Clark County Board of Commissioners - Regular Meeting

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Good morning. Welcome to the September 15th, 2026 meeting of the Clark County Commission. We will call this meeting to order and begin with the invocation led by Reverend Will Rucker from the Intersection Spiritual Community. Mr. Rucker, before you begin, you can't just fill the aisle. You can move to the side.

Let us pray. Spirit of grace, source of wisdom, compassion, and hope, we pause today in gratitude for the privilege of service, for the gift of community, and for the sacred value of every life. Every person carries inherent worth, even in moments when they may struggle to see or feel that worth for themselves. May that truth shape not only how we treat one another, but how we lead. Grant wisdom to those who occupy these seats today, and moments of complexity help us to see beyond the immediate and beyond ourselves. Remind us that the decisions made in this room today ripple outward into homes and neighborhoods, into lives we may never personally know, and into generations not yet born. Give us the courage to choose the common good over self-interest, compassion over convenience and stewardship over recognition. We give thanks for those who have offered themselves as public servants today. Bless them, bless their families, encourage their hearts. And may what each of us and all of us accomplish today be worthy of those who come after us. In the name of all that is good, all that is sacred, all that is human, blessed be. And so it is. Amen. 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.

We can now move on to section two of the agenda. Good morning, Michelle.

Good morning, Mr. Chair and commissioners. Your first item on your agenda today is the presentation of a proclamation to Denise Valdez in recognition of her retirement and many years of service in public broadcasting to the Las Vegas community.

Denise, hello. He's gone up and actually if your parents want to come on up to since they're here in town. We want to have them celebrate So I'm honoring today Denise Valdez who we all know we all think we know her well because we see her every night But after 20 years she is moving on not from Las Vegas, but moving on to a new career So we just want to honor make this Clark County day for Denise Valdez, and also just point out a few things about her great biography, which I can't read because it's too small, but Courtney, you did a great job. But it is... It is 20 years she's been here, which, you know, in local journalism is a lifetime. You never stay here that long. So thank you so much for coming here and then for sticking around. She's gotten five Emmys. Lots of Emmys, probably, too. But five Emmys. But just really a great addition to our community. I said we all know you so well. I've seen you every night. But in addition to this... her career. She's very active in animals. I've worked with her on animals a lot of times, so I hope that she'll stick around for that. And she says she's not leaving us. She's just going to step down as anchor, which I can appreciate that too. So anyway, here's your proclamation. Today is Denise, I'm sorry. Adele and Arturo, the parents, thank you so much. for sharing Denise with us. It's very special. Anyway, today is Denise Valdez in Clark County, so you guys, the parents can do anything you want to do. Go to the strip and just say, I'm Denise's mother, and they'll open up the doors. Anyway, Denise, say a few words, and thank you again so much.

Well, thank you, Tick. Tick is my neighbor and my friend and made this possible today. Thank you to each one of the commissioners too for really an incredible honor. I'm so glad that my parents are here. They, of course, were there when I started my career. Now they're here when I'm closing my career. I can't tell you how many times we've loaded and unloaded a U-Haul as we drove across the country to different cities and different states as I built my career. And I never would have guessed in 2006 that we would load our last U-Haul and come to Las Vegas. And it was our last stop. And now my parents live here too, so we built our life here. Thank you so much to all of my friends who are here to support me. And to Channel 8, of course, and Henry, who I've worked with and who I've won an Emmy with. And really, just more importantly, thanks to the community and to all of the viewers who have trusted not only me, but everyone at Channel 8 to tell their stories and to tell them with accuracy, with ethics and accountability. Coming into your living rooms, whether it's on a tablet or a television or a phone, has been my honor for 20 years and another more than a decade before that. So thank you so much to TIC and all of Clara County for an incredible honor. It's not lost on me, and my heart is really full today.

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Commissioners, your next item is to present a proclamation to Canine Companions in honor of National Service Dog Month.

Yes, we're really excited today. It is National Service Dog Month and I wanted to just call up Canine Companions because they do a fantastic job here in our community. And when we talked about this, I was like, will there be dogs? And they were like, yes, there will be dogs. And I see them. I think it's a chocolate lab and a yellow lab. Close enough, because they're adorable.

You're fine.

My name is Cindy. I am a longtime Canine Companions puppy raiser. I've been doing this for 13 years, and I want to thank Clark County and Commissioner Becker for honoring us with this proclamation in recognition of National Service Dog Month. We're a small but mighty little chapter here, just getting started and growing. So we're always looking for more puppy raisers, more volunteers, and certainly the opportunity to serve more clients. So we do service dogs for adults, children, and veterans. Adults and kids with physical or developmental disabilities. Kids also in the physical or developmental. Don't. Veterans with PTSD. I do this with kids. We also are doing diabetic alert dogs, and we do hearing dogs. We also do something called a facility dog. Facility dogs work with professionals in healthcare, education, or criminal justice. We do provide these dogs free of charge to the clients, so donors, sponsors, volunteers are always welcome and appreciated. This company has been in business for over 51 years, and we have placed over 8,000 dogs free of charge.

Awesome. So I'm good. I can go home now. Thank you for everything you do. I just wanted to present this proclamation from the Clark County Commission, and just keep doing what you do because you guys are awesome.

the people with the dogs come down in front of the diocese You should be fine. They're all big friends. Okay. Is this good? Yeah, that should be good. You're going to have to find yourself a window right there because you're right behind the guy. You're good, Commissioner Becker? All right. Okay, puppy. Elwood. Elwood. All right, everybody got a window? Puppies. Puppies. No? Okay, here we go. We're going to shoot. On the count of three, everybody. One, two, three. Elwood. Adelaide. Flurry. There we go, guys. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm covered in dog hair.

All right, the day just keeps getting better. The next item is to recognize Clark County employees who have been selected as Clark County Value Champions.

Hi, I'm Amber Colbert with the Clark County Museum and today I have the honor about speaking about one of our front counter employees, Flossie. Flossie is not just one thing that makes Flossie a valued champion, there are many, far too many to talk about today. First, there's the fact that even after Flossie had a full career, she retired and has spent the last 20 years serving our community in her role at Clark County Museum. She is engaging to visitors and is eager to share her knowledge. She is especially engaging to our youth audience. She has this magical way of making them feel both valued and welcomed. And she has everyone feeling like they belong at the museum. She treats them with a sense of warmth and care that she treats her family with. And that's just a few reasons why Flossie is a value champion.

Hi, I'm Brenda Barnes, Manager at Clark County Social Services. I've nominated Carla Mescua for the Clark County Value Champion. Carla is a Senior Grants Coordinator for the Southern Nevada Homelessness Continuum of Care Collaborative Application on behalf of the entire community. Her service exemplifies integrity. It elevates not only our department, but the entire community for critical federal funding, funding that supports essential services, housing stability, and the system-wide efforts to prevent homelessness. She leads the efforts with professionalism, clarity, and grace during these complex times of quickly evolving HUD NOFOs, rapidly changing priorities, and ensuring that we are all aligned and that our collective efforts are the best represented in our community. Congratulations, Carla. Your dedication and your commitment to service embodies what it truly means to be a Clark County Value Champion.

Hi, I'm Jim Anderson with Administrative Services. I nominated Nicole Henley as Value Champion for exemplifying the core value of excellence. Nicole keeps the code enforcement operation running smoothly. She's the one behind the scenes making sure all the systems we rely on every day work as they're supposed to. She spots issues before they become problems. and that saves us a lot of time, frustration, and impacts the customer service. She leads our amazing office staff support team with total dedication, helping both staff and the public with accurate, timely information. Her knowledge of both what we're doing now and about how we got here makes her the person we all go to every single day. She shows up with solutions, a great attitude, and never a complaint. Nicole is the kind of employee every manager loves to have. She's reliable, proactive, and committed to excellence.

So let's hear it for those great county employees. Great work. I know if Kevin were here, he'd do the jazz hand. So let's do it one time. Let's hear it for those county employees.

All right.

So it's always a great opportunity to recognize our employees who are out there on the front line. We've got Flossie from Parks, who's out in our museum, seeing our community every day. We have someone from social services who's helping protect our safety net. And then Nicole, who I'm pretty familiar with working out with our constituents every day too. So they're representing all of our values of excellence, leadership, service, and we couldn't be prouder of them. Well-deserved, recognizing you every day. Thank you so much.

Just on behalf of the board, I want to extend our thanks to each of you. We have an awfully high bar when it comes to meeting and exceeding the values that the county has here and the individuals that are before us today exceed that incredible bar that we have by serving the community that each of us care so much about. And by truly in a time when being a public servant isn't perhaps the easiest career to select, you all do it with grace and compassion and care every single day. You certainly improve the reputation of local government in the work that you do. And on behalf of this board, we extend our thanks and sincere appreciation for the work and the career that you've had that has made Clark County such an exceptional place to live and to work.

