I'll call the regular meeting to order. To make it easier for residents to voice their comments, there will be two public comment periods. There will be one at the beginning of the meeting designated for comments related to items on the agenda and one at the end of the meeting for general public comment. Public comment for designated public hearing items will be heard when the item is called. Speakers will be limited to three minutes to state their comments. This meeting is being video recorded and streamed live on the internet. Mr. Valdez, please confirm posting and roll call. Mayor, this meeting has been posted in accordance with the Nevada Open Meeting Law. All members of the council are present and you have a quorum. Thank you. I would like to invite Donna Taft, care pastor of Sin City Church to the podium to give the invocation followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. As the city council comes together, We seek your guidance and blessings. Lord, as you entrust your leaders with wisdom and discernment, lead them with your divine hand. Grant our leaders the courage to lead justly, with compassion in all the decisions. In Jesus' name, amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Ms. Garcia-Vas, are there any changes to the agenda? Yes, Mayor Romero, there are changes. Item seven will be pulled from the consent agenda to allow you, Mayor, the opportunity to abstain from deliberating and voting. Item 23 has been continued to the November 18th, 2025 City Council regular meeting at the request of the applicant and items 31 and 32 will be opened together but voted on separately. Thank you. May I have a motion to accept the agenda as amended? So moved. Please vote. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilwoman Cox and it carries. Our first item is a public safety update for the Henderson Police Department. I'd like to invite Henderson Police Chief Reggie Rader to share some of the department's recent efforts and successes along with highlights from his first 100 days at the helm. Welcome Chief Rader. Good afternoon. Thank you for having me. I'm very excited to be here today to talk about the state of the police department and really the first 90 days that I've been here and I think we're gonna have some really good things to talk about. First thing, our vision to be one of the premier police agencies in America. We have the same values for honor, professionalism, and dedication. Our mission is excellence and service and our goals are to reduce crime through innovation, prevention, and enforcement. to hire, develop, and retain an outstanding and diverse workforce, strengthen community support, build and maintain a strong, sustainable, and high-performing culture. I want to talk about this slide for a minute. CALEA is really, it's called the gold standard for public officials for policing. We are the only agency in all of Nevada, the entire state, that is CALEA accredited, not only one time, but two times. Once for our police services and then for our communication center. We're working towards a third accreditation for our police academy. And once we get that, we will be in the top 2% of law enforcement agencies in the country. I'd like to call out Deanne Bill, who is our accreditation supervisor. Deanne, are you in the audience? I want to highlight Deanna because she just received some national recognition as an accreditation manager. It's a lengthy process. There's not many that have been handed out throughout the country. She was able to attain that. She's done over 20 years with the city, and she's been with us for accreditation for over four years. And she attends regular conferences and trainings to ensure that we have the highest standards of what are expected of you and our community for the police department. When I first got here and got my command team in place, I looked at the overall organizational chart. This is the new chart that we were able to develop. There were a lot of things that I noticed as far as being top heavy, some inefficiencies with chain of command. Some of those instances were a captain that only oversaw 20 officers or a lieutenant that only oversaw six officers. That's really not the best use of span of control for us or the best use of supervision. So we were able to come together as a team and really stretch out this organizational chart so we can have the most amount of officers visible out there on the street. through these efforts we were able to add 18 additional officers that were able to really stop the bleeding from some of the attrition issues that were occurring on the police department right before i got here i'll go ahead and highlight a few of the people in the audience today that are part of my command team that have been able helping me with the successes that we're going to bring up and then I would encourage anyone in the community if you want to talk afterwards we'll be staying after the command team will be after you can talk to them as well. First I want to bring up our stand up for Seth Van Beveren. Seth is the captain over our North Area Command and he also oversees traffic. So I know that traffic is always a big issue. Seth was able to have traffic go from a specialized unit to integrate and be a part of patrol. So now the traffic section handles the majority of the accidents about 85% of the accidents and that frees up our patrol officers to go out there and do proactive police work and I think you're going to see that pay dividends in some of the later slides where their crime reduction efforts. Next I want to bring up Ken Youngblood. Ken can you stand up real quick? Ken is over our central and west part of the valley, so that Green Valley area, that Inspirata area. And Ken also oversees our community relations section. So I'm gonna highlight Ken here in a little bit too on the great community programs that he was able to do as a lieutenant and now as a captain that he's continuing to do for our agency. And then I have Frank DiMaco. Frank is over our jail, does good work for us over there. Ed Bogdanovic, where's Ed? You're gonna hear some of Ed's successes with their academy or training program and their recruitment efforts. He's done a great job there. And then Benson Harper, he oversees our SWAT and our canine section, as well as Homeland Security, our narcotics and special events. And then I have Matt Murnane is my deputy chief that oversees the administrative side of the house. I have a few other people that aren't here. They're attending a training, International Association of Chiefs of Police at something in Denver. I actually just flew back from there so I could be here to talk to you guys today, but they stayed there and are doing some good work for me. Here's an overall snapshot of our workforce right now. We have 736 employees, 429 commissioned police officers, 106 corrections officers, 178 professional staff, and then 23 part-time employees. We have a new dispatch center that we were able to move into. This was a huge accomplishment, a long undertaking, and we were finally able to get there. It's equipped with 32 dispatch consoles. That's, for contrast, the one right next door only had 10. The 32 consoles allow us to be able to grow as a city and provide that dispatch service, and it's also used as a backup center for all of the other first responders in the valley if their dispatch centers go down. we can be good neighbors and they can come over. We also added E911. E911 is allowing us to be next gen 911 compliant. The FCC is a governing body over all dispatch centers and they have a lot of technology and requirements that are gonna be coming on board. We are ahead of that curve and we are already compliant with that ahead of schedule. The dispatch center handles all police fire and EMS calls. For the calendar year, you can see those totals right there, 286,000 total. 82% of our 911 calls answered are in under 15 seconds. 85% are answered under 20 seconds. That's a number we're always gonna strive to get better and better. We have six dispatch recruits in the academy right now, so that's gonna help us out. A number that's not on here, but I think it's very impactful for our community is the 311 response times. If you see on there, the majority of calls we take are 311 calls. 85% of our 311 calls are answered in under 20 seconds. 97% of our 311 calls are answered in under two minutes. So that just shows you if you need the police, whether it's an emergency or a non-emergency, the folks over there are gonna be answering it very quickly and providing that service for you. The HPD Forensic Lab, it's an accredited state-of-the-art facility. It's the only facility in the state of Nevada that's capable of analyzing foot and tire prints. And Tanya Heiner, are you here? She's our manager over at the lab, Tanya. The reason I want to highlight Tanya is in addition to getting this new lab open, she was welcomed to process of improvements. And sometimes it's hard to take a critical look at things that you're doing. And she welcomed in our city's DPI section, which is performance and innovation. She welcomed into her lab to say, how can we do things better? And they were able to collaborate together, look at all the things that they were doing, labs across the country, and come up with best practices And I think the proof is in the numbers right here. The blood alcohol levels for drugs under DUIs is reduced from 294 days to 80 days. The alcohol analysis for blood is reduced from 145 days to 58 days. And then if we have to rush a case if there's any fatalities or death involved, that went from 100 days to four days. So those are all numbers that they were able to come together and welcome other people to come in and take a look. The other thing I want to mention is equipment. They were able to get some new equipment, embracing technology to where now, and it's analyzing all of the reports. It'll put that data into the report writing system. So it frees up our technicians to go and do more work instead of having to transcribe a lot of stuff. So that entire process was able to yield some fantastic results where we are recognized as a leading lab in the entire state. So when I came here I had some priorities. I believe in my introductory news conference I said my day one priorities were going to be vacancies and morale. That's why I listed them here first. Recruitment vacancies, morale, intelligence led policing, leadership and training, and interagency collaboration. When I was going around to the different briefing rooms, the things that I had read, the people I talked to throughout the city, these just seemed to be a lot of issues that needed a lot of attention and I think we made some great progress in the first 90 days. In July, when I started, we had 57 vacant officer positions. I'm happy to report now that that number is 20. So in October, we only have 20. That's a reduction of 37 vacancies in just three months. Your police department currently sits at a 5% vacancy rate. I just got back from Denver for the International Association of Chiefs of Police. The average now for most police departments is 10%. So we're well below that. In addition to the 20 vacancies we have, we just opened up lateral recruitment. It's only been open for a week and we already have 16 applicants. So those are 16 law enforcement professionals, many of who are in this valley, that want to come over and be a part of this because they believe in it. So I think we're going to be able to get that number down to zero very, very quickly. Another trend in the national conference I was just at, many municipalities, cities are lowering their standards to try to get officers in there. That's something we will never do because we want to remain a premier community and a premier police department so we'll never lower our standards. So we have right now the largest academy we've ever had for the Henderson Police Department in 46 officers. And I want to show you how we got there. It was a citywide effort. When I put my team in place, I challenged them to have the largest academy we ever could, but not to cut corners. They worked across the city departments to really find the help that they needed. And a big shout out goes to the human resources department. HR took on a big lift for us in doing all of the background checks for our non-sworn personnel. They were tying up a lot of man hours for our background and recruitment process in processing all of those things. They were able to take on that heavy lift so our background and recruitment officers could go out there. We have the same pool of candidates that all the departments are trying to vie for. We find that the ones that you have the most contact with, they feel like they're family, not just a number. They're the ones that are going to come here. So that was a big part in them being able to take on that burden so we could reduce that time for the background process from the minute they put in that application to the minute they get a job offer. And that's one of the reasons we have the really big numbers that we do. We work with our Parks and Recreation Department. We wanted to bring everything closer to home. Parks and Rec was able to schedule a lot of time for us and venues at parks where we could have all of these candidates. Once they put out that interest card, they had multiple opportunities to meet one of our trainers, our recruiters, our academy people to do some mentoring, work them through the process so they would be in shape and they knew what to expect when they started the academy. The Health and Wellness Department, Ryan Turner's been a huge benefit for us. We have our own city wellness building. I can't tell you how nice that is. Where I came from, you would be just another number waiting for a third party like UMC to get all these people through with really no priority. They made it a priority because it was a citywide priority to get these numbers through. They stayed open late, they worked weekends to get all of our officers the pre-screening that they needed to do to get into that academy. Want to talk about the communications department as well. Yasmeen is our PIO for the police department. Yasmeen has really stepped up the game for all of our social media efforts. We know that a lot of people consume media differently now. There's no social media footprint before. She's able to get that word out, so we're seeing younger and younger people discover about the Henderson Police Department through that social media. Last thing I want to talk about is where we were targeting our recruitment efforts. Before we were going to all these different states trying to find people, and I thought the same reasons that brought me here, living in the community, wanting to protect the community that you live in, would pay dividends. I'm happy to say of the 56 people that are in our academy right now that just started three weeks ago, only one of them did not currently live in the Las Vegas Valley. Of those 46, half of them attended an area high school here in the Las Vegas Valley, 11 of those being Henderson High Schools. So we are recruiting, we are attracting, and we are a desirable place for the people that are here that want to protect and serve to come to this department. But I just want to highlight the city-wide effort. It couldn't be done alone just as a police department. It took really every department to get us there. This is titled Proactive Policing, but you could almost title it Morale. In my experience, an officer that has low morale is not going to go out there and do a lot of work. I don't want to bore you with all the numbers, but that first column on the left, those are citizen-initiated calls. 9-1-1, 3-1-1, someone calls an officer and they need to respond. I just pulled the numbers from July to October of this year because I wanted to see if we were moving the needle at all with my new command teams and the things that we were implementing. So you can see 26,000 events from that timeframe for 911-311 calls. The next column over in the middle is the proactive officer initiated events. Again, just from July to October of this year. There's almost the same amount of self-initiated activity events as there are calls for service. So that shows you our officers and their downtime are out there doing proactive work, being highly visible, keeping our community safe. That third column, I wanted to do a year comparison for that timeframe. So we have July to October from 2024 versus July to October from 2025. And if you see, we're all in the green. So a total of 4,500 extra self-initiated events during that timeframe this year than last year. I'm here to tell you our cops would not be doing this if they did not feel supported and if morale was not up. They would just be handling the regular calls they had to go to and they'd be doing nothing more. So it's showing that we're doing some good stuff here and getting that morale turned around. Another indicator for morale is workers comp light duty. Normally when morale is low, those things tend to go up. People might hang out a little bit longer and not want to come back to duty. We used to have 20 in just patrol alone for workers comp light duty. That number is now down to eight. So our officers are taking advantage of that wellness center. They're getting back to work. They're ready to go and serve that community. And then the other thing I'll talk about is the detective bureau. I always wonder if we're hitting the mark on the detective bureau. I'm happy to say that our violent crime solvability is 95%. What that means is if you commit a violent crime in the city of Henderson, you will be going to jail. And based on the severity of the crime, you'll likely be going to prison. 95% solvability is very, very high for detectives. And they're doing great work with that. Here's some crime rates. This slide was actually done before I left on my trip. I'm happy to say person crimes is now down to 19%. We are trending in the right direction, 19% down in violent person crimes. Our property crimes are hovering around 15%. Fatal crashes are down 53%, and the number I really wanna highlight is the fatal crash deaths, 58%. So we have decreased the amount of deaths on a roadway. We've over half, 58%. And the reason that number is different than the fatal crashes is there could be multiple people involved in a vehicle crash. So we're doing a great job there. Nowhere else in the Southern Nevada can come close to those numbers. I wanted to see, are we just lucky or are we good? So I wanted to validate the numbers that we're seeing. We stress intelligence led policing and intelligence led deployments. This is just a crime or an overview of our city and it's the top 10 intersections. It's overlaid with a heat map so the color that you see is the proactivity from our officers. This is where we're deploying our officers and we know these are the high accident intersection locations. So the red being the highest level and then into orange, yellow and blue. If you look at the map, the highest number of accident intersection locations we have are getting the most attention from our traffic officers or patrol officers going out there doing stops. The other benefit that has is the reduction in violent crime, is those are major thoroughfares. Somebody sees a police officer, they're gonna think twice before they do anything wrong. An emerging trend that's continuing here is the retail theft blitz. The reason I wanted to bring this up as we enter into the holiday seasons, this is something that's gonna keep happening if we don't be more aggressive about it. When I say retail theft, I don't want you to think about somebody stealing food because they're hungry, someone steals makeup because they can't afford it, and I'm talking about organized crews that are coming from California, five, six, seven individuals, First stop they can get off of is St. Rose and they're coming down and they're hitting our major thoroughfares and those businesses. And then us as community members, as consumers, that all affects us as prices go up. We've been able to partner with our major retail theft operations to do a lot of blitzes. So far we've recovered $30,000 in stolen merchandise and we're gonna keep that going throughout the holiday season as we know Black Friday and shopping events are gonna make that go higher and higher. The next iteration we need to do is start targeting some of the fencing operations at our local swap meets and our third party vendors where these things are being sold. This is really a plea for the public, protecting our vulnerable. We have an alarming increase in our elderly population being victimized, either by phone scams, computer scams. My ask of everybody here is if you have an elderly individual, a parent, a grandparent, somebody that has a diminished mental capacity and access to finances, do something about it. You can go with them to the bank, you can put triggers and alarms where if they try to withdraw a large amount of money, they'll have to call you to try to protect them. But what I want to talk about is just this year, our elderly community has been taken for over a million dollars. This money is usually wired overseas and that we can't recover it. Of that million dollars, we've only been able to recover about 200,000. There was one incident that just happened three weeks ago where an elderly lady was contacted by someone on the phone posing to be a federal agent, said her money was compromised, she needed to get the money. This poor lady took $78,000 in a shoebox and was ready to give it to a courier that was gonna pick it up. Last minute she called her son who lived out of state. He knew it wasn't right. He got us involved. And when that courier showed up to get the shoebox full of money, he got a pair of handcuffs and he's residing next door and facing federal charges. But my ask for the public is just that you can put as many safeguards in place as possible. Some successes we've had with our fraud unit are on the corporate side. We're having a lot of corporate scams as well where they're contacting CEOs asking for, hey, drop this money, I'm your new finance guy. We've been very lucky in being able to recover $6 million because we've been getting called early enough in there before the money gets wired, working with our federal partners to do that. We do a lot of public education and prevention. Just a few weeks ago, we were out with Sun City Anthem, and I'm offering it to anyone in the community that has a group where they could be educated about this. We'd be more than happy to come talk about best practices and safeguards. Leadership, I'm not going to go too much into this, just there really wasn't a new detective school when I got here. That's an area that we're doing, a lieutenant school. I'll talk about the police and fire collaboration. I don't think we've ever collaborated better. I'm working with my good friend Scott Verveer almost on a daily basis because it doesn't matter if it's a police event and you need the fire department or a fire department and you need the police department. It's going to be those two agencies coming together with unified command, keeping our residents safe. I'll talk about training just for a second as well. We now are able to train at the Joint Emergency Train Institute. It's a world-class facility that is operated by the Metropolitan Police Department in North Las Vegas. We are now partners with them in there. And because of my relationship with Sheriff McMahill, he allowed all of our patrol officers to be able to go through there the rest of this year. We didn't have the entire calendar year, so we're focusing just on patrol, which is our high-liability area for enforcement. We're going to be able to extend that to the entire department come next calendar year. And if you can kind of see in the pictures, it's just an indoor climate controlled city where there's gas stations, a casino, residential areas. There's really no environment that you can't recreate. 