Remarks by Kara Kelley
13 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
- Play at 18:10
“Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to invite Joyce and Steve Haldeman to come up with me. Steve, apparently... Apparently, Joyce didn't tell you that you were coming up, Steve, but here you are.”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
- Play at 18:31
“All right. Today, I have the extraordinary privilege of honoring someone who has been part of civic life of this community for so long, it is difficult to know where to begin. Fortunately, Joyce Halderman's children have offered some assistance. And they have provided what I would like to describe as the unauthorized biography of their mother. According to them, Joyce showed signs of her future career unusually early. Apparently while other babies were learning to crawl, Joyce was making her way toward a typewriter to prepare meeting agendas and grant proposals. They have also made certain…”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
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“I want to invite her children, Nate and Amy, Josh and Renee, and Jimmy to join us up here, as well as niece Michelle, her husband Huck, and siblings Paul, the best brother, Paul Rogers, and Mindy.”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. We had a neighborhood town meeting, which I really, really enjoyed, at the Sahara West Library. And we did it in association with our neighborhood services. What a wonderful team neighborhood services is. It was so lovely to share conversations with our residents, answer their questions, hear their concerns. And in addition to neighborhood services, we had representation from public works and human resources. ready to answer any questions that residents had and share information about the resources available through the city of Las Vegas. I'm pleased to say that the event…”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
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“I'm going to invite Kristin Pohl and her wife, Debbie, to come up and stand with me, please, as I read some comments. Thank you. It's my birthday. I'm going to read into, just lean into the whole needing to read with glasses. We all remember the teacher who changed something for us, the one who opened a door or awakened a curiosity, or saw something in us before we could see it for ourselves. The truly fortunate students, many of whom are here today, have a teacher like Kristen Pohl. I first met Kris in 1996, long before she became a teacher, when I hired her, which she loves to remind people…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Chris also understands that education is not simply knowing about more. It's about becoming more. Her friendship with Holocaust survivor Ben Lesser strengthened her commitment to Holocaust education, human rights, and his message of resilience, tolerance, and hope. And I want to thank Ben's daughter Gail for being here to support Chris. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“In her 20th year of teaching, Chris fulfilled a lifelong vision by creating a global diplomacy and genocide studies course. Through that course, students confront some of humanity's darkest chapters while developing empathy, critical thinking, civic responsibility, and respect for human dignity. And it's important to understand that no one asked Chris. to teach this class. She was not sought out to teach it. What Chris did is create it, and then her principal said, OK, you have to get 23, 25 students to sign up, and then you can teach it. And she recruited students into that class so she…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“and then i'm going to invite all you know you're in the back”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Thank you so much for explaining that so well. One of our responsibilities and I think the opportunities that we have during this meeting is to make sure we're articulating not only the need, which you've done so well, but also some of the numbers behind it. I remember many years ago, gosh, it was forever ago, but My dad had wanted to buy a new car, and he thought they cost, I think this was in the mid-'80s, something like $3,000. And they didn't cost $3,000. So a lot of people don't know how expensive fire engines are and those kinds of things. And I know that in one of my…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Thank you, Chief. If I may, Mayor, thank you for that. I also, as I also understand some of my learnings have been, you know, the point about the upkeep. I remember having a conversation. It may have been with you or one of your deputies about a kitchen that needed to be remodeled and kind of querying about what was necessary about that. When you look at, you know, one of the things that you've taught me during this time is how necessary it is in the preparedness. And I consider it similar to my comments to our city clerk at her special election meeting when I thanked her for making sure that…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 2:15:30
“Good morning, Mayor Sue Brown for the Human Resources Department. I've provided you with data relative to Jeff's annual review, and I will leave it to him to make his presentation.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 3:18:28
“We were at, Luann and I, Luann and I, our city clerk, were at the grand opening of the Secretary of State's office. Now, you may not see yourself there, for those of you who were there. And that's because after the outside comments, Lou Anne and I went, followed everybody, and we stood patiently waiting in line while, unbeknownst to us, the ribbon cutting was going on. So we made sure to memorialize that by taking that picture. So to the Secretary of State, we were there to support you. I know Mayor Pro Tem and the mayor made it in. I don't know who else made it in, but it wasn't us. So we…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026