One more time for our value champions.

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All right, now that the commissioners all have a chair, and the chair has a chair, we may move on to our public comment session.

Excellent. So this is the first time set aside for public comment. Those who are here to speak on items that are on today's agenda, please come forward at this time, state your name for the record, and you may speak for up to three minutes. And if you could just identify the item number you're here to speak on.

Good morning, commissioners. My name is Manny Kess, 89109. First of all, Chairman, congratulations on the addition to your family. Tremendous blessing. I'm here to request that you move item 36 from the consent agenda to public comment.

Thank you. And just for a point of clarification, before everybody stands up, items 36 will be heard separately, as well as item 33.

Wonderful. And some members that are here have a packet that they would like to submit for your review. Thank you so much.

Thank you. So again, items 33 and 36 off consent will be heard separately. So if you speak on those items now, you won't also be able to speak again when those items are... Oh, they're not public hearings. So this is the time to speak on those items. All right. Good morning.

Good morning. My name is Shoshana. I'm a resident. As you know, I'm an advocate for separation of religion and government. I'd like to talk about, on the agenda, there's two things. And I'm all about transparency. And I know these are things that you're going to vote on today that have to do with contracts. On item 19, it's the contract with WSP USA Solutions, an engineering company. And I think it's important that the public know that there's been money given to you by these companies, for example. Commissioner Gibson, he received $1,000 a few years ago from this engineering company. On item 12, you're going to approve a contract or decide whether to approve a contract with Las Vegas Paving Corporation. And just to note that Commissioner Gibson Gibson has received $5,000 from this company. Here we go, about 5,000. Commissioner Jones, $10,000 from this company, Las Vegas Paving. Commissioner Sagerblom, $10,000. Here's another 10.

Ma'am, just so the record's clear, I'll let you finish. We could pause the clock. So the record's clear. When you say money's given, contributions to their political campaigns, presumably.

Yeah, and you're going to vote on their contracts today. Very good. And then, Commissioner Knack, you've received $20,000 from this company over the years. And the most, Commissioner Kirkpatrick, she's received $10,000, $20,000. thirty thousand five hundred will round it off. So a total of eighty seven thousand dollars this commission has received from Las Vegas paving. Sorry. And so I just wanted you to know that this doesn't include PAC money, political action committee money that employees sometimes give you from these companies, their law firms and spouses. I don't give you any money for my advocacy, but if there's a price I'm willing to pay it I'll be here all day if there's any amount of money you need to help me get invocations off this These public meetings.

I'm all for it, but I just need to know what price that would be Thank you so much and have a great day Thank you very much Commissioner Gibson Yes ma'am before you step away one of the things that I'd like you to note is that when you are speaking no one is carrying a sign around and distracting a the public. But I notice that whenever others whom you disagree with speak, you're doing that. And I think you ought to extend the same courtesy to them that they extend to you. No one has got a sign that is waving it so that they're distracted from your comments. And I think you ought to consider treating people similarly.

I didn't see anyone distracted. I get out of the way when anyone asks me. I'm very polite to people.

Good morning. Good morning, commissioners. My name is Alan Stamm on item 36. I request that the clerk disperse the packet, which has two documents for each of you about the comments that are coming up. Today I am speaking on behalf of the Las Vegas Country Club Estates Homeowners Association. Our president cannot be here today, so I'm reading this note on his behalf.

And also, how many members are here from the Las Vegas Country Club? Raise your hands.

Thank you. Dear Chairman Naft and Board Commissioners, on May 21st, 2025, I stood before you at a meeting at the county's redevelopment agency. As a board member of the Las Vegas International Country Club Estates Master Association, I was concerned that neither county staff nor the consultant that was paid to develop a quote vision for the commercial center had contacted us for stakeholder input regarding the changes that were being contemplated for this site. I pointed out that our HOA is a community consisting of 1,337 residents, residential properties with almost 3,000 people that call it home. Many of the homes are within 150 feet, as you'll see on the map that's in this folder, directly across from Liberace, from the ice rink building. And the apartment buildings are less than 100 feet away with multiple adjacent apartment buildings. i also asked that the county had undertaken traffic noise studies or environmental impact review those questions were unanswered except for the consultant that said on the record that they quote had not spoken with everyone and this was in the process that had just begun end quote today i write as the master association president and 16 months later we're still waiting on that call to engage in a discussion about what is being planned for the property that has literally crossed the street from us It seems premature and hasty to be considering a $10 million commitment contribution as a consent calendar item without full transparency and community input. But now you have the opportunity here and now to correct this. You can table this item and appoint a task force comprised of representatives from all the impacted stakeholders located in and around the commercial center. A task force that would hold public meetings and collect input from the community. It could work with the county staff to develop a, quote, venue economic impact model, end quote. That would provide the public with a clear picture of what the county will receive for the tax dollars it allocates to the endeavor. Establishing this task force will put the horse before the cart, and there's precedent for the use of a task force, and the county can use this as many occasions as they have for finances, regional debt management, and for the Citizens Advisory Council, to name a few examples. Why not plan this out in a community-oriented way where everyone wins? Right now, this has been an appearance of a half-baked scheme destined to be plagued with challenges and acrimony. Please commit to the formation of a task force. You will save the county a lot of time and money and come away with a superior result. Sincerely, Dave Johnson, President of the Las Vegas International Country Club of States, HOA. Thank you.

Thank you. Good morning.

Hi, everybody having fun? My name is James Barron. I'm a member of the board of the Master Association of Las Vegas Country Club Estates. I'm also a member of the board of Regency Tower Sub-Association within that community. First of all, thank you for your time and service here today. I spent my younger years in politics and public service and worked with many individuals in your exact positions. Having been in charge of hundreds of buildings in Washington DC and across the country in my past position many years ago, and today living in Regency Towers, I often run across the mindset, particularly in buildings or projects, where the default when it comes to remodeling and restructure is that it needs to reflect the time it was built. In fact, with few exceptions, this thinking leads to throwing good money after bad and not servicing the people it was intended to service. That's exactly what's happening in Commercial Center. It's being tied down with the thinking of the past. The fact is there are no historical structures in the Commercial Center today, and there are none worth saving except for the name. The infrastructure is a disaster. And a health safety threat and commercial center as it's structured doesn't serve the community that it's supposed to serve. Las Vegas and the community of Winchester of the 1970s is very different today as a horse and buggy is to a self-driving electric vehicle. There are hundreds of entertainment venues in Las Vegas. The last place you need a new one is in Winchester and the Commercial Center. In fact, just around the corner at Las Vegas Boulevard in Sahara, there's an area where it's been used for entertainment in the past and could be in the future. The Commercial Center must be reimagined, not remodeled. The plan before us throws good money after bad. negatively impacts the community, does nothing for the families and children that live in Winchester today. There was supposed to be a RFP that went out some time ago, that commercial center could be provided, just such a reimagining, but it's gone into the vapor, just like the promise made to us that the process had only begun and we would be contacted. reimagining the commercial center can meet both the commercial considerations it was designed for and the needs of the families that live in Winchester. If you haven't already, I strongly suggest that you look at the new community center that's planned for Henderson. It's incredible. To quote Edith Wharton, true originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision. The community has not been heard. It must be heard. needs to be identified and met. The opportunity that can be done with reimagining a commercial center, it's our duty. Thank you. And shame on us if we don't do that.

Thank you very much. Thank you. And it's in that packet. Thank you. Good morning.

Good morning. My name is Thomas O'Rourke, 3138 Bel Air Drive. I'm here in support of these two fellows and support of our community. You wanna help it right away, you need to get some police through there every half hour. Do something with the vagrants. Do something with the homeless. That's why no one's developing there. It's not advantageous to them. It's a rundown blight. It needs to be treated as such and not waste good money after bad. Thank you.

Good morning. Good morning.

My name is Dan Collister. My family's been in Clark County since 1947, I think. Most of you would probably know MJ Christensen or Paul Christensen or my father, Robert, or my brother-in-law, Robert Reynolds, and his children who all live here in the Valley. There are hundreds of us, Christensens and Collisters and Reynolds. I'm the president of the HOA for the Regency Tower. Worst job in the world being the president of an HOA of an old building, but we are concerned about What's going to happen across the street on? Which has been already been discussed So I just wanted to echo my concern that I think there needs to be a more open process to discuss this with the community We're all voters. We care a lot. We think you guys do a Reasonable job, but we'd like to see some more focus put into that. I

Thank you.

