City Council - Regular Meeting

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I love my favorite, but somebody in the corner, but I love how they just Welcome to Boulder City City Council. Appreciate everybody being here. Madame City Clerk, call to order, please.

Thank you. The agenda was posted in accordance with Nevada open meeting law and all members are present. Thank you. who will stand for the invocation followed by the pledge of allegiance. The invocation will be offered by Chaplain Michael Thrower from the Second Baptist Church. Reverend Thrower, thank you, Mayor. Please bow your head in prayer. Thank you, God, for this opportunity for us to come together this afternoon. I just pray that everything that is said is pleasing to your ears.

We're so grateful for everyone being here. We ask that um that uh you look over this council, you continue to look over this mayor. Uh we ask that you just help us to uh keep this place being a loving place, a place for not only our our residents, but also for our visitors to come. We ask you just just keep us all safe. God, keep us all safe. Keep our firefighters, our first responders, and our um officers safe. These and all blessings, we thank you. We love you. It is in your name we pray it all. Amen. Amen. Thank you, chaplain. And stand for the pledge, please.

I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Don't think we have any public announcements.

I have one public announcement. I just wanted to remind the public that we still have um applications available and seeking volunteers for the ballot question committee. If anybody has any questions, please reach out to the city clerk's office 702-293-9208. Thank you.

Thank you. And we'll now open the meeting for the first period of public comment, which is to be anything that is on the agenda. You have up to three minutes. If you're calling in, or if you're standing here sitting in the uh chambers, you could come forward at this time, state your name, and write your name, and then take your three minutes and say whatever you would like according to anything that's on the agenda. Um, and then if we have anyone on the phone, 7025899629, be happy to hear from them, too. Anyone here in chambers, there's got to be somebody who's here in chambers that wants to say something. This will be a record. Could we put that in the minutes? Uh, no one on the phone. No one in chambers. Okay. So, we'll wait a little bit to see if 7025899629 answers. And they're not answering so far. Okay, we'll close the first uh public comment and we'll move to approval of the regular agenda.

Move to approve. There a second. A second. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? It's unanimous. And then we'll move to approval of the consent agenda. I move to approve the consent agenda. Second. Moved and seconded to approve the consent agenda. All those in favor say I. I. I. Thank you. Again, unanimous. That takes us to the regular agenda number seven.

Yes. Thank you, mayor and councel. So, in September of 2025, the city clerk's office initiated a campaign to encourage youth involvement in democracy and to promote civic engagement by giving students the opportunity to design a sticker to be distributed to voters during the 2026 election. So, Boulder City will have their own stickers this year. The I voted sticker contest was open to Boulder City students in the following grade categories. We had K through 2, 3 through 5, 6 through 8, and 9 through 12. 62 entries were submitted, and the top three in each category were judged by Amy Carvalo, Jill Lean, Barry Joe Burman, and Diane Ricks. And we'd like to thank all of them for participating and helping us out. From there, a ballot was um created with the top three and we brought ballot boxes to all of the different locations and the students cast their votes and the following word declared the winners. K through two was Madison Hensala. 3 through five was Riley Nudson. 6 through 8 was Lucy Keller. And grades 9 through 12 was Juel Branson. And so I would just like to thank all of the students who are who participated. Their artwork was all inspiring. So thank you very much. And the mayor and council have some certificates to

present to you. So, first of all, I need to say normally we're very sedate and so I would like another cheer for all of them.

And the city attorney at city attorney just reminded me I did not thank my staff and I'm really grateful to them. It was Bridget Rodriguez, Stacy Brownfield, and Lori Weakland who worked really, really hard on this project. So, thank you.

We now get to do something fun. The city council people will come up and we'll s give you the certificates. those people who won't won and a bring this card and token to Utopia for a pinball lounge. One hour of free pinball plus one fortune from Addie Luna Speaks. So we will have them come for we're going to go down get a photo. Would all of the winners please come forward? So first of all, Madison really high. So, Madison, what would you like to say? I think that's what you said, right? Okay. You're welcome. And then you're not going anywhere. You're here for the picture, too. Okay. And uh Riley Nudsonbody can see what you did. And I would like you to tell us what it

looks like. So they I think we have to do it kind of like that, right? So what was your inspiration? Um just a bald eagle. Just I drew a bald eagle and that's really it. I don't know. And there you have it. Good job. Okay. Thank you, Madison and Lucy. first. So, teach us what you drew and how it relates to voting.

Oh, um I drew uh the Lake me and it's part of Boulder City, so I like I drew it. Good job.

And Jewel and show us what you did. Hold it up high and then with it down, teach us. Uh, I just thought to draw the Boulder Dam because I thought it would be cool. And these are, you know, how you get the sticker I voted. Well, these are what you're going to get. These are Boulder City's own. Good job. Thank you. Going to get a photo now. Okay.

All right. Everybody ready? One, two, three. Thank you. Yeah.

Basically, we want everybody to come up and get basically everybody. I want to be in a photo. This right here.

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everybody ready? One, two, three. Thank you. That's how work. We're good. Good.

I buddy 62 stickers. Wow. Oh, that's a lot to vote for us. See, there is something about and they did such a great job. They really did. I was hoping they could show up. Oh, yeah. You're welcome to stay as long as you want on your way out. Good holiday greeting. As long as you want, kids.

It's getting very sparse. Empty out. I know. Everybody. That was a good call, Mayor. Every everybody. It's going to be freezing cold in here in just a minute.

That's the fun part of our job. And then there were five. Yeah. the youthations.

Yeah. Did you have to have a child? Yes, that was Jules, the oldest. Oh, that was your daughter. No, she just goes out. Oh, go your I put out the bat signal. Jules was getting that story, too. We've been encouraging here. No, stay in there. hang in there and this really grandma grandmas are having to work twice as hard these days. Tell me about it.

We appreciate everybody and their patience and uh we'll now move to uh number eight on the agenda presentation by Theodore Robinson and our representing our district, regional district three. Um, go ahead.

Thank you very much. Greetings, Mayor Hardy and Boulder City Council. As said, I'm Theo Robus in the region 3 superintendent, and I'm here today for our quarter 4 municipality report. So today we'll be talking about chronic absenteeism, student discipline, and then I also brought Brendan Mclofflin, our chief of facilities, to provide details to answer some of the questions pertaining to the facility master plan in support of our Boulder City Schools. So some of the trends that we see within our student attendance, and I want to preface this by saying this is from the end of the school year last year, 2425 school year, is that we saw a 2.7 increase in our overall chronic absenteeism rate. Currently we do see some drops in that trend but again this was from 2425 school year. Some of the behavior patterns that we saw was that um one of the things is that due to the smaller sample size that we see here a lot of our groups that we would typically like to pull or aren't able to give you that information because of the fact that there's some pretty low numbers in regards to some of the discipline data. Uh, also one of the things that we want to talk about a little bit is that we see some shifts and swings in proportionality based on the lower numbers that you have here in Boulder City. So what typically that means if you have like 10 students in a group, one student did the thing say being chronically absent, then that's going to significantly impact the data because we have a smaller sample size of kiddos. Uh, one of the things that I'd like to highlight through this though is that we had 32 fewer removals from instruction including 14 fewer students that were eligible for special education as well. And then we also saw that we didn't have enough discretionary expulsion data to share as well. Some of the challenges that we see across the system in regards to chronic absenteeism rate and also student discipline is that ensuring consistent implementation of interventions across schools remains a challenge. uh it impacts the continuity of the family and the student supports that we try to provide. And then also re-engaging students remains difficult especially when academic and emotional

needs are not addressed immediately. And then lastly, I would like to share that on the efforts of balancing priorities. One of the things that we had to highlight was the need for additional support to sustain outreach to our students. But on a positive note, some of the successes that we saw last year is that we did truency sweeps and home visits. And based on that work and also establishing professional learning that included more trauma informed and equity work as well into professional learning, we were able to build better relationships with increased our reenrollment rate of students that previously withdrawn by 31%. So that's a pretty positive statement there. One of the lessons that we learned throughout this is the importance of cross-dep departmental collaboration and enhance effective campaigns to ensure consistent messaging throughout the district as well. So next, what I would like to do is give you some celebrations from some of our schools here or all of our schools I should say here in Boulder City. So at Mitchell Elementary School, they had what they considered to be a widely important goal. And within that widely important goal, they wanted 100% of their students that take the MAP reading assessment to achieve growth. And right now they're on track because at the middle term of the um winter data break for map testing they had 91% of their students show growth. So an incredible 91% at the winter time showed growth on that MAP assessment.

Could you repeat that? Yes, I will. 91% of the students at Mitchell showed growth on their MAP midterm midcycle uh data assessment. Thank you.

And their ultimate goal for the year is 100%. So they're almost there. Also in second grade proficiency was their second goal. They wanted to target 70% of the students uh meeting the 60th percentile. They're only two points off of that goal for the year already. They're at 68% of that. So pretty strong academic work happening there at Mitchell. Also, we have successfully moved 41% of our tier 2 math students out of intervention. So that's out of the 44 students that participate in that math intervention, 18 of those students have been moved out. And then also we see that we have the remaining students have at least gained three skill sets during that assessment window as well. And then for our high achieving students 10% of the student body is currently being challenged in extension groups to keep them soaring above grade level at Mark the P. King. Some of the highlights that we'd like to celebrate again, they have four star status. Their their overall growth recognition is celebrating sustained high achievement in reading and math based on the winter map growth and I ready diagnos diagnostic assessments. And then they also have something that's called magical math competition which is a unique monthly tradition featuring problem solving challenges and conclude with a high energy atmosphere involving indoor sparklers and firework effects. And then they also have something that's called win time. It's what I need time and it's targeted daily um instruction support and dedicated three times a week after school tutoring for grades three through five. And then also they're preparing for I Ready transition that all schools will take part in next year and acknowledging student proficiency as the school pivots towards the new state assessment platform. In regards to their career and entrepreneur work, they have the VGK farmers market that will take place on March the 28th, which is a major upcoming event where students will sell uh school grown produce for Daisy's Market or Daisy Garden, I'm sorry, alongside items that are designed in their school 3D printers. And in STEM and financial literacy, they have hands-on instruction and integration of agriculture and entrepreneurship

supported by community partners such as Sunrise Rotary Club and the Boulder Dam Credit Union. And then they also have a random act of kindness program which is a weekly Friday tradition that honors a specific student demonstrating exceptional empathy, respect, and compassion. At Garrett Middle School, we saw that their MAP data showed that they had high achievement and high growth for 61% of the students, which is pretty phenomenal, strong data there. also for their Steam Zombie Apocalypse Day, a schoolwide cross-curricular event where students applied mathematical reasoning and engineering and creative arts to real world scenarios and problem solving skills. And we also had 55 scholars who honored with a special straight A celebration featuring a lunchon and an afternoon at the Boulder Bowl. And then for PLC success, they have targeted uh instruction data digs which have led to the growth overall between the 60 and the 64th percentile across all grade levels. And some of the culture and leadership and counseling work that's taken place at Garrett. It continues in regards to implementing a leader and me program where they have seven habits utilizing lessons daily and then also the student of the month recognitions to build leadership accountability. Also, we have students that are logged hundreds of community service hours for toys for tots and they've collected over 300 toys for uh local families in our community. And then student council members travel to Disneyland for a specialized learning experience focused on innovation and leadership principles as well. And then lastly, at Boulder City High School, we saw that their academic achievement was phenomenal by 100% of the students taking the ACT test. So every junior at Boulder City High School took the ACT test. And then also they have datadriven preparation where students engage in goal setting and practice data analysis with teachers to ensure purposeful preparation for their exam. And then we also have the SOAR advisory program. The dedicated program provides every student with a

consistent connection point on campus to foster academic and personal growth. And for their school culture and climate, we saw that this is this is pretty amazing right here. So they had supportive relationship scores on the latest Panorama survey which ranks at the 80th percentile nationally which is telling us that 90% of their students score that they have a favorable response rate regarding student and adult connections at their school. That's an incredible incredible number nationally. And then strong support systems. A remarkable 94% of students report having a reliable family member or adult advocate outside of school for them. So pretty pretty phenomenal things that we have taking place in our community. So, next up, I'd like to invite Brandon Mclofflin, our chief of facilities, to the podium to update you on the facilities master plan.

Thank you.

