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. And for the record, Councilwoman Cox is attending via teleconference. 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. Almighty God, as the council comes together, we thank you for the day. We pray for wisdom, courage, and strength to serve you and our community faithfully today and in the days ahead. We seek your gifts of mercy and discernment. Now may your divine hand lead them by your grace and power. 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. Thank you. Now is the time for the first public comment. Before we begin, the city clerk will make an announcement. 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. The second public comment period is for designated public hearing items and 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 to 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 back of the room. 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 for the record and your zip code for the record as well. You will have three minutes to speak. And, Mayor, we have one person in the first public comment queue, Edward Prelitz for items numbers 41 and 45. Edward Prelitz, 89012. Thank you, Madam Mayor and esteemed council members. I appreciate the opportunity. I rise in opposition to the potential approval of the agenda item on the grounds, and this is agenda item 41, that this council is at risk of establishing a precedent for a larger, more intrusive signage systems and EMS systems in the city of Henderson. The representative agent of the Cliff LV project emphasized on June 3rd council meeting the importance of signage as an integral aspect, an asset of business, which is undeniably true. But the issue is not signage itself. the effects of increasingly more intrusive signage in our community and in our digital age signage is merely one subset of the larger scheme of marketing available to businesses most businesses today do not profit or incur losses from signage alone a member of this council stated publicly on June 3rd at the council meeting as you've come to find out the city of Henderson is not big on signs and then voted yay to approve Is this council going to reverse precedent historically? Is prior denial in Agenda 41 for larger signage that's more intrusive to us as a community and embrace a slippery slope of approvals in the future? On Agenda Item 45, really briefly, I have some other things to comment, but I only have a minute 30 left, so I'm going to get to it. Class A retail space is disproportionately low compared to some, and this is true. 26 times so on and I appreciate the cliffs agent on June 3rd bringing up that on page 4 of his justification letter However projects of this type alone will do very little very little to bridge that gap There are other items here that are to be addressed first off the public record which is stated by Louie There's a public comment sent of strong opposition by members of that area and community eight of them was strong opposition and But the pertinent point that is really to be brought up by this council and observed and scrutinized even further is the cliff lighting analysis report. The cliff lighting analysis report, and I'm going to summarize a little bit excerpt wise, the author qualifications from Daktronics. I have assisted Daktronics in creating detailed light analysis systems that can be used to depict the light impact in surrounding communities. That's under his author qualifications. The scope of his analysis DEC Trotix was retained to provide professional opinions. Professional opinions. One under that heading. Impact on residential properties at Paseo Verde Park. Evaluate whether a proposed display would create measurable light. Now, really quick, and I ask this for just one more minute, if the Madam Mayor will allow me. There's evidence to be submitted. Please wrap it up. All right. His meter on page 2982 is invalid. The submitted form to this council a tool that is only used for indoor environments. It is not certified for outdoor environments. Mr. Dichter stated on January 3rd that he had read the light analysis and that he was quote comfortable with it. I'm curious if you would like to read the evidence on the LM 100 120 or the LM 200 LED and see if you'd like to rephrase his statement. I have that for available. Thank you. There is no one else in the public comment queue, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you. I'll close the public comment. Mr. Rodriguez, are there any changes to the agenda? Yes, Mayor Romero, there is one change. Item 41 will be continued to the July 15, 2025 City Council regular meeting. Thank you. May I have a motion to accept the agenda as amended? Please vote. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilman Seabock, and it carries. Next section of your agenda is proclamations commendations and presentations item number one is a presentation public safety update from the Henderson fire department the city manager has asked that the public safety updates be presented to Council each quarter with the police chief and fire chief each represent Excuse me each presenting twice a year fire chief Scott vivier is here to present this quarter's report on the successes and efforts of the Henderson fire department Good afternoon, honorable mayor and council, city management, department heads and city staff that are here, including our fire team. I appreciate your time today. I'm Scott Verveer and I'm honored to serve as the fire chief and stand before you today to share some of our latest updates and a presentation that reflects our unwavering commitment to public safety and serves as a testament to the work that we do. At the heart of our operation is a simple truth. We exist for one simple purpose, and that purpose is because people matter. Every decision we make is rooted in our understanding that we have been given the sacred privilege of standing guard and protecting the things that are most important in the lives of people. And those are the relationships between people that love and care for each other. This conviction drives our every action. As a city council and city leadership team, you have been clear to me that your vision is for us to be America's premier fire department. In pursuit of that, our mission is to provide exceptional public services because people matter. We anchor our work in the values of compassion, integrity, and respect. And we maintain safe and effective operations through a rigorous accounting to the priorities of standardization, consistency, coordination, and accountability. I'd just like to state that these are not mere slogans, but these are the principles that guide our organizational excellence, and it's what we refer to as the HFD way. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in our long-standing accreditations. Since 1999, we have proudly earned and continuously maintained the Commission on Fire Accreditation International seal of approval. In fact, in 2024, we became one of only six agencies worldwide to be accredited six times. In addition, we have held the Commission on Accreditation for Ambulance Services accreditation continuously since 1999, earning it seven times. We're especially proud to be the only fire department in Nevada with CAST accreditation. And just for a point of reference, CFAI is for our fire suppression and how we cover the whole community, and CAST is for our emergency medical services. Our Insurance Service Office rating of Class 1 further underscores our superior public protection performance. Finally, we are one of 18 ISO Class I rated fire departments that are also accredited by CFAI and CAS, but we are the only fire department in the United States that is also a part of a city that has earned the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Quality. We're very proud of that. Our department is built on six core services that form the backbone of our community defense. Our core services for emergency operations are fire suppression, emergency medical services, technical rescue, and hazardous materials response. Our core services that support our community on the support side are our community risk reduction programs and our training division. Each service is essential and together they ensure that we are always ready to protect and serve. Now, in order for us to provide this coverage to the 122 square miles of the city of Henderson, we have recently divided our city into three battalions. Those battalions are East, Central, and West. These battalions are supported by 13 strategically located stations. This structure enables us to deliver a coordinated and rapid response to all emergencies that occur within the jurisdiction of Henderson. Every battalion and station plays its part in ensuring that we are able to get there quickly, effectively, and provide safe and efficient operations. And to do this, the HFD has a staff complement of 371 full-time and part-time professionals who are committed to maintaining and protecting Henderson's quality of life. The department utilizes a formal structure organized by functions that help us meet our mission. These formal divisions are our support division, our office of planning and analysis, our special operations division, our office of the fire administration, and our operations division. Now I get a chance to talk about some accomplishments. And I must say, as a hometown kid, it's pretty excited to be able to be in this wonderful department, and these last eight months have been a whirlwind. So now we're going to talk about some accomplishments that have happened in the last 12 months. In the last 12 months, the department has been able to complete several major projects supporting the city's community safety strategic priority from the strategic plan. The first one of these was the addition of three new battalion chiefs that allowed us to open our third battalion, Battalion 14, the beginning of this year in January. A battalion is a group of fire stations that are managed by a strategic commander that we call a battalion chief, and the battalion chiefs supervise each of those stations on each of the three shifts. So we have three shifts and three battalions. We have nine battalion chiefs. The last time that the city opened a new battalion was in 2001. Another accomplishment we are very proud of and we have to give thanks to this council and city management has to do with our infrastructure improvements. Several other major projects were completed and these conclude the these include the renovation