City Council - Regular Meeting

The May 6 meeting of the City Council is called to order. This meeting has been properly noticed and posted in compliance with the open meeting law. These proceedings are being video recorded and can be viewed live on City of Las Vegas TV on Cox Cable Channel two. You could also watch the meeting live online and access other city content by visiting lasvegas,nevada.gov/connect. The proceedings will be rebroadcast on the City of Las Vegas TV the Wednesday of the meeting at 8PM and also on Friday at 4AM Saturday at 7PM Sunday at 7AM and the following Monday at 5PM.

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You must have your ticket with you to use the machine. If you do not have your ticket, see security personnel while exiting for a validation coupon. Before we proceed with the agenda, would everyone please rise to the invocation given by Reverend Charlotte Parker, Centers for Spiritual Living Greater Las Vegas, and please remain standing as she leads us in the pledge. Welcome.

Thank you. Good morning, madam mayor, council. Let us all take a deep breath together. Let us center ourselves within. We recognize the presence of a power greater than ourselves.

Name it what you will. In your own way, connect with that present. May we hear today speak with respect and kindness. May we gather in community to find ourselves in compromise for the good of our city and our commune greater community. May we hold these thoughts in mind and heart.

In all of our actions, may we be kind. In all of our words, may we be careful. And may we carry that through this week and on into the future as we continue to shine a light that says, yes, this is our shared humanity, and this is how we create a city, a county, a country that works for all. And so we begin. Amen.

Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation Unto god. Indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. And now we will proceed to the recognition of the citizens of the month.

Welcome,

everybody. We're so happy to have you in our city council chambers this morning. We are now going to do our citizen of the month. This is the ceremonial portion of our council agenda. And today, Councilwoman Bruni has the honor of recognizing our citizens of the month. Councilwoman.

Thank you, mayor. Good morning, everyone.

Good morning.

So as I've shared before, one of my goals in this office has been to build community. And I will say that it makes, it's a lot easier to do my job and meet my goal when we have residents who are doing that already in Ward 6. And so I was thinking about all the people that I've come across and it's amazing how many have jobs but are also going above and beyond and doing things in our community just because, like me, they care so much and are interested in building community. I couldn't just think of one because there are so many people doing this. So I'm taking a little bit of privilege, and we're going to honor four citizens of the month in Ward 6.

So I'd like to call them all up, Ken Kraft, Patty Chess, Corey Ravasay, And Kim Bishop, who cannot be here but her husband, Mitch, will be coming up. I'm going to share a little bit about each one, then we have a video where our honorees share a few of their own words. So Ken is a senior manager at IGT. He's been in Southern Nevada since 1997. We're actually almost neighbors, but in talking to Ken, first of all, he always steps up.

He was involved with North Las Vegas when he lived there. He was on one of their commissions. I most recently appointed him to the traffic and parking commission that we have, and without hesitation, he was willing to roll up his sleeves and say yes in addition to all of his job responsibilities. But more importantly, the more we chatted, he does so much in our community. He and his wife Amy have been holding an annual Latke Fest nineteen years. And truly, they open it up to everyone. Hundreds of people from different political stripes, walks of life come. He holds whiskey tastings for his neighbors. He's really involved with Wyeth trying to do crafts and movie nights. And so again, no one's asking him to, but he's truly trying to build community, and we are so grateful for that.

So thank you, Ken. Now Patty just needs no introduction from many of you. You've probably seen her here. She is probably the most fierce, enthusiastic advocate for pickleball. So she is a pickleball ambassador and actually runs a nonprofit to promote pickleball.

And again, she comes to my monthly coffees and is promoting pickleball every time she gets. And most recently, we put together a couple of pickleball tournaments. Without hesitation, we pulled her in for free, just volunteering her time to help us make those pickleball tournaments as successful. Like many of you know, pickleball really is that sport that tends to bring community together, so thank you for your work on that. Next we have Corrie, who after teaching middle school history, which is quite a feat, for nine years became a realtor and is building lives and improving lives through home ownership.

She is also the president of the Divich Elementary School PTO. I met Corie probably two years ago, and again, would come to first of all, she would always come to the city council meetings here and just as an engaged resident, want to learn what is going on. Then But she started coming to my monthly coffee meetings and I learned that she too is using our neighborhood services, games and program offerings and holding community fairs in her own community. Again, no one's asking her to, she just really believes in building community one neighborhood at a time. So thank you for doing that, Corey.

Finally, we have Kim Bishop, who is a teacher at Divich Elementary. She's got a pre K classroom. She's been a special ed teacher for thirty years. And Kim makes us, she has more energy than an Energizer Bunny. She really is almost the informal mayor, sorry, mayor, in Ward 6 because when she asks people to do things, people respond because she is a leader and just has so much energy and has the intent of building community and serving her community.

She's an amazing teacher. She actually spent, I think yesterday afternoon, one of her special ed students is medically fragile and can't come to the school. And so she goes to the student's classroom after the school hours and teaches that student. So she gives this community with all of her heart. I'm sorry she can't be here, but please let her know we're so grateful for her community engagement. And so with that, I'd like to just show a quick video that we have. We asked our honorees a couple of questions, and so they're responding in the video.

The best way we can build community is by serving together. So by making connections with one another about learning what one another's needs are and making authentic opportunities to serve is the best way to build community. And I think it's amazing that the city council reaches out to those individuals in our community that try to make a difference in the lives of others.

Build communities through pickleball. I'm a pickleball ambassador, and I also teach pickleball. And the first time someone plays, they are addicted to pickleball. And as a result, our community continues to grow, and pickleball is actually communities within communities. This award means so much to me because I've seen the value and difference it's made in lives and because our city council supports pickleball, is putting it into new parks, I know that they get it of how this is a true value to our community.

For me, building community is simple. You open your door and you show up. Whether it's Latkefest, which we've been hosting for nineteen years now, casual whiskey night with the neighbors, or volunteering on a city commission, it all comes down to creating spaces where people connect. Receiving this recognition from the city of Las Vegas means the world to me. Las Vegas has given so much to my family, and this is a reminder that showing up for your neighbors truly matters. I am grateful.

Thank you. So we'd like to I guess Mitch, if you could come up first. And can I have, can we bring the flowers up please? I know again, Kim is not here. We have a proclamation and I'm just going to read a couple of the lines.

A proclamation from the city council, whereas Kim Bishop is a passionate advocate for inclusion, generously offering her time and skills to interpret for members of the deaf community and connecting individuals to create solutions that benefit all. And whereas Kim Bishop is a devoted wife of nearly twenty eight years, a loving mother of six children, a cherished mother-in-law, and a soon to be grandma, She considers her family her greatest joy and proudest accomplishment, and now we, the mayor and the members of the Las Vegas City Council, hereby proudly proclaim Kim Bishop as Citizen of the Month, and 05/06/2026, as Kim Bishop Day. So take her out to dinner, treat her like a queen today, and we've got some flowers for her.

Thank you.

And did you want to say anything?

Just thank you so much for the honor. My wife is, like you said, an Energizer Bunny. She's with her students today, but she would love to be here, but thank you. Thanks.

And Corey, if you'd like to also say a few words. I

know technical So community is just so important for me. I'm so thankful for this woman right here. She embodies Ward 6 and the community that we're building there. For me, there's this quote that I saw long ago, if you see yourself in someone else, whom can you harm? And I think for me, community is about connection and knowing one another. We might be different, but community is built in commonality and we have so much in common. So for me, community events and getting our community together means finding common ground and working to make an amazing city, which we are doing so well. Thank you, Nancy, for leading that charge.

I love that quote. And do you want to introduce your little ones?

Yes. Go stand right here. This is Rue. She's four. And this is Charlie. She's seven. And she's at Divitch with Miss Bishop as well. Yeah.

All right. You also have your own day. So I'm just going read a couple of lines, proclamation. Whereas Cory Rabase is am I saying that? Yes. Okay. Whereas Cory is a proud Las Vegas resident. She lives with her husband, their two beautiful daughters, and their dog, Woz, and continues to enrich the fabric of the city through her dedication and service. And now, therefore, we, the mayor and the members of the Las Vegas City Council hereby proudly proclaim Cori Ravasay as citizen of the month, and 05/06/2026, as Cori Ravasay Day. So hopefully your husband will take you out and celebrate you too.

This is more the better than my birthday.

Thank you. Thank you, Councilman. Alright, Patty. Alright, I'll read a couple of lines. Whereas Patty Chess, through her efforts, has touched the lives of many residents who have shared personal stories of improved health, renewed purpose, and meaningful connection through pickleball. And now therefore, we, the mayor, and the members of the Las Vegas City Council hereby proclaim Patty Chess as Citizen of the Month and 05/06/2026 as Patty Chess Day. Go celebrate on the pickleball courts. Do you want to see a couple of these?