Good evening. Some great results being seen at our schools. Uh, as region superintendent uh Robinson mentioned, my name is Brandon Mclofflin, chief facilities for the Clark County School District. So, I'm here to provide you just a I'll try to summarize to two minutes of the process we're underway with and then maybe some next steps of how you you and your constituents can engage with that work because it's going to take all of us. And so, the thing I like to ground ourselves as we discuss the facilities that our students enter into each and every day and our educators come to each and every day is how do we have the greatest amount of impact um to benefit our students and our learners coming to our doorstep each and every day. The district-wide there is about 15 billion dollars in capital improvement need across the district. Now there is about $3.6 billion available due to the rollover bond that was approved in 2021. So there's a deficit there's an imbalance currently. Right? So, a few of the key metrics that we look to as a district of how to prioritize some of those dollars, though, we would love to make improvements at every single campus, is how do we again have the greatest impact for the most amount of students with the fewest moves. So, you look at that imbalance of of projects and let's look more granular to the Boulder City uh key indicators of us from a facility front. We know you have four facilities, right? The um Martha P. King, uh, Mitchell, um, Garrett Junior High School, and Boulder City High School, right? And you have about, uh, 1661. Again, I might be off a student or two, but that's our general enrollment for those four campuses on count day this year. 1661. Now, our team tracks development tracking, any new houses coming on. We also track migration of families moving into or out of um, any given location within the county. And with Razer Precision, that team's been 99.66% accurate over 20 years. So, a good

degree of confidence in what we're projecting, not only in one year's time, but 5 years time. And so, um, we start to look at what's that 5-year outlook for our schools, especially in Boulder City, and we're projecting about 1337 students. So, to sit with that for a second, that's about a 20% reduction in our student enrollment. And so there's two things that stand out to me of what this process will allow us to achieve. We're going through a public engagement process for two critical reasons in my mind. We want to use our taxpayer dollars the most efficiently we can, like I said, the most amount of impact with the least amount of moves. And also, we want to improve the conditions. And one that stands out to me that I know stands out with some of your constituents is safety. We want our kiddos to be safe when they come to our grounds, right? So there's some conditions at some of our campuses where currently there's less than the most safe environments there. And so again, how do we make those improvements necessary at all campuses so all of our learners have a betterment to to come. So what we're doing with the facility master plan is districtwide there's geographical planning areas so that the constituents of Boulder City don't have to talk about what's happening up in Sky Canyon and vice versa. They don't have to hear about Boulder City. So, it gets to be a very contextual conversation around some of those key metrics I just mentioned to you. What the enrollment trends look like, what the facility condition index, and that's a nerd uh lingo of what's the ratio of the cost to repair repair a piece of uh capital investature like a building versus the cost to replace that same square footage. And the higher the number, the worse the building is in current terms. So, it's like golf, you want the lowest score wins. So, we bring those those things to what we call a district-wide planning group. And that's all of our academic and operational leaders as well as some of our representative stakeholder advisory group members. And these are selected by our principles. They are oftentimes students, they're teachers, they are community members

that the principal trusts to advocate on behalf of their communities. And we're presented, we present the same data points to them saying, "Here's the data of enrollment. Here's the data of your how your buildings are doing. what are potential options of maybe things that are different than what we're currently experiencing how we deliver K- through2 education here in this location. So, um, as of last Wednesday, we presented a slate of options to our board um, specific to the Boulder City area. I'll highlight some of those. So, currently, like I said, I know you guys have four schools. They're wildly successful based upon what Theo just gave us an update. We want to continue and try to bolster some of that success but in higher quality buildings. But what that might need to do is what can we explore of what the facilities may look like, what those grade configurations may want to be. I know there's attributes of the smaller campuses that we all think are valuable and part of contributing to that success. So in any arrangement, we always want to ask the question, what's best for our students? And sometimes that might mean different grade configurations or different campuses than where they're currently at for those given grades. Right? So the slate of options that was presented and I'll just walk through them and I'll go through the process of what what the next steps will be about those options because they're just preliminary draft options at this point. Um there's a fourth school. There's always in all of this work we're doing, there's always a status quo to say in a prioritized fashion, just take care of either capitaly renovate or replace our existing grade configurations, campuses, school layouts, right? With obviously modern-day instructional uh layouts. Uh the option two explores just a possibility of what if three schools exist in this community? What would that allow us to do? Are there things that would be better for our students or are there things that maybe culturally be different that we need to address? And ultimately then there was even an even more uh down the road path of what could we do in two schools. And so you start

to see the tradeoff of capital investment versus operational costs. The less operational costs we are operating multiple campuses trying to make them secure trying to keep all the water and the lights on, that's more dollars into our classroom instruction. That's where the money will actually produce the results that you guys are seeing, right? Not on fixing a a squeaky wheel and a leaky pipe that you know never quite goes away. So, those are the draft options of A, B, and C on a sheet that you'll see in the reference material provided to our board last week that I'm happy to share on to this body after this. Um, there's always an empty column D and the engagement process that we have laid out throughout the spring. Um, there will be two community meetings at Boulder City High School. First is on April 1st and then the second is on I believe May 13th and what we do is go through a very deliberate process with our national partner that's uh was hired to help us lead this work around hey you guys see all the same data we do you see the enrollment you see the condition you know the various grade configurations thrown out around there um is there another um glimmer of light that no one in the district uh planning group or stakeholder advisory group thought of yet? So we always want to keep the option on the table that we don't know all the way and that's why we come to the communities that we serve. So that during those meetings on the 1st and on May 13th, we'll do just that. We'll present the same slate of options and we'll solicit feedback from your community members that decide to show up and participate in the process. Um throughout the springtime, it'll be on on a listening session of sessions like that and it'll be across this whole county. Um not just exclusive to Boulder City. Um though obviously we're only going to talk about Boulder City options when we're out here in Boulder City. Um then into the summertime we'll continue to vet the feedback we heard. Uh we'll vet that with district leaders uh principal leaders most importantly and then ultimately we'll present uh with

Canon design our national partner a slate of recommendations and we as staff and um Canon as our expert hired to assist us are only that. We're only a recommending body. Ultimately, it's up to the board of school trustees. So, we're targeting about a March time or sorry, a fall time frame of when what the next step would be for some of these. So, just in a wild idea, say there's an option D that one of your great community members comes up with and it really takes speed, the board would take action as early as the fall and then um we would then as district staff start to put some of those steps into action. But obviously, like I continue continue to reiterate, we want the fewest amount of moves and the most fast, too, because um some of the data that I that I didn't leave out in this about your guys' FCI, some of the schools need attention really soon. And so, we want to deliver those results for you guys soon, but we just need to get there in a consensus based uh fashion. We don't want to just half-hazardly make decisions on your behalf. And so really this process leans into a transparent era for the district and around facilities and capital improvements because frankly you guys pay the same line items on your tax bill as all the rest of us and you guys should have a voice in how grades are configured in your communities. And so that's exactly what this process over the spring is intended to do. I went way past my two minutes that I thought I would. So I will happily pause there for any questions for myself and also for Mr. Robinson.

Questions? Go ahead. I'd like to first start with comments. Um, I love what I saw for the school district overall for chronic absenteeism. And I loved what you said about the different ways that you're looking at it and the strategies that are being employed. had the chance to go to the state of Clark County School District and listen to new superintendent and felt excited about um real change coming forward that could help our students as a whole in this valley. And with us being the fifth largest school district in the nation, I see that as positive for the whole nation as a whole. So, I loved what I heard from you. Um ours went up a little bit. I'm sure that our principles are aware of it because as you heard from what you said about what's going on in our schools, we have great administrators here that care about the kids as as a whole. I mean, I just listen to all the different things that were happening, you know, inside of the classroom, outside of the classroom, um, to help our kids to find success as a whole. and and I'm appreciative of that and I recognize these creative ideas that are coming forward and I champion them and I and I hope that they funnel down to our schools and we do see that true change that that's being looked for and please take that back to the superintendent because I I I do really look forward to that. Um I you know obviously there's always concern when we consider change. I I think one of the things and probably all my council people up here will agree with me. We sometimes are agents for change up here and it's not always met with smiling faces um or or positivity and change is very hard. It's just that we come to the

conclusion of why we're changing and if that's best, right? Um and and that's why we're having the discussion. And thank you. Thank you for coming to um stakeholders and really listening to them about that change because in a small community like this it it's impactful um to not just it it's impactful for the teachers, the administrators, the you know students as a whole and they are succeeding and we're so proud of them and as you saw tonight we get the opportunity to have them draw stickers for our I voted right. what a great opportunity that is here and we're so proud of our youth and um what Clark County is is trying to do and how how they implement it here for us. Um I did have a a few questions. I do serve as a disclaimer on the facility board. Um and these usually do come before us when those changes are made or those decisions, right, as far as what's happening next in the budget. Yeah. Brandon McGlo for the record. Yeah. I believe you're on the oversight panel for school facilities. Yes.

Right. Yeah. So, this would be something when the time came to be voted on as far as financially speaking would come in that direction. Yeah. This financially when we go to issue those municipal bonds would go through the oversight panel for school facilities as well as the county debt management commission, which I'm also on. Yeah. Yep. I would see you twice. Yes.

Okay. Um, I I did have a question as far as the class sizes, caps and class sizes. They have like say we take our because I've had people ask me, right? Say that we take our K through two and our three through five and we put them together. We're going to have these huge classrooms um filled with 50 kids. Someone did say that. Could you speak on that?

So, Theo Robinson, region three superintendent. So, so one of the things that we do have is uh class- size agreements. And within those class- size agreements, like we will never allow a classroom to reach maximum capacity to where it's going to jeopardize a learning environment overall for our students. And so, as we do this work and as we build this work and as we collaborate with our principles, uh that's some of the things that we do throughout our our process when it comes to um the allocations of our school resources and things of that nature. And so typically that work happens in the springtime. Then it also happens in the fall as well. And if schools start to see a need for additional FTE uh funding and things of that nature, then there's typically an appeal process that they write and then we go through that as district leadership team to make decisions on that across the system.

Okay. Can I also ask you, I know there's autonomy in figuring out the budget, right, of some sort. Do administrators budgets or do administrators salaries get paid out of that budget or does the school district pay administrative salaries because the school the teachers salaries get paid out of that budget. So, so, so technically, um, all the resources are for Clark County School District and then they allocate that based on the ratio of how many students that you have, but you get a specific amount of money and then that's where your people come out of that pocket of money based inside your budget that's provided to you from the district. Is that also the principal's salary? Yes. So, it's every salary that's inside of there.

Yes. Okay. I also heard that um more dollars into class instruction directly. Is that specifically if we choose to make these decisions here in Boulder City? Does that money that we are saving specifically come to Boulder City or are we talking overall for Clark County School District? Yeah, Brandon Mclofflin, it goes districtwide. Uh we we'd see that base per pupil go up across the system. Um, and you'd hope that members here saving money are also taking place in all the other 24 planning areas that we have. So again, that base pupil is raising across the district. Okay. And then one more question for you. Oh, go ahead.

Before you, I wanted to follow on the class size piece because it is something we're considering within this. though um when you have some of the numbers I I I stated about our campuses being 50% full um which all four of the campuses here are experiencing that's where you do start to see some of the troubles where class sizes get overly cumbersome is that um actually school size and class size are inversely proportional. So the fewer students you have in a bigger building are intended for larger capacities, that's where it gets tough to, you know, you have 45 of second grade, so not quite enough for a a second section of them. Or you have, if you had a huge budget, you could have two sections of of 22 kids, right? But then that's extremely low, which is what we want. But then you have to pay two two teachers within that budget. And if that's true across all of your grade levels, that's where the challenge becomes. And so in right sizing some of these is you try to look at some of those exact things where you have a healthy not overly cumbersome say high schools sized anything but you have you can concentrate resources into fewer things but you're providing higher quality and appropriately sized sections where you can

make sense. Yes. I've been here long enough that um I taught second grade when we were trying to build schools fast enough and I was a year-round teacher and there was two of us in a classroom to be able to facilitate the number of kids. So I've been on the different side of it where we're not a shrinking district. We're growing so fast we can't control it. Now we're kind of shrinking. Yeah. It's weird. We're on the other side of that apex. Yeah. Yeah.

And I was educated here in Clark County School District. My parents were teachers. So, I mean, it's it's the long uh scale of it that I've seen. I I just would hope when we go to consider this is demolition. I mean, we're building a new pool. I to demolish something, which I'm assuming would have to happen if you went down to two schools or one, you know, heaven forbid, or three schools, some something has to happen to the schools that exist, right? And that would include demolishing them.

Uh not outright. So um all of the options across all of the county uh we've engaged with and that's u at the invitation of Mr. Maize and and Ned. Um why we're even here tonight presenting some of this with you is we we want to have those early conversations that it doesn't necessarily mean demolition of these community assets. While they're not something that the Clark County School District needs to educate pre-K through 12 education any longer, counties, cities obviously have a lot of need to provide a lot of community good. And so, uh, we're happy to entertain any of those conversations around what you guys may need those buildings for, but just we as a fiduciary responsibility can't operate them as a school any longer, you know. So, you feel like you would be able to facilitate all of our K through five in one of our elementary school buildings.