I'm Deanna Montes de Oca, and I'm a resident of the Las Vegas Country Club, and I'm here to oppose item number 36. I completely support the board members. We don't want this across the street. We have a very peaceful community, and I would like it to stay that way. I've been there since 1989. It's a very safe, quiet community. Please keep it like that. Thank you.

Thank you.

Good morning. My name is Kevin Memsik. I'm also here to speak on item number 36. I'm a resident of the Las Vegas Country Club. recently retired from a 32-year career in juvenile justice in another Clark County. Looking forward to spending more time here. What I want to add to what everyone else has said and will continue to probably talk about, I want to make clear, there is a school bus stop at the corner of Liberace and State, the exact corner of this proposed development. The Las Vegas Country Club Estates, there's not a lot of children in there. Loud music's playing. You're going to keep us up all night. It's probably OK. We're going to survive. But there's probably a couple thousand kids that live in those apartment complexes right there that will not be able to sleep at night. I have five grown children in their 30s, two of which are very much into electronic dance music. I'm not a moralist. I don't care what consenting adults decide to do with their free time. However, this type of music and this type of music menu in particular bring with it a lot of drugs. There's also several adult-oriented businesses in that area. Again, I'm not a moralist. I don't care, but they're very quiet. Not banging loud music all night, keeping people awake. The amount of traffic that's going to bring in a very concentrated time period, so not like retail where it's spread out during the day. There's going to be massive traffic in, massive traffic out. There's not a stoplight there on Liberace and State. We have to pull out onto that street. It's kind of a mess already. It's gonna continue to be a mess. Maryland Parkway's been a mess since I moved here. Five years ago, we bought property here. That can't handle any more traffic. It hasn't been put together in five years. And on a side note, I'll end my comments about this item number 36. The last 10 years of my career, I ran the juvenile detention center. I worked in that detention center for 30 years. I do care about children. Everybody cares about children until it's time to care about children. But I wanted to point out the best days in that center are the days that the therapy dogs came in. So they're gone. Thank you for bringing your dogs around. Thanks.

Thank you very much. Good morning.

James Marisa Holscher, 793 Oakmont Avenue in the Las Vegas Country Club. Been there since the 2000, and I oppose number 36 with all the reasons the master and this man just said, because traffic was an issue for me too. So just, but that's it.

Thank you.

morning chair members of the commission robert diaz representing the sheet metal workers smart local 88 not to break up the agenda items but we're moving to 30 uh 38 excuse me uh this one has to do with the charter schools so we're aware that the county has recently become a sponsor of charters this has uh looks like nearly seven million dollars to be figured out financing for them uh not particularly just this project but all charters in the whole Sorry, it looked like you might have had a question. We often find that they're built using public funds through novel leasing, financing, what have you, and no public accountability. There's often, they call them, Facility partners meaning that they find third parties between real estate agents that help find other avenues to finance these things They then get the funds on the back end of these projects the entire time public privilege without public responsibility It's the public-private partnership language that all too often Exploits workers and the wages that they should have been paid had it been done at a public fair wage like every other public project you guys approve So specifically in 38, we just want to bring to your attention as not only this charter school, but all charter schools come before your commission. Please keep in mind that historically prevailing wage has not been paid on those projects. So as you approve them, make sure to ask those questions on behalf of the workers we represent. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Just a point of clarification on item 38. There's no happy to talk to you after the meeting. There's no public funds being allocated for that project. It's a TEFRA hearing.

Thank you.

Thank you. Good morning.

Good morning, Chair, Commissioners. My name is Jimmy Schwarz with the Ironworkers Local 433, speaking again on item 38. When public financing is used to pay to reimburse or for construction, the county should determine whether or not that work is subject to Nevada prevailing wage law. Before approving this item, has the county made a determination that any construction financed through these bond proceeds? Workers deserve that clarity before the bond proceeds are authorized. Thank you.

Thank you. Again, just a point of clarification as it relates to item 38. That's just an IRS hearing. There's no public financing involved with that item. Good morning.

Good morning. My name is Larry Overman. I live at 3048 Bel Air Drive in... the golf course area, the lakes, Las Vegas Country Club. And when I drive around Las Vegas, there was more, this is for item 36. There is more appropriate areas for this situation that they could go to, especially on each side of Sahara, that big building out there. but I just wanted to bring something to the board and I have a lot of respect for the law because I'm retired from the immigration. Las Vegas Country Club, 70% of these members that live there are over 40 years old. What kicks in is a federal law regarding discrimination. Just like there's 300 of us that are disabled that moved there for the purpose of safety and the hospital, the ADA law kicks in. And that I don't think anybody's looked at because, and it's not a threat, it's just there's the options of these people filing lawsuits is very high and that's what I think would really hurt the whole process because any lawsuit under ADA takes two to five years to resolve and that would just make that whole situation ridiculous for me. Anyway, thank you.

Thank you. Good morning.

Good morning, I'm here to speak on number 36. I'm Tracy Simon from Get a Haircut Barbershop, located in the New Orleans Square Building and Commercial Center. As you are aware, my husband has had serious respiratory problems associated with mold and other toxins found inside New Orleans Square. As a result, we've been closed since April 29th, 2026. The county has promised us relocation money, yet keeps lingering, dangling the promise in front of us like a carrot on a stick. It doesn't matter what decision you make or when you make it, when deciding to demolish the building or remodel it. Either way, the existing businesses have to move out. We ask that you please give all of the businesses the relocation money you promised us now rather than later, so we can all relocate and move on with our lives instead of living in limbo, not knowing what the future holds for our businesses. According to today's agenda, the county is approving $10 million from RDA funds to pay for remodeling the event center that is now owned by Live Nation. Yet you won't give us businesses the relocation money that you said we would receive. Why is it that you can put $10 million towards Insomniac, which is owned by Live Nation, when they're a multi-billion dollar company, but leave us small businesses hanging on for dear life? My husband and I are on the verge of becoming homeless because we have been closed for months, waiting for the county to give us the money to relocate. You said we'd receive. And by the way, I would also just like to add that in 2025, they had a $25.2 billion revenue and a $496 million net income. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Thomas Campbell. I live at 1044 Tam O'Shanter, and I know this is going to surprise you, but I'm going to talk about item number 36. What's really going to surprise you, I'm for it. I lived at 1044 Tam O'Shanter for four years, and that area, the commercial business district, has needed improvement for a long time. And I think this will improve the area drastically. On top of that, I know many people have asked about security and things of that nature. I think that will improve the security. I think once you get some commerce in there and you get people that are actually coming in to do commerce and actual business, I think security will increase. Traffic will obviously be a problem. We'll probably have to work on that State Street in my opinion State Street and Liberace That has been a problem to begin with ever since I've been there. That's a bad area I see people run through that stop sign all the time. They don't even stop so I think that's gonna have to be addressed anyway This will probably make it get become more of an issue. I thank you for your time, and I hope you have a good day Thank you very much Good morning

morning my name is jay plegenkuhl i live at 3109 pinehurst i'm the vice president of the quadro association in the las vegas country club i'm here to speak about item 36. i don't think the venue that's proposed is an appropriate venue to create community we are a very nice community in the las vegas country club in the surrounding area and we would like to have this developed to create community which would be businesses that are appropriate for it. This venue that's proposed is going to disrupt our quality of life. I don't think any of you would like to have this in your backyard and to be listening to this. We've developed other areas around the valley that create community. the Summerlin Center. We have the district in Green Valley. We have areas like that where people have invested money and created really nice sound areas for community. I drive out the north entrance of the Country Club and I see all these kids standing waiting for a bus on asphalt. There's no green space in there. I don't see where this event or this venue would add anything to creating the value of community. Actually, I think it's a great distraction from it because this type of music does attract a lot of drugs and everything. And then we have the influx when these events do happen, the one time thing where existing businesses are trying to survive over there will lose their parking, it'll be flooded out by people. in these one-time events. I just think it's a very bad idea. I think this needs to be looked at as a whole as far as commercial center to develop a master plan and to curate this in a correct manner instead of just this one-off little thing that's gonna be a disaster for everybody who lives in the area. Thank you.

Thank you. Good morning.

Good morning. I'm Piper Carter. I also live in the Las Vegas Country Club. We appreciate your time today and your attention to this matter. We are grateful for the opportunity to share our concerns. As has been demonstrated, there's clearly a wide variety of opinions on this topic, and we think it would be most appropriate to allocate a task force to fully research this issue and make sure that the commercial center is being modified, renovated, rebuilt in the most appropriate way to support long-term growth for the businesses in that area and the residents in the surrounding areas. We appreciate your time and we are optimistic that you will support our position to invest resources and time to best allocate resources and optimize this area and strengthen the areas around it. Thank you.

This will be the final time for public comment at the beginning of the meeting. Anyone else wishing to speak, please make your way to the aisle. Good morning, Mr. King. What item are you here to speak on?