360 degree environment where we can really induce that stress inoculation. You got to practice how you play. So we can have officers run through multiple different scenarios, just changing a little bit each time so they can make those quick reads because we can't afford to get it wrong when we're doing it for real. And we can get all that worked out and get that positive reinforcement. the training center. The other good thing about this training center is it allows us to collaborate with all of the other regional partners. That's something I noticed was a little lacking and I want to bring up a regional partners because just this last week alone we've had to implement mutual aid both ways where they were coming in and assisting us we were going in and assisting other agencies. We had that with the No Kings protest, we had it with the Aces parade, they have a big music festival down there when we were young and just in the first responder community for police and fire we all have to kind of support and help. each other that's only made better by the partnerships we have training at that joint institute training center community engagement I just want to talk about two events on here the dream program we're able to go out there and talk to over 3,500 fifth graders and we go there and we talk about bullying, self-confidence, no drugs, don't do vaping, cybersecurity, cyber awareness. We want to get these kids before they go to middle school because we know that jump from fifth grade to sixth grade is really when a lot of things can happen if you don't have a lot of positivity in your life. So that's something that Captain Youngblood oversees. The other thing I want to bring up is Camp 911. This is where we can focus on the middle school level. And we only take referrals for this. We get a lot of referrals from the Boys and Girls Club, from the Parks and Rec Department, for some kids that might need some extra attention during the summertime. And this is where they can get an immersive experience, where they go to Animal Control, the Fire Department, and the Police Department, and get to do different things. They put out a simulated fire. We have them solve a crime. And it kind of gets them interested in being a good, productive member of society. It is one of the many things we could do. That picture right there was our officers at... at a community event for the Special Olympics. So I don't want to highlight everything, but we just know we can't arrest away the problems. We're always looking at new ways to interact with the community. Something I would ask for you and any of your wards, if you have community members or avenues for us to be able to get closer to the issue, we're all ears. Just last week with Councilman Seabock, we were able to go to the gardens, which is an area that historically has had some violent crime. There was a faith-based group he put me in touch with there, and they do some mentoring. So after school, kids are able to go there and get homework help, mentoring, and now our officers are able to go back there. And then in a huge success story, there was one of their clinical workers that worked there in that homework center who just graduated our last police academy, and that's the area where he's actually assigned. So I think we're going to see a lot of good ownership there of the community. So if you have anything like that, it's an open invitation. Just let us know. We'd be more than happy to help. Last I'll talk about looking ahead. The next time I come talk to you guys, I'll be able to talk about these next things I want to do for the next 90 days. having a multicultural advisory committee so we can find any part of the population that may feel underrepresented or underutilized. And we want to bring them in so they have a seat at the table so they can weigh in on policy decisions and they can really be an advocate for us. You can't build that bank of goodwill when something bad happens. You need to be working on that all the time. And I think we could do a little bit better job of that. I spoke about that lateral academy. I think that's going to do really good at getting our vacancies down. Having a full-time cadet academy is another thing. Right now there's just a part-time position. getting that Inspirata station fully staffed. Right now we have Swinship operating out of there. It's fully accessible for records. The academy dispatch would like to get that fully opened. Utilizing drones as first responders. Clinical response for subjects in crisis. Assistant City Manager Lisa Corrado is an expert at mental health and she was able to get some full-time clinicians to partner with the fire department to go respond on calls with them and really provide services for the community that they need. We're now able to, after that beta program with the fire department, have the police department start utilizing that as well. So when we go there and it's not really a crime and we don't really want to just lock someone away at a hospital for a day or two, we just want to give them the services they need, they're going to be able to help us get that as a police department. And then ICAC, Integrating Community Assessment and Tactics. That's just another way we can look at tactical events that we've had and be able to rewind that tape and see if there's anything we could do kind of as a best practices standards. We'll be excited to present that to you the next time around, but are there any questions? First of all, thank you for your presentation today. I am grateful for the work that you've put in for the first 90 days. You really... did a good job of focusing on those things that the city manager and her team had identified as needing work and you've been able to put a phenomenal team together. I guess they're over here, not over there. You're usually over there. Put a phenomenal team together of individuals who each bring their own strengths to the table and I think I've already seen positive results of the people that you've put into place. Definitely crime statistics are heading in the right direction in the direction we want them to go and the goal obviously is to keep them going in the right direction. I'm very excited about the number of people we have in our academy. As you know, I was able to see the size of the academy not too long ago and it is a wonderful thing to see. Great to have our own and be able to see that expand and our cadet academy expand as well. all good things and I'm really looking forward to the next 90 days and the things that you are planning to do and I truly appreciate the regional, not only the regional approach but also within the city, the collaboration that you've really highlighted. It is a full city, it takes a full city to make a safe city and you've really reached across the aisle to different departments and brought them in and I truly appreciate the work that has highlighted in that collaboration and you're recognizing the work that others do that can help your job be easier and they're right here within the city so thank you for identifying that. With that I'll open it up to if anybody else has any comments. So, one, thank you for the leadership, the significance of what you and your team are doing, recognizing the efficiencies, recognizing training, constant improvement, and bringing in the schools and training. But I want to highlight a few things because there was a lot of information in there, but I think it's just key for the community to hear. One of the things, if you didn't catch it, through realignment, you have 18 additional officers now in our neighborhoods. in the city of Henderson that were not there before patrolling. You've been able to close the vacancy gap to only a 5% vacancy gap in the police department. That's huge. That's more officers in the city of Henderson. You have 42 officers in our police academy. And so that's significant. And then, just as the mayor said, that collaboration, that force multiplier of working collaboratively regionally, but also internally, it only continues to improve. The proactivity, to me, from my former law enforcement experience, that is not lost on me. That impact is, it's not just more people, quote unquote, getting pulled over. Proactivity is a sign of morale. It is a sign of solid leadership and trust within the department, but also it sends a visible message and deterrent to the criminals, the crooks out there that, hey, we are out there engaged. We are out there making stops, and if you come to Henderson to do something nefarious, the odds of you going to jail or getting stopped are very high because they're looking for you. And on top of that, a 95% I'll say it again, a 95% solvability rate for violent crime. If you commit a violent crime, 95% of the time, my experience I've seen homicide rates in large cities such as Chicago are down, the solve rates are down in the 20s and 30s percent. You can't reach a 95% without the professionals within your department, but also without the community's support, and that to me displays the trust our community has with our police department, which is so important for us to have, but it also goes to show through All the programs you just highlighted, working with the community, the Dream Program and outreach and all these different opportunities allows us as a whole city to say safety is important and we're gonna continue to support our police department we're gonna continue to strive to have a higher than 95% solvability rate, but that is fantastic. And then when you display that crime is down across the board, and I know a lot of these accomplishments were just in the last several months, but crime across the board from a year ago, that's hats off to you, your team, and really the officers every day doing their job and those professional support staff supporting those officers to get to where that needs to be and the difference it makes for that one lone officer at night knowing that he has the support of this council, he has the support of this community, and he has the support of the police leadership. a long way. So I know you have a long road ahead, and so I don't want you burned out because I expect to see another 10 years. And so, 10 years, 12? But there's a lot to undertake. And so I appreciate your goals and your vision forward. So thank you for everything and appreciate the quarterly update to having this happen. So thank you. Thank you. Chief Rader, thank you very much. I will add to what they've already shared. The impact you've made just in this short time has been significant, has been felt. The collaboration within the departments has been monumental. I've seen it. I'm a newbie also, but I felt it and I've seen the difference within my ward and the residents have felt it greatly. Thank you for your leadership, it's a testament who you are because you lead by example and I'm grateful for the next 90 days and the next several years as to what you've done already. It's going to be incredible. I am so, so grateful and I know I tell you this all the time, I truly am. I'm incredibly grateful for your leadership and for you choosing Henderson Police Department and making the significant impact that you have. You have done a phenomenal job just in this short time, and I am incredibly grateful. So thank you for keeping Henderson, the premier city that it is. Thank you. And thank you for choosing me. Chief, I want to thank you as well. Truly thank you for your leadership coming into a heavy lift. I don't think anybody could envision all that you had to take on. to improve and we appreciate that. Something that's always been very important to me is the culture here within the city, city employees, which I think in your words is morale and I appreciate you stepping up with your leadership and your command team and instilling this culture that increases the morale because I think not only in policing, probably more so in policing, but in any kind of profession, if a person is feeling good about themselves and about their job, they're gonna do a better job. So to me, that's very important and that kind of is what's stood out to me in your report and I thank you for you and your team and the entire community team of the police department and striving to make that culture one such that folks want to work here, they want to do their best. So thank you very much. Thank you. I just want to thank our police department and just I got a text message yesterday where there was a bad accident and we had a call response time between fire and police arriving at the same time. Actually, I think police arrived first and it was, and it was, no, no, But anyway, it was six to seven minutes she said, and she took the time to text me. She's a resident in Cadence thanking our police department, thanking our fire department for the response times. And so I'm grateful. Thank you to everyone. Please take that back to your team because it's so important that they feel the appreciation from our community, but also I really want them to know how much I appreciate them. So thank you so much. I will. Thank you. Now is the time for our first public comment, and before we open that, our city clerk has a statement. All email, text, and social media messages to the city council and city staff is subject to the Nevada Public Records Act and the Nevada Open Meeting Law. Please do not sit, stand, or block the aisles, walkways, or doorways. And as a reminder, the vestibule at the back of the chambers is reserved for working city staff and public safety personnel only. During the meeting, there are three opportunities for public comment. The first public comment period at the beginning of the meeting is for items that are on the agenda but are not designated public hearing items. Second public comment period is for designated public hearing items. During this period, public comments are limited to designated public hearing items only. The third public comment period at the end of the meeting is for general public comment. During this period, comments may be offered on topics that are not on the agenda, but comments should be limited to matters within the jurisdiction, authority, or control of the city. Please note that the City Council cannot take action or deliberate on matters that are not on the agenda. Therefore, issues raised during the final public comment period will be referred to the appropriate City Department for response through a Contact Henderson case created by the City Clerk's Office at the direction of the City Manager. Persons who would like to speak during any of the three public comment periods should sign up with the deputy city clerk managing the public comment queue in the vestibule at the entrance of the chambers. When your name is called by the city clerk, please walk to the front of the podium, speak directly into the microphone, and state your first and last name along with your zip code for the record. You will have three minutes to speak. And Mayor, we have four persons signed up for the first public comment period. First person is Robert Before we do that, so everybody knows when you are supposed to come up, and I actually was also supposed to make an announcement that we don't have air conditioning in the AV unit, so for those listening online, if it suddenly goes off, it's because it overheated, and we will get it back up as soon as possible, unless it's been fixed. Mayor, it's currently working. Okay. All right, so many of you are here for item number 24, which is Trenere. That is a public hearing, so the appropriate time to go up and speak about that is when that item is called. And the way that will go is we will first have the appellant come up and make their presentation. The appellant is the developer. There's no time limit on that. They will finish. And then whoever is the representative for the community will have the opportunity to come up before the public hearing is open and speak for the community. That also won't have a time limit for the one person. Then we will open the public hearing to whoever wants to speak. If you'd like to, the option is open to you. for the public comment to pick one person to speak on behalf under the public comment after your other person has spoken for the presentation part of it. That's up to you. If you choose to do that, your one person will have 10 minutes to speak to talk about your issues. If you choose not to do that, each person will have three minutes to speak. on the animal ordinance, that appropriate time to speak is on the first public comment. Those items, the people speaking on animal items will be limited to the ordinance. If you are speaking about the ordinance changes that are proposed, speak under the first public comment. If you have anything related to animals outside of the ordinance changes, you would speak at the second public hearing at the end of the meeting. Hopefully that clears things up for everybody and will make the meeting run smoothly. And so. Ready to go? Yes. Okay. First person is Robert Saucier for items 19 and 20. Good evening everyone. Thank you for giving me this opportunity. Again, my name is Robert Saucier. I run the Las Vegas Distillery over on East Gate Road. I know a number of you have come and visited us and I appreciate that very much. As was pointed out, we're agenda items 19 and 20 and really only have two things. Number one, I see that one of the items, it was recommended approval with conditions, conditional approval, but I'm not aware what the condition is. So if that could be explained, that would be helpful. Second of all is I'm just here to answer any questions. This was something that started, I think, back in February and kind of got passed around the state for a while, but we finally got it resolved. And if there's any questions, I'm here available. answer those. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Dichter, do you know what that condition is or can you have somebody meet with him to tell him what the condition is? Mayor, Mike Cathcart is here in the audience who can help answer the questions. If he'll go back and he'll be able to explain to you what the conditions are. Mr. Cathcart is standing up right over there. I'm sorry, so meet with him? Meet with him and he'll answer whatever question you have. Thank you. I don't know if you have any questions for me. No. Thank you very much. Thank you. Mayor, would you like to take the balance of your items and then trail these to a later time? While he's taking a look at those conditions? We could do that, so we can save the two long items for last and get through the others pretty quickly. We can do, but there's still a remaining comments. We'll take the rest of the public comment and then we'll do. Okay. Sorry. There is mud, sorry. No problem. Next person is Nancy Rouse. for items 31 and 32. Good afternoon, I'm Nancy Roas and my zip code is 89015. First of all, I want to thank all of you for listening to your constituents that live in rural preservation neighborhoods and thank you for working with the Planning Commission to come to a nice bill that's brought before you today. This bill is not exactly what I wanted. However, it does come very close to what will serve the people of the rural communities very, very well. Especially those people that are dedicated to providing their own food sources on their own property. So I want to say that I am in support of this bill. Thank you for letting us live the lifestyle that we love dearly. That's all, thank you. And the last person is Raeann Davis for 31 and 32. Good afternoon. I'm in area code 89015, Raeann Davis. I want to say thank you it down? Okay. I'm short. I just want to say thank you for considering us at the last get-together to figure out what we needed because the opportunity to own a rooster and be able to, that was big to me. That was wonderful to feel heard. So that's all I have to say. Just thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. No one else in the queue, Mayor. I'll close the initial public hearing and Do you want to do the city manager's report first and then we'll take the items out of order? Okay. Mayor and Council, the city manager's report. Let's see. Good evening. Our public works department is celebrating a standout year, earning three awards from the American Public Works Association Nevada Chapter. The Water Street Shade Structure Project was recognized as Project of the Year for Historical Preservation. The Henderson Fire Station 95 renovation was recognized as Project of the Year for Structures, and Director Lance Olson received the 2025 Robert Broadbent Distinguished Service Award, which honors public works professionals who show exceptional leadership both in their field and in their communities. These honors reflect the City of Henderson's continued focus on building strong, resilient infrastructure and the dedicated professionals who make it possible. Congratulations, Lance and the entire department. October marks Domestic Violence Awareness Month and this year carries special significance as Assembly Bill 193 takes effect, ensuring that victims of sexual assault and or domestic violence can obtain copies of their police reports free of charge. In honor of this observance, City Hall and the Water Street District's sign lights have turned purple for October to bring awareness to the city's support of victims of domestic abuse and our commitment to providing resources to ensure our community remains safe. We hosted our fourth annual school summit on October 1st. Our education initiatives team brings together principals and administrators from our local schools to network, learn more about how the city supports education through its programs and services, and share with the city how we can better support their needs. The city fosters ongoing communication and collaboration within the education community to support Henderson educators, students, and their families. And finally, congratulations to all the winners of our customer service awards. Employee engagement is important to the city, which is why we celebrate. Sorry, I forgot to turn the slide. Why we celebrate Team Henderson during our customer service week. These exemplary employees were nominated by their peers and embody our standards for premier customer service. Congratulations to the winners and thank you to each member of Team Henderson for everything you do for our city and our residents. It is now my honor to announce the retirement of Susan Vicarelli from Human Resources and Captain Anthony Branchini from the Police Department. Thank you for your dedicated service to our city. We wish you the very best. Thank you, Mayor and Council. That concludes this evening's City Manager's. Thank you. The next item on your agenda is Consent Agenda. It's consisting of items three through 22 with the exception of item seven. Unless an item is pulled for discussion, council will take action on all consent agenda items with one motion. And I'm not sure whether or not we have resolution on the two items. It looks like we do have resolution on those items. So it does not look like we need to pull those. Okay. So with the exception of item seven, may I have a motion to accept the consent agenda as amended? Please vote. All members vote in favor of the motion made by Councilman Cox and it carries. Item number seven is the reimbursement of credit amount, a local improvement district LIDT 16, Las Vegas Paving Corporation, the funding source LIDT-16 bond proceeds and it's for possible action and the recommendation is to approve. this item is for a payment by the city to Las Vegas Paving Corporation for infrastructure improvement costs related to local improvement district T16 at Lake Las Vegas. My husband and son work for Las Vegas Paving Corporation and their employment with the company is a conflict of interest that could be perceived by a reasonable person to affect the independence of my judgment on this matter. Accordingly, I will abstain from deliberation and voting on this item and turn it over to Mayor Pro Tem for the vote. Council members, any questions or comments? There's a motion on the floor. Please vote. With the exception of Mayor Romero who abstains, all members vote in favor of the motion made by Councilman Stewart and it carries. The next section of your agenda is public hearings. As a reminder, item 23 has been continued to the November 18th, 2025 City Council regular meeting. That takes us to item number 24, which is a public hearing, appeal of decision AP-8-25 for AWOS-202501. 