON, HE IS DIRECTOR AT LARGE. SO WELCOME. A little bit of background. We have partnered with LVGEA since 2012 when the organization was established. And I must say that the partnership has been really fruitful in many different ways. But in the last year, it really has become, I want to say, even stronger with Danielle's arrival. There's been a lot more engagement. YOU KNOW, WE'VE DONE CONFERENCES TOGETHER, FAM TOURS, PARTICIPATED IN ENGAGEMENTS FOR THEIR NEW STRATEGIC PLAN. SO I'M REALLY EXCITED TO SEE THIS PARTNERSHIP GROW EVEN STRONGER. AND WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO LET DANIELLE PROVIDE A REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES. THEY ELECTED, LVGA ELECTED TO EXERCISE THE FIRST RENEWAL OPTION IN OUR FIVE-YEAR MOU, AND WE COULDN'T BE MORE GRATEFUL.

THANK YOU. Mayor Pro Tem, council members, I can't tell you how honored and grateful I am to be here. And if they do want to sit, I'll give them the break, but hopefully you see that us having board members present, this is a conversation we've had within LVGEA. I've invited all of them. We're giving presentations with all of our municipalities to simply underscore the absolute importance the entire board feels that all of our municipal partners have. and their commitment to our strategic plan and the work that we're doing. So I wanna thank them very much for carving out their time. So we're going to go through a presentational work to be very respectful of your time this morning, but I also look forward to any questions. It is, I've been reflecting it's been, Very exciting about this time last year, I was packing my house in my previous location to get relocated out here, and it's been a wild ride. I officially started the role at the end of August, and my economic development career was largely in local municipal economic development. So I have a lot of fondness and love, and it's fun being back in front of a dais every once in a while. Not all the time, but every once in a while. For anyone, this is really for the good of the community at large that may for any reason not be aware of LVGEA. We are a 501 . Today we have 51 active board members. And we were established back in 2012 in our current form, but we go all the way back to 1956. as SNF, the Southern Nevada Industrial Foundation. I keep joking that I'm gonna get throwback t-shirts because I just think it's really funny and enjoyable, but we'll talk a little bit about our future branding as we go along. And I always like to recognize and let the community members watching get a sense of who our board of directors are, who is driving this organization and leading it for the good of the regional community. So just a little shout out to our many wonderful board members, and we also have additional partners, of course, above and beyond that. So when you look at LBGE and the services that we provide, I think it's very important, and these are some deep conversations I've had with the board since arrival, and they've definitely taken this to heart. They've certainly been aware of it, but a reminder is always important. A large part of our funding is also from the Governor's Office of Economic Development through GO-ED. a little bit under 40% of our services. And we do have requirements to the public good through that agreement and contract. And these are just some very high level highlights on what we deliver as part of that GO-ED service agreement. Regional alignment and open communication with GO-ED itself. So some of the things you'll see on these slides. I'm actually very excited to share that Emily Kue on the economic development team here is one of our founding board members of the Nevada Economic Developers Association. I was able to loop her in as a highly qualified certified economic developer and somebody who apparently doesn't know how to say no to volunteer activities. So she's helping us create a statewide association to train economic developers better, but that's also in partnership with Go-Ed. Tom Burns sits on that as well. It is also part of that agreement that we support key federal and state initiatives. that we work on site selection and broker engagement. Essentially, we respond to and manage all the requests for information that come through GO-ED to the Southern Nevada region, aka Clark County, as well as the city of Las Vegas. And then also inventory and asset mapping were required through GO-ED to maintain databases of information that we have for development zones and infrastructure projects. But some of the things that you see in these little colored highlights are above and beyond an added value that we've done in the last year that I'll talk more about in a second. And of course, representing at the board meeting for GO-ED and reporting and managing information on a quarterly basis to be accountable to the state. But what do our municipal partners get above and beyond that? Why is the city of Las Vegas engaged with us and why have you been for so long? Well, we provide additional support in our local community above and beyond what GO-ED requires us to do for that level of public good. So we also offer, and this is also tied with our agreement with the city of Las Vegas, economic developers direct engagement and support. So one of the things I'm really proud of, we've always engaged with our local economic developers. I think Dina can attest to over the past year, we have had a monthly gathering and we've invited all members of the economic development staffs for all communities in the region, as well as our utilities and go-ed to have a monthly meeting and discuss deal flow, activity, priorities at LVGEA, how we're spending our time and what our outcomes are. We've also started a new quarterly report of the organization. I have a hyperlink at the very end for everybody, anyone that wants to read that. But we also are providing a new monthly deal pipeline report, which is a new publication and a new level of accountability. We've hosted two site selector FAM tours in the last year. This is something that's not required by GO-ED, but really critical to change perception of decision makers about our community. 11 consultants in the last year, and I have three requirements, but now I was sitting there thinking about, I think we have probably four or five that we've received just from their experiences in our community and then sending us opportunities to respond to. And I'm very excited. We are the location of choice for the Site Selectors Guild spring conference next spring. They've never been willing to come out here. They are gonna be coming out and in our region, so you're gonna have about 40 to 50 of the top site selection consultants all at once, chased by a couple hundred economic developers, and we get to show off to all of those folks, so that's pretty exciting. Our engagement with regional business leadership, we've just launched a new growth council of LVGEA that's going to engage everyone in the built environment space. So a lot more about that if you're interested to learn. And also, of course, the city does participate with two seats on our board of directors. And one of the things that we've been spending a lot of time on this year, I have more details at the end, coordinating the regional comprehensive economic development strategy process. And this is different and fully unique from LVGEA's own strategic plan. And we've also been adding on a lot more tools and resources and data and research in the community. So all kinds of things that the team here at the city of Las Vegas has access to through our organization. So these are some of those ROI numbers. These come out of our regional project assessment system and in plan data. Essentially, you plug it into a database and you look at what a company is bringing to the market and helps you estimate and calculate likely the direct induced and indirect benefit to a community of that company's presence in the market. It's also the same tool that's used at the state level for accountability for investment. So this is a little bit of a sampling of regional announcements that LBGEA has worked on over the past year, those specific to the city of Las Vegas that we've supported. And what does that mean for the city of Las Vegas in terms of your investment in our organization? So using these models, that means new economic activity, about $482 in return overall for every dollar that was invested in LBGEA. So we're really proud of that. Happy to unpack those numbers offline with you all to walk through what that means at any time you like. And this is a little bit about the pipeline we have going on today. Active activity right now and some of the value that you've seen for that investment. This is the deal activity. The CYTD is calendar year to date and then fiscal year to date. LVGEA runs on January through December, which drives me absolutely batty because it's always confusing trying to align with our municipal partners. But this shows you some of the trends and the potential jobs and investment that we are seeing in the pipeline of activity that we're managing every day. And for those out there in the community, you're like, what is a pipeline of activity? Are you pumping something through the community? Is it water? We love water. It's not. It means business opportunities that are looking at the community for possible location, relocation into the community, and expansion. There's also a lot of workforce development programs that have been facilitated through our embedded partner with Workforce Connections. And then general activities. I think some of the things I like to show also, just the cost of those familiarization tours, that costs about $60,000 annually, if not more, to host those. Those are pretty pricey but really impactful. The new data tools that we've launched that the team has access to, $30,000 annual investment. So we're looking at economies of scale for our communities and partners in the region. That's the goal. And then, of course, attending trade shows. And I like to say that the convenings of the Economic Developers Advisory Council for Deal Communications is priceless. And this is a snapshot just of the regional deal overview publication that we now have out there for everybody to see. And you have a copy in your packets, Mayor and Council. So what I really want to talk about for the balance of my time is our strategic plan. When I was interviewed for the role, I've told this story a lot in the community. When I was interviewed for the role, and so excited to come here. By the way, my family's been coming out here forever. I was just sharing with Molly that my mother's buying a house, so yay. I know. I have a free dog sitter. So any dog sitters out there, no employment with me anymore. But we're really thrilled about this. And when I started and was interviewing for the job, it was very clear that all the right people are in the room. Everyone cares about diversifying our economy and working together. But we really needed a North Star and a guiding path for our board to understand what LVGEA needed to execute in the community. So we embarked upon that very soon after I got here, late November last year. And we approved it at the board level in early June, June 4 this year. And so now we're already launching into implementation. And this is a three year strategic plan. Everything in here will not be done, but it will be launched and there will be measurable outcomes. And the whole goal is to create a more diversified economy by increasing higher wage traded sector industries in the community. We have updated our mission and vision statement. You see those on the slide in front of you. And, uh, and there's a lot of, a lot of things. And by the way, this is a two slide piece of information in a, 32-page public document that you all can look at at your leisure, and the community can as well. But it matters because we know our economy remains heavily concentrated in leisure and hospitality, which I vastly enjoy and love and celebrate, by the way. We have no intent to not be focused on what has made us great. We want to be greater, and we want to continue to diversify. So this creates a shared roadmap for those diversified, higher wage, and long-term resilience jobs. This is a lot of information on one slide. I believe, Mayor and Council, you have a copy of the little card in your packet. But overall, if you really sum it up, when you look at a Hackman Index, a Hackman Index is a measure of the level of diversification in your community. A one or 100% means you're very diversified in your community and market. We're at about a 74 right now. Hey, it's a C, you know, that's good. But that also means that 26% of our entire economic makeup is highly concentrated, which we know even if you were in a Rust Belt community, heavily concentrated in the auto sector, anything can be very challenging. To get us just to a 76 or 77, that's going to require up to about 34,000 direct, indirect, and induced additional jobs in the market. So this is important to show everyone that moving that needle takes a lot. We're not looking at reducing tourism jobs. We want to be additive to the environment and the community. The way we make an impact is by focusing our work on those jobs in diverse sectors that create higher wages and that are called out on this slide in these diverse industries. So these are the ones we're gonna be putting our outward energy and influence on to try to bring into the market. Everything you see in our goals and key tactics, every bullet point there has a full breakout of the why and the steps we are gonna take to execute on those. And we're thrilled to do this in partnership with all the communities. Just a reminder about the why, which I've just already touched on. For LVGEA, this has been a really critical exercise in understanding our role in meaningfully changing this trajectory. I think one example right here was from a site selector that we talked to just probably about a month ago now, where they said, you still don't have sites for me to put the employment that I want to put in your community. So we have to remember a lot of the work that we're doing in this strategy. While we can call on companies and go to trade shows and bring site selectors out, if we can't deliver a competitive value proposition, for them, then we're not going to locate them in the community. And that can mean workforce-related issues. It can mean infrastructure-related issues. And it can mean time and speed to market. It can mean many things. And so we're going to be working on all of that in tandem. And this is just a little more color for you on our primary measurement indicator on that Hackman index. I think what you'll see here that's interesting is when you look at our number in terms of diversification, You look at an Orlando, a Nashville, a Phoenix, they are actually more diversified than we are. So those are, it's great to have aspirational benchmarks and maybe look at what they're doing well and what they're not doing well. This is way too much information to dig into, but I wanted to share with you all that our board is serious. Board Chair Perdue, when we brought the strategic plan forward, she said, great, and I want the board to see what you're going to do in the next six months. And we're going to lay it out, and we want to know what's happening right away. So do know that my board and leadership has asked me and the team to be highly accountable, and they are also clearly being accountable themselves for the organization. I mentioned the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy, very important for the region. For anybody in the community unaware, this is actually a required strategy by the Economic Development Administration for the pursuit of additional funding and grants at a federal level through the EDA. So we, even before I got here, I can't take credit, LVGEA applied for the SEDS grant and became the fiduciary. So we are actually putting about $80,000 cash plus a significant amount of staff in kind from LVGEA to make this happen. to match the $150,000 from the EDA, but this serves every community in our region for the pursuit of future funding. So we are hard and fast at work on that. In fact, there's a steering committee meeting going on as I speak this morning while I'm here with you all today. And one of the things I did want to celebrate, because we just got out of it, and their team was just so incredible. Your economic development team was definitely front and center on this. We just came back from the BIO International Convention in June to spread the word and create brand. I got to tell you, that sign is a lot bigger in person even than it looks in the videos. It was really great. Dina's team was very intentional of wanting to have a fabulous Las Vegas sign, drew tons of traffic. And we are starting to build a brand and recognition about us working to become a future biosciences center of excellence in the community. And with that, to wrap us up, just wanted to share, these are in your slides. Anybody that wants to see our quarterly report or our annual report is welcome to do so publicly on our website. I'm sure I've already gone too long, but I'm very grateful for your time. Happy to take any questions or move out of your way so you can have a...

Thank you, Danielle, for that wonderful presentation. We appreciate it. Are there any questions or comments from... Yes, Ms. Summers-Armstrong.

Thank you so much for this presentation. This is super, super good information. I don't think I've seen this kind of detail from because economic development is not exactly sexy. So it's wonderful to see you make it look pretty and understandable in these bite sizes. For those of us who represent, I'll speak for myself as a person who represents an urban core community, it's really important that this information be dissected a little bit more. I think we're often overlooked in the urban core for opportunity and potential. I don't know if you know, but we have the Westside Education and Training Center available, which is a partnership with the city and CSN. And we have the ability to train people for these great jobs. I would love to have that kind of personal discussion with you about that. Historic West Las Vegas, which we were talking about earlier in development with the faith-based leaders, has some of the lowest incomes in the valley. And so the only way to improve that is training people to do these kinds of jobs that are going to ensure that they can lift themselves up, right? And so that's the kind of data I would like you to sort of break down to see currently how these zip codes that are in my district are benefiting or not from the work that you are doing, and then try and find ways that we can partner so that we can be partakers of the diversification. I've been here 36 years. I worked in government for 20, well, 30 years. And all I ever heard was the need to diversify our economy. And we're finally getting there. But I think I'll just tell you one of the things I said when I was in the legislature. As a state of Nevada, we also have a responsibility to know what our worth is. And people come here and they want to take advantage of all the fabulousness of our weather and everything, but are they really bringing to our community their best? And I hope that as you all are out there doing this work, that you are really holding these folks accountable to reach to the depths, not what's convenient, but what is the real work in lifting up communities. And I just want to say thank you. I'm proud of you. I was at your first presentation, did a great job, and I'm excited to see what you're doing.

Mayor, Councilwoman, thank you so much. I look forward to grabbing some time to unpack that with you. And I'll just add, it was very intentional. It's a start. If you look back at our mission and vision statement, it's extremely intentional that it talks about creating opportunity for all. I'm a huge believer in that. We've actually done a lot of work, even through the International Economic Development Council on equitable economic development. So we'll discuss that more.

Thank you. Councilwoman Polanski. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Ms. Casey, I haven't had the opportunity to meet you. I'm glad you're here today. I did work with your predecessor. I think we all did with the previous mayor. Last time I think LVGEA came through was right at the football, excuse me, the Super Bowl time. And y'all came and asked us to invest. And we had a return of, I think, about six businesses that relocated here after that investment. And I just want to remind you that we have the college football championships coming and then another Super Bowl coming as a representative on the LVCVA. We have a lot of these very nationwide prominent events happening. And I hope that you use them to do our best to hungry, hungry hippo our fair share of of diversification and investment.

Mayor Councilwoman, I love that analogy. Yes, thank you.

Thank you.

Mayor Prochab. So good to see you, Ms. Casey. It's hard to believe it's almost been a year since you've arrived in Las Vegas. I hope that you like my hometown. I'm born and raised here, so I hope that you find it fresh of breath there and so lovely. The people here really are amazing. I wanted to basically recognize LVGAs and just work with other agency partners that is important and moves the needle faster for all of the local municipalities in Southern Nevada. So I know you work hand in glove with Workforce Connections. I know you're a great ally and partner of the Vegas Chamber. And I think that all of that cohesiveness and synergy, and we were wishing you were going to be across the way Someday, maybe. So that you guys could be co-located and have these just organic conversations about how do we move the needle faster for our region. I mean, 34,000 jobs in five years is not a small feat, but I think it's very needed. And when I saw the numbers pop up on the screen, that 41, the average... hourly wages, $41 an hour, that is amazing. And we definitely, I echo the sentiments of my colleague, Councilman Summers-Armstrong. We want those jobs to go to our Las Vegans. We want it to be for our residents. I hate hearing, oh, we had to bring our workforce from outside of our city. I think we do need to work more intentionally on ensuring that those opportunities, we're making sure there's people in the queue to then feed that job to that is local. So just boasting that I'm a big fan of all the work you guys are doing and appreciate all the help and assistance you're providing our economic and urban development team and landing more and more investment in our city because we truly all need it. Thank you.