Yes, multiple items include, good morning, Eric King, long-time resident. Items include 18, 36, and 43. So if I can tie those together and not waste your time, I appreciate you allowing me time. I understand item 18 is gonna be storm drainage contracting, money's directed there again advocating for what is done with that engineering firm and the design work they do hopefully has some discussion regarding how to take 24,000 plus that is only what's measured that reaches 24,000 acre feet, I should say, of rainwater that actually gets measured somehow in my hundreds of hours of research now trying to figure out who's measuring how much rain actually falls and gets to where in the valley. We are going to have more atmospheric rivers grow bigger and bigger. Talking about rain here, talking about storm drains, and talking about trees, that is actually item 36 I wanted to mention that I understand you guys are not approaching this from a designer's mindset that I am, but thinking about it from a designer's mindset, we got an enormous amount of water it comes through the valley doesn't get directed to design work for places like live mr king i'm giving you the look to bring it back to the items you're here to talk about yeah so so one of the points i wanted to make thank you for hearing me is item 36 if you are going to build what you're going to build is support them doing what they do there i don't know all the details right now One thing I'd like to recommend that I think will be a winner anywhere you want to do this type of work, whether it's some type of open space enhancements, whatever it is, to allow for things like this with lots of noise.

I'm going to let you wrap it up. Yes.

So is to bring mature trees. are on the verge of dying because grass has been cut away from them and their roots there's a hundred thousand of them that have died in the valley please bring the design of any potential project is not really before us right now so go ahead and conclude your comments yes and so in response to the people's concerns about noise and children's safety uh you know this board is who will respond to those concerns Very good, and so item 43, also to touch on that please, that taking these trees, put them in places where kids get off a bus, go to a school, you save the tree, you got irrigation to street side anyways, takes 20 to 100 years to get a mature tree canopy to grow, depending on the species here in our dry desert. So you can have public traffic safety be reduced by trees, literally. There's extant.

Thank you.

Thank you for hearing.

Thank you, Mr. King. Again, anyone else who's here to speak, please make your way to the aisle. Otherwise, I see two more speakers. Go ahead.

Hello, I actually didn't expect to speak today, but I'll make it really quick. Thank you for your time This is regarding item 36 and I think everyone else who's here for this might find this interesting Some people could we have your name for the record Alex? Do I need to get my last name?

For the record, yes. Steiner.

Thank you. For the record, Insomniac doesn't own that building. I think some people were under the impression they're tenants of the building. The county bought the two adjacent properties to that building. And the reason I know is because I know the owners of 800 Liberace. And I actually find it interesting that the county is working with the tenants rather than the owners of the building for this allocation And so if anyone is here for item 36 and opposes that I would love to hear your comments after if you want to connect But that's my moment. So thank you very much.

Thank you Good morning

Hi, my name is James McCrink and I live at the Las Vegas Country Club our family has been a resident there for 40 years I'm asking you all to reject item 36 I don't think it's good for the area and It's the plans are undoubtedly going to bring in the kind of Customers that are big drug users. It's known to be that by everybody in this community and Undoubtedly that's going to cause a lot of problems more importantly though The this item really deserves to be looked at by a task force and A decision really shouldn't be made today and as far as I know the task force has not been organized Yet, but it deserves that and And I think the community really needs to have an input and I hope you'll take that in consideration.

Thank you Thank you very much seeing no one else here to speak on the first time set aside for public comment We'll close that opportunity And move to section four, our agenda.

Your next item is number five, which is the approval of minutes of the regular meeting of August 18th, 2026 and the redevelopment agency regular meeting on July 22nd, 2026.

Mr. Chair, I move if there are no additions or corrections, I move the adoption and approval of the minutes noted.

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

Your next item is item number six, which is the approval of the agenda with the inclusion of any emergency items and the deletion of any items. For the record, staff is requesting that items 33 and 36 under your consent items or your consent agenda be taken separately, and a correction on item 36 under the consent section should read, under the item recommendation, change also sitting as the Clark County Redevelopment Agency to sitting as the Clark County Redevelopment Agency.

If there are no other changes, I move the adoption of the agenda.

Thank you. There's a motion for adoption of the agenda. Please cast your vote. The motion passes.

Section 5 is the approval of your consent agenda, noting that items 33 and 36 will be taken separately.

I move approval of the consent agenda except for the noted items.

Thank you. There's a motion. Cast your vote. The motion passes.

Section 6 are items to be taken separately from the consent agenda. The first item is 33, which is approve and authorize the obligation of $6 million in Clark County Community Housing Funds to FWM Paseo LLC for the preservation of 120 units of attainable housing and authorize the county manager or his designee to execute any necessary documents related thereto.

i think dagny stapleton's coming up good morning good morning commissioners dagny stapleton community housing administrator since 2022 this board has led the county in supporting the development and rehab of a historic number of attainable housing units Those investments have impacted approximately 5,800 units serving extremely low and moderate residents of Clark County. Along with these efforts, the county's also been working to preserve attainable units that are at risk of converting to market rate housing. If existing affordability restrictions expire and the units convert to market rate or are sold, residents are at risk of rising rents and even eviction. The funding before you today is for Paseo Del Prado Apartments, a complex with 120 units and an affordability restriction that will expire this year. Our office has been working with the developer, Fairway Multifamily, on an acquisition and rehab of these apartments that will preserve them as affordable for another 50 years. If approved, the $6 million in CHF funds will assist with full unit interior upgrades, new windows, HVAC, full plumbing re-pipe, exterior and roof upgrades, new security, dog park, pool upgrades, lighting replacement, landscaping enhancements, and parking lot resurfacing. I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Thank you very much. Commissioner Gibson?

Yes, Mr. Chair, thank you. Thank you, Dagny. I think this is the most efficient way to preserve affordable housing units. And in this instance, the affordability period is less than what we're getting in the extension of the commitment to affordability. And so what we're doing is we're magnifying the effect that we can get from the investment of these dollars. So this is a no-brainer for us. I'm really proud of the work that you've done, and this will be a good thing for Clark County.

Thank you, and I think Commissioner Kirkpatrick.

Yeah, I just want to, can you just point out the long term of the lease? So when we hear other people come before us, we like to tout that we don't do it for five years, six years, we do it for?

50 years, there's a deed restriction. That's a 5-0. 5-0, yeah, deed restriction for 50 years.

Well, I think that that's important because at the end of the day, we're not just thinking about today or five years from now. We're thinking about the next generation and what they may need, and there's always going to be a need for some type of that housing. So thank you for making sure that works that way.

Thank you, commissioners. There's some subtle points being made there appropriately. I think there's a motion by Commissioner Gibson to move for approval of item 33, which will preserve 120 units of attainable housing in Clark County. Please cast your vote. That motion passes.

Item 36 is to approve and authorize the allocation of $10 million for the redevelopment and activation of 800 Liberace Avenue, APN 162-10-510-030, located within Commercial Center, sitting as the Clark County Redevelopment Agency.

Thank you. I am going to ask that Ms. Kramer explain what this item is and what it is not.

Thank You Commissioner the item before you this morning is to authorize the funds only at this time in order to disperse funds in the future an agreement will need to be prepared and drafted and presented back to the BCC for approval at that time but this this item before you today is only to earmark the funds and identify the funds but it's not to formally disperse the funds

So any proposed agreement would have to come back before the Redevelopment Agency Board for approval, and there would be additional opportunity for public engagement, public comment. I would say there has been significant public engagement over the last three to four years on Commercial Center, including with tenants, property owners, and neighbors. I understand certainly the concerns that have been raised by neighbors today, I will say, again, Clark County isn't gonna engage in an agreement with Insomniac or anybody else without fully understanding what the proposals are. With regards to Insomniac specifically, and the concerns with noise, drugs, et cetera, we currently, Clark County, North Las Vegas, et cetera, are working with them at Craig Ranch State Park. In fact, they just had an event literally on Saturday that was hosted by them. And so we have a long history of working with them on events, and so that will play into any decision that this board chooses to make in the future. Ms. Logsdon, I just want to, there was an ADA concern that was raised. Can you comment on that threat?

Yeah, and there was an allegation that maybe this might raise some ADA concerns. I don't see any ADA concerns with the approval or even the allocation of the money or the approval of a contract potentially to disperse these funds in the future.

Very good. I will hear any comments. Commissioner Sigal.