I promise really quick. I told her the video said it all. But I did want to say a networking story that happened this week. I got a phone call from someone I didn't know. She told me she's 80 years old and heard I work for a cat shelter. I volunteer at Poppy. And I go, how'd you find out? Through pickleball. Her son plays pickleball, gave him my name. And what was really special, she kind of was sharing herself that she was really lonely and depressed, only liked the animals, not people. And she started volunteering this week. So I already met with her. She's already volunteering. And she cried when she walked in. She was so happy. So really cool thing. Pickleball does bring community together.

All right, last but not least, Ken. Whereas since 2025, whereas Ken Craft demonstrated a longstanding commitment to public service having previously served the city of North Las Vegas on the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, the Utility Advisory Board, and the Planning Commission. And whereas since November 2025, Kencraft has continued his civic contributions as a member of the City of Las Vegas Traffic and Parking Commission contributing valuable insight to decisions that impact the quality of life for residents and now we for the mayor and the members of the Las Vegas City Council hereby proclaim Ken Kraft as citizen of the month and 05/06/2026 as Ken Kraft Day. So thank you so much. Do you wanna say a word?

Sure.

Just really quick, I just wanna thank Councilwoman Bruni, mayor and council for this award. This means so much and really just wouldn't be here without my wife Amy and my mom Kathy who are in the audience today.

So now we'll take pictures. Now we'll do some pictures, everyone.

09:30.

I will now reconvene the City Council meeting agenda item number six public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters on the agenda for action The amount of time any single speaker is allowed will be limited to two minutes. All comments made will be cross referenced to those specific items. If anyone submitted a speaker card or who wishes to speak under this portion of the agenda, please come to the podium and state your name for the record. This is your opportunity to address the council, but the council is not able to respond or engage in dialogue. You may also address the council at the end of the meeting during citizens' participation regarding matters within the jurisdiction of the City Council.

Although you are not prohibited from speaking during both public comment periods, we kindly ask that your comments are not repetitive. We will set the time at two minutes. Does anyone wish to come forward? Would you please state your name?

Hello, my name is Shoshana, I'm a resident. I'm here once again to urge the council to support the separation of religion from government by eliminating praying from our city council meetings. There are thousands of tax free churches in the Vegas area for people to go to. All the worship you want to do can be done there, but you continue to endorse and encourage your religion at these public meetings, unless it's a religion you don't like. Unless it's a religion you don't like.

The satanic temple made requests to give the prayer, and your staff, Lou Ann Holmes, I guess that's who this clerk is, said no. There's no dates available. There were plenty of dates available for the satanic temple, which is a religion to give their invocation, but you don't like them, so they can't come. A clear violation of The United States constitution. When you let one religion in, you have to let them all in, including the satanic temple. And speaking of Satan, your God created Satan, the concept of evil. Having read this Bible, it's the most gruesome book I've ever read. Your God is the most gruesome person ever. I've read this book. How do we know how gruesome your god is?

Well, there's mass murder. There's killing of firstborn kids. There's mass drowning. There's torture, human trafficking, slavery, mauling of 42 children, boiling and eating kids, throwing babies against rocks, raping females, incest, cutting off a woman's hand, cutting up a raped woman's body into twelve pieces, killing men for their skin on their penis, and of course, the virgin girls that you can rape in the Bible. Again, We The People support the separation of church and state, so please stop hosting your religious services at our government meetings. 70% of cities and counties in Nevada don't pray at public meetings, and it's time that we did the same. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Would you please state your name for the record?

Hi. My name is Alexander Beneub, spelled b as in boy, a, n as in Nancy, o u b. I'm here today to speak about items twenty six and twenty seven in this matter. And I am not asking you to vote no. I am asking you to take a second look and provide some recognition into what is actually being funded and put guardrails on it for your own oversight before funding any of it.

This bill is about infrastructure that provides money for traffic signals, pedestrian flashers, crosswalks, signage, etcetera. And that includes infrastructure that can be used to later power surveillance technologies and AI powered surveillance technologies such as FLoC. We already have 200 FLoC cameras in the city of Las Vegas or over 200. And that has bypassed any kind of civilian oversight or oversight from this body because once the infrastructure has been built, there was private donations which enabled this. This has led to numerous Fourth Amendment violations and exercised that sorry, that it's enabled that to continue that practice.

I have some examples in a minute. But what I would really like to stress is that if the taxpayer is providing the infrastructure and paying for it and council in the city of Las Vegas has no oversight power once it's privately funded, That is, as the ACLU puts it, a subversion of the democratic process. And so a couple of examples here. In Georgia just last week, public records obtained say that a resident named Jason Hunger was showing flock safety flock safety employees access live camera feeds of a children's gymnastics room with no warrants. Here in Carson City, sheriff's deputy used flock to search vehicles of protesters in our state.

Thank you so much. Sorry. You can continue if you want later in the meeting.

Thank you for your time.

You're welcome. Yes, will you come forward and state your name for the record?

Michael Gansen. I'd like to briefly comment about the John S Park Historic District in the neighborhood board meetings. Just recently, we had someone from your development agency, and a whole bunch of people showed up and talked about a, an arts project, about a housing project there that the city was putting out for bid and not a word, nothing from the people. And also at the meeting, we talked about having meetings, having an election in a future meeting, which we haven't had. So we've had a, like, a total lack of community involvement by the city and its representatives in these in the neighborhood board with the historic designation.

You know, the it's filled with broken down cars and the the amount of traffic due to the, you know, amount of traffic that's going to the neighborhood through the storm drain. I mean, how much rain have we had since we started this storm drain project? Downtown is a mess. And then well, I mean, I guess you don't drive that way. But the idea would be is to what drives the community is how they built the community, and that has to do with twenty four seven construction of the hotel projects, but the city does not embrace that.

They work bankers hours, and the project is it's just terrible down there. The rewards I mean, you know, I I guess everybody forgets we live in a desert. So and I don't wanna harp on the Colorado River project, but that'll I'll save that for a later date. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

No elections is what the problem is.

Thank you very

much.

Hello. Welcome. Please state your name for the record.

Good morning, mayor, esteemed members of the council. My name is Eric King. Great to be here again. I've attended a number of the meetings over twenty plus years. Seen a lot of faces come and go, a lot of smiles, and a lot of great work get done. So, you all very much for your leadership and your sacrifice. I take none of it for granted. I understand that you have one of your agenda items about the rodeo. And I just wanted to come up and say I'm in support of that any kind of community building that can help people enjoy nature more. And in particular, I'd just like to touch on horses.

In my thirty thousand plus hours of volunteer work that I've done, the vast majority of which in this county, over twenty plus years, I found that there's a lot of challenges with veterans, which we have an enormous amount of here, and for whom I've been working and serving and helping ten thousand plus hours of those volunteer times. And I've contributed to some different endeavors to help veterans to heal. And I just wanted to highlight one of them that I'm more familiar with than others, which is Horses for Heroes. Likely most of you know about that. I see some smiles.

And so I've done some design work up there, a little bit of volunteer work. And I'm really excited about the results they get for veterans. So I wanted to come up and offer that maybe there's some more gaps that can be filled if we were to connect the dots of, and I'm not pointing fingers to anybody negatively, but just connect the dots of all of the horses that get killed in our state because they keep breeding in the natural world. We know them as mustangs, heroes of the West, and maybe as Las Vegas has led so many in so many ways, maybe we can find a better use for some of them that do get killed to help more veterans.

Thank you all

for you your so much. I thought you were scared. My god. Welcome, and would you state your name for the record?

Yes, my name is Karen Newcomer. I've spoken to y'all many times or several times about the interaction that we have with law enforcement as the as indivisible as the people who put on the no kings protest. I'm very discouraged to see this twenty six and twenty seven items on, the agenda today. The flock cameras are scary. We have to believe and have trust in our local law enforcement that they're not going to be used for nefarious purposes, and and the way that they treat us right now, I don't see how you can possibly think that.

So it's scary to think that now they're going to have know where we are every minute of every day, people who are breaking no laws or rules. I understand the uses and it would be wonderful if we could trust our law enforcement locally to use them for fighting crime, but that doesn't seem to be their highest priority this day. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much. Is there anyone that would like to address the City Council? Seeing no one else, we will move to item number seven. Agenda item number seven for possible action. Any items from the 09:30 a. M. Session that the council, staff, and or the applicant wish to be stricken, tabled, withdrawn, or held in abeyance to a future meeting may be brought forward and acted upon at this time. Mayor Pro Tem. Okay. Thank you so much.

Is there a need city attorney to vote on this if there's no action item? Okay. Then we'll move to agenda item number eight for possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the 04/01/2026 regular City Council meeting. Mayor Pro Tem, May I have a motion?

Move to approve the minutes.

Please vote. Post.

Motion

carries. We will now move to the consent agenda. Agenda item nine. Items nine through 31 are on the consent agenda are considered to be routine, are recommended for approval by the departments, and may be enacted in one motion. Are there any other items the council wishes to bring forward? Mayor Pro Tem, may I have a motion for the consent agenda for items nine through 31?

Move to approve items nine through 31.

