Remarks by Shondra Summers-Armstrong
77 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 4
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“Madam Mayor, if I might, could you also clarify those stations that are built north of Sahara. Are those being financed, shared financing with the county since we are doing a shared work, or is that all coming from our own local resources within the city of Las Vegas?”
City Council · Oct 7, 2026
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City Council · Oct 7, 2026
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City Council · Oct 7, 2026
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“Okay. Is there a reason why you want to take the rear gate down?”
City Council · Oct 7, 2026
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“Okay. Again, if you add something like that, you also may need to get some approvals from planning.”
City Council · Oct 7, 2026
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“Okay. I am inclined to support this. Thank you. But I have a condition, another, and that is that you submit your plans within 60 days for approval. That's fair. And that you make sure that you're getting these things done. And I ask you, please, No more additions without coming to staff first. No storage units. Can't have any storage units on the front of the property. Please don't add anything else to this lot. It's too small for anything additional. Take very good care of your trees. City of Las Vegas is giving away trees if you need one that's going to work. I don't know how that works…”
City Council · Oct 7, 2026
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“Through direction, not as part of the agenda item?”
City Council · Oct 7, 2026
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“But as direction. That's fair enough. Okay. As direction. Okay. If you agree to that, I'm ready to make a motion, Mayor, if that's okay.”
City Council · Oct 7, 2026
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“That's all right. I know things are live going on right now. My motion would be with the agreement for the plan as submitted with the additional tree and that if you are going to do anything with the gate, you will come through planning and the direction is that you submit your plans for approval within 60 days.”
City Council · Oct 7, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor. I just want to say thank you so much for being so responsive. Sometimes we don't get people to take action, and so I think we're a little caught off guard. Sorry that you came to a meeting at 6 p.m. on the wrong day, but I've done it, so I understand. I would like to move for approval as it is. I think you did a great job. The fence looks good. We can see in. and it's a public safety so that our police and fire can see in and you did a great job. I would like to recommend to you though that the city of Las Vegas is giving away free trees and we would love for you to…”
City Council · Oct 7, 2026
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“Yes, so we'll have someone from, oh my goodness, who's here? Okay, the gentleman with his hand raised, Jace, they can help you with that program. We just planted a tree yesterday on 10th Street. It was wonderful, we had a great time. With that, Madam Mayor, I'd like to vote for approval.”
City Council · Oct 7, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor. As always, we have lots going on in Ward 5, so we're just going to give you some upcoming events. October 8th, we have the Doolittle Active Adult Center is holding their annual Good Time Fish Fry on Thursday, October 8th at 11 a.m. Please RSVP by calling 702-229-6125. Space is limited. On October 9th, the Mariachi Conservatory presents Between Life and Death. Join the Mariachi Conservatory of Las Vegas this Friday for a vibrant evening of community and remembrance as they honor their past, loved ones, and ancestors through the beautiful traditions of Dia de los…”
City Council · Oct 7, 2026
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“Okay, please forgive me. No, quite all right, thank you. I think you said item five, and I don't think that the one that's mislabeled is number five. I think it's a different number.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor. I see that Herz Park is also on the list. This is a large park right off of a smoke ranch road and just if you could just clarify for any of the Ward 5 folks who might be watching it is not the entire park but just a little portion that is being repurposed with something else.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor, and thank you so much for your report. I think the thing that I hear that is not being expressed in your report today is the information that we received about the decrease in student population and I'm very concerned about that. I have some schools in my district that are already being spoken about for closure and I would like to know how those numbers are going to specifically affect Ward 5 schools and I would love to have an opportunity to meet with your office or whoever the appropriate folks are and the trustees that are both appointed by the city and our elected…”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Thank you. If you could just clarify for me, I see the gold are two planned fire stations. Got that right? Yes. Okay. Those are city planned fire stations? Correct. Okay. The red, all existing fire stations?”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Thank you. Could you go back to the, since Chief is here, Go back to the map that gave us the list with the red fire stations and the proposed ones that are coming online. Yes. OK. So you had mentioned earlier that we have one new station that has more calls that they answered that's already exceeded its Can you tell us which station that is and why is that? Why is that station so heavily used?”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“I just want to dig into this a little bit. Y'all know I'm originally from California. And one of the things that we've discussed previously is, in our briefings, is as the city continues to grow, we now start to reach into and build homes into terrain that is a little different than what we have had here in the valley. And that is going to require, if we're going to stay on top of this and be forward thinking, And it require us to increase the types of resources that we purchase in order to better respond to, you know, even wildfires now. We're moving into wildfire country and we're paying…”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor. I do believe that we are on the second continuance. The first one was for 30 days. Somebody help me, Peter. Is that right? And then we had this one, which was 90 days.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Madam Mayor, if I may, I'd like to obey for one more 30 days. Our staff will reach out directly to try and contact the developer and see if we can't figure out what it is they intend to do.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“She hasn't seen it. Staff was trying to show it to me earlier today, but on her phone, which is difficult. Staff, do we by chance have anything that we can put on the screen?”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“So I thank you both for coming to the office to talk to me and we talked about, it's been a minute and I had thought that we would have a conversation before today and that you would show me something before today. Let me ask you, would you mind giving us a couple of weeks to review what you have put forward, because I don't have anything to really study. And so if you wouldn't mind coming back at the first available. Not at all. OK. One thing I want to have clarified for me from staff, if the unit that was built on the back was not done per our code and all of that, how do we ensure that…”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“Okay. Wonderful. So just give me a couple of weeks. Um, madam clerk, if you could just tell me when would be the next October seven, October seven. Can you come back in a couple of weeks? All right. If you just make sure that you've send what you have, um, staff will get it to me, but you send it as well. I'll look it over. If I have any other additional questions, I'll reach out to you through staff to talk about it. I just want to remind you and others because I know you are an enterprising ma'am and you might purchase other buildings because you're a smart woman like that. In the future,…”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026
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“All right. So I'm depending on you to be a good mentor. Okay. Thank you. All right. We'll see you in a couple weeks. Appreciate it, everybody.”
City Council · Sep 16, 2026