6961 waiver of standards item B TMA-2025016960 tentative map college and Patty Ann Woods for possible action and the recommendation is affirming Planning Commission's decision of denial Mayor and members of council, this item is an appeal to the Planning Commission's decision to deny the request for a waiver to reduce the minimum required lot area from 40,000 square feet to a range between 32,882 square feet up to 34,866 square feet. The acreage, the lot sizes here are very similar to other subdivisions that you've approved in this area in the past, as recently as 2022. This is a five acre parcel, but once you require the portions of the roadways to be taken out and then also you've got easements on the property, it becomes the net acreage and therefore that's the reason for the waiver request because they do not have the full five acres in order to count the lot size to meet the 40,000 original square footage. Staff recommended approval. The Planning Commission voted to deny four to three and the applicant appealed this decision to the City Council. David Brown 89134 on behalf of the applicant and appellant. This is a request for a tenant map and the waiver of standards. The request is for a five lot single family subdivision on five acres with a density of one unit per acre. The applicant is not requesting an increase in density on the property, simply requesting one unit per acre. As was just stated, the reason for the need for the waiver is because there's a lot of property that was dedicated. There was a dedication as stated on College Drive, there would be a dedication on Trenere Drive, and there was also a drainage easement that was granted. Everything the applicant is requesting is consistent with what's gone on throughout the rest of the neighborhood. Similar lot reductions have been granted for five other subdivisions to the northwest and to the southwest of the site. Proposed lot sizes and configurations are consistent with the nearest subdivision developments in the area. There was a courtesy neighborhood meeting held on August 27th of this year. I know you're going to hear from a number of the neighbors in a moment. Again, we're just asking for your support. Staff has recommended approval and we're in agreement with all of staff's conditions. And who is gonna be speaking for the presentation portion? Please come down. Make sure you state your name and zip code for the record, please. Absolutely, I appreciate the time. My name is Ryan Reeves. ZIP code is 89002. I am a resident of Trenier Drive along with several of those that are present here. 21-year resident of the City of Henderson and have been proud to support a lot of development in the community. We are pro-development. We are not a not-in-my-backyard kind of group. I often find myself standing here proposing charter schools and having opposition and I hate to be in the position of being that person. However, When doing that, I know that what I am doing is in the best interest of children, and when what is being proposed is not, then I also have to speak up to the other side. And in this particular instance, a waiver of standards is intended to be granted upon some kind of benefit to the community. And in other circumstances and other waivers that have been referenced here, it has been in a small cul-de-sac that further maintained the rural and natural preserve nature of the area that in no way endangered traffic, pedestrians, or others. That is not how this waiver was granted. This waiver was granted on the basis that a connection of Trenere Drive to college would be the benefit to the community upon which a waiver can be conditioned. And that is simply false. That violates rural natural preserve. It adds dangerous and unnecessary traffic to a road that is not designed to carry it. It reroutes traffic The arguments that have been made for this are reliant upon a 1970 map that connected Trenere to college. What that was designed in 1970 should still be done now. A 1000 home subdivision was built to the west of this community since 1970. You connect Trenere to college, then you will add between 500 to 1,000 cars to Trenere every day. We know this because it already happened to Patty Ann Woods. And present here today are also residents of Patty Ann Woods Drive, who know the dangers of their own drive and don't want to see it happen to ours because our street is now the street that they come to to walk safely and to exercise safely. Now, the only argument that I've heard to the other side has been a reliance upon the fire department. And I love the fire department and please don't write down my address and not respond based upon me arguing against you here. However, the fire department for 50 years responded with lights and sirens to every call. Why? Because they're great people that want to get to the danger as fast as possible. And what has happened over the last five years is every actuarial study and every statistical study has determined that that actually put more people at risk. that you don't respond lights and sirens to every call. It leads to an increase in automobile accidents and causes more danger and harm to others. Fire department experts are not experts on traffic safety. Fire department experts are not experts on traffic engineering. They are not who you rely upon to decide whether or not to connect the street. And what you should rely upon is science and data. And I have pulled the science and data. And the science and data has determined that a home, a street of 44 homes with approximately 111 residents will have in a 10 year period 1.1132 serious EMS calls that require quick response. One call every 10 years, hopefully, or less. Over that same period, if you connect that street, you will have 500 to 1,000 cars every day leading to a 14% higher risk of of serious traffic accidents and a seven to 10 mile per hour increase in speed. And every 1% increase in speed leads to a 4% increase in an accident being fatal. So, the science doesn't say just get there faster. The science says you have to look at the totality of the scenario and determine what is best for the community as a whole. And any waiver of standards that relies upon a connection of Trenere to college is not in the best interest of the community the whole. That is what the Planning Commission analyzed, that's what the Planning Commission decided. To do otherwise is not supported by the evidence and a clearly erroneous decision based upon reliable, probative and substantial evidence on the whole record will not stand if reviewed by the district court. And that's where this would end up if we tried to connect Trenere to college. So I ask you to side with the citizens of the Roanatch Preserve area and Ternier Drive and uphold the denial that was already passed by Planning Commission. Thank you. This is a public hearing, which I will now open. Have you decided whether or not you're going to have one representative for 10 minutes or multiple for three minutes each? Multiple, okay. Then you have the names? I do have the names in the queue, Mayor. The first name is Star Stewart. Hi, I am Star Stewart, 89002. I actually didn't sign up to speak, but I will since you called me up. I agree with everything Mr. Reeves said about the Trenier connection. I emailed each of you my reasons for that, so I won't speak a lot, but I do want to speak to the lot sizes. City personnel, including you, just a couple of minutes ago said that this lot is five acres. It is not five acres. It's 4.6 acres. So after easements and everything, it comes down to 3.8. So I just want to clear that up. It's never been five acres, and it should be no more than four homes on that parcel when you break it up. So that's all I have to say. Next person is Rich Caruso. Hi, thank you. I don't do this very often, so pardon me. My name is Rich Caruso. I'm from 491 Ternier. I also have two lots that back to Patty Ann Woods, so I'm familiar with both streets. through the limited amount of time speaking, I don't want to go through my history, but I've been down here since I was a kid with my father coming down here over 40 years. So anyway, I better just read because I'm not doing very good here. We want to change for our safety along with our kids and pets and others on that route. Some of the things that were mentioned last time, I'm not going to be able to use this. The traffic engineer was mentioning how Paddy and Woods has a travel speed of 38 miles an hour. So like Mr. Reese brought up earlier, we're talking about 500 more cars at least per day on our street going 11 miles per hour more than what he said Trenier was at the moment. I invite all you guys to come over to my house at Paddy and Woods and I guarantee you within 10 minutes you're going to see cars doing 50 miles an hour. With that being said, FIRE also mentioned that they needed a second access point to service the homes on that street on Trenier. There has been, from what I've understood, that there was a letter written from the church that we could get an emergency access gate to Trenier, which would give him that second access point. I personally don't think it's needed. There's been one call, according to the FIRE, one call in the last 20 years on Trenere. I don't think that any way justifies Nina's second access point and it definitely is not safer with 500 more cars than one call for 20 years, you know what I'm saying? So I guess that's all I have to say today. Next person is Alicia Gummersen. Hi guys, Alicia Gummerson, 89002. I live at 481 Trenere. I'm the second to last house at the end of the street. So I have little kids that you actually can't see from the bottom of the street if you're at the bottom of the street. So if it connects, you can't see my children playing in the road when you drive up the street. But that's not what I'm here to talk about. I'm here to talk about the fact that we are talking about precedents and different things that have been done in our neighborhood based on the different houses and complexes that we have. So if you look at the map, can I put this here? Is there? Nice. Okay. So you can see the two streets that we have highlighted here. One is Dufort and one is Trinear. These are the same length of streets with similar homes or similar amount of homes on those streets. Dufort actually has not one, but two crash gates, which makes it even harder to get through, to get to those emergencies and so on and so forth. And then that other one is actually maintained by the school. So you have... of an issue there getting through the school and then through to Defort. So as far as if we're talking about precedence and things like that, it's all over the map what the city has decided what is available and appropriate for our type of streets with our type of homes. So there's going to be a lot of other people talking about other things with safety and kids. I just think it's important to know that we second that and safety of our kids and our neighbors that use our street is what's most important and it's what makes Henderson unique. I've lived in Las Vegas for 36 years and I chose to move from Summerlin to Henderson to raise my family for very very important reasons and the uniqueness of Henderson and I hope that you guys see that. Next person is Leora Phillips. Dora Phillips 89002. I live at 591 Trenir in the very last house on Trenir. So as he was talking, he talked about the statistics that of how our street would become unsafe if we put it through. But we actually, and we have real life evidence. We can see what's going to happen. These are, in our area, they're really long, fun roads. We have Paradise Hills. It's really long. Ann that's really long. There's nothing to really stop them. They're almost a mile long, these roads, with nothing to stop them. And kids like to, young adults, like to drive down these roads really fast because there's really fun humps to hit. And we've already seen what happens on Paradise Hills. We unfortunately had Rex Patchett, who was hit on Paradise Hills by young adults having fun on those roads, and he was killed. But he had a sidewalk, and he was killed on the sidewalk. So Patty Ann, does not have a sidewalk, Trenere does not have a sidewalk if somebody decides to go crazy on these roads. I had a friend who I was talking to, we were talking about on these roads and she's like, oh, and she doesn't really live in our area, but she comes over there a lot for schools. And she is, and she's a really good mom. And she kind of shocked me when she said this. She's like, I, I love that road, Petty. And she's like, when there's nobody on the road and my kids are in the car, we go really fast to hit those bumps because it's really fun and they love it. And it actually kind of shocked me. I'm like, seriously? So your kids are going to be the ones when they get their driver's licenses that are, oh, this is my mom. There's nobody on the road. We go really fast and hit these bumps. We've already had a death. sidewalks the last thing we need is another mile-long road with really fun humps and bumps for teenagers to come flying down and have fun on that's not what we need please don't do this there's actually if you look on the news there's been some child or pedestrian getting hit almost every day in the valley and so now we are standing up and asking for the safety of 89002 Please, this is important. There actually was a news article in the KTNV News in Las Vegas, and it said that student pedestrian accidents have more than doubled in Clark County this school year. So it's already doubled. Last year, there were only 39 students who were struck by vehicles, and this year, there are already 84 students who have been hit. That's huge. You don't want to add to that. this will. We don't have sidewalks. We don't have streetlights because we're world preserved and that's what we want but we have to be smart about this and keep it safe. Thank you. Next person is Chad Andrew. Chad Andrew, 89002, I also live on Trenere. I just wanted to talk about, last time they talked about the fire department and how every minute mattered, how important it was to get the fire department there and have access from both sides of the street. As you know, Station 81 was relocated to... Camping World. And that's a little bit further away now from Trenere. The closest station is actually five minutes away. I don't know if I could put this out there, on there too. So this is, so this station is closer. It's five minute drive. And as you see from the map, it comes in on the west side of Trenere. and it goes all the way down and it takes five minutes to get anywhere on Trenere. If we were to look at station 81, where it has been relocated, that is double the time and that station would come from the other side of Trenere. But as far as being closer and saving time, the fire trucks would not come down the other side of Trenere even if it was open on both sides. And I just wanted to make sure that was taken into account because last time it sounded like that was a big harping point that every minute mattered, but in reality, they would never come down that side of the street anyway. And that's all I had. Thank you. Next person is Kristin Toon. Stintun 89002. I'm here as the Patty Ann Woods representative to tell you what our road is like so we can hopefully put a halt to making Trenera through street. I want to start by saying I appreciate so much the added speed limit signs on Patty Ann Woods that were just added. I was so excited to see that. It shows the speed that people are going. I think sometimes people don't even realize how fast they're going, so that hopefully will add some help. I just wanted to say I appreciate that. The other day I was running up our street with my 13-year-old daughter who was 10 feet in front of me. And when I was watching as a car swerved and barely missed her by about a foot, it was terrifying. Our street has become increasingly unsafe since it was converted into a through street. It would be a shame to do the same thing to yet another road. What used to be a quiet neighborhood road is now a busy, cold cut through for drivers looking to avoid main roads. As a result, traffic volume has gone up significantly. and so has the speed of passing vehicles. Many drivers now use our street as a shortcut, often exceeding the speed limit and creating dangerous conditions for children, pedestrians, and cyclists. The same thing will happen to Trenere. Residents no longer feel comfortable letting kids play outside or even backing out of the driveways because of how fast cars come through. Again, this same thing will happen to Trenere. The increase in traffic and speeding has changed the character of our neighborhood from peaceful and family friendly to stressful and unsafe. It would be a mistake to do this to Trenere, especially because most residents on Pattian and from neighborhoods across Greenway are forced to use Trenere for walking, running and cycling. since our street is so unsafe. Kids coming home from Foothill High School and Walker Elementary consistently use Trenere to get home when walking and riding their bikes because it's the only safe option. I know this meeting here is specifically for Trenere, but I would love for more action to be considered on Patty Ann Woods as well to make it safer for children. Hopefully before there's another awful accident that occurs. Thank you. Next person is Jeff Dalton. Thank you for your time and just to kind of echo what Kristen said, our whole goal, our entire purpose is for safety and we don't want the same safety issues and concerns that Kristen has on Panayon Woods to be carried over to Trenere. So after Planning Commission delayed our decision the first time. Sir, can you state your name and zip code for the record please? Oh sorry, sorry, Jeff Dalton. Zip code. So after planning commission delayed their decision the first time, someone from the city proposed a solution to install a crash gate, which we were all for. However, something changed before the next planning commission meeting. And just to emphasize, so we're not sure what happened there, but just to emphasize, and this is actually the actual appeal of decision paperwork that the developers put in. The developer does not want this road to go through either. So I just wanted to highlight this, if you will. You can see that, I can't see that screen. But essentially he said right here, we have proposed alternatives with cul-de-sacs and emergency services, emergency fire access gates that preserve safety while preventing cut through traffic. But city staff has required the full street connection. However, planning commission declined the proposal to put the road through because they felt that the fire safety did not feel they adequately proved that it makes our citizens safer. We have proposed multiple solutions for a win-win solution. However, fire safety keeps just saying the road has to go through, but is not given a viable reason why. One of the solutions proposed is putting a crash gate at the end of Trenere and to give them access if needed to come all the way through. However, if there isn't enough room, even with that, there should be enough room if you look at a map and won't go through that at this moment, but there is a We have many of us that attend that LDS church right there that backs up on the end of it. I've sent you guys maps of that as well and also sent the letter that we have from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that they are concerned about safety as well of the neighbors and citizens around there. And that's what this letter states as well. And I've emailed that to you as well. But they have agreed to, if needed, for the roundabout, because that was one of FIRE's concerns, that they would give up a little piece of that corner to be able to create that roundabout where that access gate would be given. So we have proposed a number of different solutions and options that are on the table, and if need be. So thank you. Next person is Brooke Watson. I'm Rick Watson, 89002. I've lived on Trenere for 15 years. It's been kind of interesting to sit in these meetings and to when the fire, the fire commissioner was up here last time in September and talk about the issue of fire safety. And that was it's such an urgent matter for the fire safety that the street must go through. If it was such an urgent issue, why hasn't the city paid for that street to go through decades ago if it's been in the comprehensive plan? If I had just bought the proposed land in question and had just been sitting on it and not developed it, then this wouldn't be an issue and the fire safety would be exactly the same thing that it is now. But I think the answer is, is because there's a developer there that the city's requiring that because the developer will pay for that road. And if the road in the comprehensive plan was always supposed to go through and we can't deviate from that comprehensive plan, then why has the plan been, you know, we've deviated from it in other areas where the actual lot size that's supposed to be an acre flat is not that way. If you look at our development, there's many lots in the area that are not a flat acre. We've deviated from that original plan. So it doesn't seem like the comprehensive plan having the street go through holds up as a viable reason or the fire safety for that matter. Otherwise, the city would have paid for that street to go through. Thank you for your time. Next person is Holly Francis. Holly Francis 89002. I didn't know I was going to be speaking at British Day, but I'm glad I get this opportunity. own a lot on Trenere and we have a very young family of six kids and we plan to build a home on there in the next year and so I just really support this we already live in this community and near there by Trenere and already have kids that go over there and play and with their friends and we just really are hoping that we can keep that street safe and making the through street would really compromise that in our view. So we really pray that it doesn't go through. Thank you. Next person is Amanda Ainge. Hi, Amanda Ainge, 89002. I have lived in this area for 18 years. I used to back up to Paradise Hills and I am your representative for College Heights, which to be honest, we're I'm actually really excited for this lot to be developed. I sit in my front window and I work on my computer so I can see Trenere and I can see Patty Ann Woods and I see all the people going through. I see college. Like I kind of see everything going on and I cannot tell you the amount of people that walk on my street. And as they were speaking about the safety and how police, firefighters, etc., had only had to be called