and remodel of stations 82 and our fire training center, the new construction of station 92 in West Henderson and most recently the renovation and relocation of fire station 81 to the new Camping World building. These renovations represent over $43 million invested in station infrastructure to ensure that we are able to meet the needs of this growing city and into the future. And additionally, these upgrades are pivotal in providing our firefighters with modern, safe, and efficient facilities that directly impact their performance. And again, we know that that couldn't have happened without your support and dedication to public safety. So thank you. In a career field where you only get one chance to do things correct, training is essential. More importantly, however, it is realistic training that makes a difference. With the recent purchase and construction of our Class A burn prop at the Fire Training Center, we have enhanced our live fire training capabilities and have now made our training center one of the finest in the western United States. We have also trained over 24 officers as live fire burn instructors, and we've conducted more than 30 live fire burn exercises. This realistic and rigorous training ensures ARTA teams are prepared for the challenges they face on the ground. Investing in our future with people of high character and competence is at the core of our strategy to stay the top of our game. Cadet Academy 56, which began on December 2nd, 2024, cultivated and 12 graduates on April 24th, 2025. This academy isn't just about recruiting new firefighters. That would be cultivating. I meant culminated. It's about shaping the next generation of leaders with the values and skills essential for our department's long-term success. Our commitment to excellence in emergency medical services has also not gone unnoticed. In 2025, we were awarded the gold designation for the Mission Lifeline Target Heart Attack from the American Heart Association. We are proud to be one of only two providers in the entire state of Nevada to have earned this. This honor reflects the hard work of our EMS division and the dedication from our EMTs and paramedics that are in the field every day doing these lifesaving interventions. Innovation is key to staying ahead and I'm excited to announce that our first tethered drone has been placed into service on our Battalion 9 vehicle. This innovative product is a drone that flies autonomously because it is tethered to the vehicle. Funded by a 2022 Homeland Security Program through the Urban Area Security Initiative grant, this advanced technology is now an integral part of our toolkit enhancing situational awareness and our on-scene capabilities. Our relationship with the community extends far beyond emergency responses. Over the last 12 months we've conducted 10 open houses that welcomed approximately 3,530 residents. We hosted a workshop to introduce 30 women to the fire service and Camp 911 brought together around 30 children at our fire training center to learn about careers in public safety. In addition, our first six community lifesaver training and life-ride CPR classes have reached 305 citizens this year. These initiatives demonstrate how we actively work to educate and empower our community. To maintain a strong and prepared department, we have successfully recruited 57 new firefighters since 2024. Our new website, joinhendersonfire.com, launched in July of 2024 and has already attracted over 34,000 visitors, reinforcing our commitment to attracting the best talent and remaining the competitive employer in the region. Now onto performance. Performance metrics are critical in evaluating our progress. We have seen steady call volume increases up from 38,259 in 2021 to a projected 44,693 in 2025. Now, this is a 2.5% increase year over year, but from 2021 to 2025, it's nearly a 17% increase in call volume. And despite this increase in call volume, we have actually been able to improve our response times by five seconds for our responses to all of our fire-related calls. And for EMS related calls, we've been able to decrease our response times by three seconds. And the number of resources that have been added is not the same. So this really is about the strategic location of resources in the right place. While the reduction of only three to five seconds may seem insignificant, these are not. In these types of emergencies, every second counts. And a decrease of one second often makes the difference between life and death. As important as our rapid response times are, how we actually treat people is just as important, if not more important. Our commitment to quality is further proven by our exceptional customer service ratings. Over 98% of respondents were satisfied with our services. This overwhelming majority endorses that our personnel arrive promptly, present themselves professionally, communicate clearly, and deliver compassionate care. We take immense pride in these outcomes as they affirm our approach to serving every member of our community with compassion, integrity, and respect. For our structural fire incidents, a quick response that is able to muster an effective response force is critical to making a positive difference. For a point of reference, an effective