Thank you. Ms. Kelly. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. WELCOME, DANIELLE. IT'S LOVELY TO SEE YOU AND YOUR TEAM. I'M VERY IMPRESSED NOT ONLY THAT YOUR BOARD MEMBERS DECIDED TO STAND DURING THIS TIME, BUT HONESTLY, IT REALLY SHOWS A LEVEL OF COMMITMENT THAT IS REFRESHING. I TOO AM A NATIVE LIKE MY COLLEAGUE. HAVE BEEN IN THE PUBLIC ARENA SINCE IT WAS THE NDA. AND I'M REALLY, YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER TALKING TO OUR FORMER CITY MAYOR, I MEAN, CITY MANAGER BETSY FRITWELL ABOUT WHILE SHE WAS HELPING WITH THE SELECTION AND ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY. AND SHE, YOU KNOW, CERTAINLY SHE SAID I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE BOARD IS GOING TO END UP WANTING TO DO, BUT I REALLY FEEL THAT WE NEED SOMEONE WHO HAS A SIGNIFICANT LEVEL OF EXPERTISE IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. something that the agency or the organization hadn't had for a very long time. And I met with Danielle very early, and I was new to this job as well. And what I loved about that meeting and what I think I'm sure she did with everybody because I heard about it, was she came to listen. and she really wanted to understand the community. She wanted to understand what the board wanted and then I was excited to see how the board and the leadership was so invested in the success. We want Danielle to be phenomenally successful and we need LVGEA to be phenomenally successful for the people who work here and for all the reasons you understand. Um, and, and, but you acted quickly too. I mean, you were, you were, and so I want to compliment that from afar, um, because it was evident. It was, it is, it is wonderful to see that there, it's about strategy, a really focus that the board seems, I think, And again, from the outside, far more engaged and cohesive than they've ever been. And I'm sure that's in part also to your selection of Danielle and her leadership. So I really appreciate this information. It's very thorough. I look forward to UNDERSTANDING, AS COUNCILWOMAN SUMMERS-ONGSTROM SAID, SOME MORE OF THE UNPACKING. SO HOW DOES THIS RELATE TO WHAT WE'RE DOING AT THE CITY AND HOW CAN WE MAKE SURE THAT THE EDUCATION WE'RE PROVIDING OR WHATEVER WE'RE DOING, PARDON ME, IS THROUGH OUR TECHNICAL AND PARTNERSHIPS WITH THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OR UNLV OR WHATEVER WE'RE DOING. supports what we need and supports how you're going to be able to continue to collaborate with us. So thank you that. I do have a specific question about the quote that you included on the page that says defining the challenge. And I don't have a page number. Maybe it has a slide number, page 11 on the slide, if they'll bring that back right before. And what was interesting about the quote, Danielle, which came from the one there on the right-hand side, If you could help me understand this potential site selection consultant who articulates the frustration of not being able to find suitable land. Can you help me? What are we talking about? Particularly the endurance as user for an end user versus developer.

Mayor, Councilwoman, great question. Glad that you honed in on that. It's a continual challenge. This specific site selection consultant has actually looked at our market over the years many times. A lot of our local economic developers are familiar with the individual. And they came to us with an opportunity for 1,100 new jobs, family-owned company out of California, good starting wages, internally training everyone up. So very positive. But what they can't find anywhere is 200 acres with infrastructure that could then be conveyed straight from a property owner or otherwise that was ready to go. And when they say developer, they mean that it might already be in the hands of a developer who's planning on carving that up and not able to then convey that to one significant user. So very challenging and not something we've been able to find in the region that's suitable for them at this point. They had reached out to me and it was kind of a direct conversation. They said, great, we've known you for 20 years. Let's see what you can do. Is anything different? Do you have a site for me? And we really tried to turn over all the rocks, you know, some maybe... vaguely potential sites, but nothing that's sticking just yet. So to me, this is a call to action. If those are the types of employment that we want, if they're the types of employment we want, we first have to decide that when we get a requirement. And if so, we need to think about, as I mentioned before, how are we working today? Best time to plant a tree, right? 20 years ago or today, how are we working to figure out whether it's you know, revitalization or property improvement and assembly or identifying sites that need infrastructure. And these can be conversations that go all the way up, of course, to the state level on how we're making investments. I hate the word incentive. Actually, as an economic developer, I like to think about everything that we do, make sure we're doing it as an investment in the community so they're assets we have for the community going forward.

Thank you. And if I may just follow up on that, Mayor, I really appreciate your indulgence. I'm the newest member of the council and I'm here for a short time. So I hope you'll pardon my ignorance. But specifically to this point, do you, is there a strategy about interacting with the BLM or when we're looking at federally owned land? And then I would imagine you're in communication WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING FOR THOSE THINGS WITH EITHER DINA OR HER COUNTERPARTS AND OTHER OF THE MUNICIPALITIES ABOUT WHAT WE MAY BE DOING THAT YOU MAY NOT BE FULLY AWARE OF OR WHAT HAVE YOU. AND THAT WILL BE THE END OF MY QUESTION. THANK YOU.

THAT'S CORRECT.

I THINK THAT'S WHY THERE'S REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY ON THEIR BOARD SO THAT WE COORDINATE AND KNOW WHAT EACH OTHER IS DOING.

Councilwoman, absolutely correct. And those are those monthly meetings with all the economic developers that we're sharing the opportunities that are coming in. We touch base with them on that. We'll have individual meetings with different municipalities as needed. And I can tell you, we have a project not looking within the city of Las Vegas. I have to be careful about non-disclosure, but we have a call at 1130 today about a project that would require some BLM land. And I've spent about two hours already this week on a phone with BLM and with that community.

Okay. Thank you very much, Mayor. Appreciate it. You're very welcome. Ms. Rooney.

Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Danielle, for coming this morning to speak with us. I happened to meet with a couple of tech startups this week, and so as you're going through your presentation, I was just wondering what role do you see LVGEA playing in supporting that ecosystem, either for folks that are already here or are thinking about coming here?

Mayor, Councilwoman Bruni, also another excellent question. LVGEA's scope does not, well, you know, with enough time and money and resources, anything is possible. In our current scope of work and areas of responsibility, we don't see ourselves as, say, being the organization that is teaching people how to be entrepreneurs and startups. But long-term in our strategy, you will see things in there about working to attract more VC investment and investment capital, telling a more critical and important story about the market as a place to do business, especially to startups outside of the market, and really also digging into things like the built environment. So are there ways that we can encourage public private partnerships and development thinking about our university systems and their assets. So we have a lot of examples that we are working on right now that we've seen in other communities that is specifically helped with that. And a lot of times that does plug into the university system.

That's great to hear because I do think that we have a gap. So I'm excited that you guys will be taking the lead on that.

Ms. Casey, thank you so much. And it's been a privilege for me being on the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance Board in different phases of my life. And it just keeps getting better. And you are a remarkable addition to everything that is being proposed and planned by the Global Alliance. Thank you so much for being here.

Thank you, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem and Council. Have a great day.

Thank you. This was a report only, so no action is required. We will now hear related items 26 and 41 through 41B together. 26, public hearing, discussion for possible action to receive testimony for and against the proposed redevelopment plan for redevelopment area three and to provide any direction deemed necessary or appropriate. ITEM 41, 26-0176, ON THE FOLLOWING LAND USE ENTITLEMENT PROJECT REQUEST ON THE 1,350.23 ACRES GENERALLY BOUNDED BY OWENS AVENUE TO THE NORTH, NELLIS BOULEVARD TO THE EAST, CHARLESTON BOULEVARD TO THE SOUTH, AND THE 21ST AND 21ST STREET TO THE WEST, 41A, 26-0176-DIR1 FOR A REVIEW OF THE PLAN FOR THE REDEVELOPMENT OF AREA 3 AS A REDEVELOPMENT AREA, 41B, 26-0176-GPA1 TO ESTABLISH REDEVELOPMENT AREA THREE. THE APPLICANT OWNER IS CITY OF LAS VEGAS REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY. THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND STAFF RECOMMEND APPROVAL ON THE ENTIRE LAND USE ENTITLEMENT PROJECT. THESE ARE IN WARD THREE. MS. DIAZ. AND THESE ARE PUBLIC HEARINGS WHICH I NOW DECLARE OPEN. MS. BABSKI.

THANK YOU, MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, DINA BABSKI FOR THE RECORD. AND WITH ME IS A MEMBER OF OUR TEAM, ALEX STRAZER. HE ACTUALLY WAS LEADING what we're about to present today. So I would like for him to join me in this presentation. Welcome.

Thank you.

So this has been quite a road for us. Last September, you all voted to pass a resolution that would enable us to start the exploration of establishing a new redevelopment area. The East Las Vegas area plan that was adopted back in 2023, one of the key elements called out in that plan was specifically exploring whether a new redevelopment area could be established as part of that plan in order to help with the revitalization of the neighborhood, establish some, or I guess promote economic development and things that redevelopment agency can enable communities to do. So with that, a little background on where we have been as far as the redevelopment agency in our areas. Back in 1986, redevelopment agency was established and that's when the area one was established, primarily covering the downtown core. Then in 2012, we established a second redevelopment area that covers the west of Charleston West and a lot of the medical district. So now we're 14 years later down the road, and that was a good time for us to explore what can we do on the east side. So the team with your approved resolution moved forward on establishing the area of study for the blight study that is required by NRS 279 in order to determine if the area qualifies to be deemed a redevelopment area. The yellow boundary that you see on the map, that was the study area boundary. All of the parcels that you see in the blue were specifically evaluated whether they met the requirements called out by the statute to be eligible as part of the redevelopment area. And by the way, the study was started in November, early November. It took four months for our team to go out and evaluate every single property, document conditions, take photos. And since February, the team was literally doing a deep dive and analysis into every single property to determine its eligibility. So this is a snapshot of all the redevelopment areas if the area three is established. As you see on the map, our agency will essentially cover most of the downtown core. And I mean, I'm so excited for this project or for this initiative because everything that we've done in area one and area two is a great example of what we will now be able to do on the east side of the city. Why a new redevelopment area? I basically already spoke to it. Every two weeks, you all vote on different grants and investments that a redevelopment agency does within its boundary. And the most important thing is with the redevelopment agencies, the way they are funded is by the property tax increment that is generated with new development, as well as the property value increases within that area. So this is a quick slide that shows how does that work. Once the redevelopment area is established, we will send the parcel numbers to the assessor's office. That will set the tax baseline. From that point on, every year, any new development that happens there that creates new property tax as well as the increase in the property values would be set aside for the redevelopment area three to continue through investment in the community. WITH THAT, I WOULD LIKE ALEX TO TALK ABOUT THE BLIGHT STUDY BECAUSE THEY WERE OUT THERE EVERY DAY.

GOOD MORNING MAYOR BERKELEY AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL. ALEX STROSSER, CITY OF LAS VEGAS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT FOR THE RECORD. BETWEEN AS DINA MENTIONED BETWEEN NOVEMBER AND FEBRUARY WE WERE OUT IN THE FIELD EVERY DAY IT SEEMED LIKE ASSESSING NEARLY 1300 properties to see if they met the physical characteristics of blight. This blight study also looked at the socioeconomic data as well to get that full comprehensive view as to if this area met the state requirements for a blighted area. Overall, we found that of the 12 blight conditions, nine were prevalent in this community and two affected, at least two affected nearly every property. Some of our findings included aging buildings. So over 80% of the building inventory was built before 1999. This requires more reinvestment for the property owners as well as maintenance to manage deterioration and upgrade building systems. We also found shifting uses for new users in buildings that were different than what were previously designed for. One instance was a dentist's office that is now occupying a bank with drive-throughs. This creates operational inefficiencies as well as additional deterioration in building costs for the property owner. Crowded spaces, so our modern building codes have requirements that allow for safety, accessibility, and overall function on the site. For instance, some of these sites were located off of major thoroughfares, and some of which required backing onto high-speed right-of-ways. Some were located adjacent to the property line, which can create a fire hazard and spread to neighboring properties. For commercial and multifamily properties, the size, spacing, and overall traffic circulation is a major component. And when these standards aren't met, this can rely on street parking and loading requirements. Economic strain, the visible signs of blight, empty businesses, and vacant lots. HEAT AND NO SHADE WAS A MAJOR CHALLENGE FACING THIS COMMUNITY AS IDENTIFIED IN THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS 2050 MASTER PLAN AS WELL AS THE EAST LAS VEGAS SPECIAL AREA PLAN. THIS CAN DISCOURAGE PEDESTRIAN ACTIVITY AS WELL AS FURTHER DETERIORATE BUILDING MATERIALS. TRAFFIC DANGERS FOR HIGHER FREQUENCY VISITORS THAN PREVIOUSLY DESIGNED FOR. THIS IS VERY PROBLEMATIC FOR residents in this community as more pedestrians take public transit, walk or bike as their commute than compared to the city, state and national trends. unsafe right of way, so this alleyway had multiple trash receptacles lined up the alley which can make it difficult for emergency vehicle access as well as motorists. This photo also shows a lack of lighting infrastructure which can create the perception of an unsafe environment as well as the visible grime and the lack of property maintenance. Loss of value, so making it more difficult to retain tenants can make it difficult for property owners to continue to make the investments into their property to make these enhancements. And so when we have a vacant lot, which East Las Vegas has 81 acres available, this can create a opportunity for illegal dumping and homeless individuals. And unfortunately, when these challenges pile up and become visible, this can impact neighboring businesses. For this project to come forward to you, public outreach was a major component that we really heavily relied on. Since April, this project has been featured in the Ward 3 Council e-newsletter, which has over 13,000 recipients. For the last four weeks, we've had this project featured in the Las Vegas Review Journal. We've had three different neighborhood meetings where all the property owners within 500 feet were notified, providing translation services to have the meeting in English and Spanish. These meetings were at a variety of locations within East Las Vegas, and overall we had approximately 130 individuals show up. Lastly, we had to send a mailed notice to all the property owners directly impacted by this project and the public hearing process moving forward. I want to give a big thank you to the communications team for helping us coordinate our bilingual translations as well as to execute the mailing notices. Last month, this project went before the Planning Commission and they determined that this area met the state requirement for blight under state statute and also recommended a unanimous approval of the redevelopment plan. With that, I will turn it back over to Dina who will give an overview of the redevelopment plan goals and objectives.

Thank you, Alex. Thank you. Thank you, Alex. I also want to join Alex in thanking a few folks. Alex and Sierra Webinar team were out there taking photos and documenting. Communications department and of course city's attorney's office. There's been a quite a rigorous, I guess, legal process for us to make sure we hit every single requirement in an area. So I'm very grateful for that. But to summarize really our presentation, as part of today's action is going to be introduction of a new ordinance later in the council meeting to adopt the new redevelopment plan for area three. And just like with other redevelopment plans that we have for area one and two, the focus is still the same. to eliminate blight or reduce its spread, to keep our businesses in there. But most importantly, it's to invest in the community so that private investment can be unlocked. Because it's so important for us to be able to de-risk projects in this community with infrastructure upgrades, you know, public works, things that could be potentially part of the work that redevelopment agency will partner on. Because once that's in place, private investment will come. And we've seen that in, you know, in downtown Las Vegas, arts district, symphony park, medical district. So we're very excited to introduce this, very grateful for the work that the team has done. And if this is established, it will live for 30 years. And so that is a good amount of years to really bring the community to where it's supposed to be.

So thank you, this completes our presentation and we're happy to answer any questions. Thank you so much. Do any of the city council members have any questions or comments?

And Ms. Rooney. Thank you, Mayor. Quick question, I appreciate the community outreach. It feels like a win-win from where I'm sitting, but is anybody opposed or did you receive any, I guess, concern feedback?

Through you, Mayor. Thank you, Councilman Bruni. There were definitely great questions that were brought up during the meetings, and a lot of them we were expecting because once you mention any kind of tax, we need to clarify that there's no new tax assessments. Of course, when you talk about properties, then the questions come about eminent domain. So that was addressed. And then you know, as we were documenting some of the conditions out there, a few folks were concerned about, you know, potentially having code enforcement cases open on their behalf. And so we answered all the questions. I was in one of the meetings on the very first meeting. And from that particular meeting, I can say that once the conversation was done, that people felt comfortable. Alex, if you want to add any other feedback from the other two meetings.

I would, through you Madam Mayor, I would echo Dina's comments. Overall, the residents were generally curious about the process. Obviously, the word redevelopment can be pretty intimidating, especially if you're not familiar with the project. So overall, the residents were very curious and trying to ask us the right questions to learn more about the project. But personally, I think the residents left feeling pretty good about the project.

All right. In that case, no action is required on item 26. Is there a motion on related items 41A and 41B, Councilwoman Diaz?

Yeah, Mayor, for the record, Jeff Dorcak, City Attorney. I don't think we have a line in the book, but go ahead and mention that it is a public hearing, and if anyone would like to comment, this would be the time, and then you can go back to the motion.

All right. Thank you so much. This is a public meeting. Does anyone wish to comment? Seeing no one, I'll entertain a motion.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. Just give me a few minutes of privilege because this has been a long project in the making and so many hours that have been poured and months in THE EAST SIDE. SO FIRST AND FOREMOST, ALEX AND SIERRA, THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE AND ENSURING THAT WE ARE DOING THINGS PER STATUTE, STATE STATUTE. I WANT TO THANK ALL THE FABULOUS EUD TEAM BECAUSE I KNOW IT TAKES ALL OF YOU. YOU'RE A SMALL BUT MIGHTY TEAM. AND I THINK THAT WITHOUT YOU ALL, WE WOULDN'T BE AT THIS POINT. I want to also thank Ramiro Reyes who stepped in on the very first meeting seeing the need for interpretation and without a doubt just not knowing all the terms but he was doing the best he could to explain it in layman's terms to the community that turned out And then we remembered, let's have more things ready for our communities. Because on the east side, we are 70% or more Hispanic Latinos. So we should be expecting the turnout that need language assistance. I want to thank our comms team, who didn't miss a beat, made sure that we were and we were doing everything collectively and also my ward three team, they've been heavily involved in having conversations with EUD ensuring that the meetings were structured and set up in a way that we're gonna be successful. I'm just so, so excited for this moment because ever since I was elected, I remember going door to door on the east side and hearing overarching the same concern over and over and over. You guys have forgotten about us. Our areas are going downward in a spiral. And why aren't we like Summerlin? Why aren't we like other pretty areas of the city? And that broke my heart. Just thinking about them, thinking that we had as a city abandoned that area of our city and that now that I've been in this role, it's just so incredibly difficult to have all the financial resources to steer the help and to be able to lead change in the area and be that spark that is going to then ignite people's interest in wanting to invest on that side of town because increasingly people are having to drive. They don't feel comfortable going to their neighborhood this or their neighborhood that or there really aren't very many options and so they have to drive distances and we're losing that opportunity for those dollars to stay within the city and our community. So I'm so, so ecstatic that this will help us change and move the needle, meet the need, heed the call of our neighbors that are saying we want better for East Las Vegas. And now this is setting up the ability to have the means, to then execute the vision that is in Nuestro Futuro, our future East Las Vegas plan that we've adopted as a council in 23. We can't really move the needle if we don't have the resources behind it. And I'm also ecstatic about the education set aside funding that we can also tap into because we know that my schools on that side need all the love that we can provide them. So with that, I know the mayor is saying, okay, wrap it up councilwoman, make the motion. So I'm gonna move to approve agenda items 41A and B. Please vote.