Let me just go ahead and add, several years ago we paid about half a million dollars to Gensler Corporation to come in and look at the commercial center and come up with some proposals. And one of the proposals they had, or the proposal they had, would be to renovate the event center. The event center was built before the Las Vegas Country Club. It's been zoned and master planned for events there for 60 years. The truth is, as far as this, the concept here is to work with Insomniac to rehab the event center They're going to put in about $20 million. And at that point, it would be a place for entertainment. But it would be inside. Obviously, noise requirements would have to meet the county noise requirements, which would apply to the country club. But since I've been in this position, when I started here, what we call the forest, which is the neighborhood just to the north of you, was the most dangerous area of the county. We talked about drugs. That was the drug capital of the county. We have worked religiously to make sure to get the police in there, to weed out the bad elements, and truthfully, right now, that's one of the safer neighborhoods in the county. We're trying to work with you to make sure that the area to the north of Las Vegas Country Club is a secure area, but to do that, we have to have businesses that are active and people who are active there, and this is part of that. This is gonna be, if it works out, it would be events, concerts in the evening probably, but during the day also. It could be also an event center where we could have conventions and things inside there. Anything outside, as far as that goes, we would have to permit. We would have to give notice to everybody. We would work with you to make sure that anything that happens outside that space would be acceptable to you and not interfere with the neighborhood. But it's a huge area. We need more tenants. We need more activity. The businesses there like the idea of having concerts there on weekends and things. So to my knowledge, it's a win-win for everybody. So I apologize to those of you that don't like the idea. But we've looked at this very carefully. And at the end of the day, we're going to go forward with this vote to set aside the money, but as far as an actual debate on what happens in that building, that will be another meeting.

Mr. Kirkpatrick.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I want to just point out that the Redevelopment Agency Board was asked to make a decision and move forward whether what we were going to do with that. So this always has been on the radar to redevelop. It has a lot of, and I know I heard people say that there's no historical value. Well, for me, growing up as a kid, there's a lot of historical value in a lot of places within the commercial center. So, you know, that venue in particular had hosted some of the greatest musicians in the beginning. When I was just in middle school, not to date myself, but at the same time, this board was given the direction and it was a long, hard discussion. about what do we do with this parking lot? What do we do with the buildings? And so I think this is the step that we need to do is to allocate the money so that we can start with negotiations on what we want that venue to look like. And at the end of the day, we already own two other buildings because it's hard to do things. And I'm been on this board when you know the u-haul guy was there and we fought over parking for u-haul spaces uh when you have so many tenants it's very hard to kind of come to a conversation but that has always been AN INDOOR SMALL, IT'S A SMALL VENUE, BUT IF WE CAN FIND SOMEONE TO DOUBLE OUR INVESTMENT AND REINVEST IN A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WILL GENERATE MORE, I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING. I THINK THIS DOES PUT US IN THAT FOOTING TO DO THOSE THINGS. Many people that don't know, yes, we can always go out and get consultants to do these fancy things, but we don't always agree with what they want. And then at the end of the day, there's a price tag that comes with it. This money is set aside specifically for redeveloping in that area. it's divided amongst three commissioners so it's just uh keeping true to our word for commissioner sagerbloom this was i almost want to say a year ago when we said you have to figure out what we're going to do right on the redevelopment stuff and i think that allocating the money so that we can go and have a conversation with someone is the right avenue so i support this

And i'll just following up on in terms of time frames again this has to come back before the redevelopment agency board. In order to be approved also since there was a reference to New Orleans square tenants, we had intended to come back in a redevelopment agency. with proposals about New Orleans Square. Unfortunately, the process itself of doing the appraisals and all the things that we asked staff to do has taken a little bit longer than we expected. However, we will be having that on the agenda for the October redevelopment agency board meeting and may or may not have this item back on the redevelopment agency agenda for October. So with that, I will entertain a motion to approve agenda item 36. Move to approve. The motion passes.

We may now move to your public hearing section. Section 7, your first item is 37. To conduct a public hearing and approve, adopt, and authorize the chair to sign an ordinance to amend Title IV, Chapter 4.18, Section 4.18.095, and 4.18.175 of the Clark County Code to remove the funding limit to amend Section 8 of Clark County Ordinance Number 2931,

to remove the sunset date and associated funding limitations and providing for other matters properly related thereto thank you this is a public hearing which i'll open at this time on item 37 those wishing to speak please come forward seeing no one i will close the public hearing on item 37 um if there's discussion or a motion by the board we'll entertain it if there is no comment or questions mr chair i move that we

approve, adopt, and authorize the chair to sign the ordinance.

Thank you, Commissioner. There's a motion on item 37. Please cast your vote. That motion passes.

Item 38 is to conduct a public hearing and approve, adopt, and authorize the chair to sign a resolution approving the issuance solely for the purpose of section 147F of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended by the Public Finance Authority Wisconsin in one or more series of tax-exempt 501c3 revenue bonds in amount not to exceed $7 million in order to A, refinance, refinance, and or reimburse the costs of the acquisition, constructions, improvement, renovation, equipping, and furnishing of a charter educational facility located at 4801 South Sand Hill Road, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89121, per use by Discovery Charter School. B, fund a debt service reserve fund for the bonds. C, pay capitalized interest with respect to the bonds and related working capital. And D, pay certain costs of issuance of the bonds.

Thank you. Good morning. Please identify yourselves for the record.

I am Jessica Shahan from Kutak Rock. I am bond counsel for the financing.

Lynn Stern, executive director for Discovery.

prepared any formal statement, but we did want to thank the board for taking time for this public hearing. There were some concerns in public comment on the use of funds here, and I want to just mention for this particular project, even though the description of the project is quite long and full, that the borrower is going to be using the money to purchase the facility it is already operating in so it's currently leasing no additional improvements at this time being financed so thank you at this time i will open the public hearing on item 38 if you're wishing to speak please come forward please limit your comments to item 38.

Good morning, Eric King, long-time resident. Being more ignorant than I am aware of all the details, and I only caught a little bit of what the lady said right there about what is or isn't part of it, I'd just like to advocate for what I mentioned earlier, which is taking dying trees.

We can entertain that during this TEFRA hearing.

This is talking about improvements? I'm pretty sure.

We're not talking about landscaping or improvements. This is simply a requirement of the IRS that we hear this item publicly.

I'm speaking to language.

We don't have any control over the things that you are asking us to do related to this item.

But there has been, just so I can say, I will not do the whole time. I just want to say, in my understanding that the process to arrive at what amount of bonds get approved for a project is smart people talk about what would be good to put on that property.

No, that has no bearing on the item that is before us right now.

With respect, I disagree. Thank you.

thank you uh anyone else wishing to speak on item 38 can come forward at this time seeing no one i will close that public hearing uh commissioner gibson this is in your district thank you it's important to note that this financing is without recourse to clark county so we do this as a a clerical process we're required and the fund is required that all of these kinds of loans come through the county and we authorize, we approve them, but we have nothing to do with the details related to the financing, the repayment of the money. We're not obligated, if there were a default and the school could not pay the bonds or the interest on the bonds, that would be their problem, not Clark County or not Clark County taxpayers. This area has some challenges it's important that the school has the capacity to do the things that they're trying to do in the right order of events so i'm happy to support this item and i move that we approve adopt and authorize the chair to sign a resolution related to this loan thank you there's a motion by commissioner gibson please cast your vote the motion passes

We may now move to section eight of your agenda, introduction of ordinances. Item 39 is an ordinance to amend chapter 16.06 of the Clark County Code by incorporating various provisions related to the temporary closure of public streets or rights-of-way relating to roadway special events, to amend title 16 of the Clark County Code by adding provisions relating to lane closures relating to right-of-way permits and traffic control plans, to amend Section 30.06.11G of the Clark County Code by adding provisions relating to lane closures relating to right-of-way permits and traffic control plans, to amend Title 30 fee schedules by updating various fee amounts relating to Title 30 applications, updating various fee amounts related administrative fees relating to right-of-way permits, adding additional fees relating to right-of-way permits, and adding an annual fee adjusting provisions to amend the off-site improvement bond estimate tabulation form by updating various fee amounts and providing for other matters properly related thereto and set a public hearing or take other actions as appropriate.

Thank you. I will introduce the ordinance and set the public hearing for Tuesday, October 6, 2026 at 10 AM.

Section 9 of your agenda is your business items. Item 40 is to identify emerging issues to be addressed by staff or by the board at future meetings, receive updates on the activities of various regional boards and commissions, and direct staff accordingly.