Please vote. Post. Motion carries. Agenda item 32, boards and commissions. Discussion for possible action regarding the reappointment of Todd Moody to the Historic Preservation Commission. Mr. Moody was originally appointed in April 2021. He currently serves in seat designated as category eight member at large. He is eligible, has the recommendation of the Community Development Department and wishes to continue serving. Is there a motion Councilwoman Bruni? Yes, it

is my pleasure to recommend reappointment of Todd Moody to the Historic Preservation Commission, please.

Please vote. Post. Motion carries Agenda item 33 discussion for possible action regarding the reappointment of Larry Schultz to the Regional Flood Control District Citizens Advisory Committee. The terms on this board are two years with no limit to the number of terms that may be served. Mr Schultz's term expires on 06/03/2026, and he wishes to continue the service. Is there a motion Councilman Knudson?

Move to approve.

Please vote. Post. Motion carries. Agenda item 34 recommending committee bills eligible for adoption at this meeting. Bill number ZDash2026Dash1 Councilman Knutson. Would you like to have the bill read?

Yes, ma'am. Bill number Z dash twenty twenty six dash one in ordinance to amend the official zoning map of the city of Las Vegas by changing the zoning designations of certain parcels of land to reflect and formalize rezoning applications previously approved by the City Council and to provide further related matters.

Move to approve.

Please vote. Post. Motion carries Agenda item 35 Bill number twenty twenty six-twelve Councilman Knutson. Would you like to have this bill read?

Yes, Mayor Bill number twenty twenty six-twelve an ordinance to amend the Unified Development Code to establish parameters for cottage cosmetics operations to be conducted as a home occupation and provide for other related matters. Move to approve.

Please vote. Post. No circles. Those that can post Motion carries. Agenda item 36. Bill number twenty twenty six-thirteen Councilman Knutson. Would you like to have this bill read?

Yes, ma'am.

Bill number twenty twenty six-thirteen in ordinance to men various provisions of LVMC title 19 to establish the transit oriented development overlay district make parallel adjustments and provide further related matters.

Move to approve.

Please vote. Post. Motion carries. Agenda item 37 recommending committee bills eligible for adoption at a later meeting items 37 through 40 bills twenty twenty six fourteen fifteen sixteen and seventeen will be heard at a later meeting. New bills.

Agenda item 41. Items 41 through 44 bills number twenty twenty six eighteen nineteen twenty and twenty one will be heard at the recommending committee meeting on Monday, 05/18/2026. City attorney, would you read the bills?

Yes, ma'am. Bill number twenty twenty six dash 18, an ordinance creating the city of Las Vegas, Nevada Special Improvement District number six fourteen, Sky Summit phase one ordering street projects, a storm sewer project, a sanitary sewer project, a drainage project, and a water project within the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, and providing other matters related there too. Bill number twenty twenty six dash 19, an ordinance concerning the city of Las Vegas, Nevada special improvement district number six fourteen, Sky Summit phase one, assessing the cost of local improvements against the assessable property benefited by local improvements and providing other matters related there too. Bill number twenty twenty six dash 20, an ordinance authorizing the issuance and sale by the City of its Special Improvement District number six fourteen, Sky Summit Phase one Local Improvement Bond Series 2026, approving the form of certain documents with respect to such bonds, ratifying action taken by city officers toward the issuance of such bonds and providing other matters related thereto. Bill number twenty twenty six dash 21, an ordinance to extend the boundaries of the city to particularly describe the land to be annexed to make its inhabitants subject to the laws, obligations and benefits of the city and to provide for other related matters.

26 dash zero one one zero dash annex one.

Thank you. New bills twenty twenty six-eighteen, nineteen, twenty and twenty one are assigned to the 05/18/2026, recommending committee members, Councilman Knutson and Councilwoman Polanski and Diaz, If any so designated are unable to attend, the clerk's office will coordinate finding substitutes as necessary at my direction. Thank you so much. Agenda item 45. Item 45 is on the consent agenda is considered to be routine and is recommended for approval by the Department of Community Development. Mayor Pro Tem, May I have a motion to approve this consent agenda?

Move to approve the consent agenda.

Shall we vote? Post. Motion carries. Agenda item 46. 20 six-one 156 on the following land use entitlement project requests on 5.33 acres on the South Side of Smoke Ranch Road, approximately 175 feet East Of Decatur Boulevard, C1 Limited Commercial Zone 46A 20 Six-one Hundred 56 EOT1 to allow a 17 foot residential adjacency setback where 72 feet is the minimum required, and to allow a 76 foot residential adjacency setback where 155 feet is the minimum required.

46B, 20 six-one 156 EOT2, for a proposed 191 unit senior citizen apartments use. 46C, 20 six-one 156 EOT3, for a 53 foot tall building where the airport overlay district limits the height to 35 feet. 46D, 20 six-one 156 EOT-four, for a proposed 191 unit senior citizens' apartments development with waivers to allow a zero foot landscape buffer on the north and west property lines, where 15 feet is the minimum required, and a zero foot landscape buffer along a portion of the east property line, where eight feet is the minimum required. Also, to allow a zero foot landscape buffer along a portion of the north and west property line, where eight feet is required adjacent to the convenience store. The applicant owner is SR Decatur Apartments, LLC.

Staff recommends denial on the entire land use entitlement project. These are in Ward 5. Ms. Summers Armstrong. Is the applicant present?

Yes, John Sullivan, 9930 West Flamingo Avenue, Suite 110 on behalf of the applicant.

Would you care to tell us about your project?

Yes. This project was originally acquired and initially entitled in 2019. It's 191 apartments and townhomes zoned and entitled for a senior housing project. They you read off the individual portions of this. I can go through any of them if anybody wants, but the the essence of it is a time issue as we're now on a fourth application for extension of time, is relatively unusual, but so have been the last six or seven years, right?

The project had both the civil improvement plans and building permits that had been approved. We rolled into the COVID era and then the financing era that followed that, which really shut down financing for any type of project similar to this. And we've continued to try to work the project and do everything we can. We're currently working with a project that wouldn't be a senior housing project on the site. We're asking for an extension of time.

That's not a done deal. Things happen, and so we would be back onto this project if that doesn't work. But the other one would be as well good for the community. It's an affordable housing project on the site, which would require a whole new set of applications and entitlements if that does move forward, but it's in the speculative stage of, you know, not closed, not done. So that that's our request at this time.

May I have a staff report, please?

Thank you, mayor Seth Floyd, the record. Mayor, as you stated when you read the items in, this is the fourth extension of time request for the project since its approval in 2019. The site, as Mr. Sullivan mentioned, had civil improvement plans submitted for review in 2019, which expired in 2022, as well as a building permit in 2020, which expired in 2023, both for inactivity. Most recently, a permit package was submitted in January 2026, but has yet to have its fees paid to start any reviews. And due to the extended time of inactivity related to the exercising of these entitlements, staff is recommending denial of this fourth request for an extension of time. Thank you.

Are there any questions or comments from members of the city council? Yes, Ms. Armstrong.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Sullivan, for coming to see me yesterday. I appreciate you taking time to explain your position, and I told you then that I would give some consideration and speak to staff, which I have done. I am willing to give a one year extension, but I think you need to really be clear that if you don't move forward with this, any alternative plan will require the new owner or the new developer to comply with whatever the expectations are for whatever they intend to build.

They'll have to come in and speak with the city council and provide their plans. And we will have the authority to make changes to the layout and the property to include landscaping, to include height, none of these things are baked in if this is not the plan that is brought before us.

Okay. So, Ms. Summers Armstrong, would your motion be to grant a one year extension? Would you so make it? So moved.

And mayor, if I could just that will require just one minor condition change. So on each of the four applications, condition number one on each of those reads that the extension is good through 03/20/2028. So, with this motion, those conditions would be revised to read 03/20/2027.

So, does the applicant agree to the conditions?

Yes. We'd like to say agree and appreciate both the conversation and your thoughtful consideration of our application.

Would you restate your motion with the conditions?

I'd like to move that we approve this for one year till 03/28/2027. 03/20/2027.

All right.

Thank you so much. Shall we vote?

Madam Mayor, we need you to take an oral vote. Our connectivity to the network has been lost.

Okay, all those in favor of a one year extension. I. Please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes.

Thank you very much.

You're very welcome. Agenda item 47, reports and presentations. Report by Kelvin Watson, executive director, Las Vegas Clark County Library District, regarding an update on current and upcoming initiatives as part of National Library Week. This impacts all wards. Doctor. Mallich.

Yes, good morning, Madam Mayor, City Council members, Doctor. Tammy Malich, Director of Youth Development and Social Initiatives for the Record. It is my pleasure to share Mr. Watson, our partner and friend, and allow him to share all of the highlights. I did provide a printed copy for all of you, as well as it will be up on the screen. And with that, I'll turn it over to Calvin Watson.

And welcome mister Watson. It's so nice to see you.

Nice to see you as well, mayor. Good morning, Berkeley, city council members, staff, distinguished guests, community members. My name is Kelvin Watson. I am the executive director of the Las Vegas Clark County Library District, and it is my honor to join you today in recognition of National Library Week. This annual event salutes the important role that libraries play in our communities.