There we go. Post. Motion carries. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Very exciting. AGENDA ITEM 27, REPORT BY MIKE JANSON, CITY MANAGER, AND DISCUSSION FOR POSSIBLE ACTION TO APPROVE A NEW TWO-YEAR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS AND THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERS, LOCAL 1285, NOT TO EXCEED $16,387,807 VARIOUS FUNDS. ALL AWARDS. MR. JANSON.

Good morning, Mayor Berkley, members of City Council, Mike Jansen, City Manager. This is a tag team presentation today, so I'm going to have my colleagues on my right introduce themselves.

For the record, Sue Brown, Human Resources.

Morgan Davis, City Attorney's Office. Mayor and Council, outside of the negotiations related to this contract and the official NRS statement that I need to enter into the record, I just want to take a moment to thank a few people and also talk a little bit about the luck that I had over the last couple of months to sit down with the union leadership associated with Local 1285, beginning with Captain Ruben Sanchez, who's in the audience today. I know I had a chance to talk to him earlier. Those are just conversations not related to this contract negotiations, just getting to know that leadership team. And I think it's fair to say we've come away with mutual respect for one another and a common goal of wanting to see the city be as good as it can be. I want to thank Ruben and his team. I want to thank Chief Gray for his leadership in LVFR and really just the entire LVFR team. It's what makes our city a safe city. It's what makes our city a city that people want to live, work, and play in. Also, I'd be remiss if I didn't talk about just the hours and hours and hours of work that a contract negotiation takes. INVOLVES AMONG SO MANY DIFFERENT CITY EMPLOYEES AND THAT INCLUDES CERTAINLY OUR HR TEAM LED BY SUE BROWN, OUR CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FROM JEFF AND FROM MORGAN AND HIS TEAM, OUR ENTIRE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE AND CERTAINLY OUR FINANCE DEPARTMENT RUNNING ALL THE NUMBERS AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW DO WE MAKE ALL THIS WORK. with all those thanks and admiration to so many people involved in this what i'd like to do is just enter into the record the official nrs statement which is pursuant to nrs 288 153 as city manager i am reporting on a new two-year collective bargaining agreement with iaff local 1285 the estimated fiscal impact of the two-year agreement is not to exceed $16,387,807. And with that, I'm going to turn over the rest of this presentation to Ms. Sue Brown and Morgan.

Welcome. Thank you. Good morning, Mayor and Council. Before I get started, thank you, Mike, for the introduction. I want to echo Mike's comments and thank the city's negotiating team, our partners in the City Attorney's Office, Human Resources, Rick Hunt, Dana Graham, and Tasia Curtis, as well as Chief Larry Stoney, and Chief Randall Wilbanks were on the negotiating team. So the item before you today is a two-year tentative agreement with the IAFF Local 1285 Bargaining Unit. This bargaining unit represents approximately 766 employees in the fire department. We started negotiations back in February of 2026, and we had a total of 11 meetings ending on June 15th, 2026, where we did reach a tentative agreement. The bargaining unit took the TAs to the membership for vote, and they did vote to approve the two-year agreement, which covers July 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2028. I'M GOING TO GO OVER SOME OF THE CHANGES IN THE CONTRACT IN ORDER OF THE ARTICLES. FIRST IS ARTICLE 15 UNDER HOLIDAYS. WE ARE ADDING A NEW HOLIDAY WORK TO PREMIUM PAY FOR FOUR PROTECTED HOLIDAYS. WHAT THIS MEANS IS THE FOUR PROTECTED HOLIDAYS THAT WE HAVE LISTED ARE FOURTH OF JULY, THANKSGIVING DAY, CHRISTMAS EVE AND CHRISTMAS DAY. And basically we've agreed to give additional compensation for employees who work on these four holidays. In exchange, we are reducing the number of vacation slots available for these days. So currently this is 12% slots for number of employees who can be on vacation and we're reducing that to 6%. So the intent is for these four busy holidays, we're encouraging and incentivizing employees to come to work on those days. UNDER ARTICLE 17 WAGES, IN YEAR ONE OF THE CONTRACT EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2026, WE'VE AGREED TO A 2.7% COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT BASED ON THE ANNUAL CPI FROM 2025. IN ADDITION, WE'RE ADDING A 2% INCREASE TO THE TOP STEP OF ALL THE SALARY SCHEDULES. In year two of the contract, effective July 1, 2027, we are doing a CPI-based cost of living adjustment. The range of the CPI is 2% to 3.5%. We won't know that CPI until the end of the current calendar year. And also in year two, we're doing the 2% increase to the top step of all the salary schedules once again. Under Article 19 acting pay we're adding a new cash incentive for preceptor certification of $1,000. Preceptors are those individuals who are more experienced and they are the individuals who train and mentor new and incoming paramedics. So this incentive will encourage more employees to become preceptors. In Article 22 under medical we are increasing the biweekly employer contribution by $15 in each of the two years. Article 28, 23, uniform allowance. We are increasing the annual uniform allowance from $1,800 to $2,000. Article 28, EMS compensation. So this is the article that has the most change. And in line with our goal of encouraging more firefighters to become paramedics, we've agreed to a new compensation model for employees who become paramedics. So currently firefighters who become paramedics move into a separate unique classification called firefighter paramedic. Engineers and captains who are paramedics receive additional pay for maintaining their paramedic license and for working as a paramedic when they're assigned. Moving forward, we're eliminating the separate firefighter paramedic rank or title, and instead we're providing a premium pay to employees who achieve and maintain their paramedic license. So what this does is this gives the fire department greater flexibility to assign paramedics where they are needed the most, and it'll help reduce the unit downgrades or brownouts. In Article 29, under HAZMAT and TRT, similar to the preceptor, we're also doing a $1,000 cash incentive for employees who has HAZMAT and TRT certification. Those are the major articles with fiscal impact. We also did some minor language updates to clean up multiple articles. As Mike mentioned, the two-year agreement fiscal impact is not to exceed $16,387,807. The reason why there is a range here is because, again, year two's COLA is still to be determined. We would like to thank the IAFF negotiating team, Ruben Sanchez, Mark Saragosa, Michael Tom, Nicholas Rhodes, Esteban Cruz, and Bull McDougall. Throughout this entire process, over 11 meetings, they have been very professional, very collaborative, willing to, you know, explore unique and creative options for this fire contract. And so thank you to the IFF negotiating team. And with that, I will take any questions. Thank you so much.

Are there any questions from council members? Seeing none, is there a motion, Mayor Pro Tem? I move to approve. Please vote. Opposed? Motion carries. Congratulations for this. This is very well done. Thank you, Mayor. We will now hear related items 28 and 29 together, but act on them separately. Item number 28, discussion for possible action regarding the denial of a permanent massage establishment license for Time Massage Golden Beauty LLC. DOING BUSINESS AS TIE MASSAGE GOLDEN BEAUTY AT 5013 ALTA DRIVE. MANAGING MEMBER. AGENDA ITEM 29, DISCUSSION FOR POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING THE DENIAL OF A PERMANENT MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENT LICENSE FOR GOLDEN TIE SPA LLC DOING BUSINESS AS GOLDEN TIE SPA AT 2251 SOUTH RAINBOW BOULEVARD. MS. WANG, MANAGING MEMBER. MR. FLOYD, HELLO, EVERYBODY. MR. FLOYD, ARE YOU

DARCY ABEL-BYHERD, FOR THE RECORD, WILL BE PRESENTING.

WOULD YOU PLEASE REPEAT THAT? YES.

I'M DARCY ABEL-BYHERD, THE BUSINESS LICENSING MANAGER. I'LL BE PRESENTING. WELCOME AND PLEASE PROCEED. GOOD MORNING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SO BEFORE YOU TODAY ARE THE TWO RELATED AGENDA ITEMS. requesting the denial of a permanent massage establishment license for Golden Thai Spa located at 2251 South Rainbow Boulevard and Thai Massage Golden Beauty located at 5013 Alta Drive. Both businesses are owned and operated by Ms. Yu Ming Wang. Although these are separate businesses, they share the same owner and many of the concerns before you involve Ms. Wang's overall management and suitability. On March 18th, 2025, staff conducted a pre-licensing inspection of Golden Tide Spa. During the inspection, staff observed bedding in the employee break room, hallway door equipped with an interior lock, and window coverings that obstructed the visibility into portions of the business. Staff returned on March 26 and found that the bedding remained despite having previously discussed the concern with the owner. She did move the items into her car during that inspection. On March 2, 2025, the department issued a temporary license with specific operating conditions. Those conditions prohibited the interior monitoring devices, prohibited hallway doors from being locked, and required an unobstructed view from the lobby into the establishment. On June 17th, 2025, staff conducted another inspection. During that inspection, the owner and the key employee were absent. Staff again found the interior locking mechanisms, audio and video recording devices inside the business and personal bedding that suggested employees may have been residing or sleeping on the premises. A follow-up inspection on June 18th confirmed that those items had been removed. Just a week later, on June 25th, 2025, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department conducted an undercover vice operation. During that operation, an employee, Yufeng Chen, solicited an undercover officer for prostitution services, and she was arrested. As a result of that incident, the department issued a notice of violation and assessed a $250 civil fine on June 26th, 2025. MS. WING APPEALED THE VIOLATION, BUT IT WAS UPHELD BY OUR HEARING OFFICER ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2025. ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2025, METRO COMPLETED THEIR SUITABILITY REPORT, IDENTIFYING THE BUSINESS AS AN AREA OF CONCERN DUE TO THE PROSTITUTION-RELATED ACTIVITIES AND THE DEFICIENCIES IN THE MANAGEMENT CONTROLS. ON JANUARY 13, 2026, THE NEVADA STATE BOARD OF MASSAGE THERAPY PLACED MS. WING'S MASSAGE THERAPY LICENSE ON A TWO-YEAR PROBATION BASED ON ITS OWN DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS. On June 12th, 2026, the department participated in a joint undercover operation with Metro. During that operation, an employee solicited an undercover detective for prostitution services. Neither Ms. Wang nor the key employee were present. The department issued another notice of violation with fines equaling up to $1,500 and LVMPD ordered an emergency closure on the business. On June 16th, 2026, the department received an updated background investigative report from Metro and that incorporated the prostitution related arrest into the licensing review. While staff recognizes that many of this inspection deficiencies were corrected after the notice, the department's concerns extend beyond the isolated code violations. THIS RECOMMENDATION IS BASED ON THE TOTALITY OF THIS RECORD, INCLUDING REPEATED MANAGEMENT DEFICIENCIES, FAILURE TO MAINTAIN REQUIRED OPERATING CONDITIONS, PROSTITUTION-RELATED CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES OCCURRING WITHIN THE ESTABLISHMENT, THE SUBSEQUENT METRO SUITABILITY REPORT, AND DISCIPLINARY ACTION TAKEN BY THE NEVADA STATE MASSAGE BOARD THERAPY AGAINST THE OWNER. BECAUSE MS. WING IS ALSO THE OWNER AND MANAGING MEMBER OF TIME MASSAGE GOLDEN BEAUTY, THOSE SAME SUITABILITY CONCERNS APPLY TO THAT APPLICATION AS WELL. Although the majority of the violations occurred at Golden Spa, the department must evaluate the suitability of the applicant, not simply the location. The temporary business license is currently suspended. Based on the documented history and the overall suitability of the applicant, staff recommends denial of both the permanent licenses for both establishments. Representatives of Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department are here and present if you have any questions. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Do either one of you care to make a comment?

Hello, Mayor. My name is Michelle Gunn. I'm an investigative specialist with Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. I'm the one that drafted the area of concerns report, and Darcy pretty much outlined everything accurately. So if you have any questions, I can answer them. Thank you so much.

Now I'd like to hear from the applicant.

Thank you. Good morning. Kirk Kennedy, 815 South Casino Center on Council for Ms. Yiming Wang. She's present today with the assistance of Ms. Yan He, who's a court-certified Mandarin translator for her benefit. Make sure she understands everything today. She does speak English, but I think it's a benefit that she has a translator. You know, reviewing this matter, you have two agenda items. The one regarding Thai Massage Golden Beauty, that's item number 28. IT'S SORT OF BEEN LUMPED INTO THIS. YOU DON'T SEE ANY HISTORY OF VIOLATIONS, NO ARRESTS, THINGS OF THAT TYPE AT THAT LOCATION, WHICH I BELIEVE IS ON ALTA DRIVE. GOLDEN TIE SPA IS THE ONE OBVIOUSLY YOU'RE HEARING ABOUT TODAY. IT'S CLEAR THAT THERE WAS AN ARREST ACTIVITY IN 2025 AND A RECENT ONE BACK HERE IN JUNE. AND CERTAINLY, I TALKED WITH MS. WANG ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON HERE. SHE HAS PRIOR EXPERIENCE IN OWNING AND OPERATING MASSAGE BUSINESSES IN NEVADA AND IN OTHER STATES. So she knows how to do this right. What's going on here? The question is one of oversight supervision. That's the issue. She's a minority owner of two businesses in town within the city. She has another, I believe, within the county. and in other locations as well. She knows how to run these things correctly and they can be done in the correct way. There are many massage establishments here in Las Vegas and in Clark County and you hear about it in the news sometimes about a very negative image. Well, there are those that are run correctly and can do well and provide a valuable service of physical therapy services to citizens here in our community. uh she is trying to do that what she what happened here with golden tie which is agenda item number 29 was one of a complete lack of oversight i think she'd have to admit and she has admitted to me that she was not giving it the care and attention she needs to give to it but i think she can do that THE CONCERN IS ONE OF OVERSIGHT AND SUPERVISION. SHE CAN DO THAT. SHE CAN PROVIDE THAT. SHE CAN ALSO DO BETTER ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT HER MANAGERS AND KEY EMPLOYEES ARE NOT ONLY APPROVED BY THE CITY BUT BASICALLY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING SO THEY COMPLY WITH CITY CODE AND NEVADA LAW ON THE OPERATION OF A MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENT. I reviewed the Metro investigative report and it's kind of interesting on page five of that report where they make the recommendation. Of course, they do recommend the denial, but in making that denial, they give a statement that's entirely contradictory. I'm just quoting part of it. From page five, Metro states, until the owner can demonstrate meaningful corrective action, effective oversight, and send sustainable measures to prevent future violations, end of the quote, they would basically deny approval. But what they're saying there, IS, YOU KNOW, IF SHE CAN DEMONSTRATE THIS, IF SHE CAN DEMONSTRATE THE CORRECTIVE ACTION, THE OVERSIGHT, THE SUPERVISION, THEN PERHAPS DENIAL IS NOT APPROPRIATE. THE METRO REPORT SORT OF SPEAKS OUT OF BOTH SIDES THERE BECAUSE IT'S SAYING SHE COULD POSSIBLY DO THIS AND MAKE THIS RUN WELL AND BE AN EFFECTIVE SMALL BUSINESS PERSON HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY. with these two establishments within the city, if given the opportunity. The Metro report says, yeah, maybe she does better and provides more oversight. She can do better. But then they say that, but not this time. How is she supposed to be more effective? How is she supposed to demonstrate this corrective action and this ability to provide better supervision and to comply with Nevada law when she's not being given the opportunity? WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE IS THE CITY IS REQUESTING THE DENIAL OF HER ESTABLISHMENT APPLICATIONS, WHICH EFFECTIVELY GUTS WHAT THE METRO REPORT IS SAYING. THEY'RE SAYING, ESSENTIALLY, IF SHE'S GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY, SHE COULD DO BETTER AND SHE COULD SHOW BETTER. SHE CAN BE A BETTER MANAGER. SHE CAN BE A BETTER OPERATOR IF SHE CAN FOCUS HERSELF ON DOING WHAT IS RIGHT. AND THE METRO REPORT IS KIND OF ACKNOWLEDGING THAT WHILE AT THE SAME TIME THEN SAYING, WELL, TOO BAD, DENIED. We're asking for an opportunity here to allow her to prove to you, to this city council, that she can do this and she can do it well. Mind you, the city has lumped in two different businesses. Only one is having the problems. But they say, oh, well, let's just get rid of all of them. Apparently it's something wrong with Ms. Wong. Well, that's the easy answer, but that's not the answer That's the correct answer, the right answer. You have a female minority owner who's trying to operate these businesses in a way that's effective and in compliance with city code and Nevada law. And she's asking for that opportunity. And what I'm asking, and this has been a wake up call for her as to, okay, here she is standing in front of the city council. She never believed something like this would happen. And she can't believe that these events happened at her spa. And she knows she has to do better about management, about oversight, about staffing, about making sure that the people who work there truly understand what it means to provide legal, lawful massage and to not engage in criminal activity. There are two therapists, and it can't happen again, and it won't happen again. What we're asking for is an opportunity here today for the city council to allow her temporary licenses to be reinstated for a period of six months to a year, sort of a probationary type grant. Don't take action on the permanent license. Allow her this period of time to prove to you, to prove to the city, to prove to business licensing and Metro that there will be no other violations, that she can comply with Nevada law and the requirements of the Nevada Massage Ward as well, which has oversight of these establishments. SO WE'RE ASKING FOR THAT OPPORTUNITY, GIVE HER THIS WINDOW OF TIME TO PROVE TO YOU THAT SHE CAN DO WELL, AND THEN WE CAN COME BACK IN SIX MONTHS OR A YEAR OR ON AN ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW AND ADDRESS WHETHER A MORE PERMANENT STRUCTURE TO THE LICENSING SHOULD BE GRANTED. AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR TODAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS? YES, MS. PELINSKI.

THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. I CAN'T HELP MYSELF. This case seems very cut and dry to me. We've seen others. Mr. Kennedy, thank you for coming. You always do a very good job for your clients. But this one is not like others in the past. This one is very clear. Government resources that have been spent on this case already, I would imagine 10,000, 100,000 plus on monitoring these businesses and fully documenting the illegal acts that are taking place here. I don't have... any patience for businesses that conduct prostitution and probably human trafficking. And I hope that this body really takes this specific case very seriously and that we do everything we can to prevent this business from coming back. Sometimes these businesses are like whack-a-mole. We close one and it pops up in a different version or with a different ownership somewhere else. If we can... use this case as fuel for us to ensure that this ecosystem is truly stopped. I'm all ears on how we can make it better, but very little sympathy. When you get to this case, the time to CHANGE THE WAY YOU DO BUSINESS IS A YEAR AGO, IS TWO YEARS AGO. WE ARE WELL BEYOND THAT, WHERE THE GOVERNMENT HAS GOT A SUBSTANTIAL CASE AGAINST YOU, ALL DOCUMENTED. THERE IS NO REASON FOR US TO DO ANYTHING ELSE OTHER THAN TO REVOKE THIS LICENSE.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. MS. SUMMERS-ALMSTRONG, DID YOU WISH TO SPEAK?

THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. I THINK MY COLLEAGUE HAS SAID IT VERY WELL. I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM MY COLLEAGUE FROM Ward 2, where this business is housed. I'll just say from my own perspective that we have a real issue in our community with human trafficking and we have a real issue in our community with illegal prostitution. I don't have a lot of patience for it because I see what the result is. We have organizations that are housed within Ward 5 that are trying to provide supportive services for women and young women and young people who fall prey to this kind of behavior. And undoing the damage costs us so much money and time. when people have been harmed in these types of activities. And we don't have the time or resources to continue to try and pull people along when we already are very clear that these activities are not allowed. And I would like to hear what my colleague in ward one has to say, but I'm really concerned and don't have a lot of patience for it. Thank you so much.

Before we hear from Councilman Knutson, Ms. Kelly.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. I've got a question that may be more appropriately answered by staff. The representative for the business has said that Ms. Wang, is that correct? Is a minority investor, but I thought I read that she owned 100% of the documents, 100% of the business in our, she's a minority investor.

I meant as her status as an Asian American minority owner.

Okay, that one I missed. Okay, I thought she was a minority holder in the business. Okay, you know, I would like to address the comments of, SIR, OF YOUR COMMENTS, AS SOMEONE WHO SPENT A GOOD PORTION OF MY EARLY CAREER REPRESENTING THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY, YOU KNOW, I TOOK THIS VERY, VERY SERIOUSLY. AND YOUR POINT ABOUT I DISAGREE WITH YOUR POINT ABOUT HER DESERVING TO HAVE A CHANCE BECAUSE SHE HAD THAT CHANCE. SHE HAD IT WITH THE PREINSPECTION. uh, in March 18th before the license was issued, uh, when there were, uh, pillows and blankets in a break room, um, and a hallway door with an interior lock. She had that option a week later for a re-inspection and the pillows and the blankets were still present. Uh, beginning of April, uh, her temporary business license was issued with the following conditions. about the use of video monitoring devices, about massage rooms being fitted with locks and not covering or blocking or otherwise disruption to the facility and then the 17th she was found in violation due to a key employee or owner not being on the premises and then on the 25th of June the vice operation was conducted while she, and she was present there. I could go on and on, but the point which, and I agree certainly with my colleagues on the tragedy of human trafficking, but I would be, I am aghast at how many options she was given and the continuing failure TO LIVE UP DURING A TIME WHERE SHE COULD HAVE PROVED HERSELF TO BE ADEPT AT MANAGING THE BUSINESS AND I THINK IT WOULD BE A MISTAKE FOR THE CITY TO EXTEND THAT OPPORTUNITY AGAIN. THANK YOU.

Thank you, Madam Mayor, and I appreciate the comments up here, and I appreciate the presentations at the dais. Just for some, I guess, colorful background, I have probably a whole bunch of massage establishments in Ward 1, like maybe the most. That's not something that I'm most proud of, but it is probably true. And I generally, I meet with every single person that comes in for a license. They sit in my office, and because of the challenges we have in our community, I do ask them if they are going to engage in any illegal activity. It's a very useful conversation I have, and I have it every single time. with the commitment in my couch saying, nope, I'm not gonna do that. And I say, if you do do that, this is what's going to happen. We had that conversation. And so Ms. Adebayor, could we just go over some of the things you said, because I think they're most relevant in this case, kind of highlight the Massage Licensing Board. They have actions against the applicant as well. Can you highlight what that is?

Yeah, so we were just notified a couple weeks ago that they did take action against her license in January of this year. And so she is on probationary status with that. I don't have further details exactly what those actions are, but we do have that information.

So we have one board that's initiated an action against the applicant. The hearing officers also heard the CLAIMS AGAINST THE APPLICANT AND THE HEARING OFFICER UPHELD THOSE CLAIMS?

THERE WAS THE PROSTITUTION SOLICITATION LAST YEAR. SHE WAS BEFORE OUR HEARING OFFICER TO DISPUTE THE FINES THAT WERE ASSOCIATED WITH THAT BECAUSE THERE WAS NO CLOSURE. THOSE WERE UPHELD. SHE DID COME AND EXPLAIN TO US EXACTLY THE SAME THING THAT IT WASN'T HER, IT WAS HER EMPLOYEE, SHE'LL MANAGE IT BETTER AND WE GIVE HER ANOTHER CHANCE AND HERE WE ARE AGAIN A YEAR LATER.

And then just can you highlight what, this is a privilege license, correct? It is a privilege license. Can you highlight what a privilege license means?

So a privilege license is going to have more to it that they have to go through a background check investigation through Metro because it's higher, it's like a higher, what's the word? FOR THE WELFARE OF THE CITY. YEAH. SO THEY HAVE TO BE ABLE TO PASS THAT SUITABILITY. THERE'S A FINANCIAL REVIEW. THERE ARE EXTRA CONDITIONS THAT ARE ADDED TO THE LICENSE BECAUSE WE FOUND THESE ONES TO BE AT THAT PRIVILEGED STATE. AND SO THIS ONE IS ONE OF THOSE LICENSES.

THANK YOU. AND THEN ONE LAST QUESTION. YOU MADE A POINT that these licenses aren't based on the location or the business type. This is based on the suitability of the applicant. Is that accurate?

That is correct, yes. It is a suitability report Metro is providing as well. They do their deep dive investigation and it is on the person. The fact that she has two businesses in the city at the same time in the same status, we felt this makes the most sense.

Thank you. And I know we have Metro representatives here. I've been on one of the sting operations. I'm really grateful for the fact that we're partnered with law enforcement in these types of activities. For my colleagues and for anybody who's watching, if you walk into one of these establishments and you see sleeping quarters in the back of a closet, it implies something detrimental to not only the individuals there, but to the community around it. So given all that information, if you're ready for a motion, Madam Mayor, I'm ready to make it.

I will entertain a motion on item 28.

MADAM MAYOR, I MOVE TO APPROVE STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION AND DENY THE LICENSE FOR ITEM 28.

OKAY. PLEASE VOTE. BEFORE YOU VOTE, I'M SORRY, REALLY QUICK. YEAH, I THINK COUNCILWOMAN WANTED TO HAVE A TIME FRAME. NORMALLY THERE IS A ONE-YEAR COOLING OFF PERIOD, BUT I'M NOT SURE IF WE WANTED TO EXTEND THAT BEYOND THAT.

CHIEF DORKAC, CITY ATTORNEY, FOR THE RECORD, THERE'S A WITH A

Okay, let me hear what our city attorney has to say.

With a privileged business license, as Darcy just explained what it was, there's a default one-year cooling off period if there's a denial of the application. So by default within the code, Ms. Wong will not be able to come back for a year with a massage establishment application.

All right. Do you have a recommendation? So our recommendation would be for at least three years.

I'M GOING TO LOOK AROUND AND SEE IF I SEE ANY ISSUES. I'M GOING TO MOVE TO, EXCUSE ME, ACCEPT STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION FOR THAT TIMEFRAME OF THREE YEARS WITH THE DENIAL OF ITEM 28.

PLEASE VOTE. POST. MOTION CARRIES. AND A MOTION FOR ITEM 29.

follow staff's recommendation for at least three years and support the denial for item number 29.

Please vote. Post. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you all very much.

I thank you for your time.

Thank you, Mr. Kennedy. Agenda item 30. Recommending committee bills eligible for adoption at this meeting. Bill number 2026-26. Councilwoman Polanski, would you like to have the bill read? Yes, please, ma'am, Mayor.

Mayor, with your indulgence, I'd like to have the city attorney's office undergraduate intern, Haley Berger, read the bills today. Haley is going to be a junior at Washington University in St. Louis when she returns to school. She's a dual major there in political science and organization and strategic management. She spends some hours each week during the summer at our office, and she's also interning with the UNLV women's basketball team, so I think we're going to have trouble competing with them, but we'll do our best. Maybe give her a Jimmy John's sandwich. That might help. But Haley, go ahead and read the first bill, please.

Okay, thank you all for having me. Thank you, Mayor, Council, and especially the City Attorney for giving me this opportunity. So the bill for adoption today is bill number 2026-26. It's an ordinance to amend LVMC 19.12 to allow for the rental store use within the professional office zoning district by means of a special use permit and to provide for other related matters.

Thank you so much, Mayor Pro Tem. May I have a motion? Move to approve. Please vote. Post. Motion carries. Nicely done. Agenda item 31, new bills. Item 31, bill 2026-27 will be heard at the recommending committee meeting on Monday, August 3rd, 2026. City attorney, would you read the new bills?

Bill number 2026-27, an ordinance to adopt a redevelopment plan for the redevelopment area commonly known as redevelopment area three, consisting of non-contiguous parcels generally bounded by Owens Avenue to the north, Nellis Boulevard to the east, Charleston Boulevard to the south, and 21st Street to the west, and to provide for the other related matters.

New Bill 2026-27 is assigned to the August 3rd, 2026 recommending committee members, Councilman Knutson and Councilwomen Polenski and Ms. Diaz. If any so designated are unable to attend, the clerk's office will coordinate finding substitutes as necessary at my direction. Thank you. Items 32 through 32C are on the consent agenda, are considered to be routine, and are recommended for approval by the Department of Community Development. But I understand Councilman Knutson would like to pull it for discussion. Yes, okay. ITEM 32, 26-0249 ON THE FOLLOWING LAND USE ENTITLEMENT PROJECT REQUEST OF 1.57 ACRES ON THE NORTH SIDE OF ALTA DRIVE, APPROXIMATELY 280 FEET WEST OF DECATER BOULEVARD, C2 GENERAL COMMERCIAL ZONE. 32A, 26-0249-EOT1, SECOND EXTENSION OF TIME VARIANCE 21-0, 772-VAR1 TO ALLOW 13 PARKING SPACES WHERE 19 ARE REQUIRED. 32B 26-0249-EOT2 SECOND EXTENSION OF TIME SPECIAL USE PERMIT 21-0772 SUP1 for a proposed mini storage facility use with a waiver to allow a stucco facade where a decorative block is required adjacent to a residential use and 32C 26-0249-EOT3 second extension of time site development plan review 21-0772-SDR1 for a proposed 685 unit 111,311 square feet mini storage facility. The applicant is Rosser Development Company, LLC, and the owner is Alter Decatur Storage, LLC. Staff recommends approval of the entire land use entitlement project. These are in ward one. Is the applicant present?

ANDREA CAROL, 1980 FESTIVAL PLAZA DRIVE. I'M AN ARCHITECT HERE ON BEHALF OF THE APPLICANT.

WOULD YOU CARE TO TELL US ABOUT THE PROJECT?

YES, YES. IT IS A THREE STORY MINI STORAGE NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF DECATER AND ALTA. I SPOKE WITH COUNCILMAN KNUTSON ON MONDAY. I think we have a few things to talk about. But it is its second extension of time. It was originally entitled with another owner, and then it was sold. And now this owner is applying for his second extension. So I'm here to answer any questions.

Thank you so much. May I have a staff report, please?

Yes, Madam Mayor. Peter Loenstein for the record. Commercial zoning and land use in the vicinity of the site have remained stable since the original approval and the adjacent mixed use and commercial properties have been built out. The project as approved remains appropriate for the site and staff therefore recommends approval of the request. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Are there any additional conditions?

THROUGH YOU, MADAM MAYOR, ONCE THE COUNCILMAN ADDRESSES THE APPLICATION, I MAY HAVE SOME AMENDMENTS TO MAKE. THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT. IN THAT CASE, MR. KNUTHSEN. THEN WE'LL ASK FOR COMMENT FROM, BUT I THINK WE WANT TO HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY.

THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. AND WE HAD THIS CONVERSATION ON MONDAY, SO I'M JUST GOING TO HIGHLIGHT the most important parts. So this part of the parcel, which is that larger old Fletcher Jones parcel was part of the agreement that allowed for Nevada Hand and George Kakakis to build out the multifamily and senior income or senior lower income properties on that site. They're highly successful. Part of our negotiations in those projects was allowing for a self storage site to go on that property, which was in question right now. I never thought it was a great idea to put a self-storage site there, but it allowed for 460 affordable units to go in and I think is a betterment for the community. That being said, because the property has been sold, and while this is two years for the current owner, this is now seven years for me. And so I suggest that we do one year extension of time with the condition that if there are no activity with the city at all in one year, that this would be the last extension of time. That being said also, I know things take time. And so in six months, if you're going through the plan review, not plan review, but the building inspection process and the water district and the gas company and all those things are happening, then I'd be happy to extend it longer if needed. But if there's zero activity, which now in my timeframe, there's been five years of zero activity, then the next time you come back for here, I would say there's no more extensions of time. So the condition that Peter will hopefully help me with is a one year extension of time with the trust that you're going to start working on this project as quickly as possible. And within that one year, have something going through the system.

Right. We spoke with the owner about it and he's ready to go. And it would be from one year from today to have some sort of building permit or some permit in play.

Ideally, it's under construction, but yes.

We would try. We'll try.

Okay, Peter, can you make me sound smarter?

Sure. So just for clarification, it's from the date the entitlement was approved. It's not from today's action. It's from the original approvals date, which will be May 18th, but I will read the amended condition. So it would be amended condition of approval number one of 26-0249 EOT1, EOT2, and EOT3 to read as follows. This approval shall expire on May 18th, 2027, unless an extension of time is approved by the city of Las Vegas. And that's how I would read it with the understanding that if there is zero activity at that point, that will be made known as part of any extension of time request that would be made and you'd take your action at that time.

Yeah, I know we can definitely submit for a building permit by then. I don't know if we'll have our permit in hand because sometimes with the civil reviews, it can take up to a year. But as long as you're okay with us getting at least the building permit submitted, WE'RE OKAY WITH THAT.

SO YOU AGREE TO ALL OF THE CONDITIONS THAT HAVE JUST BEEN STATED? YES. ALL RIGHT. AND I THINK THE IDEA IS TO GET THIS PROJECT MOVING. MOVING. OKAY. COOL. ALL RIGHT. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS? SEEING NONE, IS THERE A MOTION? COUNCILMAN KNUTSON.

MADAM MAYOR, WITH THE CONDITION READ INTO THE RECORD AND AGREED UPON, I WOULD MOVE TO APPROVE ITEMS 32A, B, AND C.

Please vote. Post. Motion carries. Great.

Thank you all so much.

Best of luck. Best of luck. Items number 33 through 37 appear on the one motion, one vote agenda and may be considered in one motion, one vote as they are routine items with no condition changes. Any person representing an application or a member of the public or a member of the council not in agreement with the conditions AND ALL STANDARD CONDITIONS FOR THE APPLICATIONS RECOMMENDED BY STAFF, SHE REQUESTS TO HAVE THAT ITEM REMOVED FROM THIS PORTION OF THE AGENDA. ITEM 33, 26-0116-SDR1, APPLICANT OWNERS ZILBERBURG TOWERS 1 LLC ON A LAND USE ENTITLEMENT PROJECT REQUEST FOR A PROPOSED SEVEN STORY, 71 UNIT MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT WITH 1800 SQUARE FEET OF COMMERCIAL SPACE WITH WAIVERS OF TITLE 19.09 FORM BASE CODE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS ON 0.36 ACRES AT 1801 FREEMOND STREET T4-C T4 CORRIDOR ZONE WARD 3 MISS DIAZ AGENDA ITEM 34 26-0226-VAC1, applicant owner, GSI, Oso Blanca, Las Vegas owner, LLC, on a land use entitlement project request for a petition to vacate a portion of the right-of-way, Dobrook Trail, generally located on the west side of Oso Blanca Road, approximately 1,106 feet south of Elkhorn Road, Ward 4, Ms. Alan Polenski, AGENDA ITEM 35, 26-0227-DIR1, APPLICANT OWNER NEW VEGAS D4 LLC ON A 24-MONTH DEVELOPMENT REPORT IS REQUIRED BY SECTION 9.01 OF THE FIRST AMENDED AND RESTATED DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT FOR VEGAS RISING, GENERALLY LOCATED AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF WILMINGTON AVENUE AND RICHFIELD BOULEVARD, WARD 3, MISS DIAZ, AGENDA ITEM 36, 26-0263-RQR1, APPLICANT JONES MEDIA LLC OWNER JONATHAN PARK LLC ON A LAND USE ENTITLEMENT PROJECT REQUEST FOR REQUIRED REVIEW OF AN APPROVED SPECIAL USE PERMIT SUP-4811 FOR AN EXISTING 40-FOOT TALL, 12-FOOT BY 24-FOOT PREMISE SIGN AT 3319 MEAD AVENUE, M INDUSTRIAL ZONE, WARD ONE, MR. KANUTSIM, AGENDA ITEM 37, 26-0265-RQR1, APPLICANT JONES MEDIA, LLC, OWNER JONATHAN PARK, LLC, ON A LAND USE ENTITLEMENT PROJECT REQUEST OF AN APPROVED SPECIAL USE PERMIT, SUP-4812, FOR AN EXISTING 40-FOOT TALL 12-foot by 24-foot off-premise sign at 3542 Cirrus Avenue, M Industrial Zone, Ward 1, Mr. Knutson. The Planning Commission recommends approval of items 33 and 34, and the staff recommends approval of all items, item 33, 34, 36, and 37, are public hearings that I now declare open. Is there anyone wishing to be heard on items 33, 34, 36, or 37. Hearing and seeing none, I will now close the public hearing. Mayor Pro Tem, may I have a motion for the one motion, one vote items 33 through 37.

