we were now back from a recess and also a short lunch that we were able to have because it was the only time we were able to have lunch we now have item number 38 discussion of possible action regarding a new five-year contract agreement between the Las Vegas peace officers supervisors Association and the city of Las Vegas five hundred and seventy-six thousand dollars from the general fund and can we have someone from staff please mr. Tarwater on just a little bit of irony in this scott adams city manager state law chapter 241 obligates the city manager to provide a report to the public on the issues of both parties that were discussed during contract negotiations and this particular agenda item is the labor agreement between the city of Las Vegas and the Las Vegas peace officers supervisors Association the scope of discussions were a range of articles six articles seven nine ten twelve twenty twenty-one regarding compensation hours a work holidays sick leave discharge and disciplinary procedure and grievance procedures the city and the LB p óós a the union accepted the fact finders recommendations resulting in the contract that you have before you on the agenda today and the fiscal impact of that contract over the multi-year term of the agreement is five hundred and seventy six thousand dollars if you have any questions regarding it there our team is here to answer any questions do you anybody does anybody on the council have any questions relating to this our team did you help to say anything else you obviously you think it's a good contract dan Tarwater human resources director I do think it's a good contract and it looks very much like some of our other contracts here at the city but most importantly I wanted to recognize lieutenant Herman Russell who is in the audience today he is the president of LV POS a can you raise your hand oh there you are nice to have you here and I just want you I want to thank them for all the hard work this was 22 plus sessions and it's lasted over two year period so it's been a lot of work and a lot of work and it's good that it's where it is now thank you very much yes the motion has been made by the esteemed councils possible and the motion is for approval I said well either way do you have an anonymous vote on it I should have said post and then now they vote it has approved unanimously will now move to item number 39 discussion for possible action to approve a petition for writ relief in 180 Land Company LLC vs. city of Las Vegas case number a seventeen seventy five eighty five to eight dash J in the 8th Judicial District Court and this includes all wards and is mr. gerbic here no Mayor Pro Tem but I can do the item deputy city attorney Jeff door Keck for the record if Mayor Pro Tem or any member of the council wants to discuss this item will have to go into closed session pursuant to NRS 241 because it's ongoing litigation however if no discussions needed and anyone's prepared to give a motion we can proceed right to the motion out here and City Attorney's Office recommends approval of this item all right the City Attorney's Office recommends approval do I have an emotion and emotion from the motion has been made for approval will you please cast your vote post and the motion has again been approved unanimously we'll now move to item 40 which is a discussion for possible action regarding a second amended and restated cooperation agreement between the city of Las Vegas and the city of Las Vegas Redevelopment Agency in which the city will provide the agency staff assistance supplies and services an agency will reimburse the city for all costs incurred for services redevelopment areas one and two words one three and five tarkanian coffin and career and the item is related to RDA item five yes bill arts director economic inner development this item is related as you indicated mayor pro-tem to Redevelopment Agency number five and I would like to incorporate all of my comments from that item here in this is to fund three services for the city using Redevelopment Agency funds funds are available and staff recommends approval of Buechel I'd answer any questions are there any questions from Council all right may I have a motion please on a roof of rule motion has been made for approval please vote and post and of course it passed unanimously thank you item number 41 was it's not in this book is that because we're doing the budget later or correct we're trailing that until after item number 69 okay so the budget is being trailed that's item 41 and so we'll move to item 42 which is discussion for a possible action regarding the approval of a tavern limited license red wolf dead LLC doing businesses beauty bar at five 170 Fremont Street Suite number one five zero in Ward 3 mr. coffin yes mister good afternoon for the record Mary McElhone deputy planning director the beauty bar was given a temporary license by City Council pending the outcome of the suitability investigation with a condition that the director could issue the permanent license pending a favorable outcome the suitability report an ox Roxie Amoroso the owner came back from metro with an outcome that was not favorable as an ear of concern report was issued the Planning Department is here today to discuss that suitability investigation and request a denial of the permanent license the beauty bar has been operating on a temporary license since they opened August 2nd 2018 and the following concerns have been identified in the report on August 6 2018 four days after they opened Metro responded to a battery called the beauty bar an argument started with a member of a hard band member and the security guard named Caleb Caldwell two witnesses and surveillance videos confirmed a chokehold tactic was used by the security guard and the band member and while Metro detectives did deem self-defense was justified the chokehold was deemed unreasonable and excessive two months later on October 5th 2018 Metro responded to another battery call with the same security guard Caleb Caldwell he repeatedly punched the victim in the face video surveillance revealed the victim never hit or attempted to hit anyone and the attack was unjustified the manager of the beauty bar mr. Weldon beck was uncooperative when police officers tried to enter the beauty bar and questioned mr. Caldwell mr. Caldwell was later cited for misdemeanor battery mr. Wilden back was served with the notice of non-compliance for not going forward as the manager of the beauty bar and not updating his work card later on in the day Metro officers conducted a follow-up investigation with the only owner of Roxie Amuro so Miss Omarosa was served with the notice of non-compliance for duties to cooperate and foreign a for an employee being uncooperative with metro officers during a violent incident and also was cited with unlawful designated nuisance for an employee being involved in a violent incident causing a public nuisance on November 2nd a month later Metro detective spoke to miss Emory so as they were concerned that mr. Caldwell was still employed after two violent batteries had occurred at the location and the last one even required the victim to be transported to the hospital mr. Caldwell and mr. Weldon Beck were finally let go then on November 16 2018 an undercover detective approach to security got at the beauty bar and had inquired where he could purchase marijuana in regards to her marijuana dispensary after finding out that the undercover detective wanted to buy an eighth of an ounce of marijuana the security guard walked up to the distraught be who was employed at Beauty bar and obtained the marijuana the security guard then sold 5.4 grams of marijuana to the undercover detective for $30 inside the restroom of the beauty bar on November 30th the security guard was arrested by Metro for selling on December 11 2000 18 metro detectives contacted Roxie Amoroso Metro had some concerns that they had been notified that the Vagos an organized motorcycle gang was hosting his Christmas party in December 15th at the Beauty Bar Roxi Omarosa denied any knowledge of this event she stated was scheduled behind her back with her previous partner she had also shared with Metro detectives any membership interest transfer agreement which was dated December 7 showing that she had bought her business partner out the city of Las Vegas business licensing division had no knowledge of this transaction to change ownership and this is a requirement of Licensing On January 30th 2019 Miss Emma Rose who received a correction notice for not reporting this change of ownership to the city of Las Vegas as required a recent inspection on March 8 2019 disclosed a new security company had been hired at the business however the security was working without alcohol awareness cards which are required and these employees these new employees were not on the employee list the bartender also stated to our business license officer that Roxy Amoroso was no longer than owner of the establishment which indicates that a change of ownership may have taken place a second time which is not allowed without approval from the city of Las Vegas so in the eight short months that this operation has been open the beauty bar has had problems with the security staff and general management obeying laws and regulations including incidences that have involved Metro and have included lack of cooperation miss Amarillo has not demonstrated that she is capable of operating a nightclub with the tavern limited license on Monday April 1st in the eviction notice was served on the beauty bar issued by the Las Vegas Justice Court so the beauty bar as of Monday is now closed miss Amoroso was probably notified of this meeting today and her license would be heard before City Council unless she showed up in the last few minutes since I've been reading this she is not here today Metro is here today we do have two officers that are here that very experienced with beauty bar and what has been going on and they're available if you should have any questions for them we recommendation wise we recommend the revocation of the temporary license in the denial of the permanent license thank you thank you very much was there anything else you wanted her from anybody else if not any questions from the council and if no questions then mr. coffin will you make your motion that's regrettable your honor that we've had troubles on East Tremont and I don't know whether it was a lack of experience on the applicant but the applicant knew that that there would be problems if she didn't observe carefully the rules of how engagements occur between people who work for her and patrons you know not very many innocent people down there on East Tremont at a given moment but it's like anything else you got to be treated right it's a condition of our license so I think your recommendation is to revoke this license is that correct that is correct she was operating under temporary so the motion today would be tonight deny the permanent license Your Honor I move to deny the permanent license the motion has been made please vote post and the motion is approved unanimously will now turn to item number 43 oh did someone my dog by 3:00 was held in abeyance it's in abeyance so item number 44 since 43 is of aid yes and item 44 is a public hearing on local improvement district for special Improvement District number one four eight five Alta Drive landscape maintenance for year twenty two twenty twenty word one good afternoon your honor and council Allen Pavelka city engineer for the Department of Public Works and I have with me Alicia hawk s ad manager also with the Department of public so this district consists of 37 parcels along all to drive between Rancho Drive and approximately 275 feet west of Lacey Lane this si D covers the annual maintenance costs of landscape maintenance and utility services for the period from July 1st 2019 through June 30th of 2020 of next year the total assessment will remain the same as it has been in recent years at seventy five thousand eight hundred dollars and is paid 100% by the property owners no written protests have been filed in the City Clerk's office and we have received no calls pertaining to this we used two years ago but we have not and I think part of it is because in recent years we've had better gardening so I just want to let you know that the people who are taking care of that area are doing a good job and I would also like to emphasize what you said and that is it's a hundred percent paid by the people who live along that area so that in any funny buddies feels we favor Alta I know it was done before I got on a council that please understand they pay for that I just want to make sure all right any other comments or anything from the people here I make the motion that we approved it's a public hearing and we'll move on to item number 45 no you need to open it for a public hearing oh I'm sorry we need to open this for public hearing there is nobody who stepped up for a public hearing so there's nobody else there's nobody wishing to be heard on this item seeing none I'll close the public hearing and move on to item number 45 for item 45 City Engineer from the Department of Public Works the assessments for the district will be suspended from July 1st 2019 through June 30 at the 2020 due to a surplus of funds acquired through previous assessments although no assessments are being levied NRS 271 requires a district to be levied each year the maintenance of the district is funded 100% by the property owners through this si D this public hearing is just a formality to abide by the statues of NRS 271 and no written protests have been filed by the City Clerk's office all right this is public hearing so I now declare it open is there anybody wishing to make a comment seeing none is there any comments if not then that's have your motion before we vote we have to consider voting on 44 first I think no 44 and 45 a report only so there's no motion needed on yet there one super thank you so we'll now move on to item number 47 item number 47 relates to boards and commissions that we have a discussion for possible action regarding the appointment of nominee James Wright to the Southern Nevada Health District public health advisory board laQuan McDonald McDowell previously held this seat with the term expiring of June 2019 and he has resigned unexpired terms on this board must be filled mr. Wright is eligible and wishes to be appointed and on this I believe Councilwoman theory you're prepared to make a motion thank you madam mayor my motion is to approve your motion is for approval yes all right let's vote on the motion do I need to do something else okay we're going to wait just a second for technological reasons we have it now please vote on the item post well it does pass unanimously I'm not sure why it's not showing can you tell us what the vote was a unanimous vote in the affirmative so the unanimous vote in the affirmative on the motion will now move to ice 48 and this includes recommending committee bills eligible for adoption at this meeting first bill number 2 0 1 9 - 6 amends the land use tables contained in the LLVM C 19.1 2.0 102 provide that the use crop production is allowed in the c1 and c2 zoning districts as the conditional use and that was sponsored by Councilman Steven Soroka councilman Anthony would you like to have the bill read yes bill number 2019 - 6 an ordinance to amend a land-use tables contain UNLV MC section 19.12.2011 use and to provide for other related matters for approval let's please there was a motion for approval we please vote post and the motion carries unanimously item number 49 bill number 2 0 1 9 - 7 for possible action in amends LVM C nineteen point zero six point zero six zero to reduce the minimum lot size for development within the our e doning district from 20,000 square feet to 18,000 square feet it's sponsored by Councilwoman Fiore councilman Anthony would you like to have the bill read yes bill number 2019 dare seven an ordinance to amend section nineteen point six point sixty to reduce the minimum lot size for development within the re zoning district from 20,000 square feet to 18,000 square feet and to provide for other related matters move for approval please vote on the motion post oh you had a question I have a lot of questions because I don't understand what this is and what we're trying to accomplish here and why are we lowering the lot sizes for residential estates zoning and how does this affect from someone that lives in a a rural neighborhood preservation area and that a lot of my constituents live in rural neighborhood preservation area is that a looking to maintain that why would we go and lower the amount of square not size down to this instead of maintaining what it is so that we can put more homes and a you know you can put two more homes on a subdivision versus was that the case madam madam mayor pro-tem the Councilwoman who is sponsoring the bill can of course respond it this doesn't necessarily change density in the RMP it does allow for an adjustment to the development standard from a 20,000 square foot lot to an 18,000 square foot lot but the density would still be restricted by the general plan designation so in the case of the RMP which I believe is that two units per acre that still is the the mandate so while someone can develop technically a smaller lot they would still have to adhere to the develop the density limitations that are established by the general plan this 18,000 square foot is consistent with how Clark County does there are a lots and is the minimum lot size that's allowed under the interlocal agreement that we have with Clark County particularly affecting the area in the northwest where we've had some annexations and we still have some owner initiated annexations to balance out the development between what happens in the county and what happens in the city and of course the sponsor can add to that yet so I don't I just don't think that we should it is increasing per se density because if you can if you're taking 2,000 square foot off of a lot size then potentially if you have you know if you have ten Lots and that's 20,000 square feet that means you can put another home or another area in which would in turn increase density and so I don't believe that we should be trying to increase increase City I don't think we should be lowering the minimum lot size I think 20,000 square feet has been established for re and I haven't heard any justification of why we would change that this is does this bring back a different zoning level now from liking our PD 3r is this you got to turn your mic on sorry so meta mayor pro-tem through you so councilman to answer that question no this doesn't affect our PD 3 it doesn't affect any other zoning district it merely adjusts the minimum lot size and again that that's the thing to stress as well it's the minimum lot size for a lot that may be developed under the re residence estates development zoning standard so it doesn't it doesn't impact any of the other districts it doesn't impact the standards for our PD 3 or anything like that yeah but it technically would increase though density just my example of if you had 10 homes and you really used 2,000 square feet lots and you can add another 20,000 square foot line if you have a 10 lot development so correct councilman so technically if the underlying general plan did allow for that additional lot to occur and yes with this reduction if you had a parcel big enough that you were previously you only had nine lots and now because of the extra 2,000 per lot you're able to get to an 18 an additional 18,000 square foot lot then yes that subdivision would technically have one more developable lot but it still must adhere to the underlying general plan designation and that sets the density limitation I just don't see any compelling reason why we would change this so yeah so the reason why I've asked for this is because generally when we do have people that are working in that Ward and constantly comparing what the counties do with with this change than our staff it's it's our norm it's the same as our inner local and our county so it's not constantly staff recommending denial when the county recommends approval so it's more of a uniform it doesn't change how we do business in in our ward especially Ward six this is where this big area is and we don't do a lot of density in Ward six our neighbors dictate that so if there was an issue the neighbors would would you know okay I couldn't hear you were finished I'm sorry when you finished I just wanted to say that I have as Cedric casts older areas that they don't want to lower the amount that this bill would but lower as far as the amount and I know the county does it but the county does a lot of things we don't want to do so you