out a handful of times to our area. I think that is because all of us know the safe routes. When I lived on Paradise Hills, there was one day where a car came up onto the sidewalk and missed my back fence by a few feet. I don't think they were speeding. It was right at school pickup. It was quite terrifying to be And then with a few other situations that have happened in our area, I think one of the beautiful things we have in this as an opportunity is this entire area is almost completely built out. And so we know what this area needs. Instead of using data from the 1970s, we can see, okay, there are very few lots, very few areas that haven't been developed. And so we know exactly what this area needs, and this area needs safe routes. My kids, myself, we don't ride our bikes, our electric scooters, anything like that on Patty Ann Woods. To be honest, my corner neighbor that's on Patty Ann Woods was just talking to me the other day how he wishes something could be done. Because even still, even with that one sign up, it's so dangerous and the cars fly by so fast that he doesn't even have kids. And he's concerned just pulling in and out of his house and his driveway. So I think we should take this opportunity and really see what the community needs. And to be honest, we're standing here. We are begging you to listen to us and to hear. We're excited for development. We're excited to have that built out. I see all the cars and the people walking through the dirt. I would love for this to be built out for just even more safety. And to be honest, when the city had, I watched all the D.R. Horton homes go up. If this turnaround was so important to them, why did they not create that when they put all the homes up? When, you know, half of Trunier got built out, College Heights did, there's a walkway. They could have cut that out and made a roundabout. So obviously somehow, All of a sudden, this year, it is so direly important that we have this turnaround when it has been completely ignored for the 18 years that I've been here. So thank you. No one else in the queue, Mayor. Okay. Mr. Olson, we have a slew of questions. The first one is, I know that you have improvements planned for Patty Ann Woods. Could you please describe what that traffic calming plan is and what the timing of that is and whether or not if it was demonstrated it was needed that same traffic calming could be used. I think there's multiple ways to, I was gonna say skin the cat, but we have people here that are protective of cats so I don't wanna say that. There are multiple, I think there are multiple, ways for us to achieve the same goal. Whereas keeping the street safe, reducing the speed, and making sure that the kids are safe in this neighborhood. And there's not just one answer. There's multiple things that we could do. So could you please address that? Absolutely. Thanks for letting me speak on that. Actually, Patty Ann Woods, I'm proud of our team, and I'm actually kind of surprised some of the folks that live on Patty Ann Woods were unaware of what the city's been doing. So there is a speeding problem on Patty Ann Woods. We've been studying it. We put up the reader boards to try to see if we could affect behavior in the area. We did reduce speeds very little. It's still in the 36 mile an hour range. So we need to do more. And so we are gonna do more. And I actually, I'm gonna go on a sidebar just a second here. It actually is very personal to me. I got a call from a developer that I met recently. and he was telling me about how he used to live in Henderson. He no longer lives in Henderson. He had to move to Boulder City because he lived on a raceway. I said, where'd you live? He said, Patty Ann Woods. And that bothered me as a public works director. And so I've tasked our team into addressing this. And so we met with CTAB last month. CTAB's our Citizen Traffic Advisory Board. They voted yes and recommended that we move forward. So we plan on getting with the neighbors and trying to figure out where we can do chicanes. Chicanes are where you would kind of meander the street to slow people down, because right now it's a straight shot, downhill. It's almost comfortable to go 30 some miles an hour, so we need to undo that. So proud of the team, they've been working hard. So that's where we're at, going to get with the neighbors and work through that. Six to nine months will be under construction is my goal, that we will be doing a chicane. And to your question, We're committed in public works if this road goes through and Ternier has a similar safety issue, we will monitor that and we will address it in either the same way or another way that serves it better. So for those who don't, you kind of described it, but could you describe exactly what a chicane would look like, what it would do, and what the design would look like? does and what actually causes the curves. Sure, like I said, right now it's a straight shot. It feels comfortable to go that higher speed. If anyone's ever driven Alta, it's not a great example of a chicane, but Alta down by Rancho, they went in years ago and it will meander the road so that you don't see that straight shot. In this situation, we haven't designed it yet. We're trying to figure out how we put these in and not impact existing homes. So it could be four, it could be five that actually make you not, you can't see down the road, you'd have to go over. And we'd put desert landscaping in there to keep that back and forth and slow people down. There are some other ideas we've talked about, speed circles. We think chicane's the way we're gonna go to try to mitigate this problem. Okay. There were some data provided for what the residents expected the increase in traffic would be as a result. First of all, are there differences, in your opinion, between Patty Ann Woods and Trenere, if it should go through, are there differences in where they connect and whether or not that would add to the traffic? And then also, what you think, what our calculations are of what the traffic increase would be if this was granted? Sure, so as far as increase goes, let me step back and say currently there's a thousand trips a day on Pattie End Woods, which a thousand trips a day sounds like a lot to people, that's not a lot for a residential road, that's actually pretty typical. Traffic engineers look at about nine to 10 trips per home, so do the math, you know, the residents alone on Pattie End Woods can generate a lot of trips. 36 homes on Turnier times 10, that's 360 trips of the 500 trips that were mentioned. So just the residents alone on the undeveloped street will generate almost that 500 trips. Is Patty Ann Woods different than Turnier? A little bit because it's connected up with Arrowhead Trail. So it's the access potentially for some of the people who live on Turnier to come back around, come down Patty Ann Woods and get to the school or Mission Hills Park. It's also one of the access into Mission Hills where Turnier doesn't have that. It's a T intersection at Turnier and College. So yes, they are different. We would expect though that if Turnier went through, I don't know that it's an increase in trips, it's some of the trips from Patty Ann Woods would wind up on Turnier. So that is a fact. They would probably lessen the impact on Patty Ann Woods as far as volume. We don't see a volume issue on Patty Ann Woods at all. With 1,000 trips, that's not a volume problem. It's a speeding problem. We agree it's a speeding problem. Okay. Where's the fire, Chief? Could you come up, please? So, Chief, thank you. Several of the comments were toward why hasn't this been done previously, which I can't speak to, and I don't know that you can speak to previous chiefs in the decision whether or not to move forward, but can you explain to this council, I'm sure the people have heard it, what your reasoning is for the urgency or not of putting a through street in, what impacts you think it would have, and what would generate the need for, and what? You have said in the past you typically don't like crash gates versus other traffic calming uses. Could you explain why and then what why the other ones might be okay and accomplish the same thing. Sure, of course. Thank you for the question, Mayor. And for everyone that's here, I want them to know that we are in alignment 100%. Their safety is our number one concern, including roadway safety. And so we hear that loud and clear. I do want to make some corrections though. There are some factual inconsistencies that are not true that are presented, and I just want to provide the facts. The first part is that am not requiring a street to go through that is the best option because if you ask a fire chief more connectivity is better and it's not because of response times this is an area that we already are not able to meet response times in because it is a rural area that is away from our stations it's really about what hacks what happens when a road with one-way access can become blocked roads can become blocked for a number of reasons just a simple structure fire causes us to block the road because if you put hose across the road you can't pass so that's why we require two access points The fire code requires two access points. The fire code also requires any street that is longer than 150 feet have a turnaround. I also take exception that we're not an expert on the city. We are. Most of city designers is based on the fire code. The reason why you have streets as wide as they are, the reason why there's a number of places, the reason why there are fire hydrants, the reason et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, is all about the fire code. And so our concerns are aligned with theirs, and and there are options that could happen in this area. So I wanna make it clear, we are not stuck on one. At some point, there will need to be a secondary access into Trenere. And yes, there are options that we can consider. My job is to tell you what is the safest and then to implement designs. And we do make decisions that meet the best of all interests. And they did highlight Dufort. Dufort would be an example where we do have a fire access road It has gates on both sides. That is an option. The difference there is that in Dufort, I'll show you a picture. So on Dufort, the road that exists is all on the school property, 100%. And that road was actually conditioned for the school because we have to have access to the backside of that building. That's why the road was originally there. The reason why it has crash gates on both sides is this is school property and we want to protect the students that are there. However, this is an example of where this was an acceptable solution that was win, win, win for everybody, provided us a second point of access to a road that is very long, also allowed us to meet the fire requirements for the school. The reason why this isn't an option currently for this is because the developer before you does not have the land rights and no one has the land rights to do what they're suggesting in terms of building additional cul-de-sacs and putting additional access points. Our number one concern is we need to be able to get on to Trenir from a second side. Why has this not been addressed in the past? I can't say for the past, I've been your fire chief for longer than only a year, however this is and realistically speaking, a relatively low risk area for us. So it's not an area that keeps me up at night. So it is an area that as this development has been coming in, we have allowed them to develop, to be developed with the understanding that there will always be a second access point in the future. I do have some statistics. I cannot show the map for you because that'd be a violation of HIPAA. However, they are correct in 20 years, We looked at 20 years of data for all types of vehicle accidents, vehicle versus bicycle, vehicle versus person, or a single type of bike type scooter accident on the roads of Trenere, Pantian Woods, and Dufort. And in 20 years, there has never been an accident on any of those roads. The accidents that have occurred on Pantian Woods occur at the intersections of Greenway and Pantian Woods, or Greenway and College. And so yes, I am concerned about pedestrian safety, but on those roads we have never had an accident. Conversely, in the past year and a half, there have been 38 medical emergencies and four fire calls on Trenere alone, and that occurs all the way up and down the street. It's already difficult enough for us to get access to there, but our concern is if something causes that road to be inaccessible, we are not able to get to those houses further downstream. So in summary, our interests are aligned. Safety is our number one priority. We do have the ability to grant a substantial compliance with the fire code, which we are certainly willing to do, but currently at this point, There is not an option that the developer has to do that. We are willing to be flexible and look at all types of options. And again, I'm happy to answer your questions that you may have. So thank you. Thank you. So the option, speaking just right now of Patty Ann Woods, the option of the chicanes is something that is, travelable, for lack of a better word for it, for the fire trucks. And I know sometimes we look at the width of the road and we kind of don't like doing speed humps for various reasons with the fire trucks, but chicanes are acceptable and work? That's correct. For a traffic calming measure, chicanes are our preferred measure because they do allow the safety aspect for the road, but they also allow us the ability to get to the road. Speed humps are accepted in limited situations. Speed humps do significantly slow us down and they do cause damage to our vehicles. We have video of our vehicles going over them even at a slow speed and it causes everything in the back you can imagine to fly up and to fly back down. We've had hose fall off of the units etc. So we will navigate speed humps but our driver operators know that when they come to a speed hump they essentially have to stop. and go over it very slowly, much slower than a passenger car. So chicanes are a preferred option to us. And again, there are options for secondary access, but this area definitely does need secondary access. And then my final question for the moment, a crash gate is not really a crash gate. Is that correct? You actually, I actually thought you crashed through the gate. So you have to get out and- Yes. cut open the the lock. Yes a crash a crash gate is not a crash gate it's a gate that we will stop and that we will access and we will open up so that we can get either people and equipment through or apparatus through and so that that is an option it does slow down response times and I just want to reiterate this is already an area of time an area that we have very difficult ability to get responses to. Fortunately there's not a tremendous amount of structure fires in the City of Henderson, but we will run about 170 structure fires this year. That's about one every other day, every third day. And when we run a structure fire, it's not just a single apparatus. A standard structure fire is four fire engines, a truck company, two rescue units, two battalion chiefs, and an OSO. And as those units come, they frequently need multiple directions to approach. so that we can get to a house. So these houses that are there, it currently is a very difficult arrangement and it would be difficult for us to get enough units in place to do that. And quite honestly, if we had a big event, we would be driving across the desert to get into some of these areas. I'm positive my council members each have something to say, so let's just go in ward order, and then you can ask your questions. By the way, we've closed the public hearing. I don't know if I said that. And then we may have more questions. Mayor, may I? You asked a question about why the roadway may not have been built right now. That may not be the most appropriate question for the chief, but Lance or Eddie, if you would like to answer that, because I heard that question that you... Sure, I'll tackle. As Chief mentioned, the code requires after 600 feet, 20 homes that you got to have the second access point, either the road goes through. So we've been allowing other homes to be built there with the intention that a secondary access is coming. The city of Henderson has had an easement there. It was granted to us in 1977, as they mentioned. It's a 60 foot roadway. We typically don't pioneer roads if we can help it. Development builds their offsites, development builds their roads. So as the reason why it is where it is today, I believe between D.R. Horton and the church, they build it up to that point. And so as these people come in, development will build their offsites and not with city taxpayer dollars to pioneer roads. When I thought I was done, I actually do have one more question. I'm out there quite often at Mission Hills Park, and it seems to me like there's kind of a dirt road that has already been made, for lack of a better word, that is already being used. Is that where roughly this road is proposed to go through? Yeah, if I can throw, Steve, can you put the zoom in one of where the, Yeah, where they all come together. See if I can see that from here. Can we get the overhead camera, please? Yeah, flip that around for me, sir. So you can see Turnier there. College Heights, I believe, is the cul-de-sac that was mentioned earlier. So this is the location, and if you actually look at the end of Turnier, you can see a road that goes to the north right along the church property trespassing across the desert. You're correct if you look at the Google Street Views, if you can throw those up there, Steve. Whether it's the neighbors on Turnier or whether it's people in the general area, they do feel the need to exit out that side of Turnier, it appears, and get onto college, so pretty heavily used trespass. I will add that, and I don't know, it was Angela, was that your name? Amanda, I'm sorry. So one of her neighbors, we've dealt with numerous complaints on that College Heights Drive about that cul-de-sac and people just driving through the landscaping and they have videos we've sent. And so one of my biggest concerns in one of the solutions about multiple cul-de-sacs and fences is how do you manage that? and the trespassing that will happen much like the pictures you're seeing there, because it'll be hard to control people from trespassing through these walkways and so forth. Okay, thank you. Council? I got a few comments. I think, Chief, you answered most of what I have, because obviously with my background, I also do not like to go against public safety. I know time is of the essence, and then if you're one of those 38 people, You can't wait to see the medical responders getting there. But I also will say on the flip side, I'm also aware of that entire neighborhood I live close by, and I've seen the traffic calming measures that have been attempted and completely understand, especially with the concerns of Patty Ann Woods, with the school and the parking on both sides. So I've seen both of that. One other question I have for you, Chief, is just recently along Greenway there was some trenching going on, although it was on the opposite side of Greenway. Had it been on the side of Trenere, there was the potential that it would have been blocked while they're doing that. And so I think you mentioned it, but if that was blocked, that's really your only way in. So if it was during that time of one of those 38 calls, how does your rescue units get into that area if it's blocked with that trenching that they were doing? So the work that was done on Greenway did impair our ability to respond to that, but fortunately it didn't completely block it. If we weren't able to get to Trenere, if for some reason that road is blocked, our access right now will be to use some of those secondary non-approved ways. We will eventually get to the emergency in any way possible, but currently, because there's no other secondary access, it would be traveling across the desert to get into the road from the other side. Thanks. I know they also mentioned pedestrian safety, and this really isn't a question, Chief. We have the ability, should this be approved, to condition it to where we could put in the pedestrian paths. We could not initially condition the developer, but what I would like is, no matter what, is to direct staff to look at those traffic comming measures along Paddingham Woods and to the existing area of Trinier as well, because even though it doesn't go all the way through right now, it sounds like it's still neighbors are speeding or causing some of the concerns that others have said, or even we could possibly look at a pedestrian path on the other part of Trenier as well as an option if the community came to an agreement or had a meeting about that. Is that correct? Absolutely. Hasn't been on my radar for Patty Ann Woods, but I did hear a bunch of pedestrian and walkway safety comments, and if that's something that they would like on Trenier, We could condition them to do a walkway as part of their development up to their property line as always off sites and then we could look at doing a asphalt walkway in the future, the city would. And Patton Woods, like I said, that hasn't come up, but definitely if that's an interest of the citizens, they're happy to consider it. So, yeah, I think regardless, we gotta look at that for the Patton Woods area. Please, I would ask the staff to do that. And the last of the points I would have is I get it. I'm split. Not a lot, not as many as came here, but a couple people did email me that did live on Pat Ann Woods that were happy this road potentially could go through because they felt that might reduce some of the volume on their road. So I also have to look out for their interests. Also, there are those that have not attended here today that also might be not even aware that, hey, there was 38 medical calls and there's a chance that that medical call could come just a little bit sooner should a road go through. And so those are my points. Those are my concerns at the end of the day. I still carry what the chief says carries a lot of weight with me because I'm looking at that person, whatever age, whether young or old, who's needing a medical call or that one chance and everyone never believes it's going to be theirs. But that one time that fire does happen or that one time that medical event does happen, those seconds do count. And so I am looking out for the safety and for their interest as well. So Thanks for answering those questions. Ms. Thank you, Chief, for answering those questions also. Lance knows public safety, especially pedestrian safety, is extremely important to me. I've expressed some of those same concerns for my area, so I do empathize with the residents in that area. It is important, but I also empathize I understand what you stated regarding the difficulty for the fire department to enable them to be able to reach those residents in the event of a medical emergency for safety reasons. You also mentioned about the need for the secondary access to prioritize because it's extremely difficult for you to be able to travel to the desert to reach someone and seconds do matter. especially if that road is blocked. What land conditions can be put on? What conditions or options do we have aside from having this secondary road? Are there any viable other options? I think as Chief said, code requires after 600 feet and 20, there has to be a secondary route. That's fire code. Load something really quickly. I'm sorry, ahead of time, Lance, this is not, don't shoot me. I think we all want the