Move to approve.

Please vote. Post. Motion carries. Agenda item 38, 26-0051 of the following land use entitlement project requests on 0.46 acres at 21, 67 North Decatur Boulevard, C1 Limited Commercial Zone. 38A, 26-0051-VAR1 to allow a proposed commercial development that does not conform to Title 19 development standards for onsite minimum parking requirements. 38B, 26-0051-SDR1 for the proposed conversion of an existing 3,200 AND 24 SQUARE FOOT MOTOR VEHICLE PARTS AND SALES DEVELOPMENT INTO A CONVENIENCE STORE WITH FUEL PUMP AND PARKING LOT RECONFIGURATION WITH WAIVERS OF TITLE 19.08 PERIMETER LANDSCAPE BUFFER REQUIREMENTS. THE APPLICANT IS SILVER STATE CONTRACTING AND DEVELOPMENT LLC AND THE OWNER IS AD AND NILLC THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND STAFF RECOMMEND DENIAL ON THE ENTIRE LAND USE PROJECT. THESE ARE IN WARD FIVE, MS. SUMMERS-ARMSTRONG, AND THESE ARE PUBLIC HEARINGS WHICH I NOW DECLARE OPEN. IS THE APPLICANT PRESENT?

YES.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO TELL, FIRST TELL US YOUR NAME AND THEN WOULD YOU LIKE TO TELL US ABOUT YOUR PROJECT?

YES, WOULD DO. GOOD MORNING, MAYOR BERKELEY AND COUNCIL. MY NAME IS TONY GILLERSON WITH SILVER STATE CONTRACTING. AS YOU CAN SEE, WE'RE PROPOSED TO RENOVATE A CURRENT, IT'S AN ABANDONED AUTO MECHANIC SHOP INTO A CONVENIENCE STORE. THE CONVENIENCE STORE WILL HAVE AN ICE CREAM BAR IN IT AND ALSO WE'RE LOOKING TO INCLUDE FOUR FUEL PUMPS AND THEN ALSO LOOKING TO ADD TWO EV CHARGERS, STATIONS FOR CARS. Oh, I'm sorry.

No, is that your entire presentation?

Yes.

All righty. May I have a staff report, please?

Yes. Thank you, Mayor Seth Floyd, for the record. Staff finds that the lack of sufficient on-site parking may lead to on-site vehicular circulation conflicts, and the lack of landscape materials will only contribute to the heat island effect, which is in direct conflict with the 2050 master plan, and therefore staff is recommending denial of both the variance and the site development review. Thank you.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WISHING TO BE HEARD ON THESE ITEMS? SEEING NO ONE, I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM THE COUNCIL? MS. SUMMERS-ALMSTRONG?

THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR, AND THANK YOU SO MUCH, SIR, FOR COMING DOWN TODAY. THIS IS A TOUGH ONE FOR ME, AS YOU WELL KNOW. WE ARE DOING OUR BEST TO GET INFILL. My understanding from staff is that this was a county, in the county previously, and they had different rules for a use under their terms. And now we in the city have these rules where we're trying to address heat island and circulation and just be thoughtful. But then I have to weigh this against leaving this an empty space. It is tough, but I just want to mention a couple of things. First of all, you were very attentive and came in a couple of times to talk to us about adding trees. And do you have any other pictures that you can share with us? Did you bring anything in the?

I didn't. I just have the actual elevations that I didn't know if you guys had it, but we have the same.

Do you have anything you can just lay on the, yeah, so that we can see. There you go. Slide it over just a little bit to your, yep, there you go.

There you go, right there, okay.

All right, so just give us a little quick walkthrough so that we have a better idea of what you have addressed and the concerns, please.

Okay, all right. So what we did is we added these plant islands here with trees. And wherever we could, we added around the perimeter behind the store right now as a residential area. So we added these trees here for sound buffers around the perimeter of the store. And then also each island in front on the Decatur Boulevard, we added trees here also, well, trees and plants per what is requested by the city.

A question. Is there any way to add? I see on your display, I'm going to guess that the larger circles are trees.

That's correct.

And I only see one in the rear at the very top, which I believe is north. Right here. Is there enough room to add any more trees in the back for the buffer?

So we do have actually these right here are actually trees here.

Okay. Yeah, these are all trees right here. Okay, those are smaller dots. Correct. Okay. Right here. Okay. So how many trees do you have in the rear?

In the rear, we have seven.

And what size are those?

These are 24-foot boxes. Okay, all right, very good.

All right. And the gas station area does have a canopy?

That is correct.

Okay, and then the circulation issue comes into play because there's no way for a delivery truck to go to the rear. It has to sit in front, idle, offload. Okay. So one of the things we talked about was I know I can't mandate it, but I would really appreciate if the owner would try to schedule deliveries in the early morning or at the end of the day so that we don't have a pile up. on this very limited space. I am going to be dogged about ensuring that the landscape is kept up. I live right nearby. And I will be driving by. And so please let your owner know that he is going to be well attended and watched. And I got Code enforcement on speed dial, so don't play. Okay. The next thing would be you have an ice cream shop. Yes, it would be an ice cream shop inside. Please have your owner begin to get engaged in the community. We have youth development and social initiatives. They are always helping young people try to find work. That would be a great opportunity for a young person to be able to learn how to stock, how to assist customers and give one of the young people in our community an opportunity, or several, especially in the summer, to have a job. I would also encourage your owner to become engaged in the activities that are in our community. We have at Fountain Park right down the street. We have Bolden Little League that needs support. Becker Tech, which is just to the WEST OF THIS LOCATION. WE WANT PEOPLE WHO ARE COMING INTO OUR COMMUNITY TO EXTRACT INCOME FROM OUR COMMUNITY BECAUSE PEOPLE WILL USE IT, BUT ALSO TO GIVE BACK AND BE PART OF THE UPLIFTING OF THE COMMUNITY. I CAN'T MANDATE THOSE THINGS. BUT I CAN ENCOURAGE THOSE THINGS. BE A GOOD PARTNER IN THE COMMUNITY. AND WITH THAT SAID, MADAM MAYOR, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION UNLESS SOMEONE ELSE HAS ANYTHING TO ADD.

I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE APPLICANT AGREES TO ALL THE CONDITIONS THAT HAVE BEEN STATED.

YES.

ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS?

SETH AND PETER, DID I MISS ANYTHING?

Through you, Madam Mayor. No, all the existing conditions address what is shown on the plan right now.

Thank you. With that being said, I'd like to make a motion for approval.

Please vote. Opposed? Motion carries. All right, we're looking forward to seeing the convenience store, the ice cream parlor, everything else. But if I were you, I would be very careful about what the councilwoman suggested.

Okay, all right, thank you. You're very welcome. And I just wanna add something too, just to add with you as a general contractor, that is something that I wanted to reach out to the community too, as we're doing construction to get different programs involved as we're in the process. All right, thank you. You're very welcome.

Agenda item 39, 26-0165 on the following land use entitlement project request on 0.45 acres at 1712 Santa Paula Drive, 39A, 26-0165-VAR1 to allow a 16, FOOT REAR YARD SETBACK WHERE 20 FEET IS REQUIRED FOR AN EXISTING BUILDING, 39B, 26-0165-ZON1, FROM PR, PROFESSIONAL OFFICE AND PARKING, TO R4, HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL. THE APPLICANT OWNER IS SANTA GOLD REALTY, LLC. The Planning Commission recommends approval on the entire land use entitlement project. Staff recommends denial on the entire land use entitlement project. These are in Ward 3. Ms. Diaz, they are public hearings, which I now declare open. Is the applicant present?

Yes.

Would you state your name and tell us about your project? Excuse me. Good morning, everybody. My name is Amy Pan. I'm the primary managing member of this project. I'm the owner also. So this part, give a little historical information of this land. It was combined from two parcels when I purchased it. The 1708 Santa Paula was a residential, joint residential when I purchased. So when I combine both parcels into one parcel, now it become PR, a professional office. However, since the way my last renter moved out last year, so this property has been vacant since last year, October. The problem with that area is it's a little bit rough area and we have lots of things if you can check the system. We had lots of opening citations on that property. I've been sending lots of people there to clean, just try to keep people off the property. However, the food traffic has just never stopped. And the only observation, because the next door, the next property, once we have tenants living there, the food traffic stopped. So the only solution to this problem is to have somebody move in ASAP. So that's why we're planning to resume this property into residential since I was not able to get a tenant in there as a PR usage. So that's I'm here to propose this project to be able to resume to residential, back to residential community and then have tenants move in ASAP.

Thank you so much. May I have a staff report, please?

Yes, Madam Mayor. Peter Lowenstein for the record. The existing building was previously converted from a multifamily use to an office use in 2015, where it conformed to the rear yard setback requirement. Staff does not now support creation of a non-conforming setback, and there is no physical characteristic of the lot that warrants approval of the variance. Therefore, staff has recommended denial of the variance and the rezoning. SHOULD BE NOTED THAT IF APPROVED, PURSUANT TO THE CODE, A SITE DEVELOPMENT PLAN REVIEW WOULD BE REQUIRED FOR THE CONVERSION OF THE EXISTING COMMERCIAL BUILDING TO A MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL USE IN THE FUTURE. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WISHING TO BE HEARD ON THIS ITEM? SEEING NO ONE, I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARINGS. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM THE COUNCIL? Is there a motion, Councilwoman Diaz?

Thank you, Madam Mayor. And just to confirm, you're Ms. Amy Penn?

Yes.

Okay. Just making sure, Ms. Pan, since I haven't spoken to you about the future of the site, I wanna reiterate what our planning staff just articulated. So right now we're tackling the zoning change back to residential, but obviously from the renderings and the pictures, it is not inhabitable as is, right? And so you do have to come back to us as a city council to show us how you're going to transform this, defunct, I'm calling it defunct and boarded office and professional use to then what you're pivoting to offer in residential. So are you understanding that you, Even if I bless this, you can't necessarily move someone in right away?

No, no. Actually, right now we brought up just protect the windows from breaking, you know, by people. And I did call building safety, ask about the permit. I talked to, I think, Lorenzo, and he said as long as we're planning to do, of course, some cosmetic upgrades, to make sure the building is up to the standard code, everything. And that's, I talked to Lorenzo and I was told if we just do cosmetic upgrade, we don't really need to submit a permit or anything.

Is that accurate, planning team? Because I don't think that is accurate.

Through you, Madam Mayor. I'm not going to speak for the building department or the building official, but the building is a commercial building. It's not suitable for a residential use. It would have to be converted. And pursuant to the zoning ordinance, they would need to do a site development plan review to convert the home or convert the commercial building to a residential use. And then subsequent to that, any building permits that would be needed for, if it's fire safety or anything else, would need to be accomplished after the entitlement.

Okay. I understand. Okay, maybe I'll just keep it as is. I have to just put a permit, have you guys to come in to inspect. So that probably would be the outcome.

So once again, just to be clear, so these are land use applications, which the council is deciding on right now. There would be one more, which was called the site development plan review, which shows how the site would be designed and work and function for it to go from commercial, the professional office, what it is now, to a residential use. So it's not simply a building permit. It is a land use entitlement similar to this.

Okay.

Then into the building permit.

So basically you would have to go through this process once more. You would have to have a pre-application sit down with our planning staff. You would probably have to have hired folks to do renderings of what does it look like now? How are you pivoting from what the current structure looks like to what you want to offer your future tenants and residents? So it does, it is, it does. It's not just you paint the building, you do some modifications and you're done. I think there could be more. THINGS INVOLVED. AM I MISSING SOMETHING?

YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. THERE ARE MORE STEPS. IT'S NOT JUST ONE BUILDING PERMIT.

WHAT DEPARTMENT SHOULD I WORK WITH?

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WILL COVER IT.

SO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. IF YOU REACH OUT, THEY'LL CHANNEL YOU WITH A PLANNER AND YOU CAN HAVE ALL YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED ABOUT WHAT'S NEEDED FOR THE site development review. But I did want you to, before we take a vote on the change of zone, I want you to be full aware that there are multiple next steps that you still have to follow through before you can, you know, we want to make sure that we vet the living conditions that you're going to offer future residents.

Okay.

Are you comfortable still moving forward?

Oh, yeah, I'm definitely moving forward.

Okay, I feel that the use started residential and I think it's even better for it to go back to residential. And so I don't have any heartburn about granting you the zone change. So with that, I'm going to move to approve agenda items 39A and 39B.

Okay, thank you. May I ask the applicant, you understand that you need to get in touch with Community Development and start developing a plan before you can move forward.

Oh, yeah. Okay. All right.

In that case, are you comfortable with that? All right. And you agree to all the conditions?

On the letter I received? Right. Okay. Yes.

Okay. Okay. Very good. All right. But definitely get in touch with Community Development so they could walk you through the next steps. And with that, please vote. Post? Motion carries. Good luck. Thank you. Thank you for everything. Agenda item 40, 26-0172-GPA1, general plan amendment, a public hearing, applicant owner, City of Las Vegas, for possible action on a land use entitlement project request to amend and incorporate a supplemental heat mitigation, drinking water, cooling spaces, building practices plan as part of the conservation element to the City of Las Vegas 2050 MASTER PLAN CONSISTENT WITH SECTION 11 OF ORDINANCE 6788 AFFECTS ALL AWARDS. THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND STAFF RECOMMEND APPROVAL. THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING THAT I NOW DECLARE OPEN. MR. FLOYD.

Thank you, Mayor Seth Floyd, for the record. Mayor, this item is before you today because in the last legislative session, Bill AB 96 was passed, which requires us to add some things to our existing master plan. And Marco Vallada on our team was instrumental in getting that passed. He provided a lot of testimony during a couple of hearings there, but he is not here today. So I'm going to hand it over to Rachel Lewis and on his team to do the presentation, and then we'll be available to answer any questions afterwards.

Thank you. Welcome.

Good morning, Madam Mayor, City Council. My name is Rachel Lewison, City of Las Vegas, Department of Community Development for the Record. And as I said, I am here to talk about the heat mitigation plan. I first want to talk about how it came about. And it was our last Nevada legislation session in 2025 where Assembly Bill 96 was passed. requiring counties with a population of more than 100,000 people, which is Washoe and Clark County and the jurisdictions within those counties to amend the conservation element within the master plan to now include a heat mitigation plan. Assembly Bill 96 has language explaining exactly what needs to go within the heat mitigation plan. And those items are access to public cooling spaces, public drinking water, cool building practices, and shade overpaved surfaces. Now, the city of Las Vegas, we have been addressing heat mitigation here, and it's been documented within our master plan. We have a section within the master plan that talks about our hazards, one of those hazards being extreme heat. Another section talks about our urban forestry and our urban forestry goals of planting 60,000 trees by 2050. Another example that we've already been doing heat mitigation is this past November and December of 2025, we recently passed our urban forestry management plan. This is a framework, a big book that tells us exactly what we need to do to ensure we maintain our tree canopy as well as what we exactly need to do to ensure we hit our tree planting goals. And so we're here today to approve amending our master plan to include a heat mitigation plan.

I next want to talk about our urban heat island and what that is exactly.

Heat and extreme temperatures is a jurisdictional problem. It affects everyone here in Southern Nevada. And what is occurring exactly is as our city continues to grow, continues to expand outwards, we're inadvertently covering up our natural soils, our natural plants, and we're covering it up with asphalt and concrete and building. And as we're living our urban lives, we drive to work, we turn on our air conditioning, we're inadvertently creating a lot of heat that's being absorbed by our built environment. So what we're finding here is this urban heat island where it's hotter in the concentrated areas of our city, so in our downtown region, And what this picture shows, this is an entire map of our Las Vegas Valley. The city of Las Vegas is outlined in that blue color there. Like I said, it's a jurisdictional issue or it's a regional issue, so it affects everyone. And on the outside of the city, we can see a blue color, which represents cooler temperatures. And as we move in closer from the orange to yellow and red, that highlights that it's getting hotter. So that's that urban heat island. I do want to call out East Las Vegas is the hottest area here. So we have people that are living and working within East Las Vegas where this heat mitigation plan will hopefully improve the lives of people that are working there.

And if I could just jump in for one second, Seth Floyd, for the record, you had an item earlier to approve RDA 3. You'll notice that RDA 3 is squarely within the bolded area that's highlighted here. So as those areas redevelop, we can incorporate these practices that are going to be outlined in the heat mitigation plan to get more trees, use different building techniques to start addressing the urban heat island there.