This year, National Library Week was actually celebrated from April 19 to the twenty fifth. I greatly appreciate the opportunity to join you today to share some of our exciting events and promotional partnerships we worked on over the past year. We began the fiscal year with encouraging gains over the prior year. Results, I firmly believe, reflect the dedication, creativity and hard work of our staff that they pour into programming and resources that we provide to our community. Year over year, we served 23% more customers.

Our program attendance increased by more than 56%, and website visits served an impressive 72%. Based on the momentum we've built and the work that continues to happen every day, I fully expect these numbers to continue to keep rising. We opened our spectacular new West Las Vegas Library, which was a dream that was years in the making, And the branch opened to a warm welcome by the community in December. We had about 1,300 community members, residents, and others to join us. And I want to thank you, Mayor Berkley and Councilwoman Somers Armstrong, for participating in our grand opening.

This new library offers a wide array of impressive facilities and features and highlights that include an art gallery and event center with state of the art sound, lighting and video systems, a podcast room, a K-twelve homework help center, adult learning program room, a business incubator area, creation labs. We have a dedicated teen and tween zone, just to name a few things. And we also recently established a partnership with Klein Veterans Fund, which will be on-site two days a week to provide veterans with free one on one assistance with applications, resource navigation and other support resources such as housing assistance and utility assistance. And I also want to take this opportunity to mention that we are also working to identify probably our story time room to be in recognition of Doctor. And Mrs.

Ruby Duncan. I wanted to share that as well. Help educate the public about the new West Las Vegas Library, the district and the city of Las Vegas, we launched a social media campaign. Our teams partnered and coordinated awareness strategy for the community, and together we produced the highest performing social media post in the library district's history, delivering record engagement across both TikTok and Instagram. So, what's up next?

Well, there's lots of things that are up next, but what I'll mention is the Goodsprings Library location. In anticipation of future growth in Goodsprings and some of the surrounding areas, we needed a much larger library. Our current branch is housed in a 600 square foot single wide trailer located in the Goodsprings Elementary School parking lot with no access to running water or sewer. We are exploring a variety of promising possibilities to accommodate maker spaces, separate sections for adults and kids, as well as having bathrooms, a staff office, and an expanded parking lot and ADA parking. We currently have a building that we secured, but we're also looking at the school that is no longer being used by Clark County School District.

We're truly humbled by all of the local and national recognition that the Las Vegas Clark County Library District has received this past year. I'm especially grateful to the city for your support of our library and our staff. Their dedication and excellence are what certainly has contributed to one of our recognitions and it was a recognition that I received actually, the twenty twenty six librarian of the year. But I want to say that this honor really belongs to our six seventy eight employees whose passion for literacy and uplifting lives shines every day across our 25 branches. Since launching at our Whitney Library in 2023, we've had an annual Teen Empowerment Summit.

We've continued to expand its reach and its impact. This year, I'm proud to share that we partnered with UNLV to host the summit on their campus. There, 140 local high school students experienced firsthand what higher education is is achievable and within their reach. Engaging with UNLV students and faculty while envisioning themselves on campus. The summit also highlighted a range of career pathways from college and trade schools to other skilled professions.

Our Centennial Hills Library has partnered with Councilwoman Bruni over the last two years to hold a book club and adult mixer called Tails and Mocktails. It used to be called Kale Tails and Cocktails. We went to Marktails. We are bringing culture and Nevada history to Ward 6 and working closely with the councilwoman, the staff has developed curated reading lists and we've had such special guests such as UNLV's Doctor. Clay T.

White and Associate Professor Doctor. Michael Green. Our partnership with Three Square continues to address food insecurity in our neighborhoods with nutritious, predictable meals along with meaningful social connections for kids, teens, and seniors. Since 2023, the library district has helped serve 371,390 meals through three of our programs, Meet Up and Eat Up, our after school meals program during the school year, our Kids Cafe, which we provide free summer lunches for kids and teens, and our senior community lunch and social hour for ages 60. We're also incredibly grateful for our partnerships with the Vegas Golden Knights and the Las Vegas Raiders.

Both teams value and promote literacy and learning and support awareness by supporting our programs and services. Both teams provide the library district with branded library cards, co branded t shirts. We have other promotions and giveaways throughout the year to our customers. We also have collectible bookmarks from both teams that feature the team's favorite books, movies, as well as music, which can be checked out for free with your free library card. Additional partnerships that we've secured have been enriching to the library district.

One is a grant and funding that we received from the Pizza Hut Foundation, which generously awarded the library district with $10,000 through their slice of literacy grant in support of our partnership with Barbershop Books, which brings the joy of reading into our neighborhood barbershops. And thanks to another generous $25,000 donation from our local ticket seller, vegastickets.com, Roger Jones, our Little Learners Activity Kits program continues at our Enterprise Library. These kits are loaded with books, skill building exercises, crafts, and activity projects with the goal of empowering caregivers to encourage early literacy and skill building at home. We also received a federal grant, which is helping the library district to launch an in library planetarium called Starlab. It's an inflatable portable dome with a projection system that immerses children and adults in spectacular visual learning experiences about everything from ancient civilizations to the farthest corners of the universe and everything in between.

The library district staff have just begun training on this unique and exciting experience. Was STAR launched to the public in April at our East Las Vegas Library, just in time for STEAM month and will travel to more branches throughout the year. We're also fortunate to be able to bring the National Arts to our community, thanks to our contacts with the educational and entertainment industries. This allows the Library District to continue to bring cultural experiences of all kinds to our community. Three recent examples that opened to packed houses included Pepperland, a fiftieth anniversary tribute to the Beatles, Sgt.

Pepper's album, Disenchanted, a comedy satire for adults that flips the script on traditional storybook princesses, and Bach to Beyonce, a musical journey across genres from classical music to contemporary pop. Summer Challenge is the library district's largest literacy program of the year, and we are working to launch it on May 15. The program promotes literacy and joy and the joy of reading for all ages, from babies and kids to teens and adults. All ages receive fun rewards just for reading or just for being read to. Our goal is to always draw in new library card customers and cardholders, which we do during summer challenge with a unique direct mail campaign that we started a couple years ago.

Using US Census list, we're able to target lower income families in zip codes across the valley. It's a cost effective way of reaching families who need us most. Early registration for Summer Challenge began May 1, and programs run May 15 through July 15. Thank you, as always, for inviting me to share our accomplishments. I look forward to coming every year, and I will be happy now to answer any questions.

Thank you so much. Are there any questions and comments from members? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem.

Thank you, Mayor and Ms. Watson, thanks very much for the presentation. It's always fun to see you everywhere, because you are everywhere. My question, I prompted it earlier is I am in your libraries at least once or twice a week and have been so for the last year with my kids. And I just noticed that probably 90% of the people in the room of a library tend to be unhoused. And I'm just curious how the library sees themselves within the social safety net and what that looks like. That's not so much a question, just a statement and to see how you can respond to it.

Well, thank you councilman. We continue to support our unhoused community as the library is for everyone and we make that known, we make it seen in the resources and programs and services that we share. We also do events specifically focused on how such as offering showers. We offer, of course, the food insecurity support. We started something recently with the county last fall to actually offer eye exams and eyeglasses.

And in the next couple of months, we'll be launching a new project where we will be offering dental exams and dental services. We're working with the UNLV Dental School to offer that program. So, are just a few, but we continue to serve the entire community. Know all of you know me and you know how I think and what I care about next. Everyone, regardless of where you're from, your income level, that the library is going to be here to serve you. We're ramping up, of course, to be cooling centers this summer as well as the other services that we offer.

Thank you very much. And I was just going say your teams do a really exceptional job every single time I'm at the library. They are very professional and congratulations.

Thank you, Councilman.

Ms. Summers Armstrong.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. And I just want to say again publicly thank you. The West Las Vegas Library is amazing. Every time I'm out in the public and talking to people in Ward 5, even if they're not Ward 5 residents, have you been to that? Yes, child, I've been to the new library.

It is amazing. People are excited about just how beautiful it is and what it offers, and the events that are happening there are so community focused. And I like the concept that we're here to help all, right? I think that's really important. And hopefully by our, the kindness, both of the library and the things that the city is doing to help everyone in the community that we will be able to move people from homelessness into housing, and into jobs, and mental health, and physical health by working together, and I'm grateful that you are a partner in that.

Proud of you, and Ella will be here June 28 or so, and will be at the library.

Alright, thank you, Councilwoman.

Outstanding. Miss Diaz. Thank you, Madam Mayor, and congratulations again on getting librarian of the year. I'm sure it was not a small feat, and the list was probably pretty robust, but I think Las Vegas is representing in this field, and I know that you didn't put it in the slides. I made sure I shuffled through them, and you didn't mention anything about the workforce component that you extend, and it's something that the entire nation is looking at, Las Vegas, and how we share spaces, and we're trying to be as financially conservative as possible to steer all the resources for those training and those skills to help elevate the community members that need upward mobility, a better job, a better higher paying job, that they're not just surviving, but they're thriving, and you play an instrumental role in that.