response force to a structure fire is the closest four fire engines, the closest truck company, the closest two rescues, the closest two battalion chiefs, and an operations support officer. In 2024, 112 structure fires occurred, or a little under one every three days. With a 94.2% overall performance rating and a 98.3% containment of these fires to the area of origin upon our arrival, we've not only met our standard but exceeded our 90% target. Again, this success is a direct reflection of having properly equipped and trained respotters strategically located throughout the community. And again, I couldn't say thank you enough because it's of your work to allow us to do that. As we look toward the future, our agenda is as ambitious as it is focused. We are currently preparing for our eighth CAS accreditation submission, and we will submit that in July 2025, and we expect the CAS reviewers to be on site this fall. What we are very excited about is that an additional $12 million has been approved for the renovation and reconstruction of Station 84. Station 84 is our oldest station and the station of the most need, and we are currently underway with schematic design already being in progress, and we hope to begin construction by the end of this year or early in next year with a build time of approximately 10 to 12 months. And a bunch of thanks also goes out to our partners in public works that helps us with this. Thanks. Finally, we're gearing up for Cadet Academy 57 with recruitment and selection milestones already well underway. As a matter of fact, one of our first firefighter paramedics will be starting on July 7th, where he'll be completing his paramedic internship before joining the firefighters that will be joining us on November 3rd when Cadet Academy 57 starts. And these initiatives are critical to ensuring that our department remains responsive, innovative, and ready to meet the challenges of the future. I appreciate your time and attention. I now welcome any further questions or discussion. Thank you so much, Chief, for that great overview of what's happening in the fire department. One thing that I truly, truly appreciate about your department is you come prepared with facts and figures everywhere. Any question that comes to you, you can have an answer within a day or so with very detailed information about how quickly we're responding, where do we respond, how many did we respond to, all the things associated with fighting fires and emergency response in the city. You are fully prepared. And I see that many of your command staff are here. So could you please stand? Thank you for the work. Thank you. Thank you for the work that you do on behalf of the city. I see, I'm able to see firsthand a lot, the things that you have to deal with and the calls that you're going out on, the equipment you have to work with and the way you treat people, I think more than anything else stands far and above anything else we can do. You're the, one of the best representatives of the city of Henderson. We could possibly ask for your trained, uh, impeccably you are prepared, but most of all, you are compassionate to everybody that you encounter, you make people feel like they're the most important thing. Usually you're there when they're having a pretty bad day and they feel like they're going to be okay because you're competent, you treat them well, and you are prepared to get them whatever treatment they need. And it is noticed and as the survey shows, recognized and very much appreciated. So thank you to your entire department. I had one question. We have about 2.5% increase in call volume year after year after year. Do you see that continuing? And if so, what challenges is that going to provide for us given our current infrastructure? And what do you attribute the call increases to? Is it just population growth or is it aging or is it a combination of everything? Of course. Thank you for that question, Mayor. And thank you for those compliments. We will do our best to earn them every day. I'm blushing up here. We do anticipate to see, continue to see, two to four percent call volume growth year over year. The number one contributor to that call volume growth is simply more people moving into Henderson, which is wonderful. We are also seeing an aging population, and that population is aging in place. And so some of our areas and parts of our town that have retirement communities are There's people that have been there now for a period of time, and as they age in place, they will need our services more. So that's one of the things we're preparing for. How we'll keep up with it will be the addition of resources in a strategic manner. Now, I can say, fortunately, our distribution system, which is our fire stations, we have 13 fire stations, and currently I don't see the need for those anymore. in my foreseeable future, but we will need to infill those stations with additional resources like rescues, engines, and truck companies. However, we have a plan in place, and we know that we're going to continue to be able to meet these challenges, and again, we always support your support. We always appreciate your support. Thank you, and as we move forward and you continue to keep us updated on... specifically where the needs