That's one of the draft options. Not that. So, I'm just saying if you're just not going to demolish and build a new school and you're just going to keep the school, one of them functioning. So, my question is you felt like we could fit all of our student population in one of those schools. I don't have particular capacities on them, but yeah, that's one of the scenarios I believe is um one of the two of them has sufficient capacity for both. But again, that's one. Will you be coming with that information to the April 1 meeting? Yeah, that's all the stuff they'll be walking through. Okay. Okay. Sorry to take so much time, but thank you. You can see why we let her do this

first. She can't be the only one with questions. Come on. Go ahead. I'll go up to you. Thank you. Um, I want to go back to special education. Why is there a decrease in special education? I would think we'd be pretty consistent. Is there a reason for that?

Yeah. So, so what what you're referencing, I believe, is where I said that there were 32 fewer removals for instruction, including 14 fewer students eligible for special education. Correct. So what that means is that we saw 14 uh less special education students specifically removed uh from instruction like a suspension based on how schools have been intervening in regards to student discipline and being more proactive in their response. So it was for discipline basically. Yes, that was for discipline. I'm sorry. I just wondered why we were taking fewer children. Yes. No.

Okay. um on these different plans that you have the A, B, and C, are you going to come up with what is the costs going to be for this and what are the pros and cons is under your list? You don't need to tell me tonight, but I'm just asking when you have your meeting on the the 1st and the 13th, what are you going to have those things there so people will know what the pros and cons are and what the costs of what you want to do is there? Uh the pros and cons, yes, I believe they're already listed in the book there. That's that second middle bar there, right? Um and then right now from a cost perspective, we're just looking at the dollar signs because it is pretty relative. When we get toward the fall time frame and any sort of implementation on any of that, that's where we will get very granular. Um I know we have run a couple of preliminary numbers on some of this. So we're more than happy to start to socialize those come that fall time frame. So, if they build a new school, which is one of your options here for the the K through 5th, are you going to have what that cost would be to do that versus putting them all in a classroom that's already there? Is that going to be considered at all when the parents are talking?

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Okay. And will they know what type of hazards might be in these buildings and why removal would be good if that if it had certain hazards? I don't know if they do or not. Right. Um yes, if that's a recommendation you think we should come equipped with 100% absolutely we'll have some of those things able to speak to. Well, I just know some of the schools are older so I don't know if there's hazardous materials in them and things that children shouldn't really be around. So, that would be great to have for the parents when you're talking to them. Absolutely. And um we said that you're going to have a meeting on 41 and 53. It's going they're all going to be at Boulder City High School. Yes.

And where at at Boulder City High School? I believe they're happening in the library. In the library. Okay. And they're at 6 to 8:30, I believe. So, we can confirm that with you guys as well, though. And and I thought uh Mrs. Jorgensson brought up a very good question. class size of 50. And I heard what you said, but is there a cut off point? If you had 51 kids, is that the cut off point? What is your maximum for a classroom? The max. So, so what I'll do is I'm going to have to go back and get you exact numbers because I don't want to speculate on the numbers, but I do know there's clear ratios and and I can get you a document that shows you what that is and I can provide that for sure. Right.

I I think that would be important. But I also want to say thank you so much. I'm so happy to see the kids are coming up and their schoolwork. It's uh that's very impressive and I really appreciate everybody's hard work. And that's all that I have. Mayor, thank you.

Thank you, gentlemen, for coming tonight. Um my um comrades over here have asked most of the questions, but I I do have a few. But first of all, I'd like to give a shout out to parents and teachers. I mean, we are where we are. the kids are what they are because of parents and because of good teachers. And um I I know you didn't talk about or maybe you can't talk about teacher being cut since you narrowing down maybe to three buildings or whatever it is. And I'm sure that that conversation will come out on the two meetings if there's any cuts in um teachers or any kind of help for the students. Um I also want to give a shout out to Mr. Robinson for meeting with me oneon-one to answer more detailed questions on time frame. we get these uh reports and they're almost six months out and so uh the next time we won't see him another quarter. So he explained to me how that works and how he was going to take some back to the superintendent to see if we could get up-to-date numbers even if it's verbal. It may not be on here but it may be verbal. You want to talk to that a little bit?

Yes indeed. So I um Theo Robersonson, region 3 superintendent. So, one of the things that we did yesterday in our conversation in our um learning and teaching um meeting that we have uh every two weeks here in uh Clark County School District. So, I brought this question back up to the group. And so, we're are going to try to do a couple things that you asked for is one give you the actual raw numbers. So, instead of seeing percentages, we can see the actual total number of students. And then the other part to it as well is do the second thing that you asked for too. So, that sounds like something we're going to try to work on for the next report as well.

Thank you. so much because it's important to us. You know, we're looking at numbers and they're just numbers, but if they like today you said 2.7 increase or increase lack of chronic uh epistentism, which is really good. Um, you didn't mention the Bright Walk program, which I thought was very interesting.

So, thank you for for asking for that information. And so one of the things that we've done in regards to doing some uh interdep department collaboration across the system thanks to superintendent Eert is that we've had Brightwalks where in the fall time and in the springtime we went and we knocked door to door on some of our chronically absent students or students that have uh for whatever reasons have not returned back to CCSD. And so we were able to learn a lot through that process. And so this was like a hands all hands-on deck type of collaboration between HR, teaching and learning, the superintendent's office and a variety of other uh employees in the system as well. And also we had some community members participating in that work too. and literally going door to door.

Literally, I I knocked on 10 doors myself, five in the fall and five uh in the springtime where we literally are trying to provide information uh pertaining to if some families need counseling supports or transportation from the district supports. We're able to update them and provide them some access to those things. And in other places, we really learned that some of our students um no longer live in the state and things of that nature. So, it was a really um a really good positive experience to really understand more of what's happening in our communities in order to ensure that our students um and our parents know how they can still access the school environment.

I really like that because you do get the parents engaged in the neighbors for that matter. Um also, um you know, we talked about our children's academics, which is off the charts, but they're also off the charts for sports. And um when we narrow down the buildings, that's less room for what they need to do when it comes down to sports. So I imagine that would be considered in the big scheme of things as well because outside the school is just important is inside the school.

So they should still all have the same sporting teams that they have and win 139 state titles or even more like we currently have here in Boulder City. So we know that's a huge part of the work and a huge part of what students and what parents and what our staff members value is that not just academic component to things but also that athletic and then also the other parts around all kind of other sorts of achievements that we have from robotics and as uh Brandon Mclofflin was saying the more that we look at how we can better uh build schools that better shape the future of what Boulder City is going to look like the more opportunity you have to spend on some of those extracurricular activities as well that our Boulder City kids do phenomenally well all that

and uh after school programs as well that connected with that and uh my last question I think you mentioned safety first and that is paramount in the times that we're in now with the three buildings can you talk to how it's going to be that much more safer by by uh putting the children in three buildings versus four I mean the obvious is there obviously but

yeah I wouldn't even uh go into maybe the why between three campuses it's more so look at the characteristics of each of the three. You look at the number of exterior openings on say Garrett Junior High School, that's a security threat in and of itself. So getting them under one roof where maybe there's one single point of entry and you've got some egress doors, but that's part of the design of a future. And then also Martha P. King or Mitchell if um they have a little more outdated designs as well. And so just things we've learned and I don't know if you've been to some of the newer elementary buildings in particular in town. Um some over in Henderson I know that aren't too far of a jog but um but certainly we try to funnel people to areas where adults can have eyes on them and if students or others want to leave our buildings maybe unauthorized as well we have visibility to that. So that's some of the um just uh perimeter training of our schools and the people that are in our buildings to to look into.

Thank you. Um actually had one last one. You mentioned the uh board of trustees that they would have that final decision. So the two meetings that we have on April and May, will they be there or you take everything back to them and then they make a decision or do they come back to us before they make a final decision?

So it'll be the trustees will not be at the April 1st or May 13th. with our planning team and district leaders just to listen to say here's the draft options here's the data points you know like I said is there an option D that we're not exploring quite yet and then we start to get into the granularity that um councilwoman be Booth asked as well around the costs and the other logistical things like let's make sure we don't you know shoot ourselves in the foot long term on any of these and and don't recommend something silly. So, um, then the time frame of the fall would be to our trustees, but I'd say, and I I think I picked up on the theme really is, yeah, these are every six months, right? But, um, the point of all this is to come together with our municipalities. And so, even if it's separate and apart from Theo's quarterly update with you guys, our intention would be to at least get with your city management staff ahead of time, if not in in a forum like this to say, here's where we're currently at, and give some sort of update maybe in the per early fall time frame as well. What's the overall date of of accomplishment of everything? Are you looking like two three years down the road?

That will be my last question. Yeah, we uh we have that 3.6 billion that I mentioned uh through 2034. 2034.

So, part and parial to what was approved of our update to the facility master plan last week was also what we're calling an early action plan. So it was things that in the draft options where um some communities there wasn't options really on the table. They had balanced enrollment. They had high quality facilities and so there was no no capital investment necessary um or there was a project in the works from long ago that still made sense. They still had enrollment growth or the stability um and we're already underway with a project saying so there was a slate of schools already moved forward on some of that that takes us through about 2029 in particular. I think there's one that stretches out to 2030, but um the action taken by our board in the fall or as early as the fall would then get us through that say 2034 time frame.

Okay. Well, thank you. Thank you for your service. Thank you for um the thorough briefing. Thank you.

We've had a thorough uh covering of so many topics. So, I'll keep uh my question or comment brief. Um so often um we see a result of of an endeavor that might end up flawed and if we look back it's because the process was flawed. Right. And as you described the process it I'm actually kind of surprised because Clark County School District is known for a lot of bureaucracy or it has developed that over the decades. Right. So um but in your description uh so succinct and very clearly identifiable goals and it gives me confidence particularly because it's going to be a collaborative process and you're involving the stakeholders and then looking holistically at all of the necessary components that I have confidence in now hearing from you that it will lead to the best result poss possible, right? There is no perfect endgame and so we look for that that might have the least bad impacts and the most good impacts and then do the best we can therein. So, thank you for both of you. Um, I'm just blown away by the fact that 100% of our juniors took the SAT. Were they financially incentivized to do that? Double check that three times important information in here. 100% of them took it.

Yeah. Which means hopefully that they're looking for higher education, right? They're collegebound. And then we could only hope that at the state level and other levels that there will be jobs for them to stay in our communities, right? And um and use that education to to either come back or stay within our areas. and and that's a huge testament and I just want to shout out Amy Wagner and the staff over there at Boulder City because have 100% of the kids take that that that is truly tremendous. So that's great work that they're leading over there. Yeah. Yes, indeed.

Thank you. And and all my other questions have been answered through questions from my fellow council members. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Thank you all. Uh, one of the things uh that maybe we didn't touch on is we have a boatload of people who come to Boulder City and with that program now for you can take somebody and bring them in here and they play on our teams. They take the ACT. And your point about Boulder City kids, Boulder City kids actually have been multiplied by people who come from out of town to Boulder City Schools for the very good reason that that's who they are, that's who the teachers are and the culture, I'll guess they come for the culture of education. So how do you include that in your algebra of uh the kids that are coming to the school? Brandon Mclofflin for the record. So yeah, there is a very healthy amount of what we call transference in and there's also families choosing to leave Boulder City for their education, but we won't talk about that. We'll just focus on the if I'm reading my numbers right, we got 119 students that elect to transfer into uh sorry 176 opt to come to the high school level. 40 opt to come to the middle school level and 66 come at the elementary level. they choose Boulder City over their options where they're zoned for. So that's a testament to the culture you guys have here. Um so they're open. They're able to come to all the same events that that you guys just heard about and we value their opinion just the same as everyone else. And also wherever they might be coming from, I I want to believe they're probably in the next zones or two over, right? But um there's actually a great tool on the FMP website where you can actually see where those zones are coming from. you might have a straggler from say the Arborview zone and that's a heck of a drive, but if it's worth it for them, families are going to make

that that choice. And um there's also events up there that'll still speak to the condition of facilities we want across the district. So they'll still be able to speak to it and they don't have to necessarily come out here just to make their voices known. Appreciate that. And when we've had this discussion before, this isn't new. um we invited I guess or our trustee came to the discussion and so we're not penalized if we invite our trustee to come to our April 1st and May 13th so we don't have to have a quorum but we are interested in making sure our trustee hears what we are hearing.

Yeah. Uh Brandon Moff, for the record, we can certainly let uh I believe it's Trusty Stevens and uh Trusty Sator would be your county representative as well. Okay.