You're on the workforce board, and you've been in those conversations for many years, so I just didn't want to lose that part that you guys are integral to the success of whatever Workforce Connections is working on in terms of retraining, affording people the opportunity to come, get help with their resumes, and get them primed and ready for that next job, or if they're unemployed, get their foot into their next job so that they can provide for their families. So again, that's so, so important. Thank you for your leadership in that space, and onward and upward, I can't wait to see what other new concept we're going to come up with so that other libraries are looking at our region as the first doing something cool.

Miss Kelly.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. I too want to congratulate you. I love when people from our community are highlighted for their excellence, having been raised born and raised here. I'm tired of seeing all the folks who get caught here, you know, on all the crime shows and things. And I love when our folks who are doing such a terrific job are recognized.

So congratulations. And I know that hopefully from on our behalf, you'll extend that to your team as well because it doesn't happen alone. Also, what a great job on the West Las Vegas Library. What a source of pride for us and a gem in the city. And I love that you're how you partner with community. I'm having a Ward 2 event at the Sahara Library. I'm really excited about the opportunity to bring more of our constituents into the library, particularly if they haven't been there. I'm interested in a couple of your statistics. The 2,100,000 that you have, so this is the first slide. You talked about over 31,000 programs and the 1,280,000 attendance.

Are those library only programs? Are those programs including those that where you bring in other where other entities use your space?

Councilwoman, they're all programs combined. There are library programming as well as the programming that we do in conjunction with our partners.

Okay. Well, that's terrific because anytime we can get people either connected or reconnected with our local libraries, so many of us, and I'm one of them, remember getting my first library card, and it's really, really spectacular of an experience. One of the things you didn't mention in addition to the workforce is there's lots of things that you do electronically. Could you tell us a little bit about the scope of those offerings?

So, of the offerings that we have is that we offer hotspots. We have a hotspot lending program, so we are providing the Internet to the community. We have over 1,000 in our collection, so we continue doing that. In addition to that, we provide the laptops and tablets. We've actually done over the past few years partnerships with the housing authority, for example, where we've gone to events and actually through grants provided tablets that the library was able to get through the grant and offer to the community that way.

Then, of course, we have a wide array of the computers in our libraries. For example, you mentioned the West Las Vegas library. If you went to the previous library, you saw that we only had a handful of computers and now we have over 100 in the new building. And then outside of those things, have the additional technology, three d printing, the services that we provide, the community can come in and actually learn how to three d print their own items, and then we also have a digital memories preservation lab. And so that's where you can actually bring in your items, your photos, and you can scan and move things from physical format to digital format.

That's just fantastic. And you do digital lending as well.

We also do digital lending, lots of

it. Yes. Do you find that digital lending being taken advantage of by young families? Or is, I mean, I'm a tactile person, so I'd rather have a hardcover book or a book than read anything on my phone or a Kindle, but that, you know, I just love to hold it. And there is something about taking your child or your grandchild or a young family member into a library where you can get five or six books and sit on the floor and open them. But having the digital opportunity is pretty fantastic. How do we help, how do you help educate families about those opportunities?

So we do both now that we have been in a digital world. Actually, last year we surpassed our digital lending surpassed our physical lending for the first time last year. But as you can see in our libraries, we continue to have physical resources as well. West Las Vegas Library, we purchased a collection of a million dollars for that new collection of physical resources. So what we find is that some people do both.

They like physical and digital, especially if they're commuting, with the tools that we now have with the phones, you're streaming in your car, for example, there's no longer any, I haven't seen many CD players lately, so that you can stream the library resources, an audiobook listener, for example, if you're a walker. So it varies. For the young teens and tweens and kids, actually research says that they actually prefer, actually a lot of them prefer physical books.

Yes, yes.

That's terrific. So we again, that's what we, and we keep up with that as you can see, I keep up with that, my team as well, so that we can make sure that we have the right resources for the community.

Well, Watson, thank you so much for all you do. Literacy is so important to the health of our community and I appreciate the work of you and your team. Thank you.

You're welcome.

Ms. Rooney. Thank you, Mayor. I too, mister Watson want to thank you for your leadership. What you're doing in the community is incredible and I really want to commend your commitment to access most recently.

I know you shared that you're trying to put a library up at Spring Mountain Youth Camp. So, thank you for that because those kiddos are often forgotten, so I know the teaching staff up there is really excited and those kids will have opportunities, so thank you for always putting access front and center. I also want to thank you for your work with young people every time I walk into the Centennial Hills library there's so many young people. So I know that you we do partner or you do partner with YDSI but anyways we can explore more creative partnerships because you have figured out that special sauce with engaging our young people, so thank you for that. I have a couple of questions.

The branding with the Golden Knights and Raiders, have you found that once you did that, you did see an uptick in memberships or people getting the library cards, like is that actually helping draw people in? And then my second related question is, are you exploring partnerships with the Aces?

So, yes. The answer is yes. Based on the partnership, we we do events at the plaza with the Golden Ice games. So, we actually will give out new library cards. So, we are seeing people being more engaged when they know those are available.

We've actually run through all of the thousands of Raiders cards that we had. I don't remember the exact number, but all of those are definitely gone. So, those relationships helped us. We have in the past, just mentioning the Aces, we have in the past had conversations with the Aces. When we approach our partners, like the Raiders and the Golden Knights, they are currently actually funding those programs. So, we actually work with them and they will fund. So, we're certainly always open to continuing those conversations with the ACEs. We just haven't been able to finalize a deal yet.

That's it. Alright. Thank you so much. Kelvin, just let me add to the praise that has been heaped upon you today. That Librarian of the Year award was very justly given to you.

I'm just delighted by the blossoming of our entire library district. Not only are you doing a beautiful job, but each of our libraries is not only useful, is not only necessary for the community, but they're beautiful as well. And as we know, if children and our fellow citizens have a warm and inviting place to learn and to interact and to socialize, they do so much better. So thank you for everything you do. We greatly appreciate it, and we'll look forward to hearing your update a year from now, though I'm sure all of us will be seeing you around town quite often during this year.

And with that, this is report only and no action is required, so we will move to our next agenda item. Thank you so much, Kelvin. Agenda item 48, set date on appeals filed or required public hearings. I would instruct the city clerk to set the public hearing dates and appeals from the city planning commission meetings and dangerous buildings and nuisance litter abatements. Will do.

Thank you. Alright. Agenda item 49, citizens participation. Public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters within the jurisdiction of the City Council. No subject may be acted upon by the City Council unless that subject is on the agenda and is scheduled for action.

If you wish to be heard, come to the podium, give your name for the record. The amount of discussion on any single subject will be limited to two, well, as well as the amount of time any single speaker is allowed will be limited to two minutes. This is your opportunity to address the council, but the council is not able to respond or engage in dialogue. Are there any members of the public who wish to speak under this portion of the agenda? I was expecting you. Please state your name again for the record.

Hi, I'm Alex Benube, and I was speaking earlier on '26 and '27. So I wanna just get straight to the point. So I would like to ask any member of this council to use item 51 to place surveillance technology oversight on the next agenda. Specifically, an ordinance requiring city councils to approve before any ALPR camera, microphone, or AI sensor is deployed on our city infrastructure regardless of who pays for it. I'm not going to sit here and just list all of the harms that this has done to both your constituents and our country and our citizens.

But I would encourage all of the members of this body to do some research if they're not familiar with FLAC and their technologies. And I would like to state that this is a both sides issue. No matter where you are on the political spectrum, from constitutional conservatives to progressive liberals, this is an issue that has strong opposition with your voter base, and I would just like to remind the council that silence on this issue is also a matter of record. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Hello again, and would you state your name for the record? Michael

Gansen. I'd like to briefly speak about the Huntridge Theater, and the failure of the city council here to develop that. It's been how many years have we been fooling with that, how many millions of tax dollars have been spent on it? I think that we need to move along, and it served its purpose, and I think the community would appreciate turning that valuable piece of property into senior housing or any kind of housing. The idea that we just let that property sit, and it's just being used right now for spoils from the construction work that's going there is egregious behavior by the city, and I think you really need to we, as a community, need to move forward and start really take housing, affordable housing seriously.

And the idea of turning the property into a senior citizen center with of some kinds for the senior citizens would be appreciated. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Would you please come forward and state your name for the record?

Hi. My name is Sarah Levitt, l e a v I t t. I'm commenting on the budget today and in regards to public safety. So I was born and raised here in Las Vegas. I hold a bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering. Currently, I train AI as my job. Let me tell you this. AI sucks. It is notoriously unreliable and without safeguards. Specifically, FLOCK technology is known to misread license plates and incorrectly flag vehicles, often described by police as a mishit.

Its data sets are incredibly error prone. This has resulted in dozens of cases across the country of people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, and even mauled by a police dog. We just can't trust FLOC's AI to get it right when it matters most. There's another reason many cities across the country are ditching FLOC. It's a big time liability.