are, specifically for rescues. I know that is one of the highest priorities. It'll help us work together, especially with your facts and figures, to help prioritize some of those needs in upcoming and future projects. budget cycles and recognizing how we need to prioritize. So thank you very much. Council, any comments? I have a couple. So one, thank you for the presentation. Of course, thank you for all you do and your team. I know I was speaking with some of your team earlier and how they wanted to come and speak, but they said you had to handle it. So I appreciate that. Thank you, Council. It's that far away. Listen, there's no doubt first responders make all the difference in the world. There's no doubt. Nothing can take that place. My question here is a couple is what's your vacancy rate? How is your recruitment going? You touched on it, but do you have vacancies right now? And how's that going? Yes. We currently have seven vacancies in the department, and that's what our hiring is for, and those vacancies will be filled in November Academy. Now, of course, we do anticipate that there could be some more retirements the end of this year and in continuous years, but we have a plan in place to recruit for those academies. So seven vacancies is actually a fairly low number for us currently, and so we're really happy about that. And then the other thing I said, you touched on it. I think the mayor did, uh, also from talking with your team, you know, with the growth that Henderson had in the nineties and the aging population. And a lot of the calls you run are actually medical calls. Uh, what I would ask is maybe at the next presentation, uh, If you could just educate us a little bit more on some of the things you're doing to reduce that calls for service, especially in those aging communities. So in other words, hey, here's what we provide. You mentioned the CPR and stuff like that, but what do you do to help educate for slip and falls or some of the folks in those retirement areas to try to reduce that call volume because Reducing that call volume affects the wellness and your ability to be available and your team's ability to be available for other calls. And so anything you can speak about on the proactive side to try to reduce that calls on the front end, that way it saves your team having to respond on the back end. So I'd love to hear about that the next time around. Absolutely. Great presentation. Thanks for what your team is doing. Thank you, sir. Always proud to be seeing with you all. Thank you. Chief, I just want to concur with what they said, but thank you again to you and your team for your diligence, dedication, and commitment to keeping our community safe. We've seen it over and over again and received wonderful letters to the testament of what you all have done, and I can't thank you enough. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. If I may. We'll let, okay, go ahead. I would just like to, Chief and your staff, and all staff, Team for what you do every single day. I am most impressed by the culture. That is has been developed over years and continues. And I just, I think we just have the best fire department in the nation. And we are very lucky to have you. I know that our residents do appreciate it and I hear it often as well. I had a quick question. I wondered if you could just talk a little bit about the succession plan in place because I've been impressed with that too. - I didn't hear the question. - She would like to, if you could address the succession plan that you have in place because it is impressive. - Thank you. We've always had the philosophy that nothing happens by accident and that no one achieves significance without bringing people with each other. And so I'm certainly a product of that. I'm only here today because of the men and women that came before me that were able to show me the way and allow me to stand on their shoulders. And that's what we've tried to do in our culture. So It would be a failure of me as your fire chief if when I leave this department you did not have at least five qualified individuals you could select to take over. And so that's our mission. And we try to do that in all of our levels. Now that being said, it takes intentional effort and actions. And so I'm proud to say that we're one of the only departments in the world that has a really rigorous development program that starts with our fire academy, grows through how we train our firefighter paramedics, our driver operators, Our ICC course, which is how we teach captains to really handle the life-threatening emergencies, and then our Leadership Institute. All of those builds into our culture of where succession is never guaranteed, but it's always planned for. And again, we want to make sure that we have people prepared and ready when the time comes, because that would be our failure if we were to leave you without choices. Thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. And. Can you tell me if after the November or tell us after the November Academy, if there's plans for anymore after that, as that would probably be filling your vacancies unless you had a lot of retirement. Of course, Councilman, that's a great question. We are doing the Academy in November, so one of the questions that could be asked is why aren't we starting it sooner? And as you know, we are limited by the heat index for when we can do our training, and most of our training is very rigorous. So we have to move it to a time of the year when we can do it when we're able to be outside. So November will be the start of our academy and it will finish the end of February. Now we don't have another academy scheduled, but we are always able to start academies in March or again in early fall. So if we do see a large amount of retirements and attrition during this academy, we would be prepared to do another one. And those are cost neutral academies because currently we're just filling existing vacancies. Those are not for new positions. Thank you. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Councilman. Oh, thank you. I've got to tell you, it's just a joy and a privilege to work with you, Chief, and your entire command team and your entire department. Just as a resident, I'm very, very proud of our fire department, let alone being part of a council that gets to see it firsthand and how you all operate. Just... I want to tell you how proud I am of you all and appreciate all that you do. Thank you, Councillor. You're right. It doesn't happen by accident. Thank you. That's it. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next section of your agenda is the City Manager's Report. On June 2nd, we held a Juneteenth flag-raising ceremony on Water Street Plaza, led by the Buffalo Soldiers, Girl Scouts, and the Miss Juneteenth Nevada Delegation. Henderson is proud to join the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation Nevada Chapter with a proclamation to commemorate the abolition of slavery and celebrate the rich heritage and many achievements of African Americans in our community. We invite everyone to join us on Thursday for our Juneteenth Festival at the Water Street Plaza for live music, local vendors, and family fun. I hope you will all join us at Heritage Park for our annual 4th of July Festival and Fireworks featuring country music star Tony Jackson. As a reminder, to keep our community safe during patriotic celebrations this year, use only safe and sane fireworks and call 311 to report illegal fireworks in your area. However you choose to celebrate, please keep yourself, your family, and our environment safe and healthy. And now I am pleased to announce that HGTV has named Henderson as one of the 20 best mid-sized cities in the United States. This recognition highlights Henderson as a city where quality of life comes first. Thanks to your vision, Mayor and Council, and the work of all city departments, our strong sense of community, beautiful public spaces, premier public service, and character and charm of our city continue to attract attention and national recognition. And thank you. That concludes this evening's City Manager's Report. The next section of your agenda is the Consent Agenda, consisting of items 3 through 40. Unless an item is pulled for discussion, Council will take action on all Consent Agenda items with one motion. Thank you. May I have a motion for the Consent Agenda? I'll move. Please vote. Aye. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilman Seabock, and it carries. the next section of your agenda is public hearings but as a reminder item number 41 has been continued to the july 15 2025 city council regular meeting which takes us to bills referred from Committee for Adoption as Ordinance. Item number 42 is Bill number 3837, ZCA-2025016747, Larson Bermuda Commercial. The recommendation is to adopt as Ordinance number 4076. May I have a motion to adopt? Please vote. Aye. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilman Stewart, and it carries. Item number 43 is bill number 3838, ZCA-2009-660-000-A1, 3288L, South Boulevard, 2745 Zone Reservoir. The recommendation is to adopt as ordinance number 4077. May I have a motion? I'll move. Please vote. Aye. All members voted in favor of the motion by Councilman Larson and it carries. Item number 44 is bill number 3839 ZCA-2006-660-011-A2 Lake Mead Crossing. The recommendation is to adopt as ordinance number 4078. May I have a motion? Please vote. Aye. All members voted in favor of the motion by Councilman Seabach and it carries. Item 45 is Bill number 3840, ZCA-2024015922-A1, Green Valley Ranch, The Cliff. Recommendation is to adopt as ordinance number 4079. We have a motion. Please vote. Aye. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilman Stewart, and it carries. Item 46 is Bill number 3841 to amend chapters 7.01, 7.02, 7.04, 7.06, 7.30, and 7.60 and add 7.65 to Title VII, Animals, to the City of Henderson Municipal Code. The recommendation is to adopt as ordinance number 4080. May I have a motion? So moved. Please vote. Aye. All members voted in favor of the motion by Councilwoman Cox, and it carries. Item 47 is Bill number 3842, ZOA-2025016887, Development Code Update, Animal-Related Uses and Standards. The recommendation is to adopt as Ordinance number 4081. May I have a motion? Please vote. I'll move. Aye. All members voted in favor of the motion by Councilwoman Larson, and it carries. Item number 48 is bill number 3843, amend Henderson Municipal Code section 2.05.010, salary for municipal court judge. The recommendation is to adopt as ordinance number 4082. May I have a motion? Please vote. Aye. All members voted in favor of the motion of Councilman Stewart, and it carries. That takes us to our next section, new business. Item number 49 is appointment by the mayor and council to the Henderson District Public Library's Board of Trustees. The recommendation is to appoint Jerry Schroeder to the Henderson District Public Library's Board of Trustees. I'll make that motion. Please vote. Bye. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Mayor Romero, and it carries. Item 50 is an appointment Henderson Municipal Court Judge Pro Tempore Jack Esslinger. The recommendation is to appoint Jack Esslinger as Judge Pro Tempore for the Henderson Municipal Court. May I have a motion? Please vote. Aye. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilwoman Larson and it carries. Item 51 is a resolution, Amendment to the Assessment Roll for Neighborhood Improvement District, Pecos and Robindale. The recommendation is to adopt. Honorable Mayor and Council Members, I'm Maria Gamboa, Director of Finance for the Record. The item before you is a resolution setting the fiscal year 2026 assessment amount and amending the assessment roll for the Pecos-Robindale Neighborhood Improvement District. This resolution establishes the funding needed for the maintenance and administrative expenses for the district for fiscal year 2026, which are estimated to be a total of $28,080.56. Based on this estimate, the proposed per parcel assessment is $169.16. Staff recommends adoption of the resolution. Thank you. May I have a motion? Please vote. Aye. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilman Stewart, and it carries. Item number 52 is a resolution 2024-2025 budget augmentation. The recommendation is to adopt. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. David Weiser, the Assistant Director of Finance. This resolution is for the augmented budget for fiscal year 2025. The resolution is to record the augmentations for both revenues and expenditures made during the fiscal year from unanticipated resources in accordance with Nevada revised statutes 354. Upon approval of this resolution, we will submit the fiscal year 2025 augmented budget to the Nevada Department of Taxation for certification. Thank you. Thank you. Any questions or comments? That may have a motion. Please vote. Aye. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilwoman Larson, and it carries. Section 13 of your agenda is bills to be read into title. Unless an item is pulled for discussion, Council will take action on all bills to be read into title with one motion. Item number 53 is bill number 3844 amending Henderson Municipal Code chapter 15.08 building code. Item 54 is bill number 3845 amending Henderson Municipal Code chapter 15.09 residential building code. Item 55 is bill number 3846 amending Henderson Municipal Code chapter 15.11 existing building code. Item number 56 is bill number 3847 amending Henderson municipal code chapter 15.16 electrical code. Item 57 is bill number 3848 amending Henderson municipal code chapter 15.20 plumbing code. Item 58 is bill number 3849 amending Henderson municipal code chapter 15.24 mechanical code. Item number 59 is bill number 3850 amending Henderson municipal code chapter 15.30 wildland urban interface code. Item 60 is bill number 3851 amending Henderson municipal code chapter 15.32 fire code. Item 61 is bill number 3852 amending Henderson municipal code chapter 15.44 swimming pool code. And item 62 is bill number 3853, amending Henderson Municipal Code chapter 15.45, Energy Conservation Code. Your recommendation is to refer bill numbers 3844, 3845, 3846, 3847, 3848, 3849, 3850, 3851, 3852, and 3853 to the City Council regular meeting of July 15, 2025 with a due pass recommendation. Thank you. May I have a motion to refer, please? So moved. Please vote. Aye. All members voted in favor of the motion made by Councilman Stewart, and it carries. Now is the time for any council comments. Does anybody have a comment? Councilwoman Cox, do you have a comment? No, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right, I will set the next special redevelopment agency and city council regular meeting for July 15th, 2025. 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, and state your name and zip code. You will have three minutes to speak. Mayor, there are two persons in the public comment queue. The first one is Carson Ernest. Before I get in front of the mic, I was injured in the Vietnam War and I have a hard time speaking. I might stutter or mispronounce a word. I'm not doing it on purpose. And I'm pretty much deaf now and I have my hearing aids on. When you talk to me, it helps us by looking at you. It'll go quicker. Okay. Good evening. Thanks for allowing me to come here. I've Not sure if I know if I put something down here. It comes on the screen or... Right at the bottom there. Where? Okay, good. Okay. I'm here because I live next door to a party house. I've been here 14 years. I own my property. I was here for 10 years. I moved from the Midwest because the winters here are great. And one day I woke up, and coincidentally it was June 12th, four years ago, almost exactly four years