Thank you. So moving along with Assembly Bill 96, again, it says exactly what needs to be in the heat mitigation plan. So the first thing is public cooling spaces. The City of Las Vegas has already been doing this. We have the Courtyard Homeless Resource Center. In addition to the Homeless Resource Center, we have a partnership or a collaboration with our libraries. So if there's a library located within the City of Las Vegas, it also acts as a cooling center. After cooling centers, we have to have access to public drinking water. And so what we did is we actually GPSed our drinking fountains. It would make sense that when we go out to our parks and within our community centers that you're going to find a drinking fountain there. And so that's what you see here. Every red dot is a drinking fountain and it corresponds with the community center that it's located in. We GPSed it because a recommendation within our heat plan is to expand locations for drinking fountains. And so it'll be easily accessible. We can map where our drinking fountains are located.

Next is cool building practices.

It's important to think about as we grow and as we expand that we're not adding to the urban heat island and that we're doing what we can to help mitigate that. So that includes, a great example is solar panels on top of our roofs. So instead of the sun beating down on our roofs and heating up our buildings, we have solar panels that provide shade, also produce renewable energy in the process. Other examples, the color of our buildings. Instead of having dark colored buildings, we're having lighter colored buildings to help reflect the heat. Even the orientation of the building, how it's built and the orientation to the sun, where we place our windows within our buildings as well. We have a really great example here at City Hall. We have what's called a green roof, which means that we have vegetation on top of our roofs. So just outside Chambers and right outside of our Now Cafe, we have our second floor patio where there's trees and there's an employee garden. Similar to Civic Center, there's a similar trees and a garden outside of the Then Cafe. Next is shade over paved surfaces. Again, great examples here in the city of Las Vegas. Right downtown, we have the Las Vegas North Premium Outlets where they have a shade structure that help people as they're shopping, that they can enjoy the shade. A similar example of the shade structure in downtown Summerlin. And so shade over paved surfaces includes both shade structures as well as our urban canopy with a preference for drought tolerant and native species. And back to our 2050 master plan with our urban forestry goal of planting 60,000 trees, that includes both public and private property. This is a public project where we did a tree planting event at one of our local parks, educating the community about the importance of our urban canopy. And then we also want to plant 60,000 trees on private property. We know that funding can sometimes be a challenge to work on private property. Fortunately, the city of Las Vegas, we received federal funding from the US Department of Agriculture for a service to plant trees. in the front yards of family homes, and so that's what we see here. This was a house located, or it's located in downtown, and our partner is Par3, so they're doing the planting of the trees. This was our very first tree from the grant, so this is really exciting. And so what comes with the funding to plant on private property is we have five options for drought tolerant trees. The trees are planted and then irrigation is included and then a one year follow up on the tree just to ensure that it's on its way to grow big and strong and provide lots of shade for the years to come. This is the flyer. And so the tree program doesn't apply for all of city of Las Vegas. It's only in select zip codes. Back to the map about the urban heat island. So this program is really to plant trees in areas that need them the most. So this is going to be that downtown core East Las Vegas. And I just wanna thank council for helping me spread the word and sending this flyer to your constituents. when your ward is located within our eligible areas. And with that, I'll answer any questions we ask that you pass our heat mitigation plan and amending it within our master plan required by Nevada legislation, assembly bill 96.

I'VE NEVER BEEN SO ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT A HEAT VITIGATION PROPOSAL, BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING THIS TO LIFE FOR US. ARE THERE ANY, WELL, I GUESS THIS IS, IS THERE ANYBODY ON THE COUNCIL THAT WISHES TO SPEAK ON THIS ISSUE? Mayor Pro Tem.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. Being the council member that represents a lot of that red zone that's on the map, I just want to say how invaluable these efforts are. I literally can tell the difference when I travel from where I mostly am in that east side, and I can feel how hot it is throughout the day. If I travel westward, the further west I am, I can feel it drop five to six degrees. And it really does. And in the time that we're living right now in July, where we're reaching upwards of 110, you really feel when it's above 100 degrees, every single degree that inches up. Really excited, just an ask I have is keep us in the loop when you're doing the tree plantings. We wanna go out there and we wanna celebrate and we wanna congratulate every homeowner that's taking this big step to help us add to the tree canopy. And I feel like I haven't been in the know and in the loop as much as I really wanna say as my calendar permits and I don't have other duties assigned, I do wanna come and celebrate as often as we can, or at least a Ward 3 team member can be there in my stead. Thank you so much. Appreciate all the efforts. Thank you. Anybody else? Ms. Bruni.

Thank you. Thanks, Rachel, for the presentation. I just had a clarifying question. I know that you've mapped where we have water fountains, but did you see that we're also thinking about adding some? And if we are, do we know what the anticipated cost of adding a water fountain is?

We have not reached out to Public Works to ask about that, but the idea is recommending to include water fountains along public right of way, whereas people are walking or bicycling to work that they also have access to drinking water, but we're not sure in terms of like the cost that it would be and how we would get access to the water to those areas.

And Councilman, I would just add to that. What came out of AB 96 was a requirement that we put in our master plan how we are going to both map existing and also plan for the future of adding new. So this goes in our aspirational document of the 2050 master plan. The next step would be implementation, which would be looking at locations where we could add those.

Yes, Ms. Kelly. Thank you, Madam Mayor. There was probably more of a comment, Seth, to you and to the city manager. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN EVERYTHING WE DO NEEDS TO BE THROUGH THIS LENS. SO WHETHER IT'S NEW PROJECTS COMING IN TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OR WE HAVE THIS TERRIFIC NEW RDA AND WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO UPDATE LOCAL, YOU KNOW, HELP OUR COMMUNITY UPDATE THE AREAS. WHERE CAN WE MAKE SURE THERE'S ANOTHER TREE AND I THINK A PERFECT EXAMPLE IS what we had and the gentleman who was talking about the item in Ward 5. And I really appreciated the Councilwoman's attention to the number of trees.

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Goodbye. And so I really hope that, you know, through public works, you know, whatever we're doing, if we're tearing something up and we can add a tree or if we're taking things out, It should be part of every filter of what we do. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Ms. Summers-Armstrong.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. It is so amazing that we have such collaboration and unity on this board for this issue i'm also representing one of the hot areas on the heat island map when i saw that map in 2021 my first session in the legislature when i tell you it made me gasp i knew it but to see it was overwhelming and to see that the city of las vegas is being intentional about making a difference i signed up for my tree okay because i want two trees and um in the front so that i can be an example we took this flyer to a community meeting on monday and to see the excitement on people's faces and then they were mad some of them well we live in another municipality and i said that's not my problem the city of las vegas is doing their part and so i think what you are doing and your intentionality is catching on PEOPLE STILL DON'T KNOW, SO WE HAVE TO CONTINUE TO TALK ABOUT IT. I'M GOING TO BE AN EXAMPLE AND MAKE SURE THAT I'M TALKING ABOUT IT EVERY OPPORTUNITY I GET. AND MY QUESTION FOR SETH AND MR. SOLIS IS ARE WE ALLOWED TO ASK SOME OF THESE THINGS AS ACTUAL DEMANDS IN OUR PLANNING PROCESS? BECAUSE I JUST SAW THAT WE HAVE A NEW FOUNTAIN Eva Pearson, thank you, Parks and Rec. I've seen people use it all the time. How do we get this stuff in as mandatory? Like we said, the ice cream shop, that's on a hot street. It would be great to have a little water fountain out there. So how do we integrate these things, solar panels, more trees, and water so that where we can, we take every opportunity?

Yeah, thanks, Councilwoman. Seth Floyd for the record. And yes, thank you for mentioning Fred. I forgot to introduce Fred, who's been standing up here the whole time. Fred Solis is our planning manager. He does a lot of work on planning commissions. So when these items come up, he shepherds them through that process. So this is step one. And actually, you already took a step. Rachel had a slide up here about the urban forestry management plan, which we actually adopted back at the end of last year. But this is really step one in setting the goal of where we want to go, and the next steps are implementation. We have in draft form, we've had a couple over the years, but we've got one that we're moving forward, Peter, and I actually just talked about it this morning, a tree ordinance that would actually add those specific requirements you're talking about. So those things are moving along. We do them, you know, not everything moves as quickly as we'd like, but this is step one. So it sets that priority for us to then go and develop those rules and guidelines to get those things implemented. So I think this is, and you're already seeing, even without this plan, if you look on Jackson, we've done it on Main Street, Stewart, all of those roadway projects are including a lot more street trees. In fact, my team did a Management huddle where we went out and did a little walk around on Jackson and we were it was kind of hot So we were standing under one of those excellent shade trees. That's gonna provide even more shade So we're already doing those things regardless of the plan But we can where this is certainly the step in the right direction to get those implemented Good this is an open hearing.

Is there anybody that wishes to be heard on this item before I entertain a motion? Please come forward

My name is Eric Melchizedek Christ Nimrod. This heat mitigation situation is fantastic. It must be understood that trees ought to be planted around bus stops also, and it should be understood that a bus is a cooling system. It's air conditioned. It's a moving air conditioning vehicle for the people. Some are parked, especially in BTC, at the BTC, and they're running. And they won't let anybody get on them into the cool to get out of the heat. So it must be understood that part of this heat mitigation situation should be that all those buses, they'll be running and nobody's allowed on them. So that should be thought of in this heat mitigation thing. The RTC should be more, should thank more of the people because that would help a lot of what's going on in this heat because I'm one who's suffering from this three degree heat due to the low service by the RTC.

Thank you very much. Anyone else? Then I will close the public hearing. I have to say that a moment of personal privilege. My family moved to Las Vegas in 1964 in the middle of the summer, right around this time of year. I honestly thought my family took me to hell. And now I'm mayor of hell. And so I'm just so proud to be mayor of a city that understands the importance of this and is not only working on heat mitigation, but we're beautifying the city as we go along. So thank you so much for your extraordinary efforts. on all of our behalves. We appreciate it, we recognize it, and it's making a huge difference. And with that, I will entertain a motion. Mayor Pro Tem. I move to approve, Madam Mayor. Please vote. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you so much. Agenda item 42, 26-0206-EOT1, extension of time, special use permit, SUP-78660, applicant owner Pacific Classic LLC for possible action on the land use entitlement project request for the third extension of time of the approval for a proposed car wash, full service and auto detailing use, at the northwest corner of Iron Mountain Road and Sky Village Road, C1, Limited Commercial Zone, Ward 6, Miss Bruni. Planning Commission recommends approval. Staff recommends denial. Is the applicant present?

Good morning, Your Honor, members of the Council. My name's Bob Gronauer, 1980 Festival Plaza Drive. I'm here representing the property owner and applicant on this matter. We're asking for an extension of time here. There was a condition that the Planning Commission put on that states that this application would be good until December 4th of 2026. And the reason for that is, is we're getting ready to come in with a subsequent application in here for a large end user on this piece of property. So we're excited of what's going to be coming here in the very near future. So we ask you to approve the planning commission's recommendation, which also lines up with what you approved for a convenience store in this property last month.

Thank you so much. May I have a staff report, please?

Yes. Thank you, Mayor Seth Floyd, for the record. This is the third extension of time for this special use permit approval, which has remained active for six years, even though the site development plan review for the site that includes the car wash expired three years ago. Staff recommends denial and recommends that a new special use permit be sought when the developer is ready to obtain a new site development plan review entitlement. But as Mr. Gronauer stated, the Planning Commission did amend condition number one to have this approval expire on December 4th, 2026, unless another extension of time is approved.

Okay. Are there any questions or comments from the council? Okay. So staff, explain to me what we are requesting. You're asking for a complete denial.

Yes, typically when we get to this third extension of time, staff will ordinarily recommend denial and have the applicant come back with a new application when they're ready to develop.

What would your preference be?

Oh, we would like to follow Planning Commission's recommendation. And the reason with their recommendation is this was previously approved for part of a Costco site. This Costco is going to originally go here. Unfortunately, that fell out of the deal. Costco is looking for another place to go. We have another big end user that's here that hopefully I'm told Friday, Monday that we'll know it will officially be able to say who the end user is. We've been working very closely with the Councilwoman in this area, Councilwoman Bruni. So the way we look at this, there's no harm here by approving this application because what we're telling you is If we don't have this end user in and submit our application before December 4th, that application's gone. We're not coming back here and you're not going to see us for the convenience store or the car wash. So we just need this in here so we can finalize the deal with our end user. And then you'll like the end user that's going to be coming in here if this all comes to fruition. And if not, you're not going to see us here in December asking for an extension of time.

Thank you so much. Councilwoman Bruni.

Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to make a motion to approve item number 42, 26-0206-EOT1. Please vote on the motion.

Opposed? MOTION CARRIES.

THANK YOU. HAVE A GOOD DAY.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. AGENDA ITEM 43, 26-0216-DIR1, DIRECTOR'S BUSINESS, APPLICANT COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA, OWNER NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION, FOR POSSIBLE ACTION ON A REQUEST FOR THE FIRST AMENDMENT OF THE COOPERATIVE CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS AND THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION ON BEHALF OF THE COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA. THIS IS IN WARD FOUR. THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING THAT I NOW DECLARE OPEN.

GOOD MORNING. I'M ASSOCIATE GENERAL COUNSEL AT THE COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA.

Would you care to tell us about your project?

Yes, this is regarding the construction of CSN's campus in the Northwest. And the purpose of the action item before you is relatively simple. Basically, the Nevada system of higher education and the city on behalf of CSN And the city of Las Vegas had entered into a cooperative agreement on July 20th, 2017. Subsequent to that, the BLM issued basically an amended land patent. And each agreement contains differing terms regarding the construction date for a building to be completed on that northwest campus. UNDER THE INITIAL COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT CSN HAD EIGHT YEARS FROM THE TRANSFER OF THE LAND FROM THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO THE NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO CONSTRUCT AT LEAST ONE EDUCATIONAL BUILDING. HOWEVER WHEN WE GOT THE AMENDED LAND PATENT FROM THE UNITED STATES THAT PROVIDED DIFFERENT LANGUAGE AND SAID THAT CSN SHALL COMPLETE THE FIRST BUILDING OR SHOW PROGRESS TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA CAMPUS WITHIN 12 YEARS. OF WHEN THE LAND WAS CONVEYED TO NSHE. SO THE ACTION ITEM BEFORE YOU IS BASICALLY TO APPROVE THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT SO THE LANGUAGE IN THE SUBSEQUENT LAND PATENT IS IN ALIGNMENT AND GIVES CSN THE 12 YEARS.

Thank you so much. May I have a staff report, please?

Yes, Madam Mayor. The proposed amendment complies with all NRS 278 and Title 19 requirements. The amended updates the development agreement with more accurate information pertaining to the date in which the land was conveyed from the U.S. government to the College of Southern Nevada, as well as provides a review mechanism for the City Council to monitor progress of the development of the Northwest Campus. No other portions of the agreement have been modified, and staff recommends approval of the request. Thank you.

Thank you so much. This is a public hearing that I now declare open. Is there anyone wishing to be heard on this item? Seeing none, I will close the public hearing. Are there any questions or comments from members of the council? Okay, very good. Is there a motion, Councilwoman Polanski?

YES, THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. I ENTHUSIASTICALLY MOVE TO APPROVE ITEM 43 AND I WOULD LIKE TO ASK IF IT IS IF THE ENTIRE COUNCIL AGREES TO INVITE CSN TO COME SOMETIME IN THE FALL, MAYBE NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, AND FULLY EXPLAIN IN OUR PRESENTATION PORTION OF THE COUNCIL TO THE PEOPLE OF THE NORTHWEST EXACTLY WHAT'S PLANNED.

I THINK CSN WOULD BE HAPPY TO DO THAT. THANK YOU. There's a motion on the table. Please vote. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you so much. Thank you. Agenda item 44, rescind 26-0127-SDR1 site development plan review, public hearing, applicant Trout Electric owner, Novak Holdings LLC for possible action on the land use entitlement project request for a proposed parking facility with waivers of perimeter landscape requirements on 0.2. 35 acres at the northeast corner of Lake Mead Boulevard and San Simeon Street, C1 Limited Commercial Zone, Ward 5, Ms. Summers-Armstrong. At the June 17th City Council meeting, this item was held in abeyance to the August 19th, 2026 Council meeting. This item is to consider, RESCINDING THAT COUNCIL ACTION SO THE ITEM COULD BE HEARD TODAY. THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING THAT I NOW DECLARE OPEN. IS THERE ANYBODY WISHING TO BE HEARD REGARDING RESCINDING THE PREVIOUS COUNCIL ACTION ON THIS ITEM? SEEING NONE, I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING.

Mayor, Jeff Dorcak, city attorney for the record. On this item, we would just need any of the council members because everyone voted unanimously back in June to hold it in abeyance. I would assume Councilwoman Summers-Armstrong can make the motion or would want to make the motion. On this item, let's go ahead and move to rescind the abeyance from August 17th. Was that the date? August 19th. August 19th. So we'll move to rescind the abeyance for August 19th and set the hearing for today. And once that motion is made and if it's approved, we can then proceed to item 45.

All right. Thank you so much. Ms. Somers-Armstrong, do I have a motion?

Yes, Madam Mayor. I move that we rescind the abeyance to August 19th and allow this item to be heard today.

All right. Please vote. Opposed? motion carries now we're at agenda for item 45 reconsider 26-0127-sdr1 abeyance item site development plan review applicant trout electric owner novak holdings llc for possible action on a land use entitlement project request for a proposed parking facility with waivers of the perimeter Landscape requirements on 0.35 acres at the northeast corner of Lake Mead Boulevard and San Simeon. C1 Limited Commercial Zone Ward 5, Ms. Summers-Armstrong. Planning Commission recommends approval. Staff recommends denial. This is a public hearing that I now declare open. Is the applicant present?