There's lawsuits all over the country mostly over data sharing. They don't have a robust set of standards for who can access what data and why. No warrants are required. There's no mechanism in their software to enforce any rules. As a result, officers using FLAC to stalk and harass their partners, a Texas sheriff searching for a woman who had an abortion in states where abortion is protected by law, officers using discriminatory or biased search criteria, and even flock employees watching children's gymnastics and swimming classes, supposedly for the purchase of a purpose of a sales pitch.

The bottom line is flock technology can't be trusted, too unreliable, too risky, too easy to abuse. It's a detriment to public safety. If we're interested in increasing public safety, we need to invest in housing for all, health care for all, and, you know, this flock is just a bad investment for Las Vegas. It's a detriment to public safety. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Welcome, and please state your name for the record.

Hi. Good morning. My name is Kimmy Johnston Lindsday. In regards to flock security, the safety, I we do need safeguards and policies and more accountability. I do believe that information should be not so much police, but I do understand that the policies we have with our police department in using the security has led to a decrease in crime across the nation because public roadways are not You don't expect a level of privacy when you're using the public fairways, and license plates, we can stop when children are kidnapped, so our AMBER alert's more effective.

When crimes happen on the side of the street, our security cameras, they catch that, and we're able to bring people to justice. So I don't know if you guys watch, like, the crime shows. I love CCTV, See No Evil. The amount of crimes that the surveillance system is able to solve is incredible, but because I do love privacy and our constitutional rights, our fourth amendment, we do need to have safeguards in place and more, what's the word, transparency from the department. So in that respect, let's have more transparency, and I understand that they delete records after thirty days, and they're not using GPS trackers on anybody.

Here's the problem, here's where the issue is. There's a group out here, the Democratic Socialists of America, they're against the flock because they believe this is gonna lead to an increase in illegal immigrants being arrested because they're being tracked. And this isn't true, that's not how the system works, but that's the the appeal to emotion that's being brought to you today. But as a resident, who cares deeply about safety of my family, and who cares deeply about our community, I think we do need these systems. It's been incredible across the nation for helping to decrease crime. So that's my 2¢ on the matter. Thank you guys so much for your time and thank you

for all

that you do. Thank you so much. Is there anybody else wishing to address the city council this morning?

Can I briefly speak on the flock issue?

You've already spoken twice and the answer is no.

Oh my god.

But you are welcome to You know what? If I give you a minute, would that be enough for you? Come on in. Come on down.

What I'd like to do is have this through the libraries and through the city council that we should inform the people about or the public about your cell phone and geofencing. And the idea is is that if you have your cell phone with you, it opens up a whole level of privacy issues that the government can enact. It's just the idea of transparency and the same with flock. There's nothing wrong. If you're here legally and you're not breaking the crime, breaking crime, or doing crime, then it should be fine.

But if you're here illegally, which is a crime to be undocumented in this country, is a crime. And I'm also upset about the idea of illegal, unvetted students in our schools, and that's where the fentanyl is getting into, but that's a whole another issue for another date. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Is there anybody else wishing to address the city council?

Yes, good morning. Mayor again. Morning.

Would you state your name again?

Yes, sir. Yes, my name is Eric King. I just had a further insight being amongst all you wonderful people about now it is May is Military Appreciation Month. So I just wanted to highlight that what I mentioned earlier in my comments, that I think there's some very highly efficient and effective ways that I would love to, in some way, offer up for food for thought, maybe even a presentation at some point, that may help not only enhance the prestige of veterans in our great Nevada here, but also Las Vegas. And I'd be really excited to find who amongst your staff may be the point person for issues with veterans and their health and well-being and livelihood.

So hopefully before I leave today, I'll figure out who that person is. And then be really excited to follow-up with y'all and see if anything makes sense that comes from me. So thank you all for all you do for the community. I really appreciate your leadership.

Thank you. Thank you very much. Sabra, do you want to direct Eric to the proper people to talk to in the city? Alright, thank you so much. Appreciate it. We will now go to agenda item 50, council emerging issues, discussion regarding potential items for future city council agendas. This impacts all wards. Any discussion must be limited to whether or not such proposed items shall be placed on a future agenda. No discussion regarding the substance of the proposed topic shall occur. No action shall be taken. Do any members of the council have any topics that they would like to bring forward under this item? Miss Rooney.

Thank you, mayor. I would like to, I know we had a briefing on agenda item 47. I don't recall mention of flock, so if we could maybe have a review of the specific technology that's part of number 47, please. Don't think 47. Sorry, which Sorry. Sorry. I

think it's a '26 and '27 councilwoman. But do we have to have an agenda item or can you just request that this? I think it's

a 27, you're right, 27. Okay. So,

would you repeat that?

Yes, I'd like to have a presentation on the types of technology that are involved on item number 27, the intelligent transportation system master plan project.

Now, you so much. Anybody else? In that case, we will move on to agenda item 51. Council member recognition. Comments made by individual city council members during this portion of the agenda will not be acted upon by the city council unless that subject is on the agenda and scheduled for action. Is there anyone that wishes to speak on agenda item 51? Ms. Rooney.

Thank you. Our most recent segment of Access City Council with Ward 6 is now live. In our most recent episode, we sat down with Jennifer Blanchard, recreation coordinator at the Centennial Hills Active Adult Center to talk about all the programming they offer for our active adults. Then, we tried out some key gong with AARP instructor Mitch Minnick. We have some special segments for our awards active adults on our new Access City Council episode.

Our Sky Canyon Pickleball Tournament with Southern Nevada Pickleball was a smash hit. Again, thank you to Patty Chess for helping us with the tournament. Neighbors brought out their A game and showed up ready to serve. Next, I attended the Wellness and Mindset Conference hosted by Coach Rose Peterson supported with pink box donuts, bagels, coffee. It was a full panel of inspiring women who shared tips to prioritize physical and emotional self care among women who are very busy being professionals and moms.

I love competing with our city of Las Vegas running in volleyball teams at the corporate challenge. I'm grateful for the camaraderie as part of the city of the Las Vegas family. Winning every game or not, and I will share, I don't think we won a single game on our volleyball team. Congratulations to mayor Berkeley for another lively, informative, and fun state of the city. Thank you to everyone.

Sorry. There was a slide that actually had you, mayor Berkeley so apologize for that. Thank you to everyone who joined us for our town hall development one hundred one event. We loved hearing the types of projects that you wanted to see in Ward 6. Next.

Last week, I had the opportunity to, help Nevada Energy, who, as part of Earth Day, came out with over 100 of their team members to help us beautify Floydland Park. They made about eight planter boxes and painted the fences. Thank you to NV Energy for choosing our park as part of your service project. Next. Last week, I stopped by the Centennial Hills Active Adult Center and helped serve our guests at their timeless tea event, a beautiful early celebration for Mother's Day.

There were plenty of tasty high tea bits. The Centennial Hills Active Adult Center team always goes above and beyond to make these events really special for our seniors. Next. Last week, we broke ground on Igor Soldo Park. The park is named after Igor Soldo, a fallen metro officer who lost his life while serving.

This park will have a splash pad, playground for our kiddos, soccer fields, and pickleball courts. Last weekend, I cheered on our police and firefighters during the annual Battle of the Badges game. This event raised funds for the Police Law Enforcement Assistance Fund and Sin City Fire Department sports, supporting families of fallen officers and promoting mental health programs for our firefighters. I got into the Cinco de Mayo spirit early with a celebration at Centennial Hills Amphitheater sponsored by the National Association of Latino Peace Officers and the Mexican Patriotic Committee. They had bands, music, food trucks, and vendors.

Fire Station forty one even stopped by to check out the music and the great food. We have a couple of events coming up. First, we're back with our small business breakfast next Wednesday, May 13 from 08:30 to ten. We'll have speakers from the water district and applied analysis to give an overview of water and sports industry as part of economic development. Sign up so we can make sure we have enough food.

Next, we are building community with our Sunset Yoga as part of our Connector Social Series for Women. Join us Saturday, May 23 from seven to eight at Gilcrease Brothers Park. We'll have, some guided yoga session followed by complimentary mocktails. As always, we wanna hear from you. Please feel free to call us at (702) 229-5463 or email at Ward6@LasVegas,Nevada.gov. Thank you, mayor.

Thank you so much. Councilwoman Kelly.

Thank you, mayor. I am excited to thank Get Outdoors Nevada and our great partnership with them. We did a tree planting event at Kellogg Zaire, and we were able to plant 14 trees with our volunteers. There are more trees coming to Kellogg Zaire, and I have many specific requests that they be near or in the dog park. So we're working on that.

Next slide. I accepted a grant on behalf of the City of Las Vegas in Parks and Recreation and Cultural Affairs from the Southern Nevada International Code Council to provide free swim lessons for children age four and under. Obviously, it's a meaningful program to give our residents, our youngest residents, a safe and confident start in the water while expanding access to swim education and strengthening drowning prevention efforts and equipping families with life saving water safety skills. And we had our breakfast, our quarterly breakfast buzz, which is the next slide. And not only were we able to welcome our new Summerlin Area Command Captain, Captain Ransom Beza.