same thing. We want the safety of the residents, we want the safety of the fire department to be able to get in, we want to have access, but we want, same time, we want to have calmed traffic during, that significantly slows down travelers on both Patti Ann Woods and Trenere. And I know we don't typically do this ahead of time without evaluating, but rather than, than, waiting for something to happen, I know you know what's coming, I'm sorry, waiting for something potentially bad to happen if we did open the road to condition, and I know you have the funds in place for Patty Ann Woods for changes, is that correct, to calm the traffic? Yes, we can fund the chicanes on Patty Ann Woods, yes. Could you also fund the chicanes on Trenere if that was conditioned? Yes, sure. Typically we wouldn't do that. Typically we have a process for speeds and so we could act quickly would be my suggestion. If we could look at it and watch when the road comes through if there's a speeding issue, we could act quickly and go build those. That would be our normal process. But of course we could build them if those So decided. Okay, sorry. Okay, this is really difficult and I want to see if we can try to split it down to understand it better, but first I'm going to go through what I understand and what I talked about in briefings today. So, Chief. And you know I support you, fire, police, I'm one of your biggest advocates. I'm also a resident first city councilwoman. And so I need to understand, and I would like to kind of talk about what we talked about in briefing. There are other options. There is a win-win. There is an S Island that you talked about today. Could you explain that? I think that's better left for Public Works because that is there and that information I got was from them. But if Lance wants to handle that. Yeah, we've looked at S Islands for the Patti Ann Woods to try to reduce left turn movements. Can you explain what an S Island is for everybody as well? Thank you. Basically an island limiting left turns. and so it wouldn't be as desirable for people to go up and down Patty Ann Woods is where this discussion came from. Unfortunately, it has very negative effects on developments to the, let's say, to the West where they could no longer use Patty Ann Woods to get their kids to school. If you put it on the college side, It could potentially have negative impacts for people not to be able to get on to college and the interchange. So there isn't a volume problem on Patty Ann Woods. I'll reiterate that. A thousand vehicles a day is a fine. And so the S Island reduces volumes. You would still have a speed issue. So it does not fix our speed issues with the S Island. So we do not recommend that. Well, I'm not talking about Patty Ann Woods. I'm talking about a second access point for Trenere so that the road doesn't have to go through. Yeah, the S Island is, if the road went through, is when those would be interacting, not like a gated secondary access. The S Island is not part of that discussion. Oh, I thought that's what Chief said to me today. So, but there are other options, correct, that we could employ. and still be able to keep the road closed? Yes, as mentioned before, you know, DeFort is a perfect example. That is a fire access road that is not a public road that does give us secondary access. Again, what's different there is that road was all on the same piece of land that the school was able to build, so it didn't have issues with third party land owners, et cetera. I can't speak on what the civil design would look like or what it would be. Clearly if that was an option here that would be something I would be willing to consider because we are not stuck on again The road has to go through a road going through is the best and safest option But I would also tell you that a concrete house with no electricity is the safest option from a firefighter's perspective So we're certain we're certainly very flexible. I think the challenge there is that this developer is and correct me if I'm wrong, does not have the ability to either create a secondary access road without getting other types of third parties involved. And even though those third parties say they are supportive, we're talking about the transfer of land. And as you know, the transfer of land, it doesn't come free. So I can't predict on something that I can't control. There are no options in front of me currently that I could give you as a secondary option. Okay. Thank you. How long has Trenere had no thoroughfare? How long has Trenere been in existence? Yeah. Trenere has been in existence for a long time and D.R. Horton, when they started building, those were the first homes that started to really expand in that area. And again, I wasn't fire chief at that time and I will not be hypocritical say that this has to happen right now because this condition has existed for a long time and it's a risk that we live with right now and that we mitigate but as we move forward eventually there will have to be a secondary access to this to to this community because I would be negligent in my duties if we didn't follow the fire code and provide you with good recommendations for a safe community in the future I appreciate that. You identified this as a low risk area, correct? It is a low volume area, yes. Wonderful. And we're adding five homes? That's correct. Okay. So I support what you're saying in that I think the development is great for the area and I support the developer and the development and going forward. But where we've ended up here, and this isn't so much for you, Chief, so I'll just go ahead and make my comments. I'm not making them to you. But there's a quality of life issue here in the rural preservation area that is expected even more so, I think, for them as we've created that. I think we can't use it both ways. I don't think we can say, oh, it's the rural preservation area and we can't do this, this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and the list is long, but we can do this. And so it's hard for me to balance, and I need to find a win-win here somewhere, but for me, it's hard for me to balance that a street that hasn't gone through since 1970 or however long is now all of a sudden has to go through because we're adding five homes. Now, if we were adding a development, for me, I would say, okay, we're going to add, you know, we're going to add 100 homes. I'd say, oh my goodness, yeah, you got to have a road go through. But what I think is going to happen here is the very thing that we're struggling with, with Patty Ann Woods, we're creating for Trenere. So, I mean, to me, it's common sense. So that's where I'm coming from. Like I said, I do support this development. I believe Everyone here supports that development and it's not about the developer or his development. In fact, he doesn't need the road to go through. He's not asking us for the road to go through. And I get that it's about fire safety, but also planning commission denied it, finding that it didn't rise to the level that convinced them that it made that much of an impact versus the impact that's going to be on our residents. So our residents have come, they have given compelling testimony today about how this is going to impact them. I hesitate doing something that I don't have to live with. I don't live on that street. So to say to residents, okay, because we think that we're gonna have our fire department not be able to get there, yet it's a low risk area and everything you've said and we're adding five homes. And so we're gonna make the road go through because we wanna relieve Patty Ann Woods, but we've got people here that live on Patty Ann Woods that says, no, we hate what's going on with our road. And we have Trenere residents saying, please, and they're begging us to not do this where we create this issue. I think I got it right. I think for me, I have to weigh the levels of importance that they live there, they invested, they are on this street. They go and people from Patty Ann Woods and other streets go and jog and walk and go to a safe street because they're uncomfortable with being on Patty Ann Woods. And we're going to create, I think, the same issues that we have on Patty Ann Woods, and with all due respect to staff, they are the experts on this. You can do all the calming traffic measures in the world. I've lived on a street where they did calming measures, and sometimes they work, sometimes they don't, and they do their best effort to make that happen, but they can't even guarantee 100% what that's going to do. When we talked about calming measures and the mayor mentioned chicanes on, to put those on, the reaction in the, the reaction here in our chambers was clear that they don't want that. Is there any way we can, this is an appeal, to be able to move forward on a development of five homes. The road issue has gotten commingled into this situation. But it's overwhelming the amount of people that have showed up today to talk about it and to support, and many didn't speak. It puts me, and I'm just gonna talk about me, because I can't talk for anybody else up here on this dais. But for me, this puts me in an incredibly difficult situation when I support the development, but I do not support a road going through. Absolutely not. And it's not because I don't think the chief is awesome and he knows what he's talking about, or the staff knows what they're talking about. We can't mix that in. I have to listen to residents that are saying, please don't do this. And so how can we at this point put a condition on, I mean, the road has to be protected. And I don't know how to do both today, but the road has to be protected in order for me to support, if we're going to mix them together, the project going through. And that's sad because I do think the project is of value and I 100% support it, but I can't If one causes the residents to go through what they're begging us to not do, but you know, this is part of leadership. So I have to make a decision and I need help here. So what can staff do? What can we do today to give some guarantees that, because this road is now mixed into all of this, What can we do? Because it sounds like until there's more development, we're not, we're okay. That's what I'm hearing from you. We're okay, you'll continue to do it the way you've done it. It's not gonna be the, like we're not gonna end up losing mass casualties over it. That's what I'm hearing from you is it's okay. So what can we do so that we can honor residents and honor safety and honor the developer? Because there's gotta be a win-win here. If I may, so just, and we've kind of hit this a couple times, we're at 36 homes, so you've got 16 homes that are out of compliance. They are not within code compliance. Chief and I didn't make those decisions. Those are decisions that are made. We actually have 10 homes going in. We have this subdivision and we have the other one in the middle. So there's 10 more homes coming in. In my humble opinion, this is 3,200 feet of road right now, not 600 feet anymore. We're at 3,200 feet of existing road with 36 homes plus another 10. It's time to get them into compliance and have that secondary access and secondary road in there. So to me, that's the driver here. We do have some risk and liability. I'm not talking about fighting fires. I'm just talking about complying with code. But they've been out of code for how many years? I guess five homes is triggering that we, I mean, they pretty much are to the grandfather stage on this, aren't they? Where, I mean, I know you don't do that, but we've had that in place. I'm gonna step in and then Dan, if you wanted to speak, I'll let you speak first and then I'm gonna say one more thing. Is it not working? Oh, did you want to, sorry. Thank you. I tend to take a little bit 50,000 square foot view of this. Isn't this, Lance, I guess I'll put you on the spot, isn't this kind of just the normal way development has occurred for the 71 years that the city of Henderson has been a city? You build, and then when a developer comes in and builds their portion or their acreage, then they put in the road. That's just been the way it's always been. Right. Development builds their offsides. Correct. And if the city was required to put in all the roads before development got there, we would no longer be a city because we'd be broke. So this has just been a normal process for 70 years. And so I guess I understand 100% the concerns of the residents. I do. I have empathy for them. But this... In the big scheme of things is safety for more of the residents than just looking at this one little thing. I'm looking at it from a 50,000 foot level. And I trust the chief and I trust you, Lance, that you make the right decisions. And I just feel that for overall safety that it's time that this road goes through. And a question I have is they kept talking about all 500 or 1,000 more cars will be coming down from here. I don't understand that. Again, this isn't creating more traffic, more cars. Yeah, we... We agree. Overall trip generation won't increase, however, we'll see some trips from, that were on paddy way and woods go to Tournier. And as additional homes come in, that's when the additional trip generation happens. But overall those trips are happening somewhere there. It will just be spread out across more roads. Correct. Okay. So that's what I was trying to point out. So in my mind, this road needs to go through for overall safety. It's just been kind of the way things have been done. I think we'll be setting bad precedents that everybody else in the whole wide world, and I'm not just talking about rural neighborhood preservation areas, I'm talking about the city at large, would come in and say, well, you didn't make them do it, why are you gonna make us do it? And so I think it's just been the way things have been done. Can I get my question answered? Because I don't think I did. What process do we have in place I know several in my mind, but I'm gonna ask staff, what process do we have in place to be able to protect the developer so that, because it's his appeal in front of us today, and he should not be penalized because of the situation, because it's the city who wants the road through. So I get it, and I understand that, but we need to find a win-win here. We do have all of these residents that have stepped forward, and their voice matters for something. So is there a process that we can do today so we preserve and protect the developer so that they're okay, but we're preserving and protecting the residents and what they want while we figure out if the LDS Church will allow that? I mean, there's some options that we can explore if we had a little bit more time. And I'm asking for more time, and I'm happy to put a motion onto that. Before you go forward, I would just like to just have a couple of things. So low risk is not no risk. And so I'm asking the residents for a moment to put yourselves in our position. If there was the hurricane of events where one of you has an emergency, And in this case, every second does matter. You are asking us to say, we're going to add time to that and put you in a situation. It does add time because you're either having to cut a fence, go through the desert, or come. Actually, Chief, one of the residents suggested that you would never be coming from the other access and you address that because of the multiple vehicles that have to respond to a fire. Oftentimes you have to come from opposing directions to get to that fire. So again, I'd like you to just think about, we are trying, all of us I think, are trying to answer both problems. The problem of development and the problem of keeping your residential rural community with that feel and with that safety, but also we have a responsibility because who is going to get blamed, and it's not about blame, but we will be asked to answer to the legal system and the justice system if we don't follow our own code and we are and put into a position where an emergency of some sort happened and we for whatever reason weren't able to respond to that because we did not follow our own code. Somewhere in there, there's a happy medium to reduce the risk and to follow our own code. One more time to see if for both of you, I'm asking this. Obviously the residents are asking for a crash gate. Both of you have said that's not your first option. It is an option, but it's not your first option. Could you please reiterate why it's not and whether or not it could be a crash gate. a stop gap of some sort until we do figure out, it's gonna, first of all, it's gonna take how many, at least a year before that road goes in would be my guess, is that correct? Somewhere along those lines? About a year, whether or not, the development, not the road. For the development to go in, which would trigger the need for even a road that deadens. So it would give us enough time to look at what's happening on Patty Ann with the changes that are made, monitor what's happening on the existing part of Trenere so that we can see, okay, what are we dealing with on Trenere while all the approvals go through, while the development goes through, and eventually at least a portion of the road goes through could we do a stop gap measure of the fence, which I know is not the preferred situation, until we can figure out what an alternative looks like, and then by then, the residents will have experienced the traffic calming, whatever is decided on Paddy Ann Woods, to see whether it is working, to see whether there is a problem on Trenere existing that we can address, and then decide, has this triggered the need to do something other than a gate or we're finding that they love the chicanes and they love to have it on Trenur. I don't know if that is, but could that be a stop gap in the meantime until we actually have time and data to look at to decide what else would go through? And Chief, I know that's not your priority, I mean your first choice. But if it solves a problem for now and allows us the time to gather data and look at what's actually going in and happen. Just two things I won't comment on there but there's a couple things that would have to have. If a gate was to go in, Trenere would have to have a new cul-de-sac put in because we can't do a turnaround there. Dead end roads have to have appropriate turnaround area so someone would have to pay to construct that. College Heights we can make access to because it's right off of college, there's not a concern there. The development going in, it theoretically could have one way in and a cul-de-sac. The developer has proposed that with another gate going through the two cul-de-sacs. Those are options, but the reason why the developer can't do that is because he is only in control of his land. He doesn't have control of the roadway that's on the other side as well as the land from the church. And so currently that's not an option that I can approve. absolutely I'm willing to look at substantial compliance measures but they have to be compliance measures that are actually in front of us and today the only option that developer has is to connect the road which is what the easement allows and which is what the developer does. Again I'm going to take direction from this Council and I am concerned about public safety and I hear all of their comments and I wholeheartedly understand that and gate while it's not preferable. It absolutely is an option. It is an option that my men and women could manage and deal with. This is already a distant place for us to get to. It would take us longer. However, the purpose is for us to have dual access so we can get in in case something else occurs. That's really from the fire department's point of view, but I can't talk about community development and engineering. My question then for Lance would be and this might even be a legal question, is there a condition where we would require the crash gate pending, conditioned upon the ability to get the right-of-way from the church, and if it's going to take a year, that would give time to get that process done. However, if the church doesn't agree or for some reason that falls through, then there has to be another alternative of the road going through with traffic calming that would then address. Is that even doable? No. Go ahead. Tomson, Tenney Engineering, 89118 on behalf of the applicant. My only concern with that is do we have, so in order for us, our plans to get approved, we kind of need to have a design started now so that we can go with that process. So if we have to wait a year before we know what design we're going to go forward with, that's going to push it out even further. And if there's no time limit, then that's a concern of us as well. I don't want to slow your applicant down. Let me interject here, Mayor. What we cannot do is is condition this application and this applicant to obtain private property rights from another property owner as a condition of development. So to the extent that it's the desire of this body to have a gate that requires additional property rights to make that effective, we can't condition it to them. You can direct staff to look into that possibility, the default is really the opposite, which is comply with the code, which includes the road going through, and only to the extent the staff is able to then negotiate the property rights to do the gate, would that be the alternative. That, of course, makes the condition a condition on the city, not a condition on the applicant, if that makes sense. It does make sense to me. I don't know if that makes sense to the neighbors. Yeah. I know it makes sense to you, sorry. Vance may have some say about the engineering of that too. So to answer one of your questions, we have looked at Ternier briefly. You talked about existing conditions. So right now we're 27 miles an hour, if I remember correctly, fairly low speed, low volume, which is what you would expect, right? So to answer that one question you had. The other, what that would look like is you would have three cul-de-sacs. You'd have college heights. You would have Ternier here that would... spin onto the church property and you would have a cul-de-sac here on their property. The oddest thing I would have ever seen and potentially, as I mentioned earlier, a really hard time controlling trespassing, which has been a problem on College Heights in the past, Jeeps going through bollards and that kind of stuff. So very odd design, but we would be happy. And I don't have a solution for a gate I haven't seen one that doesn't require this third party being involved. So we have not seen that. We're happy to work with the homeowners as well to see if we can come up with some other creative solution. But at this time, we haven't seen anything like that. It's either the road or this kind of hodgepodge that requires the church to dedicate. And it will be a very ugly three cul-de-sacs all back to back. So as far as timing goes, because we don't want to and due burden on the developer. At what point when they're submitting the plans and everything, does the final design or the final idea for the road have to be submitted? So could we essentially give you approval conditioned upon, we gotta find an answer for the road, and in the meantime we'll try to get, we'll look at all of those options for the crash gate, church property, all those types of things. Maybe there's another option there. What's the timing where they would have to, you know, they could move forward on their plans and all the other things that have to go through to be submitted and approved. It could easily be worked out through their design process, which, depending on their schedule, could be a six to nine month, 12 month timeframe for their design to