know what why don't we why don't we obey this so we can go through it a little bit more why don't we obey it until May and our May meeting and then we can talk about a little bit more okay could you make a motion yeah let's make a motion to obey this to me so we can go through it a little bit longer oh one second Councilwoman Mayor Pro Tem when was this published it was published on March 21st okay yeah so we're good into May do you want to set the date May one is that what you want well the motions to hold in abeyance until May first that's the motion and please vote and post and we see that unanimously that's approved so now we'll move to item number 51 built 15 sorry it might have gotten stuck item number 50 bill number 2 0 1 9 - 8 for possible action this amends the interim downtown Las Vegas development standards set forth in appendix F of the unified development code title 19 to adopt specific wall and fence standards for area 2 of the downtown Las Vegas overlay district and this is sponsored by Councilman Bob coffin by request of staff councilman Anthony would you like to have the bill read yes bill number 2019 - 8 an ordinance to amend the interim downtown las vegas development standards set forth in appendix F of the unified development code title 19 to adopt specific wall offense standards for area 2 of the downtown Las Vegas overlay district and to provide for other related matters move for approval please vote post and again a unanimous approval of this item and now we move to item number 51 which is filled number 2 0 1 9 - 9 for possible action in an immense LVM C 19 point oh six one two oh two remove the building height limitation generally applicable to main buildings in the r4 zoning district and it's sponsored by mayor Carolyn Goodman councilman Anthony would you like to have the bill read yes bill number twenty 19-9 an ordinance to amend ovm c section nineteen point six point 120 to remove the building height limitation generally applicable domain buildings and the r4 zoning district and to provide further related matters approval the motion has been made to approve this item would you please vote and post and the item has passed unanimously now we move to item number 52 bill number 2 0 1 9 - 10 for possible action it amends various provisions of LF l v MC title 6 219 to establish the licensing and land use means and limitations by which brewpubs init ciliary brewpubs may sell melt beverages for off-premises consumption sponsored by our favorite drinker councilman Bob coffin seems like a pleasurable kind of motion okay count summon anthony would you like to the bill read i did that a little backwards yes bill number 20 19 - 10 an ordinance to amend various provisions of lem c title 6 and 19 to establish the licensing and land-use means and limitations by which brewpubs and ancillary brewpubs they sell malt beverages for off-premises consumption to provide for other related matters for pool did we have someone who wish to speak up and I apologize probably I was not at council briefing yesterday which this question probably have been answered but can someone explain to me specifically what this is when you say off-premise consumption and where it is this so you can have a brewpub and you can buy something at the brew pub then you can take it off when you say off premises where our furnaces so some madame pro tem if i may so yes so this would allow for them consistent with state law for a brew pub that bruised their own product to actually sell for consumption at your home for you to buy their product their product only at their location and take it home for consumption so micro knocks growler exactly so that's the premise piece of this currently they can do tastings and things and they can have a set up at the location for on-premise consumption but this will allow us to update our language in both title 19 and title 6 to allow you counts McLoughlin whoever to go in you like their what they brew you will be able to take your growler have it and take that home ok so currently I said I know that because I used to run Barley's casinos out Anderson and we sold growlers of the beer that was manufactured there so you're saying currently in the city of Las Vegas that's not possible so Chicago not Chicago brewery over on Durango in Sahara is that in the city for the record merry McElhone deputy planning director to you councilmen through mayor pro-tem Tarkanian so just a little clarification right now if you're an established brewing your own beer at that location patrons can come in purchase growlers to leave to take the product home to consume at home what this actually does is this actually love it allows a different location so let's say you're Tenaya Creek which is located in the city they could open up a second location where they're not brewing and it would be under beer one cooler basically the bear wine and cooler sale license and they could sell for off-site consumption disarms their product but you don't doesn't have to be brewed on-site okay so tonight Creek has a brewery or [Music] where they are and you're saying that if they open up another tavern some other place within the city they could they could brew their brew at here and then they can ship it over to there or tap it at there at the other location but then this would allow them to sell a growler at the ancillary location exactly it also allows it doesn't have to be originally located in the city it could be brewery in Henderson okay we're in the state because it's a state license and I think could set up an ancillary location in the city of Las Vega not do they can only have a get a growler from where it's brewed that's correct that has to be brewed that does it have to be their own product it is limited to a growler or a six-pack great thank you for the clarity and I apologize for you don't have to apologize her inquiry yeah I was yesterday I would have been that way and you know we do not have to have public comment at this time but I'm not going to be like that group in California they're got in deep trouble when the poor man couldn't even talk and I'm gonna ask you would you like to speak madam mayor pro-tem and council members my name is windy forest I currently own craft house brewery in Henderson Nevada so I just wanted to first of all thank councilman coffin for listening to our concerns about our local industry here in Nevada we are greatly behind the national trend but this does allow us to take one step forward and to help us become current with the national trends so what we're looking to do is open up a secondary tasting room and the law does not allow us to have people enjoy our product at home thank you very much and I bet confident appreciates that too thank you we have the motion made we please vote I'm the only one all right everybody has voted for that again unanimously and now we'll move to the next item and that is bill number this is 53 bill number two zero one 9-11 amends various provisions of lv MC title six in title 19 to establish a new alcoholic beverage licensing category designated chavin restricted to be available only along a limited segment of west Sahara Avenue and to establish licensing land use and gaming regulations and restrictions pertaining thereto sponsored by Councilwoman Lois Tarkanian councilman Anthony would you'd like to have the bill read because bill number twenty nineteen dash eleven first amendment and ordinance to amend various provisions of LVM C title six in title 19 to establish a new alcoholic beverage licensing category designated tavern restricted to be available only along a limited segment of West Sahara Avenue to establish licensing land use and gaming regulations and restrictions pertaining thereto and to provide for other related matters move for approval the First Amendment First Amendment please cast your vote on the motion post and it has been approved unanimously we will now move to item number 54 and these are recommending committee bills eligible for adoption at a later meeting items number 54 and 55 bills number 2 2018 - 6 1 and 2019 - 5 will be heard at a later meeting and we will move on to new bills item number 56 are new bills item number 56 number bill number 2 0 1 9 - 12 will be heard at the recommending committee meeting on Monday April 15th 2019 City Attorney would you read the new bill yes mayor pro-tem bill number 2019 - 12 an ordinance to amend the talent center development standards manual to allow the use of marijuana dispensary in specified land use districts by means a special abuse permit adopt clarifying language regarding the waive ability of certain special use permit requirements and provide for other related matters new bill - 0 1 9 - 12 is assigned to the April 15 2019 recommending committee members councilman Anthony and coffin and Councilwoman fury if any so designated are unable to attend the clerk's office will coordinate finding substitutes as necessary at the mayor's Direction thank you the morning session of the City Council meeting is now in recess we'll start the next session at 11:00 a.m. I just said that for funny I just thought you'd like to see where we are on it so we will now move on to the planning committee item 57 you know we have to have a little fun item number 57 yes this is for possible action any items from the 11:00 a.m. session of the council staff and or the applicant wish to be stricken tabled withdrawn or held in abeyance to a future meeting may be brought forward and acted at this time I have two items item number 66 CP 75033 applicant owner precision assets 308 wisteria Avenue the applicant has asked that be abate Oh May 1st 2019 and item number 67 sgp seven five one five zero applicant owner anna ortega eight nine zero zero condo d court applicant is asked that would be withdrawn without prejudice and that's my motion please vote I don't have a place to vote if okay and post Jeff can you post it well that did pass unanimously it passed unanimously we have a little bit of technology today that just feels free-spirited now we are on item number 58 items number 58 through 63 are on the consent agenda they are considered to be routine and they're recommended for approval by the Department of Planning Mayor Pro Tem can I have a motion to approve the consent agenda item numbers 58 through 63 motion has been made to vote for approval please cast your vote post and we now have a unanimous vote on those the consent agenda moving therefore to number 64 and 65 this 64 is zero and seven five one one five on a request for a rezoning from an r1 the single-family residential to a Pio professional office item number 65 SDR 75 one one seven on a request for a site development plan review for a proposed two-story 6,500 square foot office building with waivers of title 19 point zero 8 development standards in title 19 point 12 parking standards the applicant is Sylvia Esparza law and the owner is downtown Sanchez LLC on 0.16 acres at 7 to 8 Garces Avenue r1 single-family residential zone proposed is the PIO professional office the Planning Commission and staff recommend approval sytems these are in Ward 3 mr. coffin and our public hearings which I now declare open mr. Sommerfeld sorry director yeah I got it I keep clicking and it's not working where it's that technology problem she was talking about the madam mayor pro-tem so the rezoning of the subject site to P Oh professional office is appropriate within this area of the founders district and the proposed office adheres to the objectives of the vision 2045 master plan for downtown Las Vegas therefore staff has recommended approval of the requested site development plan review subject to two conditions in this request there's a reduction in there's a waiver for parking parking being proposed is comparable to other projects that have been approved via variances in the past and that is one of the distinctions on this project now that this is in the downtown master plan area the the standards that apply here are a little different than how they've applied in the past and so that's why you're seeing transition from older development patterns to this and so again this is in keeping with the master plan vision for the founders district that has been endorsed and adopted by the City Council and so staff has recommended approval and we have the applicant here yes and we'd like to have you speak to the gain see you good afternoon a little bit about myself my name is Silvia Esparza and I'm a mother of four two children my own two stepchildren I'm an attorney I'm an immigration activist I'm also a native born of Las Vegas and we're really excited to move to this proposed location for two a couple reasons one is because most of our the client base and assistance and we are under serving the community as it stands right now in Las Vegas with immigration attorneys the ice office is downtown the immigration court is downtown and the federal courthouse is also downtown there are major transportation routes that make it accessible for the community to access legal services there are not that many immigration attorneys in Las Vegas so we're bringing some legal diversity to downtown also by being part of the revitalization we're also bringing more jobs to the community and also needed service that is a really high demand another reason for the expansion that is really close to my heart is to be able to do more community service by doing free workshops doing some trainings and some community meetings that I haven't been able to do because my office is very small so at expanding it to six thousand square feet would really allow me to do that to partner up with other community members also when we hired the Korra architecture which will hand it over to Alexis Bailey in a second we looked at the surrounding neighborhood to make sure that it was consistent with the 2045 master plan and it is really consistent with the objectives and the goals and what we're trying to do for the future and you know that's why the staff recommended approval so just thank you for listening all right thank you Pro Tem councilmembers Nathan Taylor a 414 west farmer representing the applicant I'm going to be very brief which I know you guys will like I wanted to first say that we're really excited about this project we're just respectfully asking that you follow staffs recommendation for approval and Planning Commission's recommendation for approval we did hold a neighborhood meeting six people attended we we respect some of the neighbors concerns but we just ask that you follow staffs recommendation this is a beautiful project and I will turn it over now to Alexis Bailey they will talk about the actual design thank you good afternoon my name is Alexis Bailey I'm part of the design team we designed the building in an effort to complement the already amazing projects that are going on downtown and the urban fabric that exists there we used by contrast neutral colors that would enrich the design without straying from those historical buildings we also have what we're calling the porch which is the beautiful entrance here that is a nod to the founders district the lower level will be the parking garage but we're screening that with box hedges which will add a nice organic element to it and also a natural pop of color it's also going to complement the pedestrian realm that's going to be added as part of the project to the front of the building that runs along Garces currently there's just small shrubs there now so we're going to be adding an 8 foot wide walkway as well as mature trees and additional plants beneath the entire second floor is going to be the offices as well okay we do have some people who wish to speak on this item first Roy McMann are you in the audience Roy uh-huh well I have Roy McMann I have Robert Marshall and I have Craig Sutton and I don't know if you're all together or separate but yeah world you each have an opportunity to speak if I have something needs to be shown on the screen do I need to be over here Greg Sutton 9420 west Sahara on behalf of the adjacent landowner who will come up right after me Roy McMann the opportunity to have the zoning changes were complete agreement with that the issues that we have is as a non-conforming parking where there's preferred 22 spots but only nine are going to be on the site my applicant or the owner next door all the additional parking for this will go in front of his building along garça stand overload area that already has some difficulties with parking sorry sir could you reintroduce yourself yeah Craig Sutton 9420 West Sarah then the building that is directly adjacent is thirteen hundred and sixty two square feet there are seven parking spots in the back two on the driveway so there's as many parking spots on our site our building is only thirteen sixty two square feet this building at 6,500 square feet has only nine spots the exact same number we're in favor of the 2045 plan and we're actually in favor of the zone change the issue is the size of the building what we have here is the founders district where we're at and going to a different city meeting we noticed that adopting soon is a form based code the form based code has a little bit of an overlay determining where each of the types of T 3 T 4 T 5 we're probably a little bit of a blend between a T 3 and a t4 and I have a couple of examples here showing here a t form the actual urban core the t5 is much more dense than what we have here that would be kind of a footprint footprint placement of the building that is proposed which would be something like the low-rise the t4 is a little bit less dense or more along the lines of a t3 building which is a residential look and we do believe the founders district is in the t3 there's a little bit of ambiguity on that so I'm not a hundred percent sure but would look for a little bit clarity our issue is not what the zone change if a good application can be split to his own change 100% in favor of the zone change we're not in favor of the building being oversized for the site that it sits on the site next door where my friends building is that would have a 32 foot wall with an only 3 foot setback so the wall would cast a shadow over the building and not be a anything that's conforming to the general building sizes for the area all right thank you did mr. McMahon or mr. Marshall yes give your name please Roy McMahon yes and my address is 724 South 8th Street right I own the the building next door to the site on the north side I have been a business owner on 8th Street for the past 25 years and I actually own two buildings on 8th Street I'm in favor of growth and development I understand the need sometimes for a zoning change but not as drastic as the size and scope of this non-conforming design this design creates a building with a large 30 to 35 foot high wall with only a three foot property line setback next to my property the wall runs the entire length of my south side of my property line for a hundred and forty feet from the front sidewalk to the alley at the rear this will block completely the Sun on our site and any visibility to the corner from my building this design will create a blemish for the neighborhood there are no other buildings in the immediate area of similar design in you have to go north of Clark Street to find another building like this this is let's see here this the street this street and those around it mostly consists of residences that were converted to professional use all you need to do is drive down the street to appreciate it this area is known as a t4 neighborhood in the founder's district area of the Las Vegas City master plan I quote small to medium building footprints and medium intensity intensity building types so a massive building really doesn't fit in professional zoning in this area requires the maintenance of the residential character of the area to achieve the school you need setbacks landscaping and parking not zero lot line this proposal will feature a garage that empties right onto the street there are there are no buildings like that in the area there is like I said I'm in favor of development but this proposal needs to be redrawn to fit the site and the neighborhood a building this size needs literally twice the lot my neighbors have built large new buildings of similar sizes being proposed here on larger Lots with proper setbacks and parking and they look beautiful this building though new and as proposed will bring down values of the other buildings on 8th Street just by the unconnected look that it will have to the rest of the neighborhood its design would fit best in a t5 Zone which is would be 4th Street or 3rd Street north this brings me this brings me to the parking issue as you all know this has always been a problem downtown and we've been dealing with it forever 6,500 square feet