And yes, his first name is Ransom. And he's from Battle Mountain, Nevada. We also welcome courtroom critters and we're able to meet Hufflepuff and Muffin Jones and their great work in our courtrooms that provide emotional support to victims. So they do terrific things. We also, next slide, we're able to give a proclamation to outgoing Summerlin Area Command Captain Gregory Fennis, who is going over to international affairs and he has served our board really well.

In particular, he set a really high bar for communicating and reaching out to constituents and he's been at of so many events, as I understand it, certainly before I got here, and we really wanted him to know how that level of access was really important to our constituents. And I'm sure the other area, commands are doing the similar things in the other wards, pardon me. We also, next slide, did a Be Neighborly event, reaching out to neighborhoods in Ward 2. We have so many homeowners associations in Ward 2, when we're reaching out to neighborhoods that don't have homeowners association. It was very successful.

We painted curbs and fire hydrants, and we're planning on doing at least one more event, if not two, in neighborhoods. And we want to thank a huge thank you to Neighborhood Services who made the effort and all of our volunteers a terrific success. And our next slide please, in our latest Access City Council, we were very excited to have, to welcome back Troy Rock, who's the director for Vegas for Athletes. We have a huge Vegas for Athletes series of events coming up, and we are hosting several of these high energy games in Ward 2, and that's Vegas for Athletes, if you don't recall, does prescreening for heart issues for youth. And when they get prescreened, they get a picture with the belt on that you see me wearing so fashionably about that they are an award winning athlete for doing that type of screening.

Next, we were out at the Bruce Trent Wednesday Farmers Market, visited with Snack Snacks, which is a wonderful local small business that creates their own dog snacks, and they're all homemade. We also visited several others on Access Las Vegas, and I was thrilled. These are the smallest of businesses. They're often working out of their homes, and it is a terrific way to support small business and get outside. Our board, our Wednesday, Farmer's Market is every Wednesday from two to eight and it's very pet friendly as well as it is child friendly.

And the next slide, I want to make sure to invite everybody, including all of the city council, for a very important annual event that we have in Ward 2, honoring the brave women and men who have served our country and made the ultimate sacrifice, and we do that in conjunction with Nevada Post seventy six Spirit of Freedom Legendaries at the Lake Sahara South Park. And it'll be this Memorial Day on the twenty fifth at 09:30 a. M. It's a beautiful wreath laying ceremony. I encourage you to come.

And all of our constituents in the city of Las Vegas are across the valley. Bring your family, bring your friends. Great to honor those who have fought for us in remembrance and gratitude. And then we also have, the next slide, a very fun, it's going to be an event targeted at 55 plus our community featuring the FBI special agent in charge, Christopher Del Zotto, well as the Southern Nevada Senior Law Program and Doctor. Brianna Wren, who's a geropsychologist at UNLV.

She studies the psychology of aging individuals, and there's a lot of important things to know about and to understand as you age and continue to be active. So that's RSVP required on Thursday. Well, RSVP required comma. The event is Thursday, June 11 from 11:30 to 02:30. And I wish all of my colleagues here and all of our constituents who are mothers the happiest of Mother's Days. Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Kelly. Councilwoman Diaz. Thank you, Mayor. I'm gonna start by covering some really awesome places we've been in the last couple of weeks.

So, the first one is we have the opportunity to visit leaders in training, where they meet, it's a non profit based in Ward 3, established by, Assemblywoman Erica Mosca, And their mission, their sole mission is to guide high school students on their journey to becoming first generation college graduates. One of the speakers that evening was Veronica Rico Mascorro, a former LIT participant herself who currently works for United Way of Southern Nevada. And she was there just to share about her own lit experience and how instrumental and invaluable it has become in her ability to navigate the workforce and the networks that she made from going through the program. I wanna thank Executive Director Martha Castillo for her hospitality, and for being a fearless advocate for all of these amazing students. I just can't wait to see what they're gonna go ahead and do when they go to college, get educated, and hopefully they come back and work for the city.

Next slide, we had the shredding event with our LVCEA, and it was another successful shredding event that was both beneficial to city employees, but also Ward 3 residents. I heard that they had been basically waiting since 08:30. The event started at nine and a lot of people were ready to give all of their outdated prescriptions and documents for shredding. So just want to thank our amazing employees union for partnering with us to bring that offering to the community. On April 18, we were able to get outdoors with Get Outdoors Nevada and Clean Baker Park.

So it was awesome. We painted benches, trash cans, and were emptied and maybe needed some TLC. And we also did some deep cleaning of the playground area. Also on the eighteenth, if some of you knew about the Chalk It Down event in the Arts District, there was a lot of artists kind of laying their art on the sidewalks and in the street with chalk, and it was really cool to see all of the different pieces that happened that day. On April 25 at Freedom Park, we had our children's soccer fest or Fiesta Futbolera, and it was very well attended.

There were so many little ones playing soccer that day, and they had a blast. We also had Mariachis, we had Vale Folklorico, and I just want to thank all of the partners that came together and made this an amazing offering. We did it in advance of Children's Day that is celebrated on April 30 in Mexico. On April 29, we hosted our Dustin Myron E. Levant and JC Community Park.

We wanted to basically share with the community what our future visions are and what changes we may want to bring to this park, but we wanted their input. So I just want to thank our awesome principal at Keo Knutson, Principal Bachet for allowing us to host this meeting out of the middle school, but also thank our staff who put in the extra hours from our fabulous Parks and Rec team, our DPS staff, and also our public works team members. Most importantly, thank you to the residents that showed up who participated and gave us their input to help us make sound decisions moving forward. Now I'm gonna get to the events that are coming our way. So of course, Eldorado Days Parade is happening in fabulous downtown.

It's Saturday, May 9 at ten a. M. Go ahead and visit the website, haldorado.vegas, so that you can get all the breakdowns as to where you can watch this fabulous parade. It is a long standing tradition for the city, so I hope you'll make it down to be part of it. On May 13, we have an RDA three neighborhood meeting at East Las Vegas Community Center.

It starts at 05:30 p. M. We just want to share with everyone what the RDA boundaries will be, what the RDA three will bring for this area. So come one, come all, and be informed. And we want to just put out the word, Justin Myronie Leavitt Community Park Survey.

It's it's still ongoing after the last meeting. We received more insights as to folks who wanted to share how we could spice up our children's playground and make them more meaningful and more entertaining for the little ones. So we want to share this with you. Please scan the QR code and take the survey and give us your thoughts on what you wanna see that playground area evolve into in the future, because it is about time that we change that equipment out. Also want to let everyone know that we need lifeguards for our pools in the summer, and we can't open them fully and give access to our community unless we do have lifeguards to mend them.

So if you are looking for a summer job, it's a great way to help your community stay in shape, enjoy the pool, mentor youth, meet new people and forge new friendships. They will have flexible hours. We know life is busy. You can work as few as fifteen hours a week. So please look into lifeguard opportunities with the city of Las Vegas.

Just Google it, and you'll find how you can get channeled to that work opportunity. Wanted to let you know that Nevada Energy's expanded solar access program, the applications are open through May 31. It's a way that Nevada Energy, based on income qualification, gives customers a break on their power bill. So just want to let everyone know that you need to apply, you need to submit everything that is needed, and you could get this energy solar access program savings through them. So spread it.

If you know of somebody who needs a little break from their power bill, especially heading into the summer when our AC doesn't stop, please share this information for them to go to nevadaenergy.com/esap. And that's it for me. Thank you so much. Have a wonderful Mother's Day to all my colleagues because I know that we're moms and Grammys, and we're super excited about that work as well as this council work. Thank you.

Very cool. Mayor Pro Tem.

Thank you, mayor. This is National Nurses Day. It's an opportunity for us to recognize the essential role nurses play in strengthening the health and resilience of our city. Here in Las Vegas, we are fortunate to have world class nursing education and clinical training happening in the Las Vegas Medical District, including in the UNLV School of Nursing. The work of these students, educators and practicing nurses directly supports our community's well-being and the city's long term goals for accessible high quality healthcare.

Today, we honor their service and reaffirm our commitment to supporting the healthcare workforce that cares for our residents every day. And Peter and the Starcatcher is coming for the Rainbow Youth Theater Company. It has, let's see, the fast paced and imaginative prequel to the Peter Pan story. I'm going this Saturday, so I don't know what it's about, but I'm excited. I'm bringing my kids and anybody else who wants to join me, it's always a good time.

The show runs this Friday, May 8 at 6PM, this Saturday, May 9 at 1PM, and 6PM at the Charleston Heights Art Center. With $10, you have reserved seating, and it's for all ages. It's a great chance to support local youth performers. And I usually get up there on stage and bring all the kids with me because it's a it's a good time to celebrate these young people who are bringing joy into everybody's lives. And so, that's it. Thanks, Mayor.

Thank you very much. Councilwoman Polanski.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. On Thursday, April 16, I attended the Sun City resident meeting. It was great to see everyone come out together to discuss the improvements coming to our community. The residents were able to share their excitement about the new developments planned for Ward 4. On Wednesday, April 22, we all attended the State of the City address, The Future is Bright for Las Vegas.