All right. So, we can certainly convey them. They're aware of these dates as well, but we'll we'll see about their attendance as well. And when the bottom line as it comes obviously as we have fewer children coming through the ranks of everywhere with the birth rate being down as it were. Uh we are going to be doing things that we haven't done before in ways that we haven't done them. Uh but we appreciate the openness that the process is to Councilman Walton's uh point about the process that we recognize that we as a council that it's not the thing that we can actually be in charge of, but we certainly like to be in charge of everything we can. Uh but we appreciate you coming and letting us uh have our say and we probably will have our interest uh at heart and our citizens I know they'll come uh to our April 1st and May 13th and appreciate the things that you're able to say and understand and let them understand too. Any other question? Go ahead. Just for a point of clarification with those two meetings, will the agendas be any different

and the information be any different from the April to and the May? They will not be uh there won't be repeat meetings. What they will be though is um the first ones are intended people need the knee-jerk reaction to what do we think about these options and what's that one wild one that no one's thought of yet. So that's the time where we kind of flush out those prominent ideas. The second one is where we kind of come back to it. We said, "Hey, here's the things we heard." And also if that one that someone recommended, right? If we formalize that, say, "That's actually a really good one." You start to see that column D filled in and people can start responding to it like, "Oh yeah, Tammy mentioned that the last time." And so yeah, here it is formalized on the sheet and yeah, we support that one.

Okay. So people really should come to both. Yep. Not just either or. It's and also. Okay. Thank you. So this question is to our clerk. How many of us can go to that? You you can all go to it because that won't be an action ever of the city council over anything that's happening at the school. So that's not our call. Therefore, we all can go and we can participate. Absolutely. All right. Thank you. Thank you both. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. That was a good question. So we have accepted that

question. We'll now move to number nine. Good evening, mayor, council, and Boulder City residents. I am Julie Callaway, the parks and recreation director for Boulder City. And tonight it is my pleasure to present item number nine, which is a presentation updating all of the community on the progress of the swimming pool project. Tonight you'll hear from the swimming pool team which includes city staff, VCBO design and we'll be introducing core construction which will be our Seymar construction company during this process. I do want to remind everyone of the hard work and many hours of the ad hoc pool committee and tonight we'll be highlighting those recommendations in the design that you'll see in just a little bit. The committee's recommendations included elements that would attract the entire user group that is currently using our facility and much more. The main two elements that were recommended by the ad hoc pool committee were two separate pools, two different bodies of water to facilitate facilitate the major um user groups at the pool currently. They also vo voiced additional recommendations and amenities that um should funding be available, they wanted us to um explore those a little bit more if it was financially prudent to do some of their recommendations. As you can see on the slide, the two main bodies of water that they wanted to make sure were

included was a swimming recreational pool and of course a competition pool. Their recommendation was for the instructional swimming pool to be four lanes, have adequate depth, to be able to um be the perfect depth for the user group so that some of my older ladies or older gentlemen that are in the water aerobics class, they might not want to get their hair wet. So, we want to make sure that it's good for them along with being able to be a good depth for our younger swimmers as well. As you can see on the blue slide, the blue writing, we have made a couple additions to that u to the recommendations from the ad hoc pool committee and we're excited to be able to share those with you. Instead of it being a fourlane pool, we're recommending it being a fivelane pool and the design you'll see tonight is showing that we'll also have the addition of a lazy river and a kids play area. Those two elements were um add-ons really from the ad hoc pool committee that if there was funding available, if there was a way they would love to be able to make sure those user groups had um uh amenities that would really attract them. As you know, right now our current pool does have a waiting pool for our toddlers and our our youngest of Boulder City residents, and the kids play area would facilitate that user group perfectly. the lazy river, which is another amenity that we're looking to add, um would really be for all ages. It would have a current that runs through it, so you could go through it and have fun and play and older and younger u moms carrying their babies can walk through. It would be a slight current. Um, so it would be a recreational area and then you could also use it as a fitness area and go against the current and have to work a little bit harder to

go around the lazy river. The extension of the teaching area is really needed right now. We have four lanes that we used for our water aerobics class and we always have um people waiting to make sure that they have space for the class that standing room only because you do need adequate space for that. Regarding the competition pool, you'll see in not notated in the blue font. The recommendation was for a 10lane competition pool. The ad hoc pool committee thought that it was very very important that we have a um competition pool and we're recommending and having the design right now be going to an eight lane pool. We did reach out to the user groups. We reached out to Clark County School District specifically their facility uh program and to see if an eight lane pool would negatively impact in any way their usefulness of it. and they said no, they could still do two team meets there. And they would probably utilize it for uh for swim team practice, not just for Boulder City swim team, but also for probably another Henderson U swim team to be able to come here to utilize it for swim team practice. We also reached out to our local u Boulder City Heatwave swim team to see if that would uh going to an eight lane would would have any negative impact on being able to have competitions there. and they they also said it wouldn't. So, it's really been a nice tradeoff. We were able to still have a very nice large usable competition pool and be able to um add more features to really extend the user groups immediately in the recreational pool because that's also your recreational pool is also your open swim area. So, we were glad that we could we could do that. We were very fortunate

last fall we hired a um assistant aquatics coordinator for our facility and it happens to be um a previous uh lifeguard for our pool when she was in high school here. She was a lifeguard at our facility. She went on to swim for the Boulder City swim team and went off on a college swim team scholarship and then came back and was a coach for the Boulder City Heatwave. Katie Tyler has been instrumental in being able to really provide a lot of um guidance and direction especially regarding the competition of the pool. So I want to show one more slide for my part of the presentation and that is just to show you what all the recommendations were from the ad hoc pool committee and let you know that you can see by the check marks that we were able to facilitate almost everything that they wanted including where it says a diving board or climbing wall or play feature. We're going to have a diving board and climbing wall and play feature. There's two unchecked boxes in there and they're really for good reason. In talking to um our our design team from VCBO regard regarding those two elements, rollup doors, if you will, it's kind of like a garage door. Some of the pools in Henderson have them. And that was a recommendation if it was, you know, financially responsible for us to do that. And in speaking with them and other uh pool operators that do have those rollup doors, it is not the most ideal. In a large facility like this, your HVAC unit is really your workhorse of your facility. And anytime you change that air flow and and bring in too much good, you know, too much fresh air at once, it really throws off the the mechanisms of the pool and the mechanics. So, we were told that would

not be in our best interest. And also, sorry to say that um keeping the existing raetball courts also would not be um financially wise for us. The age of the facility, the condition that they're currently in uh would would not lend itself favorably to having a brand new facility added on to it. So, those are the only two things that aren't moving forward. We are still on track for um 2028 to have the pool open. Broadbent Park will be redone. It'll be a new focal point in town. The existing playground will be moved um more centrally located. So, it'll be off the beaten path. It'll be moved from off the beaten path um more to the center of the park. And also, the tennis tennis ball tennis course will have a complete makeover by 2028. resurfacing of two tennis courts and resurfacing of the other two for pickle ball. So instead of them being multi-use courts, they'll be specifically identified two for tennis and two for pickle ball. So everybody gets um the best of um of what their sport is. So with that being said, I'm going to go ahead and introduce u the next member of our team from VCBO design. Hello, I'm Pablo Gota with BCBO Architecture. I've had the privilege to come and Oh, that got loud. Good. I had the privilege to come and meet with you once more, but we just wanted to talk about the progress of the facility. Um, over here on the left, you can see the um design of the exterior of the building. Part of the uh genesis for this design was looking at your high school and trying to tie it together. um not necessarily as a brother, but maybe as a cousin so that they had some relationship on the

um site. One could uh take away features from one and the other and realize they're tied in as Boulder City projects, but not the exact same. The other element we put in was this piece here, the tower at the front. We wanted it to take away um some of the lettering from your existing pool and kind of bring back the historical imagery there. Um on the right here, you'll see the plan. Um, one of the questions we often get is why are the two pole pools separate? Because it would seem like if they were together, it would be easier to run them um on one system and things, but what's important to note is they need to be at two different temperatures. The lap pool is usually down at about 80 to 82 degrees. Um, the activity pools, uh, a lot of the people working out like them to be warmer. So, it becomes very hard to keep both sets of people happy if the pools are connected. Um we also have set um some bleachers spectator seating here in the back near the lap pool. Um we're planning for about 150 to 200 people um to be able to attend events. Um I think here down here is a rendering. I think everybody back there's seen this but

um so this is our interior rendering. You can see the lazy river the kids play um feature. There's been talk about a future um ninja cross potentially that's kind of a hanging athletic um that's what that is

uh event for kids. Um the one thing that we do want to talk about too is that the um play equipment at the um zero entry beach area for the smaller kids needs to be um low. So sometimes you see these huge pirate ships and things. We intentionally keep it low here so that your lifeguards can see over the top of it and it takes less lifeguards to run the facility because they are able to maintain a visual inspection of all the kids in the pool without having to keep multiple guards around the bigger play feature.

Where's the diving um board going to be located and will it be able to be used in competitions for the high school? So the diving board will be at the end of the lap pool. Um we will have a 13t deep lap pool at the one end. The idea is that the rock wall and the um diving board will be used um independently. So they can't be used at the same time. The reason for this is because you only want so much 13 ft deep water because you have to heat it and there's an expense to it. But during uh competitions, the rock wall would be closed off and you could jump off the boards for any event. Thank you. Yeah. Any other questions? Okay. Wait, I had one.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I was trying to get away. I know. I saw that. Uh the ADA entrance, where is that going to be? And who will be able to utilize or will they be on both pools or just one? So the way we treat the ADA equipment is it's rather expensive, but we still want to be um efficient and mindful of the people who need to use it. And so there will be one ADA lift, but there will be holes um at both pools so that the equipment can be moved so that in the event um somebody wants to use the activity pool or somebody needs to use the lap pool, the equipment can be adjusted. That saves obviously a big expense in having two different systems, one for each pool.

Thank you. I appreciate that. That's the only question I actually had the ADA accessible. But I I love the design that it looks like the high school. It just, you know, everything meshes together and the last renditions that I we saw didn't have the lettering on it and they wasn't sure if that was going to be. And so, thank you for thinking about that historical part of the building that, you know, it says pool and then Boulder City. And I understand there will not be a snack bar at all, anything like that. No, we've gone away from concessions. Um,

generally speaking, they actually don't make money. Um, and one of the big reasons is is because of the infrastructure you have to put in to make them work. For example, a soda machine requires a grease separator. Um, that becomes very expensive on the upfront and it takes room out in your parking lot. Um, again, any coffee machine includes the same. And then any live cooking obviously then the health department has to investigate. Sometimes you have to have hoods. It's just not really financially feasible, especially with the upfront costs that come with it.

I do like the different apparatus. I think there there's going to be more people using this pool because there's so much more, you know, for them to come like they're going against the grade on the for the exercisers. That's going to be really good. You got ADA. I very well thought out, laid out. Thank you. And I'll listen to the rest of your briefing. Anybody else?

I have overall site question for Director Callaway, please. I'll use the top drawing here on your right, our left as the reference. So, of on that drawing, the yellow little main entrance and that line closest to you. Um, yep. That that um vertical line that's facing south, so towards the current parking lot of what we're calling six street, right?

So, another reference point would be the Girl Scout building. Yeah. And the multi-purpose room, right? And so I'm I'm noticing that the loading dock is basically where the current playground is, which you said it will be moved. So my question is where will that be moved to in the overall site of it all? Yeah. I just so happen to have this rendering. Oh, I must have missed it on that one. I drew it while we were waiting. So you can see the tennis courts are in in brown because we haven't um resurfaced them yet. And the playground will be moved right into the middle of Broadband Park.

Okay, I I see that now. Thank you. Um and so that that area that we currently use for parking for the tennis courts, that's going to be the access road for the the trucks that come in for lo loading, right? And and so will that will that be the same parking area for the tennis courts or will that be vacated as parking and then um you know move to Sixth Street and then walk to the courts in a different way or

so that will still be used as a parking for the tennis courts. Um I know it's odd to have a truckloading coming through there, but when you're talking about a pool facility, there's very infrequent traffic. All they're bringing in is some chemicals once in a while. So, we're not worried about the conflict of cars in the truck because it's just it's not a frequent enough event to really concern us. Okay. Will that parking area or let's asphalted, will that be pushed a little bit to the north into what is some of the grass there or will it remain the same size? It's remaining exactly where it is. Okay,

great. Um, I don't have any questions, but um to you to to Julie and general comments um this is awesome and and I'm I'm so glad that the stakeholders have been um involved. It looks like we've made some tradeoffs. You know, we can reduce a little bit of the lanes here, which is okay with the stakeholders, add some features there, which is serves the community in a broader way. And um and you know, I did hear some input from folks that while we believe that those rolling overhead doors are a great idea when the weather's good here, everybody I've talked to that has knowledge and and um skill or or experience in in building institutional pools say bad idea. And that is carried forward here. We're not going to do that. and and I appreciate all the detail and all the good work and the we're I think I can speak for all of us. We're really excited about proceeding forward. So, thank you for your work there.