Yes, we are. Pernella Christensen of Trout Electric. Would you care to tell us about your project? Yes, absolutely. Thank you, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, Council, for rescinding the motion and allowing us to be here today. It's greatly appreciated. In 2021, when Clean Cars Nevada was adopted, there were 17,000 EVs on the road. Nevada now ranks third nationally with 65,000 EVs on the road. There is a lacking infrastructure. For example, we did a surrounding search of 60 square miles and we only found 27 DC fast chargers. To put that into comparison, there are 3,300 gas pumps in the same square mile area. We're proposing 16 chargers on a parking facility. Benefits to the communities include building the local community, offering the fastest charging speeds available on the market, and increasing public safety by reducing risk for battery efficiency loss caused by the heat locally. We will also be eliminating an empty lot, which we just heard the problems that that can create. We met with the Planning Commission, and we're asked to put in a north buffer. We have done that. We have added landscaping to that buffer. We have also added canopies. This project will be done in two phases. We are proposing to add the 16 churches across two phases. With that, I will ask if there is any questions.

Thank you so much. May I have a staff report, please?

Yes, Madam Mayor. The parking facility is proposed on a vacant property zone, limited commercial. The site is directly adjacent to single family residential subdivision to the north and a shopping center in development to the east. Vehicle charging operations tend to serve general public 24 hours per day, seven days per week. And the facility is proposing, as mentioned, 16 electric vehicle charging posts, specifically serving Tesla vehicles and four Tesla power cabinets. Although it will be screened from view, the location of the proposed mechanical equipment near residential property is a concern. Pad-mounted transformers and proposed Tesla power cabinets are typically low-noise generators under normal operation and generally meet the noise requirements until 19. However, this equipment should be sited away from residential property to minimize nuisance. In addition, the proposed development requires waivers of perimeter landscape buffer requirements and exceptions of parking lot landscaping and trash enclosure location, which staff does not support and therefore recommends denial of the request. And at the time of the motion, if the councilwoman has any additional requests, I'll take care of those at that time. Thank you.

Thank you so much. This is a public hearing. Is there anybody wishing to be heard on this item? I'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. DOES THE APPLICANT WELL, LET ME HEAR FIRST FROM ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL? I'D LIKE TO HEAR FROM MS. SUMMERS-ARMSTRONG.

THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. CAN YOU PLEASE LAY OUT YOUR PLAN SO THAT MY COLLEAGUES CAN SEE WHAT YOU HAVE IN MIND? Okay. So just for some points of clarification, these charging stations, as you are proposing would be open to any type of vehicle. They have adapters where they're not just one brand, but can be used by all.

That's correct. They're equipped with magic ducks. So drivers will not need to provide their own adapters.

Okay. And then we had an issue about landscaping to give some shielding to the residential property that is immediately adjacent to the north. Could you please lay out what it is that we're looking at? That is this area right along here. Talk to us about what you're planning.

We have added four of the paleo verde, and then for every four of those, we've added shrubs. So there's one for four to keep the ratio. There's a total of 19 24-inch trees on the property total, and there are, I believe, there's 28 of the desalarian wheelery, 48 of the ephoriba to rucali, and we added some... some cacti, just as optional.

Okay, thank you. Have you thought about limiting the hours of operation so that it is not disturbing, or at least controlling the pumps that are nearest to the residential after a certain number of hours? So anything right near the garbage enclosure, because that's pretty close to residents as well.

Sure. That I would have to come back for. The primary purpose of this parcel is to get drivers access 24-7 to charging. So to limit the business hours would be a significant problem.

Okay. When we're talking about the shade structures, I would like to propose that they are fixed structures that are not made out of fabric so that they don't... I KNOW THAT YOU'RE FROM CALIFORNIA, AS AM I. THE HEAT HERE IS A SHOCK, AND IT ALSO DOES DAMAGE, SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO ANY FABRIC, ANYTHING MADE OUT OF A PLASTIC MATERIAL. IT IS GOING TO GO AWAY. IT WILL NOT LAST. SO I'VE TALKED TO PETER IN THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND ASKED HIM TO CREATE SOMETHING which would be a need, which would that whatever those shade structures are would be made of something like steel, architectural grade aluminum, or alumawood, but something that is going to last. And if you all can have those work with someone where we can get some energy produced out of that, it would make a lot of sense to have that so that it can run the lights underneath, which should be controlled. So I think there's still a few things that need to be clarified. If your covers have lights, making sure there's not a lot of noise from the lights onto the property. I am concerned about 24 hour. We'll give it a minute. And can we revisit this and see if we have any, have an administrative review in a year to see if we've had any complaints from neighbors about noise, people playing their music while they're charging and disturbing the neighbors. Those folks have been here way longer. So we want to make sure that we're respecting them.

Regarding the canopy, we have, I've provided conceptuals. These are conceptuals. The height of the canopy will be about 13 to 15 feet. They will be made of aluminum steel. They will be fixed. There will be solar panels on top. And there will be lights.

Wonderful. Peter, do you need to read the... that piece in?

Through you Madam Mayor, yes. I was just working on the, I'm assuming an administrative required review. So to the first part about the materials, the Planning Commission did add a condition. It's condition B within the staff report on the site development review. It currently reads, provide carports or shade structures over each of the electrical charging stations along the east property line. We would amend and add to that condition the carports or shade structures are to be made of either steel, architectural grade aluminum, and or aluminum wood. AND THEN I WOULD BE ADDING AN ADDITIONAL CONDITION OF APPROVAL TO THAT SITE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW WHICH WOULD READ AN ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIRED REVIEW SHALL BE CONDUCTED ONE YEAR FROM THE DATE OF BUSINESS LICENSE ISSUANCE.

DOES THE APPLICANT AGREE TO THE CONDITIONS? YES, WE DO. ALL RIGHT.

I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION. MADAM MAYOR, I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE CONDITION REGARDING WHAT Councilwoman Chandra Armstrong, Chandra Summers Armstrong, pardon me, requested. Is it a simple thing and is it appropriate to have, to ask the applicant to put in signs at the charging station that ask to be respectful of the neighbors and to keep the music or activity low and to a minimum? Really, I don't know if that's an appropriate question to ask.

I'm sure it's an appropriate question. Ms. Summers-Armstrong, is that something you would like to incorporate into your motion?

Mr. Attorney, what kind of room do we have on something like that?

Well, as the mayor said, yeah, it's a perfectly appropriate and fine question. If you'd like to lay it out, I don't have an issue with it. I think the applicant might be amenable, it looks like.

I'll defer to the Councilwoman. It was just an idea I thought of. Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Kelly. I don't always get everything in when I'm thinking. Then afterwards, it'll be like, oh my goodness, I should ask for this. Thank you for suggesting it. I think it would be appropriate, especially at those stalls that are nearest to the residents, just ask people, you know, after 9 p.m., between 9 and, you know, 7, you know, please don't play your music and we'll see. And hopefully that'll mean that when we come back for the review in a year, we won't have anyone complaining.

Absolutely. We can do that.

All right. You're comfortable with that condition?

Absolutely.

All right. In that case, Ms. Summers-Armstrong, I will entertain a motion. So moved. Please vote.

Through you, Madam Mayor, I'm just trying to put that condition in.

Do you want to? Why don't you reiterate the condition? What is the motion we are voting on?

So, well, the motion would be, I think, approval with the amended condition being added to conditions. And the second condition that I've Don't know if I have worded correctly or not, is onsite signage shall be provided requiring general courtesy for the neighboring properties by not playing loud music? Or was it just, should I just cut it off at general courtesy?

Noise and disturbances. I'm just trying to think of what we might do for a park. It's just, I'm not trying to overregulate it. What I like about it is it shows that the councilwoman in the city thought about it and so we're being proactive and I think that's appropriate.

Whatever you would every this may be a question for Jeff, but we could reference if we wanted to be something that would be enforceable by code enforcement. For example, we could reference a nuisance like that who has not to create a nuisance or something in that regard. So then at least triggers back to a section of code. But Jeff, I don't know if that's specific.

Jeff Dorgach, City Attorney. That sounds fine to me. So does Peter's original language. I mean, the intent there is clear. There's going to be some signage saying, don't be loud with various noise types. The way the wording is on your end, just make sure that's covered when they go to look.

All right. Ms. Summers-Armstrong. Oh, actually, there is a motion on the table. Please vote.

Should I give it one more read-through so it's clear on the record?

Yeah, I think we'd all appreciate it.

All right. Thank you. So that other added condition, on-site signage shall be provided requiring general courtesy for the neighboring properties by eliminating noise and disturbances.

Please vote. Post. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you so much. We'll see you next year. Agenda item 46, this item was heard earlier in the meeting. Agenda item 47, set date on any appeals filed or required public hearings. I would instruct the city clerk to set the public hearing dates and appeals from the city planning commission meetings and dangerous buildings or nuisance litter abatements.

Will do, thank you.

Thank you so much. And before we... continue i just wanted to acknowledge our legal intern again haley berger thank you so much for being a part of our summer here in the city i think jeff told me he wanted to offer you a job when you graduate i'm waiting on the city manager to give me that job APPARENTLY, HELEY, YOUR ENTIRE FUTURE DEPENDS ON THE CITY MANAGERS. AGENDA ITEM 48, CITIZENS PARTICIPATION, PUBLIC COMMENT DURING THIS PORTION OF THE AGENDA MUST BE LIMITED TO MATTERS WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL. NO SUBJECT MAY BE ACTED UPON BY THE CITY COUNCIL UNLESS THAT SUBJECT IS ON THE AGENDA AND IS SCHEDULED FOR ACTION. Come to the podium, give your name for the record. The amount of discussion on any single subject, as well as the amount of time any single speaker is allowed, will be limited to two minutes. This is your opportunity to address the council, but the council is not able to respond or engage in dialogue. Are there any members of the public who wish to speak under this portion of the agenda? Please state your name for the record.

I am Shoshana, I'm a resident, and I'm here again to urge the council to end the invocations, the praying at these government meetings, because this is not a church. The source of your invocations, however, is the Bible, which you support. The Bible invokes rape, incest, slavery, torture, bodily mutilation, mass drownings, the murder of firstborn kids, the killing of men for their foreskins, anti-gay rhetoric, throwing babies against rocks, boiling and eating children, and so on. I also want to get into the irony of this book. Let's not forget the Jewish people wrote the Bible, including all the commandments, which were written for no one else but themselves. Then the Jewish Bible was plagiarized, and a part two was created, also known as the New Testament, that depicts a Jewish baby raised by his Jewish mom and his two Jewish dads. Yes, your God is 100% Jewish and is described as having white hair, fire in his eyes, floating around in the sky, wearing a robe, and sitting on a throne. And by the way, the Old Testament God is the same as the New Testament. People argue with me all the time. It's the same guy. And then part two claims that the Jewish Jesus character dies and is magically raised from the dead like a zombie and is involuntarily converted to a Christian. I don't know if you know this, but you cannot convert a dead Jewish man unless the story is fiction. But at least people knew at the time this started that the enormous profitability there would be in religion. And so they made up an image of Jesus. Nobody knew what he looked like. It was all made up. They made an image of his dead body and took his carcass and hung it up on the wall and made art out of it, made jewelry out of his carcass and various other merchandise, and then got tax-free status with their religious formation to change. Brilliant, wasn't it? Again, I urge the council to stop bringing religion into these chambers. Please do your job and not keep using this building as a house of worship because this is not a church. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Is there anyone else that wishes to address the council?

Madam Mayor, I just want to make sure we have two citizens that have been sitting here quite patiently for the meeting, and we have some speaker cards for them. So I have Rihanna Apodaca and Jack Trujillo. This would be the time that you want to come up and speak.

Welcome, and would you state your name for the record?

There we go. Hi, my name is Riana Apodaca. Good afternoon, mayor and members of the city council. Well, Las Vegas has internationally synonymous with opulence just a few miles down the road in a facility that is funded and overseen by this municipality. Residents are struggling for fundamental survival. To the representatives of Ward 5 and this council, this systemic failure is occurring directly within your jurisdiction. Looking at me tonight, I likely deviate from the demographic preconceptions of an unhoused individual. But I arrived here following the devastating loss of my father while navigating severe health issues and endeavoring to actively maintain my employment. My presence demonstrates that catastrophic life events can dismantle anyone's socioeconomic security. Yet instead of encountering a rehabilitative sanctuary, disabled residents, including those like myself who battle things like brain tumors or advanced cirrhosis of the liver, are subjected to systemic neglect. I stand before you as a solitary voice because a majority of my peers suffer from paralysis and are terrified of administrative reprisal. While a select few compassionate staff members attempt to mitigate these issues, their efforts are neutralized by structural impediments. Meanwhile, the dominant culture among other personnel and security is overtly adversarial. Crucially, this mistreatment is not isolated to those with physical vulnerabilities, it is pervasive It is a pervasive daily pattern of degradation and psychological abuse directed at every single individual housed at the courtyard. When an advocate for legally mandated ADA accommodations are brought up we are met with retaliation and verbal abuse. The city is failing both its residents and its well-meaning staff. We do not solicit preferential treatment or demand structuratory compliance. I SIMPLY URGE YOU GUYS TO MANDATE AN IMMEDIATE INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION INTO THE COMPLIANCE, FAILURES, AND STAFF MISCONDUCT AT THE COURTYARD. PLEASE DON'T LET THESE PEOPLE SLIP THROUGH THE CRACKS.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. YES, SABRA? WOULD YOU MIND WAITING A MINUTE? THERE'S SOMEBODY FROM THE CITY THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK WITH YOU. Thank you so much. Welcome. And would you state your name for the record?

Good morning, Mrs. Mayor. My name is Jack Trujillo. I'm calling in regards to my neighbors, the hoarding dogs. And instead of picking up the dog poop and putting it in a trash bag and putting in the trash can, they're digging holes under my wall and placing it there and putting water in there, saturating it. The stench is terrible. And now we have screw worm flies. And unfortunately, the city of Las Vegas has no protocol for screw worm flies. Arizona, Texas, this is a foreign disease coming from Brazil. Well, due to these people doing what they're doing, our area is now infested. And I've called everybody in the city of Las Vegas and the answer is not my job. Not my job. This is a critical situation. People should not pile dog poop on the sides of the house. It goes in the trash and it goes to the dump. When it collects flies, fleas, ticks, this is a disgrace. And it's terrible that nobody in the city will take care of it. Now my neighbors are Joey Mullins and Karen Mullins. They're fostering dogs. They don't have the area to have dogs. They have 200 square feet. These dogs have been locked up in the house for over a year. She only brings them out late at night. And then with the poop, they push it in these holes and saturate it with water. Now we're infested with all these flies. What's the city gonna do about the flies and all this stench and all this poop? If you are running a business, whether it's fostering dogs, regardless what the business is, there's appropriate ways to dispose of dog feces and other trash. This is not the way. And as a result, I have a petition from many neighbors that want this business to be ceased and stopped. Because they're not doing anything to...

Thank you. Would you mind giving your address so that we can go and investigate it?

My address is 3724 Dorrington Drive. The neighbor's is 3720 Dorrington Drive. Okay, we will zip code 89129. Now, Mrs. Polanski said, I cannot do nothing for one year.

I think your time is up, but I thank you very much. We'll look into it for sure.

Last thing I also did ask your secretaries for an appointment and a month went by and I still haven't heard from him and I called again today. I would still like to have that appointment in person with you.

Let's see what we could do to take care of this problem. And thank you for coming down. I appreciate it. Is there anybody else? Sir, would you mind speaking with Mr. Hacker? Thank you so much. Please state your name for the record.

My name is Eric Melchizedek Christ Nimrod. You can find Christ in the Bible conquering death. Don't worship his death. Worship his conquering death. That's why people are dying so much. They're worshiping his death. Their Savior died. No, the Savior conquered death. That's the fighting way.

Please keep this to something within the jurisdiction of the city. PLEASE KEEP YOUR COMMENTS TO WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE CITY.

WELL, YOU'RE THE ONE THAT, OKAY, ALL RIGHT. LVGEA IS NEEDED AND THE HEAT MITIGATION SITUATION IS NEEDED BECAUSE LAKE MEAD, WHETHER YOU KNOW IT OR NOT, IS DRYING UP. IT'S AT A DANGEROUS POINT RIGHT NOW. THE RTC is building a lot of intersections, destroying the flow of traffic. The Maryland Parkway had a sign saying, if you want to know about it, call this number. I called the number months ago. And they said, well, it will end in June. I said, wow, that's a long ways off. But it's still being constructed. It's still being constructed. And now Lake Mead and MLK Junior intersection is being constructed. You seem to be following me everywhere I go. The RTC, is really causing a lot of problems. And the bus drivers should be taught better as to how to use those buses because the people need to be protected from the bus drivers. Heat mitigation. The buses are cooling stations. Thank you so much, Mr. Nimrod. And we, the people, need to be protected.

And that is what we're doing. Thank you so much. AGENDA ITEM 49, COUNCIL EMERGING ISSUES. DISCUSSION REGARDING POTENTIAL ITEMS FOR FUTURE CITY COUNCIL AGENDAS OR AWARDS. ANY DISCUSSION MUST BE LIMITED TO WHETHER OR NOT SUCH PROPOSED ITEMS SHALL BE PLACED ON A FUTURE AGENDA. NO DISCUSSION REGARDING THE SUBSTANCE OF ANY PROPOSED TOPIC SHALL OCCUR. NO ACTION SHALL BE TAKEN. DO ANY MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL HAVE ANY TOPICS THEY WOULD LIKE TO BRING FORWARD UNDER THIS ITEM? Seeing none, we will move to agenda item number 50. Council members recognition. Comments made by individual city council members during this portion of the agenda will not be acted upon by the city council unless that subject is on the agenda and scheduled for action. Let us start with our new mayor pro tem.