ago, with construction noise. And they changed the building next door to me. I had no idea it was coming. I thought that was kind of strange. So I started keeping a record. And as you can see, I've done exactly as I've been told by the city and by the people in the code division, right? It's important to take a look at this one. Here it says, always call the hotline. The city has a record. They can help you. Yada, yada, yada. Just remember that. as we go to the next uh sheet and this starts off in uh the third 2022 right january march 3rd and as you can see the little red checks are ones that the interactions that i had with the city of the city code there's 88 interactions that i've had in the last four years some were more than one on one day i would like to make a comment about the uh Hotline, you keep you, but who's ever changed in the hotline, the vendors are doing a very poor job. It's all documented here, and I'll get into that. I've called on numerous occasions, got zero response. Sometimes 1:30 in the morning, the party's going on really good. I'm calling two or three times, zero response. And then the procedure is if you don't get any response from that, you call the property manager. Yeah, that works real well, zero response. I'm gonna take it to the next page. As you can see, the little red checks, there's things going on. This is continuing. Like I said, there's 88 incidents. We had interactions over a period of four years, so that's about two a month. However, the place isn't open every day. Mostly it's on the weekends. That's when they rent it out. So that's when most of this stuff is occurring. All right? So again, a little expertise you can see. It was nine minutes I had to wait for an operator. There was another time, 10 minutes with the music blasting. Now I'm deaf pretty much. So when I rolled down my roll lotting, Shutters, my double pane windows, all new. I put $130,000 into the house. I made the house better as an asset to the community. It cost me $166,000. It's worth $566,000 now. However, I'm never going to get that much with this clown house next door to me. Bear that in mind. It's going to affect me financially. I've documented everything, and as you can see, it's still a continuing problem. The problem has not yet been solved. There's another one. Oh, this is page four. Page four. - Yes, sir, your time is up, but you can submit that for the record. - I have copies for you guys here. - And just for the record, would you state your name and zip code, please? - I'm sorry, my last name is Ernest, E-A-R-N-E-S-T, C-A-R-S-O-N. Carson is the first name. May I make one more thing because it concerns safety, please? Almost four years to the date, you'll see here, 8/26/24, Now, I don't want to make any trouble, but I just can't put up with this. You'll see there's yelling and laughing going on. My wife wakes me up. I go outside to the corner of my house. I'm from here to the wall, to the problem, the corner of my house, and I hear a young girl scream. As if a 12-year-old girl got jerked by the hair, got jerked up, right? I call the police. The police come on the scene. I say, go into the house. Something's wrong. I'll be glad to sign any kind of complaint. I'll put a witness statement out, everything, all right? They go to the house. The black Cadillac Escalade that was parked on the driveway, it blocks the entire driveway, so the senior citizens have to walk into the street to get around the property. Can you please wrap him up? Right now, the plate on the big Cadillac was Airbnb. So either the guy who's running the Airbnb, is there a party in at 3 o'clock in the morning, the place have called by me, or he gave it to one of his buddies. And I doubt if he's going to give a $100,000 Cadillac Escalade to his buddy. I've been threatened to be sued by the property manager. I've done everything you guys have asked me to do. So now I'm... Thank you. I'm asking... Thank you. Mayor, the last person is Debbie Grimm. Mayor, council. Debbie Grimm, 89074. I was here last time and... I don't know how this works here. Just right there. Okay. I brought some pictures. We've been reaching out to the city of Henderson since 2019. However, COVID happened, I don't know. But I know AB10 passed. It's effective immediately. If you look at these pictures, this is not insignificant. I could have easily backed into this. It was right outside my door. We have no more money to fix things. Nobody will give us a loan. I am hoping to be a prototype, Councilman Stewart, that you will work with. We are willing. We are desperate. And I just want my community, we're seniors, 99% of us. I would say most of us are over 70. We've invested our life savings in this. Speaking of, I moved here in 74 and lived above Crosby Music Center on Water Street. Good job on rejuvenating that. But I would just, I don't want to waste all this water. We've spent $120,000 for 81 homes. We're old people. We're not taking 20-minute showers. To clarify for the record, will you say for the record what neighborhood you're talking about? Renaissance Townhomes. Thank you. Thank you. That's it. Thank you. Would you like to keep these? Sure. Okay. Thank you. Mayor, there's no one else in the queue. Thank you. I will adjourn the regular meeting at this time.