get through the DSC. So happy to work with them if we come up with some ingenious solution that meets the road connectivity and meets fire. We just haven't, that crystal ball hasn't come up yet. Mayor, if I can jump in for a second since I've been quiet this whole time. What the applicant was just saying is true because again, if you take action tonight and reverse the Planning Commission denial, you're approving their current layout that's in front of you. So you're approving a waiver or modification to lot size. If we come up with a solution of the three cul-de-sac concept, that means the applicant's going to need to modify their site layout, which then will reduce their lot sizes even further. And I think the applicant needs some direction in order to move forward with some of their studies and other things. So that could be another potential impact. So even if you approve it tonight, it could kick this down the road, and then they could be right back asking for some more modifications. Could we condition the city to say, hey, within 30 days, so we don't unnecessarily burden or delay that, to try to get an answer from the church? Is that too soon? Is that even possible? I don't know. I offer a... on that. Again, given the code requirements, I think what you could do is approve the waiver with direction to staff to within the next 30, 60, 90 days, whatever works, so that we don't hold up this development, staff to work towards some sort of a solution that works for cul-de-sacs and gates. knowing that that's a condition that runs to staff and a burden that runs to the city, including the cost. And with no guarantee, of course, that we can come up with that solution or obtain the necessary rights to do it, but we can make an effort, make the old college try, if you will. May I verify that the backup would be that the project is approved with the road as presented? Okay, so again, How do we create time and space that is acceptable to be able to reach out and see what our solutions are so that we go in with our eyes open, not maybe, I'm not comfortable with maybe. So can we push this out to, you know, 30 days? Because I truly feel like that's really important right now to honor everyone that's involved. because I think we will get a win-win and it will give us an opportunity to get a win-win instead of pushing them now, who knows where everybody's at right now. And I do not want to ruin a chance for them to move forward on their development and hurt residents in the same, I'm in the same spot. So we need a little bit of time if we can create that, I really would appreciate it. I think that's what Nick is suggesting, that we approve the waiver as submitted with direction to staff to look at, to reach out to the church to see what the appetite would be for them to give up that piece of land. I say give up. They would most likely sell it if that's doable for us. I don't know that they could do that in 30 days, but it wouldn't matter because you would have already been approved and this will give us time. It's not going to be needed for months and months and months. And so if it does not work, if it does not work, can we then come back? Is there a mechanism to come back to say this is the outcome? I think that would put their project in jeopardy, which is part of the problem. What we could do at that point if it doesn't work out is come back and talk about some of those other measures that Lance had mentioned and whether those help address the problem. But the default with approving the waiver tonight would be that the road would be built unless we can come up with this other solution in the meantime. So it would be... Sorry, this is confusing. I think we approve your... We override the Planning Commission's denial. We direct staff and request a future agenda item within, say, 60 days for an update or 30 days update so the community knows what's the status and everything else like that. And then they present, hey, here's where we're at, and then... We'll have a little more informed discussion or awareness of that. But this way, if that fails, because really it sounds like the only option right now is truly that quote-unquote crash gate, and its only option is if it's doable, is if we are able to negotiate with the church and all the approvals needed and what entails with that. So we won't have that update soon, but we approve. So no matter what happens, if that agenda item 30 days from now does not go, then we'll know that we gave it, as you said, that college trial, but we put the effort forth. and then it's already approved with a road going through right now. Does that make sense? Am I accurate on that? Or no? I'll defer to Stephanie on the appropriateness, I guess, of bringing that back and when you would do that. I guess what I was saying, bringing back a separate agenda item to talk about what the city was directed to do and the update from that. Mayor and Council, I would suggest we could update the community more quickly as opposed to coming to a public meeting. We could work with them. We could let them know the outcome of that because if you are, if we're working on, if there is a desire to approve this project, I think the applicant probably wants to know that they are assured that they are going to be moving forward. So that's separate and I think if we create an item, it feels like they're together, they're connected. So however that needs to be in a condition, that's the motion I would make, which would allow you to move forward, allow staff the time to reach out to the church, inform the residents and meet with the residents on what the church said and what that would entail, And if for whatever reason they say no or something like that, then you will have a meeting with the residents to work out what alternative would work and perhaps it will be whatever is decided for Patty Ann or something else. But hopefully the church would, as they have indicated in the letter, be willing to work with the residents and the city. And just to be clear, that would be, if I heard Nick correctly, that would be the city's responsibility for acquisition, construction of that cul-de-sac, and then maintenance of this gate. That would be non-typical for how we normally operate, but I just want to make sure I understand. Okay. Yeah, unless there's another option, like the road, like the side of the school, maybe there's a side of the church going through there. I don't know. Just trying to think of other options. Mayor, may I say something, please? all for seeing if we can't come up with a solution that is adequate for everyone, but I just want to caution that although this is a very unique situation for the residents here, and we've heard them, this is setting a bad precedent, I think, in overall, then all of a sudden all of these kind of things become unique. And I just, I'm just cautioning. I'm hoping we can work something out. I just want to make sure we're taking a larger view of this. at this time. The precedence we'd be setting is we're listening to our residents and trying to create a win-win. But can I just have clarification? I appreciate the mayor taking time to go through this and spending this amount of time to find a solution. Thank you. So can I just understand clearly, Mayor, on what we're voting on? We're basically, if we do not push through this for the development tonight, then it's over for them and they don't develop, correct? Can I make an opportunity? No, but if we don't all vote, if it doesn't go through tonight, then the developer's done. This is okay. to restate the motion and the effect of the motion. But I'd like to understand this first. So then what are the options? Let me get back to the motion. I believe that the motion is to overturn the Planning Commission's decision of denial, which would grant the waiver and the tentative map with the understanding and direction to staff that, and I don't know what the timeframe is. You may want to specify that. within the next 60 days, work with the property owners to obtain the necessary property rights to potentially put in this gate, if we can make that work. But that is not a condition on this application, and the burden of doing that and the cost will rest with the city. This is going way outside of normal procedures and consideration of what we would normally even think of doing for a resident. We always, always try to, just as with the animals, listen to the residents and try to accommodate what you're requesting and maintain the character of your neighborhood. I think it might, if we could possibly take a five minute break, sit down and figure out exactly what precedent we'd be setting, what we're actually encumbering the city, because it would be a cost that we normally would not pay, that we have not budgeted for, that we can't even guarantee will happen. Let us take a five minute break, a recess, Each of us can think about it, maybe talk to Lance a little bit more so we fully understand what we would be obliging the city to do because it is a very out of the ordinary thing that we're thinking about doing and I'd like to make sure each of us fully understands what we're committing to do. Let me just caution a little bit on that point. Happy to take the five minute break and for us all to think about it. We won't be talking to one another. Correct, and if you have questions, certainly Lance and I are available to talk about the legal risks. There's nothing wrong with talking about those, but all of the other deliberations need to occur in the meeting. Sure. Okay, thank you. We'll take a five minute recess. Anybody needs to use the bathroom, they're out there to the left, and we'll be... Okay, we're gonna call the meeting back to order. Okay, so the proposal as stated by the city attorney is that we approve the waiver before us today. We direct staff to work with the church There's a couple of combinations that could potentially work but would all require some type of approval from the church within 60 days to see what the church would be willing to do. And what responsibility they would take if the access has to be maintained on their property. One option was to look at keeping it on their property and one was to look at access. off their property. If that cannot go through, the road will have to go through with meetings with you to figure out what calming measures would work. And there's a variety of options that have been discussed. One of those surely will work, but the hope is that the church would work with the with staff to be able to create that crash gate situation. We cannot guarantee that they will do that. We will work with them to ask them if they will allow us to do that. There's indications, they've indicated to you that they will be willing to do that, but we can't guarantee under this approval that they're going to do that. will make every effort to work with them, but we cannot guarantee it. So if we approve this going forward, knowing we're working toward the crash gate, if the church does not, for whatever reason, agree to do it, it's still gonna go through, but we will work with you on designs to calm traffic or to protect the neighborhood and the integrity. I wanna make sure you understand that, that if it gets approved and the church does not agree, for some reason, that option is off the table, we can't force them to do it. So that would be my motion. However, Nick, you said toward it, to overturn this, overturn Planning Commission's decision to deny direct staff to work with the adjacent property owned by the church see whether or not they would be open to, in whatever configuration, working with us to allow a crash gate and identify what, if anything, that would cost the city and who would maintain it to see if it's an option for us to be able to do. Sorry, this is the longest motion in history. If the church will not agree with it, then we will with the residents on an option to calm traffic on both. It's already working on Patty Ann Woods, but on this road as well, so that it maintains the character and calm, protected area that the neighbors have. Did you get that? Sort of. You get the intent. Did I cover everything? That would be my motion. returning the Planning Commission and granting the waiver is what you're doing. Okay. I think everybody's voted. With the exception of Councilwoman Cox, who voted nay, all members voted in favor of the motion made by Mayor Romero, and it carries. Thank you. Your next item on the agenda is item 25, a public hearing, Teamsters Blue Collar, Clerical, Technical, and Supervisors, Labor Agreements, Teamsters Local 14, and the recommendation is to approve. I think MJ's coming up. Sorry, I was reined in for a moment. Please carry on. Good evening, Honorable Mayor and Council Members. For the record, I am MJ Scott, the Human Resource Manager for the designee for the chief labor negotiator, Carlos McDade. I'm here this evening to present for your consideration and possible action, the new labor agreements between the city of Henderson and Teamsters Local 14, representing our blue collar, our clerical technical, and our supervisors' bargaining units. The city and Teamsters Local 14 engaged in good faith negotiations resulting in three successor labor agreements. They were ratified by the Teamsters membership. These contracts reflect our shared commitment to keeping Henderson a high performing, competitive and supportive employer. The agreements cover a three year term effective July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2028. These would be replacing the current agreements. A couple of the key provisions I'd like to mention are for the wage increases across the three-year term. For fiscal year 2026, it's a total of 3.5% increase, and that's retroactive to July 1st, 2025. In fiscal year 2027 and 2028, CPI-based increases between 2.25% and 3.5% with a minimum of 2.75% guaranteed. And if the CPI falls below the 2.75, then that's the guarantee that all classifications would get that. And then another note is the health and wellness city contribution to the Teamster Security Fund will increase incrementally each year. staff respectfully recommends approval to the Teamsters Blue Collar, Clerical Technical and the Supervisors labor agreements between the City of Henderson and Teamsters Local 14. And I would like to say I want to express my sincere gratitude to Grant and the entire Teamsters bargaining team, as well as the city's negotiation team for their professionalism, collaboration, and mutual respect throughout this process. Both the city and the Teamsters displayed thoughtful approach at the table, which made these negotiations both productive and respectful. We built an agreement together that reflects our shared commitment to supporting our employees, strengthening our organization and serving our community with excellence. And now at this time, I'd like to bring up Teamsters Chief Shop Steward, Tony Freitas. Thank you, good afternoon. I was gonna say good afternoon, but I can, we blew that. Tony Freitas, Team Local 14 Vice President and Chief Shop Steward here at the City of Henderson. I wrote two pages of stuff, but I'm really willing to say thanks. Next. Thank you. All right. I was told I got to make sure I try not to forget anybody. So again, thank you, Mayor, Council, City Management, Nick Vascoff, and your team. Christina Gilmore is a beast just letting you know. We squeezed them, we couldn't get any extra money out of them. But I'd like to read this to you folks, get it on record. I wanna express our gratitude to everybody involved on behalf of our 900 teams to represent the positions. We appreciate the time and effort and collaboration that has brought us to this point in time where you the council are the last hurdle before crossing the finish line and approving the contract. stand before you humbly asking you to break that finish line ribbon so that we can move on to our next big hurdle, the class and comp market study. We're on track to complete the market study in the next six months or so, and we remain hopeful that together we can ensure that the city of Henderson continues to be a premier place to work and live as one of the safest and most sought after communities in the nation. This vision is only achievable with dedication of our members, our member workforce, who is hard at work and often goes unrecognized. I often hear the praises of sworn officers and professional firefighters. No offense, I love you guys, but we are second to none. And let me remind you that without Teamsters, the city could not be in the top national rankings on any list, and our city would be nothing more than a corridor to a gambling capital of the world. It's up the road somewhere. Your employees are proud to support the city and its leadership, and we're eager to have our voices heard. And in months ahead, we address the market study results collaboratively. I'd also like to send a huge shout out to my negotiating team for staying focused and committed to the best interest of all teams to represent employees and for knowing when enough was enough. I'd also like to recognize the record-breaking 303 dues-paying members that took the time out of their busy workday to vote on this contract. Congratulations on exercising your right to vote and having your voice heard. The huge turnout to vote forces to the city leadership that we are united and will not go unheard and we deserve every last benefit fought for over the last 10 months of negotiations. Finally, I'd like to offer a special thanks to Carlos McDade, the chief labor negotiator, and MJ who stepped up in the ninth inning to take over. But Carlos is probably one of the best chief labor negotiators the city's ever had. It's sad to see him go, but we wish him well. Hopefully he's on a beach somewhere enjoying it. With that, I look forward to your vote. Thank you. Thank you. This is a public hearing, which I'll now open. Mayor, there is no one in the public hearing queue for this item. I'll close the public hearing. Council, any questions or comments? Besides, thank you all who worked on this. to such a great resolution for everybody. Thank you. Anything else? May I have a motion? I'll make that motion. That's all right. Please vote. Just as long as it was a motion. No, no, we're good. All members vote in favor of the motion made by Monica Larson, and it carries. Next section of your agenda is bills referred for adoption as ordinance. Item 26 is bill number 3872, major modification to the Black Mountain Park Agreement, Greystone, Nevada, LLC. The recommendation is to adopt as ordinance number 4110. Are there any questions or comments? May I have a motion? Members vote in favor of the motion made by Councilman Seabach and it carries. Item number 27 is Bill number 3873, ZCA-2011500286-A20, Rainbow Canyon Parcel W-4, Unit 5, and the recommendation is to adopt as ordinance number 4111. Any questions or comments? We have a motion. Please vote. Members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilman Cox and it carries. Item 28 is Bill 3874, ZCA-2025-017304 for the COH Fire Station conversion. Recommendation is to adopt as ordinance number 4112. Any questions? We have a motion. It's not showing. Voice vote, Mayor. Can you voice vote? It's not showing yours. Oh, there we go. Okay. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilwoman Larson. And it carries. Item 29 is Bill No. 3875, amending Henderson and Municipal Code, Chapter 10.24, Speed Regulations. And the recommendation is to adopt as Ordinance No. 4113. Any questions or comments? Motion. All members voted in favor of the motion you may be by Councilwoman Larson and it carries. Item 30 is bill number 3876, authorizing issuance of municipal utility revenue bond, clean water revolving fund. The recommendation is to adopt its ordinance number 4114. We have a motion. I'll move. Please vote. Members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilman Seabach and it carries. As a reminder, items 31 and 32 will be opened together and voted on separately. Item 31 is bill number 3877, Henderson Municipal Code Title VII Animals and the recommendation is to adopt as ordinance number 4115 and item number 32 is bill number 3878, ZOA-2025-017612. Code, Animal Related Uses and Standards, and the recommendation is to adopt as Ordinance Number 4116, Assistant Director of Community Development Services, Ian Massey is here to give us a presentation. Thank you, Mayor and Council, Ian Massey, Community Development Services, and so I'm proud to bring back to you what we tried to do about six months ago and update both Title 19 for our zoning-related animal uses as well as Title 7, which is our animal-related welfare ordinances and so we do have a presentation I will try to go fast I know we've been here a long time tonight but I am here for any questions and mostly I want to thank the communications department so there's lots of nice pictures so I won't be reading any of the slides but you get to see some fun animals in here for your enjoyment so first we'll start with the title 19 updates and so as you've heard during some of the public comment we decided to go through and and update our uses to be more compatible with what we were hearing in the rural areas especially. And so that's what we're looking at with the accessory animal uses. So one of the things that we heard loud and clear was something about some just technical language about being kept for slaughter animals. And so we don't allow animals to be slaughtered in Henderson and we continue to maintain that. For household pets, we updated some definitions so that Title VII and Title XIX are essentially and they have one unified definition for household pets. It also clarifies that you can have a combined total of 10 household pets. And so those are not the same as livestock, which we'll get here in a second. So first we'll talk about potbelly pigs. Like I said, the pictures are more fun than listening to me talk about this. So the existing language is that you could have one potbelly pig in the RS1 through RS4 designations. And so we just clarified that you can have a sterilized pig. It must be sterilized. then you can also request a conditional use permit in a rural neighborhood. So again, keeping with the theme of our rural neighborhoods, wanted more flexibility on the types of livestock that they could keep, and that's what we did here. Title VII requirements are that, of course, we're going to maintain those pot-bellied pigs in good health. Livestock was part of this meeting that we held, and it was of great concern for the rural areas, and we heard them loud and clear. And so what we did is that we clarified some of the language, and we... concentrated on those rural areas in the RS1 and RS2 lots. So the animals that are allowed in those areas are gonna be horses, cattle, goats, sheep, hens, ducks, swine, and quail as defined as livestock. For horses we essentially kept the same. The only thing we did was we removed that foals. Foals were a little bit confusing when regulating them so basically The language on horses is one per 10,000 square feet, again, with a CUP in a rural area. And for some other uses that remain unchanged, you can continue to have more than one per 10,000 square feet with those permits. Cattle, we also heard that loud and clear. Right now, existing code was that we could have one cow per 40,000 square feet of net acreage That would allow you to have one cow per one RS1 zone. So we definitely loosened that up. And so now we also included RS1 and RS2. And you can have one per 20,000 square feet. Again, for those that live in the rural area, you can get a conditional use permit to increase that as long as it's compatible with the use and the size of your lot. Goats. sheep