Mayor Berkley's address highlighted the innovation ahead and the exciting momentum building in our city. I'm proud of the progress and for what's coming in Ward 4. Next up, on Thursday, April 23, I traded my usual schedule for one with a little more fun, thanks to Take Your Child to Work Day. Having my son made me feel that the day was truly special, and it was great to show him what happens at City Hall. Was grateful for this opportunity, and thanks to Jasmine Friedman and her team for making it happen for all the city children.

Later that evening, I attended a town hall meeting for the CSN Northwest Campus. Neighbors had the opportunity to see the proposed site at Durango and Elkhorn and ask many questions, as they did. I appreciated the chance to hear directly from CSN and engage in thoughtful conversations about the future of this campus. Next up, on Saturday, April 25, I spent the morning at the Hearts Alive Car Show. This event supported Hearts Alive Village and Heaven Can Wait Animal Society, with proceeds going towards their work.

The combination car display and pet adoption made for a great morning. Happy to have them shoes worn for as a home. Hope they do it again. Later that evening, I stopped by Mountain Ridge Little League's Spring Fling. Congratulations to the Diamondbacks team for being the first Spring Fling Champions.

It was great to see both teams having fun and building skills. I'm already looking forward to next year's tournament. On Thursday, May 21, Ward 4 will be hosting Southern Nevada Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony at 7PM at Police Memorial Park. We invite the community to join us in honoring and paying tribute to local law enforcement officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty since 1866. On Saturday, May 23, please join us for an outdoor showing of Jurassic World Rebirth at Tregono Hills Park.

Enjoy free popcorn, the Jurassic World themed activities while supplies last. The movie will begin at dusk, and we look forward to seeing everyone there. Please remember the PG 13 rating for moms and dads out there. And next up, there are 15 missing teens from our community. If you have any information that could help, please contact LVMPD missing person detail at (702) 828-3111.

If you are a runaway and would like a free bus ride home, please call that number. Lastly, you can stay up to date with community news, updates, and upcoming events happening in Ward 4 by following me on Facebook, Instagram, X, all the things, or just call us the old fashioned way at (702) 229-2524. We are always here to provide any assistance that we can. Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Ms. Polensky. Councilwoman Summers Armstrong.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. As always, Ward 5 is out in the street on the twenty second of the month. We were honored to participate with the mayor in the city Of Las Vegas address, the state of the city. Had a wonderful, just a wonderful gathering, and thank you mayor for a short, concise, but very thorough presentation to the community. On the April 25, we were at the Neon Museum.

There was a creative aging memoir, oh wait, I missed something. All right, sorry about that. On the twenty fourth, we were at Community Center for the HBCU Promise Democracy Prep seniors were there that day to sign their decision, what college they were going to. This young woman, Serenity Willis, is going to FAMU, which is an HBCU, and she got a $60,000 scholarship. There were so many young people who were signing and receiving their scholarships.

We are so glad just to be able to participate. These are young people from the community, and as you can see, the young guys with their arms around my neck, they love it when they're taller than you are. They can choke you a little bit. But it's just good to see that our young people are taking their education seriously, and we are hoping that some of them will be here this summer working internships to save money, to have hamburger money for college. Next, we were, that very night, we were at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's fiftieth anniversary gala.

They were raising money for college scholarships for students. It was a beautiful event downtown in the Arts District at the wine bar, I think it's right there at, now I can't think of it in the street. Anyway, it was a wonderful event, they raised quite a few dollars to help fund the Congressional Black Caucuses, HBCU, and just any college scholarship fund. Next, that same night, we left that event and ran over to the Neon Museum, and they had a beautiful event lighting the Siegret and Roy sculpture. This is an amazing depiction of these iconic figures.

There was a lot of folks there, people who worked on the show were there, lots of tears, lots of beautiful memories, and I just applaud the Neon Museum for doing a wonderful job lighting and just including the community in this beautiful event. On the twenty fifth, that was a busy day, so we'll start with the Caribbean Heritage Fest, which was at, oh no, go back one, missed that one. All right, that morning, back at the Neon Museum for the Creative Aging Memoir Private Reading, They have this booth called, I think it's called Sally, and they're encouraging folks in the community, as is the library, to save their memories electronically about how they came into Las Vegas, a memorable experience. It was beautiful to hear people's stories, and everybody's got a story about why and how they got to Las Vegas. And I, again, the Neon Museum is doing really wonderful things, and they are, by the way, inward five.

Next, we were at, same day, The Caribbean Heritage Festival at the Sammy Davis Junior Plaza at Lorenzi Park. They had some wonderful Trinidadian sounds, and singers, and food, and people had a really good time. So, thank you Parks and Recreation for helping to support a really beautiful cultural event. Ran from there over to the Abodo Collective. They had a Mother's Garden Book Festival.

They had a gentleman here with this book about eating clean. They had stories, children running around everywhere. If you have not been to the Abodo Collective, I encourage you to do so. When you walk on the campus, you just feel a physical exhale. It is beautiful.

We had multi generations of folks there, eating wonderful food, raised in the garden. It was a beautiful event. Thank you to Mika Henry for your contribution That in our night, the mayor and my colleague, Councilwoman Kelly and I were at the Just One Project's sixth Annual Cloud Wine Gala. We had a wonderful time seeing friends and old colleagues raising money for a wonderful organization that does a lot of good work in our community, helping us with food insecurity, and I really had a great time. The next day, we were at the West Las Vegas Library for the Expertise Cosmetology Institute's twenty fifth anniversary.

The beautiful woman in the purple is Ms. Gwen Brahma. She is the leader of this Cosmetology Institute. I don't know if you all know, but she does work at the women's prison, teaching cosmetology, so that when women come out, they have a skill set. There were not very many dry eyes in the building.

She's such a sweet person, the work she does is so impactful in our community, and I was happy to be there to celebrate with them. On May 1, we were at the West Las Vegas Theater for Gritos y Gutares Cinco de Mayo celebration. Those babies were out there just tearing that stage up, singing, dancing in celebration of Cinco de Mayo. It was wonderful to have a full house at the West Las Vegas Theater. And thank you again Parks and Recreation and the teachers for encouraging this cultural experience for our young people.

We want our community to know that they are seen and heard and loved. On May 3, we were again at the West Las Vegas Theater for the one hundredth birthday celebration for Helen Anderson Tollan. Ms. Tollan was the first black woman to be a principal in the Clark County School District. She came to Nevada in the 1960s as a speech therapist.

She is an icon. Her house in our community is a registered historical landmark. The mayor was there, mayor of city of North Las Vegas was there, and many others. Happy birthday, Ms. To land, we love you, and thank you to the community for honoring her.

And finally, yesterday was our Mother's Day event. We moved, it gotten so big that we are now at the AC Marriott, right in Symphony Park. They put on a beautiful event, this is hosted by Congressman Horseford, Commissioner McCurdy and I, pool our resources to have this event, over two fifty people were there. We had a blast, the Dolittle Fancy Dancers were giving it to us with the line dancing. We had a wonderful time, spoken word, good singing.

Thank you to the community parks and rec again, AC Marriott for being a wonderful community partner, and we're looking forward to doing it again next year. Tomorrow is the Regional Affordable Housing Forum at the Smith Center, also in Symphony Park. We are excited about discussing how we can bring more affordable housing into our community. It is so needed. At last count, I think we're about 80 to 90,000 units short.

This is an impactful event. If you haven't already signed up to go, please do. We want to do good work, and we are grateful for the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authorities. This is a catalytic event, and we're excited about it. My partner colleague has already mentioned Haldorado Days.

I think I'm riding Big Red with my friends. Hopefully we won't slide off while we're trying to climb up those silly stairs, but it's gonna be a lot of fun. And a very exciting upcoming event on June 20, our Juneteenth celebration. This is the twenty fifth anniversary of this event that is hosted by the Rainbow Dreams Educational Foundation. News flash, we are going to be in Symphony Park this year.

So, we are super excited. Thank you, City of Las Vegas, your support. We will have our marketplace and air conditioned tents on the grass, and outdoor music, a beautiful festival. Just think of it as Love on Jackson on steroids, so if you enjoyed that, this is going to be similar. But an added treat will be a concert with Christopher Williams inside Mybrins.

Two concert times four and seven. Tickets are $25 for that. All proceeds go to benefit the Rainbow Dream They're trying to give away $2,500 scholarships to high school seniors and college students from our community. I am overjoyed with this. I've invited my girlfriends.

I'm paying, and they're coming, and we're going to be loud and wild. And if anyone remembers Christopher Williams from the '90s, he was a heartthrob for us, and we are excited to have him at our events. So, thank you everybody. You know our team, Nora, Julius, and Ara, we are here to serve. Please reach out to us at (702) 229-5443, and we are here to help any way that we can. Happy Mother's Day to our colleagues. Happy Mother's Day to all. Thank you.

Thank you so much, Ms. Summers Armstrong, and this council meeting is now adjourned.