Thank you. Commissioner Kirkpatrick.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I actually have a couple of them. And I can't believe I'm bringing up water in this meeting. But I want to remind people that the watering clocks, please remind your landscapers. We're getting a lot of calls that, why is their bill so high? And it's because you're still watering seven days a week. The watering is down to three days a week so please be mindful of that and the reason that we change it at this time of the year is because it is light less so and hopefully crossing my fingers that this week we're going to finally see below the 100 degrees which would be nice i'll take 99.6 over 101 so i wanted to put that on the radar and number two is the health district just a reminder for the health district that mosquitoes are apparent and it only takes one cap full of water so it's somebody and usually they stay within a mile radius of where they're coming from. Somebody has just one cap full of water lying in their backyard. Somebody, maybe even my grandson has done it, has, you know, threw the bottle cap down, then the sprinkler hits it. That's all that they need. If you have a pond, please be mindful that there's no standing water because we are still dealing with mosquitoes as a whole. and we get lots of complaints uh when there's lots of bites the last thing i wanted to put for the board just so you all and i'm sure you're aware is our office has been getting tons of calls the city of las vegas has an agenda item tomorrow to not renew the interlocal agreement and so the interlocal agreement is an agreement that we've worked on and been in place for a little over 10 years so i don't know what that will bring typically we have conversations together to discuss what an interlocal looks like but should that not go in our favor at least for my constituents and i'm sure for commissioner becker's constituents we'd like an item on the agenda to address the outcome to really talk about what that looks like going forward. But we'll see. Tomorrow, maybe it's nothing, and maybe they decide they wanna sit down with us, but if not, the next meeting, I think we owe it to our constituents to address the future.

Thank you. Commissioner Jones. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Last Saturday, we held the Great American Kickoff at Desert Breeze with Metro, Clark County Fire, Clark County Parks, and VA Rep. all participating in a kickball tournament and a grill off. And I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who participated, all those who organized the event, including my team. And I want to say, most of all, congratulations to Clark County Fire Department for winning both the kickball tournament and the grill off. So thank you.

Congratulations to them. Anyone else for emerging issues? Seeing no one, we will move on.

Item 41 is to accept and approve the business impact statement pursuant to NRS 237.080 and 237.090 for the proposed ordinance amending Clark County Code Title 16, roads and highways, Clark County Code Title 30, Chapter 6, Section 11G, right-of-way permit, Clark County's Title 30 fee schedule, and Clark County's off-site improvement bond estimate tabulation form, and provide for other matters properly related thereto or take other action as appropriate.

Thank you. Good morning.

Good morning, commissioners. Mr. Chair, public works. On September 28, 2025, Clark County Public Works proposed an amendment to Ordinance Title 16 and Title 30. We sent out notices to Chamber of Commerce, trade associations, developers, contractors, and entity totaling over 600 notifications. The notifications and proposed ordinance were also made available on Public Works website. On December 10th, 2025, Public Works held our first workshop to respond to comments or concerns regarding the proposed ordinance changes. Then again on July 8th, 2026, Public Works held an informal meeting as a follow up to discuss revisions to the proposed amendments to code changes. Once again, on August 12th, 2026, Public Works had another working group meeting with stakeholders to discuss proposed amendments and changes that we could make. And then on August 25th, 2026, we had a final meeting to finalize the revisions to the proposed amendments to Title 16 and 30. So what are those changes that we came up with? The notable changes, additions to the ordinance are as follows. We are now gonna introduce a new lane occupancy fee. The lane occupancy fee that we're adopting is a $50 charge to be charged for any lane that is occupied for more after three days. So on the fourth day, you will be paying $50 for a lane occupied regardless of the length. We are revising the inspection fees. We are increasing the off-site bond fees. and we're also allowing for a three percent per year increase in these fees based on the cpi the special event application fee will now be a hundred dollars before there was no charge for it and the special event application will now be filed with public works as opposed to metro all of these changes would take effect on january 1st 2027 once adopted Public Works has reviewed comments in opposition to Title 16 and Title 30 that express concerns about impact to these fees and may have for home affordability and financial burden on smaller businesses. With that in mind, Public Works worked with industry and made the proposed changes for the lane occupancy fee and the offsite inspection fees. I'm here if you have any questions.

Thank you. Are there questions from the board? I have one. Commissioner Gibson.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. When was the last time we adjusted these fees? It was 2008, Commissioner. 2008? Eight. Okay. Thank you.

Can I just clarify something? So I was in some of those last meetings, and we did say that when the ordinance came that we would put some things on the record, but this today is just accepting the business impact statement, and we'll have that opportunity at the next meeting, correct?

That's correct, Commissioner.

Mr. Chair, if there isn't anything more, I move the adoption that we accept the business impact statement.

There is a motion. Please cast your vote. The motion passes. Thank you.

item 42 is to approve adopt and authorize the chair to sign a resolution of intent proposing the issuance of and authorizing the publication of notices related to general obligation limited tax hospital improvement bonds additionally secured by gross pledged revenue in the maximum aggregate principal amount of forty five million seven hundred and seventy thousand dollars authorizing the chief financial officer or in such officer's absence the county manager to arrange for the sale of such bonds and providing items properly related thereto and providing the effective date if there's not a presentation on this item i'll turn over to the board for action

Mr. Chair, we've already heard this at the debt management. At least three of us have. So I think this is well been vetted from the debt management, which is a regional board. So I would entertain a motion to approve.

Thank you. There's a motion for approval of item 42. Please cast your vote. The motion passes.

Item 43 is to receive a progress update from the Office of Traffic Safety on the implementation of the School Traffic Safety Working Group's recommendation and direct staff accordingly.

Thank you. Good morning. Good morning, Chair, members of the board. Andrew Bennett, Director of the Office of Traffic Safety. I was before you last on July 7th to provide the recommendations of the School Traffic Safety Working Group. At that meeting, I was directed to come back 30 days after the beginning of school to discuss some of the progress that has been made during this time. uh... outreach has been a significant portion of our efforts uh... ensuring that we have the continued regional by and uh... we also i'd also heard very clearly from commissioner patrick of ensuring that we engage students as well uh... we had the opportunity to go before the student of those superintendent student advisory council uh... which was all high school uh... each high school sense to students we robust discussion about what they wanted to see And I appreciated their comments about the regionality, the importance of ensuring that whatever Henderson's doing, we're also getting a non-corporate Clark County, etc., especially with education. Henderson PD is just bringing back the Every 15 Minutes program, so we're excited to engage with that this Friday as well. I was before the school board on August 5th. Their board meetings are much longer than ours. I answered about two hours worth of questions before their board, so we appreciate the opportunity to engage with their school board as well and then various other meetings within traffic safety. I also want to highlight the August 25th Joint Interim Standing Committee on the Judiciary through Director Jacobs or Director Jacob with Government Affairs. We appreciate that the school report was included in the backup of that meeting to advance some of our e-device legislation that we're pursuing. As you remember, the report was broken up into four different time categories, immediate, short, mid, and long. I wanted to focus on the immediate recommendations before you today. On this slide, they're all broken down between complete, in progress, delayed, or not started. Everything has been started. There was only one that was delayed. In between submitting the item and today, we were able to work with the school district police with some of their staffing changes that they've had to ensure that the data continues to flow. But largely, the items are either completed or in progress. Some of these items are ongoing. And then also within progress, something on the education front of the walking school buses. That kicked off last week, working with CCSD Risk Management and some community partners. And then I have some stats on the next slide about specifics. This slide only speaks to Clark County Public Works, so I want to appreciate their leadership for the items that they engaged with us on. The increases are significant when you look at signs, striping. Markings trees trimmed which were all identified in the report as a priority for immediate those items went up dramatically I do apologize for the bottom 84% that was a copy and paste error on that percentage, but the numbers of sidewalk ramps installed for ADA compliance was dramatically increased from 8 to 21 Working with enforcement, again, education enforcement, engineering have been the priorities of this report, as well as with policy. CCSDPD, we're still working on getting the jurisdictional numbers, but CCSDPD enforcement the first two weeks was up 34%. Largely, that's due to ensuring that all of their officers are engaged in traffic enforcement and not just their traffic bureau. So we appreciate those changes that were made in their operations. We are launching as we continue this process. We have worked through all the education items largely on the immediate and short term. When I went to one of the trustees outreach meetings up in the Northwest, There was a lot of parents and a lot of principals that were requesting newer education items. We're delivering about 13 different pieces of collateral that range from social media toolkits or every school has one of those reader boards, ensuring that the principals know what messaging could be used for traffic safety on those reader boards. And so we're putting together principals toolkit as a part of this item And then also through that conversation ensuring that they are reminded That some of the flexibility that they have one of the agreements that we made with the school district When we moved to middle school crossing guards was principals and their administrators should be allowed to act as crossing guards So reminding me of reminding them of those changes that were made in CCSD policy has also been a top priority But all of these items will be on the CCSD website as well as the Clark County website before the end of the month, both in English and in Spanish. And finally, to complete what's next, our goal is to wrap up the 19 immediate items here within the end of the month. Working with some of the crash data and the speed and volume data that we now have access to ensuring that we prioritize the locations based off of need. Continuing to increase the effectiveness of AB6. Working with the courts and law enforcement to ensure that with legislation comes enforcement and adjudication on the double penalties and the double fines that are now in law. as well as continuing to advance the e-device policy, which again, many thanks to Director Jacob. We now have BDR 482 that adopted largely the recommendations that were listed in the report, and then continue to monitor and track outcomes. With that, I'm happy to answer any questions.