with 15 offices in this building a conference room receptionist as well with only really 8 parking spots and 1 handicap we're 22 should be the code will they be carpooling I really doubt it do they expect not to have any clients visiting their office when I opened my business next door on the exact same size lot I was required to provide nine parking spots for my building and it's 1362 square feet I did it to meet code and I met code it has three offices kitchen reception in 1362 square feet the 6500 square feet on the same watt is crazy I support the city master plan for mixed-use I support any creative use that is at least compatible and able to support daily staff and client parking currently limited street parking is available due to owners of both aging single-family homes and small businesses an objective is walkable use but the use is a giant office will most likely produce few walking employees or clients I would be glad to support a new building one that is significantly smaller and like the other buildings in the area in size character so I send character thank you you're welcome could I ask planning is the variance requested for the only the three feet I thought we had five feet between house madam mayor pro-tem so there's no variance here because this is in the downtown master plan there not this isn't an again this is an area of transition where you are going from some older development standards from when the again like the parking standard for instance the parking standard that was quoted in our staff report would be if we treat it as if it was standard suburban type development 22 spaces would be required at that square footage taking into account the fat the location and the fact that it's in the downtown master plan area that's why staff supported the quest to have nine parking spaces so for instance so in this case they are requesting as a part of this action a waiver to allow a three foot rear yard setback as a part of the reason you are giving a waiver for that said right there is a waiver as a part of that and how about for the parking because it is hard to park in that area there again they are as a part of this request asking where the code would otherwise require I believe it's 22 spaces to allow them to have nine spaces so that is part of this request yes again consistent with other requests in the area and again consistent with the fact that in downtown part of the vision that the council has adopted is that we are going from a less parking or auto intense activity on individual Lots and more to communal parking more other modes of accessing the site like bus and things of that nature tell me are we going to it or are we wishfully thinking that the public is going for it well again this is a one more time this is a district in transition so it's starting that and you can see again not necessarily on this block but on other blocks north and south of this block where some of that transition has already occurred to larger larger projects larger buildings less parking on site and more expectation of using communal parking or other modes of transportation this block hasn't had that on this frontage but again just south of Garcias on the the opposite corner we have a larger building additionally north of this site we have several other the transition we're seeing is more from a law office to a law firm office and a law firm generally requires more people and therefore bigger offices whereas the home conversions were more able to accommodate a law office or as a single practitioner type practice and you're now using the form based code there we are not yet using the form based code yeah no no so that's another thing I want to be clear on and I'm you know I'm overjoyed with the fact that the community is embracing that and using that as their examples we have not deployed form based code here yet the founders District is one of the districts we would be looking to do a form based code but we do not have that standard yet as the one gentleman indicated we have to do the calibration to determine you know what exactly the transect would look like and what standards we would bring forth whether it's going to be in the four or the five range is still up in the air okay thank you and let's see that we had Roy right Roy was last so oh man did you turn into four I did I did all right tell us your name and please proceed my name is Trish Leavitt please proceed okay I'm good afternoon my name is Trish Leavitt my husband and I Andrew Leavitt owned a law firm it's 633 south 7th Street since for a good while M enemies and then we also have one next door to that which is 627 South 7th and then we have a residential at 621 South seventh Street as well we have four parking spots at our law office three in the front portion and also one on the driveway for a total of four and additionally off the back of the building we also have one handicap parking space and two additional spaces along garcés a lot of our clients are able to park on Garces on both sides because that is not metered we've owned the law office since 1985 at which point we turned into a commercial building we are against the size of the proposed building and the restraints that would come with the proposed request parking is a major issue and if this building is allowed to be built it will destroy the value of the surrounding properties including my properties on South cent Seventh Street as well as 8th Street and Garces so you obviously do not approve of this it sounds like a great looks like a beautiful project it really is it's a beautiful project but you're feeling it's over built yes thank you very much thank you and now this is Robert I'm assuming yes if I may I have come here with the names of 42 42 signatures in the neighborhood is there a way to distribute this to the council yes there is thank you these are the names of 42 of the neighbors in the community these are people who own land in the community or work in the community or live in the community the community being just simply the block of of 7th Street and the block of 8th Street so these are all people who are within a hundred and fifty to two hundred yards of this building on it of this proposed building on a daily basis can I go to the overhead yes certainly it's right there you just place it on there that's right we can see it this is a building that I built directly across the street from what is proposed this is a 66 hundred square foot building the building that you see before you my building is the same size as the building that is being proposed the distinction is the building that is being proposed sits on half the land of the building you see in other words the proposal does not adhere to any setbacks at all and it does not adhere to parking and the building will destroy the value of the properties around it if it is allowed this is Don Campbell's building built a block away he also adhered to parking I'm sure there's a few waivers but he adhered to parking ins and setbacks this is Lloyd Baker's building who was a few blocks away he adhered to parking and setbacks the if I could express anything to you and this is the building that you're looking at which looks nothing like the community it does not adhere to proper setbacks or parking what you're really looking at is they're asking for a waiver of 13 parking spaces for this building and so what they're really saying is that every little house that could be developed in the downtown community should have an entitlement or an allocation of 22 parking spaces and if you start running the numbers the minute you build a few of those you destroyed the value of everything around you in the community and so as a community we are very strongly against this I will note for you the former city councilman Wolfson has voiced an opposition to this I will know the Don Campbell and Lloyd Baker and the Kennedy family everybody that has built in this neighborhood recently has voiced an opposition to this particularly with signatures and I thank you for hearing me I'll be happy to answer any questions that you have are there any questions from the council is there anybody else who from the audience that wishes to be heard on this item all right councilman coffin do you have a motion Your Honor I have looked at this now for a couple of months trying to figure out how to do it I've heard from all 42 people I think by phone or by letter so and a lot of them are my friends so long standing but we're in a bit of a box here because there is parking on the street I've driven down there quite a few times and generally speaking the parking along Garces and on 8th is abundant on the other hand I'm sure there are times when it could get crowded but the thing is is that I feel like I'm in a bit of a box here because the application was taken and found to be in order by our staff the Planning Commission examined it thoroughly and approved it unanimously I don't know what objections were raised at the Planning Commission but it has received this kind of approval for people that know the law they know our ordinances and the fact that we're in a transition and I think the word trend communicated to the people who opposed it and that is that it's happened it's been happening Robert tell me why in the world we took a step fork yeah because I see the thing is is you gave them a you gave them a way to go because you had to I think this kind of worms where I'm looking is that correct I apologize sir I couldn't quite hear you with the the air view permission the the process moving forward yeah it looks like it's too small of a lot in a sense but we don't mandate parking in that area we don't really mandate we have it but we exempted correct correct well so what we have is we don't have an automatic application of our parking standard that used to be the language now what we say is because this is in what we call area 2 so the founder's district is area 2 this is an area that wasn't previously covered by the Centennial plan but is a part of the downtown master plan area so we haven't updated those standards yet work incrementally working through that process and so what we allow with the council as adopted is an ability for people to ask for a waiver of those parking standards and staff you know again if we felt that the project as proposed was under parked we would recommend denial as that would be the situation again looking at the history in this area on 7th Street on 8th Street we have a number of variances that have been proved by this council past councils going back 84 86 88 the 90s into the 2000s and even fairly recently to allow variances for parking here understanding that this is an area immediately adjacent to downtown that is transitioning from the old residential neighborhood that it used to be into the law offices that still have some residences interspersed in there as was mentioned right over on 7th there is still folks that are living in one of those single-family homes but it is definitely an area as I said in transition where parking is available on the street as you would expect in a lower intensity but still urban area that this is and based on the the program 9 spaces is probably appropriate for for this location which is why staff and the Planning Commission had recommended approval of this item mr. calif and if I might make a comment just as much as the parking I'm concerned with the size and how it is on the other buildings next to it and you know it's a modern building one of the one of the draws of downtown is the older buildings they've taken and they make them beautiful and useful and it seems you've got a lot of it on 7th and 8th and and now what you're doing is you're putting a really modern building in among the others well that's one thing that's a matter of choice but to impinge so closely on the other Lots I I'll tell you what if I live there I had a business there I wouldn't like it and I don't think any of these people would like it if they had it that close to them but maybe they don't care I don't know I'm sorry I did always call for more testimony on that too if you want yeah well and you know we talked about transition where are you transitioning I thought we were transitioning our downtown area taking some of our older buildings which are beautiful renovating them and to me well that's what I try to do on Charleston I didn't have much and we have quaint little buildings that are offices Mencia but I know it's your district it's the dress some of your concerns just because I think it's I we obviously appreciate the neighbors concerns but I think that simply it's just not true if you could see the camera this is mr. Marshalls building on the right-hand side and this is another building on the left-hand side this is on 8th and Garces so there is currently a very large building taking up several Lots and it is a modern building this is the back end and how many Lots does yours take it takes up one lot see that's the difference one lot in the several Lots I think is the difference its maximizing those three Lots and the front of it is also modern and then in regards to the renovation there's a sixth in Bonneville which is also modern and it's maximizing also taking up all of the the street this is requesting lots of waivers so the trend is towards having some modern buildings but even if this wasn't the trend this was already there 703 has already been there it's been there for many years it's there right now and they approved it this is not so our building is nothing really different I don't know but I think the city should pave that Street or something I'm sorry I interjected mr. coffin but I just want to point out those questions that's okay because it doesn't look like it means it but at least our maintenance is up to date because it's not getting any worse that that's why you see that sealer again councilman this is in keeping with the the transition to the mayor Pro tems point it is a different scale compared to the couple of the neighboring buildings but we've seen that every time one of these buildings goes in it is at a different scale than the neighboring buildings and so we're going to see that effect occur in this district as it evolves as it continues to grow and those businesses continue to grow and they kind of grow out of that footprint to the mayor Pro tems point in this district we will probably see quite a bit of this tension between the adaptive reuse of existing buildings and request for new buildings that may have a modern or may harken back to an older architectural style but that's that's what's gonna happen in the founders district it's just the the way the development is is kind of progressing there thank you so there is no mandate to change or to have an appearance as a residence okay maybe a large residence but nevertheless not for not for this district not at this time as we as we move into the form based code and we're looking at those standards as we hear from the community there may be some interest in doing some of that but as it sits right now we don't have any standard on the book that would require that thank you your honor I don't think I have much choice except to go against my friends which is to say this is an transition and transition means a lot of things and it probably was announced to the Planning Commission Planning Commission may have heard the same arguments and a voted unanimously for whatever their reasons were I'm going to go ahead and move for approval all right councilman coffin that's your motion we watched planning very carefully in word one by the way with our older districts and let's vote on the motion please thank you men approached a me counselor Thank You councilman coffee and it has passed and now congratulations and I hope you consider those neighbors as you build and we'll move on to the next item that's 65 that's we need a second motion on 65 please mr. coffin he has moved for approval please vote and post and their vote remains the same it passes and we will now move on to item number 66 67 and the subject is su P seven five one five oh and abeyance item that item you took care of in housekeeping that item was that's taken care of yes ma'am all right thank you item number 68 wvr seven five two zero zero public hearing the applicant owner Michael Eric Catmull for possible action on an appeal of the denial by the Planning Commission on a request for a waiver to allow a three-foot side yard setback where five feet is required and zero parking spaces were for are required for a proposed two family dwelling at four one five North ninth Street our three medium density residential zone Ward 5 career afternoon my name is Lisa demo I am here representing the owner of 415 North ninth Street Michael air Catmull we are requesting a waiver for zero parking spaces where four are required I'm sure all of you are that the revitalisation that's taking place in this area and he would love to be a part of it here so excuse me ma'am could you we cannot hear bill sorry is this better okay so his plan is to renovate the property and turn it into a duplex which happens to follow the pattern of the neighborhood as there are two duplexes and a four-plex within a mile of this property please keep in mind that all the renovations will be interior only given the fact that each unit will only have one bedroom mr. Campbell does not suspect the number of cars to increase versus a single-family home which is currently also if you take a look the two properties next door also rely on street parking as they don't have any driveway so this is our property Carlene as you can see we have half a driveway the neighbor to the left has no driveway or any parking on the premises and the neighbor next to them so the started entering rear neighbor have no complaints of this renovation as you can see the rear neighbor actually wrote an email to councilman clear regarding this issue and mr. Campbell has explored the idea of using the rear yard for parking unfortunately because they neighbor to the right of us or to the left of us depending on how you look their side yard is actually going over the property line from mr. camel's property and which I found on the county assessors website which if you can look here so the way that it is is this is the neighbor's house and the slide would be where our property line is there you go so as you can see our property line is going over their side yard thank you very much Sammy and mr. camel would have tried to would really avoid wanting to cause any distress to that neighbor like having that move their side yard okay thank you very much mr. Sommerfeld madam mayor pro-tem so the African is proposing to convert a single-family residence into a duplex residence as indicated the existing structure does not mean to required setbacks from the side and rear property line and no parking is provided on-site as the site is located in area 2 of the downtown Las Vegas overlay district these discrepancies have been addressed via the waiver request rather than a variance as a waiver it is not necessarily subject to the same determinations as a variance however the applicant has to provide has provided no evidence of a hardship related to the site to warrant upgrading the site from a single-family residence into a duplex and therefore staff has recommended denial as these the the exacerbation here with no parking is completely self imposed thank you all right the Planning Commission has voted 6-1 staff recommends denial this is a public hearing is there anybody here other than the applicant who wishes to speak previously we did have the neighbor that has his house and his fence built on our property he did come down if you remember everybody remembers he was here saying he didn't want to have his property torn down I really don't wanna cause any distress to him am I losing my hearing or are we all are you having difficulty I think it's been all day actually with those microphones are not yeah our microphones I I'm not turned up enough luckily I don't have that problem mind if I take over a matter mirror certainly I just I just couldn't hear it yeah because of my age no no no no it's not June so madam madam approach if I want to move for approval on this I did speak with the gentleman and and his team I do believe there's a hardship there with the with the side lot that's there in downtown is who maybe we need to get this building revitalize so there's no other discussion I could move for approval all right the motion has been made for approval any other discussion from the council please vote something has been wrong with our mics and they should be looked at for next meeting well you see I'll need stiffer in wards the difference between the one word and the other word is very interesting because mayor pro-tem yes we have have we voted yes host the