I just want to mention one other thing on the overhead doors that Julie didn't hit on is that they're an extreme maintenance issue. And so part of our design for the pool is to try to limit maintenance. I mean, you already have a pool that requires more of your time and more of your money than actually basically building a new one. So part of our thinking in this is let's take out all the maintenance heavy things so that this can last a lot time a long time with limited um resources from the city. Mayor I have one question you want to

so obviously we're going to do away with the present pool completely as well as the raball courts. Um, how many levels of pools are we going to have to make sure that we cover up adequately to build the foundation for that? It seems to me we've had a pool, another pool. And that brings me to my other question. Can we use the bubble for another convention center? Well, I'm building a pool in Richfield City where they're using a bubble over it. So maybe you can purchase they can purchase that from you. All right. Appreciate it. Thank you.

But just so you do know, we've done extensive um geotechnical testing to understand what is below the pool. Obviously with the existing pool there, we can't go through the middle of it. So that will be something we find as we build, but we've gone all around the outside to get our best knowledge that we can obtain at this time. Thank you. Looks beautiful. Thank you. Appreciate it. I have one last Oh, we gonna hear from our engineer King. Go ahead.

Good evening, mayor and council. I'm Jim Keane. I'm your city engineer. I just wanted to give you a quick refresher on the construction manager at risk process and where we're at, why we're using it, things of that nature. Um construction manager risk, also known as SEMAR, um is a procurement process that gets you the best value out of your project. It's not necessarily the lowest cost. You're looking for the best value, the best product at the end. um you reduce change orders and you eliminate claims is the big goals we get there by um having better team collaboration, hiring the uh Semar, the contractor early on in the process that gets them to give us pre-construction services. They'll be reviewing the plans as we're developing the plans. They'll be doing cost estimates so that we stay within budget, things of that nature, so we can shift and make changes as we need to as we're going along through the design and completing that. Like I said, it helps us manage and reduce our risk and then at the end we get to a guaranteed maximum price at the end of design and that's what we build the pool for. Um, currently in the process we've hired VCBO that was back in July when we were here last time. Um, VCBO has, as you can see, progressed the plans through schematic design to about 30%. Um, we've advertised a request for statement of qualifications for um, this construction manager at risk, the contractor that we're going to have on board. We received eight submitts. Um, we reviewed those and shortlisted to two firms interview, CORE and Whiting Turner. Um, the evaluation committee determined that CORE was the best firm to move forward with the project. So, we've already negotiated a scope of work and fee for those pre-construction services and CORE is under contract for that right now. and they're actually they've started reviewing these and preparing their first cost estimate. So, the next steps are to complete the design. Once we get done with design, we'll uh negotiate the guaranteed

maximum price and then we go ahead and we start construction um and hopefully build the project with no to minimal change orders and no claims. Um goal is to uh right now we're looking at completing design by late summer 2026. hopefully begin construction in the fall of 2026 and then like Julie said be ready to start swimming in late 27 early 28. And then to wrap up, like I said, utilizing Seymar is to get us the best final project product at the best value. Um, when we were here back in uh July to hire VCBO, I said the Semar process would give us the best bang for our buck. Um, but as I was getting ready for this presentation, I was like, that's not really what we want. We're building a pool. We want the best splash for our cash.

Oh, good tag life. Good tag life. And I think the team that we put together, VCBO, CORE, and our staff will get us that splash. So, with that, I'd like to introduce Mark Kobe with CORE, and he'll let you know who CORE is and what they bring to the team.

Boy, I'm not sure I can how I can follow up with that. Um but good evening um Mayor Hardy and council members. My name is Mark Hobikica. I'm the executive vice president of Core Construction here in Southern Nevada. Um and as Jim said, I just wanted to give you uh a brief uh understanding of who we are as a company and why we're so happy and proud to be part of this project. Um we if you know our name core, we've been here in Boulder City a long time. We actually rebuilt the high school over about 10 years. replaced and and rebuilt and uh modified everything there. So, we were out here in Boulders a long time. So, we know this pool and this location extremely well. Um I wanted to go through just a few things again about Core. Um we're a company that's been around for 89 years. Um but we've been here in Southern Nevada for 41 years and uh we've been we've been built on a culture of uh next slide you'll see team and trust. It's really all about putting together the right team. as Jim said, you know, with him and Gary and Julie and VCBO and us and our trade partners, that's the right team to put together. And we we want to earn that trust and build upon it and maintain it and really deliver you a sensational project. Our values in the middle there are really about integrity and fairness and always doing doing what's right even really when nobody's looking, giving you the best product and and continually improving and again giving you the results that that you deserve. And then the client decides the construction manager at risk process is all about collaboration and partnership and you the owner end user um your uh the citizens really they're part of that process and they should be able to make be part of every decision that's made not only in the design but also as we go ahead and build it and and you spend the money to build it. The next slide um just shows you who we are as a company. Um as I said we're 89 years old. We're in eight states, but we we focus in the west. And we've been in Arizona and um

Nevada and Idaho and California, but here in Las Vegas, I have about 75 employees that oversee that. We build public works projects. Um but we focus on um the public works Semar when it comes to education, public safety, civic, recreation. That's really our bread and butter where we where we do our best work. The next slide here um shows you our office here in in um in Southern Nevada. This is in Las Vegas. Um we're just up the road about half hour. Um and we built this building. This is actually a lead gold building that we built, designed, and built ourselves. Um next slide. Um as Jim said, um the Seymour process is is a great way to give you best value and best product and best quality of a of a of a facility. Um, and the Seymour process is something that we've been doing since it was allowed by statute back in 2008. And so from that time, we've built over 175 buildings using the construction management at risk. And we've probably worked for almost every agency in the state um from north to south and everywhere in between. I wanted to show you just a few projects that we've done when it's and how they're relevant to the Boulder City pool project. This is our most recent project. This was our uh Moana Springs Community Aquatic and Recreation Center up in um up north for the city of Reno. Um this one similar to yours. This one, the first pool was built in in 1905. So 125 years ago, we had to take out probably three or four pools to build this new pool. Um and it's a beautiful facility. Um has about 50,000 square feet. has um seven um 50 m lanes and 12 25 m lanes recreation of 3 m or 1 m dives um as an outdoor pool has a lazy river very very similar. Next project that I wanted to highlight was our

Centennial Hills Community Center. This is for the city of Las Vegas that we built um about 15 years ago. It's uh indoor and outdoor but it's a complete recreation center. It's 100,000 foot recreation center, but it has the indoor um lap pools, outdoor lap pools, zero entry, slides, splash pads, you name it. Um um for that facility, the next project was a um pool that we built up in Elely for White Pine County. Um very similar to to yours in just size and scope just because um this was about a 35,000t facility, all indoor. It had two pools, lap pools, recreation, climbing wall. Um, again, for a community that was in much need of a of a recreation pool right next to their high school. It's also very similar. And then, um, for Battle Mountain for, uh, Battle Mountain up in Lander County, we did another facility up there for it's very similar indoor pool, outdoor recreation, splashbed, soaking tub. Um, um, again, a nice uh, facility for community in need up there as well. And then um UNLV we re remodeled and rebuilt their Buchanan Natiatorum from inside out. Um and essentially um we created a state-of-the-art competition pool for them. Um at that facility there is eight um 50 lane um uh lap um for competition there. They have about 1,200 spectator seating for that one as well. If you're familiar with this one, it's a great facility. That's where have they hold all the competition for UNLV and their collegiate athletes. And then another project we did for city of Las Vegas. Uh this was an outdoor pool and the the kind of the center of Vegas uh for the Garside um area which is um really a seasonal pool. It's all outdoors but we replace the bath house, the locker room, showers and it has lap lap area, recreation slides, splash

pads, you name it but it is a seasonal pool. And I think the last one I want to show you is just really kind of iconic. This is on the north shore of of uh um the big lake up north, the lake. Yeah, thank you.

No, it's it's this is truly it's a spectacular view of um by Incline Village up on the Northshore. Um and we we essentially rebuilt this entire pool and the bath house and recreated a state-of-the-art facility for them. Again, it's a seasonal pool, but it's a beautiful facility. Again, I think I just want to show you some of the experience that we've done as a company and uh that I've done as well um in this leadership role, but we want to take all those experiences and lessons learned and expertise and work with the team here to really provide you and build you the best pool for for Boulder City. So, thank you. Thank you. Questions? Please stay.

Yes, sir. Your resume here is phenomenal. Could you share with us where you honed and perfected your skills um engineering maybe at a neighboring community?

Sure. So um let me start by saying that I'm I've been here in southern Nevada for 35 years. Um I've only been with Core Construction since 2018. Um, but for me personally, I was the city architect and assistant director of public works for city of Henderson for 17 years where I oversaw design, construction, and facilities maintenance and park maintenance for all that time I was there. So, I have a I have a lot of experience and I've t brought that to core to really um sit on your side of the table and understand what your needs are and try and um you know, understand the maintenance issues. when Pablo talked about, you know, making this facility um less maintenance and le and allow you to spend your money the right way, that's the way I always saw things as well. So, at Core, we're going to do that that same thing for you with that philosophy of really building a highquality facility, durable, that is low maintenance that your maintenance facilities folks, you know, have spend more time on other facilities and really this could be self-sufficient. So that's where I come from, but core construction, we have a lot of experience in the public works area and recreation facilities and pools as you've seen, but I think it was a good combination of all that.

Yeah, I absolutely agree. Um, and I think that coming from your background sitting on, you know, the side of public works and understanding what maintenance and operation costs are and the headaches and the the fact that there's not just an endless pot of money to to, you know, ma perform maintenance that we have to make it as absolutely operationally efficient as possible and and maintenance as a as a big consideration. And so I think you bring that also to the table with us and I think that's going to pay off for us in in great dividends. Um this is a question for whoever our city manager thinks it's for. I think the the $60,000 question is we talk about cost and value splash for our cash. Um, so the the question is, you know, the voters have approved up to $9 million from the voter approved capital improvement project on top of the money that we've been collecting from the takedowns of track 350 and and other funds. Where do we believe today? And, you know, nobody has the crystal ball that's going to tell us exactly where do we believe we're going to land in that in that world? I might have Julie comment that on as well, but I I would just say that I my understanding is that that 9 million up to 9 million is sort of a cushion. It's probably too early to tell um how far into that we will go, but we're we're glad that it's there in case we need it. But I think that's part of having core and Mr. Hovikica on board and working with our team to contain the costs as much as possible to provide a highquality facility uh but at the lowest cost possible

and it is right now a little bit too hard to tell exactly how far into that up to 9 million we'll be going but I will tell you that staff and our entire team is um looking for other means to possibly handle some of the expenses. For example, one of the things that that Pablo mentioned was the ninja set and we're going to reach out to local businesses to see if somebody might want to um provide name ownership and a monetary contribution for that particular amenity. We also have some other um um features that if we have enough money, we will move forward and if not, we can pull back. So throughout the entire process, the budget and um us making sure that we provide what's best for the community without stretching what the community trusted in us with that up to 9 million is definitely on our forefront. and we want to make sure that that that we honor our community in what we bring forward.

Excellently stated. Uh I think that that um that hits my sentiment. I I can't speak for the others, but I think it's important the community had the trust, right, to vote to approve that up to $9 million. And then our obligation is to not push it to the very limit of that and maybe ask for an extra one or two somewhere, but to keep it well within that range. Maybe only dip into it minimally if at all. And uh I I am grateful for the for what this does for our community. It isn't for council. It's not for staff. It's for everybody, young and old, in our community of all ages, varieties, capabilities. It's just really going to serve our community well. And I think it's this is going to be just an awesome um contribution to lovely and beautiful clean green Boulder City. So, thank you all. Thank you. Um, I just want to echo what he said and also say maybe this is a way we can fill our schools up, but uh, get them back up to full potential. But, um, I so appreciate the complete picture that you guys are working together to create and not just the picture of, oh, what are we going to build, but what's it going to look like for us as a city to operate it after? and um what's it going to look like for a community to use it and utilize it and hopefully for a very long time because we don't build it on top of the other pool in a way that wouldn't allow us to use it for a very long time. So, um I I just absolutely love that the littles can use it. And and maybe one of the benefits of having two different pools is I know that my grandson might or might not have dropped a little

something in the pool where he was swimming and and then you have to shut the pool down, that section of the pool down. So, two different pools maybe. Yeah. Well, I'm sorry, but it's a fact, right? It's it's a fact of pools. Um, and when you have those play areas and you have all those things. So, this is going to give uh people, like we just said, the chance to come do water aerobics. Quite a few more people. I've I've seen the list for that and that's pretty big. But I will also say this, on my way over here, I talked to um Julie about this. I passed the pool and it was packed. The um parking lot was packed. kids were coming out with parents um older individuals which were probably my age coming out having used the pool and um I was just happy. I was happy because I think this is a gathering place for Boulder City and our community and I think it represents us as a community. So, um I'm very looking forward to this process and echo the words that I love that you're being um financial stewards and using wisdom in how we utilize the funds that have been given and entrusted to us basically by our residents to produce something that will be lasting for them. So, thank you.