and swine, non-minuture breeds, is a new category for us. And again, we maintain that at the same for horses. There was a lot of discussion about that and maybe making more ability to have it by right. But we kept with the one per 10,000 square feet. And again, in the rural areas, and I know this is a common theme. In the rural areas, you can ask for more than that. Backyard chickens, we... have a backyard chicken ordinance. We heard the neighbors the neighborhoods again that wanted the ability to have quail as well as ducks and for eggs and so we did go ahead and we did add that in there and so we're no longer limited to hens and as long as you're in an RS1 through an RS6 you can have up to 10 combined hens. So current code said that you could have seven hens per lot. We did increase that by right to ten. If you would like with a design only a design review application, you can go from 11 to 20 in the rural natural preservation area and you can go with a CUP again, you can go to essentially as many as your lot can support. Household birds is also a new category for us. We had some issues where they're not currently defined very well in our codes and so we wanted to make sure that we had the intent of how we were regulating those and so we came to the agreement in both Title VII and Title XIX that you can have up to household birds, which includes banded pigeons on your property. So for racing pigeons or homing pigeons, as long as they're banded, then pigeons are allowed for that specific use. Fencing and enclosures essentially really remains the same. There were some really technical changes there for how far back the fence had to be set from the front lot line. Again, this was really only in the rural areas that it mattered, and so we did go ahead and make those adjustments, and we reduced it down to 50 feet from your front setback. We also added a mobile animal exhibitor. We did have someone request the ability to have a petting zoo where the animals were stored and maintained at their residence in Henderson. And so that use did not exist. And so we went ahead and we created that use and we added also at this same opportune time, the legislative session resulted in a bill that actually talks about petting zoos. And so we were able to incorporate the new language on signage requirements for petting zoos that operate in Nevada. animal grooming services and so realistically we don't have this use in the rural areas so we clarified some of that language and the home occupation language that prohibits the use for grooming facilities and sales at residential for commercial purposes. That's all of Title 19 but I'm going to go through Title 7 and then I can stand by to answer any questions. So again we did a lot of definition updates a lot of them were to clean up language the NRS had changed in some of the definitions had been there. We also again incorporated some of those definitions from Title 19 as well. And again, livestock or domestic animals traditionally bred in captivity. And so we maintained that definition so we could have that. Wild and exotic animals, we clarified that that if you were required by the state or the federal government to have a permit to have a particular animal anywhere, city of Henderson that you would have to have that permit or that approval from that regulatory body in order for us to consider it, but we would prohibit all exotic animals outside of that in Henderson. Right of entry is one of the things that we were looking at. We had some laws that didn't currently comply with case law for how our animal protection officers are able to gain access to properties, and so we worked, we have a lot of attorneys behind me over here, so we worked a long time with both our civil and our criminal division to make sure that we clarified exactly how we were getting into properties was legal so that they could prosecute cases when we needed for them to do so. Couple of the things that came out again of the legislative session is that the legislature requested that any municipality or any nonprofit allow veterans and first responders to have a free adoption of a pet. every six months and so we were able to do that so we incorporated that so all first responders upon a passage today are able to come down to the shelter and get any pet of their choosing um every six months they can have one for free and so we would waive all adoption fees and costs on that as well we also gave the director of community development services the ability when we're in a hearing capacity at our shelter to also waive or reduce fees entirely to promote adoptions thing I want to highlight here is that we did look at a lot of the fees and some of the services that we were providing, and we had to balance that with the actual cost of the services. As everyone knows, cost of everything from equipment to supplies has gone up substantially in the last five years, and so we did bring some of those in lines. We will still be a low-cost provider for all the services that we have, but we did raise those slightly. And we created a fund that allows us in community development to reinvest any sort of times that we go ahead and we have that we have fees that we charge so to not make them general fund fees so those fees that we would charge for any sort of investigations we can put them back into the animal protection staff and being able to investigate cruelty neglect and abuse cases in the future Niles and appeals, again, we cleaned up some of the language to remain consistent. So for all of our animal use permits and our handlers or exhibitors, everything. So we wanted to make sure that we have a very consistent and fair process for how we treat those and to make sure that there is due process when we go to suspend or revoke someone's ability to continue a business operation or to breed or anything like that. So we went ahead and made changes in those areas as well. is a big one for Henderson. As you probably know, Clark County and the City of Las Vegas announced earlier this year that they were requiring microchipping for all dogs and cats in their respective jurisdictions. And the City of Henderson had long maintained that microchipping was required for any sort of adopted animals, but we are now requiring any animals in our jurisdiction, any, excuse me, any dogs and cats in our jurisdictions to be microchipped, as well as community cats. And we'll bring up community cats here in a second. Also you saw a lot of state legislature come down with REBA's law, AB 381, and so this change we were able to capture all of the requirements in AB 381 and make them ordinance upon passage today. So all of the animal welfare neglect cases that we see, people entering private vehicles, we did go ahead and we made those, we codified those, as well as we animals that are trapped to be returned to owners within 72 hours. We do have that as somewhat of an issue in the public and so we're just making sure that all of our partners in the community that do go out and trap animals that they do have to return those animals within 72 hours. And we also have a prohibition to again maintain alignment with our sister jurisdictions that we do not allow ducklings or chicks to be sold at under two weeks of age. We have one big nuisance that we wanted to address in this is in the roosting of pigeons on private property. So right now we don't have any ordinance unlike our sister jurisdictions that allow us to take any action if someone just negligently allows the roosting of pigeons. So basically we're putting this back on the homeowner or business owner if there's pigeons that are roosting on your property causing a nuisance and we go to investigate that. It is your responsibility as the private property owner to address that public nuisance. We also clarified there is an affirmative process in that between Public Works, Community Development Services, Animal Protection, that the City of Henderson is responsible for clearing its public rights of way of all deceased animals and when possible returning those to their owners. So one of the options or sorry one of one of the items that I do want to bring attention to especially since we have a group of people that sat here through the last several hours of this meeting is and if you guys want to stand Henderson cats we have in the blue shirts recognize them and so about a year ago they came before you and asked for a pilot program for maintaining community cats and so what we want to say today with the passage of this is that it has been a success and want to continue to work with Henderson cats and any other organization that wants to deal with community cats and so we put some guardrails in there and again maintain consistent ordinances with our with Clark County in the city of Las Vegas but presumably Henderson cats upon passage will become one of our official partners and maintain community cat colonies in Henderson to try to reduce the population and they will be responsible for trapping neutering vaccinating and returning those community cats into our community to to control that pet population. So I want to thank Henderson Cats and Animal Protection Services, of course, for helping that pilot program come to fruition and be a success. Impoundment. This was, again, another one of those requirements that was put into NRS 574. So we, again, worked with the city attorney's office very closely and the municipal court on an impoundment process and a hearing. So under some of the changes that went into effect with REBA's law, a person's animal that is taken away from them, they have the affirmative right to have a hearing on whether they're fit to have that animal any longer, and so that goes ahead and we codify that here and we put the complaint in the court hearing process into code. Again, wild and exotic animals are prohibited. This is slightly misleading. They are not now prohibited. They've been prohibited. We extended it to Port poisonous or venomous amphibians to the reptile section, and so that we're not just naming every animal on this planet and we're just trying to categorize it a little bit more broadly, but venomous, poisonous, amphibians, snakes, reptiles, those are all prohibited and remain prohibited. Some rabies, again, some cleanup where we allow the home confinement in certain cases. So if you have a rabies susceptible animal that has been bitten or has bitten someone, we already have this in process, so we are just codifying the fact that they can do home confinement if they can maintain the animal as needed. Animal establishments, again, we are maintaining the consistency throughout the code to make sure that there's due process when we go to deny or revoke an animal establishment license. One of the big changes here for both our team and for this code is that while we will continue to maintain in every aspect the criminal prosecution element of all animal related crimes, it is not in the industry, it is not the most successful and it is not the easiest practice when you are faced with criminal action. You get more rights than you do when it's a civil or an administrative process. So what we're doing today is we're adding the ability for animal protection services, much like code enforcement, much like our park officers, and much like some of the stuff that we do for public works to be able to have an administrative process, a civil penalty process, a notice of violation, instead of having to mandate everyone goes to court. Potentially, in theory, it would be in front of a judge, but a lot of times that just kind of clogs up the court system, and undue burden on our prosecutors to negotiate cases when we could probably handle them a little bit better at an administrative level. But I do want to make sure that I'm very clear. It still allows all animal welfare, abuse, neglect cases. It still allows the criminal prosecution. So we're trying to strengthen that by reducing the overall amount of cases that we have to send to court. So again, I'd like to thank you all for your consideration today. I definitely had a team that worked on this, specifically I'll call Rochelle Liston, who did an exceptional job on all of the changes in the neighborhood meeting that she hosted, is the current planning team, Animal Protection Services. And I'm here for any questions or any comments that you have. Thank you. I want to really, really thank you. Thank Danielle. Thank Rochelle. You guys really, really listened to not only the neighbors' concerns, ours as well and you I don't know how you did it but you were able to capture all of it and get it into a code and I also want to shout out to Corey who is a tireless advocate for cats and she got she got what she needed in the code as well thank you this was a huge huge undertaking I know it has taken nettold number of hours for your team to really understand what is being proposed and what is changing. And I appreciate the time and effort that you have taken and your whole team and given it the weight it deserves to be able to address all of these issues for our residents and specifically for those in rural preservation neighborhoods who really wanted that flexibility, I appreciate it. Any other comments? Thank you, thank you, thank you. I am just so happy about all of the changes that have been made and to say that you all spent with your team hours is an understatement. It is literally six months effort of just pounding it out and I want to personally thank you for the consistent updates that I was given. that I believe the Council has given. And it just meant a lot to see it progressing forward and to know that we were really coming to something that could benefit everyone. And I love that TNR is permanent. So thank you from the bottom of my heart. And again, I agree. Cori, my gosh, she really helped guide and direct that inside the city and did a lot of work. So thank you from the bottom of my heart to you and your team. if you think about where we were when the room was filled with animal advocates and everything else like that and the insurmountable challenge that was in front of you, your team with Rochelle and Eddie and everybody else, but also the engagement of the community. And as I was talking to Councilman Stewart earlier, what makes Henderson stand apart, makes us the best in the entire state and the entire country as far as I'm concerned is that we still time to engage and listen to our community and then come to the best resolution possible with everyone's thoughts and input in mind. And you took the time to do that. Everyone engaged to make that possible. And now we have a room full of people celebrating because we all came to a good agreement on a good project and a very good update. So thank you to everybody for all your input to make us to where we're at. All right. With that, I will take a motion on item 31, which is the Title VII changes. Please vote. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilwoman Larson, and it carries. And then, and then item 32, which is the Title XIX changes, I will take a motion. Please vote. Members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilwoman Larson and it carries. Item 33 is in new business, appointments by Mayor and Council to the Blue Ribbon Commission on Education Excellence and Youth Opportunity and the recommendation is to appoint Jason Couchman and Lindsey Cousins. May I have a motion? I move. Please vote. members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilman Seabach and it carries. Item 34 is the annual performance evaluation for the city attorney and the recommendation is to accept. Good evening Mayor, Council, City Manager, London Porter Assistant Director of Human Resources and we are very fortunate to have Mr. Vascoff as the city attorney and it's no secret that common words mentioned for him are knowledgeable, collaborative, friendly, consistent, and fair. And with that, I'll turn it over to Nick for some more information on his evaluation with that snazzy tie, sir. Thank you. I think they'll pull the presentation up. Mayor and Council, at the risk of making your meeting go even longer tonight, I want to take about 10 minutes to just give a summary of the performance of the City Attorney's Office this past year. Over the past decade, the role of general counsel has rapidly evolved, particularly in the government sector. Gone are the days when general counsel's office functioned as sort of passive, siloed secondary support units. Today, in-house counsel departments and lawyers must do more. They must serve as strategic and trusted advisors to the departments and business units they support. They must work proactively to help clients navigate complex regulatory environments, recognize and reduce business risk, offer insights that improve operational effectiveness, champion ethical decision making, provide leadership in times of crisis, and generally serve as go-to institutional problem solvers. Today I want to highlight for you how the city's attorney's office serves as more than just the city's lawyers, how we serve as problem solvers and trusted advisors. the important but often unseen or overlooked value that brings to the organization. There's no better recognition of performance excellence than the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award that the city earned this past year. Issued by the United States Department of Commerce, it's the nation's highest award for performance excellence. As the mayor has rightly noted, this amazing achievement spans multiple city leaders and touches every city department, and that certainly includes our office. Our office was an important piece of the city's Baldrige journey from the beginning, helping the city and our client departments in a variety of ways critical to the Baldrige criteria. Notably, one of the key findings of the Baldrige program was the city's strong results for legal and regulatory compliance across numerous highly regulated areas, human resources, community development, community safety, and employee safety. I want to thank the attorneys and staff on our office, both past and present, that were part of that journey and helped the city become just the fourth municipal government to obtain the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Performance excellence requires a commitment to continuous improvement and never resting on success and embracing change. And this year was certainly filled with change including the appointment of several new department directors and a new senior management team with new ideas and fresh perspectives that we welcome. I'm proud of the work our office did to help make these leadership transitions smooth, primarily by being adaptable and welcoming to new ideas and vision, and by serving as an archive of important institutional knowledge. I also want to thank Stephanie and Lisa and Angela and Alyssa viewing us as more than just the lawyers in the room? Just for the record, our screen is gone. It's not showing the thing anymore. It's showing motion pass, current meeting. It's showing what's on Maria's screen over there. There you go. Sorry, Nick. No, you're fine. Again, I want to thank Stephanie, Lisa, Angela and Alyssa for viewing us as more than just the lawyers in the room. Instead, they view us as partners and trusted advisors, and they empower us to offer our expertise in ways that contribute to their executive decision-making, and we appreciate that. Change was also the theme this year for one of our largest client departments, HPD. While some of that change, the change that impacted HPD was difficult from my perspective, it was also very necessary. Public safety personnel put themselves in harm's way every day in the work they do, and it's inherently risky. They deserve a department that collaborates with other city departments to leverage strengths, amplify resources, and mitigate risks. utilizes the best and most modern police practices and is committed to continuous improvement. Our team, I can assure you, is all in on helping HPD strengthen those capabilities and we look forward to continuing with working with Chief Rader and his command staff to that end. I also want to thank the attorneys and staff in the Civil Division that support the strategic and operational needs of HPD and the prosecutors and staff in the Criminal Division that partner with HPD to ensure that the city remains one of the safest in the country. I also want to thank Chief Rader and Assistant City Manager Lisa Corrado for trusting us and recognizing that early engagement with our team helps reduce risk for the city, the department, and our officers. One of the core functions of our office is to defend the city in cases and contested matters in state and federal court and before other administrative bodies. At any one time, the litigation practice group of the Civil Division manages between 40 and 70 cases, ranging from car accidents and slip and falls to labor and employment claims and high stakes constitutional cases. During a recent attorney client session, you heard about our litigation successes and challenges this year. Our litigation team takes a very sophisticated and a strategic approach to managing our cases. We take pride in having a commanding knowledge of the facts and the law, and as a result, we win far more often than we lose. We also pride ourselves on being responsible stewards of public resources, mindful of the city's best interests, and that includes knowing when to argue and when to settle. I want to thank the attorneys and staff of the litigation practice group. It's not an exaggeration to say that the work they do and eliminates millions of dollars of potential liability every year. Another essential function of our office is the city's business, the support we provide to the city's business and transactional operations. That work includes real estate transactions, development agreements, construction contracting, purchasing and professional service procurement, construction contracts. It also includes technology and software licensing, an area of increasing work for our office. As technology agreements become more complex and software as a service now becomes the norm. I want to thank the attorneys and staff in the Civil Division that are part of the transactional practice group who partner with their client departments to support their business needs. The city operates more efficiently and effective and with far less risk because of the work they do. Prosecuting crime is another core function of our office and the Criminal Division is staffed by some of the best prosecutors and staff in the state. Last year, our team of nine prosecutors handled 6,300 cases, nearly 800 more than the prior year. We believe that increase in caseload is largely a result of more cases being referred to our office instead of other prosecutorial agencies and reflects our reputation as a tough but fair team that obtains good results no matter the case. Those 6,300 cases included nearly 1,000 cases of domestic violence, 700 cases of driving under the influence, 800 drug-related cases, 1,000 property crime cases. So domestic violence, driving under the influence, and drug cases are our highest prosecutorial priority, but we take pride in relentlessly pursuing the best possible outcome for victims, no matter how big or small the case. An example is a case we handled in November. The defendant was arrested for stalking a young woman he met on social media. Unbeknownst to the victim, the defendant had a significant criminal history. Upon learning of this, the victim was scared for her safety but determined to hold the defendant accountable and prevent him from stalking others. With her help, we were able to obtain a stalking conviction. We also