vote passes unanimously for some reason the post Dean functions not working we better have somebody look at the whole thing absent because we've been having trouble with that all day so you're very fortunate thankful to councilman career he really helped you out there and thank you very much thank you very much can I just ask did we do item number 67 did we did not you sir you leave now cuz you're ahead that was held without prejudice okay and we did 68 and now we're on a 69 SDR seven five three three three applicant owner NS a property holding LLC for possible action on a request for a site development plan review for a proposed 302 unit thirty nine thousand four hundred square foot mini storage facility with a waiver to allow a zero foot perimeter landscape buffer along the west south and east property lines where 8 feet is required and a 10 foot perimeter landscape buffer along the north property line where 15 feet are required on the perimeter landscape buffer along the north property line or excuse me 15 feet is required on 1.49 acres at 3301 Mead Avenue M industrial zone Ward one Tarkanian and could we have the applicant give us the information please certainly my name is Michael pan 0 my address is 74 85 Asher i am the architect representing the owner store america alright did you want to tell us anything about italy project so the owner had previously a two-story building here that was in some form of dilapidation so they've in an effort to help revitalize the neighborhood and improve their asset they've gone through and we've already removed the existing building and we're putting a building up roughly the same size and footprint we will be enhancing some of the landscaping and I won't say off site but the perimeter public adjacent features for the site right and I and my staff did visit your area on mede and we saw you have an almost an impossibility to put landscape on certain sides and none of the others near you have landscaping along the sides or the back so we understood that problem however we did ask planning to make sure that you have what is your an enhanced landscape in front because we are trying to build up the looks of the area even though right now it's just looks industrial we wanted to make it look as nice as possible and the only way we can on your property is in the front area yes not a mayor pro-tem and we spoke with the applicant and we've requested that we get some additional trees within the front buffer and they've agreed to that and when I do my staff report I have a condition change to articulate that so does the applicant approve of that condition of an extra lush landscape in front my understanding is yes my staff reached out and we're requesting additional trees within that landscape buffer and we believe that provides that more lush landscaping that you've requested okay and did you have any problem with that no that's totally I was contacted I did reach out to the owner yet start understanding that we're gonna put four more trees in the front to further enhance that and my client has no objections or gladly do so you be the best-looking lot there correct this is a public hearing I now declare it open is the applicable you who did it already and mr. Sommerfeld spoke already did you want to speak any more let me just give the official staff report so the madam mayor pro-tem so the subject site was previously developed as a mini storage facility per plot plan reviewing special use permit from 1988 staff has determined that the proposed project is compatible with the surrounding development in the area further staff finds that the requested waivers to allow the reduced landscape along the west south and east perimeter will have a minimum negative impact to the surrounding industrial area as mayor pro-tem you yourself have already discussed therefore staff has recommended approval of the project subject to conditions staff would like to do if approved we would request that a amendment be made in condition 7 to include the following additional language the technical landscape plan shall include the following changes from the conceptual landscape plan ad 124 inch box tree to the landscape buffer west of the north drive aisle and 324 inch box trees to the landscape buffer east of the north drive aisle and with that we recommend approval okay is there anyone else wishing to be heard on this item seeing none I'll close the public hearing and my motion is for approval so please vote subject to the amended condition oh yes subject to the amended condition vote and post if we can all right the motion passes thank you all right good luck to you and now we move to item 70 is that correct we were on 69 oh well I thought the budget was at the very end have we reached the end oh excuse me the end of planning so guess what we get to hear the budget with all those exciting numbers not enough money thank you Gary go ahead good afternoon Mayor Pro Tem members of the City Council for the record I'm Gary a mailing your chief financial officer and let's see if we got the slide show up here okay there we go first off as a way of introduction I'd first like to recognize and give thanks to finance director Vanetta Appleyard and the folks in the finance department as well as the department heads and their staff that worked tirelessly in putting together this tentative budget for fiscal year 2020 together with the city manager's office staff we believe that we put together a budget that responds to all the things that are shown on this slide primarily your council priorities the citizens survey and the employee engagement survey unfortunately as we've talked about as part of our budget discussions over the course of the last 12 months we're finding ourselves in a position where we don't have enough funding to be able to fund everything that we would like to so we've had to make some hard decisions and putting together the budget our emphasis continues to be on expansion and revenue development in priority areas primarily in public safety and homeless issues although I will point out at the beginning of the presentation that we have not fully funded all the things we'd like to in terms of homeless issues that's why we submitted a bill draft request to the state legislature to try to add to our revenue portfolio to be able to fill you can have to speak closer to the mic we're having trouble today this is very important information I know you have microphones are better for shorter people so I know I know that's the problem you have if you may have to stand up taller and stretch every now and then it's too far away I'm a fortunate speaker I will do the best I can to stay close by microphone as we've discussed we are doing whatever we can to try to address our structural budget deficit we've talked about our vacancy management system we'll be talking about that and some of the slides that come forward we are looking for new revenue sources and then we did put together the team 2020 effort which we talked about in your briefings this week that it's yielding some results although some of the results that we're hoping to yield from that effort won't be realized until either next year or perhaps other fiscal years down the road first up we'd like to give you a little bit of background information about how we're performing for this current fiscal year so far this fiscal year I would say that the economy has been performing pretty well our revenues have been coming in above budget we're currently projecting to end the fiscal year about 17 point seven million dollars above budget as we've talked about in your council briefings consolidated tax has been performing above budget we're currently projecting a 6.2 million dollar surplus in that account property taxes were about on target with the budget licenses and franchises we're about six million dollars above budget and then other revenue sources are combined about 5.2 million dollars above budget on the expenditure side we're currently under running the budget our estimate for year-end is about 2.2 million dollars primarily the savings on that in that regard of the result of the frozen positioned as a result of our position freezes and we'll talk more about that as we get into later slides in the presentation we are recommending the use of some of that money to try to fund one-time requests that we're asked for as part of the FY 2008 also to fund capital projects that don't have other funding sources available to fund them and to help build up our reserves particularly in the liability fund and the employee benefits internal service fund looking at the fiscal year 20 projections for consolidated tax we are expecting to see growth continue however I will point out that the budget now basically is an expansion but we are likely to see at some point that expansion to end in fact this June we will pass the expansion that started in March of 1991 and ran through March of 2001 which was a ten year expansion period this June the current expansion will pass that expansion period and become the longest expansion since World War two most economists are predicting that at some point probably in the next two years and that expansion will come to an end either through a slowdown or perhaps entering into a recession although most economists are not predicting that it would be a very deep recession and so we are building that into our five-year forecast but we don't see that being a major issue in fiscal year 2020 in terms of property caps property tax caps the primary caps are 3% for residential and 8% for non-residential properties because of the secondary cap formulas for fiscal year 2020 that will be the full 3% cap on the residential property but the non-residential property would cap at two times the CPI which is 4.8% with new construction activity that's going to be rolling into the assessment role we are estimating at four point five percent growth for fiscal over fiscal year 2019 we are bringing forward expanded requests in your priority areas and right now currently the budget is showing a surplus of five million dollars which are recommending to file for the tentative budget and that that excess is primarily due to our frozen list which currently stands at about seven point six million dollars looking at a little more detail on the revenue side I mentioned sea tax we'll have some slides to look at that in a minute property tax we did see an assessed value increase of 9% for this coming fiscal year but again those tax caps are restricting that growth and so the excess amount that's over and above the caps becomes what's known as abated tax and I'll show you that in the property tax law but that abated tax will now be up to forty point seven million dollars an increase of 7.2 million dollars over the amount for fiscal year 19 in licenses and franchises we are projecting a slight decrease for this coming fiscal year the primary reason for that is due to some one-time monies which came in during fiscal year 19 which we're not anticipating would be repeated in fiscal year twenty fives and charges for services and other revenues are expected to increase by eleven point four percent the primary driver there is the Medicaid monies that were anticipating to come in that we are planning to receipt into the general fund to help support public safety operations and that's about six point five million dollars the rest of the Medicaid monies are anticipated to help support capital projects and vehicle replacements and will show up in other funds and then the contribution for the Redevelopment Agency is estimated at 1.9 million dollars and that's the item that you approved in your RDA meeting this morning this first chart in the presentation looks at the consolidated tax history starting with fiscal year 2006 on the left-hand side of the chart and going through the projected budget for fiscal year 2020 on the right side of the chart the one thing you will note and I know some of the numbers are probably not readable from where you're sitting but one thing you will note is the steep decline going into the Great Recession we were sitting at two hundred and sixty four point three million dollars in fiscal year oh six just four years four years later that had dropped right about sixty million dollars or twenty four percent down to two hundred and 1.5 million dollars and that's why we get concerned when we talk about the budget because many of our revenue sources particularly the largest ones that we depend on are very economically sensitive and so when the economy does go through a negative cycle that revenue can either slow down or decline in fact when we saw that decline of sixty million dollars obviously we had to take dramatic actions to be able to continue operations of the city it did take one thing either to note on this is it did take a full ten years to get back to the level that we were at in fiscal year 2006 it wasn't until fiscal year 2016 in fact when collections caught up to and passed what it was ten years earlier in fiscal year 2006 property tax is another economically sensitive revenue source and you can see again that the peak which occurred in fiscal year 2008 was followed by a pretty steep decline this chart actually separates out the property tax that we receive which is shown in the yellow at the bottom of each pie of each stacked bar chart item and then the green part on the top is what was known as abated property tax the part that is on the assessment roll but we don't get to collect it when the peak occurred we were at one hundred and thirty four point seven million dollars in fiscal year 2009 that dropped a few years later down to eighty eight point two million dollars we are still in fact if you go all the way out now what is a full 11 years later we're projecting to be at a hundred and ten point four million dollars next fiscal year that still a full twenty four point 1 million dollars less than we collected back in fiscal year 2009 it's that type of thing that has made it challenging for us to try to balance our budget and meet the service demands of the city moving forward looking at the revenue sources for the city and primarily this presentation at least the first several slides deal with the city's general fund the fund that provides the majority of the day-to-day services of the city and this slide shows you the major revenue sources for the city's general fund the consolidated tax being by far the largest in the bluish color on the right-hand side of the pie chart totaling about 54% of our overall revenues at 336 million dollars property tax at the bottom left-hand side in the deeper orange color totaling about 110 million dollars together those two revenue sources by themselves make up over 72% of our protected general fund revenues going into next fiscal year so you can see those being the economically sensitive revenues that if the economy does start to Teeter a little bit we need to be very prepared for that and that's why we have reserve similar talk about reserves later in the presentation the other primary revenue sources by category are licenses and franchises about 98 million and then other revenues that have been categorized together seventy four point five million dollars some of the major ascent expenditure assumptions for the proposed budget for fiscal year 2020 obviously we're intending to try to sustain as many programs as we can while at the same time expanding in priority areas of the City Council we are currently in collective bargaining with our major bargaining units all except for the CEA group my FF POA and PPA are currently in open negotiations and we've had some discussions about how that's been going but we hope that it'll be finished up here in the next few months and we'll have more certainty moving forward about how much money we need in the budget for the are we allowed to engage in questions as we're going through the budget certainly great okay so as we look at the expenditure assumptions as we spoke in briefing and I just want to make sure that we get this on the record because as we look at expenditures there's a few things that I've requested and I just want to make sure that the other council members receive what I've requested since we couldn't be together all in the briefing at one time but for the last 12 months of exit packages there's been rumblings of some excessive exit packages I think that the council as the council we set policy and budget you know we've discussed you know how the city is run and as we look at our budgets it's very very important that we are very aware of what's happening and also I would like to see the the differences between 2017 and 18 as we've moved people around from director achieve to so we've moved people we've moved positions there's been an access of up to fifty thousand dollars in different salary ranges from two thousand seventeen and eighteen and I think it really needs to be pointed out because as we look at these budget numbers it doesn't it's not crystal clear so I just really would like this budget to be crystal clear with us up here and and where a lot of the dollars are the hard the hard dollars are so that's the first thing thank you for that and we did receive your request and we should have something for you in the next few days and you might mention that whatever you send to her you send to the other council members too so they'll get that absolutely that's our practice we are including in the budget the increase in OEM cost that's based on the assets being turned back to the city from third parties primarily taking back Cashman Center from L VCA the Woodlawn Cemetery contract is going to be expiring late next fiscal year and we have to take that over in the month of May and then the central library were taking that over in the next couple of months and so that's budgeted the operating costs associated with those facilities are budgeted in the fiscal year 2020 proposed budget we are working toward some accounting changes to realign some of the costs that have been previously captured in our employee benefits fund we have been concluding in that fund not what we call non-productive hours basically people sick leave and vacation leave that has been confusing for people and as well as for myself and so we're moving that back to the funds where those people actually exist so we have a hundred percent of those cost captured in those funds well that's part of the request Gary because a lot of times so so again as I'm looking through the budget and trying to figure out why we're giving big fat checks to people that aren't taking vacations I really need to see that I mean that's huge and we might have to change a policy there to make sure we're just not you know writing thirty forty thousand dollar checks because people aren't taking vacation yeah certainly it's it's your prerogative to give us direction on what you'd like to see in terms of that policy those collective bargaining groups collective bargaining agreements that I mentioned earlier cover 90 percent of our employees and so we are paying about collected I'm talking about us I'm just talking about regular folks that are not union employees that are not part of collective bargaining we've gotten some fat checks out and I just want accountability for the budget also includes the full funding for the third group of marshals that we talked about over the three year program for funding additional marshals last year's budget included the second tranche of those marshals as well as a half year of funding for that third group this year's budget for fiscal year 2020 will include the full amount that's necessary to pay for those marshals over the course of the fully fiscal year we also are including staffing for fire station 103 as you recall the firefighters and their staff from fire station three have moved over to 103 during the reconstruction of that fire station once that fire station is complete then they will move back and we will fund up the fire station 103 through additional 13 firefighters and engineers and captains we have also included for the first time in several years in the operating budget a five million dollar contribution towards capital one of the things we've talked about is the fact that some of our capital projects do not have a dedicated funding source to be able to pay for them so we have included an effort to try to fund up those capital assets so that we can stay caught up with what we need to do in terms of maintaining our infrastructure vacancy rate has continued to be applied to all departments this assumes a 3% vacancy rate for all departments with the exception of the fire department which has been budgeted the last couple years at a six percent vacancy rate we talked about the Metro increase the Metro increase was requested of us for fiscal year 2020 was a six