Wow, I'm still getting used to the title, Mayor. I apologize in RDA. It was like, you say MPT and it still hasn't registered for me, but thank you so much. I also want to give kudos to Haley Berger for doing a really good job on reading our bills today. So thank you so much. for being with us. I know that getting through our business can be exciting at times, but not so exciting sometimes. I just want to go through a few things, because I do know that I'm standing between you all and the World Cup match between England and Argentina. Let me go ahead and get started. On July 1st, I had the honor of welcoming a wonderful group of Girl Scouts to our city hall and it happened during our last city council meeting and I just want to thank everyone in city hall for making them feel so welcome. They took tours within our main building but they also went to our municipal court and they learned so much about democracy and action and they earned their democracy badge that day. Special kudos goes out to Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Affairs, Department of Public Safety, Municipal Court, Chief Judge Giordani, and our City Clerk's Office Assistant, and our very own Assistant City Manager, Rosa Cortes. And the girls also met with representatives from the Office of the Nevada Secretary of State across the way, and Congresswoman Dina Titus. So thank you so much to everyone for making this an awesome day for them. On July 6th, I popped into Ward 5 to visit the Just One Project. They used to be Ward 3, though, when they had a tiny little closet of a space. But I'm so elated to see that they've grown so much and they continue to do an amazing job for everyone in our city. And we just were there to partake with Brooke. and share a little bit about my journey and who I am and why I'm in this work. So I just want to thank them for being invited to their podcast. On July 9th, I was over at the Concept Auto Body Repair Grand Opening. And it's not your everyday, I guess, body shop. I was amongst the mist of a Bugatti, which I had never seen up close and personal. And I also heard a tidbit that just in cars that were They're showing off. There was about an inventory of $7 million. I was like, oh my gosh. But this is a new repair shop in Ward 3 owned by the proud owners of Lou and Wendell Rangel, who had impeccable attention to detail for bringing this to our community. He was approached by Mercedes-Benz to open a shop, and I'm glad he chose our city to do it in. On July 9th, we also had the Museum of Ice Cream ribbon cutting and the mayor and I had a blast from cutting the ribbon to going through the immersive exhibits at the new Museum of Ice Cream at Area 15 in the second phase of it. This is a colorful new attraction and it's also another exciting addition for residents and families to enjoy. Mayor Berkeley and I got, as you can see, our own little removable tattoos, and I got to go down the slide, which was the best part of the day. Everyone was laughing at me, but it's okay.

With you, with you.

I just want to bring up this very important road closure casino center at Charleston Boulevard. If you guys have been in that area of town, it's reduced down to one lane and it takes quite a bit. So you either have to add additional minutes to your commute or just use alternate routes to get to and from through to the arts district. So just know casino center will be closed on the south side of Charleston Boulevard through July 31st. And just call our office if you need anything else from us on that point. And that's it for me, Mayor. As usual, people can reach out via phone, email, and sign up for monthly newsletters. Thank you so much. Thank you.

Ms. Kelly. Thank you, Mayor. I was thrilled on July 1st to be in my first parade. And I joined the Mayor and Councilwoman Frances Polinski, as well as Councilwoman Nancy Brunet, and many of our colleagues. I'll tell you, it was really special to ride and see not only, I mean, the best part of the children's faces, but I also loved how Councilwoman Alan Polinsky, she must have said hi to at least a dozen people. That woman knows everybody. So I was particularly impressed with that, and what a lovely time to be with all of you. The Summerlin Council does a terrific job on that parade. I THEN WAS EARLIER IN THE MONTH HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO TOUR SHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION. I DID NOT GO INTO THE TUNNELS BUT I DID LEARN A LOT ABOUT THEIR PROGRAM AND WAS VERY IMPRESSED TO MEET WITH ROBERT BANGHART AND LEARN ABOUT THE INCREDIBLE WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING TO SERVE INDIVIDUALS EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS AND OTHER VULNERABLE MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY. HE GAVE A STATISTIC AND I DIDN'T ASK THE ORIGIN BUT IT SAID 60% OF OUR POPULATION WAS ONE PAYCHECK AWAY FROM A CRISIS, AND THAT, YOU KNOW, I GREW UP IN, YOU KNOW, WITH VERY MODEST, AND THAT WAS MY MOM'S SITUATION, CERTAINLY, AND I WAS SHARING WITH THE COUNCILWOMAN, WITH COUNCILWOMAN SUMMERS ARMSTRONG, THAT HAD MY GRANDMOTHER NOT HAD A HOUSE WHERE WE LIVED, multiple times through times in our life that I would likely have been homeless at some point. So it is, and it never occurred to me until, you know, until actually recently that that was, that was a, What a gift that was. I just thought that was what you did with your grandma as you moved in and out of where she lived, which was probably a lot of people. One of the things the Shine a Light does is it does have a community closet, and they're always stocking it with new stuff. And so we have so many of our nonprofits that have community closets. Here's another place where it goes directly to people, and we like to know that. And just a couple of things that are upcoming. We've got our breakfast buzz on Saturday, the 22nd. I'm really excited about this one because we had an event focusing on seniors and fraud. And we had so many constituents come up afterwards and say how important that topic was. and their desire to learn more. And so we're going to be having some different experts, but also talking about this important subject. And one of the things that the special agent in charge, Chris DelZotto said to our attendees on that day that we had the event was that they don't even recommend that you unsubscribe to emails, that there's some fraud that's taking place So you think you're trying to unsubscribe to the Macy's emails or whatever spam you're getting. And that could actually be embedded fraud. So that was new to me. And I'm looking forward to the city of the world being at Bruce Trent Park, as well as some of our other parks for the fall. And we have movie night coming up, which back to school movie night on August 7th. It is the day after my birthday. I KNOW WE HAVE QUITE A FEW, I SEE ON OUR LIST QUITE A FEW LEO'S BUT IT WILL BE MY ME, ME, ME DAY. AND YOU CAN ALWAYS REACH THE WARD TWO AT WARD TWO AT LAS VEGAS NEVADA.GOV OR AT OUR OFFICE 702-229-2420. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU SO MUCH COUNCILWOMAN BRUNI.

Thank you, Mayor. So I too joined the Las Vegas 4th of July parade, the Summerlin Patriotic Parade with my colleagues and was thrilled to be on Big Red. Later that day, I joined Mayor Berkley and my colleague, Councilman Francis Allen Polanski, and we kicked off the fun with our Blast Off in the Basin event. It gets bigger and bigger every year. So it looks like we had over 13,000 people come this year. Special shout out again to DPS for keeping us all safe. Everyone had lots of fun. No incidents. Next. Last week, it should say July 8th, I stopped by the Centennial Hills Active Adult Center to help them celebrate with their Let Freedom Ring luncheon. Thank you again to Jennifer Blanter, who does such a great job taking care of our active adults at the Centennial Hills Active Adult Center. Last week, I also met with our neighbors for our monthly bocaditos. We had about 20 people. Believe it or not, we're actually outgrowing our little satellite office. So I have to look into that. Great time talking to neighbors about their concerns. Also last week, we hurried over to the west side facilities yard or west yard where we thanked a lot of the teams that really do work hard, especially in this keeping Ward 6 safe. So thank you to our code enforcement teams, our public works, our parks and rec and our traffic teams who get a lot of emails from us. And we just wanted to say again, we're really grateful and appreciative for all the hard work that you do on behalf of our residents. So thank you. And stay tuned because we'll be offering a shaved ice event in August, also at the West Side Yard. This summer, we're trying something new to try to keep our youth engaged in some fun, constructive activities. So we're partnering with the Y and the Northwest Area Command to offer pickleball sessions with some of our officers and folks Mondays, every Monday night from eight to 10 over the rest of the summer. So we had about half a dozen young people come out last week or earlier this week. For some fun, we had some new people and some old folks or experienced players, but it was a lot of fun. It was great to see the young people come out. So again, next turning to events, we're going to be doing that both July 20th and July 27th. Please RSVP through the Y. Later this month, we'll be hosting our monthly connector series with an unwinding event. We're going to be hosting it pretty low key at our satellite office Wednesday, July 29th from 6 to 7.30. Please RSVP. And then on August 1st, we're going to be getting ready to go back to school with our Splash Back to School event Saturday, August 1st, from 7.30 to 10.30 p.m. Residents voted, and so we'll be showing Finding Nemo. Please RSVP for that as well. And then lastly, we'll be doing our monthly Bocaditos on August 13th at our Centennial Hills Y satellite office. We'll be going back from 9 to 11 a.m. As always, we want to hear from you. Please call us at 702-229-5463 or email us at ward6 at lasvegasnevada.gov. Thank you.

Thank you so much, Councilman Knutson.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. This is National Pet Fire Safety Day. It starts on July 15th and it was began, it started in 2009 by the American Kennel Club and ADT Home Security. And pets can accidentally start fires, paws and tails, knock over candles, bumps, stove knobs, and roughly a thousand home fires a year are pet caused. And I'm going to promote the Route to Health. The Route to Health is a mobile clinic providing eye exams, basic consultations for adults, blood pressure measurements, basic checkups with pediatricians, glucose testing, and HIV screening tests, among other services. This is all at no cost. It's July 15th and 16th, 2026, and it's between the hours of 10 and 2 p.m. at Lumina Las Vegas, which is at 2710 West Charleston Boulevard. That's all I have. Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you so much, Ms. Ellen Polanski.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. On the morning of Saturday, July 4th, we had the opportunity to ride Big Red in the Summerlin Patriotic Parade. There were many families in attendance and was a great way to start the celebration of America's 250th anniversary. After that, in the evening, we continued to celebrate at Blastoff in the Basin with almost 11,000 in attendance in the basin and around 7,000 in total at the three satellite parks. It was surely a big party. We had food trucks, special 250th celebration trivia challenge, a performance from a great group of kids from Musicology Academy, and a special shout out to Dealco Crane Company for helping us proudly display that ginormous American flag because our fire department was too busy on the 4th of July responding to calls. So we were great to have them substitute. We could have our flag and the company was great to offer us that support. At the end of the night, we had a fantastic firework show and drone show that made the night truly something to remember. The following morning, very early Saturday morning on the 5th, we hosted an after-party park cleanup. Staff members and volunteers went around the park picking up trash and restoring it to its normal glorious state. Volunteers were offered breakfast and a free t-shirt for their hard work. If you'd like to volunteer next year, we'll be happy to take your name and put you on the list to come contribute. Next up, on Thursday, July 9th, I had the opportunity to be a guest on the Just One podcast. hosted by my friend Brooke Neubauer. This podcast exists to inspire and show citizens of Southern Nevada how they can make an impact. We talked about the ways the city serves our community and how it strengthens Southern Nevada. Next up, if you are a high school student with interest in city government or you'd like to make an impact in your city. Well then, join our City of Las Vegas Youth Advisory Council. By contributing, you'll be able to add your voice and perspective on key issues to matters and collaborate with your peers and make an impact while gaining more insight on how civic engagement works. Please scan the slide for the QR code and apply today. We're taking applications. In Ward 4, we have two spots open, so please get your apps in soon. Next up, take a moment to look at these faces on the slide. There are 13 teens still missing from our community. If you recognize any of them or have any information that could please bring them home, contact LVMPD Missing Person Detail at 702-828-3111. On the other end of that phone line is a free bus ride home. Next up, you can stay up to date with community news and other updates, all the things happening in Ward 4 by following us on all the social media handles or calling the Old Fashioned Way at 702-229-2524. We are always here to provide any assistance that we can. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Ms. Summers-Armstrong, take us home.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. I'm going to turn this over to my summer intern, Roger Randolph, and he's going to do the honors.

Hello. On Tuesday, June 30th, Councilwoman had the pleasure of touring a new development in Ward 5, Olivecrest. A Southern Nevada organization working hard to end child abuse and neglect will be bringing a new campus for children and families. They offer service focused on families facing challenges including economic instability, housing insecurity, mental health strain, and more. Foster youth are often overlooked in our society. Those youth who age out of foster care are sometimes forgotten completely. Because of this sad reality, they are exposed to some of the worst that the world has to offer and aren't able to learn some of the skills that we take for granted every day. Our friends at Olive Crest understood this reality and have made it their mission to fight and advocate for these youths.

And I might say this is a proposed development.

July 4th, Saturday evening, July 4th, the Blast Off in the Basin 4th of July celebration brought the community together at Bugskin Basin Park. The Ward 5 team and residents gathered at Children's Memorial Park to enjoy the fireworks and drone show. The evening was filled with music, dancing, connection, and celebration. Moments like these are what makes Ward 5 a vibe and a place to thrive. It was more than a holiday. It was an opportunity to create lasting memories with neighbors, friends, and family. Thank you to everyone who joined us for our evening filled with the booms and sparkles and community spirit. We look forward to celebrating with you again next year. On July 7th, Councilwoman had the pleasure of joining Congressman Stephen Horsford and his staff and Sam Cherry of Cherry Development on a tour inside the New Shire Westside Complex. This development is the newest mixed-use development bringing much-needed housing to the historic Westside, Congressman Horst represented developer Sam Cherry with a certificate of congressional recognition for this project that brings more homes into the area. These studios and one-bedroom apartments offer more than just modern living. They provide workforce housing that allows many residents to live within walking distance from where they work. For some of the newest tenants, that means an easy commute on foot and more time to enjoy everything downtown has to offer. To learn more about these apartments and to check availability, please visit their website at www.shareddowntown.com. This past Saturday, the community came together to celebrate photojournalist Clinton Wright's 90th birthday and the incredible legacy he built documenting black life in the historic West Side. Councilwoman presented a proclamation provided by the mayor to Clinton Wright for his years of dedication. Staff from Senator Rosen's and Congressman Horsford's office also joined us and presented Clinton with a certificate of special congressional recognition. The day began with a guided tour of Rhythm and Resilience, Black Vegas led by curator Carmen Bills, and the celebration continued upstairs in the then-cafe with a heartfelt conversation between historian Clay T. White and Clinton Wright. Filmmaker Emmett Gates shared an early look at his new documentary about Clinton, giving everyone a glimpse into the ongoing work to preserve his history. We ended the afternoon with his favorite red velvet cake, plenty of smiles, and lots of people stopping by the gallery afterwards for a closer look at Clinton's photographs. Six decades of history has taken its next step in this life. The original campus of Matt Kelly Elementary School has been torn down and what is to come is a modern facility that will live with the community and be a solid foundation for students to learn and be inspired. Though the new building won't be finished and ready to open to the 2028 school year, the magnitude of this groundbreaking is a promise to the community that they matter. Thank you to CCSD, Core Construction, KME Architects, and SUMU Marketing and everyone who's making this journey possible. The relaunch of the Groceries on the Go bus was a great success. On Tuesday, July 14th at the Westside Education Training Center, community members came out to shop for fresh, affordable groceries and connect with local leaders, elected officials, including Councilwoman Chandra Summers-Armstrong, Commissioner William McCurdy II, and several community partners. Thanks to the Just One Project, residents had access to a wide variety of quality food options, along with information about upcoming bus stops, AND SERVICES. THE EVENT HIGHLIGHTED ONGOING EFFORTS TO ADDRESS URBAN FOOD DESERTS AND STRENGTHEN ACCESS TO HEALTHY FOOD ACROSS THE CITY. OUTCOMING EVENTS WE HAVE SPLASH WITH THE BADGE, GET READY WITH WARD 5, SPLASH WITH THE BADGE IS ALMOST HERE FRIDAY JULY 17TH FROM 3 TO 7 PM THE BILL AND LILLY HEINRICH YMCA IS TRANSFORMING INTO THE ULTIMATE SUMMER HANGOUT SPOT. Bring your family, friends, and neighbors for an afternoon filled with free food, fun games, and awesome giveaways, and plenty of chances to cool off. Get ready. The Tuck and Run Foundation is hosting the Las Vegas Raiders Play Football Skills Combine July 18th at the Pearson Community Center. This free and exciting camp gives youth athletes the chance to develop and showcase their football skills through advanced drills and official combine activities, including the 40-yard dash, vertical jump, and pro agility shuffle. Registration opens at 6 p.m. and the event will run from 7 to 8.30 p.m. Space is limited, so be sure to secure your spot today at www.tuckandryan.org slash events. Check out the Bowdoin Area Command Youth Safe Night Out on Friday, July 24th, my birthday, from 6 to 8 p.m. for a vibrant, family-friendly event at Nucleus Plaza. Bowdoin Area Command and Hopme Community Service are teaming up to host a fun, A fun event filled with games, food, and community resources that are all free for youth and family. This event brings together local partners and organizations to provide kids with a positive, safe, and welcoming space to enjoy the evening. Connect with others and access helpful support services. For more information, please call 702-412-0060. The Las Vegas City Council and Ward 5 invites you to a fun and family-friendly back-to-school celebration Saturday, July 25th, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Doolittle Community Center. This annual event is packed with music, games, raffles, and plenty of excitement for students of all ages. School-aged children who attend will have the opportunity to receive free backpacks and school supplies while supplies last. Children must be present to receive these items. We invite all school-aged children and families to join us. Enjoy the festivities and get ready for a great school year ahead. For more information, please call 229-6374. It's been a meaningful and eventful week as we celebrated the many initiatives making a positive impact on Ward 5. We're proud to highlight the great work happening in our community and hope it inspires more residents to get involved in the many activities and events organized by the city. Stay informed and engaged by signing up for our Ward 5 newsletter, your go-to resource for news, updates, and opportunities to connect with your neighborhood. You can also stay engaged with us on Instagram, Facebook, X, and TikTok at Chandra for Vegas. For more information, please reach out to our office at ward5 at lasvegasnevada.gov or call us at 702-229-5443. We look forward to hearing from you.

You're done?

Yes, thank you.

Well, let me say nicely done. And happy birthday in advance. Thank you. This meeting of the City Council is now adjourned.