connected her with other community partners who helped her obtain a temporary civil protective order, and we facilitated service of that protective order on the defendant during one of his criminal case hearings. The victim told us that she appreciated the comprehensive victim-centered approach we took to the case. I want to, in particular, thank the victim advocates and the investigators in the criminal division that worked so hard supporting victims like this young woman. The value they bring to our team and the contributions they make to the city's community safety priority are immeasurable. I mentioned earlier that beyond our core functions, we strive to serve as problem solvers and strategic advisors to our client. That work is incredibly valuable, but often goes unseen. I want to give you a few examples. In May, the city broke ground on the 215 Beltway widening project. This $250 million project is underway and will widen the Beltway from Pecos Road to Stephanie. Instruction is underway in part because of our efforts defending a bid protest filed by one of the bidders, you will remember. Our efforts in that case included front-end advice to Public Works and a detailed presentation to you in which we explained why the law required the bid protest to be denied, all part of that bid protest. Our efforts also included defending the ensuing litigation where we prevailed after the court concluded the city acted properly in rejecting the bid protest. Our efforts included strategic advice and operational advice we gave to Public Works after the conclusion of the litigation aimed at improving our bid documents to avoid similar protests in the future. And of course, that's not to mention the transactional support we provided Public Works on the front end to get the project ready for bid in the first place. All told, our office dedicated likely upwards of more than 100 hours of our time and a mountain of expertise to that project, much of it critical but unseen. Another example of the valuable but unseen work our office did is the complex litigation we managed on the city's behalf against the manufacturers, distributors, and retailers responsible for the nationwide opioid epidemic. In October of 2018, the City Council authorized our office in conjunction with outside counsel and the Nevada Attorney General's office to bring product liability and nuisance-based claims against the opioid defendants on the City's behalf. And in August of 2021, the City approved the One Nevada Agreement for the allocation of opioid recoveries. This innovative agreement pooled the claims of the state and Nevada's local governments to maximize our leverage and the collective recovery for all of the participating agencies. The opioid litigation is now largely complete and I'm happy to report that we reused the strength of the One Nevada Agreement to negotiate settlements with the opioid defendants totaling nearly $8 million for the city. As the city receives those funds over the coming years, they will be used to repair the damage to our community caused by the opioid epidemic. The funds are already being put to good use, including to support the city's award-winning Don't Risk It All with Fentanyl campaign and the successful Fentanyl Summits. I'm proud of the work our office did in this area, and we look forward to helping the city continue to make good use of those settlement proceeds. We could go on and on listing other examples of the work our office does, both seen and unseen, to support our client departments and keep our community one of the safest in the country. But none of it happens without the incredible effort, superb talent, and immense dedication of the attorneys and staff in both the civil and criminal divisions. They deserve all the credit. We are fortunate to have them on our team, and I want to take a moment to acknowledge those that are left in attendance this evening, so thank you. I also want to specifically acknowledge the attorneys and staff listed on this slide that are new to our team this year and thank them for joining and lending us their time and talent. Each year when I give this presentation, I share pictures like this because culture is very important to us. We think culture is the key to high productivity and job satisfaction. We work hard to maintain a workplace built on trust that allows our team members to learn new skills and fulfill their full potential, that celebrates each other's successes, and that takes a team approach to the practice of law. We encourage open communication and collaboration. We interact with kindness and compassion. We support organizational improvement and risk-taking, and we promote joy and laughter in the office. Thank you, Mayor and Council, for continuing to trust me with the responsibility of leading the City Attorney's Office and serving as your legal counsel. I take that responsibility very seriously, and it's truly an honor to serve my community in this role. I continue to enjoy this job, and I'm happy to remain in the seat for as long as you will have me. With that, I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Are you going to go first, or do you want us to talk first? How about I go first, and then you can have at it. The recommendation for HR is to approve the annual performance evaluation of Mr. Vaskoff. A reminder that the request is cost neutral and the current contract is active until December 31st, 2026. Thank you, Nick, for the presentation and thank you for all of you who stuck it out through the longest council meeting we've ever had. We appreciate the work that you do. Especially this year, have seen the importance your team plays in protecting the city and protecting taxpayer dollars actually for lawsuits and other things. You have done an amazing job to make sure that the city is protected to the greatest extent possible. You've assembled a team that is just bar none and has an incredible reputation throughout the actually for the work that you do and it doesn't go unnoticed and we're happy to have it recognized today. I thank you for always, you always approach things from a can-do attitude but you'll also always approach things from first from the most conservative protection of the city possible but if that's not direction we need to go, you're also open to how can we make this work, how can we get to yes and still protect the city. And so I really appreciate that. I told you before I've been in situations with other city attorneys where that was never the case. It was not that attitude and it is a refreshing situation to deal with now. And I will kind it right there because this has been a long night, but thank you to you and to your team for the incredible work you've done over the last year. It has truly been amazing. Anybody else? I'll be quick, I promise. So, one thank you, but thank you to your team because it's your team that has to sometimes deal with motions like we make and have to do the contracts and then all the logistics behind it to make sure we're good. I mean, we're in a very litigious society and your team protects our city, plain and simple, in all aspects and all we do, from the presentations you give, from the litigation reviews, from helping us open up Watermark, helping us get new developments, helping us protect the citizens, the animals, I mean, all aspects is done, and down to your crime victims and everything else like that. So thank you so much for your leadership. Thank you to that team and the countless hours they put in to protect us. So thank you very much. Okay. Oh, okay. Thank you. Okay, well, with that, can I have a motion to accept the performance evaluation and the recommendations? I'll make that motion. I'm going to do it in a moment. I just want to thank you, Nick. Please go. And your entire team. I've been working with you guys for a long time, planning commission as well as on city council, and I've never found a better team. Thank you, you guys. I really appreciate it. All in favor of the motion made by Councilwoman Larson, and it carries. Item 35 is a resolution for the proposed local improvement district and approving the form of a deposit agreement. The recommendation is to adopt as resolution number 4648. We have a motion. Please vote. voted in favor of the motion made by Councilman Seabach and it carries. Item 36 is a resolution to rescind and replace resolution number 4637, direct land sale of approximately 1.19 acres plus or minus to RLs Boulder LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and the recommendation is to adopt as resolution number 4649. May I have a motion? Please vote. Members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilman Seabach and it carries. Item 37 is a resolution, the land sale of approximately 11.44 acres plus or minus on the south side of Sunset Way east of Valley Verde Drive and the recommendation is to adopt resolution number 4650. Please vote. Voted in favor of the motion made by Councilman Stewart and it carries. Item 38 is property marketing agreement, land sale of approximately 11.44 acres, plus or minus, Commercial Real Estate Exchange, Inc. The recommendation is to approve. May I have a motion? Please vote. voted in favor of the motion made by Councilwoman Larson and it carries. The next section of your agenda is bills to be read in title unless an item is pulled for discussion. Council will take action on all bills to be read in title with one motion. Item 39 is the accompanying bill number 3879 for item number five, Standard Development Agreement-DEV-2025017382 Inspirata Town Center North via Centro Multifamily. Item 40 is Bill number 3880-0A-2025-017696, Zoning Ordinance Amendment, Annual Development Code Update. Your recommendation is to refer Bill numbers 3879 and 3880 to the City Council regular meeting of November 4th, 2025. Thank you. May I have a motion to refer? Please vote. Members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilman Cox and it carries. Now is the time for Mayor and Council comments. Are there any Council comments? I'll go to. setting the next meeting. I will set the next City Council regular meeting for November 4th, 2025. And now is the time for our final public comment. If you wish to make a public comment, please come to the podium, speak directly into the mic, state your name and zip code, and you'll have three minutes to speak. Mayor, there are four persons in the second public comment queue. The first one is Brian Harris. your name and zip code for the record please. Yes, Brian Harris, zip code 89074. I've been here in Henderson for about 25 years. I wanted to thank Councilwoman Larson. She got me back here to the City Council and encouraged me to get more involved. And before I state why I wanted to say Mayor Romero, Councilman Lawson, you guys came out to the Black Henderson picnic. It was a pleasure to have you both on my media bus and on my billboard. You guys look good and you represented the city very well. Thank you. Now, like I said, I have not been back here since there was a discussion on the previous police chief. I was very disappointed at that time because you had a person that was here trying to make changes, trying to have professionalism in the police force, and he was let go. And that time I kind of washed my hands. Councilman Lawson actually asked me to come back. She had very high marks for the new police chief. I got a minute to talk to him. believe he might be the right direction when it comes down to the need of a making sure that our police force is professional making sure there is inclusion there's diversity and there is an opportunity for all of the people of Henderson to be treated fairly so I told him that I'm going to support him going forward I wanted to support the council to especially Councilman Larson and Mayor Romero. I think we're heading in the right direction, but we got a lot to go. We're going to be working. My company, just I forgot to do this, Black Book Media. We are a boutique marketing and advertising company. I also have a nonprofit called Black Book Media Cares. We've given out over $40 million of food in the last four years to the working proud in this area. And my last is the independent black voters, because I really believe that it is time that our city listens to everyone. And I'm going to be very active. in getting them to not just come to the council meetings, but be more active in who represents us. Thank you. Thank you. Next person is Justin Bennett. Hello again. Sorry for having to take some time again, and I'm sorry for raining on your prey. Mr. Vascoff, this is not a personal attack on you. I hope you understand that. Justin Bennett regarding 89044. There have been many documented cases where firefighters accused or even arrested for domestic violence were quietly placed on administrative leave or allowed to resign instead of facing criminal prosecution. These are not isolated incidents. They reflect a system that protects the institution instead of the victims. And in this case, that is exactly what this looks like, was chosen by the city attorney and the fire department. After the last meeting where I shared all of the admissions of guilt directly from the firefighter, the city attorney did send me an email which he addresses some very concerning points which I will summarize. He First, I can assure you that my office takes domestic violence very seriously and domestic violence is our highest priority. Last year we prosecuted more than 1,000 such cases. We also take our duty to prosecute and seek justice very seriously. That includes exercising discretion in cases where we believe the evidence does not support a conviction. The case against Mr. Cheney suffers evidentiary credibility and admissibility issues that prevent us from moving forward at this time. I can assure you that I have no interest in protecting Mr. Cheney from criminal prosecution. Likewise, I can assure you that no one is protecting Mr. Cheney's employment status. I can tell you that an investigation was conducted and Mr. Cheney was disciplined. So very similar, doesn't it? Mr. Cheney avoided prosecution but was placed on administrative leave, basically a timeout for adults, and is now back at work representing this city. Let's be clear, he was placed on administrative leave because of all the evidence that he committed domestic abuse, physical abuse, acts of violence, and is now back in uniform. Is adult timeout truly the justice standard the city is going to set as sufficient for victims of these crimes? attorney also wrote community safety requires participation of witnesses like you to ensure justice moving forward if you have newer additional evidence you believe is relevant to the criminal investigation involving mr cheney please contact the hpd those investigations remain within authority of my office so he is seriously telling me first that the victim my wife the mother of his first child and myself are not credible and the evidence already submitted is not sufficient but then thanks me for being a witness and trying to ensure justice and if i have any more evidence to please submit it I assure you there is more evidence here than most of those 1,000 cases you guys did bring. How about this? You look at Mr. Cheney's text. I hate myself for the things that I've done. There's no excuse. What I've done is disgusting. I'm going to no longer be taking steroids. I realize it's made me do things I never thought I would ever do. Those are his words. And then you look at the court transcripts and listen to where he admits taking the illegal steroids he is referencing in that text. All can put two and two together and realize he really did in fact do the things the victim has stated and he has admitted. I urge this counsel and the fire department to take transparent action, conduct an independent review of how this case has been handled and how to handle them moving forward, and make the attorney's office act on this matter now. Ensure that criminal conduct is not buried in internal files or dismissed. Administrative leave is not sufficient here. Silence is complicity and the integrity of this department and the safety of this community depend on the courage of your leadership to uncomfortable truths. And again, Mr. Vascov, I'm not questioning your integrity or your department. I know they do a great job, but this case has been mishandled, and I would love to talk to you offline. I know you've responded to my email, but this deserves more than just an email. It deserves a conversation. I've reached out to everyone through the Contact Henderson portal like I was asked to do, and I've got no return from anybody. Your office twice, his office, the fire department, and the police department. So whatever I need to do to talk to somebody, I will do. Mr. Vascov, can you... or something regarding this? Sure. First of all, I appreciate Mr. Bennett's passion. I know it's a lot. But the email that I sent to him really, I think, stated the points very succinctly. I'll put our record on domestic violence against any prosecutors in this state. There's no office in the state that takes it more seriously than us, and we have the track record to prove that. But, We also take our duty to the law and to justice very seriously. And that means that we have to be able to prove cases beyond a reasonable doubt and we will base our prosecutorial decisions on the law, the facts, and the admissible evidence. And there are a number of evidentiary issues in the case that Mr. Bennett is referring to. So I can't get into the specifics of that, but what I can assure you is that while I appreciate his passion, what won't drive our decision is public pressure. It will be based on the law, the facts, and the admissible evidence. And that's the case in every case, no matter who the defendant is, whether it's a city employee or not. No one, it is my job, often our job, to hold employees accountable. and we do that regularly. So I understand the disappointment, but the decision's not gonna change because of Mr. Bennett's passion, even though I appreciate it. I'm not trying to enforce public pressure here at all, just so you know. But it needs to be an offline conversation because there's no admissibility issues here, and I don't think he understands the evidence, so that's all. Thank you. Next person is Shelby Durrance. Dr. DeRontez 89044. Good evening, Mayor, Council members, and city officials. Tonight I stand here as a mother, not because I want to, but because I have to. In this city, a firefighter, a man sworn to protect and serve, has committed domestic violence, and continues to walk free, wearing the same uniform that should represent safety, not fear. victim first came forward I believe that the system would do what it was supposed to do protect her and hold the offender accountable however months have passed with no answers no accountability and no justice the fire department reopened their investigation and he was placed on administrative leave in court his own attorney stated that he was likely to lose his job by the end of the week yet That never happened. I have seen the victim's statements and all the evidence against this man. He was put on administrative leave because he 100% did commit domestic violence and he should be prosecuted. So I ask, is it this city's position that two weeks of time out somehow erases someone's crimes if they're a firefighter? In what world is it acceptable for this man to continue serving in enrollment to protect our community? I am asking, not just for myself, but for every woman who has ever been told to stay silent and every child who has been told to trust a hero who may not deserve that title. When a firefighter can hit, choke, intimidate, and abuse someone in his own home and face no real consequences, it sends a chilling message that that badge can be used as a shield for abuse. I'm I'm asking the city to look closely at what's happening within the fire department because there is more than just this. Victims are ignored and offenders are quietly protected. It's not just one person who suffers. It's the community's faith and its leaders that suffer too. No mother should ever have to look at her child and wonder if the people meant to protect them are actually capable of hurting them. No child should grow up believing that power, status, or a uniform makes someone untouchable. I'm not here out of anger. I'm here out of hope. Hope that Henderson can be better. Hope that the city can stand for truth, accountability, and safety not silence. If we can protect the victims of violence, especially when the abuser wears a uniform, what message are we sending to our children about what justice really means? Do better as leaders. Make someone hold this man, the fire department, and the city attorney's office accountable. Thank you. Next person is Gianna Loulis. Gianna Loulis, 89044. Good evening. I'm here tonight because I'm deeply concerned about the upcoming fire department open house on October 25th. I want to know how this is not only going to be, how this is not going to be a public safety risk. I wanna know if there will be security or police there to protect women and children from the criminals inside of the fire department. As a mother and a resident, I want to believe our firefighters are heroes, but how can I take my son to this event, smile for pictures, and tell him that these men are role models when I don't know if he's looking up to a woman beater, a child abuser, or a drug dealer? Since this issue has been brought up at City Hall and circulating social media more and more, people are talking about it and more and more similar stories are being shared. firefighters in the city who have committed domestic violence, who have been arrested for child abuse, and even those who are dealing illegal drugs out of fire stations to other firemen, which the domestic abuser attributed to his abuse. they continue to wear the uniforms. For most people, those actions would lead to jail time and the immediate loss of a job. But somehow inside of the department, there seems to be a different set of rules. Somehow the city attorney affords them a different standard. When a firefighter abuses a loved one at home, there's no telling what they're truly capable of on the job. When one is arrested for child abuse, there is no world in which they should be allowed to continue serving as a firefighter. And when illegal drugs are being sold out of a fire station, the only acceptable response is immediate termination. The culture of brotherhood inside of this department, the one that protects the guilty instead of the innocent, needs to be overhauled immediately. This isn't just a fire department issue, this is a leadership issue. It's a reflection of what the city is willing to tolerate and what it chooses to ignore. is scary, it's wrong, and it's time for it to change. I'm begging the leaders of the city to please do something. Don't let our children grow up believing that the badge means you can get away with anything. Don't let, don't allow women and and children to believe, to have to question or fear first responders because the city doesn't want to ensure justice if a badge is involved. The city attorney can say he isn't trying to protect or hide the crime here, but all the evidence suggests otherwise. We have to do better and Henderson has to do better. Please think about your loved ones, think about your families, and if they were the victim here, you know that you would want justice to be served. And you know there is ample evidence to have it be served. So please be the leaders we all know that you can be and please make the attorneys do their job. Thank you. There is no one else than Q, Mayor. Okay, with that, I will adjourn the meeting at this time.