point four percent increase which worked out to about nine point six million dollars over what we contributed for fiscal year 2019 we have been informed just late last week that Metro has upped their revenue estimate for their property tax as well as reduced their ask for some of their civilian positions so we just are in the process right now of getting some new numbers that we will incorporate before we come back with the final budget discussion in May but we think that's about two million dollar reduction over what they previously have been asking for and I would just like to point out that lots of times they get their new police officers and they end up on the strip and we need to have them in our communities we need policing we're having to and that's why we have Shetland wanting to close off and we have so many break-ins so I just want to make sure that if there we're going to pay that much money which originally before you got the reduction here was almost ten million dollars I think we'd better make sure that our needs are taken care of as well as the strip that's all thank you and I know that we did hear you request that the budget workshop last week and we are getting you some information on the deployment of those officers by Area Command also the budget includes the transfer of certain positions that are currently budgeted in the general fund over to the Sanitation fund this is primarily related to downtown sidewalks storm drain cleaning and sanitation efforts that are appropriate to be charged to the Sanitation fund due to NPDES requirements in terms of the dollars associated with the expanded requests the additional of 13 marshals that's about 2.2 million the addition of the engine company for station 103 is about 1.9 million I also wanted to mention that we have implemented the recommendations from the ICM a studies that were done for the Department of Public Safety and the Fire and Rescue departments so part of that is the addition of this third item which is additional public safety and Fire staffing positions as well as an increase in our medical supply contract which is about 2.5 million dollars we are increasing parks and medians maintenance funding we have some additional parks that have come online so there's funding for the park maintenance as well as the utilities in those parks included in the budget I previously had mentioned taking back some of these properties Cashman and central library maintenance will cost about 1 million dollars at least until we can find a new tenant for those properties the increase in the Metro funding I previously discussed at nine point six million dollars the cemetery we're hopeful that we might be able to find another operator for the cemetery in the future but currently the contract is expiring next May and so we do have to put some money in the budget in case we're not successful finding a new operator we have some miscellaneous contractual and ancillary items which are increasing in cost about 1.7 million dollars and then we are asking for some monies to request such as rate studies and additional vehicles for the new positions and again including the funding for the downtown new program and the animal foundations life-saving mission the total of this list is about twenty two point nine million dollars I should point out that the budget briefing notebooks that we provided have a tremendous amount of additional detail on all of these items and I know there was also some additional requests to receive some of that information electronically so that you can sort it and look through it in various ways so we're getting that information together for you as well in terms of the additional positions recommended for this budget we'll see in a few minutes how we're planning to fund these positions but we are recommending 30 new positions be added to the general fund there is a record's position in the City Clerk's office there's eight new positions in the Department of Public Safety that are primarily for administrative support but what they allow us to do and this was part of the recommendations from the ICM a study is it allows them to therefore free up work that marshals are currently doing that takes them off the off their beep so to speak laws them to get more and more time in the field by having these administrative positions take over some of that work the fire and rescue positions again are for station 103 in Fire and Rescue there's also additional positions a senior management analyst fire admin battalion chief communications specialist senior business specialist and a fire fleet supervisor in the operations and maintenance department and additional maintenance worker and irrigation systems repair primarily that's for the new parks that are coming on board and then the Planning Department the Historic Preservation officer which is being funded by the Centennial Commission license-plate monies any other funds there's 12.5 additional positions recommended the first seven or so of those are in the Sanitation phone - in Public Works and five in the operations and maintenance side of that fund in the parking fund and there's a 0.5 FTE increase that's funded through parking fees and then the Development Fund Dylan services fund there's four additional positions that are necessary to try to keep up with development activity and then another you need to find those a little clearer for us not not right this second but and I just I really those I would really like to have them defined a bit more the building and safety ones no no the last one that you just said the development yeah those the three and the one that are listed as building and safety so those are additional inspectors okay to be able to stay up with the building activity that's happening so right now we're in a peak of development activity okay so in order to satisfy the needs of the development community who are paying the permanent fees which are paying for the cost of these positions staffing to be able to keep up now we know that the development cycle will come to an end at some point we think it's gonna run at least three years based on the the pipeline projects that are in place and so as we see the development cycle start to come to an end then we would be attrition in back down to a more normal amount of staffing given the workload at that time okay and could you just give me an idea what that starting rate is sure we can get that for you great thank you and if I might please not necessarily on these that you've given us today but in the past could you let us know more you you have the term I think it's administrative analyst is that the term that's used over and over in our budget or in our positions and we don't understand what that is because it's in different departments but we we keep hiring new what's it called is it administrative analyst well we have a management analyst a senior and analyst we have two levels with a management analyst one and two and then we have a senior management analyst positions are prevalent throughout the departments because the job description is fairly broad and allows those positions to support the department needs and know that you know you asked us to look at maybe places we could cut and I don't know what they do so I couldn't analyze that maybe you can just let us know sure we can certainly get you those job descriptions and have a discussion those are they those are part of the email that I had said you know on those it said we had looking at putting three different people in those positions so they have to be clear and because so what I'm learning in the last year and a half being on this council is lots of people we're moving people around we're changing positions their paid their their pay skills going up to six figures and I'm just really not sure it's warranted so I just really need to be crystal clear and as the council we set budget so it's my big concern to making sure that we are putting people in the appropriate positions or not putting people in the non appropriate positions and then the last position on this slide is an internal service fund for fire communications at the communications specialist supervisor position and that fund is paid for by both the city the county that contribute towards that fund this slide shows you what I was alluding to earlier which is as part of our efforts to address our structural budget deficit the city manager created team 2020 and reinstated what we call the position justification committee and we talked about this I think it at your budget workshop last week to be able to review all of the open positions as they come available we have not been able to fund all of our expenses and all of our council priority areas and the only way that we've been able to try to achieve the objectives that you set forward for us is to unfortunately have to make some reductions in other areas to be able to fund the things that are your highest priorities and so what we've been doing with the position justification committee is as positions that have come open that are not in critical areas that are your top priorities we've been freezing those positions in an opportunistic way to try to generate some savings to pay for some of the costs associated with the more important positions that you've asked us to fill we are also now to the point where we've reached close to what our target is our target is to try to get to ten million dollars and I'll show you why when we get to the five-year forecast numbers but we're trying to get to that target we're currently at about seven point six million dollars and we're trying to get to the point now where instead of being just opportunistic we're going to be much more strategic and so as we talked about last week we're intending starting next month with the position justification committee meetings as we have new positions come vacant that are not as important as some of the ones that are currently on the frozen list we'll start swapping them out so that we get to a point where we're funding the most highest priority needs of all the cities departments in accordance with the priorities and the policy direction that you're giving us so that's where we're heading with that unfortunately it's unfortunate that we're having to do it because it's been somewhat painful for the organization to go through this exercise but with our overall goal to not have to do any layoffs and yet still want to try to add positions in priority areas it's the only way that we've really been able to achieve the objective of trying to fund up and staff up those priority areas without having to make reductions and staffing that have caused layoffs well thank goodness we haven't created layoffs but again for the past year I know that mayor the mayor the mayor pro-tem myself I can't speak for other council members but I know we've looked at positions I know we've we've sent our requests in and I know that they just fell on deaf ears so this time around I'm just requesting as the council as the council that sets the budget and policy forth that our requests do not fall on deaf ears I think he'll provide all the necessary information that you need so what we've tried to display in this chart is that the additional positions are in the new column on the left and so you can see 42.5 positions 30 in the general fund 12.5 and the other funds and and I'd mentioned earlier there's a transfer of 12 positions that went from the general fund over to the Sanitation fund but the one of the thing I wanted to point out is on a net basis if you consider the frozen positions as being gone which is what we're considering them to be we're actually down positioned to the prior fiscal year even though we're adding 42.5 positions we currently have frozen 77 positions and it would take about roughly ten more positions or so to get to our overall target of ten million dollars and then this next slide shows you the city's employee history over the course of the last dozen or so years starting with fiscal year 2008 and at that point in time you can see how the positions split between the blue portion of the bar which is the non public safety positions and the public safety positions which are the red portion of the bar now since the obviously the top priority of this community as well as pretty much every community across the country is Public Safety generally speaking those positions were not were basically held harmless during the Great Recession so the majority of the reductions during the Great Recession came from the non public safety positions which is the same thing that happened in the previous two cities that I worked at during that period of time but but what you've seen coming back out of the recession is that the public safety side has actually grown and is now higher by about 12% of the level that it was at prior to fiscal year 2008 while the non public safety section it came back somewhat um as compared to the low point but it is still about 19% below the levels that it was at in fiscal year 2008 that's the struggle that we have with trying to fund all of the various service demands of the city could I ask a question when you ask your departments to cut do they at one time we cut every department had to cut a certain percent did we do that this year or did we do it a different way this year we did not do that this year because we had done that too I think two of the last three fiscal years and at that point we needed to make somewhat deeper cuts so we had I think a two percent cut last year I think we had like a half a percent cut three years ago this point we needed to cut the budgets by about six four seven percent I mean did every department did public safe did fire did they all have to cut the same percentage or did they well when we did the cuts we actually held harmless to public safety departments so I think for the most part they were not cut last year and did you include after one of our last conversations a public meeting I think it was the fact that we think that there is Public Safety involved in walkers department as far as parks safety and Parks repairing equipment we were working on responding to that question that you asked us right now the the operations the maintenance department is the one you're referring to the Jerry Walker's to the right has a number of positions on her frozen list and obviously having less positions makes it more challenging for him to run that department and try to maintain everything that he's obligated I know that he wasn't you told us he that wasn't considered public safety at the time and at the time then we mentioned to you some of the public safety concerns for example the benches I had that had rebar sticking out of them I know a boy who was killed because he fell against a rebar and so you know that's Public Safety and we also had to do some medical expenses once for someone who said I'm one of our wooden benches in the older parks it's just it's just Public Safety's involved in a lot of different things well certainly the challenges that we have and then the ability of our management team to try to figure out the best way to make reductions and these other departments to be able to fund the additional needs in the public safety departments and the homelessness efforts has been extremely challenging we're doing the best that we can we don't have a 100% dialed in yet but we're making progress towards getting where we're trying to get to we have we have heard your concerns okay I just want to voice them again because I know Michelle feels sometimes we're not listening to so I'm saying it over and over again it's just that quite honestly I'd take some from the homeless and make sure that the taxpayers who are paying the money to take care of the homeless have safety in their parks and places thank you thank you so the other thing I want to mention with respect to this chart is we've had to live now for about a dozen years with significantly fewer positions in the non public safety area one of the things we've been able to accomplish I think is figuring out ways to work more efficiently and to be more effective and being able to provide a good level of service for our for our citizenry but dealing with the restraints that we have on the revenue side one of the things that we're putting money in the budget next year for is to try to bring in a consultant to help us re-engineer some of our programs and some of our efforts to figure out better ways to do things given the new lower of staffing levels that we have and for example in the operations a maintenance area I know that director Jerry Walker is looking at various ways to try to reduce some of the costs associated with our parks and streetscapes so that we can still have a high level of quality but perhaps have lower costs so we are making a lot of strides in progress towards those things but they have been a big challenge for us these next couple of pie charts show how the general fund expenditures break out the first one is by category and on this chart you can see that salary and benefits is by far the largest category of our expenditures in fact the gray slice along the left side of the chart which is it's listed as Las Vegas metropolitan Police Department that slice together with our salary and benefit slice really is almost entirely salaries and benefits costs associated with staffing either our own staffing or the staffing at metro and those two slices together add up to about 79 percent I think we were at 80 percent last year so we're in the same ballpark as we were previously this is not unusual for a city's general fund the general fund primarily provides services that are provided by employees and so this is by far the largest cost for our city's general fund so anytime we start talking about trying to find ways to reduce costs unfortunately since 8 out of every 10 dollars of the general fund is related to salary and benefits you really can't reduce cost dramatically without affecting the number of positions that you have in a city the next largest slice the non-labor slice is primarily supplies and services and consultant contracts so that is where the next largest portion of our expenditures by category looking at it by function and these functions are the functions that are described and mandated to us by state law and one of the things we added to this chart is as a way to try to capture some of those homelessness costs in addition to the public safety costs that are required to be categorized by state law and councilman Coughlin this was your request so if you look at this the public safety slice along the bottom right hand side is right about two-thirds of our overall city's general fund budget but however as pointed out by councilman coffin that has not included all of our homelessness efforts and so if you look at the box at the bottom left of the slide we tried to give you a caveat that helps to include that but we spent about 15 million dollars on homelessness costs in fiscal year 2018 so if you had added that to that public safety slice that would bring that up from about 67 percent to just about 70 percent I'm not sure I we make this a question but but thank you because at least it highlights what what we have I suppose you could do a pro forma and say well now if you add that 15-point to in there then our public safety expenses are X and X it's a little tricky because some of those costs are outside the general fund and are paid for by our Community Development Block Grant program but we certainly are spending we're probably spending closer to 20 million dollars as current fiscal year on homelessness effort not even including the capital effort to build the homeless courtyard and so what we're looking for now with the homeless courtyard is to try to find funding to pay for the ongoing cost associated would be with a new courtyard it's always good to remember that and I don't know how much attention other people paid but it's like homelessness is public safety because it is it's a curse on all the neighborhoods that's of course its curse on the homeless because most of them don't want to be homeless but I remove what the court says that we've got to have a place to put them and that place we have decided through all our actions for the last two years is the courtyard so we need we need more money for it which means we need to try to get some more support for a v73 and on and on anyway thanks for the portrayal I appreciate that you're welcome this table shows you the the city's general fund looking at a comparison of the actual cost for revenues for fiscal year 18 the estimated year-end for fiscal year 19 and then the proposed budget for fiscal year 20 to point out in the fiscal year 19 column I mentioned during my presentation on fiscal year 19 s year-end estimates that we had and basically