Thank you, Director Bennett. Other questions from the board? Commissioner Kirkpatrick.

First of all, I want to say thank you to the chairman for taking this on. I know we don't always get the credit for doing the hard work up front, but everybody's taking the credit afterwards. So thank you, Commissioner Knapp. And I only get frustrated because when we paid for the additional school crossing guards, it was nobody wanted to be our partner but then they get a little bit of federal money and the ribbon cuttings can't stop and it bothers me so um thank you for taking this on Two, I am, I'm curious, I like the new colors that maybe the kids had some, they want to refresh it, because what we had before was from probably the 80s, right? Is there any appetite, because I know that Commissioner Knapp does his like, safety thing, and that's really dependent on whether the art teacher wants to participate or not, you know, the... The calendars. The calendars. Is there any... I would love to see the city council, like, put this stuff on their TikToks and put it on their Instagrams and all those things. I mean, I always use my granddaughter, because she's middle school, as a test pilot. Is this something you would put, and she'll say, oh, Nana, that's too much, but I would love to see them, and maybe it's us creating a contest for the commercial, right? We're doing something in our district where the kids are creating commercials, but maybe it's something in unincorporated Clark County. Or we could create like the 10-second commercial. Denise Valdez is retired. She has lots of time on her hands. We could pull in some of our other media people. I would just, I think the kids would have fun doing it.

No, I appreciate that comment. And I think the looking at, you know, how to get it organized, you know, regionally is important. With the superintendent student Advisory Council that was feedback that I received heavily from them of don't put it something out if it's not gonna land so I put it back on them to Help us and so they are delivering about 15 different PSAs that are short that are very much in the you know Like one of the ideas that I saw from them recently was you know There's videos about get ready with me and it's talking about traffic safety as they're getting ready for school and so there there are relevancies that we need to make sure that we land, and so working with the students, but happy to discuss how to, you know, organize it and take it regionally.

So, I mean, I just want to make sure my schools in my district are participating, because I think it would be important, right, for the kids to kind of talk about it, and I use this because we have a lot of it, youth advisory committees, and if you If you broaden their horizons or push them to what's it going to be, they'll shockingly tell you, oh, man, it has to be in your face direct. So I think that it would be good for us to see a bunch of them when they get that close. And if I could help, I mean, whatever resources that we can bring to help move that along. I appreciate that and I know you all have uh relationships with your schools and with your principals and as we're developing as we're about to launch the principal's toolkit we'd appreciate that support and getting that message out to them well I mean don't don't forget we're going to be setting back the clock so kids will be getting out from sports when it's darker and then in the spring we do the um more kids will be out riding so just good job um thank you Mr. Chairman

thank you commissioner um just a couple things i'll add uh when you were here last one of the things that i asked for is that you come back with some some of those to do's checked off i think it's notable the 14 of the 19 on the immediate list are complete all of those are underway And I guess what I would say is, you know, sometimes we spend a lot of time talking about things that are very flashy, but the things that happen, to Commissioner Kirkpatrick's point, sometimes quietly, are incredibly significant. And you look at some of these things like, you know, we have been on crosswalks that have been faded and you can't even see them. Knowing that, you know, we've got this significant increase, 1250% increase in crosswalks, markings were placed before the start of the school year and in the first couple weeks that is really notable i think um and i'll i will give a a rare but really well deserved compliment to public works i know i'm a harsh critic uh you all took this task very seriously under uh director or deputy manager creamer's direction and went to work and i think it shows throughout the whole community The other thing I'll say is that it's significant, while it might not be the sexiest thing, it is significant to note that this is the first time to my knowledge ever, Director Bennett will correct me if I'm wrong, that there has been one voice from the traffic safety community as it relates to back to school. And while I think the collateral is attractive, more importantly it sends a message that's digestible by the user. And we're not all, when I say we all, municipality to municipality are not all focusing on different elements of what is a very complicated message to send. That's huge. When we can communicate with one voice as a regional community and make clear that people understand that the actions that they take can save their life or lives around them, it really does have an impact. And I know we will see that come to fruition in the school year ahead. So if there's no further discussion, thank you for your work. Kaizan, thank you very much. And to the public works team who in very, very hot days are doing some hard work to get our schools ready is really notable. So I thank you. And Leslie, I'll turn it back over to you.

Great. So we do have a closed door, but you can go to your public comment section before that time.

Very good. This will be the final time set aside for public comment. Anyone wishing to speak can come forward at this time. Please state your name for the record. You may speak for up to three minutes on items that are within the purview of this body. Good morning.

Good morning again, esteemed leaders, chairman. Eric King, longtime resident. Expanding on what I touched on earlier this morning and in times past, I want to talk about atmospheric rivers. We're missing 50,000, according to our national government, soon to be missing 50,000 acre feet of water from what we say we can have or they say we can have. There is around 20 to 24,000 or more that I'm aware of measured acre feet of water falling on our watersheds, which is approximately 10% of what actually falls there, possibly around 7%. Nobody really measures all that, nobody ever has, but it's free water, comes to us every year on average. and nobody seems to think it's that important to keep it around much longer. We don't want mosquitoes, certainly. We certainly don't want it to burn off at the levels that it is in Lake Mead, which is losing 650,000 plus acre feet of water a year because the sun hits it and burns it off. It could be doing a lot of great work for us here cooling the valley with hundreds of thousands of trees that could have been planted over the last 15 years since I've been advocating. I began it then I gave it up for a while back at it advocating for trees, more of them to be planted here so we don't have as hot of a concrete jungle. and we take advantage of atmospheric rivers though i didn't use that term back then it's become sexy now and those are rivers coming at us every year from six or eight sources depending on the season maybe four that are on scale five possibly ten times larger than what flows in the amazon over that same period That's what's coming at us, doesn't get all to us, gets distributed around the coast, wherever those rivers come in. But we think that they don't really matter that much to keep them around that long, and we send them on to Lake Mead to get burned off. So I'd love to advocate for mature trees, to go to places like new schools, that are gonna dig new ground or move things. You take a mature tree, that cooling power, depending on what it is, could be two to five houses worth of AC cooling every single year. Just one tree, and it takes 20, 30 years to get that cooling power back. Also, public safety. People feel better around mature trees. Real estate agents all know that, and they sell more moneyed houses because of it. I propose and adopt a mature tree program, be instituted by the county and supported by funding, MAYBE MATCHING FUNDS BY LOCAL COMMUNITY BUSINESSES AND OTHER GROUPS THAT MAY SEE VALUE IN TAKING MATURE TREES THAT ARE GOING TO DIE BECAUSE THE GRASS WAS CUT OFF AND MOVE THEM TO SOME PLACE THEY WON'T DIE. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GOOD MORNING.

Thank you again, Commissioners Allenstam. Item 36, Las Vegas International Country Club Estates, HOA. Just want to remind you, our comments from the board are here for all of you as well. Just a couple things to summarize. First, I want to thank Commissioner for stepping over to me and telling me he will meet with us as a board and a community. Appreciate that. But just a few things to remind the Commission of, and I think most of you were here when a couple of years ago there was a very large outdoor event at the commercial center. I think approximately $400,000 were spent. And the local store, where they were blocked off, they were fenced off. They could not even have people come to their properties during that. And I think there were several news stories. You probably all remember that. We're very concerned about outdoor events. Yes, the building is zoned for commercial use, for event center, but the outside is not. And then when it comes to the event permitting process, most of it's done administratively. We never even hear about those things. So those are the big issues. The neighbors in the apartment buildings, they don't hear about what's going on you know there's hundreds and hundreds of people in those apartment buildings they work during the day they can't come they have no notifications of these meetings and they have real no voice and we hope that you let them participate like you let us participate uh... and finally we haven't had you know any communication from the redevelopment agency or bcc really Engaging us on as my 12 years on the board of the Master Association HOA So I look forward to meeting with the Commissioner and allowing us to participate and hopefully the creation of a task force. Thank you Thank you

Manny Kess, thank you again, commissioners. I have been to four meetings this year regarding commercial center with stakeholders. More than 15 of them came. Commissioner Segelblum was on those emails. Neither he nor anyone from his staff ever showed up. So when I heard earlier, a comment was made that the stakeholders currently are supporting this, I would like to say from my personal experience, not one of them has supported this because I've been in their meetings. So I would like to see the commissioner and the BCC overall speak to the shareholders when you're trying to make this big decision. Your job is very difficult. You have to look at all the angles, which I understand. I'm running for office. That's another conversation. But at the end of the day, public service is serving the public. And most people that live in this community do not want to see some lipstick on a pig. We want to see commercial center become something. So talking about a 60 year old approval for making it a facility for events is very outdated with what's happened now. Las Vegas, the state, the county, the city has changed in 60 years. So let's be very mindful when we make these comments, and in the next stage, when this money gets allocated, let's please hopefully make sure that we're paying attention to what Commissioner Kirkpatrick said. We're looking at five, 10, 20 years from now, not in the past. Thank you so very much. Good morning.