Thank you. I'd like to echo the same you guys. it it sounds like we've got a wonderful team working for us and my hat off to Julie and her team for hiring the people that are there uh because you've designed something that is just it blends in our community and we have somebody managing for us that's very skilled and so I really appreciate what the team has done in hiring this group of people to take care of it so it'll make us look good. I like that. But thank you so much.

Yeah. So the pool was a long time coming and expectations were high and I think so far you've above and beyond so forward looking looking so forward to being there. I just have a question. What is the flooring? What kind of material are you using on the flooring of the pool? The designer answer that. So there's two options. Um one is a far more expensive system. It's called a Oh, sorry. Starts with an M. An inspection.

Anyway, it's basically a rubber membrane that works like a bathtub would basically um it's far more expensive. Um the beauty of it is it lasts forever, but I don't think that's a um great um investment in your funds at this time. So, the um the pool itself will be a Shot Creek pool. Um, so we do put a finish on the bottom so it um has enough texture so people don't slip, but it also has to be um fine enough so that we're not ripping up people's feet or um injuring our younger kids when they, you know, get on their knees and play in the splash air. So, it's something we've been cognizant of. It's beautiful. Can't wait for the finished product. Thank you.

Thank you. Anything else? Appreciate the presentation. And I just wondering I'm going to ask Mark offline if he's got a swimming pool planned for Pine Valley, Utah, but I not going to ask him at this point. Uh, obviously this will be our current pool will be out of commission starting on what day?

I will tell you this, we are not putting the bubble back up in the fall. So, sometime in the fall. Um, this year the bubble went back up. I believe it was the beginning of October. So, I'm going to say early fall. We do not have a date as of yet. So, we'll be able to swim all summer long. Affirmative. Appreciate that. Thank you. If there are no other questions, thank you very much. Uh we will if we're finished on number nine, we'll take a recess and we'll come back uh and take up number 10 on the agenda

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or anywhere in the building. So, we have finished number nine. We'll go to number 10. Presentation by our city manager.

Good evening, Mayor Hardy and members of the council. I'm city manager Ned Thomas, and I'm here to present to you a quarterly update on the city's strategic plan. Um, by way of reminder to the public, the the council adopted the strategic the five-year strategic plan back in October of 2024. So, we're almost a year and a half into the plan, a little under that. Uh, this quarterly update update uh will highlight uh projects completed or work in progress on by various city departments over the past three months. So, it's a a relatively limited time frame in alignment with the seven strategic plan goals and the 39 strategies under each of those goals. And I'll I'll talk about that in just a moment. Um, again, by way of reminder to the public, these quarterly updates are not intended to uh provide a comprehensive overview of of all work um over the past year and a half, but it is a snapshot in time of progress being made over the past three months. And in your meeting packet, you'll have the staff report with an overview and background information on the city's 5-year strategic plan. Also, a copy of my PowerPoint presentation. And there's also a copy of the strategic implementation plan. It's organized by short, medium, and long-term strategies. And it's also colorcoded to indicate the status of each strategy. Uh yellow means in progress, green complete, and purple ongoing. We also have orange for on hold or or red for any strategies that are stopped, but we currently don't have any in those categories. So, everything is either in progress um complete or ongoing. I'll talk a little bit more in a minute about what it means to be complete. Um I'll also note that some of the items um include data that correspond to the council approves uh success factors and metrics. This is the third column in that table and those were just items to kind of track our

progress um what what are the measures that the council would like us to track uh for each of the strategies to show some of the progress that we're making. So at the end of the presentation I'll welcome any comments and questions. Um, and I would also note that there may be additional work that's in progress right now and but we we're either not far enough along or or we expect to to be completed. So, I'll report out on that on future quarterly updates on those projects or or when we have significant milestones that are reached. So, if we could go to the first slide, please. Um, just as a reminder, there are seven goals. Uh, these are the first three. The next slide we'll have the next four. So we talking about six strategies under really a a broad category recreation and tourism offerings. Um a second goal around prudent financial stewardship. Right now we're in the middle of the budget process. So there are a couple of strategies uh under this goal that pertain to that and then there are some other things related to longer term uh an analysis of longerterm strategies for financial uh stewardship and sustainability and we'll talk about a couple of those and then a third one on maintaining community character through the growth growth control ordinance. If we go to the next slide, the the other four goals then are revolve around historic preservation, dependable and reliable infrastructure. I'll I'll note on this one that some of the projects, for example, the pool project that we just looked at. That's a recreational amenity, so that could easily fit under goal one. It's it's dependable and reliable infrastructure. We we talk about it here, talk about that here tonight. But as you saw, a portion of that pool is ADA accessible. So it could easily, you know, we could touch upon that in and goal six as well. So I I just use that as one example of a a lot of these larger projects will um check

boxes underneath many of the goals as they're very broadly written. And then finally, a seventh goal around maintaining high levels of public safety. So if we go to the next slide, please. Oh, I also uh we also included this just a little graphic um just to demonstrate general progress being made to date toward implementation of the again the 39 strategic plan strategies. And I'll I'll touch upon the strategies, but we wanted to give an idea and you you'll see uh many of the strategies that were that we work on every they're just ongoing the ongoing work of the city or uh things like the budget process. you know, it's something that's not really completed, but it's ongoing year after year during the five years of the strategic plan, but there are several of the short-term strategies that we've identified as being complete. And I'll just mention there that being complete, I I might add a word there, substantially complete. So, uh, for if take a snapshot, you can say, oh, yes, we've completed that project. But many of these and um well I'll jump into it on goal one in just a minute. But it you know it's showing green on the table and it's showing it's complete and we could say yes it is complete but is the work done? Not really. So we could call it ongoing but um it it it it's substantially complete. So we wanted to at least show the progress that's being made on some of these shorter term goals and then medium-term. Then there's some longer ones that we're currently working on. Uh the pool is a is under listed under here as a long-term project or long-term strategy, but um we and at some point we'll show some progress on that one as well. I won't belabor that point too much. If we could go to the next slide, please. So we'll start with goal one, which is again maintaining highquality recreation and tourism offerings for residents and visitors. Um I will mention here that um I'm going to just talk a little bit. We we've identified a couple of things here. Um

again, not a comprehensive overview, some things to highlight. So, you you may have heard during the presentation tonight from the school district that uh our deputy city manager and I believe he has um Julie working with you on that, Michael, with the school district. I think on the Lisa

and Lisa, yes, and Lisa, excuse me. Uh working with them to promote this idea of open enrollment. Again, you heard tonight that our school population is declining and and uh because the Clark County School District has an open enrollment policy. We're promoting both the safety of the community as well as the amenities in the community and the quality of the education and the opportun that um I know tonight it was mentioned about uh out of the classroom in the sports field and some of the opportunities that are available there. So promoting that use having the city collaborate with the school district on promoting uh enrollment in this idea of open enrollment and coming to Boulder City and some of the benefits of doing that. And then uh strategy three uh increasing knowledge about our city assets and amenities. Uh we'll be coming back in April with a report from Julie. Our parks and director has been working with a citizens group at council's direction to identify alternatives to off leash dog recreation uh in veterans park specifically at Prattfield. and they've met a couple of times and and they've had good success in coming up with some recommendations or proposals for the council to consider. So, um an idea under that I'm going to look at a couple of other things here too um that caught my mind. So, uh one of the short-term strategies has to do with u expanding affordable, accessible, diverse recreational offerings, especially those that serve youth. And I noticed that um you know these quarterly reports are generated. We'll we'll send out a a call for input on the table from the different department directors and they'll put in some of the things that they they or their staff have been working on. I I noticed you know it's a small thing but Julie um our parks and uh Callaway our parks and recck director noted that they've offered a new class in 3D printing for for youth specifically ages 8 to 12 and that's kind of an interesting thing. and then

also offered a new pool class. It's a adult swim for fitness. But again, this is this is one of those I it's a good example of it showing as complete because we're we're we have we're continually or or have offered and and have met the action steps that are listed here, but we we don't want to say, you know, rest on our laurels and say, well, we're never going to do this, you know, again for the next four years. We will continue to add things here as they as they come up. Um let's see just one last thing on a couple of other things on this um under this goal. Uh the MUN the MUN golf course turf reduction water conservation program began in January. Again that fits under a strategy for recreational uh offerings u to continue to support plan for and manage Boulder City's physical recreation assets and amenities. And the golf course is one of those recreational assets and amenities is and you know so we have this u one one-time project uh that is a a big ticket project but we're doing that as a capital improvement program where we um improve um the water conservation but also the the management of the golf course by replacing the in this case the irrigation system which has reached its useful life. Um couple of other things on here. pickle ball courts uh recently underwent warranty repairs. So, you might have noticed, it was brought to my attention that they were closed for a few days and that's they were in there doing some repairs that were under the warranty. And also, um I know it's been of interest to the council that uh staff is acquiring bids for the court lighting at the both the pickle ball courts and the basketball courts and that that's ongoing. So again shown in yellow on the table here uh because it's an ongoing project and when we complete that we'll be back in a future update to talk about how that was done. Um and then of course uh in two

words we could fulfill this great goal the the u pro or the uh uh the pres presentation that you just received which is a long-term goal of you know initiate and complete construction of the community swimming pool which is strategy 1.4 for under this goal. And as you saw, we're we're well underway on that project with the selection of both the design team and now the Seymar and and we're looking forward to construction beginning later this year. So, we'll go to um our next item. Oh, sorry. I I already covered these, but yeah, the selection of the pool and then Oh, no. Yeah, back to the next the next one. Yeah, covered the pool. Oh, I should mention too, um under this one, the these are tourism offerings. I I would be remiss if I didn't mention strategy six where promoting Boulder City as a destination for tourism. We had a very successful program in December, well November and December with the Boulder City passport program. Uh the passport program itself was a lot of fun, but the the working with our communications manager uh uh Lisa Lelant and developing an ad campaign um I think it was noted on here the broadcast ads reached 380,000 views and then we passed out over 400 passports. Couple other things we we had some uh we had a spend on some digital billboards. there were 40,000 plus displays and then online and targeted email, you know, over 200,000 views and over 50,000 views on social media. So again, easily fulfilling the strategy here of promoting Boulder City as a destination for tourism, but also the strategy there of developing and funding targeted communication campaigns, publicizing, well, this has recreational, but publicizing Boulder City as a as a destination. All right. And then we'll go to the next one. Our next goal number three

and the next in the next slide after that one and the next one after that. There we go. So our goal number sorry it it the number isn't on there but the it is goal three or it's goal two. Excuse me. I'm I'm getting ahead of myself. Uh yeah. Yeah. So goal number two I mentioned uh here you know one of one of the strategies 2.2 is to conduct the annual budgeting processes with a focus on accuracy and budgeting and forecasting and fiscal sustainability and presenting a balanced budget to the city council. So we did that last year. This is marked as a one that's completed but we'll do this each year of the five-year strategic plan. Um, and I would note again that we some of the things that are noted on there, well, it's on the next page. It's under strategy is increasing fiscal and budgetary transparency. So, we're in the budget process. We will have a community budget workshop is scheduled for April the 1st and then we will have a city council budget workshop scheduled on April, I believe it's scheduled on April 21st, as well as individual briefings with the council members prior to that meeting. In addition, the finance department, as noted here, continues to uh this is the second one under strategy 4. They've uh put out eight different budget reports. Those are available online. They've also have a digital budget book and a lot of off um a lot of other offerings uh related to the budget on the city's website. Now the first item here is that this is a longer term goal under excuse me a longerterm strategy under this goal but it's to diversify revenue streams for long-term financial sustainability. So obviously this is a longer term goal and we do have the finance department working on a number of uh items that would um bring additional revenue or diversify the

revenue for the city. Um the one that I would uh that I found interesting is um they're evaluating potential uh opportunities for additional revenue generation through the land leases fee adjustments and investments. And the example is that there are lands that are west of it's Copper Mountain Solar 3 project. So it's on the west side of up against the mountain. So those areas were deemed um uh unsuitable I say inappropriate but not inappropriate unsuitable for solar generation due to the shadows that are cast by the hills in the in the late afternoon. However, they may be ideal for battery storage and since battery storage has now uh is is something that the city is doing there's an opportunity for us to look into that. So some of the analysis um as one example some of the analysis that the finance department is looking at is well what would the battery storage how much space is there available and how much battery storage might fit there an estimate and what what revenue would it generate for the city and that that revenue would uh for battery storage is very interesting because it's not just the land lease which is a significant item but also uh in working with our city attorney we've identified other types of fees such as a capacity storage fee for their batteries as well as a potential public safety searchcharge that could be uh levied onto those types of developments. So again fitting under this idea of diversifying revenue streams for long term financial sustainability of the city. Um a couple of other things under this one and then I'll move on. Oh, I found this really interesting. The public works department is currently evaluating the future implementation of a what's called a telematics program. And this is my understanding this is a device that goes on city uh vehicles and we've we've initiated a pilot project and it will measure it will show where the car is going where it's been when it's idling how it's being how fast it's being driven so it will give you a lot of data