an over collection of revenues compared to budget and we were slightly under budget in terms of our expenditures there's two numbers on that fiscal year 19 I wanted to point out and they're towards the bottom of the expenditure section one is to transfer out to capital of thirteen point nine million dollars and then the second one is the one-time augmentations the capital will help us fund some of the backlog of capital products that we have in councilman coffin again this was one of the areas that you were concerned about and then the six million dollars it's gonna help fund some of the one-time augmentations associated with some of the requests for fiscal year 20 to build up the fund balances and a couple of our internal service funds to get to appropriate reserve targets the fiscal year 20 column does include the effect in the expenditure side of the seven point six million dollars worth of positions that are currently frozen and so you can see that even though there's a five million dollar surplus listed at the bottom of that column that if we did not have those frozen positions we would actually be in a deficit position of about 2.5 million dollars which is the primary driver behind why we've taken actions during fiscal year 19 to prepare for what we see coming in in terms of a slowdown in the economy coming into the next several years this chart just shows you kind of a trend over time you can see that our revenues which are displayed in the green line on this chart declined fairly dramatically during the Great Recession in the several years thereafter therefore we had to reduce expenditures accordingly to try to stay within the ball park we did rely on reserves pretty heavily during that time period which is one of the reasons why it's appropriate to have a good amount of reserves and we'll talk about what reserve targets later in this presentation as we come out of the recession you can see that we've experienced fairly healthy growth but at some point we know that the economy will slow down again and that we'll have to be prepared for that action I mentioned the five-year forecast and we went over the five-year forecast with you a couple of times I think over the course of the last couple of months we have updated the five-year forecast based on the numbers that are in the tentative budget we do continue to update the forecast as we get new information and we do keep our ears to the ground in terms of trying to listen to the economists and what's happening both regionally nationally and internationally because they all come into play in terms of what happens here in Las Vegas being a very tourist dependent economy we do see that when projecting out further on into the forecast period that we are projecting a slowdown in some of our economic a sensitive revenue sources not in fiscal year twenty but in fiscal year twenty one we dropped the growth rate for consolidated tax from five percent down to one point five percent not a decline but a slowdown and then for property tax the following fiscal year in fiscal year twenty two we dropped the growth from four percent down to two percent again not a necessary not necessarily a recession but perhaps a slowdown this moderate slowdown in the economy coupled with a imbalance in our growth rates between expenditures and revenues has caused these red bars to show up on our five-year forecast you can see in this first chart which includes the effect of the frozen positions that even with the frozen positions reaching the level of ten million dollars in fiscal year 2021 that we would still project a deficit that fiscal year of about four million dollars we have during the course of this five-year projection horizon an average revenue growth rate of about 3.5 percent per year in an average expenditure growth rate of about four point two percent per year that doesn't sound like much of a difference it's about a point seven percent difference between the revenue growth rate and the expenditure growth rate but point seven percent on a 640 or so million dollar budget works out to be about four or five million dollar shortfall every year and because the budget come this number would compound we would have to basically rely on reserves to be able to fund operations at the current level during this forecast period the next chart shows what would happen if we didn't have the frozen positions we would already be in a deficit position we have currently about seven point six million dollars of frozen positions in the current fiscal year if not for those frozen positions we would currently be in a deficit and then going into the fiscal year twenty we'd have to find other ways to reduce the budget or not fund some of the priority areas of the council to be able to balance the budget going forward so that's kind of the challenge that we're facing when looking forward and seeing what's happening out there in the economy this next couple of slides deals with the capital investment program and so Jorge Cervantes is here to present those slides to you for the record crocus that runt this chief operation Development Officer so in putting together your capital improvement program we use payoff funding sources and this is a listing of what those sources are now some of these sources come with certain restrictions you can see a listing of some here like the Feist sent at valorem tax which is restricted for only improvements to city facilities buildings you see the 1% room tax that can only be used for transportation type improvements community Belvoir a can only be used within those restricted areas so some of these sources limit us what we can do with them and then you see some other sources that are available that are more flexible don't have so most restrictions those include bunions left over as we close out projects that were funded in previous capital programs as those are closed down there's the fund balance left over way will transfer into the new capital budget to continue allocating needs you see a transfer in that Gary furture earlier the 13.9 that's really we're anticipating being left over for fiscal year 19 that were pushing over to meet some capital needs and then in your capital operational budget or fiscal year 20 you saw a line nine four five million dollars that were recommend me to go into the capital project in to address some of those infrastructure and and city facilities that we were trying to catch up on and then the medical reimbursement of five nine point five million dollars that came out of fiscal year 18 some of the major projects that we're looking at recommending this recommending for funding this year include some fire service apparatus these are the fire trucks that the fleet needs to continue to be refreshed and also some firefighting equipment such as some of our respiratory equipment or some of the communication equipment that's reached the end of life cycle we're also recommending some funding toward the corridor a whole courtyard to finish off the funding we need to be able to at the medical clinic to that component and then last year you fund at the downtown courthouse but that was for the funding of the building itself this year we need to fund the actual furnishing the fixture and equipment as well as the security system for that building and then some strategic land acquisition were recommending primaries put aside so as those opportunities come up for some strategic land whether it's for city facilities or for some economic developer fiscally we on that so in your capital 20 plan we have a total about 41 million dollars that we're allocating now there's 41 million dollars doesn't include funding that we get from outside funding agencies there's regional funding agencies that provide money for capital programs some of you sit on some of these fours like the original Transportation Commission regional Flood Control District some of these other funding sources that provide money for infrastructure and you also Sports provide some money and we just carried over into our program some of the major allocation we're doing this year with the 41 million dollars you see that seventeen million dollars goes to a public safety which is about forty percent of our budget again trying to address those priorities that we hear from you and so 40 percents go into our public safety another 30% or 12.1 million goes to city facilities which is again trying to maintain our assets that we have that we don't let them reach the point where they're no longer usable but try to keep them in a in a usable manner and then the rest of its going into neighborhood recreational facilities and other needs by our departments so in total we're funding 64 new projects for friskier 20 but again because this is a five-year program our actual five-year promise about 1.1 billion dollars and that's where a lot of the outside funding sources come in that's the major funding source that we have for capital that goes into a lot of our infrastructure needs and so with that I'll turn it back to Gary for the Redevelopment Agency thank you for a next couple of slides deal with the city's redevelopment agency in terms of fiscal trends the assessed value has increased at a good clip over the last several fiscal years and we're anticipating that to continue for the next several fiscal years as we get through the development cycle that we're currently in which as you know has several very exciting projects particularly in the downtown area and in Symphony Park so we should see that AV growth continue at a good clip over the next couple of years in terms of the tax increment revenue growth associated with that we're expecting a 7.5 percent increase in tax increment for fiscal year 20 we will see the Smith Center continued to pay back a 20 million dollar note between the Smith Center and the Redevelopment Agency we're expecting five million dollar during fiscal year 2020 we'll continue to market the medical district Symphony park development the office tenant incentive program we are pursuing some additional funding for new market tax credits and we have some additional allocation left to spend from the previous allocation as well the contribution from the city which you approved this morning or to the city that you approved this morning is 1.9 million dollars for fiscal year 2020 and then we are still in the process of working through the canopy replacement project and so as we look at the numbers on the next slide you'll see how that plays through in our terms of our budget for the last couple of fiscal years the City Hall Park development across the street there's some money that you talked about previously for acquisition of land associated with that and then trying to fund up some of our smart city's efforts at the Bank of America building in the fifth Street School this chart shows you as we did with the city's general fund the actuals for fiscal year 18 the estimate for fiscal year 19 and the budget for fiscal year twenty and the Fremont Street Experience canopy project has made these numbers look a little bit strange I wanted to explain why why the numbers are what they are if you look at the the third row down of numbers it's titled other contributions in fiscal year 18 toward the end of the fiscal year we issued bonds to pay for the canopy project that was for the Redevelopment Agency and the FSE share of the canopy project costs the LV CBA who is our third partner on that project is paying us cash contributions towards the project and so bonds came in and fiscal year 18 which was the reason that the they're showing a large surplus in that fiscal year and those bonds are being spent down over fiscal year 19 and fiscal year 20 which is why you see what's shown as a shortfall in red in the excess shortfall line in both fiscal year 19 and fiscal year 20 but don't worry because that's just the expenditure of those bonds towards the canopy project the overall health of the RDA is in good shape wrapping up then in terms of the total city budget proposed for fiscal year 2020 this chart shows you the general fund which we talked about a great length as well as the other fund categories which were detailed in the budget detailed books that we provided to you in terms of a couple of colored full comments about these numbers and why they're up or down in the special revenue fund we argue making some recommendations on the fiscal Stabilization Fund which I'll talk about in a couple minutes the the FSC project expenditures are primarily in fiscal year twenty which is part of the driver behind the increase in that fund category and then we've had some additional federal funding which is also driven that cost and the revenue side up on that category on the capital program the carry forward of projects which weren't complete in Prior fiscal years is the primary reason why the budget looks much higher than what we're actually spending in the current fiscal year and the prior fiscal year as well as the contributions that we received from those outside agencies that that Jorge Cervantes alluded to a few minutes ago on the debt service numbers you'll see the rather large increase so several years ago in 2015 the council authorized us to do what's called an economic defeasance of the city's bonds for the city hall project because we have not yet reached the call date for that bond until fiscal year 2020 that money has been sitting in reserves in fiscal year 2020 however we will use those economic defeasance proceeds to pay off those original bonds for the city hall project and so that's the primary driver behind that large increase in that category in the internal service fund category I mentioned that we're working on an accounting change to try to basically reduce the types of things that are accounted for in the city's employee benefits fund and so as I was mentioning we're no longer accounting for non-productive hours meaning sick leave and vacation leave employee benefits fund we're counting for those hours directly in the fund where that employee is housed and we're also direct charging purse costs starting next fiscal year to the fund where those employees are housed so we have more of the costs that are not double budgeted because in the past they've been double budgeted they're budgeted as an internal service fund let's say in the general fund and then the actual costs associated with the benefit of in budget and benefits fund that inflates their overall city budget we're trying to try to streamline and make it more transparent so that we can see those costs in a better way and explain them better so overall our overall budget proposed for next fiscal year is 1.8 billion dollars the staffing level which is shown here is as you see up 42.5 positions from the previous fiscal year but as I mentioned because we have those frozen positions the actual number of positions that we're funding are down from the previous fiscal year and then you can see how the city's population has grown over time and so one of our challenges is trying to fund our services with an increasing population but with less resources that are more more difficult to try to balance your honor I have a question of Gary if we'd ask Gary the population numbers that you're using here seem low to me of course 32 33 and just I can't tell if that's a year-to-year or if it's a partial year to another year then it jumps up 11,000 and FY 20 but I have a feeling it's higher than that what are we using so these are the official state demographer numbers that are the driver behind for example some of the state's shared revenues like the C tax formula so we use those numbers in our budget presentation I know our planning department may have some slightly different numbers we'll find out some real numbers perhaps when we get the census information after the 2020 census but these are the official state demographer numbers that we're using in this presentation so we won't get those official numbers for a couple of years but County doesn't the county have a pretty expansive and reliable population count they've been doing for a long time I mean I used to rely on it before came here I used to rely on it quite a bit but maybe they don't assume that role anymore because I know we've got the utilities that do a pretty good count at an estimate you know all of them because they need to know that I just had a feeling we're a lot larger than this so we'll get just an answer to that question thank you Gary the last area that I wanted to talk about before we wrap up the presentation is that you know as part of our overall due diligence associated with the budget we looked at pretty much everything that we could figure out how to address and make sure that we were in the best budgeting and accordance with the best policy as possible there are some guidance and the government finance Officers Association provides guidance on overall fund policies and budgeting policies the last time the city's budgeting policies came to the City Council for review were in fiscal year were in fiscal year 2014 and at that point you adopted a resolution adopting budget policies they were primarily unchanged from the previous years we have relooked at those and I've got some recommendations that we'd like to float out today and discuss over the course of the next six weeks before we come back for the final budget adoption on May 20th in the general fund we currently have a fund balance target the hard target of 12% of revenues and an aspirational target of 20% of revenues most cities address their general fund fund balance as a percentage of expenditures because what you're trying to accomplish is having money set aside to be able to pay for the continuation of services should your revenues become short of what you're estimating and so one of our proposed changes is to change that target from as a percentage of revenues to a percentage of expenditures which would make it in line with the government finance officers recommended budget practice and then to set the target since we're now at 20% to set the target at a hard target of 20% because we're currently at that target level which I personally think is an appropriate level the GFO a actually recommends that there's some variation in terms of a target for general funds based on the economic conditions and and the economic the economy of that particular jurisdiction and how prone it may be to natural disasters for example a jurisdiction may want to have a lower fund balance target or a higher fund balance target because we are in an area where we're highly dependent on the tourism industry I think it's appropriate for us to have a 20% fund balance target which provides us somewhere between two and three months of cash to be able to fund services should we find ourselves in a declining revenue situation Gary just dawned on me and thinking in my mind's eye about the county islands within the city limits I have a feeling that our official figure does not include the population in there is that correct that's correct we're only including those that are within our jurisdictional boundaries okay then that does bear a subset because there might be a hundred thousand people living in those are more we're servicing them we are we are providing you know everything that they need we just break down in budgets certain services or we don't but it's generally everything I think we should be considering what it would look like if we if we really included all those people nobody else is servicing them I'm sorry a question came how could the county's believes that there's been there servicing them we need to make divided sanitary sewer services for those county islands but I'm not quite sure about some of the street it's just a travel it is the way that uses all our services and so there is a way to carve that up and I think we should pay attention to that if there's excuse me if I might just state also I there's got to be something we are able to do I mean we've got to think hard about it because it isn't just the roads I've talked to the county about the roads and things who went through that last thing and they'll say well you use our parks and of course they use our parks too but the thing is their problems are not solved by county people are and our your offices to get calls all the time because they're they don't take care of the problems of individual it doesn't sing they do anyway of it people who have it residents who have individual needs and and should we just say to them no you don't live in the cat you don't live in the city so we're not gonna work with you know we help them out but there's there's just something we should be able to work although they are mean we tried one time to set it up so you know they would cover their cost of half of a street we had half they had half and then the county people just drill