Hello, my name is Shoshana. I'm a resident and I'm continuing to advocate for the separation of church and state. Please stop praying here because this is not a church. But you keep inviting clergy in here, so I like to read news stories. I'm all about facts. Channel 8 News had a story about four Las Vegas preachers who pled guilty to stealing tax dollars and lying about criminal records. They admitted to bilking taxpayers out of more than a million dollars combined from Nevada Medicaid. The pastors, Gregory and Carol Kirby, lied on applications to become medical providers, which they weren't for Medicaid, and submitted fraudulent claims. They were ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars back, obviously up to a million, over a million collectively. because they were just two pastors. Gregory Kirby lied about his criminal convictions, including tampering with a vehicle felony for possession of cocaine, admitting to submitting false Medicaid claims, and using more than $785,000 in illegal proceeds to purchase five properties, including two in... Well, I know Illinois and Las Vegas prompt and Laughlin Gregory Kirby is still I'm gonna remind you to Tread lightly when you're stating people's names.

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This is a new story from Channel 8. I understand. We just had Denise Valdez here. I understand. This is her station story. You're welcome to continue. Okay, thank you. He's still a preacher in another state. Two other pastors, Regina and Joe Bryce, they were also charged in the scheme. She said, quote, I'm a woman of God. She unfortunately didn't reveal also that she had prior convictions, including drug paraphernalia, theft, battery, and non-sufficient funds check. Regina Bryce, she also forfeited $527,000 of stolen money from Nevada Medicaid. Okay, so, and then Joe Bryce, her husband, he was in trouble too, of course. He had criminal convictions, burglary, possession of drugs, attempt to conceal a weapon without a permit. He had fraudulent claims as well. None of them served jail time except one, Joe Bryce, 10 months. The other ones, no jail time. And during a sermon at God's House International, which is local, that was headed by Gregory and Carol Kirby, they told church members basically they need money to help pay for their costs. That, quote, the enemy, I guess Nevada Medicaid, went after the money. We used to do almost everything. We took care of everybody, so now that it's been seized, it's your responsibility. It's time for you to give. It's time for you to dig deeper now. That's a quote. I ask again for you to separate church and state. This is not a church. I understand people believe whatever they want to believe. That's fine. We have tax exempt churches for that, temples, synagogues, whatever you want to go to. But I'm going to continue to advocate to separate that. Most cities and counties in Nevada, 70% of them do not bring religion into these public meetings. I ask you to please consider not doing that as well. It's time to separate church and state, and I respectfully ask that you consider it again and again and again. I know I've been here a long time. I know you don't want to see me. I don't want to be here either. But as soon as we can actually honor our Constitution and separate church and state, we can end this. Thank you.

Good morning.

My name is Mark Wolfson. On February 26th of this year, I appeared before the Clark County Board of Equalization. Prior to my hearing, before the state board about five months later, I reviewed the draft of the transcript and discovered seven errors, four of which involved statements attributable to me. One of those errors was particularly important as it materially changed the meaning of my testimony. On August 3rd, I hand delivered a request to the Clark County Clerk's Office in this same building, asking that the transcript simply be compared with the audio recording. I provided the exact page numbers and audio transcripts timestamps for the disputed statements. Deputy Clerk Carl Bates initially emailed me that they would conduct that comparison. He also wrote that he was consulting with the assessor's office, the opposing party in my case. I believe that was inappropriate. Whether a transcript accurately reflects an audio recording is an objective question that should be resolved only by reviewing the recording itself. I was subsequently referred to County Clerk Lynn Goya. On or about August 5th, she wrote that the clerk's office does not make mistakes and that nothing further would be done. At considerable expense, I engaged two separate professional transcription firms to review the relevant portions of the audio. I intentionally gave neither firm a copy of the existing transcript so their conclusions would not be influenced by the wording already contained in the transcript. Both firms independently certified that the transcript was incorrect. On August 11th, I again hand-delivered and emailed the clerk's office and provided the certified findings from both transcript firms. That has been met with radio silence. I was not asking the clerk to simply take my word for it. If the transcript is accurate, the audio will establish that. If it is inaccurate, the record should be corrected. This was never personal. It was about the integrity and accuracy of an official government record and ultimately a taxpayer's right to have his testimony accurately reflected. I see the clerk is here today. I would ask her directly to explain why the transcript was not compared to the audio, particularly after I provided independent certified findings identifying errors. I understand that this board has rules and procedures governing what it can and cannot address. But I also have to ask, what recourse does a constituent have when an official record is demonstrably challenged, the evidence is provided, and the responsible officer, an elected official, refuses to even review it? I respectfully ask this board to accept the supporting documentation I am submitting, consider the certified transcription findings, and take whatever action is within its authority to ensure that the record of February 26th hearing accurately reflects what was actually said. Thank you. And if I can, I have the documentation that I submitted to the clerk's office to support what I've just said to you. Is there a place to do that?

Thank you.

Good morning. Good. If you could just state your name for the record.

Antonio Chambers, I'm a Las Vegas resident. Here today for traffic safety, which I'll talk about item 43. And I've met you, Mr. Knapp. How are you doing today? Good. Endot meeting. I propose, let me read this right quick if y'all don't mind. If you could, just bring the microphone. Okay. That good? That better? Okay. Much. Much. My name is Antonio Chambers, and I'm standing here representing parents who refuse to watch our children terrorized by traffic. At the last meeting, I presented the horrific data from the previous school year, 427 children injured, students, and four tragic deaths by students from traffic and crosswalks, bringing the absolute total to 432 struck by vehicles. I had laid out a safety proposal to redirect tractor floor. I was met with complete dismissal. Also, so far this year, one month of school year, 45 children have been injured already. Are y'all aware of that? Okay, now, let the record reflect that it's not even the end of the first month of the 2026, 2027 school semester, and the data proves Las Vegas roads remain a war zone for our kids. I just said, since school started, 45 children have been injured already. With today, it might be 50 already. You end up in coordinated claiming they won't do it. You no longer have the legal or structural excuse to say no. You have the legal authority as of July 1st, Nevada Assembly Bill 6, AB 6, officially stripped away state red tape, granting local jurisdictions and school districts full autonomy to change to zone traffic laws, rules, and flasher times immediately. You have the expert directive, the county's own school's traffic safety and working group report, complied by 90 local experts and law enforcement officials, explicitly recommends road redesigns and traffic flow adjustments for risk for all school areas. I'm formally submitting an update, improved traffic redirection plan today. Let me be clear, this new suggestion is highly cost effective. It is incredibly durable and it can be implemented immediately. If you put correctly, put together correctly, this exact plan will stop the crisis and cut crosswalks incidents at the intersections all the way down to zero. Here is, I left one here for each one of you to have. And I want it just documented on the docket of this meeting today. And here is the proposal. I'm not going to read all that because it would take more than three more minutes. But I want you guys to read it because I'll be back next meeting. And again, here's the proposal. Thank you very much. If you just want to leave documents to your right. Are you telling me to leave?

Yeah, it's not me, it's the timer, but your time has expired.

I wanted to ask you a question, but if it's too late, I'll act the next time.

You're happy to take a seat and I'll come say hello. Next speaker, please. Good morning.

Good morning. I'll keep it short because I know you guys want to get out of here. I would too, it's lunchtime. My name's Lauren Graves. I live by Amos Nellis. Good morning. My name is, I am here today because my health and lung function are being directly degraded by the unsafe traffic operation on this three acre plot. There is a small cloud from three to four hundred vehicles idling in like a one square block perimeter. I went, as I was leaving my house, I go, ouch, what's this? I felt it here, I felt it here, I felt it here. My lungs have been work like your lungs over that close perimeter they're they're rock lane is air conditioner that doesn't have it suffering from went through alternative I don't view. To survive in those planter boxes.

Banded.

I don't want to bring the feds in, but I do have questions.

If you could just state either the school or your address. Do you know the cross streets or your address?

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Thank you. Anyone else wishing to speak during this final time set aside for public comment? Seeing no one, we will recess this meeting until tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. and enter into a closed-door session. Thank you very much.