uh to protect that asset you know the mobile assets of the city for the vehicles and I think that again that will be one that I'll report on probably in a future meeting but it it was listed here and I I found that Um interesting. Uh a couple of other things just to touch upon here talked about the I guess that was everything we touched upon the the the budget book and the digital online book. So we'll go to the next slide. So the the next goal goal three is maintaining community character for the growth and control ordinance. This is one that's kind of interesting under the short-term strategies. This is one that's in progress. It will it talks about streamlining the business licensing services and associated processes. So you will see up here that we've uh we following the success factors and metrics identified in the strategic plan, we've identified two or three things where you can maybe draw an inference of whether I I don't know if it's a it's a direct indication of streamlining the business licensing services, but we're using it as a measure of success in this area um or at least increased activity. So between 20 23 and 25 you see here a substantial increase in new applications processed and then this idea there's both contractor licenses and the uh business licenses and uh seeing this bullet point you might say well why does it take so long to you know process a business license. Well they will come in and make the application but then my understanding is that there are certain inspections that are involved. Sometimes it involves a fire inspection. Sometimes it involves a, you know, a sa building safety inspection. So, it does take a little longer time, but that's one area where where we can work to shrink that down as much as possible. Um, uh, I think that having our full-time building

official on board and all reports that I'm receiving is that that's worked out very well because he's very both business friendly but customer friendly. And so, um, that's one area. And then as he works together with we we still have our contract uh inspector on board if there's ever a time when there's an overlapping uh inspections. And in the past where you only had one part-time inspector, it made it difficult for them to get around on in a timely manner. But now we have a little bit more capacity to do that more quickly. And then working with the fire inspector as well. Let me see if there was anything else on this one in particular. Oh yes. Um under the medium-term we had a strategy uh audit and as needed amend current codes and policies to reduce barriers to commercial development. I I might take out the commercial to say policies to reduce barriers to development. But um so we are I believe the RFP is cir Oh no. We've received uh responses to an RFP that went out for an update to the zoning ordinance and you know an update to a zoning ordinance is a very large project kind of once maybe every 20 30 years you might I don't know how old our current ordinances but it it is it is woefully outdated and uh give lots of examples of that but having an updated ordinance that's very clear and userfriendly for both the business community as well as developers will will go a long way toward um meeting this particular strategy. On a smaller sense, the public works department recently worked on an updated encroachment permit. This will be very businessfriendly in the downtown, for example. Because what the encroachment permit does is allows those business owners who want to put tables in front of their cafes, for example. It gives them very clear rules and a very clear process for how they would go about uh

doing that and then who's responsible for up up um upkeep and the the maintaining the accessibility and those sorts of things. So whereas in the past it might have been a little ambiguous, now it's it's much more clear. So that just again one example of meeting that goal and that strategy. And then if we could go to the next slide. Uh historic preservation. I'll just touch really quickly upon this. Back in February, the city held a very successful uh historic preservation popup event. Uh more than 7,000 saw the information in the weeks leading up to the event and uh over 30 residents attended the event. And we had, I believe tonight on the agenda on one of the consent items was a grant, a historic preservation grant to a couple who will be um making upgrades to their home, historic home. So again, and they found out about that through one of our historic preservation events. So just an example, just one, but an example of a a success and why we we like to do those events. And we I know the question came up in our briefings and we will be looking at doing event similar events um in the future and and oh yes and then other things that we've done is having u our communications team puts out a publication the BC insider we've u number 16 focused on historic preservation and things related and then uh just last month we had a a film crew here. I think it was on a Saturday and they highlighted historic preservation. They were camped out here at the the park at Wilbur Square right on the corner by the big turbine. And uh among other aspects of Boulder City Life, they talked a lot about historic preservation because there they were right in the heart of our historic district and what a unique aspect that is for our city in

comparison to a lot of the other uh communities in southern Nevada. So the next slide then we get into our next one which is a very big goal on dependable and reliable infra infrastructure. Um earlier today we had an event here in the chambers with our congresswoman Dena Titus where the utilities department received a $1 million EPA grant for upgrades to our wastewater treatment system. uh a really great opportunity for the city and in the comments that were made there indications that well this is might be phase one or the first step and there there may be other uh money that's available. So again under our strategic plan uh it gives us guidance as to h how we will use those funds and where we will go with that. A couple of other things under this um goal. We we are oh as noted up here in addition to the the grant and I I sent out earlier or uh the city manager office may have sent out earlier today an indication of how much in uh reimbursements that the city has processed from RTC since July of 2023. It totals a little over $15 million. It's a substantial amount in re reimbursements from the RTC and we're very thank Oh

is it back back on? But okay, there we go. So say 15 billion or 15 million

million. 15 I'll give you the 15 million. He's got it down to the dollars and cents. So 15,338,44848 in reimbursements and that all go that has all gone toward uh upgrades to our roads and streets. In addition to that, I don't have the amount, but we've received um a a fair amount also from the regional flood control district as well. So we will continue to track that. Again, um under this strategy, some of the success factors are annual investments in infrastructure and the diversity in the funding sources. So, we'll track that uh as well. That was noted here. Oh, and just uh you know, looking for comparison, uh last year at this time that the public works department had uh processed 2 million in reimbursements and this year we're up to 1 million. So, and then a couple of other things longer term. Um public works department just right outside the window here. We're we're doing the large project in the parking lot to make it more ADA uh friendly. Um and we have a lot of other projects that are waiting in the wings. Um both related to accessibility and water conservation in our parks. And certainly you I mentioned the replacement of the sprinklers at uh the irrigation the entire irrigation system at the m municipal golf course. And we will um right now Wilbur Square also has a fence route because we will be replacing the irrigation system there as well. And th those upgrades will improve not only water efficiency but also the manageability of those assets. So, for example, when it's cloudy weather or it's uh rainy weather, then it I think remotely they'll be able to turn the air, you know, the irrigation will either automatically go on or off or they'll be able to manage it manage it a lot more easily. And we do continue to work I always have to put a plug in for our ADA access group. We uh continue to

work with them uh meet with them on a quarterly basis and are uh working to identify and report out to them on all the various ADA projects that we're that we're working on. Uh last thing is one of not the least of which is um the public works department is now advertising they have an RFQ circulating for what's called the ADA transition plan and that will identify uh a number of um different projects uh as the for the city work oh re requests for qualifications so like an RFP but in this case not a specific project but just qualifications for firms that might be able to help with that type of a of a project.

Thank you. So the next slide please. We'll move on to goal six which is health and accessibility. I just uh oh let me I was going to well we'll talk on this one. I'm sorry I'm going on and on but there there's a lot to talk about under this uh particular goal. So, um, all of the water server replacements, my understanding is this refers to a pilot project that we have where we're replacing some of the water meters with what's called an AMI. There's AMI and AMR reader. And I'm sorry, I don't know what those acronyms stand for, but they're they're to re you're sorry, our utilities department will be able to read those meters remotely rather than having the meter reader go and and look at it. So it's a much more efficient way to uh provide the water and monitor the water service. Um we have various turf um we have the swimming pool project all these things we are the turf the golf course turf reduction project and then other smaller projects it's mentioning here the Nevada way reconstruction we'll have phase two where there's some additional work that needs to be done including the decorative crosswalks. There's some additional work on Colorado and then up on Park Street. And then of course ongoing work uh with our electrical utility. So we go to the next slide, please. We have here uh again I've uh talked about accessibility a little bit already. Um it's very interesting some of those funding from the RTC. Some of that 200,000 of that has been programmed for ADA and safety improvements that will be completed throughout this year and I'll report on specific projects in in future quarterly updates. Um we have the ongoing ADA access improvements in

city hall. We're working on the parking lot now. I'm I'm assured that it will be done by this Saturday because we have Shakespeare in the park coming at the the gazebo. So it has to be done. They were there uh putting in the sidewalk. They're they're moving very quickly. And then they're also going to replace the bridge out here at some point uh so that it's uh the way it's designed now is not exactly ADA fully ADA uh friendly. And then I mentioned our regular meetings. So if we could go to the next slide, please. And then this is our uh seventh and and final goal on maintaining high levels of public safety. Uh at our last meeting two weeks ago, uh Fire Chief Morgan provided a very detailed report on um the community risk assessment as well as needs within the fire department in terms of staffing and equipment and facilities and and training and cost benefit analysis. And we'll we'll be bringing back some of based on some of that and part of the budget process, we'll be bringing that back to the council for further discussion. Let me look just really quickly to see Oh. Um, Chief I met with Chief Morgan yesterday. He mentioned to me they will be traveling to, I believe it was Minnesota, Wisconsin, one of those cold places, uh, to, u provide some input on the new fire engine that has been ordered by the city. They has a very long lead time. I don't think we'll actually receive the fire engine until 2028, but um, that's moving along. And then there's various improvements over at the fire station, u bathroom renovations and other things that have been completed. The emergency um there's a storage building for our emergency supplies that's just south of the fire station and that's been completed and they're they're working on filling that up and getting shelving and other things in and then developing plans for an an administration training building. So, a lot of future things to come there that I can report on in

future uh strategic plan updates as well. And I believe there's also an assessment. Um the police department has been working with the consultant on an assessment of their facilities and looking at three different options. I believe that's coming back to the council for discussion and consideration uh either in April or May. So, again, more more things to report on in the future. Little preview of coming attractions, but I'll I'll end there. Um again just a snapshot of some of the work that the the various projects and aspects of the strategic plan that staff has been working on various departments over the past three months and we do appreciate your uh continued support with the work we're doing and direction. So, if we get a new fire station at some point, we have to put a fire engine in it. And that won't we don't have a fire engine coming until 2028 or

it it'll be an additional fire uh truck to the ones that we have now. Um so, okay. I just trying to do the math questions, comments. If I might, I'll yield to my fellow council members. You go ahead, Miss Booth.

I just wanted to say one of the things that I read in here, it's expand recreation with the focus on youth. And I think we really showed tonight how that's being done with our swimming pool, pickle ball courts, uh moving playground equipment around so the kids still get to have that and even being able to walk your dogs and working on projects like that. So I I think for Boulder City, we love our recreation and I think uh really shows how well we're doing in that area. So thank you and great presentation. Thank you,

Steve. Thank you. Um I just wanted to give a shout out to Julie. She's gone, but um the community group meeting with the um the residents for the dog leash went a long way. They were happy with that briefing and just that outreach is always good and I just want to give her kudos for that as well as the um February popup for um Mr. for um the historic district and they obviously are looking for more meetings down the road and you said that you know maybe bianually something like that but you will be uh reaching out to the community again with that um the Nevada way reconstruction phase two um I know we had said when whatever trees are taken away you going to replace is that a later phase

just for not sure they will replace those I um I I don't know if those trees will all be planted on Nevada Way, but they may be planted elsewhere in the community, but they will be Yeah, they will be be replaced more than what was removed.

And I I was just wondering what phase that would be. And I imagine that would be the end that would be the last phase of that reconstruction. And then um I had mentioned it in our briefing that um Councilwoman Jorgensson had said it would be nice if we got a list of grants. I mean, a lot of money comes into Boulder City and it would be kind of nice for the residents to see just how much people think on the outside of, you know, especially today's gift. Um, all that adds up to those who, you know, think we spent too much money or whatever. A lot of it's coming from grants and it would be kind of nice to see that a list of grants. And um the last one I had was uh again happy to see that the accessibility working group is going forward and like you said we could just look out the window and see how that's coming. So I know that they're happy with that as well. So thank you.

Thank you mayor. Thank you for that report. You had mentioned, I think earlier today with uh Congresswoman Titus, that you're reaching just about to your one-year mark. Yes.

Right. Uh here with the city and I think we all would say we've achieved a goal in keeping a city manager for one year at least and counting. So yeah. Um, and and it's it's no small lift really to to come into a city as the city as the exe the chief executive officer of the city and to learn all that there is. And so, um, you know, props to you

and to our staff, right, and to our deputy city manager who has helped, uh, you know, bring you up to speed on so many things, all our department heads, all our employees. I think there was a state of the city a while ago, something like together we serve. I don't know. there were hats involved but really it is a team effort and I'd like to just take a step back for perspective for all of us though the first strategic plan that the iteration that we're working from was from 2015 right and I I've said this I believe it wholeheartedly no matter where we find ourselves in our endeavors we can't help but stand on the shoulders of others that went before and we are doing that now. And so kudos to those who worked hard to develop the strategic plan versions that we're kind of building from today. And here we are 11 years on. And while it seems like a little bit of time, a lot of water is, you know, crossed under that that bridge, so to speak. Um, and as I mentioned to our Clark County School District folks, if we know the process is good, the results have the potential to be good.