through our ballots am I seeing the right word yeah they just there's got to be some way that we can handle that maybe when we're off the council we can just sit and think of that bad there might be a way I think thank you for those thoughts one of the other things that we have that that's basically a safeguard for the general fund is a fund that was established during the Great Recession period called the fiscal Stabilization Fund that fund was funded up with monies that were cobbled together by taking cash out of other funds and closing many other funds in the city that fund currently has had a thirteen million dollar fund balance basically for the last five years or so we believe that the general funds current fund balance of 20% is sufficient for a general fund fund balance and so one of the things we're gonna be recommending is to try to figure out a way to basically close that fund out and use that cash that's sitting in that fund to fund some other things primarily capital projects that don't have other other funding sources to be able to support them as well as to think about a creative way to try to establish a slope we couldn't call a sinking fund that would be a place that we could put some of this money in to help pay for some of the services that might otherwise not be able to be continued during an economic downturn for example we put a couple of them on this list the animal foundations life-saving mission we've brought that forward to you as a decision making process every year and asked you if you wanted to continue funding it we've got the money in the budget the same half-million-dollar level that we funded to last several years but looking at the deficits going forward we don't really see a way to fund those kinds of optional things moving forward without maybe setting aside some money now when we have the cash to be able to fund them over time so we're proposing putting some of that money in what we're calling a sinking fund to be able to fund those kinds of programs that might otherwise be cut during a downturn we have these internal service funds and I'm going to go through a couple of them that we're recommending some changes to the automotive internal service fund is where we pay for the the maintenance costs associated with our vehicle fleet as well as the replacement of that fleet when those vehicles reach the end of their useful lives there currently is a fund balance policy of 10% of operating expenses and 25% of capital expenses from the prior year our recommendation is to change that slightly to continue to be 10% of operating expenses but to fund two years of projected capital in terms of the fund balance policy you carry thank you you say 10% of operating expenses at ten percent of overall operating expenses ten percent of operating expense of of the department that the automotive of operating that fall under operations or maintenance so that so this is this is does fall under the operations and maintenance department in terms of where it's moved out of but this is sitting in a separate internal service fund so this fund has mechanics and supplies associated with maintaining the fleet of vehicles and so the operating costs are the the people and the supplies and the equipment and then the replacement cost would be the the money that's set aside for replacing those vehicles every year we have a charge to the department that's actually the user of those vehicles to pay for for example the fuel cost so say with that vehicle the maintenance cost for the replacement of tires and the the tuneups that those vehicles need during the year and then they also make a contribution towards the replacement account for that vehicle so that when the vehicle needs to be replaced the money has already been set aside but an average we replace you know four to five million dollars or so of vehicles per right but it comes it comes in peaks and valleys it's not always smooth over time so the purpose of internal service funds is they have they tend to have spikes and so you put them where you put the money aside internal service funds it handles those spikes through having reserves appropriate to be able to fund those spikes when they do occur but it would be for that particular it would be though just for that particular just for the people from that department that work in this internal service fund so it's the mechanics that are working in the vehicle replacement a vibrant expense is for the 10% our operating experience for the before the automotive automotive internal service fund thank you each of these funds has a similar policy as we'll see going forward here could I ask a question also we we place for example fire engines or trucks we use do we do it as at a certain number of years of the truck the answer is it depends and so we have a fleet manager that handles most of the city's fleet of vehicles and then one of the asks that we asked for as part of the budget going forward is actually for a fleet manager to manage the fire fleet of vehicles separately from the regular city fleet of vehicles and so the answer is it depends certain vehicles which are high mileage use vehicles may be on a mileage basis certain vehicles which are not used a very number miles per year may be more on an aged basis the fleet manager has various criteria that he uses to try to determine the overall lowest cost life cycle cost for those vehicles moving forward based on the salvage value of the vehicle when the best time is yes that question because I read of a where a city needed to do what we're doing right now and I forget the number of years but every certain number of years they usually changed the vehicles because that was what they averaged out however in order to save money they just added two more years unless of course it was really something that was decrepid they wouldn't keep it but and that might be something we might add another year and that might save some money too on because that costs a lot of money when we replace the vehicles right there is a sweet spot and there's and there's an answer that's more right than other answers but there is no one answer for that question I've worked in now for cities and there's been slightly differing policies based on the determination of those fleet managers and the type of usage that those vehicles are getting and so we're fortunate that we have a very good fleet manager who I think is doing an excellent job of trying to figure out where that sweet spot is to try to get the most salvage value value from a vehicle that we're replacing but also trying to minimize the major repair and maintenance costs associated with that vehicle obviously you want to get rid of it right before it needs to have an engine overhaul but figuring out when that is is kind of tricky madam mayor pro-tem yes so and also you know as I look at these words right there just not crystal clear it's like proposed 10% operating plus two times the average of the last five years workers comp claims paid give me a number I don't want to do the math I'm not Gary give me give me a real number so is it 35 percent is it you don't have to give it to me today but I'm just asking like be clear this is not clear and and you probably wouldn't like the existing council adopted policy then because the concept operative policy is ten percent plus 25 percent it doesn't have any numbers in it because it's a percent based policy but so it's like 35 percent would it well it's ten percent of one part of the budget 25 percent of another part of the budget so we will get you some additional information we just wanted to kind of float these ideas out and start the discussion because we have next six or so weeks to work on the budget before we come back on this page the employee benefits fund is one of the larger funds of the city or at least it has been and we have been including in that fund not only the major things you might think that are included in that fund like our city's health benefits program and our a purse cost but we also have been including those non-productive hours which is a very large expenditure item but there's no real reason that needed to be in that fund it can certainly be in the funds where those people are actually receiving their their salaries from so we had a 25% fund balance target in the current policy we're recommending that be reduced to 10% of operating costs plus two times the average of the last five years for the workers comp component of that fund that fund pays for all of our workers compensation costs those compensation costs can fluctuate greatly over the course of several years and so we're recommending that the policy be established based on the average expenditures for workers compensation costs over the previous rolling five years and then you'll see the same recommendation on the liability fund below to move towards two times the average of the last five years because there's a lot of spikes in those costs and you need to have some reserves associated if you do have a year that's worse than what you might expect oops I think I forgot the bottom one on this slide is the reimbursable expense fund this fund is a fund that's established to basically pay for the costs that are in the general fund that are associated with the Redevelopment Agency so they're just primarily passed through costs so we have the same fund balance policy of 10% plus 25% we really don't need to reserve for operating costs for salaries and benefits because we're just passing those costs through so when we have a payday we pay the employees out of this fund and we immediately pass the cost through to the RDA so we don't need to have the fund balance policy be that high so we're suggesting that we lower to just the non-personnel costs so those are the kinds of changes that we're recommending to the policies and it would take an action a resolution action to update those policies so we'll be continuing that discussion as we move forward in the budget discussions in terms of the calendar the states required dates are shown on this slide April 15th is the date that we have to file the tentative budget so the proposed budget tentative budget that we brought forward to you today we will file that in the next week or so we will get you a complete copy of that budget book that we file with the state you already have the two large notebooks and we know you've asked for some additional materials to be able to help you with your deliberations we're happy to help you in any way that we can to get that information in your hand so that you can help us adopt a good budget for next fiscal year the budget hearing which is the state required hearing on the final budget is scheduled for May 20th I know you all have that on your calendars already that is a special meeting date because the way the state's budget calendar worked we couldn't have it on one of our regular first or third Wednesday meeting dates it didn't work out with our calendar so we had to schedule a special budget hearing to be able to accommodate that in order to be able to file the final budget by the state required June first and then the final CIP budget has to be filed by August 1st just in terms of key budget takeaways and comments as we close the session today as I pointed out during the five-year forecast presentation looking forward I mean projecting our revenues and expenditures forward based on current information and our best projections for the economic economic activity in the next couple of years we see that there's a structural budget and structural budget deficit in our five-year forecast it's about seven ten percent difference between the average revenue growth rate at 3.5% per year and the average expenditure growth rate of 4.2 percent per year we're trying to make some expansions in the areas that we know that you're most interested in primarily public safety and funding for Metro Marshals in the cities parks to add additional security we're looking at programs in the fire and rescue part Minh to try to reduce our costs while maintaining higher levels of the service we know that we need to fund the homeless courtyard project that we're in the process of building right now currently that is not included in this proposed budget as you know you approved a bill draft request to go up to the state legislature we're still hopeful that something might happen with that but we're not real positive at the moment we do have some other alternatives that will be bringing to you if that is not successful to try to find a way to fund that project and the ongoing costs associated with it we continue to work with the team 2020 ideas we mentioned at the conflict reefing yesterday that we had over 400 year ideas that were generated through that effort many of those ideas are being implemented in this budget but there's a number of them that are negotiation related that we've introduced some of them we've introduced during the negotiations this year with the bargaining groups but that is a as with all contracts that is a two-party agreement so we can't mandate those changes they have to go through the collective bargaining process but we're hopeful that that may help reduce the growth rate in our expenditures at least that's our goal going forward and then there many of those ideas also that will take several years to come to fruition for example we're in the process right now replacing our aging telephone system that's actually gonna save us money even though it sounds like we're spending money but it has a payback of only a couple of years before we actually will see that savings so those types of ideas and trying to figure out ways to work smarter and work better will help us minimize the impact on services by funding up some of the service areas that are your highest priority and then we've made some recommendations with respect to vacancy management I described the process that we're going through we're trying to be more strategic over the course of the next several months to try to swap out some positions that are perhaps more important than some of the ones that are becoming vacant over the next several months and if I if I might also ask because you we had been asked to look whoever might be able to save money could you take the Department of Administrative Services and let us know what each of those people do because that seems of all the departments - percentage-wise a girl knows rapidly and I don't know if we're just taking from one place to another or what's happening but if you could let us know the costs for each of the positions and what the people are doing we can't in fact end the one that requests we got from councilman Turk Fiori was to give you I think a three year schedule showing how budgets and departments have changed over time so okay that would definitely help with that with that asked and the last one the slide was this is a good opportunity we're in a period right now revenues actually been coming in higher than our budget so it's a good time to set those monies aside and try to work through the backlog of capital needs that we have as a city so we're recommending as part of this budget to put a lot of those monies towards those capital needs and that is our presentation today and we thank you for the questions that you asked but I'm happy to answer other questions and we have all the department heads here as well if you had some department specific councilman Hoffman would like to ask a question thank you very much this won't take long again thank you for portraying the estimated cost of homelessness that's scattered across all the budgets I hope I don't know if Ted Olivas is watching this but he I don't think the team in Carson City has that number and they need to be able to use that number to show it's one example of why we need to have Assembly Bill 73 or some other source of funds to take care of that or we're just going to be displacing more and more of our budget into activities that Rob services and frankly endanger the public so that that's a problem I think I'm happy with what you've presented here I suppose I would have wanted more out of Jorge's explanation of the CIP s and looking for more of that running accumulated deficit that I think we're running with our capital assets and thirdly I'm sorry that the alumni a legislative alumni meeting up there is the 17th same day as a council meeting here because some of us who were former legislators who have served in local government really need to be up there to help at least attest to what our teams are trying to tell the legislators they're under tremendous pressure at the same time I think those who have been in both venues local and state can vouch for the support we need because right now I think I saw one number I think Ted and Kelly may have said it was like a hundred million dollars in unfunded mandates at this point for our for us now most likely with the other local governments we'll beat that back but some of it will survive and so you've got that but you don't have it in here it's not in our budget that's right so a lot to be done in the next 60 days in Carson City or less if we did make a show up there I would like to take the Councilwoman up there and I'll even buy her dinner if she'll go and we might even be able to call beers and say beers come on up because we need bipartisan representation thank you thank you madam mayor Pro Tem Gary I just want to thank you and all of the staff and so I look forward to working through this again as we did last year and every year as the budget comes forth I think that the more we do these budgets and the more we request the more you'll understand what we're looking for and you know as I look at and ask questions on on payroll and growths and you know these big payouts it's not because I don't think each and every one of you deserved them but when I'm looking at a red a you know red line and we're going to deficit we must be responsible so I just want to thank you Gary for all your hard work thank you Mayor Pro Tem via Gary in the budget first budget meeting we had I'd asked for some information it might have been sent to me and if it did I maybe I missed it for specific carve out I know it's within the budget of what dollars are being allotted for our Ward 5 works project specifically overall know there was a CIP that's there what is specifically budget for our hundred plan for the revitalization of the historic Westside what money has been allotted for that specifically we have our veterans Plaza which we talked about and then just a break out for it overall homelessness I like your shade if someone can get that to me like I said he might have sent it to me I don't think but maybe they did and if they did I apologize when someone needs to send it to me again and then also last year we had award specific like budget and I know we we looked at that and I know I have to say with Ward six its I'll use our tule springs hay barn as an example and that was our first priority is to get that hay barn up and fixed and because of red tape and all this stuff I finally got you some contractors to donate some stuff and we're cleaning it up and making it nice but I would like to also know what the Ward six budget did oh what councilman career said and and so where's our money what are we doing I know Jerry Walker's working on changing some some schedules so we have some of our maintenance departments on weekends picking up the garbages in the park because they're full versus that so I would just like dates and and and times and dollars on on wood six and then one more I like to have just for discussion when I first got an office we travel looking at homelessness and as you know the the tribal that we did seems should fall under homelessness travel instead of out of our personal Ward Ford budgets for travel so if I travel to National League of Cities where that might fall out of my budget our if but if I'm going for to San Antonio looking at workforce then that shouldn't necessarily in my opinion come out of a specific fort budget it seems like he would fall into the category of the budget of the of the program that we're traveling on behalf of and I wanted to know if we could discuss that and if there's any more climate within the council to to further sort of readjust those things I guess the money's the same but I think we get hit off of trying to assist in programs that are important to our wards Thanks yeah we increase the the ward discussion we call the discretionary budgets last year up to $35,000 per ward we've maintained that amount in the proposed budget for fiscal year 2020 but if you'd like to make a recommendation on that would be happy to entertain well that would be my recommendation I mean look if we're allotting I'm gonna say twenty million dollars towards homelessness and that includes all the ancillary things are going with it should if we're going to different parts looking at and if and if some of my colleagues have traveled with us I mean should that fall out of our specific Ward five office budget I should have fall under at the homeless budget it seems to me that it should fall in a homeless budget because it's a it's a homeless initiative which we're looking for it's not a person a ward five per se I'm going to DC for a whatever that seems to be different then specifically going for whatever it is under the premise of what it is you know and I and I have to echo councilmen career simply because the way the budget is designed it's actually designed to attack elected officials so my emails get fired I just got fired again saying no we're Councilwoman Fiore's gone with the city well I traveled to San Antonio to deal with homelessness is that a party it's it's part of my City job so why would that be in my ward budget and why wouldn't that be defined I mean I don't need people Las Vegas review-journal saying we're going all over the world and all over the country on taxpayer dollar not realizing we're fixing homelessness so we really you guys really gonna get that together we certainly will take your direction them that it's been our past practice to have you charge all of your trips including ones associated with programs to your ward budgets but it's your direction to do that differently we can certainly entertain that as part of this discussion I would just like to have a conversation about I'm not the CFO I'm not here to tell you which direction to go in but it just seems as though it would fall under that verses because it's not good it's not really discretionary right it's not discretionary discretionary is much different than falling under a specific program that we are working on behalf of mr. career I think that is something we can discuss to see which way we go and what direction we go and Gary you'll make sure we are able to discover them at some time on the item that we have item 41 before I start losing council members the we don't have to make a motion for acceptance except that we accept your report is that well basically we're just basically here to present the tentative budget they're going to be filing with the snake so I don't believe that there's any action required okay but there will be we are looking for your direction and any changes you'd like us to see and with the tentative budget I'm moving forward before we get to the final budget hearing them so we don't need a motion we just need to know that if we want to make suggestions to let you know so that you can move forward yes thank you very much for such an excellent work it was really very good thank you very much I'm going to move on quickly to instructing the city clerk to set the public hearing gates and appeals from the City Planning Commission meetings and dangerous buildings are nuisance litter abatement thank you and then we will have our final citizen participation we did have someone I don't know if they waited through all this Dorothy Barnes is Dorothy here it's Dorothy sleeping oh it's okay and we won't bother Dorothy if she is not feeling well we will not bother her but I I didn't call her name here and if she seems to be getting awake please let me know and David Gomez is David here to speak David's an owner and president of the Nevada peace Alliance David Gomez president of Nevada Peace Alliance also a CCSD commissioner with a Zach on my fourth term I'm also deputy director of LULAC League of United Latin American citizens for education I'm also a legislative lobbyist for education and a business owner here in Las Vegas my father built Carpinteria corporations some time ago in 1977 here and I believe it was in your district it is uncharted that statue there are that big monument that's there thank you for leaving it there and we've asked everybody to keep it there it's sort of a part of our history yes because that's a replica of my uncle Ted my my dad's brother and he passed away but you know thank you for leaving it there so every time I Drive by get to see Ted even though he's not with us anymore as a business owner I'm here today because I bought a commercial property with my wife on one three three northeastern Avenue and I'm in coffins area and there's not an issue with that it's just that the city of Las Vegas needs to fix some kinks with their business licensures and their business department or with license because I applied for a license nobody never told me to go to planning now our first business that we have there we do document preparation we have taxes we have services that we help with tickets and legal illegal things that we do out of there with attorneys but when I divided the building up and I followed every procedure went to the DMV also did the Secretary of State and my bonds and everything I actually came out of my pocket almost four thousand dollars then when the Fire Department shows up they said hey you know what I'm sorry to tell you this but did you talk to planning no I did it nobody told me to after I already pay the city and I gave all the money to the city then they said well you know unfortunately you're not in a zone that require that you can open a dealership in the back part and I said well we have c1 c2 all around us we have all these different zones around us what do I need to do well you know you need to pay $5,000 and you need to make sure you put yourself on these agendas and get these things done before we can move forward with that and there's no promise so after I spent X amount of dollars that it's obviously not your guys's fault it's no one's fault up here but someone in that office is not following some kind of procedure and or not going through a protocol saying hey those comments are very good comments to make to us and I I know our licensing person is not here but Karen could you just let him know who you should call oh there you are I'm sorry I didn't see you in the shadows there with Robert would you the Karen raised your hand there if you would go talk with her because I Mary excuse me Mary and if you would because she is and Karen to ally with all of them are working hard and Mary's Rivera and licensing to make it better because you're right and I wonder why sometimes that planning doesn't tell the people to come to our office so they can talk with us also during that time cede 102 Planning and licensing and our office in case there are other problems of which planning may not be aware thank you I did see David in a brief recess was it this morning or this it was this morning and anyway Ito from our office has yes David and to try to help in any way we can if there's possible thank you yes he did explain to me to talk to you though and I did but you know I just wanted to you know makes it oh thank you and we are grateful that you come to us and let us know because sometimes you're so busy with so many things you don't catch these yeah we just yeah it's no problem I mean as long as someone informs me and I will follow procedures and do the protocols as required of us as business owners and as citizens here I'm my son I have six children here and that's a lot of children but maybe I didn't have enough TV who knows but you know it's one of those things where I work with the community I give back to the community and my services to my own business it pays for me to be able to volunteer to Clark County School District and to do the legislating lobbyists and different things like that non paid because I ask nothing from no one I do it as a service because it is my doing my civil service to the community I love Las Vegas it's my city it's my home it's my children's home my son became a marine he left Charles I west prep I fought for ten long years for Charles I West prep elementary school to be built with a lot of the ministers in the West Las Vegas area with Mars at Luis and a lot of different people that were you don't even know that I was the vote that got you that you didn't even know that some of the people in the ward I represented were not happy with me because I did that but but you know what there was a good thing and that was an excellent thing for those kids there because it's better that they had a school didn't have a portable and I knew that my word would get the money donated some other way because they had more monies behind them and they did so then we ended up with two schools instead of one but I'm very happy that you helped there that's an excellent thing and I appreciate it because it helps all the children and it lets them see a hope and they lets them know that somebody does watch and do care about the things that they do go through you know but I just wanted to you know leave the comment that you know I heard some of the things which are guys is with your fleet you know you guys should try to look at things like UPS UPS is one of the largest fleet companies that have fleets and they just followed the leader you know and they have things that break down I'm pretty sure that you can follow some of those examples and as a Xfire for UFC I know one thing when I am when I say how long is probably comment obviously I was over interested in what you were saying but you know I appreciate you guys listening and I just wanted to let you guys know that you know some things need to be fixed and it does hurt when we do run into these brick walls okay thank you very very much for coming thank you quickly - I am 73 before I lose whoopsy left already did me I was gonna go right to Anthony and here I and we have coughin who's passing and not really I hope but in a few years all right and how about Michelle would you like to say something do you see this mask that I'm wearing on my face it's because we are going to be giving these out at our movie in the park for The Incredibles this Friday at 7 p.m. at our Centennial Hills the amphitheater Park so come and watch The Incredibles and get your incredible space masks will have free popcorn and water and we have completed stuffing our 35,000 Easter eggs for our egg Stravaganza on Saturday April 13th at 10:00 a.m. we're gonna be having two big fields we're having a special needs field with with our own bunny there and we're having our other field with our own bunny for all the kids to come out and do an Easter egg hunt and it's just it's just going to be amazing and that same day on Saturday April 13th after we do the Easter egg hunt at the mountain ridge Park Durango drive-in Elkhorn we are going to listen to our Travis brass band at Centennial Hills Park US Air Force Band of the Golden West so that's gonna be on April 13th at 2 o'clock as well and they are incredible if you haven't heard them you're gonna love them and I have to tell you prepare for our huge huge big Cinco de Mayo on May 5th Sunday May 5th from 1:00 p.m. to 6:30 we are having our big band our hey soos Marcos del Sol Mexico bend their and Commissioner Kirkpatrick and and councilman Stavros Anthony will be doing what all three of us are doing this big event together and we're going to have mariachi bands from all of our high schools it's just gonna be huge and big and tacos and tequila and all the stuff that happens in Ward 6 stays in Ward 6 and we're gonna have a big party so come on out and I'm gonna be gonna invite the press so they understand all the thousands of people that attend our events out there so now some serious stuff I have to tell you I'm very excited we have located Marcos Mendez who was a 16 year old male so he has been located thank God and we still have a missing juvenile angel keel she's 16 year old female 5'4 144 pounds please if you see her please call Las Vegas Metro police or our Nevada child seekers and I have to tell you Nevada child seekers do such an incredible job finding these children we're also missing hailey Horowitz she's 14 she's only 14 she's a female she's 125 pounds she's got blue eyes and black hair so please help find Haley and I want to just say have a great rest of the week and we'll see you on our next council meeting and I'm mr. queer thank you very much madam Pro tempo so I'll be hosting a book signing reception in honor of Senator Joe Neal for his new book release the Westside slugger this book tells his lifelong fight for social justice in his 32 year tenure with the Nevada Legislature so join us is Saturday April from 1 to 3 p.m. at the West Las Vegas library which is 951 lake beat Boulevard you should have any questions you can always contact my office at 7:02 2 2 9 5 4 4 3 April 10th the Nevada preservation is a local historic preservation nonprofit and focuses on the retention and revitalization of our community's historic buildings and resources in PFS newest branch focuses on community revitalization an MPF recently established revolving fund for neighborhood revitalization in the historic westside the revolving fund is a real estate development tool that will focus on rehabilitating vacant and abandoned properties starting with vacant homes located within the historic Westside community the primary call this revitalized some of the vacant derelict housing that's prevalent within the historic and all the neighborhoods in the West Side MPF will restore the homes back to their historic quality focused on vacant housing that was built in the 1940s 50s and 60s the next meeting is taking place Wednesday April 10th from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the historic Westside school for more information call the Nevada Preservation Foundation at eight five five nine six eight three nine seven three Bolden eric command will host a farmers market at Liberty Baptist Church on Thursday April 11th at six five zero one Westlake beat Boulevard on the corner of Lake Minnetonka Hines they have a free healthy fruits and vegetables while supplies last you can always contact our office to find out more information strong start go will host an open house on April 12th from 9:30 to 1 p.m. behind the west Las Vegas Art Center located nine four seven West Lake Mead a fun family event is planned you will have an opportunity to tour the new mobile preschool and talk to the preschool instructors also information to be available about strong start preschool academies refreshments will be available while supplies last for more information call the officer moszer two two two nine five four four three April the 20th we have an ache on the city Las Vegas the Armed Forces Chamber of Commerce kCPT power eighty eight radio and other community organizations will host an egg hunt for children between the ages five and twelve years old on Saturday April 20th at 10:00 a.m. at the historic West Side school three-30 West Washington Avenue there will be bouncy houses carnival games contest prizes live music special guest workshops the vendors and refreshments and the event is part of the we are one community tour for more information visit www.meliar.com/mpanel.htm ananza Road we had our 1:00 in the morning last week which went great come and join in the conversation discuss matters important to you for more information contact Moffitt 7 0 2 2 2 9 5 4 4 3 the Las Vegas West Las Vegas Art Center is registering for Saturday classes in the summer performing and visual arts summer camp which is absolutely amazing if you haven't seen them for registration information visit recreation Las Vegas Nevada govt and free income tax reparation for seniors and low-income residents volunteers from AARP and the eternal revenue service Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program are for residents free assistance with personal income tax form preparation an electronic filing at 5:00 City Las Vegas senior our community centers through mid-april this service will be provided at the Doolittle's Senior Center by appointment for more information call seven zero two two two nine six one two five or seven zero two two two nine six four five four don't forget you can always get in touch with us on social media twitter at cedric rear instagram councilman career and Facebook accounts Herman Cedric craft thank you and thank you to all the voters once again in Ward 5 for their continued support it's humbling to serve you as your Ward 5 councilman I wanted to move quickly lastly I want to say before I get into it's already been scheduled that April 6 beginning at 5 o'clock we're having a thank you appreciation [Music] gathering with food entertainment and everything and it's to say thank you for the people who live in Ward 1 and also for all the staff that has helped toward one so I hope as many of you can come because I've served that 14 years and I couldn't have been elected last time if someone hadn't just stepped in and taking care of the election quite honestly and I couldn't have done anything anywhere near what I've accomplished if it hadn't been for everybody who works here in the city who has helped us and please bring your families and also thanking everybody within the Ward one who started that neighborhood associations who's been in there and has showed up for short term rental problems and who's been here all the time backing what we're trying to do in innovative and exciting ways in Ward one so come April 6 please it's at a park and I can't remember the name of the park sorry where is it that's what I thought it might be Bob Baskin park at five o'clock April 6 could I have good food gonna have great in your team and bring your children just have a time and relax and let's be happy and savor what all of us together have been able to put together that has helped toward one I wanted to say a last reminder on the neighborhood partners grant I know I mentioned it often but it's so important for districts that are within the poor areas the application deadline is Thursday April 18th just about two weeks from now the program set to $5,000 which must be matched by the neighborhood and to be eligible to apply neighborhood associations and homeowners associations or business associations must have a primary purpose which is neighborhood improvement be located within the city of Las Vegas be registered with our Office of Community Services have a majority of the Association members living or operating businesses in the neighborhood and demonstrate neighborhood support for the proposed project and program we've had beautiful we've had fake dogs that were warnings in senior the homes mobile homes we've had many many different things that have come and helped our neighborhood and it's not hard to raise the matching funds because for every call you make for everything you do you're paid the amount of money that a regular person would be paid and that's part of the match you make then we have our neighborhood college the city's new program which helps educate residents about different city departments programs and resources and the first neighborhood college series is within Ward's one and two although residents from other words are welcome as well the program runs seven weeks on Thursday nights from April 18th which is coming up again in about two weeks it'll go to June 6 for more information and to reserve your space in the program please contact seven oh two two two nine two five five five and we're gonna have a Southern Nevada Health District Baby Bash on Friday May 3rd from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the district office located at 280 South Decatur Boulevard where the old target used to be located the event will include immunizations vision screenings and a health fair parents should bring their child's immunization records and insurance card for more information please call the health district at 7:02 seven five nine zero eight five oh and lastly as we make our Johnson to the neighborhood to see how things are going we see all those tire you know all those very very high weeds we've had quite a bit of rain this winter when rainfall is higher so are the grass and weeds and going through the ward last week we noticed the over in all parts of the ward and we want to remind the people who own homes that city code requires homeowners to trim weeds and grass that are over eight inches in Heights we realize this has been a wet a few months that we've had we realized that we all have weeds growing highly we also realize even in the city we can't keep up with these weeds because they're popping up in are all over the place so please be sure however as residents to make sure the weeds are cut or taken away somehow and I just want to say thank you everybody I'm going to enjoy I'm really having fun these last three months I have the mayor told me it was three so I guess it is and it's a wonderful group we're working with we have our disagreements but I think that will work out everything because we're very nice people all of us take care thank you very much the meeting is adjourned