And so, let me just reiterate, uh, the strategic plan is built from the mission and the vision for our community. The mission being to deliver outstanding services to enhance the quality of life within our community and our economic vitality and the safety of those who reside, work in, visit or travel through the community. And our vision is committed to preserving our small town status with small town charm, historical heritage, unique identity, and proactively addressing our needs and enhancing our quality of life. And and that's what our strategic plan takes us to. It's not just a plan with these goals popped out of, you know, the the metaverse, so to speak, but that we really have a purpose of where we're going. And these are very very focused and specific and measurable and and so this report as we have requested you know maybe a few more updates instead of annually just kind of see what we did or didn't do but really to purposefully work towards these goals and to meet the mission and vision of our amazing community. and it was developed with community input and the updates have community input and as we go we've had workshops receive information from our residents and we know what our mandate is going forward and and so this strategic plan is so crucial to us to actually accomplish these mission and vision that we have for the community. Um I won't go into specifics here other than I believe in the process. I believe in our goals, our strategies, our our data that we're measuring. And if anybody were to say we have an agenda, this is it. The mission and vision for

Boulder City as carried out through our strategic plan. And um thank you for your efforts and to all our staff who are helping bring this about. And mayor, that's all I have to say. I waited to be last this time so that I wouldn't have to say everything because it will already be said. I can count on my council um persons up here and and the mayor probably. I'm not the last. Um he'll be next, but many hats um uh that are have been worn to make this go together. This is my going into my fifth year being here. So I saw the last strategic plan near the end of it, this one at the beginning and the development of it. And a wise person once told me that if you shoot for the moon at least you'll make the stars, but if you never shoot for the moon, you'll stay on Earth. And I think about that even with this is you have to have a goal to be able to progress. And and we have so many people who work here in the city and they each have an important role. We have finance, public works, park and recck. They each cover a portion of life for this community that is important to them. And to make it all work, they have to have this plan to be able to know the direction for which they're going. And I'm so appreciative of measurable outcomes before us today. And the idea for the community to be able to see exactly what it is you're doing up here in this building or or out in other buildings in the community where um these employees and individuals reside and or take care of. There's a lot going on here and for a community our size, you're getting a lot of splash for your cash or bang for your buck, whatever you want to call it. You you're getting it and you're getting a lot of

hard work um behind the scenes. So thank you and thank you for this presentation.

Thank you. Well done. Appreciate it. Thank you all recognizing and recognizing your role in this process. We we appreciate I appreciate all of you and what you've done and how you do it. So thank you and thank you. That brings us to 11. Bill number 11, an introduction of bill number 2094. Is there a motion to introduce bill number 2094 and wave the reading except for title? I'll make the motion to introduce bill 2094 and wave the reading except for the title.

Thank you.

Thank you. Bill number 2094, an ordinance of the city of Boulder City, Nevada, repealing ordinance607, approving agreement number 98A534F to instead approve by resolution agreement number 98A534G, an amended and restated franchise agreement between the city of Boulder City and Waste Logistics Nevada Incorporated, DBA, Boulder City Disposal, to delete dup duplic applicative language and provisions, establish charges to the city of Boulder City for trash pickup service in city parks, modify certain financial requirements, increase the number of annual employee holidays, and address other operational matters. This matter will be considered at the March 24th, 2026 city council meeting.

Thank you. That brings us number 12. Need a introduction motion for bill number 2095 and wave the reading except for title. I'll move to introduce bill number 2095. Wave the reading except for title.

Thank you. Bill number 2095, an ordinance of the city of Boulder City, Nevada, amending Boulder City Municipal Code, Title 5, Building Regulations. Chapter 1, Building and Safety Division Administrative Code. Chapter 2, Building Code. Chapter 3, electrical code. Chapter 4, plumbing code. Chapter 5, mechanical code. Chapter 6, swimming pool code. And chapter 9, energy conservation code to adopt the most current building codes and the 2026 building and safety division administrative code. This matter will be considered at the March 24th, 2026 council meeting.

Thank you. And that brings us to item number 13, selection of appointment of two members and two alternates to Clark County 911 Emergency Response Advisory Committee. Madame City Clerk,

thank you. This um is a Clark County has established a 911 emergency response advisory committee pursuant to NRS244A 7645. The committee will oversee planning and recommend expenditure of 911 searchcharge revenues. Boulder City is required to appoint two members and two alternate members. One member must be the police chief and one member must be the chief law enforcement officer of the municipal code marshall division. So I would request that you appoint um police chief Timothy Sheay as the committee member, deputy police chief Aaron Johnson as the alternate and then appoint Chief Marshall Joe Guerrero as the committee member and Marshall Jack Broadbent as the alternate.

Thank you. Is there a motion to do such? I move to appoint Chief Sheay as committee member and Chief Johnson as his alternate and Chief Marshall Guerrero and as alternate uh Marshall Jack Broad. Is there a second? I'll second that. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Thank you. Unanimous. That allows us then to go to city council public city manager.

Yeah, I've got two reports. The first one's the city manager uh pay claims paid report. There's nothing unusual in the report. And number 15 and same for the financial report.

Thank you. That brings us to public comment. Anybody uh here in chambers like to come up in public comment, you have up to three minutes or on the telephone. 7025899629. We will wait a little moment. 7025899629. Anybody on the phone line? Anyone in chambers? 7025899629. No one on the phone. No one in chambers. We will close public comment and we will go to city council's report. I will start with Councilman Walton.

Thank you, Mayor. As far as the uh Southern Nevada Water Authority, there still is no agreement among the Colorado River Basin states. Deadlines come and deadlines go. Um and so they're still working. Uh which is the good thing. Um there's a glimmer of hope with the Southern California um preserving Colorado River flow through the production of potable water through a recently um uh activated delo county. It's it's operating at about half uh production right now. We'll see where that goes. I know all of the river u basin states are interested in that endeavor uh from California to preserve water. We'll see where that goes. Um the convention authority uh recent conventions and events have ranged from international rugby tournaments to fashion conventions to a very niche market of Bondi card games. Didn't even know what that was till I heard it today. If you're interested, look it up. To uh Con Expo and and A Expo, which is the largest construction industry expo in the world, happens every 3 years in uh Las Vegas. And while the uh LBCVA staff are working diligently to draw visitors during these uncertain times, uh the fact remains that room occupancy is lower than normal, unfortunately. Um and with room occupancy there is a certain benefit that Boulder City reserve uh receives from tourism dollars spent here. Um but and so that's a little bit down but at the same time during 2025 uh Clark County has grown to um uh close to 1.4% or roughly a thousand a 100,000 people. So the community has grown tourism down a little bit. What

does that mean? The uh consolidated tax which is um less funded by visitation and more funded by residents. Um hopefully, you know, we don't know exactly how that offset will be, but we're hopeful that at least with that increase in population, maybe the sea tax will remain steady if uh nothing else uh for 2026. and my did you know segment in 2025 visitation to Las Vegas uh from the western United States. So take the continental divide there, the the Rocky Mountains and come westward. Those states accounted for 58% of visitor origination to Las Vegas. Interesting. and 12% of our visitation origination is from international destinations. Predominantly those two sources are Canada and Mexico and then the rest of the um percentages made up from other places. So that's an interesting fact. And um had the opportunity with council member Ashhurst to attend the Boulder City Little League opening ceremonies this past Saturday. It was great to see the youth out in record numbers actually uh for our Boulder City Little League. Great coaches, great parents, great sponsors. Really, um an event charged with excitement and anticipation for a new season. Our parks and wreck activities and sports are gearing up and uh lots going on for our youth and really um I've appreciated seeing that fire up so to speak. So, thank you, Mayor.

Thank you. Thank you. So, uh, my debt management committee meeting was vacated and so I had no other committees for this time, but I did want to say how nice it was tonight to hear a little voice saying the pledge of allegiance along with us. We don't often get little voices in here. And um, it was so nice and for me to be able to see them using their ability for drawing. We a lot of times get athletes in here or different things to celebrate state. And so this was another wonderful venue for us to be able to bring the younger um population in our community in and celebrate them for the things that they contribute in our community. I want to say thank you um because we had um I just don't even know associate superintendent what uh Roberson

is it. Yeah. Um, is he an associate or or superintendent region three? This is terrible. Um, I know his name though. I know his name.

Yeah. So, here it made me really think of what an intricral part the people um in our community play with helping our children become the best people they can become to go out into the world and help make it a better place. I think of just the crossing guards that I see every morning and how appreciative I am that they get up and they help our kids to be able to be safe. I think of the parents who go in and volunteer and participate and bring their kids and make sure they're there on time and help them with their homework and help them um get their helmets on as they ride to school. Um I'm appreciative for them, the teachers who spend countless hours. I was the teacher. Your job doesn't end when you go home. You sit at home. you're correcting homework, you're doing all sorts of different things and you might even be doing bulletin boards at 6:30 when you arrive early. There's a lot that goes into teaching and um it is a passion project actually and and I thank those teachers here who are putting that kind of passion into our youth. Um, I want to thank our community and well the administrators and for the good work that they're doing and then also the community for their contribution of time and money that's invaluable when it comes to our schools in helping them to be successful and I hope that um we'll continue to see that in the future. So, just a little shout out to a portion of our community we always don't don't always get to see in here.

Thank you. Appreciate it. I just wanted to say I feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world living in Boulder City and I just want to wish everyone a happy St. Patty's and that's all I have. Mayor, happy St. Patty's. Oh, St. Patty's Day. St. Patrick's Day.

St. Patrick's Day. So, um, yeah, I don't get to sit on too many boards, but we did have a meeting today with our, uh, civilian military council executive committee and, uh, we took care a little bit of housekeeping. Um, the main thing was, uh, prior to CO, it was a really, really large group and it's kind of really narrowed down. So, our focus is to grow the group again. Um, you know, the the military and the community are bonded. um we surround the military basically with all the um North Las Vegas, Vegas, Henderson, and Boulder City and we have a lot in common and we share a lot. So that's our goal to try and get more outreach to the communities, not just to the military, but vice versa. They want to uh come out in the communities and do things with us. So, we also focus on the 250th year um that our country is about to have a birthday and um we were talking about going to each other's events and kind of promoting the CMC through those events and just coming together and do things. Everybody there loves Boulder City and we are the chair this year. So, um uh Bridget, Tammy and I have the opportunity to showcase Boulder City and what we do. So, that was really neat. We also talked about uh military widows and I shared a little bit about this last council meeting. Um I had a handout and and uh it'll be in the package so people could see it online. But there's a lot of money out there from this DIC program. It was a program that was put together for Vietnam vets who paid into a system. Their wives never got the money. Dina Titus once again with Donald Trump uh his first um session got together and approved this. So, there's a lot of money out there for military widows or military spouses and um look

online. Uh that flyer will be out there and just contact the person on there. She lives her life to make sure that military widows and spouses are taken care of. So, that was something else that we talked about. I did enjoy the little league. Steve didn't say it, but he threw out the first pitch. I was jealous. So cool. He threw a good pitch and the kid dropped it and they gave him a hard time after that, but it was fun. Um, congratulations obviously to the I voter sticker winners tonight. It's always great to see the kids out. Uh, and me too when I heard them say the pledge of allegiance and it just made our hall feel really full and everybody knew all the words which is good, right? So, they're learning something. But um I just want to give a shout out to um all those little ones. They're our future. This is you know they will be sitting up here one day and we uh everything we do is an example for them and they loved being here. So I I was really glad to be a part of that today. I do want to end with uh praying for our troops and Americans abroad. Um we are in a conflict and that's never easy. Um, when I grew up, it seemed like the world stopped when we were in a conflict now and everybody kind of goes about their daily things and we got a war going overseas. But I never want to forget our troops because uh that's why we do what we do because freedom is not free and they are there keeping that tradition going right now. So before you close your eyes tonight, just lift them up and always our fire department and our police department because they do that as well every day. leave their homes to come and protect ours. I just want to thank my fellow council and uh mayor and the staff. I, you know, I wanted to say when Ned was up there, I just love our monthly meetings. We go on for hours just talking. We're friends. We're not only just co-workers, we're friends. And

that's what you got to love about Boulder City. So, thank you to everyone in this room. I appreciate it.

Thank you. Speaking of good news, the hospital association in companion with city of Boulder City sponsored uh and got the cashman good government award from the Nevada Taxpayer Association with our partnership with uh the social worker that works with us and tries to find and finds uh ways to help people and we appreciated that award. uh the city manager uh uh was there and the assistant city manager depending on how many different titles he has that uh it's it's a great place uh for us to interface with so many other people in the state and uh let them know that Boulder City is still in existence. Uh great place, good people in this state and pleasure to serve. I will warn you that the Southern Nevada Health District is starting to spray for mosquitoes already, so don't get bit. Uh, with that, meeting Journ. Thank you.